Raph thought going to the circus was a good idea. You know, it's fun for the whole family! He could bond with his brothers all at once. He would get Donnie out of his lab, Leo would stop trying to annoy him and Mikey would burn some energy. It was a good idea.

But... That isn't what happened...

Raph had seen something he didn't like... It left a bad feeling in his mouth. He thought freak shows were a thing of the past. Yet, this circus was parading around a small and young mutant—a mutant like Raph.

It didn't feel right to him. The way the crowd gasped and jeered at the poor thing. The degrading behaviour of the ringmaster, as he referred to the mutant as a freak of nature. And, Raph somehow related to the small mutant. They were being treated like a monster. But, Raph didn't see a monster. He saw a scared, wounded, animal. It reminded him of his younger brothers.

So, in the dead of the night, Raph returned to the circus. Everything felt so dead now that everyone had left the area. But he didn't dwindle on that fact as he was a man on a mission. He was going to free the so-called, "Circus Monster".

It didn't take him long to find the tent and then the covered cage. The cage that was the small mutant's home. The cage looked so small for them. Raph didn't like it one bit. So, without hesitating he pulled the worn-down red blanket off the cage, startling the poor mutant, as they jumped awake. Whoops. Maybe he should have thought that through. "Shh... Easy... Quiet. I'm not gonna hurt you." The snapping turtle tried to reassure as he held his hands up in a surrender pose. "I'm gonna get you out of here, alright?" He states, keeping his voice quiet as he glances at the bars of the cage. He could easily bend the bars apart.