It's been a couple weeks since The Creep incident and everything seemed to be going back to normal.

Leo was getting a lot better and was able to walk on his feet though he still needed the crutch every now and then.

Kara had resumed her training and was helping Leo with some breathing exercises as well as some body exercises to help heal his body.

Kara was inside listening to some music while cleaning up a bit when she noticed Donnie walking inside with a box in his hand. She lowered the headphones to her neck and turned to face him. "Hey, Donnie, what's up?" She glanced to the side seeing Mikey sneaking around them to hide behind the couch and poked his head up just enough to where he could watch them which made her shake her head, chuckling to herself.

"I uh made this for you. I hope you like it." Donnie said while holding the box out to her.

"Aw, thanks Donnie." She took it and saw a heart carved into the top and opened it. The first think she saw was a picture of Donnie and her smiling happily at the camera, their heads touching each other. A soft gasp escaped her lips hearing the music. "A music box? You made this?" She looked up at him in disbelief.

He nodded, his face completely red. "Too much?"

"It's perfect!" She jumped excitedly before throwing her arms around him, still holding onto the music box. "I love it! Thank you, Donnie!" She kissed him smack on the lips before running off to go show April.

Donnie stood there speechless and dazed but had a smile on his face and let out a soft sigh.

Mikey popped up from behind the couch and leaned his head into his hands with a cutesy smile on his face. "Can't even imagine how you're feeling right now." He said in a playful tone.

"Lovestruck." Was all Donnie said still staring dreamily at where Kara last stood.

"I was totally going to say that! I gotta learn to trust my instincts!" Mikey went over and smacked Donnie on the back of his shell. "Good job though, I knew she'd love it. Mmmph!"

Donnie shoved his hand in Mikey's face shoving him aside and chuckled. "I guess you were right..which is..very odd to say out loud."

After showing the music box to April Kara went upstairs to put it in the room her and April were sharing but she couldn't stop staring at it. It was so beautiful and crafted so well. She climbed on the bed and placed it in her lap as she ran her hand over the smooth, wooden surface before opening it once more. A smile spread over her face staring at the picture of them together. "He must of grabbed a few pictures while we were back at the Lair..I should of done the same thing but instead..." She closed her eyes and looked away not wanting to remember or even think about what had happened.

She set the music box on the bedside table and climbed off the bed reaching for her headphones to go back to cleaning when she heard the guys training outside. "Guess I could take a break." She chuckled and went outside to see how they were doing.

She arrived just in time to see Leo come back from his morning walks. "Hey, Leo. How you feeling?"

"Not too bad. You were right, the walks are helping a little."

"Glad to hear it." She smiled at him placing her arm on his shoulder before turning back to the others in time to see Donnie and Mikey run into trees and making her laugh.

"You're not in the city anymore. You need to get use to this new environment. No buildings. No subways." Raph stood proud before moving to punch Mikey who flinched and went to flee only to run into the tree once more and fall to the ground. "Lots of trees."

Kara laughed more and she went down to meet them. "Wow, Raph, I'm really impressed. You're adapting like a ninja should. I'm proud of ya." She placed a hand on his shoulder before stepping back. "But let's see how you handle someone who actually grew up in the woods. No city. No subways. Just lots of trees and animals." She grins while taking off her shoes and getting into her fighting stance.

"Heh, you're on, Kara." Raph grinned doing the same thing.

They waited before both of them charged at each other. Knowing Raph was going for the offense Kara lifted her arms up and when Raph went to throw a punch she dodged it and went for a counter but he took a step back and kicked his leg over. She grinned before ducking down and kicked his leg from under him causing him to fall backwards making her chuckle getting some distance between them so he could stand.

"Not bad." Raph said as he stood while popping his neck.

"I'm a little rusty." Kara admitted but blinked as he charged at her once more and came at her with a flying kick then punching combos. She was taking backward steps to avoid getting hit while dodging and blocking his oncoming assaults. When her back hit a tree though she waited for him to strike before jumping out of his line of sight just as his fist made contact with the tree and she jabbed at his side before giving him a punch across the face, not using her full strength yet as he hit the tree face first and slid down.

