Kara was helping the guys look for more mutagen canisters.
Hearing the constant beeping of Donnie's tracker she knew there was one close by. "Good, I was getting tired of looking through garbage." She thought to herself while looking through the trash hearing the sounds of cars passing the alley they were in. She glanced over at Donnie seeing a look of worry and sorrow on his face and knew he was thinking of April.
She sighed and closed her eyes instinctively reaching to tug on her cap but when her hand came in contact with nothing she turned her head away and lowered her arm before looking back to Donnie. "Ok, Kara, this is no time for you to be jealous..he's hurting cause he blames himself for what happened and ended up losing a friend. He needs you right now so forget the cap!" She took a deep breath to calm her nerves but an aching question lingered in the back of her mind "What if April doesn't want to see me either.."
"Come on Donnie. Don't get so bent out of shape about April. She'll come around." Kara blinked in surprise at Raph's words. She rubbed her ears to see if she was hearing right. "Was he trying to comfort him?..Who is he and what has he done with Raph?!"
"Yeah, I guess you're right." She heard Donnie say while he adjusted his tracker. She walked up to him and placed her hand on his shoulder and gave him a warm smile before kissing his cheek. "Things will get better I just know it." She gave him a determined look which he returned with a genuine smile and kissed her cheek. "Thanks. I'm glad I didn't lose you." He whispered to her making her blush bright with a goofy smile.
When he walked away her smile slowly faded as her mind replays the memory of finding out what had happened with the mutagen shipment. If he hadn't stopped her..would she have done the same thing as April?...Would she have been so furious she would have lashed out at them and never see them again?..Would she have gone back to them? She shakes her head at the thoughts and sighs. "Can't think of the what ifs...have to focus on the now and help the guys whatever way I can."
She goes over to an already opened garbage box or whatever you wanna call it and was about to dig in when Mikey popped out making her fall over in surprise with a start. "No sign of any mutagen but you're not going to believe what I found!"
She stands up, with help from Leo, and rubs her backside before looking at him with a "Alright, let's get this over with" look while swatting away at the flies that were flying around him. "An Iguana wearing a tophat! Isn't that cool?! I mean, why would you throw this out?!"
"I can think of so many reasons.." Kara's mutters to herself while Mikey starts speaking with a Brtish accent. "Ello, govnah! How do you like my minocle?" She shakes her head and lets one of the guys to take care of him when she notices a stray cat. She smiles and bends down, reaching her hand to it. It sniffs her hand before she slowly moves her hand to its head and pets it able to hear the cat purring inside its throat she moves closer before picking it up and scratching it under its chin making its eyes close and purr more. "Aw, aren't you just a sweet heart." She smiles softly at it but watches as it runs off, scared, from the sound of Mikey throwing the stuffed Iguana away. "Aw, man.." She pouts before glaring at Mikey for scaring it off.
"Quiet, guys! My ooze scanner is going crazy again. I told you mutagen was close by." "Awesome! Sooner we get this over with the better." She says with a smile while stretching her arms over her head.
"Eh, your scanner is about as useless as a trenchcoat on a turtle." Raph said while leaning against the dumpster. Kara stared at him for a while, squinting her eyes as if to imagine him in one. "For some reason...I really want to see them in one but why?" She's snapped out of her thoughts when Leo begins to speak.
"Just give him a chance, Raph. It's our fault those containers went missing. We gotta find them before some random Joe ends up mutated." "Why not a random Eddy? Or Carl?..Maybe Ted? I dunno Joe is a too common na-ow!" She gets bonked on the head by Raph and she rubs it before glaring at him. "What was that for?!" "Nobody cares about the stupid name." He said with his arms crossed. She narrows her eyes before flicking him hard on the nose causing him to hold it in pain. "You would if his name was Raph!" They glare at each other before fighting each other like school girls, slapping their hands at one another.
Leo sighs and grabs Kara by the hood of her jacket and Raph by the back of his shell. "Would you two knock if of?! Jeez." He shakes his head at the two, Kara sticking her tongue out at Raph and him just glaring at her. All in all it was just playful fun, they would never seriously hurt the other. After spending so much time with them she had gotten really close to all of them though she never did spend any one on one time with Raph like she would with the other guys.
With Donnie, she was dating him of course, but was also helping him with the retro mutagen any way she can.
Leo, it was mainly meditating or training. From time to time they would watch Captain Ryan if she didn't pass out from whatever event had happened that day.
Then theres Mikey, that little shell of energy! There wasn't anything they didnt do whether it was from pranks, to playing video games, or even just goofing off in the lair.
