A Little Snippet That Would Lead Into The Rest Of The Monty + Sharkpup SBPNR

A little snippet that would lead into the rest of the Monty + Sharkpup SBPNR

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All Lloyd could see was gold. Bright golden sparkles, first around his eyes, then wrapping around his arms, legs, chest, brighter and brighter-

When he came to, he wasn't in his dad's lair anymore. No, the cavern walls were gone, and it was loud, and neon, and- and-

His head whipped back and forth, tears quickly pricking his eyes. He wiped them away immediately with his sleeve, but more came when he realized he was alone. Where- where was his family? The five ninja had been there- right there- rescuing him before his dad had made a wish. Where- where were they? What had his dad done?

Where was he? It kinda looked like Ninjago City, but he didn't recognize it. It was... too big. Tall. Different. He was sitting on asphalt, in the middle of an empty road. A streetlamp flickered, its twin on the opposite side of the street shattered; Lloyd must have popped the lightbulb in his panic.

O-okay, he could do this. He was a ninja now. He was strong! He could... he could figure this out! Yeah. Yeah, he just... um... had to contact the Bounty and his Uncle. A-and hope the ninja had been sent there. Yeah! O-Or find Dareth. Find the dojo. Yeah, he could do that! Find the dojo. Find the dojo. Find the- 

Whhaaaatttt are those.

A few meters away from his feet lay a pile of tiny... sharks? With legs? It was hard to tell in the lighting and with how they were tangled together, but there looked to be able five of them based on the colours Lloyd could see: red, blue, silvery white, blackish grey, and turquoise. 

Lloyd scooted back a little as the pile began to move, tiny legs and tails and fins flailing alongside high-pitched yips, barks, and growls that were mixes of pup-like and shark-like. Some kind of... pupshark. 

The red pupshark- no, wait, sharkpup sounded better- untangled first, popping out of the pile and rolling across the ground to land at Lloyd's feet. They shook themselves off rather indigently, a cloud of smoke puffing from their mouth, before they looked up.

Amberish red eyes blinked at Lloyd. Lloyd stared back. 

The red sharkpup stumbled to their feet, standing for a moment on their hindlegs before toppling over and correcting itself on four paws. They made a series of panicked, almost concerned sounding barks, then stopped. Stared at Lloyd.

What, were they asking for a response? Lloyd just stared at them back, then gave a little shrug. This was apparently the wrong- or maybe right, who knows- thing to do, because the sharkpup started yipping at him again. 

Before they could get far, a very high-pitched yelp sounded out. Lloyd rubbed at his ringing ears and looked over at the piles to see that one of the pups- the greyish black one, probably- had stepped on the tail of the blue one as they'd tried to shove each other off and untangle. The blue sharkpup was making a series of yips and barks so fast Lloyd could barely keep up.

Then there was a pause. A stretch of silence. One slow bark from the greyish black pup, almost like a question. And then the blue pup started yelping and yipping like someone had set their tail on fire or something. Something about it was strangely familiar. 

The red pup started to bark and growl, turning their head. They cut themselves off with a higher yelp, staring at the pile as if, like Lloyd,  they'd never seen a sharkpup before. The blue pup snapped their gaze to the red pup, paused, then continued to bark their head off. 

The turquoise and silvery white pups had untangled themselves now. The former looked down at their paws, holding one out and flipping it back and forth. The latter looked- well, almost mechanical in the light, and had the strangest expression of pure bafflement on their face. The greyish black pup let out a couple of sharp barks, the fin on their head flicking, and the blue pup began to quiet down. The red pup barked something out. 

Then, like something out of a horror film, all five pups turned to look at Lloyd. Lloyd leaned back instinctively. "Uh..."

All four pups from the pile made a single bark as one, a noise Lloyd could have sworn sounded like his name but not quite, and scrambled toward him. Lloyd flailed back and the red pup stopped the others, though a couple of them tripped and tumbled and didn’t stop right away, as if they weren’t used to their own paws. Who knows, maybe they weren’t. Lloyd didn’t know sharkpup biology. 

Great, now all the pups were looking at him expectingly. Lloyd swallowed and wiped his face with the sleeve of his black hoodie. “Uhhh…”

The red pup took a hesitant step forward, then another. When Lloyd didn’t move or make any motion of running off (he was tempted to- this was too weird- but they weren’t doing anything to harm him, and they were extremely adorable), the pup placed one warm paw on Lloyd’s leg and looked at him.

