Well, lookie here! Seems I've managed to finish another chapter but it's earlier than usual..should I update it now or make you all suffer and wait for it? Hmm...nah! I love you guys too much to do that! So here's the latest update and I hope you all enjoy it!

When Kara woke up the next day she jumped in surprise seeing Donnie sitting on the bed beside her, watching her sleep.

"Woah! Oh, it's you Donnie..what're you doing here?" She sat up and hugged her knees narrowing her eyes at him before looking away knowing he wasn't the one she was mad at.

"After you left April and Casey talked to him, to us, about what happened. He...we understand what you were saying about the people you know. They're out there with only Dragan to defend them and I agree with you, we should be looking for them as well but Karai..She's been on the run from Shredder and the Kraang even before the second invasion started. Being mutated as well as alone has messed with her mind. You saw how Splinter was when we returned, remember?"

She gave a simple nod, looking down at her hands that were around her legs. "She's the same way, isn't she?"

He nodded and held out his arms to her which she gladly moved into, putting her arms around him. "Except she has been this way longer than Splinter. When we found her we were barely able to communicate with her. Her humanity is slipping away and it won't be long til we completely lose her. I know Leo was acting harsh but he really wants to see Karai reunited with Splinter and all of us to be a family again." He gave her a gentle squeeze staring down at her.

Kara looked away beginning to feel guilty at how she reacted and sighed. "Now I feel dumb..I just thought he was doing it for himself..thought he was forgetting about Dragan. After what we've been through..that thought angered me more and more til I couldn't help myself..and I hurt him." She clenched the fist she used to punch him and squeezed her eyes shut.

"Shh, it's ok." Donnie rubbed her back, comforting her as she held onto him. " None of us blame you for what happened. I wanted to share his side of the story before the others find you."

"What do you mean?" Kara sat up looking at him.

"You didn't think we'd not come looking for you, did you?" Donnie raised a brow giving her a small smile.

"...Yeah, that was a stupid question, huh?" Kara smiled and stood up rubbing the back of her head.

He stood up next to her taking her head in his hands and stared at her. "I'm happy you're ok." He whispered, stroking her cheek with his thumb before taking her hand and leading her out of the room towards the balcony.

When he felt her pause he looked back seeing her just standing there looking out at her home.

"I don't think I'll ever get use to seeing it like this.." She whispered more to herself than him but he was still able to hear her.

"I understand." Donnie walked up to her, wrapping his arms around her from behind.

She moved her hands over his and leaned her head against his, closing her eyes.

"Come on, let's return to the hide out. I'm sure there are things that need to be said." He kissed her cheek and picked her up and ran out her home, jumped off the balcony, and ran for the hide out, calling the others on his T-Phone to let them know he found her.

They arrived before the others and Kara was greeted by April hugging her and Casey patting her on the back. She smiled some seeing they were worried for her.

"Don't do that again! You had all of us worried sick!" April practically screamed in her ear, smacking her hard on the arm.

"Ow, ow! Ok. I'm sorry..really, I am. It won't happen again." She rubbed her arm some and gave them an apologetic smile.

"Kara, you're back!" Mikey arrived inside the hideout first and went straight for her, lifting her up in a big hug making her laugh. When he let her down Raph was next and walked right beside her giving the same arm April smacked a punch.

"Don't scare us like that." Raph grumbled in anger but smiled at her. "Glad to see you in one piece."

Kara chuckled giving Raph a nod. She heard a soft noise behind her and turned to see Leo standing in front of the hole with his arms crossed, staring at her with a band-aid over where she had hit him.

Kara took a deep breath and walked over to Leo their eyes never leaving the other.

It grew silent in the room as the others waited to see what would happen.

"Someone told me all you want is to be a family again. To make Splinter happy and I understand wanting nothing more than your family by your side but with that goal.." She turned her head away for a moment in anger, clicking her tongue before narrowing her eyes at him. "What about Dragan? The more I hear about Karai..the more I can't help but feel that Dragan isn't important to you anymore. That you care more about Karai..and you'll end up forgetting about Dragan." Kara closed her eyes, her anger diminishing to sorrow.

