Okay, this story doesn't really fit in anywhere on the Ninjago story line as there are too many plot variables in it. Without the weird plot variables though, these events would ideally take place right before season one episode five, "Can of Worms."

In this story SamuraiX is not yet in existence, and Lloyd has been revealed as the green ninja but has not yet started training. The ninja have already faced all of the five serpentine tribes at least once but before they know that the serpentine are trying to awaken the Great Devourer. All four ninja have already reached their true potentials, Kai reaching his very recently.

And I mean, obviously I don't own Ninjago. Enjoy :)

Green With Envy:

The forgotten Ninjago episode

Chapter One: A good Start To a Good Day

Jay woke up to a pretty good morning. He could tell that it was already going to be a great day because he got to sleep in. He closed his eyes and inhaled deeply. "Don't you just love the smell of late morning after a good night's sleep?" A thump rang out and Kai moaned. "How about the smell of wood in your face first thing in the morning?" He shot back, rubbing his head from where he had hit it on the top bunk. Cole's head popped down from the top of the adjacent bunk. "Oh yeah, I love that smell!"

There was a pause and everyone looked at Kai. Jay flash backed to yesterday when Kai had snuck into Cole's weights in the training room and tried to lift every single one of the earth ninja's weights all at once. The combined weight had been too much and Kai ended up crashing through the wooden floor during his attempt, leaving Cole to dig him out of the splintery mess.

"Uh yeah, Kai. Remind me again why you tried to lift Cole's weights? I was the one who had to clean up the mess, you know." Jay added in a slightly louder voice.

"I just wanted to see if I was as strong as the green ni—… I mean, uh, I was trying to get them out so I could, uh, clean them… No, actually I was um—"

"Kai, you tried to lift twice as much weight as I can. Did you forget that I have super strength? I mean, come on. You cracked almost the entire dojo floor in half."

Cole jumped down from the bunk and landed hard on the wooden floor, emphasizing his point. Kai slowly inched out, still rubbing his sore spot. Jay chuckled. "Kai, you crack me up sometimes... Ha! Get it? 'Crack' me up?" Jay burst out laughing at his own joke while all the other ninjas shook their heads. Jay hopped down. "Well I've got a good feeling about today. Oh, good morning, Zane." Zane looked up sleepily. "It's morning already?"

"Race you guys to the dining room?" Jay asked eagerly, posed in a runner's stance.

"Oh yeah! I can't believe I forgot about breakfast!" Cole exclaimed.

In a moment the four ninjas were running through the hallways of Destiny's Bounty.

After a delicious breakfast of hot oatmeal, the four argued about who's turn it was to do the breakfast dishes. In the end, they chose Kai to clean up the oatmeal bowls. Muttering under his breath, he stacked his and the others' bowls into a large pile by the sink. He began to wash the dishes in a smooth manner. Although he was a ninja he knew how to wash dishes well. Halfway through, the sponge slipped from his hands and landed on the floor. Sighing, he paused his work to pick it back up again. Right before he began to scrape the grimy sludge off of Zane's bowl he noticed something out of the corner of his eye on the table: Sensei Wu's bag!

Curious, Kai looked left then right and proceeded to tiptoe to the bag hoping that no one was watching. He noticed that a scroll was sticking out of the side. He opened it up to a familiar scene: two columns of what appeared to be chicken scratch of some ancient language that only Zane could read, and a picture of the four ninja and another green ninja above them. But Kai didn't need Zane to read the writing at the moment. He knew exactly what it said. In fact, he knew the words so well he could practically recite them in his sleep: One ninja will rise above the others and become the green ninja; the ninja destined to defeat the dark lord.

Kai smiled wearily. He wasn't the green ninja. He knew he wasn't. Lloyd was. And it was his job to protect the chosen one. Yet he couldn't help but feel like someone had punched him in the gut. He should have been the green ninja; Lloyd knew nothing about being a ninja. His whole life had been spent running away and opening up the tombs of the serpentine which now the real ninja had to deal with. Why Lloyd? Why all those legendary powers to someone who had no idea how to use them? Kai let the scroll droop in his hands, dwelling upon this distressing thought. Quickly he shook his head and restored the scroll to its upright position. He shouldn't be thinking these thoughts. Kai sighed, then almost dropped the scroll when Sensei Wu came bumbling in. Quick as a flash, Kai stuffed the scroll awkwardly back into the sack and returned to the sink. He proceeded to pretend like he had been washing dishes the whole time. When Wu looked up, Kai smiled and waved, knowing that his charade of "casualness" would never penetrate Sensei's wall of wisdom and observation.

