"I-I really think I'm gonna be sick…" Lulloyd placed his hands over his stomach.
"Pfft, what, did the Ka-are really make you that sick?" Garmadon laughed, "Son, if a little jostling is enough to make you sick then we need to add to your training regimine!"
The portal behind the two figures closed up, leaving Lulloyd and Garmadon in their new location. Lulloyd has traded his ninja gi for his favorite green hoodie and black pants, his hood currently drawn up over his head. Garmadon had dressed himself in his 'fancy' warlord robes, which Lulloyd had come to learn was just his normal robes but with an even pointier helmet. The trip seemed to have no effect on Garmadon, while Lulloyd wished he had his sword with him to steady himself.
In front of them was a land of pinks and glitter. The last that Lulloyd had ever heard, it was nothing more than an oddly PG apocalyptic ruin, but now it appeared as though the entire world had been given a massive shot of color and… things that he couldn't fully place. He was forced to duck as a spinning star carrying what he could only call a 'sparkle baby' flew past him, both laughing in unison as they did.
"Ugh…" Garmadon slowly swallowed and beat his chest with a hand, "I know J said that it was different now but… wow, this is just too much color. I'm not saying make it all dark and gritty but come on, at least use colors that don't blind you when the sun shines on it!"
"We uh, should go find this 'J,' right, dad?" Lulloyd asked curiously. Garmadon's slightly unnerved smile turned into a deep grin.
"Oh yes, don't worry, he'll see us right away," Garmadon looked around, the two having landed in what appeared to be woods just outside of the city, "In fact, here, help me get some stuff for a ride!" Garmadon gestured to the woods, and Lulloyd followed suit.
Garmadon and Lulloyd began to rapidly dart around the surrounding area, grabbing at pieces and throwing them into a massive pile where they once stood. Lulloyd mirrored grabbing what Garmadon did, allowing the two to quickly assemble a good pile. Pieces gathered, Garmadon began with legs, using large leaf pieces and clipping them on so they would rotate forward and back like legs. Sticking plates between two leaves gave him a protrusion to build feet off of. Lulloyd worked on creating the main body, using the ground tiles to create fins and a large tail. When Garmadon and Lullody stopped, a glistening pink, purple and blue shark with large chicken legs, covered in glitter, splashed with color and a completely open head was in front of them.
"Hmm… does the mouth open, son?" Garmadon turned, sighing as Lulloyd rubbed hie neck, "Then it'll have to do. You've got a llllooooooonnngggggg way to go before you're building up there with the warlords!"
Garmadon leapt from the ground, grabbing the side of a fin to flip himself into the cockpit. Lulloyd took the seat behind him. Garmadon looked to the controls and gave a nod of approval, hoisting the control sticks to make the thing walk forward. With its legs only able to rotate at 'hip' and 'ankle,' the ride wasn't incredibly smooth, but after a few trial steps they were up and running straight into the city.
Lulloyd was silent, opting instead to just take in the… sights. While Ninjago City's architecture could be strange going from layer to layer, it was nothing compared to the sights he saw. Mechs walking around with massive swords made of strange fuzzy piping, bubble-like spaceships with gatling guns firing out ice cream, what looked to be massive sentient fruit making their way around as well, it was as if he was in some sort of happy nightmare of colors. Several citizens in various states of tattoos depicting spikes and skulls were also wearing sparkly robes and neon face paint. Most people would wave to them as their shark stepped by. Lulloyd realized quickly them walking around in a glittery shark mech was so weird, it was normal.
"He said to meet him… right around here…" Garmadon stopped in front of what Lulloyd recognized as the Statue of Liberty. The massive thing was sunk halfway into the ground, her torch at the top traded out for fireworks and the dull green color changed to various shades of pink. At the base of the statue was a shop that had lines all the way around the statue and then some, with people walking out with coffee, slushies and various manners of drinks. Just catching the price board through the doors made Lulloyd shudder.
"YO! G!"
Garmadon looked up to hear three rapid Pew, Pew, Pew!'s. Garmadon did a backflip, yanking a brick up from the fin of the shark to deflect the oncoming fire. Three blue long bolts struck the shield, turned to wedges, and then arced off into the distance. While Lulloyd raised his arms to prepare for another attack, Garmadon's smile was wide enough to nearly break the boundaries of his face.
"J!" Garmadon laughed as a figure floated down from a massive jetpack laced with balloons, "How long has it been?!"
The aforementioned 'J' slowly drifted down the roof of the coffee shop, the entire thing deflating as he landed. The figure was dressed in a striking dark purple suit, the sleeves gone to show gloves decked out with card suits. His orange undershirt and tie were tucked under it. Most startling of all, however, was his massively slicked back hair, the green locks jutting out from his head like some sort of massive plant.
"Oh I dunno, just a few YEARS!" Joker laughed and waved the shark over, catching sight of who was also in the cockpit, "Waaaaaaaait, is this him? You're Lulloyd, right, son of big G?!"
"Y-You told him my name was Lulloyd?" Lulloyd groaned. Garmadon just rolled his eyes and let his mech step over the line of people to place them at the roof.
"Howdy!" Joker extended his hand, "I'm sure old G here has told you about me before, but I'm Joker! Greatest enemy of Batman, scourge of Gotham City, the clown prince of downtown, I'm sure you've heard of me."
"...You…" Lulloyd slowly reached out to shake Joker's hand, the sheer force of the handshake nearly yanking Lulloyd clean out of the cockpit, "I… I didn't know you were the Joker. Dad, always just called you J…"
"Oh, it's just a thing we do!" Garmadon clarified, "Easy way to distinguish each other. Plus, the only other nickname that works is reserved exclusively for your mother."
"How is Coco, by the way?" Joker asked as he stepped down into the mech, "Last I heard you two were back together!"
"Yep, all thanks to Lulloyd here," Garmadon turned back to look at his son, "See this kid here? Managed to take down Meowthra, defeat me AND get me and Coco back together! Oh I tell you Joker, the fights that we've gotten into since then…"
"You defeated G?" Joker delivered a hard smack to Lulloyd's back, "Congrats, Lulloyd! You should be so proud of yourself! Taking down one of the great villains of all over there!"
"Oh I'm not the best, not yet anyways!" Garmadon sighed, turning the mech into the streets, "Started teaching Lulloyd and his team now, but they haven't found their villain yet. Trust me, it isn't for lack of trying! It's almost like Ninjago just doesn't have enough villains!"
