Chapter 9
Reaching to there destination in just a nick of time. After landing on top of the roof and turning the car back to normal, they hopped right out as April was still can't figure out where Karai have kelp the Light of Zarthra, let alone tell her.
"Alright Karai we're here just like the bracelet wants us to be. Sooooooo, where's the Light of Zarthra?." asked April as she getting tired of the goose chase.
Karai smiled seeing that April was eager to know where it is but with no surprise, she didn't realize that the Light of Zarthra was with them the entire time. "Alright, April here is what Zelena has been after for all these years. And here it is." She said presenting Tony and said "The Light of Zarthra." Tony was confused as to why Karai called him the Light of Zarthra and don't know weather he should laugh at the little humor that she made or take it seriously.
"Me?." He said "You actually think I'm the Light of Zarthra?." Karai shook her head while April have finally clicked as she figure out that the Light of Zarthra wasn't some object. No, it was a living person and it happens to be the boy that she was crushing on. "I don't think Tony. I know because I remember you but you don't remember me, due to cause of having your memory neuralized by me." Karai explained as this hit Tony harder than April.
"N... N... No that c... c... c.. can't be. I was an orphan. I never had a family until my adopted mom picked me up." Tony said as he was believing to what he said." Karai just shook her head again while smiling at him and give him the real truth. "No that's not true. That was a cover up that I told you after I neuralized you. Your adopted mother was a great women that I was lucky to meet and glad that she was close friends to the Royal Family."
April walked away from them and sat down on a huge stone rock as she truly wished that this wasn't true what Karai speak. She looked up at the sky and see in the stars there was a glowing object in the far distance. The the glowing object that she sees was a Zartern mothership hovering above, as the people of Zarthra was waiting for their prince to come and take him home. April knows this must be done before Earth explodes and this is Tony's birthright to be the prince of his people.
"She's right. You have to go with your people Tony." April said fighting back the pain in her chest.
Tony was shocked to hear her say those words as he still can't believe this was even true. "Karai I can't do this. This must be a mistake." He pointed out hoping that Karai would have second thoughts. But unfortunately this wasn't the case as Karai was going to make him be convinced. "Ask me something Tony. Does it seems strange when every time you cry it starts raining?." She asked. Tony didn't understand what those the question that Karai asked him has to do with the situation that they are in. "And?. It always rains when people cry." He protested.
"No. Not in your case because when I read the weather news it says it would be zero percent chance of perception, but all of a sudden it starts raining after what the news anchor just said it won't rain." Karai explained to Tony making him stay quiet, and see that she was right. "I'm sorry your majesty but this has to happen. Your homeworld needs you. Your people needs you." She added in order to make him feel important. Tony couldn't find another way to avoid it as looked at huge stone decoration and see a glowing light from above the sky, and watch the rock transform into a space pod as the door to the pod was open.
Then after seeing that he looked at April who was depress and unhappy to him go. So he walked up to her and then been down to her level. "So, um, this it huh?." April said putting her eyes on Tony. He chuckled a little as he started playing with her red hair of hers. "Yeah, I guess so. But this has to happen I mean after all we have a responsibility to live up to." Karai nodded as she walked towards them. "Very true. And believe me. It's a everyday day job." She said smiling about her funny but true statement.
When getting ready to add on to what she said they started to feel the vibration below their feet, and suddenly Jeff popped himself out on the roof looking dead right at three. April didn't feel like dealing with Jeff at the exact moment and time, as she was already accepting to let go of Tony and complete the mission at hand. And so she already got a bad attitude and see that Jeff was in one of his moody moments. "Jeff get your big obesite alien worm ass back into the subway tunnel now!. I'm so not in the damn mood to put up with you!." April yelled in anger. What shocked them was that Jeff didn't come out from his tunnel just to get even, but cry for help as he started to swell up and roared in pain as popped like a balloon. And what replaced him was Zelena in her original snake like form as she murdered Jeff and took his size.
"Goddammit." said Karai who couldn't believe she can't get rid of Zelena in a humane way.
"Ah hell no!." April yelled in anger as she was starting to hate Zelena now.
