I still have nightmares about what happened to me the day that I lost my Golden Power.

As soon as the dragon took off, the Digilord had the Nindroids throw me into a chamber specifically made to extract my Golden Power. He told me that our powers were connected in the same way light and shadow were, and that because of this I would be the key to his resurrection. He would use my power to create the body for himself that he had always wanted, a form that he could call his own and only his own. According to him, I'd played right into his hands.

I tried to break out at first, but the Digilord was ready for that. Within a second of me about to smash through the glass and out to freedom my entire body crumpled. All of that power going through me lit up through my whole body all at once, like something forcing it out of me and up to the surface. I wasn't given a chance to use it, however; the second that it was out in the open was the second I felt it being taken away.

When I was at the Temple of Light and first awoke my powers, I felt like all of the strength in my body had been drained out, then poured right back into me renewed. When that machine began its work, it was the opposite. I tried to hold onto the power, to stop it from leaking out of me, but it was like trying to stop a hose by putting your hand on it. The harder I tried to hold on, the more of it leaked out of me. It wasn't painful, but I felt sick. I was like I had a fever, and I was dizzy and could hardly stand as it was sapped from me. I was barely able to breathe. All of that power, all of it that I'd just started using, was being taken away.

The process didn't take that long. At most, I believe it took an hour. But it was an hour that felt like years. Each second that I felt power leaving me just made me feel colder, weaker, sicker. I felt like crying out for help, but I couldn't even move my lips. It was all I had in me to just keep breathing. I couldn't even try to open the container to let me out. I was just stuck there, stuck feeling everything being taken away from me, and poured into a strange coffin beside me.

The Golden Power was the power of creation. Because of that, the Digilord was going to use that power to create his body. I watched in horror as every second caused the strange swirling mass of darkness inside the chamber to take form. It was like watching something cooking up, rising, hardening, and taking its shape right before you. I knew that was the embodiment of darkness. I knew that was him. But the very power that I used to fight him wasn't going to work anymore. I was fully, and truly, helpless.

As my power was drained, I felt it turning back into my Green Power. The Golden Power was an evolution of the Green Power, and that meant that it was like my body was being devolved back into something weaker. I could feel inside me how much I was losing, feel what he was doing to me. It wouldn't kill me, I knew that, but I knew that I would never be the same again. And every moment that went by just made me feel… made me feel hopeless.

While this was happening, Borg came up with a plan. The Digilord existed in a Digiverse, and if he could send the Ninja inside with a coded representation of the Techno Blades, they could get to the source of his virus that way. It seems odd that the ninja never managed to actually use the Techno Blades to get to the actual harddrive. We'd based our entire plans around them using their blades to do that, but in the end they never even did. In fact, in the end there was never even a point to actually building the Techno Blades. I mean, they could have gotten out of the city when I got there, and it wasn't like Nya didn't have vehicles on standby in the cave if they were absolutely needed. And I never even got one. I mean, I don't even know what I would have made with one but… I mean, it would have been neat to have one. If they didn't even need them in the first place, it could have actually saved me from getting captured if I had just hacked into the Nindroids!

I didn't know at the time they were actually inside the Digiverse, or what actually really happened. I just know that when I was inside that tube, I felt something. I felt something inside the Digilord. While he was removing my power, I felt connected to him for a few moments. I still had my Golden Power, whatever was left of it. And as I felt it, I grabbed hold of it as tightly as I could. I knew that I wasn't alone. Not at that moment.

When I grabbed hold of it, I was making my last ditch effort to stop the Digilord. I was desperately trying to just defy him, to stop his horrible plan for just one moment. When I did, according to the others, I empowered all of them with the Golden Power inside the Digiverse. The reboot signal was being blocked by the virus, and was manifested in them having to redirect a beam of light into the harddrive itself. All I felt was the Digilord tugging on my power as I stalled his plans, stalled the upload for just those few, miniscule seconds.

I don't know how, but I felt the others with me in those few seconds. I felt them there. I couldn't give them my power… but I could redirect where it was going. I had to do something. I pushed hte power towards their voices, like blowing water out of a cup. Just the smallest amount splashing onto them, it was enough to give them what they needed. I wasn't alone. I couldn't be alone. I wasn't going to be left alone.

