The Alien Agenda

Another night, another fight; at least this one didn't take long. She knocked him out in the first round, which the announcer said was a record but in reality, he was just a weak fighter..or possibly..she was becoming stronger. She smiled to herself knowing it was true, ever since she met the turtles she had learned new and incredible thing; it made her happy.

She was too busy with her thoughts to notice the turtles fighting in an alleyway she just passed til she heard the all too familiar yell, "BOOYAKASHA!!"

She skidded to a halt, blinking in surprise and reversed her scooter backwards and saw the guys fighting off the Kraang. She looked down at her side, where she kept her gloves strapped to her belt, since her jacket pockets were full, and wondered if they needed help.

Her question was soon answered seeing Leo doing some showy moves and raised a brow wondering what his deal was. Her other question was answered as she glanced up to her right seeing Karai. She chuckled to herself and leaned against her scooter to watch the show. "Heh, trying to impress the girl, huh?" She glanced up with her eyes to see Karai looking down at her. She grinned and gave her a simple wave with her hand before Karai looked back at the guys, well, Leo, finishing off the Kraang.

She could see his smile a million miles away as he stood there, the wind blowing the ends of his mask in a heroic way, with his hands on his hips. She covered her mouth to hide her laughter and watched as Karai ran off. She stared at the place Karai stood beginning to wonder about her but her thoughts were cut off hearing Raph and looked over just in time to see he and Leo in each other's faces. Thinking this was the perfect time to intervene she gave out a loud, slow clap. "Not a bad show guys. Wish I had some popcorn though."

She smiled seeing Donnie's face brighten up along with Mikey who ran over to her, hugging her tightly. "Missed you too buddy." She said, hugging him back before driving up to them. "You're hurt!" Donnie said pushing Mikey out of the way and gently placing his hand on her cheek, examining her face then the rest of her as if the slightest touch would break a bone.

"Donnie, calm down, I had a fight tonight, even though I won he managed to get some lucky punches in before I knocked him out." She grinned before placing her hand over his and moving it away from her cheek. "I'm perfectly....Ngh!" She suddenly held her side making Donnie freak out.

"What?! What is it?! Did you break something?!!"

She stifled a giggle til she couldn't take it anymore and bursted out laughing. "You should of seen your face!" Mikey joined in on her laughing. "Dudette, you got him good!" Donnie's cheeks flushed angrily, his body tensing up like a cats would before he turned and stomped off to leave. Her laughing slowed down as she wiped a tear from her eye. Of course, she'll apologize to him later she's not a jerk or anything. She hopped off her scooter and hid it before following Mikey who was pulling her away to take her back to the lair. She noticed Leo and Raph hung back a bit having a staring stand off and knew exactly why;

Karai.

"Whatcha doing, April?" Mikey asked curiously while staring at her laying on his stomach and holding his face in his hands with his feet kicking back and forth in the air watching April swab her mouth for saliva.

"Sending in a sample for a class project." She said putting the swab in a vile and closing it. Kara hugged her knees to her chest, listening as they talked about school. She sighed and hugged them closer never having to go to school, make friends, eat disgusting school lunches. It was one of the cons of "living a normal life" when your parents, and sister are superstars.

She looked over hearing Donnie trying to explain DNA to Mikey she rolled her eyes thinking it was a lost cause. She watched Donnie and ever since last night she has been feeling guilty about messing with him. She tried to tell him sorry but he would say it was fine and go on with whatever he was doing, it was starting to tick her off. She narrowed her eyes in determination and stood up from the floor, looking at him. "Hey, Donnie, can I talk to you?" His eyes turned distant when they fell on her and she blinked in surprise before seeing him turn to leave.

"Aw, come on! I said I was sorry!" Kara yelled, following Donnie into his lab leaving April to do her homework and Mikey to do whatever. He ignored her and worked on whatever invention he was working on. She flailed her arms standing behind him. "Do you want me to get on my hands and knees? Cause I'll do it!" She said with her chest puffed out, giving him a pout. He lifted up his goggles and looked at her, his eyes showing sadness which made her heart ache.

"You hurt my feelings..I seriously thought you were hurt..." He said before putting his goggles back over his eyes and continuing to work. She sighed and sank to the floor, hugging her knees.

"Look, I know you care and mean well but I've been doing this for awhile now.." She started to get annoyed feeling like he wasn't listening and grabbed the tool he was using and tossed it aside making him look at her. "Hey! I was us-"

"Listen to me! I'm not a weak girl, ok?!" He looked taken aback from her sudden outburst making her sigh in annoyance. "Listen, I know you mean well but I can take care of myself. Back there you treated me like someone who couldn't...like.." She looked down trying to think of the words to say but blinked feeling Donnie pull her into a hug.