"I feel that!" Joker leaned back with his arms crossed, "Ever since we merged with the Systar System, there have been more heroes than we know what to deal with! It's almost like there isn't enough of us to go around anymore! Thankfully Batman said Gotham City is his turf, said he'd only ever reluctantly crossover with another hero to take any of us down."
"That's pretty heroic of him, especially with that new sidekick of his," Garmadon looked out into the streets, "By the way, where are we going?"
"Emmet's place! He said he's throwing out eight-and-a-little-more anniversary," Joker smirked, "You'll get to meet Batman's wife!"
"BATMAN HAS A WIFE NOW?!" Garmadon yanked up on his controls,the shark's tail causing a hovering car to go flying off into a swimming pool of what Lulloyd could only guess was chocolate ice cream.
"You haven't heard?!" Joker leaned forward over Lulloyd's head, "It's like you guys aren't even apart of this place! He married Queen Watevra Wa'nabi, the leader of the Systar System!" Joker grimaced, "Not that, I was told until they're already hitched it..."
"J, I'm so sorry, that's just low of Batman!" Garmadon hissed, "Come on, you gotta know if you have a new dynamic to your rivalry. Why, that's like if Wu went and got a surprise ninja without telling us!"
Across the way, a whisper of surprise… echoed out.
"Well I'm over it now, even though I was really stern with him!" Joker frowned, "I made sure to turn the acid for the vat up extra high when I kidnapped Robin!"
"How is that kid, anyways?" Garmadon leaned back, "Should I worry about him trying to take me down on sight?"
"Oh he's an absolute gem, nicest kid you'll ever meet!" Joker quickly beamed, "I've never met anyone that hasn't come to love him after just a few minutes!"
"Sounds like the perfect sidekick," Garmadon shivered, "Well let's get to this place so we can meet all of them."
"Wait, are we going to hang out with… heroes?" Lulloyd turned to Joker, "Aren't you like, a villain?"
"Only the best one Batman's ever met!" Joker grinned evilly, "Outside Gotham though, we only have to fight if we get the urge to. This place is a truce zone. Nothing wrong with a bit of fun every now again, amirite? Wouldn't wanna cause another end of the world by giving Batman the old one-two, right?"
"...I uh, don't think I'd have ever hung out with my dad before Meowthra but, okay?" Lulloyd stated awkwardly. Garmadon gave him a nod, signalling he'd gotten his answer.
Lulloyd did what he did best when things got overwhelming: retreated into silence and waited for the perfect chance to speak. Between his dad and Joker, he found none of that. Instead, he let Garmadon drive them out of the city and down a massive road that went out into another stretch of the forest around the city. The density of figures and builds seemed to decrease as they made their way out into the distance. Once they exited the forest, Lulloyd saw a sight that was both comforting and strange at the same time.
An innocent little yellow house with large sloped blue roofs, surrounded by a white picket fence on all sides, stood on a patch of pure grass in the midst of a wide open clearing. Around the home, several ships were already parked, most notably the Scuttler and a massive sand blue jacked up truck. Garmadon grimaced and looked to his own ride, making sure to park his mech near the treeline and hopping out along with the others.
"...Should've at least brought a sub…" Garmadon muttered, waving for the two to join him.
"Don't worry, kiddo!" Joker patted Lulloyd's shoulder, "Just go in and have some fun! I see you're the quiet hero type. Don't worry, silent heroes are just as great at the loud ones!"
Before Lulloyd could correct him on that, Joker had leapt down beside Garmadon. Lulloyd slowly rubbed his forehead, pushing his hoodie down and following after his dad. A sense of worry filled him as the two approached the door, Garmadon mumbling as he was forced to duck down to make it frame.
"Heeeyy you guys made it!" A chipper sounded voice rung out as Lulloyd entered, "Did the Ka-are arrive on time! Oh man, did you guys have any trouble getting here?"
"Nah, totally didn't, Emmet!" Garmadon smirked, "Lulloyd, meet Emmet, savior of basically everyone here. Twice, kinda. More like one and a half."
Lulloyd blinked as he came face to face with Emmet. The construction worker was in a normal set of slightly faded and scratched construction vest and pants. In one hand he has a plate filled with soda, goblets and teacups. Behind him, the living room was packed with people all chatting with one another.
"Uh, hi!" Lulloyd quickly reached forward to shake Emmet's free hand, "I'm Lulloyd, uh, son of Garmadon and, the green ninja."
"Well it's awesome to meet you!" Emmet reached out to shake the hand, "Lucy was worried that you guys not make it oh we're going down!"
Emmet's foot tripped over the welcoming mat into his home, sending his tray forward. Without even thinking, Lulloyd did a backflip and kicked off the door, sending him soaring overhead. He collected all the drinks and landed behind Emmet, holding the tray up overhead. When he looked up, he found his eyes were looking at a pair of black pants with stencil designs across them.
"Woah, nice moves!" Lucy reached down to take the tray, letting Lulloyd slide up, "They really weren't kidding when they said you were a ninja. Wish I'd gotten the training you did."
"...Y-Yeah… totally am…" Lulloyd felt his senses going into overload being so close to Lucy. After a moment, Lucy took a step back.
"Well, come on in and say hi! Batman and Robin are out getting some snacks. Think you and Garmadon can stay out of trouble until then?" Lucy raised an eyebrow.
"Ppssshhh, we're at a formal event! There is absolutely no way that I will not not never not nope ever not do something to ruin it!" Joker beamed, "Besides, Emmet was nice enough to invite us."
"Don't worry about us, I'm currently training Lulloyd and his team, so I guess I'm technically on the 'good' side…" Garmadon paused, "Lulloyd, that'd make me, what? Chaotic even or something?"
"D-Dad, don't, we don't need to, tell them about that…" Lulloyd rubbed his hands together, "...We haven't even finished your character…"
"OOooh new face! New face! I wanna say hi first! Can I, Emmet, can I?!"
"Nope, sorry Unikitty!" Emmet smiled, "Lucy and I always did, but you can be third!"
Lulloyd turned to see what he could only describe as the infusion of a pink rainbow, unicorn and cat all put together leaping towards him. When she landed, her body bent forward into slopes to let her raise her head to be right at Lulloyd's eyes level.
"Third place is still a winner! Hello!" Unikitty beamed, "I'm Unikitty! I used to be Angry Kitty, but now I'm back to being good old Unikitty, bringer of rainbows and HAPPINESS!" To punctuate her points, sparkles of wands and stars popped over her head.
