Ch.3: The Monster's Lair
Cold darkness slowly awakened to Raphael's eyes as he found himself waking to some dark, unknown part of the sewers. His body riddled with pain as he strained to turn and look at his surroundings.
"Where the heck am I?" thought Raph.
A small lantern hung in the middle of the room, shining a small array of light to whatever Raph could see. He was laying on top of some makeshift bed, with a chain around his ankle, chaining it to the bed's post.
A mace, along with his sais, lay up against the left wall, far out of his reach. Nearby, a greenish-blue glow could seen, and Raph nearly gasped out in shock when he saw it was several containers of mutagen.
"Welcome home," creeped a voice out of the shadows, and Raphael turned to see Slash walking from the right side of the room. " I prepared this place special. Just for me and you,"
"I'm touched" said Raph sarcastically, quickly getting over his pain. " So why'd you bring me here?"
"Well" said Slash " it wouldn't be a real reunion if we didn't spend some time to reacquaint. Your lifestyle hasn't changed much since I've left. Still going out and busting bad guys, but you bring a human along for the ride,"
"Jealous much?" asked Raph, quickly catching on to the large turtle's envy.
At that comment, Slash got mad, and punched a sizeable hole in the wall near Raph's head. Although shocked at the unexpected assault, Raphael grinned in his mind.
"Looks like I hit a nerve," he thought.
"You should have stuck with me Raphael" said Slash, calming down " look at all we could have accomplished. All that mutagen over there, are the canisters your brainiac brother couldn't track. His inventions are just as lame as his mind,"
"Hey, Donnie's smarter than all of us pal!" said Raph, defending his brother.
"Then why is he stupid when it comes to that crush on April?" Slash countered " Can't he see the two don't mix? And Leo's always acting perfect, trying to impress Sensei. And Mikey, he's just a moron!"
Raphael lay shocked silent for a minute. All of the complainants Slash had listed, are what he always thought about his brothers. And who else would he tell them to except Spike?
"Ah man," thought Raph in his mind. Maybe the mutagen wasn't all to blame.
"Fine" said Raph out loud " even if I still agree with all that, they're my family, and I won't let you hurt them again,"
"Please" said Slash, fingering his mace " you know I could have broke back into the lair anytime I've wanted to finish your brothers off, but I remember what Sensei once did to your friend Leatherhead, so entering would be suicide,"
"I had to wait until you were alone, vulnerable. I know all of the places you haunt. Chinatown, Sixth Street, the park, just the place to go looking for trouble,"
"So what are you going to do then, if you're not after my brothers?" asked Raph, suspiciously.
"Oh don't worry" said Slash, walking close to Raph, his green eyes staring the red-masked turtle down. " I'll get to them, but first…I'll deal with you,"
With that said, Slash started to laugh, chilling Raph down to the bone. He had no idea what his former pet had planned, but he had a sinking feeling, he wasn't going to like it.