The following morning, just outside a small village, some samurai were watching over some villagers as they were working around a pond, putting in plants and feeling exhausted, just as one samurai grunted. "This sun is blistering." He said before looking at the villagers. "Faster!"
"You heard your master!" Another samurai said to them before getting out a whip. "Work!" He whips one villager and they immediately start moving a little faster. One briefly looks up at them, which catches one of their attention.
"Huh, don't like to work, eh?" He asked, coming down to them and kicks them down. "How about I beat you into working?"
"No, let him lie there." The lead samurai said before turning to a samurai, who didn't bother looking at him. "You, watch him." The samurai jumps down to the beaten prisoner, who was shocked at seeing their face, but the samurai holds up a finger to shush them. The lead samurai turns back to the villagers. "Get back to work!" They immediately get back to work before they notice a villager, wearing a straw hat, brown tunic, black slacks and black boots, passing by, carrying two buckets on each side of the yoke that was on their shoulders before stopping and the first samurai scoffed. "You there, peasant. Bring me water." He rubs his forehead as everyone was looking at the villager. "You hear me? Bring me some water!"
Moving their head back a bit, the villager turns to the samurais. "Thirsty?" The sarcastic villager was actually Nya before she grinned at them.
One of them gasped upon recognising her. "It's-" He cut himself off, unable to continue due to stuttering.
"The Master of Water, Nya." The other samurai said to the leading samurai.
"I don't care." He replied. "Get her!"
The three samurai immediately charge at her, swords raised. Nya swings the yoke to trip one before raising it to strike the other one, making him land on top of the first one, and moved it back to jab the last one in the groin, making him fall back, in pain. She tosses the yoke in the air and catches it just as the lead samurai gets out his sword and charges at her. But before he could strike her, he is suddenly knocked back, making him shake his head. He quickly recovered to see that what he hit was a wall of glass before turning to see the last samurai, who was holding out their arm to him. "Looks can be deceiving..." The samurai spoke with a feminine voice, surprising the samurai before removing her helmet, revealing to be Gewuji, who now had longer hair, done in dreadlocks. "...can they, Alastor?"
"You were impersonating my most trusted man, you glass conjuring bitch?"
"The name is Gewuji, Master of Glass. You need a lecture on how Elemental Masters dislike insults. Nya?"
Nya holds out the yoke before dropping it as she held both hands out, conjuring water balls from the water in the buckets and moved them around before moving arms forward to fire them at Alastor, who is hit by one, and coughs before the other water ball came back to Nya, who still had her arms raised. "Still thirsty?" She teasingly asked as she held it.
Not taunted by her insult or attack, Alastor tries to attack again, only for Nya to hit him with the other water ball, landing into the pond. The villagers cheer for the two girls as they came and fist bump as one of the samurais was recovering. "Gewuji, Nya, watch out!" One of them yelled, pointing to something. The two girls turn to see it was the samurai that Nya hit in the groin before they nod at each other.
"Double kick!" They both yelled, raising a leg, and kick the samurai in the face, knocking him down.
A few minutes later, the villagers were still cheering for the girls as Alastor and the other three samurai, plus another samurai, who was without his gear since Gewuji was currently wearing it, were all restrained in the pond before the girls mockingly bow to them just as Nya's communicator went off and they take off while the villagers kept cheering.
In Jamanakai Village, Maggie, wearing a new gi, jumps along the rooftops as some robbers were running away from some policemen. Beeping was soon heard as Maggie answered her communicator. "I'll have to call you back, P.I.X.A.L." She said. "I'm currently pursuing some bank thieves."
"But, this urg-" P.I.X.A.L. tired to tell Maggie, but she turns her communicator off as one of the robbers looked up at the rooftop and noticed her.
"Damn!" He yelled. "The Tan Ninja's still after us!"
"This is the 4th block that we've been in and she's still coming after us." The leader of the gang replied as they kept running.
As they turn left, Maggie jumps off the rooftops before landing in front of them, holding a glaive. "Hold it!" She said.
The robbers quickly turn left, but they suddenly crash into a wall of sand. "She said stop." Geoff's voice was heard as the sand wall soon came down and he holds a bisento at one of the robbers. He was also wearing a new gi. "And it was rude trying to ignore her."
Maggie soon came up to Geoff as he starts to handcuff a robber and the police officers immediately arrive. "You stole my fun again, beach boy." Maggie teasingly spoke as she takes off her hood, showing her hair has grown and had it was done in two braids and had smaller, but wide eyebrows.
"Can't let you have it all, attractor." Geoff teasingly spoke back as he stands up and removed his hood, showing he now has very short hair and tilted eyebrows. His hair and eyebrows were now mahogany coloured.
Maggie then ran over to Geoff, wrapping her arms around his shoulders while laughing and they lock lips while the officers arrest the rest of the robbers. "You know, Geoff, I think mahogany hair suits you."
"You think so?" Maggie nods. "Still kind of strange. I mean, I shaved my head, all of a sudden, as it starts growing back, it's now a different colour." They soon start to kiss again, but Geoff's communicator soon beeped, interrupting their kissing. "Guess P.I.X.A.L. doesn't understand the meaning of 'call her back'."
