Kara was doing her homework while Christine left to the store to get a few things for Zachary. She stopped to take a break and went to check on him seeing he was sleeping peacefully on the couch and smiled at how cute he looked.
Hearing a knock on her balcony door she looked up seeing the guys and jumped in surprise, looking down at the baby before running over to the balcony just as they were about to enter.
"Guys! What're you doing here?"
"We came to pick you up for some training with April." Leo said
"Yeah, not that you need training or anything, just to help April out since you both are humans. N-not that there's anything wrong with being human it's just that-" Donnie was cut off by Raph smacking him across the head both of them glaring at each other. Leo sighed and continued Donnie's sentence.
"What he meant to say is to show and help her understand certain things. Like..on patrol. We're able to patrol by rooftop so easily because we've been trained longer than you two and since you've gotten the hang of it before her you'll be able to help her understand it better than us." Leo said with a smile.
Kara smiled at the thought but sighed. "Look, guys, I will help out but now is not the best time."
Mikey blinked hearing a soft sound in the living room sneaking around Kara while she began to explain the situation to the guys.
Seeing the baby made his eyes go wide and sparkle. "Awe, it's a baby" He said out loud making everyone look over at him.
Kara tensed up not knowing when Christine would be back and took a step to bring him back over to the balcony when she heard the door beginning to unlock. Her eyes widened and she turned to the guys, "Stay here!" She hissed and moved the curtains over the balcony door and went to run over to Mikey but Christine walked into the room, Mikey hiding on the side of the couch, out of sight from her tutor.
"Can't believe they were out of my brand of diapers...I guess this will have to do." Christine sighed in annoyance walking straight to the kitchen. "Oh, I got you some milk and eggs since you were running low...on..them...what are you doing, Kara?" Christine asked with a raised brow seeing her standing in the middle of the living room like a frozen statue.
"I was just...just..doing some stretches!" Kara said with a nervous smile before stretching her arms over her head and doing a few squats laughing weakly hoping she'd buy it.
"Ok..so how is your homework coming?" Christine asked turning back around to put away the milk and eggs."
"It's uh..going well..though I'm having a little trouble on some problems.." Kara said while glaring at Mikey waving her arms for him to run to the balcony and go but he crawled closer to the baby and touched his tiny hand. "Awe, how cute." He whispers with a big smile on his face.
Kara walked into the kitchen while Leo, Donnie, and Raph snuck inside to try to get Mikey.
"If you could" She gasped seeing all four of them inside now and blocked Christine's view while she bent over to put the stuff in the fridge. "If you could help me find the answers that would be awesome!"
"Hmm? Ok then, lets get started." Christine said going to turn around but was startled when Kara shouted, "Wait!" Kara's attention on the guys all of them jumping to hide in different places , Leo hiding behind the curtains, Donnie behind a wide and tall floor lamp, and Raph managed to dive next to where Mikey was.
"I-I'm sure you must be tired after that trip so why not sit down" Kara said leading her to the end of the table to the seat with her back turned to the living room.
The guys sigh all at once and Raph pulls on the end of Mikey's mask before picking him up and dragging him towards the balcony door but freeze when the baby begins to wake up and starts to cry.
"Sounds like Zachary is hungry. I'll help you in a moment" Christine gets up despite Kara's protests and turns around in time to see four turtle creatures. One of them with an orange mask bending down looking at Zachary, another with a red mask with his hands on the orange one's shoulders, a blue masked one going to help the red one and a purple masked smacking his forehead.
Kara groans watching Mrs. Christine closely and jumped, startled that she began to fall backwards. Kara caught her before she hurt herself and sighed. "She fainted..." She said looking up at the others.
Christine woke up in the guest room and looked around confused. "Ugh, that was a strange dream.." She told herself before looking through the open door and saw the same creatures from her dream gathered around something. "It wasn't a dream.." She said in a whisper her eyes wide with shock.
Hearing her baby near where they were gathered she snapped out of her thoughts, her mother instincts kicking in especially when she saw the weapons, and jumped out of bed running to where they are. "What are you monsters doing to my...baby.."
Able to see over them cause of her height she saw the orange one holding her baby up making goo-goo noises at it while rubbing it's noise against Zachary's tummy making him giggle and laugh.
"Mrs. Christine." She turned around to see Kara holding a glass of ice water her eyes filled with worry.
"Miss..Kara..what is going on?" She heard a small yell and looked over to see Zachary pulling on the orange masks cheeks making him laugh as well as the other creatures making her smile some.
"If you sit down I will explain." Kara said offering her a seat on the love seat.
When Mrs. Christine sat down she handed her the water to help calm her down. "These are my friends that you know about. This is Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo." She said while pointing them out each giving a smile, nod, or a wave. Christine looked at the one named Michelangelo with her child and Kara looked over at him nodding her head to Mrs. Christine.
Mikey pouted but stood up, holding the baby carefully in his arms and gave her back her baby, setting her glass of water down before doing so.
