It now being over a month since Kara was severely injured fighting Shredder's minions and she was close to full recovery now able to walk freely and do things on her own but her muscles still ache every now and then.
Kara and Dragan were at home unpacking Dragan's things into her new room though it was more Dragan moving and more of Kara looking through her things in awe than helping.
"Come on, Kara. This is taking much longer than it shuid.." She said with a hint of annoyance but couldn't help but smile at how Kara was reacting to her things, made her feel proud for owning it.
"I'm sorry just never liked unpacking. It's so much work." Kara responded back as she fell backwards with a pout before sitting up straight once more finding a cute plush toy of a baby panda. "This is so adorable! And so fluffy! Where'd you get this at?"
Dragan blinked but smiled and sat down beside her taking the plush from her. "It was won on a family trip. Oor town is small so we don't get a lot o carnivals o festivals in oor area. It was ma birthday an I heard in school thare was a carnival three hours away from ma hometown an I wanted tae go so bad but despite the drive an the cost ma parents took me anyways. We had such a great time we even rented oor first hotel. I know it disnae seem like much but..it was during a time we truly felt like a family." Dragan's eyes shined at the memories of when she was younger and gently sniffed the panda still able to smell the smallest aroma of the carnival foods.
Kara watched her and smiled softly before pulling out a jewelry box and sighed softly. "That's why I'm so interested in your things. You have so many stories..so many memories with everything you have. It's amazing." She looked over down at the jewelry box then outside to the living room. Everything she had she bought herself. She had no memories of her own with her family, nothing to look back on other than the thoughts in her head.
Feeling a hand on her shoulder she looked over at Dragan who gave her a soft smile and a tender hug not fully knowing what she was going through but understood her feelings. Giving her a gentle squeeze before letting go.
Kara smiled at her but blinked when her phone notified her of a message and unlocked it to see it was Mrs. Christine. "Oh, it's my teacher, she wants to meet me for lunch..you can meet her!" Kara shouted in excitement surprising Dragan as she responded to the text. "Oh! There's someone else I want you to meet. He's a close friend and my manager he can join us as well." Kara continued to text Mrs. Christine about bringing Casey and a new friend to meet.
Waiting for her to respond Kara stood up to change from her tank top and shorts to her regular clothes while Dragan was already wearing her outfit. "I guess we could take a break..." She looked over at what they had done: only having unpacked two boxes. Turning her head to the direction of the rest of her stuff being eight more boxes she sighed in defeat. "We're niver gonna finish." She muttered under her breath but blinked when her stomach growled.
"She said yes!" Kara shouted from her room with excitement making Dragan smile. "So, when are we going tae meet them?" Dragan walked out from her room just as Kara walked out of hers.
"Right now." Kara said grabbing her house key and grinned excitedly to Dragan. "You ready?"
Dragan nodded and followed after her. "Nervous but I'm ready."
"Awesome! By the way, we should make you a key copy before we meet them." She said opening the door as both of them walked out.
Arriving at Murakami's on Kara's scooter, both of them walked in and Kara waved at a tall woman with red hair and piercing blue eyes carrying a baby and an equally tall man with blonde hair and green eyes in a formal suit.
"Thay both look so professional..." Dragan looked down at her own outfit suddenly regretting her choice of clothing and became nervous.
Kara took Dragan's hand and lead her to them smiling wide as usual which eased Dragan's mind a little.
"Casey! Mrs. Christine! I'm so happy to see you guys and Zach of course." She swooped Zach up from his mother's arms and held him up, making him squeal in laughter, before hugging him.
"Hey, kid. Thanks for the invite. It's nice to finally meet one of your friends. Speaking of which, you haven't introduced us." Casey cleared his throat interrupting Kara giving Zach raspberries on his belly making her stand up straight before giving Zach back to his mother. "Oh, uh, sorry." Rubbing the back of her head she cleared her throat before holding her hand out to Dragan and grinned.
"This is my friend, Dragan Macintosh. She's from Scotland and recently moved here with her family on business. Dragan, this is Casey Jackson, he's my uh manager and this is Mrs. Christine your soon-to-be tutor."
Casey held out his hand to Dragan and gently shook it. "Pleasure to meet a friend of Kara's." He greeted giving her a gentle smile making her blink in surprise but smile and shake his hand in return. "Likewise, sir."
"Nice to meet you, Miss Macintosh. So I will be tutoring you as well? My, my class is growing. Soon I'll have a whole classroom to teach." She let out a soft chuckle before Casey opened the door for them and they all walked in.
Minutes after the introduction things were going great. Everyone was having a good time and Dragan wasn't nervous anymore, and actually started liking Casey and Mrs. Christine.
"So you've had to travel at such a young age? That must of been hard for you." Mrs. Christine spoke sympathetically to her.
"It wasn't too bad, tae be honest. I got tae see some amazing sights, meet incredible people, annn I learned something cool." Dragan said with a sly smile.
"Like what?" Kara asked curiously while putting a Pizza Gyoza in her mouth.
Giggling at Kara's reaction she took a deep breath then spoke. "Ok, but you have to promise to keep it a secret. You can't tell anyone!"
Kara's eyes almost popped out hearing Dragan's voice. Her accent was completely gone! It was as if someone else was speaking for her. Even Casey and Mrs. Christine were surprised. "How'd you do that?!" Kara exclaimed in amazement.
