Enter The Ninjaverse

CHAPTER 3

"Listen, I'm only going to say this one more time," Lloyd sucked in a breath, "My name is Lloyd Garmadon. Those two were Krux and Acronix. They're known as the Time Twins. They stole my elemental power and combined it with their time vortex to travel what I think are dimensions. I combined my powers with the Realm Crystal to follow them. I'm not allied with either of them!"

Lloyd currently sat tied to a chair in the middle of a large dojo on the Destiny's Bounty. The shock of seeing the ship wasn't destroyed in this universe was offset by the fact that in front of him was what looked to be his father if he'd decided to wear permanent armor and learn some sort of strange method of movement to bolster his confusion power to enemies. This Garmadon currently was holding Lloyd's Realm Crystal in his hand, toying with it between his four arms. Once Lloyd finish talking, he turned and slowly placed it under his Warlord robes.

"Even if we are to believe your story," Garmadon scoffed, "Which is hard to believe, even for me, what's saying that those two aren't your allies, and you were sent ahead to deceive us?" Garmadon smirked, "Classic battle tactic. Heck, I used it myself! I think that was the Sushi Takeover scheme... no, wait, it was the Dock Worker Submergers! What I'm getting at here," Garmadon gave a massive grin, "I've been in a few hundred fights."

Lloyd groaned and shook his head, "I saved your... son, right? I saved your son's life, why would I do that? Didn't they try to kill him?"

"Just because you saved Lulloyd doesn't mean you actually did anything that we can use to trust you," Garmadon turned around, letting his robes smack Lloyd's face in doing so, "If I were trying to infiltrate my enemy's fortress, this would be my exact method for doing so."

"If you just give me the Realm Crystal back," Lloyd smiled gently, "I can show you the universe we're from, a universe that isn't so... blocky and, where everyone moves like me! I can show you the ninja team I'm apart of, that I lead! I'll prove that I am who I say I am!"

"If we give you this... Realm Crystal," Nya, who was leaning up against the wall with the other ninja around her, "Who's to say you won't just poof off like those two did and lead them right to us?"

"Giving the captive the crystal is most likely to result in an unfavorable situation," Zane added, standing straight up from imitating Nya, "I suggest we move this Lloyd to a more secure location."

Lloyd tried once more to summon some elemental energy to his hands to loosen the strange black rope that was used to tie him up. Yet what little energy he could muster wasn't anywhere near enough to do so. His earlier attempt to demonstrate his powers had earned him the pleasure of learning what getting smacked with the business end of a shark warlord staff felt upside the head.

"I admit that you imitation of my son is rather... decent," Garmadon grinned, "The hair is an exact match, almost like you copied it directly and used it for yourself. Your face in general does a pretty good job... though, your ninja suit is a dead giveaway. Maybe if you inverted the colors, you could have gotten farther. Clearly you didn't impersonate hard enough!"

"I just had my ninja suit redone five months ago," Lloyd explained, holding back an edge of frustration, "I figured that a new suit meant that I should get a new hairstyle too! My whole team did it!"

"Wait, so you just, change your hair?" Jay spoke up, his voice tinged with confusion, "And people don't treat you like a different person?"

"Wait, dudes, didn't we defeat Garmadon five months ago?" Kai smirked, "Like, man, that's kinda a cool uh... what's the word?"

"Coincidence," Nya rolled her eyes, "Seriously, Kai, do you ever open up a dictionary, ever?"

"Uhm, I may have been neglecting my study session with him," Jay pipped up, "Sorry, Nya..."