Chapter 28

Waking up from her nap in her sleeping bag, and while stretching her arms out to get the blood flowing through. Zoey checked her My Little Pony digital watch and saw it was ten o'clock in the afternoon, and decided to get out and wrap back her sleeping bag. Thus, placing it in the corner with the others were and headed to where Mikey was as he was in the kitchen, baking about two pans of pizza and pulled them out from the oven.

"Hi brother Mikey. Mmmmmmm that smells good." Zoey said having seat at the counter.

"Oh hello Zoey, I just made ourselves some dinner." Mikey said before humming the catchy TMNT song, while putting the two super-sized pizzas on the cutting table.

It has been a week and a half since they returned to New York City, plus finding and saving Splinter from the Shredder, and now living in the abandon Pizzeria. What's weird about the whole thing to Zoey was when they entered New York City, they haven't seen not one New Yorker in the city or any alleys. She remembered what April had said when they settled down into their secret hiding place, was that the people were here but they're somewhere besides New York City. Assuming that April must be seeing the people that didn't had a winning chance against the Kraangs with her alien powers, and believe that they must have taken them to Dimension X for what purpose in which April don't know nor have a clue.

But besides that to the five year olds train of thought, she had one thing on her mind in which she's been worried about for quite a while. That one thing that her mind was on, was one person that she haven't seen or heard from since the night that her older brother have rescued from her capture. Her thoughts were interrupted when they herd her brothers and Casey's voice from the back, and quickly got off to see her brothers in pure happiness. During their stay in the Pizzeria joint, Ron, Leo, Raph, Casey took it upon themselves to scavenge the Supermarkets, The Mall, and more importantly the Lair that is still under control from the Kraangs watch droid. The four came out from the buildings sewer with boxes in the hands, and closed the lid back with grins on their faces as today they brought in the best goods they can get their hands on.

"Only one word that describes what we got." Casey said grinning widely.

"Haha. You got that right Casey. Let's us all say it together." Ron said grinning back as he and the others grouped together.

"Score!." said the Four and went to handling the goods to everyone.

First was Donnie who Leo gave him his whole chemical set back at the lair, like the smart Turtle requested. Second was Mikey in which was the TV set as Casey handed to him, making the young Turtle squeal for joy as now can watch his favorite cartoon show. April got her library books in which she left behind a while back, as Raph handed to her. And finally Zoey who Ron can't wait to give it to her, as he took out the toys from the cardboard box and handed to her. "Here you go baby sis. Your My Little Pony toys just like you requested, and I told you I'll get them for you." Ron said seeing the little girls eyes light up, as she quickly hugged him and grabbed her toys in utter enjoyment. "Thanks Ron!. Now I can play tea party with Pinkie Pie and Twilight Sparkle!." Zoey told him and headed to the back booth to go play. Splinter who had his own clothes back from the last scavenge, having his arms behind his back while smiling at his young daughter in law as he always adored Zoey, from the day both she and Ron came to their lair for the first time.

"I didn't forget about you Sensi. Here." Leo said smiling at his father as took out the photo frame, and handed it to him.

Splinter took the picture and see it was him, his wife, and his little Miwa. This made him happy to see it as this was the only picture that he had of him being human, let alone his wife and baby Karai. "You are the kindest son that I ever had." He told Leo making the oldest Turtle happy to make his master smile, and wanted to do more as well. When leaving Splinter to look at his family picture, Ron went over to his bag and pulled out his photo album to retrieve a photo. When finding the right one, he closed the book and went over to his father in law after putting the album back. "Here Dad this is the update photo of your daughter." He said handing him the photo of Karai, in her plain grey t-shirt as she was resting her head on her hand on the kitchen counter top, with a lazy smile on her face as it looked like she just woke up from her sleep. Ron smiled as that was his favorite picture of Karai as Splinter smiled back, and gladly appreciate the kind offer.

"Thank you my son, I'll never going to lose this picture." Splinter said looking at the photo real good of his daughter.

"No problem Dad. I took that picture on a early Saturday morning when she got up to cook breakfast, and I was lucky enough to have the camera on the table and told her to take a picture." Ron explained as his attention towards his father was taken from his baby sister.

"When are we going to find Karai, Ron?. I miss my big sister." Zoey asked having her hands on her toys, as April had the other two in her hands to play with her.

After returning back to New York City, Ron had his mind on his wife and promise himself that after finding Splinter, his going to find Karai in this chaos. He worries about her well being and wanted to see her too. It was normal for a married guy to worry about his wife in trouble times and wanted to do whatever it takes to keep her safe, as Ron loved Karai more than anything in the world and he just wanted her in his arms again and tell her that she's safe. He looked at Zoey and April who wanted to know too, since she was curious to know cause Ron and her had that talk in the kitchen in the middle night, as Ron explained to her on how much he loved his wife to the point he don't know what to do if something bad happens to her. Ron already thought on what his going to say before and knowing Leo and the others wanted to help find their sister from all of this chaos outside.