I didn't know what happened. I saw the Digilord's body rise up from the coffin, just as I was down to the remaining five or so percent of my Golden Power. Then, the Digilord started screaming. From what I understand, the reboot signal started to purge him from the system, so he was forced to upload the last bit of his consciousness into the body in those few seconds. Because of that, the transfer was cut off and the last bit of my power wasn't stolen. His body collapsed into a formless mass once more.

Of course, this meant the dragon went down. I used what last I had of my strength to drag himself across the floor of the dragon as the systems went down. I wasn't paying attention to anything, since I knew we were about to hit the water. If I was stuck inside it when we went under, I'd drown. I pulled myself with the last of my ability outside and out into the water below. I watched as the dragon plunged into the waves, and with it, I thought the Digilord was done for.

I made my way to a nearby village and collapsed there. They took me in, no questions asked, since everyone in Ninjago knew my face. That's when the ninja contacted me and told me that they would come and pick me up. I was relieved, but a few minutes later I passed out. I was so exhausted from everything, so tired and drained, I couldn't do anything. I completely passed out.

When I awoke from that, I knew that it was mostly gone. My power was drained to the point where I couldn't even make the dragon anymore. I could feel the embers of it inside me, like trying to light a fire with a few tiny flakes, but I couldn't use it anymore. When I called on my power, it was green again. When I first saw that, and I felt what happened, I had to force myself not to cry. I'd lost the ultimate power, and now, now I was back to who I was before I defeated the Overlord. I'd lost to the Digilord, even if I thought he was defeated again. I couldn't move mountains anymore. I'd lost the power that I'd finally started to understand.

Most of it. I could feel a small spark of it still inside of me. I was now 5% of the Ultimate Spinjitzu Master. My dad told me that power was still enough that people would covet it, and that no matter what I needed to protect it. I wasn't sure why though. It was literally a tiny fraction of my old power, hardly enough for me to even see it as anything worthwhile to use.

I went outside after my dad told me that and tried to summon it. I figured that if I had a small bit of it, maybe I could move a small bit of the world still. When I tried, however, I could barely even make an anthill rise up. If I had trained with that power, tried to maximize what I had, maybe, maybe I could have had something there. But I had nothing.

It's hard to really put into words what it felt like to have that taken away from me. Maybe I'd been using it as a crutch until then, but I hadn't even really begun to actually understand it until my dad started to train me days before. I had just truly, fully, gotten in touch with what I could do as the Ultimate Spinjitzu Master. I was ashamed that I lost my power, of course, since it'd been the Digilord that took it away from me. But it felt even crueler that I had finally been shown what I could do with it, and now it was gone.

I've read enough comic books to know that if a character in those gets a super powerful ability, it usually is either temporary or gets ignored in later issues. But, was that all my Golden Power was? Just some temporary powerup? I don't even think about it most of the time nowadays. I have so many foes to take on that just get stronger and stronger, I don't have the chance to really think about how easy everything would be if I had my Golden Power. I mean, yeah, I could have solved literally every single issue that we've faced with it if I still had it. But I also lost it when I was so early in my time as a ninja that it's hard for me to really think about that. I had just touched it, just finally felt it, finally, truly, gotten a grasp on it, when it was gone.

I guess, what bothers me is that I don't feel angry that I lost my Golden Power, I feel angry that the Digilord stole it. I had to move on so quickly from it at the time, I didn't stop to think about what I could do with what power I had left. What I knew was that the Digilord was still out there, somewhere. We weren't sure, why but all of the Nindroids were still operating with some goal in mind. If the Digilord was truly taken out, then it made no sense why they were still operating that way. I mean, they were robots, they wouldn't do things without reason after all.

This is when I made a choice. My dad said that one day, my friends could come to want my power. I couldn't fight them. But I also couldn't fight without them. I needed to lean on them more. The stronger that they were, the stronger the entire group would be, after all. While I was training with my power, I remembered something Kai said when I was at the Temple of Light. When I was being purified and given my new powers, Kai said, "give him your powers!" Did that mean that my Golden Power came from the ninja themselves?

