Authors Notes: Sorry, had a few things get in the way of me publishing this. But here it is! Ready for you all to read. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: Violet and Kanabo Violet are mine, the rest...not so much. I also own the plot! XD

Chapter 6: Awakening the Inevitable

"So you were talking to yourself?" He shuffles skittishly.

It's official: He thinks I'm crazy!

I gulp. "Well, in a matter of speaking…"

I can hear as well as see the Kanabo part laughing at us. "It's not easy for him, is it?"

"Why can't I see this 'other part of you' then?" Mikey is skeptical.

I glance at my Kanabo counterpart. It shrugs, "Beats me, maybe it's all in your head!" it grins manically.

"I don't know" I sigh. "You don't have to believe me, but my alliance with her…" I avoid using the word 'it' as both parts of me hate that, "…is the only thing protecting me from Sh'Okanabo"

"How do you know that?" Mikey asks me seriously. "Are you sure it's not your mind playing tricks on you again?"

He still doesn't entirely trust what I'm saying, probably because of the whole cage incident…I had to tell him; otherwise he wouldn't have understood why I had got in such a state.

"Say what you want, but I'm pretty sure I'm real cause I can do this" She walks over and pinches my arm.

I wince in pain. "Ouch!" I rub the sore area that is now looking pinkish. I get a questioning look from Mikey. "She pinched my arm!" I complain.

"Fine, I'll trust you babe…" then he quickly adds "…and babe" just to cover himself.

The Kanabo giggles, "He's sweet; I approve"

I grin. "She says thanks" I keep it brief.

"Just be careful," he always asks me that! Who does he think I am? Wait, I'd prefer not to know the answer…he knows I'm like him and kind of make rash decisions.

"See you soon hun" I feel myself blushing slightly, probably from the euphoria overcoming me.

My Kanabo side supports me, as we get ready to awaken. "Easy there…"

"Bye!" I wave slowly at Mikey, still in my cloud nine as I let myself awaken.

If you told me taking over a base was hard, I would have to laugh. Sh'Okanabo and me easily took over Moon Base Bishop; the only hard part was making sure every last person was converted into Kanabo drones. Viral took out all the computer and technology side of the job, and all I was needed for was to turn everyone.

I shiver slightly as I get an odd feeling, almost like a sixth sense of mine. "They're coming…aren't they?" I ask my master slowly.

"Yes" He frowns before continuing. "Violet, I wish you to greet them when they enter"

I laugh at my orders, doing what my Kanabo side tells me so I am not suspected. They are a specific task though: I must capture them and take them straight to Sh'Okanabo without turning them; he probably wants that pleasure.

I scale the ceiling in boredom, followed by a bunch of Kanabo drones on the floor. I wonder how they will react, especially since I must obey what Sh'Okanabo commands.

I come up on them; they are with a bunch of soldiers and what looks like Bishop. I was told he was the president, but I have no desire to find out about that, government bores me.

"Family outing?" I yawn slightly before jumping down in front of them. Obviously, I have to be in full Kanabo form or Sh'Okanabo would get annoyed.

"Violet!" Leo jumps slightly.

"She hasn't lost it has she?" I hear someone hiss at Mikey. I frown but say nothing, the drones coming up behind me, awaiting my orders.

"Drop your weapons," I say calmly, trying to keep my composure. The drones start to move in closer towards them. Eventually, realizing they're outnumbered they reluctantly do so. I move quickly and collect all of the weapons, carrying them easily. The drones with me then put goop cuffs on them and a couple of them take the weapons from me as I silently command them to. All of us start to move towards where the drones and me had come from when Leo stops in front of me.

"Violet…" he inhales slowly. "Can I speak with you? Alone?" I mock frown and wave the others ahead.

I give him a small smile. "What is it?"

"Why are you doing this? Risking everything like this?"

I freeze, he always asks me awkward questions. "I have to…it's the only chance I've got…"

"Violet, we're your family, you should know we will always be there to help you"

I close my eyes, avoiding the tears he's forcing out, but I can't help but weakly add "One could have all the power in the world, but it's nothing when you're alone" I open my eyes and find I'm back to normal, probably the emotional reaction again.

