#jay is called the lightning ninja but his power is general electricity with lightning just being the strongest

[lxikoniko]

I will forever push the "In terms of raw elemental power, Jay would be the strongest and most versatile in terms of range of his elemental abilities out of the main group (not including Lloyd obviously)" agenda

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Awesome ninjago dream time!

I had a dream like, 10 minutes ago and hell it was cool. It had Echo, Zane as a focus but included the rest of the ninja too which surprised me. Except for Jay, he just wasn’t in the dream,,, I don’t know why--

From what I remember, Kai, Cole and Zane were separated from the rest, and were in this tower lookin’ place, think Donnie’s lab from RotTMNT, but darker.

The center of the room was just brimming with blue and white electricity, and as they walk in, someone walks out from behind the column of static. It’s Echo, but he’s not copper or gold, he’s a purple-ish grey silver (the sides of his head and hair was darker than his face and his eyes were gold, straight gold, they stood out against the blues and blacks). Ngl, looked kinda like Ultron.

He comes out and I remember Kai and Cole look to Zane and Zane just looks conflicted, scared, confused, concerned. Echo says something, probably about knowing Zane or how they’re totally related, and it makes Kai and Cole real mad, and the two of them start to fight Echo. Zane is not fighting and instead stands back as he watches, what looks like, himself fighting his friends. The battle continues and Nya and Lloyd (without Jay?? Jay just wasn’t in this dream) join in just as Echo pushes some button, directing the lightning to Kai and Cole, and they disappear.

They do not die, and in fact are teleported to a jungle island(?). They get thrown out of what looks like a wormhole, and immediately assume they were banished to another realm (understandably) and Kai of all people begins having an unexpected panic attack to which Cole comforts him and they choose to wander along the edge of the beach to map out their surroundings (my dream gave me a reason for them leaving, thanks brain).

I think it would be fun to mention that this dream all happens in a stylized animated way, that’s generally how my dreams look, but with Kai and Cole’s “scenes” it looks like the minifigs, and I would love to point out that Cole has a bandanna and man bun and tore his black trousers to resemble shorts, while Kai ends up tearing his gi to look like a crop vest with no arms and has light brown trousers instead of red... It was a cool design honestly, I’m proud of my brain.

Back to Lloyd, Nya and Zane. Echo ends up beating Lloyd and Nya pretty badly and directs his attention to Zane, still having a mini freak-out, and tells him all about how Zane was the one that was loved, Zane wad the son Julien wanted, Zane got cool powers and made friends. While Echo was a copy of that, Julien didn’t want echo, he wanted his real son, Echo didn’t get powers, Echo didn’t get friends of love, he didn’t even get his brother. So now he was gong to take that all away, so Zane could know exactly what Echo felt.

It strikes then that Echo is his brother. And tries desperately to talk to Echo, while Echo is continuously attacking Zane. Eventually , Zane places himself on an Ice podium to escape Echo’s barrage of attacks and Echo takes this as an opportunity to play with Zanes head. He begins to talk about how he’s always been above the rest, pointing to Nya and Lloyd, and how he’s the one that gets the attention since he’s “oh so special”. Zane uses logic to negate everything Echo throws at him, throwing in his line “I am built to protect those who cannot protect themselves” and it is that sentence that throws Echo off the edge.

Echo is yelling, screaming at him, throwing all his emotions into one big pile and telling Zane everything he’s felt and done because he just wanted what Zane had. Echo doesn’t know that through this, he’s crying and Zane’s lowered himself from his podium to stand in front of Echo. Echo looks up to see Zane also has tears in his eyes. And in an unspoken attempt to make things up, Zane hugs Echo, tight, and hold him close, Echo is tense at first but softens into the hug. Echo’s sobs are drowned by the cracking and popping of the machine and the two just sit on the floor together in a brotherly embrace.

My dreams don’t end happy though and it all goes wrong! Sirens emitting from the computers and warnings cover the screens. Echo pulls from the hug instantly and looks around frantically, landing his eyes on Zane and Zane looks in confusion. Echo dashes off to one of the computers close to the previously mentioned button. Lloyd and Nya, with their weapons still drawn but not prepared, move up to the brothers. Lloys asks what’s wrong and Echo states that the machine technically isn’t ready and that first blast actually could've destroyed them all. Echo did not equate for the recharge, and throughout their squabble the machine was just getting more and more charged.

