AUTHOR'S NOTES:
Hey guys :)
I'm so sorry about the long wait for this new chapter. What happened was I began to write the chapter a few months ago, but then I got busy with uni and my other stories I completely forgot about this story.
I hope you guys enjoy the new chapter guys and I'll try to get the next one up and running sooner.
The bright full moon shone down over the city of New York. In an alleyway, Raph stood holding his weapons out ready to fight against some men wearing black suits while defending two children standing behind him: a ten year old human kid, and some sort of ghost kid with green hair, wearing a cowboy costume.
The leader of the men was a bald man wearing a red jacket suit and shades. Beside him stood a ghost on a motorcycle with blonde hair, along with some sort of shadowy ghost next to him.
RAPH: Man, is this is gonna be a long night! Two problems here; the first is these guys - your basic criminal type thugs. Which normally wouldn't be a problem at all. And then there's the two ghosts with them – a little tough to beat, but normally not a problem either.
"Hand him over. Now!" the bald headed man demanded of Raph.
RAPH: Except for the second problem…
"Come and get us creepo!" the kid shouted at the thug, showing no fear at all.
"Yeah! We ain't afraid of you gunslingers!" the ghost kid snapped as well while pointing his fake gun at them. Raph shook his head in slight annoyance.
RAPH: Some old guy once said anyone who hates kids and dogs can't be all bad. I wonder if that applies to ghost kids too.
Raph pushed the kids away and began to fight against the oncoming thugs who attacked him with weapons consisted of chains, pipes and baseball bats. Raph grabbed the oncoming fist of one of them and twisted it around before kicking him right into the others.
The bald guy growled and pulled out a device from his jacket; he pushed the button and threw it straight at the kids, who backed up the wall in fear. The human kid shielded his face and the ghost kid prepared to defend the kid with himself. Raph gasped and immediately ran over and stood in front of the kids as the device hit and exploded, sending smoke everywhere.
RAPH: Like I said, it's gonna be a long night.
TMNT S01E24 Lone Raph and Cubs
It had been a couple of days since Danny and the Turtles had fought against the Shredder and Vlad Plasmius and won, only to discover after the fight, Master Splinter who was badly injured from the battle had gone missing. He just vanished without a trace.
Raph trained on one of the practice posts. He blocked, punched and kicked the sticks poking out of the post and continued for ten minutes before stopping to take a breath. He then looked at Donnie who was in his lab with Danny while Leo, Mikey, April and Sam were at a table looking over a map of the city.
Raph growled until he let his anger out in one scream of rage and anger, causing everyone to stop what they were doing and turn to face him. Leo then asked, "You okay Raph?
Raph growled and then snapped, "How can you all just sit around talking while he's out there somewhere?! Maybe hurt?! Bad!"
"Like I said, we have to organise the search. Look at everything we know," Leo said in a calming gesture.
"But we don't know anything!" Raph said in frustration.
"Well, we know when we were fighting the Shredder and Plasmius, Master Splinter took a major hit for me," Mikey said.
Danny then added as he and Donnie came out of the lab: "And when we looked for him after the fight, he just wasn't there. He just vanished and there was no sign of a struggle. Nor was there any sign that a ghost might've taken him"
"April and I have been scanning the police for anything like a giant rat sighting. But…nothing," Sam said.
"No sign of Splinter anywhere," April said as she looked down at the city map. "Even Casey had a look around his neighbourhood."
"Then we should be out there looking for him!" Raph snapped and started walking off to grab his sais.
"We have been, Raph. But Master Splinter could be anywhere," Leo said as he followed him. "How do you search an entire city?"
"One block at a time" Raph answered as he grabbed his sais and growled once more.
"Raph! Not a good time for the hothead thing," Mikey said.
"Even with Danny and I working on it, the Battle Shell is still a couple of hours away from being street ready after the beating it took," Donnie said.
"It's okay. Go blow off some steam, Raph. Maybe you'll find something out there" Leo said.
Raph cracked his knuckles and said as he left, "Count on it"
"Should one of us go with him? Danny asked.
"He'll be fine, Danny" Leo assured his brother. "He just needs some time. He's just really worried about Master Splinter; like we all are"
Danny however quickly grabbed one of the thermoses Donnie had made and caught up with Raph at the entrance of the lair and called, "Raph wait!"
Raph stopped and faced his brother. Danny handed Raph the thermos and a small grenade and said, "Just in case. You never know when it may come in handy. The grenade is actually a light grenade. Just pull the pin and throw it in the air and it will release a blinding light."
