eve of the body harvest "I guess that makes sense," Raph said.

With nothing to do and having exerted a lot of energy exercising, Raph decided to take a nap. He lay in bed for a while; just stared at the ceiling and eventually he drifted off into sleep. It was so dark Raph couldn't even see anything except one figure sitting up ahead. In front of him Raph saw Master Splinter meditating and was puzzled. He turned to observe his surroundings and when he turned back around Splinter had vanished.

"What is going on?" Raph wondered aloud.

A voice echoed in his head, at first it was incomprehensible, but soon the voice gained clarity. The voice sounded like Master Splinter's.

"Your mind is clouded Raphael. You must be able clear it, you must do so by not letting your impulses control you. Too often you hate to rule you on the battlefield and cloud your vision. You need to trust in your brothers and not only rely on your own abilities to protect you."

"Master Splinter where are you? What do you mean? I don't understand this."

"I am HERE... with you my son. Now you must find yourself."

Raphael began to look around for the source of the voice, but couldn't find it. He was beginning to wonder if he still even in the lair or not.

"Mikey? Don? Are you here Leo? Where are you guys?"

Suddenly Raph could hear a match being lit and turned to see a lit candle behind him. Out of nowhere a Foot soldier attacked and successfully knocked Raph to the ground.

"Sensei where are we? How did we get here?"

Raph stood and a light was turned and the entire place became illuminated. He saw that the place had tons of boxes and crates, meaning he was probably in a warehouse. Two more ninjas came to aid the Foot soldier, but one of them was a Lotus.

"Black Lotus and the Foot fighting as a team? What is happening?"

The two Foot soldiers launched their attacks simultaneously. One swung at Raph, but he soared over his attacker's head and kicked the Foot soldier into a crate. Raph got out his sais and motioned to his foes that he was done playing around. The remaining Foot soldier came flying toward him with a dragon kick and rocked his chest. Although his attack was severe, Raph wasn't fazed and head butted the Foot soldier as he landed from his kick. The Foot soldier who had attacked previously and the Black Lotus tried to assail him from opposite sides.

They charged with reckless abandon, assuming they would be too fast and too powerful for Raphael to overcome. They were wrong; Raph held out his sais erect and by then it was too late for them to stop. The prongs of each sai skewered both of them horribly. As Raph pulled his sais out of their necks the bodies instantly crashed to the floor. Soon hundreds of Black Lotuses and Foot soldiers began appearing from behind crates and more leapt down from the crates they were standing on in order to attack.

"Damn, where are they coming from? If there are any genetically altered turtles that can hear me I could sure use some help."

Three Foot soldiers wielding katanas came running towards him. Raph back flipped to avoid being slashed, but was pushed back into the battle by ninjas behind him. Raph jumped forward and clotheslined two of them, but missed the third. He was about to attack when out of the blue someone hopped on his shell. Soon everyone gang piled on top of Raph and within moments there were so many he couldn't move and could hardly breathe. The weight of all those people on top of him felt immense. Without warning he felt a sharp pain in his left arm; he tried to move his head to see what happening, but he couldn't turn his neck. However he was certain that he was being stabbed and moments later he felt a stabbing pain that was even more intense in his right hand.

"Aaaaahhh!"

Then as quick as everything had occurred, Raph awoke. He wiped his eyes and then began to observe his right hand, but it was as normal as ever as was his left arm.

"What the hell was that? A nightmare maybe? Or could it b--"