Echo states the best way not to die, would be to teleport them all to the same location, since there would be no time to escape the blast radius. Lloyd and Nya are adamant that they could make it and just when they are about to leave the tower (which i’m realizing at this point is probably the lighthouse prison), when Zane puts his hand on Echo’s shoulder and says “I trust him”. Promoting a disbelieving and hopeful look from Echo and a hesitant glare from Nya to Lloyd, who states “If Zane trusts him, so do I”.

Nya is still hesitant but believes the same. The four stand together as Echo slams down on the same button, sending them all to the same location through the wormhole. Just as they do this, the Lighthouse combusts in a striking explosion of blues and purples. The lighthouse is no more.

When the four get thrown out, they appear at the same beach. Nya is okay with the location because there’s water. Lloyd is asking Echo all sorts of questions. “Why are you evil? Are you still evil? What was your main goal? Where are we right now? Are you honestly Zane’s brother? Are you even listen--” He’s not listening, and instead is looking away from them, ashamed. 

Zane comes over, while Lloyd is still asking questions, to comfort him again. They have a conversation about how Echo thought this was the only way to get his attention and the only way to make him understand how he felt and Zane tells him that it’s okay to feel however he feels, what’s upsetting is the way he went about those emotions. Echo remarks that being a nindroid doesn’t help all to much and Zane laughs in understanding, saying “You will understand when you are older”. 

Nya pulls Lloyd aside to point out two pairs of footprints in the sand. Lloyd calls Zane over who confirms that that is Cole and Kai’s shoe sizes, and Echo confirms that this is the location he intended to strand Zane on, realizing how bad that sounds out loud he looks away. Lloyd recommends they follow the prints to see where the two went and see if they can catch up. 

This is where we go back to Kai and Cole, who are still traveling through the jungle, the beach cornered off into a cliff and Cole didn’t want to disturb any potential threats, so they continue inwards. (I’m writing this whole bit out exactly as I saw it, Cole getting upset)

Kai is cutting away at the leaves and sticks while ranting about how “When I get off this island, I’m gonna pin that little squirt to the ground and make him wish he was never built!”.

Cole reminds him that “If that ‘Little squirt’ really is Zane’s brother like he says, Zane probably wouldn’t be to thrilled with you smashing him into scrap.”

“Zane wouldn’t care! That twerp is clearly evil, did you see the way he zapped us?” Looking back at his friend.

Cole raises an eyebrow at him “...Evilly?”

“Exactly! Wait- yeah, evilly.” and Cole sighs “Besides, Zane knows better then to get friendly with villains, we’ve seen enough of how well that tuned out with-” He cuts himself off.

“You know Zane doesn’t like ‘that’ being mentioned, even when when he’s not here.” Cole reminds him calmly.

Kai paused “I-I know, I’m just--Mad! How can someone, supposedly your family, turn on you like that! It’s-”

“You did the same thing,” Cole interrupted. Kai stopped mid-swing and stared wide eyed at Cole, anger clearly starting to build. “What?” He prompted Cole to continue, carefully.

“You’ve fallen for the same trick as both of them, dude. Lloyd says you were persuaded by Chen’s staff just the same as Zane was by that Vex guy and the scroll,” He moved from following behind Kai to standing beside him.

“You also attacked your parents, thinking they were traitors, according to Nya. Of all of us, you should be able to see both sides clearer than the rest,” He takes one of Kai’s swords from it’s sheath on his back and begins to cut more bushes in his way.

“I guess that just makes you more blind to it then us instead.” He looks back, only to continue on his way. Kai is stood still for a few more moments, his arm frozen in the air like a game on pause. Soon though, before he loses sight of the Earth master in the brush, he jogs up to him, putting his own sword in it’s sheath allowing Cole to lead on. His words do sting and bore into his head. Recollection of both those events hurt by themselves, but with this new context, Kai couldn’t help but feel like Cole was right. Maybe he is more blind to how the “brothers” felt that he should be, or was that just him denying his own emotions?

