Part 2
Catra picked up the canister, the contents inside glowed brightly, oozing around slowly like it had life of its own. Her brothers slowly surrounded her, all memeristed by the glow.
“So that’s the…” Leo dumbfounded like the rest of them, too shocked to finish his sentence.
“Mutagen that turned us all into what we are now.” Donnie finished it for him, staring intently at the canister.
“Let’s drink some!” Mikey tried reaching for the canister, but Catra held it out of his reach, shocked by what he said.
“What?” She shrieked, looking at Mikey like he was an idiot, scratch that, like the idiot he was, “Why would you do that?”
“‘Cause if you mutate a mutant, you get a super mutant!” Mikey said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
“Or a pile of goo on the sidewalk.” Donnie gave the more likely outcome from the situation.
“Either way, it’s an improvement.” Raph shrugged his shoulders.
“Guys, this is huge.” Leo got all their attention, “Whoever kidnapped those people are somehow connected to what happened to us 15 years ago.”
“How is that possible?” Donnie couldn’t believe it, or he didn’t know how to.
“I mean you watched the same shows I have right, it could be part of a company conspiracy, with the plan to take over the world,” Catra got strange looks from all them except Mikey, blushing and coughing acting like she didn’t say that, “Or could just be a failed experiment.”
“For alien robots, anything is possible.” Mikey was still going, reminding Catra as well, that was also a possibility, the correct one probably.
“Stop that. There are no such things as alien robots!” Donnie of course was still on the side of not believing, but Catra can see that it was rusting, and when it falls he will see the truth.
“Oh, yeah?” Mikey moved towards the man, who managed to get out of the van but was too delirious to run, had his face grabbed by Mikey and stretched, “Well, if there’s no such thing as alien robots, how do you explain this?”
Catra handed the mutagen to Donnie, running and pulling Mikey away as the man was screaming in pain from him pulling his face, “Mikey, stop! It’s not a mask. His face doesn’t look that hideous… I think”.
“Okay. He’s in the clear,” Mikey dropped the man feeling grateful that Catra got him to stop, “But those other guys were totally alien robots.”
“Enough!” Raph grabbed the mutagen from Donnie and walked up to the man, “Time to get some answers. Who are you, and that’s going on?”
“Name’s Snake,” Sitting up and glaring at all of them, “And I’ve got nothing to say to you hideous freaks and bag of fur.”
“Excuse me?” Catra’s claws came out, but Leo placed a hand on her shoulder to calm her down.
“Oh, well, that’s cause you don’t know us yet.” Raph shoved Snake away from him, Mikey and Donnie grabbing his arms to keep Snake still.
“See, we were just regular guys until we got hit by a little bit of this.” Raph unscrewed the lit of the canister, pulling it off with a pop as he walked close to Snake. Catra could hear what sounded like a sizzling nose accompanying the mutagen, if she could remember, when first mutating she could feel a burning sensation at the time.
“Wha-What are you doing?” Snake tried to struggle, but he couldn’t even move.
“Playing a game little game I like to call Mutation Roulette,” Raph gave the canister to Catra, causing her to smirk as she walked and stopped in front of Snake, “Now, you can turn out handsome like me, or you might end up disgusting and deformed, like Mikey here.”
“Hey!” Mike was annoyed but didn’t let Snake go.
“To be fair I don’t think Snake can turn any more hideous than he is now,” Making Mikey feel better, slowly turning the canister as the mutagen was slowly oozing out above Snake, “So, you feel lucky?”
“Okay, Okay!” Snake finally surrendered, Catra lifted the canister up immediately and put the lid back on, as much as he deserved it, she wouldn’t do that, “They call themselves the Kraang. They’ve been grabbing scientists from all over the city.”
“Well, that worked out pretty good.” Leo smiled impressed.
“Of course it did. Would you wanna look like Mikey?” Raph laughed, insulting Mikey more, but at this point it was for show to scare Snake.
“I’m right here.” Mikey was sad, so Catra whispered something into his ear that got him to laugh and smile again.
“What do they want with the scientists?” Kneeling in front him and glaring into his eyes, trying to frighten Snake with her eyes.
