AN: Beta credit goes to Sunny Lighter, who also was a great help in writing this and helping with ideas. EMPFangirl02 wrote parts of this too. I own nothing!

"Father, why did you bring me here?" Lloyd asked, ignoring the mispronunciation of his name.

"Isn't it obvious?" Garmadon answered, as he started pacing around his son in a circle. "I saved you from the Ninja."

"What?" the teen blinked in confusion.

"They brainwashed you into thinking you're the Green Ninja. So, I'm going to rectify this mistake."

"They didn't brainwash me," Lloyd insisted. "I am the Green Ninja!"

"Sure you are. I know that's what they want you to think. It's going to take a while to get you back to normal," Garmadon answered in a patronizing tone.

"Look, father, I don't know why you won't believe me, but I can prove it to you," the blonde said.

Garmadon let out a large belly laugh. "And exactly how would you do that?"

"Take off my cuffs, and I'll demonstrate my power."

"Power? You don't have any."

"Yes, I do."

"No, you don't. Did the Ninja brainwash that silly notion into you too? Man, you're worse off than I thought."

"It's true, and I can prove it. Take these off. I promise I won't run," Lloyd told him sincerely.

Garmadon stopped circling and came to stand directly in front of Lloyd, studying him for deception. "Fine, I suppose I can indulge you. But you're only going to embarrass yourself." He undid the cuffs and they dropped to the floor with a clatter.

Lloyd closed his eyes and took in a deep breath. Then he opened his eyes and they were glowing a brighter green color. He opened his hands and soon small green flames were dancing across them.

"See?"

Garmadon's jaw dropped for a moment before quickly recovering. "That's just some kind of party trick the Ninja rigged up. It's not real, Luh-Loyd. Besides, Green isn't really a power. My father told me about it once and it was really lame. It's just like, 'connection' and some other flowery way of saying it does nothing."

"No, it isn't," Lloyd replied, wondering why the First Spinjitzu Master would ever say that, or if Garmadon was just misremembering, like everything else. Probably the latter. "Watch this," he said, as he aimed his power at the nearby cannon. The green energy blasted the cannon, knocking it back several feet as it tumbled onto its side.

"That's another pretty neat parlor trick, I have to admit, Luh-loyd. I really don't know how you're doing that," Garmadon said, impressed for once.

"Father, I've been doing this since I was eight years old," Lloyd answered. "Don't you remember? You were there."

"I don't know what you're talking about. You've never had any powers. And I think I'd remember seeing something like that before," the warlord replied, pointing at his wrecked cannon.

Lloyd almost wanted to cry. Didn't his father remember anything? "But I do have powers, which I just showed you! What is it going to take for you to believe I'm the Green Ninja?" he shouted.

"Luh-loyd, you just need to calm down. I don't know what you did with that weird green stuff, but it has to be some kind of trick," Garmadon insisted. "The Ninja have brainwashed you, but I can help you."

"I'm not brainwashed! Harumi's the one brainwashing you!"

"What? My fanclub leader? Nah, she's nothing without me. She practically bends over backwards to do whatever I tell her," Garmadon said smugly.

Lloyd blinked, wondering how his father could be so oblivious. "Harumi summoned you from the dead to do what she wants. Don't you see? She just wants us to fight so she can have her revenge."

Now it was Garmadon's turn to be surprised. "What the heck, Luh-Loyd? Summoning me from the dead? Where'd you get that crazy idea from? I know I haven't really been around, but I was just in my volcano. Didn't you see me on the news when I tried to conquer Ninjago?" What had Koko been teaching his son while he was away?

Lloyd really needed another word for confused, because right now, he was so beyond confused it wasn't even funny anymore. He'd seen his father trapped in the Cursed Realm, and when the Preeminent had drowned, his father had died with it. Now he was telling him that he'd just been living in a volcano the whole time? What did Harumi do to him?

"I saw you die," Lloyd insisted, not sure how to convince his father of the truth. "That's why Harumi performed that ceremony when you first arrived. To summon you from the Departed Realm to our world. The oni masks are the only way to bring back someone from the dead."

Lloyd watched as Garmadon's jaw opened and closed, his confident blabber failing him for once. Garmadon blinked, trying to wrap his brain around what his son was saying. There was no way he could be dead. No way. There had to have been some kind of mistake.

"Nope," he said finally. "That was just some freaky teleportation device, to summon me from my volcano so I could join this fan club. Pretty impressive tech, I'll admit, to go to this length all for my fan club. But there's no way that I died."

Lloyd shook his head, and tried another approach. "What's the last thing you remember, before coming through the device?" He suspected it was not a device at all.

Garmadon frowned. "Well," he said. "I had just finished butt-dialing you, actually. Then I was going to go conquer Ninjago, like I always do, when suddenly, this crazy purple hole thing showed up in front of me. And then this voice came through—and I was like, so people love me so much they want to summon me now, that's different. Although, I am pretty awesome. And then I just stepped through and ended up here. Though, it was really weird. It was morning when I left, and it was evening on the other side of the portal." He shrugged. "Time zones, am I right?"

