As soon as he had jumped out, Samurai I pressed a button, activating the thrusters before watching the Sama-craft fly away to not attract attention. Once it came across some clouds, Samurai I immediately controlled his mech to have it move to hospital. Since obviously only family was allowed to visit the archaeologist in his hospital room and couldn't pass as family since he was a person of interest, or fugitive in his opinion, Samurai I landed his mech on the rooftop before getting out, and looked at the sunrise. "The last sunrise I will probably see." He said in his normal voice instead of his computerised one. After a few seconds, Samurai I came over to the edge before going over it with his hands hanging onto it before he started climbing down or to the side, window to window, making sure he doesn't attract attention until he reach his desired room.

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The room was like any other, but Professor Nathan Boulders, who was in black silk pyjamas and eating some oatmeal for his breakfast, obviously had some family visiting as there was a vase with flowers on the bedside table, as well as some cards, one of which looked badly drawn. As soon as he had just finished, Nathan heard the window open and someone came in. He was about to press the 'Help' button, but recognised who it was. "Samurai I." He speechlessly said while the unexpected visitor closed the window.

"How are you doing, professor?" He asked in a calm, robotic voiced tone as he came over to him, managing to go into a corner where a camera wouldn't notice him.

"I'm fine, thanks to you. But, what are you doing here?"

"This is not a social visit." Nathan was confused at Samurai I's answer before he lowered his head, grabbed hold of his helmet and took it off. The moment he looked back up, the professor saw the real face of his saviour and was surprised. "I need your help." He spoke in what appeared to be his normal voice.

"You're that boy from the news. Clifton Walker."

"Yes, it's true, I am Samurai I. But before you hit that panic button and have the orderlies detain me, there is something I need from you."

"What do you want?"

"The guy that tried to kill you, he wanted the Teapot of Tyrahn, right?" Nathan nodded in reply. "What happened when you found it?"

"It was not long after your parents defeated the Pyro Vipers and returned from the Never-Realm."

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20 Years Earlier

A younger Nathan, sporting a green fedora and dressed in a blue shirt, grey khakis and black boots, walked along the Desert of Doom, sighing at his empty canteen before his left foot hits something. "I had gotten lost from my group that were sent to check out the pyramid where the Vipers came from." Nathan knelt down to brush away what he had hit before discovering it was a brass teapot. "As I walked aimlessly, I found the teapot in the sand. It was the famous Teapot of Tyrahn that housed the infamous pirate from over 200 years ago, Nadakhan the Djinn." He looked at it before noticing a symbol that appeared to be out of place. "I read the stories, but I was desperate, lost, and thirsty, so I thought a few wishes wouldn't hurt."

Nathan turns the part where the symbol was out of place and turned it. Once the symbol was in its correct spot, orange smog immediately came out as Nathan looked on before his hat came off, but he didn't care, as the smog formed a figure with orange skin, four arms, one hand of which was replaced with a hook, no legs as he just had a stream of smog where they should be, and in pirate attire. He then turned around to look at the surprised archaeologist. "Nadakhan the Djinn." He said.

"I see you have heard of me." The infamous Djinn replied. "Tell me, where are we?"

"The Desert of Doom, but I am lost."

"And I suppose you want wishes to find your way?" Nathan nods. "Be warned. You cannot wish for love, death, and most certainly, more wishes."

"My first wish, is for some water." He holds up his canteen as gold specks appear around him and float up.

"Your wish is yours to keep." Gold specks appear around the canteen and float up. Nathan soon took a big sip of it, sighing in relief. "I suppose your second wish is for the location of your colleagues."

"That is my second wish."

"Your wish is yours to keep." He holds his hands out, and before he knew it, they were close to a group of men and women, who were surprised at the sudden appearance of their missing colleague and a Djinn. "What is your final wish? Remember, it is important."

"I'm sorry to do this. But... I wish... you away." Nadakhan was shocked when he heard the words before he soon glowed and turned into an orange speck before it goes into the teapot.

Nathan then turned the symbol back into being incomplete. "After that, we called the expedition off, saying the teapot was a more better find."

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Present

"We took the teapot to Cyrus Borg, who told us that he will have his best scientists researching it." He soon scoffed. "20 years later, I don't think he even had that damned thing researched. It's probably been sitting in that underground vault, collecting dust."

"What vault?" Cliff asked.

"The vault underneath Borg Tower."

Cliff was soon astonished at hearing the answer. "All this time, it was in the vault underneath Borg Industries?"

"Yes, among other artefacts from what I heard."

"So, if the teapot were in the wrong hands--"

"They can get anything they can wish for. Cliff, you must stop him."

"Who him?"

"Detective Xentimu."

"He did this to you?"

"Yes. I think he isn't who he said he was. When I heard him leave, he said something to himself. I think it was, 'Only one step away from reuniting with my brother.'"

"All this for his brother? But he told me that was an only child."

