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

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"Hey, I just realized...the mural we saw at the museum. That must be the battle Wu just told us about." Cole started. " But Dr. Saunders said the Hands of Time were a myth." Nya stated. " He seemed, suspicious," I muttered. " History is art, not science. Even an expert such as Dr. Saunders can be mistaken from time to time." Zane added. " Ha! True that! Know how I know? 'Cause Acronix was a so-called myth, and we totally busted him! Haha!" Jay laughed. "Yeah! Hahaha! Except now, there's nothing to do." Kai added.

"Hm. The temple still needs unpacking." Lloyd brought up. I groaned as Cole sighed, saying Lloyd was right. "Ugh. Kinda wish we hadn't busted him. Hey, Nya. Wanna hang out?" Jay was trying to dodge responsibility.

"When I asked if you wanted to "hang out" I meant play video games or something, not pack and ship your Samurai X suit back to the cave." Jay pouted as he carried parts Nyas suit to her cave. Nya stared sadly at her helmet. Jay sighed, " You gotta let it go. You're the Water ninja now." " I know, but it's hard. I only inherited my Water power. Samurai X is something I actually created, with my own hands." " These hands?" Jay held Nyas hands. She smiled and the two leaned in for a kiss before Kai came into the room. " WHOA! Sorry!" he covered his eyes. "Didn't mean to interrupt! Heh. I didn't see anything!" " Whats up?" Nya asked. " Something you need to see. Hurry!" Kai told them

We all huddled around Lloyd who had a laptop in his lap as he sat on a box. That's why I camped out all night. I'd never miss a BorgStore product debut. BorgPad, BorgPod, I even bought the Cyrus PDA. I guess you could say I'm the company's Borg-est fan." Dareth laughed as we watched a video that he was in. "Borg-est. Ha. Get it? Hahaha! Anyway, I'm pretty excited." Dareth finished as a crowd cheered. They cheered at Cyrus Borg revealing himself.

" Not so long ago, if you wanted to tell time, you had to look to the sun, or a clock, or your wristwatch, or ask a friend. The point is, there had to be a better solution. Something merging advanced electronics. And there is. Today, I am proud to announce...that we are changing time itself. I present to you... the BorgWatch! " Borg presented as the crowd screamed and fleed. "Uh, really not the reaction we were going for." Borg frowned as the cameraman got a Vermillion on footage.

" That was the scene just moments ago in downtown Ninjago, where the launch of the new BorgWatch was tragically marred by a samurai." A News Reporter said as Lloyd paused the video. "Well, Kai? You said there was nothing left to do." Cole smiled. " And Ninja-ing certainly beats unpacking. Heh, actually, anything beats unpacking." Jay added.

 " Poor Borg" I muttered as Lloyd said they didn't need all of us. " So, how do we decide who gets to deal with this?" Kai asked. " I suggest randomly assigning each of ourselves a digit, then manually engaging a cube with graphical representations of each number to make a random, unbiased selection. Roll a dice." Zane said as Nya stated to just see who got there first. Yeah we went with Nyas idea.

"Even the normally un—Wow. It's chaos here. I've never seen such destruction! Well, okay, I have, but it's been a while and you never really get used to it." Gayle said to the camera as she still shot for the news. " Hey! You messed with the wrong purveyor of high-quality consumer goods, hombre. 'Cause this BorgStore is friends with me! The Brown Ninja! Drop the laptop." Dareth tried to act tough. The Vermillion did so. "You animal! I didn't mean literally!"

"What's happening down there?" Acronix asked as he and his twin watched from atop a building. "The man in the brown jumpsuit is crying. And our Vermillion Warrior has picked him up, is holding him over his head, and—Oh! Brown jumpsuits gonna feel that in the morning." Krux explained. "I meant Cyrus Borg! Our warrior is supposed to kidnap him." "Patience. He will." Krux told his brother. "When? It's like you ordered him to destroy the BorgStore first then grab Borg! You did, didn't you?" Acronix gave him a look as Krux hummed.

We all arrived at the Borg Store but all at the same time. "We got here at the exact same time." Kai stated. " Oh, darn! Now how do we decide who gets to fight?" Cole asked. " Is that Dareth?" I questioned as he got launched into the air. "Sup? I roughed him up for you. But feel free to finish the guy off." Dareth was in so much pain. "Hey, Zane. You still have those dice?" Kai asked as Zane said he had virtual ones. Pixal was the dice and she rolled for Kai. 

" Yeah!" Kai laughed, running into battle. " Wait! Aren't you gonna draw your sword?" Nya asked. "I'm good, sis." He ran into the store. "Okay, I don't wanna brag, but the other day, I helped stop, like, an Elemental Master of Time, so I think I can handle one lousy sa—" Kai was cut off by the warrior punching him. "Who's next" Kai groaned, landing next to us.

Pixal got Zane. "Aw, come on. That was totally rigged! We didn't even see the roll!" Lloyd complained as Zane was easily defeated. We all got ready to fight as Dareth ran off. "Hang on, guys. There's something I've been wanting to try again." Cole stepped forward, his arms going orange. "Oh, what, that Earth Punch thing? Like it worked so well last time." Jay mocked. "No problem." Cole punched the Vermillion, turning it into normal snakes. 

We were a bit disgusted as I was interested. "You—You totally disintegrated him!" Jay shouted. " I-It was an accident!" Cole should as the Vermillion regenereated, the snakes becoming one again. " Ew! Grosser! Jay shouted. "Come on, team, we've done this before. There's more than one way to stop a snake." Lloyd told us. We did spinjitzu and the snakes got shot out, but they just went back together again.

" I'm starting to think we might have underestimated this guy." Kai mentioned. " You fucking think!?" I shouted. "You said there was more than one way to stop a snake! Which way do you wanna try now?" Jay shouted at Lloyd. "Um, any of them? It must be after Cyrus Borg!" Lloyd shouted as he saw the warrior go into the Borg Store. "It works! He's practically unstoppable." Acronix said happily. "Yes. Although, I hadn't expected the ninja. Good thing we have reinforcements." Krux said as more vermillions hatched and formed to make warriors. Even more threats.