AND THAT WAS IT--

That was my dream, and now there will be nothing done with it because LEGO are already doing a jungle adventure. My dreams are wild man, it’s like my brain is showing me a movie, it’s so cool--

I do like this concept, I love it in fact. But unless I want to change the entire vibe, I don’t think I would be able to make it a fan season. If season 14 wasn’t a jungle season-- I WOULD.

[ninjago-drabbles]

5 times that the ninja were in awe of Jay Walker ( + 1 time he was in awe of himself)

⚡️⚡️Started with a prompt that has pretty much zero to do with how the fic actually turned out? I found this file from forever ago and thought I’d put it up. Tell me if you like it and if there’s good feedback I’ll continue!⚡️⚡️

PART 1

I might just set this diary journal on fire soon—It'd be a lot more entertaining than anything I'm putting in this lousy thing.

Zane was the one that suggested another day of recon instead of, you know, actually getting out there and completing our mission. And the best part is, our fearless leader, the all-mighty black ninja, holy master of the dirt beneath our boots, agreed with him. The betrayal still hurts.

Luckily, he—

whooosh

Kai jumped in his seat, the pencil he was holding dropping from his hand and making a clatter as it hit the floor. The room went dark, as did the lamp on the street outside of the window he was sitting in front of. Kai sighed. He had really hoped that the power would at least try to stay on for longer than a few hours this evening.

The village they were in, Meiyôu-guang, was a small fishing settlement that had been around for hundreds of years. The four of them had been stationed there for a sort of intelligence gathering, long-con mission (you know, sneaking around in shadows, using stealth and technique as your only weapons, things ninja were meant to do. Not, you know, battling a monster of the week with flashy golden sticks that contained the very powers of nature). Sensei Wu cited an old disturbance, a crime ring of some sort that had been a bane on the town for decades. Abductions, mysterious deaths, the whole grocery list. Their Master had sent them out between potentially world-ending threats to put an end to the mob’s reign, but the society was so deeply ingrained in the town that it required potentially months to tear it all down without drawing country-wide attention.

It could be worse, Kai had reasoned. The village was gorgeous, really, with cherry blossoms lining every street and ancient temples scattered around the green at the bottom of the surrounding mountains. It kind of reminded Kai of one of the villages his parents, Nya, and him would visit on their monthly ventures to the market. Meiyôu-guang’s own shops were eerily similar, and every walk through the town brought back warm memories.

Kai rubbed his eyes and stood up, blindly attempting to find the light above his head. He grasped around for a while before his fingers ran over something smooth and warm, though quickly succumbing to the chill of the room. He gave the light a little tap, but nothing happened. He hit it harder, praying he wouldn't break it.

"This worked last time..." he grumbled, and eventually gave up after another couple of hits to the now dangerously swaying fixture. Kai ran his hands through his hair, perturbed, ruffling it up a little more. Guess I’m done writing for the night.

He didn't even realize how tired he actually was until his mouth let loose a gigantic yawn.

Kai was about to start changing for bed (granted he could find his way to the door to his room without tripping over something), when he heard the sound of a key turning in a lock.

He heard rather than saw the harsh grating of the door swinging open across the wooden floor. A figure stepped through, a distinct golden glow coming from the nunchucks on his back.

"Woah, the power's out here too?" Jay asked, shuffling further into the room and shutting the door behind him with a painful creak.

Kai sighed again, this time in annoyance, carefully feeling his way to the nearest wall and leaning against it. "Been going on and off all evening." Honestly, how could Jay still be oblivious to the ever-constant electricity problem in this town?

"I guess this entire street’s down," Jay mused, "I saw the street light go off on my way back, but I just assumed the bulb burned out." He made a little humming noise in the back of his throat, as if the sudden and greatly problematic loss of power was merely something of vague interest and barely worth concern.

Kai sighed for the third time in the span of a few minutes (seriously, he was going to break some sort of record here) and answered, "Try the whole town- this place's as old as Sensei Wu claims to be. And I'm guessing the power generator is too.” He valiantly fought the urge to sign again, and lost. “Did you bring the thing?"

Kai could practically see the eye roll that Jay was no doubt giving him.

"Yes hot-head, I got your gross salt and vinegar chips. You're lucky this place at least has an up-to-date grocery store."