"...I-I'm Lulloyd," Lulloyd was quickly feeling overwhelmed, "Uh, I'm the green ninja, uh, I'm Garmadon's son, uh, and, I uh, yeah…"
"We're so happy to have you here!" Unikitty giggled, "New faces are always great to have! A party isn't a party if you don't have at least one new face! Otherwise it's just a get-together! Not that there's anything wrong with either, because both can be FUN!"
"Aye!" Lulloyd watched an amalgamation of a pirate ship, several instruments, and a metal beard rise from the couch, "A good captain can't build a crew without new members! Tis good to have you with us, boy!"
"Well who is this little cutie pootie right here?" A far deeper female voice made Lulloyd start to look for it, only to watch something rapidly pool in front of him. Orange, red and purple bricks rapidly began to melt together until a brick-built dragon stood in front of him, the rough and blocky form sitting down on the ground. Much to Lulloyd's shock, the eyes actually blinked and the mouth began to move.
"You like dragons, right?" The mass asked, "I'm still learning what form everyone is most comfortable around."
"...uh," Lulloyd was stunned beyond words. After a few moments, Garmadon's hands came down on his shoulders.
"You're staring, son," Garmadon hissed to him, then raised his voice, "You must be Queen Watevra Wa'nabi, a pleasure to make your possible future enemy."
"Mhm-hmm, nice to meet you to, Garmadon," Watevra smirked, "The apple fell a bit far from the tree, didn't it?"
"Oh, he'll grow to look a lot more like me in his future redesign," Garmadon waved his hand flipilantly, "We would've been at the wedding ceremony but the Ka-are wasn't working! I tell you, it's almost like you guys are trying to avoid us!"
"I know, right?!" Emmet popped up behind Watevra, "I didn't even know Ninjago City was a place until Batman mentioned it in a joke! And then I was all 'wait, you're telling me there is a city of super awesome people that we never even met and clearly all totally AWESOME?!' And then Batman was like 'Oh, yeah, thought you know.' So I sent the invite out and you guys are actually here!"
"You… guys never heard of us before?" Lulloyd turned his attention to Emmet.
"Nope, nuh-uh, nada!" Emmet shook his head, "But hey, now you're here and we get to meet you! We tried to send more invitations but we could only get two out! Batman said you two were the best choices."
"Cause, you know, I could totally only contact two guys with my super rad transmitter beam. Those charges are like, super expensive, and all. Stop asking questions."
The room turned to see Batman and Robin carrying what looked to be at least ten pizza boxes and three crates of soda, along with several legs of chicken, croissants and bananas. Robin was struggling with the crates, and when he saw the team, he happily cried out.
"Oh, hey guys! We… got… what you asked for!" Robin turned, "Padre, can… can I set these down?"
"Nah, not yet, this is gonna do so much work for your glutes," Batman smirked, "I got the kid working out, I'm gonna make him a perfect little me. As in, totally shredded. I mean…."
Batman trailed off. Across the room, Garmadon and him made eye contact. Lightning pieces sparked in the air. Batman threw the pizza boxes into the air, making them land perfectly on the couch. Robin huffed and simply smiled again as he forced himself to continue holding onto the crates. Batman surged across the room, Garmadon dropping to all fours and skittering up until the two leapt and pressed their chests together. Garmadon was grinning, while Batman was snarling. The room tensed up as the two spoke.
"So, you're the infamous Batman!" Garmadon smirked, "My, I never realized one of the realm's heroes was so… scrawny."
"Hey, Joker mentioned you before. I see you really are ripping off my image. Black is my thing, and I don't even seen a single line of dark gray on you," Batman shot back, "Being taller doesn't mean anything. I bet you don't even have a single ab!"
"Hah! Wrong again, hero!" Garmadon whispered, "I have fourteen."
"F-Four...Fourteen?!" Batman sputtered, taking a step back and drawing two batarangs, "...Nah, nobody can have that many abs! I can't, and I have the most abs out of everyone here! You're totally lying to me!"
"How about I take off this armor and we see who really does?" Garmadon grinned, "Though, when I take this armor off, it's for a duel, and most of my duels are to the death."
"Trust me, I've saved the world like, so many times I don't even think you can count that high. Only Batman can count that high. And even if you could, you didn't even conquer the world more than once. So, like, I think that means I'm still totally better than you!" Batman's snarl turned into a wild grin of his own.
"BATMAN!"
Both Watevera and Joker both shouted out at once, the two sharing a look of confusion before both frowning and crossing their arms. Batman perked and stood up straight, looking to the two of them with a simple, 'Wwwwhhhaaaattttttttt?'
"Batman, we talked about this!" Watevera waved a brick built hand around, "You do NOT go making any new villains with you first coming to ME! You know how many you still gotta put in Arkham? So many I don't even think you can count that high!"
"Bats, buddy, I really appreciate you're willing to branch out here," Joker growled, "But I for one find it a little insulting that you're willing to make even more changes in our relationship without telling me! G is my friend but I wasn't ready to ally with him yet!"
"But come oooooonnnnnnnnn!" Batman groaned, "He's, like, totally provoking me! Right, Robin?"
Robin huffed hard and finally dropped the crates he was holding, "Onethousandfourhundredten! Whew! I held them for as long as I could, Padre! Uhm, what was it, you wanted?"
"Oh nu-uh, you ain't bringing our son into this!" Watevera surged forward, "Don't make me come give you a talkin' to right here in front of all your friends! If my eyes were correct you were the one that ran up to him and asked him to fight!"
"But… but!" Batman was cut off.
"Batman, it's a party," Wyldstyle walked up, extending a slushie out to him, "Come on, why don't we just all cool down from this and we all do something fun!"
"Aye! This room be saltier than a prisoner in the brig!" Metalbeard stood up, "Me thinks this be a good time to have one of Emmet's famous 'party activities!' What say you, quartermaster?"
"Uh I have no quarters but I am a Master Builder!" Emmet beamed, "I was gonna wait until all the midparty cookies were done but let's do it anyways! BUILDING CONTEST!"
"Build… contest…?" Throughout all of the altercations, Lulloyd had stood there, unable to process anything but what was happening around him. When Emmet shouted, the room erupted in one loud cheer of 'YAY!'
"Ooohh you guys have NO idea what you're getting into!" Garmadon smirked, "Come on, what's the contest, I wanna know so I can build a perfect shark themed item for it!" He paused, "Well. Dragon shark, if Lulloyd gets involved."
"Sharks? Hah! Try completely diesel and steampunk over here baby!" Lucy fired back.
"A rousing vessel to carry us upon the seas to victory!" Metalbeard added.
"Something chaotic and evil!" Joker laughed.
"Hey, I think that's what was looking for earlier!" Garmadon declared triumphantly.
