Kara stared down into her apartment from her roof listening to her parents arguing about everything they had witnessed and experienced. "Well..the cat's out of the bag." She sighed softly hugging her knees to her chest. "They'll probably want me to move back to Michigan with my aunt.." She buried her face in her knees not bothering to look up when she heard a soft thud behind her.

Feeling something on her shoulder she glanced over and saw a green hand. Lifting her head up to see who it was, saw it was Donnie with a soft smile but worry in his eyes the others behind him.

"Hey, guys." She said with a warm smile. They all sat around her, Kara leaning against Donnie's shoulder. "So..h-how are your parents taking it?" Donnie asked while putting his arm around her. "Well..." She glanced down at her balcony and sighed. "Not too thrilled I suppose. I'm sure once they calm down and think straight they'll warm up to you guys. Some way to end the year, huh?" She gives a weak laugh but stopped when none of the others responded.

"It's ok, Kara, we know we're different..nothing is going to change that." Leo said softly to her.

"We're mutants. We always will be." Mikey said next.

Kara looked at them all and sighed softly placing her head back on Donnie's shoulder.

When the silence was too much for her she began thinking out loud."..Remember when we first met?"

Wait, she shook her head and stared in shock at what was next to her. "A turtle?!" She shouted making him glance her way and give her an annoyed look. "Great.." He took out his sais seeing the guy was advancing and charged while yelling a battle cry.

After a few minutes she squatted down, watching them all leaving to a different room and took this opportunity. She slammed the large, garage looking door open and bolted out of there, running for the exit. Raphael noticed this and glared, already angry and ran after her jumping to tackle her down but she reacted first, jumping up and over him using his shell to leap for the exit.

She smiled, almost over the railings that looked like the ones they used for the trains. Not hearing the "Don't let her get away!" for she was too excited about leaving it behind she didn't feel the chain wrap around her, capturing her arms til it was too late. She looked down, gasping as she was pulled back and fell to the floor on her side, by their feet. "Ngh, hey! Let me go! I know my rights as a U.S Citizen!"

They all chuckled, Raph grinning. "Heh, you were as stubborn as a mule."

Kara laughed and sat up, pointing at him. "Me? Haha, takes one to know one Raphie boy." Both of them were grinning at each other, she remembering the time not only his stubbornness got them into some trouble but his temper as well.

Raph began talking, his body tense and his hands clenched as he tried to keep his anger in. "We're not gonna hurt you." He said, his voice strained and his face twitching.

"Then what do you want, freak?" She glared at the man not liking his attitude. "We got off on the wrong foot last night. Somethings were said and well. We would just like that video back." He gave a weak smile as well as his other brothers. The man gave him a look of 'I'm not buying it' which made Leo nudge Raph who looked away. "Please?"

"I'll make it worth your while." Raph began with a grin. "I won't take your head and smash it" Before he could finish Leo grabbed his arm while she giggled behind them.

"So the truth comes out." Donnie started as she walked out and looked at the brothers. "You guys think of us as some sort of..'B-Team'." "Heh, good one Doctor Namenstein." Raph said with a smile, looking at them from his comic book. "Well call you the B-Team." "Thanks...wait..hey." Kara crossed her arms at Leo and Raph before walking up to them.

"Soo, you're the A-Team, right?"

Before they could answer Kara grabbed Leo by his shell and lifted him off his feet and threw him over her shoulder before doing a run jump over Raph and grabbing him by his shell as well and tossing him into the wall, landing perfectly on her feet.

"I must be the Solo A+er."

"But we had some good times though!" Mikey said with a wide smile on his face. Kara laughed and nodded in agreement.

"And now the kid goes for the world record! Where he will attempt to jump three mutant turtles!" She held in her laughter over hearing Raph say "I can't believe he talked us into this." "Well, you're pretty easy to persuade, specially when you're full." She noted, pointing at all the pizza boxes. He gave her a scowl but looked up hearing Mikey yell, "BOOYAKASHA!"

"See, this is the problem with girls. They always take forever." Raph grumbled just as she stepped out.