Dragan was laughing at this point. "Traveling has it's advantages, specially traveling in the states for so many years but it gets exhausting speaking like this after awhile though so I prefer nae tae dae it." She said before eating her soup. She wasn't too fond of Asian food but it wasn't too bad. Tasted more real than the buffets her parents would drag her to every so often.
"So, Mrs. Christine, you said your class is growing. Are you teaching other kids as well?" Casey asked curiously as he sipped his tea remembering from what Kara told him, it was always just her.
"Oh, Kara didn't tell you? I'm teaching her other fr-"
"I HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM! MRS. CHRISTINE HELP ME!" Kara suddenly busted out and grabbed Mrs. Christine's hand leading her and Zach to the restroom.
"Miss Kara, that was rude. You know better than to do th-"
"I know, I know and I'm sorry but Casey doesn't know about..."them" yet. I haven't had time to tell him about them and I keep forgetting to mention one to the other. Please don't tell him. I promise I'll tell him soon I just haven't found the right time." Kara held her hands together in a pleading motion and stared up at her.
Mrs. Christine sighed. "Alright, fine, but secrets have a cost...but you're maturing wonderfully Kara, so I trust you." She smiled softly at her before walking out.
Kara sighed in relief and went to step out but blinked realizing she indeed had to use the restroom.
After she finishing her business and washing her hands she walked out and headed back to her table to see Mrs. Christine had left. With a pout she sat down and looked at Casey.
"Her husband arrived at the airport." He simply said before taking out a cigarette knowing not to smoke around children and babies. "I have to vamoose as well, have to run some errands. I'll see you later kids." He pulled out money to cover all of them despite Mrs. Christine leaving her part. This made Kara pout more but blinked when she felt a hand on her head. "You can come by anytime, kid." Casey said to her with a chuckle before leaving.
"Keep forgetting how cool he is." She sighed hoping to hang out with them more but smiled watching him leave and knew it's been awhile since Mrs. Christine seen her husband.
Seeing Kara's dismay Dragan had a thought and smiled before giving her a gentle nudge. "Oi, let's go see the guys. Seeing Donnie always cheers ye up."
Kara glanced over at Dragan and had a small smile on her face and nodded. "Alright, let's go."
Upon entering the lair both of them could hear commotion in the lab.
Rolling her eyes Kara tilted her head to Dragan with a grin on her face. "Wonder what Mikey broke this time." She chuckled before running to the lab with a giggling Dragan right behind her.
Opening the doors she was greeted with purple fog. She waved it away as she began coughing but froze as she felt no air entering her lungs. Letting out a gasp she fell to her knees and began choking. She tried to shoo Dragan away but she was met with the same fate.
Hearing the gasping Donnie turned to see Dragan and Kara, his eyes widening in panic as he reached for two masks he made specially for the girls and Casey Jones in case they ever went with them to Dimension X.
Tossing one to Leo they both hurried to the girls side and placed the masks over their faces and pushed a button, the sound of air filling the mask going off as both of them breathe in the fresh air like taking large gulps of water after walking through a desert.
Both the girls were now coughing as their body tried to rid itself of the hazardous air and Donnie pressed another button so they could be able to hear her when she spoke.
"What...what was that?" She choked out as Donnie helped her to her feet. She looked at him noticing a strange piece of equipment dangling from their mouths. "And..what's that?"
Leo followed Donnie's movements and pushed the button to release the air and gently patted her back as she began to cough as well. She gave him a reassuring smile after awhile and he helped her to her feet.
"These are filtration units. Kinda like your breathing masks that I invented but suits our body structures."
"How are thay working so perfectly?" Dragan questioned in amazement never seeing any of Donnie's inventions before other than the Shellraiser.
Donnie pointed at the masks and opened his mouth to tell her exactly how but to save everyone from a full on detailed description Kara put her arm around Donnie and smiled. "Because he's a genius now..what's going on?"
Donnie smiled at Kara before walking up to the portal. "I think this goes to Dimension X."
"Where the Kraang come from?" Leo asked.
"Yes, it's-"
The communication orb lit up and a voice began speaking before a figure of Leatherhead popped up.
"Leatherhead! He's alive!" Mikey shouted making Kara push her way to the orb as the others gathered around it and sure enough saw him. Kara placed her hands over her mask smiling with glee to see her old friend once again but lowered them as she listened to his message.
"Turtles, the Kraang have perfected the Mutagen they are about to-" The recording was interrupted and soon turned off.
"Oh no, they got him! He needs our help!" Mikey shouted and began biting his fingers in worry. Kara placed her hand over his shell.
Kara glanced over at Dragan who seemed somewhat confused at the situation and began to explain what had happened from when they met to the first invasion plan, then how he sacrificed himself to stopping the portal.
"He must be in Dimension X. As soon as the portal opened his signal came through and activated the orb."
"I can't imagine what they must be doing to him..." Kara clenched her fists and squeezed her eyes shut at the thought of the Kraang torturing Leatherhead.
Dragan placed her hand on Kara's arm before turning to Mikey as he spoke.
"Can it tell us where he is?"
