Casey wasn't sure why he decided to sit down and talk when April was still missing, but its been puzzling him as to how Brie was still alive. He had to know. He took a seat on one of the boxes at the dock while Brie sat next to him. When she looked up at him with those beautiful eyes of hers he couldn't bring himself to mention that they were to look for April again right after she was finished.
"After the goons that jumped us ran away, a lot of time passed and before the police arrived one of the Kraang bots appeared. It had a large needle and stuck it in my neck. They drained some of my blood out and then stuck another needle in the back of my neck and drained something out of there too and disappeared. And by the time the police came and you came to, I was already gone." She explained.
"Wait, if you were gone, how are you alive now to tell me all this?" Casey questioned. This was all getting too weird. He didn't know how much more he can take.
"Well, that's because I still have her memories" she said.
"What?" Casey asked still not having a clue what she is talking about.
"I am actually a clone of the original Gabrielle" she explained. Casey's breath hitched in his throat and his whole sense of reasoning flew out the window.
Meanwhile with the turtles, the guys are going nuts trying to find April. They meet up together and give a status report on her whereabouts.
"Oh where could she be?! She could be anywhere!" Donnie panicked.
"Yeah like already in a Kraang lab turned into a bunch of April goo in a test tube, or maybe in Shredder's lair as a half girl half robot cyborg designed to take over the world!" Mikey shouted.
"Do you ALWAYS HAVE TO TRY TO FREAK ME OUT!" Donnie yelled. Raph split them apart.
"Donnie relax we'll find April. Knowing the Kraang, she's probably in some place run down and abandoned where no one can pass by and hear her." Leo explained.
"In case you forgot genius this city's filled with abandoned dumps, it'll take us all night to search them!" Raph shouted at Leo.
"If we split up then we can cover more ground. We each look in the first place we think would hold April and continue on until we find her. With all four of us covering New York separately, we should be able to find her." Leo said.
"But what if one of us gets cornered by the Kraang?" Donnie asks.
"It's not a perfect plan, but if you get cornered you have to run, don't try to fight them off…RAPH" Leo says looking at Raph. Raphael grunts folding his arms across his chest.
"At least try your best to stay hidden in the shadows so you don't have a chance to get caught. Remember, April's counting on us." Leo said.
They all nodded and went off on their own separate ways.
" So wait you're a clone? This is too weird." Casey said standing up in shock rubbing his head with his hands trying to soothe his current headache. Brie got up and placed her hand on his back and used her other to turn his face towards her.
"Casey please here me out." She pleaded. She wanted to laugh when she saw how quickly he complied. He really was a sucker for her.
"The Kraang were working on an experiment to create clones of humans using only the human's blood and whatever fluid they drained from the back of the neck which contained the memories of the original. I was created to capture humans so they can be turned into human androids. They were using this experiment to start their plan to rule by using the human androids to rule the earth in the name of Kraang. While I was being cloned they added so many weapons and power sources inside me to create a human weapon. I was their first successful experiment." Brie explained.
"Wait so you're like an alien weapon of mass destruction underneath?" Casey asked. Brie nodded.
"Well this is getting better." Casey said sarcastically.
"They were going to continue with the experiments until I escaped and destroyed their lab with all of their tools so they'd never get another chance to ruin another person's life. I didn't know where to go because my family believes I'm dead so I thought of who has always been there for me. And that was you. I kept having to hide from the Kraang so I couldn't go straight to your house. I'm afraid to walk around in the day because I'm afraid someone might notice me. When I finally found you I was so happy." She said and embraced him in a hug.
"But if you have all those gadgets in you, why didn't you free yourself from the Kraang when we found you?" He asked as he pulled her off him lightly to look her in the eye.
"Because I was scared. And then when I saw you, I thought I might scare you if you saw what they did to me." Brie turned on the waterworks now and hugged him tighter.
"I was so alone for so long, I'm just glad you're here." She said happily. Casey hesitantly returned the hug. He didn't know why he felt so uneasy with this story, or why her hugging him didn't feel as warm as it did before.
"But that happened years ago, did you age in that lab? Cuz you don't look like you did when I last saw you." Casey questioned.
"The Kraang's cloning technology is capable of aging the human body naturally as humans age." She explained releasing the hug but holding onto his hands.
She leans forward to kiss him. "Everything's better now" she says softly. Casey looks conflicted of whether to lean in as well or not. Then he remembers.
"Hey you said this story would also help find April, so where do you think she is?" Casey asked grabbing onto her shoulders and pulling her to look him in the eye.
Brie was pissed now. Her charms and looks couldn't hold his attention forever. He went back to worrying about April. It angered her so that he cared so much about her. She may be a clone but she still has all the memories of Brie so she was her.
Brie nodded and walked him to where the plan was taking place and already in affect.
"Hey! Guys! Anyone!...CASEY!" April screamed.