Nova is already planning ahead for the next season, and how to mess with people. >:3
We are also getting some good earned Lloyd and Nova time.
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*Somewhere in the sky.*
Nova let out a small sigh while flying in the sky on her dragon as she was on her way to pick up Lloyd.
"If I'm right this should be the last episode of this season, but I don't know how long until the next season starts. So maybe with the time I am able to get, I could maybe work on some new weapons. Hmmm, oh yeah, I should also keep an eye on when Ronin gets that scroll. So I can get the head start on that thing." Nova thought to herself.
A small smirk appeared on Nova's face as another idea came to her head. "Oh, I could maybe make a water gun that looks like an actual gun, it would catch anyone off guard. And it would be fun messing with people like that." She giggled a little as she tried to come up with more ideas.
"Come on big guy, let's find Lloyd, and get him back to the others." said Nova petted the top of her dragon's head as it let out a soft growl before speeding up towards where Lloyd was.
*Jumping to Lloyd is trapped at the top of a mountain.*
"Tell us where we need to go. I can't use my power, so if anyone is close—" Lloyd tried to get in contact but the radio dies out. "Nya? Nya? Can anyone hear me?" The radio buzzes again. Just as he is about to start the truck he sees something flying in the air coming towards him.
Nova was flying on her dragon looking around until she saw the truck and pointing towards it before flying down and landing on the ground before getting off the dragon.
"Delta! What are you doing here, you should be back at base still recovered!" said Lloyd coming out of the truck and walking over to her.
Nova rolled her eyes. "I don't like sitting around and doing nothing, and a simple thank you would be nice." [robotic] She crossed her arms.
"Delta, you haven't had any time to rest and recover. Since you woke up and turned back to normal." said Lloyd with a sigh.
"Okay let's make a deal, after all of this is over I'll take a long break to rest and recover. And you will stop worrying about me." [robotic] said Nova with a raised eyebrow.
Lloyd couldn't help but let out a small chuckle.
"What's so funny?" [robotic ]Nova asked.
"You sound just like her." said Lloyd with a soft smile.
"Like who?" [robotic] Nova asked a little confused.
"Like my best friend Nova, when she was still around. She would train a lot when we were kids to the point that she was tired, and I wouldn't stop worrying about it. So she came up with the same deal that you just did, just so I would stop worrying so much." Lloyd explained with a sad smile.
".....Oh....I'm sorry for your lost..." [robotic] said Nova while feeling a little awkward talking about herself.
"Thanks." said Lloyd rubbing the back of his neck, feeling the awkwardness. "Anyway we should get going." he said, going back to the truck.
"Oh ummm wait, we can just use my dragon." [robotic] said Nova following.
"And risk you wasting more of your energy? No thanks we are using the truck." said Lloyd getting in the driver seat.
"I still don't get how he learned so fast to drive." Nova thought with a small sigh getting in from the other side and took the second seat. "Fine, you stubborn broccoli." [robotic] She said.
"Broccoli, really?" Lloyd said with a raised eyebrow before starting the truck and began driving.
"You want me to call your boogers instead?" [robotic] Nova questioned leaning back in her seat, trying to get a little rest.
"I don't wanna be called either of those, droid." said Lloyd while driving.
"Droid, really?" [robotic] Nova asked, looking at him.
"Want me to call you screeny instead?" Lloyd questioned.
"I don't like either of those." [robotic] said Nova.
They both then started laughing at that as they both just switched around with the teasing.
"So....what are you gonna do after all of this is over?" Lloyd asked.
"Probably go back to what I normally do. Stealing, making some new gadgets, maybe training a little on my shadow clones, since it's a new power I just learned to do." [robotic] said Nova looking out of her window enjoying the view.
"Why don't you quit being a thief, and maybe join my team? I'm sure the others wouldn't mind, and we could help you train in how to use your powers." Lloyd suggested taking a glance at her.
"And become the so-called purple ninja? yeah, no thanks I don't wanna have anything to do with that fucking prophecy." [robotic] said Nova with a small sigh.
"Please stop doing that." said Lloyd.
"Doing what? Swearing? Yeaaah, no I'm not gonna stop doing that." [robotic] said Nova.
"No not that, but the whole putting up a wall and pushing people away." said Lloyd.
Nova turned to look over at him. "I'm not putting up a wall, and I do best alone which is why I'm not a team player." [robotic] She said.
"Yes you are, just like Nova, you put up a wall not letting anyone in. Nor wanting to show your vulnerable side when you need help, you push people away not because you can't be a team player. But because you are scared of hurting those around you." said Lloyd frustrated.
Nova felt like she was being stabbed in the heart by what he was saying, so she turned to look away from him. "You hardly know everything about me, so don't just go around and judge people without knowing what their reason might be." [robotic] She said.