"Thanks bro." Raph said with a small smile, appreciating that Danny was looking out for him and then headed off to the surface.
As Raph ran across the moonlight, his anger and his worry for Master Splinter grew. He wasn't going to stop until he searched every single block of the city.
He started looking through the alley ways before hitching a ride on top of a bus that drove by. As the bus moved, he continued to look over the streets hoping to find some sort of clue or sign to find Master Splinter.
His eyes then widened as he noticed someone in an alley that looked like…
"Master Splinter?!" Raph exclaimed, believing it may be him.
He immediately jumped off the bus as it stopped at a red light and then jumped on another bus, heading back to the alley. He jumped off the bus, landed on the street and immediately went into the alley.
He gasped as he saw that it indeed looked like Master Splinter. He ran over and touched what appeared to be his shoulder but when he did, it turned out it wasn't Master Splinter at all. It was nothing but a pile of junk that looked like him in the dark shadows of the alley. It immediately crumbled down.
Raph growled and then shouted to the sky: "MASTER SPLINTER! WHERE ARE YOU?!"
All around New York, Raph's echoes could be heard. Raph continued to search amongst the alleys and streets and then suddenly stopped at the top of a building as he heard crashing noises coming from a nearby alley.
He looked over and saw there were several men wearing black suits and carrying torches.
"Hello. What do we have here?" Raph wondered and continued to watch as the men started looking throughout the alley.
"Hurry it up and find him! The boss needs to tie this thing up tonight if he's gonna make it to the top. And when the boss moves up, we all move up," a bald man with shades and a red suit jacket.
His name was Weasel, right hand man in the mobster gang of New York.
He then frowned a bit and said in frustration, "If it weren't for that ghost brat who helped him get away from us, we would've caught him by now."
Raph headed down and landed in the alley; he hid amongst some trash cans and watched as they continued to search. One of them lifted the lid of a dumpster and looked inside, but when he couldn't find what he was looking for in there, he closed the lid and continued the search with the others.
Raph suddenly gasped quietly as he saw a couple of kids hiding in the same dumpster. One of them was glowing and Raph could definitely tell it was a ghost and the other kid was definitely human. The human kid lifted the lid a little bit and looked at the people searching the alley. Raph then realised that these people were probably looking for those kids.
"Need I remind you what'll happen to us if we fail to capture that brat? Find him!" Weasel pressed.
One of them, who had just got off the phone, said: "He ain't here. And I just got a phone call from one of the others - he and that ghost brat who helped him ain't down the alleys in the streets ahead either."
"Then we'll try the next few. And call our other ghostly friend and check if he's found anything," Weasel said and they all started heading out of the alley.
The kid lifted the lid higher, revealing what they looked like. The human kid was wearing a white shirt with a long sleeved blue shirt underneath and a red baseball cap, while the ghost kid, who had green hair, was wearing a cowboy costume.
Raph's eyes widened in worry and he whispered, "No, kids! Stay down!"
The kids were about to climb out when suddenly, the shaking of the lid knocked down a lamp nearby and it made a loud noise as it broke on the ground. Gasping in fright, they both went back into the dumpster as the men came back.
Weasel smirked as he said slyly, "Come out, come out, wherever you are"
The kids opened the lid slightly, peaking at them and Raph could slightly hear the ghost kid whisper, "Looks like we may have to fight"
"No kids! No! Stay down!" Raph whispered once again. He knew that he had to save these kids from whatever reason these goons wanted them for.
"Time to stop playing hide and seek, kid," Weasel said, now grinning as they had found who they were looking for.
Raph was not about to let these kids get hurt; he leapt from the shadows and stood in front of the dumpster with his sais out, revealing himself in the spotlight of the goons torches.
"How's about it's your turn to hide?" Raph said as he stood ready to fight, spinning his sais in his hands.
"Woah!" Both of the kids whispered in awe at the sight of Raph.
"I'll give you three. One…" Raph began, smirking at the mobsters in front of him.
"Woah! Wrong time of the year for Halloween, freak" Weasel headed man mocked Raph.
"Two…" Raph continued, showing no signs to them that he was gonna back down.
Weasel had had enough. He looked at his men and ordered them: "Alright boys. Time to peel this guy out of his monster suit."
Four of the mobsters then charged at Raph, ready to take him down. Raph wasted no time and jumped over a chain that one of them tried to hit him with; he then landed on the guy's shoulders and kicked him in the back as he jumped off him.
He ducked down and avoided being punched in the head and then delivered a kick to the guy's stomach, knocking him back. Weasel and the other mobsters watched in complete shock as Raph used his sais to slice the weapons in half of the ones attacking him and take them down one by one.
