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Lloyd, Poppy, and Harumi run in a jungle. They drop into a hole to hide from a Grundle and Lloyd did his best not to winch cause of his arm. "Are you okay?" Poppy asked.
"Yeah, just need a second." Lloyd said.
"Let me see," Poppy said as she fixes his arm sling. "How's that?"
"Oh, um, good. Very close. I-I-I mean, snuggly. I mean, snug," Lloyd stuttered, Poppy giggled.
"Are you sure we're heading the right way?" Harumi asked, interrupting the scene being played in front of her.
"Pretty sure. If this map is right, there's a river that runs through Primeval's Eye that way. And the river leads straight to the hidden Oni Temple that holds the third mask." Lloyd says.
"Lloyd, your arm is still pretty bad and we're all alone out here. Maybe we should try to find the others," Poppy says.
"I'm doing okay. And, anyway, we can't take the chance. If the Sons of Garmadon get to the mask first, they'll have all three." Lloyd assures.
"Okay, but I want you to rest that arm for a while and let me take a turn." Poppy says, as they continued on their way.
"Stuck in a palace all your life, did you ever imagine you'd be in a place like this?" Lloyd asked.
"Hacking my way through Primeval's Eye? Not so much. But to be perfectly honest, I always dreamed being with you." Harumi told Lloyd, making Poppy frown in jealousy.
"So, according to this, we're almost to the Black River. We just have to get past this part that reads Strangler's Path." Lloyd says.
"Did you say Strangler's Path? That's cheery. Why is it called that?" Harumi says.
"Places like these always have colorful names. Half the times, it doesn't mean anything. The Caves of Despair, Blind Man's Eye, Hitoshi's Labyrinth. Probably just some bored mapmaker with a wild—" Lloyd began, only for something to grab him and drag him away as he screamed.
"Lloyd!" Poppy yelled.
"Poppy!"
They went after him, but then Harumi pushed Poppy onto the ground.
"Again!? Quit it!" Poppy yelled at her.
Harumi then threw a sword at the branch, freeing Lloyd as she quickly ran over to him.
"It just—it tried to—you just threw—how did the tree—where did you learn to throw a sword like that?" Lloyd asked, backing away from the tree while feeling suspicious of Harumi.
"I-I don't know. You were gonna be eaten. I-I got lucky, I guess." Harumi says.
"Liar." Poppy mumbled.
"Luck!? You were clear over there—"
Before Lloyd could finish, Harumi kissed him, making Poppy glared at her. Then Harumi smirks at Poppy but that smirk fades when Lloyd helps Poppy stand up from the ground.
"Thanks, how's your arm?" Poppy asked.
"It feels all right now." Lloyd says.
The ninja continue to fix the Bounty.
"I wonder if Lloyd, Poppy, and Harumi are okay." Cole says.
"I'm sure they're fine. Lloyd and Poppy don't seem to have any trouble looking out for each other." Kai says.
"Yeah, I have noticed they've gotten pretty close. Pass the wrench?" Cole says.
"Got the wrench?" Kai asked.
"Wrench coming your way." Jay says.
"So, Lloyd has the hots for Poppy. Pliers." Cole says.
"Got pliers?" Kai asked before adding. "Yeah, and you have the hots for Jasmine."
Cole suddenly felt nervous about that. "... You're the one who has the hots for Mintayla."
"... Shut up."
"I don't have the pliers." Jay says, as someone gives it to him. "Oh, why, thank you." He gasps and sees the baby. "Cole? Hehe, I thought you and Jasmine put the baby down for a nap."
"You mean little Cole Jr? We did, but he was pretty restless," Cole says.
"Uh-huh. Yeah. Then why is little Cole Jr. standing in front of me and passing me the pliers?" Jay asked.
Kai and Cole then went down to where Jay was.
"Cole Jr. is walking now? I don't know much about babies, but are babies supposed to walk?" Cole asked.
"No. No, they are not. And I don't think they know what pliers are." Kai says, as the baby drinks a cup of tea. "And they definitely can't do that."
"Okay, now I've seen it all. Now I really quit!" Jay says.
The baby laughs, "Ninja never quit."
The ninja stare at the baby.
"Uh, guys, I don't think that's Cole Jr.. That's Master Wu!" Jay says.
Lloyd, Poppy, and Harumi came across the Sons of Garmadon logo and stepped onto the boat, Harumi driving it while Lloyd led the way.
"Do you think it's really possible to bring someone back?" Harumi asked.
"I've seen a lot of things in my lifetime. At first, I didn't. Now, I'm not so sure." Lloyd says.
"Does any part of you want to see your father again?" Poppy asked.
Lloyd stared at his reflection in the water before responding. "I had Ninjago's greatest villain as my dad. It was an... unusual relationship. But as much as we fought, I still miss him. A little to the right."
"I would do anything to see my parents again." Harumi asked.
"I don't blame you. But if they bring my father back, the thing that scares me the most is..." Lloyd trailed off.
"He won't be the man you recognized?" Poppy finished for him, to which Lloyd nodded.
"He wasn't the greatest villain." Harumi says.
"Oh, no? You probably grew up thinking it's Morro or the Devourer. Don't tell me. Pythor." Lloyd says.
"No. It's the one you never even knew was there in the first place, the one that gets away." Harumi says.
"The Quiet One."
They continue to sail when suddenly, something grabbed Lloyd's pole. "What the heck? We're not alone." He said.
"What—what's that?" Harumi asked.
"I'm thinking what the earlier expedition ran into. Start the engine. Go, go. Hurry." Lloyd says.
"What's in the water?" Harumi says.
"Whatever it is, it's gaining on us. Is this as fast as it can go?" Lloyd asked.
"It won't go any faster." Harumi says.
"We need to lighten the load." Poppy says, helping Lloyd with the load.
The monster then stopped attacking.
"Why did it stop?" Poppy asked.
"I don't know. It's like something kind of... scared him off." Lloyd says.
"I know what did," Poppy says, pointing towards the edge of a waterfall which was where they were heading.
"We need to go the other way." Lloyd says.
"The other way? That thing is back there." Harumi says.
"Reverse. Reverse." Lloyd says.
"It doesn't work." Harumi says.
"Grab on to something. Now! Hold on." Lloyd says.
They fall down the waterfall.
The computers turned back on and the thrusters were starting to turn on back at the Bounty as well. Something then caught Jay's attention. "What's that?" He asked.
"The trace program the computer was running to find the Quiet One's location. It's finished, but that's odd. It says it originated from the Bounty." Nya says.
"But that can't be." Kai says.
"Yeah, that's impossible." Cole says.
"The only ones on the ship were us, Pixal, Poppy, Jasmine, Mintayla, and..." Zane began.
Nya gasped. "Harumi's the Quiet One."
"We have to warn Lloyd and Poppy, and fast,"
But before Nya could try to start the ship, they were surrounded by the Sons of Garmadon.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Ultra Violet says. "The Quiet One wouldn't like that."
Lloyd, Poppy, and Harumi swam to the shore.
"We made it." Poppy says.
"Yeah, barely," Harumi rolls her eyes.
"No. We made it to the temple, look." Lloyd points to the temple behind the waterfalls. But he never noticed that Harumi smirked behind him.
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