Chapter Four: New Friend, Old Enemy

A/N HardyGal: Yes, Sleepy Rainbow, it is.

For once, bashing bots wasn't the top priority tonight. Tonight, fun was the top priority!

Andrea raced her brothers across the rooftops. "Whoo!" She managed to catch up to Raph. "C'ya, Raphael!" And raced past him.

"Check it out!" Donatello pressed forward, running past Leo, before jumping off the roof with a flip and whoop, and landing on the opposite roof, sliding neatly to a stop.

Mikey jumped and bounced off the side of a rooftop water tower, flipping high in midair, before rolling onto the opposite roof, landing a little past his older brother. "Ha ha!" Michelangelo punched the air, while Donnie applauded politely.

Andi, Leonardo and Raph skidded to a stop, before looking down. And down was pretty far.

"Top that, turtles chumps!" Mikey said, breathing heavily.

Donnie smirked, gesturing for them to take to the challenge.

"Alright, guys…" Leo backed up. "Check this out!" Running forward, Leo did a couple flips before launching himself off the roof, doing a couple more flips in the air, and landing on his feet on the opposite roof, doing a final cartwheel.

"Woah!" Mikey said in awe.

Leo nodded in satisfaction, smirking at his brother and sister, still standing on the first roof.

Andi applauded politely. "Wonderful, my dear younger brothers. Wonderful. Now get a load of this!" Backing up a couple steps, the kunoichi ran forward, launching herself off the roof. She did a couple corkscrews, before doing a front flip and landing on her feet in front of her brothers.

"Wicked!" Mikey said enthusiastically, while Leo and Donnie grinned, looking impressed.

"What you got, Raph?" Andi called, looking over her shoulder.

"Alright, kiddies…" Raph cracked his neck, before suddenly darting forward. Andi and her brothers had just enough time to see him coming at them like a bullet, before he crashed into them.

Raph laughed as his siblings picked themselves up.

"Hey, what was that?" said Donnie. "You didn't even do any flips."

"Oops." Raph grinned shamelessly.

A sound drew their attention to the other side of the rooftop. Leo darted forward, leaning against the wall, his siblings close behind. He held up a hand, before slowly drawing his swords. His sister and brothers drew their own weapons.

Jumping out from behind the wall, they were faced with…

A kitten.

It meowed. Leo looked a little more shocked than he would have if he had been faced with alien robots. After getting over the initial shock, Andi sheathed her kama, grinning as she leaned an elbow on Leo's shoulder.

"Don't give up, Leo," Raph said with mock encouragement, putting a hand on Leo's other shoulder. "You might actually win this fight."

"Awww!" Mikey elbowed himself forward, holding his hands out to pick up the cat. "It's a kitty!" Mikey scratched the kitten's chest, before checking it's collar. "And it's name is…"

"Mittens!"

"Good guess! Wait… who said that?"

Andi look over Mikey's shoulder, and saw a human guy poking his head out the window, calling for his cat. "Mittens?"

"I think that's the owner," said Donnie. Mikey quickly got up and walked forward. "What are you doing?"

"Woah, hey!"

"Mikey, wait!"

"Michelangelo!"

Mikey turned to look at them. "What? I'm just returning Mittens to her owner!"

"Are you an idiot?" Raph snapped. He paused. "Let me rephrase that… You're an idiot!"

"You can't show yourself to a human!" said Donnie.

"Why not?" asked Mikey.

"Because they'll freak the heck out, that's why not!" Donnie snapped.

"No they won't," Mikey said confidently. "I'm not so scary."

Andi closed her eyes. "Michelangelo, you're pretty much the farthest thing from scary I can imagine, and your oblivion is absolutely adorable, but Raph is right. You're an idiot."

"You're an ugly green mutant armed with ninja weapons," Raph pointed out, perhaps a little harshly.

"Look," Mikey explained. "The guy is gonna see that I'm a regular, cat loving dude like him! Next thing you know, we'll be best buds! This is gonna be awesome!" He jumped off the roof before any of his siblings could stop him.

"No!"

"Don't!"

"Wait!"

They leaned over the roof ledge, and could only watch. The guy was still calling for his cat, when Mikey landed on the fire escape in front of him.

"Hi!" the orange clad teen said brightly, holding out the kitten. "I got your-"

The guy screamed. "Ah! Ugly green mutant freak!"

Andi couldn't help wincing. "What?" Mikey said in surprise. "But I've got your cat!"

