Mikey woke up a few hours later screaming in agony. "Hello, turtle," Andrei said. "You've finally woken up."
"W-where am I?" Mikey said weakly.
"In my lab. I had to conduct an operation. You should sleep, because you need it for what I have in mind."
"What did you do to me?" Mikey asked, grimacing and gazing at the bandages around his middle.
"Something that should have been done a long ago," Andrei said in a tone that sent a chill down Mikey's spine.
"W-what?"
"You'll know soon enough. Rest. Do you need something for the pain?" Mikey nodded weakly and Andrei injected him with morphine. "Sleep. I'll be back later with some food."
"Where are my brothers?"
"Later, turtle," Andrei said, and exited the room.

Left alone, Mikey shed tears and thought, where are the guys? And what did this creep do to me? Hurts so bad. Sensei, please find me. Please. I want to go home, Mikey thought, as he drifted off to sleep.

Andrei popped into Raphael's room and said, "Hello, sunshine. How you doing? Oh, I forgot. You can't speak," Andrei said, and smirked. Too sore to fight or stand up, Raph stared back at the villain and to his disgust, as pain coursed through him, Raph shed tears. "Aww. Is my little girl crying?" Andrei sneered. "Well, you should, because you're to blame for the blue-eyed thing's operation. You know that, don't you?"
"Mikey," Raph mouthed, as tears ran down his cheeks.
Andrei grinned sadistically and held up a green object to Raph's face. "Recognize this, cow two?"
Mikey's balls, Raph thought, a shiver going down his spine. He neutered Mikey. My fault. Mine. If I hadn't attacked Donnie, Mikey would be okay… As if reading Raph's mind, Andrei said, "It's your fault. If you hadn't been such a naughty cow, he'd still have his balls. But you're going to be a good girl from now on, aren't you?" Andrei demanded, reaching between Raph's legs and tugging at his tail. Raph let out a voiceless mewl, as more tears rained down his cheeks. "Is that a yes, cow two?"
Raph nodded and mouthed, "Pen."
"I don't follow."

Raph pointed at the pen in Andrei's pocket. "Oh, you want a pen, cow two?"
Andrei got out a notepad and the pen and handed it to Raph, who wrote. "My fault. Is Mikey okay?"
"Okay, who?"
"Master," Raph wrote.
"He's traumatized, but doped up on morphine. And no, he'll never be okay. But at least he'll be easier to deal with. No more aggression and he'll never be able to breed."
Bastard, Raph thought furiously. "Leo?"
"I haven't checked up on him. I expect my colleagues or my boss have. Hungry?"
"Leo...I'll be good. Will do whatever ya want, but don't hurt him. Please," Raph wrote. "He's my mate. And don't hurt Mikey. He's the gentlest, kindest little bro. Please."
"Anything?" Andrei asked sadistically.
"Anythin'," Raph wrote. "Suck cock, whatever ya want, but don't hurt him. He's a good person and don't deserve anythin' bad."
"What about that turtle in the cage with cow one?"
"Donnie," Raph wrote. "He's the reason we're all in this mess. He gave me and Mikey ta our enemies, so that he could have Leo."
"I see. Well, you're all prisoners now, cow two, but if you cooperate with me, I shall not hurt you and cow one too much.
"Ya have a family? Anyone ya love?" Raph wrote.
"That's none of your fucking business."
"Do ya?"
"A son. Had a son."
"Would ya have wanted this kinda life for him?" Raph wrote. "Ta be subjected ta this. Ain't our fault we're mutants. We never asked ta be like this and all we wanna do is go 'bout our lives in a peaceful way. All me and Leo want is ta be together." Raph turned his golden eyes on him and stared hard.

Andrei felt unnerved by the gaze and to his shock, he felt pity for the creature. No. It's an it, he thought. A creature to be dominated and tamed. Don't think of it as anything else. "I'll bring your food," Andrei said curtly.

Raph scrawled, "I'm only fifteen and Leo's only sixteen. We're kids. All we wanna do is be kids and play video games, read comics, hang with our family, like other kids. Is that too much ta ask?"
"You're a freak and are trying to manipulate me."
"Ain't," Raph wrote. "Just tryin' ta get ya ta see what we are. Ya think we're savage beasts, who need ta be tamed, who aren't human."
"You aren't human. Who are you trying to kid?"
Raph frowned and wrote, "But we're not totally animals either. We can rationalize, talk, play video games, walk, fall in love. We're just like ya, although we look different."
"You're nothing like me," Andrei hissed, backhanding Raph. "How dare you insult me and say that!"

