3rd Person POV

"Woah who is that?" Lloyd asked himself as the mysterious figure he had seen before had jumped in the midst of the fight between Lloyd and Pythor and saved Lloyd just as Pythor was about to bring a rusty, metal rod down on him.

"Get out of here, this is not your fight." The hooded figure hissed in a scratchy tone from behind their mask brandishing their bo staff in front of his face.

"Hate to break it to you, but Pythor is my concern so I'm not going anywhere." Lloyd shot back right before the figure swept his feet out from under him and hit him back into the other ninja, who had heard his screams after they came to look for him.

"Lloyd!" Kai helped him up by his arm as they watched the figure attempt to land blows on Pythor, who just blocked them with the rod.

"Just give up already, you don't stand a chance against me." Pythor sneered as he dealt a painful blow to their side and they struggled to get back up.

"We'll see about that..." The person growled menacingly as they got back up, albeit slowly and painstakingly, and brandished their staff in front of them.

"We shall..."

The figure whirled their bo staff around above their head and swiftly swung it towards Pythor's head, but he managed to block and divert the hit with his tail. This only made the figure even madder and they just started delivering hits left and right.

After several more attempted blows, the figure struck at Pythor hard enough to where the rod flew from his hands. Pythor raised his hands as the figure pointed their bo staff at him warning,

"Get out of here while you still can and leave me alone..." Cuing Pythor to retreat, for now.

As soon as he was gone, the figure turned to the ninja giving them a clear view of an eye, with a scar over it, looking out from under their hood and over a black mask that covered the bottom half their face and black hair covering the other eye.

"Thank you for saving our friend mysterious-" Zane started to thank the figure before they looked at him with a narrowed eye, whirled their bo staff in the air, and struck it down to the ground to create a rolling gust of wind and dirt that knocked them all over.

When the dust cleared, the figure was gone as fast as they had appeared.

"Who was that guy?!" Jay blurted out as everyone managed to pick themselves off the ground.

"Why do you have to assume they were a guy, they could've been a girl." Nya told Jay with her hands on her hips.

"Whoever they were, Pythor followed them here for a reason and clearly they weren't too happy about it." Zane deduced to the others.

"Why can't you just ask Pixal who they were?" Cole asked.

"Because I would need to see their full face in order to run the facial recognition program."

"And so far all we saw was just their right eye." Lloyd finished.

"Precisely."

"What in the world happened here?"

Everyone turned around to see that Ronin had walked in carrying a toolbox under his arm.

"Ronin? What're you doing here?" Jay asked.

"Uhh... I live here."

"Oh... right.."

"Nothin' much, just a showdown with Pythor and some mysterious figure in a hood." Lloyd cut in.

"Sounds 'bout right for you guys." Ronin responded with a shrug.

"We better get back to the Bounty to track them down, Pythor's not gonna give up so easily in trying to get them." Kai said as they all ran towards the flying ship.

"Xia, we're heading back, be ready to do some searching." Lloyd told Xia through his comlink.

"Understood Lloyd."

"I'm heading to fix up Rex and I'll catch you guys later!" Ronin yelled to them as he headed back to his pawnshop.

"I still want my dad's trophy back!" Cole yelled after him.

Time Skip to the Bounty

"Zane, can you upload the footage you got during the fight to the main computer." Lloyd asked as he readied said computer.

"Uploading now." Zane announced as he plugged himself into the computer and uploaded the video of the figure in the black hood against Pythor. It started to play and everyone watched to see if they could find clues as to who the figure was.

"Stop!" Nya shouted as they got to the part just before the person made the wind and dirt gust. Xia paused the video in time to see that, a split second before the ninja got knocked over, the person's mask and hood flew off revealing their full face, minus their other eye.

"Can Pixal run facial recognition on that face now?" Jay asked.

"Yes I can." Pixal appeared on the screen and a search engine went off showing a long list of names until one name was highlighted.

"Violet Lynn." Zane read off the screen that Pixal pulled up.

"Says here she's the adoptive oldest daughter of three siblings and the Lynn family works on a pretty big sugar plantation. A few years ago, she disappeared from her home and nobody's heard from her since." Lloyd read off as an official photo of her and her family, as a child, appeared on their official company website, but he noticed something critical, "Wait a minute, when we saw her in the alley, Violet had a scar over her eye, here she doesn't."

"Hate to break it to you, but your machine needs updating, cause her name isn't really Violet." Another voice butted in and they saw Ronin leaning against the doorway of the control room.

" 'Hey guys, mind if I come aboard your flying ship?' 'Oh, of course you can, all you have to do is ask!'" Jay shouted hysterically.

"What do you mean 'her name isn't Violet', our records are completely up-to-date." Xia argued, a bit annoyed at the mockery to her and Pixal's computer systems.

"Her real name's Aeria and, as far as I know, she was living on her own before the Lynn's took her in."

"And how do you know her exactly?" Nya asked suspiciously.

"The Lynn's are actually a notorious family of thieves who work under the cover of sugar farmers. Couple years back, they owed me a big debt so they had her work for me for a couple years before she ran off and disappeared. She's been completely off the grid since then." Ronin explained as he pulled up a formerly sealed police file of "Aeria" that included a mug shot of her with her scarred eye and a highlight of purple in her black hair.

Under her mugshot, there was a list of thefts and breaking and enterings under her name, but with no jail time since she had just been a preteen at the times of the crimes.

"I'm guessing you had her steal stuff so you could pawn it off?" Kai asked with an unamused look on his face.

"Hey, I needed to make a living somehow."

"Aside from that, where is she now?" Lloyd asked.

"I've only heard rumors of where she is, but you won't like where she might be."

"And where would that be?" Jay questioned.

"Tozmachi."

"You mean the hideout for bandits?" Nya asked, squinting her eyes in worry.

"That's the place. Last I heard of her, she disappeared off to that place."

"If it's a secret place to hide out, then how do you know she went there?"

"I keep tabs on people of interest." Ronin answered simply and bluntly, leaving no room for a response.

"Okaaaaaay, set a course to Tozmachi, we need to find her and find out why Pythor was trying to get to her." Lloyd announced and Pixal set the course.

"You might want to park this thing outside of their boundaries, the people in this place want nothing to do with authority and they won't hesitate to attack if you guys aren't careful..."

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