A/N: Eclipse belongs to GeekyCookie1. Mara, Zane, Cameron, Soren [mentioned], Noelle, Tyson, and Calista belongs to MariChat3.

So, I've decided that for filler episodes like Pizza Face and A Chinatown Ghost Story, I will be skipping them to save time since they don't really add anything to the plot that I have planned.

Enjoy!

"Sometimes learning the truth hurts and it leaves you with this pain in your heart. Other times, learning the truth comes with consequences."

IT WAS A stormy night and Karai found herself in her father's throne room, watching the rain fell as she pushed her back against the wall. There was a bunch of thoughts and questions that continued to fill her mind as she looked at the torn photo of her late mother, Tang Shen while Leonardo's words echoed through her head.

"Don't do this, Karai. Splinter--he's your father, your true father. Hamato Yoshi."

"What is it that troubles you, Karai?"

Karai looks over at her father and her older brother. "I want to know the truth. The truth about my mother. And Splinter."

Jake raised an eyebrow as he crossed his arms over his chest. "Why? Because of what that blue masked turtle told you?"

"You know the truth, my daughter. Hamato Yoshi took your mother away." Shredder answered.

Then, the sound of the doors opening made the three of them looked over to see Cameron, Noelle, and Tyson entering the throne room, being followed by a face that they thought they'd never see again.

"Look who's back," Cameron said.

"I have returned." TigerClaw announced.

"TigerClaw," Shredder responded.

Jake couldn't help but notice that this time, TigerClaw looked more focused and hateful. He'd hoped that this time, the mutant tiger wouldn't fail.

"How? You were eaten by a giant alien worm!" Karai said.

"That's what I say too," Noelle said in agreement.

"And you believed such a thing could contain my hate?" TigerClaw asked as he moved further into the throne room. "My hate is what kept me going, as I tore my way out of the belly of the Kraathatrogon. As I battled through the armies of the kraang--across alien worlds that would drive lesser men mad and finally, back here, back to my enemies." He knelt on one knee. "I would have my revenge against Splinter. Against his hideous reptiles and the pathetic teenaged boy. Against those who trapped me in that wretched worm's belly. And I will capture Princess Briana."

"I will grant you this wish," Shredder answered.

"What!? It's because of him that Splinter and his ninjas are still alive in the first place! And why we haven't captured my prince--Princess Briana yet!" Cameron argued.

Jake rolled his eyes at his dramatics. "Why do you think that you three and my sister are going with him?"

"Karai, Cameron, Noelle, Tyson, you four will go with TigerClaw. Destroy Splinter and his pupils, and capture Princess Briana at any cost."

As much as neither Karai or Cameron wanted to work with TigerClaw, Cameron, Tyson, and Noelle nodded and Karai bowed.

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IT DIDN'T TAKE long for Karai, Cameron, Tyson, Noelle, and TigerClaw to be scouting the city rooftops in search of the five mutant turtles, Henry, and Briana. Although there was still no sign of any of them, the three of them kept looking as they jumped from rooftop to rooftop but Cameron couldn't help but noticed that Karai was a bit behind them.

TigerClaw noticed it as well. "Having a hard time keeping up, cub?"

"I was taking it easy on you, since you're working with only one eye and no tail," Karai replied with a small smirk.

TigerClaw stopped and turned to her. "You think you're clever? You're fools."

"I'm the fool?" Karai questioned. "You've faced them in battle before and lost. What exactly is your grand plan for revenge here?"

"To destroy warriors such as these, you don't strike at their limbs, you go for their heart." The mutant tiger answered.

Cameron snorted. "I'm sorry, but what does an overgrown cat know of the heart?"

"Why do you think the Shredder and Jake sent you four with me?"

In an instant, realization hit Karai like lightning as her eyes widened. "Because we know them. We know the places they go. We know their weaknesses. Their friends: April O'Neil, Casey Jones, Kazimieras Smith, Mara Sparks, Zane Carson, and Calista Diaz."

"The riders of the worm," TigerClaw said. "They will all pay for what they did to me."

Tyson smirked. "And we know just where to start."

The next thing that Karai knew was that the four of them had led TigerClaw to Murakami's restaurant where the blind, Japanese chief was just starting to close up. The chief noticed their presence and started looking around. "Hello? Is somebody there? Leonardo?"

