Kara was running through the woods with a blindfold over her eyes. Breathing heavily through her nose she made a sharp turn around a tree as images of previous fighters materialized in her mind, charging for her at once.
She dove to the side evading one attack and jumped to her feet lifting her arms in front of her head to block a punch to her face. As the one in front of her went for another strike she saw the other fighter charge from behind she quickly ducked to the ground and punched them both where the sun doesn't shine. She grinned as the images faded away but blinked as another one leaped out of nowhere and managed a blow across her face.
Ripping the blindfold off immediately she expected to feel pain but when she opened her eyes she was alone again. Standing to her feet she leaned against a tree for support already out of breath.
Sweaty and tired she glanced up at the sunlight escaping between the leaves in the trees, squinting her eyes wondering what time it was. These past couple of months have weakened her, making her soft and unreliable to the others. She felt like a side character all those stories and shows she use to watch. Being out here and dealing with nothing but mutants made her realize just how useless she was to them.
Even April was helping out more than her. April, who recently discovered she isn't as human as she thought was more helpful to the guys then herself, who had been fighting since she was five years old. Her, who was an undefeated champion for two years straight! Her, who has done nothing but fight her whole life!
Kara let out a yell and punched the tree as hard as she could. Staring at her fist she slowly lowered it to her side and let out a sigh, falling to her knees. She let out another sigh as she hung her head in shame til she heard the rustling of leaves and a snap of a twig.
Jerking her head in the direction she squinted her eyes barely able to make out a figure so she closed her eyes and stood up now able to see a deer. "Huh, curious little creature, aren't you?"
She turned to leave putting the blindfold back over her eyes as she began her run back to the house beginning to feel nervous feeling the eyes of the deer watching her every movement so she picked up the pace.
Arriving back at the barnhouse she lowered the blindfold to her neck and let out a sigh as she wiped the sweat from her forehead. Hearing voices in the barn she decided to go see what's going on.
"-He's going to use it to test my psychic powers." Kara heard April say as she walked through the doors of the barn.
"Hey, guys. Nice hat, Aps." Kara grinned pointing at the thing on top of April's head.
"It's not a hat it's a psychic neural transmitter." Donnie corrected Kara before sitting down in front of what looked like an old stereo.
"Oh-ho, this outta be good." Kara laughed as she walked up to Mikey as Donnie began his test on April.
The radio turned on as well as the kraang generator Donnie most likely hooked up and she was able to hear static and white noise.
"You feel anything?" Donnie asked April as the transmitter on her head started flashing.
When a "ding" was heard April glanced around as if trying feeling for anything different but when everything felt normal. "Nope." Was all she said giving him a bored look.
"Ok..." Donnie tuned up the machine some more while giving it a hard hit. "How about now?"
Hearing a small spark Kara and Mikey glanced down at April.
"Ooh, that tingles." April smiled, having her eyes closed.
Kara and Mikey looked at each other questioningly before turning to Donnie as he brought out some picture cards.
"Ok. April, now focus on the card. Close your eyes and tell me what you see." Donnie held up a card with the back facing her.
April took a small breath as she closed her eyes. "I see.."
Kara and Mikey moved behind Donnie to see what the card had on it and saw an airplane.
"I see...a bird!" April opened her eyes looking over at them.
"Oh! So close!" Mikey shouted.
"Wow. Not too shabby April." Kara nodded her head impressed at her friend's skills.
"It flies like a-"
"Shh! You'll spoil the test" Donnie whispered harshly to Mikey as he put away the new card and picked up another one. "Try again."
Kara glanced down at the card curiously then over to April as she placed her hand to her head in deep thought.
"hmm..I'm gonna saay.."
Before she could continue Mikey suddenly started making monkey noises while jumping around making Kara giggle.
April ignored him and closed her eyes. "A fish?"
Kara shook her head. "Not even close." She glanced back to Mikey as he made more monkey sounds til Donnie stopped him.
"Mikey!"
"Just trying to help."
"Well stop being annoying!" Donnie shouted at him before turning back to the test. "Heh-heh, ok this ones eaasy." Donnie smiled having placed his picture over the card making Kara roll her eyes and leaned close giving him a kiss on the head. "You're such a dork."
