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OH THE THINGS WE COULD DO IS NOW DONE, SO THAT'S ONE LESS FIC I HAVE TO FINISH :'D
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KitKat: Nicole is a Good
Peachyheart: Yay! :D
Guest 1: I successfully wrote a romance in under 20 chapters.
Guest 2: That's a really good question and I'm glad you ask because it's given me something to think about for the past couple weeks. I guess the simple answer is that no one really knew what Morro 1 did? Like Tori knew, and Lloyd 1 knew, and Indigo knew, and Morro 2 obviously knew, but Tori's a little bit shy and didn't want to make waves due to her questionable relationship with the ninja (especially the 1/B ninja), Lloyd 1 really didn't want to get his best friend in trouble, especially since he figures he was pretty much justified in doing it, Indigo's the jerk who caused it in the first place, and Morro 2... didn't dare ask the others for help, cause at the time most people still hated his guts. Andreea knew as well, considering Lloyd must have told her what happened for her to heal him, but honestly no one else ever really figured it out. If they heard about it, it was just like "the morros fought lol" and considering they would side with Morro 1 anyway, they never saw fit to punish him. When Lloyd 2 chopped off his fingers, more people had significantly warmed up to him, and they subconsciously didn't really see him as the same guy who tortured them and ruled the world with an iron fist since he got turned human. Besides, it was... significantly more messy. Blood all over the place, screaming in the middle of the night, Jessica waking everyone up, it just felt so much more serious. That's why Lloyd 2 was punished and Morro 1 was not. (sorry this was so long-winded haha)
Ebony: GO NINJA GO
Guest 3?: No, Morro 2 has yet to do most apologies.
Aurro: I'm sorry DX School is almost done, so I'll hopefully be able to write faster soon!
"I'm bored." Indigo 1 complained, lying on the floor in the middle of the base's dining room.
"We heard you the first time, Indigo." Jay 2 yelled back. "Once is enough."
"Shut up, Jay."
"Why should I shut up? You're the one who's whining!"
"I'm not whining, I'm complaining. Do you want to hear whining?"
"No! And I don't want to hear complaining either!"
"And I don't want to hear your bickering!" Lloyd 1 announced. "Both of you go outside. Indigo, patrol the inner ring of the city, Jay you take the outer. Move." The two grumbled, but obeyed, shooting each other glares as they left the room. It had been two days now since they ninja had returned to Stiix, and having to wait on the Preeminent's next move was stressing everyone out. This wasn't the first time Lloyd was forced to break up a fight.
Everyone was finally getting used to Lloyd 2 again, and he was allowed to wander freely around the base without being chained and often ate with them at meals. Morro 2, in response, did not show up at meals anymore, choosing to eat with Lloyd 1 and Nicole in his room instead. Those three continued to shun Lloyd's double, having made an unspoken pact not to forgive him. Not yet, anyway.
"Lloyd, how long do you think we'll have to wait?" Jessica asked, hanging upside-down from a ceiling beam. Lloyd shook his head.
"I dunno. A week at most, I should think." Jessica sighed.
"What are we supposed to do in the meantime? There can't really any preparations to be made..."
"Just... try to keep the citizens of Stiix safe, I guess." Lloyd shrugged. "And watch for oncoming attacks." As if to accent his words, a scream sounded outside the base, followed by a couple more, and Lloyd shot to his feet. Jessica dropped to the ground and followed as he hurried to investigate, throwing open the front door just in time to see Indigo dash through him and around the corner. "What the..." He started, staring after her, but trailed off as he turned back to the city to see a mob of very angry civilians, all armed with water, running towards the base. The blond groaned.
"Indigo, what did you do." he yelled over his shoulder.
"I didn't do anything!" A pair of arms wrapped around his leg, and he looked down to see Indigo hiding behind him, glaring past him at the mob. "I started to go out into the city, then people started screaming and attacked me!"
"Get out of the way, green ninja!" Someone from the mob yelled, and Indigo hid again. "There's a ghost in your base!"
"Hey, back off!" Lloyd yelled back as the mob stopped about ten feet away. "She's on our side!"
"You're working with ghosts now?!" A woman snapped. "How can you save Ninjago if you sympathize with the enemy?!" Lloyd swallowed. Hopefully they would never find out about Morro 2.
"Surely you know that when someone is killed, they become a ghost." He yelled. "Indigo was on our side before she died. She's still on our side." The mob stopped, turning to each other and murmuring a bit. "Indigo's not the only ghost in our party, either." Lloyd continued. "Kai, the red ninja, was caught and killed in a recent attack on the capitol." There were gasps and mutters from the crowd. "And just last week, a child was killed at Bansha's hands. He and Kai are both ghosts now." The crowd became so loud at this that he was forced to wait for them to calm to continue.
"You can't just attack ghosts on sight. How would one ghost get into the city, anyway? Trust me, if we were under attack, you would know." Muttering, the crowd began to disperse. "Wait," He stopped them. "Apologize to Indigo. You could have killed her in your blind rage." Indigo peeked out from behind his leg as the crown murmured apologies in her direction, not glaring quite so hard. Once the mob had left, Lloyd twisted around to face her, as she was still clutching his leg.
