(A/N: Well, Season 13 has ended in Australia today, so I may as well put up the sequel to Control Time, Control Everything. I am still writing Rise of the Ninjago Force, and Spider-Man: The Wrestler, but I think I have enough time to upload these chapters)

The Time Twins were successful in their mission to retrieve the Slow Time Blade and we're now heading back to the swamp alongside Dragon, who is dragged by two Vermillion Warriors. "Such balance." Krux said as he held the Slow Time Blade as they move down the path with some slaves carrying some Vermillion eggs. "Such power. When Ninjago is finally under our rule, they will sing songs about our triumph today, brother. And-"

"Oh, you're so right, brother." Acronix cuts him off while taking his hood off and turned to Dragon. "How you doing back there, Wu?" He spoke sarcastically while Krux also took his hood off to look as they all stop. "Perhaps he's gone deaf with old age."

"Unfortunately, no." Dragon said, not amused. "I can hear every one of your attempts at humour."

They just laugh as they continue on. "Move it, old man." Machia said as they keep moving, causing Dragon to groan as he was dragged.

"This stinks." Blunck said to Raggmunk. "She got the Time Blade back. Totally made us look bad with Krux and Acronix."

"I wouldn't worry about it." Raggmunk replied. "They still need us."

"Commander Blunck, Commander Raggmunk, we need you!" Krux yelled out.

"See? Coming!"

They come up to Krux. "As you know, my brother and I had been worried about the leadership of the Vermillion Warriors. And this mission certainly did not go as planned. The idea was simply to obtain the Time Blade. But now we are carrying a prisoner."

"Here it comes." Blunck silently said, expecting him to reprimand Machia.

"Someone's in trouble." Raggmunk replied, also expecting it.

"Commander Machia, your initiative in capturing the Ninja's master and striking that traitorous bitch impressed us." Acronix said as they stopped and he turned to her. "You are promoted to the rank of Supreme Commander of the Vermillion Army."

Blunck and Raggmunk are shocked Machia passed by. "I am honoured." She replied, bowing to him.

"Commanders Blunck and Raggmunk will report directly to you." Krux said, shocking the two.

"What?" Raggmunk asked. "Undeserved!"

"So unfair." Blunck protested.

"Did you say something?" Machia asked, threateningly turning to them.

"Well-deserved." Raggmunk lied.

"So unfair...that it took so long." Blunck also lied.

"Isn't all this celebrating and promoting a bit premature?" Dragon asked. "My Ninja are still out there."

"Ten of them against all this?" Krux asked, pointing out to the swamp with many Vermillion eggs in the water.

"They have no leader." Acronix said as he came up to Dragon. "They have no Time Blades. They have no chance. One can only imagine how helpless they must feel. I almost feel sorry for them. Almost." He soon laughed before Krux, Machia, Blunck, Raggmunk and the other warriors join in before Acronix walked away and touches his BorgWatch.

"What the hell are you doing?"

"Sharing this with all my InstaBook followers." He takes a selfie. "'Achieved... total... victory.'"

"Why must you ruin every good moment with your modern techno crap?"

"And why must you be so stubborn about staying in the ancient past?" They start heading into the swamp as a pair of red eyes watches them from behind.

In the dojo at Yang's temple, Misako and a now grey haired Tania look on as the Ninja were seated in front of Lloyd, except for Kai, who is holding the helmet. "Hey, this fight is far from over." He said. "I know we had a setback, but-"

"It's always darkest before the dawn." Kai, with a bandage over the cut Krux gave him, cuts him off. "Blah, blah, blah. Come on. Let's get going already, okay?"

"Kai, this is important." Geoff replied, angered at the lecture being interrupted.

"We don't need a pep talk. We need action."

"I agree." Lloyd said. "They actually gave us a break by taking the Time Blade."

"How is that a break?" Gewuji asked.

"If any of you captured something that powerful, what would you do?"

"Um, immediately haul it back home to show off to you guys." Jay answered.

"Right. And unless I miss my guess, that's exactly where the Hands of Time are headed as we speak. Their home."

"So if we can find the Time Blade..." Cole said.

"We can find Acronix and Krux's base." Maggie said.

"Hey, Zane, think you can locate the Blade with your temporal scanner?" Lloyd asked.