"Help! He's got my cat!"

"Dude, chill!"

The situation would have been incredibly funny if Andi wasn't busy feeling kind of sorry for Mikey. The cat suddenly hissed and attached itself, claws and teeth, to Mikey's face. Mikey yelled in a panic, trying to get the cat off his face, before he fell off the fire escape. Andi and her brothers winced, before jumping down from the roof.

Mikey got to his feet, looking dejected. "Someone wanna help me with this?" He bent over to reveal the cat now attached to his shell, growling and squalling.

"No," his brothers replied shortly.

Rolling her eyes, Andi stepped forward, grabbed the cat by the scruff, and dropped it aside. "Sorry I'm saying this, but, we told you so."

"Face it," said Raph. "Humans will never understand you. Heck! We don't even understand you."

Mikey hung his head, sighing. "Yeah…" He looked up, and suddenly gasped, grinning. "But I bet that guy would!"

Andi and her brothers looked up, and saw a Chris Bradford billboard in all its glory.

"Chris Bradford," Leo said skeptically. "The martial arts superstar. With a chain of dojos across the country. He's your soulmate?"

Mikey drew his nunchuck, whirled it, and struck the pose that Chris Bradford was in on the billboard. "We have so much in common!"

"What if you stop standing like that?" said Donnie.

"We'll have a little less in common." Mikey slumped, before getting back into his good humor. "But still a lot! And look…!" He pointed back at the billboard. "He's in town for a martial arts expo! Maybe he'll show me his secret kata! The Death Dragon! And I'll show him my secret kata! The Secret Kata!"

"Catchy," said Donnie.

"Check it out!" Mikey punched and kicked the air a couple times, before doing a couple more obscure movements, that ended with him doing what looked like wiping a window, punching his fist, and putting his hands on his hips. "Now don't tell anyone you saw that," he whispered conspiratorially.

"No problem," said Leo.

Raph shook his head, before stepping forward. "Face it, Mikey, Chris Bradford is the last person on earth who would be friends with you."

Mikey glared.

"Well, tied for that with everyone else on earth," Raph added, smirking.

Andi punched him on the shoulder. "Raph!" she hissed.

"What?"

Then, they noticed the weird guys wearing masks and dark clothes coming down the building walls behind Mikey. Looking over their own shoulders, more guys were jumping down from the roof.

"Ninjas," Donnie said in surprise. "In New York? Other than us?"

Andi eyed the weapons with wide eyes. "With some pret-ty big weapons as a plus."

"Well, bigger weapons don't win a battle," said Leo, all of them drawing their own weapons.

"You're weird, bro," Andi whispered.

The five teen ninjas eyed the ninjas in black, gripping their weapons. The shiny sching of a shruiken sounded, and the throwing weapon hit Donnie's bō staff. Donnie growled.

Andi shook her head. "Shouldn't have killed the staff. He doesn't like that."

The ninjas attacked.

In her typical way, Andi charged low. Suddenly, she stood up, thrusting the hilts of her kama into the jaws of two of the black ninjas. Quickly flipping forward, she turned, sweeping her leg and flooring another ninja. The shiny sound of metal cutting through the air alerted her, and Andi just managed to block a scary sharp spear from slicing her face off. Throwing the guy backwards, she received a kick to her plastron from another ninja, and she gagged, before backflipping away.

"Oof!" She bumped shells with Raph and Leo, the latter grinning widely.

"Why are you so happy?" Raph snapped.

"It's just nice to finally be fighting people," Leo explained. "Instead of robots, or aliens, or weed monsters."

Andi blocked another blow to her face. "I don't think 'nice' is the word I'd chose…"

Yet another ninja entered, dressed in red and silver armor, wearing a helmet over his head, covering his face. Andi and her brothers froze their fighting. Drawing his fist back, the armor clad ninja dealt a heavy blow at Leo, who flew backwards, hitting the wall hard.

"Leo!" Andi shouted, before turning on the large ninja angrily. She charged with a yell. The kunoichi sliced her kama at his side. He caught it by the blade. Andi's eyes widened, just before he delivered a powerful blow to her face. She fell back, hitting the wall. Groaning, the kunoichi tried her best to clear her mind of the darkness that was quickly coming.

She heard Raph get knocked aside, and she got up, watching Donnie attack the armored ninja with blurred vision. The ninja seized Donnie's staff, and used it to strike him aside. Donnie also hit the wall.

