It was around six in the morning when Kara ran inside an abandoned building, out of breath. "I'm not too late am I?" She asks and sighs in relief seeing the guys, and April around Sara to wish her a goodbye.
Kara walks up to them just as Mikey was talking to her. "Will we ever see you again?" He asks while hugging her tightly around the waist. Sara laughed softly and patted his head. "Of course, I'll come by whenever I can. I promise." She said making Mikey happy and squeeze tighter before he steps back.
"Who knew we would make friends with a celebrity." Raph says with a grin.
"Yeah, not bad for a couple of mutant turtles." Leo agrees with him.
She looks over noticing Kara and smiles giving her a hug. "I'm happy I won't have to worry about you so much. You really have grown..I am proud of you."
Donnie walks up to her with a small smile on his face. "I promise I will find a cure for you, Sara."
"No need to worry about me, Donnie. I am getting use to my powers and I've grown to like them." She said with a smile and kissed each of the turtles heads making them blush, Mikey fainting in the process.
Sara walks up to April and smiles at her. "Please take care of my sister..she hasn't fully matured yet like you are so watch over her." She whispers the last part to April with a playful wink making April smile and nod before Sara moves over to her things.
"We can drive you to airport with the Shellraiser." Leo says but Sara shakes her head. "Its too far out of town and I wouldn't want to risk you guys getting seen. I'll hail myself a cab though." She said while picking up a duffel bag and a rolling travel bag. She stops at the front of the entrance and looks back at them giving them a wave before leaving.
Kara watches her go a hint of sadness crossing her face but feels an arm wrap around her and looks up to see Donnie and smiles.
"Well, I better return home and get what rest I can til school starts." April says with a yawn before waving bye to them and leaving.
Kara yawns as well feeling the tiredness take over. "Sleep sounds good."
"Oh no you don't since you're up you can help me with some stuff around the lab til we have to train."
"But..." Kara turns around to run off but forgets Donnie still had his arm around her and stops her, picking her up and over his shoulder as they all leave to the Shellraiser, Kara kicking her legs and screaming the whole way. "Nooo! My bed calls to me! I must heed its call!" Mikey and the others laugh at her as they all get inside the Shellraiser and drive off back to the lair.
-Back at the lair-
"Ugh..we've been at this for seven hours! When can we take a break." Kara asks laying back against the rolling chair, limp, pushing herself across the lab while passing Metalhead.
"While your over there can you hand me the blue beaker?" Donnie asks not taking his eyes off the project at hand. She sighs and grabs it from off the shelf and rolls herself back to him, handing it to him. "Thanks."
The sound of her stomach gurgling and groaning wakes her up realizing she hadn't eaten and sits up. "I'm going to the kitchen to grab a bite. Want anything?"
"No thanks, I'm good."
"Atleast something to drink. We've been in here for awhile now and you haven't eaten. Your body needs energy and you get that energy from food. I'll just make you a sandwich and some ice cold tea, how about that? We can share it."
He sighs but nods with a smile. "Alright, fine."
"Good." She grins triumphantly before kissing his cheek and leaves.
"Oh, cut off the crust!" He shouts. "Fine!" She shouts back making him smile more before going back to work.
She hums to herself making two sandwiches for her and one for him, cutting the crust off his and eating it, can't waste right? She pours two glasses of tea for them but jumps, spilling some tea on the counter hearing Raph yell, "Mikey!" She groans and cleans up her mess before walking to the living room to see what's up.
"Dude, those things are like twenty years old. They're not exactly modern."
"They're vintage. It took me six years to collect them. Six years."
"Chillax bro, I'll clean it for ya." Kara blinked when she saw Mikey licking it and shook her head. She walks up beside Spike when Raph set him down and winced when Raph hit Mikey over the head with the magazine. She looked down at Spike and sighed. "They're at it again, aren't they?" He looked up at her and blinked before she petted his head. "I'll take that as a yes."
"It's just stuff, Raph, meager possessions." Leo said still playing his game.
