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

Ninjago City Park Memorial

A/n: This doesn't really make sense in hindsight, let's say that to make sure that Lloyd wasn't going to get spat out at around the time say season 1 is happening, Ember wanted to run some tests before sending him back and risk it not working correctly.

It's up to you to decide how they end up using the Time Blades/Time Gauntlets to get Lloyd back to his time (I'm thinking of a sort of mechanism that channels & modifies the reverse time energy/power so instead of Lloyd getting physically rewound in time, the world around him does).

Update (24/4/21): in the Golden Legacy short that was released today, there are golden statues of the Ninja which is quite similar to what I imagined their statues to look like in this.

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It was now hours since they had first entered BORG Tower and only a minimal amount of progress had been made.

"This is going to take a while," Ember stated the obvious fact. "You should go show Lloyd the Memorial?" she suggested to Nya. "I can call you when there's more progress,"

"I was planning on doing so but I'm not so sure," the Master of Water answered.

"You should . He's here, isn't he? He might as well know - see - what happens to Ninjago City Park," Ember encouraged.

"What happens to Ninjago City Park?" Lloyd asked, catching the end of her sentence.

"You'll have to see," Nya decided. "Come on," She got up and started to cross the room to the elevator before she turned to see if he was following.

He wasn't.

"You coming?" she asked.

It was then that Lloyd realized that he should probably (definitely) get up and go with her.

They took the elevator down and promptly left BORG Tower, heading in the direction of Ninjago City Park.

From the entrance, it didn't look like it had changed that much but when they got deeper inside, the changes were clear.

In the middle of the park, where a tiny outdated (even in his time) fountain used to be, was now a larger, much more modern stretched fountain with a mural akin to that in Nya's teashop, only it was less detailed and didn't feature either Pixal or Skylor.

It was nice but the glaringly obvious that the city had removed Zane's statue.

"They got rid of Zane's statue?" Lloyd asked. It wasn't really a question.

"Only a couple of years ago," Nya confirmed but corrected. "Before this was here, there were statues of all of you, except Pix and Skylor," she told him.

Statues of all of them?

"Why did they get rid of them then?" he asked.

"People were complaining that they were unsightly and that they ' spoiled the view of this great city '-" Nya said.

"-A load of crap," Lloyd interjected.

Instead of answering, Nya looked surprised at the language he'd used.

"You know, it's weird hearing you swear, I don't remember you doing it back in your time-period," she told him as they continued on through the park.

"I didn't and don't, it just seemed right for what they did, removing a part of Ninjago's history even if they did replace it with something else," Lloyd explained.

"True,"

As Lloyd was about to say something, Nya's phone rang.

"Aunt Nya, Lloyd, get back to BORG Tower, we have progress," Ember announced over the phone, put on Speaker.

She promptly hung up after that.

"It's almost time for me to head home," Lloyd said, stating the obvious as the two turned around and returned the way they came through the park.

"Hopefully, that is if it works,"

"Good point,"