Last chapter! I can hardly believe it! After almost an entire year. Well, I hope you enjoy the conclusion to my very first Ninjago fanfic, that I've posted.

Disclaimer: I do not own Ninjago or the lines taken from the episode the Mask of Deception.

Together Again

Cole looked at the monastery door in excitement and worry. If Wu lost his memory would he ever get it back? What if he wasn't even there, and they climbed all the way up there for nothing?

"Can I open the door now?" Jay asked. The two ninja had been standing in the snow for a little over half an hour.

"We should probably do something about this machine first," Cole quickly said.

"Throw it down this horrid mountain?" Jay suggested.

"Jay!" Cole nearly yelled at his friend's dislike towards his precious mountains.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Jay put his hands up in defense.

"It's fine," Cole replied. He then got an idea. "You like inventing things, right?"

"Yeah."

"Well, why don't you just disassemble it. That's the right word, right?"

Jay ignored Cole's last question and took the small machine out of Cole's hands. He studied it for a second before saying, "I might have something in my pack. Can we go inside first, though?"

"Nope."

Jay groaned as he took a small pouch out of his belt and took a very tiny wrench out of that. He then started untightning all the bolts that held it together. He carefully put every part he took off of the machine into his pouch to use in one of his or Nya's future inventions. After taking all the bolts out, he could see that the inside just had a smaller box with a few gears connected to it.

"What's that?" Cole asked.

"I don't know," Jay said as he gave the thing to Cole, so he could pull the gears off with his earth punch.

Once he managed to pull one of the gears off, a bunch of water sprayed right into Cole's face, much to Jay's enjoyment.

"Are you okay?" Jay asked once the water finally stopped coming.

"I think I'm ready to go inside now," Cole shivered.

Jay took the box back from Cole and put it in his pouch to mess with later.

Suddenly, a loud, strong wind filled the snowy mountain, knocking Jay and Cole into the door.

Jay groaned as he attempted to open the door, Cole trying to do the same.

"I hate this place!" Jay's screams could barely be heard right before the wind stopped.

"I wonder if we'll recognize Wu when we see him again," Cole mentioned as he stood back up.

"What do you mean?" Jay asked doing the same.

"Well, he was time traveling, right. So that would mean he might've been messing with the past. That would cause some sort of massive change that changes everything we know and possibly, his appearance, or anybody's appearance," Cole tried to explain.

Jay tried to say something to that, but, the wind started again, stronger this time. It swung the doors of the monastery open and rolled Jay and Cole right in.

They quickly got up and struggled to close the door behind them.

"Cole, you're my friend, but right now, you're my worst enemy," Jay finished as the door finally closed. "You have no idea how time travel works."

"If someone goes back in time and alters the past, our reality as we know it would change. We could look totally different and not even know it," Cole tried to explain as he was still unsure about how to tell Jay about his face.

He then took off his hood while Jay did the same, and said, "But we don't. Thus, Master Wu must've slipped into a timestream into the future."

"Whenever he is, it's been a year. It's time we find him," Cole said. "Uh, hi," he said to a nearby monk who was meditating. "Sorry to bother you. Cole, Master of Earth. Uh, this is Jay, Master of Blabber."

"Lightning," Jay gritted.

"We heard that an old man who lost his memory wandered in from the cold. About so high, long beard, drinks a lot of tea," Cole explained.

The monk opened his eyes for a moment before turning his head away and continuing with his mediation.

"I told you not to introduce yourself as the Master of Earth. No one knows what that means," Jay told him.

"No, you bolt-head. Everyone here took a vow of silence."

That gave Jay an idea. He walked back over to the man and practically screamed, "Can you point us to him?"

The monk looked at Jay in annoyance and pointed to his left.

"Thank you! I-I like your place," Jay continued yelling as Cole facepalmed.

The two walked over in the direction the monk pointed to see a man drinking tea with his face towards the wall. He wore a hat just like their master and the same type of robes Wu usually wore.

They couldn't believe it. They actually found him!

As Cole started to walk over to him, Jay said, "Wait! If it's him, and he lost his memory, don't remind him of that stupid TV show I once hosted, okay?" Jay smiled pleadingly.

"Uh, Master Wu?' Cole asked as he approached the man.

The man stood up to face them, but it wasn't him. Instead of a white beard, he had a grey moustach. His eyes still had the similar kindness in them, but they were brown, not green, and he looked a little too young.

"Oh, come on!" Jay complained. "We came all this way, and it's not him? Ah! Th-that's it! I quit!"

"I'm tired of losing people in my life," Cole replied. "Wu would never quit on us, and we're not quitting on him."

"If he's really still out there, couldn't he at least send a letter from the future? Or leave a message to stand the test of time? He's wise. He'd find a way."

"We just have to keep looking."

"Yeah, you do that, and while your at it, I'll be doing something more useful, like being a ninja."

"Ha! Some ninja you are. You talk more than you fight!" Cole started to raise his voice.

"At least I'm entertaining. All you do is judge, and act like you know everything!" Jay shot back.

