Borg, I like you. I think you're eccentric, fun, and you've given us some awesome tech. But I'll never trust you to build another building in Ninjago City. Ever.

Borg Tower has been a constant place of conflict in Ninjago. I defeated the Overlord there. It's also where we destroyed the Golden Master. And lately, it was where Emperor Garmadon set up his headquarters. While it's an impressive building, I can't ever go there without knowing what happened each time I've gone there and immediately want to leave. I know why you built it there, but you could have saved Ninjago a lot of headache had you built the tower literally anywhere else.

It's a great tower, and I know the city just wouldn't look right without it. I know that it has a lot of great facilities and is basically the place where all our own tech comes out of. And I even know that the place is just really cool to go through. But I seriously think it's probably the worst idea for a building, ever. Maybe I'm biased, but it's up there with Darkley's for buildings I think should be torn down.

A lot of you probably didn't get the full story on why the Golden Master happened, since at first Borg told the public it was an experiment that went haywire and then it turned into the Golden Master. That's somewhat true, if you say the building was an experiment. Things did go haywire, for us, and yeah, something in the building did turn into the Golden Master. What really happened to Ninjago, though, was honestly a lot simpler than it looks.

I messed up.

After I defeated the Overlord, I thought that was it. I thought my destiny was done, and that meant my story was over too. That I had hit my peak and that I had already made history. It wasn't like I was the only one that thought that too: Wu, the ninja, and all of Ninjago thought that my story was over. Everyone thought that I'd defeated all the evil in Ninjago, that I'd ended the Serpentine Wars, stopped the Overlord, and now I had restored peace to the land. It was back to the way it was before I left Darkley's, back to the way it should have been. And that meant I let my guard down.

My dad has told me again and again that evil can never be fully vanquished, and that whatever I did, the Overlord would have always come back. He would have found some way back into the world, just like how the First Spinjitzu Master found a way to prevent the battle from being lost by passing his powers down to me. If one of us were to get defeated, it'd eventually show up in someone else. If I had known this, I would have just never let Borg build on top of the site of the Garmatron, since it turned out the Overlord was still there. And at the very least, my dad didn't realize this until he met the Overlord again, so at the very least, I wasn't not being told important things I needed to know.

We don't know how he managed to hold on. I remember that the Overlord, when I first saw him, was a weird floating ball of gas. Given that his power was cut off when the First Spinjitzu Master split Ninjago in half, I imagine that his physical form regressed to that, which explained why he was never able to find a way back. By shifting the balance, he broke into Ninjago again. When I fought him and destroyed him, I guess I only took out his body. He was a being that was as old as Ninjago itself, and he'd been living on that without food or water, I think. If he'd managed to survive as just a spirit, then I guess the physical body was only a tool for him.

Still, I had never even considered that the Overlord wasn't gone. I mean, I literally blasted him apart. I was so bright he literally burned away. I don't understand how he even managed to stick around. He said he could never lose to me, but then he screamed when I blew him up. So, I thought that he'd just been taunting me, trying to break my spirit; typical bad guy stuff. The fact he was telling the truth, that he was actually still around, as if he'd just gone dormant after I beat him…

Wu says that a ninja should live so that there are no regrets in his life. My dad said that I shouldn't regret it. But, no matter how I choose to look at it, what happened to everyone in Ninjago, what happened to me… what happened to Zane, it was all because I failed. I thought the Final Battle, had been just that. The Final Battle. That was it. I decided it was over, and let my guard down. I went around Ninjago, being hailed as its hero, when I didn't even know my job wasn't done. No matter what anyone tells me… I'll never get over the feeling that if I had just done my job properly, Ninjago wouldn't have suffered again.

After my dad realized he was reformed, he decided to take a vow of peace. After having spent his life until then seeking nothing but weapons and power, her vowed never to let those two things take him over again. My mother actually decided to settle down with my father and not go disappearing into Ninjago for months at a time. I helped them get a piece of land to help build their new Monastery. Given that I was literally Ninjago's savior, getting the paperwork done for that was actually incredibly fast. I wish it was that easy now.