Something about the look in their eyes seemed… familiar. Lloyd squinted at them, leaning forward. He could see now a bit of fur in front of the fin on their head, spiked and ruffled like-

“…Kai?”

The pup let out an excited yet relieved bark, and- oh. Oh, he was right then. This tiny red sharkpup was- 

Lloyd started to grin. He couldn’t help it, honestly. Then he started to laugh, giggling and snorting and only falling into harder laughter at the pup- no, Kai’s deadpan look. “You’re… you’re tiny!”

Kai made a sound like ‘gee thanks Lloyd, I hadn’t noticed.’

Wait, if that was Kai, then-

Lloyd looked at the other four pups. Oh. It was rather obvious. Blue, greyish black, turquoise, silvery white (even mechanical, how had he missed that). “It’s you guys, right?”

The rest of his family surged forward to tackle him and Lloyd laughed again, less out of a joke and more in comfort. He hugged all of them tight as they fought to pile onto his chest and knock him over- he had been kidnapped by his dad before all this, after all, and they were rescuing him when the wish had been made. “Guys, stop it, I’m ticklish, get off!”

Zane complied, giving Lloyd a look that just screamed ‘I apologize for this gaggle of idiots’ when the others refused to follow Lloyd’s demands. Whatever. Lloyd was just happy he wasn’t alone here, even if his family had been turned into, uh… shark pups. Tiny adorable sharkpups, and holy FSM was he going to tease all of them about this. 

He was about to make one of those teasing jokes when a voice down the street cut him off; “H-heh, c’mon. L-let’s talk this out.”

Lloyd instantly quieted and turned his head, five pairs of eyes looking around him to follow suit. That sounded like it came from an alleyway. 

It sounded like it came from someone in trouble. 

Lloyd stood, the others hopping off his chest instantly. He wobbled for a moment, a little woozy from the wish sending him to wherever this place was, then corrected his balance and pulled up his hood.

“We gotta go help them!”

SHARK PUP PILE :DDDD

(I did not create Sharkpup, that honor goes to @vress-shark, I highly recommend checking out their stuff, they make amazing art)

Blog Masterpost for Ninjago & SPBNR AUs, Fics, Art, Theories, Translated Comics, etc.

Art Fight: Imp-ulsive_Artist

ART COMMISSIONS OPEN

Guess who’s learning how to operate Tumblr~~~

Gonna update this with the list of fics for easy access around my blog because I only learned today how to add the ‘read more’ button to reduce the insanely long posts when scrolling. 

You can also find things through the tags “Imp’s Writing”, “Imp’s Theories”, "Imp's AUs", “Imp’s Art”, and "Translated Ninjago Comics" (for the translated magazine comics)

Under the "keep reading" is easy-access links to all my stuff :D

Ninjago Magazine Comics Translated

Issue 85, Post-Seabound -- The Sea Monster

Issue 98, Post-Crystalized -- The Kidnapping

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General Ninjago Theories, Challenges, and AUs

The Fuchsia Ninja Theory (Movie Headcanon/Theory)

Fuchsia Ninja Pt. 2

What’s the Deal with Chen the Cheerleader? A TLNM Theory

Timeline Shuffle AU Challenge

Ninjago Focus Season Shuffle Challenge!

Vessel AU (Crystalized AU)

Other Emperors AU

Other Emperors AU 2 (Kai-Focus)

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General Ninjago Analysis, Headcanons, and Ideas

Name Lingistics Headcanons

Show vs. Movie Ninja Analysis

5 vs. 1 Ninja Analysis

Jay's a Cockroach Analysis

Jay's Powers Analysis

Lack of Elemental Dragons Analysis

Other Enemy Options

Other Enemy Options Pt. 2

The Nindroid Obsession with Tits-Out

"Ninja are Cryptids" Rumours (Headcanon)

Dragon's Rising Merge

Movieverse!Bruiseshipping Hcs

Bizarro Ninja Name Hcs

Red & Green Duo Poll Tournament Ninjago Sweep (Art)

Ninjago Fic Rec Week Day 1 - Canon &/or Lloyd

Ninjago Fic Rec Week Day 2 - Movieverse, AUs, &/or Jay

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General Ninjago (Show or Movie) Snippets

A Flipped Scar (Movie)

Movie!Ice Emperor Zane

Icedcoffee Prompt (m!Kai x s!Zane)

Kai Prompt (Show)

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Evil Ninjaforce AU

Evil Dorksquad (Art & Explanation)

Wu & Koko (Ask)

