Kara hugged her parents tightly wishing they could spend more time together. "I wish you could stay longer.." Kara said as she let them go. Her mother sniffed softly, dabbing away her tears with a tissue. "Oh, sweetie, I wish we could as well but I have to leave now for Italy to make it to my fashion show in time."
"Yeah, and I have a recording session in California. We'll make plans the next time, the four of us..speaking of four though..where is Sara?" Kara pouted, crossing her arms. "Her manager called her for a meeting..must of been important.." She sighed, looking disappointed but her father smiles and kisses the top of her head. "I know she'll make it up to you. It's not like her to leave without a goodbye though." Her father said in thought while tapping his chin. Kara shrugged and did her best to smile. "Can't wait to see you next time."
"Now, honey...are you sure you'll be ok?" Her mother asked, grabbing her daughter's hands and holding them between hers. "Mom, I'll be fine. Trust me and the guys..I'm with Master Yoshi and his sons. They won't let anything happen to me, I promise." Kara gave her mother a reassuring smile. Her mother sighed softly but smiled and hugged her once more. "Oh, you've grown so independent and beautiful..I'm so proud of you." She kissed her cheeks before waving bye to her as they both left, their body guards waiting outside for them.
Kara watched them leave and sighed softly. The past week was draining physically and emotionally. Kara walked out to her balcony and watched them enter their vehicle and leave for the airport. She waved bye to the car as her mind wandered to the adventures she had. The invasion plan, saving the world, her parents and sister finding out about the guys and Master Splinter, and her sister getting hit by mutagen and turning into a smoke girl! Kara walks into her room and grabbed some clothes before heading to her bathroom to shower and get ready to meet the guys and her sister. That's right, Sara is still with the guys.
She had to lie to her parents or else they would of freaked out if they saw what she is now. It'd be best to leave them out of it. Her parents are already stressed with their jobs and the kidnapping.."I don't need to get them involved anymore than they already are.." She said to herself as she stands under the hot water, letting the steam calm her mind.
After showering and changing she grabbed everything she needed and texted her sister that she was heading to the lair and left.
She was driving through the streets, picking up a couple of pizza on the way and noticed a homeless man screaming at something. She stopped her scooter and got off, walking over to man and noticed a squirrel. "Aw, how cute." She smiled and walked over to the squirrel. "Don't worry sir, it's not going to hurt you." She smiled and reached her hand out to it just as the guys round the corner and the homeless man yells something she couldn't make out.
She turned her head towards him wondering what he was saying but jumped back in surprise as the squirrel screams, it's mouth opening three ways and rolling its tongue everywhere before it jumped onto her arm. She waved her arm to get it off as it started running up her arm getting closer to her face. "Hey, what the! Get oooo" The squirrel climbed into her mouth and she could feel it sliding down her throat and into her stomach before she stumbled backwards, onto her butt and stared at the guys who were huddled together staring at her in shock, hearing Mikey speak. "Now can I scream in horror?"
"Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh! What the heck is inside of me!" Kara shouted looking at the guys in a panic as they head back to the Shellraiser after knocking out the homeless guy.
"Dudes, this is a terrible idea. This is exactly how the alien got onto the ship in my comic book" "Don't compare this to a comic book! I'm already freaking out as it is!" Kara shouted, shaking Mikey violently before tossing him aside her eyes darting in every direction. "Maybe Mikey's right." Raph started, making everyone stop what they were doing and look at him. "What?" "I mean the comic book thing is totally crazy but I can think of a million other reasons why its a bad idea to bring Kara back to the lair with that thing inside her, starting with Splinter."
Before anyone could say anything Kara walked up to him, pointing and poking at his cheek. "Listen here, buddy! I don't know what's going on but that..THING crawled inside my mouth and is now in my stomach. If you leave me here by myself I will find your worst nightmare and bring it to life! And I know what it is." She grinned evily at him making him take a step back as Donnie places his hand on her shoulder to calm her down.
"Raph, that squirrel was clearly a mutant creature which means this is our fault."
