He crashed on the pavement on his shell, quickly pulling out his Sais to block the incoming gauntlet. Raph exhaled a little too loudly. This man would not give him any breaks, was he? He didn't even know where they were; it was just some dark alley in hopefully New York.

Raph tried to look at his surroundings, such as Splinter has always taught them, and only saw a dumpster filled with trash bags. And the black stairwells from the apartment towards his right. But Raph didn't have the time to scan everywhere when he had his arch nemesis trying to kill him.

The sound of metal clashed again, before Raph rolled out of the way and quickly went on his feet. Man, Shredder was tiring, and Leo wasn't here to play hero.

"Shredder!" Raph roared out, attacking his opponent as his Sai hit his armor. They've only fought Shredder less than a handful of times and were beat each time. But Raph's goal was to take Shredder down, which was asking for a lot since they never beat him.

"Child, you are no match for me." Shredder said, blocking the Sai, and pulled it out of Raphael's hand.

Raphael put his guard down for one second, and in that second Shredder used that advantage to kick him, hard enough for him he flew, hitting the dumpster with his shell.

Raph gave out a huff as his body fell onto the asphalt. He looked up to see the Shredder towering over him and closed his eyes as Shredder raised the gauntlet to kill him.

If only his brothers were here…

A clang of metal made Raph open his eyes and see Leo blocking the gauntlet mere inches from him.

Raph sighed in relief, seeing Mikey wield his nun-chucks, and Renet in the back watching it all go down.

"Missed me?" Leo asked, pulling his sword up to deflect Shredder's weapon.

"Shut up." Raph said and rolled over to his feet.