"Attempting access." Zane replied as he closed his eyes before opening them and sighed. "I am afraid it was damaged when we fought the Vermillion Warriors." Jay soon laughed. "I fail to see the humor, Jay."

"I still think Vermillion Warriors is a stupid name." He said.

"I could see if the scanner on the Destiny's Bounty still works." Blake said.

"Yes, good thinking, Blake." Lloyd replied.

"Need some help?" Nya asked Blake.

"Sure thing." Blake replied. "And the rest of you should go to the museum. Krux hid in plain sight there as Dr. Saunders for 40 years. I'll bet there's a clue where their secret headquarters is."

"Okay, let's split up." Lloyd said as everyone got up and Tania starts to cough a bit.

"Mom?" Geoff asked as he came up to her. "If you like, I can stay and look after you."

"No, I'm good." She replied.

"But, your hair is now grey."

"Don't worry about me."

"Blake, I'll help out too." Kai said as he came up to them.

"One question: How are we supposed to get to the museum?" Cole asked. "Our vehicles got trashed by the snakes."

"My Hyper Buggy is still in the shop." Blake replied. "But, we got the Super Sonic Raider Jet."

"Actually." Jay chuckled. "My dad's still kind of working on that."

Outside, Ed turns a nail with a screwdriver on the Raider jet and looked at it before butterfly soon lands on the wing before flying off as the jet comes apart, causing him to place a hand on his head, in annoyance. "Oh, not again!" He said.

Back inside, Jay thinks of something else. "We can take the Lightning Bike."

"I hope Ronin doesn't mind if I borrow R.E.X." Geoff said as they start moving.

"Kai and I have our old bikes." Nya replied.

"I was able to salvage my S/N Tank." Blake said.

"Oh, what about me and Zane?" Lloyd asked.

"Well..." Misako replied as she gets out a remote. "I was saving this for your birthday, but..." She holds it out to the floor and presses a button. The Ninja quickly move back as the floor opened up a panel comes up, revealing a small version of the Destiny's Bounty. "The Destiny's Shadow." She comes up next to Lloyd and hands him the remote.

"Oh, come on!" Kai yelled. "First Jay, now Lloyd? Does everyone get a new ride for their birthday?" He turned to see the others, partly shocked. "Uh- I said that out loud, didn't I?"

"Um, I already had my birthday, and I didn't get a new ride." Maggie replied.

Kai soon slapped his forehead, completely embarrassed. "Oh, I forgot it!"

Loud soon hugged his mother. "I love it." He said before heading into the driver's seat.

"I wish Dragon could have seen this." Misako replied.

"Oh, he will. We'll get him back sooner or later."

"It's the 'later' part we're worried about." Tania said as she soon knelt down and Misako came over to her.

"Mom?" Gewuji asked.

"What did you mean about the 'later' part?" Jay asked.

"I can't..." Misako replied.

"Misako, we're a team." Geoff said. "We don't keep secrets from each other."

Misako sighed. "When Dragon fought Acronix alone at the temple, he was struck with a punch powered by the Time Blade."

"The hit unleashed the forward energy of time onto him and the effect is that he is rapidly aging." Tania said.

"Even you?" Gewuji asked.

"Yes, when that snake struck me with that Time Blade."

"Then that explains Master Wu's recent fatigue and the rambling." Zane said.

Jay soon gasped. "And the super long old guy beard." He replied.

"We don't even know if the effect can be reversed." Misako said before sighing.

"Then we'd better get moving." Lloyd replied. Zane gets into the passenger's seat before Lloyd presses a button.

"Good hunting, son. Stay safe."

"Uh... I will."

"Any time now." Zane said as Lloyd presses another button.

"It's a lot of buttons."

"Buttons." Gewuji snickered before sighing. "Reminds me of him." A horn soon went off, causing her to cover her ears before it stops, causing Jay to laugh but Gewuji then nudged him. Lloyd presses another button, causing blues music to play.

Getting frustrated, he immediately pressed another button, starting the Destiny's Shadow. Everyone backs away as Lloyd gets back in the seat and takes off, music still playing. Geoff soon turned to Misako. "Please, take care of my mother." He said.

"Don't worry, I will." Misako replied as the Ninja soon leave as Geoff whistled R.E.X.'s summoning tune.

A few minutes later, outside, the Destiny's Shadow, Jay's bike, Cole's rover and R.E.X. head to Ninjago City.