Someone's mad/jealous.
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*Lloyd and Nova notice Harumi's room is a mess. They then look out of Harumi's window and sees someone carrying a sack.*
"He's got the Princess." Lloyd chases "him" to the city with Nova right behind him. "You gotta be kidding me." He almost falls but "he" saved him. "Who are you?" They take their hood off, revealing Harumi. "Oh. Princess? I thought you were kidnapped. I was trying to save you."
Nova narrowed her eyes at him, as she punched his arm. "We were trying to save you." [robotic] She said with a slight growl.
"Was that what that was? From my vantage, it looked like I was the one saving you." said Harumi.
"Then who's in the bag?" Lloyd asked.
"You mean what's in the bag. Food. For the less fortunate. Even though I'm confined to the palace, I still try to give what I can." said Harumi.
Nova's growl only grew louder as she was being ignored by the both of them as they seemed to think she wasn't there.
"But your bedroom. It was ransacked." said Lloyd.
"Yes, I can be quite a slob. Thank you for noticing." said Harumi.
"I'm sorry. I-I didn't mean—"
"The Princess is gone! Find her!" shouted Hutchins.
"They can't know I left the palace." She grabs a jacket. "You have to disguise yourself. Hurry."
Nova was trying to control her rage as she grabbed a hold of her necklace that was slowly glowing, while her tail was having a hard time staying still under her clothes.
Harumi gives food to some people. "Some things are easier to do when you're not a princess. If I asked my parents, they would never allow it. But these people are hungry. And we have so much food in the palace." Children start to surround them. "Patience, little ones. There's enough for each of you." They give their whole bag away.
"Can I ask you a question? Do you enjoy being a princess?" Lloyd asked.
"Everyone thinks being a princess is supposed to be easy, and wonderful, and I guess it's okay, but a lot of the time it's really hard." said Harumi.
"Huh. Tell me about it. Not being a princess, I mean being the Green Ninja." said Lloyd.
"We have to live up to a role that was bestowed upon us. We never chose these mantles we hold." said Harumi.
"I know. It's hard to live a normal life. At least I get to wear a mask, but you—"
"I wear my own masks. Sometimes painted, sometimes a kidnapper of princesses! Muahaha!" said Harumi.
"I'm the actual person standing right here with a mask on you two." [robotic] said Nova while trying to bite down her anger from showing, but once again she was ignored.
"In my defense, it was my first day." They see Sons of Garmadon harassing some kids.
"We must leave." said Harumi.
"These people have enough to worry about; they shouldn't have to be bullied by low level street thugs." said Lloyd.
"Don't. If you try to stop them, you'll reveal us." Lloyd sees their shirts' logo and gasps. "What's wrong?"
"That's the same symbol I saw before. The Sons of Garmadon. He was my father." said Lloyd.
"No! You said it yourself. They are only low level thugs. They don't know anything. They only take orders. It's the person who gives them that scares me." said Harumi.
"Yeah right, you backstabbing two faced bitch!" Nova thought while still growling.
"I have to do something." said Lloyd as the Samurai VXL approaches the Sons of Garmadon.
"Or you could let Samurai X take care of it." said Harumi.
"Step away from the pedestrians." said Samurai X.
"Samurai X? Let's split!" They run away and the children cheer.
"It's good to know the ninja aren't the only ones protecting Ninjago." said Lloyd.
"Remember, kids, look out for one another. And stay safe." They drive away.
"Who is Samurai X?" Harumi asked.
"I wish I knew. Princess—"
"Please, call me Rumi." said Harumi.
"Okay! Enough of this, we've stayed here long enough and we should take the Princess back home now!" [robotic] said Nova, not able to hide her anger as she was growling.
The two had completely forgotten Nova was there, so they both were caught off guard as they turned to look at a very pissed off face on the screen of her mask. While she had her arms crossed.
"Yes. You should be home, your Highness." said Hutchins who had just showed up.
Harumi gasps. "Hutchins!"
"May I ask what you are doing outside the palace?" Hutchins asked.
"Rumi and I were just going for a walk." said Lloyd.
Nova growled as she elbowed his stomach hard causing him to bend over holding his stomach and glaring at Nova.
"Rumi? A walk?" said Hutchins.
"It was my idea. Please don't be angry with Lloyd or Delta." said Harumi only now remembering that she was there too.