Leo could do nothing but stare at her as guilt began to slowly eat his way up from his chest to his facial features realizing that she was right about the way he was acting but she was wrong as well. "I didn't forget about her, Kara. She's the last person I'd ever forget but seeing Splinter when I, we, thought he was gone and seeing what had happened to him I thought bringing Karai back would make things better for us..I guess I lost track of others who are just as important..and I'm sorry."

Kara blinked hearing him apologize and looked over at him seeing the guilt visible on his face. "I'm sorry too. I know now how serious Karai's..condition is and I shouldn't have left her. I'll help you find her again." She gave him a small smile in hopes things weren't as awkward as they were before.

"And we all will search for Dragan together as well as Karai." Leo returned the smile and took a step forward holding his arms out to her.

Kara's smile widened and they both moved to each other, hugging one another to end the argument there til Leo lifted his arm and bonked Kara on the head making her yell in pain while holding her head.

"Ow, what wa-"

"That was for punching me in the nose." He said while tapping the band-aid over his nose with a smirk on his face.

"Oh, I guess we're even then." Kara grumbled rubbing her head. Hearing Leo chuckle though made her smile and she stood up straight. "Now, where do we begin?"

"Karai is still out there. The last thing she said to me was "Comet"." Leo began as everyone gathered around Donnie while he typed something into his computer.

"So what's that suppose to mean? A giant comet is coming? The earths doomed?"

"I don't think that is what she meant, Casey." Kara hopped onto the counter sitting between April and Raph.

"Feels like it could be a location. Maybe where she's hiding out." April said looking over at Leo.

"Donnies found three different locations with the word "Comet" in them. D?"

"We've got Comet Cleaners on Bleaker Street here, Earth vs the Comet Creeps playing at the Argosy Theater here and we got the Coney Comet Roller Coaster at Coney Island here." Donnie pulled up their locations on the internet map, pinpointed the exact location for them to follow. "So one of these places could be her lair. Theoretically."

"Oh! Oh! Can I check out the Comet Roller Coaster? Pleeeease?" Mikey gave his best puppy dog. "Come on, Leo! Hook a turtle up!"

"Donnie and April you take Comet Cleaners. Raph and Casey will take the movie theater. Me, Mikey, and Kara will check out Coney Island." Leo gave each of them a location and smiled to his younger brother before looking over at Kara. "We'll both search for Dragan there as well."

Kara smiled at him and turned towards the others.

"We'll do the same." April smiled.

"Count us in too." Casey gave her a thumbs up.

Kara took in a deep breath through her nose feeling blessed to have friends like them.

"I have just enough retromutagen for three doses. Each team gets one. It'll be weeks before I can finish more." Donnie tossed Leo and Raph a retromutagen dispenser to use on Karai.

"In other words, don't waste it. Gotcha." Raph nodded to Donnie.

"Karai's condition is unique. There's no guarantee this will even work on her."

"All we can do is try, Donnie." April placed her hand on his shoulder as they all stood up.

"Everyone know the plan?" Leo looked over at everyone as they gathered their weapons and nodded towards his direction.

"Let's go find our friends." Kara pulled her gloves on making sure they were tight and secure and tied her blindfold over her eyes, pulling it down to her neck as everyone parted ways. She glanced backwards where Donnie was headed and smiled before following behind Leo and Mikey.

"...I didn't think this through.." Kara stood at the entrance to Coney Island staring into the darkened amusement park. "This is on the top five locations that horror/slasher films are from."

"Come on, Kara." She heard Leo say from inside the park.

"I should of went with Donnie and April. Nothing ever happens in a laundry mat." She crosses her arms and sighs walking around the chain link with the closed sign and ran to catch up with Leo and Mikey but stopped every now and then to search for Dragan.

"This place is even more creepy up close." Kara shuddered and ran ahead finding Leo and Mikey.

