In Ninjago City, Sammy is making an announcement.
Sammy: Hey, listen up. Announcements. Oh, what do you know? All the routes are open. That's a first. But uh, Spokes and Knuckles are still on trauma leave, and Jonesy's bike is in the shop, so we're a couple of hands short. Oh, and uh, this is Antonia's last day, so get your goodbyes in.
Leroy: What?
Paperboy 2: He's joking. Right, Ton?
Nelson: Yeah, Antonia ain't a quitter.
Antonia: It ain't a joke. I got something new lined up. What'd you think, I was gonna be a papergirl my whole life? I got a job at the Dairy Dragon.
Leroy: That ice cream shop downtown?
Paperboy 2: They got great ice cream.
Sammy: All right, come on. Stow the jabber and hit the road. These papers ain't delivering themselves!
Nelson: Antonia? You can't quit! You're the one who taught me that the news never sleeps, remember?
Antonia: Maybe not, but I woke up. I'm gonna make more off the tip jar of Dairy Dragon than I will all week here.
She rides off.
Nelson: Hey, wait! Antonia!
He chases after her.
Nelson: Antonia! Wait up! Antonia! What about all that stuff you said, about how the news is so important? How we're making a difference?
Antonia: I was wrong, okay? Look around! Every day gets crazier. If it ain't giant snakes, it's a dragon or some evil video game.
Unagami catches a newspaper from a balcony and waves.
Nelson: There's nothing today. Everything's fine! See?
Just then, Merlopians start attacking the city.
Gripe: In the name of King Kalmaar of Merlopia, surrender and perish!
Policeman 1: Uh, did he say surrender and perish?
Jimmy: That's not much of a choice.
Nelson: So it's not perfect. But that doesn't mean we give up!
Antonia: If we're not making a difference, what's the point? Might as well take a job that pays better.
Nelson: It's about not giving up, even when you lose.
Antonia: Who told you that piece of cheerful advice?
Nelson: It's true!
Antonia: Well, I have my own saying. If you can't win, quit and join the Dairy Dragon.
Later, Nelson and Antonia eat their lunch together at their usual spot.
Nelson: What flavors do they have at the Dairy Dragon?
Antonia: Toge Mother Fudging Chocolate, butter pecan, mint chocolate chip, ninjapolitan, Bananakhan, cookies and cream, Spinjitzu Swirl, vanilla, Mango Morro, and orange sorbentine.
Nelson: I love Banadakhan. What am I talking about? You're quitting, Antonia. That's it. Plain and simple.
Antonia: Yeah, I know. We just talked about that through the whole merman invasion back there. And you know what? I'm okay with quitting.
Nelson: Well, if that's how you feel, I guess there's nothing I can say.
He leaves.
Antonia: Hey, come on. Nelson! Don't be like that. Ugh.
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