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TMNT, Raphael TMNT

Briefing - Who they are:

Raphael: He is the red bandanna-wearing turtle of the Ninja Turtle group. His policy 'attack now, ask question later' and tends to have a really short fuse. Rarely does he like to run away from a fight, even when he's out numbered.

Donatello: He is the purple bandanna-wearing turtle of the Ninja Turtle group and is the 'know-it-all' of technology.

Oroku Saki (aka The Shredder): Rich and powerful, this guy practically owns most (if not all) of New York. In reality he is an Utrom disguised as a human and his main objective is to go back to his home world so he could destroy it.

And now on to our story…

"Who's up for a game of blind man's bluff?" Leonardo asked when he landed on a rooftop.

"Oh, I am." Michelangelo exclaimed as he landed next to his elder brother. "But I'm not it." The two turtles exchanged sly grins.

"Me neither." Donatello called from a rooftop back and gave a small thumb up.

"Now dat's not fair." Raphael complained as he ran to catch up with Don. "First I get trip up by Mikey, den I hear people claimin' dat der not it for a game I didn't even know we were going ta play."

"Well that's what you get for being slow." Michelangelo teased.

Raphael let out a snarl as he jumped with Don onto the same rooftop his other brothers were on. "Shell it Mikey, I ain't slow." He got up in his youngest brother's face. "I just said ya tripped me back der and yer shellin' lucky I don't clobber ya fer dat."

"Now Raphie," Leonardo said calmly while pulling his hotheaded brother back, "you know it's doesn't matter who is it or not. It's all about who is going to win the game."

"Which is going to be me." Michelangelo announced.

While giving a frustrated sigh Raphael contemplates things for a moment. Then with a groan he says, "Alright, I'll be it."

Donatello patted his red clad brother on the head. "That's a good boy."

Raphael swatted his tech-loving brother's hand way. "Whatever." He grunted. "Let's just get dis over with. Knowing Leo's big feet, it shouldn't be too hard ta hear him."

"Real funny Raph." Leonardo said with a snort while watching the 'it' turtle turn his bandanna sideways so that to act like a blindfold. "Count off from three to start the first round."

Raphael gave another sigh. "Three…two…one." From that point nothing, absolutely nothing, could be heard. 'Der…der good.' He strained his ears to hear something, anything, even breathing. "Can't hold yer breaths ferever." No reply came. "Guys?" No movement, no speaking, and no breathing; there is only one way that's possible. "Un-stinkin'-believeable." Raph snorted after he turned his bandanna back around and saw nobody around. "Dey ditched me."

By his feet was a note. "See you at home, eventually. PTO." Raph picked up the note and turned it over. "Told you not to mess with their puzzle. Mikey."

Raphael growled as he crumbles up the note and threw it down. "When I get home, I'm so gonna…"

Suddenly a loud rumbling going by grabs the young turtle's attention. Curiously he goes over to the edge of the roof to see what it was and gets there in time to see a large truck turn a corner. There was a large black tarp with the symbol of the Foot covering something really big. "Now what da shell is ol'Shred-head up ta?" Raphael wondered.

Knowing that he couldn't keep up with the truck, but also know where it was going, Raphael makes his way over to hideout of the Shredder. When he got to the front gate he found it to be guard by two Foot Soldiers. "Can't go in through da front door." So then he went around back to see Foot Soldiers there too, pacing around. "Can't go in da back…" A grin slid onto his face. "…yet."

A rock sailed over the stonewall a moment later, calling the attention of a few Foot soldiers nearby. They come over to investigate the noise and get clobbered by Raph from above. Once they were out cold the turtle stashes them in the bushes.

With the pathway now clear, Raphael stealthy makes his way over to the building while avoiding being sighted by security cameras. Searching for a way in he finds an air duct and pries open the iron gate with his Sais; unfortunately he was too big to fit in any further than a couple of feet. Cursing the young mutant finds a back door with a lock that wasn't too hard to pick and was about to go in when on his Shell Cell goes off.

"Yeah, what is it?"

"Raph? Where are you?" Donatello asked.

"Promise ya won't tell?"

"Depends…"

"I at Shredder's place."

"Shred! What on shell for?"

"He's up ta sumpthin' and I wanna know what."

"By yourself? Is that wise?"

"You guys coulda joined me if it weren't fer da fact dat ya ditched me up on a rooftop."

"It was a joke."

"And I'm still laughin'."

"You can't do this all alone."

"Well I ain't waitin fer ya."

"I don't have to come out to where you are to help, I can do it from here at home. Besides, it'll give me a chance to try the newest feature I put on the Shell Cell and the new software in my computer."

"What is dis new feature?"

"Press the button on the back."

Raphael pressed the button and the Shell Cell shifted around in his hand to make something new. Now he held what look to be a stereo earphone with a small green screen attached to it. Not knowing what he was really supposed to do the turtle put the earphone up to his right ear with the small screen over his right eye. To his surprise it stuck. "Whoa."

"Neat, huh?" Donatello said excitedly. "I got the idea from Transformers and DBZ."

Raphael shook his head. "Master Splinter has really gotta stop Mikey from watchin' dem cartoons, it's affectin' yer brain."

"Moving on." Donatello said somewhat disappointed in the reaction his brother gave. "Now you can contact me when you need to or I can contact you and only you can hear me. Plus I can monitor your movements and you can use the scanner to see if any enemies are coming."

"Well now dat's sumpthin'." Raphael said with a nod of his head. "But right now I need ta know where it is I should be goin' ta first."

"Go to the control room." Donatello told him. "From there I can hack into the system and get a map of the place, maybe disable things too."