I was only able to help my dad build his new home for a few weeks before people requested that I take a tour around Ninjago to receive awards for what I did. Basically, I got to tour Ninjago and go from town to town like a sort of traveling show and receive a reward from each town for saving them from the corruption. I tried at first to tell them that I had kinda been the reason that they got corrupted in the first place, but of all people, my dad said that I should go and see Ninjago. He told me to get more familiar with the world that I'd helped rescue. When I told him it'd take time away from me getting to spend time with him, he told me that I'd done Ninjago a service that was far greater than anyone had asked of me.

Maybe now, knowing that I hadn't actually done the service as well as I needed to, I regret actually doing that. It meant that for most of the time between when Ninjago was purified and the start of the Golden Master crisis, I was away from my dad. I only got to see him a few times when I was in the area, which wasn't often. I hardly got any time off from the whole schedule, since I had to go to almost every town in Ninjago for those awards. At the time, I didn't think too much of it outside of the start, since I thought I'd have a lot more time with him.

While I was doing that, Wu decided to go in and turn Darkley's into his own academy. I told Wu he should just tear the entire building down. I don't understand why a school for 'bad boys' even exists at all. Doesn't that just say to the kids that get sent there that they'll never be able to do anything since they'll just be called 'bad' from now on? And it wasn't like that place had the greatest facilities either. It was always away from the big cities so it never got any new stuff or teachers. It's just such an awful idea to even send kids to that place. If I ever had the chance, the first thing I would do is clear that building out and then just tear it down.

Why Wu even wanted to build a school, I'm not sure. I mean, sure, I get that we all thought Ninjago was safe now. Nowadays, however, everyone in Ninjago knows this land is perpetually under attack. Wu knew that the Time Twins were going to come back in a few years, so settling down as a teacher would make no sense. And given how active we are in having to keep Ninjago safe nowadays, the idea of settling down to become teachers ourselves is just, a distant dream. At the time, sure, it felt like if our lives were a show, it was probably over. I guess the Overlord decided to start it back up again.

I wasn't really involved with it. I asked Wu why he made the ninja teachers since I'm pretty sure we were all teenagers at the time, or around that point, but he said that all their experience meant they had the ability to lead and thus the ability to teach. Yeah, from what I heard about that place, it wasn't really that great. Wu knew how to teach ninja, but relying on ninja to teach kids… honestly, I hear that the only reason that school stayed open was because of Nya and Dareth.

I went from place to place while they were handling the school, getting my awards. I still have them hung up in Yang's Temple… which, come to think of it we haven't gone back to ever since we rebuilt the Monastery. Huh. Well, anyways, I got to see every town in Ninjago, even Stixx. I won't lie… it felt great. It felt great to have everyone praising me after I'd spent the last month in constant pain and confusion about what my destiny was. After I'd had to put everything on the line for Ninjago, to get that validation, to have them say that I'd actually done good… it was just a great feeling. To everyone that did thank me, thank you. It was what I needed after everything that had happened to finally get back to being me again.

In those few months, I got used to my Golden Power. Having it was honestly the best thing in the world. I was able to do anything I wanted. It was literally me having the power used to create the world in the palm of my hands. Of course, I tried to use it responsibly. But being able to call forth a dragon at will -which at the time only I could do- and then use it to create an entire bridge out of thin air if I wanted to, man I wish I still had that. Or at least I got to learn how to use it more. It's a feeling of power you know is special just ot you, and more.

Most of my time after the battle was spent on that tour. I had heard what Borg was doing, but I didn't think anything of it. I kinda saw it like putting up a statue in a park. It was a way to show everyone that what was in the past was in the past. That, and I'm pretty sure it was prime real estate at the time. Borg had been doing a few small time things before then, but apparently after the battle, he'd managed to get a bunch of contracts and secure funds to build that place. I'm not sure how he did, Zane explained it once but I don't remember, but in a few months he'd managed to turn Ninjago City into New Ninjago City.

I like technology, that's something that the Golden Master could never take away from me. I love getting something with super cool gadgets and buttons and features. I love video games, even though Jay has and always will be way better at them than I am. I know Kai didn't like all those machines Borg made, and I kinda get that. I mean, if you got a headache looking at a computer for awhile you'd never be able to spend a day in New Ninjago City. It was a lot to take in, and not everyone is able to handle all that change. It was mainly centered around New Ninjago City, so I didn't get to see most of it until I actually came back.