She looked over at Raph and smiled at him making his glare disappear and grin at her in return. She laughed softly but stopped hearing the tracker going haywire and looked over towards Donnie. "This way" Donnie said making Leo let go of them both and Kara running up to Donnie not before sticking her tongue out at Raph and pulling the lower part of her eyelid. Raph gives her an angry look and goes to run after her but Leo stops him and shakes his head before looking over at Kara who kisses Donnie's cheek before he picks her up and jumps the building to the roof. Leo watches and sighs but smiles softly before he and his brothers join him.
Kara and Mikey spotted the mutagen canister and smiled brightly. "Found it!" They both shouted together before running towards it to be the first one to get it but Mikey beat her to it and raised it over his head. "Haha! How many does that bring us up to?"
"One..and a half." Donnie said looking up at him from his tracker. Everyone groaned, annoyed at how little they have found. "But look at the bright side: Only 63 more to go." "Yeah! One and a half less of a chance for some random Raph to get mutated." Kara added to Donnie's sentence with a smile before looking over at Raph her smile turning into a grin. He gritted his teeth at her and eventually, they were back to their 'fighting'.
Leo and Donnie sigh at them, Donnie smacking his forehead but had a small smile on his face watching Kara. Leo pulls them apart once again while Mikey laughs his butt off at the two before Leo takes the mutagen from him and they leave not knowing they were being watched by Karai.
Back at the lair Donnie puts away the canister in a secure place while the others chill and relax til they have to go back up top to retreive more. Kara notices the pod Sara was occupying was empty and went to look for her. "Sara? Sara." She calls out but heard no response back.
She pushes the sliding door to the dojo open but stops, pulling it back some noticing Sara and Master Splinter were meditating. While Master Splinter was calm and at ease Sara looked like she was struggling, having a battle in her mind. Before Kara could do anything she noticed a flash where Sara was sitting but when she went to look again nothing seemed out of the ordinary. It wasn't til she squinted her eyes she noticed Sara's body was starting to take a solid form ever so slowly. She watched in amazement at what Sara was doing but ducked down some seeing her eyes open and her body return to its smokey form.
Sara eyes snap open, panting heavily as she tries to take control over her mutated form. She lifted her hands up and saw no improvement and glared, her eyes flashing before yelling in anger and gets up, going to punch the wall only for her arm to part each side, not able to pass through the solid wall.
Kara closes her eyes in sadness wishing her sister wasn't in this situation. She feels a hand on her shoulder and looks up seeing Raph. He gives her shoulder a gentle squeeze before giving her a small smile. She returns the smile with her own and gets up giving him a hug before hearing Donnie telling them it was time to continue the search. She glances back at the dojo before running after the guys to catch up.
Master Splinter slowly opens his eyes seeing the form of Kara's sister huddled in a corner with her back to him. He gets up and walks over to her. "I know how it feels to be different, child. To have your humanity taken from you. To be forced to live out of the lives of the surface world."
"You don't know what I'm going through.." Sara said in a low, angry tone before standing up and turning to look at him. "I am famous. I HAVE to show myself to the world! I HAVE to share my talent to make people happy! I HAVE to be normal! Like this I can't do any of that...Like this!" She started while pointing at herself," I can't even hold my sister! When she's crying when she's in pain I can't do nothing but stand and watch her suffer! Now tell me, do you honestly know what that's like?!"
He stared at her in surprise, for once in his life, speechless. When he didn't say anything she gave a weak chuckle before turning back around. "Yeah..I didn't think so..I'm stuck like this for who knows how long..and I can't control it.." She lowers to the ground, holding her head wishing she could hug her sister, feel someones touch, to make this feeling of lonliness go away. "I'm just a waste of air.." She whispers to herself. Master Splinter sighed softly and reached his hand to her shoulder. "My child.." He stopped and blinked in surprise as his hand made contact with her shoulder, able to feel her skin.
Sara's eyes widened, feeling his touch and looked to her shoulder to make sure it was for real but when she felt the doubt in her mind his hand faded through making him stand up straight before he could lose his balance. "H-How.." She stood up in disbelief and looked from her shoulder to his hand. He gave her a soft smile and placed his arms behind his back. "There maybe hope for you yet, child."
Back on the surface Kara looked down at the streets staring into nothing. For some reason she was feeling depressed, more than she was when she saw Sara but the feeling suddenly went away and she looked up at the full moon and smiled, feeling better. She turned around watching Mikey whine like a child and laughed softly.
