{Location: New Ninjago City museum}(Willow's POV)

"KATHERINE PAULINE MAE!" I hear my voice echo in the empty museum. Kit dashes off the second we walk in and nearly topples over priceless artifacts. "SLOW DOWN!" I catch a vase before it falls and a sculpture as it tips downward.

"THIEF!" I hear a squeaky voice accuses me as a hand takes away the things I am holding.

"I can explain." I hold still as a long mustache man puts the artifacts back in their display. I explain how my sister ran through here too fast and bumped into things like a tornado.

"I see." Dr. Saunders, as his name tag said, rubs his muststash carefully. "Where is this sister of yours?"

"Willy?" Kit leans her sweet face out from behind the wall, "Who are you talking to?"

"Kit, meet Dr. Saunders. Curator of the museum." I rub my locket nervously. Dr. Saunders seems nice, but something tells me, there's more under the surface.

"Hi." Kit smiles as her paint-stained hand almost knocks over dinosaur bones.

"Whoa."   Saunders grabs it before it falls. "What are you girls looking for today?"

"I'm looking for the science section." Kit plays with her hair. Today she has on a pink bunny shirt and magenta cargo pants that have paint splatters on them. She has her teal backpack that has plenty of boy's numbers written on it.

"It just to the left."    Saunders sounds impatient.

"Thanks." Something about the situation isn't lining up as I guide Kit away. We walk into a hallway that is semi-littered with bubble wrap and cardboard boxes.  

"What a mess." I pop a bubble as Kit pulls her bag off and pulls out a purple notebook.

"I know." Kit smiles as she opens her notebook.

"I'm getting hungry." I look for a vending machine and briefly see one as the door closes behind us. "Want anything?"

"CHEETOS!" Kit scribbles stuff in the notebook as her phone rings with a video call.

"Got it." I smile as I walk to the next room while pulling out my wallet. I slowly open the door and stand in front of the machine. Trying to decide between chips and a breakfast bar.

"I'm sorry, but you can not be in this part of the museum." I feel a medal tap on my shoulder and turn to see Zane. He looks better in person than the magazines.

"I'll be quick." A small flutter of hope holds out for his memories about me.

"As long as you stay here." Zane tilts his head like he hears someone. "Willow."

"How do you know my name?" I ask as I decide on a breakfast bar and put the money in the mouth of the machine. Please say because we fought then you joined our team. PLEASE!

"Pixel told my your name." Zane points to his head.

Oh, My hope dies as I punch in the numbers. "Wait, you've got my old boss's assistance in your head?"

"Yes. It's a long story which I do not have time for." Zane bends over and picks up the food then gives it to me like a gentleman.

"ZANE! COME OUT, COME OUT WHEREVER YOU ARE!" Lloyd chuckles as something big is lifted.

Zane must have noticed my face when I hear him, "I'm afraid that we are also available for autographs."

"Oh you think..I'm." I stutter as Zane rolls his eyes and opens the door behind me. "Going now."

I walk through the door as Zane returns to his work.

"I'm listing." Kit smiles as she reaches for her Cheetos.

I then rant like Jay. "It's like fate is taunting me with how close we are." I finish as Kit goes slacked faced and pulls out her sketchbook. "Here." I open her pencil holder and watch her work. The picture is of a burnt monastery with Wu and an unknown man fighting as a green blade falls from the sky. "What the heck is that?"

"I have no idea. But it's going to hurt Wu." Kit blinks as the drawing slows down. "I think Nelson's diseconomy project going to have to wait a while."

"I'm sure he'll understand." I go to rub her back when the clock strikes 6:00 and somehow I am teleported to the end of the hallway.

"How'd you do that?" Kit puts her things away as I walk back.

"I didn't do anything. I think time skipped somehow." I look at the clock, 6:01.

"Let's go home. Oh, great.." Kit grumbles and stuffs her notebooks in her bag but keeps her sketchbook out. "I got my hand stained again." Kit holds up her left hand, right through the middle of her middle finger and towards the pinky her hand is glowy green.

"I don't think that's paint." I finger my sword and stick carefully as we head to the exit. "Let me see." I hold her hand and try to rub it off.

"What is it?" Kit is now worried and she readjusts her bag on her shoulder.

"No idea." I stretch my senses for possible illness. "You're not sick. Did you touch anything?"

"No." Kit wiggles her hand out of mine and holds it in the sunlight. She separates her fingers and joins them back together, the green color now moves to the other half of her hand like a light switch.

"Let's get home and take a closer look. Until then, keep your hand in your pocket." I open the doors as Kit stretches with her other hand, showing off her sketchbook as I hear hurried footsteps run to us only to run into a door. I keep looking behind us as we took the long way home. I reached for my weapons with every crack step on the wooden stairs leading up to our floor.

"You ok Willy?" Kit unlocks the door as I watch for the slightest movement from the empty hallway.

"I'm ok. Just on edge. Start dinner as I lock up." I hear our door open and Kit's lightly steps to the kitchen. Kit pulls out a mac and cheese box and starts simmering the water as I lock the door with the rather lose lock our landlord gave us. Just in case, I also chain lock the door and put a chair up against the handle.