"It's troubling to see you two are on a first name basis. The streets are not safe at night, your Highness. I must insist you return with me, at once." said Hutchins.
As they headed back Lloyd turned to Nova.
"What was that for Del? And why are you so angry?" Lloyd asked.
Nova glared at him with a growl. "You were so focused on getting all buddy-buddy with the Princess, you fucking forgot about me being here too." [robotic] She growled at him.
"Sorry I didn't mean to leave you out Del, but that still doesn't excuse your angry tone." said Lloyd.
"Well fucking excuse me for feeling a bit left out!" [robotic] Nova growled as her tail came out, not able to control the angry way it was moving.
"I understand it has been a year or so since we saw each other, even worked together. But that doesn't mean you can just fucking ignore a future teammate, because you have a stupid crush on that Princess!" [robotic] Nova growled getting as close to his face as she could even though he was taller than her.
Lloyd was a bit surprised when he saw her tail but was even more surprised to even see her being this angry over nothing.
"I don't have a crush on the Princess, Del, so calm down no need to get all jealous over her and lose your temper." said Lloyd with his hands raised trying to calm her down which only seemed to make it worse.
A faint purple glow surrounded Nova but it slowly went away and towards her necklace as she was glowing in pure rage at him. "I am not fucking JEALOUS OF A STUPID PRINCESS!!" [robotic] She shouted with her tail lashing out like crazy in anger.
"Hey you can't call the Princess stupid, if Hutchins or anyone from the royal family heard you say that it wouldn't end well." said Lloyd now getting a little annoyed.
Nova stomped her foot into the ground. "Get your fucking mind out of the gutter Lloyd! Maybe then you will know to just focus on the job we were set to do!" [robotic] She growled before going into the shadows and headed back to the palace.
*Jumping to the ninja and Nova training.*
"Moonlit walks on the canal, sharing food—Ah! Sounds a lot like a date. Ah!" said Cole.
"It was not a date." said Lloyd.
There was a sound of something breaking by where Nova was training but she wasn't saying anything.
"A date: a social or romantic engagement. Often involving a meal or an intimate setting." said Zane.
"Haha! You can't argue with a Nindroid." said Jay.
"Look, if you like this girl, you're gonna have to step up your game, that goes for Delta too." said Kai pointing towards Nova who had just broken another dummy in rage.
"What do you mean "game?" Lloyd asked before looking over at Nova who had already broken three dummies and soon a fourth would be joined to the count.
"It means one's ability to charm. You need to convince her why you are the most logical mate." said Zane.
"If you want to impress her, you gotta act tough. Like, flex your muscles and stuff. Break things." Cole demonstrates by breaking a piece of training equipment. "Phew."
"Pfft. No way. You gotta make her laugh. Just ask Nya. She couldn't resist my sense of humor." said Jay.
"It's an acquired taste." said Nya.
"Don't listen to them. You gotta act cool. Like you don't even care." said Kai.
"But I do." said Lloyd.
"A-ha! So you admit it." said Jay.
"Okay, stop. All of you are really not helping him. Look, just be yourself. It's so much easier than trying to be someone you're not." said Nya before looking over at Delta who was already on to her seventh dummy.
Cole trips Lloyd with his sledgehammer. "Haha, got ya!"
"By the way, do any of you guys know what's wrong with Delta? She has been kind of.....angry." Jay asked.
The ninja was shaking their heads before turning to Lloyd since he was the person last with her.
".....We might have gotten into a fight, she was upset that me and the Princess ignored her, but she only got more mad when I told her she was jealous of Harumi." said Lloyd.
The ninja looked at him as if he were actually blind since hearing this they now knew what the actual problem was.
".....Lloyd have you ever thought about maybe....Delta has a crush on you?" Kai asked.
The sound of something breaking was heard but when they looked it was a wall that now had a few cracks on it as Nova had just punched it, ignoring the pain she felt.
"...If that's her having a crush on me, then I'm scared to know if she was in love with me." said Lloyd though didn't really believe that she had a crush on him.
"I'm done with my training, looks like I've broken all of the dummies they had." [robotic] said Nova before going into the shadows to be alone.
"Okay, first thing to learn; don't ever call a girl out for being jealous of another girl. Unless you have a death wish." said Kai looking over at all of the destroyed dummies.
