A.N: Done with finals and feeling pumped! I don't know why just…
Amyanime4: she's like a fortune teller, whatever she says happens.
Kame Otaku: Oh no! *tried to reach through the screen to help* It's ok, better safe then sory on age restrictions. Wow! Thank you so much :). Thumbs up on the metaphors ahah. OMG, everyone online nick names me kitkat for that reason. I'm used to it now lol.
Ericaphoenix16: a lot of fighting, but a lot of new backstory. I try to balance it out.
Beawolf's Pen: badass entrance in and then knock out! Haha, poor filly. I think we need more Steranko season 3 so in the mean time I give my own side of it. I see what you did there, with the ship….
I don't own TMNT
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CHAPTER 53
Fillien paced back and forth on the wooden dock of the wharf. It had been a while since Karai had jumped into the ocean to find Shredder and Fillien was getting agitated. She had seen the turtles leave the Warf a few moments ago, but instinct told Fillien not to pursue them and wait for Karai.
As Fillien was thinking of flying over the water to find them, the sound of someone gasping for air was heard from a few yards away in the water. Fillien smiled and spotted Karai's head over the waves of the water. She had Shredder with her hanging limp, and Fillien guessed she had trouble keeping him up by how heavy he was. "Fillien!" Karai yelled. "Get me rope or something and throw it here."
"And then I'll pull you." Fillien told her, getting her idea. Fillien found some strong lines coiled by the shed and flew one end over to Karai. She dropped it in the water next to the kunoichi and Karai grabbed it. Fillien landed back on the shore and grabbed the other end of the rope by her teeth. She pulled back and tugged on the line so that Karai was pulled in to the wharf with Shredder in tow.
Once Fillien pulled them close enough to the shore, she and Karai both helped Shredder out of the water to kneel on the dock and catch his breath. Karai and Fillien staid by his side and waited until he was done and when he was, he looked up to them and said, "Well done, Karai. As well as you Ms. Lefevre." Fillien bowed her head for the acknowledgement. Then he looked at Karai again and said, "I found something for you." He held up something pink, slimy, and familiar in his hand. Fillien backed up and hissed at seeing a Kraang alien held up by its slimy tentacles. Karai smiled wickedly. Maybe her father was actually going to take her seriously after all. "You always wanted a pet." Ok, well a little bit more serious than before but it's an improvement. The Kraang gave a screech, trying to wiggle its way out of Shredder's grasp.
The sound of tires against pavement was heard and they looked back to see the red Cadillac speeding off to wherever. "Steranko is getting away." Fillien yelled and attempted to turn after him.
"Let him go." Shredder said, getting up from kneeling. Fillien halted and turned around confused. "He is of no use to us for now. We have what we need." Shredder ordered Karai and Fillien to wake up the unconscious Foot Clanners and to get them to load up the van with the crates of missiles.
After about thirty minutes of moving their cargo around, Fillien and Karai worked together to move the last of the shipment to the truck. Together they pushed against a wooden box full of newly melted swords. Karai pushed with her arms and Fillien used her head. As they hauled it, Fillien began to say, "Whelp that all just happened. The turtles, including Leo did exactly what I warned you about." Karai got angry and stepped on Fillien's right back paw with the heal of her shoe. "OW!" Fillien yelped and stepped back. "What the hell was that?"
"For you talking."
"Right, because you didn't heed my warning, is that what you're angry about?"
Karai ignored the fact that Fillien stopped pushing on the crate and she continued to do it herself. Karai muttered, "Shut up."
"No, Karai, I'm not."
"You better listen or I'll use the second in command role on you again."
"Go ahead, I don't care. I just want to you to realize your mistake."
"This wasn't me!" Karai yelled, having stopped pushing on the crate. She turned around to Fillien and said, "This wasn't my fault, ok, it was Leo. He and his stupid brothers did this, so stop blaming me."
"Well, would they have attacked if you hadn't told them that the meet up was going to be here?"