Kara sighed and began to tell the story of how they met all the while Mrs. Christine's face was filled with surprise from time to time looking over at the boys noticing the one named Donatello was watching Kara with a smile. Donatello..that was a familiar name. Her eyes widened in realization. "You were the one I talked to on the phone a couple days ago." She said in surprise. He sounded so human on the phone.
"Ehheheh...yeah.." Donnie said with a blush rubbing the back of his head.
"They are my friends Mrs. Christine. They won't hurt you or Zachary."
"Then what are the weapons for." Christine asked with suspicion holding her baby closer to her.
"We are ninjas ma'am." Leo said with a small smile. "We've been trained in martial arts to protect ourselves."
Christine looked from them to Kara loads of questions going through her but she closed her eyes, took a deep breath, letting it out slowly, and calmed her mind letting one question out at a time. "Do your parents know?" She asked softly.
Kara nodded and smiled. "Yes, mom..had the same reaction as you." She laughed softly while rubbing the back of her head keeping the fact that she fainted from Master Splinter out for the moment.
Christine looked down at her baby noticing he wasn't bothered by them in the least. In fact, he seemed to like them especially the one named Michelangelo who was making faces at him making him laugh. She sighed but smiled. "I'm not going to lie..it's going to take me awhile to get use to them but you can see them as much as you like after you finish your studies of course."
She stood up and smiled at them all, bowing her head. "My name is Christine Walters and this is my baby boy, Zachary."
The guys had a smile on their faces seeing they had another human they could trust Mikey going up to Christine and her baby poking him gently with one of his fingers making Zachary giggle and grab his finger. Christine smiled and slowly held him out to them so Mikey could hold him.
Mikey looked up at her curious yet uncertain but when she nodded with a smile he smiled back and carefully took him in his arms and sat down on the couch with his brother's around them to play.
"I'm guessing you are going to want to hang out with them, right?" Mrs. Christine questioned looking over at Kara who smiled and nodded. "Finish your homework and you may. We can further discuss the situation later."
Kara groaned and sighed in defeat but had a smile on her face walking back over to the table Mrs. Christine right behind her.
After a couple minutes Donnie looked up at them seeing Kara was looking troubled and went over to see if he could help.
He peeked over her shoulder looking down at the paper curiously but smiled while showing her how to solve the problem easy. Both of them blinked in surprise at him, Mrs. Christine more amazed than surprised. Kara nodded to him and began to solve the problem using his solution and was able to get the correct answer.
"Donnie, you're awesome!" Kara said with delight wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing his cheek.
Mrs. Christine blinked at the two but shook her head and looked at him. "That's interesting..Mister Donatello, right?"
"Um..y-you could just call me Donnie, ma'am." He said with a shy smiles showing off his gap.
"Donnie it is." She said with a smile while bringing out a piece of paper. "Fill this out for me, please." She said placing the paper near a chair away from Kara so she wouldn't cheat and pulled the chair out for him to sit down.
He nodded and sat down looking over the paper curiously before a smile appeared on his face and he took the pencil starting to solve the problems on it with ease.
Kara looked from him then to her tutor, going back and forth between the two, her eyes wide and mouth agape. "You're letting him do homework?"
"Why not? He was able to help you, right? I'm curious to see what he can do."
Kara opened her mouth to say something but heard a knock on the door. "I'll get it." She said before getting up to see who it was.
Peeking through the peephole she saw April and smiled, opening the door. "Hey, April. What brings you here?"
"Leo texted me saying they were at your place so I decided to check..in..on..you." The further she walked in she was able to see the guys playing with a baby and a tall woman watching Donnie do some paperwork.
"Um?" April looked over at Kara with a confused look.
"I'll explain later." She said with a soft sigh and a smile. "But first, Mrs. Christine, I want you to meet my best friend: April O'Neil. April, this is my tutor: Mrs. Christine."
Mrs. Christine had a smile on her face relieved to see a normal human and gently shook her hand. "A pleasure to meet you Miss O'Neil."
Before April could say anything Kara placed her hand over her mouth and smiled. "I finished my homework! Can I go now?" She asked with a wide smile.
Her tutor sighed but nodded. "You may go."
Kara pumped her fist in the air just as Donnie stood up. "I'm finished as well." He said with a smile.
"You ready, guys?" Kara looked over seeing Raph was gently rocking Zachary in his arms while rubbing his finger against his tiny hand to help him sleep. Kara blushed at the view but smiled at how cute it was before sneaking a picture. Noticing the other two were looking through her movies and games she cleared her throat and smiled at them all. "We can go, guys. We'll meet you downstairs." She said before April and Kara walked out the door.
Raph gently laid Zachary down on his little nest and blinked seeing Leo and Mikey looking at him strange. He gave them a glare before walking to the balcony and leaving. Mikey chuckled and followed after him then it was Leo and Donnie.
When they all left Mrs. Christine sat down to grade their homework and blinked in surprise seeing Kara got all of them right but two and Donnie passed with flying colors. "Interesting.." She said to herself with a soft smile. "Those two are the ones I showed Kara how to solve.."
