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They got to the abandoned warehouse at the right time when thy were informed by their friend April about someone infiltrating it and creating a trap out of the materials this mysterious person could find.
“So this is the exact location?” Raph said. “Yes, and remember, we must give that person a surprise sneak attack.” Leo replied. “Ok, but didn’t you asked Donnie and Mikey to also join us on this mission?” Raph asked. “Yeah, about that they bailed on me to watch a scary movie. So I guess that means we’re on our own.” Leo said. “Great, a day with Mr bossy bot.” Raph said to hismelf while Leo walks off.
And so the two of them enters the warehouse. But they don’t realise is that someone has been watching them and is going to do something sinister to them.
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Raphael was getting annoyed at his bossy brother as it now has been 20 minutes since they have entered the warehouse, and he was getting impatient of finding this new villain and beating them to a bloody pulp as now they are walking through the dark halls of it.
“I’m BOOOOOOOOOORED! I’m seriously going to scream if we don’t find this dude and beat him up!” Raph said angrily. “Don’t Raph. We’re almost there, so just be patience.” Leo said.
But then Raph sees something and thinks that its the mysterious person and so decides to attack it and when Leonardo sees him, the leader realises that he’s actually fighting a clothe rack with a hat. And then he sees an anvil thats going to crash down on Raph and so leo pushes him out of the way just as the anvil hits. But after that rescue, it appears that leo is fed up with Raph’s violent behaviour.
“Raph! What the heck man? You would've been killed by that anvil!” Leo said angrily. “I was bored ok? Besides, I don’t have to listen to you and your big bossy mouth.” Raph said also angrily.
“Well maybe this mission would’ve been fine if I taken someone else like Mikey with his childish acts or donnie with his know it all brain other then your violent and impulsive behaviour!” Leo said. “{gasp} You take that back, right now Mr Smartass!” Raph said really angrily
And so the 2 of them have a heated argument over who’s in the right and who’s in the wrong and oh boy was it really bad to see them argue like that.
“You listen to me and you listen to me straight Raph! Even though I’m the leader, I’m still your brother.” Leonardo said. “Well, I wished you weren’t my brother!” Raph said really angrily before he runs off. “Hey, get back here you idiot!” Leo said as he chases Raph.
And so the blue band turtles chases after Raph before suddenly sees his brother fall through a trapdoor and sees it closing. “Raph!” Leo said. And so he tries to go into it but it was too late as the trapdoor closes, now he’s panicking and starting to regret the arguement he and Raph had but hopefully he can still find the mysterious villain and save Raph before its too late.
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It was about 10 minutes until finally Leo reached the big room of the warehouse but no signs of Raph or the mysterious villain he thought until he heard someone saying “Hello” To him.
And when he turned around he sees a girl who’s about 15 years old with pink coloured hair and is wearing the same dress that Alice {from Alice In Wonderland} wears. “Hello there Tortoise.” The pink haired woman said. “I’m not a tortoise, and who are you and where’s Raph?” Leo asked
“Oh my name is Fantasia. A peculiar girl who loves fairytales. And don’t worry your brother is safe.” She said. “Wait how did you know him?” Leo asked confused. “I saw your argument and I thought this would be a speeded time for some drama.” Fantasia said.
And then the woman presses a button which causes a bunch of lights to appear and reveal that Raph is inside a glass chamber. “Raph!” Leo said while running to his brother. “Leo! Get me out of this thing!” Raph said while banging on the glass scared.
And so Leo does his best to break the glass chamber by using his katana but for some reasons it doesn’t work. “{laughs} Oh you silly tortoise, there’s now way you can break it.” Fantasia said.
“Oh yeah well what I know about Raph is that he’s the most toughest and strong turtle that I have ever met and I love him as a brother.” Leo said as this causes Raph to have tears in his eyes when he heard what the leader said.