It's a little hard to think about without getting too confused, given the strange way that our elemental powers work. From what I've put together, the ninja had their dormant elemental powers that were first brought out by the Golden Weapons. Think of it like, a gate that they let their powers flow out through. The Golden Weapons bypassed that gate. Then, when they were at the Temple of Light, their powers were awakened and their gates permanently opened. However, in order to give me my Golden Power, they instead sent that power opening their gates into me, and the Elemental Blades instead acted like the Golden Weapons again and bypassed their gates. That's the easiest way that I've come to explain it.

Now, if that was true, which I had assumed at the time, that meant that I could send my Golden Power I had left back into them to open those gates again. The ninja could train for years to open their gates without needing me, sure, but we didn't have that time. The Digilord was out there, after all, so I had to do something. So, I told my dad that I was going to go back to the Temple of Light and, basically, do the reverse of what happened and basically give the ninja their elemental powers back.

One consequence of this that didn't come up at the time, but becomes important later, is that it was my power that was opening up their elemental abilities for them. Even if I gave it to them, that power was still connected to me. So, if something happened to me where I wasn't able to use my elemental abilities (like, say, being possessed) that meant their powers would be closed off. But like I said, at the time, that wasn't important.

My dad, however, was against it. He said that by doing this, I was putting the ninja at risk. I needed to hone what power I had left and work towards reclaiming what was lost, not trying to give the responsibility onto others. I was shocked that he was so against the idea at the time; after all, I figured he'd be happy that I was making a choice that would protect Ninjago. But instead, he said that if I chose to do this, I would be making a big mistake.

Of everything that I've chosen to do, I don't think that what I did that day was a mistake. Wu always said that our strength as ninja came from the fact we were a team. If we weren't a team, then we'd never be able to do this. The ninja had been handicapped for so long not having their powers. I mean, nowadays it's really hard to imagine going into battle without our powers, but we couldn't rely on weapons anymore. Everytime the ninja had been in trouble, they didn't have their powers. It was time to just get that problem out of the way. Never put off until tomorrow what can be done today. And on that day, I could fix their powers.

So I did. We went back to the Temple of Light, and I sacrificed what little of my Golden Power that I had left to awaken their powers again. Doing that put a connection between us all that went deeper than us just being a team. We were ninja, and with our powers, we would finally bring down the Digilord together. My father grumbled the entire time, but as much as I cared about him, I couldn't bring myself to disagree with his opinion. I made a decision to help protect Ninjago, and in that, I helped bring down the Digilord.

With that done, we knew that we needed to hunt down Pythor and the Nindroids. For some reason, they were gathering parts all across Ninjago. They were never in a place long enough for us to capture them, so we decided to split up. We each were given a sector of Ninjago to cover, and I threw myself into the task. I didn't have the ability to make my dragon anymore, but I could still cover ground. We found out through a coded transmission that the Nindroids were working on something called Arcturus. I actually met the Anacondrai general that they named the project after. I guess Pythor had a flair for his tribe, even if he ate them.

Kai was the one that ended up tracking them down. Now, I do love Kai, but this is one of the dumbest things that he ever did. Pixal told Kai to follow behind their stealthily and simply find where they were going. It was, literally, the easiest thing that he could do. He was on a big open mountain pass, so it wasn't like he couldn't see exactly where they were going. But, for some reason, he at first tried to ditch Pixal so he could chat up some girl, then he fired missiles into the air while trying to find the radio. Because of that, the entire mission changed from following them to getting Kai onto the transport. And that wasn't even the last dumb decision.

So, not only does Kai get himself spotted, ignore Pixal and have to get onboard, but he then, without thinking, doesn't put together that he's standing on a massive cylindrical vehicle that you see transporting oil all the time. Only this time, it was jet fuel. He managed to light the vehicle on fire trying to fight the Nindroids. So, while he's stuck on that truck as it basically counts down to an explosion, he also doesn't even realize that he threw a Nindroid right into the car he was driving, making it so he couldn't even escape that way. I don't even know how he managed to get off the thing before it exploded, but it did.

