There's a scream to match Acronix's own, and your team punches through the confines of the bubble.  Ava immediately runs to where he fell and thrusts out a hand.  "Hang on!"

The younger twins' voice is clearly heard over the sound of the rushing water, an excessively melodramatic quiver laced throughout his next words.  "Go on without me, fair maiden, for my time has come at long last!"

"Stop being stupid and grab my hand!"

"Ah, to hold your hand one last time before the end-!"

"-FIRST SPINJITZU MASTER, WILL YOU JUST TAKE MY DAMN HAND ALREADY?!!"

Acronix grunts laboriously, and his fingers rise over the crest of the bank, clasping hers firmly.  She pulls him up with her characteristically powerful roar.

Acronix's eyes are as large as saucers, and a fragment of a large root falls out of his other hand.  Droplets of water glisten as they trickle off of his clothes.

"'Nix, quick!  How old are you now?!!"  Jay shouts.

"How the heck should I know anymore?!!"  He counters.

"Oh, dear."  Zane exclaims.  "I believe that Acronix has made physical contact with the Time Stream."

"Uh, 'Nix?"  Rhea asks lowly.  "..Why are your eyes glowing like that?"

"Huh?  They are?"

"Yeah, they do be shiny, though.  They're, like, two different colors."

"The technical term for that is heterochromia, Rhea."  Ava groans, massaging her temples.

"Hetero-what?"

"Never mind.  The educational system in Ninjago clearly isn't what it used to be."

Rhea splutters indignantly.  "B-but we went to the same school.  FOURTY YEARS AGO!!!"

"Did we REALLY?  Because you don't act like it."

"Guess I shouldn't have kept playing hooky..."

The Chronosteels' colors in the Blades fade as Acronix's eyes alight, and he shoves Ava away from the sight of his brother, clearly not too keen for her to become the elder's next target.  But the attack doesn't come.

Krux screams with rage and shakes the sea-colored Blade.  "WHY WON'T THIS BLASTED THING WORK ANYMORE?!!"  He aims at at Acronix again, but still, nothing happens.

Morro gasps, putting two and two together.  "'Nix, try using your powers!!!"

"But Krux has all of the Blades!"

"I mean like how you used them before they got absorbed into your weapons!"

"I-  Okay..?"

"Just do it!!!"

"MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE!!!"  Rhea crows.

"SHUT UP, RHEA!!!"  Everyone hollers.

"Well, that was unanimous."  She mutters.

Acronix holds a hand out towards a cluster of Warriors and narrows his eyes at them.  A burst of blue flashes up and envelopes them.  'Nix stares at them, slack-jawed.  "How?!!"

"You only barely touched the Stream, correct?"  Morro asks.

Acronix nods dumbly, unable to comprehend what he has just been able to do.

"..And you're an Elemental Master of Time, yes?"  Morro presses.

"Um.."  'Nix swallows.  "The last time I checked, yes."

"It sounds kind of silly, but what if the Stream was able to recognize you as someone who's shares its Element in the past?"

"It still doesn't explain how I've gotten my powers back!"

"I was getting to that!!!"  Morro shouts.  "Either you touched it just enough to be imbued with its power, but not long enough for it to actually harm you, or its properties adhered to you because you're already genetically predisposed to use them!!!"

Zane looks disappointed not to be the one to have made such an important observation, but he sighs in resignation and smiles tightly.  "Indeed, Morro may well be correct.  This time."

"You'd better sleep with one eye open tonight, Morro."  Kai whispers to him.  "Zane does not look happy with you right now."

"Thanks for the tip-off-"

"-You still owe me that hair care advice, remember?  I can't have him destroying you just yet."

"Oh, you petty person."  Morro grumbles.

Krux's face lights up with malevolent understanding.  "So that's it..."

"DON'T LET HIM GET TO THE STREAM!!!"  Acronix bellows, whirling on his brother.

But too late.

In two bounds, Krux races to the Stream, throwing down the weapons he wields with a wild laugh.  "I can now finally be rid of these cumbersome Blades!  My powers will be restored to me at long last!!!"

"Brother, NO!!!"

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