“You know Tortoise, this reminds me of a part from the Alice In Wonderland book. So let me ask you a question. Do you remember the part where Alice ate a cookie that says “eat me”, and this causes her to become a giant unable to fit in the room she’s in, and so this causes her to cry and cry and fill the room with water?” Fantasia asked. “No? Why?” Leo said confused about this question.
“Because I’m making this part real!” The girl said. And then she presses another button which causes the crying face like pipe to start pouring water into the glass chamber where Raph is stuck in. “Leo! Help!” Raph said while banging on the glass once more as he realises that he’s gong to drown.
“No!” Leo said being scared.
“Alright tortoise, here’s the deal. I propose that we have a fight together. If you win then I’ll stop the flooding process. But if I win then say goodbye to your brother as he will slowly drowns and become sea foam just like the little mermaid.”
“So what do you say tortoise?” Fantasia said to Leo.
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The deal that the girl made up made leo think for a bit because the thought of losing and watching his brother drowns is pretty unnerving for him but he decides to suck it up and shake the girl’;s hand. “It’s a deal.” The leader said. “Good. Now then, lets go have some fun!” Fantasia says as she grabs an Axe from a nearby box.
And so the 2 of them have a fight with leo getting the upper hand as he is more of an experienced fighter then the fairytale girl. But then it all goes down hills when suddenly Fantasia starts swinging the axe like crazy, hitting multiple things at the same time but strangely not the glass chamber.
And when Fantasia stops to see that Leo isn’t fighting she reminds him of what he is fighting for. “Tick tock tortoise, it seems like the water has risen up a bit well.” Fantasia said as Leo sees that the water has now risen to Raph’s neck as the Red banded turtle began to rise up to the ceilings and is really scared to die.
And so this causes Leo to continue fighting the girl while Raph watches hopelessly as eventually the glass chambers is now fulled with water as the Red Banded Turtle held his breathe at the last second.
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Raphael was scared, no he was petrified since he’s going to die in the water. He always sees himself as a hot headed person who doesn’t need any help but he still cared about his brothers especially mikey
But while he was trying to find a way out he starts to remember the argument he had with Leo a few minutes ago and realises that the leader was just trying to protect him because he always loved his brothers and has to take care of them like a mother.
He starts to regret ever saying those hurtful things to his brother, about how he wished the leader was never his brother and how him running away from Leo caused him to be stuck in this death trap that he was going to die from.
But then his thinking was interrupted when he started to feel his lungs burning and his heart starting to rapidly beat and he knew that he wasn’t going to survive for long.
And then just when he was about to see Leo finally win against the girl, the red banded turtle released all of the air he had and starts to inhale water. The thought of it makes him sick as Ben though it was water, it didn’t help with the fire in his lungs. But thats not the point, as the point was he’s dead, he’s gone, he’s never going to go home and he’s never going to tell Leo that he’s sorry for everything he said to him.
And so with one last inhale of water, Raphael Hamato blacks out with his final thoughts being the words “I wished you weren’t my brother.” Repeating in his mind.
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“Raph!” Leo screams as seeing his brother drowns is what stopped him winning the fight against Fantasia.
And so the leader runs to the glass chamber as he sees his brother sinking back down to the ground and starts to cry about it. “Guess like I win Tortoise. I forgot to mention that there was a time limit as if your brother drowns then that makes it an automatic win for me.” Fantasia said
“Goodbye tortoise, hopefully I can make the same idea with your other brothers.” The girl said. And this causes Leonardo to realise that she’s going after Donatello and Michelangelo too and this makes him really angry to the point of his eyes going pure white and running towards the girl with his sword.
“Don’t you dare hurt my little brothers!” Leo said as he attacks Fantasia. Until he has another fight with her with it ending with the leader throwing her axe at the glass chamber which causes it to fully break and spills water everywhere. And after that Leo rushes to Raph still scared about his brother and hoping that he’s not dress.