Of course, it couldn't end there either. Kai then had to, while hanging onto the bottom of the truck, start contacting us. Kai doesn't have a very quiet whisper. So, after not only ruining the expensive car we gave him, ignoring orders, lighting and blowing up a tanker of jet fuel, managing to go completely undetected on the bottom of the another truck, he then manages to get captured the second they stop because he can't remain quiet for a few more seconds! Had Kai not alerted them, he could have tracked them to Ouroborus and then we could have planned an entire assault on them. Heck, we could have avoided the entire bit that was about to come. But instead, we had to rush in, without knowing what was going on and having to instead rush to save Kai. Yes, we figured out where because of thinking about what Kai told us, but still. I should also mention Kai overheard Pythor saying the Digilord was still around, but we had already inferred that mostly by then.

Oh, and if you're wondering where Cole and Jay were in this… they were having a date. With Nya. Together. I haven't mentioned the fact that until now, despite everyone now knowing that Jay and Nya are a thing. At the time because of some random machine that Nya used the day that the Digilord showed up, she got into her head that Cole could be her boyfriend. So when Jay found out, he freaked out. And when he freaked out, he ended up getting into a big fight with Nya that spiralled into a… love triangle.

I think the entire thing was stupid. I have no idea why Jay was so angry over that, given that Nya hadn't even cheated on him in any way. I don't know why Cole went along with it instead of just talking Jay down. Apparently, while I was off with my dad, all of that was happening. I didn't have the time or the energy to care about it at the time. It started a rift between them for a while, but if you're wondering why I didn't mention that until now, I just find the entire thing silly.

Oh, and Borg was captured, again, by the Digilord. While the ninja were in the Digiverse, Borg's old robotic legs apparently attacked them and then helped capture Borg. Apparently they needed Borg to help build Arcturus. I don't entirely know why, given the fact they were all, you know, machines, and it feels random that Borg was captured again just to be released later on by the Digilord for… I guess he was just being arrogant? It just seemed weird that we freed Borg, only for him to do one thing for us -the Digiverse- and then get captured literally right after again, and then get freed again.

Right, right, and Wu was back. Yeah, Wu turning evil… was completely random in the end. I saw the security feed of what happened, and Wu apparently… just reverted back to his normal self the second that the Digilord was rebooted? Like, all of the tubes literally just disappeared and he went right back to normal. I saw the security footage. I… don't get it. I mean, it looked like he had things going into him, like, through him. But for some reason they all just, faded away? And what was the point of the Overlord even turning him evil, when all he did was just act like any normal soldier? He hardly talked, so it wasn't like he was actually trying to taunt us that way. And he was evil for all of a few days? And then he just was good again.

If you can't tell, a lot of what happened during this time was just, random. Really weird and random. And we haven't even gotten to the rocket yet.

Speaking of the rocket, we launched our attack once we figured out the Nindroids were using Ouroborus as their base. They turned the area underneath the main arena where the Devourer used to be into a massive bay to build… a rocket. They were going to space, and were going to recover the Golden Weapons.

Okay, so, apparently during that period of time that I just, don't remember, the ninja traveled to the past when Lord Garmadon tried to alter history so that I never became the Green Ninja. In order to stop him, they used the Golden Weapons of the past, to overload the… 'Megaweapon.' And somehow, that shot the Golden Weapons and 'Megaweapon' into space? And that caused the entire confusion around that period of time I can't remember, since somehow that caused the timeline to reset itself, but I still grew up with the Tomorrow's Tea. I don't get it when they tell me about it. But the reason that I had to cover that period of time was so confusing for me? That's the reason. I have to think about all those fuzzy memories because they were what enabled the Digilord to become the Golden Master.

For those of you that were confused, the Golden Master was a Serpentine legend, saying that one day, one with the power of the First Spinjitzu Master would enslave the world. At first, they thought it was me, until we realized that the reason the Digilord had stolen my Golden Power was to become the Golden Master. However, when we interrupted the upload process, it meant that his body wasn't able to maintain a form. So, he needed something that would still allow him to wield the power of the First Spinjitzu Master. Apparently, he hadn't gotten the 'power' part of the Golden Power, just the energy needed to give him an actual physical form to escape from the Digiverse from. So, somehow, getting the Golden Weapons would allow him to create a full body for himself, and then become the Golden Master.

