♡*☼ 𝓛𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽 A̷g̷a̷i̷n̷s̷t̷...

By GoldenIShadow

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This Story...is about a Girl named Crystal. Recruited by Master Wu she joined a team with Seven Others wit... More

Important Info
Chapter 1: Way of the Ninja
Chapter 2: King of Shadows
Chapter 3: Rise of the Snakes
Chapter 4: Home
Chapter 5: Snakebit
Chapter 6: Never Trust a Snake
Chapter 7: Can of Worms
Chapter 8: The Snake King
Chapter 9: Tick Tock
Chapter 10: Once Bitten Twice Shy
Chapter 11: The Royal Blacksmiths
Chapter 12: The Green Ninja
Chapter 13: All of Nothing
Chapter 14: The Rise of the Great Devourer
Chapter 15: Day of the Great Devourer
Chapter 16: Darkness Shall Rise
Chapter 17: Pirates vs Ninja
Chapter 18: Double Trouble
Chapter 19: Child's Play
Chapter 20: Wrong Place Wrong Time
Chapter 21: The Stone Army
Chapter 22: The Day Ninjago Stood Still
Chapter 23: The Last Voyage
Chapter 24: Island of Darkness
Chapter 25: The Last Hope
Chapter 26: Return of the Overlord
Chapter 27: Rise of the Spinjitzu Master
Chapter 28: The Surge
Chapter 29: The Art of the Silent Fist
Chapter 30: Blackout
Chapter 31: The Curse of the Golden Master
Chapter 32: Enter the Digiverse
Chapter 33: Codename: Arcturus
Chapter 34: The Void
Chapter 35: The Titanium Ninja
Chapter 36: The Invitation
Chapter 37: Only One Can Remain
Chapter 38: Versus
Chapter 39: Ninja Roll
Chapter 40: Spy for a Spy
Chapter 41: Spellbound
Chapter 42: The Forgotten Element
Chapter 43: The Day of the Dragon
Chapter 44: The Greatest Fear of All
Chapter 45: The Corridor of Elders
Chapter 46: Winds of Change
Chapter 47: Ghost Story
Chapter 48: Stiix and Stones
Chapter 49: The Temple on Haunted Hill
Chapter 50: Peak-a-Boo
Chapter 51: Kingdom Come
Chapter 52: The Crooked Path
Chapter 53: Grave Danger
Chapter 54: Curseworld, Part I
Chapter 55: Curseworld Part II
Chapter 56: Infamous
Chapter 57: Public Enemy Number One
Chapter 58: Enkrypted
Chapter 59: Misfortune's Rising
Chapter 60: On a Wish and a Prayer
Chapter 61: My Dinner With Nadakhan
Chapter 62: Wishmasters
Chapter 63: The Last Resort
Chapter 64: Operation Land Ho!
Chapter 65: The Way Back
Day of the Departed
Chapter 66: The Hands of Time
Chapter 67: The Hatching
Chapter 68: A Time of Traitors
Chapter 69: Scavengers
Chapter 70: A Line in the Sand
Chapter 71: The Attack
Chapter 72: Secrets Discovered
Chapter 73: Pause and Effect
Chapter 74: Out of the Fire and Into the Boiling Sea
Chapter 75: Lost in Time
Chapter 76: The Mask of Deception
Chapter 77: The Jade Princess
Chapter 78: The Oni and the Dragon
Chapter 79: Snake Jaguar
Chapter 80: Dead Man's Squall
Chapter 81: The Quiet One
Chapter 82: Game of Masks
Chapter 83: Dread on Arrival
Chapter 84: True Potential
Chapter 85: Big Trouble, Little Ninjago
Chapter 86: Firstbourne
Chapter 87: Iron and Stone
Chapter 88: Radio Free Ninjago
Chapter 89: How to Build a Dragon
Chapter 90: The Glided Path
Chapter 91: Two Lies One Truth
Chapter 92: The Weakest Link
Chapter 93: Saving Faith
Chapter 94: Lessons for a Master
Chapter 95: Green Destiny
Chapter 96: The Darkness Comes
Chapter 97: Into the Breach
Chapter 98: The Fall