Everyone laughed at them as Kara held her hand out to him with a wide grin on her face. Raph went to take it but instead tackled her to the ground and started tickling her.

"No, wait, stop!" Kara shouted between laughing as she tried to wiggle away from him.

"Not til you say it." Raph grinned tickling her sides.

"Ok, I give! I give!" She finally blurted out her sides beginning to hurt from the laughing. Once he stopped she threw her arms to the ground in defeat while trying to catch her breath. She stayed there for a moment before Raph stood up and offered his hand to her which she gladly took and was helped up.

"You're right. You're a little rusty but with my training we'll get you back to your old self in no time. Well, what do you think?" Raph turned to Leo for his input.

Leo looked down for a moment in thought. "Hmm..Turtlehunt." He looked back over at Raph with a smile.

"Turtlehunt." Raph nodded in agreement.

"Turtlehunt?!" Donnie and Mikey screamed getting into view of Leo.

"Turtlehunt?" Kara asked questioningly with a raised brow.

"You gonna help out, Leo?" Raph looked up at him with a smirk on his face.

"Yeah, I-Ngh!" Taking a step forward Leo placed too much pressure on his still injured leg and leaned against the crutch. "Sorry..guess I'm still not up to it." Leo lowered his gaze in sadness before turning to leave.

"Wait up, Leo, let's do some more exercises while they're gone, k?" She ran up to him and placed her hand on his shoulder giving him a reassuring smile.

"You sure you don't want to join them?" Leo asked not wanting her to stay behind on his behalf.

"Nah, it's cool. I could always join another time. Don't worry about it." She patted his shoulder and turned to the others. "Stay out of trouble, guys."

"Enjoy your little hunt." Leo smiled at them walking away with Kara.

"So what is turtlehunt anyways?" Kara asked as they left back to the house.

-Later in the Afternoon-

Kara was in the kitchen preparing lunch knowing the guys would be hungry after their game. Once Leo explained it to her it sounded even more fun but there was always next time.

Singing to herself she was making the last of a pile of sandwiches when she heard the door open. Looking up at the clock on the wall she blinked in surprise. "They're back sooner than I thought..they must need as much practice as I do."

"Hello! Anybody home? We got company!" She heard Donnie say and blinked.

"Company...this can't be good." She washed her hands and walked out from the kitchen seeing Leo walking down the stairs.

"What? You can't let anyone in. Why is the doorway full of hair?" Leo asked with a raised brow.

"And a giant butt." Kara lifted her head seeing April and Casey come out from a room and shrugged turning her attention back to the doorway watching Mikey struggle to pull something through til a tall, ape like creature fell onto the floor.

"It's Bigfoot!" Casey screamed in horror and Kara yelled in surprise.

"You brought Bigfoot home?!" Leo walked down the rest of the way to the foot of the stairs.

"Why everyone know Bigfoot name?" It turned to Donnie curiously.

"It talks?" Kara stood there in awe before sighing, slumping her shoulders. "I have a bad feeling about this.." She shook her head and walked towards them.

"Bigfoot this is Leo, Casey, April, and Kara." Donnie gestured towards Kara to come closer and held her hand. It was then she noticed it had scratch marks on its arm.

"He's hurt. I'll go get the first aid kit." April walked away to the bathroom to retrieve it.

"You can't just bring home Bigfoot!" Leo yelled while Mikey mimicked Leo behind him but was caught not a second later.

"He needs our help. Just until his arm is better." Donnie said to Leo.

"It is the right thing to do." Kara added in. "We as mutants must stick together." She tilted her head with a smile making him sigh.

"Come on, let's get that wound cleaned up." April lead Bigfoot to the backroom to get it fixed up.

"You guys did the right thing." Kara smiled at Donnie and gave him a kiss on the cheek making him smile.

