Season 8: Dead Man's Squall

Nova going nope, I'm changing this part of the timeline. XD

Mission failed, she will get it next time.

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*Later on at night, the ninja found Zane.*

"Zane! Zane, can you hear me?" said Lloyd.

"What did they do to him?" Nya asked.

"Say something, Zane. Can you hear us? Zane?" said Jay.

"Pixal, lower the gurney. Zane's in bad shape. Hang on, buddy. Hang on." They put Zane on the gurney and hook him to the Bounty.

"Okay. Winch him up, Pix." said Nya.

"How bad is it?" Lloyd asked.

"He has extensive damage to all systems. His neural net and cognitive cores suffered severe failures." said Pixal.

Nova was standing to the side with a worried look on her face, while she did know that he was gonna be okay. She still couldn't help worrying about him.

"Can you save him?" Nya asked.

"I've diverted power to critical life functions, but Zane will have to do most of the work. He must reconfigure his system and reboot himself." said Pixal.

"Isn't there anything we can do?" Harumi asked.

"We have to keep moving or the Sons of Garmadon will find us. They'll do anything to get their hands on the child." said Lloyd.

"I just don't get how a baby can be a key." said Kai looking over at Nova, hoping she would give something away, but she simply shrugged.

"I don't either, but that's what they said. They called him the key to the third mask." said Cole.

"If Cole's right, we need to disappear. Get as far away from Ninjago City as we can." said Lloyd.

"Hmm. Doesn't seem right. Abandoning Ninjago City." said Jay.

"We're not abandoning. There are others who will protect her." said Lloyd.

"Like who?" Kai asked.

"There's always Samurai X. Whoever that is." said Nya.

"Whoever it is, they're going to have to cover for us until we get a handle on things. Pixal, set a new course. Anywhere but here." said Lloyd.

The baby starts crying, getting everyone's attention.

"Okay I have no understanding with babies, but I did have a little sister. So I'm not gonna give Harumi any chance to charm Lloyd more, by trying to stop Wu from crying." Nova thought to herself as she watched the ninja.

"Maybe he's thirsty. Give him some milk." said Lloyd.

"I tried. He doesn't like milk." said Cole.

"What else do babies drink?" Jay asked.

"Don't ask me. Ask him." said Kai.

"He's a baby! He hasn't learned how to talk yet." said Cole.

"Oh! Maybe he needs a diaper change." said Jay.

"Oh my gosh. Do we even have diapers?" Cole asked.

"Why would we have diapers? We're ninja!" said Lloyd.

"Ooh! Maybe we can use one of our hoods instead." said Jay.

"Not my hood." said Kai.

"We'll draw straws. Loser gives up their hood." said Lloyd.

Nova rolled her eyes and walked over before Harumi, not giving her the chance to trick the ninja more than she already had. She picked up baby Wu and changed her voice changer a bit so it sounded less robotic, and more her real voice though still sounding a bit robotic.

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.

When the blazing sun is gone, When he nothing shines upon,

Then you show your little light,

Twinkle, twinkle, all the night." [low robotic] Nova sang in a soft voice, cradling baby Wu, which seemed to work as he finally stopped crying and had fallen asleep.

Everyone had stopped what they were doing and looked at Nova, surprised and most of all that. They could almost hear her real voice, but it was still a bit hard to tell.

Nova herself was surprised that the song her "parents," always sang for her and her sister when they were little. Actually worked and she noticed Harumi, looking a little annoyed that she had taken the spotlight.

"Wow. You're really good at that." said Cole.

Nova quickly turned her voice changer back to normal. "Thanks but he's just tired. Too much excitement. He'll go to sleep now." [robotic] said Nova while giving baby Wu back to Cole, before noticing Harumi and Lloyd wall out of the room.

".....Oh hell no! I remember this, she is gonna try to fucking kiss him!" Nova thought, stomping outside to stop it while letting out a low growl.

*Outside, Lloyd and Harumi are looking at the storm.*

"Do you remember much about your father before he left you as a child? When he was...bad?" Harumi asked.

"No, not really. I was too young. What about your parents?" said Lloyd.

"Sometimes in my dreams, they're right next to me. It's like they're still here, but then I, I wake up." said Harumi.

"You're not alone, Rumi." said Lloyd.

"Either are you. I know it must be difficult to think they're trying to bring your father back. I can't imagine what must be going through your head. Whatever happens, I'll be here." said Harumi.

As she leans in to kiss him, Nova let out a loud cough gaining their attention. "I hope I'm not disturbing anything here." [robotic] Nova growled, her arms crossed while holding her umbrella, raising an eyebrow at them.

"D-Delta. No, no nothing was uh. I mean I was about to go see what the-Um. I have to go, uh, that way." said Lloyd blushing as he quickly leaves.

"We were just having a small talk, Delta, no need to get all aggressive." said Harumi.

Nova glared back at Harumi, walking closer towards her while using her umbrella for support. "Don't play dumb with me Harumi, you might have the others fooled with your innocent act. But I know a lot more than you think, Quiet One." [robotic] She growled at her.

