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 will air on November 30, 2013.

Plot
The episode opens with Michelangelo playing a video game, while Leonardo is watching. Mikey tries to win and kill the opponent, but is defeated. Raphael then comes out of his room with Spike on his shoulder, complaining at Mikey for getting pizza stains on his collection of vintage comic books. Mikey says that he can fix it, and sarcastically begins licking it. Raph sets Spike down and swats Mikey with one of the comic books. Leo tells Raph that he should calm down, and not worry so much about his 'meager' possessions being soiled. However, this only angers Raph more, and he irritably walks away from his brothers, complaining that they're always the ones who are "messing up". Meanwhile, in Donnie's lab, Donnie is working on a Retro-Mutagen. However, something goes wrong and suddenly, giant blasts begin flying all around the lair.

Raph saves Spike just before one of the blasts is able to hit the pet tortoise. 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 Donnie's last canister of mutagen away. Raph then walks into his own room. He begins to converse with Spike about how he would do so much better on his own...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, but as he closes the door, 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 in contact with the mutagen...

Meanwhile, the others are cleaning up. Raph is still complaining about everything that's going on, and Splinter is just about to suggest something...when Raph interrupts him, mid-sentence, telling him that he's tired of people suggesting to him what to do. Splinter then pokes one of Raph's pressure points, causing the latter to fall to the ground. Splinter advises that he meditate, which Raph chooses not to do.

Raph goes back into his room, angry that his brothers view him as the bad guy. Raph then hears a voice in his room, and notices the broken mutagen canister on the floor. Out of the darkness, a large creature emerges. Raph realizes that there's only one thing that it can be: Spike. The other turtles continue to clean up, but are cut short when Donnie's mutagen-tracker begins to activate. 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. Raph then turns his attention 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. 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 others conduct their own search. Both find it in their own way, however, it is taken away by a pizza delivery man, who foolishly mistakes it for an energy drink.

Slash comes up behind Donnie and drags him off. Mikey tells Raph that Donnie is missing, before turning around and seeing Slash. 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 agrees with Mikey, saying that his brothers come first no matter what, which causes Slash to become irate. Slash then grabs Mikey and grievously injures him. Slash says that he doesn't want to fight Raph, and Raph agrees, though still accuses Slash.

Meanwhile, Leo goes after the mutagen canister himself and it ends up in the hands of a salesman, who mistakes it for some type of antique glow lamp. Leo spies a nearby trash can, climbs 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 another way to get it.

Raph and Mikey go out and find an injured and unmasked Donnie, who has sustained a broken arm. They walk with him a ways, until Donnie says that he's too weak. However, Raph puts a band around Donnie's arm. Mikey believes that he hears Leo's voice and goes to investigate, only to find out that Slash has impersonated Leo's voice. Slash then lunges out and captures Mikey. Raph finds an unmasked Mikey hanging from a building, and rescues him. He asks Slash why he's doing this, to which Slash responds, "You don't need them", which Raph had formerly thought. Raph, though reluctantly, is forced to battle his former pet. Upon battling Slash, Raph quickly finds himself outmatched by the likes of Slash, who had observed the turtles' training for a number of years, and thus, had learned most of their moves.

Elsewhere, Leo breaks into the house of the girl (where the mutagen has ended up) and finds her about to drink some of it. Leo decides that he has to expose himself, and knocks the cup out of her hand with a kick. The girl sees Leo and asks if he wants a drink of "tea". Leo responds that he doesn't 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 says, "Bye, mister turtle".

Slash and Raph continue to fight, until Leo intervenes. Slash pushes Leo aside, and 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 Slashe's pressure points (just as Splinter did to Raph). Slash begins to fall off of the roof, and Raph tries to save him, but Slash falls off of the building...apparently dying in the process. However, they realize that Slash lived and escaped...

Back in the lair, Raph is upset about what happened. Splinter approaches him and tries to appease him by telling him to forget about the past loved ones and to be 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".

Major Characters

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

Minor Characters

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

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.
 * The rocket laucher from Enemy of My Enemy appears in Raphael`s bedroom.
 * 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.