Movieverse, Sometime after the fourth movie
There he lay, as he had done for years now.......
Oroku Saki, The Shredder.
Lord of the Foot Clan.
Karai stared at her master's scarred face, mauled and mangled beyond any surgeon's skill to patch up.
Having had his head crushed in a garbage truck and body broken by a collapsing pier.....
And yet still he lived, body healing slowly by each day in the Foot Compund.
When she had assumed leadership from Tatsu, Karai had not in her wildest dreams imagined to find the greatest warrior of the Foot to be alive!
Hours she spent by his side, waiting for him to awaken so he could once more lead the clan to glory......
Hours turned to days, days to weeks, weeks to months......
She visited him less and less, occupied with the reorganization and expansion of the clan.
She lacked his keen mind so mercenary work were the main income for the Foot, an assassination here, knife in nightstand there, stalking various politicians for their rivals....
Then Winters came along, offering a vast sum for their aid.
Weeks spent searching the city for whatever it was Winters was looking for. Which turned out to be demons, or as Tatsu called them, mutants.
Claiming to have fought four kappa and their rat master alongside the Shredder twice before.
Their mission became to capture these creatures, then...
Tatsu's kappa interfered. From there on things got, complicated.......
Stone warriors and more demons, a magic tornado and much more.
But in the end it was all worthwhile.
With the money from Winters we could finally buy enough medical supplies for the transfusion, turning her gaze to the red glowing canister. Filled with bio-worms and chemicals.
Professor Perry and the majority of the T.G.R.I managed to avoid them, but one of his associates, doctor Glurin, were not so lucky.
With his "willing" help the master was better than before.
Looking over at the monitors, all readings were stable.
A few more weeks with treatment and the worms would be ready for implantation, and the master would return to power.
The Foot would return to power!
And the Turtles would face certain doom at the hands of the Shredder......