"We're going to find her tonight...starting now." Ron said heading out to the Party Wagon, as the Turtles were right behind him and ready.

"Where should we look first Ron?." asked Donnie putting his mutagen goggles on.

"Let's try searching through the alleys and go from there Don." He told him waiting for the car to move.

The brothers went searching each street alley and street corner for about sixty minutes to two hours, and find the trail when Donnie told Leo to stop the car. The five got out of the Party Wagon and follow Donnie to the spot that he wanted to investigate, as he scanned the ground as it had what it appears to be scaly flakes on the ground. He picked one up and zookedzoomed his goggles in to have a full scan of the object, and had the results that he was looking for on their search. "Based on this it was fresh for about a minute ago. Karai is definitely somewhere in this area." He told them while went over to pick the pieces up in his hands and had a hunger task.

"Mmmmmm these potato chips are kinda stale." said Mikey still chewing on the shells.

"Huh, Karai must been shedding for quite a while." Don said with the obvious answer, thus causing Mikey to spit them right out of his mouth.

"Awwwww, but to me that's kinda sexy." Ron said getting weird looks from Raph.

"You're nasty and I hope you know that." He told him heading back to the car.

When done finding a good parking spot and hidden away from any Kraangs, the brothers hit the roof tops as they were very close due to using Donnie's built in tracker in his goggles. They eventually spotted Karai in her serpent state slithering around the alley, staying hidden form the Kraangs and stay hidden behind the alley trash cans. Not wanting to lose the golden opportunity to get his wife, Ron jumped right ahead ignoring Leo calling him back as his mind and focus was on one person. And that one person was Karai. Jumping down to the ground and while quietly sneaking up on her, Ron just smiled to see her once again and determined to bring her home. Serpent Karai looked on at the streets in front of her as it was filled with Kraangs, that were monitoring the area for any intruders or as they called any none Kraangs.

Ron made it close to her and said something to her in order to get her attention. "Kit Kat?." He said using her nickname as she responded back in a none friendly way. She turned around and hissed at him making Ron back up as he was not only kept his distance, but also pinched his nose after smelling her raw breath as it was foul and bad. "Damn Karai what have you been eating or drinking?. Baby your breath smells like you've been drinking sewer water." Ron told Karai making the serpent stopped hissing, and had her mouth shut with a whimper of embarrassment and along with sadness. Feeling bad on what he said to her, Ron reached into his pockets and took out a pack of IceBreakers and pour out two mints. "Here Kit Kat. Sorry for insulting you." He told her giving the mints in her serpent hand.

From the looks of it in Ron's eyes he could see a smile formed in her snout, as Karai put the mints in her mouth and savored the fresh blueberry grape flavor. Their attention to one another was hearing gun shots shooting above them, and looked at the roof top and see the Turtles were fighting against the same people who stole and tried to sell Shredders helmet. Assuming that out of desperation, Ron could figure out that the Russian combat arms dealer and that wanna be Michael Jackson expert thief where trying to capture and use Karai as a one way ticket out of New York City to Shredder, and felt pure rage inside of him just thinking about how evil they were going to do and try to gun down his wife of all things. "Karai get out of here while I help Leo and the others." Ron said telling her before jumping over and help out. Karai stopped him from doing so by slithering in front of him with her arms stretched out. "No. Let them handle them. I want you to come with me." She said in her serpent voice. Not wanting to just abandon his brothers on the fight and go with his wife to wherever she had in mind, Ron looked and saw Shredders old Russian friend with a tranquilizer gun and about to take his shot at Karai in her back.

With quick thinking he pushed her out of the way and took the shot, causing him to fall down on his knees and laid down as everything went dark. What seemed like hours, Ron woke up with his eyes slowly begin to open. He scanned his surroundings to see he was some where in a restaurant booth, as the smell of sweet surgery funnel cakes hit his nose making him automatically got up and removed the blankets from his body, and stood straight up but drop right back down. "Damn that's one good tranquilizer shot." He said telling that his leg was half asleep. Hearing some noise coming from the front he saw Serpent Karai slithering her way towards him, and took a stop to transform back into her human form back and looked the same way that Ron last saw her before leaving New York City.

"R.. Ron. I miss you." Karai said smiling down on him as she walked over to him, and sat beside him with her arms around his neck.

"I miss you too Kit Kat. Er... do you mind giving me one on the lips?." Ron asked wiggling his eyebrows in which caused her to laugh.

"Coming right up Ninja Dumpling." She told him and lean in to kiss her husband.