“I don’t know,” Snake was annoyed, but quickly changed his tune as Catra waved the canister in his face, “All I know is they’re taking them out of the city tonight, but I don’t know where!”
“This is awesome! That girl’s dad is a scientist!” Donnie completely ignored the fact to live the fantasy in his head, “I’m a scientist. She is so gonna like me.”
“I don’t think you’re her type,” Snake just stared at him weirdly, Catra had a little fun by shaking the canister a bit more, “But you never know.”
“Where are they now?” Leo glared.
“There’s got to be like, twenty of them down there.” Leo was looking through a telescope, watching over a building that looks abandoned from afar, but when you get close you can see it’s anything but.
“Yeah, and that’s just the ones we can see.” Donnie couldn’t see much without the telescope, but he could see some of them.
“You know how weird is it that they all look identical, right?” Catra pointed out an obvious fact, hinting to the fact that her and Mikey have been telling the truth.
“Okay! I believe you, Catra, even though I might regret it since Mikey said it,” Raph finally relented, but Leo and Donnie stayed firm, watching as Raph spun his sai’s, “All right! An all-you-can-beat buffet!”
“We can’t just rush in there.” Leo stopped Raph before he could do anything, “We need a plan.”
“Think, you shellbrain,” Donnie might have thought about smacking Raph in the back of the head, but it wouldn’t have worked well, “There are innocent lives at stake. If we screw this up, they’re all goners.”
“We need to find a way to sneak in without being seen and get them out of there.” Catra gave a solid beginning of a plan, but she didn’t know where to go from there.
“Boy, I could sure go for some of that pizza right now,” Mikey walked up to them relaxed, he was the one meant to be watching Snake, all of them stared at him, “What? I can’t be the only one that’s hungry.”
“I mean you’re not wrong, but, Mikey,” Catra got his attention, “Where’s Snake?”
“Oh, geez.” Mikey’s brain clicked , like the switch turned to working, he realised his mistake.
Catra saw a glimpse of Snake’s head running down the fire escape,quickly running after him with her brothers close behind. Going around in circles while going down the fire escape got her a bit dizzy, and that’s why when they reached the bottom she didn’t know which way Snake ran.
Donnnie and Mikey ran one way, while her, Leo and Raph ran the other, leading to a rusted swing set and an old unused basketball court. Looking around they couldn’t see any sign of Snake, even Catra couldn’t sniff out his scent, but when they were about to give up, Catra heard a can falling down in alleyway.
Turning to Leo and Raph, she used her tail to quietly indicate where Snake was to them, they nodded as a plan formulated between them.
“Oh, great. We let him get away.” Leo’s voice didn’t sound all that convincing, but maybe they didn’t need to try against Snake.
“Whoa, Whoa. You’re the leader.” Raph on the other hand sounded really convincing, well with the fact he wasn’t trying to help, “That means you let him get away.”
“Hey, we’re a team so we all take the blame… but it was Mikey’s fault.” Catra spoke half true and half lie, making it difficult for Snake to figure out their plan.
“You’re not helping.” Leo whispered to both of them.
“I’m not trying to help.” Raph whispered back.
“Ok ok. You want me to lead?” Leo was annoyed, but he felt a bit happy when Catra nodded, “We go back to the lair, gear up, and at midnight, we drive Snake’s van right up to the gate. They’ll think we’re him, and we’ll cruise right in.”
“And then we bust some heads?” Raph was focused on one priority.
“And then we bust some heads.” Leo agreed.
“I love a happy ending.” They walked off acting like they didn’t know Snake was there listening to them, Catra just had one question, “How do we drive?”
Back at the lair Catra was helping Donnie in the lab, well helping by showing her claws to him, he was designing climbing gear that used claws to climb. Donnie was modeling them after her claws because she was a perfect climber, and he knew how much her claws hurt.
“We managed to somehow bring the van close enough to the lair for the plan, I had no idea Leo could drive.” Catra spoke with Donnie as he worked, using a blow torch to bring the first climbing gear to working status.
“Perhaps he remembered when I made go-karts for us to race in, he beat us every time.” Donnie lifted the goggles to inspect the gear, putting them back on to finish up a few touches, “I still don’t see why we need the van though.”