"Now what's that suppose to mean?" She said with her hands on her hips wearing a two piece black bikini with an embedded diamond star above her left breast and waist. She had her cap off and wearing swimming goggles that she pulled over her head keeping her bangs from covering her eyes.

The guys eyes popped out of their sockets and she saw blood spurt out from their noses, except for Mikey's, making her jump back in surprise.

She was watching Mikey who picked up the mask and put it over his face. "Woah. How do the Kraang know you sent your DNA spit to the worldwide thingamajig project?" Mikey asked and when Raph turned to answer he jumped, yelling in surprise seeing the mask. Kara laughed at Raph but winced when he smacked Mikey making the mask fly off.

Her laugh slowed to a quiet chuckle before her smile disappeared all together. "Of course..there were some bad times.."

"I won't let you hurt them anymore!" She yelled and began to fight him off using his surprise to her advantage punching his chest plate making dents in it with her gloves as he stumbles backwards before retaliating with his own attacks.

She ducked, dodged and stepped back but not without getting a couple hits from him but she didn't let that slow her down as she used her taser every chance she got.

He yelled in anger and punched her in the gut but not without releasing his knives into her as they stabbed through her stomach. Her eyes widened, feeling the pain as he lifted her off the ground. She couldn't make a sound, the voice lost at the shock of what had happened.

The guys yelled out her name as they rushed towards Shredder, screaming their battlecries. She slowly reached into her pocket, taking out the pepperspray and used it on him making him yell in pain before throwing her to the ground. The guys heard a disturbing crack as she landed on her side motionless.

Placing a hand over her stomach she looked up at the others knowing they were all thinking the same thing and other stuff.

"Leatherhead! Something else is coming through!"

"Not if I can help it." He grabbed Rocky and started walking towards the portal. Kara's eyes widen as she took a step forward. "Farewell, my friends." He said just as he walked through it.

"No!" Kara shouted running towards the portal only to have Raph hold her back.

"Leatherhead!" Kara and Mikey shouted together just as the portal closed and a shockwave came, throwing them back. She slowly stands up looking at the spot where he was.

Raph crossed his arms over his chest, not believing what she was saying and took a large step towards her, grabbing her hand and pulling her into the light. "Just tell us what's wrong already!"

He immediately let her go as everyone saw what horrible state she was in, april covering her mouth with her hands. She was lucky to still be up and walking. Her mouth turned in a weak smile as her eyes started getting heavy. "Heh..told you I...was...a mess..." She said softly before fainting. Donnie caught her in his arms and had the others help her into his lab so he could get to treating her. Luckily he was able to give her the medical attention she needed as he began working. At least she wasn't in any serious danger of losing her life but she was beaten pretty badly. "Don't worry, Kara. I'll take care of you."

"Watch out, Kara! Donnie's been bit-!" Before he could finish his sentence she felt a pair of arms, one wrapping around her waist and the other tilting her head to the side feeling teeth bite down into her exposed neck.

Her eyes widened, sweat sliding down the side of her face as she felt the teeth bit down harder each second they stood there, her body not responding to her screaming glanced down looking into Donnie's blackened eyes seeing nothing but darkness and knew that soon that would be her fate.

She squeezed her eyes shut, letting her instincts take control over her as she let out a scream and slammed her elbow into his face, knocking him down. She clenched the bite mark seeing it wasn't like the others, hers was red and it had blue veins surrounding that mark as it slowly began to enlarge, the virus slowly making its way down her arm and up her neck.

She leaned backwards looking over the city noticing the countdown ball was raised and lit up. "Some year, huh?" She smiled softly looking down at her watch. "eleven forty five. Fifteen minutes til midnight." She heard a bang and looked up to see fireworks lighting up in the sky all of them in awe at its beauty.

"Heh, despite the invasion happening people still have time to party." Raph said while getting comfortable as well.

"It's probably their way of forgetting the whole ordeal, starting fresh." Kara said to Raph watching the fireworks.

"You know...you could start fresh..we live dangerous lives..its cause of us you keep running into trouble." Donnie looked down sadly loosening his arm around her making her blink in surprise at what he was saying. "..What are you trying to say, Donnie?"

"I mean, you could forget about us..go about your daily life like a human..safely."

