Chapter 21
In the early morning on the stove, Ron was cooking a huge helping of scrambled eggs and bacon as he put it on two plates and turn off the stove. Ron grabbed the two plates of food that he cooked and walked over to the table, as he sat one of the plates down in front of Karai who was transformed back into her human form, but still have that scaly snake skin and snake eyes.
Ron put down his plate an then grab the bottle of maple syrup and pour it all over her eggs, and put it down. Karai smiled sweetly at how Ron was thoughtful for doing that as took his seat. When saying grace he grab his fork and was about to eat his food, until he saw Karai eating with her hands and eating fast.
Ron dropped his fork as he see his mutant wife eating like she hasn't eaten in years, as she was scarfing her food down. Karai then finished eating her food as she begin licking and sucking her fingers, and then licked her lips with her snake tongue as was looking at Ron and his food. "Are you going to eat that ninja dumpling?." she asked. Ron looked at his food and look back at Karai who waiting for the answer, and gave his plate to her.
She ate it the same way with her food while Ron just watched on knowing that Karai usually don't eat like that at all, but he figure that it has to do something with her snake DNA when she fell into the pool of mutagen. "How do you feel babe?." Ron asked daring to ask Karai. Karai finished eating and talk to her lover in a serpent hiss. "I'm feeling find and weird at the same time. I can't complain." she said licking some syrup on her plate with her finger.
"Karai tell me the truth. Why did come back to our apartment?. And why did you attacked Raph and Splinter?." Ron asked while pouring some orange juice in both cups, and gave Karai hers. "B... B... Because I was scared and I need my husband to comfort me, and I didn't know what have gotten into me." Karai explained while taking her cup and drank her juice. Ron was happy to have his wife here with him but, he didn't like how she look. Don't get him wrong for thinking like that, cause he loved Karai with all his heart but he can not at any circumstance tolerate snakes.
He always hated snakes when he was little after seeing one in the zoo or watch those Anaconda movies, in which he still hates it. Ron hated how they look, act, and move and always wondering why they looked so darn mad when no one isn't bothering them. Heck, if he was on Fear Factor and they told him to lay in a tub full of snakes or even kiss one, he would automatically quit the game even though it's the first round. "I tell you what babe why don't you go and seat on the couch, while I handle the dishes." Ron said trying to keep cool and not panic.
Karai smiled and never doubted that Ron was going to look at her different, making her feel happy and wanted. "Ok." she said getting up from the table. After getting the dishes out of the way and clean up the mess on the table, he then headed to the living room where she was waiting for him on the couch waiting patiently. Karai smile while patting the couch to motion him to seat down with her, as she gave him a wink in which Ron didn't like it due to Karai's eyes were snake eyes. "Ron this your wife. Stop acting like a punk and seat down." he thought to himself as he sat down but away from Karai.
Karai then scooted over to him as she wrap his arm around her arms, and lay her head down and smiled. Ron just keep saying better or worse in his head as he turned on the tv, and watch some late night football game rerun between The Jets and the Cleveland Browns. Ron was enjoying the game until he began to react as Karai licked him on the cheek with her snake tongue, as he quickly got up off the couch. "Are you alright ninja dumpling?." she asked in worry. "Um yeah Kit Kat, I'm fine you just got me startled from that snake tongue of yours." Ron said chuckling as she chuckled as well.
"You're right about that Ron, I was experimenting my new ability of being a mutant." she said licking her fangs as Ron was a little bit scared to see it. After watching the game Ron was in the bathroom brushing his teeth while putting on his pajamas. He didn't know what to do since Karai refused to let him take her back to the lair so Donnie can cure her, and didn't want them to see her like this. An especially she refused to let Zoey see her as a freak, and don't want to scare her or give her nightmares. "Right now she needs me no matter how bad she looks. I love her and that's final." Ron said to himself as started putting Listerine in his mouth, and started washing his mouth and spit it out.
