Raphael was downright sick of the color purple. Right now, it was looking particularly unflattering on this Irma girl. He hated everything about her, from her stupid hair to her stupid knives to her stupid attitude. "Oh, don't worry, Purple Moron, I'm saving some just for you!"

"Raph, when were you locked up?!"

Irma sneered, "You wanna go, meathead?"

"Let's not, please," nagged Leo's voice from somewhere in the back of Raph's head.

"Sure," Raph said, hardly hearing his brother. "there's a hospital right outside, so why not? Assuming you were able to afford insurance on a street rat's pay."

At this point, Irma had whipped out her knife, "Strong words, coming from a slimy little turtle who was probably literally born and raised in the gutter!"

"Raph!" Leo upbraided, grabbing the hothead by the arm and fixing him with a stern glare. "That's enough!"

"You don't know what she's done, Leo!" Raph growled. "She deserves every punch I'm about to throw at her-"

"You know what, Raph? You're right. I don't know what she's done, because you haven't explained anything to me yet!"

Raphael's shoulders were rising and falling visibly with every breath, a clear indication of just how high his annoyance levels had risen over the past five minutes. But, eventually, he took a step back, and glared at the eldest turtle. "...She and that traitor, Xever. They...tranquilized me and...stuff," it obviously took effort for Raph to admit that he'd been kidnapped by Purple Dragons, and even words like "tranquilized" were hard to choke out.

Thankfully, Leo was smart enough not to pry into the details too much. He simply took his hand off Raph's arm, then turned to face Irma. "Is that true?"

Irma shifted from foot to foot, flipping her knife anxiously, "Yeah. Yeah, it is."

"And then she played with Don's heart, because that little idiot wears it on his sleeve..." Raph added in a low mumble.

"Is that why he ran away just now?" Mikey put in, craning his neck in the direction that Donnie had taken off.

"What?!" several voices exclaimed.

"Don ran off?!" Leo wailed, starting frantically in the direction Michelangelo was looking.

"We're forgetting what's really important, here!" Karai snapped impatiently, grabbing Leo by the arm to stop him running off. "Donatello obviously wants to be alone. And if he's as good a fighter as you and your brothers, then he can hold his own if he runs into trouble. He can wait. My sister is legless and defenseless in the hospital! And if the Kraang are after her, then we have to focus on stopping them! Miwa is the priority!"

"Seconded," said Casey agreeably.

"Miwa is a priority," Irma corrected with notable asperity. "That doesn't make anyone in this group unimportant, though."

"The Kraang aren't the only threat to this city, either," Raph added. "If what Donnie told me is true, then that Hamato Yoshi is on the loose...Master Shredder says he's dangerous."

"Wait a second," Karai's eyes widened. "Master Shredder?!"

Leonardo winced at Raph's slip up, then made sure to accidentally step on his brother's foot really hard.

"Ow!" Raph hissed, punching Leo in the arm.

Karai looked absolutely affronted, "You guys are-"

"Shredder's sons," Venus finished.

Karai whirled on her, "You knew?!"
"Y-Yeah," Venus scraped her shoe across the ground. "I-I'm sorry, I would've told you, but everything was happening so fast, and Miwa got hurt-"

"That's kind of an important thing to forget to tell me!"

Leo held his hands up diplomatically, "I know Shredder is not the most popular-"

"Not the most popular?" Karai guffawed, a hollow sort of laugh. "He's been the bane of my father's existence since before I was born! He's evil!"

Raph narrowed his eyes, "Your father...your father is Hamato Yoshi?!"

"Yes!" Karai seethed.

"You're Karai?! The Karai?"

"Yes!"

Raphael turned on Leo, "Did you know this?!"

Leonardo, however, looked absolutely nonplussed. Confusion was plain in his periwinkle blue eyes. "Y...Yeah, she's said her last name was Hamato tons of times by now, why is it important?" he looked around, perplexed. "Who is this Hamato Yoshi guy? What makes him so bad?"

"Leo, that's not funny," Raph grunted.

"What's not funny? Who is Hamato Yoshi? Why's he important?"

"You're kidding, right?" Raph knocked his older brother upside the head. "Hamato Yoshi, Master Shredder's arch-nemesis?! We've been hunting him for years, he's the one who stole Karai!"

"Stole me?!" Karai ejaculated. "No, Shredder's the one who stole me! Hamato Yoshi is my real father!"

Leo was shaking his head, "I never met Karai before this whole Kraang business came up, and I don't know who Hamato Yoshi is!"

One of Raph's sais clattered to the ground. The metallic tinkles echoed throughout the sewers. Something had dawned on him, like a horrible bucket of icy sewer sludge splashing him in the face. "Oh. Crap."

Now Leo looked scared. "What?"

"Crap!"

"Raph, what is it?!"

"Crap," Raph cursed for a third time, then proceeded to mutter, under his breath, "Donnie, can't you get anything right?"

"Donnie?" Leo knit his brows. "What does Donnie have to do with any of this?"