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Dorksquad Forced to be Evil AU

m!Kai of the Fire Snakes (Art)

m!Nya of the Wojira Cult (Art)

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Movieverse Detroit: Become Human AU

The Original Summary

More Rambles

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SPBNR (Same People But Not Really) Ninjago Snippets

Slip of the Tongue

Lava Fall (Old)

Lava Fall (Remastered)

The Great Camping Incident, AKA Why to Never Take Smith Camping Again

The Start of Smith ‘Shark-Pup’ Forge

The Beginning of Heatstroke, AKA Red’s Villain Origin Story

Shattered Dreams & Broken Phones (Smith Garmadon AU)

A Tiny Spark Can Lead to a Roaring Flame (But Flames Can Always Be Doused by Water) (Reverse Thanos Snap AU) Pt. 1, 3, and 4

Same Bugs (SPBNR Hollow Knight AU)

Fire Spirit (Fs! AU)

A Pair of Sunglasses (Aki/Bizarro AU)

First Arrival (Monty + Shark Pack AU)

The Great B-A-T-H Incident (Monty + Shark Pack AU)

That Time At Least Four Kais Met (SPBNR & tGiAG Kaiverse Crossover)

That Time At Least Four Kais Met (Podfic)

One Wrong Word (Calypso AU)

Watch Your Mouth (Cryptid AU)

Hush Now (Cryptid AU)

Red-Eyed Rival (Love Rival AU)

Green Gets Kidnapped (Prompt)

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Other Snippets for Other Ninjago Creators

Twig-Sprigs' Ninjago Sonic AU

demm-210's Morro & Kai Drawing

galaxyhanart's Cabinet Man AU

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My Ninjago OCs

Jayden (movie!Bizarro Jay & an Oni)

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Art of my OCs/AUs by Myself & Others

Dimitri (Mer AU) by angeldrawsstuff

Shiro (Mer AU) by angeldrawsstuff

Bruno (Mer AU) by angeldrawsstuff

Pixal (Mer AU) by angeldrawsstuff

Evil Dorksquad AU by fishybehavior

movie!verse Mural by lavandaray

Elemental Beasts AU Cyan/Nya by drawnasour-ray

Elemental Beasts AU Chen the Cheerleader by angeldrawsstuff

Kaigami (Secret Summer) by ammo0648

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Not Ninjago

Art Fight

Ace (OC)

Fire Spirit

Aye look, a snippet for the Fire Spirit Smith AU for SPBNR! 

AU context: Smith is sent to the M!verse in the form of a fire spirit (sometimes a will o’ wisp, sometimes a dragon made of flames, and sometimes as a humanoid elemental form (aka himself but on fire). This eventually becomes a buddy au with M!Nya and their adventures together, but this is a concept of how their first meeting might go...

Enjoy! 

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Nya Smith was late.

Of course, it wasn't her fault. Her bike, her precious baby, wouldn't start because some absolute dirtbag had been messing with it when she'd walked out of the grocery store. She'd promptly kicked their sorry behind into next week, but the damage had already been done, and it had taken her nearly an hour longer to get home. 

Luckily she'd had the foresight to call her brother, or else she would see the Fire Mech tearing frantically through the streets.

Though, judging by the column of smoke she spotted while driving her now-functioning bike, perhaps that was still an option.

Wheels skidding over concrete and asphalt, Nya pulled her bike over to what should have been a normal alleyway, if it wasn't engulfed in flames. One hand was already reaching for the backup hydro-pump she'd strapped to her bike, the other grabbing the tools to hook it up to a nearby fire hydrant. 

Before she could get far in her attempts to put it out, she spotted something. There was a distinct lump laying in the centre of the alley currently engulfed with flames.

Correction: there was a person lying in the centre of the flames.

There was a person lying in the centre of the flames.

...

OH FSM, THERE WAS A PERSON LYING IN THE CENTRE OF THE FLAMES!

Nya connected her hydro to the hydrant faster than any training attempt she'd practiced. The pressure wasn't strong, nor did a lot of water come out; more like a faulty garden hose than a genuine fire hose, but it was better than nothing. She used it to put out the flames blocking her from entering the alleyway, struggling toward the person that was starting to move.

She was about to wake them up with a splash of water when she realized they weren't on fire... it was like they were made of it.

The person(?) sat up, blinking, before staring at their hands and screaming. Nya screamed in response, which prompted the person(?) to whip around and scream again.