Kara was on patrol with the guys and April. Finally being able to catch up with them after so long felt exciting. She whooped and hollered along side Donnie and Leo running ahead of them and did a jump flip over to another roof landing perfectly on her feet jumping onto an A/C unit.
Panting softly she looked back watching April jump to where they were and land sluggishly on her knees. Knowing she must be exhausted she jumped down beside her breathing heavily.
"I...never...understood how..turtles could...could be so...so fast!" April said between every breath and Kara chuckled, helping her up. "An..and you! Yo.. 're just...just as fast."
"Well since I have a lot of time on my hands I practice every day. Don't worry, it took me awhile to get use to it and you're doing great." She said with a childish grin patting her on the back.
"Come on, April! This is just the warm up." Mikey said before jumping over to them.
"The warm up?! For two hours!?"
"That's what ninja's do. Training sometimes last four, five hours at a time. Awesome, right?" Leo said with a laugh. Kara rolled her eyes, chuckling to herself.
"Are you kidding me?! I'm gonna puke! What about a real mission?" April sighed in annoyance. Kara scratched her cheek nervously and sighed. "Look, April, you're doing great but it's gonna be awhile before you join on a real mission. It's best to start with the basics of this here.."
"It took fifteen years of training before Master Splinter let us go on a 'real mission' you got a loong way to go, sister."
"But..but what about Kara?" Kara blinked when her name was mentioned and she sighed not really wanting to get involved. "I've been training since I was five, six years old and I've been fighting for almost two years now. I learned all of this parkour stuff just about a year ago around the time I met you so..yeah.."
"It's not that long. A decade or two will fly by like that." Donnie said while snapping his fingers.
"For a turtle!"
"Hm..maybe we should take her out more. I mean, she has been able to handle herself in a fight better than before." Kara said while looking at the others, not realizing pictures were being taken of them.
"It makes sense." Donnie added in. Kara smiled at him and nodded looking over at Mikey.
"Yeah! The best training she could have is hanging with the ninjaas" Kara chuckled softly and Mikey before looking over at Leo and Raph. "Four against two guys."
"Uh-uh, now way, it's too dangerous." Leo said bending over some looking outwards towards the city.
"What if something happens to her?" Raph added in. Kara sighed and shook her head. "Just give her a chance, I'm sure she'll come-" Hearing April groan she looked over at her seeing her holding her head.
"Guys, I think there's someone watching us. Right..over..there!"
Everyone looked over to where she was pointing Kara squinting her eyes and was able to see a dark figure, her eyes widened in surprise thinking they were finally caught.
"GET EM!" All the brother's shouted together.
Kara brought out her gloves and put them on while running towards the ledge but saw the building he was on was lower to the ground than they were.
"Grappling hooks!" Leo shouted as they all brought out their handmade grappling and fire them to the other side, sliding down safely to the other side.
Kara grinned and breathed in deeply deciding to jump when she turned around hearing April grumbling to herself about her grappling hook malfunctioning til it shot out and hit Donnie in the back of the shell. She laughed softly and went to go help her but heard another sound she looked over seeing Donnie had shot his rope to them. "Girls, use my rope!"
Kara smiled and took off her jacket, using it to slide down the rope and land with ease. She looked up at April watching her slide down and hop over Donnie. She chuckled before putting her jacket on and following after the others seeing the guy climb through an apartment window.
Climbing to the top with ease she looked down watching April struggle to pick herself up and held out her hand to help. April smacked her hand away causing Kara to look at her in surprise before backing up and letting her do it on her own.
"It's quiet. Too quiet." Kara crawled to the stairs, waiting and watching patiently while Leo rolled over to the other side of the window quietly opening it up for him and the others. Kara swung herself from the stairs to the inside, crouching low on all fours before slowly getting up in time for April to hop in.
The guys turned on their flashlights to have a look around while Kara used the flashlight on her phone wandering off away from the others. "You think this is the right place?" She asked quietly but stopped hearing a gasp and saw the others crowded around a messenger board or something and blinked in surprise. "Yup.." She told herself looking over the pictures seeing it was them and some mutants.
"It's..us." Donnie said while going over some of the pictures blinking in surprise to see one of him and Kara holding each other on her rooftop. Kara blushed when she saw the photo and began to feel irritated before taking it down and pocketing it thinking whoever took the photo must be a pervert.
"It's not just us. Photos of mutants and kraang. Lots and lots of kraang." Leo said when she noticed one of April. Guessing she wasn't the only one she looked over at her when she began to talk.
"So, what's with all the creeptastic pictures?"
Kara closed her eyes to see if the guy was still in the building and gently stomped her foot, able to see the guy hiding in the hallway. She slowly opened her eyes, gently nudging Raph's arm and gave him a small nod in the direction. He glanced over to the doorway and was able to see his hand. Nodding in return he looked back to his brothers.
"Well, I guess we've seen enough here guys. Let's get out of here." He said while nudging his head towards the doorway to warn the others.
When Raph was able to see the guy's head he pulled him from out of hiding and help him against the door with his sai against they guy's neck.
"Whoa! Don't hurt me. I'm a friend."