TigerClaw's growl alerted the blind chief as he turned around to face them.

Karai smirked. "Not quite." She pinned him against the wall, blade out. "The ninjas."

"I don't know what you're talking about," the chief answered, clearly lying through his teeth.

"Lying will only make this worse!" Karai snapped. "Leonardo, Henry, Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, Eclipse, and Briana. Where do they live?"

"I don't know," he answered. "Please, please."

In that one moment, Karai couldn't help but feel her heart ached, clearly being able to tell that he was telling the truth--and that there was no way she could hurt an innocent man, for no reason.

Karai released him as she stood up. "There is no honor in this." She turned and walked from the building.

Noelle blinked. "That's it? You're not gonna ask him anything else?"

Cameron scoffed, rolling his eyes in disbelief as he watched her walk out. This man had information and she wasn't even going to try? Maybe he was telling the truth about not knowing where they live, but... Cameron saw this as his chance to finally learn more--to get what he wanted.

This man didn't know not just the ninjas, but their friends too, which meant that he knew Kaz. And since there was no way that Cameron was going to let a commoner take away his princess, he was willing to do whatever it took to get as much as information that he needed.

No matter the cost.

"I didn't come here looking for Princess Briana just to lose to a stupid city boy." Cameron said as he slowly walked up to the chief with a smirk on his face.

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THE FIVE MUTANT turtles were just making their way back to the lair. Leonardo landed near a manhole cover, starting to move it aside. "Guys, stop!" Michelangelo warned.

"What is it, Mikey?" Leonardo asked.

"I feel like we're forgetting something. Something important. Something... something the fate of the world could depend on. It's right on the tip of my tongue."

"The kraang?" Donatello guessed.

"No."

"The Foot Clan?" Eclipse tried guessing next.

"No."

"The Rat King?" Raphael guessed this time.

"No." Michelangelo suddenly gasped. "Wait! I remember. My doggy bag. The leftover pizza gyoza are back at Mr. Murakami's. We have to go back." He grabbed his skateboard and rode down the street while his brothers and sister groaned and facepalmed. "Fate of the world!"

By the time that the five mutants had entered Murakami's, the place looked completely trashed with long scratches along the wall. "What happened?" Donatello questioned.

"There's no way that this was the Purple Dragons." Eclipse said.

Michelangelo looked under the counter to see a familiar face. "Murakami-sama!" He walked over and crouched down, placing a hand on his shoulder. He gasped, startled and terrified. "It's alright. It's me, Mikey."

Both Michelangelo and Donatello helped the blind chief back to his feet as he answered. "I am alright. They came looking for you. They wanted to know where you lived. But I didn't know. They asked about your friends. To my shame, I told them everything I knew."

"Who did this?" Raphael asked.

"Two girls and two boys... and a growling man." Murakami answered while Leonardo was still inspecting the scratches on the wall.

"TigerClaw's back! And he's going after April, Casey, Kaz, Henry, Bri, Mara, Zane, and Calista." Leonardo said.

Raphael glared at Leonardo. "One of the girls has got to be Karai, Leo. I told you--"

"Not now, Raph," Leonardo snapped.

"And one of the boys has got to be Cameron," Eclipse said. "We knew he was gonna end up being trouble at some point because of his obsession with Briana, which leaves the other boy being Tyson."

Raphael nodded as he then added. "The other girl is probably Noelle. She seemed pretty set on trying to get Kaz to take her back."

Donatello was already on his T-phone, trying to call April but there was no answer. "April's not answering her T-phone. She always answers."

"Bro, remember what Bri and Hen told us earlier? They all made plans to go see a movie, maybe she forget to turn her phone back on." Michelangelo reminded.

"We'll split up," Leonardo said. "Donnie and I will go to the theater. Raph, Clips, and Mikey, get to the ice rink and warn Casey and Kaz if they're there."

Everyone nodded, and the five of them left the building after making sure that Murakami would be alright.

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"BEST MOVIE EVER!" April, Casey, Briana, Henry, Kaz, Mara, Zane, Calista, and Irma were just leaving the theater by then and starting to walk away from the theater. Just five days ago, they had all made plans to meet at the theater since the theater was having a science fiction and horror film festival.

"The part where the captain is cornered by the monster, and it's all slobber and fangs and goo, and then boom, that explosion knocked them out of orbit and--and they're falling into the star and--and--and--"

"I just don't get why our date had a third wheel attached to it." Casey complained.