If you're confused by all of that… that basically sums up how I felt for the entire time after my Golden Power was sucked out of me.

So, anyways. We get to Ouroborus, and when we get there we fall right into the launch chamber. Jay sees that Arcturus wasn't some plan, it was a rocket. A rocket ship. Something that they were going to space with. The Nindroids plan was to go to space to a comet that the Golden Weapons (which, I guess was double the weapons since by going into the past the Megaweapon was up there too…?) were on and take them back. Pythor had Kai strung up to one of the exhausts, meaning that when it fired it was going to fry him.

Because of that situation, we were split between having to save Kai and get the launch key. Everything that happened there was mostly a blur. I went after the launch key, but Cryptor was in front of me. Cryptor was the general of the Nindroids, which is why we have him as a stand in for the incident in the museum. I didn't have the ability to fight Cryptor alone, and Borg, still taken over at the time, started the rocket launch sequence.

We saved Kai, and we had a choice to make. We couldn't let the Digilord become the Golden Master. We had to stop him, somehow. And in order to do that, we needed to stop the Nindroids. But we had to either run so as not to get burned up by the rocket, or get on the rocket and stop them that way.

I was the one that got on board the rocket first. I told them that we had to do this. We were ninja, and we couldn't let the Digilord become the Golden Master. If he did, that would be the end of everything. The others protested, but we were under a time limit. They either needed to be with me, or against me. I gave them my power so we would always support each other, and now, I needed them to support me. I didn't really give them a choice in the end, and the five of us got on the rocket ship.

And with that, we were off to space, to continue the losing, confusing battle.

"I did not realize you had so much disdain for what happened," Zane told Lloyd as the two walked their way to the training area.

"It's not that I hate what happened, it's just, confusing!" Lloyd sighed in exasperation, "Like. It was simple at first, to protect my Golden Power. But then we had to go to Space, and then the Golden Master, and all that time travel stuff you guys claim you did-"

"I believe the events are proof that we did," Zane interjected.

"-They all just confuse me!" Lloyd rubbed his head, "And it doesn't help it was literally after I lost the power of the First Spinjitzu Master. So much stuff was happening, it just doesn't make any sense!"

Zane opened the door to the training room. After hitting a few buttons, several objects inside of it sunk into the floor, causing several pillars to rise up in their place. After hitting a few more presets for the Spinjitzu Combat Training course, several elements in the floor began rough, changed elevation, and made the area overall tricky to navigate.

"Perhaps training would help to clear your mind?" Zane suggested, "It relieves stress, and combat training will do so far more than simple exercises."

"Well… Wu is getting on us about our Spinjitzu," Lloyd shrugged, drawing his golden sword, "Alright, let's do it."

"Indeed," Zane strapped his bow to his back and brought his fists up, "Shall we set anything up for the winner?"

"Dishes?" Lloyd suggested with a chuckle, "Nah, how about just bragging rights?"

"I will accept that, though I am not one to rub my victory to others," Zane smiled.

"Are you saying you already know you're gonna win?" Lloyd smirked back.

"The probability of doing so is in my favor, yes," Zane drew his bow and loaded a blunted arrow into it, "I am a Nindroid, after all. My calculations are always precise."

"I'm sure they are," Lloyd took his stance on the other end of the arena, "Let's do this! NINJAGO!"

Greetings Autobiography readers! I have a small update for you!

For one, there are only a few more chapters left in the chapters for Season 3! Given this season is shorter than the others, there was only so much content I wanted to cover. I'm not currently decided if I will go back on hiatus once I finish posting the chapters. I haven't gotten very far on planning out the ones for Season 4, so I'll need to see where I am when these are done.

Secondly, Enter the Ninjaverse has completed its edits for the next arc and will begin posting this Friday! Finally, after over a month of editing and revising, I've gotten the arc to a good place. I hope that you all will enjoy!

Thirdly, I always love to read your comments and reviews. Let me know what you're all thinking about this latest arc if you'd like! I always love reading your ideas, thoughts, or whatever you have to say. I love writing these things to see how people react. This story has done a lot better than I initially intended, and I'm just happy to be able to share it with all of you. To all my readers, thank you.

Ninja-GO!