Nova is causing a little chaos with Garmadon's army because why not. :3
Also, I decided to combine the two last episodes into one chapter, but don't worry, this wouldn't be the end of Nova's story.
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*A beam of light from the Celestial Clock has just struck the Stone Army camp.*
"Behold, my final gift to you: Garmatron!" said the Overlord.
"It's...it's beautiful." said Garmadon.
"We've retrieved your helmet, and a prisoner, along with the heir, my Dark Lord." said Kozu.
Nya grunting. "You'll never get away with this! My friends will put a stop to you!"
"Would you fucking stop calling me that! I swear I'm so close to snapping someone's neck right now!" shouted Nova as her left eye was flashing back and forth from blue to purple from her rage.
Garmadon laughs and turns to Nya. "Red doesn't seem to be your color." He gags her by stuffing an apple in her mouth. "I think it's time we try in a darker shade. Hand me the Dark Matter. I believe we've found our first test subject."
*They begins pushing her head into the box of Dark Matter.*
"No, Nya!" shouted Nova as she watched Nya turn. "What the fuck! I didn't sign up to be in a zombie show!"
Garmadon turned to Nova. "How about you join your friend here too, after all, I did want you and Lloyd to be by my side as I turn this world into my image."
Nova glared at him as she looked at the stone warriors trying to work out a plan. "As much as I would like to join your little army here. I'm gonna have to reject it since one of your stone warriors hit me in the head and TOOK OUT MY RIGHT FUCKING EYE!!" her voice raised in rage.
All the stone warriors started looking at each other worried, and wondered who did this to their master's heir.
"Who would dare to hurt the heir!" shouted Kozu.
"Ooh, this is just too easy, sometimes it pays to be able to lie my ass off." Nova thought with a smirk behind her mask, before pulling herself free from those that had been holding her.
"I'm gonna play a little game known as, fake it to you, make it." Nova thought, looking at the stone warriors and then at Kozu. "I can't believe, even knowing who I am, that one of you would actually dare to lay a finger on me. As the heir, I should have been treated with better respect."
"No one would dare to show any disrespect to our master's shadow, whoever did this come forth and face your punishment!" ordered Kozu.
Garmadon simply looked confused on what was going on, and was trying to figure out what all this was about, mostly of all of the mention of "heir" and "shadow".
"... You are the Overlord's shadow that he created years ago." said Garmadon as he finally realized what was going on.
Nova looked at him, giving a shrug, not wanting the army to find out what was actually going on and what she was playing at. She looked back at the stone warriors and just watched the chaos unfold, she had to do her best not to laugh at what was happening.
Nova cleared her throat, getting their attention. "Oh yeah, I think I remember who it was that did it." she said, walking forward looking at the army before pointing out three stone warriors. "It was one of these guys.....or was it two of them.....hard to remember since you guys look so much alike." She told them.
"Min to zu, min to zu!" (it wasn't me, it wasn't me!) said stone warrior #1.
"Ga gi tun, tun nuug mig!" (I would never, never hurt the heir!) said stone warrior #2.
"Ga tun kank, tu min gagri fah zu!" (I never left the camp, so it can't be me!) said stone warrior #3.
"God damn, this is just too funny, being from a TV show, it makes sense that they would be this stupid." Nova thought as she had to bite down a giggle.
"ENOUGH!!" shouted Overlord who clearly has had enough of Nova making a fool out of his army like this.
Nova glared at the floating orb while getting a little nervous on what she was gonna do now.
"Little shadow, stop fucking around with my-Garmadon's army, or so help me I will punish you!" said the Overlord floating towards Nova, causing her to take a few steps back.
".... What, I was just having a little fun, since they wouldn't shut up with the whole "heir" I decided to mess with them. It's not my fault gaslighting them was so easy." said Nova with her arms behind her back, acting like a kid that loved causing mischief and trouble.
The stone warriors and Kozu were very much offended by that statement.
"Enough with your foolery shadow, you will join us, or I'll rip you back into where you came from." The Overlord threatened.
Nova looked around herself, noticing the stone warriors had surrounded her. "... Fuck this shit, I'm out." she said while giving the Overlord the finger as she went on to use her powers to teleport through the shadows.
But nothing was happening when she was trying to use her powers. "....Aaaargh!! Come on, are you motherfucking kidding me! You pathetic, useless bullshit of a floating ball in my asshole!" Nova cursed out loud at the Overlord.
"Useless shadow, if you don't wanna do what you were made to do, then so be it. Throw this thing into the hole with dark matter." said the Overlord.
".... What?" said Nova before she was grabbed by some stone warriors and got dragged to the large hole with dark matter before then being thrown down into it.
The last thing Nova saw was nothing else but darkness.
*Later, with the ninja tracking the Garmatron's tracks.*
"Um, is anyone else thinking about how this might be our final fight together?" Jay asked.
"Yeah." answered Kai.
"Of course." said Zane.
"It's all I've been thinking about." said Cole.
"We've come a long way. It wasn't that long ago when Sensei first found us." said Kai.
"Hey." Jay chuckles. "You remember that time Kai thought he was the Green Ninja?" Everyone except Kai laughs.
