The Ninja of Oz

I'm back! I'm gonna start off the new year by bastardizing an American classic! As par for the course, here's a disclaimer: I don't own Ninjago nor the Wizard of Oz. Read on!

Chapter 1: Not in Ninjago

Soft hums filled in the Destiny's Bounty while Nya was organizing the equipment in the training room. The ninjas were just doing whatever they wanted to pass the time in yet another day in Ninjago. There was nothing unusual going on but the ninjas were always prepared in the event some bad guy from seemingly out of nowhere turns up.

"Nya!"

The sister of fire yelped in surprise, putting her song to a halt. She immediately spotted Lloyd at the entrance with an eyebrow raised in curiosity.

"What are you doing here?" Nya asked.

"Just walking by. What else?" Lloyd answered, "What were you humming, anyway?"

"Somewhere over the rainbow… It's from the Wizard of Oz. I saw it once when I was very little though I can't say I remember everything…"

"But you remember the song?"

"Yeah… Before Kai and I met Sensei Wu, I kinda shared Dorothy's dream of leaving my home for a place where there wouldn't be any troubles for me… guess I should've been more careful with what I wished for…"

"Tell me about it…"

The green ninja and samurai's interaction was suddenly interrupted by the Bounty rocking back and forth, throwing them off balance.

"What the-!?" Lloyd ran off to investigate, leaving Nya in the training room. At the bridge, the green ninja saw his brothers and uncle trying to divert the ship's direction. Outside the window, he could see a violent storm heading in their direction.

"There's a tornado up ahead and it's approaching the Bounty at an abnormally fast rate!" Zane analyzed the weather-related anomaly.

"Steer the Bounty away from its path!" Sensei Wu commanded his pupils.

The ninjas were rushing to get to the control room but surprise, surprise, Kai was taking forever in the bathroom, making sure not a single spike atop his head wasn't out of place.

"Kai! Get off of your prissy ass and help us!" Nya banged the door to get his attention.

"I can't! Not until I have every strand in place!" The fire ninja complained from the other side, being the annoying egomaniac he is.

"Fine! We'll get out of the storm without you!" The samurai crossed her arms in annoyance, not realizing her vain brother finally finished preening his gel-laden locks. But Kai didn't know that Nya was still standing right by the door and when he swung it open, it hit his sister in the back of her head with such force she fell over in a daze.

Everything around the samurai went black for what felt like a few moments for her. The rocking feeling of the Bounty caught in the tornado was almost comforting until she lost consciousness.

Soon, the agonizing pounding in her cranium was gone but Nya can't remember when. But that wasn't the only thing bothering her. For some reason, everything, including herself, was stuck in a sepia-toned world like a very old movie. It was just like the Wizard of Oz…

"Oh god I'm in a trauma-induced dream, aren't I?" The sister of fire was just plain annoyed by her unusual predicament and quickly planned on getting back at her brother for this. However, the rickety movements of the Destiny's Bounty reminded her of a more urgent matter.

'The storm!'

Nya made a beeline for the bridge but even before she reached the main room, she knew there was something amiss, besides the obvious sepia tones of just about everything around her.

"Guys…? Sensei…?"

There were no signs of the ninjas or anyone else at all as if they were never in the Bounty in the first place. But Nya wasn't completely helpless and immediately took the helm in diverting the vessel from the tornado. For some reason, all the computers and systems were off. She tried to reboot them or even get them to work but they wouldn't activate.

"Come on! Work, dammit!" Nya's patience was running out. Driving the ship manually will only be more difficult, especially in the middle of a tornado but the least she can do in her situation was try.

"Nya?" A familiar voice resonated from the back of the room.

The samurai immediately recognized the voice as her brother's but instead of Kai, a diminutive creature approached her. The little animal's spiky fur pretty much gave away his identity.

"Kai… Is that you…?" Nya gasped in astonishment.

"Duh!" The ninja turned animal huffed, just as annoyed as his sister in this messed up scenario and to rub more salt on the wound, she couldn't help but laugh at his new form.

"Since when did you become a hedgehog!?" Nya barely managed to ask amidst her guffaws.

"I'm a dog!" Her indignant brother corrected her but the way his already spiky fur stood on end only made his outburst all the more hilarious.

"But what I'm more curious about is why you're a dog all of a sudden." The sister of fire asked again after regaining her composure.

"Since we are the poster guys for the next season, we might as well be the first ones to show up in this messed up dream of yours." The ninja turned dog shrugged… that is if dogs can shrug.

"How do you know all this stuff!?"

"Why else would we be stuck in your dream? The show's been going down the drain lately and this is a perfect excuse to get away from all the wangst and tropes."

"As if this nightmare can't get any weirder…" Nya groaned, "Just help me control the ship."

"Can't do that," Kai retorted, already taking advantage of his new form, "I'm just a dog."

Nya growled to herself, feeling even more tempted than before to kick her own brother.

'As if things couldn't get any worse…'

…And then she pretty much jinxes herself. Seriously, people really need to stop saying that.

The fierce gales outside started to die down but it also caused the Destiny's Bounty to fall from the sky at a rapid rate. Nya clutched Kai and grabbed onto the ship's wheel as the deactivated vessel plummeted from the monotonous sky until it finally landed with an unceremonious thud but also felt like it landed on something else.

Nya cautiously left the bridge and was almost blinded by the sudden colors of rainbows, glitter, and unicorns- wait. Wrong world. The Destiny's Bounty stood in the middle of what looked like a little village and running through it was a yellow brick road. The landscape looked nothing like anywhere else in Ninjago and the samurai realized this wasn't Ninjago. This was the Land of Oz.

"Kai…?" Nya alerted her brother of their situation.

"What?" The little brown dog stared at her.

"We're definitely not in Ninjago anymore."

I know. It doesn't seem like much but hey, this is a parody. Nothing's meant to be taken seriously here but the so-called plot will pick up after this. In the meantime, review!