Harumi looked at her in complete surprise at that. "W-what are you talking about? I can understand that you feel jealous, but there is no need to throw actuations around like that."

The necklace Nova was wearing was starting to glow dark purple, as it was trying to help control a lot of her powers that was increasing with her rage. Along with her tail popping out and lashing out. "Keep going like that, and I'll make sure your revenge on the ninja ends a lot shorter for you. You should be ļ̵͐͒ṷ̵͙̩̙̓c̸͈̋̾̇k̷̩͔͂͠y̴̭͔̿̕ I'm letting you be for the time being." [robotic] The screen of her mask glitched for a second before she turned away leaving, not giving Harumi any chance to say another word.

*Nova went back to check on Zane.*

"What's that?" Lloyd asked as they caught something that had been recorded when Nova came into the room.

"A digital communication between Mr. E and the Quiet One. Zane intercepted and recorded the call in his last moments of consciousness. It was encrypted, but I managed to decipher the message." said Pixal.

Mr. E on recording ".tes neeb sah part ehT" The recording is played backwards. "The trap has been set."

"Trap? What trap?" Jay asked.

"Huh. Classic bad guy stuff. It must be in their DNA." said Kai.

"But wait a minute. If Mr. E sent a message, maybe we can locate the Quiet One's whereabouts. Pixal, can you triangulate the point of origin?" Nya asked.

"I've already started the trace program." said Pixal.

"That's great, Pixal. How long will it take?" Lloyd asked.

"I don't know. The storm is interfering with my trace program. If we descended to a lower altitude, it might help." said Pixal.

"The storm is hiding us. If we drop below the clouds, won't the Sons of Garmadon spot us?" said Harumi.

"Rumi's right. We're in pretty bad shape at the moment. We have to stay in the storm. Can't risk being spotted." said Lloyd.

Nova wanted to throw up whenever he used Harumi's nickname, it made her sick to her core as she glared over at her.

"So where do we go?" Jay asked.

*Cole comes in with the baby's blanket, which has a map on it.*

"We go there!" said Cole.

"What is it?" Nya asked.

"All this time it was with the baby. The map to the last Oni Mask." [robotic] said Cole and Nova in unison.

"You can see into the future, and only now you decide to use it?" Nya asked.

Nova shrugged with a teasing look on her mask. [robotic] "Hey, I can't resist, like I can't resist stealing stuff I see."

*The ninja gather in the dining room.*

"I don't get it. Why was the baby wrapped in a map?" Kai asked.

"I don't know. Maybe they didn't have any diapers either." said Cole.

"This part here looks like it could be the central part of Ninjago." said Harumi as she pointed to a part of the map.

"And the X. You think the third Oni Mask could be hidden there?" Nya asked.

"Primeval's Eye. My mother used to tell me about this place. It's an uncharted vast wilderness of death. Her friend, an archaeologist, I think his name was Dr. Yost, he had gone in to map the area. But he never returned." Lloyd explained.

"I don't want to say it, but it sounds like the perfect place to hide something you don't want anyone to find." said Nya.

Nova looked over at Jay and Kai with a big smirk behind her mask as she knew what was coming.

Jay continues to try to catch his meatball with a fork. "Haha. Come here, you little sucker!" He accidentally stabs Kai.

"Aah!"

Nova started bursting out laughing at the scene in front of her. Just seeing it in person was a lot more funny then she thought it would be.

Jay gasps. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to–"

"Don't! Just, don't." said Kai as he was sending a glare towards Nova, while a spider-like robot secretly comes out from Zane and starts to corrupt the computers.

"So- *laughs* sorry I *laughs* couldn't resist." [robotic] said Nova, holding her stomach while laughing.

"Oh I bet you saw this with your future sight, and decided not to say anything about it." said Kai not finding this funny.

"Hmmm maaaybe." [robotic] said Nova clearly enjoying this.

"What are you feeding him?" Nya asked, turning to Cole who was feeding baby Wu.

"Tea." said Cole.

"Tea? You can't feed a baby tea!" said Nya.

"Why not? He likes it. He won't drink anything else." said Cole.

"....Have you tried baby food?" [robotic] Nova asked in a monotone voice.

"Ha! Gotcha! Who's laughing now, meatball?" said Jay just as the power shuts down.

"What happened to the lights?" Kai asked.

"The power went down." [robotic] Nova replied.

"Get to the bridge. Quick! Pixal, what's happening? Pixal, come in!" said Lloyd.

"Must be a power failure." said Kai.

"Or it's a trap." said Jay.

"Freaking out isn't going to help us." [robotic] said Nova as she was looking around for that spider.

"Jay might be right. The backup generators would have kicked in. This is something else." said Nya.

"Emergency. Emergency." said Pixal.

"What happened, Pixal?" Lloyd asked.

"I'm detecting a foreign presence has been introduced into my system." said Pixal.

"Foreign? What are you talking about?" Lloyd asked.

"It appears we are being tracked. I have lost control of the ship." said Pixal.

"How did something get in?" Jay asked, turning to Nova, hoping she could give some kind of hint with her future sight.