"And our responsibility to fix it." Leo adds in taking Kara's hand and helping her inside the Shellraiser. She looks back at Raph and sticks her tongue out at him. "Besides, Master Splinter likes Kara. I seriously doubt he wouldn't do anything not to help her."
"Or let's not tell him all together. The less he knows the better!" She said nervously as they drive off back to the lair.
"Wait!" She shouts causing Leo to slam on the breaks and everyone jolt forward. "Whoa! I think just got shell-lashed." Raph said a loud just as Kara stands up. "I can't leave my scooter someone might steal it!"
"Then drive it to the lair." Raph said with his arms crossed. "I won't be able to focus on the road, I'm too freaked out." She pouted making Donnie put his arm around her. "Don't worry, we'll come back for it. I promise."
"But..the pizzas gonna get cold.." "I'll drive it!" Mikey shouts, holding his hand up excitedly.
She looks to Raph with pleading eyes for him to drive it but he looks away before she could give him the puppy eyes and pouts before sighing in defeat and handing the keys to Mikey. "Don't. Scratch. It" She said sternly before he jumps out and runs to her scooter. "Don't eat all the pizza either!" She shouted before Leo closed the door and drove off.
They walked inside the lair once Mikey returned and was carrying the pizza boxes just as Master Splinter appeared from his bedroom. "Ah, my dear Kara, it is good to see you again. It has been awhile." He said with a smile and walked over to her placing his hand on her shoulder. She tensed up from his touch but gave him her best smile but the end of her mouth was twitching. "It's good to see you too, S-sensei I mean M-Master...hehe"
They stared at each other for a moment Master Splinter stroking his beard and Kara twitching under the pressure of his stare. "Is there something troubling you my dear?" "Massachusetts!" She blurted out before covering her mouth and running into Donnie's lab. The guys watch her leave before looking back at Master Splinter. Watching her leave he knew something was wrong and turned to his sons. "Tell me, what is going on?"
"Oh, you'll laugh your whiskers off when you here this one." Leo laughs nervously along with his brothers before Master Splinter slams the end of his walking stick to the ground making Leo stand at attention and giving in to explaining the situation
Kara looks around the lab and notices a smokey pod next to Tim's and tilted her head confused. "Donnie, what's in this?" "It's me, sis." Sara opened her eyes and they lifted up showing she was happy to see her. Kara turned to Donnie angrily and pointed at her sister. "What is she doing in there?! She's not some sort of science experiment! She's a human being!" Before Donnie could explain Sara interrupted her.
"Kara! Calm down. I volunteered to be in here. He said it was hard for him to study me because of my..form, heh. I noticed an empty pod so I asked him if it would be easier to have me in here. It's not so bad. I can come and go as I please, watch" She had asked Donnie to keep the door cracked opened and she was able to slither through the crack appearing as a cloud of smoke and the cloud manifested into Sara's figure, hovering her arms around her sister. "I missed you sister. How are mother and father?"
Kara sighed, pouting. "They had to leave early but I told them you left early as well for some band meeting. They said they love and miss you." Sara smiled and looked over at Mikey and Raph and waved to them. "Hey fellas." She noticed Mikey's face stuck in a comic book and she chuckled. "Well, I'm going to go meditate with your Master Splinter. Be careful."
Donnie helps Kara on his table by lifting her up and sitting her down making her blush deeply. "Um..thanks and..sorry for yelling at you."
She went to lay down but not without knocking some beakers off and breaking them. She flinches clearly being nervous but he gently stroked her cheek making her smile before he begins to examines her using a microscope to look at her eyes making her blush more at how long they were just staring at eachother before he shook his head and made her open her mouth to look inside.
She looked over at Raph and Mikey seeing he was still reading the comic book from earlier and overheard their conversation.
"Sooo wanna guess the first thing the crew did when they brought the guy back on the spaceship in my comic?" Mikey shows Raph the page where it has a doctor examining the guy with the alien inside and Kara started to get nervous.
"What? What does it show?"
"Calm down, Kara. Everything will be ok. Just relax." Donnie said with a reassuring smile and she took a deep breath to calm her nerves and smiled back at him just as he took out one of his homemade devices and hovered it above her. "Ok, I trust you." She looked back over to them and saw Raph throw the comic book down and smiled more.