"Stalkers more like it." Raph and Kara said in unison making her grin at him before turning her attention back to the guy giving him a look of frustration.
"After all these months finally face to face with the talking ninja turtles and April O' Neil herself."
When he moved to go over to her she stepped infront of him, getting into a fighting stance. He gasped seeing her. " You must be Kara Sharper..The Blind Bandit..and the hidden child." Kara's eyes widened hearing this. "How'd you.."
Leo cut her off by grabbing the guy and having his hand on his sheathed katana. "You better start talking pal! What's with the photos? Who are you?"
"The names Kirtsman. I was a journalist on the case of the missing scientist last year and then I discovered something much bigger." He said his tone getting serious.
Smacking away some stuff off the table he held out a scrap book of sorts and set it down before looking at them. "The Kraang."
"The alien infiltration is long lived, ancient in fact, The Kraang have been trying to use mutagen to tear and form the earth for thousands of years but they couldn't use the mutagen in our universe without a specific chain of human DNA. They spent millennia capturing people, shaping them human kinds gentic code until finally," Kirtsman held up a picture of a baby.
Kara looked at it with a raised brow before blinking in surprise hearing April say, "That's me."
"Your mother was taken by the Kraang before you were born. Then she was..experimented on.." Kirtsman lifted the page to show an old photo of a baby April and her parent's holding her all of them smiling. Kara looked over at April worriedly watching her stare at the photo.
"That's why your so special, April. Your DNA can perfect the mutagen in this dimension."
Kara looked from the photo to April and knew this was all too much to handle as she began to stagger backwards some but Donnie placed his hand on her shoulder to steady her. "I think I need to sit down"
Kara sighed closing her eyes but snapped them open. "Someone's here!" She shouted just as three kraang droids in disguise came in, holding out their weapons.
"They found me! I don't know how but they found me!"
"Kraang, the human known as Kirtsman has allied himself with the ones called the turtles who are turtles."
"Observed Kraang. Disintegrate first capture for interrogation later." They began shooting at them all.
Kara noticed one that had its disguise cut off and she charged into battle, glancing at Kirtsman. "Had a run in with them before?" She asked as they all dived away to hide, Raph jumping at one of the kraang droids.
He was struggling to take it down, the kraang having him against the wall. She went over to help him but saw him stomp his foot against its leg then sweep his leg under it causing it to fall backwards but Raph wasn't finished with it yet grabbing the kraang he threw it against the wall.
Kara grinned but looked over hearing Mikey yell and ran behind the kraang that was firing at him and grabbed it from behind, locking its arms over its head letting Mikey throw ninja stars at it, hitting him in the chest. Kara smiled and dropped the body, stomping her foot into its face to make sure it was dead and went to help the others but noticed more were coming.
"Yeesh, you'd think they'd learn by now not to mess with us." She said while sliding underneath one droid grabbing at its ankles and pulled it down before taking its weapon and shooting its head.
She saw one going for April and went to shoot but lowered the weapon when Leo sliced it in two. "Takes a little practice, April."
"So I'm told." She said clearly annoyed.
Kara began shooting at them giving the others time to escape, Donnie shouting "Retreat!"
Thinking everyone made it out she dropped the weapon and went to jump out but saw Kirtsman trying to get his notebook. "We can get it later!" She shouted and dove towards him to save him from the lasers but they both flew out the window.
Kara looked up and saw Mikey throwing his chain down at them and she reached up for it in time as it wrapped around her arm, stopping them just before they were turned into human pancakes.
"Gotcha!" She heard Mikey shout just before they landed safely on the ground.
"Ha, I knew you would safe us. Sorry about the scare Mister Kirtsman." She said while helping him up.
Looking up she saw April struggling to get down and went to go help her til she fell to the floor and made a fighting pose.
"This way! Move!" Leo shouted but before they could do anything a kraang van blocked their way, the back opening up revealing a new weapon of theirs. Kara cursed herself for not keeping the gun..laser..thing and got into a fighting stance but her eyes shot out upon seeing the big gun in the front. "Oh...crud nuggets.."
It began firing at them. Kara could hear Donnie screaming, "Scatter!" while everyone jumped, dodged, and rolled out of the way.
"Serpentine serpentine!" Kara shouted zig zagging out of the way following after the others rounding a corner.
The kraang brain followed after them but saw they disappeared. Searching the area for them it heard something fall and screeched as the Shellraiser flew out from its garage and attempted to run it over.
"Everyone brace yourselves!" Leo shouted as the kraang shot at them from behind. Kara held onto the security line while Leo reversed into its big gun, running over it enough to destroy it.
"Here's the plan: You infiltrate TCRI then wipe out all the data the kraang have on April's DNA." Kirtsman said to the guys.
"Infiltrate TCRI? I thought you guys blew that place up?" April said looking over at them.
"Unless they managed to rebuild it without us seeing but what are the odds of that?" Kara said with a confident smile crossing her arms over her chest.
Kara's smile dropped seeing exactly that.
"Whoa, they rebuilt TCRI? Already?!" Raph said in a surprised whisper.
