Somehow a thief is better at stealth than a ninja. XD
What else has Nova been stealing from these people?
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*The ShuriCopter and the Land Bounty arrived at the Explorers Club.*
"I do say, rather noisy contraption, Wart!" said Shippelton.
*Lloyd, Nya, and Zane kick down the door. They are surprised to find the club with no one there. Cecil Putnam, the head of the Explorers Club, appears behind them.*
Nova had decided to stay outside, while she let the chaos begin. "I should probably sneak in, when Zane tries to disguise himself as Clutch Powers. That gives me enough time even without my elemental powers, after all, this isn't the first time I've stolen something from them."
"This is an emergency! We need one of the items in your collection!" said Lloyd.
"The second Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu!" said Zane.
"The one Clutch Powers gave you!" said Nya.
"Let us see. Scroll of Confusion, Scroll of Dancing Monkeys, ah here: Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu. Yes, that particular artifact has indeed been deposited in our archive." said Cecil, looking through a list.
"Great, we need it, fast." said Lloyd.
"Of course, sir. I just need to see your membership card." said Cecil.
"No, we're not members, we just —" said Lloyd.
"It pains me deeply to inform you that access to the club archives is for members only." said Cecil.
"This is an emergency! The fate of all of Ninjago is at stake!" said Zane.
"Oh, is it? Oh, dear." said Cecil.
"So, we can have the scroll?" Nya asked.
"Oh my, no! Rules are rules, after all! Where would society be without them? Hmm? We can't have anarchy, can we?" said Cecil.
"Well, um... Can we join the club then?" Lloyd asked.
"Hm. Of course. Once you reach 10,000 hours of certified exploration, notify us, and we shall begin the multi-year process of examining your applications." Cecil slams the door.
"Sooo, how did it go?" Nova asked, leaning against the wall with crossed arms and a smirk on her face.
Lloyd just stood there, staying in surprise at the door. "Did that just happen?"
"Oh, that makes me mad! I'm going right back in there and giving that little pencil pusher a piece of my mind!" said Nya.
"I guess it didn't go well. What a shame." said Nova.
"Not helping Nova." said Lloyd, looking over at her.
"Wasn't trying to." said Nova.
"We do not have time for this. May I suggest another tactic?" said Zane.
"Aaaand that's my cue." Nova snuck away from the group and turned on her mask, before double jumping up to the roof, and used her warfan to easily stop the moving fan. After getting through, she unsummoned her warfan and began crawling through the vent.
Nova could easily hear the commotion outside the vent, as she passed the room Zane and Cecil were in. Before she then went on to move past the room the other explores were in, she knew the next step in the vent was weak and could break at any moment. So she went on to use her speed boost, and summoned her warfan to then quickly glide through the vent. While making a few sounds that sounded like mice, just so the people wouldn't think it was a person.
After she got to the next room of the vent, she had to get out of the vent, as this one ended here. But she knew there was a second vent hidden behind some of the relics.
When Nova got out of the vent, she looked around the room until she noticed a mirror standing in front of the vent she needed to enter. "Great, just great. They just had to move that stupid mirror in front of the vent I need to use." She walked over to the mirror and really wished she hadn't looked at her reflection, since it showed her greatest fear.
An evil version of her in full oni form with some dragon traits, and a creepy smile while covered in blood.
Nova took a step back, getting ready to punch it, before turning her head as she heard something break and people falling. "For ninjas, they aren't very good at stealth."
"What is the meaning of this?" asked Underhill.
"Uh, sorry, we're, umm..." Nya tried coming up with an excuse.
"Working on the air conditioning?" said Lloyd.
Nova facepalmed herself. "Idiot." She went on to move the mirror and quickly got into the second vent, she then went on to move over to the next room easily just as she heard someone shout.
"Security!" shouted Smythe.
Cecil gasps. "You again!"
"Run!" shouted Lloyd.
The ninja shut the door to the relic room, and Zane uses ice to freeze the doorknob.
"What a mess." said Zane.
"This must be where they store all the ancient relics!" said Lloyd.
"Which means the Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu must be in here! Come on, spread out, let's find it." said Nya.
"Wait a minute, did any of you see Nova?" Zane asked.
"She's probably using the shadows to hide herself." said Nya.
"Wouldn't be the first time." said Lloyd.
"Either those idiots are very loud, or I'm growing a sharp hearing because I can easily hear everything they are saying." Nova mumbled, but kept moving until she finally got to the room the scroll was in.
"Aha, I've so missed robbing stuff." said Nova, as she grabbed the scroll and quickly put a fake in its place instead. "Now I just need to wait on those three."
*Back at the relic room.*
"Agh! A mirror?" said Lloyd.
"What? What is this?" Nya asked.
"It's some kind of weird mirror." said Lloyd.
Nya sees herself as a civilian.
Nya gasps. "But why?"
"It seems to show us our greatest fears." said Lloyd.
A mummy hand crawls quickly.
"How do you know?" Nya asked.
"Because when I look at it, I see myself becoming my father." said Lloyd.
"I see myself normal, like I never achieved my True Potential." said Nya.
"No. I see— I see myself, but without any humanity. Only a machine." said Zane.
"It's okay. Whatever you see, ignore it. It's not real." said Lloyd.
"Hey Nova, what do you see?" Nya asked, looking at the shadows. But there wasn't any movement or sound coming from them.
"Nova?"
The mummy hand crawls on Nya's hair and attacks her and the other two ninjas. Cecil and the guard eventually get in.
"There they are! Stop, thieves! This is getting tiresome." said Cecil.
*Zane freezes the knob with ice again. The three ninjas end up in a room full of glass cases.*
"We must be in the entomology room." said Zane.
"The what?" Lloyd asked.
"Insects, from all over Ninjago." said Zane.
"Come on, we don't have much time. And Lloyd, don't knock anything—" Nya knocks over a case with tiger wasps.
"Okay, I did that." said Nya.
"Interesting. Venomasicus Tigrus, tiger wasps. Their sting's the second most painful." said Zane.
One of them stings Lloyd. "Run!"
The ninjas run away from the wasps but are blocked by Cecil and the guards, who get in.
"Subdue these malefactors!" shouted Cecil.
The wasps attack the four. Cecil dodges them and has a blowpipe.
"I will place a proper kibosh on this charade! For the empire!" shouted Cecil.
Cecil blows a dart, and it bounces off of Zane and hits the ceiling, then the wall, then the case with Vastodectrus Venemous.
"Oh, fie!" said Cecil.
*Back in the treasure room.*
Nova was humming softly to herself, until she heard the chaos outside. "3....2....1"
The ninjas run into the room and closes the door, and Zane freezes the doorknob.
"Hey guys, what took you guys so long?" Nova asked, leaning against where the fake scroll was placed.
"Nova!?" They shouted surprised.
"When did you get in here?" Nya asked.
"For a good while now, maybe, let's say five minutes or more." said Nova.
"Hey, look!" said Nya, pointing at the fake scroll.
"That's it!" said Lloyd.
"No! It's too dangerous for someone to touch with their bare hands!" said Zane.
"Oh, don't worry about that, I already have it." said Nova, holding a banner covering the scroll.
"If you already have the scroll, then what's that?" Lloyd asked, pointing at the other.
"A fake." said Nova.
"When did you have time to make a fake?" Zane asked.
"And why do you have a fake scroll?" Nya asked.
Nova shrugs at their questions. "Did you all forget I'm a master thief, this isn't my first time robbing these guys."
"WHAT!?" The three shouted in disbelief.
"Anyway, let's get back to the monastery!" said Nova, and showed them a shortcut out of the building that she had once found when she was stealing.