"Dude, this is so cool! Can we go on the Whirlwind? What about the Wheel-of-Fun? Oh! Oh! Can we play Robot Ring-toss? Pleaaase?"

"You promised you wouldn't goof around, Mikey. Seriously, we don't want to scare Karai off."

"First we'll find Karai and Dragan then we'll play some games and ride some rides as a celebration. How about that?" Kara put her arm around Mikey to try and cheer him up already seeing the wheels turn in his head, a smile forming on his face. "That's it." Kara smiled and both of them followed behind Leo.

"She's gotta know we're here by now. Why doesn't she just come out?"

"Maybe she's not in her right mind. Or maybe she's afraid she'll lose control and attack us. I feel so bad for her."

Kara watched Leo and held her arm beginning to feel guilty about leaving her behind. "Don't worry. She isn't gone just yet. We can still save her."

Leo looked over at her and smiled. "Thanks Kara."

She nodded to them, smiling his way and headed towards the Roller Coaster. "You know, for how long I've lived here I never once visited this place." Kara said to herself crossing her arms as she stared up at the Roller Coaster.

"No sign of her. Hoping the guys are having more luck than we are." She heard Leo say.

"I'll call the others and check to see how they're doi-" She stopped what she was saying hearing something fall close by and saw a flash of silver and metal.

"Dude! I think I just saw her!" Mikey yelled as all three of them ran after Karai.

They halted right outside an attraction making Kara groan and smack her forehead. "She would flee in there..."

"She's in the ghost house.." Mikey whispered as they all looked on at the Spooky, Haunted Fun House.

"Let's go." Leo said and was the first to step in, Kara following behind him and Mikey being last.

She held on close to Leo's arm looking around the the dark hall with nothing but black lights and spooky decorations. "It's all fake. Nothing here is real." She muttered to herself.

"Heh, this place isn't so ba-aaaaah!" Mikey, Leo, and Kara screamed as a cardboard cut out of Frankenstein popped out of nowhere.

Kara reacted and punched a hole in the stomach of the cut out and took a step back by Mikey in case it attacked.

Leo's face fell for falling for that and touched it. "It's just a painted boar-ah!"

A goblin head dropped down in front of him, the eyes lighting up, making him yell and slash at it with his sword, cutting the head loose and it dropping on the floor, now broken.

Kara was now holding onto Mikey, who was chuckling nervously. "Heh-heh that didn't scare me." He saw a painting of a creature and screamed, clinging onto Leo's arm which made Kara do the same on the opposite side.

"What? What is it?!" She looked around frantically squeezing Leo's arm tightly.

"Hey, have you been working out?" Mikey asked but stopped as they all heard a hiss.

"Karai is close by." Kara whispered and let go of Leo so he could move ahead.

He pressed himself against the wall and looked around the corner spotting her not too far from them. He crept up behind her and aimed the retromutagen at her, pressing the button.

As the retromutagen was released nothing happened and he realized it was a mirror so he ran around the corner and saw her there. As he went to aim Karai hissed at him and fled.

"The Hall of Mirrors.." Kara muttered and ran after them hearing Leo shout something but she ran into a mirror. She groaned while rubbing her nose and went around it to try and find them, having split up from them. She followed their voices and eventually they all came together at the end and she saw Karai fly out the exit and slither away. "We're not going to lose you that easy!" She shouted just steps behind the guys.

Mikey used his nun-chuks to block her path.

"Karai we want to help you. Don't you remember us?" Leo called out to her.

Karai hissed and tackled Mikey to the ground, pinning him there with her snake hands, hissing at him.

Kara went to step in but Leo held her back.

"Karai! It's us! It's me, Leo! Try to remember! Focus!"

"Leeeooo." Karai whispered as she slithered backwards away from them, hesitant and seeming afraid.

"We want to help you, Karai. Can you transform back?" Leo walked up to her while Kara helped Mikey to his feet.

Karai didn't say nothing but all it too was the look in her eyes to tell them she couldn't.