The two kissed as it was a long one too as this kiss was considered a I missed you kiss, as Karai was the one taking charge of the make out session. Ron was savouring the love from the kiss as he hadn't touched those sweet lips in months, and wanted to show his wife on how much he loved and missed her and Karai can feel it through the kiss. They broke free from each other to just look into each others eyes and can't break their focus on each other. "You change a lot when I last saw you Ron." Karai said seeing he had went through some tough training over the past few months. Ron sat up to have Karai wrapped around his arms and pull her close to him and kissed her once more, and pulled the kiss apart. "Yeah, I have changed at lot when I left New York. I had my mind on you for a long time Kit Kat and I had to call Shinigami, and talk my issues to her over the past few months." Ron explained to her making the expert Kunochi smile to hear her best friends name. They talked for a good while as the two told each others tells of adventure and felt lonely on not being together, and had worried sickly about each others safety and well being.

"How's Zoey?." Karai asked while letting Ron give her a back rub.

"She's doing fine Karai. She's just missed you too and where are we anyway?." He asked before putting some traveling lotion that he had with him in his pocket and went to rubbing.

"Isn't it obvious Ninja Dumpling?. We're in Coney Island hidden away from the Kraangs and from Shredders henchmens." Karai told him getting up to go get something from the mini warmer.

Ron remembered he took both Karai and Zoey to Coney Island as their official family outing, plus it was Karai's idea since she's halfway considered to be a tourist as she wanted to see what America has to offer compared to Japan. He remembered when he parked the Jeep in the parking, both Karai and Zoey jumped out and made a head start on running towards the place making him run after them, since he was the one paying for lunch and games that the two wanted to play. This wasn't his nor Zoey's first time going to Coney Island as they went there with April and Casey, and had a great time and even come down to the island some time on the weekend. But this time it was something special for Zoey as Karai was their with them, and had one outstanding day all the way until the night had came to Ron's happiness. "Oh boy, that was quite a family outing." Ron told himself before smelling something sweet coming towards him. Karai came back with two paper plates of four stacked funnel cakes decorated in white powdered sugar, covered in chocolate syrup and both had forks in each stack. "Breakfast is ready and ready to be served." Karai announced seating back down and handed Ron's plate to him.

"Thanks babe. Mmmmm these funnel cakes smell good." said Ron getting ready to munch down but Karai popped his hand.

Ron looked at her like he did something wrong as she gave him the stern look, with a eyebrow raise while having her hand on her hip.

"Did you forget Ron?. We give thanks to the Lord before we eat." She said showing him how Christen she was when Ron nodded and bowed his head, and closed his eyes as she did the same and started the blessing.

"Oh Heavenly Father, we want to say thank you for this meal that we're about to consume and we wanted to say thanks, for allowing me and my husband to be reunited together safe and sound. Lord we also wanted for you to continue blessing us with your Holy Hands and keep trouble out of our lives. In the name of your darling son Jesus Christ, amen." said Karai smiling happily and more importantly grateful as well.

"Amen and thank you God." Ron said gratefully and went to eat his funnel cakes.

Truth be told as it was pure honesty, Ron knows Karai was a strong Christian girl at heart as she know every scripture and can quote any section from Holy Bible. In fact he remembered that when he was on the couch watching TV, he could hear her sing or listen to Gospel music from the kitchen when she's cooking dinner or seating down beside him folding clothes. Not only that but also reminded him to iron one of his best formal attire to Church, as they go to Sunday service once a week and drop off Zoey to Bible study class when Sunday service was over for the afternoon. Yes sir, his Grandpa Phil did once told him before that she is one keeper and boy was he right as Ron was lucky to have Karai as his wife and be his beloved Christan partner.

When breakfast was done with as it was a very good breakfast in fact. Ron manage to get up as his tired leg was awake and ready to go call Donnie, as it was daytime in the morning and called to tell he was okay and see if the batch of retromutagen was ready to be used. Checking that Karai was in the back folding up the blankets and set them in her big bag, and went to freshen up and start the day on another scavenge for food or anything that she can get her hands or snake hands on, so that way she can resume her marriage role as Mrs. Killmonger. Speed Dialing quick while the opportunity was still there with him and hoping the call was going to be answered. "Don please pick up your T phone man." Ron said still hearing the phone ringing. With just a one last ring the call was answered to Ron's relief when hearing Donnie's voice on the other line. "Ron?. Where are you bro?. Me and the guys were worried when that Russian hit you with that tranquilizer, and then Karai picked you up off the ground and quickly slither out of sight." Donnie told Ron while in the back seating down in his lab table, mixing up chemicals to make one solid formula and sat it down on the heating unit.

"Don first off good morning, and secondly bro I'm okay. It seems that Karai had managed to keep her sanity and she took me to Coney Island that I'm currently at." Ron explained while getting some distance away, so it could be a one on one conversation without any ease dropping.

"Why did she take you to Coney Island of all places?." asked Donnie after taking the minute to eat his breakfast pizza.