Zelena growled in rage as she just about had enough of the bull crap and no longer lose the Light of Zarthra. "I'm going to have the boy one way or another!." She yelled. Karai with quick reflexes grabbed Tony by the arm and quickly run towards the space pod, while Zelena charged at them and open her mouth and releasing her mini head tentacles as they were running to grab Tony. "Oh hell you ain't!." April said jumping in front of them and get grabbed by her mini head tentacles. Tony looked and yelled "April!."
April was punching and strangling the tentacles as Zelena was trying her best to kill and eat her but, April wasn't going to make it an easy win for her. "Tony get in the pod now!." She yell while constantly fighting. Karai took her gun and said "You heard her. Get in." and went to shooting one of the tentacles. One of the mini head tentacles were making an attempt to bite April but she pulled it away from her face and punched it hard. "Yeah, come on Zelena so I can lay the smackdown on your candy alien ass." April called her out as one of the tentacles wrapped around her neck and gave it a squeeze. Then April grabbed unwrapped it off her neck and took a bite of it making Zelena scream in pain and anger.
April spit out the blood and skin out of her mouth in discuss as she never tasted something so terrible. "Yuck!. That tasted like rotten broccoli mix with outdated stale mayonnaise that was seating out in the sun." April commented as she can't get rid of that bad taste. Karai was shooting each head that was close to April as she wasn't missing. "Your majesty you need to hop in your space pod as soon as possible." She said. "B... B... But what about April?." He asked worried about her safety. Karai stopped shooting and put her gun down and looked at him and give some ease of mind treatment.
"What about April?. She does this all the time." She said with confidence smile. Then April said after hearing what Karai just said about her, as it made her mad since she knew what she meant. "Stop telling that lie Karai!. You been saying that load of bull since the day we worked together!." April yelled making Karai dropped her smile after hearing her best friend as she tried to ease Tony's mind of worry. After hearing the back talk from April she switch the gun from kill to stun, and purposely shoot her without even looking to aim. "Ow!. You shot me in my butt!." April yelled at her as she felt the sting. "Be happy I didn't shoot your ass on kill April!. Tony this no time to argue or waste any time now go." said Karai and switched back to kill and started blasting at Zelena.
Tony took one last look at his crush who was putting her life on the line for him and then turn around, and headed to the space pod and got in as the pod begin to close the door shut tight and started to hover away. "Noooooooooooooo!." Zelena yelled as she dropped April and threw her insides out of her body as she was getting ready to swallow Tony whole. Before she can reach to Tony in a nick of time, Karai helped April back to her feet as both of them went to the trunk of the car and pulled out their back up game changers, and walked up to the open spaced side. Then they started loading it up as the gun was fired up as they pointed their guns to the flying target and waited for the right moment to blast Zelena into particles.
"Thanks April. For bringing me back." said Karai who was smiling while having her eye set on firing her enemy.
April smiled and answered back. "No problem K. You'll do the same for me." With the perfect timing they fired their guns as the blast run right at its target as Zelena had her mouth on the pod until the blast made contact with her, and exploded into pretty fireworks as it created a Universe peace symbol in the sky as Tony reached to the mothership. "So Tony's name in Zartern means light right?." April asked as both she and Karai lowed their gun down. "Yeah it's true. Sounds funny huh?." Karai asked as she looked up at the pretty fireworks. Then April had another question that was on her mind as this question was a very good one. "Tell me something Karai. What was it like outside from doing this everyday?." Karai looked at April as the question that she asked was a very good one indeed.
"It's great to be honest. I get to have the weekend off, get a discount on one of the products that we sell, and I get to seat around in my apartment and be a couch potato." Karai said looking back at the last image of the fireworks and then said "But I do miss being a Kunoichi NIB agent. And I missed the city of New York." Nodded in satisfaction they put there guns back into the trunk and closed the trunk shut, and walked away as April was wondering how they will cover up the mess they made since almost everyone saw their scene of alien fighting. "Karai what are we going to do now?. I mean everyone saw our little incident." April asked as Karai on the other hand wasn't a bit worried about it.