"Sounds like a plan." Raphael said.

"Be careful and good luck." Donatello said before cutting transmission.

As he enters the building Raphael ponders, 'If I was ta have a control room in my hideout, where would it be?' Right in front of him was a map. 'Dat helps.' After studying the map a little he finds his path to the control room. At first the pathway and halls branching from it seem empty, maybe a little too empty, however that didn't cross Raph's mind as being weird. However he did become aware that he would soon no longer be alone when he accidently crossed a red beam on the floor near the control room door and set off a silent alarm. Instantly the control room door burst open and Foot Soldiers came pouring out into the hallway.

Raphael let out a snarl. "Good ol' turtle luck, true ta form." He pulled out his Sais and took a fighting stance.

"Raph, you got to get out of there." Donatello said over the communicator.

"No way do I run away, ya know dat." Raphael replied while he took out the first few ninjas who came at him.

"But you're seriously out numbered." Donatello told him sternly.

"Not anymore" Raphael said as he clobbered the last of his attackers.

"Ok, sure not now. However you'll never get into the room with the alarm still going." Donatello pointed out. "Look, you're going to have to do a tactical retreat and stash yourself somewhere until the alarm dies down."

"Alright." Raphael grunted irritably and returned his Sais back into his belt.

Before running off the young turtle relieved a guard of their key card. Using the scan copy of the map he found when entering the building, Raph found his way to an air duct that was big enough for him to crawl into. When he got there he pulled the iron gate off the duct, backed himself into the shaft, pulled the gate back over the entrance, and waited for the alarm to die down.

For the next couple of minutes the young turtle watched as ninja feet pass by. At one point two Foot soldiers stop right in front where he was and he held his breath as he waited for them to leave. "Well…wherever the intruder is, we can't find him." One said.

"Well we don't have to worry too much." The other replied. "The big guy is going to have the Foot Tech patrolling down here and keep us on a yellow alert."

After the two soldiers leave Raphael removed the gate and pulls himself out of the duct. "Dat was close." He said with a sigh of relief. "Now ta get inta dat room."

"Hopefully without tripping anymore alarms."

"Shaddup."

Careful to avoid stepping on anymore beams Raphael made his way back to the control room. Coming to the door once more, he found that all the guards he knocked out were already up and gone. 'Odd. I wonder where dey coulda gone.' Quickly he slid the card in the security lock, making the door open. Slowly pushing the door Raph found the control room to be lined with computers along the walls and tech-flunkies that were manning them. He also found out what happened to the guards he knocked out before. 'Should have know.'

Course it only takes the red bandanna-wearing turtle a couple of minutes to knock them out. "Not again." One of them groaned.

Next Raphael took out the tech-flunkies. Sadly he didn't get to all of them in time and one was able to set off another alarm before he could be taken out. "I'm in the room Donnie, but I can't stick around for long."

"You set off another alarm, didn't you?"

"I didn't do it. One of 'em techies did it."

"Luck for you I got into the system while you were fighting." Donatello said proudly. "Except for the last alarm that went out, I managed to disable all camera and sensors."

"Is dat wise?" Raphael asked. "I mean…it would make it easier fer me ta go around, but won't it raise an even larger alarm den all 'em little ones?"

"Not if I make a dummy program for them." Donatello answered. "You can trip an alarm and nothing will happen. But anyone working there will think that they are all still functional."

"Good." Raphael gave a nod of approval.

"But I couldn't take out the traps." Donatello admitted timidly.

"Not good." Raphael groaned. "But I can't dwell on dat now, I got gotta out of here before back-up arrives." He ran out of the room.

"You'll need to go up onto the fourth floor if you want to get any real information. But don't take the elevator that's near the room. There are a bunch of Foot Tech coming down it. You'll have to take the stairs."

"Goodie fer me."

"But be careful there. There's no telling when they will take those too."

"…." Raphael ran to the door that led to the staircase. After opening the door he checked to see if anyone was coming down. "So far, so good." He muttered as he went up the first floor.

Upon getting to the second floor the doors open above and below. "He has to have gone this way." Someone said. Footsteps thundered in both directions.

"Aw shell." Raphael dashed through the second floor doorway and down a hall. He clicked up the map on his scanner and discovered another stairwell he could take. Taking those stairs up he only managed to get as far as the third floor before the same thing. "Guess I have ta double back." Raphael grumbled as he went through the doorway on the third floor and went back to the staircase he was originally in. "Looks like I've gettin' my workout fer taday."

When Raphael got to the fourth floor he somewhat bursts through the door, ran down a hall, and round a corner. In his rush to get away from his pursuers the young turtle not only forgot that the room was up the hall, but he also failed to see someone was also on the same floor. "Well dis is great." He huffed. "Now I have ta go around 'Cock Robin's barn' ta get ta dat room." He rounded another corner and ran down that hallway until he heard something. 'Eh?'

Raphael came to a stop about yard away from the corner to listen. Something was sliding along the wall up to the corner and no further. Raph walked up to the edge of the wall and jumps out with his Sais drawn. "What da shell?"

A/N: Yeah, yeah. This being a TMNT/MGS crossover it shouldn't be here, but I couldn't decide where it should really go. Should it go under Cartoon Crossover or Game Crossover. So then I figure that since it's kind of more on the TMNT aspect than balancing between the two, this would be the best place to put it after all.

Anyway this is a 'having fun messing around' story, nothing real serious. Basically it was a plotbunny I thought about when I was playing Metal Gear Solid. I found that Snake and Raph kind of had a few things in common. Probably not the first TMNT/MGS crossover to have a combination like this.