Tides of Reality| Ninjago | Monkie Kid | ROTTMNT

Chapter 52 - Haha time to traumatize Leo

So, maybe 'smooth sailing' was a bit of an exaggeration.

Considering the situation Leo has found himself in, it was definitely a stretch.

After the Turtle Tank stopped abruptly in front of a 'disgusting, drippy slime jungle', as DonTron called it, they went in to get to the Metro Tower that was on the other side. And it was going great! Really!

Up until the point where a crazy train Kraang monster showed up out of nowhere and attacked them. Donnie and Mikey ran back to the tank, but he and Casey kept pressing on. After all they had to get Raph, right?

And now they are stuck in some kind of technical room filled with debris, with no way out probably.

"What the heck was that?!" Casey slid down something that must've been a wall before.

Yeah! That train was crazy, right? "Some kind of drippy Kraang monster I think."

"No, I mean you!" Him? He didn't do anything wrong.

"Why weren't you listening to anybody?" What? But he was! Donnie and Mikey just had wrong ideas, that's all. Right?

"I was trying to get us into the building." He justified.

"That sure worked out well!" The sheer amount of criticism in Casey's words made Leo want to curl in a ball, but it was the sarcasm that made him actually pull his head and shoulders closer.

"But I was doing everything right. How could it go so wrong?"

"Because you weren't listening to your team! You don't have all the answers all the time!" Casey kept shouting at him.

"You're impulsive and arrogant! You don't see that every decision you make could cost someone their life!" Okay, maybe he did mess up a bit, but it wasn't so bad.

Casey sighed. "You want to know what really happens to your siblings in the future?" Oh it wasn't gonna be anything good.

"They die. Everybody dies fighting the Kraang."

What?

I- Is that even possible-? They've been through so much together. Leo couldn't even imagine what it would be like to wake up one day and not see Mikey in the kitchen making breakfast, to not have Raph by his side, to walk into the lab at 3a.m. and find it empty.

But it can't be true, right? Raph is too strong, a- and Mikey is too fast, and, let's be honest, Donnie is the most unkillable person in the world. There is no way they could actually get killed by those bubble gum bit-

Maybe they can. Maybe Raph is already dead and this whole mission was pointless.

"The world needs master Leonardo. And all we got is this guy."

Casey's right. Even compared to himself, Leo sucks. He's an awful leader and even worse brother.

A picture, the picture Casey brought from the future, landed in front of Leo silently.

The faces of his siblings, who could well be dead by now, if the train found Mikey and Donnie- taunting him with their smiles.

He has to fix it.

There is no proof that everyone's dead yet. That probably means they aren't. And that means Leo can still fix it and keep everyone from dying.

But he's not gonna do it alone. Not anymore.

He stood up and climbed to where Casey has just put aside a bigger chunk of debris to reveal a small hole in the wall.

As soon as the kid saw him, he scoffed it almost sounded like Donnie and turned to trying to break down the wall.