"Maybe if I can-"
Donnie wasn't able to finish his sentence for Mikey took the orb and began hitting it against a hard surface while shouting, "Where is he?!"
Donnie grabbed the orb while Leo and Raph sat Mikey down. "I can fix this but it may take awhile." Donnie said staring down at the orb.
Dragan went to grab her sword from the Dojo while Leo talked to the others about devising a plan which received a determined "Yeah!" from Mikey.
"Part one: Mikey stays here." Leo said pointing at Mikey. Kara and him blinked in surprise at his part one plan. "What, why?"
"No way, he's Leatherhead's friend he has to go." Kara added in with her arms crossed.
"You've been messing up to much lately. We can't take the chance" Leo pointed out before walking away. Kara looked down at Mikey seeing his saddened expression and placed a hand on his shoulder knowing how strong of a bond they made.
Not noticing his determined look she blinked when he suddenly stood up and ran at the portal. "Mikey, no!"
Everyone turned their attention to them and saw Mikey jump into the portal while yelling, "Booyakasha!" then he was gone.
Leo and Raph jumped on the car but weren't fast enough to catch him.
"We gotta go after him." Raph exclaimed with worry.
"Let's move!" Both Leo and Raph stood up facing the portal.
"Oh, jeez..Dragan!" Kara shouted as loud as she could through her mask though luckily Dragan walked through the door to the room just in time. "Put on your spacesuit..this turned into a double mission." Kara said as she climbed on top of the car as well.
Hearing the seriousness in her voice Dragan nodded and ran up to the car. "But we don't hae spacesuits.." She said in a light tone.
"Wait! The environment in there could be toxic-"
"There's no time!" Leo cut Donnie mid sentence before jumping into the portal alongside Raph and Dragan.
Kara turned and held her hand out to Donnie with a small smile as he put away his weapon and jumped onto the car. Taking her hand he gently squeezed it seeing her nervous look and gave her a reassuring smile before both of them jumped through together, the portal closing behind them.
It felt like they were being pulled down a whirlpool while being stretched out as they traveled through the portal, everyone screaming. "This is some looney tune weirdness!" Kara shouted as she was forced to let go of Donnie's hand til they were shocked then dropped into Dimension X Kara and Dragan being the last two out before it closed behind them.
Kara immediately looked over at Dragan to make sure she was ok before turning her attention to herself. "Arms, fingers, legs, toes, neck, head, breathing...still alive.." A wave of relief washed over her.
"Guys, uh...look." Everyone turned to where Leo was looking to see a crumbled world filled with different creatures. Kara's eyes widened at the sight of the place and the first thought that came to mind, "What a dump.."
Dragan moved closer to Leo while having her hand on the hilt of her sword. "This place.." She couldn't finish her sentence as she openly stared at the alien world she now stood in."Oh god, there's an eyeball. There's a huge eyeball...in the sky!" Dragan shouted getting close to panicking.
"Sooo this is Dimension X." Leo said dumbfoundedly as a Kraathatrogon flew over them with it's butt end smiling at them.
"Freakshoow." Raph said aloud.
"I have to agree with you there, Raph. This place is insane.." Kara turned in all directions taking the place in.
"There's no sun, there's no anything. How can-"
"Look out!" Raph shouted at Donnie as he walked backwards to observe his surroundings. Kara's eyes widen seeing him begin to fall and ran towards him to grab him but was too slow.
Skidding to a halt at the edge everyone ran to the edge but blinked with a questioning look when they saw him standing underneath them.
"This is ridiculous! Gravity cannot work like this!" Donnie shrieked in disbelief as Leo helped him back to them. Kara gave him a quick hug glad that he wasn't gone. Only been there for a couple seconds and she already had a scare. She wasn't going to like this place.
"Apparently, here it can."
"Yeah, different dimension." Donnie said to Leo while grabbing a small piece of rubble and throwing it one way and watched as it flew past them from behind before grabbing it the second time around. "Different laws of physics."
"But hae ye noticed something aboot this place?" Dragan wondered aloud as she stared off in the distance grabbing everyone's attention. "Thare's nae grass, nae water..thare's nae life in this dimension. Everything is crystalized..how can someone live in a world like this?" She said with a hint of sadness immediately thinking of home back in Scotland.
"That's probably why they're trying to invade earth. They destroyed this place and it's no longer a livable environment.." Kara answered in a low voice.
Raph hadn't spoken a word yet still in awe and dumbfounded at the place before he growled and grabbed the rubble, tossing it on the ground. "Let's just hurry up and find Mikey!"
"Any idea where to start?" Donnie raised a brow at Raph.
"That's as good of a place as any." Leo pointed ahead at an area that looked to be a good look out for them.
"Yeah but how do we get over-"
"Let's do it." Raph yelled cutting Kara off before she could finish and took a running start, jumping off the ground and managed to land at the far end where another piece of land was. "Ok, nevermind." Kara said in shock.
"What're you waiting for?! Come on!" Raph shouted from the other side.
Leo and Donnie looked at each other then to the girls before deciding to let them ride on their backs before doing the jumps. Kara felt nauseous and squeezed her eyes shut. "Ugh, this feels so weird with no gravity or air.."
"It's nae too bad. Makes me feel weightless." Dragan giggled.