"Hello? I'm right here." Irma said.

"That's the problem!"

Henry raised a eyebrow at him. "Who told you that this was a--" he cut himself off when his ears pricked, picking up the sound of movement as he started to look around, and even April started to look around too after sensing something.

"What is it?" Zane asked.

"We're being followed." April said.

"What?" Irma questioned, now looking confused by her words.

Henry looked around the area before he looked back at his friends. "Alright, whatever it is, we split up and lead it away from Irma. Plan?"

"Plan."

And so, they all split up in different directions to lead away whoever was following them away from their friend, leaving Irma confused with what was suddenly going on. As they all ran, April, Zane, and Calista ran in one direction while Briana and Mara ran in the other, Kaz and Casey in the other, and Henry went off on his own.

Both Briana and Mara continued to run as they ran down a alleyway, stopping halfway to catch their breath. Briana scanned the area as she looked around and looked above them just in time to spot the person following them.

"Look out!" She called out, tackling Mara out of the way just in time to avoid getting hit by an ice blast that hit the ground instead.

As both Briana and Mara pushed themselves up to their feet, Noelle jumped down into the alleyway and faced them. "Oh, great," Mara said with an eye roll. "It's Kaz's crazy ex."

"So, you're the Princess that Master Shredder wants, and the one that has my Kazzy's attention." Noelle stated, keeping her gaze on Briana as if she wanted to see what was so special about her that Kaz liked. "I don't get why though."

At those words, Mara was already glaring at her. "Oh, I know you're not talking about my best friend like that. It's your own fault that Kaz broke up with you, you were the one where not only were you not okay with him and Casey being best friends, but you were always undermining him too."

Noelle glared back at her. "No one asked for your input, Sparks."

As Noelle made another ball of ice appeared in her hands and threw it at them, Briana didn't hesitate to push Mara out of the way before squeezing her eyes shut, not having enough time to avoid the ice blast. But when Briana didn't feel anything hitting her, she opened her eyes, only for them to widened when she spotted a shield around her and her hands glowing a teal blue aura--she looked over to make sure that Mara was alright, and although she was, Mara was just as surprised and stunned by the sudden shield that had appeared around Briana.

"No wonder why Master Shredder wants us to capture you," Noelle stated as she watched the shield around the girl vanish while the teal blue aura stopped glowing around the girl's hands as well. "Looks like your magic is slowly starting to make an appearance."

Mara blinked, keeping her gaze on Briana. "Uh, magic? What is she talking about?"

"I..."

Noelle smirked a little at the hesitation laced in her tone. "Oh, did she not tell you anything about what she is?" She taunted as she let her eyes move to Briana. "I wonder how you're gonna explain your way out of this one."

Mara frowned and opened her mouth to said something but stopped when Briana shook her head at her as she reached into her pocket, pulling out a smoke bomb as she enclosed her fingers on it to hide it from Noelle's view.

"Well, as fun as this is," Noelle said as she started to take closer steps towards the two teenaged girls. "The little princess and I have to get going."

But right when Noelle leapt and went to grab the purple haired girl, Briana threw the smoke bomb at her face as purple smoke blinded her vision. By the time that smoke cleared, Noelle coughed and opened her eyes to find that she was the only one left in the now empty alley.

Noelle frowned as she cursed. "Ah, damn it."

Although Noelle jumped back onto the roof and rushed off to see if any of the others had better luck, what she didn't realize was that watching from the sewers was none other than Mara and Briana.

"She's gone," Briana said as she pulled out her T-phone. "I better send a text to the others to let them know that we'll be at the lair."

"Yeah," Mara said in agreement before she curiously looked over at Briana. "So, uh, what's the story on the shield that you made? Have you always been able to do that?"

Briana bit the bottom half of her lip nervously, remaining silent at first as she tried to think of what to said or even how she could explain this. The moment that she had opened her eyes and saw the shield, all she remembered feeling was this fear—a fear that grabbed her tightly and wouldn't loosen its grip no matter what; a fear that she could feel growing in her stomach and she was terrified of what was happening to her—of what it meant for her.

"I... I don't know," Briana admitted nervously. She then rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly as she looked up at her. "Do you, uh... mind if we keep this between us? I just... I kinda wanna figure it out first before I said anything."