Kara noticed Mikey's upset look and felt sorry for him but also knew Raph had a point.
"What about your precious comic book collection, huh? You always stick up for Mikey try seeing my point of view for once!"
"I get it. I just think, like Master Splinter says, material possessions are fleeting."
Kara flinched when Raph pushed the arcade game and opened her mouth to say something but no words came out.
"Enough! I'm tired of you three! You're always messing up and I gotta pay for it!" Raph said while throwing his magazine down. Kara went to place her hand on his shoulder but he shoved it off and went over to practice dummy to let out some steam.
"Think we should go cheer him up? You and me?" Kara asked with a grin looking down at Spike. He had a smile on his, blinking. "I'll take that as a yes." She said while laughing and bent down to pick him up but froze hearing a strange sound and suddenly fireworks shot out from the lab going every direction. She ducked down one barely missing her head. "Phew!"
She heard Raph shout out Spike's name and saw one coming their way. She grabbed Spike, holding him to her chest and dodge rolled out of the way in time, the crate he was on exploding. "Well..if that didn't wake me up I don't know what will.." She said to Spike but blinked when Raph came over and picked him up to see if he was ok, talking softly to him.
"Oh, geez, Raph. I'm fine thank you for taking concern for me." "Oh, no problem, Kara, what're friends for." Kara said imitating Raph's voice while standing up, dusting herself off.
She heard a cough and looked over just as Donnie walking out with his goggles still on. "Wow, I did not see that one coming. Everyone ok?"
"What're you crazy? No! We're not ok!" Raph yelled out loud.
"What happened here?!" She turned around seeing Master Splinter come into view and sighed, opening her mouth to explain but Raph beat her to it.
"I'll tell you what happened, Master Splinter, Donnie almost blew us up! Again! What's worse he almost blew up Spike!"
"No, I'm fine, reaally." Kara said sarcastically while popping her back.
"Raph, dude, I'm really sorry."
"Sorry doesn't cut it this time. Until the mad scientist gets his act together I'm holding this for safe keeping." Kara blinked in surprise when he brought out the tank of mutagen and stepped in front of him. "Whoa, Raph, no need to go that far. It was just an accident. He needs that to find a cure!"
"I don't care he needs to learn to be more careful!"
"Are you forgetting something? I saved Spike! I could of been blown up as well does that not concern you at all?!"
Donnie stared at her in surprise. "W-wait, what? You almost got hurt?"
"I'm fine. I dodged the fireworks before any real damage could be done..Listen, Raph, how about you and me go up to the surface and just chill. Cool your head off for a couple minutes?" Kara smiled reaching for his shoulder again but he jerked it away.
"You're always standing up for your boyfriend and I've had it! What about me? Huh? What about Spike?!"
Kara glared and slapped him across the face making everyone stop what they're doing and stare in shock at what just happened. "You need to lower your tone and calm down before you end up hurting someone. I'll be on the rooftop near the abandoned theater if you want to hang out and just talk." She turned around and left leaving them all perplexed before Raph glared in her direction and left for his room.
-In Raph's room-
"The others are holding me back. We should be out there fighting crime, tracking mutagen but all they want to do is play games...though it seem Kara's the only one who understands..she's the only one that knows how to calm me down..the only one who gets it." He said while rubbing his cheek still shocked that she hit him but looked over hearing Spike make a noise and smiled giving him a pat on his head. "You get it too, don't you Spike?"
He fell onto his bed, sighing. "Sometimes I wish I was on my own. Doing things my way. I'm so tired of this team..the only one who is stronger than them is Kara. We'd make a pretty good team." He heard a knock on his door.
"Uh dude..you still mad?" Mikey asked softly nervous to talk to him.
"What do you want, Mikey?" Raph asked with annoyance not bothering to sit up and look at him.
"Master Splinter wants us to help clean up."
Raph shot up in anger. "No way! Not a chance! Donnie can clean up his own explosion."