"We've been looking for mutagen for days now, dudes. This is so boring I'm going to scream! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"MIKEY!" Everyone shouts at him to shut him up. "Ok, ok we get it! We'll take a little break and do something fun, cool?"
"Sweet!"
"Awesome!"
"Woohoo!"
"Yeah!"
"Training session, yes!"
"Awww"
"That doesn't sound very fun." Kara said with a pout, crossing her arms. "Guys, Sensei wants me to train you and that's what I'm going to do."
"Heh, I doubt he put me in with the rest of you but I'll watch. That should be fun in itself." She said with a playful grin and jumped onto the little tower he was standing on. "So whatcha got planned, Cap?"
"You see Dragon Gate over there?"
"Yeah."
"Uhuh."
"What about it?"
"I'm going to defend it like..King of the Moutain, ok? Now the only way you can get pass me is to use traditional close quarters fighting. Got it?"
"Yeah, whatever you say fearless leader. Let's just get this over with." They jump down towards the building thats across Dragon Gate and Kara sits down to the side of the guys as they talk amongst themselves. She looks at the string of laterns and gets nervous. "Woah, I dunno if I'll be able to walk on that.."
She hugs her knees to her chest and watches as Leo walks onto the wire no sweat, his katana out and ready. "Maybe it's not as hard as I thought." She said to herself just as Mikey is the first one to start the training. He takes out his earphones and puts them on as the music begins to play. "What's up ninja?! Huh! Huh! Ooo!"
"What are you doing, Mikey?" Leo asked.
Mikey was too into the music to hear him and Leo decided to charge. Mikey was using a mix of dance moves in his fighting style which made Kara giggle and she clapped when Mikey used the wire like a spring and jumped over Leo and safely onto the other side. "Made it! Ha!"
"Hey! That's not fair! That's not a real fight!" Leo turned around just as Donnie was second to bat. She smiled excitedly and leaned forward noticing it looked easy for him to walk on the wire. "Maybe I should try it.."
"Heh, ok." Leo got into his stance with a confident smirk on his face that made Kara pout, telling he wasn't taking Donnie seriously but her pout turned into a sly smile when Donnie brought out some throwing stars. "He's gotta plan." She sang in her mind just as Donnie threw the stars and they hit different corners, coming back at different angles around Leo forcing him to dodge and block. "Ow! Are you kidding me, Donnie!"
After deflecting them all Leo was out of breath. "Ow! King of the moutain, baby!" He looked over seeing Donnie and Mikey high threeing each other with their arm around each other, Donnie waving at him. "That's my ninja."
Kara jumped up and smiled, walking beside Raph. "Hey, Cap." She said, getting his attention. "Mind if I give it a try?"
"You going to play tricks on me too?" He asked, already annoyed. She smiled and shook her head. "Nah, you know me. I'm a hand to hand person so it's close range. Mind if I cut in front of you, Raph?" She asked turning her head to look at him. He raised his hands and smiled.
"Hey, knock yourself out."
"Heh, thanks." She slowly walks up to the wire and looks at it, getting somewhat nervous and reaches to adjust her cap but when she feels nothing again she clenches her fists and sighs just as Leo puts his sword away. "Guess I could use some practice with hand to hand." She nodded and slowly stepped onto the wire, putting all of her weight on her foot making the wire somewhat wobbly and in turn, making her more nervous.
He noticed her hesitation and smiled some. "Do you want me to help you?" Leo asked with a soft chuckle. "No, no. I'm good! Just gotta...find..woah..my balance." She took a couple of fast steps forward, her arms waving in the air to try and balance herself out but it was just making her look crazy while the others chuckled at her situation. "I..I think I have it" She said now getting closer to Leo when she takes another step she is leaning too far towards the left and her foot slips off the wire causing her to fall.
They all gasp seeing the first sign of her falling but sigh in relief as she grabs hold of the wire with both of her hands, causing her legs to sort of swing back and forth. "Heh..guess I'm not ready for this." She says with a weak chuckle while glancing down to the ground before squeezing her eyes shut. "Just hold on, ok?" Leo says while slowly moving toward her not wanting to move the wire too much and make her lose her grip.
"Heh, take your time just uh...hanging around..heh heh." When he finally reached her she raised one of her hands to him and he grabbed her, pulling her up in his arms, feeling her squeeze him from the sudden fright. "It's ok, I gotcha." He whispered to her before taking her to the other side, Donnie taking her from Leo's arms.
"Thanks, Cap" She said blushing with embarrassment. He chuckled at her making sure she was ok before turning his attention back to Raph.
