(Movieverse)

The one time I decide that it'd be a good idea to help clean up after one of my dad's attacks. The ONE time. I get bombarded with questions by the press while helping Kai fix a street lamp.

"Why did you become a ninja?" They asked about twenty times before I couldn't avoid the question.

"Well we all have out own reasons." I had said.

"Well what's your reason?"

"It's personal."

"What is it?"

"Well I..."

"Yo Green, there's another broken lamp post over there." Kai interrupted. I guess he could tell from my hesitation, and had the common sense to know, that I did not want to talk about it. But the press was persistent.

"Why do you do what you do?" The press asked again as I picked up a fallen lamp post and held it in place as Kai welded it to its stand. "Does the Secret Ninja Force work for the government?"

Kai laughed a little. "We do not work for the government." I chuckled quietly. "I think that would be child endangerment legally..."

"What? Why?"

"All six of us are teenagers."

"If you're teens why don't you spend your time at home? Rather then fighting Garmadon?"

"Someone has to do it. Sure the police can but that didn't seem to be getting anywhere..."

"Is that why you fight him?"

"No, for some of us it's because of a love for the city, others it's to prove someone wrong, maybe to prove something to ourselves..."

"What about you Specifically?"

"A love of the city is part of it, but not the main part..."

"What's your main reason?"

"I guess... Technically spite."

"Spite?"

"Against my father. We fight everyday, and when we're not I never see him unless he butt-dials my phone... And I guess I'm a bit afraid of becoming like him."

"You? Afraid? Why?"

"Let's just say, him and Garmadon would get along. He... My father isn't the best person." There was a bang, and I felt something hit my left shoulder causing it to jerk forward. I looked, "What the...?" I mumbled before realizing, SOMEONE JUST FRICKING SHOT ME! "Hey uh Red.... Can you go get Ice?" Kai nodded and rushed to get Zane. I studied my shoulder as the pain finally kicked in. "Well good news, there's no exit hole... Bad news that means the bullet is still in my shoulder...." I mumbled as Kai and Zane rushed over.

"Red, you take his mech back to the base, I'll take him back on mine." Zane said quickly.

"I can fly my mech back, you're just gonna have to patch me up when we get there..."

"Green-"

"I'll be fine let's go, before I bleed out would be preferred."

"It's highly unlikely tha-"

"It was a joke Ice." We made our way back to the base, where Cole, Jay, and Nya had already arrived. "Hey." I said calmly as I waited for Zane to get bandages and crap to both pull the bullet out of my shoulder and to bandage it.

"Lloyd! What happened!?" Nya exclaimed.

"Got shot."

"Why are you so calm about this?!" Jay questioned.

I looked at my shoulder. "I have no clue, but everyone who was watching the news saw me get shot in the shoulder, so people are possibly worried."

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So after everything, y'know all that chaos, I made my way home the usual way, walking through Ninjago City at two a.m. Yay. My hoodie was surprisingly still completely green, despite the bullet hole in the back of my shoulder that refused to stop bleeding. I was fine though so yeet I guess. As I walked I plugged my earbuds into my phone and played some music, until someone grabbed my shoulder. You guessed it, the one with a bullet hole in it. "Give me your wallet kid."

I sighed quietly. "Listen, man, it's like, two in the morning, I just got off work, can I please just go?"

"Hand it over or a bullet's gonna go through your head"

"I already had a bullet go through my shoulder today, so can you please back off."

The guy just wouldn't leave me alone, so I kicked him in the knee, and ran. I was not in the mood to be mugged. Eventually I got home, climbed into my room through the fire escape and went to bed, I was gonna have to get up in two and a half hours, but hey, I slept a little.

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So, life can be a bit of a b word, but hey I've survived... Fifteen and a half years or so years of it. The bullies, the cops assuming I'm evil, waking up at five in the morning, walking to school while risking being mugged, riding the bus and getting glared at by my classmates, not having any friends until a few months ago. All that teenager stuff. Now, of course the jerks at school didn't notice my shoulder when I entered the school the next morning, they didn't until I got shoved against a locker, probably because I hit my shoulder when I got shoved and accidentally made a sound that sounded kind of like an injured puppy mixed with a quiet ow. Lucky for me, Kai stopped them before they could see why I actually reacted to being shoved into a locker for once. "You good?" Kai had asked as the bullies walked away.

