Raph walked quickly back to his apartment wondering what to do now.
Knowing that he would have to start spending more time 'out' Raph felt his
blood starting to pump. It had been a long time since he had been out with
his other buddies. He was defiantly looking forward to it. Approaching
his building, he decided to stop at Casey's to tell him about what had been
going on. Luckily, Shadow was at a friend's house, so she wouldn't have to
worry about them cooking things up. He left after almost half an hour,
after getting Casey's' promise to be ready after work to go out with him
and Akira. Raph grinned a little as he opened up the door, only to see
that almost no one was up yet.
The only ones who were up and about were Leo, Danielle, and Heather. Leo looked up as Raph walked into the room. Raising an eyebrow, he said "and where have you been, Raph?" Raph grinned, shrugged, and then replied "I went out to talk to some of my friends. Just having a little chat with them, that's all." Leo narrowed his eyes at Raph, and then turned to the girls. "Would you please excuse us for a minute, Raph and I need to have a talk." Both of the girls nodded, and Leo dragged Raph out of the room. "What was that about Leo?" Raph asked him, looking a little mad.
"Raph, what do you think you're doing? You can't just go running around the streets like you used to do. 1st of all, you're not in the same shape that you used to be in, 2nd of all, you have a girlfriend, who know how you are when you go out, and is not going to appreciate me letting you leave, and will probably kill you when you get back, 3rd of all" Raph turned away, obviously not concerned about what Leo was trying to tell him. "Don't worry about her, Leo; I can take care of telling her myself." With that, Raph walked out of the room, leaving Leo alone.
Leo shook his head, muttering "to bad he's going to screw up his relationship before it even really starts." Leo then turned and walked back into the kitchen, wondering how long it would be before the fireworks started. Raph walked into his room, noticing that Jen and Mikey were already awake, and smiled. Mikey looked up and grinned at Raph "We figured that you would like to have someone keep an eye on her while you went out."
Raph smiled at both of them before going to Venus and gently waking her up. Venus' eyes opened, and she glared at Raph. "What do you want?" She asked him, yawning. "Well, I wanted to make sure that you were alright, that's all." Venus looked at Raph and rolled her eyes. "If you're going to act like my bodyguard again, this relationship will never work, Raph." Raph looked at her for a minute, and then swallowed nervously. "Well, I'm not going to be here later, so I just wanted to tell you that." Venus narrowed her eyes, but before she could say anything, Mikey interrupted.
"Well, look at the time, we should get going, right Jen?" Jen agreed, and the two of them got out of Mikey's bed and ran to the kitchen. "Raph, exactly where are you going?" Venus asked him, crossing her arms and glaring at him. Raph bit his lip nervously before replying. "Well, I asked Casey and Akira to go out with me later, you know, just to hand out and talk." Venus jumped out of bed, starling Raph, who nervously stepped backwards. "How dare you!" She shouted, "You know better than that Raph, how could you just ignore how I feel about you 'going out' with them! Do you want to get yourself killed?" Raph just looked at her before replying with "I'm just trying to find out who's doing this Venus, that's all."
Venus sighed and sank down on the bed. "Raph, I would like it more if you would stay here with me, I don't like the thought of you running around trying to find out who's behind all of this, what if they come while you're out fooling around with your friends?" "We don't 'fool around' Venus." Raph said, starting to get a little angry himself. "We go out to help other people, since no one else will." Venus just glared at him. "I don't care," she yelled, "all I care about is that tall you want to do is go out and get yourself killed." Raph looked at her in shock for a minute, then turned and walked out of the room. He barely looked at the group gathered in the kitchen before heading out to Akira's apartment.
Mikey immediately ran into his room to check on Venus. He found her sitting on raph's bed, silently fuming. "You ok Venus, he asked her, sitting down next to her on the bed. Venus looked at him and rolled her eyes. "I'm fine. Just a little upset, that's all. Mikey looked at her and shrugged. "That's what you get for going out with Raph, huh V?" Venus looked at him and laughed. "I guess that you're right. I should be a little bit nicer about him going out all the time, shouldn't I?" Mikey looked at her and grinned. "You should have him whipped by now Venus. Jen said she had me whipped the first time me met." Venus cracked up, almost falling off the bed.