"That was quite the memory." said Zane.
"He was so not." said Cole.
"Or what about when the Hypnobrai hypnotized Cole, and we had to fight him?" said Zane as the ninja laughs.
"We should've just kicked his butt." said Kai.
"Ha. You had to destroy my treehouse." said Lloyd.
"Or how about that time Sensei came out of the guts of the Devourer's belly." said Zane as the ninja groan. "drinking Tea?"
"Oh, that was so gross!" said Cole.
"Yeah. I thought he was a goner." said Jay.
Wu hits Jay with his Nin-Jô. "Wrong again, Mr. Emptyhead."
"Hey, remember that time when Nova exploded the kitchen back at the Monastery?" Cole asked.
"Oh, don't remind me, I still can't stop questioning how she turned water into coal." Kai groans.
"Or the glasses were on fire." said Zane.
"Along with how much she was swearing as a little kid, I mean where did she learn such language." said Jay
The ninja laughed as they thought about all that had happened so far since Nova joined them, before it slowly died down.
"I hope we are able to save Nya and Nova, as I'm worried what my father might have done with them." said Lloyd with a worry.
"We will get them back Lloyd, besides we already know how much you care about Nova." said Kai.
Lloyd started blushing a little. "She is my best friend, of course I care about her after everything we've been through."
"Yeah right, with the looks you give whenever you see her, says you see her more than just a friend." said Cole with a smirk.
"Yeah, it's clear you have a thing for her, and even more now that you two are older." said Zane.
"You should ask her out after all of this is over." said Jay.
Lloyd's face was all red from what the ninja was saying. "G-guys please, there is nothing between us, now can we please focus on stopping my dad."
"Yeah right, we probably should do that." said Cole.
"Lloyd is right, let's focus on the fight ahead." said Kai.
*They see someone run in front of them, along with something moving around in the shadows.*
"Whoa." said Lloyd as they stopped running.
"Something is wrong here." said Cole.
"Where? Where?" said Jay.
"Did I just see..." said Kai.
"I sense an evil presence, and something else." said Zane.
"Where? Where?" Jay repeated.
"Above us!" shouted Wu as someone uses Spinjitzu on Cole.
"Ow, my jaw! That hurt." said Cole.
Lloyd gets knocked off his feet by the Spinjitzu tornado. "Whoa!"
"No one does that to the Green Ninja!" said Kai.
*The Spinjitzu stops, revealing Nya infected with Dark Matter, along with a shadow like being next to her, with only the purple eyes being noticeable.*
"Nya! And what is that creepy shadow thing!" shouted Jay.
"That is no longer Nya, as for the shadow thing, I can't say for sure. But it might be the Overlord's shadow." said Wu.
The shadow narrowed its eyes at the mention of the Overlord.
"What did he do to my sister?!" shouted Kai.
"He must've used the ultimate weapon to turn her into his own evil image, and the shadow must have returned to join him." said Misako.
*Nya growls, while the shadow being tried to speak. But nothing came out, so it could only blink.*
"Garmadon must have sent her and the shadow being to slow us down. We have to stop them from firing that weapon." said Wu.
"What are we supposed to do? Use our Elemental Powers on her and the shadow?" asked Cole.
"No! I don't want to hurt her!" said Jay.
"Jay's right! We just have to find a way to keep her from-" Nya hits Kai with a flail. "hurting us."
The shadow simply stood and watched as it was trying to move its shadow like hands to motion at something, but it only seemed to make it worse as the ninja got ready to fight.
"Well, we should think of something before Garmadon fires that weapon." said Zane.
"Lloyd, you go up ahead with Sensei and Misako, while we take care of Nya and the shadow being." said Cole.
"But you said you'd always be behind me." said Lloyd.
"We will be. We'll catch up as soon as we can." said Jay.
Jay uses Spinjitzu, but was caught by Nya. "Oof. That hurt."
"The ninja are right. We must go." said Wu.
"We'll still be behind you, son." said Misako as they leave.
Cole grunts and grabs Nya's flail. "Not so fast, Sweetheart. This dance ain't over." He swings her, getting the flail out of her grasp. "Triple Tiger Sashay!" He is grabbed by Nya, who knocks him almost into the others, but were saved by the shadow being that used the shadows to stop him.
"Did that shadow...."
"Just stop Cole from..."
"Being knocked into us..."
The ninja looked at each other confused on what was going on and what side the shadow was on.
The shadow tried moving its shadow like hands as if trying to explain something by pointing at itself, then the ninja and then over at Nya. But sadly, the ninja didn't know what it was trying to say.
"What?"
"Did you guys get any of that."
"Nope, I don't have a clue."
The shadow let out a silent groan that couldn't be heard, but it was clearly getting annoyed that it couldn't talk nor get them to understand what it was saying.
*Some time later, while still fighting, Nya manages to tangle Cole in her flail.*
"This is not good!" said Cole.
"We have to help them." said Kai.
"Tell that to your sister, It's four against one or is it two, anyway I think she's winning!" said Cole.
The shadow narrowed its eyes, annoyed that they clearly saw it as an enemy.
