He looked up from his comic again as Nico spoke and the corner of Raph's mouth quirked at her talking about telling this Alex guy where to shove it.
Did she not get how big a deal that was or something?
"Listen, you chose to go with him to try to stop it and that meant you were there when things went down and were able to take advantage of the situation and save the day. That's how it works. That's one of the biggest things Sensei drilled into us, how no plan ever ever survives the first encounter with the enemy. It's always adaptation and desperation and a lot of dumb luck."
He went on, "And we ran from an alien invasion, too. Yeah, we're going back, but who else can save the world? What would you do, if you were the only ones in the whole world that could? And it was either fight back or watch the aliens take over and mutate all of humanity until they eventually found and killed you for all the trouble you'd given them?"
He added, "Why, when the fight against Kuk is so one-sided, are you staying here to fight back, instead of finding somewhere in this world to hide or trying to find some magical way of going home and leaving the rest of us to fight?"
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Did she not get how big a deal that was or something?
"Listen, you chose to go with him to try to stop it and that meant you were there when things went down and were able to take advantage of the situation and save the day. That's how it works. That's one of the biggest things Sensei drilled into us, how no plan ever ever survives the first encounter with the enemy. It's always adaptation and desperation and a lot of dumb luck."
He went on, "And we ran from an alien invasion, too. Yeah, we're going back, but who else can save the world? What would you do, if you were the only ones in the whole world that could? And it was either fight back or watch the aliens take over and mutate all of humanity until they eventually found and killed you for all the trouble you'd given them?"
He added, "Why, when the fight against Kuk is so one-sided, are you staying here to fight back, instead of finding somewhere in this world to hide or trying to find some magical way of going home and leaving the rest of us to fight?"