[As Kai is about to blow a balloon, he sees the police rushing to the bank]
KaiTrouble? Sounds like they need me.
[He's about to leave, but the mom stops him]
MMother
Not so fast! I still have you for another hour.
Kai
Uh, but the bank, people are in danger!
MMother
Not until my son is done playing! [sees that Kai has now left, now holding the balloons] Huh! YOU'RE FIRED!
[Ninjago restaurant]
FFather
It's true, at the bank. I heard they stole all their money, and no one's doing anything about it!
[accidentally drops an egg on a child's head while distracted, causing him to start crying] Uh, uh, I'm sorry!
[his skin falls off] It must be my hard drive overheating... I mean, never mind. I'm going! [leaves]
[Kai and Zane reach the Ninjago bank]
[trying to convince the bank owner] I'll make it up to you, I swear.
BOBank Owner
Hmmm, no. Why don't you go home and get a good night's rest, and go ahead and sleep in. In fact, sleep in all day for all I care, BECAUSE YOU'RE FIRED!
Kai
[sighs in disappointment] Looks like we're all in the same boat.
That's okay, I hated that job anyway.
[The ninja wake up in a room full of teachers in captivity]
NNoble
Thank goodness you're here!
Kai
What happened? Where's Lloyd? And who are all of you?
WWoman
We're the teachers, and we've all been taken prisoner. We've tried to teach the boys how to be good, but they overthrew us. They're monsters!
But I thought Lloyd was getting an honorary degree.
NNoble
Oh, that was the boys' trick to lure Lloyd here and convince him to be their leader.
What? There's not gonna be CAKE?!
BCBizarro Cole
He's of no use to us anymore. [drops Brad, who then runs away]
Kai
Who are you guys?
My early assessment tells me this must be Garmadon's doing.
BZBizarro Zane
My early assessment tells me you will be destroyed.
NBNinja and Bizzaro Ninja
[start charging towards each other] NINJA, GO!
Uh, Dareth, what is this all about?
Well, I fell behind on some of my payments and some developer named "Darnagom Enterprises" is buying the entire block to put in some stupid frisbee-golf course. They say if I don't come up with 50,000 by tomorrow, the dojo is gone.
But we already lost the Bounty. We can't lose the dojo now.
[picks up his trophies] My trophies. Oh, my fake trophies! [sobs]
[notices something] Wait a minute, "Darnagom"? When you rearrange the letters, it spells—
Kai
No! Garmadon!
Right. [laughs] That would make more sense.
Um, my dad is behind this?
If he destroys the dojo, where will we train Lloyd?
[to Wu] Any chance you got 50,000 in that teapot of yours?
Worry not, Dareth. You're not in this alone. We're all with you.
[Nya enters]
[gasps] You didn't happen to win the lottery?
No, but I heard about Ninjaball Run!
WDWu, Dareth and Ninja
Ninjaball Run?
It's the biggest road race in Ninjago, with a prize of 100,000 big ones. And it's tomorrow.
I thank you, little lady fighter, but you're talking about the most dangerous race known to man. Only the most serious of racers even stand a chance.
Kai
But didn't you just do a few upgrades on our Ultra Sonic Raider? Maybe we might stand a chance.
And I can enter with my Dragon. You did say I needed the practice.
So it is agreed. You will all enter this "Ninjaball Run" to save the dojo.
[notices Dareth crying] Are you still crying?
Yes, but these are happy tears.
I can't believe we couldn't catch up to them. I'm usually faster than that. It's as if my legs were half the size.
Kai
I don't remember that thing being so big. Did it grow?
Kai
[sees something in a glass door] Uh, guys?
[The ninja look at themselves in their reflections in the glass door and see that they've become kids]
[he and the others remove their hoods and gasp in shock] WE SHRUNK!!!
Kai
We're... we're kids!
[The ninja all scream in horror]
Oh, oh, oh, this is bad! This is so bad on so many levels!
Oh, it's impossible! We must be dreaming, Zane! TELL ME WE'RE DREAMING!
Nindroids don't dream! Perhaps Garmadon succeeded in turning back the clock, but instead of reviving the Grundal, it only affected us!
Yeah, but Nindroids don't turn into kids. Explain that, genius!
I've extended my logic parameters, but nothing is coming up. This does not compute!
Okay, fine, I get it, we're all in this together. Oh, but I can't be a kid again! I hated being a kid! You can't drive, nobody listens to you! Oh, no.... BEDTIMES!