"Great! Now it went from near mint to totally messed up!" She sat up noticing Leo walking into the room only to have Donnie lay her back down. "Ok, we're cool guys but let's try to fix this as soon as possible. Possibly before Master Splinters done meditating."
"Wow, it's so nice you're worried about me, Leo." She says her voice full of sarcasm. He smiles nervously while rubbing the back of his head. "Heh...anyways where are we at, Donnie?"
"Running an internal scan right now to see if...yup, still in there." She sat up and took a peek seeing there was not only one squirrel but two! "Oh no, I'm pregnant with mutant squirrel babies!" She gripped the sides of her head in panic while the guys looked at the computer screen.
"Whoa.." "Wait, does it have two heads?" Mikey said in surprise. She stared at Raph noticing he was eating popcorn nonchalantly and looked down feeling upset he didnt seem too worried about her. "Alright guys, if you need me I'll be beating Leo's high score in pinba-"
Raph jumped in surprise seeing Kara's body jolt. Her eyes widen as she placed her arms around herself, trembling in pain. "g-guys..." She whispers feeling it begining to move around in her stomach. Raph went to reach a hand out to her but jumped as she fell back on the table. Her body began jerking in every direction making her squeeze her eyes and have bursts of shouts in pain. "Guys!" Raph shouted but they were already around her worry plastered on their faces.
"Kara.." Donnie went to touch her but she quickly sat up, her cheeks puffing up before she puked up the two squirrels, some vomit coming out as well. Leo, Raph, and Mikey scream in surprise just staring at the squirrels before turning their attention back to Kara who had passed out from the experience. Donnie gently sat her up, holding her in his arms and sighed in relief hearing her breathing and looked over at the squirrels.
"This...this is unpressatanted! The squirrels replicate inside a host. They divided like a single celled organism!" Donnie exclaimed before laying Kara back down.
"That's exactly what happened in my comic! Well, not exactly. It exploded out of the dudes butt." "Ngh..don't let it explode out of my butt.." Kara slowly sat up holding her stomach. "Kara!" They all shouted and surrounded her to see if she was ok. She smiled at them all and glanced towards Raph noticing he had a look of relief on him and that made her smile more.
"I'm fine guys. Other than feeling lightheaded I'm ok, really." She placed her arms around them, hugging them close making Raph drop some of his popcorn on the table. She heard a noise and looked ahead seeing the squirrels climb on the table, at her feet, and eat the popcorn.
"We need to catch them. They're emitting dangerous amounts of energy." Donnie said while he and Leo slowly moved towards the squirrels. "Slowly..we don't want to startle them. Steady.." Leo whispers but just as they were about to catch them the squirrels scream at them. Kara screams making the guys, especially Raph and Mikey who were closest to her, cringe in pain before she grabbed ahold of Donnie's microscope and threw it at them making the squirrels jump off the table and onto the floor.
"Ah! Get em!" Leo shouted as the guys scattered and ran after the squirrels yelling different things. Kara got up and joined in. She jumps at one and manages to catch it but only for a second. She grunts in annoyance and jumped up noticing Raph moved infront of the door to keep them in but managed to slip right past him. Kara and the guys run at Raph and slam into him causing him to fly to the bottom of the stairs.
She shakes her head, blinking away the pain and looked down still ontop of him and laughed nervously. "Heh heh..you're it." 'Barracade the lair! Don't let them escape!" Leo shouts just as Kara helps Raph up. "Well I don't actually want them in here with us!" He shouted, running off to join them. Kara begins shutting doors and heard Mikey yelling,
"Get back here you little nut lover!" before he jumped on his skateboard and used it to gain speed on the squirrel but hit a 'bump' and fell.
Donnie used his staff hoping to trap the squirrel but it climbs on his staff and he twirls it but it screams at him, begining to crawl up his staff. He yelled in surprise, tossing it away. Just as Leo was about to catch one with a box the staff pushes it out of his hands but instead the squirrel on Donnie's staff lands on Leo's face making him run around, trying to get it off.