"The trap. Something was planted on Zane. They wanted us to take him in." [robotic] said Nova, leaning on her umbrella with a bored look on her face.

"Proximity alarm. Something is approaching the Bounty fast." said Pixal.

"Onscreen." said Nya.

"It is Samurai X." said Pixal.

"Oh. He must be here to help us out." said Cole.

".....I don't think so." [robotic] said Nova.

"I'm afraid that is unlikely." said Pixal.

"Why?" Lloyd asked.

"Because my system is overrun." said Pixal.

"You're making no sense, Pixal. What are you talking about?" Kai asked.

"This would be a good time to make a minor confession." distorted "I am Samurai X."

"What? Are you serious?" Kai asked.

"How is that possible?" Nya asked.

"How can you be Samurai X?" Lloyd asked.

"Totally called it!" said Jay.

"You did not!" said Cole.

"Did too!" said Jay.

"I already knew it from the very start." [robotic] said Nova.

"Then why didn't you say anything?" Kai asked.

"I didn't see a reason to, and besides, it was her decision to make, not mine." [robotic] said Nova as something shoots one of the ship's thrusters.

"We probably needed that, right?" said Harumi.

"The mech is targeting the second aft thruster. Lloyd, if we lose the second–" said Nya before being cut off.

"I know, I know. We'll drop out of the sky like a brick. Nya, try to find the foreign agent. Jay, keep that lightning off our back. The rest of us, get ready to fight." said Lloyd before looking over at Nova a little worried with her still injured leg.

Nova rolled her eyes as she noticed how Lloyd was looking at her. [robotic] "Don't worry about me greenie, I'll be fine."

Cole puts the baby on the cradle. "Stay safe, little buddy. I'll be back to get you before you know it." They go to the deck and see the Samurai Mech.

"Everyone be on alert. That lightning is getting way too close for comfort. Jay, try to hold them off." said Lloyd.

"Got it." Jay does it. "You're welcome."

"There!"

"Can't see a thing in this storm." said Lloyd.

"Time to light this place up." Kai uses Fire.

"Rumi, stand back and take this." Lloyd gives her a katana.

"But I don't know how to fight." said Harumi.

"But you wanna live, right? There!" said Lloyd as Nya screams when she finds the trap.

Nova let out a low growl as she switched her umbrella out with her blade bow as the bow changed into dual blades.

"Where do you even get those kinds of weapons?" Kai asked.

"Where do you keep them?" Cole asked.

"I made them myself idiots, I've gotta use my money for something right. As to where I keep them, that's a secret." [robotic] said Nova as she avoided an attack from the mech, while acting like her leg was still injured.

"Don't let her get the thruster!" said Lloyd as the ninja and Nova fight the Mech but Harumi is captured.

"Lloyd!"

"Harumi!" Lloyd jumps off the Bounty and lands on the Mech with Nova quickly following.

"I'm not leaving these two alone, knowing what is gonna happen next." Nova thought.

"They did not just–" said Jay.

"They just did." said Kai.

"Pixal, you have to stop this!" said Lloyd.

"There is no Pixal, only the Quiet One." said Pixal.

"Sorry about this." Lloyd attacks her. "But you're not exactly in the right frame of mind! Pixal. ejects from the mech and lands on the Bounty. "I did not think that through."

"I'm not surprised you green idiot." [robotic] said Nova.

"Hey! I didn't see you doing any better, and besides, you shouldn't even be here!" said Lloyd.

"Arrgh!"

"You're supposed to be our friend!" said Kai.

"We're...we're...we're gonna--" Harumi tried to speak.

"Look at me! We're gonna get outta this! You hear me?" Lloyd frees her.

"The map! Maybe we can use it to parachute down!" said Harumi.

"What is this, a cartoon? That's never gonna work!" Lloyd puts Harumi in the mech. "The suit should break your fall."

Nova tried her best not to giggle at what he said, since this kind of was and was not a cartoon.

"What? No! What about you two?" said Harumi.

"I can't take fall damage." [robotic] said Nova as if this was a game.

"Sorry. Only room for one." said Lloyd.

"No! I need you!" said Harumi.

"And I need that map." Lloyd grabs it. "I didn't think this through either."

"Of course you didn't, broccoli!" [robotic] said Nova as she was floating down passed him.

They all three land, but Lloyd dislocates his arm.

"Here let me help." [robotic] said Nova as she grabbed the map right before Harumi, and walked over using the map as an arm sling for Lloyd.

"Ow."

"Don't be a baby." [robotic] said Nova.

Lloyd rolled his eyes at her. "I think we're on our own."

"Well no shit sherlock." [robotic] said Nova learning on her umbrella that she had switched back out.

"What's a sherlock?" Lloyd asked, confused.

Nova was shaking her head with a sigh. "And here my so-called reveal plan got ruined.....I was trying to hype myself up for it, but now...I'm not sure if I have the same courage for a better chance. Stupid spider, stupid Harumi, stupid Sons of Garmadon, and motherfucking stupid storyline!!" She thought angrily to herself with an annoyed growl.