There was a loud rustling for a few seconds, and then Kai felt what he could safely assume was a bag of his favorite brand of chips hit him square in the chest with a crunch.

He quickly brought his hands up to catch the crumpled aluminum and gave a disapproving glance to the general direction from which the bag came.

"You better hope you didn't crush any of these, Walker." He opened the bag with a tug and pulled out one of the extremely over-salted chips. Delicious, as always. At least some things never let him down.

The room was filled for a moment with the crunch of the snack in his mouth. Then:

"Nice throw, by the way. How'd you know where I was?"

"Used to the dark, you know, back at home," Jay answered nonchalanty. He heard the blue ninja shuffling around the room, unbuttoning his overcoat with jarring pops from the metal clasps. "Ma and Pa never really invested in a good generator."

Kai smiled a little, thinking of a younger Jay running around in the dark dump he called a home with only the eccentric Ed and Edna around to play with. Sometimes, he found himself jealous of his friend's childhood.

"Well I, for one, am not used to it," Kai complained instead. "And I'm way too lazy to keep a fire going throughout the night," he stated with a sour look in what he assumed was the direction of their sad, empty-of-any-sort-of-burning-material fireplace.

Jay sighed (seriously, what was with all the sighing?) and no doubt rolled his eyes again.

"Well, if you're going to be such a baby about it."

Before Kai could retort and argue that he was not, in fact, a baby—quite the opposite, really—he heard Jay snap his fingers. Then saw a blue light appear across the room in where he could now see was the palm of Jay's hand.

His friend's face lit up, the blue light from what he realized was a small ball of lightning reflecting against his even bluer eyes and auburn hair.

A grin tugged on Jay's lips, one that Kai knew either meant he was about to murder Jay for whatever he was about to do or was very close to being killed himself.

"Watch this."

There was another snap of his fingers, and then the ball went out. Kai looked around, unimpressed, and was about to say as much, when a huge wave of energy shot out from around the lightning ninja. Kai stumbled as it washed over him, almost falling to the floor. He didn't really see it, the energy, but he could feel it, pulsing through his body and out the walls of the room and into the streets outside. Suddenly the light flickered back on above him, drowning the room in a soft, yellow-orange glow. Out of the corner of his eyes he could see the street lamps do the same. The fire ninja’s gaze flickered back to the source of the energy, his amber eyes wide and mouth agape. Jay was still standing by the door, looking around the room proudly. There was still small bolts of lightning running between his fingertips. Kai didn't even think Jay noticed.

The master of lightning smirked, "Whole town. Should last them at least a year. Still feeling too lazy for a fire, Kai?" And with that, he turned and walked through the door to his shared bedroom.

Kai stood there in the middle of the room for a while, staring at the door that Jay had just closed behind him. Biting his lip, he eventually collapsed down into the chair he had been writing in earlier that night.

He looked out onto the street, now alight with the calming glows from behind shop windows and bedroom curtains. He imagined what the rest of the city must look like. Of course, he knew that it most likely looked the exact same the night before, but something about the fact that it was Jay who lit it all up, and made it alive again, made it different. Made it... special.

And then something his friend had said finally registered with him.

An entire year.

Was the lightning ninja joking? Could he really power the lives of hundreds of people for twelve months? Kai laughed to himself, unsettled.

Nah, of course Jay was joking, he thought. No ninja could be that powerful. None of the others are, he was sure. And I'm definitely not. Right?

Convinced, Kai shook his head and headed toward the door next to the one Jay went through that led to the other shared bedroom. He sat down on his bed and started taking off his clothes for the night.

Kai's eyes wandered to the golden sword and similarly shining pair of shurikens on the dresser. He didn't even use his elemental weapon.

Kai was once again taken aback.

And for the first in a long many of times, Kai was afraid of the enigma that was Jay Walker.

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Gleam and Glow: Training

In terms of elemental powers, lightning is one of the hardest to master.

Jay feels the sweat beading on his forehead. He thinks he’s got it this time, but when he brings his fingertips together there’s only a small burst of light.

“Oh, come on!”

He drops his hands and slumps back against the courtyard wall. The stone is warm against his wings. It’s a warm day in general, despite it being autumn. Jay reaches for his water bottle, gulping down the last few swallows. If not for the slight breeze, he thinks, training out here would be unbearable.