Mara didn't said anything at first but she could've swore that she saw a flicker of fear in the girl's sapphire blue eyes and the moment that she saw the fear, Mara already knew what her answer would be. It felt like she could feel her cell in her body telling her the answer—one that would have her sticking by her best friend and protecting her because Mara refused to let her best friend, the one she swore was the sunshine of the group, face the cold and cruel world on her own.

"B, don't worry," Mara reassured with a soft smile. "I won't say anything about this if you're not ready for them to know. I'm on your side till the end of the line."

At those words, Briana couldn't help but smile softly at her as the two of them started to make their way back to the lair. "Thanks, M."

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AS HE RAN, Henry came to a stop just as he came around a corner. He looked around, scanning the area as he searched to see if he was still being followed. He felt his ears pricked at the light sound of footsteps and the moment that his ears pricked upon the sound of hearing something jump at him, Henry immediately leapt back to avoid the attack as Tyson landed in his old spot.

"You know, for a first timer, you seemed to be used to your wolf hearing." Tyson said as he stood up straighter, turning to face him with a smirk.

Henry raised an eyebrow at his words. "I wouldn't say I'm used to it, but it gives me an advantage when someone tries to follow me—like you just did."

Tyson gave a light shrug, not seeming bothered by his words. "Yeah, well, I wanted to see how good you were since you're the same mutant as me."

"You?" Henry questioned. "You're a part wolf mutant?"

Tyson chuckled as he let his eyes flash to a glowing yellow color while his fingernails turn into claws and his teeth grew sharper. "Does this answer your question?"

"So, we're both a half-wolf mutant," Henry stated. "What does that have to do with you following me?"

"Well, I wanted to follow Zane and try to win him back but," Tyson started. "At the same time, I wanted to see your strength. If your wolf is what I think it is because of what I felt from you, no wonder why Soren or even Jake seems interested in you."

For a split second, Henry could feel the wolf inside of him growl at the implied threat. The moment that Tyson charged, Henry could feel nothing but adrenaline rushing through him as he jumped out of the way but as he landed on his feet, he could feel it happening as his fingernails turned into claws while his teeth grew sharper and at the same time, his eyes began to glow yellow.

As quick as lightning, Tyson charged at him again and threw a punch but Henry caught the punch in his hand and with a strength twice as stronger, he twisted his arm and slammed his knee into Tyson's face before leaping back to avoid the kick that Tyson threw at him. A animalistic growl left Tyson's lips and Henry could feel a animalistic growl leave his own lips as well as the wolf inside of him was thrashing with a rage and a new urge to teach the half-wolf mutant that stood in front of him a lesson—not just any lesson though, but the wolf inside of Henry wanted to teach the half-wolf mutant in front of him a lesson of respect. This time, Henry attacked first by throwing his fist and slamming it into Tyson's right cheek and then, Tyson went to throw another punch but Henry caught it again, only for Tyson to slammed his knee into Henry's stomach and then knocked him down onto the concrete.

Tyson pinned him to the ground with one arm and went to punch him with the other, but Henry kneed him down below before slamming the heel of his foot into Tyson's back, sending Tyson into the ground face-first while Henry leapt back up onto his feet. Before Tyson could have a chance to recover from getting his face shoved into the concrete, Henry reached into his belt, pulled out a smoke bomb, and threw it at the ground as purple smoke filled the street, giving him the cover he needed to escape and head to the lair. By the time that Tyson had pushed himself onto his feet, the purple smoke had cleared and Henry was nowhere to be seen.

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"I DON'T BELIEVE this! What have you guys done!?" Raphael shouted at Leonardo and Donatello, who had arrived back at the lair with not just April, Zane, and Calista but with Karai as well. Briana was standing with Mara, Kaz, and Michelangelo as the four were focused on helping Casey, who they had laying on the couch.

"Have you two lost your minds!?" Eclipse shouted at her brothers. She and Henry were standing next to Raphael, their eyes wide in shock at the sight of Karai in their lair.

"You two brought Karai... HERE!?" Henry shouted at them as well as he crossed his arms over his chest with narrowed eyes. "First, you two bring Karai. Who's next, Cameron?" He finished sarcastically.

April saw Casey's condition and gasped. "Casey!" Alongside Zane, the two and Calista ran to help Briana, Mara, Kaz, and Michelangelo with Casey.

