Mikey POV

Raph has been more annoying than usual. I don't know why he gets like this. At the moment he was going around bugging the green off of Donnie, who was working in his lab feverishly on something or other.

I don't really care about what Donnie does in his lab, as long as it stays in his lab. I could hear Raph talking to Donnie, asking him a bunch of dumb questions like:

"What are you making?" or, "What does this do?" and, "Can I touch that?!"

Finally I stuck my head in the door and shouted at the top of my lungs for him to shut up. I saw Raph flinch and his eyes grow dark and watery. At that point I vanished from the doorway, because if there's one thing I hate more than anything in the world it's to take the heat for making someone cry.

Leo POV

I was watching a re-run of Space Heroes when Raph ran out of the lab. His head was hanging low and he was sniffing. That caught my notice.

"Hey, Raph!" I called to him. To my shock he stopped. Most nights when I tried to call a depressed and angry Raphael back he would just walk away faster.

"Yeah, Leo?" Raph whimpered. His voice wobbled. I'd never heard that before. It tugged my heart strings a bit.

"C'mere." I told him. Raph didn't hesitate. He came over to me and basically melted into a sagging pile beside me. Instinctively I put an arm around him. Raph didn't even shy away. He didn't give me the anticipated "What the heck, you're such an idiot" look. Instead he looked at the floor.

I just stared in disbelief as tears ran down his mask.

"Leo...why doesn't Mikey like me?" Raph asked me, looking up at me with big green eyes.

"What? No! No, Raph...he doesn't dislike you...that's not true at all. You're his role-model." I tried to explain to a Raph who clearly wasn't himself. He sniffed again. I saw his lower lip shudder. Then came more tears.

"Raph, ...Raph! You're gonna soak your mask. Calm down." I tried. Raph started hiccuping. I patted him on the shell.

"I'll talk to him." I told Raph. Raph only hiccuped some more. I got up and, instead of going off to find Mikey and chew him out, I decided to make a direct assault on the real root of the problem.

"It's weird, Donnie." I stated as I came into the lab. Donnie gave me the 'I know...' look from under his safety goggles.

"I've been analyzing the chemicals found in both of their DNA samples. Apparently...and this is kind of hard for me to put plainly, their personalities have been traded." Donnie explained to me.

The light-bulb flickered on in my head and suddenly it all made sense.

"So, Raph is Mikey, and Mikey is Raph."

"Theoretically." Donnie put in. He checked his notes while I twirled the end of my bandanna around my finger, thinking.

"So...have you worked out a way to turn them back?"

"Well...no. Gee, it's not like I'm dressed up like a bearded wizard, going around magically making things happen, am I?!" Donnie snapped. It was just like him to snap when he was trying to think.

Mikey POV

I came out of the bedroom and found myself alone...except for Raph being there. He was sitting on the beanbag chair staring at the floor like a lost puppy. I instantly felt a little guilty. It wasn't Raph's fault he was so annoying, was it?

I came up to him and sat down beside him a few feet away. Raph looked at me. I saw a mixture of hope and hurt in his eyes.

"How ya doing, Raph?" I asked. Raph shrugged. I punched him lightly in the arm, trying to let on that I wasn't trying to hurt him. Guess that wasn't the best way to get my point across though.

Raph grabbed his arm where I'd punched him, like it hurt, and scooted away. He looked at me like I was some sort of monster.

"Come on, Raph. I didn't mean to...you know...you just get annoying sometimes." I tried to explain. Raph scowled.

"Then why don't Leo and Donnie shout at me? I only annoy you! Why don't you like me?" He blurted all at once. I blinked, staring cross-eyed at Raph who was now right up in my face glaring at me.

"I don't know!" I replied, mashing a hand against his cheek and pushing him out of my hoola-hoop of space. Raph just glared at me.

"You do drive me crazy, Raph, but I don't hate you." I managed to reply. Raph raised a brow. His lower lip was prominent even more as he scowled. I almost smiled at how naive he could be sometimes.

I heard footsteps and I turned to see Leo and Donnie coming out of the lab towards us. I knew it. They were coming to chew me out. I rose up and stopped them before they could get a word out.

"Okay, before you start playing judge and jury, I didn't mean to blow up at him." I said. Leo and Donnie just looked at each other and nodded.

What was that supposed to mean?

Raph POV

Donnie and Leo nodded and I knew they had been talking. I don't know what they could have been talking about though. The way Donnie was acting bothered me though. He had that 'I'm gonna run some tests' look on his face, and I told him so.

Donnie just laughed a little. That didn't help at all. I looked at Leo as if to silently plead: Don't let him test on me. Leo didn't look down. He was looking the other way. I shuddered as Donnie opened the briefcase he'd brought out.

It was one of those shiny gray ones with the cool locks on the sides that I always liked to snatch from him while riding my skateboard. I never opened them no matter how much I wanted to, and I always brought them back later.

Donnie flipped the locks and opened it up.

"Now, we all know that Raphael is scared of cockroaches." He said.

What was he talking about? I so wasn't!

Without warning, Donnie pulled a cockroach out of the briefcase, a live one, and tossed it at Mikey. Mikey screamed like a schoolgirl and leaped onto Leo for safety. I just watched as the bug crawled across the floor to my foot. Then I picked it up and held it for Donnie to take it.

Leo had this convinced look on his face after he'd pried Mikey off of his head. I wondered...convinced of what?

"And we all know Mikey has an obsession with pizza..." Donnie was saying. He pulled out a jelly bean and maple syrup, three-day old pizza. My mouth watered. That was my all-time fav.

To my horror Donnie dipped the slice into a container of acid. I watched, lucidly as the slice was slowly destroyed. My heart gripped and a cold sweat prickled on my face.

"Monster!" I screamed, throwing myself headlong at Donnie. Leo grabbed my arms from behind and held me back. Donnie turned around and I took a swing at him and missed.

"Well that proves my theory. These two have been switched." I heard him say.

So...I wanted to give Raphie hiccups just to make his fangirls giggle. lol I have a feeling it worked. Couldn't wait to get this chapter up.