It’s only Kai, Nya, and himself in the courtyard today. Cole and Zane left early in the morning, flying down to the base of the mountain for their training. Something about being more in touch with their elements down there. Kai punches at a wooden dummy and Nya drills katas in the center.

Today is a day for practicing elements, Sensei Wu had said, as he dragged them from their beds this morning. So Jay had used up the better part of his day punching, jabbing, and flailing his arms in an effort to try and create a lightning bolt.

Sensei told him to imagine his lightning as yin and yang, two forces always trying to get back together. But spiritual mumbo-jumbo has never been one of Jay’s strong points. Lightning is lightning- positive and negative charges driven to balance each other out. Even with this mindset, he’s making slow progress.

All the electricity he’s generated before has only consisted of sparks. Sparks are easy. Sparks are envisioning your chi- and chi is one concept he can handle- gathering in one place. The energy overflows naturally and is expelled from your fingertips as sparks. Piece of cake. But actual bolts of lightning?

He pushes off the wall.

“Yeesh, have you never seen a lightning master before?”

“Huh?” Jay frowns at the fire ninja. Kai hops off the post he was perched on, wings flaring for balance.

Truthfully, Jay doesn’t understand the fire master. One moment he’s flirty and obnoxious, the next passionate and serious. (‘He’s like a flip-flop!’ Jay rants one day to Wu, who calmly sips his tea and stares straight ahead with the wings of a suffering father who wonders why he adopted five children.) And Jay hates to not understand things.

Nevertheless, he listens to what Kai has to say. The kid is older, after all. And from the times he’s spoken with him, he knows more about elemental powers than Jay does.

“Well, I mean, in the movies, they’re always waving their hands in circles, like this.” Kai demonstrates. He swings his arms and brings his fingertips together, mimicking an exploding noise.

“That doesn’t make sense,” Jay protests. He ducks away from Kai’s flailing wings. “It’s lightning strikes, not lightning circles!” He thinks back to his physical science classes. “Lightning always seeks the quickest, most direct route to its target.”

“Hey, just trying to help.”

Jay huffs. But since he’s out of ideas, he might as well try Kai’s. He moves away from the wall and starts again. This time, he moves his arms in arcs as he separates the charges.

His left arm starts first, sweeping across his body. He imagines that he’s gathering all the negative energy with the swoop. His right arm mirrors the movement, and he feels the positive energy flowing to his fingers.

Now for the actual lightning. He brings his hands up, still in their arcs, and his fingertips touch.

His arms go cold, like his veins are made of ice, and then a silvery bolt is pulsing from his fingers. The power, the energy flooding his body is overwhelming. He staggers. He leans back against the courtyard wall because the energy rush is already leaving his system and now he only feels tired, drained.

“Woah.”

“Yeah.”

Jay wants nothing more than to rest now. But Sensei Wu is suddenly there, golden feathers ruffling in a pleased manner.

“A good attempt, Jay,” he says.

Jay makes a noise of protest, but even that dies on his lips. How in the world will he fight Garmadon, if just one bolt is enough to make him feel faint?

He asks the Sensei this. Wu nods, running a hand through his blond hair.

“That is why you must train,” he says. “Learn to control how much energy you put into each blast. Then you may be sure that you will never over-exhaust yourself.”

Jay makes a few more bolts through the course of the evening, each weaker than the last. He calls it quits when Cole and Zane materialize at the door.

“How was your day?” the earth ninja calls. His wings drag on the ground, but his eyes hold satisfaction, so Jay guesses that his training went well.

“It was really cool!” he replies. “I actually made a bolt this morning!”

“That’s great, Jay!”

Jay has to consciously stop his wings from fluffing up. “How did you do, Cole?”

The earth ninja rubs his neck self-consciously. “I got some rocks to move.”

“Cole understates,” Zane says. “He was summoning boulders and directing them to targets.”

“It was pretty neat,” Cole admits. “Is dinner ready? I’m starving!”

“Sensei Wu said we can order in pizza,” Nya says, coming up to the group. “What do you guys want?”

“Deluxe,” Cole says.

“Eww, no!” Kai pulls a face. “I don’t want vegetables near my pizza!”