"WHY ARE YOU ON FIRE?!" Nya yelled, still holding the hydro.

"I DON'T KNOW!" The person(?) yelled back, stumbling to their feet. "I'M USUALLY FIREPROOF BUT NOT THIS MUCH!"

Nya was about to yell back 'WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN???' when her hand slipped, splashing water over the person's foot. They leaped back with a startled hiss of pain, wisps of steam forming from where the water contacted them. 

Nya jerked back, focusing the hydro back on the alleyway. Her mind reeled with apologies, but the person shot them down immediately with a rushed "I'm okay!"

One eyebrow raised, Nya shot them an incredulous look. "You're okay. You're on fire- no, made of fire, but you're okay."

"...Yes?" The person rubbed a hand over their face. "No...? I don't know, I don't know anything, where-" Their tone grew more panicked. "Where am I? What's going on? Who-"

"Whoa, whoa, take a breather!" Nya eyed the alleyway floor, where flames licked at newspapers and trash bags and flared at the person's panic. "You're in Ninjago City, I'm not sure what's going on but I can, I don't know, help you figure it out or whatever as long as you aren't here to hurt anyone-"

She winced as hurt instantly flashed across the person's face. Okay, poor choice of words. "Here. We started on the wrong foot. Uh," she glanced at the fire making up the person's right foot, where she'd accidentally splashed them. "Literally. I'm Nya Smith."

That definitely got the person's attention. All the fire in the alleyway suddenly puffed out, leaving just a circle of embers around the person's feet. Without the haze of heat, their form was more visible; they looked to be about her age (if weird made of fire people could be teens), 'hair' spiky with jagged flames. 

"Nya...?" 

They stared at her a moment before their face morphed into a mixture of confusion and joy. "Oh FSM, am I glad to see you. Look, Garm did some crazy thing with the megaweapon, and now I'm on fire but don't panic! It doesn't hurt! A-and we can figure it out. How's Green Bean? Is he hurt? Did the snakes get him? Where's-"

Nya cut them off, a tad defensive as she clamped down on her bewilderment. "What are you talking about?"

The person put their hands to their chest, pointing to themselves. "Nya, it's me! Kai!"

...

WHAT.

Nya took a step back. "No, no, my brother is at home. You're... you're..."

The person's face crumbled with such intensity that guilt bit at Nya's throat. She swallowed hard and pulled out her phone, dialling home. "Come on, come on, pick up..."

"Nya," the person begged. "It's me! Your brother! Please, you gotta believe me. It's the megaweapon's doing-!"

"I've never heard of a megaweapon!" Nya countered, voice hitching as the phone pressed to her ear beeped in voice mail. Whazzup, you've reached the home of Kai Smith, leave a message after the FIYAH!

She had never been so panicked to hear that old dare recording. 

"I don't know who you are, but my brother isn't picking up his phone, and-"

Now it was the person's turn to look bewildered. "Phone? Nya, I don't have a phone. I have the comms, sure, but not a phone. What..." Flames erupted at their feet, growing more agitated. "What did that stupid wish do?"

Nya dialled the phone number again. "I don't know about any wish. But my brother is at home, pretending to study."

"Study? You mean train?"

Nya's gaze hardened, her mood drained even further by the second repeat of that blasted voicemail. She didn't like how that wording implied that... that this person knew about the Ninjaforce. "I meant studying. For school."

At that the person balked. "School? I- Nya, please, it's me, Kai. I don't know what's going on, or what the wish is making you believe, but it's me. Please, sis, you gotta believe me.”

Nya shook her head in denial. "The smoke is messing with your head or something. I'm not-"

"The skeleton kidnapping at our shop. The monastery. The fire temple. The Serpentine. Samurai X. The Fangblades. The Great Devourer. The megaweapon. Come on, sis, you gotta remember something. Please. Garmadon-"

"What about him, huh? Were you sent by him?"

The person jerked back as if they'd been shocked. "No! Nya, he kidnapped me while I was training with Lloyd-"

"You don't- My brother doesn't have training with Lloyd today! Or yesterday! I'm not stupid-"

"No, that's not what- URGH!" The flames roared and slammed into the alleyway walls. Nya backed up, clutching the hydro-pump. "Garmadon used the megaweapon against me! Said he was... I don't know, sending me to a place where I wouldn't pose a threat to his plans or whatever."

Nya hesitated. "Garmadon has a megaweapon? That's impossible, he would have won by now if he-"

"It can't be used to wish harm on others directly. And it drains his energy or whatever. The pirates, the evil doubles, saving the dojo with the Ninjaball run? Any of that ringing a bell? Please?"