He walked out of the bathroom and hit the hay, and saw Karai laying in the bed waiting for him as she smiled happily, while he lay on his side of the bed as she blocked his view of looking at the ceiling, as she bend down to kiss her husband. Ron told himself that he wasn't going to act like there's an issue with Karai, but he couldn't do it as quickly rolled off the bed. "Ron you been acting weird when I came back to our apartment. Are you sure nothing's wrong?." Karai asked feeling a little upset about it. Ron sat back on the bed and wrapped his arms around her and said "Kit Kat there's absolutely nothing wrong that you should stress about. Try me." Karai said while wrapping her arms around him with smile.
"Then that case ninja dumpling, I want to cuddle and snuggle with you up until the sun comes. Then I want my feet massage and kissed." she said as Ron was not at all taken back about her request. "As you wish babe, I always do what makes you happy. Anything else?." "I want to be kissed by my husband right now, so pucker up." she said closing her eyes and puckered up her lips together and slowly lean over to him.
Ron did what he said as he lean forward to meet his lips with hers as he open his left eye, as he looked at Karai with snake skin of hers as she opened her eyes causing him to back out. "Sorry babe I remember that, I had bad breath and don't won't smell or taste it." Ron said giving himself a pat on the back with great thinking. "Big deal Ron, I have snake breath. See." Karai said huffing her breath making Ron smell that aroma, as he smelled snake on her breath. "Babe that smelled bad and worst." he said fanning the smell away from his noise.
Karai laughed at Ron's reaction as she hugged him tight and kissed him passionately as Ron kissed back, and pulled her close to him enjoying the love. It came to a quick end as Karai decided to tongue kiss him as he pulled back, as his human tongue made contact with her snake tongue as he started spitting out the taste of it. Karai had a sad face as she touched her face as she realized that Ron didn't want to interact with her or even cuddle with her. "It's because how I look isn't it?." she asked sadly. "What?. No baby I love you just the way you are." Ron said knowing that she made her sad.
Karai just had a sad smile as she remembered that Ron was scared of snakes and she was mutated into a serpent so, this was very understanding but still hurt. "I love you no matter what Ron but, I need you to comfort me and telling me that you will make me feel happy. And as of now you're not doing that for me." she said as she kissed him on the cheek and then said "Your sleeping on the couch this morning." Ron got up an grab a pillow and walked out of the room and closed it. "I definitely deserve to sleep on the couch after I just treated my wife like a freak to society." he said to himself as he lay down on the couch and sleep, while Karai was upset as tears were falling down. She will always be there for Ron and she knows that she must give him some time to adjust the idea of her being like this, and try her best not to give up on herself.
It has been five days after the issue as Ron got up from his bed as Karai was snuggling up to him. He finally adjusted the idea of his wife being the way she is now, and Karai was very happy to see it. "You know it's nice to be together right?." she asked while laying on him. "Yeah I know that they finally got the school up and running again but, I'm going to take a skip day." Ron said grinning about it.
Karai was surprised to hear as she know that Ron will never skip school, but he has a history of being the bad boy in which made one of the reasons why she fall in love with him. After getting dressed into his black t-shirt with a picture of Tupac Shakur on it, as he was about to go and hang out with the guys as Karai told him that she was going for a walk. And when she mean walk, she really means slither.
Ron was about to go and grab his sword feeling like his going to need it, and left the apartment to go to the lair. As he made it to Turtles lair he was helping Donnie out with the same Kraang tech device that teleport different dimensions. "I can't figure out how to activate it this thing. The Kraang tech is still so advance." he said typing on his computer. "Don't worry Don will figure it out sooner or later." said Ron messing with the thing, while Mikey was eating his pizza. Whatever what Ron just did he activated the thing as it open up, and letting out some pink fog. "Guys what just happened!?." yelled Leo as he and Raph ran in.