Sensei Wu peered at the red ninja for a long, silent moment then noticed his bag on the table.

"Ah, there it is. I believe I left my bag in the kitchen. I shouldn't have been so careless to leave my scrolls of prophecy where anyone could sneak in and read them."

"Yeaah," Kai said, overly cheerfully, "Wouldn't want that to happen!"

Wu walked out, and Kai wiped away some perspiration from his forehead. That was close!

A while later the four ninjas emerged fully dressed for the mission ahead. As usual, Nya was manning the screens in the bridge that displayed maps of Ninjago and Wu was pacing the floor. At the sound of their steps, Sensei turned to face them. He held out his staff.

"I see four, but where is Lloyd?"

The ninja froze. "Oh yeah, that's right," remarked Jay with a nervous laugh, "I forgot we had the son of Lord Garmadon on our ship."

"Man, that kid can be a handful." Kai said, with a painfully obvious forced laugh.

"But you saw what Sensei did. Lloyd's changed now." Nya said, stepping away from the jumbo computer screen on the wall. "Besides, he's the green ninja. He's on our side." Nya assured her brother, placing her hand on Kai's shoulder. Kai smiled weakly and shuffled off towards the exit in search of Lloyd. As soon as he was gone Jay turned to Cole; "Well, it looks like someone had a rough morning."

"We should have known better. We hadn't seen Lloyd all morning, and Kai is kind of the one in charge of him now. You know, after he reached his true potential, he realized that he was meant to be the protecter of the green ninja, not the actual guy himself."

Jay nodded.

"Yeah, but something still seems a little off to me. Maybe we should go see what's up."

The three ninja that were left ran out of the bridge. Suddenly they heard a loud exclamation coming from downstairs. "Kai!" Zane yelled. They continued on their way downstairs to the dojo room where they found Kai standing completely speechless at the spectacle in front of him. Lloyd had lifted all of Cole's weights at once (which had never been put back after Kai tried to lift them yesterday) and was casually hefting them around as though they were a sack of potatoes. He turned suddenly and saw them. "Woah, hey guys!" He waved, but no one waved back. "What are you all staring at?" The boy turned and looked in the direction they were looking. "Lloyd, do you realize what you're doing?" Cole asked in disbelief. "Uhhh…. holding weights?" Lloyd suggested with a confused smile.

"Lloyd, that's more weight than Jay, Kai, Zane, and even I can lift!"

Jay and Kai both felt a little sting when Cole mentioned their name.

"Oh." Lloyd muttered, now looking at the load in his hands in a new light. "Sensei had asked me to look for his bag earlier, and I was wondering if it was under these weights." He lifted them higher in his hands.

Kai couldn't believe it. With strength like that, he'd… he shuddered, trying to scatter the thoughts but couldn't help them. If he had Lloyd's power…

As if a switch had turned on, Jay noticed Lloyd's arms. And Cole's. And then his own. His own skinny noodles of arms. He suddenly didn't think it was going to be a good day anymore.

Lloyd placed the weight down and walked over. Kai managed to shake himself out of his gawking stare and speak: "Well Sensei now wants you up at the bridge." The five of them walked up the stairs in silence.

"Sensei, you wold not believe what Lloyd accomplished today." Zane began to tell Sensei at the bridge.

"You know how Kai tried to lift all those weights the other day and totally failed at it? Well Lloyd just lifted all of them like he was carrying a feather!"

Jay exclaimed, replaying the scene in his head.

"I didn't totally fail at it." Kai put in.

"Well actually, you did." Zane stepped forward to say. "With all the damage that was done to the dojo floor and seeing that you never actually lifted the weights, I'd say failure was 110% probable."

Kai opened his mouth to say something.

"Sensei, I still don't know how he did it. He hasn't had any training." Cole blurted out.

Sensei walked towards them stroking his beard. He stopped when he reached Lloyd.

"Destiny chose well. The green ninja possesses more power and strength than we think." Lloyd smiled.

"What did I tell you?" Nya piped up from the back. "The green ninja!"

"Does this mean that I can go on the mission today?" Lloyd asked excitedly, giddy from all of the attention. Sensei began to walk back towards the screen.

"Uh, no. You have to stay here with Nya."

Lloyd moaned and sat in a chair in the corner as Nya debriefed the ninja on the day's mission.