"Why aren't we seeing any Kraang around here?" Leo whispered to Donnie as he and Kara landed beside him.
"I dunno but atleast they don't know we're here."
"Except for those." Raph said landing between them and pointed ahead to two flashing rows of balls.
Everyone was in a trance watching them dance and flash Kara laying her head against Donnie's shoulder feeling as though she could watch it forever.
"Aw, look at the little guys! They're all cute and sparkly!" Raph said in a cute voice.
"Thay're both so pretty.." Dragan was in a daze but blinked when she noticed it was moving towards them.
"Wait, are they little?" Leo asked as he and the others snapped out of their trance as it moved right in front of them and suddenly began to spark.
"Nope." Both Donnie and Kara said weakly just before they screamed as it attacked them forcing them off the platform they were on and land further down. Dragan jumped off Leo's back and went to go check on Kara since she rolled off Donnie's back as he landed on his stomach.
Helping Kara to her feet Dragan grabbed the hilt of her sword to go and assist Raph and Leo but slowly removed her hand watching as the thing electrocuted them until Donnie shoved them away from his brothers and attacked with some throwing stars.
Kara grabbed Dragan's hand while they were distracting it and ran off.
"Wait, we cannae lea-"
"They'll be alright, Dre-ah!" Something grabbed her waist and pulled her along with Dragan, since she still had ahold of her hand, behind a wall of crystals and blinked when something green covered her mask. Instinctively closing her mouth she glared at Raph who placed a finger over his lips telling them to keep quiet and snuck a peek to see the creatures looking around before leaving.
Letting go of her, Raph pointed upwards at Leo and Donnie before climbing up to meet them, the girls following after him.
"What the heck were those things?"
Kara glanced over at Leo and shrugged as she sat down beside Raph on the crystal, her hair dangling as if she was upside down which she wouldn't doubt since this place was nothing but a bag of crazy. "We're in Kraangville, who knows." She answered him in annoyance never liking being left in the dark about things or situations.
Dragan dangled from the crystal's rocking herself back and forth idly. "I daen't know why..but thay remind me o atoms." She said outloud not really speaking to anyone.
"If Mikey were here he'd come up with a name for them..he's probably Kraang bait right now."
Noting the concern in Raph's voice Kara gripped his shoulder and gave him a gentle shake. "Don't sell your brother so short, Raph. He's had you guys to show him how to survive and he'll be alright. We'll find him soon."
Raph looked at her and gave her a nod and a small smile.
"Besides," She continued as she stood up and stretched her arms. "This whole world is nothing but pinks, purples, and crystals. Finding your green and orange brother should be a snap." She said with a grin while snapping her fingers for emphasis getting a giggle out of Dragan only made her grin widen.
"That's a good one, Kara."
"Guys, I think these are the same crystal that was in the Kraang powercell." Donnie said as he grabbed one of the ends and began tugging it loose.
"Donnie, I dunno if you should mess with that." Leo warned Donnie nervously but it was too late.
Seeing him jerk downward and hearing a sudden snap Kara slowly closed her eyes and let out a soft sigh.
Confused at her expression, Dragan turned back towards Donnie and tensed up as she saw the crystal begin to glow while emitting a charging sound.
"What is that?!" Raph blinked.
"Something not good. Go! Go! GO!" Donnie shouted as he dropped the crystal, grabbed Kara's arm, threw her over his shoulder, and jumped away with his brothers, Leo carrying Dragan on his back just as it exploded behind them.
"Does this happen all the time wi ya?!" Dragan yelled in surprise glancing backwards at the explosion then over to Donnie but noticed they were getting closer to another platform, too close for her liking, and squeezed her eyes shut to ready herself for the landing. Feeling arms grab at her she opened her eyes to see Leo moving her to his chest and curl around her to protect her from the impact of the fall. Blushing softly she closed her eyes once more the warmth of his skin against hers calming her nerves.
All of them landed hard, Donnie protecting Kara the same way and sprawled his arms and legs out panting in exhaustion.
Kara layed limp on top of Donnie, the fright from the explosion beginning to drain her mentally and turned her head towards Dragan. "Most of the time, to be honest."
"Ok, new rule: Nobody. Touch. Anything." Leo said while staring at a crystal shard that landed way too close for comfort.
Raph let out a groan in agreement and slowly lifted his hand up to give a thumbs up before letting his arm drop back down to his side.
"But..on the plus side..we're getting close..right?" Kara asked trying to sound enthusiastic only to have it falter at the end.
Dragan looked at everyone noticing the guys looked exhausted as if they've been running for days. "Perhaps..." She muttered under her breath before standing up and helping Leo to his feet. "Kara an I can..jump the rest o the way ourselves, right?" Dragan turned to Kara as she stood up as well.
Popping her neck she let out a sigh but nodded with a grin. "Yeah, no problem. We can give you guys a little break. Raph, it's your turn!"
"What?!" Raph yelled in an angry high pitched voice as he suddenly jumped to his feet making Kara laugh at his reaction.
"I'm kidding! Geesh, can't take a joke." She said while waving her arm dismissively but looked back at them with a nagging feeling at the back of her mind also noticing they were beginning to look exhausted. "I wonder how long have we been here." She thought aloud as she took out her phone from her pocket and noticed not even two minutes had passed.