"To be honest with you Don this is her favorite spot of fun that this country has to offer, and plus she loved the Cyclone ride. Anyways I'm just calling to let you and everyone else know that I'm alright, plus is the retromutagen ready?." said Ron getting to the point on calling him.

Donnie chewed the pizza that he had in his mouth while looking at the long cylinder filled with retromutagen, and recalled that it was ready to be used and it took him forever to make just one batch. It took him weeks to turn a whole canister of mutagen into retromutagen and wished that he could find an easy way on making more with less time, but that secret formula has yet been discovered to the smart Turtle as he truly wanted the quick way on making more. Before answering his brother he took the chance to swallow the food in his mouth and picked up the cylinder to looked at the orange substance.

"Yeah, it's ready to be used on Karai. We have one chance since I only made at list enough to make four spray containers." Don told him after setting the cylinder back down on the table and grab another slice of pizza.

Ron grinned with the news as it was the best thing since they returned back to New York City, and was extremely determine to cure his wife of being a scary snake as he was glad to not see her mutant side as he was still secretly scared to look at when just waking up in the morning, and just be grateful he only seen her real self despite her snake eyes, tongue, and especially her pale scaly skin. Don't get him wrong for thinking this way as he truly loved his wife, and as it would any other man would do anything to help aid and provide their wives. And Ron was acting like a young responsible husband as Karai was his responsibility, and he was damn proud of it and do whatever it takes to keep her safe from harm. "Good. You guys can come at nightfall. Cause need some catching up with my girl. Bye." He told Don after hanging up and headed back. Karai came out of their temporally home and getting ready to head out until Ron stopped her, before she could go scavenge the streets and have a rare chance of returning. "Babe you don't have to go scavenge for food. We got what we need around here." Ron explained to her.

"Your sure about that Ron?. Cause I'm not going to be gone for long." Karai said while hopping up on the booth metal table.

"Yes, I'm sure of it Karai. We're near water so we can do some fishing and have, plus we're on Coney Island so let's make the best of it." said Ron seating down on the metal seat with Karai.

Karai gave it a thought as it sounded like a good idea and should have been thought about that idea, but it had never accrued to her mind and don't see as not following her husbands lead.

"Okay Ninja Dumpling, I won't go anywhere." She said before pulling him close to her for a lovable hug.

"That's my girl. Now, let's see if we can find some fishing rods at harbor and go fish." Ron told her as he told her to hop on to his back, and let him carry her to the harbor to go fishing.

Getting there was no problem since they took the easy and safe short cut to the Harbor, and luckily to find two fishing poles on the fishing deck area and also found a small metal tin can bucket. Karai jumped off of Ron's back to get her hands on one of the rods as their were in good condition, while Ron went to grab the bucket and fill it up with water from the ocean and then started to the near by bait shop, and came back with a supersized cup of surprisingly fresh night crawlers. When setting the cup down he went to work on Karai's rod by putting alive worm on the hook, and use its whole body to cover up the metal of the hook and make it completely invisible. After flinging the string of the rod to land in the water and give the rod back to his excited wife, he went to doing the same with his own rod and join the catch of fishing.

The two young married couple waited for any bite hoping that at least one fish take a nibble on one of their rods, as the wait didn't last long when Karai's rod was bending down a little letting her know she has a bite. Loving to see the signs of having a bite, Karai got up from the long wooden bench that both she and Ron was seating on, and went to rilling her first catch and pulled out a nice fat fish that looked like it have been eating everyday for every second. "Alright, I caught myself a nice one." She said grabbing the wobbling fat fish, and pulled the hook out of its mouth and see it ate the worm clean off. "Good catch Kit Kat. Now, let's see if I can top that." Ron said smirking as he hope he can out beat his wife on bringing a much fatter fish to the bank, while Karai threw her catch in the bucket and resume back to putting a new night crawler on her hook. "Unlike you Ninja Dumpling, I'm the master of fishing." She said not leaving her cocky smile as she threw her line back in the water. Rolling his eyes after just hearing that claim, Ron had a nibble on his line and quickly rill in his catch and end the so called brag rights.

"Uh huh, his my catch girl and its.." Ron stopped talking when he saw the size of his fish and wasn't proud about it.

"Hahahah!. You caught yourself a small fry!." Karai said pointing at the baby fish on Ron's hook, while laughing up a storm as she can officially say that she won the bragging.

Then Ron said right after taking the small fish off the hook and threw it back into the water, and mumbled something underneath his breath while rebaiting his fishing hook. "Easy for you to say... weirdo." Then suddenly he dropped his rod and started wiggling around when Karai grabbed some night crawlers and dropped them in his back. Not liking the feeling of worms on his back he lifted his shirt up to let the worms out, as Karai busted out laughing and dropped down holding her side due to laughing so hard. "Man, I wished that I have my phone and took a video recording, and send it to Shini because that was freaking funny!." Karai said having tears of laughter coming down her pale scaly cheeks. Ignoring the laughter of victory form his mutant snake wife of his, Ron manage to catch some decent fishes to be proud of with his head held high.