Mikey swung his kusarigama hook at the ninja, who caught it, and pulled, pulling Mikey towards his fist.

"What are you?" The armored ninja spoke for the first time.

Mikey pushed himself back, landing on his feet, still clutching the chain. Suddenly, Leo jumped forward, slicing the chain with his katana. The ninja fell back, and Andi could tell that he was glaring at them as they all went into defensive positions. The wailing of police sirens saved them from further beat ups, as the armored ninja and the black ninjas quickly scrammed.

Taking that as their cue as well, the turtles disappeared just as the cop headlights eliminated the alley.


This was called a day off. Though technically all 'days' were off. It was the 'night' that wasn't. They had all reasonably recovered from their ninja attack, though Andi and Raph were still a bit sore about it, and even Leo wasn't at all happy about their loss.

Andi was listening to music on an old MP3 player, humming to the tune of her most favorite song, Elvis' Hound Dog, reading a magazine over the shoulder of the turtles' only actual human friend, April O'Neil. Raphael was doing push ups on the hilts of his sai, which Andi had to admit took some serious skill. Donatello was doing who knows what on his computer, Leo was having a talk with Master Splinter in the kitchen, and Mikey was fanboy-ing over a Martial Pain magazine, which had a picture of Chris Bradford on the cover.

"Oh, I wish me and Chris Bradford were friends!" The orange clad ninja chomped on the magazine with fanboy ecstasy, before kicking back in the air, laughing excitedly.

"And I thought Leo's man crush on a fictional character was crazy," Andi mumbled.

"Mikey, you already have a human friend," said April, smiling. Mikey gave her a blank look. "Me!"

"April, you don't count," said Mikey, turning back to his magazine. "We saved your life. You have to like us."

"Yeah, Mikey is actually right," said Andi, pulling an earbud out of her ear, and moving to sit next to April. "I mean, I wouldn't have said it in such a blunt way, and don't get me wrong, you're the best friend we've ever had…"

"Isn't she the only friend we've ever had?" Raph grunted, pushing himself up.

Andi narrowed her eyes at him, before continuing. "The point is, if we hadn't saved your life and kind of forced you to get to know us, would you have made friends with five mutant turtles?"

April inclined her head in an 'ehhh…' gesture.

"Yeah, too bad there's no place for freaks to meet each other where no one can see how hideous they are," Raph commented, still doing push ups.

"Wait, there is!" said April. "The Internet! Hey, Donnie, can I see your laptop?"

Donnie jumped slightly at being spoken to. "Uh… sure, April!" He quickly tapped something on his computer, before moving next to the human girl, and handing it to her.

"Check it out," said April, tapping on the keyboard, oblivious to Donnie's awkwardness. "It's a place where you can make friends with anybody online."

"Isn't that a little-" Andi cut off, moving aside quickly as her youngest brother pushed April from the computer. April fell against Donnie, who just sat there with very wide eyes.

"Suh-weet!" said Mikey, quickly tapping 'Chris Bradford' into the search box, and waiting anxiously. He gasped. "Oh, Chris Bradford's on here! He'll be my first friend!" He clicked the 'friend' button.

Mikey leaned towards the screen, as if expecting results within the second. April smiled gently. "Mikey," she said. "People don't always respond immediate-" She cut off when a confirming 'bleep' sounded. "But sometimes they do."

"What, does this guy live on the Internet?" said Andi.

"You should see my schoolmates," April said wryly.

Mikey looked as though he were about to explode with excitement. "Oh, no way! Chris Bradford has accepted my friendship! I have a friend!" He hugged April excitedly, much do Donnie's surprise and horror. "Thanks, April!"

Tossing the computer into the air, Mikey stepped out of the pit and started towards the main lair entrance/exit.

"Where are you going?" asked Donnie. "Woah, hey!" He darted forward, just managing to catch his UFL (Unidentified Flying Laptop).

"Michelangelo?" called Andi, standing up.

"I'm going to hang out with my friend," Mikey said. "Chris Bradford."

"But this guy's famous," said April, as Donnie sat down, examining his computer concernedly. "He probably has thousands of 'friends'." She made double quotations with her fingers.

"Aka, stalkers," Andi muttered, crossing her arms.

"Yeah!" Mikey agreed enthusiastically. "And guess who's number five thousand, two hundred and eight-six!" he said in a sing-song voice.

