As the re-opening of Darkley's Boarding School occurs, Lloyd sends clones of the Rangers to attack it.


Aboard the Destiny's Bounty, the Rangers were all in athletic gear as they did separate things for training, Jay and Nya spar a bit as Nya prepares to kick Jay, but he backs away a bit. Close by, Kai and LJ hold up some kendo sticks as Zane prepared to fire fake arrows at them to deflect and Cole spins a staff around. Nya then grabbed Jay's leg, but he uses the opportunity to somersault over her, making her fall on her back as he lands, spins around and moves his fist to her, inches from her chest. They soon smile at each other a little. Kai and LJ spin their kendo sticks as Zane fired arrow after arrow at them for them to deflect until one hits Kai's left shoulder, making him groan and drop his sticks. Cole keeps spinning the staff until he suddenly lost grip of it, sending it in the air before it was soon caught by Wu. "Nice to see you all training on a nice day such as this." He said. "Rather than spending the day in town or being lazy."

"Well, we are Rangers, Master." LJ replied.

"Yeah, we have to be at the top of our game." Jay said as he helped Nya up.

"Excellent." Wu replied. "Keep up the training for there will be a special training exercise for all of you." This gets them to silently groan, but Wu hears it and glares at them.

"I'm afraid tomorrow won't work out for LJ, Wu." Misako said as she came up to him with a letter.

"How so, Misako?"

"This just came in the mail. It's from his old school."

"The Darkley's Boarding School for Bad Boys?" Cole asked as they came up to them.

Wu looks at the letter and was surprised. "Formerly Bad Boys." He replied before looking at the letter again to read it aloud. "'Dear, Miss Wilson. I write this letter as a confirmation that your son, Lloyd Garmadon Jr., shall attend Darkley's Boarding School's reopening. This letter also states that charges against said student that involved taking over the school alongside his father after expulsion have been dropped, and while we thank the Rangers for changing him, we would like him to attend the school once again as the school will now focus more on education with the addition of female students. Please contact me the day before to confirm that this letter has been read and acknowledged. Sincerely, Principal Mackenzie Noble of Darkley's Boarding School for Great Children.'"

"Noble?" LJ asked. "Wasn't he the assistant principal?"

"My thoughts exactly." Misako replied. "When I asked, he said the previous principal retired along with half the teachers, who only wanted to educate the students to be evil masterminds."

"One reason I got expelled from it."

"I tried to decline, but he soon said that even if he doesn't want to attend, he can still come with the tour group who want to see Darkley's since it was once the school your father once took over."

"Very well then."

"Then we shall attend the school tomorrow." Wu said. "But this means we'll have to work double time today." This gets them to groan again.


In Lloyd's camp on the Dark Island, a Stone Warrior comes up to Lloyd and Kozu while holding a poster. "I was spying on the Rangers and came across one of these." He said, holding it out to them.

Lloyd soon took it and read it. "They're re-opening Darkley's Boarding School?" He asked before growling. "That very school that my son was kicked out of, and what use to be my base."

"No doubt the Rangers will be attending." Kozu replied.

"Yes. But, I need a plan. Those pesky Rangers always come out on top. How can I defeat Rangers who so rudely refuse to be defeated?" He comes over to a pool of Dark Matter, and looks at it before seeing his reflection before immediately smiling. "Yes, that's it." He immediately turned to a Stone Warrior. "Take a few more warriors with you, and grab samples of their hairs."

"Yes, my lord." The Stone Warrior said before taking off.

"Whatever you have planned, it better work." The Overlord said as he came up to them.

"Trust me." Lloyd replied. "This'll hurt the Rangers more."


Outside the mall, Kai, Nya and LJ had just ordered some drinks to replenish themselves from the workout. "So, will you be excited to see your old friends again?" Nya asked. "I know they won't recognise you, but it'd be great to see them, right?"

"Not really." LJ replied. "I never had much friends at that school. Son of the original Emerald Ranger, most of the students lost their families in the war, and pinned the blame on the Rangers, mostly my father."

"Very sad hearing about it." Kai said before a portal soon appeared in front of them, and some Stone Warriors came out. "Stone Warriors!"