When having a over flow of fish in small bucket, the two decided to head back to Coney Island and have themselves some fish fry as Ron was gutting them while Karai season them with spices that she picked up from her scavenging, and let Ron do the frying with a side of two bags of frozen french fries that he found in the freezer. "Baby do you want some cole slaw with your fish?." Karai asked chopping up some lettuce that she scavenge from a abandon supermarket. Before answering his wife, Ron pulled out the fried fish out of the fryer and set them down on the long throw away pan and put some more seasoned fish in the fry basket and repeat the process again. "Of course Kit Kat, I want some cole slaw with my fish." He told her going towards where she was and got behind her, and helped chopped the big lettuce up in romantic way. Getting it done on both the cole slaw and fried fish, the two sat outside and enjoyed themselves with the delicious food that they prepared together.

They ate quietly while enjoying the great sound of ocean waves and seagulls, that were flying around or walking around looking for food to eat. Karai took a big piece off from her fish and threw it at the seagull that was near her, and let the happy bird get a free meal to his liking. Ron eventually took a whole piece of fish and threw it down for the same seagull to eat, as it flew over to fried fish and reaped up to chew. Not minding about sharing his catch of the day as they had a plenty, as Ron went over to get his own piece as Karai did the same as she acting more civil and less wild than Ron had saw last time. Whatever happened during those months, Karai was able to keep her human form in place and had the ability to keep her serpent side on a leash despite having her snake like features.

Meanwhile...

After getting bored with playing with her toys and wondering will she ever get out of their hideout, and go stretch her legs from getting cramps. Zoey got up from the booth table and went to Donnie's temporarily lab to see what the high intelligent Turtle was up to this time.

When reaching to the back she could see that Donnie was checking things on his computer, not realizing that she was there watching him in his studies on whatever he was doing at the moment. Zoey may have thought it must be something cool and sciency but based on what Raph had told her that, it might be boring and very nerdy but that was in his opinion. Donnie took a break from the screen to give his eyes some break and had time to look at Zoey standing there looking at him, with the most cutest smile that touched his heart to see it from his baby sister.

"Hey Don!. What are you up to?." Zoey asked with hype excitement.

"Nothing much Zoey. I was just looking over some old data that I haven't got the opportunity to check over. Plus, I'm kinda bored." Donnie said stretching his arms and took the chance to crack his neck.

"Same here. I got bored for a while and I was wondering if you guys can let me come with tonight, so I can get some fresh air and instead of breathing in fresh pizza and bread sticks everyday." Zoey said not liking to smell pizza all day and everyday, as the smell was getting on her clothes just by being in this place.

Donnie took the time to remember the night before, after Ron got hit with the tranquilizer before accepting her request. He remembered what Ron had told him back in the Party Wagon that if they ever find Karai, he doesn't want Zoey to be around her until Karai was cured with the retromutagen. He also had told him that it was for her own good and for her safety as he didn't want her to traumatize, if Karai lose her control and start attacking Zoey up until she kills her prey. Ron had the right to say that about his wife as she did attacked him and tried to take a chunk of his arm off, and basically tried to kill and eat him alive. Having his mind made up on what his going to say to the five year old and not going to back out on Ron's wishes.

"Zoey um, from what Ron had requested doing our search with Karai. He told under any circumstances that he doesn't want you there, when we go find Karai and cure her in which we're going to do so tonight. But what I'm trying to say Zoey is no." Donnie said mentally ready for an argument from the girl.

But to his surprise it didn't happen.

"Okay Don, I understand what you're saying and I'll just continue staying here." Zoey said with a sad puppy dog eyes and walked away, with her head down in disappointment.

Feeling sorry for saying that to Zoey and putting her hopes down, but then again this was Ron's wishes and he couldn't stab his trust in the back. Donnie faced back to his laptop to go look over the data one last time not knowing that Zoey, who snickered quietly with her book bag on her shoulder and quietly lifted the sewer lid open. Then closed right back slowly and quietly after getting in. Happy to watch and learn from the Turtles let alone from Ron and Karai, she gained the skills of pure stealth of a ninja and finally using it to her advantage as she can now go outside and finally see her big sister again. When opening the sewer lid from the outside and coming right out of the sewer after closing it back, she made a quick jog out of sight knowing that the Kraangs are out and about and if one of them sees her she's good as dead or worst. Remembering where her brother and sister was currently staying. Zoey took a short cut to Coney Island with full of energy of speed and excitement as she wanted to see her big sister more than anything else.

Getting there with no trouble she made it to Coney Island with much excitement, as she ran straight into the entrance and started searching each booth to find the two. Zoey looked hard to find them and let alone hearing hard to find them, and then herd a familiar song that only one person besides Ron would sing it with much grin on her face, as it was a female version song from Michael Jackson. She slowly walked in order to listen to the song that was being sung as the melody was quite pleasant.