"Alright, everyone!" Emmet leapt up onto his chair, "Then it's settled! Team build contest, theme is animals!"
"HAH!" Garmadon and Joker leapt into the air to high five one another.
"Hear that, Batty?" Watevera's arm extended and wrapped around Batman to draw him in, "We get to show off our stuff!"
"Oohhh, oohhh build contest!" Robin looked around, "Can I be with the pirate? I've always wanted to do something pirate-y! I think it was national talk like a pirate day awhile ago!"
"And I'm with my Special," Lucy backed up sweetly to Emmet, "And we will OWN all of you!"
"Is Benny coming?" Emmet asked curiously.
"Nah, said he wanted to see how many spaceships he could make pop off of an even bigger spaceship, it's all spaceships with that guy," Lucy waved her hand, "Plus if he was here we'd have an odd number."
"He's kinda a one note character," Batman added, "Probably super hard to write for."
"I guess that leaves you with ME!" Unikitty leapt up in the air, spinning around Lulloyd, "Oh this is going to be so fun1 We can make a rainbow bird, or a rainbow fish, oh maybe a sparkly rainbow unicorn!"
"...Uh… what about a dragon..?" Lulloyd stammered around.
"A rainbow dragon…?" Unikiity paused. Lulloyd felt his chest slightly tighten.
"I-I was just saying something, you know! Something dumb!" Lulloyd smiled dumbly, "Look, forget I even said anything, let's uh, let's go with-"
"A rainbow dragon is the PERFECT idea!" Unikitty squeed, "Oh my gosh just think about it! We're in a rainbow forest, oh we can make the most huge awesome dragon! Come on, we gotta get going before we fall behind!"
"Fall… behind?" Lulloyd asked quizzically, only to see the room was deserted. Unikitty's tail turned sideway and wrapped around his arm to quickly drag him along in a high speed gallop that nearly put the mechdargon to shame.
The two exited Emmet's back door to see that the groups were already gone in the forest. Off in the distance, Lulloyd saws treetops go down below the treeline. Unikitty didn't give him much time to think, instead quickly ferrying him through the woods until the two came into an area of thick navy blue and purple undergrowth. There was a tiny clearing, at which point Unikitty stopped dragging him along and turned to him.
"I need every single rainbow colored brick here! I mean any color, if it's on the rainbow I want it now!" She beamed, "I'll go grab lots of non-rainbow colors!"
"Uhm, aren't, we gonna like, coordinate what parts we're building..?" Lulloyd asked.
"Well we can't build without bricks, silly!" Unikitty giggled, "Come on, we got lots and lots and lots of bricks to find! We're gonna make the best dragon EVER!"
"Uh… yeah, sure, totally," Lulloyd wasn't sure what he was doing, but he at least knew how to complete the task at hand. The forest was strangely colored, making the blues and orange stand out vividly against the more muted purples. As he looked around, he found even more colors, a situation which made him wonder how this place and Ninjago City were even connected, given that they were apparently connected.
Grabbing several colors of the rainbow was relatively simple: blue, indigo and orange were simple, and after a little digging he could even find red pieces in the undergrowth. At the same time, finding yellows, greens and violet was a rather difficult problem. Unikitty had specifically said rainbow, and the only yellow he'd seen around was on Emmet's house. He wasn't about to go taking from that, meaning he was trying to scavenge for them. It reminded him of trying to find sand green for his dragon… that color seemed hard to find for some reason until a few years ago.
Seeing what looked to be a big patch of yellow flowers, Lulloyd was quick to flip his way over from tree to tree until he landed in them. As he reached out to pluck away a large stem, however, he was met with a sight of orange. It took him a few moments to realize he was looking at Emmet's back, who turned to him and leapt up with a bit of surprise.
"Oh! Excccccuse me, just taking some stuff here for our super secret do not steal creation!" Emmet picked up a large section of tree trunk, "We are so gonna make this an awesome competition!"
"Uh, yeah, sure thing," Lulloyd blinked, "Uh… we're gonna, win?"
"That sounds like the spirit!" Emmet turned, "Oh, Lucy is calling, gotta run!" Emmet quickly went flying.
Lulloyd sighed, the awkwardness of the encounter washing over him. He quickly went about gathering up the bricks he needed, stacking them rapidly up on a large plate until he had assembled a tower of a hodgepodge of random bricks of yellows and blues. He quickly began to make his way back through the woods, leaping and flipping his way over the bits of forest and back towards where Unikitty was awaiting.
"Heads up up up up up!"
Throwing his stack into the air, Lulloyd tried to skid to a stop. A large tree fell over in front of him, and he thrust his hand out to push himself away just as it flew in front of him. He landed with legs spread and one hand on the ground. He blinked at the fallen tree before he stood up to see his stack falling down. He grabbed ahold of it at he last minute, panting as he looked toward where the tree had fallen from.
"Apologies of the highest order!" Metalbeard shouted out from the tree stump, a mixture of sword and guitar in hand, "Landfall be not me strongest element!"
"Yeah, sorry!" Robin shouted, "If it makes you feel any better, you looked totally cool flipping around like that!"
Lulloyd wanted to speak, but he had no idea what to say in response. So, instead, he just gave them a nod and leapt up over the tree to make his way back to Unikitty. The forest thankfully seemed to let him get back to the clearing without issue, leading him to finally plant his bricks down in front of him as he looked to see where Unikitty had brought. Upon seeing it, suddenly his stack of bricks felt underwhelming.
In front of him, Unikitty had assembled a gigantic expanse of all the colors of the rainbow. Seven towers of varying heights, built with elements connected to give the entire area a look of instability, rose up to the treetops. Weaving in and out of them with large bounds was Unikitty herself, happily humming a tune as he threw elements onto each of the towers. Upon seeing Lulloyd, she sparked and rapidly leapt over to him, looking to his bricks with a grin. He guessed her getting 'non-rainbow' pieces fell through.
"Perfect! We needed a lot more yellows, now we only need a little more yellows!" Her body extended out, her back leg rotating up to kick the bricks into the air to land on top of the yellow stack, "Now we just need the WOW factor for our dragon!"
"The, uh, wow factor?" Lulloyd asked.
"You know, the WOW factor!" Unikitty chuckled, "Something that'll make our build look sparkly and glittery and amazing! Anyone can build a dragon, but we gotta make it stand out!"
"Uh… well I normally have a mechdragon, that thing kinda, does some interesting stuff…" Lulloyd smiled slightly, "Like, uh, pretty much all of it can shoot out as missiles, it has like three extra heads for it too, all the spines can pop off and act as flares, oh! And like, the tail itself can act as a heat seeking missile!"
