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"Mikey!" Raph exclaimed when he kicked his brother, sending him flying across the room. Since Mikey was so quick on his feet, Raph just figured he'd do his famous back flip and jump out of the way. He never expected Mikey to actually take the hit. Raph was at his little brother's side the second his body hit the floor.

"You okay, buddy," Raph asked.

"Michelangelo, did you not heed my warning last night? I told you to go to bed after your little midnight snack. Did you not take me seriously?" Master Splinter said as he walked towards the terrapin.

"I had trouble sleeping," Mikey said. It wasn't a total lie, Mikey tried to tell himself. It is hard to sleep talking to someone. Splinter didn't seem to buy it, though.

"Then perhaps, it would be better if you go to bed early tonight so you can catch up. You are to go to bed an hour before you brothers, understood?"

"Hai, Sensei," Mikey said, solemnly. "Sooo can I still go on patrol?"

"This time," Master Splinter warned, which Mikey heard loud and clear.

Mikey tried to concentrate on the task at hand, if there was one, but his mind traveled back to the girl and desperately searched for her using the televisions Donnie had put in the Shellraiser so they could see out but others couldn't see in. He mentally slapped himself when he realized she would be on the roof this time of night.

Suddenly, all thoughts came to an abrupt stop when the Shellraiser did, causing Mikey to miserably fall out of his chair with a yell. He tried to laugh it off as a joke, like he meant to fall out of his chair like a klutz, but his brothers weren't born yesterday and continued to tease him until Leo said, "Hey, guys, look." The turtles snapped their attention to one of the monitors where a girl with blond hair and man with a red tattooed on his cheek and a sword strapped to his back inhabited the screen. Mikey gasped, recognizing Sarah with the man he believed to be harmful. Upon further inspection, he realized Sarah looked scared, genuinely terrified.

"Oh, no, Sarah," he said to himself, not realizing he said that out loud until Donnie called him out on it.

"Sarah? Who's Sarah?"

"Uh," Mikey knew he was caught then and had to come clean. "Well, you see. Um, You remember when we went out on patrol and we stopped the Purple Dragons from robbin' that jewelry store? Well, um, I sorta saved a girl that night," Mikey explained nervously, not sure how his brothers will take it.

"When you disappeared those few minutes?" Raph asked.

"Yeah, so you saved a girl. What does that have to do with this?" Leo asked skeptically, unsure if he even wanted to know.

"Well, um, something bothered me about her, and last night, I went to go look for her. That's her," Mikey said as he pointed to the screen. His brothers' eyes followed the large green finger. "She's homeless. Her parents died; she has no one to look after her, so I do," Mikey explained, then smiled when he thought of her pet name for him. "She calls me her angel." His brothers looked at him as if he suddenly turned human.

"Mikey, what were you thinking? Do you know how dangerous that is?" Donnie yelled.

"Hey, you did the same think for April!" Mikey screamed back.

"That's because her and her dad were kidnapped," Raph yelled as he joined in on the argument. They were all cut off when the little girl screamed, "No, get away from me! I don't believe you! You're a liar!" When Mikey saw Sarah backing away from the man as he walked towards her. Mikey bolted out of the Shellraiser then stood in between the girl and the unknown man, trying for the life of him to look as menacing as possible.

At the moment Mikey came into the picture, the man took out his sword, pointing it at Mikey who, in turn, took out his nun chucks. Mikey's brothers were beside him in a second, ready to have his back no matter how stupid and idiotic they thought it was because they didn't want the little girl harmed either, nor Mikey.

Upon further inspection, Mikey noted the man looked about thirty and had blond hair and hazel eyes and the tattoo he had seen was a Foot symbol. He narrowed his eyes and asked the man what he wanted with Sarah.

"You're the turtle I saw last night with Sarah. What do you want? This doesn't concern you," the man replied.

"We want to know what you want with the girl," Leo said strongly.

"It's none of your business. Sarah, come with me," the man said.

"No, you're a liar!" she screamed.

"Crystal and Randy are dead. Come with me and you won't have to be homeless anymore. I can train you to become a martial artist," the man coaxed.

"How do you know my mom and dad's name?" Sarah asked in horror.

"Because I knew your mother. Come with me and you won't have to do without. I'll take care of you." The look in the man's eyes told Sarah that trusting him was a bad idea, and her mother always told her to go with her gut.

