Kara sat on the other side of the dojo, watching Master Splinter train the guys on a lesson of knowing when an enemy will strike when they're not being seen.
She watched Donnie fail and smiled hearing him yell, "Aw, man!" before sitting back down. She covered her mouth to keep herself from laughing and making them lose concentration while Master Splinter moved to Mikey. "Maybe I should help train him on the side.." She thought to herself as Mikey failed as well. "Him too." Next it was Raph thinking he would pass she was immediately proven wrong when Master Splinter hit him on the head sooner than he did the other too. She grinned, covering her mouth once more to not distract them till it was finally Leo's turn; her expression serious.
Leo stared ahead, his eyes focused and his stature calm while Master Splinter raised the wooden sword. The world seemed to slow down in time for him to evade the sword, stepping to the side, then rolled out of the way. He smiled victoriously, pumping his arm. "Yes!"
She gently clapped her hands, smiling at him and turning to Raph when he began to talk to Master Splinter. "What is the point of this, anyways?"
"Evading a sword you cannot see demonstrates an ability to sense your enemy's intention."
"I already know my enemy's intention, Sensei, to take me down."
"Knowing that your enemy will strike is a given but sensing when he will strike means a difference between victory and defeat. Observe. Kara."
She looked up in time for him to walk behind her. She nodded her head and closed her eyes, feeling the eyes of the guys and Master Splinter on her. She breathed in deeply then let out a slow sigh, waiting patiently for him to strike. She slowly opened her eyes sensing the wooden sword coming down at her and moved to the left, evading the attack on her head. He kept swinging and she dodged with ease before lifting her arms up, catching the sword mid-swing and threw it out of his hands, across the room.
It landed in front of the guys all of them staring wide eyed, mouth hanging open, at what they just witnessed.
She stood and walked over to them, picking the sword up and gave them a playful wink while sticking her tongue out at them before handing the sword back to Master Splinter, bowing her head. He bowed back before looking at Raphael, "Now do you see?"
"Hai, Sensei." Was all Raph could say before they bowed their heads as Master Splinter leaves the room.
When he was gone the guys surrounded her, awe stuck on their face.
"That was amazing, dudette!"
"Yeah, that was incredible! How did you learn to do that?!"
She scratched her blushing cheek, laughing shyly at Mikey and Donnie. "Oh, well, fighting blind has its advantages. I could teach you guys sometime?" Mikey and Donnie nodded excitedly making her smile. "Besides, they don't call me Master Splinter's first student for nothing." She grinned proudly while sticking her tongue out at Leo, "But nice job though." She smiled at him before leaving with them to get some food.
She was munching on some Pizza Gyoza when her phone started ringing and saw Casey's ID and answered. "What's up, Casey?"
"I got some bad news. Turns out there's an undefeated champ in Georgia and has made a challenge to come here and fight you. I have the video they sent me and I'm on my way to your place."
"Alright, I'll see you soon." She hung up the phone and sighed. "Looks like duty calls. Gotta go. I'll tell you guys about it when I get back." She hugged the guys, kissing Donnie before leaving the lair, driving her scooter through the tunnels till she arrived at the hidden door, opening it with her own button Donnie made specially for her and left.
She took a quick shower and walked out just in time for Casey to walk in. He had a distraught look on his face which made her nervous but she left for her room to get dressed. She came out in her usual clothes seeing him putting the video on and sat down next to him as it played.
The crowds were going wild for a tall, bald man with a goatee. He was very muscular, go figure, and had a summer tan. She watched him mercilessly beat a man to his knees and glared, knowing what kind of fighter he was from the moment she looked at him: deadly and unpredictable.
After the fight, the guys walk up to the camera. "I've been hearing stories of this Blind Bandit being undefeated, but his reign is about to end. I'm coming for you!" He yelled, his face in the camera with a menacing grin on his face then shoved the recorder out of the way, leaving the arena.
She turned it off and leaned back getting a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach.
"What do you want to do about it?" Casey asked clearly nervous and worried for her.
"I want to set up a meeting. I want to see how he'll act in person before fighting him. If I feel I can face him then I will. If not, then I won't so no need to worry." She gave him a confident smile before standing up. "Get in contact with him and set up a meeting for tomorrow night at the abandoned warehouse near the dock. Don't want anyone interrupting." He nodded and took out his cellphone, typing in numbers before walking outside on the balcony to smoke.
The next night she was dressed as the Blind Bandit wearing a tight wife beater and baggy work out pants and boots. She had her head down and stood in the middle of the room with Casey next to her, a lit cigarette in his mouth. He looked up hearing doors being slammed opened and saw the guy with his manager and a woman that looked three to four years older than her. Casey described the people to her in a hush toned making her clench her fist at him mentioning her bruised arms and busted lip. "That must be his towel girl...she has a limp.." She whispered back to him before she cleared her throat as they stood before them.
"So, this is the undefeated Blind Bandit?! Ha! You look like you wouldn't last two minutes with me in the ring." He grinned, staring down at her and Casey.
His manager, a tall, slim man with long black hair and cunning brown eyes stared at them before walking forward holding out his arm as the girl gave him the suitcase.