I told Nya we'd meet back at the Bounty. I'm sure Sensei will know what to do.
[Lloyd arrives at Buddy's Pizza to meet the ninja]
[to Jay] Really? Of all places we could meet, you pick this place?
What? I like their pizza.
Kai
[notices Lloyd] Psst, Lloyd.
[not recognizing Kai while holding the ninja's weapons] Beat it, brat! I'm on a mission.
Kai
[stops him] It's me, Kai.
[looks closer to see his friends, all as young as him; gasps and drops their weapons] What happened? You're small!
Kai
[whispering] Keep it down. We're trying to lay low. Your father's Mega Weapon not only turned us into kids, but unleashed a creature whose sole purpose is to hunt down ninja.
And now every time we try to tell somebody, they wouldn't believe us 'cause we're kids.
[Lloyd laughs]
Kai
What's so funny?
Well, I guess you now know what it feels like to be treated differently. [sets the ninja's weapons on the table]
Look, this is serious. If we don't turn big so that we can use our Spinjitzu, we don't stand a chance against the Grundal.
What about me? I know Spinjitzu.
Kai
Yeah, but you don't know the Grundal. We all need to be at full strength. What we need to do first is to find someone who might know more about how to defeat one of those things.
[Lloyd notices a kid reading a Starfarer comic]
I am. I think I know just the guy.
[The ninja arrive at Ninjago City Doomsday Comix]
You brought us to a comic book store?
Trust me. If there's anyone who knows how to defeat a monster that doesn't exist, I know just the person to talk to.
Kai
We're not coming to pick out your stupid comic, Lloyd! This is serious business.
[picks up a comic, gasping] Oh, look, a first edition "Daffy Dale." I used to love that nut growing up. [laughs before clearing his throat] So juvenile.
Fellas, meet Rufus McCallister, AKA, Mother Doomsday.
RRufus
Well, if it isn't Lloyd "Hemorrhoid" Garmadon. Sorry if you came looking for the latest "Starfarer," I'm all sold out.
Wh—Sold out?! Oh, actually, Mother Doomsday, we need help.
RRufus
Well, colour me intrigued.
We have a problem. There's a Grundle on the loose and we need to know how to deal with it.
RRufus
Ah, a theoretical question.
Yeah, theoretical. Can you help?
RRufus
Dromaeosaurid Theropod Grundalicus. Although extinct, there has been a plethora of film, television and comics exploring the mythology around the primordial predator. Supposedly, they always get their prey.
Kai
Sounds like he knows his stuff.
RRufus
First thing you need to know is its thick shell-like hide is invincible to swords, scythes, nunchucks, and throwing stars. So your cheap imitations will do nothing to slow him down.
RRufus
Second of all, it's nocturnal and will only hunt at night.
Oh, good. It's still daylight, so we can relax for a bit. [Rufus looks at him suspiciously before Kai clears his throat] Uh, I meant theoretically.
RRufus
And the only way to defeat it is with light. Like a vampire, with enough of it, it could potentially destroy him. [shows a display] If I had my weapons of choice, may I recommend the Illuma-Sword? [opens the display case, revealing four purple bladed Illuma-Swords] These are authentic replicas that would come in handy were you to live long enough to actually face a Grundal. And if swords are your thing, maybe I can interest you in an authentic ninja gi, signed by the very ninja that saved the city.
Kai
Uh, we'll just take the light swords.
RRufus
Not so fast. This "Starfarer" combo pack can only be won in the Fritz Donnegan Trivia Battle Royale. [points to a fan, dressed like Fritz Donnegan, talking to some cosplayers] You have what it takes to be the best?
[Episode starts with the ninja about to train Lloyd in Destiny's Bounty]
Your new body is a fighting instrument. Listen to it.
[In slow-motion, Lloyd dodges each attack Cole and Jay make with his eyes closed, and as he avoids Zane's throwing shurikens, they hit a watermelon Nya is carrying]
[glares annoyingly at Zane for that; then to Wu] Since he's grown, he's learning faster, Sensei.
But will it be enough to challenge Lord Garmadon? Only time will tell.
[Kai draws his sword before Lloyd blocks it, he doesn't stop the attack and falls]
Kai
[chuckles] You're getting pretty good, but that move you fell for was basic 101.