Raph spun his sais again and said with a smirk, "Next."
None of them made a move and then Raph said, "Don't be shy, boys. There's plenty for everybody"
"W-what are you?" Weasel man asked, still in complete shock that he took them all down in just a few moves.
Raph, continuing to smirk and feeling inspired by a certain black caped superhero, quoted in his own way, "I am green vengeance"
"Green vengeance? What?" Weasel said, completely taken back and confused by what Raph just said.
Raph realised that these mobsters probably never even heard of Batman. While continuing to hold his stance, he replied: "Alright, never mind that. Don't like green huh? How about black and blue?"
Having heard enough, Weasel screamed at his men: "GET HIM!"
Raph kicked one of them back with a kick to the stomach and then knocked another one of them out with a door to a building. Raph jumped back when three more came at him, he then looked up and saw the neon sign and smirked as he got an idea. Throwing his sais at the hinges of the sign, the two sharp weapons cut the hinges in half and caused the sign to fall from the wall.
The mobsters ran off in fear and fell to the ground in pain as some of the debris hit them. The mobsters groaned as they sat up. Their eyes widened in fear as they saw Raph pick up his sais and all of them high tailed it out of there.
"Come on! We're just getting started," Raph said still smirking at them, but the mobsters kept on running.
Once Weasel had gotten far away from the alley, he pulled out a cell phone and called his boss - a man by the name of Don Vizioso, head of the mobsters in New York.
"Uh boss…uh…we got us a problem," Weasel said nervously.
"Just tell me you got the kid and dealt with that other brat who helped him escape?" Don Vizioso said, sitting in his dimly lit office.
"We had the kid boss, but we were stopped by this weird freak in some sort of weird frog costume!" Weasel replied through the phone.
"What?! How many of them were there?" Don Vizioso asked, now slightly annoyed and angry.
"Uh…well…um…one," Weasel nervously answered.
"ONE?!" Don Vizioso exclaimed, now angrier at the fact one had taken down some of his best goons.
He slammed his hand on his desk, walked over to the window and said, "Listen Weasel, and listen good. You get an army if you have to, but bring me that kid. There's a gang war coming now that the Shredder and Plasmius are out of the picture - and nothing is gonna stand in my way. Nothing!"
Raph walked over the dumpster and told the two kids, "Hey kids, it's okay. I won't bite. I'm one of the good guys. Honest."
The kids lifted the lid of the dumpster, but made no moves to come out of there. They just frowned at Raph, even though he just saved their lives and afterlives.
"Come on out of there. Don't be scared." Raph said in a gentle, calm manner.
The human kid climbed out while the ghost kid floated out and stood next to his friend, both of them still frowning, crossing their arms at their mutant saviour.
"What are your names?" Raph aske
They didn't answer. Raph tried again, bending down to their level, "Well?"
Once again, they didn't answer and without warning, the human kid punched Raph right in the face, causing him to yelp and rub his face in pain.
"Cute. Really cute" Raph muttered sarcastically.
He held his hands out in a calming manner and said, "Now just calm down…"
The ghost kid then punched Raph in the face, causing Raph to once again yelp and hold his face in pain.
"Man, I hate kids." Raph said.
He then moved his hands off of his face and tried once again to reason with the children, "Okay, so we're past the scared part…"
Both the kids punched Raph in the face again and just when they were about to go for a fourth time, he grabbed both their hands in his green, three-fingered fists.
"So far we're kids: three, Raph: zero. But that's gonna even up real quick if you both don't keep your hands to yourselves." Raph warned them.
"What's your name, turtle?" The human kid asked.
"Raphael." Raph answered and then placed his hands on the human kid's shoulders. "So kids, what you two do to tick off those goons?"
"Don't call us kids!" The human kid snapped.
"Yeah! We're mature beyond our years!" The ghost kid snapped as well and then blew a raspberry at Raph.
"Oh yeah. You're real mature alright." Raph commented sarcastically.
"His name is Youngblood, I'm Tyler. And we can handle this ourselves, turtle" Tyler said with attitude.
"Fine! Don't tell me." Raph said as he turned with his arms crossed, not appreciating the attitude these kids were giving him. "I'm in the middle of something else anyway"
He was unaware that the children had sneaked away as he spoke again: "I'm just gonna get you both to someplace safe and them I'm out of here"
He turned around and found that Tyler and Youngblood had run off, or in Youngblood's case, flew off. Raph groaned, annoyed that now he was gonna have to chase after them.
"I think we lost him now Tyler." Youngblood said as they both continued to head through the alleyways.
