Kara had just finished getting off the phone with her parents and Sara. She sat the phone down on Donnie's lab table and let out a sigh and leaned against the wall feeling her mental energy drain.
"Everything ok?" Donnie asked having stopped what he was working noticing she seemed upset.
Kara tilted her head his way and nodded. "Yeah, they're relieved we're all ok..I..I haven't told them about Dragan yet. I don't know if I have the heart to tell them.." Kara took a deep breath and smiled. "It's nice to hear from them though. Glad they're all doing ok."
Donnie smiled before leaning towards her and kissed her forehead. "Come on, I know just the thing to cheer you up." He took her hand and lead her towards the house before glancing over at the others who were training outside.
"Oh, yeah? And what would that be?" Kara asked with a playful grin.
"Lunch." Was all that Donnie said and that got Kara's and everyone else's attention.
"I could go for some lunch." April said while wiping her forehead with her arm.
"I don't know about you guys but a burger sounds awesome right about now." Casey said while leaning against his hockey stick.
"There's a town not too far off. If we use the van we can all grab a bite to eat." Kara said in excitement having been sick of pizza a long time ago.
"It'll be nice to leave the house for awhile." Raph nodded his head the idea not sounding too bad as they all went inside to invite Mikey but when they walked into the living room they saw Mikey make a complete mess of the room.
"Mikey, what have you done?" Leo shouts as Kara dodges a block of pizza, it hitting Raph smack on the face.
"Uh, heh heh, hey guys." Mikey moved the plunger behind his back. "This isn't what it looks like. I was..studying barbarian fighting techniques." He said giving them a big smile.
"You trashed the place!" Casey said while Kara got a good look around.
"I did not!" Mikey pointed the plunger at them just as a a pizza fell ontop of his head.
"IIIII think you did." Kara muttered to herself getting a look around the room.
Donnie, Leo, and Raph ganged up on their little brother showing their anger.
"This is the third time you've messed the place up in a week!" Leo shouted.
"Clean. Up. NOW!" Raph shoved a broom in his hands glaring at him before turning to Icecream Kitty. "And as for you!"
Icecream Kitty meowed at him and slashed its claws at him throwing icecream in Raph's face which made him even more angry so he threw Icecream Kitty in the freezer, slamming the door as Icecream Kitty hissed at him. "And stay there."
"Better be spotless by the time we get back." Raph threw the door open and walked out the house. "Some ninja. You're just a big screw up."
Everyone followed after him, Kara and April being last.
April gave him an apologetic look before leaving.
Kara gave him a small smile. "Don't worry, Mikey, we'll bring you something back...see ya." She gave him a small wave before closing the door.
The drive into town was pretty far and the only available food place was an old fashion diner.
"Geez, this place just keeps getting boring and boring.." Raph muttered the guys sitting in the back while April, Kara, and Casey were in the front.
"Are you kidding? My hometown had a diner like this and I loved it! My aunt and I would have dinner there after we'd go shopping. The food was amazing and the old people had some interesting stories. Ah, good times." Kara leaned against the seat with a smile on her face.
April smiled at her before turning around to face the guys. "We'll bring out a menu so you can look at what you want."
"I'll stay here with you guys so you're not lonely." Kara grinned back at them as Casey parked and he and April climbed out to the diner.
"You know, you don't talk about your aunt much. What was she like?" Leo asked while they waited for April and Casey to return.
"She's great! She actually owns a farm with animals. I'd help her take care of them. She'd really love you guys." Kara turned around and grinned at them seeing their smiling faces. "Once all of this is over..perhaps we all could visit her one day? I mean, after explaining you are mutant turtles and what not."
"Why'd you leave then? Sounds like you had a lot of fun with her." Raph asked.
Kara blinked at the question and looked away just as April and Casey returned with a menu.
"Can't believe they only gave us one menu. What do they think we're going to do? Steal it?" Casey hopped into the driver's seat and tossed it behind him to them, Leo easily catching it.
Once everyone decided what they wanted and wrote it down, April and Casey went back inside to give the waitress their order and pay for it.
-30 minutes later-
"When is it going to be ready? I'm starving." Raph was beginning to get frustrated from hunger.
"I forgot how long it takes to make the food." Kara grumbled laying flat on the seat. "But it's worth it."
"Oh, here they come." Leo said pointing towards them as April and Casey walk out with bags of food.