Mikey then got up, offered Venus his hand, and smiled at her. Venus took his hand and got up. She then followed Mikey out of the bedroom. Leo gave Venus a sympathetic look as she walked into the living room. She grinned back at him, and then turned to talk to Jen. Heather looked at Venus worriedly before looking back at Leo. "Are the two of them going to be ok?" She asked him, concern etched on her face. Leo smiled reassuringly at her, and laughed. "Those two used to get into fights so bad that we used to have to separate them. This is just a little spat compared to what they used to do."
Mikey, who had been listening in, started to laugh. "Remember the time that he called Venus a chick? I think he had bruises on him for almost a month!" Leo started to laugh, remembering, and then turned towards Heather. "Venus has always hated being called a 'babe', 'chick', 'hottie', or anything else like that. Raph didn't know this at first, and he called her a chick when we were watching TV. Now, Mikey and Donny already knew how she was and they both stared at Venus, wondering what she was going to do to Raph. She got off the couch, and walked over to the chair that Raph was sitting on. She grabbed that back of the chair, and pushed him back into it. Raph's legs were dangling in the air. She then just stared at him until he started begging for her to let him up. He apologized for just about any bad comment he's ever said about women, and Venus seemed to accept this, and started to let him back up. Then, quick as lighting, she pushed the chair back over and Raph fell out of it with a thump. When he got up, all Venus did was smile at him, and then went into the kitchen. She was still laughing for about a week."
As Leo finished his story, Heather started to laugh. "That sounds like Venus alright, that's so funny." Jen walked over to the group, having heard the end of the conversation, asked "What's so funny?" Heather quickly told her the story that the guys had told her, and Jen began to crack up. Venus looked at all of them and rolled her eyes. "I hardly think that is amusing enough to warrant that much laughter, Jen." Jen just kept on laughing, then looked at Venus. "You crazy person, I like you."
Venus raised an eyebrow at her, and then turned to Leo. "This is why I don't tell them this stuff Leo, they can't handle it." Leo grinned sheepishly at Venus, and then looked at Mikey. "It was all Mikey's fault anyway, V, he made me think of it." Mikey shot Leo a look then began to back up as Venus moved closer to him. "O, it was Mikey's idea, was it?" Venus asked, inching over towards him with a slight grin on her face. "Mikey, now why would you want to tell that story. I can think of many other ones that are funnier than that one. How about the time you used Raph's sais for cooking?" Mikey's face immideiately paled, and he shivered. Venus turned to Heather and Jen, who had been joined by the rest of the girls and Donny. "Mikey decided that we needed to have a 'special treat' for dinner one night, and he couldn't find anything to use. So he decided that he would borrow Raph's Sais, and give them back later." Donny started to laugh, which caused everyone to look at him. He then grinned and continued the story.
"I was watching Mikey cook, and I noticed that he was using the Sais, and I decided that the only way to be a good brother was to tell Raph that his weapons were being used to make dinner. He ran into the kitchen, looked at Mikey, and growled. I never saw anyone run as fast as Mikey did when Raph was chasing after him, demanding that he get back his sais now."
"Then," Leo continued, his eyes beginning to sparkle, "Mikey ran into the living room where Donny and I were, and dove behind the couch, begging us to not tell Raph where he was. Raph then came into the living room, and noticed that Donny and I were both smiling at him. Donny nodded towards the couch, and Raph grinned evilly. He then slowly reached behind the couch, and pulled Mikey up by his hair. Mikey's eyes got so big that I thought they were going to pop out of his head. Raph then took Mikey and locked him in the closet, where he stayed for about an hour."
All of the girls started to laugh, and Mikey grinned sheepishly. "It didn't help anyway, I just was more careful the next time I took them." Venus looked at Mikey and shook her head. Jen looked at her and smiled. Grabbing Venus's arm, she yanked her out of the room, motioning for the rest of the girls to follow, which they did.
Raph walked quickly towards Akira's apartment, feeling weird the whole way. He kept on looking around, trying to figure out who was following him. Not seeing anyone, he picked up the pace a little and quickly jogged the last few blocks to his destination. Right before he got there however, he felt a hand grab his arm and pull him quickly into the shadows. Raph felt himself tense, and wasn't surprised to see that it was some of the Foot that had grabbed him. One of the boys grabbed his mask and pulled it off. Raph recognized him as Josh, one of the few elitist who Raph had yet to beat in a fight. Josh smiled at Raph and asked him how he was. Raph just stared, waiting to find out what they wanted now.