"I would be lying if I said I wasn't worried but everytime we have fought together...everytime you're around me..you get seriously hurt." He whispered, pain visible in his voice as he imagines the fight with Leatherhead, Rat King, specially Shredder. "I almost lost you once..it scares me every time you leave the lair what dangers can come at you. Especially since you know about us." He said, squeezing her in his arms.

She stared into space letting his words sink in. She reached up putting her arms around him and buried her head into his shoulder. "No one has cared about me that way.." She lifted her head seeing tears in his eyes and leaned forward planting a kiss on his lips. When their lips touched tears ran down his face making him hold her closer and tighter. She parted their lips and gently stroked his cheek, wiping away a tear with her thumb. "I'm sorry..I didn't know you were keeping all of this in...but please believe in me just like I believe in you to be my knight in shining shell when I need saving." She said with a soft laugh making him chuckle.

"Do you forgive me? I'm still willing to get on my hands and knees." She said, chuckling some more as tears threatened to fall. He nodded and kissed her again. "I forgive you." She smiled brightly and hugged him letting a single tear fall. "Our first argument...does this count?...According to those teen dramas it does...oh, I don't care. This isn't a teen drama!" She blinked her eyes at her own thoughts before shaking her head. "All of this apologizing is making me hungry." She said pulling Donnie up with her. She let him clear his eyes so it didn't look like he was crying and  gave him a thumbs up before walking hand in hand to the kitchen where the guys were with Mikey rummaging through the fridge. "Guess I'm not the only one hungry." She chuckled. "Okay, guys what'd you want? Omlette Pizza or Pizza Omlette?" Mikey asked looking back at them. "What's the difference?" Raph asked. She rolled her eyes and grinned at him. "Huuge!" She thought but blinked hearing everyone's phone go off. Donnie's the first one to speak up as he reads the text.

"Hey, did you guys get a mass text from April?"

"Yeah." everyone said with Mikey going, "Mhmm."

"Does yours also say she's being attacked by an old lady?"

"Sure does."

"Mhmm."

"Yup."

"Uh-huh." They all said, reading the text.

"Is that considered an emergency?"

"I guess..Let's go!" Leo said, looking at his brothers before running off, Kara behind them. "Wait up!" She said before grabbing an apple and popping it in her mouth, running after them.

"Okay, seriously? There's no one around? I mean, it's perfect for the guys so they could walk into the school to save April during the day but come on! This is freaken New York City! What happened to all of the busy roads and crowded side walks you'd see in the movies and such?! False advertisement, man!" She thought as she stood outside the school, staring up at the building. Her brows lift up worriedly never having been inside a school before except in elementary. She sighed before walking up the steps and following after the guys. "Saweet! So this is what school is like." Mikey said his eyes wide with awe and an even bigger smile to go with it. He blinked hearing an alarm go off only for Raph to ram his sais into it to stop the alarm. "Scary.." She thought while watching him but noticed the woman with her back to them.

"Okay, I feel stupid." Raph said to Leo.

"April has got to learn that the T-phones are for emergencies only."

Kara opened her mouth to say something but stopped seeing the woman's head turn completely around with glowing red eyes. "Ahh!!! The Power of Christ compels you!!" She shouted, falling backwards.

Raph looked down at her and grinned while Mikey laughed out loud at her outburst, Leo and Donnie looking at her and sighed.

She blinked hearing it repeating April's name in a robotic voice. "Ah, sewer bunnies." Raph said as they readied their weapons. She sighed in relief seeing it was just a robot but regretted her thought as her lower arms lifted up and rockets shot from her elbows.

"Leo! I think this does-"

"-Count as an emergency, I know!" Leo shouted at Mikey before he could finish his sentence and dodged the ladies attack.

"Alright guys. Let's put old mother hubbard back in her cupboard." Leo said with a confident grin making his brothers groan at his pun, Raph smacking his forehead "Dude, it literally hurts to listen to you sometimes." Raph said his hand over his eye.

Kara chuckled before they all dodged the ladies elbow rockets and Donnie and Leo jumped onto the lockers, launching themselves at her and sliced her arms off Leo with his katanas and Donnie with his spear. She grinned, pumping her fist in the air at how awesome they were.

"Mikey, the water fountain!" Leo shouted as the mask came off the robot showing wires and lights.

"I know, school has everything!" Mikey said looking at the water fountain.

"No, spray her!"