Chapter 99: Endings
Chapter 100: Wasted True Potential
Chapter 101: Questing for Quests
Chapter 102: A Rocky Start
Chapter 103: The Belly of the Beast
Chapter 104: Boobytraps and How to Survive Them
Chapter 105: The News Never Sleeps
Chapter 106: Ninja vs Lava
Chapter 107: Powerless
Chapter 108: Ancient History
Chapter 109: Under Siege
Chapter 110: The Explorers Club
Chapter 111: Vengeance is Mine
Chapter 112: A Cold Goodbye
Chapter 113: The Never Realm
Chapter 114: Fire Maker
Chapter 115: An Unlikely Ally
Chapter 116: The Absolute Worst
Chapter 117: The Message
Chapter 118: The Traveler's Tree
Chapter 119: Secret of the Wolf
Chapter 120: My Enemy, My Friend
Chapter 121: A Fragile Hope
Chapter 122: Once and for All
Chapter 123: Awakenings
Chapter 124: Would You Like to Enter Prime Empire?
Chapter 125: Dyer Island
Chapter 126: Level Thirteen
Chapter 127: Superstar Rockin' Jay
Chapter 128: The Samurai Siblings
Chapter 129: The Glitch
Chapter 130: The Cliffs of Hysteria
Chapter 131: The Maze of the Red Dragon
Chapter 132: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Chapter 133: Racer Seven
Chapter 134: The Speedway Five-Billion
Chapter 136: Ninjago Confidential
Chapter 137: The Temple of Madness
Chapter 138: Game Over
Chapter 139: Shintaro
Chapter 140: Into the Dark
Chapter 141: The Worst Rescue Ever
Chapter 142: The Two Blades
Chapter 143: Queen of the Munce
Chapter 144: Trial By Mino
Chapter 145: The Skull Sorcerer
Chapter 146: The Real Fall
Chapter 147: Dungeon Crawl
Chapter 148: Masters Never Quit
Chapter 149: The Darkest Hour
Chapter 150: The Upply Strike Back!
Chapter 151: The Son of Lilly
Chapter 152: Uncharted
Chapter 153: The Keepers of the Amulet
Chapter 154: The Gift of Jay
Chapter 155: The Tooth of Wojira
Chapter 156: A Big Splash
Chapter 157: The Call to the Deep
Chapter 158: Unsinkable
Chapter 159: Five Thousand Fathoms Down
Chapter 160: The Wrath of Kalmaar
Chapter 161: Long Live the King
Chapter 162: Escape from Merlopia
Chapter 163: The Storm Amulet
Chapter 164: Riddle of the Sphinx
Chapter 165: Master of the Sea
Chapter 166: The Calm Before the Storm
Chapter 167: Assault on Ninjago City
Chapter 168: Nyad
Chapter 169: The Turn of the Tide
Chapter 170: Farewell the Sea
Chapter 171: The Shape of Nya
Chapter 172: A Mayor Problem
Chapter 173: Public Enemies 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6!
Chapter 174: A Painful Promise
Chapter 175: Ninjago City vs. Ninja
Chapter 176: Kryptarium Prison Blues
Chapter 177: Hounddog McBrag
Chapter 178: The Benefit of Grief
Chapter 179: The Fifth and Sixth Villians
Chapter 180: The Council of the Crystal King
Chapter 182: The Spider's Design
Chapter 183: The Fall of the Monastery
Chapter 184: Darkness Within
Chapter 185: The Coming of the King
Chapter 186: Return to Primeval's Eye
Chapter 187: Crystastrophe
Chapter 190: Christofern
Chapter 191: A Lesson in Anger
Chapter 192: Brave But Foolish
Chapter 193: Quittin' Time!
Chapter 194: Return of the Ice Emperor
Chapter 195: Safe Haven
Chapter 196: Compatible
Chapter 197: Distress Calls
Chapter 198: An Issue of Trust
Chapter 199: Dragon Form
Chapter 200: Roots
~ Conclusive Proclamation ~