Unikitty blinked at him. Her expression didn't change, but she didn't respond to him. Lulloyd felt the awkwardness only wash over him harder, and he went to try to speak again.
"So… what you're saying is that we can make everything into fireworks?" Unikitty asked.
"...Yes," Lulloyd replied, "Yeah, that was exactly what I was saying."
"That… is going to be so totally fun and flashy and sparkly and it'll be so good!" Unikitty beamed, "Come on, we gotta work on making that then! Oh! When we make the rainbow dragon we gotta make sure that we make it so cool! We gotta give it really big rainbow WINGS!"
"Wait, what?" Lulloyd tried to keep up, but Unikitty was already leaping into the towers and working on the dragon's base.
Lulloyd was quick to make sure he wasn't going to fall behind. While she worked on the body, he was quick on the head. At first, he found himself creating a replica of the mechdragon, and upon realizing it, he shifted to making a far sleeker and thinner head with large horns. Thankfully, some of the foliage had been propped up with what he'd seen used as decorative horns before, and a few brcks with horizontal studs was enough to give the dragon four of them.
Unikitty, meanwhile, was working on the body. At first, she tried to make the body a rainbow, but she ran out of curves. Instead, she made it incredibly long with tiny curves with the rainbow patterns interlaid throughout it in bands. For wings, she looked around and used the flowers and massive leaves and turned the front legs into massive wings by overlapping the large leaves. Lulloyd wondered if that technically made this a dragon, but it wasn't like anyone would care.
Not to be outdone, once Lulloyd had the sleek head finished, he thrust it onto the body and went to work on the tail. He wanted to be unique, and so instead of one tail, he created several long and thin tails that were each different colors of the rainbow (he had to use gray connectors but he hid those as best he could). At the end, he attached a large flower to match them.
Unikitty was fast to pick up on what he was doing. Soon enough, she had attached makeshift rockets to the bottom of each of the tails, giving the dragon propulsion into the sky. Lulloyd created fireworks by sticking a cone onto a cylinder and showing a bar through it, and repeated this to line the back of the dragon like scales. To hide the larger ones on the dragon's legs, they attached them behind the wings on the front and disguised them as smaller wings on the legs. Once they were done, Unikitty created a saddle that looked like a cloud with a slot in front of Lulloyd and two dents behind him for her feet.
"Now we just need to name it!" Unikitty called from atop the dragon.
"Uh, naming was never really something I'm good at," Lulloyd called back as he ran forward, spinning his body up from the wings and landing firmly in the saddle with one hand in the air.
"Hmm… what about… the Sparkle Dragon! Nonono, Cumulonimbeast! Or or or, what about the Rainbow Wyvern?!"
"Uh… what about the Dragonbow?" Lulloyd suggested.
"The Dragon… bow… the Dragon… Rainbow, the Dragonbow!" Unikitty sparked, "It's perfect, it's a name that's going to bring the world excitement and happiness!"
"Yeah, I bet it is," Lulloyd paused, "So, uh, are done with it, or uh…?"
"One last thing~!" Unikitty sung, leaping down and grabbing tiles. Her back leg extended and kicked them so on the side of the dragon she spelled out 'L + U.' When she finished, she leapt back on and nodded, "There we are, now everyone will know it was the two of us that brought this competition joy!"
"You really seem to, you know, bring people joy," Lulloyd spoke as he slid into his seat, finding the 'steering' was a rainbow assortment of buttons and a flower for the steering wheel, "It's uh, nice, you know?"
"Awh, you're so sweet! Sweet like candy!" Unikitty beamed, "Making people smile is a reward itself though, so I don't need candy, thank you!" She sat down to admire the creation, "You can lighten up a little bit too, you know."
"Uh, what what?" Lulloyd blinked, "I never said I was tense, I'm perfectly fine."
"It's not that hard to read, you know," Unikitty rolled her eyes, "You're with friends! Nobody's judging you. I mean, your dad is a little out there but you don't have to think about that. Just enjoy the moment!"
"It's just a lot to take in all at once," Lulloyd smiled gently, "But, thanks, Unikitty. It helps to hear that."
"Great!" Unikitty declared, "Now we gotta wait until everyone else has shown off their builds before we go in there and CRUSH them!" Unikitty's eyes lit up with comical pink flames, "Let's walk right up to the house and hide behind it!"
Lulloyd wanted to say that it was impossible for them to do that, but then again his father had hidden his shark behind buildings in ways that he would never have thought possible. Thus, he began to make the dragon move. The beast wormed its way through the trees, using its curved body to slide between them and avoid breaking anything. It moved almost like a snake, which he guessed was due to the rainbow nature of it.
"Stealtttthhhhhhhhh…" Unikitty whispered as the dragon approached the house. He worked their way so they were opposite the direction they'd entered the wood and then walked out into the sunlight. Unikitty began to hum a spy song as they went. Soon, the dragon was directly behind the house, its body sticking out awkwardly behind it. It would only be non visible from a straight on angle.
"I, uh, don't know if this will work, Unikitty…" Lulloyd whispered.
"Shh, yes it will!" Unikitty sparked, leaping up into the air over the roof, "The others are coming through!"
With a massive combined evil laugh, several trees fell as something stepped out of it. What looked like massive monkey arms and legs were connected to the base of a shark that was painted in several hues of green and purple. A massive bowtie on the shark's front was spinning about and spurting flames as it did. On the top of the shark's head was a platform made to look like Joker's hair of green bricks where Garmadon and Joker stood.
"You think the monkey arms were too much?" Joker asked as Garmadon laughed.
"Nah, I think it was the perfect touch," Garmadon broke laughter to respond, "'Sides, we totally nailed this one!"
"Don't be counting ye ship as best in the seas without a test of her mettle!" Metalbeard shouted, "We be the ones taking home this here treasure!"
More trees fell down as several orange tentacles lashed out to strike into the ground. What looked to be a massive kraken tore its way beside the shark on monkey legs. At a massive wheel in the forehead of the beast was Metalbeard, laughing and playing his intro music on his piano leg. Robin was jumping and dancing to the music, one of the tentacles bent forward for him to stand on. The kraken stopped in front of the house, slowly rotating around to face the shark.
"We be the greatest fear upon the high seas!" Robin shouted out, "Even if that shark is really creepy and it's scaring me really badly!"
"HAH! You think you're the terror that lurks in the night?!" Joker shouted, "WRONG, THAT'S BATMAN!"
