A.N: Finally, art done. Now I can get back to this. I saw Megan Fox of Ellen Show on Monday speaking about her role as April in the upcoming movie. She's a fan of TMNT and she sounds like such a dork, like us.

16: The reason I made her say that is because of what's going to happen. KArai meets Leo, saying he's the most interesting that has happened since she came to the city

Beawolf's Pen: The best thing about an OC is you can pretend to be her. Even though she's a cat, I could imagine myself leaping over buildings. Being a ninja must be fun.

So this chapter we get a few fillers, one familiar one in the end.

I don't own TMNT

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CHAPTER 20

Both girls had returned late that night, considering they did have to bring back the boat, find another ride through the city, and then track their way back to the hideout. Karai and Fillien instantly fell asleep when they got to their room. They next morning they were eating breakfast in the kitchen when Bradford walked in. The two girls watched him as he opened the fridge to find something to eat. Then Karai took this chance to ask, "What's up, dog?" Fillien began to snicker at the comment and Bradford reacted by picking his head up. It hit the top of the fridge and he growled, having to hold his head. Getting angry he reached out and was going to grab the refrigerator to throw when Karai said, "Easy pal, that's the only thing in this place that preserves our food." Bradford growled again and let go of the fridge. He opened it again and pulled out some food he managed to find.

He looked down at the floor to see Fillien eating from a bowl on the floor. "Seems like you're taking you mutation seriously."

Fillien perked her head up and said, "It's called finding ways to make it easier for me, instead of getting angry and threatening to throw the refrigerator."

"Hmmm." Bradford said, taking whatever his food was and stuffing it in his mouth. "So Karai is your food provider?"

"Food provider?" Karai asked.

"Yeah, since we can't go out and get our own food, someone gets food for us and puts in the fridge for us to get."

"Let me guess, yours is Dawson."

"The kids a good fighter and loyal. Don't try and make fun of him."

"Oooo, sorry for making fun of your friends."

"I said he was a good soldier. I didn't say he was my friend."

Fillien lifted her head up from her food. "What is it with you guys and having friends?" The two didn't answer but just looked the other way. Fillien just shrugged and ate the last of her food from the bowl. Then she licked her lips and said, "Well, if you guys are too busy brooding, I'll just leave and do some strengthening on my wings."

"You're actually flying?" Bradford asked.

"Yeah!" Fillien said joyfully, "Well sort of, just branching."

"Branching?"

Karai answered. "It's what she calls jumping from place to place using her wings."

Fillien went over the fridge and pulled the string attached to it. As she got something out, Bradford said, "That would explain the random strings in random places."

"Easier." Karai just said, finishing the last of her food. Fillien grabbed a bag of something and then with her back foot closed the door. Fillien began to walk away with the bag and Karai called out, "Where are you going?"

Through a full mouth, she said, "Like I said, flying stuff."

Fillien ran out the kitchen and then out into the hall towards the flight of stairs. As she went up, she couldn't help but think about all this food provider stuff. Like, who provides for Xever, and how does he get it? Fillien poked he head in to make sure Shredder wasn't around. When she was sure, she began to stalk towards the open part of the glass tank underneath. She left the bag of food on the edge and then with one swift motion, she splashed the surface of the water. Fillien made a break for it out of the Main Hall, hearing something pop out of the water behind her. Not checking to see it was Xever, she ran for the dojo.

The next day Fillien and Karai were at the entrance hall of the hideout. It was afternoon and everyone was in the dojo training. So since the girls couldn't go outside, they decide to stick to the big room at the entrance. "See those high beams." Karai said, pointing up to the horizontal beams that supported the ceiling. "There are some that aren't attached to the top so it makes a great place to hang around up there. Fly up without stopping."

"Ok, time me."

Karai held up a timer and put her thumb on the starting button. "Ready?" Fillien put up her wings to tell her she was ready. "Go!" Fillien began to flap wings hard. She went up five feet in one swoop, then ten, then twenty. Until she got to the horizontal beam over her. She grabbed hold with her claws and hoisted herself up to sit on the beam. She yelled down and asked, "How did I do?"

"Only forty five seconds."

"Just under a minute. I can do thirty next time."

"Not if you don't exc-"

Karai was cut off when the entrance door opened. Fillien duct on the high beam and Karai turned around to see someone holding a big brown box full of scraps and metal. When the person turned around to shut the door, Karai saw it was that afro haired guy from earlier last week. "Baxter Stockman, right?" Karai asked him.

Baxter turned around to face her but ended up with the box he was holding blocking his view. He moved his head to the side to see Karai. "Um, yeah….and um- you?"

"Oroko Karai." She answered.

"Pfft. What kind of a name is Oroko?"

Fillien got mad and she glided down to land behind Karai. Baxter jumped back at the sudden appearance. "Ah! You!"

"Yeah, me." Fillien said, stalking towards him, "And for your information her first name is Karai."

"Why didn't she say it the first time?" Baxter asked, rolling his eyes. "Heh, get it? First time first name-" A fist met his face and he fell back. All the stuff in the box fell and spilled to the floor. He held his nose where it hurt and sat up.

Karai pulled back the hand she just punched him with and Fillien gave her a smirk. The cat girl said, "Was that for what he said to me earlier this week?"

"That, and his ignorance." Karai said.

Baxter fixed his glasses into place and then looked at the ground and saw all his stuff was on the floor, "Hey! It took me hours to find these in mint condition, I can't have them broken."

Karai and Fillien watched him scramble around the floor and pick up things like old pipe and circuits. "Um…." Karai picked up what looked like a used remote. "What's all this for?" It was swiped out of her hands from Baxter.

He put it in the now full box and the picked the whole thing up, saying, "It's to make the fish mutant's legs."

