Slash and Destroy

"Slash and Destroy" is the seventh episode of Season 2 of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 TV series), and is the 33rd episode of the series. It aired on November 30, 2013.

Synopsis
After Raphael's pet turtle Spike drinks some mutagen, he mutates into a spiky, hulking turtle, and renamed himself "Slash." Slash offers Raph a chance to join with him and form an ultimate ninja team, to which Raph happily accepts, thrilled by the idea of fighting crime side-by-side with his newly mutated buddy. However, Slash's true motives eventually emerge....The elimination of Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo.

Major Characters

 * Donatello (Rob Paulsen)
 * Leonardo (Jason Biggs)
 * Michelangelo (Greg Cipes)
 * Raphael (Sean Astin)
 * Slash (Corey Feldman)

Minor Characters

 * Little Girl (Pat Srivitana)
 * Pizza Guy (Ciro Nieli)
 * Shopkeeper (Andrew Kishino)
 * Splinter (Hoon Lee)
 * Skullorax (Andrew Kishino)

Plot
The episode opens with Michelangelo playing a video game, while Leonardo is watching...Mikey desperately tries to win and kill his monstrous opponent, but is ultimately defeated. Raphael then comes out of his room with Spike on his shoulder as he often does, complaining at Mikey for getting Pizza stains on his collection of vintage comic books. Mikey says that he can fix his mistakes, and sarcastically begins licking one of Raph's comics. Raph then sets Spike down and swats Mikey with the comic book. Leo tells Raph that he should calm down and not worry so much about his 'meager' possessions getting soiled. However, this only angers Raph alot more, and he then irritably walks away from his brothers, complaining that they are always the ones who are 'messing up'. Meanwhile, in Donnie's lab, Donnie is once again seen working on a Retro-Mutagen to possibly cure April's father. He comments that no one can think when Raph is upset. Suddenly, something goes terribly wrong within the Retro-Mutagen and giant blasts begin flying all over the lair...

Raph saves Spike just before one of the blasts is able to hit his little pet turtle. After the blasts cease, Raph immediately goes to Donnie and accuses him of putting their lives - and Spike's life - in jeopardy. Donnie apologizes, but Raph doesn't accept it and so goes into Donnie's lab and takes his last canister of Retro-Mutagen away. Raph then walks into his own room and sets the canister down on a table. He begins to converse with Spike about how he would function so much better/regularly on his own in many ways, without his brothers...Mikey then opens the door and tells Raph that Master Splinter wants him to help clean up the mess. Raph reluctantly does so - As he closes the door, however, the canister of Mutagen falls off of the table, cracks open, and pools out on the floor. Spike witnesses this and, out of curiosity, comes into contact with the Mutagen!

Meanwhile, as the four Turtles clean up, Raph continues to complain about everything that's going on...Master Splinter is just about to suggest something, but Raph interrupts him mid-sentence, telling him that he is tired of people suggesting to him what to do. Splinter then pokes one of Raph's pressure points, causing him to fall to the ground. Splinter then advises that he should meditate, which Raph ultimately chooses not to do.

Afterwards, Raph goes back into his private room, still angry that everyone in his family often seems to view him as such a bad guy. Raph then hears a deep voice in his room and notices the broken Mutagen canister lying on the floor. Then, out of the darkness, a giant turtle-like creature emerges. Raph realizes that there's only one thing that it can be: A mutated version of Spike!! The other Turtles still continue to clean up, but are cut short when Donnie's mutagen-tracker activates. The three then decide to go out and find the nearby canister. Leo asks Raph if he wants to come, but Raph says that he doesn't, concealing the gargantuan turtle that is right behind himself. Raph then turns his attention back to his newly mutated pet. Spike tells Raph about how they can be their own team, fighting crime, and forgetting about the others. Raph immediately aproves...Spike then recommends that they should go out and find the Mutagen canister on their own. Raph then suggests to gear up and he opens his closet, revealing some weapons - Spike chooses to use a large mace as his weapon of choice. When Raph refers to him as Spike, the latter says that he would prefer to be named "Slash" instead. The two then set out to search for the canister, while the other Turtles conduct a search of their own. Both find it in their own way; Slash uses his keen sense of smell to lead Raph and himself to it, while Donnie and the others are led by the tracker. However, the canister is taken away by a pizza delivery boy, who foolishly mistakes it for an energy drink.

