The Only Reason For Time is So That Everything Doesn't Happen At Once

Important Discussion + Important Decisions

"As you've probably realized from what I've already told you, it doesn't get better from where you and the others are," Nya started again.

"There are two ways this can go: I can tell you where everything goes wrong and you make sure that they don't happen but that would mean creating an alternate timeline; or I can tell you only the most important things to change, which hopefully won't create an alternate timeline," she asked.

"I'd like to know where we go wrong but I don't think it's worth creating an alternate timeline for," Lloyd decided.

"I thought you'd say that," Nya's smiling. "I'm assuming that you don't know that there was an alternate timeline?" she asked.

"What? No? I thought that was only in comics and movies?"

Nya sighed.

"I wish it was. You remember that time when we were on the roof trying to hide from the paparazzi?" she asked.

"Yeah, it was when you successfully did Airjitzu?" Lloyd asked.

She nodded. "Well, from when Jay told me to get behind the billboard so I won't be seen, there was a period of six weeks that happened in an alternate timeline that was erased," Nya told him.

"Six weeks?! How come you - past you - haven't told us? Does anyone else know? What happened during those weeks?" Lloyd asked.

Nya looks away from him, her gaze lingers on Jay's elemental symbol.

"It was too painful, it still is - there's no easy way to say this: I died, Lloyd, but then I hadn't. Jay never told me how, or why," Nya said.

She had many questions, all of which would never be answered now.

"So Jay also knows?" It wasn't a question. "Does anyone else?"

"No...and yes, Kai seemed to remember bits and pieces but not the whole timeline," Nya told him.

Lloyd realized something.

"Wait, you said this happened after you first did Airjitzu? That means it's already happened,"

"You've just gotten out of the Day of the Departed mess, haven't you? So yes, it has," Nya confirmed.

"I have many questions for the others when I get back home," Lloyd decided.

"Just try not to screw up the timeline too much, okay?" Nya requested.

"Of course not," he promised.

By now, they had been talking for just over two hours and she figured that now was as good a time as ever to tell Lloyd about him.

"You know that alternate timeline? Well, there's something - someone - that you and the rest of the Ninja, especially Zane, should know about,"

"Why Zane specifically?"

"You don't think that he was the only android Doctor Julien built, do you?"

"...No?"

"He isn't, in a lighthouse that stands in the middle of the sea you can find the other android Julien built, Echo-Zane. Please, promise me you'll take Zane and go get him?" Nya requested.

Echo-Zane? Zane has a brother? Does he know?

"Will do, but how will we be able to find the lighthouse?" Lloyd asked.

"Jay remembers where it is, ask him or me, just don't wait any longer," she told him.