Leo is smiling at me. "Well, at least I know you're still in control"

I scowl. "You were testing me?"

"I had to, Mikey told us that you were experiencing difficulties without him"

"We're almost out of time," I say shakily, trying not to scream out in annoyance; I only just manage not to punch the wall. "Sh'Okanabo expects me to become a full Kanabo today"

His smile disappears. "Tell me what to do, I won't let it end like this, not again"

I sigh. He's still upset from what happened when I lost control of my empathy, he blames himself as I went on a rage filled rampage and I had to be sent away. I don't see why he's comparing this to that though, it is kind of worse now.

"Leo, I can only think of one way at the moment…" He looks at me expectantly. "Destroy Sh'Okanabo"

We walk on in silence, quickly catching up to the others. I transform before anyone notices and go to scale the wall again, but Leo stops me.

"Please, be careful, I don't want to lose you" I stop and turn so I'm fully facing him.

"I know Onii Chan, I know," I sigh and instead decide to walk next to him to keep him happy. I guess he thinks it too unsafe for his little sister to be climbing all over the place, almost defying the laws of gravity to do so. I see his point, but it is kind of cool.

We enter the main area and I take my position next to Sh'Okanabo. I watch blankly, unfocused, as Sh'Okanabo boasts about everything that we've done since that time window incident.

All of a sudden, that annoyance, Cody Jones, interrupts and frees our prisoners. Everyone splits off, leaving Mikey, Leo and Splinter to fight Sh'Okanabo.

I watch in horror until he growls "Deal with the rat" at me.

I turn to find my father being restrained by two drones behind me. "Sorry sensei" I mutter quietly so Sh'Okanabo doesn't hear me.

"Do what you must" he mouths at me.

I put a hand on his shoulder, allowing some of the ooze to go into him. The two drones place him down next to Leo and Mikey. I think all is lost as they open their eyes; they are totally red.

"Soon you will all be drones" Sh'Okanabo laughs, but he is soon distracted as the blast shields begin to open.

"Leo! We're not gonna let a bit of slime ruin our day are we?" Mikey forces himself up.

I move closer. "What?" All of them are in control of the first stage…Unbelievable!

"Give up! You'll soon be lost!" Sh'Okanabo growls.

Splinter speaks. "As long as we're together…"

"…We…are…never…lost!" Leo finishes his sentence then jumps away with Mikey to try deal with the blast shields, so Sh'Okanabo focuses on them.

"Violet, come here" Splinters orders so I do so.

He takes my hands in his, I close my eyes only to be hit by a sudden pain; he's removing the seed that won't leave, the seed that binds me to Sh'Okanabo. I can't help but scream out in agony.

Everything around me is fading fast: the sound, the feelings…

I swear I vaguely hear Sh'Okanabo yell "You won't get her back!" but I couldn't be certain.

I look around myself, I'm in a white room, and it's bright, almost too bright. I find opposite me is my Kanabo self.

"Hey" I smile at her.

She sort of shrugs in a Raph-like fashion, "Hey yourself"

I continue to scan my surroundings. This room is so…blank. "So what's going on?" I finally ask as I find it kind of boring here.

She merely looks down sadly, not the emotion you'd expect to get from a Kanabo. "You know…"

"…This is goodbye?" I finish her sentence for her, also depressed by this matter; I've come to enjoy my Kanabo side, but I guess you can't always get what you want.

"In a way" she looks up again, smirking slightly.

I tilt my head in confusion, "What do you mean?"

"Well…" she hesitates, then the Kanabo part disappears; I'm left facing myself. "…I was always a part of you" she grins at me mischievously.

"So the Kanabo part just affected part of me?"

She shakes her head. "No, originally it affected all of you but after that Mikey incident and the cage, you released most of yourself from it. I was merely the part that didn't want it to end, the part of you that could have been, the part that wanted in some small way to experience evil…"

I hold my head. "This is too weird!" I feel a light migraine coming on.

"We must rejoin," she whispers to me.

