Raph sat down next to Ashton's cage, and breathed deeply. He turned to Ashton.
"How have you been holdin' out?" asked Raph.
"Eh, I could be better. I haven't eaten since I got on this stupid train and I'm hungry as heck." said Ashton. "Those exotic birds across the room are looking mighty scrumptious right about now."
The birds in their cages on the other side of the room looked at Ashton suspiciously.
"Dang, you eat birds too?" asked Raph.
"Of course." said Ashton. "But I wouldn't eat those normally, they're too pretty to eat."
Raph chuckled.
Ashton yawned.
"You tired?" asked Raph.
"Yeah, well, now I am. I couldn't sleep at all thinking I was gonna be someone's cage pet forever." said Ashton. "Now, I can be tired in peace."
"Go ahead and take a nap. I'm here just in case anyone decides to mess wit ya." said Raph.
"Thanks." smiled Ashton. She then leaned onto the side of the cage where Raph was and slowly fell asleep.
Raph just got comfortable by leaning on the cage as well.
A couple of hours later, it was nighttime.
Raph, who had accidentally fallen asleep, awoke to the sounds of screeching train wheels and the train horn. He stretched and yawned, then looked over at Ashton, who was still asleep. Raph didn't want to have to wake her up, but he had to.
"Ashton, Ashton. C'mon kid, wake up." said Raph, gently nudging her.
Ashton twitched a bit, then yawned, and sleepily looked towards Raph. "Did the train stop yet?"
"Yep, it just did." replied Raph.
Ashton sat up in the cage. "How are the others gonna find us?"
"I don't know, I think I'll stand outside for a little while to guide them over to us by landmarks or something." said Raph.
The train soon came to a full stop, and Raph stood up.
"Holler if you see anyone coming." said Raph.
"I will." said Ashton.
Raph then opened the front door of the train car, and looked around. He saw some artificial trees, and a pole in front of him. "Hmm." he thought for a moment, then turned his communicator on. "Yo, you guys there?"
"Right here Raph, we see the train just stopped." said Leo. "We need your location."
"Yeah, that's why I called yas. Listen, there's some trees, and a pole. Can ya find 'em?" asked Raph.
"Well, we can find the pole, but there's a lot of trees around here." said Leo.
"Nah man, these are like, fake-looking trees or somethin." said Raph.
"Oh, well, we'll try and find them." said Leo.
"Be careful, there's some bounty hunters 'round here." said Raph.
"Okay, we'll be careful. See you soon."
Raph turned off his communicator and began looking around outside for the others.
Just then, he heard Ashton. "Raph!" she yelled.
Raph turned around, and saw the two Australian bounty hunter guys from earlier trying to pick up Ashton's cage.
Ashton extended her nails, and scratched them as soon as they got too close. She hissed angrily as she held her nails out, ready to attack.
"She's a live one." said the first guy.
Raph took out his sai and went after them. "You two wanna leave 'er alone, or do I have ta make ya leave her alone?"
"Crikey! Wouldja looky there!" said the second guy.
"Bonesteel was right." said the first guy.
"We're gonna be rich men." said the second guy as he took out a long knife (not quite a sword).
"Eh, I don't think so." said Raph, joining the handles of his sai.
Spinning the sai, Raph knocked the knife out of the second bounty hunter's hand.
The other crept up behind Raph and held a knife to his neck.
Ashton gasped. She shook the cage violently, in an attempt to get out and help Raph, but it was no use; she was stuck. She let out a frustrated meow/growl-type sound.
Raph stopped moving as the knife inched closer to his neck.
"That's right Turtle, keep still." said the first hunter, who had the knife to Raph's neck.
The second hunter picked up the knife that Raph knocked out of his hands. "Okay, drop the weapon shellback. Remember you're worth a lot, dead or alive." he said.
Raph complied, and dropped his sai.
"Raph! What are you doing?! Don't listen to them!" exclaimed Ashton.
"You hush up you little brat." said the second hunter, pointing his knife to her.
"I'd like to see you come here and make me." Ashton challenged.
As the second hunter was distracted, Raph quickly ducked his head into his shell.
"Hey!" exclaimed the first hunter, who had been holding the knife to Raph's neck.
Raph then turned around, popped his head back out of his shell, and hooked the first hunter really hard in the stomach.
The first hunter fell over on the ground in pain.
Raph spun around just as the second hunter was coming at him with his knife. Raph grabbed the hunter's wrist, took his knife, and flung it over to the side. Then he hooked the hunter really hard in the stomach, and he too fell over in pain.
Raph knew that the hunters would be up again soon, so he ran over to the front of the train car, and opened the door. He jumped out and looked around.
"Hey Raph! We found ya!" said Mikey.
Raph turned around.
"Where's Ashton?" asked Donny.
"Right in here. We gotta hurry, these hunter dudes aren't gonna stay down too long." said Raph.
The Turtles went inside the train car, and over to Ashton's cage. The two hunters were gone.
"Where'd they go?" asked Raph.
"They said they had to get 'the boss', or something." said Ashton.
"Well, we don't know who 'the boss' is, so we better get going soon." said Leo.
Donny kneeled in front of Ashton's cage, and put the pointy end of his device into the keyhole of the lock on the cage. He pressed a few buttons on the device, and after a loud "Click!" sound, the door opened.
Ashton quickly pushed open the door and ran out. "I'm free!!" she exclaimed while stretching.
"Woo hoo! The cat's out of the bag, uh, cage!" said Mikey.
Ashton giggled.
"I think I still hear 'em!" they heard an Australian accent say.
"Turtles, and uh, cat, vanish." said Leo.
They all then exited the train, and concealed in the darkness of the night, went back to the Hummer.