"Ah!" Kara runs over to Leo and grabs the squirrel throwing it off of him and runs after it along with Raph and Mikey. "No, not my room!"
"Great! Now we'll never find it." Kara says looking at the garbage heap that is Mikey's room. "Geez, Mikey, when was the last time you cleaned?" Raph asks while Mikey looks under his bed. She jumps in surprise at the life size poster board of Chris Bradford and scrunches her nose before grabbing a marker and drawing all over it.
She looked over noticing Raph picking up a pair of underwear and almost gagged at how filthy they were. "Since when did you start wearing tighty whities?" Mikey gets up and takes the underwear from him. "That, my friend, is a story for another day."
"Please...dont be in such a hurry to tell it." She turns her head away and makes a gagging motion making Raph chuckle.
"Let's just focus on the squirrels, comprende?" He tosses the underwear away making it land on a pile of pizza boxes and they fall revealing days old pizza.
"Aw, sweet! Good idea! I just impressed myself" Mikey says while picking up a pizza slice and bouncing on his bed going, "Here squirrely squirrely squirrel come get it." and bouncing the pizza slice off his head. Raph shrugs and picks up a pizza slice and sniffs it before getting up and pretending to bite into it. "Here you go squirrel. Have a tiny bite. Where is that little sucker!?" He says while pretending to bite into it some more. Kara rolls her eyes and searching through his room. "Ugh..I should of brought cleaning gloves.."
Raph and Kara sat down, giving up on their search while Mikey jumps on his bed wearing the underwear and eating the pizza. She groans, leaning her head against the wall. "Hope Donnie and Leo are having better luck than we are." "This pizza is the best! Hah!" Mikey says eating the rest of the slice in one bite before falling on his back on his bed. "Four day old pepperoni, jelly bean, and maple syrup."
"That can't be healthy.." Kara said scrunching her nose in disgust before shaking her head with her tongue sticking out. "Wait...what are we suppose to be doing again?" Mikey asked looking to her and Raph. She opens her mouth to say something but hears the chittering of the squirrel and looks up to see it on a shelf behind a bunch of action figures. "The squirrel! There you are!" Raph shouts before jumping up and onto the bed, stepping on Mikey in the process, and takes out his sais stabbing inside the shelf at the squirrel causing the action figures to go flying everywhere and one get stuck on one of his sais
"Raph! That was my limited edition action kick unicorn man!" Mikey says in disappointment at the destroyed toy.
"Theres the little creepster!" Raph shouts, ignoring Mikey, and jumps off the bed attacking the squirrel but it was no use it kept jumping and dodging his attacks. "Hold it steady!" Kara yelled as she grabbed an empty pizza box to trap it in for now and lifted it over her head waiting for the right moment but before she could trap it the squirrel started running up Raph's arm and she gasped, dropping the box and went to grab for it but it was too late.
"RAAAAAAAAPH!" Mikey shouted as the squirrel forced its way into Raph's mouth and down his throat. Kara stared at Raph in surprise. "Uh oh..."
Everyone was back in Donnie's lab with Raph on the table this time, chained down because he wouldnt stop moving. While Donnie examined him Raph kept squirming, his eyes wide in panic and fear. "Ngh, it's in my guts! I can feel them in there munching on that popcorn I ate! I'M FREAKING OUT, MAN!"
Donnie covers Raph's mouth with another homemade device. "Ok, you've got to stop with the this." Donnie said while moving his hand in a speaking gesture. "Because I can't hear what's going on inside your instestines." Kara sighs softly watching Raph freak out. "I feel sorry for him...was I acting that crazy? I doubt it.." Her mind betrays her as the flashback of this evening pops in her head and she sighs. "Curse you.." She mutters under her breath before leaning close to Mikey and reading the comic over his shoulders.
"Oh, I'll tell you what's going on in there. Lemme see.." Mikey looks back to the comic. "Yeah..now the mutant squirrel is probably secreeting a mucus into your stomach lining so that when it multiplies-" "Ugh.." Everyone goes as they stare at Mikey.
"Mikey, not helping." Donnie says before going back to Raph. "though probably ninty eight percent accurate."