"That potion thing he gave you!" Raph snapped, not even caring that his ravings would only confuse Leonardo even more. "It must've taken more memories than we thought it did! Shell, you can't even remember Hamato Yoshi!"

There was an uncomfortable, bewildered silence as the hothead began pacing around, apparently trying to make the gears in his brain turn faster. Every once in a while, he would murmur something that sounded like, "Stupid egghead." Meanwhile, Karai kept shooting nasty glares at Leonardo. The silence eventually inflated to the point where somebody might have imploded had it gone on any longer, but thankfully, Mikey provided something to discuss.

"Guys!" he wailed. "Irma's gone, too!"

"What?!" rang out a chorus of voices. Heads were turning left and right, seeming to notice the purple-haired girl's absence for the first time in who-knows-how-long-it's-been. Everyone seemed confused as ever; everyone, that is, except for Karai, who was becoming increasingly more agitated that they were all up-in-arms about the wrong thing.

"Can we forget about that Irma girl for a second and focus on-"

"Miwa, we get it!" Raph snarled. "Y'know, the whole world doesn't center around-"
"You didn't let me finish," Karai hissed. "I wasn't going to say 'Miwa.'"

That actually caught Raph off guard, and he blinked stupidly. "...you weren't?"

"No, I wasn't," Karai replied with thinning patience. "Honestly, now I'm a little more concerned about whether or not there are some giant turtles here who can't be trusted."

"Hey!" Slash ejaculated.

Karai sighed, "Not you, Slash." she swiped an accusatory finger through the air until it landed on Leonardo. "You. Why didn't you tell me you belonged to Shredder?"

Leonardo's mouth contorted in a mingle of confusion and hurt. "I-" he flummoxed helplessly, but before he could finish, Raph interjected.

"'Belonged'?" he snorted, twirling the one sai he hadn't dropped. "Lady, I don't belong to anyone. The only thing that belongs to anything here is your gut to my sai...or-wait, no-...your sai to my gut! I mean-" he shook his head and glowered through his mask. "You know what I meant!"

"Y'know, you're very interesting and all," Karai drawled. "but I wasn't talking to you." She looked askance at Leo.

"I-I didn't know that being the son of Shredder would...offend you so much," Leo spluttered, finally clearing his head enough to paste some feeble words of apology together.

"Oh, you didn't know, did you? You didn't know that you being the son of a liar and a murderer would affect my view of you?!"

"Well, maybe that's exactly why he didn't mention it!" Raph butted in with a sneer. "Because he knew you'd get all uppity about it!"

"Well, who wouldn't?!"

"Guys!" Mikey waved his arms in the air frantically. "Has anyone seen a stuffed iguana with a monocle?!"

All heads turned towards the youngest turtle. Raph's eye twitched.

"He's green and has a tail," Michelangelo went on, making emphatic motions with his hands. "and a cute little monocle, and a black hat, and I found him in the dumpster just now, but I dropped him and I don't know where he went!"
"Oh, was that yours?" Irma tilted her head, extending a stuffed iguana of that exact description towards him. "Sorry, saw it on the ground and got curious. Not everyday that you see a cuddly iguana."

"Sir-Igs-a-Lot!" Mikey squealed, clutching the toy to his chest and swaying contently.
Raph looked affronted. "Don't cuddle it! You realize that could be a distant relative?!"

"Raph's right," put in Donatello informatively. "In fact, 90.03984% of all iguanas found in dumpsters-"

"Donnie!" Leo cried, grateful for the distraction. "You're back! Where did you-"

"Where were you guys, huh?" Casey demanded, leaning over and poking Irma with the butt of his hockey stick. "You think you can just bolt off with no explanation and come back like nothing happened?!"

Donnie and Irma exchanged glances. "We were...taking care of some unfinished business."

"They were probably looking into buying a house," Raph scathed. Irma blushed wildly while Don seemed to tauten next to her.

"Well, is that the last of this unfinished business?" Karai asked, obviously trying and failing to conceal her impatience. When eight pairs of eyes landed on her, though, she paused for a moment, and finally dropped her aggressive attitude in favor of a colder but less accusatory demeanor. She inclined her head slightly downwards, and let the tapers of her dark hair fall in front of her face, as her eyelids slid down over hazel irises. "Look," she exhaled, and it felt relieving to have someone release the breath they'd all been collectively holding, just as it felt relieving to have someone poke a pinprick into the ballooning silence. "I've said it a million times, but my sister's in that hospital. She lost her...her leg. And I'm going to go in there now, to see if she's all right. And once I see to it that she'll be fine, I'll start planning on how to take down the Kraang that did this to her. You," she glanced towards Casey, Slash, Venus, and Irma. "are welcome to help me if you want. You four," she then turned to face the brothers. "stay out of my way."

Raph crossed his arms, "You stay out of our way and then we'll talk."

Leo, Don and Mikey looked ready to protest, but Raphael was adamant, and before a one of them could open their mouths, the hothead gripped Donnie by the arm and pulled him aside. "We need to talk, egghead."