#d-tech art

i wasnt the biggest fan of the plastron crack being caused by a shopping cart rolling over raph, so i came up with a more angsty idea! basically it's turtle tots mikey and raph! raph who wants to go exploring outside of the lair, BY HIMSELF, ends up with a mikey who sneakily followed him out. they end up getting lost (ill work on details later .) and stumble upon a creature (some sort of kraang expriment with mutagen that was unsuccessful and left it to die) which is immediatly hostile, and lunges towards mikey, slashing at his forehead and causing a massive gash. the qquick bloodloss makes mikey weak and barely holding onto consciousness. raph does his best to protect him, but is easily overpowered (i want this to be his motive for becoming the strongest) and it claws at his chest, chipping his plastron and shell, leaving behind a gaping wound on his right shoulder. splinter is able to find them from the sound of raph's pained sobs and, in a blind rage, kills the creature. (bc two of his children are bleeding out!!!) he takes them home and patches them up. they're left with some pretty gnarly scars. raph becomes super protective of mikey, since he believes that its his fault mikey got hurt. he'll still act like how 2012 raph does, i just wanted a bit more motivation to his role as protector, as well as something more to the plastron crack story :]