“I think it’s for a distraction, do you know how to make a van drive on it’s on?” Catra had pieced together some of the actual plan on the way back home, how much it’s going to work she doesn’t know.
“I can piece something together to make it drive. But it will have to be on the spot cause it will have to go in a straight line.” Donnie started working on the next pair, now having an idea what to do, “Would you be able to tell that to Leo?”
“Sure thing, and Donnie,” Catra got his attention before she left the lab, “They look amazing, after all, you are the smartest one on the team.”
Catra left the lab, walking across the main room to the dojo where Leo was formulating his plan, and for some reason Raph was chasing Mikey everywhere, again. She was going to enter the dojo but stopped when she could hear Splinter and Leo talking, so she waited outside as listened in.
“Sensei, do you think I’m ready for this?” Leo was having doubts of being made leader, another reason why Catra didn’t want to be a leader, she wouldn’t be able to handle the pressure well.
“Leonardo, I made you leader for a reason.” Splinter’s words always makes it seem like he knows everything, and he usually does.
“What is that reason?” He was still confused why. Catra had to smile and shake her head wondering when he’ll figure it out.
“That is for you to discover on your own.” Catra could hear the smile in his voice.
“There’s so much riding on this. What if something goes wrong?”
“Failure is a possibility every leader must face, Leonardo,” Splinter’s voice softened a bit, a sign he remembered something from the past, “It is something I had to face in Japan during my final battle with my enemy, the shredder.”
Splinter went on to tell the story of his final battle with Splinter and how he lost his wife and daughter in that battle. Shredder had been Splinter’s friend, but the love of a woman became between them. Shredder did not accept it and his jealousy turned to rage as he sought to kill Splinter, and in that rage, killed Splinter’s wife and daughter.
Catra heart was in a vice-grip of worry, if it could happen between friends, could it also happen between family. It’s like the seeds had been planted, to grow and repeat the cycle, or could she perhaps grow it into something new. As Catra slinked away, she didn’t know Splinter had seen her tail slink around the corner.
Returning to the lab, Catra could see Donnie was finishing up on the last pair and had gathered all the ingredients for the next phase of the plan.
“Oh, perfect timing, Catra, I could use your help…” Donnie slowly stopped watching Catra sitting down in silence by the wall, a sign Donnie knew all too well, placing everything down, walking over and sitting next to her, “What’s wrong?”
“Can we talk for a bit?” Catra hugged her knees and rested her chin on them, keeping tail wrapped close around her legs.
“That’s why I’m here, you just have to tell me first.” Donnie leant against the wall, waiting for Catra to speak, it was always best to allow her to speak in her own time.
“You like that girl, don’t you?” She could hear Donnie stutter trying to think of a reasonable thing to say to this unexpected question, sighing, “Yeah I do.”
“... so do I.” Catra whispered it quietly like it was a forbidden thing to say, Donnie waited for her to keep speaking, “We won’t end up like Splinter and Shredder will we, fighting over her and hating each other?”
“What?” Donnie was shocked and confused wondering why she would think that, Catra relayed the story to him and he finally understood, “I can see why you’re worried now, but I promise we won’t end up like that.”
“We won’t?” Finally looking at Donnie, her eyes were red as she was holding back her tears.
“I promise,” Donnie hugged Catra, feeling how ridgid she was, loosening up in his hold, “We’ll have more like a friendly rivalry. We won’t be mad at each other if she picks the other, deal?”
“Deal.” Catra agreed, pulling away from the hug, a smile returned to her face as she rubbed her eyes.
“When will you tell the others the truth, you will have to tell them sometime?” Donnie stood up helping her, alluding to something that was kept a secret between them.
“I will one day, just not today.” Looking over Donnie’s shoulder at the pile of equipment, “Now, what did you need help with?”
“Three, two, one, now!” Catra whispered yelled to Donnie, both of them jumping out of the van, leaving it to keep driving by itself. They had started it from the far end of the road, slowly at first, but to speed up over time, allowing them time to meet up with the others.
Making their way to the woods surrounding the enemy's lair, they met up with Raph, Leo and Mikey, all having climbing gear that Donnie made. Catra kept a lookout, seeing near the entrance Snake was with many of those alien robot dudes, she doesn’t know if he knew or not, but he probably didn’t care.
