Still by Your Side -||Lloyd x Reader||-

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Acronix. That was the mysterious man that fell from the vortex. Acronix and Wu circled around a flower bush in the middle of the monastery. "You might as well give up, Wu. I'm the superior fighter. And your brother isn't here to bail you out." Acronix growled. " No. but neither is yours, Acronix." Wu glared. " And whose fault is that?" Acronix raised his voice slightly. "Garmadon and I did what we had to do to protect Ninjago." Wu told the man.

" And I will do what I have to do," Acronix revealed the dagger he had and charged at Wu. The two men began to fight, countering each other's attacks. Dodging and charging. Wu jumped up to hit Acronix who was on the roof, but Acronix slashed Wu's staff with his dagger, slicing off a piece. "Huh. More spry than I would expect. Let's see if you can keep up." Acronix teased as Wu climbed onto the roof, quickly blocking a strike from Acronix.

" Where do you want this last one, Misako?" Ronin asked the old lady as Ronin helped move in boxes. " Anywhere you can find room." Misako smiled at the thief who placed it down. Meanwhile, Dareth was nearby eating chips. "Ronin, Dareth, thank you again for helping me set up our new ninja temple." Misako thanked the two men. " Happy to do it" Dareth chuckled. " Do what? Three hundred boxes airlifted into this place and you didn't carry a single one of them." Ronin glared at the overweight man.

" I told you, I got a bad back. Besides, this unpacking isn't gonna supervise itself." Dareth swallowed the last of his chips. " Oh! This came to the wrong place" Misako said, looking through a box. She lifted up the helmet to Nya's Samurai X suit. "Sweet sword fighter, get a load of that thing." Dareth got up. " Nya's Samurai Suit, this should have gone to her Samurai X Cave." Misako looked at it. " What for? I thought she gave up being Samuari X for the Water Ninja?" Ronin asked.

" Mm, she did. But she kept the mech so I'm sure she'd want this too. If nothing else, it's a souvenir of a past life." Misako put the helmet back. " If it were me, I'd sell the whole kit and caboodle online. One-of-a-kind tech like that? Some collector would pay a fortune. With that kind of cheese, she could buy all the souvenirs she ever wanted. Fill the place with snow globes. Uh, tell Nya I'd be happy to broker a deal. For a small fee, of course." Ronin told her.

" Sell it? This baby belongs in a museum...or my dojo." Dareth put don't he helmet and did a few fighting moves that required low movement. " Lookout, Ninjago, here comes Samurai D!" Ronin and Misako looked at the man in confusion. " Samurai D" Dareth repeated as Ronin groaned and Misako shook her head. Dareth lifted up the helmet, " The D is for Dareth"

Back at the monastery, Wu blocked another one of Acronix's attacked as they moved to the main part of the roof before going through the rubble. Wu jumped up further as Acronix said, "Give it up, old man. I've got decades on you. I'm faster, stronger." "That's your mistake. You assume your youth is a greater weapon than my experience." Wu said back as Acronix backed away b before jumping to Wu is as they resume their fight.

Wu moved to the side which made Acronix miss, "Arrogant to the finish. Just like your brother" " Arrogant? No...Confident!" Acronix charged at Wu but Wu tilted back, throwing Acronix over. Acronix was about to fall, dropping his dagger in the process. Wu grabbed ahold of the twin's cape. "Arrogant, it was Krux's downfall. And now it's yours. Do you yield?" Wu asked, holding the twin over the edge of the monastery and mountain.

" Never." Acronix hissed. "There's no escape this time, Acronix." Wu let go of his cape before dragging it again, scaring the man. " Do. You. Yield." "I..." Acronix had no choice. " Yield..." "So forty years after it began," Wu moved back, pulling Acronix up. "the battle of the Elemental Masters versus the Hands of Time finally ended at precisely 6 p.m." Wu got out his pocket watch to see it turn to 6:00. The thunder was heard again and the vortex appeared. A forked gauntlet with green electricity stabbed into the middle of the monastery. A wave of time soon appeared out of it as Wu and Acronix suddenly appeared near it.

The wave continued on to the temple where Dareth was standing on one of the boxes, wearing Nyas helmet. " Dareth, please give me that back," Misako told the man. "Oh, allow—" Ronin was saying as the wave passed through them. Time skipped forward as Ronin appeared top of Dareth with Misako holding the helmet. " Oh! Oh, my back! My back!" Dareth whined. " -me? When did I get on top of Dareth?" Ronin was confused.

The waved continued as we ran out of the museum. " 6 pm, quitting time," Kai said. The wave passed us and we appeared on the Destonyed Bounty. Alarms soon went off as we were all confused and Jay even fell down. "What just happened? Time just..."Lloyd started. " Moved forward?" I continued for him.

Acronix knocked back Wu as he picked up the gauntlet. Its blades glowing green with forward time. Acronix charged at Wu and swiped his pocket watch, looking at the time. " And at 6:01, the battle began again." Acronix smirked under his mask.

As their battle continued, Ronin and Misako were still confused at the temple. "How did I get this? I have the strangest feeling. It's like déjà vu, but in reverse." Misako was so confused. "It's like time skipped a beat." Ronin said. Misako looked at a nearby clock, " No, it skipped an entire minute." " Please get off of me!" Dareth cried, still under Ronin's feet.

On the Bounty, alarms still were going off. "Um, weren't we just outside? When did we get here?" Cole questioned. "How did we get here?" Nya asked. I had to sit down on the floor as Zane said his circuits were picking up an energy displacement. "There was a displacement all right. It displaced us right in here." Kai added. " What is going on?" Lloyd was so confused. " I don't know but it's loud!" Jay got up and covered his ears.

" You had your chance, old man. You should have let me drop." Acronix chuckled, " Now, let's see if your experience is more powerful than..." Acronix raised up the gauntlet and a green beam shot into the air. " The Time Blade."

" These energy readings are off the charts. Where is it coming from?" Nya shouted as she pushed some buttons. " I'm trying to pinpoint the location," Zabe replied to her. "How about pinpointing the location of the off button? These alarms are giving me a-" Jay complained but was cut off by Kai hitting a nearby console, turning the alarm off. " ...Headache." Jay chuckled. " Thank you."

" Hm. This is surprising." Zane hummed. "No, it's not. I've always had sensitive ears and—" Jay rambled but Zane cut him off, "I meant, I think I know how we suddenly appeared on the Destiny's Bounty." " And how do you know that Mr. Wise guy?" I cracked my neck. "The displacement we experienced was not caused by just any normal energy. It was temporal energy."