"Would you stop fighting?!" one of the monks yelled.

"Oops," Cole thought.

"Way to break your vow," another told him before he gasped, realizing what he just did. "Oh, no. I spoke too."

"I knew you didn't have it in you!" another laughed.

"I've been holding this in. But I just want to say, I hate doing your dishes!' another yelled.

"Well, if everyone is doing it, I'm doing it too," another said.

All the monks started yelling and screaming and started to surround the ninja as Jay and Cole suddenly heard a loud, beeping noise in their intercom. Lloyd needed them.

"That's our cue. Got to run!" Jay said before the two ran to the door and opened it, causing the monks to blow away before they ran out.

"We want to get out of here fast, so I'll carry you down on the rope," Cole told his friend.

"The faster we're off of this thing, the better," Jay called back.

"Run!" Kai told Zane as one of the Mechanic's drones were coming to attack them.

Zane and Kai ran in separate directions to get the drone off of their trail, and it ended up following Zane, who had just activated his cloak. As he was running, he looked up at the Mechanic to see that the remote he held was how he controlled all of the drones.

Zane then looked behind him, jumped on top of the drone that was chasing him, and used one of his new arrows to destroy it.

"Kai, we need to grab the Mechanic's remote. That controls the drones," Zane said through his intercom.

"I'm a little busy at the moment," Kai yelled back through the earpiece before Zane could hear the Fire Ninja start to scream in fear.

Zane started running back into the direction he left his friend, but he was nowhere to be found.

"Kai!" Zane yelled. "Kai, where are you?"

He ran down the path he remembered Kai taking and ran past a lot of people, one sailor he heard screaming something about never trusting a ninja, or something like that. It was weird. Finally, he found Kai being pinned down by the Mechanic's fire arm.

"You really wanna go down in the first round, Ninja?" he asked him.

Kai responded by kicking the Mechainc down and, causing him to drop his remote.

Kai then grabbed the remote and broke it in half, disabling the drones.

"You'll regret that, Ninja!' the Mechanic yelled as Kai ran up onto the roof of a nearby building.

"I don't think I will," Kai replied haughtily.

Zane was about to join the fight when he heard Pixal's voice in his earpiece. It surprised him until he remembered that Lloyd had told him that he was trying to get her back online only a few weeks ago, and it looked like he succeeded.

"Zane, Master Lloyd requires Kai and your attention in Ninjago City," she told him.

"Is it serious?" Zane asked as he saw Kai jump off of the building he was on to avoid getting hit by one of the Mechanic's fiery blasts.

"It appears so. Did I catch you at a bad time?" Pixal asked.

"Zane, a little help!" Kai called once he noticed his buddy.

"Hot off the press. The Mechanic is back, Ninjago," the Mechanic said before he tried blasting Kai again with his fire, but Kai used his own element to block this, only to cause some sort of explosion.

As Kai looked around him he saw fire burning everywhere.

"Aw. Whoever said fight fire with fire didn't know what they were talking about," he said.

"We will be there shortly," Zane told Pixal.

"Watch out for the crossfire," the Mechanic said.

"Hey, you're stealing my lines!" Kai yelled.

Just as the Mechanic was going to hit Kai again, Zane used his icy element to freeze him in place.

"Who likes ice cream? I do! How was that for a last line, Kai?" Zane asked a she took off his hood and deactivated his cloak. "Can we leave now?"

It wasn't until then that Zane realized that he accidentally froze Kai as well!

"It needs a little work. Gonna have to give me a minute to thaw, though," Kai mumbled from under the ice.

Kai used his powers to melt the ice around him before the two ninja took the Mechanic to the police, so they could bring him back to Kryptarium Prison.

"Follow me!" Nya yelled to her new friend, Julie as she ran in the opposite direction of the screaming master.

"You don't have to tell me twice," Julie replied.

The two ran from the hoards of guards behind them until they saw much more in front of them.

"This way!" Nya said as she grabbed onto Julie's wrist and practically dragged her in between an extremely tight spot between two of the houses. Only a few of the guards could follow them while the rest had to run around.

Nya and Julie ran all the way to the wall surrounding the place, and she helped her new friend over.

"What will stop them from finding me?" Julie asked.

"Don't worry. They'll get what they deserve," Nya replied.

"Thank you," Julie said as she ran as far away from that place as possible.

Seeing that the guards weren't going to stop, Nya ran into one of the houses and buried herself under some of the clothes.

The guards didn't see her, though. So they ran past the house, and Nya resumed her act as a slave.

Once she was sure they weren't looking for her anymore Nya exited the house and made her way towards the crops. The sun beat down on her like fire and the buckets were very heavy, but when she got to the crops, and she heard Master Howard's voice, she knew that this would all be worth it.

"Ugh. The sun is blistering. Faster!" Howard ordered his slaves.

"You heard your master. Work!" one of his guards said before giving a threatening crack of his whip.

Nya stopped in her tracks as some people started staring at her.

"Why wasn't she moving? Didn't she know what was going to happen?" they thought.