"But it was their choice to attack-"
"And it was your choice to side with them-"
"Stop blaming me-"
"Well you are the only one to blame here-"
Karai became furious at the bounds Fillien was over stepping and marched up to her, "Who gave you the right to talk to me like that-"
"Maybe as a soldier I should give you some pointers on how to do your job correctly because you don't seem to have your head in the right place-"
"I'm perfectly fine-"
"Not from where I was-"
"I don't care about your point-"
"You only care about Leo's-"
"No I don't-"
"But you did-"
Karai growled at Fillien interrupting her all the time. "Before all this I trusted him, yeah-"
"Why?"
"Why? I don't know I just did-"
"You trusted him and not me-"
"It's not that-"
"I don't understand-"
Karai didn't understand either, especially since she knew the answer already, and was confused when she told Leonardo earlier. Karai still couldn't believe she called him the ….F word to put it for now. "I don't either, now just shut up-"
"Tell me-"
"No."
"Just tell me, you have to-"
Now Karai just hit breaking point, "Because I thought he was my friend ok that's why!"
Fillien's jaw dropped to the floor. Karai thought Leonardo was her…. What? "You…. You think…." Fillien stepped back and tried to catch her breath at the impact of this news. It hurt Fillien so much that someone she had known longer than the turtles trusted them over her and she felt everything she had done for Karai had been forgotten so easily, like if it meant nothing.
Karai continued arguing, "I know yesterday I was about to call him my friend but I denied it, now I don't. Yes, I thought he was my friends. Now are you satisfied?"
"No, just disappointed." Fillien said darkly.
"You know you're starting to sound like my father." Karai turned around and went back to pushing on the crate.
"Good at least one of us does."
Karai was practically steaming out of her ears at this point. She turned back to Fillien and said, "Look, you think you can just tell me how to run my life. You don't even know how everything that's happened in my life affects me and my actions."
"I would understand it if you would just tell me what's bothering you." Fillien said earnestly.
Karai went back to pushing the crate. "Forget it!"
"Fine!" Fillien left to go find the next crate of weapons to move
The ride back to the Hideout was so quiet; everyone in the van would probably be able to hear a pin drop. Getting to the hideout Karai didn't stay behind for the unloading of the weapons. She went straight to her private dojo to vent out her anger. She took it out on a wooden post with wooden arms, using eskrima sticks as her weapon. As she let out her frustration, Karai's thoughts went to earlier today. What was Fillien thinking of challenging Karai like that? Not trusting her actions and not helping her cause. Some friend Fillien was- No she was not Karai's friend. In the middle of that thought, she hit one of the wooden arms of the post so hard it broke in half. Karai growled and dropped her eskrima sticks out of pure frustration. "I keep telling him to get me metal ones…" Karai sat down at a stool in the corner and went back to thinking. She felt like she couldn't have friends, but allies were key to victory. Where did she have them? Who could she trust? Certainly not the turtles and Fillien was a pain in the ass now. Everyone else in the Foot was just there. Including Bradford and Xever, every one of them were idiots. The only person she understood that she could rely on was Shredder.
A few days later, Fillien was with Pete flying through the air as the full moon rose above them. Pete was teaching Fillien how to go backwards. He explained, "It's like when you do your little shoot down towards the ground and then at the last minute let your wings open. The wind pushes up against your wings, right? Same with going horizontal. You're flying so fast, right, and then last minute you let your whole body go forward and open your wings. You come straight to a halt." Pete showed her by flying around her and then once he gained speed he opened his wings out to let the wind push against the little feather he had left for wings. He stopped. "Ok now you."
Fillien, with a determined look, flew around Pete and did the same thing once she gained speed. When she stopped, Pete commented with, "Wow, you got that on the first try. Ok, now we fly backwards. You're back has to be facing to where you want to go. Let's just go straight for now. The next step is to flap your wings, like your pushing against the wind with your wings. Make sure it's back and forth, not up and down or you just go up." Pete showed it to her and Fillien quickly followed, doing it exactly like him. "You're unusually on the mark today for lessons."