They both looked behind them as they kept going, suddenly they both bumped into something and fell backwards on the ground. They looked up to see Raph casually leaning on the side of the wall, spinning one of his sais in his hands.
"You can't sneak away from a ninja kids." Raph said as he placed his weapon back on his belt.
"Leave us alone!" Tyler and Youngblood demanded.
"And you both can't go messing with those mob goons on your own, even with your ghost friend helping ya. You're both just kids. You're gonna get hurt." Raph said, trying to reason with them.
"I told you, don't call us kids! And you're not the boss of us!" Tyler snapped.
"Oh yeah?" Raph challenged as he bent down to their level.
"Yeah!" Youngblood and Tyler both shouted back.
"OH YEAH?!" Raph shouted back.
A few minutes later, Tyler found himself being carried by Raph and as for Youngblood, Danny's thermos did come in handy as he was currently inside the thermos. Raph continued to walk through the alleys until finally, they reached to the end of it and across the street was the police station.
"There's the police station and for obvious reasons, I can't go in there." Raph told Tyler as he placed him down on the ground. "Tell them where you live and they'll get you home."
He then handed the thermos to Tyler and finished, "To release your friend, simply open the lid and press the button on the side, though I wouldn't let him out at the station until after the police get you home."
"But…" Tyler began to protest, but Raph was not going to hear it.
"Get going! And no funny stuff, I'm right here watching." Raph cut in and nudged him to start heading across the street.
Tyler held the thermos in his hands and began to walk across the street and up the stairs of the police station. Before opening the door, he turned around and looked at Raph once again. Raph gestured for him to go inside, with a sigh Tyler opened the door and walked inside the station.
"Ah. Kids." Raph muttered and then headed off back down the alley.
Tyler opened the door and when he saw Raph was no longer there, he immediately ran off from the station and started heading down a different alley with the thermos containing his ghostly friend still inside.
"Just hang on Youngblood. As soon as I'm far away enough, I'll let you out." Tyler said to the thermos.
Suddenly he was grabbed by the collar of his shirt and lifted off the ground. Tyler turned his head and saw it was Raph once again. Raph had seen him running from the station and once again went after him.
"Tell me what's going on with you and your friend, or I'm gonna have to keep taking you back all night!" Raph demanded, a little angry and annoyed now. "And I'm gonna get more ticked off every time!"
"Alright! Alright! Alright." Tyler said giving up. "Just put me down, let me release my friend and we'll tell you everything"
Raph put Tyler down and allowed him to release Youngblood from the thermos. Tyler handed Raph back the thermos and sighed. Raph kneeled down to their level and listened to their story.
"I met Tyler a few months ago. He doesn't really have any friends at school, so I became his friend. Every day after school, we would play together in his room while I also hid from his sitter" Youngblood began.
"So, I'm assuming your mum doesn't know about Youngblood?" Raph asked Tyler.
"No. If she did, she would probably freak out that a ghost has been living in our house all this time." Tyler answered. He then continued with the story, "Anyway, it started today after school. I got my homework done, so my sitter let me watch my favourite movie of all time, Youngblood was watching it with me invisibly of course. My mum then came home and she was really happy. She's a reporter and she got a tape recording of a bad guy that would send him to jail and she was gonna be famous."
"Later that night, we were both sleeping when we heard this noise. Someone had broken into their home and when I looked through the door, we saw those same goons you fought against before." Youngblood continued.
"I guess the bad guys found out about the tape and they wanted it really bad. Mum tried to come and get me, but by the time she came to my room, they had already grabbed her and then they grabbed me. Mum knew they would get rid of us if she gave them the tape, so she refused." Tyler continued. "They took us both in their car and drove us to their hideout. Before leaving, I signalled to Youngblood to follow us. Mum told me I had to be brave, she gave me the tape and told me to run. I promised her that I would come back for her"
"As soon as baldy tried to take Tyler, I showed myself and hit him with my slingshot, giving Tyler a chance to run before catching up to him." Youngblood finished. "And that's pretty much when you showed up."
Raph stood back up and asked, "You two aren't making this up? They really got his mum?"
"Yeah and we're gonna go back and kick their butts!" Tyler said in determination and anger.
"Yeah! We'll take them all down!" Youngblood added.
"Bad idea! Look kids…." Raph said, but then stopped when he realised he made a mistake as the children frowned at them.
He then corrected, "Uh…Tyler and Youngblood, if what you both say is true, I promise I'll get Tyler's mum out. But first I gotta get you both to a safe place."
"No way! You're not dumping us!" Tyler and Youngblood both said in unison.