April exchanged a look with Andi. "You?"

"Daniel Remirez! And I'm right next to him! Later!" With a wink and a salute, Mikey left the lair.

"Well…" said April. "This oughta be interesting."

"He's actually going to meet with a famous human?" Andi said incredulously. "Paparazzi will destroy our secret beyond repair!"

"Should we go after him?" said Donnie.

"Eh…" Raph shrugged to the best of his ability. "He's gotta learn somehow."

Andi sighed, before sitting down and resuming the listening of her music. "Let's just hope it doesn't crush him too bad…"


Leo was intent on finding out who exactly these ninjas who had attacked them were. And the general rule is that criminals always return to the scene of the crime. Also, Leonardo seemed to be trying to get a general strategy from them.

"They must've been watching us from here," said Leo, himself, Andi and Donnie looking down on the alley they had been in last night from the rooftops. "The perfect place to stage an ambush."

"That wasn't very fair, was it?" said Donnie.

"It's not about fairness," Leo said irritably, as if his brother ought to know this. "It's about victory."

Andi, who stood between her brothers, rolled her eyes, while Donnie backed off, holding his hands up defensively. "Ok, I'm sorry."

" 'Sides," said Andi, crossing her arms. "Since when do bad guys ever play fair?"

"And then, and then Chris Bradford put on his hakama! Man, that guy can rock a hakama!" Mikey had been talking nonstop about his new friend for hours, and very quickly the words 'Chris Bradford' became the automatic trigger word for a headache to the older turtles. On top of everything, Andi didn't know if she should be ticked off or glad that a human had had the decency to make friends with Michelangelo.

Raph groaned, drawing a hand across his face. "Yeah, maybe he'll wear it again when he takes you to the prom," he said sarcastically.

"And then," Mikey continued, enthusiasm unfazed. "After that, he-!"

"Aw, enough!" Raph snapped. "You've been going on about this for three hours!"

"Ooh, someone sounds jealous…" Mikey got in his older brother's face. "You just can't admit you were the R word!" All four of his siblings stared blankly at him. "Wrong!"

Andi and her brothers groaned. Raph scoffed incredulously. "I'm not wrong!"

"Oh, yeah? If you don't wanna talk about my friend…" Mikey was suddenly right next to his sister and other two brothers, arms around Donnie and Leo's shoulders, and almost pushing Andi, who was crouching on the ledge, off the roof. "I've got three other siblings who do."

"Actually, I'd rather talk about anything else," said Leo.

"Like the concept of the silent W, perhaps?" Donnie commented.

"My dear Michelangelo, I swear that the words Chris Bradford have become meaningless!" said Andi, climbing safely behind the ledge.

Mikey glared at them. "Fine. Heh… I'll go talk to a guy who likes to talk about Chris Bradford more than anyone else." He leaned in conspiratorially. "Chris Bradford…"

"Well, that's not narcissistic," Andi muttered, and Mikey leapt off the roof.

Leo narrowed his eyes. "He ditched us…"

"I don't mean to sound cruel," said Raph, walking over. "Kind of… But I'm beginning to hope that this Bradford guy will come to his senses and dump Mikey."

"You and me both," said Andi.


"And then he kicks…! Twists…! And… sweeps the leg!" Mikey did these motions with uncharacteristically careful precision, while his sister and brothers watched with genuinely impressed looks (except for Raph). "Ha!" Mikey grinned. "The Death Dragon!"

Well, apparently Mikey really did learn the secret kata from his new friend. And boy was it cool!

"Oh-ho, psyched!" said Andi, fist pumping.

"That was amazing!" Leo said excitedly.

"Yeah," agreed Donnie thoughtfully. "It's devastatingly effective and… complex."

"And yet even Mikey can learn it," Raph added, leaning against the dojo tree.

Mikey bowed slightly. "Thank you…" He paused. "Hey!"

Donnie's computer, which was sitting in the corner of the dojo, beeped. "It's Rad-Brad!" Mikey quickly knelt in front of the computer. "That's my little name for him," he explained, before checking his messages. "He wants to get together for a little B-ball." He tapped a reply. "I can't wait to find out what the B stands for!" And sent it, before getting up, and walking out of the dojo.

"You're going now?" said Leo.

"Sorry, dudes!" said Mikey. "Human friend stuff. You know how it is. Oh… wait. No, you don't." He laughed, and left them.

