The Casey Chronicles (10 page)

With all the dismembered robot parts
on the floor, the Turtles' lair looked like a scrap yard.

Leo hacked two Footbots to pieces. “Is that all of them?”

Master Splinter lunged at the last remaining Footbot as it crept up behind Leo. He took it out with one swift swing of his sword. “Yes,” he said, calmly pulling his blade out of the bot's sparking backside. “That is all.”

“What happened to Raph and Casey?” April wondered out loud.

As if on cue, April got her answer: they walked into the lair together like old pals as they relived their epic victory.

“Dude! The way we chased that thing down,” Raph reminisced.

“And what about when I shocked it with my stunner!” Casey grinned. “How cool was that?”

“Don't forget the subway chase! That was the most awesome part!”

Everyone stopped cleaning up robot parts, their mouths hanging open as they gawked at the unlikely pair. What was going on here? Was this a happy Raph? Or—an even crazier thought— a
friendly
Raph?

“What's up? No more robots left for Raph and me?” Casey asked the room, leaning on his new partner-in-crime-fighting.

Mikey was perplexed. “Whoa … what's up with you two? You're like best friends forever now or something?”

“I see you have found a new ally, Raphael,” Master Splinter observed.

“Yeah,” Raph admitted. “Casey's cool.”

Master Splinter came forward to express his gratitude to Casey. “Thank you for helping my family.”

“No problem, rat-dude,” Casey answered, still a little leery of the giant rat standing before him. “But now,” he said, turning to Raph, “it's time to clean the scum off the streets.”

“Let's do this!” Raph growled.

“Yeaaaahhhh!” the dangerous duo yelled simultaneously, banging their heads together.

“Great. You know what this means?” Donnie said with a tremble in his voice. “Now we have
two
Raphaels!”

Raph and Casey hit the surface as a team, ready to deal a double dose of pain to evildoers everywhere!