"Get em out get em out get em ouuut!" While Donnie listens for them Kara turns to Leo. "Where's the other squirrel at?" "Master Splinter has him trapped in the dojo so everything should be fine for now." She nods her head and looks up just as Donnie finishes.
"Just as I thought. We need to perform surgery stat, nurse." Mikey brings out a hand saw causing Raph to scream "Let me out of here!" but Mikey stops making the guys laugh. Kara chuckles just as Raph is set free and stands up, angry. "Why you...you.."
He falls to his knees, holding his stomach and Kara looks to Raph worriedly but knew what was happening. "Raph, are you.." Donnie starts looking at Raph worriedly as well. "Bros, brace for grossness!" Kara moves beside Leo to avoid the vomit zone just as his cheeks puffed up and puked out two more squirrels.
The squirrels started screaming louder than normal as the lights and electronics started flickering off and on. Kara gripped Leo's arm started to freak out. "What's happening? That's not suppose to happen! Why's it happening?!"
"Donnie, Donnie! Some sciency stuff would be a big help right now!" The squirrels screams became louder as they started to glow making Kara's grip tighter around Leo's arms. "What's going on?!" "Glowing. Glowings bad. Glowing is real bad!"
Sara and Splinter enter the lab seeing the glowing squirrels. "I see it is happening here as well." Sara floats over to Kara to make sure she is ok while Donnie brings out his scanner. "These things are putting out a crazy energy signature. It's messing with my analyzer." They follow after the two squirrels that ran out the room but Kara slowed down hearing Mikey shouting that they're doomed. "Not yet we're not!" She said, determination in her voice before grabbing his arm and pulling him to the livingroom.
Kara stood behind Leo with Mikey beside her as they looked around for the squirrels. She snapped her head towards her left, thinking she saw something run by them and she grabbed onto Leo's arm, stepping a little closer to him. He blinked, looking down at her and smiled some before his expression turned serious while Master Splinter spoke.
"Split up and search each room." "Split up! Clearly you don't read comics either, Sensei. Splitting up is" "Silence. You are trained warriors. We will find these creatures, now." He said before leaving them behind. "Some of us are anyways." Sara said out loud before shrugging and going off to search as well.
Leo followed Master Splinter's lead and left to go look followed by Mikey, who was still reading his comic book. "Splitting up in the dark to find multiplying mutants. Could we pick a more cliche way to get eaten?"
"One of us could twist our ankle, or our T-phones could die, or-" "ok, move!" Raph shouted while pushing Donnie towards a room, falling over, before going the opposite way.
Kara bends over and offers her hand with a smile. "I'll search with you." He smiles and takes her hand as she helps him up. He kisses her forehead, making her smile, before he takes out his analyzer and starts following the signal with Kara right next to him.
She looked around and sighed in relief. "Oh, good. Nothing in here. Whelp! Let's call it a day." She said while stretching her arms and pretending to yawn but stopped hearing Mikey and Raph scream. She runs out to the living room behind Donnie. "Oh no, Leo, they're here!" He shouts just as one of them tackles him
"Donnie!" She shouts and charges slamming her body into one of them, knocking them to the ground. Donnie had his bo staff out and stands protectively infront of Kara as the other gang up on them, the guys behind them. She takes out her taser just as one lashes its tongue out at them but Master Splinter suddenly appears and knocks it back with his walking stick before battling it out with them, and eventually making them flee the lair.
"Master..that was awesome!" Kara says with a wide smile on her face. "The sewers lead to the surface! If those things get out!" Leo starts, making Kara start freaking out again. "Go then, quickly. I will stay to defend the lair incase the beasts come back."
"Which means we have to go after them alone? In the dark sewer..without you?" Mikey said in a sad, scared tone making Kara want to glue her feet to the floor and stay where she is. "Nu uh! I'm not going out there with them roaming free!"
"Who among you wants to prove you're the bravest? The strongest of will. The worthiest of ninjas!" Kara looked at Master Splinter in surprise and smiled some. "Wow..that was inspriring..buut no." She shakes her head but blinks in surprise.