There was a tense silence between them for a while until Lloyd finally decided to speak up again.
"I'm sorry, I probably shouldn't have said that. You're right I don't really know you, just because we've spent a few days on an island. It's just because you remind me so much of Nova, that I just can't stop seeing her in the way you are acting." Lloyd tried to explain.
"Oh shit, I can't handle talking about this anymore, and it doesn't help that we are talking about me." Nova thought while knowing that she could just reveal herself right now. But she still didn't feel ready for it, and she was scared of his reaction.
"...It's fine, I forgive you....and I'm sorry I remind you of your old friend." [robotic] said Nova.
"It's not your fault...I'm pretty sure you two would have become good friend." said Lloyd.
"Okay, change the subject to something else" Nova thought, trying to come up with something. "Sooo, did you have some kind of crush on her, by the sound of it. Some would think that." [robotic] She asked while blushing a bit behind her mask.
"W-what!?" shouted Lloyd in surprise as he almost hit a tree while driving but was just able to dodge it by a second.
Nova had to hold on tight to her seat when he almost crashed the truck.
Lloyd was almost as red as a tomato from blushing by her question.
"No, no, no, no, no nothing like that, we were just friends, nothing else. W-why would I ever have a crush on my friend, that would be silly." said Lloyd still blushing a little but not as much.
Nova felt a little sad by hearing that. "Oh...I see, with how you were talking about her. I thought there might be something." [robotic] She said.
Lloyd let out a nervous laugh. "No, no it's alright, many would think that. But no, we were just friends and nothing else." He said as everything became silent between them again, and Nova decided to close her eyes and take a nap for the rest of the way.
*Some time later Lloyd, Nova and Neuro meet with each other.*
"They're heading west. I tried to stop them, but I'm just a mind reader. I couldn't help anymore." said Neuro.
"But you can help me. Can you send a message to all of the fighters at once?" said Lloyd.
"I can try." said Neuro.
Nova just stood to the side not having said much after their talk from earlier.
*He does so, and they meet up at the Samurai X Cave.*
"Thank goodness you got my message." said Neuro.
"Look at you." said Kai.
"The spell is wearing off, but my father's antics sadly have not." said Skylor.
"Tea?" Wu gives it to Misako.
"He knows about the letter?" Lloyd asked.
"The message was delivered." said Garmadon.
"So why were we asked here? We should be fighting snakes." said Griffin.
"Because anyone can fight. Only one side can declare victory." said Wu.
"Delta before I forget, here is your plushie I tried to sew it to the best of my abilities." said Garmadon coming over to Nova, and handed her the now fixed owlbear plushie. Though it had lost its left ear and right front leg.
"Thanks sensei." [robotic] Nova whispered as she took the plushie back and looked it over, before putting it in one of her hidden pockets that she had made in her gi.
"In the time it took you to get here, Chen has taken over the entire Eastern seaboard and is moving inland. With each village destroyed, they grow stronger." said Nya.
"That's a lot of red. Karlof not like red." said Karlof.
"How are we supposed to stop them? Most of us have lost control of our dragons, not to mention we're outnumbered ten to one." said Griffin.
"Actually, 62.4 to one." said Zane.
"Look, I'm scared like the rest of you. It may look like we've lost, but it's not over. When we thought we lost Zane, it nearly tore us apart. But we didn't quit. We let it fuel us. We grew stronger." said Lloyd.
"There's hope. The Corridor of Elders." said Wu.
"Corridor of Elders?" asked Shade.
"I know we don't stand much of a chance taking on his entire army at once, but after he's controlled the East, he'll move West tomorrow and have to pass through Echo Canyons. Our best tactical position is to make our stand where it bottlenecks: here, at the Corridor of Elders, the monuments honoring our ancestors. It's the narrowest channel, but our greatest chance." Wu explained.
"If we can't stop them here, the rest of Ninjago will fall like dominos." said Garmadon.
"Karlof not like to lose. Karlof fueled!" said Karlof.
"Then we have one day to save tomorrow." said Wu.
*Everyone cheers.*
Kai at Ninjago Doomsday Comic.. "I wish I could say we're not facing an army unlike we've ever seen, but we have, and we know what they're capable of."
Jay at Ed & Edna's Scrap N Junk. "Right now, our cities and villages are falling, which is why we're asking everyone to rise up."
Zane at the Titanium Ninja statue. "We all may have different backgrounds, but we all share the same future."
Cole and Nova at Kryptarium Prison. "You may wonder why we're asking you to fight for Ninjago. We aren't. We're asking you to fight for each other."
"Yeah and after that we might let you out." [robotic] said Nova earning a glare from Cole, while the prisoners cheered.
"You can't be serious." Cole whispered.
"Relax, you guys know how good of a liar I am and they don't, so as a fellow criminal they should believe my lie." [robotic] Nova whispered.