"Ugh! That was so embarrassing! You guys made it look so easy!" She pouted while Mikey placed his arm around her shoulder. "That's cause we're the pros, bra." "Not helping, Mikey." She grumbled before looking down at the ground.
"It's only because we've been trained to fight like that our entire lives. It's going to take some practice but I'm sure you'll learn it eventually." Donnie said with a smile before kissing her cheek. She smiled and hugged him before returning her attention back to Leo and Raph and gasped seeing Raph body slam him off the wire, landing on the ground.
She climbed down, landing just as the guys jump down and high three themselves. Leo looked ticked and she knew why. She glanced over at Raph, Mikey and Donnie just as Leo stood up. "Why do you always undermind my training?!"
"You just want us to fight exactly like you fight but the whole point is to make it to the Dragon Gate anyway we can, right?" He said before leaving, Donnie and Mikey following after him. She ran over to Leo and picked up his sword seeing the name Lame-O-Nardo on it and narrowed her eyes where they last stood. "They can be real jerks sometimes..you ok?" She looked up at Leo who took his sword back, putting it away. "Yeah, I'll be fine."
"Come on." She started while taking his hand with a smile. "Let's go for a walk to cool your mind. We'll get back at them later." She winks playfully making him smile at her before they leave. "So, you guys fought on tightropes your entire lives?" She smiled hearing him laugh at her question as he began to explain.
When they returned to the lair, calling it a night, Kara was sitting in Donnie's lab watching him work. She yawned softly her eye lids getting heavy. "I think I'm going to head back home." She said while standing up and stretching her arms.
"You look pretty tired, Sis. I think its best if you stay here for the night. I wouldn't want you going by yourself at this time of night."
"I'll be fine sis, I can take care of myself. Besides I don't have any extra clothes here. I'll be back tomorrow though so have a goodnight." She walked over to Donnie and gave him a kiss. "Aw, how sweet." Sara said staring at them making both of them blush and look away shyly. Kara smiles some, giving Donnie one last look, her blush turning darker before leaving the lab heading towards the exit, passing the dojo when she hears Leo talking.
Curiousity taking the best of her she leans into the door and listens in.
"...I don't really think the guys respect me. I just..I just want to be a good leader, you know?"
"Leonardo, a true leader doesn't always impose his will but helps his followers flourish, grow."
"Maybe I shouldn't be leading the team.."
"My son, how can your brothers believe in you as leader if you do not believe in yourself?"
Kara moved back from the door and sighed softly before glancing over at Raph who was feeding Spike. "Hey, Raphie."
"Don't call me that!" Raph said, shooting up from laying down giving her an evil look but it went away seeing a serious look on her face yet her eyebrows were lifted up in a sad manner. "What is it?" He asked walking over to her.
"Take me home." She said, crossing her arms over her chest.
"What? No way. Get your boyfriend to take you."
"Please, I need to talk to you." He sighed, annoyed but gave in and followed her out the lair.
"So..about earlier.." Kara started as they were jumping the roofs heading back to the penthouse. "What? You mean King of the Moutain? It was just for fun." Raph said keeping his focus ahead of him. "Just for fun..yeah but what you did to Leo was over the top...he's just trying his best as leader..as your oldest brother to protect you guys.."
Raph skids to a halt and looks at her. "What? So now your taking his side?! He just wants us to be just like him! To be perfect!" She stops and looks at him, putting her hands up to calm him down. "Now listen, I know sometimes he's hard to handle but remember, this role was kinda just put on him and he's had to learn on the job without any real experience but he's doing his best. I'm sure you know what that's like.."
Raph looked to the side in thought remembering when Leo quit being leader and put him in charge. "I'm not telling you to be like him, you're awesome the way you are just..cool it down, ok? Believe it or not the others look to you as the second oldest... so..take it easy..just for now?" "Hn, let's just get you home." He grumbles before running ahead. "Hey, wait up!" She said running to catch up with him.
The next night on patrol Kara was laying down on the floor inside the Shellraiser just staring at the ceiling the silence getting a little too uncomfortable for her. She sat up, opening her mouth to get rid of the silence when Mikey beat her to it. "Oh, thank goodness."
"You're not mad at us are you Leo? I'll give you Mutants Plus Monsters twenty three if you're not mad." Mikey says while putting the comic infront of his face." Leo pushes the comic from his face.
"I'm not mad. I just think you guys need to be a little better at following my orders."
"Aw, it's too bad I can't play my violin while I drive." Raph says to Leo before turning his attention back to driving.