"How's that possible?! One of us had to at-least see them working on it!" Kara said freaking out about it.
"We break in, erase April's DNA codes, and get out. Infiltration only." Leo said looking over at them.
"Fine..are you sure we can't blow it up again. I really wanna know how they could rebuild it so fast." Leo gave her a look that obviously said no and she sighed in defeat. "Fiiine, infiltration only."
"Let's do this." April said full of determination.
"Great. You and Kirtsman stay outside and lookout."
"Stay outside?! On lookout?!" April whispered harshly clearly not liking the idea.
"No problem. Take this. It's a keycard I stole from one of their vans. It'll get you into TCRI." Kirtsman said while handing the keycard to Leo. Kara took it and looked it over curiously before a cheshire like smile crossed her face thinking of all the pranks she could pull with this card. Raph saw her face and flicked her ear to get her attention. She yelped in surprise and held her ear before glaring at Raph. "What was that for?!"
"Whatever you're thinking it's no." He said with his arms crossed.
"But I-"
"No." He said now giving her a stern look.
She opened her mouth to say something else.
"No!"
She groaned out loud slumping her shoulders in defeat. "Uuuggh! You're no fuuuun!"
She pocketed the card and followed after the others to the ledge of a building closest to TCRI. While Leo fired the grappling hook she heard grunting behind her and turned to see April climbing to the top and pulling herself over the edge.
She blinked watching her slowly walk over to them, clearly exhausted, she felt sorry for her.
"Alright, April, stay here and maintain radio communication."
"But I want in on the action too." April said looking as if she got her second wind.
"Don't worry we'll be back in two shakes of a kraang tentacle." Donnie said before sliding down.
Kara stepped forward and looked at her giving her a weak smile. "Maybe another time." She said with a shrug before throwing her jacket over the line. She gave her one last glance seeing April give her a sort of glare and sighed sliding down behind the others. "I'm not trying to make her feel inferior..I hope she understands that I've just had more experience.."
She sighs climbing through the vents and lands behind Donnie inside TCRI. Blinking a few times to adjust to the dark she slowly stands just as Mikey rounds the corner and goes to follow after him but stops seeing the kraang droid sitting there looking at them.
She gasps softly but when it didn't move Donnie peeked over the cubicle seeing over a hundred droids hooked up to some wire.
"It's ok, it's alright I think these androids are just..charging." Donnie said while using his staff to move the droid aside showing them the glowing wire.
"Weird I wonder if there's kraang inside them." Raph said while Donnie moved it's arms aside and showed the kraang brain.
"Weird.." Kara bent down to get a closer look while Mikey poked its nose while laughing.
" Hah haha! Duudes their faces are all rubbery and stuff! Check it out." Mikey started playing with its lips making noises and talking. She giggles and pokes it alongside Mikey.
"Stop that! We gotta move before they wake up!" Leo said causing her to pout but before she could say anything April drops down landing on one knee making Kara jump, yelling in surprise.
"April?! What're you doing here?" Raph asked her.
"I told you I'm sick of standing on the sidelines!"
"Fine" Leo started, giving up on trying to stop her. "Just be quiet, stay close, and DO NOT let Mikey touch anything."
Just as soon as he said that the droid made a sound and it's eyes lighted up.
"It wasn't me" Mikey said with his hands raised up.
"I think they're done charging! Let's get out of here!" Donnie shouted all of them running to find an exit passing each cubicle, every droid beginning to wake up.
They went to round a corner but Leo pulled Kara back seeing all the droids were standing just outside their cubicle. When the others behind them Kara looked around for an exit and saw the elevator.
Pointing it out she grabbed Leo's hand and pulled him towards it with the others following behind and he pushed the up arrow a couple times before it opened up for them and they all filed in the doors closing behind them before any of the droids could see them.
Kara sighed in relief and handed the keycard to Leo letting him swipe the card and blinked hearing a robotic voice.
"The floor known as Level 40 has been accessed to Kraang." The awful elevator music began playing making Kara sigh in annoyance. "This one is a lot louder than the one back at my place." She said while placing her hands over her ears but it didn't do much good.
"This music is making my ears bleed." Raph said placing his fingers over his ears.
"What?" Kara yelled still having her ears covered. The elevator doors opened before Raph could respond to her and she sighed in relief once the music stopped.
She waited for Leo to give the signal before crouching down and behind Donnie and Mikey, keeping low glancing behind her to make sure April was alright watching her crawl on all fours.
Staying hidden she noticed all the kraang's eyes were closed. Thinking they were asleep she went to move closer but stopped when the middle of their heads opened up and smaller tentacles popped out. "Yuck"
"What's going on, Donnie?" Raph asked curiously
"It's a kraang sweet sixteen birthday party." He said in a girly voice before returning to his normal voice "How am I suppose to know?"
Kara covers her mouth chuckling at the two til she noticed flickering movement in front of them and saw Kraang Prime. She glared at the image clenching her fist remembering the invasion plot and almost losing her family and Leo. "You again.." She said her words filled with hate.
Holding her head in pain April was able to hear them. "It's Kraang Prime. They're meditating..communicating. I can hear their thoughts."
