They stood there frozen for a minute or two, watching the news play out, before the footage was finally cut.

"We need to go," Leo decided and with the others all in agreement they headed for the exit to the lair.

"Whoa, what's going on?" Karai questioned as she saw all the guys rushing from the lair.

"The Kraang are making their move with the clones," Casey hastily explained

"What?!" Karai demanded

"Just stay here," He said in frustration, knowing exactly what was going through her head right about now, or thinking he did anyway.

"Casey-"

"Karai I mean it." He said seriously

"I know I just-"

"Karai no!" He seethed but she just gripped the fabric of his shirt up on his shoulder.

"I know. I was just going to say, be careful." She said and Casey nodded before leaning in and giving her a kiss.

"No worries," he said before he hurried to catch up with the other guys.

Considering everything she's been through since she was fifteen one would think that April would be more used to the bizarre attacks that constantly taking place in New York but no, when work called her telling her to get to an emergency downtown she had honestly assumed that it was nothing more serious than a car accident. But instead she reported to the scene downtown to find people with glowing red eyes and freakish levels of strength terrorizing the other citizens. It was crazy; people were running everywhere to get away from the Kraang clones, and the irony is that April wasn't supposed to leave until her boss found out what was happening to these people.

Suddenly she noticed Mikey signaling her from a building across the street, and in the confusion of the attack she darted from the van and over to the guys.

"What's going on?" Leo questioned

"I don't know. According to my boss they just started attacking, apparently some people thought they were trying to start a riot." She explained

"So how do we stop them?" Casey questioned

"I haven't had any luck finding their weakness, though that sample I pulled off Madeline did help me reverse engineer their make-up. First off the insides of these things are nothing but goop, but more importantly is while they are all capable of independent action based on their own unique situation they're all linked on a Kraang communication network. If April can disrupt the psychic link then hopefully they'll all shut down!" Donnie exclaimed

"Sounds like a plan, but what happens if instead of shutting down they all go berserk?" April questioned.

"Then… we're probably dead." Donnie concluded

"And what are the chances of that happening?" Raph asked, knowing full well that the chances were probably pretty high.

"Off hand… I'd say around 42%," Donnie answered

"Well less than fifty." Casey accepted the odds, though he had to admit that the high chance of certain death still made him nervous.

Leo was about to give the order for April to give it a shot, when footsteps skidding to a stop behind the group made them all jump. But when they turned they relaxed, because it was only Angel.

"Ok, what's the plan?" She asked.

"I see Madeline's attached herself to you," Karai commented as she placed two slices of Mikey's leftover pizza in the microwave. Irma was sitting at a stool at the table.

"Yeah, I barely got any sleep last night." She commented; Karai, of course, only smirked.

"You and me both, and sooner or later you can hand her back to where she came from; I'm stuck with Justin and this other one forever." She joked.

"So you and Casey still don't know what it is?" Irma questioned and Karai shook her head.

"I don't think we're going to find out, although I am getting pretty sick of just calling it 'it'." She said; the conversation about whether or not to find out the gender of the baby hadn't really been revisited since the first ultrasound, unless you count a few stray comments here and there. One thing they had decided on was that even if they did choose to find out the gender they weren't going to tell anyone aside from Justin.

"I can understand that," Irma said and just then the microwave beeped. "So how are you doing?" She continued as Karai handed her a slice of the pizza and shrugged while taking a bite of her own.

"I don't know," she replied, "best as can be expected I guess."

"You miss fighting?" Irma questioned and Karai shrugged.

"Sort of, I gave up patrolling when Justin was a baby and I got over it pretty quick, and it's not like giving up fighting all together is permanent. I think I just need some time to adjust." She answered, she'd never tell Irma or anyone else except maybe for Casey, because sooner or later he's going to figure it out anyway; but giving up training isn't the main thing bothering her.

Everyone focuses on it; they all figure that she's been a Kunoichi all her life and so giving up every form of fighting she has must be the hardest part of all this. But they're wrong. Sure she loves sparring and training hands on, but she can go back to all that once her pregnancy is over. The main thing bothering her, stupid and petty as it sounds, is gaining weight. Of course she knows that's just how pregnancy works, but she just can't help but come close to hating looking at herself in the mirror. As a kid sure she was tall, but she was practically skin and bones. When she got older she filled out a little more, but she still considered herself to be thin. But over her fourth month the baby had grown a lot and as a result so did her belly. It isn't a lot when you think about it, at least not when she thought about how small it would seem compared to being nine months pregnant. But not once in her life had Karai ever pressed her hand against her stomach and not had her palm flat, nor had she ever taken off her shirt and not been able to see at least the outline of her last set of ribs. She had mentioned that last thing to Casey once as a joke and he said he always found the fact that he could see her last set of ribs slightly concerning. It had never concerned her; in fact she always took pride in it. Therefor she's not exactly used to, say, trying to do something simple such as sit down or fit into a cramped space and having consider the fact the size of her stomach might prevent her from doing so; which it's starting to.