“So, I already know the answer, but why does that tree look all scratched up.” Catra didn’t look away, but her tail pointed to a tree that looked damaged beyond repair with claw marks up and down it.
“We had a race while we waited, I won.” Mikey always told the truth, either on accident on purpose she never knew, but it made her interrogations easy.
“The race I can understand, but who really won.” She snickered hearing Mikey sigh in disappointment as Raph spoke up, “I did, of course.”
“But we know if you were here, you would be the winner.” Leo laughed a bit causing the other two to groan, even if it was true.
Catra’s ears flickered to the right, hearing the engine of the van and the lights of the van caressing the hill, before jumping and barreling down the hill towards the entrance. They fired their alien laser weapons at it, but it was no use as it rammed into the gate causing a huge explosion, their distraction.
They made their way to the wall and slowly climbed up it, her claws being strong enough to latch onto any part of the wall as she climbed, but it was easier to find ledges otherwise she would spend all of the next day filing her nails.
“Wow, lucky that van showed up to distract them.” Mikey being oblivious, or most likely forgot, causing Donnie to groan, almost facepalming, Catra’s tail wrapped around his wrist to stop him.
“That was the plan, Mikey,” Leo tried to explain to him, “We knew Snake was hiding in the alley, so Raph, Catra and I made him think we would be in the van.”
“But we weren’t in the van.” Mikey was still confused.
“Just keep climbing, Mikey.” Catra sighed knowing it was no point, he just casually agreed as they kept going.
They reached the top of the wall which was barren as most of them had gone to check on the explosion, giving them room to climb up without notice. Catra waited for them to take off their claws and attach them to their belts for later, before they searched for a way to sneak in.
A vent in the roof was the closest access they could find, but there were two guys standing there guarding it with laser guns, so Catra did the oldest trick in the book, and threw a rock far from them, but close enough to hear, they looked at each other before going to check on the noise.
Raph was the first one to the vent, and prying it opened with his sai’s just enough for them to slip inside. Catra and Donnie pressed their weapons up to keep the vent open for Raph to get in and to retrieve his sais, leaving them in a vent. The marching of feet from the hallway below got further away.
So when Leo kicked it open he wasn’t expecting to see two of them right below, both he and Raph jumped down and knocked them out, Mikey, Donnie and Catra jumping down soon after. And if this hallway and lair didn’t give enough signs of aliens, Catra didn’t know what would.
“Wow, I’ve never seen anything like this,” Donnie looked around in wonder and curiosity, “They’re using a metal alloy that I don’t even recognise”
“Gosh! A metal alloy even you don’t know about! It boggles the mind!” Raph was being sarcastic.
“Both of you shut up! Enemy lair, innocent civilians, stealth! What part of that don’t you understand.” Catra got both of them to shut up with a gulp as they continued on.
Sneaking down the hallway, they came to a stop, there was a patrol of alien robots right in the middle of the split path. Mikey and Catra weren’t surprised, Raph was less surprised because of Catra but still shocked nonetheless, Leo and Donnie’s walls cracked as they looked at her and chuckled, “Alien robots?”
“Alien robots.” Smirking now that they believed her, she could understand why they didn’t believe Mikey, but it hurt a little when they didn’t believe her.
“Alien robots, huh? Hmm, where have i heard that before?” Mikey was annoyed and for a good reason, just not a good time, “Oh, yeah! I’ve been saying it for hours!”
Well that got their attention as they started firing lasers at them, dodging to the side to take cover.
“Hey, guys, you don’t mind if I handle this, do you?” Catra slowly pulled her Nodachi out of her sheath, the others looked between each other then back to her.
“You know what, since we didn’t believe you, you can.” Leo saw no room to argue, that and it’s been awhile since they saw her get this serious.
Catra walked out into the middle of the hallway, walking past lasers and deflecting others, eyes closed calming her breathing standing motionless in the middle of the path, her eyes flashed open. Her feet didn’t even look like they touched the ground as she charged the bots.