Kara stared down at her and bit her lip. "I didn't know it was this bad..." She turned her head away, clenching her fists tightly regret and guilt washing over her.

The sound of something crashing force them all out of their pity party and Karai took this opportunity to flee.

"Karai!" Leo called after her but she didn't look back.

Kara growled and followed after the two to see what had happened and saw a van park near the dock.

"Are you here yet, Steranko? What's the deal, yo?"

Kara blinked in surprise seeing a mutant hog wearing the retro outfit as that guy from yesterday.

"Is that Anton Zek?" Mikey whispered glancing over at Leo.

"Looks like he was mutated." Leo whispered back.

"Into a pig.." Was all Kara had to say.

"Rhino legs very fast. Good workout! Better than the pilaties!"

"Guys, they have Raph and Casey!" Kara whispered staring at the Russian sounding rhino.

"You can't do this! We have friend's that'll kick your butts!"

"Seems like they have April and Donnie as well.." Leo whispered hearing April yelling.

Kara closed her eyes and due to them talking she was able to see them inside the van. "None of them are moving. Looks like they were all knocked out except for April." She whispered worriedly for Donnie and the others.

"Stay low." Leo whispered as he motioned for them to follow him and hide.

"Other turtles are here, Da?" Ivan asked Zek

Zek turned around and used his nostrils to try and sniff them out while honing in on their heat signatures with his goggles. "Tuuuuuurrtleeeees! Come out and plaaaay-aaaaay!" Zek called out Mikey being the first one to be found. "Gotcha. If you surrender the humans go free!"

"Pinky promise." Ivan said while wiggling his large pinky.

"Forget it! We don't trust you dudes." Mikey yelled out to them.

Kara used this opportunity to sneak around them to the van while the pig and rhino were occupied with Mikey and Leo.

"You has no choice. In five second I pop humans head like the blueberries."

"Ah four. Ah three. Ah twooo! Ah one-ah!"

"Ok! Don't hurt em!" Mikey yelled coming into view of them.

Kara had her back pressed against the front of the van her blades out in and ready in case they tried something but seeing as they stopped once Mikey showed himself she retracted them back in place and slowly opened the driver's door looking for the keys to unlock the back door while Mikey distracted them.

"What do we call you guys now, anyway?"

Ivan and Anton looked at each other.

"You need mutant names um and it just so happens I am awesome at naming stuff. How about...Pork Rinds and Chilicheese Frie?"

"Nyet. Nyet. Not so good names." Ivan and Anton disagreed on the name.

"How about..Sprinkles and Hot Sauce?"

"Nyet."

Kara covered her mouth to keep herself from laughing and blowing her cover but she found them still in the ignition so she pulled them out easily and ran behind the nearest stall. She turned to where she could see Leo and waved to get his attention.

When he looked over at her she held up the keys and went to throw them to him when she saw the now named BeeBop she quickly hid away, holding the keys to make sure they didn't make a sound.

"You think you could get past my goggles, son? I saw you a mile away!"

Mikey smacked BeeBop away with his weapon and stood in front of Leo.

"No one can face the BeeBop and Rocksteady!" The now named Rhino said with pride but his partner didn't like the names so much.

"I am not going to be named BeeBop! That is the dumbest name ever!" BeeBop yelled at Rocksteady pulling out the retromutagen and poking it in his stomach.

"He's got the retromutagen!" Mikey yelled.

"Retromutagen, huh? I wonder what it'll do to a mutant turtle." BeeBop said pointed it right at Mikey.

"Don't do it, BeeBop." Mikey warned, his hands in front of him

"Stop calling me that, fool! I hate that name! I hate that name!" BeeBop screamed then started to cry which changed into a laugh. "Time for the next mutation, turtle." He pointed the retromutagen back at Mikey and went to press the button.

"Mikey!" Leo climbed on top of the van and went to defend his brother but Rocksteady intervened and punched him which such force it threw him to the haunted fun house.