Raph rubbed his smarting cheek and wrote, "I got feelings and emotions just like ya. I love my family. I hurt when they hurt. I cry. I get angry, feel sad. Just like ya. We're more alike than ya think and it hurts when ya experiment on us. Did ya ever stop ta think that? We hate bein' treated like freaks and havin' ta skulk in shadows. What kinda life is that? We didn't ask ta be this way." Raph looked at him hopefully and wrote, "I ain't askin' for special favors for me, but I hope ya won't hurt Leo or Mikey no more. Think of yer son. Would he want ya ta be a psycho? It's not too late ta get out, change."
"What would you know about change, cow two?"
"I know I always had so much anger," Raph wrote. "Because of the way that people treat us and because I thought I'd never find love. Then Leo happened and he made me wanna be a better person. I'm not so angry anymore and it feels good. Ya can change too. The question is: do ya wanna?"
"You're pretty smart for a freak."
Raph shrugged and wrote, "I have my moments."
"Nice try, but we aren't going to have a Kodak moment and hug. You're the prisoner, the cash cow, and we aren't going to become friends. I don't give a shit about you or the other prisoners. I'll be back with your food."

Andrei left, slamming the door behind him. Fuck, he thought, thinking of Raph's golden eyes. That turtle's right. He was getting to me and that's never happened before. Never. Why do I feel pity for that turtle? Why? So it talks, walks. Big deal? It's an animal, isn't it? Yet it's more humane than we are. How can that be possible? No. Have to fight this. My job's to discipline the creature and I will. I will not get soft, no matter what it does.

Andrei returned to Raph's room. "Here's your food, cow two," Andrei said, handing a bowl of soup to Raph. The turtle nodded his thanks and started to eat. There was silence until Raph was finished. Andrei took the bowl from him, set it on the dresser and said, "Let's get things straight. I'm your Master and you're a slave, fuck toy, cow. Do you understand? Nod if you do." When Raph did nothing, Andrei slapped him across the face. "Do you understand?"

Raph had been patient trying to appeal to the villain's humanity, but now that it was clear he wasn't getting anywhere, Raph bared his teeth, warning him to back off. "Oh, think you're scaring me?" Andrei scoffed. "Not a chance. I don't scare easily!"

He lunged at Raph, who summoning up all his strength, reached up and stabbed his fingers into the man's eyes, effectively gouging him. Howling with pain and unable to see, Andrei lunged at where he thought Raph was, but crashed into the wall. Stunned, the villain staggered in a daze and collapsed onto the floor. Raph was on him in seconds, glaring down at him, teeth bared. I tried ta be nice ta him, but no more, Raph thought. This is for Mikey, for Leo, for me, and all those others ya brutalized, ya fuckin' bastard. Andrei tried to move, but Raph pinned him down, bit his carotid artery and watched, as blood gushed onto the floor. Checking his pulse, Raph was satisfied when there was none. He opened the door and crept out, searching for Leo. He hadn't gone far, when he felt a sharp sting in his upper arm. Fuck, tranquilizer, Raph thought. Fuck. He tried to move, but his legs turned to jelly and he collapsed onto the floor and passed out.

"Tie the damn turtle down in the lab, Yuri," Sergei ordered. "I don't know how it got out of the lab in the first place. It should have been strapped down."
"Yes, boss."

Yuri picked up Raph, took him into the lab and strapped him down. "Looks like the turtle went wild and attacked Andrei, boss," Yuri said.
"Yes. Shame. He was one of my best men," Sergei said. "No matter. You're now in charge, Yuri, and there will be no mercy to these bastards. Do you understand? None. When this turtle wakes, I want you to strip it of all its pride. It seems we haven't done enough to destroy its pride. Do whatever it takes to demean and degrade it."
"Yes, boss. I shall delight in that. And the blue-eyed turtle, boss? The one Andrei castrated?"
"I have a special operation planned for it. I can't wait to perform it," Sergei said, his eyes gleaming with excitement. "And if this disgusting turtle acts up again, it'll get the same treatment. Get the guys to dispose of Andrei. I don't want him stinking up my house."
"Yes, boss."
"Our biggest client is coming here tomorrow morning and he wants to view our cows. Make sure they're presentable."
"Will do."
"I have to go. Late for a conference call."
"Later, boss."

Yuri looked at the still sleeping Raph, kicked Andrei's corpse and thought, I'm gonna love fucking up these cows. It'll be so much fun.