Karai then said while taking out her shades "I don't know why you're worrying cause I'm not. Not in a million years." With confusion to what she was doing, April saw Karai putting on her shades and looked at her as she put on hers. Then Karai took out a small single button remote from her pocket and pressed it as the torch from the stature of Liberty did flash, wiping everyone's memory in New York. "Wow!. I didn't know that the torch that the stature of Liberty was holding, is actually a super sized neuralizer!." April said in shock and amazement. With a smirk seeing the reaction from April, Karai then said "Believe it or not the designer that built lady Liberty was an alien in disguise and he was an NIB agent as well." April took off her shades and reveled shock in her eyes and said "Shut up."
"Don't worry rookie. I'll pick up where I left off when I was teaching and training you." Karai said still having her smirk as she then said "If you're getting ready to ask me about having the remote to the stature of Liberty neuralizer then that's a flat out no. Because this remote is mind and I already gave you my neuralizer on the night when you flashed me." April snapped her fingers as she was going to ask her but Karai quickly knew it without hearing her asked about it.
Few hours later the NIB HQ was slowly running back to normal as all the agents were set free thanks to the Turtles. After getting the congratulations and the praise from the whole organization including the Aliens and Mutants, April headed for the shower to wash off the stink while brushing and washing her mouth out, and try to get rid of the bad taste. Then she throw her ninja outfit to the cleaning bin and put on her spare as she was seating down on the bench near her locker, while Karai who did the same and join her best friend. "D... D... Do you want to talk about it?." She asked. "Talk about what Karai?." April asked to know what Karai was talking about. Karai rolled her eyes as she said "About Tony. Look I know it's hard to find a cute boy but maybe one day you can find one whose honest and trustworthy."
As of that statement that she made, April put on her shoes back on and tied them while talking. "Karai I'm fine really. I don't need to talk about it alright." She said finishing uo tying her shoes. "Still having love issues I see." Zed said coming in as he too wanted to comfort the teen. "Oh god not you too." April said not wanting to hear what Zed have to say. "It's alright April. You're find love in a boy one day. Why I remember when I met my wife the first thing we did was started to come together and mate since after all she was a alien. And man, does she knows how to pleasure a man." Both Karai and April were discussed to even hear that from Zed as that was a very personal thing and it really doesn't need to be shared. "Ewwwwww Zed!. Come on I'm a minor for crying out loud!." Karai said holding her stomach as she felt something coming back up. "Zed after all my years of knowing you, I truly didn't need to hear that man." said Karai as Zed was grinning and chuckling as he can't help it as he did love his wife after all.
But what made things worse was that Frank walked in and put his two cents in the conversation. "Nah this is way better. On my planet when a woman wanted to be the males mate, they start to shake off their endless itchy ticks and drool. Like this." Frank said shaking himself off making everyone back way hoping that they didn't catch anything. "What?. I was only trying to help." Frank said seeing that they were taking it the wrong way. Rubbing the pain nerve in her brain, April then said while making sure she wasn't going to get a headache. "Okay first off, No I don't want to talk about it Karai. Frank keep your fleas and bacteria to yourself, and as for you Zed. Hell no." When done saying her peace she went to her locker to get her special made hair brush and was met by the little alien creatures. "Hello April!." said all of them. Before they can sing their national anthem in her name she automatically shut the door to her locker, and then looked at Karai who was smiling at her seeing the surprise that she left in her locker.
"Karai why are those nasty rats in my locker and not at the central train station?." April asked in a none happy and not even a little bit laughing about it. "Well since they liked you now and instead of me, so I thought it would be nice for them to have a new place to live with a little bit more space." said Karai while still having her smile. April shaked her head while Karai was walking away as she and Frank follow her. "No Karai that's real sad girl. We need to take them out of that locker and show them that the world is actually much bigger than that." April pointed out. Karai stopped at the exit door that neither agent has never go near it. She looked at April with little bit of disappointment.
"Like I say before. You still have the mind of a rookie." She said as she suddenly kicked the door open and revealed both April and Frank that they were living a locker box, as the outside of the locker showed an alien train station as Aliens were the size of a planet. "Wow." that what all that Frank can say as he and April's mind was blown away.
"Like my grandma always told me. You learn and discover something new everyday." said April while continuing looking at wants she's seeing.