"Sure, but when I wanted to have a dog you guys were like, "No way."" Casey retorted, walking down the stairs.

"You guys don't get it. Bigfoot is the missing genetic link between humans and the ape. This discovery will change the face of science itself!" Donnie practically screamed.

"So its bigger than talking turtles?" Casey smirked at him which was irritating Donnie to the point she could almost see steam rising from his head.

She sighed and shoved Casey away getting in between them. "Donnie, it's obvious this creature has intelligence but imagine how it would feel if it were discovered. It would be hunted down and captured for who knows what kinds of experiments. IF Casey is trying to make it a point it's that it should be left alone. But first, let's go check on it." She smiled and walked with him to where April was just finishing bandaging the wound up.

"There you go. Try not to use it for the next few days." April smiled up at Bigfoot.

"Bigfoot thank Donnie." It said while placing its hand over the bandage.

"No problem." He said with a smile.

"Bad man after Bigfoot. Named The Finger."

"The finger?" Both Donnie and Kara questioned together.

"Who the heck names themselves "The Finger?"" Kara asked in confusion with a hint of disgust.

"Mmm very bad mans but Donnie good mans." It held its hands together, smiling wide. Kara couldn't help but feel uncomfortable.

"Aw, thanks Bigfoot." Donnie placed a hand on it's shoulder.

"Donnie very good mans."

"Wait, what?" Kara's eyes were wide as she stood there, frozen, watching this.

It wasn't til Bigfoot kissed Donnie on the cheek that she freaked out. "WHAT?!"

"Woah." Was all April could say.

Bigfoot picked Donnie up and hugged him close. "Bigfoot looove Donnie."

"But. But. But." Donnie was at a loss for words at what was happening. He glanced at Kara and his eyes widen seeing her eyes flare up and her hands clenched into fists.

Bigfoot said something but Kara wasn't paying attention. She went to take a step forward but was stopped by April who, with some difficulty, dragged Kara away who looked as if she was about to murder someone.

Hearing faint sounds of the boys laughing April turned to Kara and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Calm down, I'm sure this is just a temporary thing. She's...I can't believe Bigfoot is a she..anyways, She's just acting this way because he helped her out. I'm sure after awhile it'll die down and once her arm heals, she'll leave. Think you can handle it?"

"No." Kara said flatly crossing her arms but let out a sigh knowing April was right about one thing, it was probably an animal instinct. "I hope you're right about it being temporary.."

Kara went upstairs while everyone was eating lunch and sat on the bed listening to the music box to help calm herself down when she noticed the sound was a bit off, the part that hit the notes was sticking, so she closed it and went to Donnie so he could fix it.

Figuring he didn't get much to eat cause of Bigfoot she made him a plate and went to the barn to check up on him but blinked when she saw Bigfoot towering over him. She narrowed her eyes and walked away grumbling to herself. "Just a few more days..."

Towards the evening time Kara had gotten out of the shower after a long day and couldn't wait to relax with Donnie and watch a movie but she stopped in the doorway to see Donnie in Bigfoot's lap, feeding him popcorn. She stomped upstairs not caring if anyone heard her and dropped down on the bed, burying her face in the blanket and let out a scream.

The next day Bigfoot was gone for awhile which gave Kara and Donnie some alone time together.

"I don't know what to do. She won't leave me alone!" Donnie groaned, burying his head in Kara's shoulder, having her sit on his lap outside behind the barn.

"Tell her you don't feel the same way and that you're with me." Kara puffed her cheeks in annoyance. It seemed Bigfoot's arm was healing quicker than expected but she wouldn't leave the house.

"I don't want to hurt her feelings or put you in danger." Donnie put his arms around her and sighed not knowing what to do.

"You're going to have to tell her sooner or later..or I will." Kara said in a serious tone. It wasn't til she felt Donnie nuzzling her cheek that she glanced at him and smiled. "I hope you washed that first." She said playfully.

"Twice and sanitized it." Donnie said with a smile, kissing her cheek.