"Hey, if you wanna tell Sensei you're not helping out that's all on you." Mikey said, pointing at him with a small grin on his face, opening the door a little more.
Raph got up out of bed, walking towards Mikey. "Fine, I will!" He said shoving Mikey aside before looking back at Spike, closing the door behind him causing the mutagen canister to fall and break open.
Everyone was doing their part in the cleaning whether it was sweeping, picking up large pieces of trash or even mopping everyone was cleaning, even Master Splinter.
"Sensei! This is completely unfair! Donnie made this mess how come I have to help?!"
"Allow me to make a suggestion, Raphael." Master Splinter started. Raph rolled his eyes while touching his forehead. "Suggest what, Sensei? I am sick of suggestions! What could you possibly sug-"
Master Splinter touched a pressure point on Raph, cutting his sentence short as he started twitching before falling to to floor, paralyzed.
"Perhaps you should sit and meditate for awhile." Master Splinter said calmly before going back to what he was doing.
-At the abandoned Theater-
Kara sighed softly, hugging her knees to her chest waiting patiently for Raph.
"Argh! It's been over an hour now!" Patiently, yeah. She stood up and kicked the large sign but yelled in pain, holding her foot. She groaned and leaned against the sign, crossing her arms over her chest. "He'd usually be here by now..what's taking him so long? He better not have forgotten me." She said with annoyance thinking of the times he would fight with his brothers they would just sit up here and talk about whatever to calm him down and it always worked too. Sometimes she'd even grab them a bite to eat.
"Speaking of grabbing a bite to eat.." She started placing her arms over her angry stomach. "Better get something to eat before my stomach decides to eat itself..won't be a pretty sight..or feeling." She pushed herself off the sign and went to walk away but heard something hard hit the roof.
Her instincts kicked in putting on her gloves before turning around towards the direction the sound came from. "Whose there? Show yourself!"
Out of the shadows appeared a seven foot tortoise with spikes all over it's shell and body.
"Who are you?" She said sternly getting into a fighting stance.
"Names Slash but you know me as Spike." He said in a low, gruff voice.
"Spike? But..how? Wait...great..Raph must of dropped Donnie's mutagen canister and mutated you."
"It wasn't his fault he just helped make me into something better and stronger."
Getting a better look at him she noticed a mace attached to his side..a rather large mace. "..What do you plan on doing with that?" She asked nodding her head towards his weapon.
"This? It's for the enemies that stand in our way."
"Our way?" She asked with a questioning look.
"Yeah. Raph and I are forming a team. You see, we're not liking the way his 'brothers' are running things so we decided to form our own team and fight crime, collect mutagen canisters ourselves. We'd get things done quicker and better." Slash said while walking around her slowly almost like a predator to prey.
"So, why are you telling me this?" She asked in a suspicious tone, her eyes never leaving him; her guard up.
"Because, I've seen the way you fight and you're strong. Stronger than the others..perhaps even stronger than your Sensei. I want you to join our team. Together we'd be unstoppable. No one can stand in our way. Just the three of us like old times. So..what'd you say?" He asked with a grin on his face, holding his hand out to her.
She looked at him for a minute before putting her hands in her vest pocket and stood there. "So, you want me to abandon not only my friends, but my boyfriend, to join you and fight bad guys nonstop just to get things done quicker?" As she was talking she wrapped her fingers around her pepperspray inside her pocket and gave him a grin, clenching it tight. "Sorry, but I'm gonna have to decline your offer."
She heard a growl coming from him and knew what was coming next. "Such a waste of great talent..well, I'll just have to take you down then." He brought out his mace and raised it to strike but she was quicker. She took out her pepperspray, raising it over her head to reach his own and pushed the button, spraying the pepperspray in his face and eyes. He yelled in pain, dropping his weapon behind him and she took this opportunity and jumped up.
Slash felt something light touch his plastron and when he opened his red, teary eyes the first thing his blurry vision saw was her feet as it slammed into his face pushing him backwards. He stumbles over his mace causing him to fall.