It almost hurt to shake her head, the pleaded tone in the person's voice heart-wrenching. It wasn't hard to picture her brother using that tone in this kind of situation. And- and he wasn't answering his phone...

"It doesn't," Nya said slowly. She lowered the hydro-pump. "But… I want you to explain."

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Oh, and don’t worry! Red’s fine! ...probably. Maybe. Not necessarily.

:3

This but replace ‘show’ with ‘SPBNR’ 

Absolutely!

Please reblog if you think that “they/them/theirs” is a valid set of pronouns.

Of course they are

* whispered * I have created the crossover I wanted to see in the world

And it only took, uh... 14+ Kais, MK, and Elias from Slugterra (don’t ask, long story)!

Oh, and for those curious:

That Time At Least Four Kais Met

So uhhh I was thinking about how cool a crossover between @sunnylighter ’s awesome fic series ‘The Grass is Always Greener’ and @kittydemon9000 ’s amazing fic ‘Same People But Not Really’ would be and then I realized that the Kaiverse AU exists so… uh…

I guess the moral of the story is ‘be the crossover you wanna see in the world’?

Smith: Show!Kai (SPBNR)

Red: Movie!Kai (SPBNR)

Spike: Show!Kai (GiAG)

Buddy: Movie!Kai (GiAG)

Aki: Show!BizarroEvilCloneKai

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This day had officially gone weird, and there was one thing Buddy thought he was familiar with, it was weird.

Buddy knew the multiverse existed. The proof of it was walking next to him on Garmadon’s volcanic island after one of their shared body-guarding classes. If you would have told him he’d be taking security classes from Lord Garmadon with an alternative version a week before Lil’Loyd had crash-landed in their realm, he would have first laughed and then offered you a hug to see if you were alright. 

And yet, here he was.

Spike was just explaining to him that one move he hadn’t managed to figure out in class when a portal ripped into existence in front of them. Now, that wasn’t actually that uncommon; between the Ultra Dragon and Meowthra, travel between the two realms was remarkably smooth. The unusual part about this specific portal, however, was how much smaller it was compared to when one of the two giant creatures travelled. 

A figure flew out of the portal, stumbling in the sand before regaining his balance He slammed into Spike, shoving Buddy’s counterpart out of the way with a sharp growl and taking off in a sprint in a random direction Buddy recognized as the way to the underwater glass tunnel connecting the volcano and Ninjago City. 

Buddy stood there blinking as Spike yelled after the figure. For a moment he could have sworn the mysterious newcomer had looked a little like Spike, but with glowing red eyes and a paler, almost washed-out look to him. 

But before he could get far in his train of thought, the portal rippled with new shapes, and Buddy’s brain promptly stuttered to a halt.

The first thing he recognized was a dragon- a big, red, freaking dragon that was NOT Ultra, with multiple people riding on their head and back. The second was that there was some kind of knight, and some kid that looked like the Kai-version of Lil’Loyd, and someone that vaguely resembled an Oni from that one book Buddy had read, and a guy with a headband and staff that Buddy had the strangest feeling he should recognize, and some bewildered guy that looked vastly different from the rest of the group and had some kind of… slug slinger? , and-

The dragon skidded to a halt, promptly launching one of the people off their head. The person catapulted into the sand- or, well, he would have, had Buddy not been standing in the way.

When the sand and dust cleared from his eyes, Buddy found himself staring into the eyes of… himself? And not in the ‘this guy is like Spike’ way, but in the ‘genuinely looks like me with the scar on the same side and hair styled like a really cool flame (NOT A BUNCH OF BANANAS, SERIOUSLY, NICK JAY?). The doppelgänger sat up with a groan, then looked down at Buddy. His face split with a wide smile.

“No way! Finally a Kai that looks like me and not Smith! You- are a Kai, right?”

Buddy nodded, too stunned to speak as he noticed that the rest of the entourage looked much too similar to him and Spike (mostly Spike, honestly) to be coincidence.

The doppel Buddy whooped and pumped one fist in the air. “Yes! I’m not the only one who knew this hairstyle was fire! Smith, hey Smith!” He craned his neck to look at another Spike-like Kai climbing off the dragon and hurrying over. “This realm’s Kai is like me!”

Smith- oh, like Kai Smith, clever- stared at Spike, who stared back. “Red? I think there might be two Kais in this realm.”