"I want to Rock with you. All night. Dance you into the day. I want to Rock with you."

Zoey can hear the voice getting closer as she tried to keep her squeal of excitement under wraps, as she walked up and find seating down on the picnic table sharpen up Ron's sword as she can tell that the blade needed some real attention, as Ron wasn't outstanding on sharping blades especially ninja stars and knives. Karai felt like it was a good time to sing a nice song of her favorites as she can't help but to be happy for what she has, while not realizing that a little small one was creeping up on her in a good way.

"You know that love survives. So we can rock forever, on."

Karai stopped singing as her serpent instinct started acting up when she pulled out her tongue, and started being alert as the sent was familiar and felt her heart beat and turned around. With a little bit of shock to see her sisters appearance but managed to keep her stand, as Zoey had her smile in place while Karai had a fear scarred face expression. "Z..Z.. Zoey?. Y.. Y.. You're here." Karai spoked in pure shock and surprise. Zoey never remembered Ron or her brothers telling her, on how Karai looked right after being mutated into a serpent. The one thing that her grandpa had taught her right before he died was to not be scared of a person's appearance, as it was a warriors way of putting fear into their enemies eyes but he told her to keep one thing in mind. And that one thing in mind was to be fearless no matter how scary that person's look as he, she, or thing is as long you don't show your fear in them. "Karai?. You look great." Zoey spoked nicely while walking up to her with no hesitation as she went over to hug her.

Feeling the embrace and also feeling her heart melt as the love of her baby sister haven't changed, due to having pale scaly skin and serpent green eyes. Karai wrapped her arms around her and hugged her, as Zoey was finally happy that she was finally reunited with her big sister despite disobeying her older brothers demand. As soon as she broke the hug to gaze into the five year olds eyes, Ron got up from his sleep and went out from the kitchen to see what was going on. And when he reached the front of the booth he saw his little sister right there, from where she shouldn't be and quickly scolded by telling that she disobey his orders and think she's going to get away with it too. When getting out of the booth and getting ready to discipline the girl but stopped, due to seeing how happy Karai was to be reunited with Zoey made the former Foot Clan soldier changed his mind and just leave it alone for now.

Zoey was glad that her brother wasn't going to punish her for doing what she's doing, and was also happy to eat some left over fish that Karai had wrapped up and reheated for her as it was better than eating pizza everyday. The three sat around together talking to pass the time as the day became night fall to Ron's relief, since now he can wait on the Turtles to come and cure Karai and be done with it before anything else happens. But sadly of not knowing that something already happened. Karai pick up a sleeping Zoey and took her into the back of the mini booth restaurant, and tucked her in with the covers wrapped around her and place a quick kiss on her head and headed out to see what was Ron up to as she felt that he was hiding something from her, and sometimes hated that but she knows her lover was doing it in her best interest.

"Okay Leo, where are you and the others?." Ron asked through his phone.

"Ron we have a situation. someone took out Casey and April." Leo explained making it difficult to say who did it.

Ron took a minute to think about who would take out Casey and April of all nights. He felt that it wasn't the Kraangs that done this but had a strong hunch, that the one was soul responsible for getting his best friends missing out of the blue would be his so called father in law. "Leo, I think it was." Ron stopped talking after hearing a truck pulled up in Coney Island, and knew that the sound of the vehicle didn't belong to the Party Wagon. "Ron what's going on?." Leo asked having a worried feeling in his stomach as the silence was far too long. Almost forgetting that he had Leo on the phone, Ron put the phone back into his ear with seriousness in his voice. "You and the boys need to get here now, cause we got company. And they're not friendly either." He told him before hanging up and quickly went back to where Karai was seating down and rubbing Zoey's little head, and looked back at Ron and tell that something was awfully wrong.

"Shredder had sent someone here to get you." Ron told her making her get right back up.

"I need to go. Now." Karai told him but didn't want to leave her husband nor Zoey in her mess.

"You're not going anywhere Karai. You need to go hide in one of the play centers and stay there, until I come get you." said Ron going to grab his sword from the corner and strapped up.

Karai looked down at Zoey with worry for the five year olds safety as she wanted to take her, but Ron told her that he had other plans for their sister to do and started waking her up. "Huh?. W.. What's going on?." asked Zoey while rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. Ron bent down and put Karai's old katana blade in Zoey's hand and smiled. "Zoey, I have a job for you to do for me." He told her before helping her put her Jordans on. Looking around and see that it was only the two of them as Zoey looked back at her older brother with a question look on her face, while Ron can tell she getting ready to ask where Karai was. "Don't worry. Karai haven't completely left. I just told her that, I needed her to go and hide for me." He told her as it eased her concern and got right off the floor, and was ready to do what her brother wanted her to do. After getting her caught up with the information that was needed to know, Ron broke down the plan that he made up and after telling her he went out from the booth stand and walked his way towards where the truck was parked.