Raph growled in annoyance and began to press, "What's it's gonna take to get through to you two?! It's way too dangerous! Even with Youngblood helping you! You two wanna get…"
He stopped when he saw the tears coming from Tyler's eyes, Raph then calmed down as he realised that Tyler was really worried about his mother, just like he is about his own father. He then looked at Youngblood who was standing beside him, trying to offer him some comfort as a friend.
"Tyler's my friend and I don't want him to lose his mum, like I did." Youngblood said, some glowing tears fell from his eyes as he remembered his own mother back when he was alive.
"Look guys, I'm sorry. I know how you both feel. My dad's missing. I was out here trying to find him, when I found you two." Raph said, calmly.
"Really?" Tyler and Youngblood asked.
"Really." Raph answered with a small smile at the boys.
"Awe! Now this is truly touching." The sound of Weasel was heard mockingly. "Is the poor little freak missing his daddy?"
Raph, Tyler and Youngblood turned to see not only Weasel standing there, but several more mobsters and now another ghost. This ghost was sitting on a motorcycle and he had blonde hair, a white tank top on along with a grey jacket, black fingerless gloves, black pants and combat boots. Floating beside him was another ghost but this one looked more like a shadow.
"Who the heck are you supposed to be blondie?" Raph asked as he pulled out his sais, ready to fight against the.
The ghost got off his bike and said, "The name's 13. Johnny 13 and this is my partner Shadow who will be kicking your butt today punk."
Shadow growled in response and crept a little closer to Raph and the kids along with some of the mobsters. Raph nudged Tyler and Youngblood behind him in defence, he spun his sais in his hands and stood ready once again to fight.
"Hand them over. Now!" Weasel demanded of Raph.
"Come and get us creepo!" Tyler shouted at the thug, showing no fear at all. "We'll kick their butts!"
"Yeah! We ain't afraid of you gunslingers!" Youngblood snapped as well while pointing his fake gun at them.
Raph shook his head in slight annoyance and before the kids could make their moves, he grabbed the kids with his sais and moved them out of the way and began to fight against the oncoming thugs who attacked him with weapons consisted of chains, pipes and baseball bats.
"Shadow attack!" Johnny commanded his partner.
Shadow roared and charged straight at Raph, the mutant ninja dodged the oncoming attack and avoided another fist coming to punch him in the head, he bent down and then kicked the man in the stomach, before quickly putting his sais back on his belt.
Raph grabbed the oncoming fist of one of them and twisted it around before kicking him right into the others.
Weasel growled and pulled out a device from his jacket. Johnny recognised the device and commanded Shadow who was about to go for another attack, "Shadow! Return!"
Shadow returned back to Johnny and then Weasel pushed the button on the device and threw it straight at the kids, who backed up the wall in fear. Tyler shielded his face and Youngblood prepared to defend Tyler with himself, believing there was no time to make a shield. Raph gasped and immediately ran over and stood in front of the kids as the device hit and exploded, sending smoke everywhere.
When the smoke cleared, Raph coughed and then rubbed his eyes as he stood up. Tyler and Youngblood then noticed he tried to look at something and then rubbed his eyes again.
Raph then said, "Kids, we got a problem. I can't see a thing!"
Tyler and Youngblood's eyes widened as they realised that whatever that device was that Weasel threw at Raph, made him gone blind! They both looked behind the mutant turtle to see Weasel, the other mobsters and Johnny 13 and Shadow coming towards them, smirking and grinning, now that the mutant who was causing them so much trouble was blind as a bat.
"Kids! Where are ya?! I'm dizzy and I can't see! I 'm blind!" Raph called out, looking and feeling around for Tyler and Youngblood.
"We're right behind you." Tyler and Youngblood said, tapping on his arms so he knew where they were.
Raph turned and grabbed Tyler as he said, "I gotta get you both out of here."
"Raphael listen to me, Shadow is a shadow type ghost. He can't be near lights, otherwise he burns and shrivels." Youngblood said. "So stick to the parts of the alley that have lights. I'll guide you."
"Got it." Raph said, nodding.
"If you run straight, there's a skinny guy dead ahead." Tyler instructed.
Raph ran straight forward and spun his sai, the mobsters and Johnny however moved out of the way, allowing Raph to head straight for the brick wall.
"WOAH! Go that way!" Youngblood and Tyler shouted.
"Which way that way?" Raph asked confused, since he was now blind.
WHACK!
Raph hit the wall hard in the head, he groaned and rubbed his head in pain. Tyler and Youngblood then said, "That was the wall."
