A/N: Alright here is part II!

Disclaimer: I do not own the TMNT.

Several Hours Earlier

Raphael sighed, watching Tenjin disappear into the darkness. He turned back to meet the disapproving look on Don's face. "What, ya' mother hen?" He questioned loudly. Don put a finger to his lips in a jerking movement. Raph's eyes darted toward the unusually silent Mikey and realized that his baby brother was asleep. Raph rolled his eyes and gave a dismissive wave before walking out and into the destroyed lair, letting the door shut with a soft click.

He stood outside the lab with his hands on the pommels of his sai and glanced about; spotting the teak wielding ninja standing at the mouth of the gaping hole that once was the heavily fortified entrance to the lair. The ninja stood stock still with his arms crossed over his chest.

Raph shrugged and made his way towards the ninja. "Ter… Teriyaki? Tekina… Tekaru!" He wondered the ninja's name as he approached. Tekaru turned at the sound of footsteps and waved cheerfully to Raph who waved back with less enthusiasm. Raph, his hands still on the pommels of his sai, strutted towards the young ninja. "What bring you here, Raphaeru-san?" Tekaru asked quickly with a heavy Japanese accent, he wasn't accustomed to speaking with the turtles very often.

Raph offered a grin. "The view."

Tekaru cocked his head to the side, mulling over Raph's reply. Raphael glanced about; he noticed a fragmented brick by his foot and studied it. He knelt down and pushed it about with his fingers in a game of miniature hockey.

Tekaru burst into laughter, causing Raph to jump. He turned to the laughing ninja and gave a sigh of relief. Tekaru had finally deciphered Raphael's 'joke'. "That a good joke, Raphaeru-san!" Raph chuckled and shrugged at that. He straightened and glanced about the ruins of his former home. "So, why're ya here, Tek?" He asked with his hands back to the pommels of his sais. Tekaru's head turned to his and his demeanor switched in an eye blink.

"To defend family with life. Leonardo-san help me and my brothers. He gave us hope and purpose beyond killing and stealing. He not make us commit… atrocities. I help him and his brothers now, they my family now." Tekaru explained, his voice had hardened and taken a more serious and dark tone. Raph stared and nodded once. "Thank-you, Tekaru."

"No problem, Raphaeru-san. We family now." The young ninja replied happily. Raph smiled genuinely and patted the ninja on the shoulder. They both returned their gaze to the gaping hole.

Raph glanced about, feeling as if someone were watching them. He shrugged it off and turned to Tekaru.

"Tekaru, how old are ya?"

The ninja turned to him. "I be nineteen years."

Raph frowned. "Nineteen?" He asked, turning to stare at the young ninja. Tekaru nodded. "I born in Japan and train with Japan Foot Clan. They transfer me and big brother Tenjin here when I seventeen and Tenjin nineteen." Tekaru quipped. Raph blanched. "Tenjin is your brother?"

Tekaru chuckled. "I already said that he my big brother, Raphaeru-san. Me and my baby sister Tamara use to… prank… yes, prank Tenjin many times! Big brother learn not to eat what we 'cook'." Tekaru snickered.

Raph grinned at that. "Care to share?"

Tekaru nodded with another snicker. "We grew up on farm with our mother. Tenjin always bossed me and Tamara around, and sometime we get bad chores while Tenjin would work inside. Plus, Tenjin always eat our rice cakes! So we wanted to get back at him. Well, there was Army base nearby and a very nice soldier-man would come by and bring my sister and me candy and toys. One day, he brought us both MRE's. Tamara and I ate without cooking! Oh, yes, back to story. We found these thingies that look like gum, and we about to eat them when the soldier said: 'NO! Those are laxatives!'" Tekaru cried out, before chuckling.

"After that, Tenjin came and told us to cook dinner. Tamara and I went to go make dinner and we thought… what happen if we put laxatives in his food?"

Raph snickered at that, shaking his head. "That must'a been one short dinner and one long quiet evenin'."

Tekaru laughed. "Oh yes, we put maybe si (4) or… even roku (6) many! We thought he need lots because he was alway like 'blah blah work blah responsibility and food on blah table'." Tekaru chuckled.

Raph opened his mouth to say something else but before he could speak, Tekaru tackled him to the ground. Something fast flew over their heads and impacted on a piece of rubble with a snapping sound. Raphael and Tekaru were on their feet in an instance, weapons in hand. "Raphaeru-san, I handle this; go alert others." Tekaru said, his nun chucks were spinning near silently as his eyes darted about in the darkness.

Raphael hesitated and a swarm of black clad ninjas flooded into the lair. They surrounded the duo like a pack of inky black wolves, brandishing sharp and cruelly barbed weapons in the near pitch blackness. Raph and Tekaru moved back to back, not appreciating the odds against them.