She stood on top of him and crossed her arms over her chest, pepperspray still in hand. "If you know my fighting style so well then you should of seen that coming."
He glared at her and went to slap her away like a fly but she jumps backwards, evading his attack just as he gets up, panting. "Heh, I may not be able to attack you head on..but I know your weakness." He chuckled darkly before grabbing his mace and fleeing the scene.
"My weakness.." She closed her eyes thinking over what he said til her eyes snapped open, jerking her head in the direction he was going. "The guys!" She ran to the edge, jumping to the next building, following after him but ended up losing sight of him.
"How do I lose sight of such a huge turtle..tortoise!" She grunted in annoyance before taking out her cellphone and dialing Donnie's number to warn him.
-With the guys-
Donnie and Mikey watch as Leo and Raph fly into each other and begin to argue, Donnie sighing in annoyance. "Ugh, are they gonna argue all night? The mutagens getting away!" Donnie blinked hearing his T-phone ring and looks at the caller ID seeing it was Kara before answering. "Hello, this is tall, dark, and handsome speaking." He said with a cheeky grin
"Donnie, wait..what? Nevermind, listen I need you, Mikey, and Leo to leave now! Stop tracking the mutagen and get back to the lair!" She warned over the phone, her voice speaking of urgency.
"Kara I can't understand you, what's going-mmph!" He felt something grab him from behind, pulling him into the shadows, Mikey's back to him.
"Dude, I can totally see Raph's forehead veins bulging from here. Check it out! His heads gonna pop!" Mikey pointed out not noticing Donnie was gone.
"Hello? Donnie? DONNIE!" She hung up the phone when there was no response and ran faster. "No no no!"
She fell to one knee, breathing heavy from all the running and jumping. She looked down at her legs feeling them tremble from lack of energy and groaned wishing she had eaten the sandwiches before going to see what was going on. "Just a little more..they shouldn't be too far..just a little more." She slowly stood up while observing the area, hearing a small groan.
Following the sound she eventually found Donnie sitting down, leaned against a wall with his head down. "Donnie.." She rushed to his side seeing he was beaten and bruised badly, his mask gone. She lifted his head up gently causing him to open his eyes. "Ugh..h-hey, Kara."
"Shh, it's going to be ok." She smiled while stroking his cheek and looked up hearing Mikey shout, "There he is! Donnie!"
She stood up just as they came into view. When she saw Mikey wasn't hurt she felt relieved before turning to Raph noticing he was looking at something else and followed his eyes to see claw marks on an A/C unit and Donnie's weapon; the blade part broken in half.
"Ugh..what hit me? It was like Raph only bigger and meaner. Angrier but not quite as ugly."
She gave him a small grin seeing he was able to make jokes despite being injured.
"It was Spike. He got into the mutagen I was gonna tell you guys but-"
"Spike?" Donnie interrupted. "Way to keep that mutagen safe, Raph."
"Enough talking. Come on, we need to get you somewhere safe." She said while helping Donnie up, Raph taking him from her. She grabbed his staff and gave it to him, fearing he may have broken something and didn't want to make it worse.
It was difficult to carry Donnie away from the area but eventually they made it about two miles out with Mikey patrolling ahead of them. She hid her exhaustion from them for she was too focused and worried about Donnie.
Helping him down onto one more roof he fell to his knees, Kara immediately going to his side helping him lean back against the wall. "Can't make it..too weak..go on without me fellas."
"No turtle left behind. That's our rule."
"Yeah, what Raph said. This is no time for your jokes."
"I'm going to tie off your sprained arm. It might hurt, ok? Bite down on this." Raph said while taking out his sai and shoving the handle into his mouth.
"Yuck, it tastes like leather and sweat."
"Well what do you expect? It's Raph's weapon after all."
"Yeah, yeah." Raph grumbles while working on the sling for his arm. Kara watches him worried not only for the guys but how it'll effect Raph not noticing Mikey wandered off. "Look, Raph.."