"Huh…" Irma murmured to herself

"What?" Karai asked, coming back to reality.

"I know I've been away from society for awhile, but aren't six-year-olds normally loud?" She questioned and Karai laughed.

"They're playing in Mikey's room, the walls aren't exactly soundproof but they're enough to keep the noise from reaching the kitchen." She explained and Irma nodded. "So how are you doing?" She asked

"Same as you, best as can be expected." Irma replied with a shrug as she took a bite of her pizza. "Although, I never realized how much I missed real food."

"Well I don't know if Mikey's leftovers count as real food but I know what you mean; Shredder held me captive for two months, on separate occasions, and both times getting back I found that I had never been more excited for dinner." She commented, although some days in the last couple months were starting to come close.

"Shredder?" Irma asked

"Oroku Saki," Karai clarified, realizing that she had only ever told Irma his real name. "After I learned the truth he locked me up in a cell until the guys busted me out a month later. I was home for about two weeks before Casey lost Justin to Tiger Claw and I wound up making a deal with Shredder." She explained

"Tiger Claw?" Irma questioned

"One of Shredder's mutant henchmen, haven't seen him lately." Karai answered before taking another minute to wonder about Tiger Claw; they had run into the cat a couple of times since Shredder's death but he claimed to no longer be with the Foot Clan. He had been hired to stay until the demise of Splinter, and when that came to pass apparently he didn't have much interest in sticking around.

Before Irma could ask another question the sound of screaming filled the lair, and not the alarming type of screaming. It was the screaming of two young children chasing each other throughout the underground home. Only when Madeline appeared and quite literally jumped into Irma's lap did the two women realize that the children were not getting along.

"Hey, hey!" Karai exclaimed as she struggled to wrangle Justin as he ran by her, and she hated how she nearly failed because her usual tactic of pulling him back against her proved to not work so well with her growing belly. But she didn't have time to focus on that right now, instead she had to focus on why Justin was giggling while Madeline was close to tears. "What happened?" She demanded

"Nothing," Justin giggled

"We were playing and then he started acting like a Kraang and chasing me!" Madeline accused

"We were playing cops and robbers!" Justin defended

"You didn't have to be a Kraang cop!" His friend continued to shout from her position on Irma's lap.

"Ok, ok." Karai said, "Justin no Kraang games," she instructed, Justin should've assumed that but for whatever reason he didn't; but he'd be in trouble if he pulled something stupid like that again.

"Ok," Justin agreed and with that his mother let him go but Madeline didn't move.

"Apologize to Madeline," Karai prompted, hoping that would get the little girl to follow Justin back to Mikey's room where they had been playing.

"Why?" Justin whined; his mother gave him a glare in response.

"For scaring her," she instructed, Justin gave it a second or two of contemplation before he looked up at Madeline.

"Sorry Madeline, I didn't mean to scare you." He said and, much to Irma's relief, Madeline climbed down off the older woman's lap.

"It's ok," she accepted and a minute later the two were rushing off back to Mikey's room.

"Any day now Red!" Casey shouted as he and Angel held off the attacking clones while the guys worked a few blocks away, out of range of the news cameras.

"I'm trying! It's kind of hard to tap into the psyche of something that doesn't have a brain!" April shouted back at her friend. She was fighting off her fair share of attackers too, and still trying to disrupt their orders, so naturally she was getting frustrated.

But just at that moment the clones stopped attacking, and they ran.

"What?" Casey asked in total bewilderment as he watched the city's attackers suddenly flee the streets.

"Where are they going?" Angel questioned

"I don't know, I never got through." April answered.

"Well someone did," Casey said

"Yeah, but who?" April asked him and for that he had no answer.

"I'm telling you Donnie, it wasn't me!" April exclaimed for the umpteenth time since she and the other's had returned to the lair and began going over what happened, with nothing else to report her boss had let her go for the day.

"April for the last time I hear you, but I don't know who else could've interfered with the clones like that." Donnie calmly explained; he always seems to have an excess of patience when it comes to the red head.

Karai was trying to focus on what they were saying, because even if she can't fight she needs to be prepared to help in any way she can, but her baby had apparently decided that lying still while the guys were out had been long enough. It wasn't kicking her anymore, just moving around inside her, and man did that feel weird. She partially blamed Justin for his brother or sister's apparent excitement; as it had been perfectly still and most likely asleep until he decided to pretend he was a Kraang and petrify Madeline. After those two ran through the kitchen screaming Karai had noticed a lot of light but still detectable movements coming from within her.

"Maybe it wasn't an interference," Casey suggested, pulling Karai out of her thoughts and back to the situation at hand. "Maybe the clones were just a distraction,"

"A distraction from what?" Raph inquired but his friend only shrugged, that was as far as he had gotten with that theory.

"There's only one way to find out," Leo said, "Who's up for a trip to TCRI?"