Skidding to a spinning stop right in front of the first three, her blade sliced through them with ease, purples sparks jumped as the bodies crumbled to the ground, missing the aliens on purpose, they weren’t a threat in their base state. Flipping her weapon so the blade pointed back behind her, she jumped over another one, tail wrapping around its neck, pulled it down hard when she landed, blade piercing it’s head.
Down to the final tw botso, she began to run in circles around them, to confuse them and find the perfect angle. When she found it, she threw her Nodachi, sliding through the first one with ease to pierce the second one, making her Nodachi a robot kebab.
“You can all come out now.” Pulling out her Nodachi from the robots and putting it back in it’s sheath, her brothers walked to join her.
“I made a few calculations, but you could easily beat the four us, couldn’t you?” Donnie nervously chuckled while looking at the carnage in Catra’s wake.
“In your state now, probably, but when you work together I will lose.” Catra smiled at them, giving them confidence that they will beat her, one day.
“Or we can just be unexpecting and do random things you don’t expect.” Raph laughed alluding back to their training, making her blush and look away from them. One of the brain aliens popped out of it’s robot suit and screeched at them, Mikey just wacking it on the head.
“See? See? It’s a brain thing! I told you! But did any of you believe me?” Mikey picked up the alien by it’s tentacles while it was knocked out, “Only Catra! ‘Cause you all think I’m just some kind of bonehead!”
The brain alien woke up and started biting Mikey’s arm, it didn’t hurt him, just annoyed and scared him, shaking his arm rapidly and sending it flying. Right into the trigger for the alarm. Purple lights flashed across the area as a loud blaring from the alarm was repeating over and over again.
“Mikey!” They shouted in unison.
“Okay! But I was still right about the brain thing. You gotta give me that.” Mikey just wanted them to agree, they just nodded as they began to move, Catra slicing the alarm with her claws to shut off the noise.
“Let’s move.” Leo started to lead the way.
“Move where?” Raph did have a proper question since they had no idea where to go.
“I think those are power conduits.” Donnie looked at the ceiling, Catra instantly understanding what he was implying, Raph however did not.
“Oh! That’s really interesting! Thanks for sharing, Donnie.” Rolling his eyes.
“Meathead, the conduits are all converging that way, which means that whatever is going on in that direction is important!” Donnie didn’t have much time to explain, but shouted it quickly and simply as possible, walking off, Catra following close behind.
Running and avoiding as many of the alien-bots as possible they followed the conduits, Catra skidding to a stop grabbing Donnie as she did, something flashed in the corner of her eye as they ran by, it was a glass window. Walking over they peaked inside and found the girl and her father.
“We found ‘em!” Donnie called to the others bringing them back, Catra knelt at the panel beside the door, having no idea how to open the door. Lasers flew past them as more alien-bots charged them down, Raph, Mikey and Leo prepared their weapons and charged back, “We’ll hold them off! You pick the lock.”
“Don’t worry! We’ll have you out of there in a second.” Donnie reassured the girl watching as Catra pulled off the panel, revealing all types of wires going different directions, looking at him for support, but he was distracted.
“Okay, giant lizard-thing.” The girl responded in a questioning manner.
“A turtle, actually. I’m.. I’m Donatello.” Donnie introduced him, and Catra would have been happy for him, except he wasn’t helping.
“April.” She introduced herself, she had a very pretty name.
“Wow, that’s a pretty-Ooph!” Donnie was cut off as Catra’s tail wrapped around his arm, bringing him down to the panel since he was better at this.
“As much as it’s fun watching you introduce yourself, can you please do the lock!” Catra shouted at him, he nodded since he deserved that, as he got to work.
“What’s your name?” April asked, Catra knew it was directed at her, ears and tail standing on end.
“C-Catra.” Managing to hide her purr and blush as she answered, blocking a laser shot in the meantime, “It’s a long story, one we don’t have time for right now.
“Not to rush you, but hurry up!” April shouted at Donnie as he was having a difficult time.
“Hey! You think it’s easy trying to pick a lock with these hands?” Donnie showed his large three fingered hands to her.
“Uh, sorry.” April immediately apologized, giving another reason for Catra to like her.