He chuckled while rubbing the back of his head turning his attention back to April.
"It's..It's...a worm! Definitely a worm!" April shouted, smiling.
Kara bursted out laughing at Donnie's expression looking over at April. "A worm? Wrong species, Aps." She held her stomach her laughter calming down.
"No? Really? But these images in my head they feel so right." April seemed so sure of herself that Kara had a feeling that she was seeing something important. "Let's..try one more time, ok?" She smiled and picked up another card, shoving Donnie out of the chair. "My turn!" She grinned before sitting her butt down and held the card up it being a house. "Now, take a deep breath, close your eyes, and just let it happen. Try not to force it."
Donnie stood up, rubbing the back of his head giving Kara a sort of glare but smiled at her knowing she was just trying to help.
April gave her a nod and did as she was told sitting silent for a long moment before opening her eyes again letting out a sigh. "I can't do it..all I'm seeing are the fish, bird, and worm."
"Don't beat yourself up about it. This is your first time actually testing your powers. You're not going to get it the first try." Kara smiled.
Donnie messed with the knob for a moment trying to get the right frequency and looked over at April to see if there were any changes.
"Um..I don't think it's working, Donnie." April looked at him.
"Hmm.." He looked up at Doctor C. "Maybe if I make some adjustments.
Kara had no clue what he did but whatever it was seemed to work for the lights started flickering and April's transmitter sparked to life just before her eyes began to glow white and a light flashed from the transmitter so bright it caused Mikey to fall over and Kara to shield her eyes with her arms and a telekinetic pulse forced her to the ground.
When the light vanished Donnie immediately turned to blame to Mikey but stopped midway when he saw the cards and Doctor C floating in midair.
"Woah.." Kara slowly stood to her feet in awe.
"I didn't do that I swear!" Mikey shouted standing up.
"Wow, but that means..April, you are telekinetically levitating the cards!"
"And Doctor C.." Kara pointed out looking up at the chicken.
"April? Are you ok? April, can you hear me?" Donnie waved his hand in front of her face.
Kara glanced over at her friend just as the card and Doctor C fell to the ground. April stood up, Kara noticing her eyes had gone completely white, and waved her arms in front of her as if feeling her way around.
"What happened to the barn? Where are we?" She asked while feeling Donnie's face.
"Uh..still in the barn." Donnie looked down at her confused watching her walk away and into a post.
"What is this? Is it invisible?"
Kara watched her friend curiously wondering what was wrong with her and remembered her eyes.
Donnie walked over to her taking her hands into his. "April, where do you think you are? What do you see?"
"Clouds...I think I'm flying!"
"I totally understand! I get that way when I'm eating pizza." Mikey added in with a smile.
"What kind of pizza are you eating?" Kara raised her brow questioningly.
"You're seeing things. I'm taking this off." Donnie reached up taking the transmitter off her head. "Did that help?" He asked.
"I'm still in the air, soaring, but now I'm heading down."
Kara began to get nervous and walked over to April. "You know..she could be seeing through-"
"Outside! I see Casey and Raph! They're under attack!" April shouted pulling at Donnie's arm.
"We gotta help them!" Mikey yelled as they all ran outside to aid the others.
Donnie and Raph opened the doors seeing a-
"Bird, fish, and worm!" Kara said under her breath. "April was right all along.." She shook her head and ran towards the creature.
"What the heck?! Another mutant?!" Casey yelled through his mask smacking it's tentacles with his hockey sticks before being thrown aside.
"Where'd it come from?"
"Booyakasha!" Mikey screamed attacking it from the side as everyone gathered around it. "Bird, worm, and fish. Three animals. One body. I know this one! There's a perfect name for it in mythology.
"Chimera?" Donnie slammed his staff on it's head.
"No, Turducken but Chimera works!"
The guys managed to bring it down but it immediately got back up and attacked using it's wormy hand things but everyone dodged and evade bringing it down once more.
It was clear the creature was getting angry as it screeched at them attacking Leo first, sending him to his knees and threw him into April.
As it dove for April and Leo it got it's head stuck in the ground. Kara used this opportunity to jump onto it's neck and started to attack it. It flew in the air trying to get her off but she held on tight with one arm and used the other to climb to it's head and started punching it in it's eye.