"Whoa, man, you're like telepathetic." Mikey said with a smile.
"And you wanted her to stay behind." Kara said with a grin looking at both Leo and Raph. They gave her a ticked off looked but stopped turning their attention back to April when she began speaking.
"They're talking about invasion.." She said still listening in but gasped softly causing an alarm to go off and the kraang to wake up.
"Guess they know we're here now." Kara said nervously covering her ears at the kraang's shrieking.
"Um, guys, what're we thinking?"
"Run!" Kara and Leo shouted at once all of them running back to the elevator.
"Some stealth mission!" Raph said to Leo while he frantically pushed the button to call on the elevator.
"Hey, that means we can blow it u-"
"No!" Raph and Leo yelled together at Kara. She groaned in annoyance and went to say something else but was interrupted by Mikey.
"Dudes! It's that freaky chick with the exploding elbows."
Leo kept pushing the button hoping it'll make the elevator come up faster. When Kara heard the robot chick fire her eblow rockets of doom she groaned and charged at her head on dodging the rocket. Hearing the elevator go "Ding" she glanced behind her seeing the doors open just as the rocket hit where the guys use to be. "Oh no you don't." She said getting face to face with the elbow robot lady and punching her in the stomach twice and kicking her to the side. "You're not getting rid of our exit that quickly!"
The robot lady stumbled backwards but regained her footing and fired the rockets at her. Dodging the rockets as if it was second nature, which it should be or else she'd be blown to smithereens, she brought out her taser flipping it to it's highest setting and ran to it touching her in the stomach area and turned it on as bolts of charges ran through it causing it to malfunction and fire the rockets everywhere.
"Crap, Raph! Finish this for me!" Kara shouted, backing up and dodging all the rockets. He ran towards the lady just as it turned to fire in his direction but he threw his sai smack in the middle of it's firing hole causing it to explode. Raph jumped at Kara and pushed her out of the explosion, protecting her with his shell. She peeked over his shoulder seeing the rest of the kraang droids were taken care of and grinned before he helped her up and gave him a fist bump. "Nice aim, Raph."
"Let's get April!" She heard Donnie say and watched the others follow after him but when she saw the kraang brains floating after them she turned her taser on, pressing it down to keep it on and threw it at one making it shriek and fall over getting the other two's attention.
She ran at the one that fell, grabbing her taser and turned it off before reaching for her pepperspray and hopped onto the one that fell, pushing herself off of it and flew and the other two, spraying one in the eyes and body slammed the other one onto the ground, squishing it with her body.
Standing up while watching the one she sprayed panic and shriek at the pain it ran into a wall. She chuckled at herself but blinked and ran out the door to find the guys.
"Guys? Guys? Where are-"
Hearing coughing she looked into a room and saw the guys locked in a room with smoke coming from the ceiling. "Guys!" She shouted trying to pry open the door and gasped seeing them fighting off April. "What the!"
When Donnie flipped over to the controls her eyes widened watching April malfunction and scream before turning into goo. She shook her head and started pounding on the doors but stopped once it opened and pulled the guys out hugging them all.
"Oh, you guys scared me..what happened?"
"April lead us to that room and locked us in." Leo started to explain but kept coughing trying to clear his lungs. "But it wasn't her."
"It was..some kind of replica. A fake April!" Donnie shouted before coughing out the smoke.
"But she looked so real! Like tofu bacon!" Mikey added in.
"But how were they able to make an exact replica of her?" Kara asked in surprise.
"Come on! We gotta find the real April!" Leo said before running off. Kara nodded and followed after him over hearing Raph tell Mikey, "Tofu bacon does not look real."
"It taste real though!"
Kara had her arm out to stop Raph and Mikey pointing at the red beam in front of the door. It stopped on Mikey's toe and began firing at him but Kara moved him to the side and out of harm's way.
"I bet whatever is behind that door is pretty important." Kara nodded in agreement to Mikey watching Leo dodge the lasers and swipe the card making the weapon stop and go away. She sighed in relief and walked into the room, her sigh turning to a gasp. "What the.."
Inside the room were a bunch of April's sleeping inside liquid filled pods.
"By Darwin's beard..April clones!" Donnie looking around the room.
"They managed to rebuild TCRI...and create this many clones in just a matter of days..weeks perhaps?" Kara said aloud placing her hand on one of the pods.
"Their perfect genetic duplicates.." Donnie said aloud.
"Weird..." Mikey added in staring at a replica.
"I bet the kraang have been growing them harvest her DNA." Donnie continued
"Ah...weeeiird.."
"I get it, ok?!" Donnie shouted at Mikey.
"That being said..there's only one question left.." Kara said looking over at the others with a serious look.
"Where's the real April?" Raph asked looking around. Kara nodded and clenched her fists wishing she had some way of knowing where she was. She began to wander around looking for a secret door while Donnie began to try and hack into their computer but jolted, her eyes widened hearing April scream.
"April!" Her and Mikey screamed. Kara looked up hearing a door open and saw a couple of kraang enter through the second floor.
