|~Blackout~| Ch. 31

213 9 20
                                    

Garmadon: We underestimate the importance of balance. When it's there, we're at peace. When something is off, everything falls. Ninjago is no different. It put too much faith in technology, allowing the Overlord to return.

Raven: Technology isn't bad. Nothing in this world would be as long as we were aware of how to use it properly. 

Garmadon: This is what I'm saying too. See Lloyd, you should take some lessons from her.

Lloyd: Dad!

Garmadon: I'm kidding. Your generation should learn how to accept jokes. 

Raven: Still, it's something Mr. Borg and I too, failed at.

Lloyd: Well, me and my friends are gonna fix it.

Garmadon: Ah, yes, your friends. Because of them, the world is without power. When one relies on something too much, we become weak, vulnerable, imbalanced- (sees Raven's tablet) doesn't that have a tracking device on it?

Raven: No. Of course not. This is not one of Borg's creations.

Garmadon: Oh, alright. Now where was I? In order to find your full potential and unlock your true power, you must find your own balance.

Lloyd: I'm already the Golden Ninja, how much more power do I need?

Raven: Perhaps it's not the power that you must gain more of, but the knowledge to understand how to use it. Am I correct, Sensei Garmadon? If that's the name you go by now.

Garmadon: You are exactly right! Oh, and you can call me Garmadon, if you wish. You should also come by my monastery once in a while. (looks at Lloyd) It's not like he ever does. 

Lloyd: Uh- I can never be replaced. I'm the Golden Ninja after all.

Garmadon: Yes, yes. But, you've only scratched the surface! You have the potential to move mountains. Power of the First Spinjitzu Master!

Raven: (looking at tablet) If my calculations are right, the ninja have destroyed the power substation. 

Lloyd: Yeah. That essentially destroys the Overlord and his Nindroids. Why can't we go back?

Garmadon: Essentially? Until the Overlord is fully erased from the system, we must not go back, but forward!

Lloyd: Ugh. (Grunts)

Garmadon: If you can't move mountains, I guess we'll have to move over mountains. Don't worry, it will be fun. There are many stories I can tell you two along the way.

Lloyd: Oh yeah?

Raven: This next mountain looks particularly... steep.

Lloyd: Are you up for it?

Raven: There is no turning back now. 

(With the ninja at Ed and Edna's Scrap 'n Junkyard, Cole, Kai, and Destiny are digging for...)

Cole: We've been digging for so long, I think I forgot what we're looking for!

Kai: A jiggly compact compress converter. Or was it a compress compact jiggly converter?

Destiny: Nah, I'm pretty sure it was a converted jiggly compact compressor... no, what am I saying, scrap that.

Kai: Whatever it is, pretty sure it's not that. But if it can get us back to Ninjago City any sooner, it's worth finding. (Piles of junk crush him and Cole)

|~Ninjago's Destiny~|Where stories live. Discover now