Wow... bet you thought I was never going to post in this fandom again, huh? In all honesty, I was cleaning out my attic and found this huge stack of fanfiction ideas, stories, and notes from my middle school years tucked up under some old books. Let me tell you, it was a major blast from the past.

This was one of the stories I found. It's completed, one of the only multi-chapter stories I actually did finish, with about 28 chapters. It's in all of my 8th grade, enthusiastic writing glory. The date I finished it? 3/11/13. Over 4 years ago.

I'm posting it in attempts to digitilize everything before I move in to college in less than three weeks. Crazy, right? How time flies. Maybe, if you used to read my stories back then, you'll enjoy it. Or even if you're stumbling upon my work for the first time, you will too. Regardless, I hope you give it a shot. There will be very frequent updates, every time I finish typing up a chapter.

Two last notes - one, I don't own anything. Two, everything you see below is the same as how I found it. Same characterization, dialogue, whatever. The only thing I am fixing is spelling and grammar.

Enjoy.

"How many times do we have to defeat these guys until they stop coming back?" Mikey whined, kicking a Kraang droid while shell to shell with Raph.

Raph gutted a bot in half and rolled his eyes. "Until they're all dead!" he spit, quickly ducking to avoid another attack.

"So encouraging," Donnie snarked from the other side of the alleyway. Raph shot him a glare, and Leo rolled his eyes.

"Can we focus, please?" Leo said, and lifted his katanas higher, sending sparks flying as it crashed against the face of a robot. Its friends were not happy about that, and a swarm of them pushed Leo and Donnie back and back, knocking up to the shells of their brothers.

"Hey!" Mikey cried, elbowing Leo's shell when he accidentally knocked him off his balance. He raised his nunchucks, pressing back to back against his brothers, but tripped on a ripped off Kraang arm - Raph's handiwork. He grunted and stumbled forward, not raising his chucks fast enough and getting a neat slice on his arms.

"Mikey!" Donnie said, looking over his shoulder worriedly. He turned to run to his brother, but two droids stepped up to him, beeping menacingly. "Raph, help him!"

Raph, hearing Donnie's cry, launched himself up and into the air in front of Mikey. "Gotcha!" he sneered, raking his sai through the bots. He turned to face Mikey, who had clamped a hand over his arm, looking a little nauseous at the blood oozing through his fingers. Raph smirked, not paying attention behind him.

A Kraang picked up a severed rod from what looked like a leg of a fallen comrade, and Mikey looked past Raph with a gasp. From here on, everything moved in slo-mo for him. The Kraang reared back like a baseball player, smacking the back of Raph's head with a sickening thunk.

Raph seemed to crumple like a sheet of paper. The smirk on his face froze, then changed to what looked like an odd mix of utter shock and disbelief as he fell. He locked eyes with Mikey as he hit the ground, eyelids fluttering closed. That was the last thing he saw.

"No!" Mikey yelled, and Leo and Donnie looked over in horror, the light of what just happened dawning in their eyes.

"RAPH!" Leo cried out.