"The turtles survived. Open the bin known as "The Reject Bin." One of the kraang droids pushed a button opening a secret compartment on the floor behind them. Everyone readied their weapons Kara bringing out her taser and watched as a hand came out and began to lift itself up.
Sweat trickled down the side of her face her imagination taking over on what the 'reject' bin would bring out but when she saw it looked just like April she let out a sigh of relief thinking it wasn't too bad til it full showed itself making all of them scream Kara's cheeks puffing up as if she was gonna barf.
"What the heck is that?" Leo asked before it went to stomp on him yelling, "Derp derp deeerp!" while smacking the kraang droids off the second floor.
"Some kind of a reject clone, a genetic mishap, a.."
"An April derp!" Mikey finished Donnie's sentence before they all scattered and attacked it at once. Kara watched them and looked back towards the room.
"You guys take care of the derp I'll go rescue April."
"I'm coming too Raph." Kara said to him before climbing onto his back. He nodded and jumped to the second floor, Kara jumping off his back and they both ran to where they were keeping April.
While Raph snuck on top of the machine that was inching towards April Kara brought out her taser and went snuck behind the kraang that were surrounding April. When Raph was able to turn it off she began to move.
"Great, saved by Raph. I'm never gonna live this down." She heard April say making her chuckle while grabbing one of the droids putting her hand over its mouth and stabbed the taser into it's back and turned it on sending surges of electricity through its body overcharging it, soon dying down, and she threw the body at the others.
"We've all been there, April." She heard Raph say and nodded in agreement giving her a childish grin. "It's true now, let's get you out of he-"
Her eyes widened, screaming in pain as a group of droids came in one of them taseing her. When it finally stopped she slumped over April's body and looked up at Raph seeing they had him restraint, his eyes wide watching her. She groaned in pain and went to reach for the hatch to set April free but they tased her again making her scream once more before tossing her to the other side of the room and hitting the wall.
"Do not struggle. The one known as April O'Neil will soon expire." A kraang droid said once they got the machine to work again.
"April.." Kara muttered slowly opening her eyes while struggling to pick herself up.
Her eyes widened when April screamed, "No!" giving her the adrenaline she needed to pick herself up and gasped seeing all the kraang droids had malfunctioned and fallen over. She stumbled over to April once Raph freed her from the hatches and she helped Raph carry her away.
"Are you going to be ok?" Raph asked Kara his voice full of concern.
"I'll be fine for now let's just get April out of here..how ya feeling, April?" She said with a small smile.
"Brain..on fire..ready to pop..other than that..meh." Kara chuckled softly at her answer and noticed the others enter the room. "Guys!" She said with a smile and waved to them.
"Kara! I heard you scream! Are you alright?!" Donnie rushed to her side immediately bringing her in an embrace. She smiled and leaned into it sighing softly. "I'll be ok let's just get out of here."
Donnie nodded and hugged April glad to see she was alive too and gave her a gentle hug. When the alarms went off Kara groaned wondering what was going on now.
"Uh oh! Time to haul shell!" Mikey said before they all ran out the room for the exit but just as they crossed out of the room all of the April clones were set free and surrounded them. "What the! Did you guys set them free?!"
"No!...I dunno! Did we?!" Mikey said looking over at Leo and Donnie before they jumped down Donnie holding Kara and Raph holding April.
The April clones started talking all at once giving Kara a headache.
"Don't listen to them. I'm the real April." Kara went to reach for her when the other Aprils pulled her into the crowd of Aprils but glared when she didn't reach her in time.
"Kara, it's me! Let's get out of here" One April grabbed onto her arm, squeezing it. Kara stared at the April and narrowed her eyes before punching it across the face causing it to blow up into a puddle. "Don't underestimate me, wanna be's." She said with an angry tone. She scanned the crowd of Aprils and smiled once she found her real friend and went to rescue her when the other Aprils pushed her away from her and the guys.
"What are you talking about, Kara? I'm the real April."
"No, I am!"
"No, me! Don't listen to them! Let's get out of here!"
Kara yelled out in frustration and tried to find the real one again but they were blocking her view. "L-Let go of me! April! Donnie!"
She blinked in surprise seeing April's weapon raised in the air and grinned seeing her attacking the other Aprils before doing the same all of them turning into mushy gew puddles.
"Ok, that was just gross dudes theres April derp all over my chucks."
"Atleast its not on your hands, Mikey, yuck." Kara said wiping off the gew stuff on her pants thinking she'd wash them later.
"Let's move." Kara nodded to Leo and followed behind them going through the window they smashed through another group of kraang following behind them but stopped when a kraang van pulled up infront of them.
Narrowing her eyes she and the others readied themselves for a fight but blinked in surprise seeing Mister Kirtsman at the wheel telling them to get in. Not needing to be told twice she climbed in along with April then the boys before he drove off. "Escaping from the kraang in their own van! Haha!" She chuckled at Mister Kirtsman while shaking her head. "Pretty fun, huh?"
"Thanks for the save Mister Kirtsman." Leo said from the back with her, and Mikey.
