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“I’ll Always Love You, No Matter What.”

Summary:

What if….instead of Mona Lisa being the one to get stabbed and poisoned by the scorpion alien, it was Raphael?

Notes:

Alright TMNT 2012 fans, it’s time for the moments you’ve all been waiting for.

It’s time that I do a fanfic of the most beloved ship ever.

Raphael X Mona Lisa!

Yeah, while their relationship in TMNT 2012 is really good,

there is one aspect of it that every Raphael X Mona Lisa shippers hate.

And that is Mona Lisa’s betrayal in episode 12 of the space arc.

Yeah we felt bad for Raph because his new girlfriend betrayed him in order to save her peoples from Lord Dregg’s attack.

But yeah, they still reconciled at the end of the episode which was cute.

And we did see Mona Lisa some more in the When World Collide 2 parter episode.

But yeah nuff said, enjoy the what if scenario everyone!

Side note: did you guys know that Lord Dregg’s VA also played King Julien in the Madagascar movies?

And the fac that Mona Lisa’s VA also played Cassandra Jones in Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles too?

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

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After Armaggon gets eaten up by the scorpion alien in the pit.

And everyone is running back to the ship,

Raphael was still struggling to get up.

But luckily Mona Lisa was there to help him, by picking him and putting him on the ground.

But even though, she still helped him,

Raph was still mad at her for selling him and his brothers out so that her peoples can be spared from Lord Dregg’s attack.

Even though, a few minutes later after the turtles were taken away,

It’s revealed that Lord Dregg lied to her and Sal-Commander that he was going to attack their planet anyways.

So Mona Lisa tries to talk him out of being angry at her.

Which doesn’t go so well.

“I’m so sorry I did not tell you the truth, Raphael.” She said to the red banded turtle.

But he snaps at her.

“I trusted you. More then anyone in the galaxy, and you betrayed me!” Raphael said angrily.

“Please, you must understand that I was tricked into doing something that I would fall for.” Moan Lisa said with a sad tone.

“You know what? It’s over! Our relationship is done!” Raph said angrily while ignoring the princess’s pleads.

“Wh-what do you mean by our relationship is over?” Mona asked in a confused tone.

And then it hits her.

“I’m breaking up with you.” Raph said with a monotone but angry tone.

So after that, he runs off angrily,

Leaving a guilt ridden Mona Lisa alone.

As she thinks to herself that even with telling him the truth.

There was no way that her boyfriend will forgive her for betraying him through a false advertisement.

And that’s no good at all.
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Soon, Raphael was able to reunite with his friends and brothers as they run from Lord Dregg’s castle back to the spaceship

“We gotta get off this giant beehive!” Leo said to the robot.

“I am remotely preparing Ulxes for take off.” Fugitoid said.

But then just when Mona Lisa and Sal-commander was about to join them, suddenly they hear a voice.

“Unleash the Scorpinoid!”

Then everyone looks and sees that Lord Dregg is know riding the scorpion alien,

While his army of space bees flies with him.

Then after the Scorpinoid roars at them, the evil alien looks at them with an angry look at his face.

“You will not escape!” Lord Dregg yells at them.

So deciding to redeem themselves,

Mona Lisa and the other salamander draw out their weapons and prepare to fight.

“Turtles, go! Get to your ship.” Mona said to the turtles.

“We’ll hold them off.” Sal-commander said while letting out a roar of his own.

This causes the turtles to have a confused look on their face.

Including Raph as he’s still conflicted about his girlfriend betraying him and his brothers.

“Are you crazy? What about your planet? Your people?” Donnie asked the alien princess with a angry tone.

“Go! Save your world!” Mona Lisa said without listening to what Donnie told them.

And then Raph hears something from her that completely changes the conflict about her betrayal to the turtles.

“And, Raphael. I will always love you. No matter what I did to you and your brothers.”

This causes Raph to feel really surprised about what she just said.

As even though she did betrayed him and his brothers, she will always love them.

But before he can say anything else to her,

The princess and the commander all rush in to battle the robots and space bees to redeem themselves for what they have done.

As Raph watches, still being surprised about what his girlfriend told him.

“You love me? Huh, she loves me.” Raph said as he begins to smile at that fact.