Jay finds himself agreeing. Then Kai suggests meat lovers, and he finds himself not agreeing after all.

They end up ordering two pizzas and crowd around the tv in the game room to play video games. Jay looks around at the hodgepodge group and can’t keep his wings from fluttering at the contentment he feels. This, this feels right.

[piperchu]

DotD rewrite Episode 3: Paranormal Activities

Here’s the last finished episode. I hope you enjoy it.

Episode 3

Paranormal Activities

In the Corridor of Elders, Lloyd stood his ground and reached behind his back for his sword as Pythor slithered quickly toward him.

“Pythor, what are you doing?” Misako asked, thoroughly alarmed.

“Giving the boy a one way trip to join his daddy!” Pythor answered.

“Sorry,” Lloyd snapped, “but I don’t really feel like going on vacation!” Their two weapons clashed. To push him back, Lloyd launched himself off Pythor with both feet and flipped through the air to land near the stone wall.

Pythor looked up and saw one of the statues just above the green ninja. “But it’s a holiday! Respect your elders!” With that, he threw his staff up toward the statue, and the head came tumbling down.

“Lloyd!” Misako cried.

The head came crashing down, but instead of flattening Lloyd, the green ninja used his powers over earth to catch and hold the weight of the stone head. It wasn’t easy though. He didn’t know how long he’d be able to hold it.

In Ignacia, the Condrai Crushers charged towards the siblings of water and fire. They dodged them just in time. “Nya! The Raider Bikes! Take out the Crushers first!” Kai called to his sister.

“Got it!” Nya responded. They both hurried over to the bikes and started the engines. They roared into action, intent on knocking the Crushers over. Nya took on one, Kai the other. Things were evenly matched until the Crusher Kai was fighting rammed into him with enough force to send the bike rolling.

“Aaaahhh!” Kai yelped as he flew through the air and landed at Chen’s feet.

Chen laughed. He raised the anacondrai sword above his head and brought it swishing down. Kai rolled out of the way, but not before the purple blade grazed his arm. Kai hissed in pain as he looked at the rip in his gi. It wasn’t deep, but it still hurt like crazy.

“Kai!” Nya cried. She drove over to her fallen brother and jumped off the bike to help.

“I’m fine, Nya!” Kai insisted. “Keep fighting!”

“You’ll pay for that Chen!” Nya snarled at the enemy, and met his sword with hers with a fury like the waves of a stormy sea.

In the Birchwood Forest, the nindroids slowly approached Zane.

“Escape is futile, Zane,” Cryptor sneered. “You and I share a programming! I know your every move before you even make it.”

“Not anymore, Cryptor,” Zane shot back. “I’ve had a few upgrades since we last met.”

“Oh? Then let’s see if I can’t adapt as well!”

Zane analyzed the situation and calculated the probable moves they could make. “PIXAL, what do you make of this?” he asked.

“Based on our previous experiences with him, Zane,” PIXAL began, “Cryptor will likely use cloaking devices, laser blasts, and the rockets in his feet to combat your best moves. Airjitzu will not be very helpful with this fight.”

“Then I guess we’re fighting on the ground,” Zane concluded. “If he disappears, activate infrared vision. The heat given off by his functions should give him away.” The nindroid sidekicks flew toward Zane. He fended them off, succeeding in destroying them with explosive shurikens. Now it was just him and Cryptor.

“Impressive,” Cryptor complimented. “Perhaps this fight will be interesting after all!” Zane’s clone charged, and their weapons clashed at speeds only androids could achieve.

Back in the junkyard, Jay was trying to hold back Ed from trying to save Edna on his own. “Don’t you worry, Edna! I’ll take care of those piles of bones!”

“Oh, Ed, careful now! Dr. Birkman said not to strain!” Edna called from Samukai’s grasp.

“I got this, Dad!” Jay said, and fired bolts of lightning at both mechs, knocking them away. Jay turned to Samukai. “I have no idea what you want with my parents, but I’m all charged up!”

“It’s not your parents I want, Jay,” Samukai growled. “It’s you!” He hurled Edna through the air. Thankfully, Ed caught her. Jay and Samukai charged at each other, and the fight began. Jay swung his nunchucks at the Skulkin general, who met the weapon with his own.