"I needed to know that one a second earlier." Raph said to them.
"They're coming for us! Go left and then left again and run straight forward." Youngblood instructed.
Raph did what he was told and continued to run, while the mobsters kept coming after them. Johnny climbed on his bike and began to chase them down, while Shadow remained behind since the rest of the alley was covered in street lights.
Tyler and Youngblood could see Johnny was getting closer and it wouldn't be long until he caught up with them. Tyler then noticed a ladder coming up and told Raph, "Put your left hand up!"
"Why?" Raph asked as he put his sai back in his belt.
"Just do it!" Tyler pressed.
Raph did what he was told and felt his hand grab the ladder. Tyler climbed onto Raph's back and held on as the mutant turtle climbed up. Youngblood pulled out one of his guns and pushed a button on it, he aimed it at Johnny's bike and fired, the blast hit the tyre and immediately busted it, causing Johnny and his bike to steer out of control.
Johnny jumped off his bike before it hit the wall and crashed. The other mobsters caught up and began to climb up the ladder.
"Tyler, where's this thing bolted to the wall?" Raph asked.
Tyler grabbed his hand and guided him to the main bolt. Raph pulled out his sai and put the blade behind the bolt.
"Okay Tyler, you climb up to the roof first. Youngblood, go with him." Raph told them.
Tyler climbed up the ladder with Youngblood following him from behind. Raph pushed on the bolt with his sai until finally, it came off. Raph then climbed up the ladder and kicked the entire fire escape off the wall, causing the mobsters to fall down with it.
"LOSERS! Find another way up there! They're getting away!" Weasel commanded.
Raph continued to run across the rooftops with Tyler on his back and Youngblood guiding him every step of the way.
About an hour later, Tyler and Youngblood led Raph to another rooftop.
"Kids, where ya taking me?" Raph asked.
"Just a little further." Youngblood said and then they stopped.
Raph sat down as Tyler and Youngblood looked over the side and saw an old warehouse and out the front door was a couple of mobsters.
"This is the place where they got my mum." Tyler said.
"Okay. Tell me everything you're both are seeing." Raph instructed.
They looked around the area and Youngblood said, "It's a large warehouse and there's two guys down there, guarding the front door."
"Yeah and now they're gonna get their butts kicked." Tyler said with anger.
Just when he and Youngblood were about to run off, Raph grabbed them by their collars and stopped them as he said, "Woah there kids! You two better take a breath and think before ya act. You can't just go storming off like a hot head!"
Raph then cringed in embarrassment and the others calling him a hot head and telling him the exact same thing, he muttered, "Hey. Listen to me. Hot head."
"What?" Youngblood and Tyler asked in confusion.
"Never mind. Just something my brothers were trying to tell me." Raph said crossing his arms after letting the two go.
Youngblood and Tyler looked over the edge again and then Tyler gasped as he looked through a window and saw a woman with brown hair and glasses, tied to a chair in a room.
"Hey Raph! Look!" Tyler called out.
"I can't look." Raph reminded him.
"I see her! It's mum! I gotta get down there!" Tyler said with fear and began to run to the nearest fire escape.
"Tyler! Wait up here. I'll…" Raph began to offer when Tyler turned around and cut him off, "I'm not waiting here! I can't. I promised her! I promised I'd come back for her!"
"I know Tyler and as I said, we will get her back." Youngblood said as he stood next to his friend.
Raph sighed and then said, "Okay. Alright. But we do this together. You're both are gonna have to be my eyes and no steering me into walls this time right?"
Tyler and Youngblood smiled and agreed, "Yeah. Right."
"We're gonna have to get our signals straight first. Here's what we do." Raph said and began to explain to them the plan.
With Tyler on his back and Youngblood flying in front of him, guiding him, Raph climbed through the window and landed on the ground on all fours. Youngblood floated beside them and then Raph sniffed the air and knew exactly where the mobsters were, since he could smell a strong aroma of after shave.
"Good thing these guys wear a lot of after shave." Raph commented quietly as Tyler climbed off his back.
The snuck behind the boxes and then Raph knew it was time for them to come out. Raph came out of hiding and said to the mobsters, "My advice? Give up now and save yourselves a world of hurt."
The mobsters however were not phased at all by his threat and merely grinned and chuckled. More mobsters, Johnny, Shadow and Weasel surrounded them.
"Hey you know green dude, we should thank you. All we had to do was wait and you not only bought the kid but the little punk who helped him escape in the first place to us." Johnny said.
"We got 'em boss." Weasel said.
Don Vizioso came out and stood in front of his gang, removing his jacket and rolling up his sleeves ready to take on Raph.