Ron then said "I don't how I activated the thing but I did. Man, I can't breathe in this fog." Donnie gave everyone a breathing device since the transportation device was opening up the Kraangs home, as it was Dimension X. But what surprise them is when the white orb that Donnie have took from the Kraang while back, as it projected a video message from their old friend Leatherhead. "Turtles there isn't much time. Kraang has perfected the mutagen. They are about to." he said as the transmission was cut off. "Leatherhead is in trouble!. We need to go help him!." said Mikey who was getting to jump into the portal, but Ron stopped him.
"Are you crazy?. We need to think before we act Mikey." Ron said making him seat down. "Yeah and we don't need you to screw up things." said Raph telling the truth. While discussing on weather they should go to Dimension X and figure out how to save their alligator friend, Mikey to it upon himself as he jumped into Dimension X. "Mikey!." said all of them as they can not believe this crap. "Crap!. Now we have to go to Dimension X!." said Ron in frustration.
"I know let's go!." said Leo as he, Ron, and the others jumped in as they were swirling around fast. "Oh god, I think I'm going to be sick." said Ron holding his mouth and stomach. Lucky for him it came to a complete stop as they landed hard on the ground, as the portal closed up. "So this is Dimension X?. Huh, looks very odd and crazy at the same time." said Leo who was looking at the place as it was really something. "This place defy gravity itself. See?." said Donnie who threw a rock at a far distance as it came back and forward none stop until Raph grabbed it.
"Hmmmmm, if this place defy the laws of physics then that case." said Ron as started running and then jumped down over the cliff. "Ron!." said all three running towards the cliff and see Ron standing underneath smiling. "This is so awesome. I bet Isaac Newton would agree with me on this." he said jumping off and landed to another hover ground. The others did the same an made the jump as they explore the world of Dimension X, as they see flying worms that they saw before back when the Kraang was transported them to New York.
"This is place is crazy. There's no gravity, everything is off, and especially the environment." said Donnie looking at everything. "You can say that again Don, but we're not here to critic. We're here to find Mikey in which where the heck is he?." said Ron looking at huge crystal that looked like a version of a tree. Without thinking Donnie looked at the same crystal tree as Ron and break a piece of it and examine it. "Hmmmm, this looks like one of the crystals that the Kraang used to power there dimension pad." he said as it begin to glow. "That's not good." said Leo seeing it glowing like a light bulb.
Quickly the guys jumped off as the crystal exploded causing all four them to crash up against another rock like ground. "Alright here's the rule. If you don't know what it is or does then don't touch it!." yell Raph as Ron slapped Donnie on the back of his head. "Ow!. Sorry you guys I got curious." Donnie said defending himself. "Have you ever heard the saying curiosity killed the cat?. We should all touch anything no matter how odd or cool it looks." Ron said being serious. As they were done talking about it, Leo discovered some weird looking head that looked cute and adorable as he befriend it, but big mistake. The thing itself was bait thing that was attached to some giant Dimension X bug as it started chasing them, and making them run for it or be eaten.
"Leo I'm going to kill you after this!." yelled Ron while throwing ninja knives at the thing, as it proved no effect on the thing. As they were about to get eaten by the thing someone pulled them out of the way, as they made contact with a huge rock stump as the one that saved them was Mikey, who was wearing some weird clothes. "Get away from my brothers!." Mikey said as he did a yell causing the bug to scream in pain and took off. "Mikey that was amazing!. And you're alive!." said Raph as he hugged his little brother and so did the others.
When broke the hug, Mikey said "It took you guys long enough. I been down here for months." Ron and the others was confuse on what Mikey just said as he said "Months?. Wait, of course that makes sense. The time on this place goes by very faster than Earth's rotation." "You're right. This is some real Syfy in this place." said Donnie. As Mikey began to explain on about how Dimension X works and some how he got smart in this place, they made attempt to rescue Leatherhead from Kraangs HQ as it was guarded by two alien rock monsters. "God, I hate those things." said Ron as he dealt with one before as he took out his sword, and charged at the one that breathes fire, while the others take on lava boy.
