Season 8: Snake Jaguar

Looks like Nova is finally planning her move. O.O

Also, this one is gonna be kind of short as I wasn't sure what to add as it was more a Zane and Cole focused episode.

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*Zane, disguised as Snake Jaguar, rode on a train with the other Sons of Garmadon.*

"It's time you meet the Big Man." said Ultra Violet.

"The Big Man?" Zane asked.

*Lloyd rides atop a tram, with Nova hiding in his shadow.*

"Where was Zane last seen?" Lloyd asked.

"Central Station. But once they went underground, Pixal lost his signal. We haven't been able to pick up Cole's intercom either." said Jay.

"If they're taking Zane to their hideout, then Cole could be held captive there. We can't lose Zane. I'm over Central now." Lloyd jumps off. Looking at his shadow as he did.

"You've been very quiet Del, normally at this point you would have said something." He commented.

".....After what happened yesterday.....I haven't been much in the mood to talk." [robotic] said Nova.

"I thought at least you would be more happy when I let you join in on us finding Zane and Cole." said Lloyd.

"I am happy you let me join you in the search while just staying in the shadows.....it's just, I've had other things on my mind is all." [robotic] said Nova with a small sigh.

Lloyd was quiet for a bit as he ran by a son and a father who pointed him out but was quickly gone before the son saw him.

"No sign of Zane or Cole. They could be anywhere by now." Lloyd said in com.

Nova stayed quiet in the shadows as she had some thoughts running through her head for a while since last night when they returned to the Bounty.

*Flashback.*

When they returned to the Bounty, Nova had already stopped crying since she didn't want Harumi to know this.

"What happened? Where are the ice and earth ninja?" Harumi asked, coming over to them and got a little too close to Lloyd for Nova's comfort.

"The Sons of Garmadon captured Cole, but Zane was able to trick them into letting him join them while in disguise. Now we just need to try and find them so we can find their hideout and hopefully find out who their leader is." Lloyd explained.

Nova walked away from the group still using her umbrella for support, but the tea that Mystake gave her. Had helped her leg quickly recover back to normal. But she had gone on to act like her leg hadn't recovered yet, as a way to look weak and trick anyone to let their guard down.

Her clone walked over to her with a concerned look on the shadow-like face it had.

"Keep an eye out shadow, I need some alone time and I don't want anyone to walk in on me." [robotic] Nova told her clone as they headed downstairs to her old bedroom, her clone stayed outside with its back leaning against the door while Nova had gone inside to be alone.

Nova made sure she was alone before she finally could deactivate her mask completely and went to have a look at her reflection on the window since there wasn't any mirrors.

She saw her eyes was red from crying and how exhausted she looked, she punched the wall to her side as she let out a low growl. "Why.....just why did I do something so stupid as to sneak away, and go to Zane and Cole, hoping to help in some stupid way."

"I messed up again, I made them all worried and I only gave them a harder reason to trust me. Everything was so much easier in season one and two. I was part of the team and I did well....but after being on my own for so long, I can't seem to do anything right in being on the team again." Nova growled hitting the wall harder with her fist in anger.

"I do one good thing only to then do a lot more bad things....It's like my good and bad side keep switching.....Fuck the Overlord!" Nova growled as her anger kept rising and she noticed in her reflection that her blue eyes was slowly glowing purple, as her necklace began glowing too as she felt herself losing control again.

"...Nothing has changed after coming back from the Dark Island.....I wanna go back to how everything was, with me not hiding behind a stupid mask and instead just enjoying a good time with the team....and mostly Lloyd." She felt tears slowly running down her face again.

"That stupid idiot, I miss us being close and there wasn't anything getting between our friendship....I want my friend back.....I want the Lloyd, I've always had a crush on even before I came to this world..." Nova hid her face in her hands as she cried softly into them.

Nova stayed in the room for a good while as she tried to calm down a bit from her breakdown, she sat on her old bed while holding her little plushie close to her heart.

"...I wanna go back and without that stupid mask.....but I don't know how or when....." Nova took a deep breath. "I'm tired of hiding who I am behind a mask, I'm done with it.....I'll reveal myself when we get Cole, Zane and Wu back." She said with determination in her eyes, she got up, taking a final look at her reflection and for a second she thought she saw her eyes glowing gold.

*End of flashback.*

Nova snapped out of her thought as she heard Lloyd voice as he seemed to have finished talking in com and was now looking at a train station map.

".....Lloyd can I ask you something?" [robotic] Nova asked, which seemed to catch him off guard as he jumped to the sound of her voice since she had been quiet for so long.

"Sure Del, what's up?" Lloyd asked, taking a look at his shadow before walking away, so it wouldn't seem weird for others that he was talking to his shadow as if he was crazy.

".....You told me that I reminded you of your old friend Nova, could you tell me a bit about her. Of course, if you don't mind." [robotic] Nova asked though found it weird to talk about herself in third person as she came out of the shadows.

Lloyd was taken aback by that question as Nova hadn't asked for much about his past before.

"No, I don't mind." He said with a sad but soft smile. "She was my best friend. We always stayed close after I joined the ninja. She was fun always coming up with silly pranks, but damn did she have a mouth of a sailor for a kid." He chuckled thinking back at those times.

Nova couldn't help but giggle a little herself, as it was true she did swear a lot but she didn't as much now unless given the chance.

"She also had this weird bad luck of hers, like yours actually. Whenever she even entered a kitchen it would explode, and break something in the weirdest ways. She sometimes just did it on purpose to mess with people." Lloyd went on to explain with a happy smile.

"Sounds like she was a very fun person to be around, never a boring day." [robotic] said Nova, smiling behind her mask.

Lloyd nodded. "That she was, though she didn't have the best upbringing, she was always wearing a smile on her face and would joke around now and then."

Nova was happy to hear that was how he saw her when they were still together. [robotic] "...If, and this is just a thought. But if you found out that she was alive to this day.....what would your reaction be?"

Lloyd stared at her with a puzzled look as he started thinking about how he would react, if she was still alive and without him knowing.

"...I'm not sure how I would react to it. But why are you asking me that?" He asked, looking at her with a raised eyebrow.

Nova started to panic as she went on to rub the back of her neck. [robotic] "Oh well, no reason....it was just a small thought that came to mind. Sorry if it made you uncomfortable."

"No, no it's alright. But I'm just curious on why you would ask such a random question." said Lloyd crossing his arms.

"It was just something that came to my mind, while I was thinking. Sorry that it came out like a stupid question." [robotic] said Nova.

"It's not a stupid question, it was kind of nice having a simple talk with you. Even with everything that is going on right now." said Lloyd.

Nova smiled a little. "Talking about that, we should probably get back to searching for Zane. I think I've already wasted enough of our time talking about this." [robotic] She said, going back into the shadows.

"Yeah, we probably should before the team starts wondering where we went." said Lloyd, getting on top of a building as he began searching for Zane again with Nova in his shadow.