“Uh-oh. I know that look.” Mikey said to Leo and Donnie.

So to make up the fact that he told her that they should break up to her face,

Raph pulls out his sais and joins Mona and Sal-commander on the battlefield.

With his brothers also joining the fight by using their weapons too.

And the battle was going smoothly when suddenly Raph, sees the that the Scorpion Alien is heading straight towards.

And even sees that it’s going to stab her with it’s stinger.

So despite his brothers trying to get him to stop, he makes his actions.

And so Raph pushes the love of his life out of the way,

Just before the Scorpion can use it’s stinger on her.

And then…..

{Stabbed!}
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“Raph!”

Everyone was forced to see as Raphael drops onto the ground dead after being stabbed by the scorpion alien’s stinger.

And this causes Mona Lisa to run towards him in fear of seeing him die.

Then she checks and sees that the stinger had stabbed him in the plastron {which is not good}

So they have a talk.

“Raph. Why did you do that? Even after you told me that we should break up.” Mona asked while trying to hold back her tears.

This causes the red banded turtle to look at her and smiles.

“Mona? I’m sorry for what I said. I didn’t realised that even though you did betrayed us, you still loved me. And that made me guilty of breaking up with you. But I’m glad that I was able to save you from dying.” He said to her.

Then Mona watches as the poison begins to affect her boyfriend but before he seemly dies, he tells her one more thing.

“Let’s get back together. As, a, couple.”

Then Raph closes his eyes seemly becoming lifeless in the process.

But this causes Mona to think that he is indeed dead.

And realising that none of this would’ve happened if she didn’t get scammed by Lord Dregg into capturing the turtles for the safety of her planet,

She cries,

While everyone looks at the scene with a sad look on their face.

And even though they still have to fight an army of space bees and robots, that still didn’t change the fact that Raph is now dead.

But then, Mona Lisa hears Lord Dregg who including the scorpion alien are behind her.

“Wow, didn’t expect the alien to kill your dumb boyfriend. But I supposed that it’s 1 turtle down, 3 turtle to go. Oh, and by the way, thanks once again for bringing the turtles to me, including the red banded turtle who insulted me by almost saying a swear word to me.” The alien said to her.

But upon hearing it, the pricness was really pissed at him for not only scamming her into believing that by capturing the turtles her people are safe.

But also let the scorpion alien kill Raphael with it’s stinger.

So she grabs her weapon once again and runs towards them in a blinded rage.

“Don’t you fucking say that about my love and 3 brothers!” She yells.

And so she attacks both Lord Dregg and the scorpion alien.

While Leo, Donnie and even Fugitoid checks Raph to see if he is alive or not.

And much to their surprise, he’s still alive.

But he was knocked out by the effects of the poison and would soon die in about an hour or 2.

“What do we do now Leo? By my calculation, there isn’t any antidotes in outer space. So in an hour or 2, our brother will surely die for real.” Donnie said to his brother.

While panicking for a bit, Leo has an idea.

“Don’t worry Donnie. Because I have something we can use, once we get back to the spaceship.” Leo said as he shows the purple banded turtle his 2 hands
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Meanwhile, after dodging the attacks that the alien scorpion is using with it’s stinger,

Mona Lisa was able to hop on it’s head and have a wrestle with Lord Dregg.

And then she stabs him in the back of his head with her wepaon,

This causes the alien to start puking up green, slimy goo.

But before he can fight back, the princess was able to use her weapon to decapitate his head.

Until she realises that Lord Dregg is actually a robot!

“No fair, no fair. I’ll destroy you, traitor! I’ll destroy you all!” He said to the salamander.

“Oh really? Because, I don’t care bitch!” Mona said to the robot.

And then she was able to shut him up by repeatedly smashing his body with her weapon.

Until after he is weakened, she throws off onto the ground and let’s him get eaten by the scorpion alien.

But not before she runs back to where Raphael is as she hears his groans of agony in the distance.

“Raph!” She said.

As while she’s happy to hear that he’s still alive, she’s also worried about the effects of the poison.

And what it might do to him.

And once she does run up to him, oth Leo and Donnie gives her space to check up on their brother, to see if he’s still ok.

“Raph.” She said worriedly.