"Spread out!" Kai, Nya and LJ move away from each other to split the Stone Warriors up. Nya comes up to a bus stop while tossing her drink in the air before grabbing the pole with the bus sign on it, jumps in the air, and swings around the pole, kicking two Stone Warriors back while at the same time she lands on the ground with the pole behind her. Kai moves his fists forward to punch a Stone Warrior back before lying flat on his chest on the ground where a Stone Warrior grabs his legs, but Kai grabs a hold of its leg, and moved his legs down with all his might, making the Stone Warrior fall forward as he now laid on his back before Kai then moved his arms down and causing the Stone Warrior to land in front of him. LJ backflips over to a nearby shopping cart before grabbing it, vaults into it, and moves it forward into a Stone Warrior while at the same time somersaulting so the cart can hit the Stone Warrior coming up behind him. But as soon as he landed, a Stone Warrior comes up behind him and cuts off a small bit of his hair with its sword. "Ow!"

A Stone Warrior then came up to Kai as he was about to stand up to cut off some of his hair. Nya raises a leg to try and kick a Stone Warrior, but it grabs it as another, one then came up behind her, and cuts off a bit of hair, causing her to shriek. They then back away as Kai and LJ came up behind Nya. "Three down, three to go." A Stone Warrior said as a portal appeared behind them, and they head in before it disappears.

"What is with them today?" Kai asked. "They take a chunk of our hairs, and simply take off."

"Well, whatever it is, we'll be ready." LJ replied.


At the beach park, Stone Warriors have Jay, Zane and Cole restrained as a Stone Warrior holds up small pieces of their hairs. "Objective accomplished." It said. "Let's go." They let go of them and take off as Jay, Cole and Zane were confused by their sudden retreat.


The following morning, Lloyd looks at the vials of hairs from the Rangers as the Overlord came over to him. "What you have planned better work." He said.

"It shall." Lloyd replied. "Rangers, today you will finally meet your match." He comes over to the pool of Dark Matter, and drops the vials into it. The spots where they landed started to glow before they explode, and six figures come out. They land behind Lloyd as he soon turned around to face them. They had suits similar to the Rangers before taking their helmets off, revealing the Rangers' old looks, but with pale skin and glowing red eyes. "Dark Rangers, I have made you to be equal to the Power Rangers. And loyal only to me."

"Yes, Lord Garmadon." They all reply and put their helmets back on.

"Then I command you to find and destroy the Rangers." He holds out his hand and a portal soon appeared by their left. They bow to him, and head through the portal.


At the path to the Darkley's Boarding School, a group of people, including Kai, Jay, Zane, Cole, Nya and LJ follow a middle aged man with grey hair and glasses as he escorts them up the hill. "As you all know, Darkley's was once known as a school to teach evil." The man said. "But thanks to the Power Rangers defeating the Skulkin Army, we are proud to instead teach students about kindness and life." They soon pass the arch which had the new sign, 'Darkley's Boarding School for Great Children.' They soon stop to see some students planting or watering flowers as a teacher watches them. "Here is the gardening class where students are taught on maintaining gardens as well as planting vegetables." The teacher and students see them before waving, and the man waves back.

LJ soon noticed someone nearby. It was a young boy with black hair. "Brad." He said to himself.

"LJ, something wrong?" Kai asked.

"LJ?" The boy asked before turning around, only to see the Rangers in the tour group. "Oh, sorry, I must've gotten the wrong guy." He soon turned back around to resume working on the garden.

"Brad Tudabone." LJ said to them, silently as they resume walking with the group. "He was my third roommate after the other two moved into different ones." He takes off his beanie, undid his ponytail, and moved back part of it, showing a bite scar on the back of his head. "First day he was in, he put fire ants in my bed." Unaware to them, Brad was listening to them. "Which is why I grew my hair." He redoes his hair in a ponytail, and puts the beanie back on.

"It must be LJ. But how did he get so big?" Unaware to any of them, the shadows of the Dark Rangers appear close by.


In the hallway, the man was guiding the group and the Rangers. "With the extra funding thanks to the city after reclaiming this school, we were able to add a few more classrooms, including adding female students." He said. "I hope those with young kids are enjoying the tour so far." Screaming was heard outside as they all turn to it. "Oh no, the children!" He turns to the group. "Go wait in that classroom at once." They head in a nearby classroom while in the confusion, Kai, Jay, Zane, Cole, Nya and LJ slip into another classroom while the man takes off for the entrance. The Rangers then came back out and nod at each other before moving off to secretly follow the man.


Outside, the Dark Rangers laugh as Dark Black has a hold of Brad, and giving him a noogie as the gardening class back away, scared. "Where are the Rangers?" Dark Red asked the class. His voice sounded like an echo.

"We don't know!" The teacher replied, out of fear.

