Sleep? Not a chance.
Raph couldn't sleep, no matter how he tried, when he and he alone decided he should. Sleep just didn't want to pay him a visit. Something was nagging at his brain, something that he couldn't understand. It was the sentence Slash said before leaving.
'I still have something to finish.' Raph couldn't stop it from replaying in his head. He wanted to scream, to let it out. But he couldn't. He was tired. He didn't have the strength to do something like scream. He had been yelling, ranting, and using his voice most of the time he was awake. Now saying something would scrape at his vocal cords and scratch his throat.
'What does that mean? Something to finish?' Raph looks around the room. The light, an electric lamp, is hanging on the wall. Slash had not returned yet. 'Something to finish..' He suddenly becomes dizzy and his eyes roll into the back of his head as he collapses into sleep.
If Raph's gonna be free, we may need to lose some dead weight...They never understood ya, not like me. Raph sits up, sweating from the nightmare. He now knows what Slash's 'thing to finish' is.
'He's going to finish what he started. Kill my brothers,' He starts pulling at the chains and banging on the stone floor and wall. He finds his voice and screams as loud as he can. "YER A MONSTER!" He yells, "STAY AWAY FROM THEM!" He starts hacking and coughing, his throat not able to take the slaughter. When he stops he tries to scream again, only to be silenced by more hacking.
"..You- cough cough, hack cough- you- ll.. regr-" he can't speak unless he sounds like the inside of a grinder. So he stops. He pulls at the chains, though. 'You are so dead, Slash. One finger on my brothers and you are dead!'
Donnie is getting the fresh pot of coffee from the kitchen and walks back to the lab, where his brothers are waiting. "Who could it have been?" Leo ponders aloud.
"Maybe it was these samurai scientists!" Mikey says, curling up, "They beat him senseless and took him. They're probably cutting him open right now..!" Leo sighs and slaps Mikey on the head. It brings him out of his hysteria. "OW! Raph! ..Oh, sorry Leo.." Mikey says, looking down. Leo sets a hand on his shoulder.
"It's okay Mikey, we'll get him back."
"We need to think. Who knows about us?" Donnie asks.
"The Kraang."
"The Foot."
"April and Casey." Donnie and Leo look at Mikey, "Hey! I'm helping. Next time be more specific."
Leo sighs, "..There are other mutants out there, right?"
"Yeah," Donnie says, understanding what he's saying, "There are a few outside the foot. But which one could beat Raph and capture him?"
Mikey thinks hard, before a lightbulb turns on, "What about Spike? He was pretty mad that he didn't destroy us." Leo sighs again and Donnie facepalms.
"And what, Mikey, would Spike want with Raph?"
"Duh, he's probably lonely! The dude was Raph's best friend! So it makes sense that he would find him for-"
"Mikey, you're a genius!" Leo says, seeing his point. Mikey rubs his fingertips on his plastron.
"Yeah, I know." Donnie turns to the computer and starts typing away.
"To find him will be hard. But not impossible. There are very few places a large mutant tortoise can go." Leo comes up behind him and looks at the screen.
"So where does he stay, in the sewers?"
"That would be logical, although tortoises aren't known for loving damp places. But since he's been with us, he must have gotten used to it.. Let's see," Donnie sticks his tongue out in concentration.
"Dude, what are you doing?"
"Using April's website to find anything turtle related... Mm, nothing. Spike is good at hiding."
"For a giant turtle."
"This is where Raph was taken," Donnie points out, "And from his size, there is only one place that he can enter the sewers, and that's right here." Donnie points to the spot he's referring to.
"The river tunnel?" Leo clarifies. Donnie nods. "Now we have a plan. Let's go."
Raph is beating the wall repeatedly, needing to force his anger out in some way. 'Slash! He's going to do it. I can't do anything!' He hits the wall one final time before slouching in his spot, beat. 'It's over. I can't do anything. I'm not strong enough. If I was..' Raph looks at the chains on his wrists in despair, 'I could break out and stop Slash from doing something terrible.'
"I hope you are rested, Raphael." Raph looks up and gives Slash the death glare. "Look," he places a box on the ground next to Raph, "I got you pizza." The box is flipped open and the aroma of the fresh, delicious pizza wafts into Raph's nose. But he doesn't flinch away from looking at Slash. "Oh, don't be like that Raphael. You need to eat."
"Staa.." Raph starts. But the rest comes out like a squeaky wheel, "Fraa... Br-"
"Raphael, you lost your voice." Raph still tries to threaten him, but Slash covers his mouth to stop him, "Talking won't help." Raph glares every sai ever made into Slash's eyes, hoping that he'll get the chance to to it with a real one.
'Let me out of here, and you'll regret ever seeing me,' Raph mentally warns. He bites as hard as he can on the hand holding his mouth closed. Slash jerks back and his reflexes cause him to slap Raph, hard. Raph's head snaps to the right, but comes right back, growling. "..Leaf.. 'em... be, Sla.. shh," Raph tries, venom dripping from his broken words.
"Hehe, you don't need them Raphael. I told you that. Everything will be better when they are out of the picture." Raph growls lowly. "Just like you wanted. You said you were tired of them. That is why I mutated, to give you what you wanted."
"No!" Raph hacks at his outburst. It hurt like a furnace in his throat. He gasps, for the intake of oxygen hurts like needles. It took almost a good five minutes before the hacking stopped and the pain subsided. When he looked up, Slash was gone.
Raph loses his voice to screaming for his brothers. Nothing wrong there. And the guys think they found him. Are they right?
Oh yeah, is this OOC at all? I started this after re-watching Slash and Destroy. I honestly think it is pretty accurate.