WARNING: Contains some bloody violence.
Chapter Ten
On the Run
Karai rested her head on Dr Chaplin's sobbing her heart out. Blinded and deaf to the Foot soldiers, the Venomous Five and the Shredder she just hold her husband's head and continued to cry.
Time seemed to go slowly as she sobbed and through her tears she soon saw the leg of Izo Arashi standing near her, his foot still bloody where he had delivered the fatal blow to Dr Chaplin's head.
She then heard voices above her as she heard the Shredder start to talk to Arashi and Dr Arden.
"Get rid of the body..." Shredder snarled "And bring Karai with us...yet do not harm her...I want her unhurt and healthy if we are to keep the baby within her alive..."
Karai's blood ran cold as she heard the Shredder's cruel words.
They weren't intending on killing her here with Dr Chapin, they were planning to keep her alive until her baby was born, but then after she had had her baby, she had no idea what would happen.
As she heard Shredder continue to talk Karai soon heard it clearly that he was going to take her baby and raise it himself and do away with her like Chaplin.
"I will finish her myself..." Shredder snarled "I curse the day I found her abandoned in Japan and took her in!"
Karai's heart beat faster and she placed one hand on her belly.
"No..." she thought "No...I won't let you take my baby and corrupt it!"
Kissing Dr Chaplin's head tearfully, her sorrow soon turned to determination, she had lost her husband, but she wasn't going to loose her baby.
She looked up and saw Arashi step towards her and she saw a knife strapped to his leg. Karai knew she was risking a lot as there were Foot Soldiers and five dangerous Mutant Reptiles along with an insane Doctor, Ruthless second in command and the Shredder and they all outnumbered her but it was her life and her baby she had to think about.
Quick as a flash, Karai reached for the knife and ripped it from Arashi's leg then slashed his tendon making him fall yelling in agony.
Karai then jumped up and faced two Foot Ninja who were coming towards her with handcuffs but she slashed them both across the face causing them to recoil and she kicked them away from her.
"Stop her!" Shredder yelled, glaring at Arashi who was holding his bloody leg "Don't let her get away!"
Dr Arden quickly got into action and he aimed his fist at Karai firing a couple of syringes at her but Karai quickly dodged and the syringes hit two Foot Ninja who fell to the ground stiff as a board!
"Damnit!" Dr Arden snarled as the ninja got hit.
Karai went pale seeing what the syringes could do and quickly aimed for the back of the apartment towards the bedroom.
The Venomous Five instantly went after her, Black Mamba zipped over and stood before Karai hissing.
"Where do you think you're going bitch?" she snarled baring her fangs.
Karai gritted her teeth showing she wasn't afraid and slashed her face with the knife making the Black Snake scream in pain.
She then grabbed Black Mamba's scaly dreadlocks and threw her behind her sending her flying into Cobra, Gila Monster and Nile Monitor.
"You idiots!" Komodo Dragon growled forcing the four fallen reptiles to their feet "You gonna let a pregnant woman kick your sorry butts?!"
Karai then bolted for the bedroom door as the reptiles were distracted and ran in slamming the doors before locking them and barricaded them with a large armchair.
Tears streamed from her eyes as she took in everything that happened, she placed her hand on her belly again thinking about her baby and she knew she couldn't hide in here for long as the door would come crashing down and the Shredder would take her back to Foot HQ and keep her a prisoner.
Thinking quickly, Karai grabbed a small bag and quickly filled it with some personal papers, money and a couple of keepsakes of her and Dr Chaplin.
As she threw a silver framed picture of her and Dr Chaplin's wedding in the bag, she saw the door was starting to give and some splinters appeared in the middle of the door.
"Open up the door, Karai!" she heard Komodo Dragon's voice on the other side "You got no place to hide!"
Karai then pulled on a long coat and hood and quickly ran to the window and to the fire escape, as she did, she saw Komodo Dragon's large clawed hand punch though the door!
Gasping in shock, Karai climbed down the fire escape as fast as she could and let herself drop to the floor before quickly running into the alleyway and disappearing into the darkness.