She crossed her arms and glared at him "If you're saying what I think you're saying then you better not. You guys have been the BEST thing to happen in my life!"

"But when you're around us you're vulnerable to many dangers." Donnie said voice full of concern with a slight hint of annoyance at her stubbornness.

"This is New York! It's not the safest place I can be but I'm not some weak little girl. I've been able to fend for myself ever since I met you guys." She continued speaking, now standing up, when she saw him open his mouth to say something. "I'm strong, even stronger than you all combined."

She glanced to her left seeing Raphael coming out from his room and stood in place, surprised to see someone found the lair. "An intruder!" He yelled before charging at her. She blinked in surprise but grinned remembering she hadn't told him of her 'other identity' and thought she'd have some fun with this.

She dodged his attack just as the others ran out, hearing their brother yell and saw him attacking a man. "How did he find this place!?" Leo asked a loud before charging forward to help his brother but before he could she threw Raph at him causing them to fall backwards.

"BOOYAKASHA!" She heard behind her, hearing the swirling of Mikey's nunchucks and jumped to the side before kicking him on top of his other two brothers making them groan at his added weight. She didn't kick him hard enough to hurt him but still, it was defense.

Lastly, it was Donnie's turn. He took out his Bo Staff and she grinned, holding her hand out waving for him to come get her and he charged, holding his staff above his head to strike down. She reached up, grabbing it with one hand before pulling it from his grasp, tossing it to the side, and did a spin kick to his side, knocking him to the ground and pinned him there.

She noticed despite the times she had made contact with him that he was unscathed. None of her attacks seemed to effect him and she glared knowing she was going easy on him. "I can't hesitate...he is no longer Master Splinter...not while he's here.." She took a quick glance over at the Rat King before breathing in deeply and letting out a slow sigh. She flexed her fingers, clenching them tightly into a fist and waited for him to strike.

As soon as he charged she closed her eyes, letting her other senses take over and "saw" him getting closer. She took a step to the side, dodging his punch and leaned back as she sensed his leg rising for a kick and did a back flip sending him flying with an upper kick. She stood back on her feet and charged as he stumbled back, punching and evading whenever she sensed his attack coming. "I have grown Master...despite your sudden disappearance I never stopped training..I wanted to make you proud because no matter what I will always be a student of Hamato Yoshi!" She snapped her eyes open and punched him across the face, sending him flying into a wall.

"Look, there's always going to be danger around every corner with every adventure we take but..it's exciting. You guys have shown me a lot of new, different, and exciting things. My life would be boring with out you..I love you guys." She looked at them smiling softly and before she knew it they were all hugging her. She smiled more putting her arms around them all.

Hearing a sudden shout she looked down at her watch. "Oh! They're beginning the countdown! Come on, let's get a closer look!" She smiled excitedly all of them jumping off the rooftop towards the tower whooping and hollering.

Kara's Mother and Father were out on the balcony about to bring her inside when they heard her talking to the mutants. Hearing every word they both looked at each other. After hearing that, what do you think, dear?" Her father asked his wife pulling her into an embrace.

"Oh, hun..I dunno..It's clear she enjoys life here and really loves her..friends. She's growing into such an independent woman."

"I think you and I know what we must do." He smiled softly giving his wife a kiss. She nodded in agreement returning his kiss and looked out the balcony watching the ball slowly reach the bottom changing the lit up numbers from twenty twelve(2012) to twenty thirteen(2013).

"HAPPY NEW YEAR!" Kara shouted happily at the top of her lungs while throwing her fists in the air and bringing Donnie into a New Year kiss.

Donnie's face exploded into every shade of red possible, smiling goofily, and returned the kiss wrapping his arms around her and dipping her backwards a little.

They guys laughed and hollered at the start of the new year and new possibilities.

"Ohh, this is gonna be an awesome year." She said in her mind getting weak ankled from Donnie's kiss.


This has been the shortest chapter I have done and honestly, I liked it! Considering I wrote it TODAY I think I did a pretty good job. I hope you all have a Happy New Year and enjoy this chapter. I shall resume my original story soon, I promise :) Please rate/comment all feedback is appreciated! :D