☯☼🏮Ninjago: The Master of Crystal💎🏹✳

Christofern

(In Ninjago City, at Vinny's apartment, Lloyd, Wu, Coral and Garmadon face each other. Garmadon now only has two arms and he sips from a coffee mug.)

Garmadon: Hmm.

Lloyd: That's all you have to say?! Hmm?!

Garmadon: I was expecting a pizza. I don't suppose you're delivering for Buddy's Pizza?

Wu: We are not. (He, Coral, and Lloyd enter the apartment.)

Garmadon: Wipe your feet. Vinny just vacuumed.

(Inside the apartment, it is a complete pig sty. Pizza boxes and soda cans lay everywhere. On a tv inside, Gayle Gossip is now reporting from Ninjago City.)

Gayle: (On TV.) As you can see below, the is beginning to reach the limits, and not far behind them, the floating itself!

Garmadon: (He turns off the TV.) Now, what are you all jabbering about?

Lloyd: What are you doing here? This makes no sense!

Wu: You've been here the whole time? In the middle of Ninjago City? 

Coral: We haven't gotten any calls from the police or any citizens that you were here for who knows how long?! 

Wu: Explain this, brother! Explain the newspaper clippings, and — and — and why you're here, and ... and all of it!

(As everyone rants, Garmadon sprays a fern plant with a spray bottle of water.)

Garmadon: Hmm. I was hoping to avoid this conversation. But, since you're here, I may as well tell you the tale. (He sits down on a couch and opens a soda can.) It was after that squabble with Coral's grandfather, the Omega Oni, after I saved all your lives.

Lloyd: Wait, what?!

Wu: (Warning voice.) Lloyd.

(The flashbacks begin as Garmadon narrates. In the flashback, after Garmadon leaves the Monastery, he walks through the Ninjago City park. Everyone who sees him either runs away or hides. Garmadon then sees an old man feeding pigeons. He goes up to the man and dumps all the bird seed on the ground. Garmadon then sees a young man working on cutting a bush. He uses his destruction powers to burn the bush to a crisp. Garmadon then sees a kids having a tug of war and uses a sword to break the rope in two. He smiles proudly, thinking he did a good job as everyone around him screams and cries.)

Garmadon: (Narrating.) I didn't know what to do with myself. I was usually the one trying to conquer Ninjago, not save it. It was a ... peculiar feeling. I found myself confused. Why had I saved your lives? Did I actually care? I decided to do a little thinking. Take some ... me time. I had questions about the nature of good and evil. Heh, I knew all about evil, but little about good. And I was curious — did I have a capacity for good? Could I help people? All around me, I saw weak little trying their best to accomplish menial tasks. Like trimming bushes twig by twig, or trying to break ropes by pulling on them. It was madness, but I realized I was in a position to help them achieve their pointless goals.

Lloyd: Their goals aren't pointless! They were trying to— (He is interrupted when Garmadon burps loudly.) 

Coral: Garmadon, seriously?! (Sighs.) And I thought having him as an evil roommate was bad enough. Try having him as a messy one. 

Garmadon: Do you intend to continue interrupting me, or may I finish?

Wu: Finish, please.