"Then there must be something going on about him. Please, tell your sister, and her friends."

Without replying, Cliff stood up and went to the window, ignoring the camera since his back was to it before opening the window. Putting on his helmet, Samurai I turned to the bedridden professor. "They can't." He spoke in his altered voice before he soon climbed out. Unaware to the two of them, a male nurse was listening and grinned evilly.

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In his office at the police station, Acronix, still in his Xentimu disguise, had discovered the DNA results from Cole's office while bringing in some files, and was looking at it. "So, Clifton Walker was Samurai I all along." He said as he soon closed it. "This'll be perfect." His phone then rang and he answers it. "Xentimu." He listens to the caller. "I told you not to call me on this number." He listens more. "He did?" He nods as he listened to the caller. "Underneath Borg Industries?" He listens to the caller. "How could we have been so stupid? Get everyone together. We're hitting the vault tonight." He soon put the phone down, stood up, and turned to the window. "Soon, we will have Ninjago City once I bring you back, Krux." He soon took off his wig to reveal his hair had slightly grown a little, but was still short, and removed the makeup off his face.

"I should've known your name was actually an anagram..." Cole's voice interrupted his admiration, making him turn to see Cole, who was unholstering his gun. "...Acronix Tempus."

"Oh, there is a lot more you should've known, Brookstone."

"Like how you managed to get out of that time stream?"

"How do you think?"

Cole soon realised when. "Around the same time as Wu."

"Yes."

21 Years Earlier

In the time stream, Wu strikes Krux down before Acronix grabs hold of him. "He took down my brother and he was no longer moving." Acronix said as he explained to Cole in the present.

"You'll pay, old man!" He yelled before forcing him at the controls, but Wu grabs hold of Acronix and pulled himself out of the cockpit, dragging him along.

Somewhere in Ninjago, a distortion portal appears and Wu and Acronix come out of it before landing in the middle of the Forest of Tranquility, a year from the past. "Once we landed, I saw that Wu was now a baby." Acronix looks to see Wu, who was now a baby, as he cries from being involved in the events. "I wanted to kill him for what he did to Krux." Acronix gets out a knife, turns it to face downward, grabbed hold of him and prepared to press the knife into him.

"What's that noise?" Someone in the distance was heard.

Acronix immediately dropped the knife, got up and ran further into the forest. "I would've succeeded had that woman Wu and Garmadon loved interfered." Acronix runs along the forest, briefly turning to look at path he had taken before turning back, only to hit a log and falls onto the ground. "Last thing I know, I hit my head."

Several days later, Acronix, just wearing his pants, with a bandage on his forehead, opened his eyes to see a young woman with black hair and green eyes, who comes up to him. "Do not be afraid." She said, kneeling down to him.

"I woke up to find myself with the most prettiest woman I ever met. She nursed me back to health, and we fell in love, making up the name, Scopra Xentimu, that day."

Present

"And as we were happy together, she gave me the most precious gift ever before she passed on. A daughter."

"You have a daughter?" Cole asked.

"Yes. And she is currently a close friend to a certain samurai. In fact, her only friend."

"Cliff."

"Yes. At this moment, I believe they're on their way to the vault underneath Borg Tower."

"What for?"

"The Teapot of Tyrahn. That foolish archaeologist may have not told me, but a mole at the hospital told me."

"You blew up the building?"

"Just so I can take him out of the equation. That Walker kid being there was mere coincidence had he not saved him. But now, I know where Nadakahn the Djinn is."

"What would you want with a Djinn?"

"Isn't it obvious, detective? I want to resurrect my brother and eliminate all the Elemental Masters, just like what Krux would've wanted."

Cole soon aimed his gun at him. "Well, it ain't gonna happen. Not with me and the entire NCPD in the way. Acronix Tempus, you are under arrest for fraud, attempted murder, arson, and attempted terrorism. Get your hands in the air." Acronix just smirked before he immediately grabbed his own pistol, and started firing at him.

Cole was able to turn around the corner to avoid it as officers around him got out their guns. "Shots fired!" An officer yelled.

"XENTIMU IS ACRONIX!" Cole warned the officers of the former Master of Time as they soon aim their guns at him, he holds up his hand which soon glowed green and the officers quickly fired, only for him to disappear and reappear behind them as they turn around, astonished. "He's got his powers back!"

"Not just Forward." He soon held his hand out, which glows red, and fired a red beam, hitting them all and entrapping them in red silhouettes. The Power of Stop, which formerly belonged to Krux. "But Stop as well."

He immediately took off just as the Stop effects wore off, and Cole and the officers chase after Acronix, firing at him as he ran before holding out his hand, glowing green to move forward in time, disappearing and reappearing outside, close to a squad car, gets in, and drives off as the officers kept firing at it, shooting out the back window in the process before it was out of range. "Call it in!" A nearby detective yelled. "Acronix Tempus is on the run!"

"Warn the Ninja as well!" Cole called out to the detective.