"Our Master wishes to talk to you Raphael, don't worry though, your family will be able to find your body quickly enough if you don't corporate with us." Raph growled and tired to get away, but the Foot kept him in a tight grasp. Raph finally gave up, realizing that he needed another plan in order to get out. Josh smiled at Raph again, and then laughed. "Did you finally realize that it would be pointless to fight, turtle? You might look human, but you'll always just be a freak. Don't worry though; our Master has a job for you that you can't refuse. We'll be leaving in just a minute, but we have to wait for another guest to join us."
Just as Josh finished his statement, Akira showed up, with two guards on each arm. He glared at Josh before looking at Raph to make sure he was alright. Raph grinned at Akira before looked back at Josh and the rest of the Foot. He began to formulate a plan, but realized that he needed to have more than just him and Akira there to do it. Raph gave up on a plan for the time being, deciding instead to try finding out as much as he could about what was going on.
Josh grinned triumphantly as he entered the Foot lair with his two captives. He motioned for them to be brought forward, and presented them to his Master, The Shredder. Shredder looked please with the capture, and bowed down to look Raph square in the face. "Raphael. You think you can just waltz in here and take some of my best elite members without me even caring. Well you're wrong. Because of you, I have lost 3 of my best guards, so now you will be punished." Raph glared at him, and then gasped. "So you're the one who's been harassing Venus, you jerk."
Shredder began to laugh, which made Raph feel uneasy. "That's no the only thing I have done Raphael, you see, I have also planted people to come and take care of you friends. One of my children was the person who was flirting with your one friend, causing her to freak out and run to Leo for protection. Another one went to a restaurant were your pregnant friend was dining and slipped something into her drink, causing her to miscarry. A few of them went to your sister, excuse me, I mean girlfriend's, apartment to mess it out a little. It's all be a net to capture you Raphael; I told you that I would never let you rest until you joined me. Yet you still refuse."
Raph glared at the Shredder, then tried to attack him, but was stopped before he even got close. The Shredder laughed at him, and then turned to Akira. "If you can convince Raphael to join me, I will let you rejoin also, without any punishment. However, if either of you refuse, I will kill you both. You have your options, ponder them carefully."
Raph growled, and once again tried to get out of the grasp that held him tight. Akira just stared at the Shredder, and narrowed his eyes. "I can't believe that you would go to such great lengths to get us to join you, I mean, killing a baby, that's low, even for you." Shredder just laughed and pushed Raph ahead of him, with Akira being lead close behind.
The only ones who were up and about were Leo, Danielle, and Heather. Leo looked up as Raph walked into the room. Raising an eyebrow, he said "and where have you been, Raph?" Raph grinned, shrugged, and then replied "I went out to talk to some of my friends. Just having a little chat with them, that's all." Leo narrowed his eyes at Raph, and then turned to the girls. "Would you please excuse us for a minute, Raph and I need to have a talk." Both of the girls nodded, and Leo dragged Raph out of the room. "What was that about Leo?" Raph asked him, looking a little mad.
"Raph, what do you think you're doing? You can't just go running around the streets like you used to do. 1st of all, you're not in the same shape that you used to be in, 2nd of all, you have a girlfriend, who know how you are when you go out, and is not going to appreciate me letting you leave, and will probably kill you when you get back, 3rd of all" Raph turned away, obviously not concerned about what Leo was trying to tell him. "Don't worry about her, Leo; I can take care of telling her myself." With that, Raph walked out of the room, leaving Leo alone.
Leo shook his head, muttering "to bad he's going to screw up his relationship before it even really starts." Leo then turned and walked back into the kitchen, wondering how long it would be before the fireworks started. Raph walked into his room, noticing that Jen and Mikey were already awake, and smiled. Mikey looked up and grinned at Raph "We figured that you would like to have someone keep an eye on her while you went out."
Raph smiled at both of them before going to Venus and gently waking her up. Venus' eyes opened, and she glared at Raph. "What do you want?" She asked him, yawning. "Well, I wanted to make sure that you were alright, that's all." Venus looked at Raph and rolled her eyes. "If you're going to act like my bodyguard again, this relationship will never work, Raph." Raph looked at her for a minute, and then swallowed nervously. "Well, I'm not going to be here later, so I just wanted to tell you that." Venus narrowed her eyes, but before she could say anything, Mikey interrupted.