"Oh, thank goodness." Kara jumped up and helped them pass out the food as they climbed into the van and drove off, finding a secluded area for all of them to enjoy their food.
Kara hopped into the back with the others and opened the back doors to get some fresh air in the van while April and Casey stayed in the front. All of them were enjoying their meals with a light conversation here and there.
When they returned to the house Kara held Mikey's food in her arms hoping it was still warm for him.
"Can't believe you bought him something after the mess he made." Raph grumbled as they walked up the stairs to the house.
"It's a nice gesture. Besides, I'm pretty sure he's hungry after cleaning the living room...up." Kara and the others turned to see Mikey's progress when they saw the mess still there and no Mikey in sight.
This, of course, angered the others. Kara sighed and went into the kitchen. "I'll get a bucket and sponge.." She put away his food as they all cleaned up.
"Man, I can't believe Mikey left us with this mess." Leo fumed as he swept the floor near the tv.
"He totally ditched! I hadn't seen him for hours." Casey joined in after cleaning the wall by the window.
"Yeah, maybe because you were total jerks! You guys never appreciate him." April retorted before turning and pointing to a certain turtle. "Especially you, Raph."
"T-That's not true! I-I mean.." Raph fumbled trying to think of an answer.
"He has been gone for awhile..and it's getting late..I hope he's ok." Kara walked over to the window, moving the curtains out of the way as she stared into the forest. With the past mutants and aliens they had come across her nerves were on the fritz about his safety.
"I think I know where Mikey is." Donnie walked into the room carrying his laptop and set it down. "Check this out." He began typing and showed a news link.
"Local campsites had been ravaged by what witnesses call "green lizard like monsters on two legs"."
"Nah..you think Mikey really trashed those campsites?" April questioned Donnie.
They all looked at her as a single slice of pizza slid down the side of the wall and fell onto the floor with a splat in which she slumped her shoulders in defeat.
"I don't know..it's one thing to do this and another to ravage and terrorize campsites.." Kara looked down at the pictures and noticed they seemed more frog like than anything but she could be wrong.
"Ok, let's go."
Everyone followed after April and separated into two groups of three. First group being April, Casey, and Kara and the second group was Donnie, Raph, and Leo.
Both groups went in different directions as they searched for their missing friend/ brother.
Hours went by and it wasn't til the next evening both groups returned to the house with no success in finding him.
"Mikey's nowhere. I don't get it." Leo said aloud as both groups came together.
"He has to be around somewhere..this forest is a huge place...we should go back and search deeper in the woods."
"Aw, no..what happened?" Kara heard Casey say as he and the others ran after him.
"Someone trashed the place." Raph followed behind him and it wasn't til Kara got closer that she realized someone had vandalized the house.
"It couldn't have been..Mikey?"
"No, not even on his worse day." Raph answered Leo's question.
"And why would he write, "Humans beware"?" April questioned staring up at the sign.
"Look, footprints. Weird footprints." Leo bent down to examine the footprints left in the ground.
"Yeah, and more over here. They're pretty far apart like they..jumped?" Donnie muttered the last part more to himself as Raph and Casey found more.
"I have a feeling this has to do with the news article about those creatures ravaging the campsites..how does it involve Mikey though?" Kara questioned looking over at the others but blinked when she heard April wince in pain.
Donnie went over to her to make sure she was ok.
"Guys, I got a bad feeling about this." Was all April said when a group of mutant frogs landed in front of them one of them looking oddly like a historical figure.
"Now is the time, my brothers. Frogs, attack! Liberate the turtles!" The frog in the middle shouted in a deep, gruff voice as the frogs hopped towards them, croaking , and began their assault.
Kara dodged their attacks and punched one in the face, knocking it out but blinked when she saw slime dripping off her fingers. "Ew, their covered in slime!" Kara wiggled her hand trying to get the slime off her hand.
"It isn't slime. Actually." Donnie began as he smacked a frog with his staff and slammed it over it's head, knocking it down. "Actually, it's mucus."
"That doesn't make it any less gross, sweetie..ugh." She wiped the remainder sli-mucus on her pants before noticing more frogs had come their way but with bows and arrows. Aiming their arrows high they released the string as the arrows flew in their direction.