But then the scorpion alien tries to eat them as well,

But before it does,

Suddenly, it gets attacked by a laser beam which actually came from the ship.

With Fugitoid being able to remotely pilot it to where the turtles and their friends are.

“I love remote control!” Fugitoid said happily.

“Whoa. Fugitoid, you are so metal.” Casey said to the robot after watching what just happened.

“Why, actually, yes, i am. And a plastic fibre compound.” The robot said to the teenage boy.

And so the spaceship proceeds to also kill the robots and space bees too with the laser beam.

And while Leo and Donnie are busy looking at it,

Mona sees that Raph was able to wake up for a few seconds,

“You’ll be okay, Raph. You’ll pull through.” She said to him.

And that was the last thing he hears,

Before he loses conscious again.
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A few minutes later-

He woke up, feeling fine and like he’s no longer feeling the effects of the scorpion alien’s poison.

But what was surprising to him was that Mona Lisa was by his side.

Alongside his brothers who are no longer angry at her for betraying them.

“Hey there, sleepy beauty.” Mikey said.

“Mikey are you making that joke out of purpose. Or are you making it out of the fact that sleeping beauty is my favourite princess?” Raph asked.

But this did made Mona chuckled a little bit,

As she’s glad that the red banded turtle is alive and well.

“Do not fret Raph. Even though the effects of the poison is still there. You’ll soon be feeling 100% better.” Fugitoid said.

Causing Raph to also see that Fugitoid is there alongside Sal-commander.

“You guys, saved me?” The red banded turtle asked.

“Yeah, although we did had a bit of help with how to clear out the poison inside of you.” Donnie replied.

“Yeah, Leo had to put his hands on you while saying Japanese words out loud. I don’t understand what it means but, it was still cool to see it again.” Mikey said.

“That’s what a Healing Chantra is, Mikey. But yeah, I used it once to cure my family and friends from a snake bite.” Leo said.

But then their conversation was interrupted by Sal-Commander.

“Brave Turtle warriors, we ask for something impossible. Your forgiveness.” He said to the turtles.

So the turtles had a thought on their own until eventually they give him an answer.

“Even though it’s gonna take us a lot of time to trust you two again, we still accept your forgiveness.” Leo said.

“Yeah, you guys are cool. For now.” Mikey also said.

“I’m still confused about how you guys betrayed us, because I was spending my time with April and Fugitoid trying to cure me from the stings of those space bees. But yeah, we forgive you two.” Donnie said

Raph doesn’t give the two an answer though,

Instead he just wants to be alone with Mona.

“Hey guys, would you all mind leaving me alone with Mona? I got something to say to her.” Raph asked.

And so with that everyone leaves to give the two lovers some space.

Then after their all gone from the room, Mona talks to him.

“I’m, so sorry, Raphael. For betraying you and your brothers. It was a stupid move for me and my commander to do under Lord Dregg’s commands. But will you ever find it in your heart to forgive me?” She asked.

Then she feels Raph putting his hand on hers.

Which causes her to be surprise about it, until eventually she looks at the red banded turtle.

As he smiles at her.

“Of course I do Mona. And i’m also sorry for being mad at you and for breaking up with you too. Although like Leo said it will be a long time before we can trust you and the commander again. I still love you. And that we’re a couple again.” He said to his girlfriend.

And so with that the love between them has been fixed and reconstructed.

Until eventually after a minute of silence.

The two lovers, share a kiss.

And even though the two of them had kissed before two times {which was when they escape the frozen planet and in Dimension X}

Raph can agree that,

This was probably the best kiss he has ever had from Mona Lisa.

And despite being betrayed by her.

He will always love her.

No matter what.

Notes:

Yeah the other ships in the 2012 series are fine or not that great.

But what makes the Raphael X Mona Lisa ship so good is that they didn’t make it forced or cringy.

{unlike Donnie’s crush on April or Leo’s crush on his sister Karai}

But yeah, thank you all for reading yet another what if scenario for the 2012 series.

And I’ll see you all next time with more.

Side note: Is it just me, or do I feel that Leo’s Healing Chantra {the one he got from The Deadly Venom} felt underused.

Which is a shame because he only got to use them once in the same episode where he unlocked it.