Red- for the red ninja, also clever- looked over at Spike and deflated in excitement slightly before shaking it off. “Still cool! They’re like us!” He turned back to Buddy. “Hi, I’m Kai Smith, so are most of them behind me, call me Red!”

Buddy sat up, starting to grin. He couldn’t help it, honestly. When it came to multiverse shenanigans, he’d learned to roll with it. “Kai Smith, but you can call me Buddy. That’s also Kai, but you can call him Spike.”

Red snorted. “The hair, right? Smith’s is the same.”

“It’s not that bad!” Spike protested. Smith just looked resigned. 

Red helped Buddy up. “Sorry about crashing into you. It’s a little hard holding onto Drake’s - he’s another Kai, by the way- horns when he hits the breaks. Mer and MK have gotten flung off once or twice. Elias got flung on when we crashed through his dimension for a few seconds and accidentally dragged him along- he’s not exactly a Kai, but we had him fill out the checklist and it lines up.”

“The checklist?” Buddy asked, only really registering the last part of that sentence.

Smith was the one to speak up this time. “Some kind of connection to fire, spiky-ish hair, a found family, pushing aside your trauma and insecurities for the sake of protecting the people you care about- don’t scowl, Spike, we compartmentalize and you know it, it’s not healthy-“

“He’s a hypocrite,” Red whispered to Buddy. “He gives Smith Advice™️ to everyone but himself, which is ironic, considering he technically has by giving it to me. Trust me: you got a problem, Smith can fix it.”

Spike interrupted Smith’s lecture. “Moving on, other than the obvious, who are you all and why are you here?”

Smith shot him a brief glare- they would be returning to the Smith Talk™️ later- before explaining. 

Buddy and Spike listened to a shortened story of how Smith had been wished into Red’s realm by his world’s Garmadon. The conniving lord had thought ahead about his attempts to escape and return home and had sent along an evil clone of Smith as a glorified babysitter, an arrangement neither Smith nor ‘Aki’ were happy with. When they got to that part of the story, Spike winced. “Yeah, I remember the clones. Ouch. Not a fun day of fights.”

Buddy looked at him with curiosity- he’d never had to deal with evil clones, and with the exception of Aki, neither had Red- and listened to the rest of the story. Apparently Aki had stolen Red’s world’s realm crystal and it had shattered during a fight, dragging Aki, Smith, and Red into another realm and allowing them to hop between dimensions. Smith and Red had been chasing Aki across the multiverse and gathering other Kais along the way, hence the small army.

Aki’s latest escapade had apparently led the group here, with Aki having run off after bumping into Spike. 

“He’s headed toward the tunnels.” Buddy realized at the same time Spike said, “If he makes it to Ninjago City-“

A four-letter word that Buddy would not be repeating in front of Lil’oyd rolled over the beach. All heads turned toward where the glass tunnel entrance was.

Red and Smith both took a step back in sync. “What is that??”

Buddy smiled in relief and waved to the giant demon cat that padded out of the tunnel. “That’s Meowthra! She’s friendly as long as you don’t threaten either Lloyd or point the Ultimate Weapon at the city.”

Squirming in the hold of the big cat like some disgruntled kitten was the very angry original figure who had burst out of the portal. Aki, right, that’s what Smith had called him. 

One of the other Kais (the normal looking one, like he had no elemental powers and instead had a- WAS THAT A GUN?- strapped to his belt) let out a long-suffering sigh. “I hate alternative dimensions.”

Meowthra plopped down on the beach next to the group, eyeing the dragon Kai (Drake, Buddy would later learn the name of) like she would Ultra. This squad (group? Gaggle? Flock?) of Kais better be ready to be kittened by her. It was easier once you got it through your skull that it was inevitable. 

“Well, we don’t have to worry about him getting away for now,” Spike said. “Once Meowthra grabs you, there is no escape.”

The evil clone hanging above them continued to swear and kick up a hissyfit. 

Red put one hand on his forehead to shade out the sun as he looked up. “What should we do with him?”

“How about you buttheads explain first?”

The entire group whirled around. Drake started growling, the normal-looking Kai flinched but ultimately looked tired and used to it, and the other Kais made various noises of anger and defence.

Lord Garmadon took a sip of his ‘World’s Worst Recently Remarried Dad’ mug and crossed two of his arms, unfazed. “One of you nerds better start fessing up before the press finds out and throws more fuel into the cloning theory fire.”

So yeah, all in all, a very weird day, if Buddy had to say so himself.