"Before we settle this in the ring, I want to make a proposition for you; you see, not many of his opponents have...survived their fights and it breaks my heart." She frowned hearing the lies in his voice but let him continue. "Just so it doesn't happen again, I want to offer you double the money you would get for this fight to forfeit and leave in one piece." He said, opening the case to show the wads of cash in it. She walked up to him and took a wad before feeling it in her hands to make sure it was real. "It's real." She said to Casey, her voice disguised and deep before stepping back to him.
She knew these guys were trouble and shook her head. "Sorry, but I refuse, just as I refuse to fight you. I don't fight guys who enjoy beating people to death." She could sense the manager smirking and her body tensed hearing the impact of a slap and the girl crying out in pain, the fighter having slapped her across the face in rage. She clenched her fists and took a step forward, the fighter noticing this, and grinned before slapping her again and again till finally Kara couldn't take it anymore.
Casey's eyes widened knowing they were trying to get her to fight them, and it was working. Kara stood in front of the girl, grabbing the fighter's hand mid-slap and clenched it tightly in her hand. "It is not wise to hit a lady in my presence." She said in a low, angry tone.
The fighter grinned and stepped back as she let go of his hand. "Then fight me."
"Fine."
Casey stepped beside Kara, placing his hand on her shoulder. "He'll fight you next week, Friday night. If he wins, you will never be allowed to fight here ever again."
"Oh, and if I win?" The fighter questioned with a grin.
"Then you can have my title and I'll disappear forever." She said.
"Oh, that won't be enough. I want you on your hands and knees showing everyone how great I am and begging for me to let you live."
She nodded her head. "Fine but if I win then I get to keep the girl." The fighter grinned and turned to leave not before showing his strength by punching a pillar, leaving a hole the size of his fist in it.
She saw the manager follow behind him and when they were gone she turned her head towards the girl, seeing her tremble in pain. Kara reached up and gently touched her bruised cheek causing the girl to flinch. "Sorry.." She said softly making the girl blush. With Casey's help she led the girl to his car to treat her cheek. While Casey was treating her she kept her head low, noticing the girl was putting more weight on one foot than the other, and without warning picked her up and set her down on the trunk making her yelp in surprise and blush deeply, she lifting up the pant leg and touched her ankle feeling it was swollen.
Casey looked down at Kara surprised she did that but saw the ankle. "Ah, looks like you twisted it.."
"I-it's ok, you don't need to do that."
"What's your name?" Kara asked while treating the injury the way Jessica taught her.
"Um...M-Mary.."
"That's a nice name." She said smiling softly at Mary making her blush more. "Um..if I may ask..why did you bet on me? You don't even know me."
Kara wasn't sure how to answer that for she reacted without thinking and just let her mouth run but she couldn't say that so she turned her head towards Casey for help, standing straight. Casey whipped out another cigarette, placing it between his lips, "He doesn't like seeing girls getting hurt. Specially one as cute as you."
She could feel Casey smiling at her and gave him a sigh of relief, smiling in thanks.
"W-Well..I better get going...thank you for helping me." Casey helped her down and she was surprised to feel her ankle not hurting as much as before and gave Kara a hug, Kara able to feel Mary's heart racing faster with the contact and shook Casey's hand before leaving.
Casey looked down at Kara with a raised brow making her turn her head to him. "What?...too much?" She asked making Casey laugh, "Come on, loverboy, we better start training now."
"Loverboy? What's that supposed to mean?! Casey!" She yelled running to catch up to him.
Five hours after training Kara was walking home still dressed as Blind Bandit but wore an oversized jacket with the hood over her face to hide her features. She felt exhausted and it showed in the way she walked, yawning loudly till she heard a sound that wasn't normal even for New York. Following the sound around a corner she saw the guys and the other two mutants, Fishface and DogPound, on their hands and knees looking just as exhausted as she felt.
"The truce...is over." She heard Fishface say while Dogpound stood up. "Lets...finish this."
Knowing they didn't know who she was, mainly out of forgetfulness, she decided to have a little fun and calmly walked up to them, pulling the hood off her head and grinned, "Guys need any help?" She asked, her voice disguised. "Sound like you've been through a hard obstacle course."
The turtles gasped, thinking they were caught but when they saw the bandages they sighed in relief only to immediately jump as Fishface began speaking. "The Blind Bandit! It's really you! I'm your biggest fan." He said coolly but she could hear the excitement in his voice and chuckled.
"It's a pleasure meeting fans like you."
"Oh, forget it. Next time." She heard Dogpound say before leaving. Fishface looked at her before turning to leave beside him. She glanced down over at the turtles and leaned over to help Michelangelo off the ground. "Thanks man." He said smiling before yawning and walk away with his brothers.
She turned to leave but heard them speaking and decided to listen in. "You know, Raph. You and Fishface made a pretty good team back there."
"He's still our enemy, Mikey. He'll take us out the first chance he gets." Just as he said that she saw Fishface throw a ball at Leo but grinned seeing Raph stab the ball before it could hit Leo and nodded. "Good job Raph." She smiled before turning to leave.