Kara closed her eyes feeling better having to spend some time with him til they both heard Raph shouting Bigfoot's name from inside the house.

"And I thought I was mad." She laughed before getting up to see what had happened only to have Raph come out carrying a mop in one hand, a cleaning mask around his neck, and dragging Mikey outside with his other hand, Bigfoot right behind them.

"You come with me." Raph said to Donnie as they all walked into the forest.

Kara shrugged and decided to follow to see what was going on.

"Donnie and Mikey need to learn to blend in out here. Forest stealth. If you're going to stay with us at least you can help out so, show them some stuff, ok? I've got to go clean out the tub." Raph put on the cleaning mask and walked away with the mop.

"I guess I'll leave you guys to it. Gonna go train by myself." Kara waved bye to them and left not letting them get a word in.

After an intense work out Kara walked out feeling tuckered out but good at the same time. "It won't be long til I'm back to my old fighting self." She said with a smile while stretching her arms. Coming into the clearing where the house was she let out a sigh figuring a shower would be nice when she saw Bigfoot carrying Mikey and Donnie into the house.

She sighed knowing Donnie was always awkward in sharing his feelings, especially if it was to a girl, so she knew she had to be the one to tell Bigfoot that he wasn't interested. "But then again..I'm not that great at it either...Oh jeez." She pinched the bridge of her nose and sighed knowing this day was going to get worse.

That night Kara waited in the hallway for Bigfoot to talk to her and when she came out of the bathroom Kara blinked in surprise to see her wearing..makeup. Kara sighed and walked over to her. "Hey, Bigfoot..can I talk to you for a moment?"

Bigfoot gave her a confused look but followed her into her and April's room. "Ok, look, Bigfoot Donnie and I are together..me and him and it's making me really uncomfortable that you're doing all of this to him so please..leave him alone." She didn't want to sound rude or anything but once she started the sentence she couldn't stop.

She waited for Bigfoot to say or do something but she was silent for a long time.

"Bigfoot have to try." Is all she said before walking away.

Kara blinked dumbfoundedly and couldn't tell if she didn't know what she said or was playing it off. Knowing Bigfoot was an intelligent creature she had to guess she was in denial. "This is going to go two ways: Either Donnie tells her and she runs off crying or I attack and have her run off crying and become the bad guy..either way she runs off crying." She banged her head against the wall when she noticed April come into view.

"You know you're not helping with this at all, right?" Kara said to April.

"What could I say? She wanted a make over. I couldn't say no to her."

"I can't help but wonder if you're enjoying this or if you're too nice for your own good."

"I'm sure Donnie will tell her sooner or later." April said trying to reassure her.

"I dunno..you know how he is. Anyways, I'll go help Mikey make dinner." She walked out of the room feeling bummed out when she saw Donnie and Bigfoot in the hallways downstairs so she hid herself and listened in.

"Bigfoot..I appreciate the effort in all of this but I just don't like you that way. I'm with Kara and I love her. I hope you understand.." Donnie was awkwardly rubbing the back of his neck and averting eye contact while he spoke. When Bigfoot said nothing he glanced up at her to see a saddened expression but gave him a nod.

"Bigfoot understand." Was all she said before walking away leaving him by himself. Despite feeling relieved that it was over he still felt bad for having to do it but it had to be done.

He went upstairs to check up on Kara when he saw her sitting on the upper stair level. She moved over and patted the seat beside her.

When he sat down she laid her head against his shoulder, holding his arm, not saying a word.

"I know I should of done it sooner before it escalated even more. I just...I know what she feels like. First I was like that with April but then when I had found out I had feelings for you I did the same to you but this time..you gave me attention too. I don't know what I'd do without you. Heh, I'd probably still be acting like a lovestruck puppy."

Kara smiled and kissed his cheek. He smiled down at her but then jumped in realization. "Oh, I just remembered. I fixed the music box. Come on, let's go get it." He stood up, offering his hand to her, which she gladly took, and they both walked outside seeing Mikey reading on the porch.

