Get up, you can't lie comatose forever. Get up you waste of uncorrupted soul! Get... up!

Mina groaned as she struggled to open her eyes. Between blurred vision and her own hesitance, she lazily looked around her room to see Cap standing by her bed.

"Good morning Minnie." he playfully said to her. Mina groaned as she slowly rolled over to get a pillow to hit him with.

"Call me that name again and only your head will make it out of the room." she said to him a drowsy tone as she attempted to swat at him with her pillow.

"Why are you always so violent when you wake up?" Cap joked, although she wasn't feeling it, "In another two minutes you'll be acting like you've been hopped up on too much caffeine."

Mina gave him a small half smile.

"Help me up." she told him, reaching her arms out for Cap to hold.

"You're so rude." Cap laughed at her, taking a hold on each of her hands, "No wonder your only friend is a mechanical bird."

The face she gave him was stripped of all emotions and illustrated that she did not find him funny at all. Her expression, however, was enough to make him laugh at her even more. Regardless, Cap dutifully helped Mina out of her bed and helped her stand on her feet again. Mina looked up at Cap.

"Thank you Oppa." she told him, almost meaning it.

"Would you like me to dress you too?" Cap then teased.

"No." came the short, now very irritated, answer. Cap couldn't help but laugh.

"Alright." he agreed. "Meet me outside the door later, Cyrus and and rest of them needed some parts from the hardware store to adjust the Time Window and I thought you'd like to come along."

"I'll still have to come back..." Mina mumbled.

"You'd be getting further away from this place than the ninja." Cap told her, letting out a small chuckle.

"Why?" Mina asked.

"Well," Cap started "Four of them just went missing not that long ago. Kai being one of them, mind you. They all walk out there and some how end up at Chen's Noodle Hut..."

"Skylor would take one look at Kai and she'd rip him to shreds...!" Mina realized.

"Exactly." Cap agreed. "Then there's Lloyd; he could get away with walking out in the open... if it wasn't for the fact he's one of Ninjago's most famous, even if they no longer have an accurate photo of him, it still wouldn't be a wise idea."

Mina nodded in agreement. So if she wanted to pretend that everything was the way it was supposed to be...

"I'll meet you outside in five minutes." she told Cap. The older teen nodded and left the room so she could get changed.

. . .

"If you try to ask the associate about the capacitor, they're likely to tell you that it is primarily T-shaped. That is a completely fallacy; everyone knows that the capacitor takes on a more stylized Y-shape."

"So... you don't want me to ask costumer service for this thing then?"

"Absolutely not! Those idiots wouldn't have even heard of half the things on this list!"

"Alright then..."

If Cap had known that trying to find the things the team nerds needed to adjust the Time Window was going to be such a hassle, he likely wouldn't have volunteered to get them to begin with. Well... at least he had been able to drag Minnie into coming with him- surely she'd have a better idea of what they were looking for than what he did. Anyone would have had a better idea of what they were looking for than he did...

"I'm ready Oppa." Mina announced as she came into the room. Cap let out a sigh of relief- now Monty could explain everything to her and everything would be right in the world again.

"Here's the list of the things I need you to get." Montgomery told Mina, entrusting her with the list. "Do you understand what you need to get?"

Mina looked over the list, mumbled the names of the stuff they needed, then looked back up at Montgomery with a nod.

"Sounds easy enough." she agreed.

"Good." Montgomery told her in a short, curt tone. "I'd figure one of you would know what you're looking for."

Cap rolled his shoulder to show Montgomery that is comment flew completely over him- Cap knew his limits, he didn't need a self proclaimed smarty-pants to affirm the theory.

Without further instruction, Cap and Mina took their leave to retrieve the items, leaving behind the ninja without a care in the world. Zane and Lloyd, who had seen them leave together gave each other a rather confused look. Alice noticed their looks and laughed. Turning to the sound of Alice's light laughter, Nya and Cyrus looked at the artificial girl before looking at Zane and Lloyd. The duo from the past looked at the small group from the future, wondering what had made Alice laugh at them like she was.

If there ever was a more conflicting way to start a conversation...

"I thought Mina was an only child?" Lloyd finally asked.

"She is." Nya, Cyrus, and Alice (though bursts of giggles) said at the same time.

"But... she just..." Lloyd started, but was more confused than he realized.

"The term 'oppa' translates to 'big brother', are you saying this is not true in Mina's case?" Zane then inquired. Alice only started to laugh harder- even Montgomery stared at her.

"You need a check in your euphoria sensors." the unamused young man told the artificial girl. "Come, I'll check you now since nothing of vast importance is going on at the moment."

With a nod, Alice and Montgomery left the room leaving behind the others.

"Mina and Cap are not siblings, nor related in any way." Nya told Zane and Lloyd. "Of all of Mina's friends (excluding the Falcon), the most simple answer would be is that she's known him longer."

"But why would she..." Lloyd once again started to say, but stopped again.

"Cap isn't related to anyone here." Cyrus said. "I created Alice, Kass is a distant cousin of Cole's, Montgomery is Nya's oldest son, and Mina herself is your daughter, Lloyd. The relationship Cap and Mina share would not reveal the idea to a bystander on the street. Platonic as they have made it, it's hard to think of one and not the other most of the time."

Lloyd nodded. So... they were just friends? Good. Even though he wasn't technically around in this time line to be much of an influence in Mina's life, at least he didn't need to worry about her falling for a guy that was more than three years older than her.

. . .

"I can go another round!" Kass huffed to Cole, who opposite looked like he hadn't broken a sweat.

"No. No you can't." Cole told his supposed cousin calmly and without hesitance.

"Yes I can!" Kass demanded, as he started to lunge toward Cole, much to Jay and Kai's excitement.

"There he goes!" Kai cheered.

"Watch him go for the knock out!" Jay quipped back.

Ignoring them, Kass made a swing at Cole. The Ninja of Earth just stared and dodged Kass's blow without effort or care. Cole then took Kass from behind and back flipped him into the training mat with a sickening thud. From the sidelines, Kai and Jay let out a groan of shared pain and disappointment, almost sounding like a pair of sports newscasters during a brutal football game.

"You. Are. Done. Kid." Cole told Kass before starting to walk away as the teen groaned in a pain that ached all over. Cole went to get a drink of water as Kass started to get up.

"Tr... train me...!" Kass said, the pain in his body too amazing and hurtful to do much else than to stand up. Cole turned around to look at the worse for wear teen.

"No." Cole told him.

"W-why?!" Kass demanded as he winched a little from pain.

"I'm not a Sensei." Cole told Kass prudently. Kass looked back at him with a sad, hope-broken face. Seeing it made Cole give a face of almost regretting his words.

"But..." Cole hesitantly started to say, "Maybe some day when you stop acting like an over glorified fanboy."

"I'm not acting like Dareth!" Kass exclaimed with wide eyes.

"You are." Jay spoke up.

"Just a little." Kai agreed. Kass glared at them both before smacking the back of his head back on the floor. Cole walked over to Kass and looked at him from above, grudgingly Kass looked back up at his mentor.

"Patience." Cole told him. "Learn patience and how to take 'no' as an answer, then I'll train you. Maybe."

Kass looked up at his idol and slowly started to give a tiny smile of hope.