"Of course we'll do it!" Molly said earnestly, totally stepping on the tail end of Raph's griping. "We're superheroes, right? We're supposed to help people, even if it's really hard. We'll do our very very best, I promise!"

Sometimes the cuteness and the earnestness was a bit put on, maybe. After all, by now, she was definitely 13. She had to be at least a little bit of a teenager under there. But sometimes... sometimes it was 100% honest true sweetness.

And even if her heroes failed her and turned out to be awful people, that didn't mean superheroes were a bad concept.

She was going to make superheroes worth trusting again, just you watch.