Chapter 135: Stop, Drop and Side Scroll

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By GoldenIShadow


(The Red Visors are searching Terra Technica for Lloyd, Crystal, Nya, and Jay. Lloyd signals them to move along, but stop when they look at a monitor showing Kai and Cole crashing during the Speedway Five-Billion race and turning into cubes.)

Lloyd: Our friends wouldn't want us to give up. We have to keep going.

Crystal: We'll find a way. Somehow, someway, we're going to find them, and bring them all back. (Lloyd nods)

Nya: Okay, what's next?

Jay: Terra Domina. That's where the last Key-Tana is.

(They walk in front of a red arcade cabinet with flames on its screen.)

Lloyd: It looks a little...intense. (Unagami's logo appears on the screen.) We must be getting close to the end of the game.

(Jay presses a button on the arcade cabinet, causing it to open.)

Jay: Well, cya on the other side.

(The ninja enter walk through the arcade cabinet and enter Terra Domina. They see a floating temple from above.)

Jay: Holy cow! Unagami's Temple of Madness.

Nya: I'd go mad too if I lived here.

(The ninja walk through an entrance. They see many levitating platforms.)

Jay: Okay, that's freaky!

Lloyd: We should head back. Go about the dangers, and come back with a plan. (The platform that they are standing on glitches.) Did you guys feel that?

Jay: Feel what?

Nya: I didn't feel anything.

Crystal: What was it?

Lloyd: I don't know. I thought I felt something. (The platform disappears and the ninja land on one that looks like the rest.) Whoa!

(The ninja look behind them and see the Unagami logo. The platform the ninja are on starts to disappear.)

Nya: Hey!

Crystal: Jump!

(They jump onto another platform.)

Lloyd: W-what's happening? (The ninja jump onto another platform.) Where's that music coming from?

Crystal: We're in a game, music makes the game more "fun?"

Lloyd: (Looks behind him to see the platforms disappearing.) Ah! Or tormenting!

(They jump onto a platform.)

Jay: Oh, man. I was afraid of this. We've entered the world of old-school platform games!

(The Ninja jump onto another platform.)

Nya: And those games force you to run towards chaos?

Jay: Eh, technically side-scroll toward chaos, but yeah.

(They jump onto a platform.)

Jay: There's rules to these games. One: You can't go backwards. (They jump on another platform.

Lloyd: Makes sense.

Jay: Two: Everything speeds up the further you go! (Jay and Lloyd jump on another platform. Nya runs off the one she is on and nearly falls, but is caught by Crystal

Nya: Thanks. That was a fast one.

Jay: Three: All of the obstacles are pre-programmed, so if you learn the timing, you can evade the danger. (Jay points to an enemy ahead. The ninja jump over the enemy. They jump on multiple platforms.) But the most important thing to know is: If you die, we have to start over at the beginning!

Nya: Wait, what do you mean we start- OOF! 

(Nya gets hit by a giant spiked mallet, falls off the platform, and loses a life. The Ninja are transported to the start of the level. Nya is left with one life, while Lloyd, Crystal, and Jay are left with two.

Nya: Okay, I see what you mean.

Lloyd: We have to do all that over again?!

Nya: All of us?! How's that fair?

Crystal: It's like Jay said: If we pay attention, we won't make the same mistakes twice. 

(They jump on numerous platforms. They reach a section with spiked mallets swinging. Jay dodges the mallets.

Jay: Oh yeah! (He does a dance.) Mhmm! Mhmm!

Crystal: Jay, don't-

Jay: (A red cube nearly falls on him, but he dodges it.) Haha! See Crystal! We don't need to worr-

(Another cube falls down and hits Jay, causing him to lose a life.

Jay: AHH! 

(The ninja respawn at the start of the level. Nya and Jay are left with one life, while Lloyd and Crystal have two.)

Lloyd: Okay, I'm getting a little tired of this.

Crystal: (Sighs) Again. 

(The Ninja get farther this time but a wall gets in Crystal's way. She jumps on top of it but they open in the middle and she drops being smashed by the two walls colliding.)

Lloyd: Crystal!

(The Ninja end up at the starting once again. With Crystal, Jay, and Nya with one heart, and Lloyd with two hearts)

Lloyd: (Puts his arm on Crystal's shoulder) Are you ok?

Crystal: Yes, I'm fine. (Lloyd lets go) This is getting redundant now.

Jay: (Groans) Totally.

Nya: We don't have many lives left so be careful, okay?

(Lloyd, Crystal, and Jay nod. The ninja pass through different sections of the level. Lloyd reaches a wall that starts pushing him off a platform. He slowly slides off, but jumps, knocking him off and causing him to lose a life. The ninja respawn at the start. They now all have one life left. The four sigh.)

Lloyd: Okay, I'm down to my last life.

Crystal: Likewise.

Nya: Me three.

Jay: Same here. No more mistakes.

(The ninja pass through the level's various obstacles. They jump over the wall and land behind it. The area behind them disappears.)

Lloyd: Ha! No more scrolling! Did we beat the level?