When he got their facing the truck, the headlights turned off and out came two...mutant animals?. Ron scanned both down and read what type of mutation that they have. One was a big built combat Rino that looked ready to strike as it was scientifically proven that Rinos would attack, if felt endangered or felt their territory is being threatened by unwanted visitors. When done looking at the massive brute he looked at the other animal as it was nothing more but a Warthog, that was wearing familiar shades, outfit, and especially that purple mohawk. "Wait... Anton?. Steranko?. Is that you guys?." asked Ron as he couldn't believe that Shredder would mutated them into animals let alone exotic animals at that. Steranko who was now a mutant Rino stepped up with his arms crossed and spoke in his Russian accent. "Yes that is us Ron. Only except that we're not the same anymore." He told him very disappointed as Anton stepped up with complaint. "Yeah and it's because of you and those Turtles yo!." With his eyebrow raise as if that was kinda wrong as Ron checked that he was not responsible for turning them into animals.

"My fault?. Man, I wasn't responsible for turning you two losers into a pig and rino. Get your facts straight porky." Ron told him getting the Warthog made for calling him a pig.

"Don't you freaking call me that!. And it is your fault anyway because when Steranko shot you and instead of Shredders daughter. Suddenly we were captured by Bradford who is now called Rahzor along with Fishface, and took us straight to Shredders hideout and got us pushed down into that slimy ooze and now look at us!." Anton yelled with rage as made a pig squeal on accident making him cover his snout.

"Like my comrade said before Ron, the Shredder had mutated us for interfering in capturing his daughter and now we're working for him." Steranko explained good enough for Ron to understand.

Before saying anything to either one of them he cracked his neck and knuckles, and after doing so he pulled his sword out ready to strike as his eyes were set on fighting the two. "You want my girl?. Then that case you have to go through me to get her. I promise the both of you that I want go easy." He told them while just giving enough distraction time for Zoey to sneak behind Anton and Steranko, and go and picked the lock of their truck as fast as she could but having some difficulties. "Alright son you're going to get a good beaten!." Anton told Ron after getting his attention back to him, while Steranko started pounding his fist. "I'm going to spatter you like little cockroach." He told him as Ron stepped back a little to get enough room space, and see if he can take them on by himself just enough to give Zoey some time to break the lock. He hopes the Turtles would get here asap before he rounds up in the hospital or get an early grave burial, but Ron wasn't going to back down on a fight no matter how big and strong they were.

"Okay Bebop and Rocksteady, show me what two you got!." He yelled and got a confused reaction from the two mutants.

"Who?. Who on Earth is Bebop and Rocksteady yo?." asked Anton

"Uh duh, that's you porky. Your Bebop and Steranko is Rocksteady." Ron explained to them as he can't believe he did the Mikey, as this was his thing when it comes down to naming their enemies and now his doing his thing.

Steranko on the other hand liked his new name as it really showed how tough he was both appearance and attitude. Anton didn't even like the name Bebop as it was like an insult to him, and squealed in angry as he place his hands on each side of his mohawk. "No body calls me Bebop!." He said throwing plasma blades at Ron. With fast reflexes with his wist, Ron slang the blade and started running sides while Bebop continue throwing mohawk energy blades at him and won't stop until he hits him. Back with Zoey who was trying to break the lock loose but still struggling due to the small katana blade was losing its sharpness. "This blade need some serious sharpen." She told herself right before she heard a click sound. Smiling wide when hearing that she pulled the lock down and open the double doors to the van truck, and out came Casey and April who were conscious and kept quiet until Zoey broke them out.

"Nice work Zoey. Now do me a favor and take me to where Karai is, so I can give her this." April said showing the small gun that had the bottle of retromutagen.

Nodding in understanding she grabbed April's hand and guided her to where she might know, where Karai was hiding while Casey took out his hockey stick and put his mask on and go help Ron out. Back flipping every hit that was trying to get him but failed, as Bebop decided to do another fighting attack and that was turning himself invisible. Ron turn his head back to see why Bebop stopped firing and see he was no longer there. Showing that he used the cheating way on winning the fight against him, Ron wasn't going to like the tables being turned on him in the worst way possible. "Ohhhhh shit." He said before receiving a jab strike in the stomach hard causing him to drop his sword and dropped down on both knees. Hearing the chuckle that was near him as the figure reappeared with his arms crossed with a smirk. "Haha whose cocky now boy?." Bebop said after hearing another voice that didn't belong to Ron.

"I am pork chops!." shouted Casey who scatted towards them and slammed Bebop with the hockey stick, causing him to hit the wooden floor hard before helping Ron get back up.