"What's going on?" The man asked as he came out and saw the Dark Rangers. "The Power Rangers?"

"We know they're here." Dark Green said as he came up to the man, and grabbed hold of him before sniffing him. "You've been with them, haven't you?"

"What?"

"They're among the tour group!" Brad called out, out of fear.

"What?" Dark White asked.

"They may not look like them because they haven't morphed yet, or something."


Inside, the Rangers peek out the small gap, and notice the Dark Rangers. "Hey, those Rangers look like us." Jay said quietly.

"That's why they wanted our hair yesterday." Zane replied. "Garmadon's made copies of us."

"Let's morph, and confront them." Nya said and they nod before standing up, and raise their left arms.

"Spinjitzu!" They all said.


Outside, everyone hears the morphing call as the Rangers, while morphing, exit the building as they somersault, thankfully not being able to be recognised during the morphing. "Ninjago!" They land on the ground, and face the Dark Rangers.

"Ah, the Power Rangers." Dark Red said as Dark Black throws Brad aside into a flower patch before getting up, and head insides with the teacher and students.

Both Ranger teams poise before running at each other. Dark White raises a leg just as Zane does the same, both hitting each other as Dark Blue raised his arm at the same time as Jay to punch him, knocking each other back. Nya holds up her spear while Dark Maroon has a bisento and block a strike each. "It's like they know our every move!" Nya said as she raised her spear to block Dark Maroon's strike, and tried to strike back, but that is blocked as well.

Kai backflips to avoid Dark Red's kicks before he stopped as Kai then went to punch him, but he backflips as well. Jay swings his flail at Dark Blue as he holds up some nunchucks to quickly block his coming strike before swinging them and hitting Jay, knocking him back. Dark Green swings his long handled haladie at LJ as he backed away, blocking each strike before moving to strike him, but LJ quickly blocked it until he soon laughed and kicked him back. "Time for the Dark Rifle." Dark Green said as the Dark Rangers had each brought their opposites near LJ. Dark White gets out a blaster before turning it upside down as Dark Blue puts his nunchucks underneath, Dark Green places his haladie on the blaster's handle, Dark Red places handle curved swords on each side of the blaster, Dark Maroon puts her bisento at the end of the blaster and Dark Black puts a tonfa underneath the bisento. Dark Green and Dark White hold onto the haladie part while Dark Blue and Dark Black were knelt down, holding the handles of the swords and Dark Red and Dark Maroon have their respective shoulders holding the blades. "Fire!" Kai, Jay, Zane, Cole and Nya attempt to combine their own weapons, but the Dark Rangers fire theirs, sending a big blast at them before it explodes.

As the smoke fades away, the Rangers were no longer there as the Dark Rangers look on. "Yes." Dark Red said. "The Rangers are no more."

"Now let's trash this dump." Dark Blue replied before they head into the school.


In a barely lit room, the Rangers, demorphed, groan as they come to, and sat up. "That was quite an appalling fight, LJ." A boy's voice was heard, causing them all to look around before lights soon came on, revealing what appeared to be a dungeon.

"Wha-?" Jay asked, briefly cutting himself off. "Where are we?"

"The dungeon room." LJ replied as he stood up, and touched his head. "Hey, where'd my beanie go?"

"You mean this?" The voice asked as they all turn to see some young boys close by with Brad among them, holding LJ's beanie before throwing it over to him. "I knew it would be you. Even though you look different, I recognised the scar you hide in that mop you call hair, Emerald Ranger."

"How-?" Zane was soon cut off.

"We saw the whole fight." A student with glasses said. "Some of us came down here in the confusion, saw you all losing to those dark imposters, and would've been toast if we didn't set off one of the old traps."

"Well, thanks for the save, kid." Cole replied. "But we got to get back into the fight."

"Wait. You need to hear my opinion about those Dark Rangers." They all look at each other before looking back at the student. "It's like fighting a mirror where your reflection countermoves in perfect sync, and unable to land a blow."

"So, what's your theory, Jack?" LJ asked.

"Uh, here's my theory on how to help you Rangers destroy the Dark Rangers." Jack gets out a pencil case, unzips it and gets out red, blue, yellow, black, pink and green markers. "Yellow will represent white and pink will represent maroon. Anyway." He puts them down on the ground. "Now, if you could land a single punch, they can easily be defeated, but from the way each Dark Ranger fought their respective coloured Ranger." He undoes the lids on the markers and moves them along each different coloured marker. "The only way to do so..." He puts the lids back on the markers, but in different places. "...you must mix up the colours."