So, most of you are probably wondering what happened. After all, it kinda all happened suddenly. In the course of a single night, all of the new tech that Borg had built up was just, turning evil. It seems like it was random, but it really wasn't. When Borg built Borg Tower on top of the Garmatron's spot, what remained of the Overlord's spirit latched onto his servers, and was reborn as the Digital Overlord. Jay called him the Digilord, and I think that's easier to say that Digital Overlord every time I wanna refer to him. So Digilord it is.

Apparently, the Digilord had been hiding inside of Borg's servers for months. Borg never told us exactly how long he'd been in there, but given he had enough time to make the weird Techno Blades, it seemed like a long time. Borg wasn't able to tell anyone, so instead he used a field trip that Wu had planned to Borg Tower to secretly give the ninja the Techno Blades. The Digilord was on the central harddrive, and if they could use the blades on that harddrive, it would permanently erase him from the system.

I actually used to wonder why they didn't just write a super hard computer virus to stop him. Zane says, however, that the Digilord was sort of like an AI program. He'd spent enough time in the system to learn how it worked. So, any code that Borg wrote he'd be able to eventually overcome. Given that the Digilord was already not originally computer code, Borg wasn't even sure that would work. So, he instead decided to write code into the Techno Blades that would act at the source, rather than trying to power through the security the Digilord put up around himself. Of course, that never happened, which kinda makes me wonder what the point of the Techno Blades even were but… well. They at least looked cool and gave us some temporary cool stuff.

So, here's what happened: on the day that Borg gave the ninja the Techno Blades, the Digilord found out about them and decided to fully hijack all of Borg's systems so try to stop the ninja from getting out of the city. He didn't know where the blades were, but had figured out Borg had made them, so he didn't want to strike until he knew he'd be able to take them. When the ninja tried to leave, he trapped them inside the tower. Borg made them new suits too so they'd fool the facial recognition scanners… which, I think helped one time. Either way, the Digilord made the city his in a matter of minutes.

I had been on my way to the school to surprise the kids when they got back. When I heard over the news that the city was under attack, I didn't hesitate to go and help out. The ninja managed to get outside the building when they found out that the Techno Blades could hack into any piece of technology the Digilord corrupted -well, if you consider touching the blade to something 'hacking' it- and used it to take over his security forces to make a stand. Wu and Nya were stuck with the kids inside the building, so the ninja were on their own.

When I got there, all I saw were all the ninja trapped together in the middle of the street, fighting back waves of robots. I did what anyone with my power would do: blast them all and then land to save the ninja. Since I'd become so powerful, I figured a full strength blast would have been enough. The Digilord, however, had somehow figured out how to absorb my Golden Power, and use it to fuel his machines. Borg said he was forced to learn how to convert my power into energy, which the Digilord was using to help escape the system. Either way, when I first heard the Digilord's voice, I was mad.

I wasn't really thinking much when I first landed and blasted away all those robots. The anger didn't really go beyond the surface level feeling of how he was back. I mean, I was here to save people, and I was almost instantly stunned the second I saw all those robots get right back up. My Golden Power was the strongest thing I had, and to see them just shrug it off like that was confusing. And seeing that they were able to just completely absorb it like that meant fighting them outright wasn't going to happen.

According to the others, I came in after the battle had already been going, and so my priority shifted from fighting to helping the ninja escape. Of course, the big issue was the fact that the entire security force was waiting to blast us the second that we left. I could get away on my dragon just fine, so the big issue was really getting the others out. But we remembered that the Digilord really didn't care about the ninja, just about the Techno Blades and me. So we came up with a plan, and Wu volunteered himself for us.

This is technically another self-sacrificing moment for Wu, and I mean I would be a little upset about it, but at least this time we were actually going along with a plan, and because of that his capture wasn't exactly unexpected. When Wu decided that he would trick the security forces into attacking himself to help us get away, we decided to go along with it. I didn't entirely like it, but we were already pressured for time and we needed a way out of the city. We didn't have many other options either, and so our plan was to have the main bulk of the security forces go after Wu while he secretly passed the Techno Blades onto Kai on the way. Meanwhile, I flew interference for the forces going after Kai and Zane, while Jay and Cole escaped on the ground.

We heard the sirens going off as Wu was captured, but we were out of the city before we were given a chance to see it. I, of course, wanted to go back for him, since Wu had actually just gotten captured, but it was more important to get me out of the city. As Kai pointed out, for some reason, the Digilord had said that he wanted my Golden Power, so that meant I was now a priority again.