It shrieked in pain and flipped upside down so now Kara was dangling from it's head, sliding down it's neck. Kara refused to let go and went to climb back up when she felt something slither around her waist then grip tightly on it. She looked down seeing one of it's tentacly worm things had grabbed her and pulled her off it.
It swooped down towards the ground and threw her against the barn. Kara let out a cry in pain before losing consciousness and falling to the ground the last thing she heard was Donnie screaming her name.
~~Dream~~
A groan escaped her lips as her eyes finally opened, the first thing she saw was a white ceiling. She squinted her eyes, the white too bright for her as she moved her hands over her eyes til they adjusted.
"Ugh, what happened.." She slowly sat up rubbing the back of her head and looked around seeing nothing but white. "..What's going on.."
"Kara?"
Kara froze, immediately recognizing the voice and stood up turning to where she heard her name and saw none other than Dragan.
Dragan gave her a smile, her hair even more messy than before and dirty wearing a cloak that looked dirty and worn out. She pulled her arm out from the cloak giving her a wave Kara seeing her clothes that were just as dirty and worn as her cloak. "Hey."
"Dragan?..." Kara couldn't believe her eyes or ears. Right in front of her was her best friend. Her feet began moving on their own as she sprinted towards at first before changing into a full on run.
Dragan smiled brightened as she embraced her friend for the first time in what seemed like forever. Hearing Kara sniffling she sighed but gently rubbed her back. "Thare thare, it's ok. I'm here."
Kara smiled happily giving her friend a squeeze when a sudden thought struck her and she immediately backed away. "Am...am I dead?"
Dragan raised a brow before crossing her arms "Ye think I would die so easily?"
"That's not what I meant!" Kara waved her arms frantically seeing she was starting to get angry. "I-I mean I'm seeing you after getting knocked out and we're in a reaalllly bright room.."
Dragan's face turned from angry to concerned hearing this. "...How bad?"
"Pretty bad.." Kara rubbed the back of her head still feeling the pain of getting thrown against the wall like play putty. She had a million questions for her regarding New York and her friends but she started off with one that's been bugging her more. "How are you doing?"
Dragan's gaze lowered to the ground letting out a sigh. "Surviving I suppose. I guess there's a reason we're able tae communicate wi each other right now..I need tae tell ye something.."
~~Reality~~
"How's Kara looking?" April asked while Leo did his best to bring her inside. With his knee still acting up it was a difficult task.
"She's breathing so that's a start." Leo grunted as he gently laid Kara down on the couch. He limped into the kitchen to get an ice pack and placed it over her head. Without Donnie there to inspect her he had no clue on what to do.
"Oh, this is all my fault. I summoned the creature here."
"How?"
"Through Donnie's neural transmitter. I have a psychic connection with the creature. I can see through it's eyes. In fact, I can see where it's taking them right now!" April's stomach growled loud enough for both of them to hear it. "..And I think I know why it took them. I'm really hungry like, Mikey hungry..come on, we'd better hurry."
~~Dream~~
"We're not doing so good, Kara. Our supplies are low an..we're running out of people. The Kraang are getting smarter every day an if ya guys don't hurry tae save us..thare may not be a New York left." Dragan said softly knowing this news was horrible to hear.
"There won't be a New York left..." Kara repeated the last words quietly as her mind processed those words. "We...we're not ready..heh-heh.." Kara cracked a smile her eyes wide in panic. "Leo..he's still hurt and April..April is blind right now and me..I'm so weak.." Kara looked down at her hands in sorrow and slowly lowered them back down.
Dragan watched her before bringing her sword out and began walking towards her.
Hearing her pace quicken Kara looked up in time to see Dragan raise her sword down at her for an attack.
"Woah!" Kara dove to the side and rolled before standing back on her feet. "What the?!" Before she could finish her sentence Dragan was on top of her once more now swinging sideways. Kara leaned backwards barely dodging her attack and planted her hands on the ground and lifted herself, kicking Dragan's sword out of her hands in the process and did a backwards flip back on her feet. "What's wrong with you?!"
Dragan charged at her now using hand-to-hand combat Kara dodging and blocking her attacks.
