Darkness offspring

Papergirl

In Ninjago City, Sammy is making an announcement.

Sammy: Hey, listen up. Announcements. Oh, what do you know? All the routes are open. That's a first. But uh, Spokes and Knuckles are still on trauma leave, and Jonesy's bike is in the shop, so we're a couple of hands short. Oh, and uh, this is Antonia's last day, so get your goodbyes in.

Leroy: What?

Paperboy 2: He's joking. Right, Ton?

Nelson: Yeah, Antonia ain't a quitter.

Antonia: It ain't a joke. I got something new lined up. What'd you think, I was gonna be a papergirl my whole life? I got a job at the Dairy Dragon.

Leroy: That ice cream shop downtown?

Paperboy 2: They got great ice cream.

Sammy: All right, come on. Stow the jabber and hit the road. These papers ain't delivering themselves!

Nelson: Antonia? You can't quit! You're the one who taught me that the news never sleeps, remember?

Antonia: Maybe not, but I woke up. I'm gonna make more off the tip jar of Dairy Dragon than I will all week here. (She rides off.)

Nelson: Hey, wait! Antonia! (He chases after her.) Antonia! Wait up! Antonia! What about all that stuff you said, about how the news is so important? How we're making a difference?

Antonia: I was wrong, okay? Look around! Every day gets crazier. If it ain't giant snakes, it's a dragon or some evil video game. (Unagami catches a newspaper from a balcony and waves.)

Nelson: There's nothing today. Everything's fine! See? (Just then, Merlopians start attacking the city.)

Gripe: In the name of King Kalmaar of Merlopia, surrender and perish!

Policeman 1: Uh, did he say surrender and perish?

Jimmy: That's not much of a choice.

Nelson: So it's not perfect. But that doesn't mean we give up!

Antonia: If we're not making a difference, what's the point? Might as well take a job that pays better.

Nelson: It's about not giving up, even when you lose.

Antonia: Who told you that piece of cheerful advice?

Nelson: It's true!

Antonia: Well, I have my own saying. If you can't win, quit and join the Dairy Dragon.

Later, Nelson and Antonia eat their lunch together at their usual spot.

Nelson: What flavors do they have at the Dairy Dragon?

Antonia: Chocolate fudge, butter pecan, mint chocolate chip, ninjapolitan, Bananakhan, cookies and cream, Spinjitzu Swirl, vanilla, Mango Morro, and orange sorbentine.

Nelson: I love Banadakhan. What am I talking about? You're quitting, Antonia. That's it. Plain and simple.

Antonia: Yeah, I know. We just talked about that through the whole merman invasion back there. And you know what? I'm okay with quitting.

Nelson: Well, if that's how you feel, I guess there's nothing I can say. (He leaves.)

Antonia: Hey, come on. Nelson! Don't be like that. Ugh. (She chases after him.) Nelson, will you listen? You're gonna be fine without me. Hey, come on. Did you think about the upside?

Nelson: What upside?

Antonia: Having a friend at the Dairy Dragon, I can hook you up with all the Banadakhan you can imagine! What do you say? Still friends?