I wondered at first why the Digilord would want the very thing that destroyed him. After I took a long time to think about it, I figured it out. Light and darkness are connected. Whenever one rises up, the other one fades out. Turning on a lamp drives away the darkness in a room. That connection between us was still there, and with him no longer having a physical body, it meant that he needed a new body. Since we were connected, it meant that he wanted to use my power, the power of creation itself, to create himself a new form. It's sort of the same idea as how kids say that they want to have a big giant powerful robot body, but instead of it being just play, it was him actively hunting me down now.

The fact that the Digilord wanted me for his evil schemes was a big enough issue all on its own, but we soon realized that this was an even bigger problem. During our escape, the Digilord used the machines in the lab to forcibly turn Borg into a, well, cyborg. From what I saw of him when it happened, it was like his mind was almost put to sleep and the Digilord was controlling him. It wasn't the same thing as when he had control of my dad, however; Borg wasn't conscious, and the Digilord couldn't manipulate his body like him, but it was still a strange thing to see. A bit stranger that Borg seemed to just take all of those robotic implants off later on…

Anyways, we spent nearly three hours driving around Ninjago just trying to make sure we stayed out of the scanners and anyone that could recognize us. It didn't help that we were all in brightly colored vehicles, and I was in my giant glowing dragon, so eventually we decided that we needed a safehouse. Going back to the Academy would be impossible since they'd clearly expect us there. I was done with my tour, so I didn't have anywhere that I could stay there, not like I would anyways. So, we had to somewhere, anywhere at all.

With Ninjago under attack, I made the call for us to go to the only place I knew we'd be safe. With Wu gone, we needed a new Sensei to help us out. We needed my dad. And the second I set foot inside that Monastery again, it was like an entire new chapter on my life had started. The time off from my last massive battle was done, and now, Ninjago had to be saved all over again.

In the span of a day, my adventures had gone from over, to rebooted.

"Rebooted?" Zane asked as Lloyd gave the wave to show he was finished, "Are you using the nicknames Jay has given to each of our adventures?"

"Uh… yeah!" Lloyd smiled awkwardly, "I mean, it's an easier way to refer to what happened. Nobody likes having to say 'The Golden Master Incident.' It kinda sounds like something out of a textbook. Jay came up with the name 'Rebooted' for what happened. Since, you know, we were dealing with technology and when you reboot something it like, restarts?"

"I am fully aware," Zane raised an eyebrow, "Do you have a name for all of our adventures?"

"Most of them," Lloyd thought, "Rise of the Snakes, Legacy of the Green Ninja, Rebooted, The Tournament of Elements, Possession, Hands of Time, the SOG, Hunted…"

"I know of them," Zane smiled coyly, "I just wanted to confirm what I had in my memory banks."

"Yeah, heh!" Lloyd smiled awkwardly, "...Uhm, hey, Zane. Can I, ask you something?"

"Yes?" Zane asked, curiosity in his words.

"Do you… regret, what happened to you?" Lloyd looked down, "Your, you know. I know you came back, and you got to meet Pixel, but you also lost the body that your dad built you. And, I know at the time you weren't really planning on coming back. Are you… do you feel bad about what happened?"

"If you are referring to my death, no," Zane's expression hardened, "I did my duty to both Ninjago, and my friends. When everyone was unable to fight, I was the only one that could step up. I have a duty to protect those that cannot protect themselves. If I were to live my life over again, I would still sacrifice myself, even if it did mean I would never see you all again. The Golden Master was going to destroy all life in Ninjago, corrupt it and change it to something wrong and impure. I hold no resentment towards what happened that day. We all fought our absolute hardest, and that means I have no regrets in that regard."

"Wow… I didn't know you felt so strongly about that," Lloyd pointed out, "But thanks. I was worried since I know that it was really only a few weeks, but so much happened and you were the one that ended up, you had to do everything. I just had to hear it."

"Of course, feel free to ask me anything you need to, Lloyd, as well as if you need me to send someone else in to do these chapters with you," Zane nodded his head, "Please, feel free to ask me for anything that you need."

"Gotcha," Lloyd nodded, "Let's go ahead and do the next chapter, then after that, I'm gonna head to the arcade. I finally got my old skills back and I'm gonna finally beat Jay at a video game!"

"That will be a sight to see," Zane smiled, "Alright then, let's continue, Lloyd."