"I will." She looked over seeing Sara appear suddenly making her jump in surprise. "I may not be a ninja but they won't be able to hurt me." She grinned some as she passed through Raph to make a point making him cough from the smoke. "I don't want you going by yourself!" Kara said looking at her older sister.
"If you're going then so am I!" She crossed her arms making Sara narrow her eyes at her but before she could say anything Donnie moves next to Kara putting his arm around her shoulder. "I-If she's going then so am I." Leo and Raph looked at eachother and smiled before joining in. "So will we." "I'm staying here!" Mikey shouts making everyone look at him.
Kara noticed Donnie was in deep thought and had a smile on his face. "I think I have a solution to this dilema."
Kara pouted beside Donnie as they all sat close to the tv while Metalhead went and looked for them in their place. She watched the tv screen in silence seeing Metalhead take in every detail before glancing over to Donnie who began speaking to Master Splinter.
"Master Splinter, I'd say theres some kind of lesson here I dunno like, brains over bravery oorrr something." She giggled softly making Master Splinter turn to her with a stern look and she immediately stopped feeling his gaze on her back and went back to the tv. "I'd say the something part is most accurate." He said calmly with his eyes closed making Donnie's smug look fall.
"That's a pretty nifty robot." Sara said, floating beside Master Splinter in a sitting position with one leg crossed over the other, leaning back. "Yeah, Donnie made it himself." Kara said happily while glancing over at Donnie, blushing softly making him blush in return.
Kara noticed Mikey looking up and down from the tv to the comic book about three times before saying, "I'm not going to say this happened in my comic..but this happened in my comic!" Kara jumped some hearing the screeching of the, what Mikey calles them, Squirrelanoids and glanced at Raph knowing he saw something.
"What was that?" Raph says focusing on the screen. Donnie moves closer and uses the remote to move Metalhead's head around to look around and noticed a mutant up ahead. "There's one." Leo says just as everyone, including Master Splinter and Sara move closer to the screen in anticipation just as another appears infront of the screen out of nowhere and screeches before tearing its head off making Kara jump back, falling on her back with a shout. "Ah!"
"Metalhead" Donnie says able to see his headless body stumble around before falling to his knees, dead with its disembodied head. "Page thirty three..oh man!" Mikey says his face stuck in the comic. "Don't worry little pal, I'll make you all better." Kara sits up still tense from the surprise but places her hand on his shoulder, feeling bad for Donnie. She turned her attention to the tv and sighed sadly for she had liked Metalhead too. "I'm sorry, Donnie.."
"I do not want to say I was right but I was right." Kara looked at Master Splinter with a, "really?" look and sighed before gathering the flashlights for the guys. "Guess it's time for us to go look, huh?" She handed Leo and Mikey one before adjusting her cap and putting on her gloves. "Let's go guys..."
The guys and Kara walked through the sewer pipes Donnie the lead since he has the analyzer with Leo then Kara followed by Raph and Mikey in the back. Mikey walks into Raph making him tense up but seeing it was just him he goes to punch him but instead pokes his cheek and snatches the flashlight from him.
They end up at a dead end with an opening showing nothing but darkness at the bottom and Kara leaned forward a little to get a better look, the wind blowing the ends of her hair abit giving her a chill, only to have Leo grab her arm to keep her from falling causing her to jump but sigh in relief seeing it was just him.
"Just throwing this out there but what are we suppose to do once we find these 'squirrelanoid' monsters?" "Oh, don't worry, they'll find us." Mikey says turning his head and glancing at Raph. "You always know just the right thing to say." Raph says sarcastically. "Yeah, Mikey, you're freaking me out.." Kara said while rubbing her arm nervously.
"I'm picking up strong readings from both tunnels." Kara heard Donnie say turning her attention to him. "Then we split up." Leo said while jumping onto the tunnel on the leftside.
"Again?! Didn't you guys get-" "Upup..this time in teams, ok?" Mikey blinks a couple times. "It's still splitting up! We're toast, game over man! Game over."
"This way Donnie, Kara." Donnie turns to his brothers and smiles while shrugging his shoulders before jumping into the tunnel and helping Kara in too. Kara looks over at Raph and Mikey and gives them a reassuring smile. "You'll be ok guys." She said before running off to catch up with Leo and Donnie.