"Well, look at the time, we should get going, right Jen?" Jen agreed, and the two of them got out of Mikey's bed and ran to the kitchen. "Raph, exactly where are you going?" Venus asked him, crossing her arms and glaring at him. Raph bit his lip nervously before replying. "Well, I asked Casey and Akira to go out with me later, you know, just to hand out and talk." Venus jumped out of bed, starling Raph, who nervously stepped backwards. "How dare you!" She shouted, "You know better than that Raph, how could you just ignore how I feel about you 'going out' with them! Do you want to get yourself killed?" Raph just looked at her before replying with "I'm just trying to find out who's doing this Venus, that's all."
Venus sighed and sank down on the bed. "Raph, I would like it more if you would stay here with me, I don't like the thought of you running around trying to find out who's behind all of this, what if they come while you're out fooling around with your friends?" "We don't 'fool around' Venus." Raph said, starting to get a little angry himself. "We go out to help other people, since no one else will." Venus just glared at him. "I don't care," she yelled, "all I care about is that tall you want to do is go out and get yourself killed." Raph looked at her in shock for a minute, then turned and walked out of the room. He barely looked at the group gathered in the kitchen before heading out to Akira's apartment.
Mikey immediately ran into his room to check on Venus. He found her sitting on raph's bed, silently fuming. "You ok Venus, he asked her, sitting down next to her on the bed. Venus looked at him and rolled her eyes. "I'm fine. Just a little upset, that's all. Mikey looked at her and shrugged. "That's what you get for going out with Raph, huh V?" Venus looked at him and laughed. "I guess that you're right. I should be a little bit nicer about him going out all the time, shouldn't I?" Mikey looked at her and grinned. "You should have him whipped by now Venus. Jen said she had me whipped the first time me met." Venus cracked up, almost falling off the bed.
Mikey then got up, offered Venus his hand, and smiled at her. Venus took his hand and got up. She then followed Mikey out of the bedroom. Leo gave Venus a sympathetic look as she walked into the living room. She grinned back at him, and then turned to talk to Jen. Heather looked at Venus worriedly before looking back at Leo. "Are the two of them going to be ok?" She asked him, concern etched on her face. Leo smiled reassuringly at her, and laughed. "Those two used to get into fights so bad that we used to have to separate them. This is just a little spat compared to what they used to do."
Mikey, who had been listening in, started to laugh. "Remember the time that he called Venus a chick? I think he had bruises on him for almost a month!" Leo started to laugh, remembering, and then turned towards Heather. "Venus has always hated being called a 'babe', 'chick', 'hottie', or anything else like that. Raph didn't know this at first, and he called her a chick when we were watching TV. Now, Mikey and Donny already knew how she was and they both stared at Venus, wondering what she was going to do to Raph. She got off the couch, and walked over to the chair that Raph was sitting on. She grabbed that back of the chair, and pushed him back into it. Raph's legs were dangling in the air. She then just stared at him until he started begging for her to let him up. He apologized for just about any bad comment he's ever said about women, and Venus seemed to accept this, and started to let him back up. Then, quick as lighting, she pushed the chair back over and Raph fell out of it with a thump. When he got up, all Venus did was smile at him, and then went into the kitchen. She was still laughing for about a week."
As Leo finished his story, Heather started to laugh. "That sounds like Venus alright, that's so funny." Jen walked over to the group, having heard the end of the conversation, asked "What's so funny?" Heather quickly told her the story that the guys had told her, and Jen began to crack up. Venus looked at all of them and rolled her eyes. "I hardly think that is amusing enough to warrant that much laughter, Jen." Jen just kept on laughing, then looked at Venus. "You crazy person, I like you."
Venus raised an eyebrow at her, and then turned to Leo. "This is why I don't tell them this stuff Leo, they can't handle it." Leo grinned sheepishly at Venus, and then looked at Mikey. "It was all Mikey's fault anyway, V, he made me think of it." Mikey shot Leo a look then began to back up as Venus moved closer to him. "O, it was Mikey's idea, was it?" Venus asked, inching over towards him with a slight grin on her face. "Mikey, now why would you want to tell that story. I can think of many other ones that are funnier than that one. How about the time you used Raph's sais for cooking?" Mikey's face immideiately paled, and he shivered. Venus turned to Heather and Jen, who had been joined by the rest of the girls and Donny. "Mikey decided that we needed to have a 'special treat' for dinner one night, and he couldn't find anything to use. So he decided that he would borrow Raph's Sais, and give them back later." Donny started to laugh, which caused everyone to look at him. He then grinned and continued the story.
