To the End of the Shinobis!
Chapter XVII: Where Turtles Go, Trouble Follows

By: Michelle



"Anything happen!" Leonardo called from his room while putting a clean eyemask and pads on.

"Yeah!"

Leonardo rushed into the lab. "What? What happened?"

"I think the Rank are up to something. The Dragon Lord just dispatched his troops."

"Where are they headed?"

"Give me a minute." Donatello began to pound away on the keyboard to predict the direction the Rank were going.

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Raphael and Venus began to talk to each other. They began to learn things about each other they never even knew before.

"What made you fall in love with me, Venus?" Raphael asked her. It always puzzled him why she chose him over Leonardo.

"It was a lot of things." She blushed slightly.

"Like what."

"You're stubborn and wild and sexy and sweet and handsome and sensitive." Her face turned bright red.

"That's it." Raphael watched her face flush.

"No." She wrapped her arms around his waist and looked into his eyes. "I feel complete when I'm with you. Like I found another piece of me that was missing."

"Did...did you feel like this when you were with Leo? When you had sex with him?"

She turned her head and thought for a moment. Then, she turned back and faced him. "I never had sex with Leo."

"You didn't, but I..."

"I didn't have sex with him." She pulled Raphael closer to him. "I never felt the things I'm feeling right now with Leo. I never had and I NEVER will."

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Michaelangelo turned on his mike for the last time. "Well, that's the end of the Sewer Hour tonight. Tune in tomorrow for the next edition of the Sewer Hour. This is Mike."

"And Mondo."

"Signing off."

Michaelangelo tuned off his DJ equipment and turned around to head home.

"Tonight was a blast Mike."

"Yeah, it was."

"We gotta do this more often."

"We can. You just have to tell me when you are in town."

"Well, I'll be in town for the next few weeks."

"Well, for the next few weeks you can be my cohost."

Mondo Gecko and Michaelangelo agreed on the idea and started to head home.

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Kurai lead the Rank to the park. Then he split them into two groups.

"We'll encircle them so they can't escape. Make sure they don't see any of you. It will be easier to get them off guard."

The Rank members nodded and began to follow their orders. Kurai looked at the gun in his hand. That human's weapon better work or he was a dead dragon.

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Donatello stopped typing. "They're heading for the park."

"Where are Raph and Venus?"

"They're in the park."

Leonardo picked up his communicator and began to signal for Raphael or Venus to answer.

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"You are nothing like your brother." Venus told him. "I have only felt this way with you. You are the only one for me."

Raphael smiled at her. He had felt different whenever he was with Venus. He felt complete too. He had never felt happy about his life, until he met Venus. She made him happy. She brought out feelings he had never felt before. He was happy. He was content. He was relaxed. He was in love.

"I love you, Raphael."

I love you, Venus."

They leaned in for a kiss when Michaelangelo and Mondo Gecko passed by the park on their way home.

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"YEAH RAPH! GET HER." Mondo Gecko yelled from the passenger seat of the Hummer.

"YEAH BABY! YEAH." Michaelangelo yelled, imitating Austin Powers.

Michaelangelo started to honk the horn and Mondo Gecko started to whistle.

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The couple's faces turned red. They couldn't believe they did that to them. They
were so embarrassed.

I'm going to kill them' Raphael thought to himself. 'I'm going to kill them both.'

Venus got closer to Raphael and watched Michaelangelo and Mondo Gecko go down the street. She was so embarrassed. She looked up at Raphael and saw that his face was red too.

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"He's going to kill us." Michaelangelo told Mondo.

"Yeah."

They both began to laugh.

Mondo Gecko looked back towards Raphael and Venus. Raphael and Venus were holding each other closely. Then, he saw shadow move.

"Hey, Mike. I think I saw something in the park."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean I saw a grayish black thing run through the bushes."

"It's probably nothing."

"Yeah." Mondo Gecko thought to himself as he turned around in his seat.

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The Rank completely surrounded Raphael and Venus. They were very well hidden from view.

Venus and Raphael began to kiss after being interrupted.

Kurai signaled the Rank to hold their positions. He took the gun and aimed it for Venus' neck.

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Leonardo signaled Raphael and Venus' communicators to warn them of the Rank. "What that beeping noise?" Leonardo asked as he began to follow the beeps. He walked in Venus' room and found their communicators. "DAMN IT." He yelled.

"Leo, they are surrounded."

"What?" Leonardo rushed back into the lab.

"Did you reach them?"

"No, they don't have their communicators with them."

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Kurai aimed the gun for Venus' neck and fired. The needle hit her in the neck.

"Ow." Venus felt the needle hit her.

"What?" Raphael asked wondering why she broke away from the kiss.

"It felt like something pinched me in the neck."

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"Donnie, we have to get over there."

"Leo, we aren't going to make it. Raph's got his bike and Mike's got the Hummer."

Donatello was right. "Get our boards. The motorized ones. I'll tell Mike."

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Venus began to feel for the spot she felt the pinch come from. Raphael tilted her head and looked. He saw what it was. Then, he pulled the small needle from her neck.

"What the?"

Venus looked at the needle he held in her hand. "What is it?" She began to feel light headed and weak.

"It's a tiny needle." Maybe Bonesteel was around he thought to himself. Raphael looked at Venus. Something was wrong. "Are you alright?"

"I feel so tired." She said as she held on to his arm. Her legs went numb. Then she fell to the ground.

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"We're on our way, Leo.? Michaelangelo replied to Leonardo and turned the Hummer around.

"I knew I saw something." Mondo Gecko told him.

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"Mike and Mondo are headed for the park."

"OK." Donatello grabbed his portable Eye in the Sky and they rushed off.

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"Venus. Venus." Raphael shook her. She was sound asleep.

Raphael went to his bike a few feet away and looked for his communicator.

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Kurai aimed the gun again. This time it was for Raphael. Then, he shot again.

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"Damn it. Where is it?" Raphael looked all over the bike. Then, he remember. He and Venus left them in her room so Donnie would think they were home. "Fuck."

Raphael felt a pinch on his butt. He reached and pulled out the needle. He began to feel light headed and weak. He looked down at Venus. His legs went numb and he leaned on his bike for support. Then, the bike fell and he followed on top.

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Kurai signaled the Rank. They picked up Venus and Raphael and headed back to the Dragon Lord's palace.

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Soon after, Michaelangelo and Mondo reached the park. There they found Raphael's bike.

"Where they go?"

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Leonardo and Donatello arrived nearly ten minutes later. They found Michaelangelo and Mondo Gecko yelling for Raphael and Venus.

"Where are they? Leonardo asked with a worried tone in his voice.

"We don't know." Michaelangelo replied.

"We found Raph's bike and this." Mondo Gecko handed Leonardo a small needle.

"What is it?"

"I don't know." Mondo Gecko exclaimed, "I found it on the ground by Raph's bike."

"His bike was also on the ground." Michaelangelo added knowing how particular Raphael was about his bike.

"Give me that." Donatello took the needle from Leonardo's hand. Then, he remember what he saw on his Eye in the Sky when on the way over here. "Raphael and Venus didn't fight with the Rank."

"What do you mean, Donnie?" Leonardo turned to his brother.

"I never saw movement on the tracker that would indicate a fight. Plus, there are no signs of a fight here. And I think this is why." Donatello held up the needle and looked at it closer.

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