Kara let out a gasp and went to activate her blades but decided against it and snuck towards the back of the van. She poked her head around the corner and saw the two mutants arguing amongst each other so she used this time to find the key to free her friends.

She suddenly heard Rocksteady scream in pain and poked her head around the corner to see Karai aiding Leo and Mikey. She smiled and turned her attention back to finding the right key and unlocking the door.

"Kara!" April called out in relief as Kara ran up to her.

"Sorry it took so long. You'll be free in a jiffy." She asked as she helped April to sit up and cut the glue like substance off April with her blades.

Once April was free Kara went to the others seeing if they were ok. She bent down next to Donnie noticing there was a scorch mark over his plastron. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah, I'll be fine." Donnie groaned while holding where he was hit and smiled at her. "Thanks Kara."

She smiled and gave him a hug before helping him to his feet seeing Raph and Casey already getting up.

"Oh, my aching brain. What hit me?" Raph groaned rubbing the top of his head.

"It was a huge rhino dude. Right there!" Casey shouted pointing in Rocksteady's direction as he stood to his feet having one of the hoops from the ring toss caught in his horn.

"Turtles? Free?!" Rocksteady roared in anger and charged, his horn pointed right at them but they all jumped out of the way in time to dodge his attack.

"What do we do, Leo?"

"You four go after Karai." Leo looked right at Donnie, April, Casey, and Kara.

Kara stared at Leo for a moment then turned to where Rocksteady was. BeeBop looked easy to handle but Rocksteady he looked more like a challenge and she's been wanting to face an opponent with both size and strength. She clenched her fist watching Raph and Mikey taunt Rocksteady with the retromutagen making him follow them and turned to follow the others instead. "Another day, Kara."

They all stopped in front of the Fun House again making Kara groan out loud. "Why does she keep coming in here!?"

"Woah! Wicked! This was my favorite Fun House as a kid." Casey smiled at the memories before dropping his mask over his face as they all entered the Fun House.

"I hate this place. I hate this place." Kara whispered to herself glancing around nervously despite already having been inside.

"Kara, calm down. Why not put your blindfold on?" Donnie placed his hand over her back and smiled reassuringly knowing she wasn't for scary things.

"...Why didn't I think of that? Thanks, Don." She kissed his cheek before lifting her blindfold over her eyes and sighed able to see everything now.

"Careful. He's close. Invisible. He's ah!" Another cardboard cut out appeared out of nowhere scaring them all but Kara.

"Oh, I hate that! I hate it when stuff jumps out at cha!"

Kara giggled at Donnie's tantrum but gasped when BeeBop came into view of her. "Donnie, watch ou-!"

BeeBop was ahead of her and kicked Donnie across the room. "I know exactly what you mean." He pulled Casey's hockey stick from his hand and smacked him across the head with it.

"Don't worry I'll never hit a lady." BeeBop turned his attention towards April, making his way to her.

Kara slide in between them and had a wide grin on her face. "Surprise." She sang before punching him across the face causing him to stumble backwards in shock.

"What the? How did you find me?!" BeeBop screamed clearly shocked.

"That is an excellent question. Here is your answer!" She lunged at him her fist flying at him but once he was out of shock he was dodging her attacks. "You're pretty fast..but I hadn't trained for nothing." She muttered under her breath as her moves were picking up pace and soon she kicked her leg from under his feet and as he was in mid air she threw her fist across his face, sending him flying til he hit a wall and fell to the ground.

As Donnie and Casey stood to their feet they watched in awe as Kara fought BeeBop, able to hear his grunts as her fists made contact with him.

"We can't her take all the action for herself." Casey said but knew they all were at a disadvantage.

Donnie looked down, having had an idea, and pulled out a powder bomb from his pack. "Kara, catch!" He yelled to her before throwing it.

Kara glanced his way seeing a small ball coming her way and caught it with ease. She rubbed her fingers over the top feeling it was an egg and grinned, throwing it right at BeeBop as the egg exploded in a cloud of powdery smoke revealing to the others a coughing, powder covered BeeBop.

