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The ninja land the Bounty in Hollow's Bluff.

"Is this where we'll be living?" Harumi asked.

"Just until we know you're safe." Lloyd says.

"Don't you have a headquarters?" Harumi asked.

"It's too in-the-open. The Sons of Garmadon will be looking for you. We'll need to keep moving." Lloyd says.

"You have all been so gracious to take me in since our palace was... taken away, and—" Harumi began, in the background, Poppy can be seen rolling her eyes while Mintayla patted her back and Jasmine simply placed a hand on her hip, they knew exactly what was gonna happen and who Harumi really was.

"You're safe with us." Jay says.

"That assumption is not entirely justified, Jay. We know very little about the Sons of Garmadon's full capabilities." Zane informs him.

"We know nothing about them. Period." Kai says.

"We do know they're after the three Oni masks. Unfortunately, they already have two of them." Nya says.

"PIXAL scanned everywhere for the third mask, but it came up empty. It's as if... it never existed." Zane says.

"Then we need to focus on who's giving the orders. A group this organized must have a leader." Lloyd says.

"Maybe someone from our past?" Jay suggested.

Without none of them noticing, Mintayla pushed a blue underwear towards Harumi's hand before she quickly acted like she didn't touch it.

"Uh, forgive me, but is that... underwear?" Harumi said, picking up the underwear.

Jay chuckled in embarrassment and quickly took the underwear, hiding it behind his back, "We're usually more organized, ahem. But our leader got lost in a team-stream. Uh, they're Cole's."

Cole snapped out of his gaze at Jasmine and glared at his best friend. "They're blue!" Cole shouted at Jay.

Kai laughed. "You're lucky they're not yellow."

"What about the suspect captured at the heist in Borg Tower? I can stay behind if you wanna press him on who he works for." Nya suggested.

"The police have him in custody, but he refused to talk. He is set for release today." Pixal says.

"Then if Johnny Law can't get him to talk, perhaps Johnny Ninja can?"

So, while the ninja were trying to get answers, inside the sleeping quarters of the ninja, Harumi searches through her things and pulls out two photos of her biological and adoptive parents. Harumi smiles fondly at her birth parents' photo but her expression changes to one of sadness as she looks at the one with her adoptive parents.

"We know what you're up to."

Harumi felt her eyes widen as she turned around, pretending to look innocent when she saw it was Poppy, Mintayla, and Jasmine.

"W-w-what do you mean?" Harumi asked.

Poppy scoffed. "Don't play innocent with us, Harumi."

"Or should we say... Quiet One." Mintayla said, making sure that it was only them.

Harumi didn't know how they knew, but with her secret out to them, she couldn't hide it.

"How'd you figure it out?" Harumi asked.

"Lucky guess." Jasmine lied.

"Well, either way, you're not gonna say anything." Harumi said, smirking as she looked at Poppy. "You wouldn't want Lloyd to hate you now, would you?"

"What makes you think that he's gonna hate me? I'll be saving him from getting hurt by you." Poppy said.

"You really think he likes you? Please, he likes me, not you." Harumi smirked.

"Oh, you wanna bet?" Poppy smirked.

Mintayla nudged her since Nya would soon walk in the room. Quickly, they pretended that nothing happened and that they were just looking at the pictures when Nya walked in.

"If you can believe it, that used to be Lord Garmadon." Nya says.

"Lloyd's father?" Harumi asked.

"He made some mistakes, but he's made up for them." Nya says.

"I've heard so many stories of him. Such anger. He hurt so many people. How did he change?" Harumi asked.

"Master Wu once told me holding onto anger is like trying to throw a hot rock. Only you get burned. Lloyd helped his father let go. But all of that is behind us now." Nya says.

"Or so I thought." Lloyd said, walking into the room with a soft smile for Poppy.

Harumi wanted to say something, but Poppy beat her to it.

"Lloyd. You're back," Poppy smiled.

Harumi shot a glare at her when no one was looking.

"Where's Zane and Cole? I need to see everyone." Lloyd says.

"Following a lead. Why? Is everyone okay?" Nya asks.

"The Sons of Garmadon want to bring back my father from the dead." Lloyd says.

Nya gasps.

And when no one was looking at them, Harumi shot Jasmine, Mintayla, and Poppy a smirk, knowing that they wouldn't say nothing.

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