"So, they got into a big fight and basically risked people's lives and let people die and some of them were working with the same government that had creepy labs. And then they didn't even train the people they forced into it enough that they could actually survive."
Raph was allowed to be disgusted when Splinter had trained the hell out of his sons (and April). He was allowed to be disgusted when he and his brothers went at alien invasions with slightly-enhanced near-human abilities and weapons from feudal Japan, typically managed to save everyone, and didn't even take credit for it.
Okay, so they'd lost against the Kraang in the big invasion but that was after already having stopped one before, and they planned to go back and face impossible odds anyway once Leo was better. And yes, the canisters of ooze had hit a lot of people during that one fight in the Kraang ship but it was a fight and sometimes you couldn't control what happened in a fight. It wasn't really out of selfishness and ego and stupidity so much as the fight just not going well. Everything that could have gone wrong had.
That robot'd had surprise butt cannons, after all.
"I think the worst we ever did - aside from losing against a whole invasion force when we were hopelessly outnumbered and outmatched in a situation where all our enemies teamed up against us and just about anyone would lose - was have a fight go bad in one of the Kraang ships. It was out of control, a hatch accidentally got banged open, and a bunch of mutagen canisters got dumped all over New York. And you know what we did? We went out just about every night and tried to hunt down every. Single. Canister to try to get them before anyone got mutated. It wasn't even our fault but we figured it was still our responsibility to try to make it right."
He was actually angry now.
"We fight aliens with ninjutsu and weapons that were the height of technology in feudal Japan and we held off one alien invasion and saved like hundreds of hostages without them even knowing we did it. How. How are they messing up that badly? Me and my brothers and Casey and April aren't even superheroes and we suck it at less than that."
And they got to be celebrities. That was what was burning his nonexistent butt the most.
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Raph was allowed to be disgusted when Splinter had trained the hell out of his sons (and April). He was allowed to be disgusted when he and his brothers went at alien invasions with slightly-enhanced near-human abilities and weapons from feudal Japan, typically managed to save everyone, and didn't even take credit for it.
Okay, so they'd lost against the Kraang in the big invasion but that was after already having stopped one before, and they planned to go back and face impossible odds anyway once Leo was better. And yes, the canisters of ooze had hit a lot of people during that one fight in the Kraang ship but it was a fight and sometimes you couldn't control what happened in a fight. It wasn't really out of selfishness and ego and stupidity so much as the fight just not going well. Everything that could have gone wrong had.
That robot'd had surprise butt cannons, after all.
"I think the worst we ever did - aside from losing against a whole invasion force when we were hopelessly outnumbered and outmatched in a situation where all our enemies teamed up against us and just about anyone would lose - was have a fight go bad in one of the Kraang ships. It was out of control, a hatch accidentally got banged open, and a bunch of mutagen canisters got dumped all over New York. And you know what we did? We went out just about every night and tried to hunt down every. Single. Canister to try to get them before anyone got mutated. It wasn't even our fault but we figured it was still our responsibility to try to make it right."
He was actually angry now.
"We fight aliens with ninjutsu and weapons that were the height of technology in feudal Japan and we held off one alien invasion and saved like hundreds of hostages without them even knowing we did it. How. How are they messing up that badly? Me and my brothers and Casey and April aren't even superheroes and we suck it at less than that."
And they got to be celebrities. That was what was burning his nonexistent butt the most.
"And some of 'em get to be famous for it."
So offended.