"I guess I'm just getting better." Was all Fillien said as she continued flying backwards with him.
"And she speaks!" Pete cried out happily. "You've been quiet since we started the lesson. Anything you want to talk about?"
"No."
"Ok." The pigeon man had them both stop and land on a roof below. "So we're done with our lesson so-"
"What?" Fillien asked shocked, "But we've only been at this for thirty minutes."
"I'm running out of stuff to teach you, Fillien." Pete told her. "Really, most of the stuff now it's just technique you can learn on your own. It takes me forever to come up with a lesson for you. The lessons would probably be longer though if you were a bit chattier. Then again, when you're hyper we usually don't get much done so I guess this is a good thing, right?"
Fillien sat down on her hind legs and said to him, "Me being pissed at Karai is a good thing?"
"Oh boy, what did your weird friend do now?" The pigeon man asked not sounding surprised
Fillien scuffed and turned a little bit the other way. "She's not weird, she's just stubborn. And she's not my friend."
"Ooooo…. That bad?"
Fillien just nodded. "I've tried helping, but I guess I'm better at not helping."
Pete walked up to Fillien and patted her on the shoulder. "Friendships go through hardships. I don't know where the quote's from but I'm pretty sure if it rhymes, then it is important."
Fillien chuckled and looked at Pete. "Thanks. I'll take note."
There was the sound of something mechanical-like moving by the street next to the building Pete and Fillien were on. The two mutants looked over the edge to inspect that it happened to be an alley and the mechanical sound was coming from a bunch of Kraang dressed in their blue coating that they wore over their silver walking mechs. There were five of them and they were walking into a white van with the TCRI logo on it. "It's Kraang…" Pete said fearfully as he backed up from the edge. "We need to go."
"Why?" Fillien asked him as she began to wonder about the Kraangs motives for being here.
"You know how I told you how I became a mutant, because of those guys."
"I know."
"You know how much I need to stay away from them."
"Well, I understand if you need to fly off, but me… I almost forgot I had homework for the Shredder."
"What do you mean?"
Fillien didn't answer but she slowly lifted her wings. Using her cat-like eye sight, Fillien eyed the last droid about to go into the van from the passenger side. Fillien darted down to the alley and towards her target Kraang. With one quick swoop, she grabbed the Kraang, holding it up using both her claws to dig into the metal. Fillien brought it back up on the roof and pinned the robot down on the ground to keep it from going anywhere. The Kraang droid began to try and punch his way out but Fillien was quicker to think. Using her teeth, she began to rip off the robot's arms and legs so it wouldn't try hitting and kicking his way out of this battle. Pete watched stunned at the actions Fillien took against this Kraang. Once Fillien was done immobilizing it, the Kraang alien in the chest area screeched and climbed out of its little compartment. It gave out a screech to Fillien but the cat girl was not afraid and she roared at it. The Kraang became frightened and crawled off its transport, scurrying away off the edge roof and down to where his fellow Kraang were.
"What was that about?" Pete asked, still staying far away from what was left of the Kraang droid under Fillien's grasp. "I know I said I didn't like them but you didn't have to go all feral on it for me."
"Well, not all of this was for you, actually. I said I was tasked by Shredder to do something and I don't want to come back empty handed. I need to bring this to him so that our captured Kraang alien can tell us a few things."
"You captured a Kraang alien? Why?"
"Like I said, we need to know things. Who knows, we may find ways of turning ourselves back into humans… and pigeons."
"I would be careful with them. They're not so trusting." Pete finished the last part, scowling at the lifeless Kraang droid.
A.N: bad memories for Pete, and that's one way to take out your anger. Destroy a kraang droid. Not much knew with the whole Karai saving Shredder from drowning except for Fillien's addition. And Fillien's addition puts even stronger tension between the girls, making them yell at each other and for them to make a Lion King reference. Good thing Pete's a good listener or it could be worse for Filly. It already is bad for Karai because the only person she confines with now is Shredder. Whelp, next is Karai's Vendetta, yeah, that episode. I'm KikaKatTIOI, peace out!