Leo sliced away most of the arrows that were coming down on them. "Take shelter! Fall back to the farmhouse!" Leo ordered following behind Donnie and Raph.
"Guys, what is going on?!" April moved to the next room away from the front door.
"Maybe they were the ones trashing the campsites..but why are they after us?" Kara couldn't understand the situation.
Two rocks shaped into spears broke through the front door and was close to making contact with Casey's head. Donnie and Raph moved the bench to barracade the door as the, what they could assume to be, leader of the frogs began to speak.
"Repulsive humans, hear me!" The deep, gruff frog commanded.
"is he talking to us?" April asked in confusion.
"Obviously not me." Casey grinned, pointing at himself.
"Shh..listen." Kara said as the frog continued to speak.
"Free our brothers! The human reign of terror in these woods ends tonight!"
"Uh, these humans didn't kidnap us." Leo shouted at the frog.
"What? Are they forcing you to say that?"
"Um, no, we're actually pretty good friends with these humans." Donnie shouted to the frog.
"And we're not that bad, gruffy! You can't judge someone based off their looks. That's racist!" Kara shouted out the window almost opening the window and shaking her fist at them if it wasn't for Donnie holding her back.
"Friends? With humans?! Then you are traitors! Frogs show the humans and turtles no mercy!" The frog commander commanded as his followers hopped towards the house.
"Great! I was tired of that conversation anyway." Raph brought out his sai just as the frogs burst through the door with a log causing them all to disperse and fight in different parts of the house as the frogs swarmed in.
Kara moved to the upper level and let out a startled scream as even more frogs flew in through the windows and started attacking. She ducked and dodged giving one a hard kick in the stomach causing it to fly into one of its companions.
Hearing Donnie in trouble she hopped over the stair rails and landed on one of the frogs. "Get away from him!" She shouted kicking away one weapon and went to punch it in the face when she felt something slimey wrap around her arm. "What the.." She struggled against it but another got her other arm. "Ew! This is so gross!" She pulled against it with all her strength til she was forced back and flew out the holes in the wall. "Donnie!" She yelled as she was dragged away with April and Casey.
They were dragged all the way to the middle of the woods where an overgrown tree stood towering over the other trees.
Kara, April, and Casey struggled against the frogs tongues as they were taken to where the leader of the frog people was and thrown into cages.
Kara struggled to break the cage but despite it's wooden appearance it was surprisingly hard. "Grr, just wait til I get out of here! I'm going to beat the warts off your slimey little faces!"
"It's mucus, human." One frog said as it used its tongue to wipe over it's eye.
"I don't care!" Kara shouted in anger but blinked as Mikey came into view. "Mikey?"
"Hey! What is this? What're you doing to my friends?" Mikey asked.
"Friends? You said these humans were terrible to you! You escaped!"
"...Really, Mikey?"
"Oh, heh-heh, that's not exactly what I meant. See-"
"This human lover lied to be accepted by us!" Gruff frog interrupted Mikey before he could finish speaking.
"Live with humans. Suffer with humans!" Fat, leader frog shouted as two frogs came and dragged Mikey away.
"No, he's my friend, you can't." The tall, skinny frog with the poo on his head spoke but was stopped by a wizard looking frog.
"I told you never trust a turtle! That turtle is a traitor!" Wizard frog said to tall, skinny frog.
"Your mom is a traitor."
"Science teaches us that humans are inferior. To disagree is treason*, Napoleon."
Kara watched as Mikey was lifted up next to them. "Nice of you to join us."
"Why can't we all just get along?" Mikey poked his head out from the cage looking over at fat, leader frog.
"Why? You dare to ask why? There was once a time when we, the amphibians, ruled these lands. We frolicked in the woods, the trees, the swamplands until, they, the humans arrived with their metal monsters. They needed more strip malls, more gas stations, more coffeeshops and one day these woods will disappear as well! They mean nothing! Fortunately, Rasputin discovered a gift in a puddle in the middle of this tree: The Sacred Ooze!"
"Mutagen.." Both Kara and Mikey said out loud.
"Time for revolution is now! We shall invade their cities with this mutagen and we will create a bigger family. The age of humans is at an end! We shall rise!" Fat, leader frog shouted as he motivated his followers.
"You gotta listen to me, you can't do that!" Mikey shouted trying to get his attention.
"Frog soldiers, assemble!" gruff frog ordered.
