Notes

chapter eight--> the conclusions


- karai apologizes to raph for biting him. she's clearly super upset about it and raph does forgive her because she wasn't in control of herself and if she hadn't snuck out he would've gotten killed by rahzar. splinter says she's still grounded until further notice

- donnie finally coming up with a retromutagen for karai (he needs April's blood as the final ingredient so he calls her and casey down, which is why they're there when he finally gives her the mutagen)
- this allows karai to apologize to April for what she did, as well as to the clan as a whole for going off and starting this whole mess in the first place


- raph calls donnie out (publicly, because he doesn't want donnie to get out of answering) about taking so much blood from himself. donnie finally admits that he was able to base the retromutagen on his blood and he took a little of sensei's just to belie suspicion (he took so much blood because like he told raph, he was doing a lot of experiments). they ask why, and he admits that he's the only one with splinter's dna and he didn't want to say anything because he hated the fact that he wasn't blood related to the turtles and he didn't want to be seen as different. casey and April obviously don't care, splinter's known for years. his brothers are obviously shocked, but ultimately they don't care? they're brothers regardless of blood, and splinter's their father regardless of blood (and karai is their sister regardless of blood, and she looks at Leo when she says this and he purses his lips but nods)