Raph had been sent to get groceries for everyone for the first time since the Krang invasion, everyone trusted him alone and they decided he was capable of it. He squinted as he weaved through the crowd. "Wow, either I'm getting bigger or the crowds of people in grocery stores are." he squinted while looking around. "Alright, what's the first thing on the li-" someone bumped into him, causing him to drop the list.

"Oh. My. God." The person said. "Can't you watch where you're going?" they rolled their eyes, then walked off.

"Uh... sorry!" Raph called out to them, then sighed. He looked at his hand where the list was supposed to be, it wasn't there. "Huh?! No, Donnie just gave me that list!" He looked around, trying to find it. He saw the list floating in the air, being pushed around by vents in the store. "There it is! Raph's gonna get'cha!" he started running after the list, dodging people and jumping over them to try to get to it. It got into the cold section, landing on a box of ice cream. 

"Huh, that's weird, we didn't make this order." A worker picked it up, squinting at it. "Why would we have to get so much pizza?"

"Excuse me, that's my-" Raph tried to talk to the worker, but his foot got rolled over by a shopping card. "Ow!"

"Huh?" The worker looked at Raph through the sea of shoppers. 

"That's not-" Raph walked in a spot there weren't a lot of people, but he slipped on a puddle, landing on the floor. The "wet floor" sign landed on his head.

"Uh, dude, can't you read the sign?" The worker shook their head, then walked off, effortlessly getting through the crowd. 

"No, my list!" Raph groaned and facepalmed. "C'mon, we stopped the Shredder, we stopped the Krang, I can stop some guy walking off with my list!" he started pushing through the crowds. "Excuse me, sorry, coming through!" he looked back at the upset people staring at him, laughing nervously.

"It's hiiiiiiiiiiim!" An odd girl screeched, pointing at Raph. "That guy that saved the world with the cool rips on his mask!"

"Ohmigosh!" Her friends all ran over, immediately pulling their phones out. "Can we take pics with you? Yes? Great!" they started posing with him, taking pictures.

"I really don't-" Raph was blinded by the impossibly bright screens the girls had, the flashes only made it worse. "Agh!- I don't have time for-" a girl grabbed his face and pushed it closer to her own, taking another picture. "There's not time for this!" he pushed the girls away, then shooed them off. "Go do homework or something, I've got something I need to do!"

"But!-" One of the girls was about to complain, so Raph grabbed a loaf of bread and opened it, showing a slice of bread in each girl's mouth. 

"No! Shush!" Raph put the rest of the bread in a random person's cart, then climbed up a shelf until he was on top of it. "Alright, guy, where'd you go?" he looked around for the person that took the list, wondering what they were going to do with it. Just then, his phone rang. He squeaked from surprise and almost fell off the shelves, but he regained his balance and answered the phone. "Heyyyyyyyyy! What's uuuuup?" he laughed nervously.

"You good?" Donnie asked. "We sent you for groceries like... a while ago. You need help?"

"Nope! Raph's got this! Thanks though!" Raph ended the call, he stretched his neck out as far as he could to continue searching. He found the person with his list, but they suddenly didn't seem the way they had when he met them. They were walking towards the back of the store, back where only employees were supposed to go. "Huh... weird..." he jumped from shelf to shelf, he squinted through a window. The worker bowed down to a figure who was cloaked in the shadows, the figure took the list. "A villain wants my groceries?" Raph didn't get it.

"Ah, good. That means they're here." Hypno stepped out of the shadows and out of the employee's only area. "It's rather convenient that they drew a tiny doodle of themselves on the top."

"That's Mikey's doing." Raph whispered to himself, smiling, then paused. "A villain wants my groceries?!"

"There you are, you sneaky turtle!" Hypno pointed to Raph, being overly dramatic about seeing him. "Come over here! I've learned a few new tricks and I think you'd like to learn about them!"

"I guess you can teach an old Hypo new tricks." Raph chuckled. "But nah, Imma stay up here. Why don't we skip to the part where you tell me your evil plan and then I stop you?"

"Not a chance!" Hypno pulled a magician's hat out of thin air, then showed Raph that it was empty. He turned it, put it on, then took it off again before pulling a rope out of it. "Ha!"

"You know you've shown basically the same trick before, right?" Raph raised an eyebrow. "Are you running out of ideas?"

"Wha?! No!" Hypno put a metal ball on one end of the rope, then threw it at Raph, the rope wrapped around Raph and grabbed him, then Hypno tugged on it, flinging Raph through the air. "Just getting warmed up!"

Raph yelped as he felt his feet come off the ground, he was slammed into a shelf covered with canned goods. The cans almost knocked over, but Raph didn't want to have to deal with having the groceries he needed getting ruined, so he steadied the shelf just in case. "Hey, I'm trying to shop here!"

"And I say that you can't do that just yet." Hypno chuckled. "Come and get your list if you can!"

"You say that like I can't do it." Raph cracked his knuckles, activating his mystic power. "But you forgot what I can do!" he threw a punch at Hypno, but Hypno just turned into a bunch of doves, then walked out from some other aisles and waved smugly. Raph looked and saw he was about to punch a sweet old lady, he stopped himself just in time. "I'm so sorry, ma'am!"

"Oh, it's quite alright, deary, don't worry about it." Her frail voice shook a bit from old age, she calmly walked off. 

"How could you? You threw a punch at an innocent old lady!" Hypno playfully teased Raph, almost as if they were friends instead of enemies.