"Mix up the colours?" Jay asked.

LJ kneels down and picks up the green marker that now has the black lid. "We swap our Spinjitzu Watches." He replied.

"But, we're only destined to our coloured Spinjitzu Watches." Zane said. "What if this plan doesn't work?"

"Only one way to find out." LJ takes off his Spinjitzu Watch before turning to Brad. "Oh, and I forgive you about those fire ants." That made Brad smile.


In the hallway, the Dark Rangers move along, knocking down lockers, and pulling off portraits, celebrating the supposed demises of their counterparts. "Lord Garmadon will be pleased with the news." Dark Maroon said as she tore apart a portrait of a middle aged woman.

"Guess again." Kai was heard as they turn to see him and Cole by a statue.

"What?" Dark Red asked.

"You two survived?" Dark Black asked.

"Not just us." Cole replied. "The others are around somewhere."

Dark Red turns to the others. "You go look for the others, we'll hold them off." He said. Dark Blue, Dark White, Dark Maroon and Dark Green take off as Dark Red and Dark Black poise as Kai and Cole do the same before charging at each other.

Dark Blue, Dark White, Dark Maroon and Dark Green turn around a corner before stopping when they see something. "Not so fast!" Nya called out as they look to see her and Zane, poising. Dark Blue growled before he and Dark Green keep going down the direction they previously took as Dark White and Dark Maroon charge at Zane and Nya.

Dark Blue and Dark Green keep running until they see Jay and LJ charging at them. "Surprise!" Jay called out as he soon somersaulted to try and hit Dark Blue, but he blocks it with his arm while Dark Green prepares to punch LJ, but he blocks it with his elbow.


Further back, Kai backflipped as Dark Red somersaulted before preparing to kick him, but Dark Red spins back to avoid the kick to the legs. Cole raised his arm to block a punch from Dark Black before he spins around him to try and punch him from behind, but Dark Black grabs the wrist in time. "Hope this works." He said as he immediately struck Dark Black's arms to get him to release him.


Up ahead, Nya slides underneath Zane's legs to try and kick Dark Maroon, but she somersaults over her before turning to kick her as she was about to get up while Dark White comes up behind Zane, grabs hold of him, and prepares to throw him, but Zane backflips the moment he let him go, and prepared to kick him, only for it to be blocked. "This is getting tiring." He said. "When is LJ gonna initiate that plan?"


Further ahead, LJ vaults over Jay to try and kick Dark Green, but he quickly backed away as Dark Blue then vaulted over him to try and kick Jay, but he tilts back, managing to avoid the kick. Dark Green soon ran at LJ, and kicks him, knocking him into Jay as they both had their backs to each other, looking at their opponents. "Time we initiate that plan?" Jay asked.

"Yeah." LJ replied before looking down at the Spinjitzu Watch on his wrist. It was Cole's. "Guys, time to initiate the plan." They nod at each other before raising their left arms, and touch the Spinjitzu Watches on their wrists, immediately morphing.

But once Jay and LJ had morphed, Dark Blue and Dark Green were shocked to see that Jay had morphed into the White Spinjitzu Ranger while LJ had morphed into the Black Spinjitzu Ranger. "What?" Dark Green asked. "Impossible! They changed colours!"

"We must find the real ones at once!" Dark Blue replied before taking off as Jay and LJ immediately chase after them.


Further back, Kai and Cole backflip before touching their borrowed Spinjitzu Watches, morphing into the Emerald Spinjitzu Ranger and Maroon Spinjitzu Ranger respectively as they land, confusing Dark Red and Dark Black. "Which one are they?" Dark Red asked.

"Well, they're not there." Dark Black replied before they take off with Kai and Cole pursuing them. "Let's start looking around."


Up ahead, Zane and Nya hold up their borrowed Spinjitzu Watches, and touch them, immediately morphing into the Red Spinjitzu Ranger and Blue Spinjitzu Ranger respectively, confusing Dark White and Dark Maroon as Dark Green and Dark Blue show up around the corner. "Ah, the Blue Ranger." Dark Blue said as he immediately came at Nya, only for Jay to suddenly appear between them, and block the punch, only for Dark White to quickly try and strike him, but Zane was able to block it.

"Which one are we really?" LJ asked, teasing them as they start to move along.

"Am I blue?" Jay asked. "Or am I white?"