Tony was one of the slaves working in that field, and he recognized her right away.

"Freedom awaits," he thought.

"You there. Peasant. Bring me water," Howard told her, as he couldn't see her face.

Nya didn't move.

"You here me? Bring me some water!" Howard yelled this time.

"Thirsty?" Nya asked.

"Her again?" Howard thought.

"It's...," one of the guards gasped

"The master of water. Nya!" another said, for they were some of the few who had never seen her yet, but they knew about what she's been doing the last year.

"I don't care! Get her!" Howard yelled.

The guards pulled out there swords and ran up to her, but she was able to use her water buckets to quickly knock them down.

Howard took his own sword up and ran up to her. He was fed up with this little girl ruining all of his plans.

Nya hit the man with her pole and swung him until he hit the ground. She then dropped the buckets and used her powers to knock him into the nearby waters surrounding the crops.

"Still thirsty?" Nya asked as the water floated above her hand.

Howard ran back up to her only to get thrown back into the water by her powers. She then managed to control the water enough to stick him into the water, which was now more like mud, and did the same thing to his other two guards.

As the slaves started cheering at their master's defeat, Nya heard a beeping sound in her earpiece. Lloyd needed her. She bowed slightly to the people and ran.

Every guard she ran into was easily managed the same way. Nya would use her powers to nearly drown them, they'd try again, and she would hit them with her pole to knock them out. Those that weren't knocked unconscious gave up when she told them what she did to their master.

She went to house after house to tell people of her victory and let them go. They all seemed to have a place in mind.

Finally, she got to the last slave.

"I can't thank you enough for what you've done for us," Tony told her.

"You don't have to. Like I said before, I'm a ninja, and I don't tolerate stuff like what your father has done to you all," Nya replied. "Do you have a place to go?"

"I have someone to find," Tony replied. "She shouldn't be too far."

Nya gave a sad smile.

"Take care," she told him.

"You too," Tony bowed his head down as Nya had done before and started his journey through the woods.

Nya was actually the first one to arrive at Borg Tower. Not even Lloyd was there yet.

"Are you sure this is the place?" Nya asked Pixal.

"The others will be here soon. Jay and Cole are almost in the city now," Pixal replied.

This excited Nya. She hadn't seen any one of her friends for such a long time. Apart from video-chatting with Jay. She wondered how everyone was doing.

Nya decided to take her time to observe the site. She was called to meet the other ninja on the seventy-sixth floor of Borg Tower in a room of artifacts. She looked around a bit before she noticed a completely torn up painting. She walked over to examine it more closely when she heard two people talking behind her.

"I still think we're gonna see him in the future. It would make sense since Nya and Kai told us that the Time Twins were trying to go into the future anyway, right?" she heard Jay ask.

"Wu's wise and strong. So he probably already defeated the twins and brought the Iron Doom back to our own time," Cole replied.

"Then why haven't we heard from him?"

Jay stopped short when he saw Nya.

"Guys?" Nya asked as she looked at them.

"Nya!" Jay exclaimed as he ran up to her and hugged her.

"Hi," she said quietly as she returned the hug.

Once they finally let go Nya said, "I like your hair."

"Really?" Jay asked.

"Who's the new guy?" the three heard Kai say from behind.

They turned around to see that Kai and Zane looked very similar to how they looked the previous year.

"Who? Me or Cole?" Jay asked.

"What the..." Kai started. "Jay?"

"Did anyone find him?" Cole asked hopefully.

Kai and Zane just shook their heads sadly.

"Nya?" Cole asked.

"I got held up," Nya explained.

"You weren't even looking," Cole quietly asked.

"I told Jay about it," Nya protested. "I'm sorry."

"No, no. I-it's fine," Cole replied as he looked down.

As Nya and Zane were trying to talk to Cole Kai took Jay aside.

"Did you get a chance to talk with my dad?" Kai whispered.

"Oh, yeah. I just need to get the thing," Jay awkwardly replied.

"Good. Just, uh, one thing."

"What?"

"Don't pop the question until after whatever Lloyd's worried about. Got it?"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't worry," Jay replied.

As Jay and Kai joined back up with the rest of the group Cole started sparing with Zane and Kai decided to watch.

"Did you do it?" Jay asked as he walked over to Nya.

"Do what?" Nya asked.

"Did you manage to kick that dumb Howard's butt," Jay replied.

"I stuck him and his guards in a bunch of mud, everyone's free now, and I have no idea how he's going to get out," Nya replied.

"Yikes!"

Nya started laughing a little at Jay's reaction when they heard the sliding door open, and a very different Lloyd walked through.

That was the end. I hope you all liked it. I'd like to thank anyone who has read this story and stuck with it. It means a lot to me and special thanks to Bookkeeper77, ProfessorYeti, Nuppa Nuppa, and Guest for reviewing. It really means a lot to me.

By the way, my story Sons of Garmadon C.J. Style is currently in progress, and I'm definitely going to write a Hunted version as well, so go check it out if you're interested.

Thanks again for all the reviews, and I hope you all have a good day/night.