Kara opened her mouth to say something but stopped when she saw Bigfoot running into the woods, crying. They all ran after her but stopped when she ran further into the woods.

Leo and Casey came up behind them and Mikey figured they had something to do with it. "What is wrong with you guys?!"

"We didn't mean to hurt her feelings." Casey said beginning to feel bad.

"Bigfoot, wait up!" Donnie called out to her and ran into the woods to find her, Kara right behind him.

Having lost sight of them Kara closed her eyes and used her ability to try and locate where they all were. She began running where she last saw them go and it wasn't too long that she found them all but she skidded to a halt when she noticed two figures dangling from a tree, one huddled together as if they were in a large sack, and another one pacing in front of the other three.

"Hmm..Mikey, Donnie...that must be Bigfoot..and I have to guess the other one is The Finger." She muttered under her breath slowly opening her eyes as she moved closer. She took off her shoes and set them under a root of a tree sneaking around to Bigfoot while Donnie and Mikey distracted the guy.

Bigfoot was whimpering still upset and now frightened about what was happening and she came up behind Bigfoot placing her finger to her lips. "Shh, calm down. I'll get you out of here." She placed her hand over her head reassuringly as she attempted to undo the rope. "Gah, if only I had something sharp!" She shouted in annoyance when she noticed the guys were fighting.

"The Finger got skills." The man said when she noticed a small, disfigured finger was wiggling on the side of his hand. Kara stared in disgust not able to look away. It wasn't til Bigfoot made a noise that she remembered what her mission was. "Oh yeah, sorry sorry. Gotta find something sharp.." She looked around and noticed The Finger had dropped a hunting knife.

Thinking it was perfect she went for it while they were still fighting but it wasn't til she picked it up that they weren't doing so good for the Finger was executing some major professional wrestling moves.

"Looks like we gotta deal with this guy first.." She dropped the knife and ran towards Donnie and The Finger noticing he was about to do a high dive onto Donnie and ran faster before jumping up and kicking him away from Donnie.

She ran into the forest while the Finger got up. She closed her eyes and let out a soft breath before running up at him as fast as she could and punched him across the face before retreating back into the darkness, skidding to a halt, and changed direction.

Being use to standing face to face to her opponent this was completely new to her but she had the upper hand. She kept this up for a good moment but her inexperience and his anger got the better of her.

Running up behind him for once final attack he turned around and grabbed her by the neck before throwing her over his shoulder and slamming her onto the ground. She let out a cry of pain, feeling the wind knocked out of her, her eyes clenched in pain.

The Finger was about to give the final blow when he stopped, the moonlight revealing Kara's form and blinked in surprise. "I can't hit no lady but I will admit you got skills too." He pulled her up and tossed her towards a tree before shooting a rope at her that wrapped itself around the tree, trapping her there. "Ngh! Hey, let me go!"

"Now to finish this." He turned and grinned towards Donnie who was still on the ground, in a daze before finishing the move he was going to do on him.

"I can't look." Kara muttered turning her head away hearing the ground crack under the impact. She turned back to him and saw him sprawled out on the ground. "Donnie..Donnie you ok?"

"You can't beat The Finger! He's too strong for ya!" The Finger shouted while flexing his arm.

"Hey, Finger! How many more explosives bows you got in that quiver?" Donnie lifted his head up to look at him while raising his arm showing he had an arrow in his hand making Kara smile.

"Forty-two."

Donnie threw the arrow at The Fingers quiver and it wasn't a second later til it exploded and blasted The Finger into a tree then another and then another.

Kara couldn't help but laugh at this watching fireworks go off as Finger was lifted into the air and tossed around before dropping to the ground.

Donnie ran over to Kara and untied her moving his hand to her cheek worriedly. She smiled and placed her hand over his before surrounding The Finger.

"If The Finger is going down he's taking Bigfoot with him!" Finger shouted pulling out a crossbow.