"How?" I almost moan, starting to feel tired, remembering the same being said to me by that strange memory orb when I was Darkling.

I close my eyes as another force overcomes me, almost like I'm being compressed…

"I'll always be with you Violet" I hear her voice echo in my head, I open my eyes and find myself alone.

"Great…now what?" I ask sarcastically, not knowing how to get out of this place.

"Babe!" Mikey's voice sounds distant, yet close. "You've got to wake up!"

I open my eyes, only to find Mikey is kissing me, more specifically, giving me mouth-to-mouth. He moves away, the tears in his eyes slowly escaping.

I cough as if I hadn't been breathing before speaking. "Mikey?" I blink slowly as I continue to get my bearings.

The feeling in the room amongst most is a feeling of triumph; there is some concern, a small amount of terror and a touch of sorrow. I guess they thought I was dead or something.

He smiles uncertainly. "Violet? Are you alright?"

"Never better," I joke; he rolls his eyes. "I'm free and with my love"

"And that's where you'll always be!" He grins at me.

I force myself up into a sitting position against his protests. It's then when I see Cody: he is actually upset! He wipes the tears from his own eyes and dismounts the battle armor he was in.

He walks over slowly to stand in front of me. I wave Mikey away and stand up; he backs off to be with his brothers and to give us two some space.

There is an awkward silence for a moment.

"Look, I…" I stutter while I try to come up with what to say.

He looks around nervously, "Well, it was all my…"

"I'm sorry!" We both say at the same time. I exchange a smile with him briefly.

"I was influenced by an evil alien force and…"

He cuts me off. "It's alright Violet! I did see some of the points you made actually did make sense" I give him a confused look. "The clones…they aren't all bad" he almost blushes.

I cough lightly, "Well, it was wrong of me to claim you kidnapped my family and weren't trying to send us home"

He looks surprised; he probably didn't know that was my previous mindset. "I should have trusted you" He offers me his hand, "Friends?"

I accept it. "Friends!"

I feel relief run into some of my brothers, probably glad our feud is over. We move back to my family so they can smother me for making them think I'd died…again.

The penthouse: back with my family in this place where all my troubles began. I sit in thought on the bed as I wait for Mikey to return. I bite on my knuckle anxiously, wondering what is keeping him; he said he was just going to get some water for me!

The door whips open automatically to reveal my mate. He chucks me a bottle of water but hides something behind his back. "What is it?" I ask curiously, trying to catch a glance, but failing miserably.

"Nothing…" He sounds so suspicious.

"Okay then" I put the water on the bedside table and lay down, facing away from him. Three…two…one…

"No wait!" I feel him jump on the bed. I roll over to face him, "What then?"

He tries to avoid eye contact as he speaks. "Well…" A slight blush invades his cheeks: it looks kind of cute…

"Yes?" I urge him to continue, grabbing his free hand and kissing it to encourage him. I manage to catch his eyes and smile to him.

"I missed you so much while you were gone…and I wanted to give you something"

I roll my eyes, "Mikey, you don't have to, I'm no longer tainted by evil and I'm staying with you! What more could I give you?"

He continues. "I don't care, I love you! I had to do something…"

"Were you jealous of those clones?" I ask quietly as I sit up.

His flush increased. "Maybe a little…" he admits, knowing I can read his emotions.

"Don't worry, there was nothing there, honest" I look at him seriously. "It was merely like my relationship with the others"

Relief floods into him. "Well, here then" he finally gives me the thing from behind his back. It looks like an orb. Before I can ask about it, he adds, "Keep looking"

I stare at the blackness of its surface and notice some swirling colors taking over. They surround it and start to form some sort of image.

"It shows you what you want to see," he speaks softly. "So you can see memories, current things, fantasies…" he gives me a cheeky wink.

"Wow! I'm impressed" I beam at him. "You know me too well!" I look at the image it has formed; it's me as a Kanabo with the clones…

He glances at it then at me. "You miss it, don't you?"

I look at him sorrowfully. "Not only that, but them" I continue to stare at their images. "Who knows what Dun is putting them through?"