Kara stayed close to the guys hearing the beeping of Donnie's machine start beeping faster and jumped hearing the chittering sound. "Did you hear that?" She said in a hushed tone while walking a few steps ahead to look around. Leo looks behind him, pointing the flashlight in the direction and nods. "Yeah, I heard it." But when he sees nothing he sighs, his shoulders relaxing some. "I don't see anything."
She opens her mouth to speak but suddenly feels skrawny, slimy claws grab her face and begin to pull her up. Her screams are muffled but Donnie and Leo are able to hear it as they shout her name before Donnie whacks the squirrelanoid with his staff and Leo catches her in his arms before falling to the ground. She quickly gets up with Leo as he takes out his katanas. "Heads or tails?" "Heads!" Donnie says before they charge the squirrelanoid.
Kara shakes off the fear and watches as Donnie whacks the squirrelanoid to the ground and goes to strike him on the head it uses its tail to push him against the wall. Kara takes out her taser and goes to shock it but Leo stops her just as the second one appears. "Oh no, guys move! Move!"
Kara glanced behind her seeing the squirrelanoids catching up and she squeezed her eyes shut yelling at her legs to run faster not noticing Mikey and Raph were ahead of them until she ran into them along with Leo and Donnie. They stumbled to the middle of a room where the squirrelanoids ran around them.
"They'll crack our shells like nuts.." "Then we might as well go down with a blaze of glory!" Kara clenched her fists and they all shouted their battle cries before charging in all directions.
While Donnie twirled his bo staff Kara jumped up, pushing upwards off his shell and kicked it towards the center and ran after it along side Donnie who started whacking it with his staff and pushed against it with it as it tried to bite him but she did a sweep kick, knocking it to its feet and goes to stomp her foot on its face but it uses its tongue as a whip, wrapping around her ankle and throws her aside hitting the wall. She slides down to the floor and she shakes her head before grunting and jumps up to rejoin the battle.
The battle would soon be over as they are cornered infront of a barred hole. She narrows her eyes takes out her taser but when she goes to turn it on it sparks for abit before dying. "Grr, are you serious?!" She shouts angrily before throwing it to the ground. "Alright, Mikey i'm in. How does the sole survivor beat the aliens?"
"It was so awesome! He baited the alien into an airlock and then he-ooh!" Mikey looked like he had a plan but what shocked Kara the most was that he left them, he left them! "Did he just bail on us?!" Raph and Kara said together but Kara more high pitched than Raph. "I think he's got a plan." "Fine!" Kara shouted before taking out her pepper spray and jumping around the squirrealoids to make them look at her and sprayed them all at once making them scream in pain and rub their eyes. They turn to her growling in anger and she just stood there. "Aw nuts.."
They run at her and she runs away screaming just as the guys intervene and attack but they ended up getting their butts kicked and thrown to the ground. She stands infront of them protectively, getting into a fighting stance and just as they slowly moved in closer they stopped, their noses twitching, and they look up to see Mikey holding a bag of popcorn.
"Woohoo, glowheads!" Mikey pops some popcorn into his mouth, chewing on it slowly before swallowing and holding the bag out to them. "Want some?" The squirrelanoids screech and charge at him while he runs away screaming. "Mikey has a plan!"
"Well let's not just sit here! Let's go help him!" She shouts while helping them up and runs off after them, worried about Mikey's safety.
She follows the screeches and screams of Mikey and the squirrelanoids and runs to the entrance in time to see the squirrelanoids get flushed down with the sewer water. She smiles in relief but runs towards, shouting his name just as one of the squirrelanoids tongues comes out from the water and wraps around his neck, pulling him in with them. "Mikey!" Raph and they guys soon come into view and she grabs hold of one of Raph's sais and dives into the water. She swims towards Mikey and grabs his hand, sliding the tongue off him with Raph's sai and pulls him close to her as she forces her legs to swim towards the surface and smiles seeing Raph coming to the rescue.