Slash then comes up behind Donnie, hoists him up into the air, and drags him off. In a short matter of time, Mikey notices that Donnie is gone and tells Raph about it, only to turn around and see Slash right behind him. Mikey starts freaking out, and Slash once again tells Raph that they can find the Mutagen canister without the others...Mikey, however, begs Raph to help him find Donnie. Raph chooses to agree with Mikey, saying that his brothers always come first, no matter what the case, which causes Slash to become irate. Slash then grabs Mikey and grievously injures him with an array of punches. When Raph asks the giant turtle what that was for and begins to approach him, looking more than ready to fight, Slash specifically says that he does not want to engage Raph. Raph agrees, though he still bluntly accuses Slash...

Meanwhile, Leo goes after the Mutagen canister by himself and it soon ends up in the hands of a salesman, who mistakes it for some type of antique glow lamp. Leo spies a nearby trash can, decides to climb inside of it, and slowly approaches the canister. However, a young girl and her father show up and buy the supposed "lamp", leaving Leo to find yet another way to retrieve it.

Raph and Mikey go out and find an injured and unmasked Donnie on a rooftop, who has sustained a sprained arm. They walk with him a ways, until Donnie says that he's too weak to go any further...However, Raph doesn't allow this and puts a band over Donnie's arm. Mikey then believes that he hears Leo's voice somewhere nearby and goes to investigate, only to find out that Slash has done a very accurate impersonation of Leo's voice. Slash then lunges out from a stairway and captures Mikey. Raph soon finds an unmasked Mikey hanging from a building, and rescues him. He asks Slash why he's doing this, to which Slash replies, "You don't need them!!", as Raph had initially thought prior to the events. Raph, though reluctantly, is forced to battle his former pet...Upon battling Slash, Raph quickly finds himself greatly outmatched by Slash, who reveals that he had observed the Turtles training for a number of years, and thus had learned most (if not all) of their moves.

Elsewhere, Leo breaks into the house of the inquisitive girl (where the Mutagen has ended up) and finds her about to drink some of it, mistaking it for tea. Leo decides that he has to expose himself, and knocks the cup out of her hand with a kick. The girl obviously sees Leo and, instead of being shocked by his appearance, asks if he wants a drink of the "tea"!! Leo responds that he does not and tells her that he has to leave with the "tea" that she has. However, the girl threatens to scream to her father if Leo tries to leave. He sits down with her, and just when she's asking if there are any more talking turtles around, Raph and Slash come crashing through the roof, immersed in battle. Leo then leaves with the canister, and the girl simply says, "Bye, mister turtle"...

Slash and Raph continue to fight, until Leo intervenes. A scornful Slash easily pushes Leo aside, and then utterly outmatches Raph, knocking away the latter's weapons in the process. Though bruised and battered, Raph remembers a vantage point and instinctively pokes one of Slash's pressure points (just as Splinter did to Raph, teaching the latter something or two). Slash begins to fall off of the roof, and Raph then tries to save him, but Slash falls off of the building, believed to have died in the process. However, a short time later, they realize that Slash was able to survive and escape.

Back in the lair, Raph is quite upset about what happened...Splinter approaches him and tries to appease him by telling him to forget about all of the past loved ones and to live with the present loved ones. Raph obeys this and goes to hang out with his brothers, saying, "You guys aren't so bad to hang out with, either".

Trivia

 * Mikey and Mouth, two of the Goonies reunite with this episode, Sean Astin (Raphael's voice) and Corey Feldman who is joining the show as Slash's voice. This was heavily played up in articles detailing the episode.
 * Corey Feldman also voiced Donatello in the 80's Ninja Turtles movie.
 * This episode marks the first time in this series that any of the Turtles appear unmasked post-mutation.
 * A Stockman Industries billboard appears when Raph and Slash are jumping rooftops.
 * Slash belt buckle's "S" isn't inverted, different from previous incarnations where it made the "S" look like a "Z".
 * Skullorax's minions in the turtles' arcade game resemble the Kraang in their floating devices.
 * If one looks closely to when Raphael enters the living room after talking to Mikey about helping Master Splinter clean, Raphael appears in front of the arcade machine by mistake, for a split second.

Gallery
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