Moving to her side Dragan also looked at the time and her face fell in annoyance. "Isn't that just peachy keen..It's felt like we've been here for hours!"
"We're not going to find Mikey anytime soon just standing here. Come on, let's go." Leo said while Kara helped Donnie up and smiled at him, placing her hand against his cheek.
He gave her a small peck on the forehead before both of them ran to catch up with the others.
Feeling like it was an eternity the guys stop to catch their breaths for a moment.
"Man, I kinda don't blame the Kraang for invading us. Their dimension stinks." Donnie said out of breath.
Kara was beginning to break a sweat as well but kept her breathing normal. "Yeah? Well, I don't want them turning our home into the next Dimension X..or Y." She said with a soft sigh and glanced over at Dragan to see how she was holding up and noticed she was pretty much the same as her.
"I dunno, that's kinda cute." Leo pointed at a small ball of goo with gumball shaped eyes that was making a "Mop" sound and walked over to it.
"Leo, the one thing we know about this dimension is don't mess with anything cute." Raph warned Leo but he seemed to ignore his warning as Leo bent over to look at it, mimicking its sound.
Dragan smiled at how cute Leo was acting and looked over at the creature. She hated to admit it but, it was kinda cute.
Leo poked the creature and scratched its side making it giggle, poof gas out from the top of its head, and giggle some more. "Aw, it's so small though. How can i-"
It made another gassy noise that shook the platform they were on and everyone grabbed at their ears to block out the deafening sound the thing was making it as it turned out to be a large rock like insect creature.
Everyone was screaming and running for their lives as the thing chased them letting out a screech. "I HATE CUTE THINGS! I HATE EM'" Kara could hear Raph yell.
When they were getting closer to the edge Donnie and Leo grabbed the girls and jumped as they all fell towards so debree, using it as momentum to quicken their pace away from the thing and everyone landed on a small world.
Raph looked behind him only to see the thing falling at them and dove away just as it got back up and chased them once more around the small world.
Kara had jumped off Donnie not wanting to slow him down but was at an even pace with him. She suddenly felt something slimy wrap around her chest and looked down but before she could react she was pulled and thrown aside and away from the creature.
She sat up when one my one the guys and Dragan were rescued and thrown by or on her. With a groan she pushed Leo and Raph off her and looked up to see none other than Mikey in a weird get up as he shouted at the creature to leave them alone before making a screeching sound and began to attack it.
Everyone was in shock to see him able to handle the creature, or "Rocktapus" as he calls it, on his own and eventually made it fall over the edge.
When it was safe the guys, Dragan, and Kara ran to him glad to see he was ok. Kara and Dragan gave him a hug while Leo placed his hand on Mikey's shoulder.
"We were worried about you." Leo said relieved to see his brother unharmed.
"Well what took you so long? I've been here for months." Mikey said with his arms crossed and eyes closed.
This confused everyone but Donnie seemed to be thinking more than confused.
"Months?" Leo repeated back.
"Or maybe a few hours. I don't have a watch." Mikey answered back but it didn't seem like it really bothered him.
"But we went through the portal, like, fifteen seconds behind you." Raph pointed out.
"Obviously time passes faster here than our own dimension. There's a tempural differential." Donnie explained.
"Well, that explains why when I looked at the time on my phone it's barely been a few minutes." Kara said as she held out her phone and shown the time. "When I last checked it it was barely two in the afternoon and now..well.." She shrugged as they were able to see the time for themselves before she put away her phone.
"I love tempura!" Mikey said with a smile but blinked before making weird noises. Everyone turned their attention to see the creature was back but it roared back at Mikey before leaving them be.
"Wait, how did you?"
"Let's get moving. That thing is gonna keep coming back and we gotta rescue Leatherhead. Oh, better stock up on bang rocks." Mikey jumped above them at the crystals.
"Mikey, be careful!" Donnie shouted but blinked as he saw Mikey kinda coo at it and it snapped off without causing an explosion. "How did you do that?" He asked in awe.
"A lot of stuff here responds to sound." Mikey told him as he landed and picked up some large bugs but Kara immediately dropped it and shook her head.
"Nu-uh, those are kinda cute looking and I'm not touching ANYTHING here that looks remotely cute." She said while crossing her arms. Mikey shrugged and placed it in his belt just in case.
Dragan did the same but shook her hands. "Ew, ew! No! Nu-uh!"
"What are we suppose to do with these?" Leo asked while looking down at it then up at Mikey with a nervous yet disgusted look on his face.
"Like this." Mikey demonstrated by squeezing it making it spit it's tongue out and stick to a crater above them.
"That's what grabbed me?! Ewwww!" Dragan screams as she wipes off invisible saliva from her shirt.
Kara hopped onto Donnie's back and Dragan on Leo's before they followed Mikey's example and squeezed the thing. As soon as it stuck to the crater though they were launched into the air and landed on their stomachs so they wouldn't land on the girls.
"Woow! How'd you know how these bug things work?" Raph sat up and stared at his bug in surprise.
Mikey was shaking his when he shrugged his shoulders and smiled. "Just seemed sorta obvious."
"Mikey, you're like a genius here." Raph smiled up at him while everyone seemed to agree with him.
"See? What'd I say?" Kara said with a grin to Raph giving his shoulder a nudge.
