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[seriouslytwisted]

I knew that wall was gonna come down.

That's all Raphael remembers as he slowly, slowly wakes up. Splinter had sent them into teams of two on a scouting trip through the sewers; with all the monsters they've been (accidentally) making lately, they have to make sure that their home is secure. There should be only two entrances to the lair, and only those two ways to get to them. Everything must be guarded, any alternative routes must be sealed off. Mikey and Donnie checked under the water -since Mikey really can hold his breath the longest- and Leo and Raph went to secure the turnstiles and railway.

There had been a wall beginning to crumble further down, past where they park the Shellraiser. Leo was in one of his particularly bossy moods, those 'You should do what I say because I'm the leader and if you would follow my orders everything would turn out right' moods and that just makes Raphael feel like being contrary. So of course, when Leonardo tells Raphael not to mess with the wall, to just leave it alone and they'll come back with Donnie later and reinforce it, Raph just has to push his luck. He throws a rock, then another, and when Leo finally snaps at him and turns to leave, Raph punches it before turning away.

He doesn't remember what happened after that. Judging by how much his head hurts, Raphael thinks the wall probably collapsed, right on his big stupid skull. He's really not looking forward to the "I told you so" he's earned, so he fights waking for as long as he can until he can't ignore the throbbing any longer.

But then he sees the chain around his ankle. And he notices that the throbbing coming from his head isn't just because of what's probably a concussion; he's in a tiny cage, chained to the bottom of it, and he's being moved. It takes him too long a moment to realize he's probably in the back of a truck; he can just see past the bars of a small window, a thin strip of light that's probably from the back doors. It smells like that nasty petting zoo four blocks from the school.

A zoo transport.

Adrenaline shoots through Raph's blood, kickstarts his heart into thump-thumping against his plastron and he jerks up; the chain around his ankle rattles and he grabs at the bars.

A fucking zoo.

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[anything_it_takes]

At the sound, Leo utters a quiet groan and tilts his head, struggling for consciousness. His head throbs and there's a horrible dry nasty taste in his mouth, but he's not recovering from a concussion. No, those people - whoever they were, he didn't recognize the uniform - plugged him with a tranq as he scrambled to free his brother from debris.

Leonardo's brain comes online before his body, and he remembers; calling Raphael's name through choking dust, getting no answer; shafts of sunlight illuminating the tunnel remains, now mostly rubble; pulling free of the landslide, leg twisted under a heavy slab but still functional, he limps around the pain as he searches; finally locating his brother, unconscious and trapped; struggling to free Raph, hearing movement behind him and then -

Not even given a chance to fight. Taken down by a sedative, like an animal, by some sort of elite animal control from the looks of them (since when did New York deploy city workers with tranq guns? Maybe they were a private company of some sort? And if so, where are they headed?), all because he was too focused on the search to keep a proper situational awareness. He'd just been so worried about (and angry at)...

"Raph?" he mutters, struggling to muster the strength to raise his hand to his eyes. It's a work in progress. The pain in his leg is really distracting, but it is helping him wake up. Shame he can't quite figure out how to shift his muscles yet.