That's Not How It Happened

We're finally here! This is the penultimate chapter with Ash's story which will be a parody of old-time cartoons. Now sit back & enjoy.


Ash's Chapter: Beware the Ink

The whole world was in varying shades of black and white with a bad camera resolution.

"Didn't we already get this with Shade's story?" Cole pointed out the repetitiveness of the story.

"Don't interrupt!" The master of smoke snapped at the earth ninja.

Other than being monochromatic, this story won't be the same as Shade's film noir.

Ash and all the other elemental masters had 'pie slice' eyes and white gloves for what purpose, no one will ever know. They were just minding their own business, avoiding casinos run by devils and making sure not to bump into angels with horns.

"Hey guys! I just found a machine!" Ash gathered the others around the massive thing.

"Karloff wonder what machine do." The master of metal stared at the giant contraption that had 'ink' written in large letters on its side.

"I don't know. That thing's giving me the creeps." Neuro shuddered.

A loud screech disrupted these peaceful times and the elemental masters rushed to see what caused the commotion.

It was a giant demon who cackled while Nya struggled in his hand. The whole world burst into flames and because everything in this world is real, including flowers and toys… uh… let's not go there.

"Save me! Save me!" The samurai in distress screamed and flailed her arms like noodles, which is only possible with this sort of trippy medium.

"Stop treating me like a bimbo in these stories! Heck, I wasn't even there!" Nya ranted.

"Watch your language!" Kai scolded his sister… only for her to smack him upside the head.

"You know what this means!" Ash exclaimed, "It's time for us to set off on another wacky adventure!"

"Aw man! We were gonna have bacon soup tonight!" Turner complained but followed anyway.

And the elemental masters set off on a quest to rescue Nya and the whole world for some reason. The ragtag bunch of misfits knew that the first thing to do was receive words of wisdom from a wise being, who happened to be a neighbor.

"Looks like you're gonna need some help," The humanoid wolf agreed to help them, "You're lucky cuz I got just the thing that'll help you."

The anthropomorphic character handed each elemental master different art supplies, confusing them even more.

"And how exactly will a bunch of pens help us?" Camille asked, her body being more realistic than her male comrades.

"When the time comes, you'll know."

And the elemental masters set off in a steamboat to begin their journey to save Ninjago…

"Since all that traveling stuff will take forever, I'll go right ahead to the good stuff." Ash spoke.

"You mean the part where we go 'That's not how it happened' and the story ends?" Jay quipped.

"I'm gonna cook you like a ham one day." The master of smoke glared at the lightning ninja before he can resume his story.

The elemental masters survived a long and arduous journey to save the world. They've seen it all from living cookies to giant mermaids but they managed to survive all that and made it to a massive studio that was apparently the bad guy's stronghold.

The ragtag gang now found themselves fighting not the devil but his right-hand man, the true villain of this messed up world. The baddie's body seemed to be made entirely out of inky matter but was also buff at the same time. Don't ask how it works but that's just how it is.

The elemental masters had no idea what to do. The bad guy's inky body absorbed their attacks and it seems like nothing will work.

'When the time comes, you'll know.' The wolf's advice echoed in Ash's head.

"The art supplies! Do you still have them?" The master of smoke called out to his allies.

"Yeah. Why?" Turner asked.

"This is exactly what that guy was talking about! Throw them at the ink guy!"

The elemental masters obeyed the master of smoke and threw the supplies towards the villain…

Too bad they suck at throwing. The items landed only a couple of feet from them.

"Now what?" Shade pondered.

And the ink machine from before falls from the sky and crushes everyone and everything.

"That's not how it happened!"

And it's back to reality and this time, it's permanent.

"Who's going next?" Lloyd inspected the group of tied up side characters.

The elemental masters stared at one another but with Ash's story done, all of them went except for…

"I know what happened!" Jacob exclaimed, "It all started when -"

"Nah, the only way you could tell it is like that Fantasia bullshit and that just won't work in literature." Jay stopped the master of sound.

"Enough!" Nya shouted above everyone else, "I don't even care anymore! You get this mess cleaned up before we can move on with our miserable lives!"

"That's it?" Cole asked, "We're never gonna find out what really happened?"

"I believe so." Zane answered.

And it seems like life will go back to normal… or as normal as it can get in Ninjago…


Don't worry. We'll find out what really happened in the epilogue. But as some people say, the truth can be too much to handle.

With this story almost done, it's gonna be sad to see it come to an end. As always, please review.