The door on the other side of the cell opened and alien-robots entered, dragging April and her father away. Catra moved Donnie to the side and slashed the controls and wires with her claws, by some miracle it worked as the doors slid open. All of them pursued, the alien-robots chasing behind them.
They ran through the doors and out into the courtyard of the lair, April and her father nowhere in sight. Raph tried shutting the doors behind them but a bot blocked his way, so he tore its arm off, kicked it back inside, and blocked the door with the arm.
“That’ll hold ‘em,” Raphed faced them seeing all their blank stares, “What?”
“You are seriously twisted.”
“Thanks.”
No! Let me go!” April’s screaming was heard from above, looking up they could see the bots taking them across a walkway to the helipad.
Running to intercept them, they were cut off in the middle of the courtyard where a massive mutant blocked their path. It looked like a massive weed, with flytraps as hands, a heart in the middle of its throat, and the face of a praying Mantis. It was taller than all of them.
“Uh-Oh.” Mikey backed up a bit, along with the others as they stared at it.
“You did this to me!” The voice of Snake, now heavier and gruffier than before, came through, “Now you’re going to pay!”
“It’s Snake!” Leo was the first to realise who it was, “He mutated into a…. Giant weed!”
“Well I was right, compared to his human form, this form is more appealing.” Catra smirked, getting a laugh from Raph. The Snake… weed thing screeched at her for that comment.
“That’s weird. You’d think he’d mutate into a snake.” Mikey coming in with his Mikey logic.
“Yeah, you would, if you were an idiot.” Raph shouted at him.
Catra watched as Snakeweed tore it’s stalk into two so he could walk, she shivered when she saw that inside them were what probably used to be his leg bones. Snakeweed leaned over and growled in their faces, “I’ll crush you!”
“Uh, would it help if we said it was an accident?” Donnie asked, it was Catra’s and Donnie's fault as they forgot to take the canister out of the van in the first place, it screeched as both vinetraps were close to biting them, “So, heh, I’ll put you down for a no?”
Snakeweed swung it’s arm, knocking over Raph and Mikey, while Leo and Donnie jumped over it. Catra with quick movements pulled out her Nodachi, cut off the vine arm and put it back in it’s sheath. Glad she had her mouth closed as purple gooish blood landed on her face.
“Gross,” Carefully spoke, wiping it off as much as she can, looking back at Snakeweed as the limp regrew like it was never cut, “Are you kidding me?!”
The engine of the helicopter brought their attention upwards as the blades started to spin, with the alien-bots putting April inside the helicopter.
“Donnie! Catra! Go!” Leo shouted to both of them.
Donne and Catra looked to each other and nodded, running towards Leo and Raph who boosted them up to the roof above. They need to go up further than that, Catra pulled out her weapon again and threw it, the blade piercing the wall, acting like a step as both her and Donnie used it to reach the helipad. Watching as the copter was slowly taking off.
“Catra!” Donnie tossed his bo-staff towards her, “You’re the better jumper, go save her!”
Catra nodded holding his staff like pole vault, running to the edge of the roof finding the perfect spot to launch, vaulting into the air, claws digging into the landing gear as she grabbed it. Usually she was the one to watch the crazy stunts, now here she was doing her second one of the night.
It rose further up into the air, only flying in circles, she assumed it was probably to throw her off so she couldn’t see where they were taking them. Keeping a tight grip she was scooting along the landing gear, looking up at the sound of the helicopter door opening, an alien-bot aiming a gun at her head.
“I was wondering why it was too easy!” Shouting, spinning on the landing gear to be right underneath the copter, dodging the lazers, swinging up she dug her clawed toes into its head, feeling an electric tingle, pulling the bot out letting it fall to the ground, “There, much better.”
Turns out the bot wasn’t destroyed as it fired back up at her, of course missing every shot as she moved, but hitting and shaking the helicopter around, April falling and grabbing onto the landing gear beside her.
“Hold on! I’m coming!” Catra reassured her, watching as her grip slipped and she fell.
It was now or never, Catra let go, diving to get under her, rolling the minute she made impact with the ground then proceeding into a jump, catching April in her arms.
But it wasn’t over yet, her legs made impact with the next floor down, jumping again further down to lessen the fall. Finally she ran down the side of the wall to keep momentum as they finally reached the ground with her knee skidding across it.