"What world do you live in, that it's okay to bring the princess of the Foot Clan to our secret lair!?" Raphael asked.

"What happened to Casey?" Leonardo asked, noticing the teenaged boy laying on the couch.

"TigerClaw threw him off a building," Eclipse said. "And you just brought his partner-in-crime home for dinner!"

"Shredder lied to me!" Karai snapped. "I didn't know."

At those words, Henry found himself staring at her with narrowed eyes while the wolf inside of him growled, clearly not trusting her at all. Karai noticed the look she was receiving from Henry and for a moment, they locked eyes before Karai ended up flinching and quickly looking away, which only made the wolf inside of Henry growl louder.

Raphael drew his sais. "Did you know that I'm about to stick this sai right up your--?"

"Raph, stop!" Leonardo interrupted, stepping between them. "She understands now."

"She gets it. She knows the truth, Raph," Donatello added, trying to help out Leonardo. "Everything's gonna be fine."

"Will you just listen?" Leonardo asked Raphael.

Raphael shook his head. "I've heard enough from you and your girlfriend. She's probably leading the Shredder here right now."

"Enough!" At the firm voice, everyone turned to see Splinter standing outside the dojo while Raphael dropped his sais. The mutant rat saw Karai and gasped. "Miwa."

Karai looked at him and bowed. "Splinter."

Splinter closed his eyes for a moment. "Come with me."

Karai hesitated for a minute but then followed him. Once she was gone, Raphael punched Leonardo's arm while both Henry and Eclipse glared at him.

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"WAIT, YOU CAN'T believe it?" Leonardo asked as he and the rest of his brothers and sisters entered the dojo while Karai turned to face them. "I thought you did believe it. If you didn't believe it, why did you come here?"

Karai could feel her heart stopped as her blood went cold while realization hit her. She looked up at Splinter, who she had just discovered was her actual father, in shock and a guilty look in her eyes. "Father... what have I done?"

"You had to see with your own eyes," Splinter told her. "You had to learn the truth for yourself."

Karai felt her eyes widened. "You knew. You knew I was lying."

Splinter nodded. "No doubt the Shredder's forces are on their way."

"What was that last part?" Donatello asked.

"TigerClaw, Cameron, Noelle, and Tyson are... tracking me." Karai admitted, showing them the tracking device she had on her.

The five mutant turtles, Henry, and Briana stared at her. Then, Raphael, Eclipse, and Henry turned to Leonardo. "WE TOLD YOU!"

"Karai!" Leonardo exclaimed.

"There's no time to argue!" Karai argued, starting to panic a little. "I have to get out of here! I can lead them away from here!"

"Go, take Karai and watch over her. I will stay with April, Kaz, Zane, Mara, and Calista and attend to Casey." Splinter instructed. Karai turned to leave, but Splinter placed a hand on her shoulder to stop her. She turned to face him but glanced down in shame. "You are who you choose to be, not what others make you."

Karai nodded in understanding and left the dojo.

"Some of us choose to be right all the time." Raphael commented from behind.

"Will you just go?" Leonardo snapped.

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THE FIVE MUTANT turtles, Boy Danger, Captain Violet, and Karai were running through the sewers in order to lead their enemies away from the lair as they slid to a stop at a sewage junction.

Raphael looked over at Karai. "Well, princess? You got us into this. Where to?"

Karai looked around. "I... I don't know."

"Everyone, stop!" They all turned to Michelangelo. "I know exactly where to go."

Donatello blinked. "I feel scared."

The next thing that they all knew was that Michelangelo had brought them to the butcher store and into the meat locker where they all spread out and took cover in the hanging meat. As they hid in the shadows, all they had to do now was wait for their enemies to follow Karai's signal. After a few minutes, their enemies had finally showed up as TigerClaw kicked the door down and walked into the locker with Cameron, Noelle, and Tyson following close behind.

Tyson lifted his head as he glanced around, trying to use his heightened sense of smell to find them. "I can't smell anything but cold meat."

Noelle rolled her eyes, realizing what they were up too. "They're stalking us."

TigerClaw growled. "We can't smell you, but I can hear you." Nobody moved a muscle, trying to hear even just the slightest movement. As Michelangelo ran past, the mutant tiger turned and missed him. "Show yourselves!"