"Yeah, I'm fine Kai." I mumbled as I picked up my books off the ground.

"PE's your first period, and Mrs.Depew doesn't usually take attendance..."

"Kai, I'm not skipping class, besides, I don't have a note."

"We could have Zane print out one, with a real doctor's signature and everything."

"Kai."

"Lloyd you have a bullet hole in your shoulder."

"I'm not using it to get out of class."

"We both know you're probably going to ask to go to the nurse during English."

"Why am I going to do that Kai?"

"Because one, I know for a fact that your project isn't done, and two, we both know you'll have a breakdown if you have to talk in front of the class."

I laughed. "You're not wrong."

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"Garmadon, you're slacking today." Mrs.Depew complained as I stopped for a second.

"Sorry, I think I might've slept on my shoulder weird last night, it's been sore all morning." I replied quickly, rolling my shoulder a bit to make a point. "Feels like it's gonna fall off." I joked. Yes, because when I panic, I make jokes. 

"Go get an Ibuprofen or something from the nurse, but hurry back." I nodded and headed for the door of the gymnasium... "Hold on." I heard the teacher mumble. "What's the red on your shirt?" Damn my white gym shirt. I looked at my shoulder. Yay, the bullet hole was bleeding.

"I probably just scratched open a scab or something earlier." I lied quickly as I left the gym. I walked quietly down the hall. "Now all I need to do is to think up an excuse for why there's a bullet hole in my shoulder so the nurse doesn't call my mom..." Lucky for me, the nurse was a friend of my uncle's and she knew all about what had happened.

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After an eventful day of lying through my teeth to my classmates and teachers, I finally got home. Only to find out that for the first time in my fifteen and a half years of life, my father, Lord Garmadon, had decided to come over for dinner. Well why'd he do that Lloyd? Well Guys, Gals, and Nonbinary Pals (And those who Identify as anything else), Lloyd has no fuckin' clue.

"Lloyd! You're home!" My mom had exclaimed as I took off my shoes and set down my bag.

I pointed at my father, who was sitting at the dinner table. "Why?"

Mom looked at my father, then back at me. "Because?"

"Reason?"

"None."

"Eating in my room." 

"Nope."

"Yep." I grabbed a slice of the pizza that was on the counter and dashed to my room.

"Lloyd!" Was the last thing I heard before locking my bedroom door and plopping down on my bed to eat pizza. It was quiet for a few minutes.

"Lloyd." I heard my father say though the door.

"Go away I'm eating."

"Come eat at the table."

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because you're a self-absorbed jerk who is so narcissistic that you fail to realize that my life was completely ruined the second I was born because of who you are." I replied quickly before my window shattered. One of my father's generals or whatever. "The heck!?"

"General number three, you know the plan."

"What?" I mumbled before punching the pufferfish mask guy in the face. "The whole point to you being here was to have your weird pufferfish guys drag me away?!"

"Yeah pretty much."

"WHY?"

"Well, yesterday after I fought the ninja, One of my generals shot the green ninja in the shoulder with a bullet that had a tracking device in it, my scientists designed it to release the tracking device into the bloodstream once the bullet had hit its target." My eyes widened. "Imagine my surprise when the tracker lead me to my own son."

"I don't know what you're talking about?"

"Very convincing son." He had mumbled as another one of his general climbed in my window.

I panicked. My room wasn't all that big, there was only a two by three foot space in front of the door, and my bed shoved into a little space between two walls, the window, and a tiny shelf above my bed. That's it, and I was cornered. So yeah, I, Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon, The Green Ninja, panicked when I was backed between a rock and a hard place. My phone was all I had on me. So I kicked the general and called Kai. "Hey, what's up?" He asked over the phone.

"Code black." I mumbled quietly. I could hear my father trying to break the door.

"Shit seriously?"

"Now's not the time to be surprised man."

"Got it, Jay and Cole are in the area, I'll text them."

"Call them, they're more likely to notice if you call."

"Got it."

Soon, Jay and Cole had made their way to my Mom and I's apartment, beat up a few more generals and got me out of there. I was lucky I had such good friends. So good news, the tracking device was removed from my bloodstream. Bad news it hurt like heck. It was pretty lucky that Cyrus Borg was willing to help us out, and that he was friends with my uncle. Weird right?