She looked absolutely terrible! Her hair was all messed up, blood splattered against her forehead. Her eyes were drained of color and she looked pained and frantic.

"Leo?" She hissed.

Leo couldn't stand to see her like this, but his eyes were hard with anger. "Karai, where are you?"

Her eyes looked around as if she were in a panic. And she most likely was. "I'm in a cell. Shredder won't let me out, but I found Digital's watch. That's how I'm able to contact you all now." Karai explained, her snake tongue poking out from time to time even in her human form.

Leo nodded. "Got it. Are you ok, Karai? Is anything wrong besides the obvious?"

"He's going to kill me, Leonardo." Karai hissed.

Leo shook his head in confusion. "What do you mean he's going to kill you?"

"He's sentenced me to treason," Karai explained, her voice hinted tightly with pain. "He has no need for me anymore. I am a liability to him and the Foot Clan, and he says I shall be executed."
Leo shook his head now in disgust. "He wishes to kill the girl he raised as his own. He has no honor."

"I know that now, Leonardo," Karai said, "and I wish not to stay with him anymore. My real father, Hamato Yoshi, has more honor than Saki ever will. I wish to escape this place and to meet my real father.
I can't escape on my own. It's either now or die."

"I won't let you die," Leo told Karai looking at her through the screen. "That's a promise. My brothers and I are coming for you."

And that's when the video cut out.

She must have lost connection, Leo thought. Leo ran out of the lab and out to the living room where Digital was riding on Leatherhead's back. "Guys," He said, his voice cutting through the laughter that had once plauged through the room, "I just got a message from Karai. We need to save her and now at that.
Shredder's going to kill her if we don't leave now."

Raph twirled his sais before sheathing him in his belt pockets. "Then what are we waiting for?"

Donnie twirled his bo staff and placed it in his own sheath while Mikey did the same for his nunchaku. Digital looked to them, confusion written on her face. "What are you guys doing? Where are you guys going?"

Donnie looked towards his amnesic daughter. He knelt down towards her height. He placed both of his hands on her shoulders. "Digital, we're going to get your aunt back from a bad person."

Digital's brow only furrowed deeper into confusion. "But Aunt April is still here."

"No, Digital," Donnie pressed on, "you don't understand. You have another aunt. She helped you when you were with that mean man who made you forget everything. But we're going to get her back. I can assure you that."

Suddenly, Digital hugged Donnie tightly. "I don't know why...but I feel like something is telling me to not let you leave. Like what you're going to do is dangerous," She then looked into Donnie's maroon eyes. "Is this dangerous?"

Donnie bit his lip. He could tell that his daughter was feeling nervous. He couldn't tell the truth, but he didn't want to lie to her. He didn't want her to possibly panic. He gripped her shoulders a bit tighter. "It could be, but it probably won't be."

She felt an explosion in her head. It didn't hurt, but it sure did open her eyes. She gripped him in her arms tightly. "Don't leave, Daddy! Please don't leave! Shredder could kill you!"

Donnie looked at his daughter in shock. She remembers, he thought. But he closed his eyes in pain. He would pretend to not acknowledge it for now. That would only make his daughter's shouts more desperate. "Digital, I have to go. We can't let Karai die."

Her eyes looked back up into his own maroon ones, her's were filled to the brim with tears. "I remember,
Dad. Please, just don't leave. Please. He's mean and ruthless."

Donnie stroked Digital's long black hair. So he couldn't pretend to acknowledge it. She had just told him. "Baby, I'll be back. We'll all be back. We're leaving with four, and we're coming back with five."

She sniffed lightly and looked back to Splinter then back at her father. She allowed a few tears to fall from her eyes. She then buried her face into Donnie's plastron, her tears soaking his chest. "Make sure you come back. I don't want you to die."

He sighed, placing his head on his daughter's head. It was like watching a daughter watch her father leave for war, only now, Donatello was living that hearwrenching video. But he wasn't one of those heroes who went overseas to fight for their country. And even if he wasn't one of them, listening to his daughter plead that he stay instead of going to fight was just as heartwrenching to him and everyone in the room.

"I'm coming back, baby. I know that. We're all coming back. I promise." Donnie promised. He felt Digital nod under his chin and he pulled back. He stood back up to his towering height, higher than each of his brother, and he stood next to his brothers.

"Ready, guys?" Leo asked. They all nodded. Leo nodded back. "Let's go, team." And with that the four left the lair to go off and rescue Karai. Digital stood there for a moment, collecting each memory of her head being empty. Each moment that she hadn't known her own family. And now that she knew each of them, they had to go off and do a dangerous mission. She sunk to her knees, tears falling from her sea foam, blue eyes. She allowed a few sobs to rip from her throat.

She felt a pair of arms hold her and then pick her up. At the moment she hadn't known who the person was who had picked her up, but as soon as she had buried her head into the person's furry chest, she knew that the person was none other than her grandfather.

He rubbed her back soothingly and made quite shushing noises. "Do not fret young one. Your father and uncles will come back soon. Each of them at that."

She gripped a bit of his fur in her fist. "I just remembered...and now their leaving me."

"Sh," Splinter soothed. "They will all come back. Everything will be just fine."

Digital sobbed gently. "I'm scared, Grandpa."

He sighed. "So am I, Digital." She sniffed lightly, her head still resting against his chest. "How do you get over it, Grandpa?"

He chuckled lightly. He rubbed her back soothingly. "You never really get over it. I'm always scared and nervous when my sons leave for patrol or a big battle. Even for a pizza run, my grandchild. But I trust in them that they are skilled enough and responsible enough to confront any battle that they face. And if they ever need help, they always know where to find me."

Digital began to calm down a bit, her eyes only halfway open at this point. "Grandpa?"

"Hm?" He asked, moving his head so that his eyes could meet hers.

"Do you really think that they're going to bring Karai back?"

Splinter sighed, resting his chin on top of the child's head. "I hope so, my dear."

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