Leonardo dashed past them as Cameron spun around, missing him, and bumped his shoulder into a hanging piece of meat. Eclipse dashed by the exit and threw a handful of shurikens at them. Noelle used her ice powers to freeze the shurikens before it could hit them as the now frozen shurikens fell to the floor, shattering to pieces. TigerClaw drew out his sword as they all waited. Then, TigerClaw's ears twitched and he spun, just as Boy Danger delivered a roundhouse kick to his face. TigerClaw tried to retaliate but ended up cutting down a piece of the hanging meat.

"Are you afraid to face us?" TigerClaw asked, before he was kneed in the face by Donatello. "Are you afraid to fight us?"

"Cowards," Cameron said with an eye roll, only for Michelangelo to dash past him but not before slamming his knee into his stomach. 

Raphael took a shot, but TigerClaw heard him coming, grabbed his foot, and threw him across the locker. He dropped one of his sais and TigerClaw picked it up.

TigerClaw walked towards the kitchen. "Let's finish this."

Cameron, Noelle, and Tyson followed the mutant tiger into the kitchen as the five mutant turtles, Boy Danger, and Captain Violet took a step forward, each one of them prepared for the fight. The lights flickered for a second before switching off as the seven teens disappeared into the shadows before the lights switched back on.

Both Leonardo and Boy Danger tried to a double-sneak attack, but TigerClaw and Tyson heard them both, blocking their attacks and throwing them across the room. The wolf inside of Boy Danger growled inside of his mind. "Must teach the boy respect." 

Tyson couldn't help but smirk when he spotted the glowing yellow eyes on Boy Danger as he watched the boy's fingernails and teeth grow sharper, knowing that he was getting the exact answer he wanted from him. Then, Tyson let his own eyes glow yellow while his fingernails turned into claws and his teeth grow sharper.

Donatello whacked TigerClaw with his staff, but the tiger caught it in his teeth and threw the turtle into the wall behind him. TigerClaw then aimed to finish him off with Raphael's sai, but Michelangelo threw his kusarigama chain around his wrist and forced him toward the circular saw. Raphael tried to fight the tiger off, but he was still able to fight back. Raphael jumped back into the shadows and Leonardo tried a diving strike from the lights, but TigerClaw pulled Michelangelo closer and Leonardo had cut through the chain instead. The sudden whiplash hurled the orange masked mutant turtle back into the meat locker.

Eclipse was facing Cameron as she knocked the boy down with a roundhouse kick while Captain Violet was facing with Noelle as the girl dodged one of her ice blasts. In the meanwhile, Boy Danger caught the fist that was aimed at him by Tyson and lifted his leg, making sure to give a hard kick at the boy's ribs. Tyson grimaced in pain while Boy Danger backed up, making his way towards the meat locker. 

Realizing what he was doing, Tyson snorted. "You do realize that you'll be defenseless in there, right?" 

"Last time I checked, so will you," Boy Danger retorted with a animalistic snarl leaving his lips. "You're part-wolf too, which means you won't be able to smell anything either."

With that, Boy Danger bolted into the meat locker and immediately hid in the shadows for cover as he waited. Although Tyson hesitated at first, he shook his head and slipped inside the meat locker as well. But the moment that he was inside, Boy Danger charged as he slammed his foot into his chest, knocking Tyson into the wall. Tyson gave a animalistic growl before charging at him at the same time as Boy Danger and this time, Tyson landed a hard kick to his stomach that had Boy Danger skidding back before he caught Tyson's next attack by blocking the kick.

"You know, with your strength and with what your wolf is, the Foot Clan would be unstoppable," Tyson said. "Splinter and his ninjas would stand no chance against us."

Boy Danger scoffed. "If you think that I'd betray my family, then you're a idiot."

"Family? That's what you call them--what your wolf sees them as?" Tyson questioned before it was his turn to scoff. "What kind of a family are they if they're the ones holding you back from your full potential?"

"What the hell are you talking about?" Boy Danger questioned as he landed a kick across his jaw that had Tyson leaping a few feet back. 

Once Tyson landed back, he reached up and rubbed his jaw. "You really don't have a clue about what your wolf is? About what you could do?"

"I just found out that I was even part-mutant like a few weeks ago," Boy Danger retorted with an eye roll. "I don't even have full control over it."

"Trust me, you have no idea what you're really capable of," Tyson said. "And it'll only be a matter of time before you realize that they're only holding you back."