"How can ye be useless when you're..more than capable o'..handling your awn?!" Dragan shouted between attacks.
Kara began to get angry and grabbed at Dragan's arm and threw her over her shoulder. "You're not a mutant, Dragan! You're just a regular human like me! But even you can withstand against robots and mutants because you have a weapon! But me..but me I just have these! My own two hands! A weapon can be replaced but your own flesh and body? That can't be! If something were to happen to me..every since we left I've done nothing to help out."
Dragan sat up just as Kara fell to her knees. A soft gasp escaped her lips seeing tears slide down her cheeks as Kara stared at her, right into her eyes.
"What can I do, Dragan? I'm not as strong as I use to be. I've lost my touch..I've lost my passion to fight."
~~Reality~~
Using Raph's grappling hook and Mikey's weapon, Raph, Donnie, Mikey, and Casey began climbing up towards the top of the geyser trying to escape.
"We gotta hurry! Kara needs me!" Donnie yelled frantically as he looked up at Raph.
"Worry about us right now or else we're going to be turtle soup!" Raph yelled down at Donnie.
"Or worse..Chimera dookie.." Mikey muttered to himself glancing down as the boiling water was rising even further.
"Almost..there." Raph grunted with each step til the Chimera popped it's ugly face out and began snapping it's beak trying to get at Raph causing the rope and the others to spin around.
The Chimera's eyes turned to the rope before biting into the rope and breaking it causing them all to fall back down.
~~Dream~~
Dragan crawled over to her and brought her into another embrace. "Kara, you're the strongest person I have ever known. I don't know when but you will find your passion an will tae fight again. Don't give up hope, my friend, because I haven't. I know ye, Leo, Donnie, an the others will come an end this nightmare for all us...even Casey."
Kara blinked at Dragan as she began wiping away her tears with her arms. "Wait..you mean..?"
Dragan smiled softly, giving her a nod. "Yeah."
Kara let out a laugh as more tears poured out feeling relieved to hear he was ok. "What about the others? Jessica? Mrs. Christine? Zach?"
Dragan's smile faded and she looked away. "We...we got separated..I don't know where they are."
Kara stared at her for a moment but smiled. "I know they're still alive. You're right Dragan, heh, as always. I won't give up hope, Dre. Not for them or for me. I promise."
Dragan smiled and let out a sigh of relief. "Sounding like your old self again, Kara. Good." She gave her a grin which Kara mimicked and they both were laughing.
Kara looked up feeling herself getting shaken and sighed as she stood up. "Guess the creature is gone for good. Stay put, Dragan. We will return to you soon and save New York and everyone else. I promise."
"We'll be waiting for ya. Oh, an when this is all over you're buying us dinner. Got it?"
Kara chuckled and nodded. "It's a date."
"Oh, an tell Leo..wait..on second thought..I'll tell him myself." Dragan had a smile on her face her cheeks blushing red but before she could ask her why Kara had woken up with everyone surrounding her.
"Oh, my sweet angel! You're ok!" Donnie shouted as Kara sat up and suddenly embraced her.
Kara let out a groan but laughed softly giving him a kiss on the cheek and looked at them all. "A little sore but it's nothing I can't handle." Kara gave them all a grin which calmed everyone down.
"Buuut..a hot bath wouldn't hurt." Kara said now remembering she felt dirty from this morning's training.
Donnie helped her to her feet and April came into view.
"Hey, you got your sight back. What was it like seeing through someone else's eyes?"
"Even if those eyes were a mutants?" April chuckled. "It was weird but kinda cool. Glad I can see through my own again."
"Good to have you back." Kara grinned. "Now, about that bath." She said before jumping into Donnie's arms. "Onward to upstairs!" Kara smiled giving Donnie another kiss just before he laughed and was now running, seeing Kara smiling and laughing giving him some energy.
"Woah, not that fast, slow down!" She said while clinging onto him now.
Haha, this ones early than usual but that's awesome! Anyways, tried again to separate dream from reality. Tell me if it didn't work again so I can just give up. Anyways, sorry it's much shorter than the others but I had no idea what to do with this episode so I just winged it. You know the routine! Rate/Comment all feed back is much appreciated! See you when I see you :D