"Xever?" Fillien asked.

"Yeah, him. Shredder said he could use my intelligence to take down the turtles, especially since my last project seemed to work….for a while."

"Oh yeah," Fillien said, "Bradford said you are enemies of the turtles, and you made robot monsters go after them. Not that I'm robotics person or anything, but make them bigger next time."

"Haha….sarcastic aren't you?" Baxter said. "Well, if you excuse me, I'll be busy making robotic legs."

The comment sounded different in the girl's heads and they began to snicker as he passed by them with his head held high. Karai tried to say between laughs, "Enjoy your toys!" The two girls burst out laughing and fell on the ground. Fillien fell on her stomach and Karai fell right on Fillien's side, an arm around Fillien's neck. They continued to laughing until their stomach's hurt.

Another few days past….and then the weird things started to happen. At least to Karai. It first began with a hoard of rats running the city. One day, just one random afternoon, it seemed like every rat in the city decided to take over. They just ran out of the sewers and crowded the streets. They went into homes and stores. Businesses and cars. It scared the heck out of many people and some locked themselves in their house. To some it was just plain weird. Fillien and Karai watched from the huge back window of the Main Hall, their faces pressed against the window watching the intense action outside. They saw a car skid to a halt and a man run out of it, a group of rats following behind. "Well, that's something you don't see every day." Fillien said.

"No, I see this all the time." Karai said sarcastically. "Last month it was an army of rabbits."

"I wonder why they decided to just pop out like this and attack people."

"Maybe they got fed up hiding under ground."

"Or maybe they decided that humans were edible."

Karai deadpanned and slowly turned to look at Fillien. "Really? Is-is this what you-"

"How much long will this take?" They heard Xever from behind them. The girls turned to look back and see Xever's face out of the glass tank. Bradford sat on the glass ledge that lined the sides of the room where underneath the Zen garden with rocks was. Baxter was on the stone path where a table was set up for him to use. He stood over it making something orange and mechanical looking that Karai and Fillien couldn't tell. Whatever it was though, Baxter was done with it and he held it up, saying, "I have made the perfect oxygen breather for Xever." Then the girls heard him mumble, "And Shredder better pay me double for this."

"Um…" Fillien began. "But isn't the air filled with oxygen already."

"Well the thing is oxygen from the water is different from open air. You see, since Xever has gills, he breathes like a fish. Fish require nut-"

Bradford interrupted him and said, "Can't you just say that fish can't breathe out of water and get on with it."

"All right, all right." Baxter said nervously. "So, before I can make him mobile, I need to make sure he can breathe. Thus…" He held up the contraption. Upon a closer look, it was an oxygen tank divers used to go under water, but it had orange wire and something one the ends of them that looked like suction cups. "I made a mobile um….what should I call it….something doom."

"Something doom?" Karai said. Fillien tried to stifle a laugh as Karai continued, "I don't think an oxygen tank is scary to be called Oxygen Tank Doom."

"Of Doom." Baxter corrected. "You got to add the 'of."

Karai just rolled her eyes. Xever said, "Just put it on me so I can get this over with."

"I'm not going to get in the water so…" Baxter began and he went to the edge of the water, handing Xever the tank. Xever just grabbed it and disappeared underwater. From where the girls sat at the window they couldn't see what was going on. But whatever it was made Bradford laugh as he looked down the water. Baxter said, "Um that end goes around your shoulders." A wet splash came in response and covered him in water. "Oh, man! This is the only fleece sweater I have."

"Oh, good." Karai said. "We were worried you had too many?"

"What's wrong with fleece sweaters?"

Fillien added, "Anyone wearing it in that color knows there is everything wrong to a fleece sweater." The conversation ended when Xever popped back out of the water and practically beached himself on the stone path. He laid there with his whole body out of the water. The oxygen tank was strapped to his back and the suction cups connected to the wire were attached to his gills. He said, "Well, what now?"

"Ok, um…" Baxter thought just looking down at Xever. He said, "Well, are you feeling light headed?"

"No."

"Sick?"

"No."

"Do you feel the air in your gills?"

"Yes."

"Then I guess it works."

"Wow." Bradford said, "A useless piece of junk that lets him breath outside of water."

"And…" Baxter asked with a raised eyebrow.

"He can't walk yet."

"Emphasize the yet, my big furry friend."

In a flash, Bradford jumped down and put his huge face up to Baxter's and said angrily, "Don't…call me…furry."

Baxter leaned back a bit and said nervously, "Ok, I won't….ehehe."

A squeak was heard and everyone looked up to see where it came from. At the other end of the room, over the sliding doors, there was a stain glass window that looked over to the street where the entrance was. Karai really hadn't taken notice of it until now. There was a ledge just in front of it where Karai saw a brown rat scurrying around it. "Oh great." Baxter said, looking at the ledge. "I forgot about the rats, and we need to move Xever to my secret lab so that-"

Another series of stifled laughter came from Karai and Fillien interrupted him. Karai said in between laughs, "He said secret HAHA!"

Baxter grunted and continued, "As I was saying, I need to do some measurements on Xever at my place so that I can begin making the functional legs for him."

Hysterical laughing was heard and Fillien and Karai just fell on their sides to the floor laughing. Baxter looked at Bradford confused. The dog mutant just said, "Welcome to my world."

A.N: More one on one with the Foot clan and a reference to the Rat King episode, the first one. I didn't know how to put Shredder in this one, because I actually wouldn't know what his reaction would be to a gaint army of rats flooding the streets. So I just didn't put him in. I found out the orange thing on Xever's back is a breather, because he's a fish….so yeah I intergrated it a little. Next we get….wait for it…..Leonardo… I'm KikaKatTIOI, peace out!