Chapter 24: Wrong Place, Wrong Time

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Aboard Destiny's Bounty, the Ninja train Lloyd with a variety of weapons and skills. In the end a sword got lodged into a watermelon Nya was holding.

"Now that he's older he's a fast learner" Nya commented 

"Again, but this time at full strength" Master Wu said then turned to Nya "I wish I could say the same for the other"

"Is Aria not doing so well?" Nya asked

"It seems she is digressing" Master Wu said "she's growing weaker"

"why?" Nya asked 

"I... don't know" Wu said stoking his beard

Just then, the Falcon arrives on the Bounty and shows the Serpentine back in the City of Ouroboros, apparently preparing for a final battle. The Ninja head to the city and arrive at night. While Fang-Suei works on the Fangpyre truck, Master Wu and the Ninja confront Lord Garmadon, only for Lloyd to arrive and freeze the tip of the Mega Weapon.

"Lloyd" Garmadon said surprised

"yeah I've grown some since you last saw me" Lloyd said

"surprisingly" Aria said

Lord Garmadon flees to a nearby building while the ninjas are left to fight the snakes. The Ninja enter the building to find a portal as sand begins to rise.

"The City of Ouroboros is returning to the desert, as if it had never been found in the first place" Zane said

"Garmadon's going to change the past, he's going to prevent us from ever forming and training Lloyd" Kai said

"I don't feel well" Aria said holding her head and Lloyd held her up before she fell

"I got you" he told her

"if he changes anything, he changes everything" Wu said 

"We're going" Cole said and the 4 ninja jump into the portal

"Where are we?" Kai questioned

They landed in a dead grass field, the sky was red with a full moon, it was a giant village with a big castle in the middle.

"Is this ninjago?" Jay asked

"No" Cole said looking around

"my sensors tell me we've gone 5 years in the past" Zane said

"so Garmadon's not stopping us from forming?" Jay questioned

"That doesn't make any sense, why would Garmadon come here" Kai said

"Garmadon's changing the one thing that brung us all together, when me, Jay, and Zane all got together all we would do is argue and fight, the one that brought us together as a real team and family was Aria. She was the one that got us to get along and the one to calm down Lloyd and help bring him to our side" Cole said

"But what does this creepy place have to do with that, hello the sky is red!" Jay shouted

Kai covered Jay's mouth "Cole where are we, what's Garmadon doing"

"Garmadon's changing the one day that brought Aria to that school where she met Lloyd, and eventually what brought her to Wu"

"What?" Jay asked

"This is the night that Aria's mother died, Garmadon's going to prevent her from dying" Cole said

"so what's so bad about that?" Kai asked

"if he changes anything, he changes everything. Aria's mother has to die or she'll never leave home to meet Lloyd and become a ninja" Zane explained

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