"I owed you one so did you wipe out the kraang computers?"
"We did by the skin of our noses." Kara looked over at Donnie and rubbed her arm still feeling some of the after shock of being tased but kept it to herself knowing everyone was more concerned for April.
"The only reason we survived was because of April. Whatever you did back there saved us all." Raph smiled at her.
"I have no clue what I did. I was freaking out and then Zap! The Kraang were toast." April looked just as confused as everyone else but Kara smiled glad to know she was safe.
"You walk from here. Well, I'm off. Someone has to keep a lookout for the Kraang their everywhere. If you ever need my expertise you know where to find me." Kara watched everyone get out and looked at Mister Kirtsman before clearing her throat.
"Mister Kirtsman..I want to know..how did you find out about me? I mean the world doesn't even know I exist yet..you were able to find out without me knowing...how?"
Kirtsman gave Kara a smile before answering.
"Because I wanted to know who you are. The real you."
Kara blinked, confused, but shrugged not knowing what he meant and smiled, hopping out of the van. "Thanks again Mister Kirtsman. See ya." She waved bye to him before he drove off and headed back to the lair with the others.
Kara sat in the living room going through her phone while waiting for Donnie to finish doing some blood work on April. She flipped up to her messages from Mrs. Christine and went to text her she was staying at April's for the night but couldn't concentrate her body beginning to shut down on her. She shook her head, rubbing her eyes to keep herself awake despite her body and mind telling her to go to sleep. Blinking her eyes to concentrate back on the text she looked up watching everyone going into lab and dropped her phone on the couch following after the others just as Donnie was placing a drop of her blood under the microscope.
"Weell, what'd you find out, Donnie?" Curiosity clear in Leo's voice
Donnie stared down at her sample his expression full of surprise."This..doesn't seem possible.."
"What is it? What's wrong?" April stood up beside Donnie curious to know if something was wrong with her.
"Based on all the info I coded from the clone lab you're cellular make up is actually a morphogenesic blend of human and kraang DNA. Kara's eyes widened in surprise looking over at April. "He can't be serious..."
"Wait, are you saying.."
"You're not entirely human, April. That's why you have psychic powers..in fact, you're a half human half alien mutant."
"A MUTANT?!" Everyone shouted at once.
"Aw yeah! Welcome to the family!" Mikey shouted being as happy as ever.
Kara stared at April started of this discover wondering what must be going through her mind. "I know I'd be freaking out about it.." Kara reached over to place a hand on her shoulder but jumped when she began to faint and quickly grabbed her before she could hurt herself.
"Perhaps I should take her back to my place. So she can clear her mind when she wakes up." Kara said looking up at them lifting her up with ease.
"We shouldn't move her around too much she could hurt herself." Donnie said going over to them.
"After everything that has happened it'll be best to have her in a..human environment. I'll keep you all posted on how she's doing." She gave them a reassuring smile and Leo nodded, walking up to her, placing his hand on her shoulder. "We'll take you in the Shellraiser." Kara smiled at him and nodded before following after him the others following behind.
Kara sat on the floor with April leaning against her, her arm around April to keep her from moving around too much. She began to slowly close her eyes nodding off but when they'd hit a small bump her head would jolt up and wake herself up.
Raph glanced their way noticing Kara's nodding off and nudged Donnie to look at them. He got up and walked to the front telling Leo to stop around the corner. When Leo saw his expression he nodded and did so.
"Donnie and I will take the girls back to Kara's place ourselves...when Kara and I were rescuing April Kara got tased twice by the kraang.." Raph said looking away remembering the hole ordeal as clear as day.
The guys looked over at Kara who now gave into the sleep leaning against April.
"Those things are strong enough to take down Leatherhead and she managed to stay up this long? Being hit twice?!" Mikey said full of surprise.
"Alright, we'll meet you back at the lair then. Her place isn't too far from here." Leo said to them while Donnie lifted Kara up bridal style and Raph placed April on his back and they both jumped to the roofs, running back to Kara's place.
"Why did I not notice it before? I'm her boyfriend! I'm suppose to look after her.." Donnie looked down at her in sadness noticing her stirring in her sleep. "I'll save you April.." She mumbled in her sleep reaching her hand out to grab something. "I won't..lose my best friend.." She said softly her hand clenched as if she was holding something in her hand.
Donnie held her closer to him and soon they made it to her balcony. They climbed inside and looked around seeing her tutor was gone and Raph went to place April on the couch.
"Wait, I think they should be in the same room..in case one of them has a nightmare." Raph nodded and they both went into Kara's room placing both of them on each side of the bed. Donnie bent down kissing Kara softly and stroked her head making her smile in her sleep before they left them there for the night.
Wooo! Finished with this chapter a lot earlier than normal! Haha, I feel proud of myself x3 Hope everyone enjoys it! Oh, and if you got a notification about a "36th chapter" Please ignore it this is the real one! I'm still figuring this website out lol. Anyways, please rate/comment! All feedback is appreciated :D Oh, and a shout out to Nellie thank you for the comment, you're awesome n.n