Kara gasped and went to tackle Finger down when Bigfoot managed to get free and reveal the make up she was wearing.

"Bigfoot. Bigfoot's a lady?!" He was clearly in shock as he dropped his weapon, Donnie and Mikey grabbing his arms. "The Finger can't shoot no lady!." He lowered his head in shame as he picked up the shrunken head from around his neck. "The Finger is sorry, mama. He didn't know. He would never hurt no lady." Finger cried while holding his mama's head.

Bigfoot walked over and picked The Finger up. "There there. It will be ok." Bigfoot said softly and looked up at him

The Finger and Bigfoot made eye contact for the longest time before Bigfoot hugged The Finger close to her as he began to cry.

Bigfoot held The Finger like a child and looked at them all. "Bigfoot take care of sad mans." Was all she said before walking away.

Kara, Mikey, and Donnie all looked at one another in surprise.

"So..who wants to go back to the house?"

"I do." Both Mikey and Donnie answered in sync before turning to walk away.

Kara watched Bigfoot and The Finger disappear completely before turning and following after them only having to come back and retrieve her shoes.

-In New York-

The city was in ruins. Vehicles, bikes, you name it were abandoned in the streets. The power was completely out all except for TCRI.

A lone, cloaked figure ran in an alley hiding behind a dumpster as a patrol of kraang droids roamed the streets. Once they knew they were gone the person began climbing the side of the building closest to TCRI clutching a small device in their hand.

Once they reached the top of the building they opened their hand revealing a cellphone. They typed a small message before pressing send and raised it up as high as they could, hoping, praying that the message will go out. "Please work.."

Hearing the soft ding of the message being successfully sent a smile crossed their face but it quickly disappeared as a gust of wind knocked the hood of the cloak off the person's head uncovering a mass of messy red hair before throwing the phone away and retreating back in the alley as a flying kraang machine stopped on top of the building and used a search light to look for anything suspicious having discovered the signal not a moment after.

-Back at the barnhouse-

Kara was fast asleep the encounter with Bigfoot and The Finger draining her both physically and emotionally. It wasn't til the sound of her phone vibrating on top of the music box and falling onto the floor that woke her up from her slumber.

She sat up groggily and looked around wondering what happened and saw the faint light of her phone turn off before the dot on the top side of the phone flashed blue to show she had a message. She leaned over to pick it up and opened her phone to see Dragan's number.

Her eyes widened in shock and she immediately opened the message to see what had been said.

Kara had walked downstairs to where Leo was sleeping and gently shook him to wake him up.

He sat up tiredly and rubbed his eyes. "Kara? What...what's wrong." He asked worriedly seeing she was crying and blinked when she suddenly hugged him. He gently patted her back before she moved away and smiled happily at him showing him her phone. "Read it."

He looked down curiously but froze seeing Dragan's name on it and looked down at the message. "I'm ok." Leo read softly to himself. He slowly looked up at Kara who let out a hiccup trying to keep herself from waking the others.

"She's..she's ok." Kara's voice cracked from the crying but let out a laugh hugging him once more. "She's ok!" She cried into his shoulder feeling excited and relieved.

Leo smiled softly and held her tightly staring down at the message with hope in his eyes. "Yeah, she is."

Her crying ended up waking everyone up and they came down to see what the commotion was. Kara was crying too much to tell anyone so Leo held out the phone for them all to read.

Everyone's eyes were wide before they all looked from Kara to Leo.

Donnie and April were the first to hug Kara knowing this was some much needed news for her and Leo before everyone patted Leo's head and hugged him.

"Stay strong, Dragan. We're coming for you." Leo looked down at the phone in his hand the words echoing in his mind as he held it close to his heart.

See? What'd I tell ya? Just like I promised! Oh, I almost forgot! I forgot to mention something! Go check out TMNT: A Ghost of a Chance by Poleepkwana. It's an amazing story and I highly recommend it! Anyways, you know the routine! Rate/Comment! All feedback is much appreciated. See you when I see you :D