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Lloyd had first discovered that corner of the abandoned and empty Ninjago Bay station when he was in fifth grade, only nine years old.
Back then, Chen's bullying had been more than just words - insults as it is now.
That day Chen had shoved him down some stairs then into a locker, leaving Lloyd with a few too many bruises for his liking, a bleeding nose, and a splitting headache.
Lloyd had been on his way back home when the mostly-boarded-up entrance to the Ninjago Bay subway station and like any nine-year-old kid, he decided to explore it. After that, the platform became somewhere he went to escape Chen's bullying, the whole city's hating of him, people throwing things at him in the street.
When he was in a sophomore in high school and his uncle Wu recruited him for the Ninja Force, Lloyd didn't stop going to the platform, he just had to be more careful when he did so.
One afternoon, Kai, Nya, and Lloyd had agreed to go get Boba but Lloyd wasn't there.
"Lloyd took off right after school ended. Did something bad happen to him today?" Nya asked, popping her staw through the lid of her cup.
"Something bad is always happening to him," Kai answered.
"That's true. But what if something really bad happened to him? We should go look for him," she decided for them both.
"Do you know where he might be? You two talk a lot," Nya asked.
"Yeah, I do actually. The platform of Ninjago Bay subway station," They had finished their Boba and tossed the cups into the bin.
Lloyd had told him about his spot on the Bay station platform a while ago after being scared out of his mind because of something Kai can't remember.
Luckily for them, the Boba shop they were at was just by the entrance of the station. They discovered that Kai had been right when they descended onto the platform and Lloyd was there with his legs pulled up and his head in his arms.
"Lloyd? Greenie? You okay?" That was stupid but he needed to say something.
He sounded like he was crying but was trying to be quiet at the same time.
"Greenie, what happened?" Nya tried, crossing the space and kneeling down in front of her honorary younger brother.
It was a few moments before he answered.
"C-chen and a new g-guy," Lloyd's voice was barely more than a whisper, "they've been doing it for weeks now," he added
So that was why he sometimes came to the warehouse with a black eye or bruised face. First Master, she so hoped what she thought wasn't true.
"What did they do?" Kai asked, joining Nya in front of Lloyd.
Lloyd didn't reply, instead, he looked up at his honorary older siblings, revealing the state of his face.
It was bruised in more than one place, he had a black eye and his nose had been bleeding.
"I'm gonna fucking kill him!" Kai hissed, under his breath.
It's official, she's going to kill that cheerleader if Kai doesn't beat her to it (they could do it together!).
"Kai! You can't kill him!" Lloyd said, inside he was glad that someone, two someones, wanted to kill the fucking annoying cheerleader.
"Hold up, you said Chen had a new guy with him? Do you know his name so I can go kill him too?" the Water Ninja interrupted.
"Y-yeah, his name's Brad Ellis," Lloyd told her. What kind of name was that?
Tomorrow would be fun!
Sometime later, the Smith siblings managed to get Lloyd out of the subway station and into Nya's car and were now back at their apartment.
Thankfully, their parents were still at work (they openly expressed their hatred of Garmadon's son, they would be so angry if they found him in their apartment).
Kai went to track down an ice pack for Lloyd's eye as Nya handed him a wet hand towel to clean up the dried blood from his earlier blood nose.
At school the next day, Kai tracked down Chen (which wasn't hard to do) while Nya tracked down Brad Ellis.
The Smith siblings only waited long enough that they were out of possible teachers' line of sight before they began.
Brad and Chen were sent to the nurse after being found by the on-duty teacher with black eyes and bleeding noses.
The two boys tried to blame it on Lloyd but he had been off-campus getting lunch with Jay and Cole so their blame had no weight.
"Those two have been dealt with," Kai announced triumphantly to Lloyd over the phone.
Despite knowing what his honorary siblings did was wrong, he still felt glad that the two boys had finally, to use what Kai had said, been dealt with.