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It’s dark, too dark for the lighthouse. Echo opened his eyes and looked around. He was in a room full of scrap metal. “Where am I?”, he asked himself, ”And where is Tai-D?” The nindroid stood up from the floor.
“That’s odd… My body seems in good shape.”, thought the nindroid. Echo wandered around the small and cramped room until he stumbled upon a broken mirror. Luckily the room was bright enough so Echo could see himself. He expected to see a rusty bronze nindroid but that wasn’t exactly the case. Instead, he saw a rather shiny, even though there was quite a bit of dirt all over him, copper nindroid. This wasn’t the body his father had built all those years ago. Echo looked a little closer only to see he did indeed have different facial features compared to before. Instead of the military-style buzzcut he had, his hair looked kind of soft and fluffy. His eyes looked brighter than before and glowed more and his face shape was rounder. He looked younger, newer and even cuter than before. Echo began to wonder, why was his body so different. Many thoughts flooded the nindroids mind, none of which he had an answer to.
“This isn’t the time for this. I have to find Tai-D and figure out where I am!”, Echo thought to himself. He started walking again. The whole room seemed a lot smaller than it was, maybe it was because of all the clutter on the floor and the walls. Echo finally reached the door. He was surprised to find that the door didn’t lead outside but instead lead into some sort of underground tunnel. Echo followed the endless seeming tunnel. The nindroid might be able to fight but the creepy and unwelcoming atmosphere in the tunnel frightened him. Echo jumped in surprise when he heard a crumpling noise. He looked around hastily to find the source of the noise. Once his eyes reached his feet, he saw that he had stood on a newspaper. Echo picked up the newspaper and read the headline out loud:” The Ninja defeat the Oni and save the day once again? Who are the Ninja? And what are Oni?” The nindroid decided to sit down and read the newspaper.
The whole article was filled with praise about the Ninja, whoever they were. There was also a few mentions about Lord Garmadon, Echo remembered him. That man ordered the Skulkin to kidnap his father. From what Echo could understand Oni were creatures that wanted to destroy Ninjago because the wanted to find the First Spinjitsu Master. That seemed unreasonable to Echo. Couldn’t they just look for the First Spinjitsu Master without destroying Ninjago? Echo was interested in reading more about the Ninja, they sound very interesting and fun. One was a robot, like himself, he preferred to be called nindroid though. ”Maybe they can help me figure out what happened.”, thought Echo, ”But first I have to find Tai-D!”
Echo started to follow the tunnel again. He didn’t know what could be out there. After a few right turns and a few left turns Echo found another door. A rather big metal door. There was a painting on it. It looked an awful lot like Garmadon and underneath it was written: ’Sons of Garmadon’. Didn’t Garmadon only have one son? That’s what the newspaper said at least. Echo opened the metal door and was surprised to see how bright it was. Wasn’t this place underground?
A rowdy looking guy came around the corner and saw Echo, who panicked a little. “Mr. E, you’re alive? I thought Garmadon killed you. Well if you looking for Kilow or Ultraviolet they’re in Kryptarium.”, said the rowdy. “Who is Mr.E?”, thought Echo. “Um… have you seen Tai-D?”, asked the nindroid. The rowdy looked surprised as if he didn’t expect him to talk. “No idea what a Tai-D is but maybe it’s in your room.”, said the rowdy,” Garmadon must have messed you up bad, though. You talk and sound very different. Maybe check your system in your room as well.” “My room?”, asked Echo. The rowdy said:” Huh, Garmadon messed you up bad. I’ll show you where your room is. Follow me.”
Echo started to follow the man and soon the two stood in front of a door which had the letter E on it. “Here we are. I’ll get going.”, said the man and left. Echo didn’t like him very much. He was going on and on about how great Garmadon is and how good it was that he was back to help them take revenge. Revenge for what though? Father always said revenge is a bad thing, something only bad people do. Echo obviously didn’t want to take part in that.
Echo opened the door to the room. The room was dark, so Echo started to look for the light switch. He soon found it and now he could actually see the room and what it looked like. The entire room was a mess, scrap metal everywhere as well as blueprints on the floor and walls. How could this be his room? Echo started to pick up boxes and began to look through them in the hope of finding Tai-D.
In one of the many boxes Echo went through, he found a few photos. Photos of a girl with long white hair, a girl with grey skin and a long high black ponytail, a big guy, really this guy was massive, and someone with a helmet. The helmet was familiar to Echo but why? The nindroid continued looking through the boxes and found a box full of news articles. More importantly articles about one of the ninja, the white ninja. “Why would I keep articles on him? Who even is the white ninja?”, Echo asked himself. Echo ignored the box for the most part.
After going through most of the boxes Echo picked up the last box. Maybe Tai-D would be in here. Echo opened the box and said in shock:” Tai-D! What happened to you?” Echo picked the small robot up and inspected him a little closer. Tai-D was very rusty, dirty and shut down. Echo gently put Tai-D on the floor and looked around for materials and tools in order to fix Tai-D up. Luckily everything Echo needed was in the room and Echo began fixing up Tai-D.
After Echo fixed Tai-D and turned him on again. The little robot began beeping happily. Once Tai-D saw Echo smiling at him, he began jumping a little. Tai-D was obviously happy to see his friend again. “I’m happy to see you too, Tai-D.”, said Echo, “Do you know where we are and what happened?” Tai-D began beeping, talking to Echo. “We’re in Ninjago? When did we get here?”, asked Echo confused. Tai-D beeped a few more times. “My memory switch?”, said Echo. Echo opened jacked and his chest plate. His memory switch was turned off and a little broken. Echo fixed what he could and turned the switch on. Maybe now he could have the answers he wanted.
It all began with a girl landing on the island.