"Great job Casey. Now we need the guys to come help us." Ron said having his hand on his sore stomach.

With the mention of the Turtles the two heard a horn being blown behind them and saw the Party Wagon come charging in, as the car parked behind them and out came Leo and the others with weapons out in their hands. "Took you guys long enough!. Oh let me guess you have to stop and pump gas in the van am I correct?." said Ron getting upset as their was no reason for the Turtles to be late, when the fight got started. "Sorry for the delay. We had to shake away from the Kraangs." Raph said having his eyes on the two mutants who must working for the Shredder. "Well it's better late than ever bro." said Leo making the first move against the Warthog while the others tried fighting toe to toe with the Rino. As for Zoey and Apri who were in the House of Mirrors they were looking for Karai, based on Zoey's information on knowing her older sister very well as the place would be the first thing to search in before anything else.

"Karai?. Karai?." Zoey whispered as she had eyes everywhere in the room.

"You sure that Karai's in here Zoey?." April asked while not liking her stay in the House of Mirrors.

"Yes I'm sure April. She's gotta be here." Zoey informed her while still calling Karai's name.

When reaching further into hall of mirrors the two heard hissing from a far corner and saw a pair of serpent eyes, and out came Karai in her snake form as she saw Zoey with soft eyes that she can muster. "Karai we came to give you the retromutagen." The five year old girl told her as she wanted to go near her but April prevented her from doing so, by pulling her back and pushing the girl behind her back. When witnessing that in front of her it snapped Karai like a mad girl as she never liked April, and now she's trying to keep her little sister away from her as she hissed in rage and went right at April right before, April pushed Zoey out of the way and took out her weapon to defend herself. Karai tried to bite April the best way she could but April wasn't going to let it happen, as she backed away and blocked the hits from the serpents snake hands as each one tried to bite the flesh out of her arm or face.

Zoey looked on in horror as this was not what she expected and needed to stop this and she had the solution in her hand. Remembering that she had the spray of retromutagen that April had handed to her and run up to her and fired at it, causing Karai to stop attacking April after feeling the spray hit her back. When spraying the last ounce of liquid in the bottle and fanning the gas to see the results from the cure. The results wasn't like what she had expected to see when the fog was clear she saw Karai still in her serpent state, and had her heart crushed to see the cure wasn't working for her older sister and went to huffing while holding back tears but failed. When seeing her beloved baby sister sad to see that the cure didn't work on her, Karai morphed back into her human form and went over to her while April let her guard down and watch her interact with Zoey. "Sweetheart?." Karai began still talking like a snake while wiping the tears off the little girls face. "It...It didn't work!." Zoey said letting go of her pain as she was really looking forward to saving her big sister.

"Their are some things that we can't control little one. In my condition I'm stuck like this." She told her before pulling her in for a hug and made it special.

Zoey hugged tight and feel that this was going to be the last time she was going to see her again, as Karai had the same feeling as well when braking up the hug and said one last thing before disappearing from sight. "Tell your brother that I love him and I'll see until he find another way to save me." Karai said ran out of the House of Mirrors while passing April by and left with no trace of her whereabouts. April ran out to catch up but see that Karai was officially gone and their was really no signs of her at all to her disappointment. When the fight was over against Bebop and Rocksteady as the two retreated and lost their chances of turning human again, when Ron and the boys did their best to keep their bottle of retromutagen sprays from them and even have to hop on a ride of the roller coaster to even slow them down, thus wrecking the tracks on coaster. The two retreated back into their van and took off with a big win for Ron and the others but didn't gain the prize, when April told them that the retromutagen didn't work on Karai to Ron's sadness. "Huh, her DNA must be special. I guess I should have tested her snake scales when making that batch of retromutagen." Donnie explained to Ron when all of them got into the Party Wagon and made their way back to the pizza joint.

Zoey was sad to believe the cure didn't work on Karai and now they lost her once again. Ron put his arm around her to comfort her as he too wanted things to go right but can't get mad at their missed fortune. But he wasn't going to blame no body for this nor Shredder. He blamed on the Kraangs for showing and even supplying him the mutagen, as Shredder used it to his advantage of creating super soldiers or use it to punish people for failing him, as the thought of it just raged Ron like a dragon and wanted to put an end to the Kraangs for good.

"So what now you guys?." Casey asked while waiting for a response from anybody.

"Now Casey we're going to bring back New York City. We're going to hit the Kraangs where it hurts." Ron responded to everyone as that was the idea of returning back to New York City.

"Are you sure that you want to go right ahead and strike the Kraangs, Ron?. We can wait a little bit more longer." said Leo as he can see that Ron was head strong on fighting back New York.

Ron took his eyes on his brother and said it truthfully.

"I'm sure as a heart attack Leo. I what to kick some alien ass."

"Then let operation take back New York City begin tomorrow night." said Raph while looking forward to fighting the Kraangs.