"Aw, dang!" BeeBop looked up in time to see the boys take over for Kara, their weapons raised to strike with grins on their faces and smacked BeeBop right through the wall of the Fun House, landing in front of a game stall.

Kara lowered her blindfold and walked up to Donnie and Casey now that BeeBop was visible and placed her hands on their shoulders. "Atta boys, nice job."

"You think this is over?" BeeBop jumped to his feet as they all ran out the Fun House and surrounded him.

"Only if you surrender but I have a feeling you're going to choose not to, BeeBop." Kara smirked knowing the named urked him so much and she was hoping for just that.

"MY NAME IS NOT BEEBOP!" BeeBop screamed and began shooting his lasers at her as the others charged to attack all at once.

Donnie and Casey raised their weapons over their heads for an attack but BeeBop spun backwards and kicked Donnie into Casey sending them both to the ground on top of each other and just as he was about to use his blasters April threw her Tessen hitting him across the head, catching it as it flew back at her.

"You picked the wrong night to mess with me, girl!" BeeBop yelled raising his hands to his head as his hair began to glow. Kara went to run at him but they all stopped as they heard a loud yell out of nowhere.

Following where the sound was coming from Kara looked up to see a large, grey ball flying down at them. "Uh-oh." She grabbed April and jumped out of the way as the grey ball that was Rocksteady hit BeeBop and they both rolled to their van and landed on the other side. "Ooh..that's gotta hurt.." Kara winced.

"Everyone ok?" Donnie asked sitting up while holding his arm.

"Think I only sprained a leg or two." Casey said with a weak smile, lifting his mask over his head.

Kara ran to Donnie's side to make sure he wasn't injured too badly when she heard Leo calling out for Karai.

"Karai! I know your here come out! You don't have to be afraid anymore!"

Kara could hear the small hiss from Karai as she slithered in to view and stopped in front of Leo.

Kara helped Donnie and Casey to their feet and walked up to the others.

"We can help you with this." Leo held out the retromutagen, pointing it at her and smiled.

Karai stared at him for a moment, silent, before lowering her head allowing him to do so.

Kara grabbed Donnie's arm as Leo pressed the button, spraying Karai, hoping it would work but when nothing happened..

"It doesn't work?! Donnie?" Leo turned to Donnie as he walked up next to him.

"I told you, Leo, Karai is special. She's not a normal mutant." Donnie said sadness in his voice.

"It was all for nothing?" Raph walked up to them holding his shoulder.

"It doesn't matter. You can come home with us, Karai. We'll take care of you. I promise."

"Noooo. Too dangeroussss. My mind isss...goiiiing." Karai moved her arm over her head in shame and turned away from them.

"Then why did you want us to find you?" Leo watched her a pained expression on his face.

"Wanted..to sssay..goodbyyye. To alll of youu."

Kara's brows were lifted in sadness breathing in a small gasp of air she didn't know she was holding in as she watched her leave. She closed her eyes but immediately opened them and ran to the other side of the van to see BeeBop and Rocksteady were gone.

She clenched her fists as she heard Leo cry out for Karai. It was all his fault. It was all Shredder's fault. Karai didn't deserve this. No one deserved any of this! She'd never forgive him for what he has done. She bit down on her lip and ran at the end of the dock where she saw Karai dive in to the water and gripped the top board.

"We'll find a cure for you, Karai! You hear me?! You won't be alone forever! We'll save you, Dragan, and New York! So don't give up just yet!" Kara screamed into the ocean her eyes burning with rage and hope.

"Guys, BeeBop and Rocksteady are gone." April said looking over where they were last seen at.

"Ah, let em go. The next time I see them they won't walk away." Raph said turning his head away.

"Come on team, let's go home." Mikey said softly, his head lowered in sorrow.

Kara stood up straight staring in to the ocean when she felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up to see Leo.

"Thank you, Kara.." He gave her a weak smile before turning and following after his brothers.

Kara took a few steps back still looking in to the ocean then turned around at the others and ran to catch up with them all.

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