A.N: Since I totally forgot to update last week (i got Animal Crossing, i'm so sorry folks XD ), i'd thought i'd make this chapter change POV every now and then. I think it's been a good while since we heard from the turtles right?

I don't own TMNT

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CHAPTER 29

"We need a better distraction," Leo said to Mikey as they watched Anton and Steranko, now dubbed by Mikey as Beebop and Rocksteady, fight between each other over a stolen can of retro-mutagen. Sure they could try and rescue their friends and brothers now but Shredder's new henchmen would see.

Well, just to his luck, they got a distraction. There was a loud roar and Leo and Mikey from their hiding spot between two snack shacks. They saw Fillien and Karai charging towards the pig and rhino. Karai slithered ahead, jumping in between the turtles and the new mutants. Beebop and Rocksteady stopped fighting and turned their heads to her just as the snake girl spit out some gooey venom.

A direct hit, it splattered all over Rocksteady's eyes. He yelled out as soon as he felt the stinging effect and on instinct put his hands over his eyes. He dropped the canister spray and ended up stepping on it too. Beebop stepped back, thankful he hadn't been a target until Karai started coming towards him. He raised a three-fingered hand and shot two purple shock beams towards her. She slithered around quickly, missing each one.

Rocksteady recovered quickly, managing to rub off the venom from his eyes before it could blind him. But that's when Fillien attacked. She jumped right into him, claws extended so that she landed on his shoulders and used her front paws to grip him from the back of the neck. Then she bit into the back of his skull. Now Rocksteady had to try and pry the cat off, doing his best try and get his horn to pierce her belly. No such luck.

Leo and Mikey stepped out of hiding, watching the two girls take on the two mutants. Mikey even raised a fisted hand and yelled, "Yeah! Go Karai! Go Fillien!"

Karai, feeling a little bit more empowered by Mikey's call, tried to switch things up and jump towards Beebop. She aimed high to come down low with jaws wide open. "AH!" he yelped every time she jumped for him, continuously doing his best to keep himself from getting bitten. But then decided to turn the tide. Putting on a brave face he started running towards her with his hands constantly shooting beams of light.

Karai was a bit surprised but decided to take advantage of it. She lured Beebop into the Funhouse. "Come here!" the pigman yelled as he chased after her. They disappeared into the attraction. "Get Back here, Snakey Snake!"

Fillien, on the other hand, decided to stay outside where she had the advantage. Fillien let go of Rocksteady and flew high. Then she swooped down low in an arc and scratch Rocksteady on the snout.

The rhino gave a roar of pain, stepping into position to face her as Fillien swooped back up in the air and came down for another hit. She maneuvered mid-flight to avoid a punch from him and nailed one of her own into his shoulder. As she flew back up again, she yelled out towards Leo, "What are you waiting for?!"

"Right, right!" he exclaimed, suddenly remembering what the problem was earlier. He and Mikey ran to the white van Beebop and Rocksteady came in. Opening the back doors, they found Donnie and April awake and wrapped up in Anton's glue-like ropes while Raph and Casey were coming to having been unconscious. "Leo!" April yelled.

Leo sighed in relief. Even though splitting up to find Karai ended up with everyone getting caught by the new mutants, they still remained unharmed. He helped cut his friends loose and then ushered them outside the van where Mikey had stayed watch. "What hit me?" Raph asked as he rubbed his head.

Remembering all too well how they got caught outside the movie theater, Casey answered, "It was that huge Rhino thing—RIGHT THERE!" Casey freaked out and pointed towards Rocksteady who was constantly getting hit from every angle by Fillien.

When the Rhino got a second to look in the turtle's direction, his eyes widened in realization. "Turtles? Free?" Steranko's blood began to boil. Nope, no way was he and Anton going back empty-handed. Shredder probably didn't want the turtles at the moment, but just because the metal man was his new boss didn't mean the rhino man didn't have his own priorities.

His black glass eye turned towards Fillien who was trying to get him from his blind spot. The back of his right shoulder. With his focus returned and his skill on point, Steranko reached out with a large hand extended to grab Fillien around the throat. The cat girl choked at the sudden catch as her body was forced to stop and then dangle over the ground.

She tried to flap her wings to get Steranko to let go. The rhino man quickly stopped her attempted escape by slamming her into the ground, back first and head hitting the concrete hard. She was stunned for a moment which gave Steranko time to lift her up and throw her into a stall on his left.

The turtles and their friends watched in horror as Fillien crashed into the wooden wall of the stall with splinters flying everywhere. "Hey! That's not nice!" Mikey yelled.

Steranko didn't care. He just planted his foot and leaned forward to give a mighty bull-like roar before charging horn first towards his enemy. Everyone hit the deck, moving left or right as Sternko plowed through empty air. The big mutant ended up getting his horn stuck into kiosk right by the van.

Donnie was the first to stand up beside Casey and April, looking first to where Fillien had been thrown into. From the hole in the wall of the stall, he could see her back feet sticking out telling him she was on the ground and not moving. This whole thing with Beebop and Rocksteady was getting out of control they had to end this now. Donnie's eyes turned to Leo who got up with Mikey and Raph. "What do we do, Leo?" He asked.

Leo didn't hesitate, "You three go after Karai in the Funhouse. Me, Raph, and Mikey will take Rocksteady."