"Raphaeru, we need to alert others!"

"My thoughts exactly, but we're in kinda' a situation here." Raph replied, his eyes darted about the black horde and his hands tightened on his weapons.

"That would be an understatement, Raphael."

Both of the ninjas' eyes turned to spot Karai, clad in her usual attire, making her way through the mass of ninjas. She bore a hateful glare on her face and sneered at Tekaru. "Traitorous swine, I should have known you and your brother would wreak mutiny in our ranks." She snapped angrily. Tekaru remained silent, not giving into her goading. She turned to Raphael. "Where is Michelangelo? Dead I presume, or living with a stolen heart in his chest?" She hissed at him. "It's too bad, I had hoped he were dead. I have noticed that Leonardo is not here, perhaps he will fight me if I have slain his brothers and have their heads mounted on my wall."

Raph's face broke into an animalistic snarl. He leapt forward with a roar of anger despite a warning shout from Tekaru.

The black horde rippled like a violent wave, with gleaming steel weapons as the wave's white cap. The sounds of metal clashing on metal were deafened by the ruins about them.

Raphael swung and punched angrily at Karai, who weaved in and out of his blows with ease. She unsheathed a katana from her back and whipped it about in a flurry of movement, forcing Raphael to back off. He switched the grip on his sais to a 'proper sword grip'. He ducked under a katana swipe for his head and Karai sent a snap kick his way. Raph responded with a low block using his right hand while his left fist struck her cheek with a smack.

Karai stumbled back, raising a cloud of dust, and Raphael advanced. She spat a collection of blood and saliva into the dirt as she backed away from the hell-born fury of Raphael. The turtle forced her onto the defensive, sending stabbing feints at her and driving her back while she flurried her katana this way and that to block his stabs. She cried out in fury and brought her katana down with enough force to cleave a horse in two. Raphael brought both sais up to catch her katana with the hooks of his weapons. Karai's face screwed into an angry scowl as she twisted the blade in an attempt to free it. Her feet moved to find a foothold in the dusty remains of his home, but to no avail.

He held the trap tight and yanked her katana to his left side. She stumbled forward to keep her balance and her grip on the weapon. Raphael's knee came up with the power of battering ram into her solar plexus. Her breath came out in a gasp and Raph tore the katana out of her grasp. It sailed swiftly over the crumbled bricks and impaled a foot ninja through his abdomen, eliciting a scream that did not carry far. Raph sent a snap kick into Karai's abdomen, sending her to land with a thud on her side. She planted a hand on the rough and broken ground and raised her head. She shook her head clear of dull-aches and glared as he approached. Raphael's eyes were filled with a furiously murderous gleam.

A splintering sound accompanied by a cry filled with anguish forced Raph to turn. He froze at the sight and a chill came over him. His eyes stared in horror at Tekaru.

The young ninja stood with bright red arterial blood spurting and gushing from his left shoulder to his waist. His left arm hung helplessly at his side, and a splintered nun chuck was in a death grip in his hand. He appeared to have been nearly cleaved in two by the swordsman carrying a wakizashi in front of him. Another blade stuck through his abdomen, its point was visible and crimson. Tekaru's mask was torn off, revealing a young smooth face with wide terrified eyes. Tekaru's good arm reached out to Raphael desperately. "Tell Tenjin… I'm sorry…" He mouthed. The ninja behind him tore the wakizashi out of his abdomen with a spray of blood. Tekaru collapsed to the ground gracelessly, the light having left his eyes and his last breath escaping soundlessly. Unshed tears streamed from his dead gaze as blood pooled underneath his corpse.

Raph stared with wide eyes, shocked by the swift turn of events. There was a whistling sound behind him and searing agony tore through his right shoulder. Blood spurted and his right hand went slack, dropping his sai with a series of clangs.

Raphael clenched his jaw and spun about to see Karai smugly flick his blood off her second sword: a wakizashi. Raph's eyes darted about as it suddenly became silent. Ninja's surrounded him, this time like a flock of buzzards ready to leap onto the kill. Raph's eyes flicked back to the main hall of the lair. He went into motion. He scooped up his dropped sai with his good arm, twisting aside to avoid a slash that would have cut him in two. He ducked and sidestepped and rolled through the slashing blades around him. He sheathed both of his sais as he made his way through the rippling waves of swords. Raph hurled a handful of smoke pellets at the ground around him, forcing the Foot ninjas to stop attacking as they choked on the smoke.

Raphael sprinted hard and blood streamed freely from his wound as his heart pumped faster. His feet smacked against the rough ground and dust clouded behind him in his mad sprint. He closed the distance to the lab door quickly. He slammed his left shoulder into the lab door as it began to creak open. He winced slightly but ignored his pain. The door began to open but Raph shoved it closed.

