Chapter 2
Karai POV
I watch as Stockman drops a dead bird in my cage. I pick up the animal and swallow it whole, cringing as the taste disgusts me. He goes back to work and I move away from the glass.
A few hours later, I suddenly feel weak and I fall to the ground. I try to get up, but the muscles in my body aren't responding. I suddenly have a sinking feeling that Stockman sneaked something into my last meal. After failing to get up a few times, I look up and see Leo near the ceiling, in stealth mode. My heart quickens a little as I see him jump down and knock out Stockman. The rest of his brothers… no, my brothers, jump down and start to battle the foot bots, destroying them. I then notice my father fighting in the midst of all the chaos, and I see him throw a glance at me. I can only make a weak smile, as I'm overjoyed to see him again. Though after seeing the state I'm in, he grows furious as he tears through the robots. I quietly mutter, "Father…"
I watch as Donnie jams the doors so no one can get in, and Leo runs over to my cage and opens the glass. I try to get up but I'm too weak to move around. He runs over to me and asks, "Karai, can you still transform back?"
I shake my head in sadness, and he calls Mikey over to help pick me up. Leo holds me by the shoulders and Mikey lifts my tail into the air. They carry me over to the wall and strap a harness onto me, where Raph then lifts me up to the ceiling. When I'm nearly close to the exit, Stockman wakes up and sounds the alarm, alerting Shredder to my escape. He enters the room and roars, "Release Karai, or I will make you all suffer!" My father crosses blades with him and yells, "I will only say this once, Oroku Saki! Touch my daughter again and I will show you what true pain feels like!" Shredder, enraged by what he said, yells, "You will not take what belongs to me!" My father then exclaims, "She does not belong to you, and you had no right to take her from me!" Suddenly, I feel Raph pull me up by the shoulders, and yells behind him, "Casey! Give me some cover!" A few foot bots make it up to the ceiling, but are quickly taken down by Casey Jones. Raph yells, "Sensei, we've got Karai! Let's get out of here!" Mikey pulls out a smoke bomb, and throws it, giving everyone the chance to escape.
Raph carries me into the back of their party wagon, and soon enough, the car's driving away from Shredder and back to the lair. In the back, I see my father and April looking down at me.
I watch April put her hands on the sides of my head, and say, "Okay, Karai, this may hurt a little, but it's for the best." I then feel a foreign presence enter my mind and I feel a migraine coming on. I hiss in pain as I feel my mind being pricked through, and I see memories flash through my head. I move around as I try to make the pain stop, but then I feel my father rub my tail to calm me down. I hear him say, "Calm down, Miwa. Everything is going to be fine. It will be over soon." His soothing voice and gentle hand on my tail succeeds in getting me to settle down a little. After a minute, the pain ends and I start to close my eyes. Before falling asleep, I manage to say, "Thank… you."
Splinter POV
I watch as my daughter sleeps peacefully as we head back to the lair. I can only imagine what her time in Shredder's lair has been like. She's been through enough pain to last a lifetime. I silently wonder how Saki could do such things to a child. I hope he knows that the next time I see him; I will show no mercy to him. It's enough that he's spent his life trying to make me miserable, but the fact that he has hurt a child like Miwa just to hurt me makes me want to finish him even more. I had never felt this angry since the night of Miwa's mutation. I look to April and she says, "She'll be fine, Sensei. She's probably just tired from the migraine. When she wakes up, she shouldn't have any trouble controlling herself anymore."
I smile at this, happy that my daughter won't be reduced to a mindless monster and now knowing she can live with us again. When my sons returned from the docks, they told me how Miwa was slowly losing her mind, which made me worry for her. After they returned from Coney Island and told me Donatello's cure to mutagen didn't work on her, I reluctantly told them that the people of the city had to be saved first. I was very tempted to defeat Saki for what he has done to her and for what he was planning to do to her, but Leonardo reminded me that we were only there to rescue her. I rub my daughter's head softly as we head back home.