"I was watching Mikey cook, and I noticed that he was using the Sais, and I decided that the only way to be a good brother was to tell Raph that his weapons were being used to make dinner. He ran into the kitchen, looked at Mikey, and growled. I never saw anyone run as fast as Mikey did when Raph was chasing after him, demanding that he get back his sais now."
"Then," Leo continued, his eyes beginning to sparkle, "Mikey ran into the living room where Donny and I were, and dove behind the couch, begging us to not tell Raph where he was. Raph then came into the living room, and noticed that Donny and I were both smiling at him. Donny nodded towards the couch, and Raph grinned evilly. He then slowly reached behind the couch, and pulled Mikey up by his hair. Mikey's eyes got so big that I thought they were going to pop out of his head. Raph then took Mikey and locked him in the closet, where he stayed for about an hour."
All of the girls started to laugh, and Mikey grinned sheepishly. "It didn't help anyway, I just was more careful the next time I took them." Venus looked at Mikey and shook her head. Jen looked at her and smiled. Grabbing Venus's arm, she yanked her out of the room, motioning for the rest of the girls to follow, which they did.
Raph walked quickly towards Akira's apartment, feeling weird the whole way. He kept on looking around, trying to figure out who was following him. Not seeing anyone, he picked up the pace a little and quickly jogged the last few blocks to his destination. Right before he got there however, he felt a hand grab his arm and pull him quickly into the shadows. Raph felt himself tense, and wasn't surprised to see that it was some of the Foot that had grabbed him. One of the boys grabbed his mask and pulled it off. Raph recognized him as Josh, one of the few elitist who Raph had yet to beat in a fight. Josh smiled at Raph and asked him how he was. Raph just stared, waiting to find out what they wanted now.
"Our Master wishes to talk to you Raphael, don't worry though, your family will be able to find your body quickly enough if you don't corporate with us." Raph growled and tired to get away, but the Foot kept him in a tight grasp. Raph finally gave up, realizing that he needed another plan in order to get out. Josh smiled at Raph again, and then laughed. "Did you finally realize that it would be pointless to fight, turtle? You might look human, but you'll always just be a freak. Don't worry though; our Master has a job for you that you can't refuse. We'll be leaving in just a minute, but we have to wait for another guest to join us."
Just as Josh finished his statement, Akira showed up, with two guards on each arm. He glared at Josh before looking at Raph to make sure he was alright. Raph grinned at Akira before looked back at Josh and the rest of the Foot. He began to formulate a plan, but realized that he needed to have more than just him and Akira there to do it. Raph gave up on a plan for the time being, deciding instead to try finding out as much as he could about what was going on.
Josh grinned triumphantly as he entered the Foot lair with his two captives. He motioned for them to be brought forward, and presented them to his Master, The Shredder. Shredder looked please with the capture, and bowed down to look Raph square in the face. "Raphael. You think you can just waltz in here and take some of my best elite members without me even caring. Well you're wrong. Because of you, I have lost 3 of my best guards, so now you will be punished." Raph glared at him, and then gasped. "So you're the one who's been harassing Venus, you jerk."
Shredder began to laugh, which made Raph feel uneasy. "That's no the only thing I have done Raphael, you see, I have also planted people to come and take care of you friends. One of my children was the person who was flirting with your one friend, causing her to freak out and run to Leo for protection. Another one went to a restaurant were your pregnant friend was dining and slipped something into her drink, causing her to miscarry. A few of them went to your sister, excuse me, I mean girlfriend's, apartment to mess it out a little. It's all be a net to capture you Raphael; I told you that I would never let you rest until you joined me. Yet you still refuse."
Raph glared at the Shredder, then tried to attack him, but was stopped before he even got close. The Shredder laughed at him, and then turned to Akira. "If you can convince Raphael to join me, I will let you rejoin also, without any punishment. However, if either of you refuse, I will kill you both. You have your options, ponder them carefully."
Raph growled, and once again tried to get out of the grasp that held him tight. Akira just stared at the Shredder, and narrowed his eyes. "I can't believe that you would go to such great lengths to get us to join you, I mean, killing a baby, that's low, even for you." Shredder just laughed and pushed Raph ahead of him, with Akira being lead close behind.