Nya: I don't see the Key-Tana.

(Unagami's logo appears behind them without being noticed. Fast Music begins to play.)

Jay: Uh oh! The music always gets faster when the game's about to get harder!

Nya: How could it possibly get harder?!

(Another section of the level appears in front of them.)

Jay: Oh, an infinity maze!

Lloyd: Let's hope not. Infinity means forever.

(They feel a rumble. They start jumping on two platforms and a trampoline, sending them to a higher platform.)

Nya: Is someone throwing bricks at us?

Crystal: What bric-

(Flaming bombs start falling from above. Nya shields herself.)

Lloyd: Those aren't bricks, they're bombs!

(A bomb explodes in front of them, sending Jay flying. He falls back down face flat.)

Jay: Whoa! Agh! (He sees spikes coming from a wall.) What are those?! (The spikes shoot out from the wall.)

Lloyd: Gah!

Nya: Whoa!

Crystal: Come on!

(Jay jumps on a platform. The platform starts burning. Jay jumps onto another platform.)

Jay: Ah! AAAH!

Nya: And apparently the floor can just burst into flames!

(They jump onto a trampoline and begin avoiding the obstacles of the area. They start to slow down, growing tired. They stop in front of spikes coming from above.)

Jay: Ugh. I'll never make fun of old games again. This is hard.

Crystal: I love music. (Pants) But this is getting too challenging and the fast-paced music isn't exactly motivating either.

Jay: Yea!

Lloyd: No wonder this game was never released. Who wants to play something called "Spiky-bomb-bricks-hot floors"?!

Nya: Who cares what it's called?! It's endless!

Jay: Hopefully not!

Lloyd: What if it is? What if there's no way out?

(A loot box appears behind Lloyd.)

Nya: Guys, look! A loot box! (Nya jumps onto the spikes and makes her way to the loot box.) Come on! Give me something awesome! (She reaches the loot box and a menu appears, showing a cyclone symbol.) Uhh, cyclones are not a good thing. They're whirling clouds of chaos that obliterate everything in their path.

Jay: Whoa! (He pushes Lloyd, Crystal, and Nya, alongside himself out of the way, as a cube hits the floor) Maybe the only way to beat this thing is a force of nature!

Nya: Only one way to find out. (She presses the cyclone icon. A yellow Airjitzu cyclone covers her.)  I think this gives me the ability to use Airjitzu!

Jay: Great, but it's only temporary. The flashes are speeding up!

Lloyd: If you can Airjitzu, you can make it to the top of this maze!

Nya: But what about you guys?

(Lloyd, Crystal, and Jay look at each other and nod.)

Crystal: Go without us. It's better than none of us making it.

Nya: I've got a better idea. Hang on tight, everyone!

Lloyd: Wait, no! What're you-

Crystal: Nya-

Jay: AH!

(Nya grabs a hold of Jay, while Lloyd hangs onto Jay, and Crystal hangs onto Lloyd.)

Nya: (She uses Airjitzu to get to the top of the maze.) Cyclon-do!

Jay: Whoo! Hoo-hoo!

(They land at the top.)  

Lloyd: Guess it wasn't so infinite after all.

Nya: Then they should call it the "Super long and incredibly annoying but eventually there's an end to it" maze. (Crystal laughs)

Crystal: I wonder how they would get that on the Game Homescreen. (Nya shrugs, giggling)

Jay: Yeah. Just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?

Nya: Well, no point in putting it off. Let's go. (They walk through an entrance and enter a dojo-like level. Intense music starts playing.) The music again? How can it get harder?!

Jay: This must be the final boss battle. 

(Icons of the four Ninja appear in front of them.)

Fighting Game Voice: Choose your champion.

Jay: So now it's an old-school "fighting game?" MAKE UP YOUR MIND, DUDE!

Nya: What does it mean "choose your champion?"

Fighting Game Voice: Choose your champion.

Jay: Okay, I think one of us has to fight the boss.

Lloyd: I'll take this one.

Crystal: Are you sure, Lloyd? You only have one life left.

Lloyd: Same as you.

(Jay and Nya step back and nod. Lloyd smiles at Crystal who smiles back and steps back with Jay and Nya. Lloyd presses his icon.)

Fighting Game Voice: The champion has been chosen. (Avatars of Clutch Powers, Aspheera, Garmadon, and the chicken appear. A glitched Crystal appears before glitching out.) Unagami will choose your opponent. (Lloyd activates his prime controller.) Fighter two will be...