“Great! My clothes are wet! look at what you did to it tortoise! {sigh} But its fine as I can just dry them off when I get home but this isn’t the last time you see of me. Fantasia of the foot clan.” The girl said before she taps on her red slippers and disappears.
And the way she said the foot clan made Leo realised that the Shredder and Karai are still recruiting new members to the clan. But now wasn’t the time to worry about that, as Leo still needs to check if his brother was still alive.
But when he checked Raph’s pulse, he was scared to realise that his little brother doesn’t have a pulse. Raphael Hamato, the toughest and violent brother of the turtles is now dead.
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“No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No no!” Leo scream in anguish.
He couldn’t believe that Raph is dead and that his last words he said to him was their argument. But then Leo calmed down as he realised that there might be a way to save him, by giving him CPR.
And so cracking his knuckles, Leo starts giving Raph chest compressions, but it was a bit hard since he’s doing it on Raph’s plastron but it was all worth it. And then after doing it 30 times, he gives his brother mouth to mouth which is a bit weird but it was also worth it and so after doing that 3 times, the process continues.
And after 3 times, Leo began to talk to Raph’s motionless body.
“Raph, if you can hear me? Then I’m sorry for that argument we had. I’m sorry for bringing you into this mess and getting you killed. I was just trying to be a good brother, you know. Protecting you and lecturing you as thats what brother’s do. What would Mikey think if you died? What would Donnie think? What would April think? What would Casey think? And what would dad think? And what would I thin-“
But then Leo was interrupted when he heard his brother started to gag until eventually he coughs out the water he had in his lungs which made Leo relieved that he is still alive.
And then he watches as Raph starts to breathe again and even hears that his heart has started beating again much to his relief and so stays with him while he contacts the team to pick them up and after he calls them, he notices Raph opening his eyes.
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When Raph woke up, everything in his body was hurting from being drowned. From his throat to his chest, god everything hurts like hell to him but he did noticed Leo sitting next to him.
“Leo? Was I uh, you know dead?” Raph asked. “Yes Raph you did. And I was so scared for you that I thought you weren’t actually coming back.” And upon hearing this, it made Raph shiver.
He wasn’t supposed to be sacred god damn it, he wasn’t supposed to be crying too. He was supposed to be a tough and strong brother. But now he was scared, because he died from drowning and almost never getting the chance tos we Leo again and so he speaks to him in a rather scared like voice.
“Leo look. I’m sorry for that argument we had earlier and me telling you that I wished you weren’t my brother. I was mad because well I just wanted to fight. But now I get it. You were just trying to protect me and make sure that I was safe and I was blinded by rage to notice it. And even though its kinda embarrassing to admit this but, I love you bro.” Raph said to Leo with tears in his eyes.
Leo couldn’t believe it, Raph was actually apologising to him but instead of doing it in a sarcastic or annoyed way, he apologised to him in a sympathetic and regretted way. And so he hugs Raph as this causes the red banded turtle to be surprised.
“Raph, I love you too bro. And I forgive you for the argument.” Leo said in a calm voice.
And so Raph returns the hug as he is finally happy to know that he is safe with his brother. And the 2 of them continue to hug until they see the turtle tank arrive outside the warehouse with Donnie and Mikey being the first ones to find them.
“Woah what happened here dudes?” Mikey asked.
“Yeah what happened?’ Donnie also asked
“It’s ok Donnie and Mikey, we were able to take down the villain without any problems.” Leo said in order to keep the other brothers from finding out about what happened to Raph.
And so they all head outside the warehouse where they are met up by April and Casey Jones who decides to take them back to the lair in order to make sure that Leo and Raph have a good rest after everything that happened to them.
And then inside the turtle tank Donnie, Mikey and even April and Casey sees Leo and Raph sleeping next to each other while holding hands which they think its cute
But what they don’t know is that this is meaning that Raphael is now safe and is thankful that he has a supportive and protective leader/brother like Leonardo.
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