Lloyd outside Ninjago City Bank. "We're asking you to fight as one."
*The Cultists made their way to the Canyons. Chope. Kapau, Eyezor and Zugu are carrying Chen in the Roto Jet.*
"Uh, maybe Master Chen knowing our names isn't such a good thing." said Kapau.
"Yeah. Tell me about it." said Chope.
"I'm hot and this skin doesn't breath like my old one. How much further?" said Chen.
"The Corridor of Elders is just up ahead." said Zugu.
"Good. Maybe we can stop for a break." said Chen as they sigh. "And you four can carve my image into the walls in my honor."
"Huh. There's so many of them." said Jay.
Lloyd marks the ground with his energy. "We fight for each other. We fight as one." Everyone cheers.
"The ninja." said Chen.
"Hold the line." said Lloyd.
"Charge!" said Chen.
Nova narrowed her eyes at the cultists and down at her hands. "The only time I'm gonna try and use that one cursed power."
"Hold the line. Hold!" said Lloyd as the cultists fall through the hole.
"Trapdoor? That's my signature move. Ugh, destroy them!" said Chen.
"Now!" Zane covers the hole with Ice.
"Lightning!"
"Fear? Fear isn't a word where I come from!" said Rufus McCallister.
"Unh! Push them back!" said Karlof.
"Darkness!" [robotic] shouted Nova as she turned some of the cultists into stone with her darkness.
"Not backwards, forwards! You're Anacondrai! Crush them!" said Chen.
"I'm slipping!" said Cole.
"Ugh. Don't let up." said Kai.
"Push!"
"Push harder! They can have the ground. We'll take the skies." said Chen as Shade takes control of a Blade-Copter.
"Push!"
"Hold the line!" said Lloyd.
"What do you think that we are doing!" [robotic] shouted Nova.
"Unh! Oh, they just keep coming." said Jay.
"That's what she said." [robotic] said Nova.
"Not helping!" shouted Jay.
"Wasn't trying!" [robotic] Nova shouted back.
"Push!"
"Unh! Don't give up! Ninja never say quit!" said Kai.
"The new girl hates feeling left out. Now!" said Nya.
"Ships aren't supposed to fly. Sink it!" said Chen.
"Ninja, go!"
"Misako, Nya, drop it like it's hot!" said Wu.
"Aye, aye, Sensei." said Nya.
"No!" The Bounty destroys a Condrai Crusher. "Never thought I'd be happy to see that ship again." said Skales.
"Break through the line!" said Chen.
"We can't. The canyon's too narrow!" said Zugu.
"Then make it bigger!" They shoot down a statue.
"Watch out!" Gravis uses his Gravity to save them.
"We have to stop them!" said Lloyd.
"We don't have enough people." said Kai.
"We can't hold them all!" said Cole.
"They crossed the line." said Nya.
Nova growled as she went on to make some shadow clones, so far she had only made one. So to test her limits she was at least able to make three. "Seriously? Only three."
Pythor riding on a swamp rat. "Come on, Rodrigo! They need our help! Hiya!" He goes to Lloyd. "I have something your father needs to see. Oh, come on. You can trust me because if anyone is going to take over this world, I'd rather it be me. Take me to your father, and he can end this once and for all."
"Let's go." Lloyd grabs Pythor and goes on the Bounty's anchor.
"Haha! Be free, Rodrigo! You've earned it." shouted Pythor.
"Now nothing can stop me." Skylor throws Chen out of the Roto Jet.
"Sorry, but I have a few daddy issues." said Skylor.
Nova along with her three clones went on to fighting as many cultists as they could to hopefully push them back.
"Sorry but I am really getting tired of this!" [robotic] Nova growled as she went on to use darkness again, but it was taking a lot of energy out of her. Along with keeping her clones around.
A cultist snuck up on Nova and went for an attack, but one of her clones quickly pushed her away, taking the hit before disappearing back to the shadows.
Nova growled in pain when she hit her injured arm against the ground, when she got pushed by her clone before looking up and saw her clone getting killed.
"You know what, I've had just about E̷̝͓͖̜̊͆̕ͅN̵͓̜͉͑̑͠Ó̴̡̺͐́U̶̧̮͎̜̒͜G̷̨̯̖̼̥̽̄̿H̶̙̘̀͗̑͒̃!" [r̴̳̯̀o̶͔͓̺͕̒͜b̸̮̟͎̼̹̊͝o̷̤͍̊ͅt̸̨̫͔͚͉́i̴̟̫̗͝c̴̺̩̠̿̇͊] Nova growled in pure rage, her screen was glitching a bit while she got up. Slowly glowing purple as she went on to use darkness on as many cultists around her, almost getting consumed by her powers that had been craving to destroy, and kill anything in sight.