With fast ninja skills, Ron and the Turtles manage to take them down as they entered the building and found Leatherhead. "My friends you have came." he said happily to see them. "We felt the same way too buddy." said Ron while grabbing a Kraang droid and stabbed constantly to the point the Kraang popped out and ran away. Ron then put his sword back into its case on his back, and picked up a Kraang gun. "Oh yeah, this is what I want for my birthday." he said loading it up. "Leatherhead what are the Kraang's planning on?." Leo asked. Leatherhead grabbed his walking crystal stick and said "The Kraang has finally perfected the mutagen. They are going to use it to turn Earth into a new Dimension X." This surprised all six of them and know that they have to stop them.
"Well let's take care of business boys." said Ron as he lead the way to the main room where the Kraang was about to put their invasion to action. Then they began attacking them as the plan was to closed all portals, let Donnie shut down their computers, and destroy some Kraangs. Raph and Leo partnered up as Leatherhead and Ron did the same, as Leatherhead grab and threw Ron as started shooting each Kraang he can see and beating the crap out of them. "Man, this is just like Halo!." said Ron who was grinning as he threw his gun at one of the Kraang as it caught it, as Ron pulled out his sword and cut him in half an grabbed his gun. "I always wanted to do that and it was worth it." he said to himself as Leatherhead was backing him up as they were fighting each side with their backs facing each other.
With the help from Mikey, Donnie stopped the Kraang from entering and opened up a portal to New York. "Come guys let's go!." said Leo as jumped through as the others did as well. "You go on ahead my friend, I'll hold off the Kraang." said Leatherhead who was telling it to Ron. "Sorry buddy but we're not having that." said Ron as he grab Leatherhead and through him back to New York. "I'm ok!." he said as Ron and Mikey were the last ones to get out, as took a souvenir and bounce.
As they made it back to New York City, Mikey handed Donnie his own power cell while Ron had his very own alien gun in which he was going have to keep it away from Zoey. "Guys who knows how long will the Kraang will restart their plan on invasion, but one thing for sure we will be ready for it." said Leo in his leader voice as everyone agreed to that as Ron felt that this time they are not going to win this fight on the first go around, but didn't say anything about it. "Let's do this thing. Booyakasha!." said Mikey as everyone high five each other all together.
Meanwhile back at the apartment, Karai came back to relax after a good long slither around roof tops. She was back into her normal form and grab something to eat as she made herself a super size sandwich, that Ron taught her before in Japan and that was a double bacon ham cheese burger, with spicy mustard, wasbi,and a slab of sushi, and calling it the Spicy Baby sandwich which Karai laugh about the name as she took a huge bite of her sandwich. Her day was spent besides roaming around the city was watching Zoey at recess time, as she was happy to see her baby sister playing with her friends and having fun on the swing set.
She wish she could jump down and hug her and tell her that she will always be there for her, no matter what happens to her or Ron. But sadly Karai was losing her humanity slowly as the snake within her was turning her into a wild mindless beast. The only thing that kept her together was Ron and the love they have for one another as still has the locket close to her, and her wedding bracelet on her wist. If she would have lose both of her precious things then she would be a completely savage monster.
Karai had a tear in her eye as she wish she would have listen to both her father and Ron about not seeking revenge against Shredder, but she sometimes hard headed to the point her actions come with consequences. But she knew that Ron was train and raised differently than her, since Ron mentioned that his grandpa was born and raised in the mountains with his other friends as he was trained by a great legendary teacher, and taught him every great ancient technique of ninjutsu that was ever created. Karai heard the tails of the mountain teacher from Shredder when she was a little girl, as he told her that their once lived a great grand master that lived and train students that he raised as his own, and gave them his teachings and skills of the martial arts.
She had great respect for that story as she figured out that Grandpa Phil was one of the masters students, and know how Ron was so good in ninjutsu and wondering if he was alright. As she too has a funny feeling in her gut about danger coming it's way soon, and feeling herself lose control of her humanity but will keep it under control and have her self control back in order.
"I'm not going to give up on myself and let my mind be mindless and become a monster. No, I won't my ninja dumpling and little sister needs me." Karai said to motivate herself as it was working very well.