He locks his eyes with mine. "Don't worry about it," he quickly adds as I look down again.

"They took me in, he was the one who gave me all the equipment to survive as well as my mask," I explain.

He frowns, but says nothing. I know when they were forced to attack here it sounded like Dun was hiding out in their lair from what they said to the others.

"And I know where they live" I almost whisper now, stopping the remorse from engulfing me. I put the orb down safely then close my eyes and droop my head down.

Mikey's concern fills me, as well as the warmth of his love. "Aw, Babe" He touches my face lightly. "Why don't you talk to the others, maybe we can help?"

I look at him again, still sad. "I can't Mikey" I feel some tears escape, "Not after what I've been told happened here before with them"

"Don't do anything rash or stupid," he warns me, knowing how I often make decisions like him.

I lay down, "Don't worry, I won't" I then let myself fall into a light sleep, soon feeling Mikey hugged up into me.

I open my eyes to find it's still dark. I wriggle free of Mikey's grasp and sit up, on the edge of the bed. I grab the orb again and look at it. "What should I do?" I ask quietly. It shows me the clones again, in their lair.

I stand after replacing it and walk to the door. I walk slowly down the corridors with no real direction. I stop as I find myself staring at the door to the lab, the place I was confined to last time, the place with that…

I shudder and continue on into the living room. I sit on the sofa and hug my legs, thinking desperately as to what I should do. I can't leave them again, but I can't sit around and do nothing! Why is life so twisted? Am I fated to always have difficult decisions to make?

"Vi?" Raph suddenly sits next to me, "What ya doing up?"

I don't look at him; I continue to look down at the floor. "Thinking" I hear him sigh at my answer. "Raph, I don't know what I should do…" I finally trace my gaze to his. "I really want to help…some friends…but I don't know what would happen if I tried"

He gives me a strange look. "And who're these friends of yours?"

"I can't say yet"

"Well, Master Splinter always says you should go with what your heart tells you to do"

"My…heart?" I think for a minute, and then jump at him, forcing him to hug me. "Thanks Raphie!"

"Sure…" he sounds uncertain, but he feels happier to know he's helped with something.

I stifle a yawn as I stand. "See ya" I beam at him before leaving, he nods in response as I finally leave the room. I go back to my room and collect my mask and tessen. "Sorry Mikey, I've got to follow my heart," I whisper as I once again leave.

I sneak past everyone's rooms and past the kitchen where Raphael is now and head for the exit. As I get to the elevator, I inhale quickly and summon it. I know this isn't the best option for escape, but it is pretty much my only one! Without my Kanabo powers, I cannot survive such a jump easily. The elevator arrives and I enter; I know I'll be caught on all the cameras, but I have to help them.

The lift gets to the lowest level and I depart, only to find myself face-to-face with Mikey. "Violet, you said you'd make no rash actions" he frowns at me.

"How'd you get here first?" I ask suspiciously.

"The stairs" he points to my immediate left where the stairwell is. He must have raced down them at an amazing speed to get here first though! I notice his breathing is slightly faster than usual, but not by much. He gives me a slightly annoyed look, "You promised"

I glance down. "I know, but I have to"

"No" he walks over in front of me. "Not alone anyway"

I look back at him, surprised. "What are you saying Michelangelo?"

"I'm saying I will help you" he winks at me.

"What about the others?" I ask guiltily, "We can't just run off like this"

He laughs, "Like you were going to?" I nod kind of embarrassed. "Well, you could tell them what you plan to do…"

I jump. "Would they so readily help? I mean you all seem to be against those guys"

"Violet, trust me, if it's for you, they'd be willing to do anything"

I hug him, "We can try then" I agree and we re-enter the elevator. I am so anxious now though, my words could have defied me, but I don't care! I need to help my other brothers! Maybe with the others' help, I can save them and finally finish Darius off…they'd agree just for that…I hope.

Extra Notes: This is where my handwritten copy finished. There was the bit with her and Cody, then another bit with him that was an ending. But since I wrote that, I've had loads of ideas, so it will go on! :D