Lloyd: (Gasps.)

(The fighter appears to be Harumi.)

"Harumi": Lloyd.

Lloyd: Ha...Harumi?

(Nya and Jay look at each other. Crystal covers her mouth.)

"Harumi": It's good to see you again, Lloyd.

Lloyd: How?

Crystal: No not her.

Jay: It's not her, Lloyd. It's just a trick. (He bangs on a barrier.

Crystal: It's a force field!

Nya: Lloyd! Lloyd!

Jay: No, no, no!

(Jay and Nya start banging on the force field. Crystal gets out her sword and hits the wall with it.)

"Harumi": Did you miss me, Lloyd? I think about you so much. Sometimes I wonder...if things could've been different. Maybe in another time or place? (She spawns a katana behind her back.) Maybe we can be together again. You... and me. YAH!

("Harumi" hits Lloyd with her katana.)

Crystal: Lloyd!

("Harumi" strikes at Lloyd with her weapon, but is blocked by his prime controller.)

Lloyd: I can't fight her!

Jay: It's a simulation! It's not her! (He bangs on the force field.)

Crystal: The real Harumi isn't here anymore! And she's not coming back! (Hits the force field with her shoulder) Ugh. 

"Harumi": HA-UH! (She spins at Lloyd, but he dodges. She strikes at him but is blocked. She pushes him back.)

Lloyd: Ah! (He catches his breath.) Harumi, don't do this!

"Harumi": You left me, Lloyd! All the people you save, and where were you when I needed you? Where were you?! (She strikes him but is blocked. She tries to stab him, but misses.) 

(Jay and Nya gasp. The two opponents continue to strike and block each other. Lloyd starts to attack back. The two attack one another with their weapons. Lloyd and "Harumi" block each other.

"Harumi": Lloyd...I don't have long. But I wanted to say: I'm sorry. I'm sorry for everything. If you could only give me another chance?

Lloyd: Harumi, is it really you?

Jay: (He bangs on the force field.) No! Lloyd! It's not Harumi! The computer's just trying to get into your head! (He bangs on the force field again.

Crystal: It's nothing but a program! A simulation! The game itself!

(Lloyd glances at Crystal and breaks free from the block.)

Past Lloyd: I don't like Akita! (Covers his mouth) Oops.

Past Crystal: (Stares at Lloyd then blinks) Wait, what?

Past Lloyd: (Sighs) The day when we left from the Never-Realm. You saw me and Akita and- I- It just happened and- (Scratches his head) Uh...

Past Crystal: Uh, I- sorry. (She runs up to Lloyd and hugs him. He hugs back smiling) 

Past Lloyd: Uh, does that mean we're...ok?

Past Crystal: Of course. (Lloyd smiles brighter and puts his fist in the air while still hugging her)

Past Lloyd: (Whispers) Yes. 

Lloyd: (Present.) Harumi, what did we do the first night we were alone together?

"Harumi": Watch the sunset? (Lloyd frowns.) Listen to music?

Lloyd: We went to the canals in Ninjago City. To give food to the poor. The real Harumi would've remembered that. You're not Harumi!

(Lloyd strikes Avatar Harumi. They begin swinging their weapons and dodging each other. Lloyd and Avatar Harumi's health bars drop. She strikes at Lloyd, only to be blocked, and Lloyd counter attacks. The duelling opponents circle each other and wait for the other's attack.)

Avatar Harumi: Rrrr...Ah! AH! (Avatar Harumi charges at Lloyd.)

Lloyd: HAA-AH! (Lloyd charges at Harumi.)

(The two slash each other. They both stop. Avatar Harumi disappears, and Lloyd turns into an Energy Cube.)

Nya: Oh, no!

Jay: No!

Crystal: Lloyd!

(The force field finally disappears and they run towards the Cube. An aerial drone collects the Cube as Crystal attempted to grab it. The Aerial Drone teleports away. The last Key-tana appears.)

Crystal: Jay, Nya. What do we do? 

Jay: (Nya looks at him) We do what we have to do. (He grabs the Key-Tana.) We get our friends back... (He raises the Key-Tana.) ...and we stop Unagami.

(Nya nods lightly. Crystal sighs while Nya helps her up. Jay stores the Key-Tana. The three ninja glance at each other before walking out of the level.)

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