"Oh." Mikey sprayed the water causing her to malfunction and short circuit before dying.

"April! Where are you?" Kara shouted and turned hearing a door slam open and seeing the one and only April stomp out and kick the robot in the head. "And stay down!"

Kara chuckled at April and hugged her. "Oh, I'm glad my best friend is safe." April blushed but hugged back "Thanks guys."

"You are so welcome." Donnie said, opening his arms for a hug but when she didn't he patted her head before Kara hugged him, smiling at him. He blushed but hugged her back before everyone surrounded the robot asking questions about it.

She was watching Mikey who picked up the mask and put it over his face. "Woah. How do the Kraang know you sent your DNA spit to the worldwide thingamajig project?" Mikey asked and when Raph turned to answer he jumped, yelling in surprise, seeing the mask. Kara laughed at Raph but winced when he smacked Mikey making the mask fly off.

"The Kraang must of hacked into their system. Who knows what kind of info they could be stealing." Donnie said putting his hand under his chin in thought.

"April, you'd better head to the lair where it's safe. We'll go check out the World Wide Genome Project."

"But first we gotta take out the Eastside High Panthers. According to this poster they got it coming." Mikey said, looking at a poster of a Viking taking down a Panther.

Kara chuckled at Mikey before noticing Donnie looking at her, his eyes filled with worry. "I'll join you April, if you don't mind." She said, smiling at her and noticed a look of relief over Donnie's face making her smile more. "Come on, I'll treat you to lunch too." Kara said, putting her arm over April's shoulder as they walk out the school.

Kara laid upside down on the couch while April finished what homework she didn't on her laptop. Kara looked over at her and rolled off the couch, sitting on the floor.

"H-how is school?"

"Oh, you know, the usual." She said not looking up.

Kara looked down, shaking her head. "No..no I don't." She said softly, sighing. April raised a brow, looking over at her. "What do you mean?" Her eyes widen before she set her laptop down and sat in front of her." Wait, you've never been to school before?"

Kara looked up at her with her eyes looking like a kid who was talking to her parents about wanting a toy but being too shy to ask. "No..guess I never told you, huh?" She began to explain everything. She hugged her knees, looking down at her feet when she was done explaining her story. "You'd think having parents like that is awesome but..it's not when you have to hide from the world to live normally..you got a pretty good life, April, I envy you." She gave her a soft smile as April hugs her tight, closing her eyes and gently squeezes her. "You really are my best friend.."

She looked up seeing the guys enter and let go of April to welcome them home but noticed the serious expression on their faces and soon everyone was in the living room, including Master Splinter, with Leo explaining about Karai.

"Go ahead, laugh." Leo said looking away.

"Dude, I can't believe you trusted her." Mikey said.

"I can't believe you didn't trust us enough to tell us." Donnie added in.

"I was wrong..I'm really sorry." Leo said with a sad expression making Kara feel sorry for him.

"I tried to warn him." April said.

"You too, huh?" Raph joined in with a raised brow.

Master Splinter walked up to him. "Leonardo. You are not the first young man or turtle to make a fool of yourself over a girl."

"What about Donnie?" Mikey asked which earned him a slap on the arm by said Donnie.

"However, when that girl is a kunoichi and the employee of your enemy; that is an error you cannot afford."

"Hai Sensei.."

"Deception is a ninja's most powerful weapon and it seems Karai is a master."

"I know, we can't trust her. I see that now."

Master Splinter put his hand on his son shoulder. "Good, you must learn from your mistake."

"Thank you for understanding. I'm glad you're not mad." Kara closed her eyes, sensing a punishment.

"Who says I'm not mad?" He said with an angry look on his face, slamming the end of his walking stick onto Leo's foot making him cry out in pain. She opened one eye in time to see him fall to the floor, clutching his foot, she nodding to herself. "Typical Master; Never forgetting a punishment.."

Kara returned home with Donnie taking her in his arms and enjoyed the ride, always loving the view of the city from the top of buildings but she didn't get to do too much of that for she was staring at Donnie, daydreaming. She would snap out of it when he would look down at her but smile before going back to watching where he was going. She stayed on the rooftop with him, her head against his shoulder as they talked about different things, mainly about Karai.

"Keep talking about her and you might make me jealous, Donnie." She said with her arms crossed over her chest but a grin on her face.

"I'm sorry. I'm just surprised Leo would keep this from Mikey and I.." She looked down feeling guilty and sighed.

"Donnie..there's something I need to tell you.."

"What is it?" He asked looking at her with concern. She looked over at his face and closed her eyes.

"Leo kissed me..."