"So this is the costumed freak who's caused me so much trouble." Don Vizioso said with a frown. "Do you know what I do to those who cause me trouble? I make em' pay. Personally."
"Especially since these punks, are the reason my bike is now destroyed." Johnny added, standing beside Don Vizioso.
Raph stood forward and face his opponents, Youngblood and Tyler stood behind near Raph ready to help when it was time.
"Talk to me kids. Where are they?" Raph asked, looking around.
"You're definitely blind as a bat, just as Johnny said." Don Vizioso said, with a sickening grin.
Without waiting a second longer, Don Vizioso punched Raph right in the chin with an upper cut punch, sending Raph falling backward to the ground. Tyler and Youngblood helped Raph back up and faced his opponents.
"Now kids! Now!" Raph called out.
Don Vizioso was about to punch Raph again, but Tyler called out to Raph, "2 o'clock!"
Raph ducked down and then delivered a kick to Don Vizioso's chest, before landing back on the ground. Johnny growled and snuck up to Raph behind, about to deliver a blast to his back.
Youngblood then called out, "6 o'clock!"
Raph ducked down and swept Johnny's legs, causing him to trip over and fall on his back. Tyler then called out, "Tuck and roll!"
Raph ducked down and rolled out of the way of Don Vizioso's fist, jumped up and kicked him in the back, sending him kneeling down.
"SHADOW! WEASEL! SILENCE THOSE PUNKS!" Johnny commanded.
Before Tyler and Youngblood could call out another signal to Raph, Shadow had grabbed Youngblood and covered his mouth with his tail, silencing him and Weasel grabbed Tyler and held him in his arms, covering his mouth with his own hand.
"Nice little game you two, but now we're playing Blind Man's Bluff." Weasel said with a snicker. "Oh and don't worry about your ghostly little friend there kid, as soon as the boss is done with the green freak, Johnny will be taking him for a ride."
"Kid?! Kids?!" Raph shouted, worried since he could no longer hear them.
Johnny blasted Raph with an ecto blast, sending him backwards a bit and then Don Vizioso delivered a hard upper cut punch to his chin, sending him straight down to the ground. Raph groaned in pain as he sat up a bit. Tyler and Youngblood were struggling against their captives, as they held them tight in their grasps.
Don Vizioso said as he and Johnny came closer to Raph, "All that karate stuff don't mean nothing…if ya can't see."
"Kids! What's happening?!" Raph called out as he managed to get up on his knees, only to be kicked back by Don Vizioso straight into the arms of one of the mobsters.
The mobster laughed mockingly at Raph and then pushed him back into the ring, right into Johnny's fist which hit his stomach. Raph groaned in pain as he kneeled down and held onto his bruised stomach.
"This is too easy." Johnny said, as he and Don Vizioso prepared for the final blows to take Raph down.
Youngblood muffled screams could be heard as Shadow held him tight. He then felt the light grenade and the thermos in his pockets and remembered Raph giving them to him while they were on the roof.
FLASHBACK
Raph handed Youngblood the light grenade and explained, "My brother gave me this just in case of an emergency and since one of them is a shadow ghost, this is definitely an emergency. Just pull the pin and throw it in the air, instead of an explosion, a blinding light will happen and it should be enough to take down Shadow"
He then handed him the thermos and said, "Once we take out Shadow, we suck whatever's left of him in the thermos and when I beat Johnny, we'll suck him in there as well."
Youngblood with all his might, pulled the light grenade out of his pocket and then without warning, bit down on Shadow's tail covering his mouth, causing the ghost to yelp in pain and let him go. Youngblood then pulled the pin of the grenade.
"TYLER! RAPH! CLOSE YOUR EYES!" Youngblood shouted.
Tyler and Raph shut their eyes tight and then, Youngblood threw the grenade in the air. The grenade exploded and a blinding light filled the room, the mobsters and everyone groaned and tried to shield their eyes, including Weasel which resulted him in letting Tyler go.
Shadow screeched in pain as he felt the burning pain of the light, he felt his body being ripped apart and with one final scream, Shadow was now nothing but bits and pieces.
"SHADOW!" Johnny shouted.
Youngblood pulled out the thermos and sucked the remains of Johnny's partner inside the thermos. The light then faded and Youngblood stood beside Tyler, ready to help Raph finish his fight between Don Vizioso and Johnny 13.
"1 o'clock!" Tyler called out.
Raph kicked Don Vizioso in the chest, sending him back a few feet. Youngblood then called out, "7 o'clock and punch!"