"Well, one good thing from this friendship," said Andi, standing up from where she and her brothers were crouched around the computer. "I've learned a new way to kick my little brothers' butts!"

Raph stood up, clenching his fist and grinning. "Bring it!"


Andi and Donnie stood aside as Leo and Raph took a turn to practice the Death Dragon. Andi had actually managed to floor Raph for once. Now, it was Leo's turn for him and Raph to do a bit of off time sparring.

"Not quite!" said Raph, as Leo missed, the latter trying to sweep Raph's legs out from under him.

"Wait!" said Leo. "I think I got it!" Master Splinter entered the dojo just as Leo succeeded in completing the kata.

"Where did you learn that?" Splinter snapped suddenly, and Donnie and Andi spun around to see a mixture of anger and seeing-a-ghost on their Sensei's face.

"Mikey learned it from his new friend," said Leo, helping Raph to his feet.

"The man who taught him that kata is no friend," Splinter said grimly. "It comes from the Shredder."

"Shredder?" said Donnie, and every story Splinter had ever told about his arch enemy flashed through Andi's mind as she exchanged looks with her brothers.

"You mean Bradford is one of his students?" said Leo.

"He must be," said Splinter.

"So Bradford is just pretending to be Mikey's friend to get to you," said Leo.

"Oh, what a relief," Raph sighed. "Everything makes sense again." He paused for a moment, before his eyes widened. "Mikey's in trouble!"


'Oh-ho, no one hurts our little brother!'

Andi and her brothers sped for the Bradford dojo, Andi landing nimbly on top of the dojo skylight. She saw Leo and Raph wiggling fingers. They were all in stealth mode.

"Is that supposed to mean something?" she hissed.

"Does it have to?" Leo retorted.

Donnie slid down the skylight, and took out a piece of gum he'd been chewing. Sticking it on the end of a pencil attached to the end of a perfect circle maker (whatever the heck those things were called) it served to make sure the pencil didn't slide all over the glass as Donnie used the sharp end of the instrument to cut a hole in the glass, much like a cat burglar would.

As Donnie reached through the hole to unlock the skylight, Andi, Leo and Raph peered through the glass. Mikey was tied up on the floor, looking so sad and depressed, surrounded and guarded by the same ninjas in black who had attacked them only a couple nights ago. They opened the skylight, and silently entered the dojo. They made very quick work of the ninjas.

"Dudes!" said Mikey, as the last ninja fell. "That was sporadic!"

Leo, Raph and Andi made shushing sounds, while Donnie face palmed. "That's not what that means," he hissed.

Kneeling in front of their bound brother, Leo used a tanto blade to cut the ropes. Andi smiled with relief as Leo pat Mikey's head.

"C'mon, little brother," said Andi, throwing an arm over Mikey's shoulder as he stood up. "Let's go home."


It didn't take very long, and soon all of them were jumping into the sewers, Leo replacing the manhole cover behind them. Now, all they had to do was wait. That didn't take very long either, and the turtles crouched in the shadows as Bradford, some other guy with an afro, and a bunch of black ninjas jumped into the sewers.

Andi waited, and pounced, quickly, but silently, dragging every few ninja passing by into her tunnel, and knocking them out. As Bradford made his way into what Andi called 'the sewer clearing', the turtles followed.

When the last black ninja was grabbed, the human in the black vest pulled out a flair. The looks on his and Bradford's faces as they saw their comrades strung up to the ceiling were priceless.

"Show your faces!" the guy the afro shouted angrily, in what sounded like a bit of a Brazilian accent.

'As you wish.'

Raph and Leo climbed out of the water in front of the two remaining intruders, while Mikey, Andi and Donnie came out of the shadows behind them, all five of them gripping their weapons.

"They trapped us!" the afro guy declared incredulously.

"Take 'em down!" shouted Bradford, and the fight started.

The afro guy was a crazy good fighter, standing on his hands, deflecting Donnie's blows with his feet. When Donnie tried to knock him down, the guy jumped up, grabbed the purple clad turtle around the neck with his legs, knocking Mikey and Andi back in the process, and swinging Donnie at Mikey, Andi just having managed to dodge.

The guy smirked, and Andi growled slightly. Just when she was about to attack, her attention was brought to Leo and Raph. Raph was floored, and Bradford was approaching him threateningly, not noticing Leo was right behind him.

Scratch that. He did notice, and grabbed Leo's katana blades firmly, kicking him away, and right into Raph, who had taken the distraction as a temporary retreat.