"Don, lock the damn door, we've got trouble." Raph said through the steel door. "Stay inside and keep Mikey safe, until I tell ya' it's safe t'come out. We'll take care of it."

There was a pause. "Be careful, Raph…" Was the hesitant and muffled reply.

Raph nodded and ducked under a whistling object. He sprinted towards a pile of rubble and leapt up, bounding off of fallen pillars, to the second level. "To arms!" He called out, using the code they had set up in the event of a second attack on the lair. Shadowy forms appeared around him. Raph rolled behind a chunk of wall as an arrow chinked against the wall where he had been crouching.

The Hamato ninjas, armed with bamboo bows, opened fire upon the tide of ninjas. The Foot began falling, clutching their throats or other various body parts that had been struck with arrows. Raph's eyes darted towards the lab door, where a group of ninja had gathered. A Hamato ninja tossed his bow aside and leapt down silently, masked by shadow. He clutched twin daggers in his hands. The ninja made his way silently through the rubble as his brethren leapt down and engaged the enemy.

The ninja, slim in figure, hid behind a fallen pillar and watched silently as the enemy ninjas pounded on the door with their own finely crafted steel weapons. He reached into his belt and tossed a handful of smoke pellets at their feet before leaping into the smoke. Screams and cries of pain emanated from the large and dense cloud of smoke. The sound of blood splattering wildly caused other ninjas to shy from the darkness and fight easier targets.

The smoke cleared, leaving the lone Hamato ninja standing with plenty of corpses at his feet. The door to the lab was covered in blood and carried a few scores but had managed to hold off the ninjas. He raced into the fray of fighting ninjas with blood gleaming crimson on his blades.

Raphael scanned the crowd for signs of Karai but to no avail. He growled angrily and dived off of the second level and drop kicked a foot ninja. He slashed and stabbed wildly, becoming a whirlwind of fury and blood.

BOOM!

Raphael and all the other ninjas were thrown to the ground by an unseen force. Darkness pulled at Raph's mind and he shook his head free of the feeling. He was surrounded by silence and his vision was blurry. He shook his head and glanced about in confusion. He turned his head and squinted as he made out a couple of shady figures moving. He slowly rose to his feet, a sai clenched tightly in his good hand. A ringing sound made him falter in his movements and the sounds of clashing metal rang louder and louder.

He could make out the figures of Karai and Donatello fighting fiercely. The lab door was hanging on its hinges and Don was defending the entrance, but struggling with Karai's fast blows. He managed to block her wakizashi strikes but not her quick kicks. Raph growled and gave a war cry as he charged.

Don blocked yet another strike with his bo staff; he glanced over his shoulder to see Mikey struggling with himself. His younger brother glared hard at Karai, but he knew better than to lift his weapons. Don returned his gaze to the woman before him and twirled his bo staff swiftly, pushing her back. A large flash of green and red tackled Karai to the ground. Don froze in shock at the sight of Raphael raining punches on Karai.

Don noticed the other ninjas were already on their feet and pushing his clan back. He bit his lip and glanced about. There were many Hamato and Foot ninja laying wounded on the ground. The Hamato ninjas were being pushed back, severely outnumbered by the Foot. A single Hamato ninja lay dead amongst a group of dead Foot Clan members. He turned his gaze back to Raphael and Karai. His older brother was weakened by his wounded shoulder; Karai would have been at a severe disadvantage if not for his wound. She was faster than Raphael, and was managing to squirm out of the path of his blows.

Karai, underneath the bleeding, dusty, and sweating Raphael, twisted. She flipped Raph onto his shell with a thud and had a tanto pressed to his throat.

Don moved forward but she glared at him and drew a rivulet of blood from Raphael's throat. Don froze and trembled in anger. Mikey's gaze was filled with anger. He watched the proceedings with his hands fisted up in the bed sheets. "Don't make one more move, Donatello."

Raph's eyes narrowed to slits and he glared angrily at her. "Well, do it already." He snarled at her. She merely smirked. "I'll save your pathetic hide for Leonardo to find." She whistled to her ninjas who broke off from the Hamatos and ran to her. The Hamato ninjas started forward but froze at the sight of the prone Raphael.

Don glared at Karai. "Follow me, attack me, whatever it is you want to do… don't do it or I will slit his throat and have his body torn apart." She promised. She nodded to her ninjas, two of which knelt down and held Raphael down. The red-masked turtle tensed and his eyes darted from the first ninja to the second and back to Karai.

Karai brought the pommel of her tanto down on the base of Raph's skull and the turtle slumped. "When Leonardo returns," Karai said, having her ninjas carry the prone Raphael off and her wounded ninjas dragged out. "Tell him that he may come for his brother, and I will take his life."

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