Raph grabbed Johnny by his coat and spun him around a couple of times, before letting go and kicking him right in the stomach straight towards Youngblood, who pulled out the thermos and sucked Johnny right inside with one final scream.
Tyler then called out, "3 o'clock!"
Raph once again kicked Don Vizioso straight in the chest, knocking him back further.
"1 o'clock!" Youngblood called out.
Raph delivered a spin kick to Don Vizioso's face and Tyler then called out multiple times, "1! 1! 1!"
Raph kicked Don Vizioso in the chest three times until finally, the boss of the mobsters fell to the ground, groaning in pain as he fell unconscious.
The mobsters were in shock that this blind teenage mutant ninja turtle, had taken down not only Johnny 13, but their boss as well.
Weasel pulled out his shock and roared at the others, "DON'T JUST STAND THERE! GET EM'!"
Tyler and Youngblood grabbed Raph's hands and led him away as the mobsters started coming after them. The boys led him over to a whole mountain of boxes and crates and said, "Push these over!"
With all his strength, Raph pushed the entire pile of boxes and crates over, sending the entire tower crashing down and cutting them off from the mobsters.
Tyler led Raph and Youngblood to a locked door and said, "I think they got my mum in here. But there's a big lock on the door that we have to break and then we can…"
"Tyler, one sec." Raph cut in and kneeled down to both the boy's heights. He then said, "It may not be a good idea for your mum to see a big green turtle right now, or a ghost kid. You promised you'd come back for her. Now go ahead and get her pal."
"He has a point Tyler. Seeing me may frighten more than she already must be." Youngblood agreed.
"But, what about you two?" Tyler asked.
"I'll be with you invisibly as always." Youngblood answered.
Raph nodded and said, "And I'll follow you both out. But remember, head straight for the police station."
"Got it." Tyler said, nodding.
Raph smiled at both of them and said, "Hey, we three did pretty good for hot heads."
Tyler and Youngblood smiled back. Youngblood handed Raph the thermos and asked, "What are you gonna do about Johnny and Shadow?"
"Don't worry. I'll take care of it." Raph answered, placing the thermos back on his belt.
Youngblood turned invisible as Raph then used his sai to unlock the door, he then hid behind as the door as it opened. Tyler ran inside and shouted as he saw his mother, "MUM!"
"Tyler!" The woman shouted in pure happiness.
Tyler hugged her quickly and immediately began to untie the ropes, before she could ask him how he managed to get back to her. As soon as she was free, Tyler began to lead her to the exit, with Youngblood following behind them invisibly.
As soon as he knew they were gone, Raph shut the door and came out of the shadows. He rubbed his eyes and then noticed the blurriness was fading away. He looked at his hand and after a few more seconds, his sight had fully recovered and he was blind no more.
He noticed the mobsters had almost cleared the debris, he then began to walk back around and decided for a small bit of payback when he saw Weasel. He tapped on Weasel's shoulder, gaining his attention as the mobster's second in command turned around and faced him.
"Well, if it ain't Mr blind, green and ugly." Weasel said, mockingly with a smirk.
Raph however, was not fazed by the insult at all. In fact, he smirked back and crossed his arms and said, "You got some nerve talking about ugly pal. Wearing a tie like that."
Weasel's eyes suddenly widened and realised that Raph was no longer blind. Now frightened, he asked the mutant nervously, "Um…you…you can see?"
Raph nodded, answering his question, "I can see. Although looking at you, I'm already kind of missing the blind thing."
Without waiting any longer, Raph grabbed Weasel by the collar of his jacket and threw him straight into the other mobsters, which resulted in them being knocked back into the pile of crates they had just cleared and caused them to all tumble down all over them. Raph laughed at their misfortune, satisfied with getting payback for the ones who had made him blind in the first place.
Tyler and his mother made it to the police station. Her son pulled out of his pocket the tape recording and handed it back to her. She smiled warmly and proudly at him, Tyler smiled back in return and then looked up at the roof to see Raph and Youngblood looking down at him.
Raph and Youngblood gave him a thumbs up. Tyler's mother wondered what he was looking at, but when she looked up, there was no-one there.
Tyler and his mother then went inside the station. Youngblood and Raph looked down at the station once again.
"Thanks for everything Raph." Youngblood said.
Raph smiled and ruffeled Youngblood's hair as he said, "No problem kid. I better go. Take care of Tyler."
Youngblood nodded and then disappeared and flew off to join Tyler and his mother. Raph smiled, with everything now over, he began to run across the rooftops heading back to the lair. There was now only one other thing that now was on his mind.
Finding Master Splinter.
THE END