'Let's get this plan started,' thought Andi, and Donnie snapped his fingers. Nodding, Leo and Raph resumed their fight with Bradford, while Andi and her two youngest brothers made to attack afro guy. Backing up into the water, their different opponents following, soon Andi, Mikey and Donnie were the ones with Bradford, and Leo and Raph had afro guy.

Bradford tried to deliver a punch to Mikey, but Mikey jumped atop the enormous sewage pipe, while Andi and Donnie took refuge behind it. When Bradford tried to give another punch, Mikey wrapped his nunchuck chain around the man's wrist, and jumped down behind the pipe, rendering that particular fist useless. Donnie used his staff underneath the pipe to force Bradford to his knees, and Andi delivered a very satisfying punch to the guy's face.

When Bradford finally got his bearings, Andi and Mikey were backing him up towards the large sewer tunnel, until he was back to back with afro guy, who was being accosted by Raph.

"They knew we were following us!" said the afro guy.

"That's right," Mikey said smugly. Bradford growled, and threw a punch, which Mikey blocked.

As the fight continued, Andi was tempted to intervene, but this was a matter between Mikey and Bradford. She winced as Mikey delivered several blows to the man's stomach, chest and face.

'That's what you get for backstabbing, Bradford.'

She fist pumped when with a "Sweep the leg!" Mikey defeated Bradford with his own kata, and kicked him back, where he knocked down the afro guy.

"Hit it!" Mikey called to Leo and Donnie, who were on the opposite edge of the sewer clearing. They turned the wheel they had a hold of, and a rumble sounded.

With a scream, both Bradford and his companion were swept away in a wave of sewage.

"Ha! Now you know what happens to people who break in and enter!" Andi fist pumped.

"Well," said Raph, smirking. "That didn't seem very fair."

"It wasn't," said Leo, he and Donnie walking over, and they all laughed.

"High three!" They answered Mikey's call with enthusiastic assent.

Finally back home, a pizza party was in order, and Andi automatically grabbed two pieces. Her brothers were such pizza hoggers…

"Um… Sensei, aren't you hungry?" asked Donnie.

Splinter was stroking his beard contemplatively. "I fear we are celebrating too soon," he said slowly.

"Too soon?" said Raph. "The bad guys were swept away in a river of raw sewage. By my watch, that makes it the perfect time."

"Shredder knows I am alive," said Splinter. "And worse, he knows about all of you."

Andi and her brothers exchanged looks. Splinter had already lost his first family to the Shredder. It would tear him down if he lost his second family to the same man.

"It's my worst nightmare come true," said Splinter, confirming Andi's thoughts.

"So it's not over?" said Leo.

"Oh, no… It's just beginning."

Andi sagged slightly. Well, this was a real downer. Surprisingly, though, the only one who was not sitting around the pizza circle was Mikey. The orange clad ninja was looking sadly at the laptop. Before Andi wondered if she should go over, Raph stood up, walked over, and sat next to his younger brother.

As she watched, Andi couldn't quite hear what they were saying. But soon, she heard Mikey say "Thanks, Raph!" and saw Raph pat him on the head, before heading back to the circle.

"All's good?" asked Andi.

"All's good," Raph confirmed.

Walking over, Andi handed Mikey her slice of pizza. "You're missing out, little brother," she said in a sing-song voice.

"I'll be right over," Mikey said, taking a bite out of the pizza, before clicking something on the computer with the air of triumphant finality. "Unfriend!" And the word flashed on Bradford's profile.

Andi smirked slightly as Mikey laughed. "Revenge!"

A/N HardyGal: I'm sort of eh… on this chapter. The thing I've realized about Andi is that she interacts better with Leo, or Raph. I can see her being nicer to Mikey, but Leo brings out more of Andi's personality. She teases him a lot, but she is encouraging in his leadership, and she is more willing to follow his orders. Also, even though Leo is the leader, and supposed to be protecting all of them, in Andi's mind, there is no one to protect Leo, and so she tries to retain her big sister position without trying to look as though she wants to be leader. Donnie is also a bit closer to Andi in my mind. Andi is actually most like Raph in a way, especially in a protective way, but less temperamental, and she doesn't hit as much. Mikey is her youngest brother who she needs to protect. But Raph has stronger big bro relationships with Mikey, and I was not going to try and thrust Andi into it.