Dark Red and Dark Black soon came around the corner to see Zane as the Red Ranger and LJ as the Black Ranger. "There they are." Dark Red said.

Dark Red charged at Zane, who quickly moved to the side, and kicked it at the back, sending it down and it immediately disappeared. "It's just as Jack said." LJ said as he kicked Dark Black, causing him to disappear. "If you land a punch, they'll be defeated."

"You can say they again." Nya replied as she and Jay kick Dark White and Dark Blue, causing them both to disappear.

Dark Maroon and Dark Green immediately back away from Cole and Kai as they try to strike, but Cole then kicked Dark Maroon, causing it to disappear. But before Kai could kick it, Dark Green catches hold of his leg and throws him down before taking off. "We need to go after him!" They immediately demorph to switch their Spinjitzu Watches back to their original owners. "Time to go Super."

The Rangers get out their Super Spinjitzu Blades and spin them before raising them high. "Super Spinjitzu Blades, ignite!" They called out.


The Rangers' Super Spinjitzu Blades ignite as the Rangers, helmetless, swing them downward, letting out bursts of their powers that move into them, turning their Ranger suits into their Super Ranger form.


Outside, Dark Green comes out onto the garden, stepping on some flowers as it turned to the Rangers. "You cannot escape your past, Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon." It said. "Observe."


In Lloyd's camp on the Dark Island, Lloyd turns to a Stone Warrior on the Garmatron. "Fire the Garmatron Missile!" He yelled as the Stone Warrior came over to it and moves the controls as Garmatron raises its cannon before the warrior presses a button and fires a shot, sending a missile through the clouds.


The missile hits not only Dark Green, but the sign as well as it started to grow before suddenly turning into Domally Dragon, shocking the Rangers. "Your darkness shows your alter ego!"

"LJ, we're ready." Kai said.

"No, leave him to me." He replied. "Domally Dragon is my past. And I must face it, alone." LJ immediately pressed his Spinjitzu Watch. "Emerald Dragon Zord, Mega Mode."


The Emerald Dragon Zord moved upward before stopping for the arms and legs to straighten up. The tail moves up to the back as the wings did the same until they came at the tail and detach to allow the tail and wings to stay on the back, the arms move back a bit and the wrists open up to have the paws turn around into the wrists, replacing them with regular hands before the wrists return to normal, the ankles open up to have the paws turn around into the ankles, replacing them with normal feet before the ankles closed up and the dragon face tilted upward as the lower jaw slides down into the body, revealing its face before it poised.


In the cockpit, LJ looked forward while putting his Super Spinjitzu Blade away.


Outside, Domally Dragon growled before charging at the Megazord, opening his mouth before breathing out green fire, directly underneath the Megazord's feet. "Burn, Ranger, burn." He said.


In the cockpit, LJ doesn't react to the sparks flying around before he moved forward. "Don't count me out yet."


Outside, the Emerald Dragon Megazord simply walks out of the flames, surprising Domally Dragon. "What?" Domally Dragon immediately growled and ran at the Megazord before preparing to kick it, but the Megazord then stepped aside. "No!"


In the cockpit, LJ presses a nearby button.


Outside, the tail and wing detach before becoming the Dragon Axe as Domally Dragon turned to see it and prepared to charge again.


In the cockpit, LJ presses a button, opening a panel to show the handle-like button and grabs hold of it. "Dragon Axe, final strike!"


Outside, the Emerald Dragon Megazord raises the Dragon Axe high before moving it down to strike Domally Dragon. The strike hits Domally Dragon, causing it to scream before falling forward. "You can never escape me!" Domally Dragon then exploded as the students came out to cheer for their former classmate.


In the cockpit, LJ lets go of the handle and looked on. "A spinning victory."


Later that day, at Master Chen's, Cole was performing on the stage while the Rangers were working and LJ was sitting at a table with his old classmates and Wu. "Now remember, you must not tell anyone that LJ is a Ranger." Wu told the kids.

"We understand." Brad replied before turning to the others. "Don't we?" They nod and grunt in agreement before Brad turned back to LJ and Wu. "Mr. Garmadon, could I be a Ranger someday?"

"I highly doubt it."

Brad frowned a bit as they all look at Cole as he sang. "#I'm walking on a brand new day, I'm running on a brand new night, But I don't know, I don't know what I jump to#" He sang.

"At least you guys liked the song we wrote for him." They all briefly laugh a bit.


(A/N: The song Cole sings is an original, called 'Let's Just See You Go', which can be viewed on my deviantART page: TEK1996)