Nova only snapped out of it when she noticed Lloyd taking his anger out on the cultists, which only meant one thing as she ran over to him. "Lloyd what are you doing!" [robotic] She shouted.
"My father wants to sacrifice himself by bringing back the anacondrai generals, I've lost him once. I'm not doing it again!" said Lloyd as he attacked another cultist.
"But we can't keep fighting them, we are already being pushed back!" [robotic] said Nova as she quickly dodged an attack.
"I've already lost my best friend, I am not losing my father too!" shouted Lloyd angrily.
Nova growled as she walked right up to him and before he knew it, she had slapped him across the face.
"Snap out of it! We do not have time for this! And if you end it on bad terms with your own father, you will regret it later on. So get your fucking head out of your ass! And take it like a man and go back up there!!" [robotic] Nova shouted right into his face as she was grabbing him by the collar of his gi.
Lloyd looked at her in complete shock, while placing a hand to his cheek where she had slapped him, and didn't say anything. But just simply gave a nod before being let go and then started heading back up to the Bounty.
"Idiot, I know he was gonna go back anyway. But I don't want him to leave on bad terms like I did with my family in some way.....I never got to say goodbye to my dad when he died in that accident, but at least Lloyd gets a chance to." Nova thought with a sad smile behind her mask, a small tear ran down her face that no one could see as she went back to fighting.
*Everyone gasps when they see the portal.*
Nova looked as she saw the anacondrai general spirits curse the cultists. "Finally, took them long enough."
"The spirits of the anacondrai generals." said Kai.
"They're cursing Chen's army." said Cole.
"Arcturus! What are you doing? W-we're on the same team!" said Chen.
"You will never be one of us. Because you are a liar, a cheat, and an impostor!" said Arcturus.
"I can't be cursed! Aah! Save me, Skylor!" shouted Chen as Skylor, now a human again, watches him go into the portal. Everyone cheers.
"All right! Hahaha. Yeah, we did it, guys. We did it." said Kai.
*The generals go into another realm.*
"Haha! You showed them!" said Griffin.
"You mean we showed them. Thanks for fighting with us." said Cole.
"Huh. Smarter than fighting against you." said Karlof as everyone laughs.
"Anytime you need your help, just holler." said Jay.
"Same goes for you. I imagine we all have homes and villages to get back to. Thank you, ninja." said Neuro.
"Thank you, friend." said Zane.
Kai walks up to Skylor. "Uh, we could use a girl like you in our gang."
"A girl?"
"Uh, I mean, ninja." said Kai.
"Heh. Flattering. But now that my father's gone, someone's got to run the family business. Don't worry, no more underground crime. Just noodles." Skylor is about to kiss him, but Dareth interrupts them.
"Please, you have to tell me." said Dareth.
"Yes, I will put the puffy potsticker back on the menu." said Skylor.
"Oh, finally. All is right in the world." She and Kai laugh.
"Ah. Keep in touch." said Skylor.
"I'd like that." said Kai.
Nova smiled softly behind her mask as she watched everyone saying their goodbyes, and was about to leave herself. Until she was stopped by someone calling out to her.
"Delta! I'm sorry about before." said Lloyd, coming over to her.
Nova looked over at him with a raised eyebrow. "Okay greenie, you've gotta stop apologizing so much." [robotic] She said.
Lloyd chuckled a little. "Sor-Okay I'll stop doing that, but anyway. I just wanted to say thanks for earlier."
"It's nothing....and I'm sorry for slapping you, that was going a bit too far." [robotic] She said rubbing the back of her neck.
"No, no I get it you were just trying to help." said Lloyd smiling.
"Yeah well I at least tried to—" [robotic] said Nova but was cut off by the sound of her phone ringing.
"Ummm, I should probably take this." [robotic] She said walking a bit further away before taking out her phone and took in a deep breath before picking up the call.
"KID! I've been trying to get a hold of you for days, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!!!" The sound of Ronin's voice shouting through the phone could be heard by everyone who turned their attention to her.
Nova let out a nervous laugh. "Hey Boss, sorry about that. I got a bit caught up with a new adventure, but I'll be back there in a few minutes." [robotic] She said while trying to be careful with her words, along with her voice changer for him to know she wasn't alone.
"You better be because while you've been gone, I've had to do double the work here! Now hurry it up before I start selling your gadgets." said Ronin.
"What do you mean selling my gadgets!? Ro-Boss I swear if you as much as sell ONE gadget, I will curse your kitchen again!" [robotic] Nova growled.
"You touch my kitchen again and I'll increase your debt, shrimp!" said Ronin before ending the call.
"I take it you are leaving now too?" said Lloyd walking over.
Nova let out a small sigh before looking over at him and gave a small nod. "See you around, greenie." [robotic] She said before disappearing into the shadows, as she heard the faint sound of a voice from the distant background.
"Morro!"