In a small temple, monks were meditating until rumbling was heard and the doors open, letting in gusts of wind and snow just as Jay and Cole, both of whole were in new gis, slide in and crash into one of the walls before getting up, heading to the open doors. "Cole, you're my friend, but right now, you're my worst enemy." Jay said as they close the doors, keeping the wind and snow out. "You have no idea how time travel works."
"If someone goes back in time and alters the past, our reality as we know it would change." Cole replied, backing away. "We could look totally different and not even know it." He takes off his hood to reveal he has longer hair, groomed to the right, and his scar was closed.
"But we don't." Jay takes off his hood to reveal he now has longer unkempt brown hair and his freckles were a little darker before he and Cole start to look around the temple. "Thus, Master Wu must have slipped into a time stream into the future."
Cole then sighed. "Whenever he is, it's been a year. It's time we find him." He comes up to a nearby monk. "Uh, hi. Sorry to bother you. Cole, Master of Earth. Uh, this is Jay, Master of Blabber."
"Lightning!" He corrects his mocking best friend.
"We heard that an old man who lost his memory wandered in from the cold. About 5' 9", long beard, drinks a lot of tea."
The monk just ignores him. "I told you not to introduce yourself as the Master of Earth. No one knows what that means." He turns to the other meditating monks.
"No, you bolt-head." The insult disturbs the monks. "Everyone here took a vow of silence." They keep trying to meditate.
This got Jay an idea, and he kneels down to the monk they were speaking to. "Can you point us to him!?" He spoke into the monk's ear. The angered monk then points to a nearby man, who had his back to them. "Thank you." He starts to walk over to him. "I-I like your place." Cole facepalmed, in embarrassment before they head over to the man. They look to see him pick up a teapot and smile at each other before coming up to him as he poured some tea into a cup. "Wait." Jay stops Cole from approaching the man. "If it's him and he lost his memory, don't remind him of that stupid TV show I once hosted, or even you being in a band with the son of that dark magician, okay?" He grins as Cole noted to himself that he has a good point before turning back to the man.
"Uh, Master Wu?" The man stands up just as Jay and Cole look at each other. But once the man turned around, they only see that he had a very long moustache and thicker eyebrows than Dragon.
"Aw, come on. We came all this way and it's not him?" He soon groaned. "That's it. I quit." He starts to walk away.
"I'm tired of losing people in my life." The man turns back around. "Dragon would never quit on us, and we're not quitting on him." Cole tries to stop Jay.
"If he's really still out there, couldn't he at least send a letter from the future? Or leave a message to stand the test of time? He's wise. He'd find a way."
"We just have to keep looking."
"Yeah, you do that, and while you're at it, I'll be doing something quite more useful, like being a Ninja." Jay and Cole's argument was disturbing the monks once again.
Cole then scoffed. "Some Ninja you are." He sarcastically spoke. "You talk more than you fight!"
"At least I'm entertaining. All you do is judge and act like you know everything."
This got a monk to immediately stand up. "Would you stop ****ing fighting!" He yelled. He soon gasped at the fact that he spoke.
Another monk then stood up. "Way to break your vow." He sarcastically said to him before realising and yelped. "Oh, no. Dammit, I spoke, too."
This got another monk to laugh at him. "I knew you didn't have it in you." He said.
"I've been holding this in, but I just want to say: I hate doing your dishes!" Another monk called out.
"Well, if everyone's doing it, I'm doing it, too." Another monk replied. All the monks start coming at them just as Jay's communicator went off and he answers it.
"Ah, that's our cue." He said before taking off with Cole moving to catch up with him while the monks chase them. "Got to run." They immediately open the doors, letting in the wind and snow inside again, knocking all the monks down just as Jay and Cole hold onto the door handles before letting go, put their hoods on, and run out.
In Stiix, Zane, wearing a new gi and looking like a human, was looking at someone. "Zane, Master Lloyd and Blake require Kai and your attention in Ninjago City." P.I.X.A.L. said inside his head as he was facing (A/N: Not the Mechanic, but don't worry, he'll appear in a future story) Bastion Loader, who was wearing a red trench coat, white shirt, grey jeans and black boots, holding a flamethrower, which he fires at Kai, who was also in a new gi, as he was on a roof.
"Is it serious?" Zane asked as Kai jumped off the roof.
"It appears so. Did I catch you at a bad time?"
Kai lands behind Bastion and looked at Zane. "Zane, a little help." He called out.
"Hot off the press." Bastion said. "I, Bastion Loader, am back, Ninjago." He immediately fired his flamethrower at Kai, who holds his hands out, conjuring a Power Shield to block the flames, but is soon knocked back, with fire surrounding him.
"Aw, whoever said fight fire with fire didn't know what they were talking about." He immediately got up."
"We will be there shortly." Zane said to P.I.X.A.L.
"Watch out for the crossfire." Bastion sarcastically said, holding up his flamethrower at Kai.
"Hey, you're stealing my lines, you defective clone!" Kai replied.
Zane immediately jumped before slamming his hands onto the ground, causing a trail of ice to come at Bastion as he was about to use his flamethrower, but is then trapped in the ice, dropping the flamethrower as he did so. "Who likes ice cream?" Zane asked as he stood up. "I do. How was that for a last line, Kai?" He takes off his hood to reveal he had white buzz cut hair before suddenly changing to his titanium form. "Can we leave now?"
"Needs a little work." Kai replied, muffled due to the ice stream also freezing him in place. "Gonna have to give me a minute to thaw, though."