She grabs his hand and holds on tight as he pulls them up. She could feel her cap loosening around her head and soon it flies off her head and is pulled away from her by the current of the water. She opens her mouth in surprise, letting some air out but turns her head away, keeping her grip on Mikey as they are pulled up. "I gotcha." She heard Raph say and smiled seeing they had made a rope of themselves. "We all do." Leo said and she looked at Mikey with a cheesy grin but stopped, hearing the squirrelanoid come out of the water and go for them but Raph uses his free hand to throw ninja stars at it, striking its face and making it fall back into the water, the force of the current taking it with it.
"Woo, the septic tanks down below should hold those creeps." "Atleast until I can figure out a retro mutagen to turn them back." Raph looked to Mikey and smiled some, putting his hand on his shoulder. "I'm glad you didn't get flushed little brother." "You and me both, bro."
As they started walking away Kara stayed behind and just stared down in the darkness of the septic tank standing there for what felt like forever she didn't even flinch when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She glanced to her side and saw Donnie beside her. He looked at her with sadness. "You lost your cap didn't you? I could tell you were fond of it."
She nodded and looked back down into the water. "It was my treasure since I was a little girl..my father's friend, who is a part of his band, gave it to me as a gift during one of their concerts. He was so kind to me..always made me smile. I had a crush on him, heh..but as I grew up the crush slowly disappeared especially when he got married. I later found out that the feeling of love I felt for him was as a brother and not a lover..but it was something he gave to me..and I lost it."
"Couldn't you have reached for it?" Donnie asks trying to find some logical reasoning to her problem in the hopes of cheering her up as well.
She shook her head and looked glanced at him. "If I had tried I probably wouldn't have seen Raph's hand and we both would of drowned..You can't protect two things at the same time. If you don't make a decision, you will lose both. The cap was in the past..you and your brothers are more important to me." She turned her head and gave him a sad smile as a single tear fell down her cheek and he held her close to him letting her sob quietly into his shoulder while gently stroking her head not knowing his brothers had stayed behind and were eavesdropping on the conversation until they came into view and gave her a group hug. She smiles at them and gives them each a hug. "I love you guys." She said laughing softly while wiping her tears away making them smile in return before they took her home.
After a long day and half a night she was ready to lay down and relax. She plopped onto the couch, fresh out the shower in her pjs and turned on the tv when Casey walked in with a couple of movies and a large tub of popcorn. "Casey, what're you doing here?"
He raised a brow at her and looked at his phone. "Today's Friday. It's our movie night." She had to think for a moment but her face light up and she nodded. "Oh yeeaah. Whatcha got for tonight?" She asked while walking over to help him and took out the movie seeing the title "Aliens."
"I know you don't like scary movies but this is a classic." She listened to him explain the story, a shadow covering her eyes as she walked over to the balcony, opening the door and walked outside, Casey following her as he finishes explaining the movie but before he could say anything else she moves her arm backwards and throws the movie as hard and as far as she could watching it fly into the sky and disappear.
She walked back inside with a smile on her face while Casey stayed outside his eyes and mouth wide open at what just did. "No more alien movies for me, thank you."
"I dunno what you're talking about but movie night isn't over yet!" He pulls out the sequels to the movie and her eyes widen, Mikey's words about the comic coming true and she stumbles backwards, fainting "Ah! Kara! Are you ok?!" Casey runs over to her not sure what to think seeing her face pale and the end of her mouth twitching.
Once she woke up Casey decided to cancel movie night thinking she needed rest and told her goodnight before closing the door and locking it behind him. She sighed and layed on her bed just staring at the ceiling before her eyes start to close and just as she was about to go to sleep her eyes snapped open and she sat up straight. "I told Donnie I loved him!"
While down below in the sewers Donnie was getting ready to sleep, thinking he could use a goodnights sleep after today and took his mask off and put away his bo staff before laying down, covering himself with his blanket and turning the light off. "Ah, it's good to finally relax." He said with a sigh of content and a smile before closing his eyes to sleep.
After a few seconds of silence Donnie's eyes snapped open and he sat up straight. "Kara told me she loves me!"
"Go to sleep!" Raph yelled from his bedroom. Donnie ducked his head some before looking down at his lap blushing deeply but a small smile creeping on his face.