"Perhaps we can use our Elemental Powers, but without hurting her." Zane cuts Cole's chains with his Elemental Blade.
"I like it. Let's do it!" said Cole.
"Cole, can you blind her for a sec?" asked Jay.
"Thanks to you, sure thing." Cole blows dust in her direction.
"Augh! My eyes! I can't see!" said Nya.
"Kai, quick. Cut that tree!" said Jay.
"No problem." said Kai.
"I know where you're heading." Zane freezes the tree, trapping Nya in an Ice dome.
"Sorry, Sis! This club just became boys only." said Kai.
"Okay, we got Nya, but how are we gonna handle that shadow being?" asked Jay pointing his elemental blade at it.
The shadow took a step back, its eyes looking somewhat scared of what they would do. When it clearly hadn't attacked any of them and had even tried to help.
"How about we give it a taste of our powers combined." said Cole.
"Good idea, come on guys, let's send this shadow back to where it came from." said Kai as the ninja raised their blades towards the shadow, and went for the attack using their powers on it.
The shadow panicked and tried to dodge the attacks, but four against one really wasn't fair, and it wasn't long until the shadow took some hits before falling to the ground weak and in pain, as it looked up at the ninja in fear.
*Nova's POV.*
"No, no, no, this was what I was scared of, and they don't even know that's me." Nova thought as she looked up at them in fear as she tried to back away from them, while they couldn't see it because she was covered in shadow. She had actually started crying, with the tears running down her face behind the shadows.
"I don't wanna die, I don't wanna die. By the First Spinjitzu Master, please, I never wanted this, I just wanna go back to how everything was with the team." Nova watched as the ninja raised their blades, but before they landed the final strike, everything around her turned black and there was complete silence.
"If I ever got a second chance... I would love to control and have my own life....."
*Everything was quiet for a long while.....until there was a light and soon enough a clear sky along with the sound of voices.*
Nova slowly opened her eyes, rubbing her head as she looked around and saw that she was back in Ninjago City. "What happened?"
"Ugh. What happened?" said Kai as he and the team were further away from her and hadn't been noticed.
Kai and Jay sees Nya back to normal. "Nya!" They run towards her.
"My sister." said Kai.
"Nya, you're back!" said Jay as they both hugged Nya.
Cole helped Zane get up. "Come here, you tin can." He hugs Zane.
"Brother." said Zane.
"Is this really happening? We did it?" questioned Julien.
"We did it. You did it. I did it! Heck, who didn't do it!?" said Dareth.
"Yeah. But where's Lloyd?" said Kai.
*Lloyd flies down on his dragon.*
Nova had to back further away and hide behind a building, as the light from Lloyd's dragon was affecting her a little.
"Lloyd!"
"You were brilliant, son." said Misako.
"Because of you, Ninjago was saved. Because of you, there will be a tomorrow." said Wu.
"Speaking of which, if the Overlord should ever decide to show his face again around here, we'll be ready." said Kai.
"And next time, we'll be a little more humble." said Cole.
"And a little more wise." said Zane.
"And with better catchphrases." said Jay.
*They all start laughing but Lloyd. Misako sees Lloyd frowning.*
"We will all miss your father, and I'm sorry we couldn't save Nova." said Misako.
*From behind them, Garmadon emerges from a pile of rocks and approaches them limping. He has been purified by Golden Power.*
"Lloyd. What... what happened?" asked Garmadon, confused.
"Garmadon, is it really you?" asked Misako.
"Dad? Oh, dad!" Lloyd runs and embraces him.
"Every ounce of evil and venom is... gone." Misako embraces Garmadon.
"I feel good. Aha! It's been so long." said Garmadon.
"Good to have you back, brother." said Wu.
"Wu! Good to be back." said Garmadon.
"Aw, would you look at that? Who would have thought we'd ever see the day? You think we should dogpile them?" said Jay.
"Let's give them their moment. They earned it." said Kai.
"It's been quite a ride, fellas." said Cole.
"You think there will be others?" said Zane.
"I hope so. I liked being a ninja. It's not like we have many other skills." said Cole.
"Ha, speak for yourself, I'm looking forward to doing a little inventing, maybe some model-building, dabble in poetry-" said Jay but were cut off.
"Jay's right. We've come a long way, and there's no reason why we can't use what we've learned in our everyday lives. And who knows? We may have gotten the balance right today, but there's always tomorrow. There's no way of knowing what's around the corner. But as long as there's something worth fighting for, there's always a need for a ninja. And we'll be ready." said Kai as everyone looks toward the rising sun.
Nova watched and was about to walk out to them but saw her reflection in the window.
She was shocked to see her clothes torn apart clearly from the ninja's attack, along with that. Nova could see that more spots on her body had changed to black while still having her fangs out, more of her hair had turned purple. Along with the right side of her face still black with a purple eye and a blue eye.
"..... I can't walk out like this...if they saw this, they would freak out.....and Garmadon already knows who I am..... I... I can't..." Nova put a hand to her chest where her heart was, as she couldn't handle another attack from the ninja after they almost killed her back at the Dark Island, even though they didn't know it was her.
Nova went into the shadows and soon enough she was gone without anyone knowing she had ever been there.