"AHHHHHH!"
She froze for a minute before standing up searching the area frantically. "..That sounded like Mikey."
"Wait here!" Raph yelled and ran off to find him. Her eyes wandered in every direction in a panic thinking of the possibilities that Mikey is either injured bad..or dead. She jolted feeling a hand grabbing hers and looked down at Donnie.
"Calm down...breathe." She nodded and closed her eyes doing the breathing technique and sighed softly before looking down at him. "I'll be fine here. Go help Raph find Mikey." She gave him a nod before bending down and kissing him on the lips. "Don't go anywhere." She said with a small grin.
"Haha very funny." He said sarcastically before they kissed again and she ran off in the direction Raph was going.
When she caught up to him she saw him down the fire escape before looking around for Mikey and when she saw him..the sight will haunt her in her nightmares.
Mikey was dangling from the side of a building by rope with bruises and slash marks on him. He looked barely alive. She covered her mouth in horror. "Mikey..." She runs over to help Raph get him back onto the roof and checks for any bleeding or fatal injuries.
"Still breathing." Raph mutters to himself. "Why...WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!" Raph yells out searching Slash.
"The others hold you back. Limit your potential. You don't need them. Just. Like. You. Said."
"RAPH, LOOK OU-!" Before she could finish her sentence Slash smacked him away, he hitting the wall on the other side of the roof. Kara stood up ready to defend Mikey, taking out her pepperspray but before she could use it he was behind her with his arm raised. "That trick won't work on me a second time!" He shouted before backhanding her away, she landing on the ground hard. While she struggled to pick herself up Slash walked past the two and grabbed Mikey by his ankle, dragging him to the edge.
"No! They're my brothers I never wanted this!" Raph shouted.
"There's no turning back now." Slash said while holding Mikey over the edge of the roof. Kara slowly sat up, holding her head, the left side feeling numb, while looking to them, seeing Slash holding Mikey over the edge ticked her off. She stood up and readied to attack.
"Stop Kara!" She blinked and looked over at Raph, noticing the serious look on his face. "This is between me and him. Stay out of it. Go find Leo and warn him." She nodded to him and turned the opposite direction, running off to the last place they were all together and to trace her steps then. While leaving she could hear Raph speaking.
"I wanna fight you! You're not Spike. You're some kind of warped monster! A deranged, hideous freak!"
"You can beat him." She said to herself with a grin, running faster as their battle started.
Looking down at her phone she was following the tracking device that Donnie set up in each T-phone, adding the app to her phone so she could track them in case of such emergencies as this. "What the..I went around in circles!" She stopped, sweat now sliding down her face, and looked down at her phone seeing the blue dot blinking on the screen before looking at the apartment complex across from her seeing Leo..playing..tea party..with a little girl! She quickly snapped a picture of this rare occasion before calling him but before he could answer in pops Raph and Slash fighting.
"No need for the call, I guess." She puts away her phone before following after them.
"Leo!"
Leo stops and sees Kara running towards him. "Kara..you're hurt!"
"No time to explain. Right now we gotta help Raph! He and the others are in danger."
Leo nods, turning his older brother instincts on and follows her to where the others are.
They caught up just in time to see Slash using Raph like a punching bag. Leo glared, his eyes going completely white as he jumps from the building towards them and strikes at Slash with his katanas before going over to Raph to help him, Kara joining them soon after.
"So what's with the new turtle?"
"Long story. Look out!" Raph shouts as Slash roars, punching Leo to the ground, rolling away towards a skylight, landing on his stomach. "Been looking forward to that for a looong time." Slash chuckles darkly making Kara grit her teeth in anger and run up to him while his back is turned, running up his shell, doing a flip over him then a spin kick across his face, glaring at him.
"You're not Spike! He wouldn't harm his close friend or his family he would protect them! You don't deserve that name anymore! " She said while uppercutting him. He growled angrily at her, grabbing her arm and punched her in the stomach sending her flying backwards, knocking the air out of her.