"The last time I fought a kraken I was nearly dragged down to my death, let's see if you two can do the same!" Garmadon reached forward, grabbing four sets of sticks that rose from the platform he and Joker stood on, "I BET THAT BEARD ISN'T EVEN METAL!"
"ACK!" Metalbeard raised his hand and rubbed his beard, "ROBIN! He be insultin' the beard of pirates everywhere!"
"That isn't good, already weird pirate guy, I got this!" Robin's tentacle moved him down so he could pull a large lever, causing massive speakers to rise up the kraken as well. Metalbeard reached down to plug a cable into his piano leg and let out a war cry through his trumpet arm.
"AVAST YE!" Metalbeard cried. The tentacles moved up and formed around him, revealing the ends were filled with cannons. The actual kraken was on wheels it seemed. Robin shrieked and grabbed his own with both arms and legs as they fired off towards the JokGarmaMonkShark.
The fire of what appeared to be stars that laughed as they collided with the JokGarmaMonkShark smashed directly into the broadside of the amalgamation. When the smoke cleared, Garmadon was simply grinning with a mad grin, while Joker behind him drew two massive tommy guns with flags sticking out reading 'BANG!'
"You can never beat me, MetalDUMB! Hah, nailed it!" Garmadon laughed, thrusting the bottom sticks forward. The 'fins' of the JokGarmaMonkShark suddenly extended out to reveal they were actual flamethrowers and had joy buzzers on catapults. The shark let out a cackling laugh as it fired them off into the kraken.
"ROBIN! IT BE STARBOARD INBOUND!" Metalbeard thrust his wheel to the right.
"Star what?" Robin asked, "Oh, do you mean like how on ships it's like OH MY GGEESOOOSSHHH!"
The kraken rapidly began to circle to the right, causing it to lean down. Robin was left clinging to the end of the tentacle as they began to circle one another. The JokGarmaMonkShark suddenly ejected its feet and legs and instead sprouted massive wheels that it used to begin circling the kraken as well.
The two ships traded fire. Robin managed to scramble his way using his dance fighting back down to Metalbeard, who barked to him to reload the cannons. As Robin went about it, Joker leapt up into a turret made to look like his tommy guns, complete with the massive flags. The flags, however, fired off towards the kraken, followed by Joker's loud 'Pew! Pew! Pew!'
The flags stuck into the kraken's side, causing Metalbeard to wail as he nearly lost his grip on the wheel. Robin master built a small ledge for Metalbeard to stand on, who thanked him by using his free hand to play the fighting music even louder. The speakers blared out as the tentacles all came together and pointed at one another. The stars fired off with loud cries of 'hello!' until they collided, forming one massive star that shot out towards the JokGarmaMonkShark.
Joker had only enough time to shriek and leap out of his turret before it was cleaved clean off his build. He landed hard, clinging to one of the flamethrowers. Garmadon shouted and tried to turn the JoGarmaShark back up to help him, but he had to focus. He instead rapidly pulled the shark into an even tighter radius, drawing them closer in.
"Robin!" Metalbeard shouted, "The wheel be yours! Methinks a clown has his final score to be played!"
"Uhm… okay!" Robin yelled out, leaping forward and grabbing the wheel. He leapt straight up into the air a massive joy buzzer nearly cleaned him straight off the ship. He nervously gulped as Metalbeard turned to the massive speakers and threw them down, connecting them to the ship to build a bridge.
"We're about to be boarded!" Garmadon shouted, "Jokes, you got this?!"
Joker responded by slowly pulling himself up back to the deck, "W-Whew, Batman was not lying when he said it's all in the abs!" He patted his core and reached down to draw two more guns from behind him, "Oh, you know that I'll be sure to put a massive smile on that face of his…"
"He's already on the ship," Garmadon stated nonchalantly.
Joker looked up and then rapidly leapt out of the way of a massive trumpet. Metalbeard roared a battle cry and ran across the flamethrowers and catapults, wildly swinging his trumpet arm towards Joker. Joker responded by falling onto his back and firing off his guns with a rapid volley of 'Ptptptptpttpewpewpewpttptptptptt' for maximum shots. Metalbeard raised his piano leg which he was still playing to cover himself.
Seeing his chance, Joker reached out and threw both guns to Metalbeard and rapidly scrambled up the JokGarmaMonkShark. Stars embedded into the side of the machine, which he rapidly used to leap his way further and further up the machine. Garmadon pulled them into an even tighter radius, meaning the cannons were almost firing point blank.
"YAARRGGHH!" Metalbeard brought his trumpet down, knocking Joker over. He slid over the top of the main fin, unable to find any purchase. He hung there as Metalbeard crested it, leaning over to point that same trumpet in Joker's face.
"Ye ship be ours!" Metalbeard shouted, "Give up and we be granting both of thee a spot in the brig!"
"Oh yeah?" Joker looked down with a dark grin, "Tell me, Metalbeard, what do you get when all five navy ships of the same go down?"
"Eh?" Metalbeard blinked, "What trickery be this?"
"A ROYAL FLUSH!" Joker laughed, suddenly drawing out tiles of face cards all of the heart suit. He thrust each one up into Metabeard's face, who shouted as he lost his grip. Garmadon jerked the JokGarmaMonkShark to the left, causing Metalbeard to be knocked straight off towards the ground.
"PIRATE GUY!" Robin shouted, turning the Kraken fully to go to ram straight into the JokGarmaMonkShark. Garmadon, seeing this, grinned and directed them head on, his guns trained on the build in full.
Just before either of them could make another move, a flash of black and various warm shades shot in front of them. Two massive bats, both the side of the Garmashark, wrapped their feet around the two creatures and yanked them apart. Garmadon and Joker both shouted as they were pulled back, while Metalbeard stopped as he was caught in a foot. He was gently set back down atop his Kraken.
"Now what in the brick do you two think you're doin'?!" The warm colored bat spoke up, revealing a face to be Watevra herself, "We ain't even made our way back yet and you are already up to a fight? Batman, you said Joker would hold back!"
From a yellow cockpit in the bat's face, Batman popped out, "Uh, nope, I said that he wouldn't fight me. Never said anything about other people. Maybe that Garmadon is a bad influence."
"Hey, don't you start blaming me in this!" Garmadon stamped his foot, "The declaration of war was MUTUAL!"
"I don't care if you two declared you was gonna destroy each other's builds or give each other hugs, you had one job and that was to WAIT until we got here!" Watevera's wing came down to lightly smack Garmadon, then Metalbeard.