Yeah, if I had focused more when I was little, I would've seen that coming.
We cannot change the past, but we can improve for the future. Again, and this time, do not hold back.
[The ground starts to rumble and turn into sand]
Kai
What's going on?
Worse. The city's returning back into the desert, as if it had never been found in the first place.
Kai
Uh, what? What does that mean?
Garmadon's gone back in time to make it so Lloyd never turns into the Green Ninja.
I can't... I can't feel my hands.
Kai
Uh. Ugh. We have to go in!
If he changes anything, he changes everything! Protect the future, ninja!
[As the ninja travel back in time to the past…]
Kai
Four Weapons. Huh. My parents' shop. Nya and I used to work there. [realizes] Hey, wait a minute, this is the day Garmadon ordered the Skeletons to take my sister. We need to warn them!
Whoa, whoa! You heard what Sensei said, we change anything, we change everything.
Yeah, I was confused by that too.
What he means is, our world is the result of past events that have already happened. If for whatever reason events in our past fail to happen, then the future could radically change.
Uh, so what you're saying is we gotta stop Garmadon from changing anything? But of all the times, why did we land here?
Kai
'Cause this is where it all started. Today, I met Sensei Wu for the first time and I began my training as a ninja. Somehow, Garmadon is gonna try to prevent that, but how?
[sighs] If only Sensei were here to guide us.
[They see Past Sensei Wu walking up towards the weapon shop]
Oh look, there he is! Maybe he can!
We gotta tell him what Garmadon has done.
But we can't let the old Kai and Nya see that we talked to him, or else it will affect the future.
Kai
Hmm. I know exactly what to do.
Kai
Return to the future?
This feels familiar, but weren't we training Lloyd?
The future was altered and there is no Green Ninja.
[panting] Sorry I'm late, guys. Are we ready to get training?
Kai
Ha! You're still here!
Uh, yeah. Why wouldn't I be?
So when we went back in time and destroyed Garmadon's Mega Weapon, that didn't change anything?
My father has a Mega Weapon?
Kai
[with a watermelon] Oh, wait a minute, you've never heard of it? [slices the melon, giving everyone each a slice]
I-I think I would've remembered that. Why? What is it? Should I be concerned? [the others laugh] Hey, what are you guys laughing at? What's so funny? [carves a Dragon on his slice]
Kai
Hahaha, I think some things are best left in the past. Come on. Let's just prepare for the future.
[On the Bounty, the ninja, except for Jay, are trying to stabilize the ship]
The winds are too strong!
We need everyone's help, Jay!
But I don't wanna get wet. I... I only have one pair of underwear.
Kai
Jay, this is no time to be making jokes. The Bounty can only take so much.
You think I'm trying to be funny? Okay, laugh all you want, but we'll see who laughs last when I have to go commando.
[The ninja reach the top of the mountain and enter the Temple of Light]
[seeing some murals on the walls of their previous adventures] Guys, check this out. It's us.
Kai
Impossible. It's everything we've ever done.
Finding the Bounty, facing the (Great) Devourer, even right now.
How could it all be here?
Destiny. [A mural shows the ninja in a circle with Lloyd in the center] I think I know what we need to do.
This is all my fault. I should've taken the shot.
We're all at fault, kid. It's just the way the cookie crumbled.
Ah! Are you still making jokes? They have Nya, AND YOU’RE MAKING JOKES?!?! [furiously tackles Cole]
It was just a poor choice of words!
[just before Jay can punch Cole] Enough! We have lost enough! We don't need to lose our focus!
Kai
Forget focus. We have to get my sister.
By the time we get back up there, they'll be gone. We will get your sister, but the clock has reached a 0 and the Final Battle could start at any moment. We must head back to the Bounty to get prepared, so that next time, you will not hesitate.
Come on, Lloyd. Let's go home. You will get your chance.
[The ninja, Sensei, and Misako come across Nya, whose been corrupted with dark matter by Garmadon and the Overlord]
Kai
[enraged] What did he do to my sister?!
He must've used the ultimate weapon to turn her into his own evil image.
Garmadon must have sent her to slow us down. We have to stop them from firing that weapon.
What are we supposed to do? Use our Elemental Powers on her?
No! I don't want to hurt her!
Kai
Jay's right! We just have to find a way to keep her from… [gets hit with a flail by his corrupted sister] Hurting us.
Well, we should think of something before Garmadon fires that weapon.
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