Chapter 1: Stranded
AN: In case you were wondering, show Lloyd was plucked out from Season 8. Movie Lloyd got taken out after his 'butt dial' from Garmadon. Still don't own Ninjago! Collab with EMPFangirl02.
Lloyd slowly opened his eyes. He felt the ground beneath him was sand, which meant he must be on a beach. He had a splitting headache. He slowly sat up, and noticed that and his gi was ripped to shreds. What happened? As he looked around, he immediately saw a very tall volcano with lava flowing out of it on far side of the ocean.
What in the world?
Lloyd was flying on his elemental dragon when he suddenly encountered a ferocious storm. The rain came at him hard, making it virtually impossible to see. Lightning flashed and thunder crashed. He wasn't sure he could maintain his dragon for much longer. He tried to summon more power to stabilize it, but it was losing battle. His dragon suddenly disappeared, and he was falling through the air. Then, everything went black.
Lloyd remembered what happened as he struggled to his feet, feeling every part of his body screaming in protest. He considered himself fortunate to have survived his fall. He didn't know how long he had been out, but his friends were probably worried about him. He lifted his hand to speak into his commlink.
"Come in, guys. This is Lloyd." He waited a little bit, but all his heard was static. "Can anyone hear me? Come in."
No reply. That's strange.
He pulled off his ripped gi, leaving him in his plain green shirt and black pants. Then he looked for the familiar skyline of Ninjago City, assuming that he hadn't gotten too far from where he was flying. He saw a very tall tower, but it wasn't Cyrus Borg's tower. In fact, none of the skyline looked the same as what he knew. There were all kinds of strange looking buildings of all sizes and shapes-including one that looked like characters of the alphabet. He also saw what looked a puffer fish blimp.
Now Lloyd was really concerned. Maybe he had hit his head harder than he thought. He decided to make his way towards the city and get some answers. It took him awhile to get there, with his aching body, and he had to make his way around a dock with some fishing boats around it. He looked up at a large structure that had a sign on it that read, 'Thanks for visiting Ninjago, 001 days since last attack.'
That made no sense. Sure, a lot of things seemed to always happen to the city during all his years of being a ninja, but he had never seen that sign before. As he walked down further along the streets, he noticed that none of the shops looked familiar either. Where was Chen's Noodle house? Dareth's dojo? Mistaké's tea shop? Instead he saw Tom's TV Repair Shop, a place that sold toner cartridges, and a Pilates studio.
Lloyd was so confused. It seemed that he was still in Ninjago, but it was clearly not the same place that he remembered. Had he been transported back or forward in time? Since they took care of the time blades and the Time brothers a while back, that didn't seem possible, but he had learned that anything could happen.
As he walked along, he spotted a Hot-noddle-dog stand, with chopsticks on the top of it holding a noodle, and with a man standing next to it dressed up like a hot dog. Lloyd had definitely never seen that in Ninjago City before. Oh well. He decided that seemed a good a place as any to start asking some questions.
He walked right up to the hot dog man. "Excuse me, but…" the green ninja started to say.
"What do you want?" the man said with obvious disgust.
Lloyd blinked, taken aback by the man's rudeness. He had never been talked to with such…disdain before. Everyone in the Ninjago he knew looked up to him.
"I was hoping you could…" the teen started again but was cut off by the man.
"How many times I have told you? I don't serve the son of the worst guy ever in Ninjago. Now get lost!" The hot dog man snapped as he turned to the man in line behind Lloyd, who was glaring at him.
Lloyd slowly backed away. What was going on here? The son of worst guy ever? What did that mean? He was the son of Garmadon, but when Lloyd defeated the Overlord, all the evil had been purged from his father and he became Sensei Garmadon. His father was a good man. Maybe they had him confused with someone else.
However, as Lloyd walked on from there, he noticed that everyone he saw either glared at him as if he was pure evil, or else avoided him like he had the plague. He needed to find out what was going on here. Something was really wrong.
The green ninja eventually made his way to a large warehouse. Around it was a fence that had the words 'Brick Recycling Closed.' Maybe he could hang out here until he could figure things out.
As he approached the large, wide doors, they opened for him. He looked around, slightly uneasy that a closed warehouse would just suddenly open for him. It was a lot larger and open than it looked from the outside, and seemed pretty empty. He also noticed giant mechs that he had never seen before. There was a tall red one that had arms that looked like they could shoot out something from them. There was a black colored one that was balanced on one wheel and had what looked like giant speakers on them. Then there was a one that was white and had ice blue colored lights with tractor tread wheels on it and a singular gun. Then looking up, he saw a dark blue plane looking mech hanging from the top of the warehouse. On the far side was what looked like a giant water strider mech. Lastly, there was a giant, green dragon looking mech.
Was kind of warehouse was this? He then heard some voices. They sounded like they were coming from inside some orange lockers on the left side. He watched in awe as he saw five people suddenly jump out from them. They looked familiar…as he looked closer, he saw they were the other Ninja. He was so glad to see some friendly faces, but why hadn't they answered his call? Why were they here? This didn't look like the same place he had left them.
"Hey!" he called. "What are you guys doing here?" The ninja turned and saw Lloyd coming towards them.
"What are we doing here?" Kai replied. "Why weren't you in school today? We've been trying to reach you off and on all day, bro. Were the bullies bothering you again?"
Lloyd frowned at the question. Bullies? As he looked at his friends, he noticed that their outfits were so...different. And what was with Kai and Jay's voice? They sounded...off.
"School? What are you talking about? I just left you guys to find a new safe place from the Sons of Garmadon after Cole spilled our plans. I was on my Elemental Dragon and then a storm hit and the next thing I knew, I woke up on some beach. But nothing looks familiar." As soon as he finished speaking, his friends all looked at each other in confusion.
"Uh, Elemental... what now?" Cole asked. Lloyd wondered why Cole seemed so...laid back.
"Sons of Garmadon?" Jay added quietly, twiddling with his orange scarf. "I thought he only had one son." Lloyd couldn't believe how shy Jay was. That wasn't like him at all, and when did he start wearing an orange scarf?
"And you should know that we've had this place as our secret ninja headquarters over a year now," Zane told Lloyd in a flat voice. That didn't sound like the Zane Lloyd knew.
"What? That doesn't make any sense," Lloyd answered, shaking his head.
The Ninja glanced at each other in concern. "Uh, Lloyd, what's wrong with your voice?" Nya asked.
Lloyd looked over at Nya. "This is how I always sound. You guys are the ones that sound different," he countered.
The Ninja were suspicious now. They gathered together in a huddle and spoke in low tones.
"Something's wrong with Lloyd," Cole said. "He's not acting like himself."
"He looks like Lloyd," Jay said, "but he doesn't sound like him."
"Yeah, and he doesn't remember anything that he should. Do you think something happened to him, like he lost his memory?" Nya asked.
"Maybe, but what if he's a spy from Garmadon's army?" Kai asked.
They all looked at him like he was crazy.
"A spy, Kai?" Nya asked with a raised brow.
"You never know…" Kai defended. "We have to find out one way or the other."
They nodded in agreement and then turned around and faced Lloyd who was watching them carefully.
"Who are you and what have you done with Lloyd?" Kai demanded.
AN: Oh snap! What's going to happen now? Each chapter will switch to the other Lloyd's situation. If you get confused about anything, just ask! Thanks to everyone who reviewed, favorited, followed and to the wonderful guest reviewers JBomb12, Lloyd, and NeverEndingSaga. Appreciate it very much!