"What's your problem lately, Raph? You still jealous you're not leading the team?"
"Ohhh, this is getting awkward...better butt in and stop this before things get worse.."
"Stop the Shellraiser! The scanner has picked up another mutagen canister!" Donnie said making Kara sigh in relief. "Ok, nevermind. Thank you Don-OMPH!" She rolls to the front of the Shellraiser, smacking into the wall, after Raph abruptly stops the Shellraiser.
"You're...gonna..pay for that.." Kara grumbles as she slides off the wall and falls on her back. Raph looks down at her and chuckles. "Heh, sorry, my foot slipped."
They stop in front of an abandoned building, the tracker starting to beep faster. "We're close guys. The signal is coming from the basement."
"Great, first it's an abandoned building and it happens to be in the basement...hopefully a murderer or ghost doesn't come out and devour our souls." Kara said her voice dull of any emotions.
"Have you been watching scary movies?" Raph asked with a grin on his face knowing how easily she could be scared. "It's not my fault! It was Casey's turn for movie night! I was forced to!" She waves her arms in the air before crossing them over her chest. "What?! Without me?! I'm hurt.." Mikey said with a pout.
"Aw, don't worry buddy. We'll have our own..no scary movies though. Got it?" She said while poking his cheek making him nod with a large smile. "Good." She smiles back at him
"Ok, let's not make any sudden moves before I give the.." The guys go ahead and pull the top from the basement entry before Leo could finish his sentence and go in."Orders." Kara stands beside him and pats his shoulder. "Don't worry, we'll get them back." She smiles before climbing down the ladder, Leo following after her.
While the guys were following behind Donnie with his tracker Kara would stop and look through the boxes to see if anything was inside only to find empty boxes. "Well..thats disappointing." She goes to turn around only to have Raph right in front of her giving her a creepy grin with his hands up. "Boo." She screams bloody murder and falls into the empty box with her feet stuck in the air while Raph laughs his butt off along with Mikey. "Aw, man! You should of seen your face! Oh, I wish I had a camera." He said while wiping an invisible tear from his eye. She rocks the box back and forth while Mikey high threes Raph. "Nice job, bro! Ha!" She eventually knocks the box to its side and climbs out and gives Raph an evil deathly glare. "Oh, I'm gonna get you!" She shouts, running after Raph to strangle him, her face with anger and a hint of embarrassment.
Mikey runs after them laughing still but stops, noticing an empty room only for it not to be empty for there was the mutagen canister. "Oh yeah! Found it! Go ninja go ninja go!" Kara walks in with the others, having Raph in a headlock when Leo shouts, "Don't!" just as Mikey goes to pick up the canister.
When he picks it up there was a wire attached to it causing som triggers to go off and the exits to be blocked off. Kara lets go of Raph just as the last doorway is sealed.
"See? If you would listen to me-"
"Easier than I thought."
Kara and everyone looks up seeing none other than Karai. "Long time eh, Leo?" Kara stares at her for the longest time before turning her attention to the foot ninjas that were surrounding them. Everyone took out their weapons while Kara put her gloves on.
"Your lady friend is getting really good at setting ambushes." She hears Donnie say. "Hey, at least it's not an army.." She says while getting in her fighting stance. "Heh, it's just foot soldiers. Won't even break a sweat." Raph says just as he jumps into battle, the others following.
Kara runs up to one and punches it in the face before doing a spin kick, sending it flying backwards but gasped feeling her leg make contact with metal. "What the.." The foot soldier slids back, catching itself as its eyes begin to flash. "These guys aren't ordinary.." It charged at her quicker than before and used the same technique she used. She quickly brought her arms up, blocking his attack only for him to kick her back, flying into a pile of boxes and crates.
She looks over at the others to see if they were having problems as well and they were. "They armored up or something?" She hears Mikey say and looks over to Leo seeing him go to slice him in half but the foot ninja grabs the sword and punches it in half before kicking Leo away. She runs over to the guys and watches the foot slowly gang up on them. "These guys aren't normal.." She mumbled to herself.
"Everybody fall back!" Leo shouted. Kara turned around and saw a small elevator shaft and smiled. "Works for me." "What?! We're running away?!" Raph yells out in anger.
"It's not running it's a tactical retreat. Move!" He says before turning around and running towards the shaft. "I don't care what Leo says. I don't run from the foot." Kara glares at Raph and goes to grab him before he does something stupid but misses as he charges the foot only for him to get knocked to the ground. "Stop being stubborn and move!" "This way!"She pulls him up as the others run after Leo and start climbing the shaft, the others following after them.
