So… I was walking around yesterday in my local park… at first as I sat down on the bench, the park looked beautiful. Duh.
Then I looked up and imagined a giant warship in the sky.
Finally, I imagined the park a dry, barren place.
So I decided to try to act out the scene in Ninjago. This time I tried to use Kai more, because I felt that he would have the best reactions.
This will probably be very short, but I'll make it as long as possible.
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2014
The ninja of fire smiled as he threw the baseball over to the ninja of lightning. It was a beautiful day in Ninjago Park, and the gang had decided to go down to have a day off for some fun.
He had to laugh as the ball smacked right into Jay's head, then slapped his mouth shut when he realized that it looked like Jay really felt a lot of pain.
Nothing could stop the ninja from having fun in the bright green grass. The field was adorned with the most perfect trees, blossoming with cherry blossoms.
It was just absolutely perfect. Minutes later, Kai and Cole were playing football, Jay and Nya were having a moment, Lloyd was gawking, and Zane was meditating.
2018
Kai looked up into the sky, running through the park, Jay following right behind.
In the dark sky, there was one of the Nindroid airships flying through the sky. The cherry blossom trees were all leafless, no life left in them.
The grass was dead, now simply brown, scorched with bomb fire. Bomb fragments splattered all over the field.
The enemy Nindroids were on the other side of the field, watching the ninja of fire and lightning intently, ready to attack on a moment's notice.
Weapons drawn, the two ninja charged at the enemy droids.
2024
Kai stared at the remains of Ninjago Park. Could it even be called that anymore?
Ninjago had been conquered by the Overlord… now instead of Cyrus' robot patrols, there were now Nindroid patrols that terrorized the streets and frequently did apartment raids for no reason at all.
Kai had seen a Nindroid shoot a civilian right in the streets, and left his wife to try and save him.
Ninjago City was no longer Ninjago City… it had been renamed by the Overlord to "City 17."
The city was frequently attacked by a bunch of rebels, but they were able to hold them off so far, and it seemed it was going to be that way forever.
Sensei had disappeared, probably turned into a Nindroid once again. Zane had been deactivated, his power source removed to help power the city.
Cole had left to join the rebels. He had tried to get the team to join, but the faith wasn't there.
Jay had been killed in the battle between the Nindroids, him, and Kai. The red ninja was lucky to get out alive himself.
The Nindroids took humans, and basically mass-produced them to become half android themselves, genetically modifying them and putting them intense alterations.
Their memories were wiped, and they were made to obey the Overlord, and the Overlord only.
Nya, unfortunately, had been captured by the Nindroids, and immediately imprisoned… and probably still there.
In the "park," there were no trees- just black, scorched, dead stumps. The grass was gone, there was only burning shrubs, mud, dirt, and rubble.
Debris was scattered everywhere from combat between the rebels and Nindroids' battles, and the park would never look beautiful again.
Flowers were nonexistent, the pond in the corner had been drained, there was now just a massive sinkhole filled with more debris.
Trying to ignore the numerous, random bodies around him, Kai trudged through the mud, and sat down on a dead stump.
He watched City 17. It was miles away, but after the making of New Ninjago City, it had grown gigantic, and could be seen from the moon.
The Overlord had begun to expand – they had discovered the technology of superportals – extremely powerful warp tunnels that could teleport beings to other planets.
Occasionally you could see the tiny dots of Nindroid warriors being teleported to other dimensions.
Ten minutes later, Kai saw a Nindroid patrol heading his way. From their white armor and Cyclops-like red eye, he could tell they were Elite soldiers.
Remembering his blade had been lost, he lay on the stump as the patrol marched through the park.
Using advanced sensor tech, they immediately detected a living being.
Their robotic hands swiveled to face Kai, and the triggers were pulled on their automatic plasma rifles.
In what seemed like slow-motion, the ninja of fire watched the bolts of plasma move towards him.
He closed his eyes and accepted his fate, eyeing the baseball in the corner of his eye. It was…
2014
Kai woke up with a start. "Hey, Kai! Time to go! We're gonna go have lunch at the Bounty!" he instantly recognized Jay's happy-go-lucky voice.
Sitting up on the bench, he gazed upon the beautiful park. Cherry blossoms blossoming, bright green grass, colorful flowers all around, the crystal clear pond, and children running around with their parents.
It had all been a dream.
As he walked over to the exit of the park, following his brother, he fiddled around with the hilt of his katana in its sheath.
After all, it might have been a dream, but remember.
Dreams can come true.
Yay, cheesy endings for all! That's okay. I enjoyed writing this. I hope you enjoyed reading this!
At first I wanted this to be more sad, so I wanted to just end it at Kai's "death."
But then I wanted it to be happy!
Next time it'll be sad. I promise.
I think I really liked kind of theming it to Half-Life! Tell me if you want more writing this this!