"Oh yeah, he's totally the worst one here. Like, I bet if they made a movie out of Garmadon, it's totally be the bomb. Nobody wants to go see a Garmadon movie. Another Batman adventure though-"
"Don't you go startin' anything!" Watevra shot at Batman, "Your son nearly got hurt and you're sittin' here making fun of someone you don't like cause you ain't as ripped as him!"
"I-I, y-you… Robin!" Batman sputtered and turned his attention to his son, "Robin, are you okay?"
"Yeah, padre, doing just fine!" Robin woozily shouted from the wheel of the kraken, "Though I think I don't wanna go to the ocean anymore…"
From the trees, finally the last two contenders walked forward. A massive wolf made of what could only be described as diesel and steampunk mashed together and covered with construction equipment walked forward, each step causing its body to hiss and creak. Emmet sat happily in a small cockpit in the wolf's head with Lucy, who smirked as she made the creature walk forward. Once they came to a stop in front of the group, she blinked.
"Uh, woah, what happened here?" Lucy looked to the bats, JokGarmaMonkShark and kraken, "I know we said the theme was animals but, uh, is that thing even a creature?"
"Is that thing even a four legged creature?!" Garmadon shot back.
"It's the LucEmmeWolf!" Emmet called out, "See, we both wanted to do something construction related, sssssoooooo we decided to compromise with steampunk and I added some color. It was gonna be a cat but then we realized Unikitty was also here.-"
"The LucEmmeWolf?" Garmadon growled, "You totally stole the naming convention we used for the JokGarmaMonkShark!"
"The WhaWhatWhat now?" Emmet asked innocently.
"Okay, Lulloyd, now is our chance!" Unikitty beamed, "Come on, let's do this!"
Lulloyd couldn't agree more; seeing his father get involved in another land/sea battle would be more than he could handle in just one day. He looked to Unikitty, who gave a determined grin and sat down onto her seat. Once she was in place, Lulloyd thrust his flower forward, causing it to give a click and then a loud whirl as the dragon shot straight up into the sky.
The crowd turned simultaneously to see the Dragonbow fly straight into the sky. As soon as they crested over the house, Lulloyd pulled the 'wheel' towards him by leaning back, causing the buttons to begin flashing a massive variety of colors. Unikitty rapidly swung her back leg out and struck them, causing each of the parts of the dragon's fireworks to begin prepping. In the meantime, Lulloyd sent the dragon into a spiral, letting it fly over the crowd.
As soon as they were about to leave the line of sight, Lulloyd spun the wheel with all he had, causing the dragon to veer incredibly sharply. He could hear the fireworks igniting, and he needed to make sure they were above the group when they went off. The dragon went to roar, but instead a burst of candy came out and sprayed the treetops. Emmet and Robin were fast enough to run up and catch some before it was lost.
The fireworks began to spark as soon as Lulloyd was over the group. He drew the dragon to go straight up into the sky, its body twisting into the rainbow colors as it shot towards the sky. Just as it reached an apx, Lulloyd let go and let the dragon right itself. Instantly, the legs all fired off, scorching out in random directions before they exploded into massive displays of light. Each firework along the dragon went off in a blaze, arcing out into a similar display as they did. The sky was lit up with lights as Lulloyd and Unikitty were taken over by gravity, falling towards the group as the light show burst around them.
Just before the Dragonbow hit the ground, Lulloyd smacked a button on the middle of the flower. The dragon sprouted a second set of legs that smacked into the ground, stopping it right before the two were smashed by it. Seeing the group turning to them, Lulloyd grabbed Unikitty -who let out a long mrrow of shock- and then leapt up into the air, did a double flip, and threw Unikitty into the air so when he landed, he posed and reached out to grab ahold of Unikitty as she fell.
"Now that's how you put on a show!" Lucy shouted, "Good one, green ninja!"
"Oh my g-o-s-h!" Emmet followed, "That was a great entrance! Like, I didn't even know entrances could be that good!"
"Twas a marvelous display of ye handlin' skills!" Metalbeard concurred with a piano riff.
"Wheeww-wee I don't think I've seen anything that grand since our honeymoon, right, bats?" Watevera clapped her wings and then nudged Batman's bat.
"We agreed we wouldn't talk about that until we got the papers back," Batman grumbled, "But, yeah, I guess I could say that was nearly Batman worthy."
"Man, G, you really taught him how to strut his stuff!" Joker nuzzled up to Garmadon, "You did teach him that, right?"
"Where did h- Yeah of course I taught him that!" Garmadon laughed out, "TOTALLY taught him all about that. Totally."
"Might mean he's ready to lead his own division, eh, G?" Joker grinned, "I wouldn't mind helping him with some leadership skills. Let him plan a heist, deal with the cops…"
"You know, not to discredit you as a possible venue for teaching him, but how exactly are we gonna judge all of these things?" Garmadon narrowed his eyes, "...My vote goes to Lulloyd."
"Hey!" Batman snapped, "You can't do that! That's nepotism. I've learned a lot about nepotism lately. Tell em, honey."
"I don't think we even talked about judges," Watevera pointed out, "Well ain't this just a pickle."
"How we supposed to see who wins without a judge?" Lucy sat back and propped a foot up on the controls, "I don't think Emmet's house could handle us trying to see who has the sturdiest build."
"No it cannot!" Emmet added happily, "Wait, uh, we aren't going to have to rebuild my house, are we? I don't have the instructions I based it on anymore!"
"Uh… how about we just say we all won and that's that?" Robin blinked, "I mean, I think this all looks great! And only one of them has tried to blast me so far!"
"Hmm… kid's got a point," Batman nodded.
"Oh you're just saying that because your kid is the one who said it!" Garmadon countered.
"You voted for the sparkly dragon cloud thingy because your kid was the one who made it!"
"You didn't mention the rainbows!" Unikitty shouted from Lulloyd's arms.
"Okay, come on guys, let's settle this like adults!" Lucy raised her arm, "Everyone in favor of just agreeing we all won, say 'aye!'"
All but Garmadon and Batman shouted their affirmation, the two staring each other down from their respective cockpits too harshly to speak to one another. Lucy just rolled her eyes and called out, "Alright, then let's head back into Emmet's place and party!"
"PARTY!" Unikitty shouted, leaping fully from Lulloyd's arms and bounding back to the house.
"Someone get a limbo stick!" Joker called out as he slid down from the JokGarmaMonkShark, "I've been working on my flexibility since my last heist!"
"Yeah… I'm never going to go out to a conga line ever again," Batman shuddered, the cockpit opening for him to grapple his way out.
"Come on, son!" Garmadon laughed as he rushed up to Lulloyd, "Let's go have some fun! Think of this like the celebration after a victory!"