"Wha- I didn't! You dodged and put that old lady in danger!" Raph complained.

"For shame, you big bully." Hypno dramatically shook his head, then pulled out some books. "Maybe I should teach you a thing or two!"

"Joke's on you, nobody's been able to get me to learn anything yet!" Raph laughed, holding his fists up. "C'mon, do your worst!"

"If you insist!" Hypno threw the books at Raph, they came to life and started going after Raph. They were similar to the book that transported them from the normal library to the mystic one. "Books can take you many different places, let's see which one you end up in!"

"How about none?!" Raph started attacking the books, they snapped at him while trying to eat them, he knew it wouldn't hurt if he were to get eaten, but he didn't want to struggle to find his way back out of the book again. Raph punched a group of the books, which all went flying neatly into some shelves.

"Heh, you having fun stocking the shelves?" A tiny Leo in a thought bubble immediately made a pun.

"Aww, they got their happy ending after all!" Another tiny thought bubble Leo chimed in. 

"With the way those books were flipping around, it was a real page turner!" A third thought bubble showed up with another Leo, all of them pressing closer to Raph.

"That's enough!" Raph pushed the thoughts bubbles away and out of sight, then sighed. "Oh god, it's even happening in my imagination now."

"I'm... not gonna go into all of whatever... that whole situation is." Hypno gestured to Raph, who wasn't facing anything in particular and was getting irritated at nothing. 

"Huh? Oh, right, the fight." Raph nodded, then punched a few more books before squinting at Hypno again. "Gimme back my grocery list before I knock some sense into you and take it from you."

"Over my cold, mutated body!" Hypno pulled out his magic rings, throwing them at Raph. Raph ducked, dodged, and jumped over the rings, squeaking at every close call. 

"I mean, if you need iron, I think I saw some over there." Raph pointed over at a shelf that had all sorts of supplements on it, immediately calming down from the fight.

"Oh, I really don't need it, but thank you." Hypno caught the rings and smiled at Raph, genuinely responding.

Raph then chuckled and grabbed the whole shelf since he knew it didn't have foods, which were the only things on his list. "Nah, I insist!" he threw the shelf at Hypno, using his power to launch it forward.

"Oh wow." Hypno took a moment to process that, then immediately started running from it. "You really know how to liven up a party, huh?"

"Raph's a bit of a party animal!" Raph grinned, he snatched the list from Hypno after chasing him down, holding the list in glorious victory. "Yes! I got it!"

Hypno looked at his hand that'd been holding the list, noticing it was gone. "Wha- no! Come on, I spent all day working on this, the fight hasn't even begun!" he grabbed a can and threw it at Raph, who stepped to the side and easily dodged it. 

"Alright, Hypno, you're not usually this desperate for a fight over nothing, what's going on?" Raph put his hands on his hips, leaning on one leg. He looked like a sassy mom.

"It's nothing!" Hypno blushed from embarrassment, turning away.

"Uhhhh... if you don't wanna talk, that's on you." Raph shrugged. "I'll get back to shopping-"

"I miss Warren so much!" Hypno burst into tears. 

"Huh? When'd you two get separated?" Raph was caught off guard by the sudden outburst.

"Well, after the whole Krang invasion, we decided to have a talk. The apartment was destroyed and we didn't know what else to do." Hypno explained, looking into the distance while imagining an over-dramatized, almost anime-like picture slide version of what'd happened. "Warren said that we couldn't keep doing this, living together just put us in more danger. So he left, turning away from me and leaving me only his freshly destroyed, yet still stylish and beautiful hair to look at as he walked-... squirmed away."

"Ohhhhhh, I got it." Raph nodded as he processed that. "So... you got a divorce?"

"What?! We were never married, we're roommates!" Hypno turned back to Raph. "Anyways, the point is that he's living somewhere else now and I just really miss him!" he squeaked. 

"You know you could just call him, right?" Raph went over to Hypno, putting his hand on Hypno's shoulder while giving him a small smile. "Spend your time planning on how you'll talk things out with him, not how you'll fight me, okay?"

"But I can't! I've tried, but every time I try, I get so nervous! We haven't talked in too long, what if he thinks I'm weird for trying to talk to him again?" Hypno squeaked embarrassedly, flapping his arms dramatically.

"You want me to make the call for you?" Raph sighed. Hypno silently nodded, holding his phone out to Raph. It was already on Warren's contact, Raph knew that he'd been tricked into fixing Hypno's relationship issues for him. He sighed, then clicked the call button. "You're real lucky, Hypno, I really wanna throw another shelf at you right now-"

"Hello?" Warren Stone answered the phone, he sounded a bit down as well. Raph knew that they'd missed each other.

"Heyyyyy, uh... you!" Raph laughed nervously. "Sooooo... Hypno misses you and he's all upset and trying to fight me just because of it!"

"He... misses me...?" Warren was surprised. "Tell him to go to our old apartment, it got rebuilt, we're moving back in together! Roommates and partners once more!"

"And it's definitely in a crime way and tooootally not a dating way." Raph chuckled and rolled his eyes playfully, then hung up and gave the phone back to Hypno. "He wants to move back into the apartment with you since it got rebuilt."

"Oh my gosh!" Hypno started running off without even a thank you. 

"Heh, sure thing." Raph walked home, holding the list in his hand. He walked into the lair, then went to Donnie. "Hey, I'm back!"

"Uhm... Raph, where are the groceries?" Donnie looked around.

"That's what I forgot!" Raph facepalmed.