"Point taken." said Lloyd, looking over at the cracked wall, nervous to imagine that being him.
*Some time later.*
Nova was sitting outside on one of the roofs of the palace while having her clones keep an eye out.
"I hate this...I didn't waste all of my time on the Dark Island for nothing....stupid Lloyd....stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid! And yet...I still like that idiot.....if I wasn't so stupidly scared of him knowing who I am, I would rip this stupid mask off." Nova thought to herself as tears was running down her face behind her mask.
She felt her tail moving again under her clothes but it didn't come out this time which she was happy about.
It wasn't long until the roof of the palace she was sitting on exploded, catching her off guard as she fell into the broken and burning palace.
"Fuck I didn't even notice this." [robotic] Nova got up looking around trying to avoid broken parts falling down and the fire increasing.
"If I get out of this I swear I'll stop stealing stuff." [robotic] Nova mumbled as she tried to find the others, only for a burning pillar to fall down on her leg causing her to scream in pain.
"Son of a bitch!" [robotic] Nova growled in pain as she looked around for any shadows for her to jump to in some way. But there were too many flames and smoke for her to hardly see anything, even with her upgraded mask.
Nova tried summoning her shadow clones but she was only able to get one out. "Help me get this pillar off of me." [robotic] She told her clone as they both tried to get the pillar off, but it didn't budge an inch.
"I'm gonna fucking kill Harumi for this bullshit." [robotic] Nova growled as she looked around until she got an idea.
Nova summoned her warfan and began using it on the smoke so she finally could see something, and in the first sight of a shadow she used her powers to make it grow longer. Until she could actually touch it and was able to travel through it, and out of the burning building.
Remembering what happened in the show she went on to travel through the shadows until she was on Bounty, stumbling a little as she heard the other's voices.
"The Emperor and Empress? Where is Hutchins? Did they—"
"I'm sorry, Princess. They didn't make it." said Nya.
"What about the mask?" Lloyd shakes his head. "I promise you, we'll find the people responsible for this."
"Once again, I am alone." said Harumi.
"You're with us now. And we'll make sure to find out who is behind all this. They are not going to get away." said Lloyd.
"Did anyone see Delta, anywhere?" Nya asked, looking at the others worried.
Cole was shaking his head. "No, we couldn't find her anywhere."
"I'm sure she is fine, I mean she can control shadows and always finds a way out." said Jay.
"Even so, we should have looked for her. What if she ran into the Sons of Garmadon and wasn't able to get away." Kai.
"All we can do now is hope she is fine, as we can't go back now." said Zane.
"Wow, I feel so loved here." [robotic] said Nova as she was leaning against a wall and standing on one leg as her other had gotten hurt from the pillar.
"Delta!?"
The ninja ran over as they saw her injured. "What happened?"
"You shouldn't move too much, it would be best if you sat down." said Zane.
Nova sighed as she went on to sit down. "I was simply watching from the roof of the palace for any intruders, and the next thing I knew everything exploded and was on fire. I tried finding you guys but a stupid pillar fell on her leg. If I hadn't found a shadow in that smoke I might have come out worse." [robotic] She explained.
"Why didn't you call out for us, or used some of your crazy powers?" Lloyd asked coming over with a first aid kit.
"If I used my powers I might have made it worse, and I didn't call out since I didn't want to alert the enemy." [robotic] said Nova crossing her arms, and her tail lashing out that she hadn't noticed was out until now.
"Since when did you have a tail?" Jay asked.
"And horns?" Zane added.
Nova felt the top of her head and noticed she didn't have her hood on so she quickly pulled it back over her head along with trying to hide her tail. "For a little while....can we please not talk about it." [robotic] She said not much in the mood.
Lloyd gently began treating her injured leg and after a bit he went on to wrap on some bandages.
"...I'm sorry for being all mad earlier....I guess being ignored really got on my nerves." [robotic] said Nova though it was mostly because she was jealous but she didn't want him to know that.
"It's fine I'm also sorry that we ignored you like that, it wasn't fair." said Lloyd as he finished.
Nova let out a small giggle. [robotic] "It's water under the bridge greenie."
"For now at least.....I don't want my anger and jealousy to cause Lloyd to hate me.....I miss the old days where we always had each other's back, and where we were a lot closer." Nova thought to herself as she watched Lloyd going back over to check on Harumi.