“You okay?” Catra inspected April for any injuries, hiding the fact her own knee was grazed and bleeding, feet grazed and bruised.
“Dad…” April looked up watching as the helicopter flew away, with her father.
“We’ll get him back, I promise.” Catra placed April down, trying to stand up, her legs wobbled underneath forcing her back onto her knees.
“Are you okay, Catra?” April now noticed the injury on her knees and feet, pressing her hand lightly against Catra’s knee, causing her to hiss a little in pain, “Sorry.”
“Don’t worry, I’ve felt worse.” Especially when it comes to training with Splinter.
“Catra!” Donnie ran up to them, his bo-staff on his back, carrying her Nodachi in his hands. Kneeling and checking her injuries after giving back her weapon, “If you weren’t a mutant, you wouldn’t have survived that fall.”
“Thanks for the words of encouragement, Donnie,” Catra blankly stared at him, not wanting to hear that right now, “But April is saved now, I couldn’t save her father.”
“Perhaps we should talk about this, when we aren’t in danger?” April tapped both of them on the shoulders.
“Right, Catra, you good to walk?” Donnie watched as Catra stood up, biting her lip to keep the pain in check, “I’ll take that as a yes then.”
“Oh, right, they're outside waiting. We destroyed Snakeweed with their powersource.” Donnie sheepilsy looked at them both, helping them outside.
“Are you gonna be alright?” Donnie asked April. They got April back to her apartment after a long trip over rooftops, she sat on the window sill as they stood on the fire escape, Catra sitting on the railing.
“I guess,” April really didn’t know how to feel, who could blame her, “My aunt says I can stay here as long as I want, but I’ll be a lot better when I track down the creeps that took my dad.”
“Won’t the police help?” Leo assumed if someone was taken the police would always help.
“Funny thing. When you tell them your dad was kidnapped by alien brains in robot bodies, they don’t take you all that seriously.” April responded with a small laugh, Leo, Raph and Donnie looked sheepishly to Catra and Mikey.
“I hear that.” Mikey knew how it felt.
“April, I promised you already I would help you get your father back, so that’s what I plan to do,” Catra was rubbing her neck, trying to lessen the grazed feeling, but it will be better when back at the lair, “So will the others.”
“We will?” Raph got elbowed by Leo, “I mean we will.”
“Thank you, but it's not your fight.” April assumed she would be alone in this. Donnie placed his hand on hers, “Yes, it is.”
April gave a bright smile that sent both Catra’s and Donnie’s hearts skyrocketing, of course Donnie was also blushing since it was mostly directed to him. Donnie helped Catra to the roof turning and giving April a small wave before they hurried home.
“Aren’t I supposed to be the sensible one? What was I thinking tonight?” Catra laid on the couch at home with an icepack on her knees and her foot hanging off as it was in a bucket of water.
“Who cares, you were awesome!” Mikey complimented her, but then again he thought everything was awesome.
“Riding on the back of a van, hanging from a helicopter? Want to do anything else crazy tonight?” Raph laughed while they watched tv.
“She probably shouldn’t, she needs rest after everything.” Donnie was on his laptop beside her, monitoring her health. Tapping her head for her to look at the laptop screen blushing when it read, ‘After all, you do crazy things when you’re in love’
“Everybody! Come here! We made the news!” Mikey shouted even tho most of them weren;t there, he could have easily gone to get Leo and Splinter, Donnie bopped him on the head with his staff.
“A report of, get this, ninjas in New York. Don’t believe me? Ater residents reported a disturbance the police recovered this,” What they showed on screen made Catra groan, not in pain, but in embarrassment because that was her ninja star, “For channel six news, this is Carlos Chang O’brien Gambe saying, “Hi-ya!””
“This is awesome! We’re gonna be famous!” Mikey was enthusiastic, but Catra wished she could slink away and hide.
“You must be more careful. The ninja’s most powerful weapon is the shadows,” Splinter scolded them equally, but Catra felt it was just for her, “Being brought into the light is a dangerous thing.”
“Relax, Sensei. It’s one little news story.,” Raph relaxed in seat, probably about to sleep, “What’s the worst that can happen?”