Kara was close to catching up to Leo when she heard Mikey cry out in surprise. She looked down seeing one of the foot had grabbed him by the ankle and wouldn't let go. She narrowed her eyes and jumped down, slamming her feet into its face making it let go and grabbed onto the rope sliding down a few inches before climbing back up. "Don't worry, Mikey, I got your back." She heard the foot crash to the ground below and glanced downward seeing it start to static and it's head fly off.
"Those guys are robots?!" Donnie said in surprise. "Move your shell Donnie! Go! Go!" Leo shouted while waiting for Kara to catch up, pulling her ahead of him.
"When Raph opened the gate everyone climbed out safely, Kara being the last one and held out her hand to Leo but noticed another foot had grabbed him.
"Hurry Leo!" Raph shouted as he reached his hand out as well. Kara's eyes widened watching more foot ninjas grabbing him as her mind returned to the invasion. "No!" She shouted before placing her feet at the edge of the elevator and grabbed ahold of his hand with Raph holding onto her so she wouldn't fall. She used all the strength she had to start pulling him up along with the foot but she could feel his hand starting to slip. "I'm not gonna lose you again!" She said through a strained voice, using every muscle she had to pull him up but her foot slipped over the edge causing her to fall forward but Raph pulled her up to keep her from falling. Her arm felt like it was being ripped off from her shoulder with all the weight she was holding while it dangled freely but she bit down on her lip to keep herself from screaming.
She gasped hearing a snapping sound and looked up watching the rope snap from all the weight and the forced caused her to lose her grip and slip but Raph pulled her back causing them both to fall on their backs. She jumped up and leaned over the opening watching Leo fall along with the robot foot.
When they were sure the area was safe she cried out in pain, clutching her shoulder while Donnie examined her shoulder. "Come on, we need to take care of that.." He said noticing the area around the shoulder was turning purple.
She narrowed her eyes at Raph and walked up to him, grabbed his shell, and forced him to turn around and face her. "Why couldn't you listen to him?! Why do you always have to disregard his orders?! Did what I say to you two nights ago not mean anything to you?!" She yelled in his face, angry tears rolling down her cheeks.
He looked at her, sadness in his eyes. "He's gone..and it's all my fault.." She stared at him the anger in her eyes softening before she turned away and left for the Shellraiser, Donnie and Mikey following after her.
While the brothers talked amongst themselves Donnie had Metalhead, who was completely fixed and new, treat her wound. She smiled, having to sit down on a small stool for him to reach her shoulder. "Thanks, buddy.." Metalhead looked at her and nodded its head before returning to work. For a robot with chubby fingers, he was gentle with her wound and that made her smile more.
"So, you're telling me you were able to lift a mutant turtle, and four to five robot ninjas with just one arm?! Wow, Kara..that's amazing!" "
Yeah and look where it got me...I could of saved him..but I failed...Ugh, my arm felt like it was going to rip off my shoulder." Kara said, Metalhead now finished with wrapping her shoulder. She looked down remembering Leo falling and squeezed her eyes shut. "I'm so weak..."
Sara moved in front of Kara causing her to jump in surprise at how fast she was. "Now, listen here! I don't know many people who have been able to handle, let alone, fight robots, mutants, and aliens! You are an amazing person for using only your strength and skill for fighting mutants, robots, and aliens! Not many people can do that. Listen, you are strong and a gifted person. You have an incredible life here with your friends. Remember, you are a Sharper. We fight for what we believe in and are passionate about. Your passion is your friends and fighting." Kara looked up at Sara, her eyes glossy from the tears welling in her eyes but she wipes them away with her other hand. "Thank you Sara..I needed to hear that." Kara smiled making Sara smile in return. "Hey, it's what my role is as older sister."
Kara walked out just as Master Splinter finished speaking and left for his room to meditate. Donnie ran up to Kara and examined the work Metalhead had done. "It looks good." She smiled and gently rubbed it. "Yeah...so when are we going to get Leo back?"
Donnie looked down and took her hands into his. "I..want you to stay here.." "What!? You can't seriously thi-" She stopped mid sentence at the pained expression on his face as he gently squeezed her hands. "You are injured..because the only thing all of us...I could do was just watch as our brother fell down the shaft...I don't want you putting anymore strain on your arm til its healed..to prevent permanent damage."
She sighed deeply and leaned into him as he put his arms around her. "I really want to but...I'll stay..for your sake." He smiled while closing his, a look of relief on his face. "Thank you." He kissed her lips softly before turning to leave.
