[Casey stares back at him for a long moment, sorrowful, but at the same time just... quietly amazed. This whole time he'd thought he was alone, making a terrible decision, betraying his family, all in the name of following orders, doing what he's told as usual. Leo wasn't exactly sensei but he was close enough that his words carried weight, making the same decision that he knows his sensei would have made. Save the world. Find the Key, stop the Krang. "Casey, please-" He'd hated himself for it. He'd blamed himself for it.

Raph, though... Raph had done it, too? Left their dad and Draxum behind, let them hold back the enemy even if it might've cost their lives... to save everyone?

Somehow he tears his gaze away, staring instead down at the hands in his lap, and blinks rapidly. He's not alone-]

No... no, it doesn't. A-and it's harder to say no when you don't have another solution, when there's no time to think it through. When it's someone you're used to obeying to who gives the order. I... it was your dad...

[It was my-]