"Hey, in crazy backwards land crazy backwards dude is king." Mikey said in a cool way making Kara grin more til he suddenly squeezed some liquid out of the bug and ate it.
Everyone had a grotesque look on their face watching him eat it with a straight face, Dragan was close to vomiting but kept it in since she was wearing a mask.
"They're tasty too! So let's go rescue Leatherhead!" Mikey shouted with a full mouth.
Finally making it to their destination they snuck closer to figure out a way in.
Kara hopped off Donnie once she knew they weren't going to be doing anymore swinging and looked around at all the places to hide.
"Ok, I got some good news and I got some bad news." Mikey lowered himself Spiderman style beside Leo.
"What's the good news?" Leo asked him.
"There's thousands of Kraang droids in there."
"I said good news." Leo told Mikey but blinked as the are began to shake.
"I know." Mikey said just as two rock men came out from inside the building but one of them was different than the one they faced last time. "That's the bad news." Mikey said as the white one blew blue fire and the other one vomited lava.
"You know..I can't help but say this out loud...the white one is kinda cool looking." Kara said quite impressed with it but was snapped out of her thoughts by Dragan flicking the side of her head. "Ow!" She hissed while rubbing the spot she hit.
"This is nae time tae be admiring the enemy!" She whispered but had to admit she was right.
It seemed to notice them despite their whispers and the white one shot its fire at them. Donnie pushed the girls out of harms way as the others took action.
"I uh..I think we should set this one out, Dre.." Kara said staring at the blue flames that were where they once stood.
"Agreed." She simply said.
"I got this! Just-"
"Donnie, right! Raph, left! Move!" Leo ordered and charged straight ahead with his swords already drawn as the brothers began to attack.
"Wroong.." Mikey groaned under his breath.
It was clear the guys were having trouble and it wasn't til the lava one grabbed Leo and was about to turn him into mush when Mikey intervened.
"Hey, Drag, Granator put him down! NOW!" Mikey yelled before throwing the crystal shards at him and landed in front of his brothers. "I told you I got this." Mikey ran at the rock brothers and was fighting them off.
"He's so..."
"Unmikeyish?" Raph finished Donnie's sentence still uncertain about the whole thing.
"Exactly." Leo said with a hint of proudness in his voice watching his little fend off the rock creatures by himself.
Mikey managed to corner them at the edge before stomping his foot on the ground and breathing in heavy, releasing a loud, high pitched echoey scream that caused the ground to crack around the creatures before they fell into the abyss.
"Let's move." Mikey ordered running off towards the Kraang building with the others behind him.
"Tss, I say that." Leo muttered under his breathe and ran off to catch up with them.
Using the ventilation as a way in Leo kicked the cover off and the guys jumped out, each getting into their poses with the girls in the middle, Dragan having her sword out standing protectively in front of Kara knowing she was without a weapon.
Spotting a Kraang on guard Mikey and the others pressed against the wall waiting to attack but Mikey signaled Leo to stop and wait for him as he brought out two of the bug things and used its tongues to grab the Kraang brains and pull them out, knocking them out with ease.
"Smoooth." Raph said in awe while the others looked through one of the doors to find Leatherhead only to discover a testing room.
"Initiating that which is called Mutagen Transformation Sequence." Two large mutagen cannons inched their way towards a large, normal tree. Dragan couldn't help but smile at it as it brought color and life to the room. "That which is called Mutagen Transformation Sequence initiated." The cannons activated and began spreading mutagen all over the tree til it was completely covered. A blinding light flashed causing them all to avert their eyes til it was gone and saw one of the crystals that were outside in place of the tree.
Dragan's eyes widened in surprise and began to wonder if this was really the Kraang's homeworld.."Or is this a conquered planet that thay transformed and destroyed.."
Once the coast was clear they all walked towards the center of the mutagened tree.
"See that? That's what Leatherhead meant when he said they perfected the mutagen. They're gonna use it to transform everything on earth, even the people. They're gonna turn earth into another Dimension X." Donnie explained.
"So I'll be a genius there too?" Mikey asked with a wide smile on his face.
"Yes, Mikey, thank you for finding the one mildly positive thing among ten billion screaming nightmares!" Donnie screams at the end but quickly covers his mouth at his mistake.
Kara closed her eyes and let out another soft sigh just as the doors opened to a large group of kraang droids but they were out of sight before the droids arrived.
Sneaking past more droids in the hallway Kara could hear Leatherhead up ahead..and he sounded like he was in pain. Kara clenched her hands into fists and ran faster to see Kraang droids were tasing him to no end and this angered her more.
Leo and Raph grabbed one of her shoulders to calm her down before sneaking behind the kraang and sliced the droids apart letting the brains fall to the ground. Mikey grabs each of he brains and smacks them together before running up to Leatherhead while Donnie tried to free Leatherhead.
"Leatherhead! Are you ok?! What can I do for you? Can you dah!" Leatherhead was free and fell on top of Mikey. "Get off of me.."
Leatherhead slowly stood up. "Thank you, my friends. I feared..you would never come."
Seeing him free Kara ran up to him and wrapped her arms around his waist, burying her head into his stomach. "Oh, I'm so glad you're ok!" She mumbled into his stomach, joyous tears sliding down her face. He smiled down at her and hugged her in return, almost curling around her.