Back at the concert the Royal Blacksmiths finished their song. Dareth raced back onto the stage. “Alright, alright, alright! The Royal Blacksmiths, everybody!” The crowd cheered. “Before my boys continue, I’d like to thank everybody for coming out here tonight! What a crowd! Your costumes are great! Funny clowns and aliens. Wow! Those stone warriors in the back are great!”

Kozu led four stone warriors toward the stage. He growled in his native language.

“So realistic!” Dareth observed as they drew nearer. A little too realistic… wait a minute… “Those aren’t costumes! Aaahh!” he yelled as he ran off the stage away from the approaching threat.

“REVENGE!” Kozu shouted as he and the other stone warriors chased Dareth into the museum. “DESTRUCTION!”

In the ruins of the old monastery, Wu turned to find Morro facing him with a knowing smirk. “My former student,” he acknowledged. “How have you returned, Morro?”

“Perhaps that is not the question we should be asking ourselves, Sensei,” Morro said cryptically, passing his sword across his face.

“We have fought before, and although it pains me, I will do so again.”

“You misunderstand my intent,” Morro told his old master. “I’m not here to fight. I’m here to help.”

“Are you?”

“Believe me, it was a tough decision. I’m giving up a lot. I could have gone with the others.”

“Others?”

“Have you heard of the Vase of Wicked Souls Past?”

“Indeed. My father once sealed it away, but it was stolen by treasure hunters.”

“It’s been broken. That’s why I am back. But others have come back too. They are confronting your students now.”

“Tell me more.”

“I will, but aboard the Bounty. We have to warn the others.”

Cole crept down the hallways of Yang’s temple, keeping an eye out for Yang’s students.  He remembered going through a door that should be around here somewhere.  After a little snooping around, he finally found it. “Yes!” he cheered.  He opened it, only to find two students in his path.  “No!” he groaned.  The students approached him with swords.  “Hey, listen. This isn’t fair! You’ve got weapons, and I’m still handcuffed!”

One student approached him, only to cut him loose.  “Wait, you’re helping me?” Cole asked in surprise.

“No,” the student replied.  “But we fight fair here.  Now let’s see what you’ve got.”

Cole stomped one foot down, sending a tremor through the floor. The ghost students lost balance and fell to the ground.  Cole picked up their weapons. That was almost too easy. “Huh! Maybe I can do this by myself!”

As soon as Wu and Morro were aboard the ship, they took flight. Once Wu put the ship on autopilot, he turned to Morro. “What exactly happened, Morro?” he asked.

“All the villains in the museum have come back to life.  They are all going after the ninja. I pretended to be going after you, to keep them from getting suspicious. Cryptor’s going after Zane, Samukai’s going after Jay, Pythor’s after Lloyd, Chen’s taking on Kai and Nya, and Kozu seemed to be chasing someone outside in a brown suit. Not sure what his name was; no one said.”

“Thank you, Morro. How can I repay you?”

Morro paused for a moment before giving his answer. “All I ask for is… a second chance.”

Wu lowered his head. “I’m sorry, Morro, but I cannot take Lloyd’s title away from him.”

“You misunderstand. I meant a second chance at being good.”

Wu was surprised, but kept it hidden. “I see,” he responded. “I will certainly give you a second chance. Though you should not expect the other ninja to give you as warm of a welcome. It will take a lot to earn their trust.”

“I understand, Sensei.”

Kai and Nya kept fighting, Kai using his uninjured arm. The siblings fought with great ferocity, but Chen and the snakes were proving to be quite hard to beat.

“Don’t fight too hard, princess,” the snake Nya was fighting taunted. “You might mess up your hair!”

Nya’s blood boiled at the comment. She was NOT going to take that kind of crap. “Princess, huh?” she growled. “Well, first thing you’ve got to know about this princess is that she is NOT a damsel in distress!” With that, she brought her weapon swishing down - and cut the snake’s hand off.

The rest of the battle seemed to freeze as everyone looked over at the screaming snake. “Retreat!” Chen called in fear, and the snakes followed him sprinting away from the scene.

“No one calls me a princess,” Nya snarled, watching them flee.

Kai chuckled. “That’s my little sister,” he said proudly.

Nya smiled at him. “Now let’s take care of that cut of yours,” she said.