Lloyd decided that the ceremony and Harumi's brainwashing had scrambled his father's brain. "Wait, you called me? When?"

"That morning," Garmadon repeated. "I almost didn't recognize you with hair and teeth. Last time I remembered seeing you were when you were just a baby. Totally useless too. Crying all the time, couldn't walk—"

"You don't remember seeing me since I was a baby?" Lloyd interrupted. This was worse than he'd thought!

"No!" Garmadon replied, waving one of his hands. "Of course not! I saw you that morning, remember?"

"No, I don't, actually," Lloyd answered. "Besides, you couldn't have called me then, I'd been captured by Harumi."

"What? No. I totally called you. Hang on." Garmadon fished his pockets with his lower arms and finally pulled out his phone. He tapped a few buttons and then showed it to Lloyd triumphantly. "Boom. Call history. Luh-Lloyd. Two days ago."

Lloyd gaped, not believing his eyes. "How is this possible?"

Garmadon shrugged. "Maybe you shouldn't believe everything those no-good ninja tell you," he answered in a I-told-you-so tone, finally proving that he was right all along and Luh-Loyd was the one who had been brainwashed.

Lloyd shook his head. "No—it's like, that's me, but it can't be. Because that's not my number."

Garmadon's eyes widened and flipped the phone around, skimming over the number he had committed to memory. "What? No! Koko promised me this was the right number! She wouldn't lie to me!"

"No," Lloyd quickly interrupted. "That's not what I meant!"

"Then it is your number. Geez, son, don't scare me like that," Garmadon said, noticeably deflating in relief.

"No," Lloyd repeated, some of the pieces of weirdness starting to come together in his mind. "I think you're from another rea—"

"Now. I have a proposition for you," Garmadon interrupted, not paying attention to anything Lloyd was saying. "I know you didn't mean to attack me all these years. Those ninja tricked you into doing it. So, instead of fighting me, why don't you join me?"

Lloyd froze. "What?" Not the direction he thought this was going in.

"We can conquer Ninjago together!" Garmadon said eagerly. "Think about it! We'd make a great team!"

"I don't want to conquer Ninjago! I'm the Green Ninja, and I've sworn to protect it. That would go against everything I am," Lloyd answered, taking a few steps back.

"Aw come on, Luh-loyd. You've clearly got skills that can be put to great use in conquering. I know you have it in you."

"No, I don't. I have no desire to conquer, and I would never join you!" Lloyd spat vehemently. His pent up frustration over all of this craziness came out a bit harsher than he intended.

Garmadon blinked at the harsh rejection. Then his face quickly hardened. "Fine then. You can just watch me conquer it. Maybe you'll learn something." He called a SoG member over. "Lock him up."

As Lloyd was re-cuffed and dragged away, he thought he caught a glimpse of sadness on his father's face.

Garmadon stormed out of the room to find his fan club leader. "Ayumi, I want to make plans for conquering Ninjago immediately. I need to get to my volcano and get my shark mech."

Harumi had no idea what he was referring to. "How did your conversation with your son go, my lord?" she asked instead.

"I don't wanna talk about it," he grumbled.

Harumi smiled to herself. Finally, things were going in a better direction. If she could just convince Garmadon that he is better off without his son…

"He rejected you, didn't he?" she asked carefully.

"How do you know? Were you spying on me?" the warlord demanded.

"Of course not, my lord. It's just a logical conclusion," Harumi answered.

"Logical?" Garmadon scoffed. "There's nothing logical about it. If he wasn't brainwashed by those stupid ninja, he'd totally join me."

"Of course, my lord." Harumi paused before going on. "But if I may be so bold, your son isn't what you need."

Garmadon gave her a strange look. "What do you mean?"

"He holds you back from your true potential, my lord. You don't need to care for your son, when you...you...already have...a daughter." Harumi knelt down before Garmadon. "Take me. Let me be your child, your only family. Then I can help you conquer Ninjago and we can make it what we want it to be."

Garmadon just stared at her, before snapping, "That's the craziest thing I ever heard! I know you're the president of my fan club and you think I'm awesome, but my daughter? Give up my family? No way!"

"But-my lord-"

"Forget it. Or I'll fire you out of my cannon," Garmadon growled. He was not in the mood for Ayumi's jokes right now.

Harumi swallowed and immediately let it go, even if she was silently fuming inside.

"Now get out of my way. I have a lot to do before dawn." With that, Garmadon walked away from her, while Harumi felt her dreams shatter before her eyes.

AN: Harumi's proposal to movie Garmadon came from the show. Sorry to those of you who like Harumi, but Movie Garmadon has a mind of his own. Thanks for all the reviews, favorites and follows!