"Dude, did you quit moisturizing or something? You look like..a ton older." Mikey spoke softly towards the end.
Kara stepped back and placed her hand on his muzzle noticing he did indeed look older.
"It's the tempural differential, Mikey." Donnie said from behind him.
"Yes, I have been in this place for many decades now spying on the Kraang. When I discovered they had perfected the mutagen I had to contact you. The time has come. Their invasion begins now. Follow me." Leatherhead grabbed a large crystal staff and ran ahead, roaring at the Kraang brain that had woken up.
"He's a little cranky." Mikey whispered to his brothers.
"Wait, Leatherhead, before we fight..I want you to meet a friend of mine." Kara said pulling a now nervous Dragan beside her. "This is my friend, Dragan Macintosh."
Dragan blushed and shyly waved at him but began to shrink down as he walked up to her, feeling so tiny compared to his large stature.
He looked down at her and seemed to have a smile on his face. "Any friend of Kara's is a friend of mine." He said as he held out his hand.
She blinked in surprise but his smile was contagious, returning it with one of her own and placed her hand over his, shaking it. "Likewise, friend."
Being lead to the main control room by Leatherhead the guys decided a different route to keep themselves unknown to the enemy.
Using the maintenance shaft Leatherhead pushes the cover away to give them a view of their surroundings. A large crystal stood on the ceiling in the middle of the room and underneath were controls to the many portals around the room.
"Ooooh, that's not good." Donnie voiced pretty much everyone's thoughts out loud.
"So many portals, why so many?"
"Look." Leatherhead pointed down and Kara knew Leo's question was about to be answered as a loud buzzing sound was heard, the surrounding walls lifting up revealing rows and rows of Kraang droids.
"That's why." Kara gulped nervously as she looked down at her hands before clenching them, remembering her gloves as well as her taser and pepperspray were destroyed in the fight with Shredder's minions. "If I try to fight them with my bare hands I'm sure I'll end up breaking it..and I just recovered too.." Kara sighed beginning to regret coming along feeling as though she'd just be more of a burden here. Donnie's voice snapped her out of her thoughts and she blinked, turning her attention to him.
"Sooo, looks like we're done here?" He took a nervous step back as he hunched over some and placed his hands together.
Kara couldn't help but smile at how cute and dorky he look but knew all too well they couldn't just leave the Kraang to do what they wanted.
"The tunnel leads to the hive factory where the Kraang droids are manufactured. Their numbers are effectively limitless.
"Well then, it's a good thing we are skilled warriors." Dragan said with a grin, crossing her arms while leaning her weight to one side in a cool pose.
"So what can we do?" Donnie asked Leatherhead.
"We can go down fighting. I would rather die on my feet then live on my knees."
"Yeah-ha! Thae are the fighting words o a true warrior!" Dragan exclaimed excitedly as she playfully punched Leatherhead's arm his words fueling her excitement and pumping her up for battle.
"Well, I wouldn't! I have knee-pads!" Donnie shouted which killed Dragan's mood. "The only sensible course right now is retreat!" Donnie pointed the opposite way to the exit.
"No!" Mikey shouted grabbing everyone's attention. "Leo and Raph block that tunnel! Dragan you watch their backs and help them out! Donnie and I will sabotage the portal generator! Kara stay with Leatherhead cause I know you can't fight without your weapon!"
"Geez, tell everyone why don't you." Kara muttered under her breath while taking one of Mikey's grappling worm thingies and crossed her arms. "I know I said I wouldn't touch them but I have no other options."
"Leatherhead!" Mikey pointed at him.
"Crush Kraang?"
"ALOT! Let's hit iitt!" Mikey shouted as he was the first one to swing down, the others following after him.
Kara looked up at Leatherhead as he gently lifted her up to his back. "What does he mean you cannot fight?"
Kara sighed while holding onto his back. "My weapon got destroyed during a fight with the enemy..i-it's a long story. I'll tell you when I get back but for now..crush Kraang." She said with her trademark grin.
"With pleasure." Leatherhead said as he jumped down with a roar and began his onslaught attacking the Kraang viciously while Kara held on with one hand while using the worm thing to take out the Kraang brains from behind him and throwing them at the walls, grinning when she heard the satisfying "Splat!"
Dragan was fending them off with ease on the other side of Leo and Raph knowing they'd come up with a plan and tell her soon but for now. "Ah, it's good tae be back in battle." She grinned while twirling her sword round once and charging at her enemy becoming a different person from the one who preferred not to immediately turn to violence for answers. As if there were two different personalities one in battle and another outside it.
"There! Some kind of blast door." Leo pointed ahead to where more Kraang droids were appearing.
"If we can get that closed.." Raph added in as both of them made their way to the switch only to have it reject Leo's handprint.
One of the Kraang went up to Leo ready to fire but he was quicker and sliced off it's firing arm, catching it without looking and used it to close all the doors. Once they were closed Leo and Raph gripped each other's hands with a grip on their faces before one of the Kraang machines began to attack them.
Kara had grabbed another Kraang brain with the grappling worm and used it to smack the other Kraang droids around them, stunning them for a moment before Leatherhead finished them off. "Brings back memories, doesn't it?" She looked down at him with a wide smile.