"Ok, so I hacked into some security footage. There, it's Karai's van." Donnie said while typing into his computer. "They took Leo to the Bradford Dojo." Mikey said, pointing at the screen. "Let's do this." Raph clenched his fist, ready to get his brother back.
"Wait, so you're leader now?" "Whoa, whoa hold up. I'm the smartest" Donnie started but Raph interrupted them before they could finish. "Look, let's not argue about this. Leo needs us and this time we fight how Leo wanted us to fight: The way he fights."
Kara watched Raph as he walked past her, listening to him speaking. He stopped and looked at her before turning his attention ahead of him, his face full of determination and revenge. "I was listening to you that night..and I had thought about what you said.." Kara held up her hand to stop him and smiled. "Save it...just go save your brother and my friend." He nodded and smiled back at her.
"Wait, I think I have an idea.." Sara said, floating over next to Donnie. "Oh?" He looked at her surprised before turning to Kara who shrugs one shoulder and smiles.
The guys reach the Dojo from the rooftops. They stop underneath a small water tower and scope out the area.
"We can't sneak in. Security camera."
"No sweat, I got this." Raph grinned before pulling out a pigeon.
"It's not just one the entire roof hacked with survalience."
Raph rubs the pigeons head and neck making it coo with happiness before he lets it fly off. It coos loud enough to call in some reinforcements as more pigeons land and distract the cameras.
"Now that is cute." Sara says floating behind them with a smile on her face. The guys jump in surprise at her sudden appearance, almost forgetting she was there. "I didn't know you were such an animal love, Raph. That's something you and Kara have in common" Sara watches the pigeons and chuckles at their behavior before turning her attention to the boys as they sneak in through the window. She waits til the last one enters, it being Raph as he gives the pigeons a thumbs up and sneaks in before he could close the door and stays in the shadows while they reach their brother.
Sara watches Leo's expression closely seeing his eyes widened in panic and shaking his head while screaming through the duct tape. She grins knowing what those signs meant.
"Ok, soo are you going to share your idea?" Donnie asked curiously. "I'm going to tag along with you boys." Sara said with a smile "...That's it?" Raph said in annoyance. "Your wasting our time to tell us you're coming with us!"
Sara glared at him making him freeze for a second before turning her attention to the other two. "Yes, so let's go."
When the others left the room Kara stood in front of Sara. "I know thats not all of it...you have a plan." Sara smiled at Kara, knowing her too well she sighed in defeat. "Ok, judging by the things you have told me about this 'Karai' person she will most likely set a trap for you and your friends. I'll use my body to create a diversion so they can get to safety."
"You don't have to do that, Sara.." "I know, but I want to." She smiled before leaving to catch up with the others, which was easy.
The boys were able to take out the three ninjas with surprise on their side and went to untie their brother who was still screaming behind the tape. "We can't understand what you're saying, Leo." Donnie says while pulling the tape off.
"IT'S A TRAP!"
A small group of ninjas appear infront of them and behind them a teenage girl appears wearing battle armor. "What..she's around Kara's age.."
"Nice, Leo! You could of said something!" She heard Mikey say and grinned at him. "You got two choices, sweetheart: Let us go or walk away from this inside a sandwich bag." Raph said while freeing Leo.
"Sorry, Raphael. Can't let you go. It's not really that personal with the rest of you turtles. I just need you for bait. " "She wants Splinter." Leo said. "Your sensei will eventually track you here and when Splinter shows up he'll know what it's like to truly suffer. Restrain them!"
The ninja's advanced on them and soon they were fighting once more. Sara watched, quite impressed with the boys skills but knew they were at a disadvantage, listening to Karai go on about how her robots can learn every fighting style in seconds.
She glanced over at the boys seeing them cornered with Leo standing in front of them, ready to protect them. "When I order you to run away will you listen this time?!"
"Well, that's my cue!" Everyone heard just as Sara's smokey form flew in front of the boys and she created a large smoke screen for them to escape with. She glanced back at Leo and smiled some. "Go, hurry." Leo looked at her in surprise before they left through the roof.
She turned her attention back in front of her hearing Karai coughing and chuckled as she choked out the words. "Don't let them escape." "Heh, goodluck with that." Sara grinned before sneaking into a hole in the wall, leaving the dojo and returning to the lair not knowing the robot ninjas, or footbots, had already made their way out of the smoke and had followed the boys.
