Ch.2: Raph To The Rescue
It was a full ten minutes before Raphael started to regain consiousness, though the way his body was feeling after that little throw down he might has well have been knocked out for hours.
The condition of his cyber suit was in even worse shape than he was, for it had suffered heavy damage during Shredder's attacks. But once the fog started to clear from his groggy mind Raphael gasped in shock to see that the pyramid that had trapped his brothers earlier was gone.
" Shredder" grumbled Raph " he must have taken them, but where?"
A sudden buzz on his communicator interrupted Raph's thoughts. Pressing the talk button Raph could hear the sound of April's worried voice coming through.
" Raph, what happened in there?" said April " there was this big power surge, and now I can't reach Don, Leo, or Mikey,"
"Shredder happened" said Raph, struggling to stand up " and he has captured Leo, Don, and Mikey through some pyramid thing. I wasn't in there so I'm still free, but I hate to think what the Shredder is planning on doing with the others. Can you track him down for me?"
"What?" said April, as Raph called up his cyberspace vechicle, the Cyber Ripper " you can't seriously be thinking of taking on the Shredder by yourself can you?"
" That's exactly what I'm thinking," said Raph, getting into the Cyber Ripper.
" But according to my stats your cyber suit is much to damaged for another rumble with him," said April.
" Let me worry about that" said Raph " but there's no way I'm going to leave my bros in the hands of some gender-confused virus,"
With that Raph sped off in the Cyber Ripper before April could come up with another arguement.
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Meanwhile, the other three turtles found themselves locked in a Cyber Vault still trapped within that pyramid. Shredder was looking through a window into the vault to see the status of struggling victims.
" Now" the Shredder wondered " how can I rip myself of these pests once and for all. That army they have on makes it impossible for me to delete them, unless...ah I have an idea,"
Typing a few in few keys on the outside of the vault a black hole suddenly appeared in the center of electrical pyramid. Leo, who was close to the center at the time, almost fell in if it wasn't for Donatello's quick reflexes.
"What is that thing?" said Mikey worried.
" A Black Hole program" said Don " anything that gets sucked down there will be permantly deleted. Unforutanely for us that hole will increase in size every fifthteen minutes,"
" We have to find a way out of here now," said Leo.
" Working on it," said Don digging at the pyramid's wall.
" It's useless to resist" said Shredder " you shall not escape your doom this time,"
" Hey Shredhead!" said Raph dragging out his Cyber sais just as he arrived where Shredder's blip was coming from " I'm ready for that rematch,"
"Foolish turtle" said Shredder " do you really believe that you can defeat me and save your family? This shall be a short fight,"
" Don't count on it," said Raph charging in first and digging at the Shredder with his sais.
Shredder easily dodged and countered Raph's assualt with his own blades. Raph tried his best to dodge Shredder's moves, but was proven to slow when one of the blades struck his armor.
April's words came back to haunt Raph as he realized that April had been right and his suit was badly damged. To his own horror he knew that if Shredder managed to break through his armor he could be permantly deleted.
" Well I'm not going to let that happen" said Raph to himself " come on, concentrate!"
And to his own and Shredder's amazement Raph was able to repair the damage done to his cyber armor, making it almost look brand new.
"There are no rules in Cyberspace" thought Raph " reality doesn't apply. And I'm a master when it comes to breaking the rules,"
Raph suddenly seemed to be running at super speed, striking Shredder at all sides with his sais. In the vault Leo and Mikey were watching Raph in amazement as Donatello finally managed to break the pyramid wall allowing them to escape.
"Hurry Don" said Leo as Don started working on the vault door " Raph's doing good, but he can't keep it up forever,"
" I'm working as fast as I can" said Don " just keep and eye on that Black Hole,"
Back outside the vault Raph jumped into the air only to dissappear and reappear over the the surprised Shredder. Before Shredder could move Raphael stabbed his sais into the Shredder's chestplate making the cyber being scream in pain. removing his sais Raph manged to jump away in time just before the Shredder fell one knee on the floor.
"Very impressive" said Shredder getting up " it's just as Khan has foretold. The time has come for the real test to begin,"
Just as the other three turtles broke free of the vault and ran to join Raph the Shredder dissapeared. But before the turtles could breathe a sigh of relief Shredder's arms suddenly came out of the floor and grabbed Raphael's legs, dragging the turtle down.
Don, Leo, and Mikey quickly grabbed Raph's arms trying to free him from the Shredder's grip, but a red electrical charge sent from the Shredder forced them to let go and before anyone even knew it Raphael dissappeared into the floor, gone forever.