“I’m fine,” Kai assured her, but his wince gave him away.

“Oh, no you’re not. Get in the shop. We’ve got bandages there.”

Zane continued to fight Cryptor. Despite being titanium, he was evenly matched with Cryptor’s abilities. The clone fired lasers at Zane, which he dodged without too much trouble.

“Zane, you can’t get close enough with his lasers firing at you,” PIXAL pointed out.

Suddenly Zane had an idea. “I can fix that,” he told her. He threw a shuriken, and with his robotic precision, it hit Cryptor right in the eye, disabling his lasers and blinding him in that eye.

Cryptor pulled the weapon out of his eye, exposing the wires underneath. He discarded the shuriken and ran at Zane. But without depth perception, his attack was easily dodged. The ninja picked up the shuriken Cryptor had dropped and continued to fight.

Realizing he was at the disadvantage, Cryptor stepped back and disappeared. Zane looked around and saw his foe perched on a branch high in the trees. “You may have won this time,” he called down to the ninja, “but the next time we meet, expect to see some upgrades!” With that, he took off with the rockets on his feet into the night.

Jay and Samukai kept fighting with no sign of who was winning. Then Jay had an idea. Skulkin were used to the dark. He ran over to the fuze box by the trailer and gave it some extra electricity. The lights around the junkyard brightened so that it was blinding Samukai and the other skulkin.

“It’s… too… bright!” Samukai yelped. “I can’t see!”

Jay ran toward the Skulkin general to finish him off, but before he could reach him, Samukai ran off with his sidekicks into the night.

Ed and Edna walked over to where Jay stood panting. “That’s our boy!” Ed said proudly.

Lloyd struggled to keep holding up the stone head. “Can’t... hold on… much longer!” he groaned.

Misako had been fighting Pythor with spinjitzu, but had eventually worn herself out. Pythor now held her against the rock with his staff. “Yes, you can!” she encouraged her son.

“Foolish boy!” Pythor shouted at the green ninja. “You continually underestimate me! You’re so like your father!”

“He’s right, Lloyd!” Misako urged. “You’re brave, and noble, and-”

“And a master of spinjitzu!” Lloyd finished, his confidence returning. “You are still with me, Dad! Ninja-GO!”  He surrounded himself with his green tornado and quickly spun out from under the head. The twister collided with Pythor, and beat him back from Misako. Lloyd came out of his spinjitzu, pulled out his sword, and pointed it at the snake.

“It’s over Pythor! Surrender!”

“An anacondrai never surrenders!” Pythor refused. “But we do know how to make an exit!” With that, he became invisible, leaving Lloyd and his mother behind.

Dareth raced through the museum storage, looking for the only thing he could think of that might save him. “Come on, Helmet of Shadows! Where are you? You control the stone warriors!” Suddenly he spotted it lying on a box, and had almost reached it, when suddenly he smelled smoke. The stone warriors had started a fire! He ran screaming back out the way he came, leaving the helmet behind. He ran past smoking rooms toward the exit. He could hear the stone warriors chasing him, yelling in their native language. He finally burst out the front doors to hear sirens wailing through the night air.

“REVENGE!” Kozu shouted. Being made of stone, he could walk right through the flames.

“HELP!” Dareth cried. He could feel himself getting tired, and the stone warriors were catching up to him. Just when the foes were almost upon him, a large beam of light shone down from the sky. It was the Destiny’s Bounty. The anchor dropped down in front of Dareth, and he jumped onto it and held on for dear life as he was lifted up away from danger.

Cole moved on through the rooms until he found the door to the entrance hall. He sped up, heartened that escape was so near.

Suddenly Yang appeared out of nowhere in his path.  “I’m impressed,” he said.  “You’ve shown great abilities, but I’m afraid they won’t get you out.”

“Oh yeah? I beat three of your students pretty darn easily!”

“Can you take on all six?” Yang asked as all six students approached Cole from all sides.

Cole fought hard, and seemed to be winning, when all six students disappeared. “What? Where- oof!” Unable to see the students, he was overwhelmed. Once again, he found himself in shackles.

“I want him in the basement under heavy guard,” Sensei Yang instructed. And so Cole was led off once again, now unsure if he would ever get out.