"Uh, didn't, need that but, okay dad," Lulloyd smiled gently, "Let's have some fun."
"Come on, come on!" Lucy slammed her hands on her lap, "COME ON YOU GOT THIS!"
Lulloyd gasped as he tried to steady his sword. On the stud enough, the group had been steadily adding item after item. A hole had already been made in Emmet's roof to allow for the stack to rise even higher. Lulloyd was currently balancing the sword with both hands with the tip on a coffee table, doing his best to hold it.
"I be addin' the final piece!" Metalbeard shouted from the rooftop, "The bet be at its peak!"
Metalbeard added a frog at the top of the stack. Lulloyd shouted as the sword violently lurched, forcing his arms to wrench still. Lucy and the others all held their breaths as the sword wobbled more, and Lulloyd strained to hold it. Five tense seconds went by, and Lulloyd held firm. The room went up in cheers and groans simultaneously.
"Oh yeah, I told you he had this!" Lucy brushed his blue hair back, "Anybody with moves that slick has amazing balance!"
"Well, like, he doesn't have muscles," Batman grumbled.
"G-Guys…" Lulloyd huffed, "P-Please, take, down, tower…"
Metalbeard obliged by thrusting his trumpet arm right at the level of the roof to cleave the tower down for him. Lulloyd sighed and slowly disassembled it and placed the vases, TV, mats, pots, pans, alarm clock, and whatever else they'd scavenged back into place. Metalbeard fixed the roof as Lulloyd did so, much to Emmet's sigh of relief.
"You're so totally in Lulloyd!" Joker laughed, "Man, why didn't we invite you guys before?!"
"I-I dunno," Lulloyd blushed as he replaced the tassel, "I mean, uh, it was kinda like, we weren't even connected to you guys before. And, uh, you know, the Ka-are isn't always reliable…"
"Nah, that thing is on a weekly schedule," Garmadon paused, "I mean, I normally just popped into here and then took the nearest portal to Gotham. Course once I really started getting into attacking the city I had to stop for awhile. Had to come up with more ways to beat those ninjas, you know?"
"Wait a minute," Batman leaned in, "Joker, you had another villain in Gotham all this time and you never told me?"
"Because I knew this was how it was gonna turn out, Bats!" Joker huffed, "Look, I want to give you all the villains I can, but you two were at each other's throats before I could say the word! I wanted to ease you guys into this, and well, I had hoped this party was gonna be it."
"Well," Batman paused, "Alright, I don't know if I hate him yet. I just don't like him flaunting all those abs there. He's cheating with that height there."
"You're just jealoussssssssss!" Garmadon drew out his 's' and quickly covered his mouth, "Heh, sorry, snake side of me came out there for a minute."
The room quietly laughed and distributed out drinks. Lulloyd was putting his sword back on his back when Unikitty bounded up to him, a tray of two smoothies balanced on her back. She eagerly got up behind him and arched her back for him.
"Hey, Lulloyd! Want a smoothie? They're sssoooo sugary! I mean good! Wait, sugar IS good!" Unikitty sparkled.
"Sure, thanks Unikitty," Lulloyd took a red one, taking a sip and his eyes widening, "W-Wow, that's a really strong cherry flavor."
"Told you!" Unikitty smiled, bounding off back to the kitchen.
Garmadon watched the exchange and smirked. He walked up behind Lulloyd and moved to stand beside her. Lulloyd took notice after a few seconds of this. He looked up to his father, who was grinning cheekily at him.
"Don't look now, but I'm pretty sure that Princess has got a thing for you," Garmadon chuckled, "Your mother was the only one that ever brought me weapons, you know."
"..." Lulloyd looked off to Unikitty, who was putting the other smoothie into Emmet's fridge before bounding off back into the party, "Dad… I-I don't wanna even talk about that."
"Fine, fine, but I'm just saying, if you ever need someone to make a distraction, I'm your guy," Garmadon smirked, "You can think of me as the cool parent."
"Dad, if I wanted a distraction I'd say someone is attacking the city," Lulloyd sighed.
"And you're totally right you'd get a distraction from that! I'm the one with exclusive stomping rights in that city!" Garmadon responded ludicrously, "Can't believe you'd even think I'd let someone do that! The defenses would go off first!"
"Defenses…. Wait, dad," Lulloyd narrowed his gaze, "Is, that why the fisherman are getting their boats wrecked by underwater eel mines?"
"No, those are leftover from previous campaigns," Garmadon smirked, "It'd take something really big to get past them, don't you worry."
Lulloyd continued to eye his father, who just kept smiling before Joker walked by and waved something Lulloyd didn't see. Garmadon excused himself as the two traveled deeper into the house. Lulloyd was left to sit down, taking in the room in front of him.
Metalbeard was giving some wild tale about his time at the seas, to which Robin was half listening. Watevra was animating Metalbeard's story with her body as he went, turning from a ship to the waves to several sea monsters as it went, drawing Robin's attention for feverently. Batman grumbled as Lucy waved her hand for him to pay up, handing over a massive amount of batarangs that Lucy promptly gave to Emmet. Emmet was quick to give her a side hug and rushed to start placing them on the walls as decorations, much to Batman's chagrin. Lucy just patted his back and went to go and help her… husband? Boyfriend? Lulloyd wasn't sure.
"Hey, Lulloyd!" Unikitty bounded up once more, "Wanna go build some more?"
"Huh?" Lulloyd paused, "Uh… I mean, everyone here kinda has like, a lot more experience than me…"
"But the Dragonbow was so cool! I wanna make more rainbow creations with you! Do you know any other animals? Oh, oh, what about other things we can make?!" Unikitty hopped in place, "Will you? Please? Pretty pretty pretty pplleeasseee?"
Lulloyd thought for a minute. That thinking led him to stand up, a smile on his face. He slowly made his way towards the back door, then thrust it open and leapt outside. He landed with a spin on the grounding, giving Unikitty a smile.
"Well, what are we waiting for?" Lulloyd called out, "Let's build!"
Unikitty happily made her way after him, rushing out to have more time of fun, building and more as the party continued on.
A far more lighthearted story than some of the others I will be telling in the future! I wanted to try my hand at writing a much larger ensemble cast, and given that I adore all four of the Lego Movies, I wanted to include this chapter! I always took issue that Ninjago was so disconnected from the other worlds, so Ninjaverse is as light retcon of that element... or is it an expansion? Regardless, this was most likely the silliest chapter I've written for NV, but also one of the most fun. I'll let you decide any references I used.