Inside the stall that Fillien had been flung into, the cat girl was slowly waking up. Her throat hurt where she had been held and the pain in the back of her head felt like a migraine was starting. She didn't get up but did look out to the hole in the wall when a shadow poked in. "Fillien?" it said.

"Donnie?" Fillien almost gasped on recognizing the purple banded turtle's voice. She shook her head to get her baring but went right into asking. "Where's Karai?"

"In the funhouse still with Beebop. We're going in to help her, but are you ok?" Donnie asked with concern.

Fillien blinked when the shadow came into focus and she saw Donnie had Casey and April right behind him. She said, "I think so… at least I think I am. Unless Mikey didn't come up with Beebop as a mutant name and I'm hearing things now."

Donnie sighed in relief and stepped back from the hole. "Yeah, you're fine. Just stay put until you've fully recovered." then Donnie seemed to think before asking, "So why does Shredder want you?"

"Are you really asking that question now?" Fillien almost hissed, though more out of pain than anger.

April grabbed Donnie by the arm and said, "She's right, we got to help Karai."

If April hadn't grabbed him, Donnie would probably have persisted but he gave a small goofy smile and followed after April. Casey himself would have reacted to that little interaction but he was also distracted. He looked to Fillien who was slowly sitting up. When she noticed him staring, Fillien said, "Go on…"

He seemed to want to say something at first but then just decided to let it go and went after Donnie and April.

Inside the Funhouse, Karai had done the same thing she had with Mikey and Leo earlier and taken Anton through the mirror maze. Unlike the turtles though, the pig man's patience was very short. "Come out, scales! You can only hide for so long…" Anton yelled as he walked down along a corridor with one large mirror on either side of him.

That's when he heard a yell come from the previous room. Anton grumbled and said, "Got to get rid of these guys… again…"

From her hiding spot in some wooden beams supporting the ceiling, Karai poked out and looked down nervously as Anton left for the room with pop-ups. She maneuvered around so that she passed over the wall divider to look down and find Donatello, Casey, and April walk in, cautiously. What were they doing in here?

All of a sudden and invisible force hit Donnie and Casey and caused April to trip and fall. It followed with taunts and remarks from Anton who Karai couldn't find until she realized his suite gave him an invisible feature. Cheater. The snake girl's tongue stuck out several times as she quietly lowered herself down and slithers low to the floor. In the shadows, she herself could be invisible. And her tongue was her extra set of eyes.

She caught a strong scent going in Donnie's direction. The turtle was busy recovering from Anton's previous attack to suspect anything so it was Karai who jumped in to stop Anton. Casey and April watched as Karai got right behind where she knew Anton was and wrapped her tail around him. Then, with the strength to match Steranko's, Karai threw Anton into a couple of pop-ups before he crashed into a wall.

The invisible feature caused him to glitch in and out of sight of everyone so that they could see the pigman was laying upside down, back to the wall.

Donnie took his chance to say to Karai, "I owe you twice now. But you gotta get out of here. Fillien's outside."

Hearing her friend being mentioned concerned Karai. The snake girl nodded before slithering out, almost knocking into Casey who stepped back with a yelp. When Karai got out she looked around before spotting Fillien stumbling out of a hole in the wooden wall of a shed. Karai quickly went over to lend a hand by allowing the cat to lean on her side. "Thanks, you ok?"

Karai nodded before looking to the commotion coming from the roller coaster ahead. Mikey, Raph, and Leo had taken the fight against Steranko to the Comet. They used the rails and beams like a jungle gym and the cart itself as a weapon. "Clever…" Fillien said.

Suddenly from the wall of the funhouse, Anton burst through having been thrown into it from inside. He came to a full stop, covered in powder when his back hit the side of a gaming booth. This caused the girls to get spooked and make a break for another booth just on the other side of the wooden path. When they looked around the corner, Casey and Donnie were already back outside fighting Anton. April even got a few hits of her own with her tessan.

Fillien silently snickered and said, "Can you believe last year were fighting these guys… and they were so incompetent. Look at them now."

Karai nodded in agreement, smiling as she looked between the fight on the coaster and the one just in front of them. The turtles and their friends had really come a long way. Before a sad smile could appear though, Steranko getting hit by the coaster cart and getting sent flying distracted her. The two girls watched as he went high in the sky before he came down crashing right into his partner down below.

The impact immediately knocked them out. "Finally," Fillien hissed as she watched the turtles and their friends recover from the fight as they huddled up.

Then… "Karai! Come out! I know you're here. You don't have to be afraid anymore."

Hearing Leo yell made Karai cower behind the booth more, her head lowering to be eye level with Fillien. Fillien looked at her with determination. "I know it won't get rid of the trauma, but the retro-mutagen will turn you back into a human. Enough so that you won't harm them."

Karai looked away. She didn't have the heart to tell Fillien what was really on her mind. The only thing she could say… and what she was best at doing… was playing into a little white lie. "It's time…" Karai hissed.

"Yep, let's get this done," Fillien said happily a she turned around, not seeing the sad smile on Karai's face.


A.N: Sad stuff be coming, so hope you enjoyed the fight! Also added some more little moments and interactions to spice things up. If you will excuse me, now, i must tend to my cherry grove and catch butterflies ahahah. I'm KikaKatTIOI, peace out!