"Not all humans are bad! There are some who fight to save forests like these and animals as well! You can't go off and invade their homes! I won't let you!" Kara shouted as she started shaking her cage, the frogs beginning to line up.
"Frog soldiers, these lands will once again be ours!" Fat, leader frog encouraged his men.
Kara looked up at the rope she was dangling off of and began rocking her cage back and forth while they were distracted hoping the momentum would cause the rope to break and throw her onto the frogs until she heard a familiar yell and saw Donnie land on top of a frog soldier.
"Heh-heh, awkwaard.." Donnie muttered to himself looking around the area.
"Genghis!" Fat, leader frog shouted as Genghis hopped into view.
"Destroy him!"
Before anyone could move Raph swung around and kicked Genghis away, Leo landing on top of one frog and kicking the other away from his brother as they all stood up, weapon in hands.
It seemed as though the guys were winning but the frogs had the upperhand in this fight and one by one was defeating their friends.
Kara clenched her fists wanting to join in.
"Get us out of here, Napoleon! I gotta totally go ninja on their butts!" Mikey shouted rocking his cage sideways wanting to join his brothers.
"How can this Napoleon frog help us?" Kara asked Mikey.
"Because he's my friend. I trust him."
Kara stared at Mikey but sighed and gave him a nod. She blinked when Napoleon appeared on Mikey's cage and freed him. "Well, what do you know.." She gave a soft smile as he jumped over to her cage and opened the door.
"Thanks, uh...Napoleon, was it?" Kara moved to get out of the cage, smiling at him.
"You could also call me Number One Warrior of All Time but Napoleon is shorter."
"Napoleon is it." She laughed softly before jumping down and joining the fight while Napoleon freed April and Casey.
"Oh no, fire! Fire!" April shouted as the fire starting from the hole in the tree began to grow.
Kara stopped having her foot on a frog's face when she noticed the light and stepped back. "We need to go!"
"The trees on fire! We must totally leave!" Napoleon said to fat, leader frog.
Kara ran to where Donnie was and went to help him fight them off but saw them fleeing the tree. "Come on! It's not safe up here anymore!"
"When was it safe, exactly?" Donnie asked out of breath before picking Kara up in his arms and jumping down towards the ground from the tree limbs.
Donnie set Kara down as they went over to April and Casey who had just pulled fat, leader frog away from the tree.
"Humans saving me?" Attila woke up looking between Casey and April.
"Not all humans are bad and I'd like to think not all mutated frogs are bad, Attila."
Attila looked around at his followers before up at their burning home. "Horror. The horror."
"It was such a beautiful tree too.." Kara whispered as she watched the tree burn to the ground.
Early the next morning the group had returned to the frogs to make sure they weren't going to cause any trouble.
Attila walked in front of the stump of where their mighty tree once stood and raised his staff. "My frogs, to me." He said as his frog followers moved behind him.
"Titillate the frog has never been wrong about anything in his life but perhaps I have been abit hasty about these humans. Frogs, line up behind your general."
Genghis stood, waiting for he frogs to stand behind him but was shocked to see them behind Napoleon instead.
"What the heck is going on?" Napoleon stared at them in confusion.
"Napoleon, you were the only frog to show wisdom regarding these turtles and humans. You are brave, stoward, and have a good heart and so I promote you to general!"
"This is pretty much the best position ever!" Napoleon said with enthusiasm.
Kara smiled and shook her head watching Napoleon and Genghis, both of them reminding her of certain brothers before turning to Attila.
"Perhaps there is a future where frogs, turtles, and revolting humans can live together in harmony."
"What about your home? Where are you going to go?" Mikey walked up to Napoleon.
"Down south. We have, like, twenty thousand cousins in Louisiana. Caught you some delicious flies." Napoleon opened his sack and pulled out a jar of flies for Mikey, who ate them without a care in the world grossing his brothers out.
Mikey shared a slice of pizza with Napoleon before he and the other frogs departed.
"You know what? It's good to have you back, bro." Raph turned to Mikey and smiled.
"It's good to be back, bros." Mikey put his arms around his brothers as they all went back to the farmhouse.
"Let's go home. We have a lot of cleaning up to do." Leo said as April, Casey, and Kara followed behind him.
"After some shut eye though. Feels like we've been out all night." Kara grinned while stretching her arms up.
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