"This is the last time I'm saying this so get it through your head," Boy Danger said firmly, the wolf inside of him snarled its sharp teeth at Tyson as a animalistic growl left his lips. "I will never ever betray my family. And if you knew better, you'd be smart enough to know not to piss me off."

And with that, Boy Danger leapt over Tyson and ran back out into the kitchen to join the fight as he joined the others. It was a different scene from before as he stood by the others; everyone had their weapons in hand but no one moved to use them as they stared down TigerClaw, who stood beside the activated meat grinder, dangling Karai over it by her wrist while Cameron and Noelle stood on opposite sides of the mutant tiger.

"If you value her life, do not take another step." He threatened. 

Nobody moved and Tyson entered the scene, moving to stand beside Cameron. He snuck a glance at Boy Danger with a smirk before he closed his eyes, letting his claws and sharp teeth retreat back to normal and then opened his eyes as they were back to their ordinary eye color. Boy Danger could feel the wolf inside of him growling angrily and thrashing against its reins, wanting to come out but Boy Danger gritted his teeth together as he ignored the wolf and did his best to keep it from taking control of him. 

Then, TigerClaw moved Karai away from the grinder and threw her over his shoulder, leaving through an open window. Tyson and Noelle followed after him while Cameron took a second to glance over at Captain Violet as he winked at her before jumping through the open window as well. The moment their enemies had left, Boy Danger could now feel the wolf inside of him giving a small whine--one out of concern. 

"Your brother is hurt and needs help." The wolf inside of him said. 

Boy Danger didn't hesitate to turn his focus to Michelangelo as he quickly made his way over to him, kneeing beside him before taking his brother into his arms.

"I think his shell got knocked loose," Donatello said as he knelt down on the other side of him. "We have to get him back to Master Splinter."

Leonardo looked back at the window. "Karai..."

"I still don't trust her." Raphael spoke up.

"Honestly, me either." Eclipse agreed.

"Are you kidding me? Karai just saved us." Leonardo snapped.

"The Shredder raised her, daddy's probably welcoming her home right now." Raphael said. 

"She's Sensei's daughter! And our sister!" 

"That doesn't change the fact that The Shredder is the one that raised her, Leo," Eclipse reminded. "Did you forget about who it is that he wants? They almost found the lair this time, but what if next time, they actually do?"

"Guys?" Captain Violet asked, interrupting their conversation as she stood by Donatello and Boy Danger, who still had Michelangelo in his arms. "If we're gonna help Mikey, we should probably get going to the lair."

Knowing that Michelangelo was the top priority at the moment, they knew that she was right. As both Donatello and Boy Danger stood up, Boy Danger was the one that had carefully pulled the orange masked mutant turtle onto his back as the seven of teens then turned and left the shop to make it back to the lair. 

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JAKE WATCHED AS TigerClaw pushed Karai onto her knees in front of him and Shredder. Cameron, Noelle, and Tyson stood beside the tiger mutant. "She has betrayed you, Master Shredder," TigerClaw said. "She fought alongside the turtles, Captain Violet, and Boy Danger."

"Ooh, somebody's in trouble with daddy." Noelle taunted the girl with a smirk, not seeing how Karai clenched her fists as she stared at the ground with anger in her eyes. 

Jake, however, did noticed how she clenched her fists and just by the sudden anger in her eyes, he knew what brought her betrayal. 

She knew the truth. 

"Tell me the truth! Splinter is my father, isn't he?" Karai questioned angrily, now looking up at the man. 

Jake just watched as his father finally turned around and walked up to Karai, stopping in front of her as he stared down at her for a few moments. "Yes. Hamato Yoshi is your true father."

"What?" Karai glanced down at the floor, closing her eyes for a second before she opened them.

"TigerClaw, take her away."

At those words, it wasn't long till Karai found herself being thrown into a cell by the mutant tiger. She looked towards the cell door to see TigerClaw slamming her cell shut before he, Shredder, Jake, Cameron, Noelle, and Tyson all turned and began to make their way out of the dungeon. 

"No. No! No! What are you doing?" Karai questioned before grabbing onto the bars of her cell and then holding out a hand towards them. "NO!"

"Now, you're probably thinking that this is the consequence that came with learning the truth. Well, I guess you can say that technically, this is just the start of it."