"So, you were able to create the smoke screen for them? Does that mean you have control over your powers?!" Kara asked, her eyes wide with excitement, staring at Sara who was now back inside the pod. Sara closed her eyes, sighing softly. "Sadly, no..that is all I can do at the moment..but your Master has taken me in and is showing me some intriguing lessons." She says while looking down at her hands. "Soon, I will be human again. I know it."
Kara nodded, happy to see her sister no longer sad or angry and sighed in relief. She heard the guys return and walked out seeing Leo with them. She ran over to them and hugged Leo. "You're ok! I knew you guys could do it!" Kara jumped up and down excitedly. "Most of the credit goes to your sister though. She helped us escape the dojo without any injuries." Leo said with a smile. "Wasn't that awesome! She's so totally cool!" Mikey said with stars in his eyes before running off to tell her so, Raph following suit.
Leo looked down at Kara, seeing her bandaged shoulder and remembered how she held onto his hand for dear life and closed his eyes. He glanced over at Donnie who stared at him for a sec before nodding his head and walking away but once he was behind Kara Donnie turned back to Leo, squinting his eyes at him before giving him the signal, "I'm watching you." Leo smiled nervously, chuckling some before turning his attention back to Kara.
"Thank you, Kara..for everything." He smiled softly at her and she smiled back in return. "I know you would do the same for me, Leo. That's what best friends are for." He smiled and leaned in, kissing her forehead before looking forward seeing Donnie staring at him from around the corner, fire in his eyes, telling him to 'back off' Leo chuckled wealky before taking a step back from her with his hands up. "Ok, ok." Kara blinked at his reaction and turned around wondering if someone was behind her but saw nothing and shrugged before going over to Mikey, who was now at the pinball machine, Donnie soon joining them along with Leo and Raph but noticed them leave and smiled before playing next. "Good thing I don't need to use my shoulder for this." She chuckled while playing.
That night silent footsteps wandered the lair, entering each bedroom one by one, two figures going into separate rooms. One figure, Leo, taking Mikey's and Raph's room and the other, Kara, taking Donnie's and Master Splinter's room.
Leo, slowly and silently opens Mikey's room first to see him snoring away, his body sprawled all over his bed with his blanket barely hanging onto him. Leo snickers quietly before raising a large marker over him and started scribbling on his plastron. After his task was complete he went into Raph's room, who was laying on his side, Spike under his arm. Leo moved quietly, slowly pulling his blanket down and wrote on his plastron as well as drawing on his face and left before he could wake up.
Kara snuck into Donnie's room first and saw him sleeping peacefully, his mouth opened somewhat as he breathes in and out softly laying on his shell. She smiles at how cute he was but her smile turned into a grin as she slowly moved his arms to his side and lowered the blanket to his waist before writing something on his plastron. She snickered quietly before leaving, now it was just Master Splinter's room.
She slowly slid the door open and crawled into his bedroom, holding a pack of cottonballs in her mouth and when she was beside a peaceful Master Splinter snoring softly she slowly opened the pack and took out two large handfuls, stuffing them into his ears before crawling away, leaving the bag behind.
Leo and Kara returned to the livingroom and grinned at each other, Leo holding a pot and a wooden spoon. "Operation: Pay back is ready, Cap!" Kara whispers excitedly as she takes out an old fashion camera. "Begin operation..now"
Leo starting banging the spoon against the pot making Mikey fall out of his bed with a shout, Raph jolt up, his eyes wide open, and Donnie opening his eyes before they run out of their rooms to see what the commotion was.
When they reach the livingroom they would see Kara and Leo laughing their butts off. "What the..what's going on?!" Raph shouts, enraged to be awoken in the middle of the night before looking over at his two brothers and laughing.
On Mikey's plastron was written "Micheloser"
and on Donnie's was "Dorkatello"
Mikey and Donnie looked at one another before laughing their butts off at Raph who had he word "Raphaelunatic" on his and clown make up drawn on his face.
"3...2...1."
Everyone looked at one another as they explained why they were laughing and soon the picture taking commenced as Kara took photos of their shocked faces looking from their plastrons to the others, pointing and freaking out.
Raph looked more ticked than anything and soon was running after them, which Kara took pictures of as well.
Kara looked down at the photos she had taken and smiled happily before putting them away and laying down in her own bed at her place. "I'm so happy to met you guys.." She yawned loudly before closing her eyes to slumber.
A few seconds later her eyes open again in panic. "I forgot to take the cotton out of Master Splinter's ears.."
Back at the lair:
Master Splinter is still asleep unaware of the events that had been going on, snoring the night away.