"Yes, it was those memories that kept my sanity in this awful place." Leatherhead said as softly as his rumbling, hoarse voice could go.
Kara laid her head against his back and closed her eyes. "Donnie and Mikey will make sure to destroy this place then we can return home." She sat up on his back and tossed the now limp Kraang brain away focusing on getting rid of the Kraang but blinked seeing Raph fighting one with hand-to-hand combat. "Haha, yeah! Show it how it's done! Wo-woah!" Feeling herself begin to lose balance she flailed her arms to try and regain it as Leatherhead tackled some kraang and bit them in half. When she was back to herself she gently patted Leatherhead's back. "Don't forget I'm still up here, buddy."
Leatherhead let out what she thought to be an apologetic grunt before throwing a droid at one of the brains that was controlling the machine.
"Leatherhead I need a lift!" Leo shouted after throwing his grappling hook around one of the machine's legs.
Obeying his command, Leatherhead grabbed Leo by the face and threw him on top of the machine at full speed and watched as he slid across to the other side, tying the end of the rope to the other leg to keep it from moving and then Leatherhead smacked it as hard as he could with his crystal staff causing it to fall on top of the Kraang's that were standing on it.
Everyone froze as a laser shout out from nowhere and they all turned to see a pink line sliding across one of the doors.
"Crap, they're breaking in!" Kara shouted the obvious to the others as two more of the machines AND a laser cannon came into view with even more Kraang droids.
Dragan casually walked up to Donnie and stabbed her sword through a droid that was sneaking up behind him and let it slide off her sword before stabbing it into the ground and leaning against it. "So, uh, how much longer til everything goes..you know..boom?" She asked him making the explosion effect with her hands.
Donnie was too busy concentrating to notice her as he tried to figure out a way to close the portals but the only thing he managed to do was change their shapes. "No. No! Noo!"
"Oh, just let me do it!" Mikey shoved Donnie aside and began smacking his hands over the controls and managed to not only close all but one portal but detonate the place as well. "Come on, thirty seconds." Mikey said as he ran towards the portal with Donnie and Dragan behind him.
"Time to go, now!" Donnie shouted to everyone, Raph kicking away a Kraang brain before following after the others.
Kara and Leatherhead were in front of the portal, Leatherhead taking care of one droid while Kara hopped off him. "Go through without me. I'll keep them busy."
Before Kara could voice her protest she heard Mikey say, "Not this time buddy." before she felt the back of Leatherhead slam into her and fall through the portal. With her quick thinking she grabbed hold of his tail before she fell over the side of a building that Leatherhead had grabbed onto to keep himself from falling.
"I'm ok." Leatherhead said to Mikey through the portal but blinked when he heard Kara yelling, "Whoopdie-doo!" in a sarcastic voice while clinging onto his tail for dear life.
"Don't look down. Don't look down." She said with her eyes squeezed shut. Feeling as though she was moving she opened one eye and was staring eye to eye with Leatherhead just before he helped her to the top and smiled.
She smiled back at him and looked up in time to see the others falling and watched as Leatherhead caught them before they hit the ground and she helped pull them up.
"Donnie! I got you a power source for your turtle mech!" Mikey held out the power crystal to show him.
"Mikey, you are a genius!" Donnie beamed with joy at his little brother.
"Not anymore. Now I'm just back to being regular, mess everything up Mikey." He said with a hint of sadness as he took off his helmet.
"No way, saving that power source was brilliant and you did that here." Leo smiled down at his little brother.
"Yeah, I did! Maybe I'm not such a screw up after all!" Mikey beamed as he rubbed the back of his head but in doing so let go of the building and fell into a dumpster. "I'm ok!" He shouted from inside the dumpster.
Kara looked around noticing the skies had darkened some as she slowly took off the mask breathing in the air of her home.
"That overload should of taken out their whole facility. Their invasion should be set back for months." Donnie smiling at the good news.
"Yeah, but how long is that with the time differential thing?" Raph asked the question that was on the back of Kara's mind.
"I dunno..hours? Maybe a day?"
Kara's eyes widened at the news and she lifted her head up hearing Leo's words.
"Guys, there's a storm coming. You ready to fight?"
Everyone shouted their answers, Dragan getting pumped to fight more Kraang bots and evil aliens but glanced over at Kara noticing she was off in her own world. Placing a hand on her shoulder she snapped Kara out of her thoughts as she turned to her. "Are ye ready tae fight for the ones ye love?"
Kara turned to her and nodded. "Always."
Grinning at her answer Dragan playfully punched her shoulder. "Then let's show those aliens the Guardian's o New York!" She shouted at the top of her lungs, her fists high in the air.
Eyes wide and grin even wider Kara nodded before pumping her fist in the air as both of them joined the guy's and Leatherhead's high-three with Mikey yelling his catchphrase, "Booyakasha!"
Woo! Finished and one chapter away til the SEASON FINALE! *throws confetti everywhere while dancing around* Thank you guys for sticking around and supporting me through this! I love you guys so much! Please rate/comment/review! All feedback is MUCHO appreciated! xD Who else thought it was adorable when Leatherhead shouted, "I'm ok"? I thought that was the cutest thing. Anyways, see you soon! :D