"I'm sorry too, Indigo." He offered his own apology. "I forgot that the people of Stiix are... suspicious and murderous."
"That's not what's bothering me." She mumbled. Lloyd's brow furrowed.
"Then what?"
"You assumed it was my fault." She pressed her face into his leg, eyes narrowed. "I didn't do anything. But you assumed I did something wrong."
"I'm sorry." He put a hand on her head. "You were fighting with Jay, and I guess I assumed you took your anger out on someone and got in trouble. But you're right, that wasn't fair of me." He smoothed her hair down, and she clutched his leg a bit tighter. "I guess I'm tense too." She hummed a bit, but didn't answer. "I'm sorry. Will you forgive me?"
"Mm-hmm." She nodded, but didn't let go of him. Sighing, Lloyd leaned down and scooped her up, making her yelp.
"Come on, Indigo, I need my leg back." He teased as he carried her back inside. She huffed, but didn't resist.
"Sorry you're so stupidly tall." She muttered. Lloyd laughed.
"It's not that, you're just so short!"
"It's both."
"Well, fair enough, I guess."
TheDarknessReturn
"Nicole?"
"Hmm?"
"What are you doing?"
"Skipping stones." Nicole lifted a pebble from her stack. "Wanna try?"
"Um... I guess." Morro A took the pebble from her outstretched hand. "How do you do it?"
"Well, you kinda chuck the rock at the water, and try to get it to bounce off the surface. So I guess you gotta kinda throw it at an angle." Nicole hurled the rock in her hand at the ocean, and it bounced twice before falling into the water with a plop. "Now you try."
"Okay..." Morro pulled his arm back, then threw the rock at the water as hard as he could. It skipped once before sinking.
"Hey, you did it!" Nicole cheered as he looked back up at her for a reaction. "Nice job!"
"It only bounced once." He pointed out.
"Better than not at all!"
"Hmm. I guess." The two of them sat on the edge of the bridge, skipping stones, for about ten minutes before Morro spoke again.
"Nicole?
"Mm-hmm?"
"Do you think this is gonna work?" The former king asked, not looking up as he skipped another stone over the surface of the ocean. "Tricking the Preeminent?"
"I don't know. Heck, if anyone would know, it's you. You used to work for her, you'd know if she'll be fooled."
"That's the problem, though. I do know her, and... I don't think she'll go for it." He deflated a little bit. "She's... just too smart."
"She can't be that smart if she ditched you." Nicole pointed out, and Morro offered her a faint smile.
"I appreciate it, but she is smart. She's just... also really cruel." Morro stopped skipped stones, hugging his arms to his chest. "I think she's too smart for us." Nicole's teasing smile died at how serious he looked.
"Well... we don't really have a choice but to go through with it." Nicole pointed out. "All we can do is hope and pray that it works."
"But if it doesn't work, there's sure to be casualties!" Morro protested. "A-and we might not ever get another chance! She's so strong and so crafty and- and I don't think-" His voice lowered to a whisper. "What if we can't win?" Nicole was silent for a few moments.
"Well, maybe we could just... leave." She said at last. Morro lifted his head to frown at her.
"What do you...?"
"Somehow, the ninja- the other ninja – got to this timeline, right?" She skipped another stone. "Couldn't we do the same thing to go back to theirs?"
"And- and just abandon the others?"
"No, of course not. We can win battles, right? We can win cities. Our only problem is that we can't- we maybe can't kill the Preeminent. So we could evacuate everyone to another timeline. Think about it," She insisted as Morro frowned. "We control Stiix. At a peaceful moment, we could march everyone through a portal. And we took Ninjago City once, we can do it again. Jamonikai can't be much harder. And all the smaller villages, we could travel around and evacuate them one by one.
"But what about the innocents in the Cursed Realm? We can't just leave them!"
"The Preeminent's here, not in the Cursed Realm, so really we have the advantage there. She can't force us into an endless battle. We can go there and find everyone she wrongfully cursed, and bring them back." Morro frowned, rubbing his chin.
"That... does actually sound plausible." He said at last. "But where would we bring them?"
"If the other Ninjago is like this one, there should be plenty of room for new cities to be built to house them all."
"I guess. That might create some issues with... doubles, but it would work." Morro shook his head. "We could really just... leave. Abandon the Preeminent here with her ghosts." Nicole nodded.
"But we should try to kill her first." Nicole tossed another rock at the water, and sighed as it failed to bounce, plopping into the water instead. As she watched it sink, ripples spreading out a foot in every direction before fading, something clicked in her head and she sat straight up. "Oh."
"What?" Morro tilted his head to look at her.
"I just had an insanely clever idea." Nicole shot to her feet with a grin. "Come on, I'll explain in a minute. I have to go tell the others!"
Disclaimer: I've never skipped a stone in my life I don't know how it works
Indigo doesn't know it but she's secretly been adopted by all of the good guys
~FFF