Raph watches this his face turning in anger as he takes out a small knife. "That's it. It's over."
"That's right. We're not like the others they're weak. We're powerful. Our anger makes us strong!" Each word seemed to be making Raph even more furious til he suddenly had an idea.
As Slash charged to finish the fight Raph held up his finger, a grin on his face and when Slash went to strike. He dodged and moved to touch a pressure point. "Meditate on this!" He said just as his finger made contact with the pressure point on his arm Slash's muscles tensed up.
He tried to fight it, Raph taking back his brother's masks before Slash stumbled towards the edge. Raph saw him close to the edge and ran to catch him, shouting "Spike" instead of Slash but he didn't make it in time, missing by a couple of inches, watching his close friend fall.
Kara sat up, holding her stomach in pain while coughing, her body aching from the fight and lack of energy. She looked up seeing Raph and the others around her, Leo with his hand out to her, which she gladly took.
"You guys alright?"
"Yeah, thanks to you."
"What happened to Spike?"
"That was Spike?!" Leo shouted, looking to Raph.
Kara sighed. "Yeah, we'll explain later." They all walked to the ledge where Slash had fallen and saw a small crater from where he landed.
"He's gone! He's still out there..somewhere." All Kara could do was place her hand on Raph's shoulder before walking away with his brothers. Raph stared at the empty space one more time before following his family.
After a long long time of healing and Kara eating half the refrigerator empty everyone was doing their own thing. Donnie, Leo, and Mikey were playing their game again. Kara walks out from the kitchen full and satisfied but notices Raph off to the side staring at a half eaten leaf. She walks over to the others and nudges them to get their attention, nodding her head towards Raph. They nod and gather around him just as he stands up.
"Hey." Kara started, helping Raph to his feet.
"Sorry about Spike, Raphael." Leo said giving him a concerned look.
"It's ok...You...you guys aren't too bad to hangout with either!" Raph said with a grin, gathering them all in a group hug, Donnie to his right, Mikey and Kara in the middle, and Leo to his left. They all look at each other before they begin to speak, starting with Leo.
Leo gently squeezed Raph's shoulder. "..Raph..I think he'll come back soon."
"I'll find a cure. I promise." Donnie added in placing his hand over Raph's.
"Next time we meet him, I wanna be his good friend!" Mikey said with a smile on his face.
"When he comes back I'll make him a special salad but you'll have to stock the lettuce." Kara said softly with a cheeky grin on her face.
She could feel his body shaking as he tries to hold back his tears only to fail; tears streaming down his face while biting back the sobs. "...Thanks, guys...thanks."
They all smile at him but before anyone could do or say anything Raph uses Donnie's sling as a tissue blowing his snot all over it. Donnie yelled out a disgusted,"NOO!" his body tensing up like a cat's making Mikey, Leo, and Kara laugh at them.
She goes to leave letting the brother's have their moment but is stopped by Master Splinter. "Miss Kara where do you think you're going?"
"Um..sir?"
He grabbed her by the ear, dragging her to the kitchen while she yells in pain and sees the kitchen looked like a hurricane had hit it. "...I was hungry.."
"You will clean this mess up and you owe us a month's worth of groceries." He said sternly with his arms crossed. "Oookkk..no way!" She made the mistake of trying to run away but he tripped her with his tail and spun her around back in front of the kitchen, her landing on her stomach. "...I think I'm gonna hurl.."
"Another mess for you to clean up." He said while chuckling. Leaving her to clean as she cries out loud. "Noooooooo!"
Haha, yay! I did it! I like how it went and I hope you do too. The fluffiness towards the ending goes to none other than FREAKfreak on deviantart and her artwork is called "We Can Meet Him Again". I asked her so don't get all defensive or anything and I'm giving credit to her so hush! Ahem, anyways, if you want to check out her amazing work then here is the website right here... You know the routine rate/comment. All feedback is appreciated! :D