As Karai ran from the apartment, Komodo Dragon crashed the door down only to be confronted by an empty room.
The Foot Ninja and the rest of the Venomous Five ran inside and looked around.
"Where did she go?" asked Cobra hissing and looking around.
"Is she hiding?" asked Nile Montitor as he flipped the bed over trying to find Karai but to no avail.
The Shredder walked in followed by Arashi and Dr Arden, (Dr Arden had injected Arashi's leg with healing serum so the Foot Second in command could walk again).
"Damnit!" Shredder growled as he looked towards the window.
"She got outside!" Arashi snarled as he ran to the window and looked around yet didn't see her.
"She's gone!" he yelled.
"Well..." Shredder snarled looking around at the Foot Ninja and the Venomous Five "Find her! Don't let her get away!"
The Foot ninja nodded and quickly ran to the windows.
"And remember!" Shredder snarled before the ninja could leave "I want her alive!"
The ninja nodded and quickly jumped out the window to scour the city for Karai, the Venomous Five also did the same.
"She won't escape us..." Black Mamba snarled "I can already taste where she went..."
Shredder, Dr Arden and Arashi watched the Ninja and Venomous Five leave the apartment.
"You cannot run from me Karai..." Shredder snarled "No matter where you run...no matter how you try to evade me...I will find you..."
Over a mile away, Karai kept running through the alleyways staying within the shadows, she never stopped for a second just in case the Ninja and the Venomous Five were behind her.
Tears continued to stream from her eyes as the images of her dead husband still circled in her head.
Yet she tried to push them aside as she thought of her child growing within her, she had to keep it together if she was to keep her child safe.
After what seemed like over an hour, Karai finally stopped running and decided to get her breath back in a darkened alleyway.
She rested against the wall next to a large trash bin and hugged herself tightly. The whole area was silent apart from the noise of the traffic.
Though she wanted to just curl up and mourn the death of her husband, Karai knew she couldn't stay in the alleyway, for she knew the ninja and the Venomous Five would eventually find her, she had to think of what to do and where to go to be safe.
But after thinking for a while, she knew wherever she went, some shelters might not be able to protect her from the Shredder, as long as she had known the evil man, he would stop at nothing and he would kill anyone who got in his way to get what he wanted.
The more Karai thought about it, she didn't want to put innocent people's lives at risk, tears filled her eyes again as she thought about how hopeless the situation was.
Pulling her knees up to her chest, she laid her head down to cry more until she suddenly saw a damp and torn pizza box on the floor near where she sat.
Narrowing her eyes to look at it, she then heard the name in her head.
'Leonardo' 'Leonardo'
"Leonardo..." she whispered to herself "Leonardo..."
The more she thought about it, the more she wondered if there was nowhere else she could go, there was one individual that might help her and even protect her from the Shredder.
As images of the blue masked turtle flew through her mind, she wondered if he would even agree to help her, she remembered all the times they had fought, and how Leonardo had questioned her honour because of her Alliance with the Shredder and the Foot, and in fact, she herself had become the new Shredder after Oroku Saki's banishment.
"I know I've done wrong in the past..." she thought "And I know he and I have crossed paths, more bad than good...but..." she placed her hand on her stomach again "I need his help...more than anything...for the sake of my baby..."
Making up her mind and standing up, Karai took a deep breath and began to walk out of the alleyway.
She didn't know where the turtle's lair was, but if there was anyone who did know, it was April and Casey!
"I just hope they can tell me..." Karai thought as she walked in the shadows and kept her ears and eyes open for trouble "I just hope they believe me and realise I'm not here to fight...and that I have no connection or alliance with the Foot or the Shredder..."
So Karai managed to escape the Shredder, the Venomous Five and the Foot Ninja and run away, now a good distance away, she's decided that the only person who might help her is the turtle Leonardo.
But will she be able to find him?
Will April and Casey give her the information she needs? Or will they turn her away?
Stay tuned to find out in the next chapter!