"No, go away!" Sarah said, backing away more.

"Okay, I'm done with this," Raph suddenly said, then lunging at the man with the point of his sai to the man's throat. He dodged it, tilting backwards then turning around, causing Raph to catch the man on his shoulder. Blood oozed out of the cut as the man jumped and grabbed for a light pole and pulled himself up. He knew he was outnumbered, so the man gave one last look to Sarah and the turtles then jumped out of sight.

Mikey turned to look at Sarah, noticing she was shaking like a leaf and on the verge of tears. He ran to the Shellraiser and took out the bag filled with thermoses of water and a plain sandwich that he stored in the Shellraiser without his brothers' knowledge and ran back to give it to Sarah. She took it in her small hands as Mikey offered to take her someplace safer. All five drove to the rooftop she called home to retrieved the blanket Sarah now used as a bed and the few things she had that only held value to her as she ate and drank to her heart's content while she tried to still the tremor in her nerves.

They drove until they found a suitable place for Sarah to stay that they all deemed safe enough for her. Mikey wanted to take her home with them and beg Splinter into letting her stay but his brother's still didn't trust the girl. The girl wasn't even listening as she thought of how lucky she was to have one angel but now she had four with talk of a fifth.

When her bed was made inside an abandoned shop they had found in seemingly good neighborhood, Mikey turned to her and said, "Sarah, who was that man?" The tears welled up in her eyes again and looked away then back up into Mikey's eyes.

"Angel, he wanted to take me away. He knew who I was, who my mom was and my dad. He said he would train me to be a ninja so I could become part of Shredders army, but he's a liar! I hate him! He lied. He did. I know he did," Sarah said with tears making a wet trail down her defined cheeks.

"See, Mikey? This is why you don't play angel to a stranger," Leo said.

"What was I supposed to do, Leo? She needed my help!"

"And how do we know she isn't working for the Foot already? She could be bait, you know, just like Dogpound did when he was human. You're too trusting Mikey," Donnie chimed.

"She isn't working for the Foot! She's just a little girl," Mikey protested. He knew his trusting heart gets him in trouble too many times but he was so sure he was right about this little girl; he had to get his brothers to see that he had good ideas too, that he wasn't just some goofball.

"Which is why she's dangerous, Mikey. We help her, get to know her, trust her, then boom! Next thing you know we are getting ambushed and kidnapped so the Shredder can turn us all into the main course for his next meal," Raph said as Sarah coughed in the distance.

"Or worse. We take her to our lair and she tells Shredder where we live. She's dangerous, Mikey," Leo said, agreeing with his hot-headed brother.

"She's not dangerous! Look at her! Does she look like she is being taking care of by the Shredded… by anyone. I found her about to be eaten by a dog. You guys are doing to her what the whole world does to us." They couldn't deny the truth in Mikey's defense. She looked like she hadn't eaten in weeks and looked to have not bathed in more.

Mikey could see he was winning the argument and looked at Sarah and winked as he grinned at her. She grinned back in spite of the fear she felt. She hated people fighting, especially when she's the one causing it. A pang of guilt hit her as soon as another couple of coughs did.

"Fine, Mikey, but we have to tell Master Splinter everything. This could still be a dangerous situation if she's telling the truth since the Foot are after her now," Leo caved after he sighed.

"Why are they after her anyway?" Raph said, dumbfounded how they were seemingly after a girl that seemed to be of no threat and of no use.

"Did you hear the Foot soldier? He said he wanted to take care of her and train her to be a Foot soldier, but why would the Foot be interested when they have a world of bad guys much stronger and older than she is?" Leo asked.

"I think I have a theory," Donnie said. "He said that he saw Mikey last night with Sarah. Maybe they want to use Sarah to get to us."

"I don't care," Sarah said bitterly, "but he knew who my parents were and who I was. That my parents died, but he lied." Sarah's eyes narrowed in anger as tears once again shined in her hazel eyes.

"What did he lie about?" Mikey asked.

Sarah coughed into her hand and then clenched her fist at her side. "My father died. I have a picture of them at their wedding. It's not him," Sarah spoke, unclearly thinking out loud.

"Sarah, what are you talking about?" Mikey asked. The little girl looked into Mikey's blue eyes with a look that spoke volumes of stress, like Sarah had the hold world's weight resting upon her shoulders. Finally, she opened her mouth to speak.

"That man said he was my real father."