"More like paranoid." Kit stirs the pot as I watch the door from the couch.

"I'm not paranoid." I look at her as the doorbell rings. I get up slowly and look through the eyehole. Dr. Saunders look around like I was when I thought someone was following us.

"Hello?" Dr . Saunders now knocks as I undo the heavy bolt lock and move the chair.

"Dr. Saunders, what are you doing here?" I open the door slightly so he can barely see in.

"I noticed that you dropped this outside the museum. I followed you to give it back." Dr. Saunders holds up a priceless artifact that I could never buy even with all of Mister Chen's money.

"I'm sorry, that must belong to someone else." I pull back to close to the door when his foot slips in the crack and hold it open.

"Are you sure?" Dr. Saunders wedges in his free hand in the crack and undoes the chain lock.

"Very. Maybe you should try Picasso." I back up and double tap the floor. Kit nods and arms herself with the fire extinguisher.

"Oh. Silly me." Dr. Saunders comes in the door as Kit tiptoes to the wall, the fire extinguisher against her chest but ready to fire. "Hey...what um..interesting place to raise a kid."

"You can tell me about it. Over lunch. Away from here." I itch to grab my sword but don't want to start a fight. My rent is high already without damage expeditions.

"How about we talk about it over dinner." Dr. Saunders closes the door and locks the chain lock and the deadbolt. "Here?"

"I'd rather not. I've had a long day slinging noodles." I grab my sword hilt but did not summon the sword yet.

"That's a very interesting blade, Miss Mae. Fay handiwork if I'm not wrong." Dr. Saunders' mustache starts slipping. Kit nods to the window. I know what she wants.

"Good eye." I hold the handle up like art and slowly move to the window. "Let me open a window and I'll tell you how I found it."

"Why are you opening a window in the middle of winter?" Dr. Saunders' must think I am an idiot as he fixes his mustache in the open. "You should keep it closed and have the heat stay in."

"I like the cold." I ignore his advice and open the window as a breeze blows in.

"Your money." He shrugs as Kit moves into position. "Now about your child."

"I'm her sister." I correct as Kit readies the fire extinguisher.

"Easy mistake. An way, any idea who her father is? It seems like she could use a father figure."

"I think she's ok." I squint as Kit holds the funnel to his neck. "In fact, I think she'd like you out of here."

"Don't move or I pull the trigger." Kit growls as Dr. Saunders' mustache slips down again.

"Why would a child pull a trigger?" Dr. Saunders holds his hands up.

"I won't if you leave."

"Feisty. Just like your mother." Dr. Saunders grins as his mustache falls off.

"You knew my mom?" Kit makes the mistake of taking the funnel off his neck in shock. Saunders side steps and kicks the fire extensor out of her grasp.

"Yes. You look just like her. Except for your nose and chin. Those you got from me."   Saunders holds her wrists as I charge in with my sword out.

"Don't touch her." I nearly take his hands off as he lets go.

"You're Krux?" Kit vibrates behind me.

"Ta-da." Saunders pulls off his museum uniform to reveal a red armor with clock designs on it and a sole right shoulder guard. "Now, if your sister doesn't mind, I'd like to get to know you." Kruxs snaps his fingers as a few red snakes crawl in through the open window. "Get the girl."

The snakes tie themselves together and forms multi-snake women with small armor on. "Yess, ssir."

"Why'd it have to be snakes?" Kit moans as she pulls out her knife.

"Because snakes are cool!" A younger sounding Krux shouts from outside.

"They aren't." Kit argues as our food begins to burn.

"And you're not getting Kit." I swipe at the snake-lady but she keeps coming.

Krux smirks as more snakes come in, "Please, I just want to get to know you."

"Can we set up another time?" Kit plasters herself to me.

"No time like the present."  Krux counters as the snake lady gets hit with a swipe to the chest.

"HA!" I smirk and circle back to the window with Kit. Then the snakes reform together. OH, come on. Can't I ever catch a break?

"Run?" Kit steps on a snake and out the window.

"Run." I confirm as I switch my blade for my stick. Kit lands on the fire escape as I activate my glow bow and slam the window shut.

"Why run when you can teleport." A younger man that looks somewhat like Kruxs stands behind me and reaches out for a chock.

"Nope." Kit body slams him as I spin out of the way. For some reason, he has the green blade from Kit's latest vision.

"No weapons for you." I imitate Wu as I take his weapon. "How do you work this thing?" I shake the blade as snakes gather below us.

"Let me try." Kit slips her hand into the blade and holds onto me as the window opens. A second later we stand on the rooftop. "COOL!"

"GET HER!" Krux yells as Kit does it once more. Now we appeared in the hospital next to Nelson's bed.

"Where'd it go?" Kit looks at her hand as the green blade is now missing.

"Maybe it slipped off." I put my glow bow away.

"I don't like him at all Willy. How can he be my dad?" Kit asks as her eyes flash white. "He's going to do so many horrible things."

"Kitten," I get on my tiptoes to look her in the eye and hold her shoulders, "Family is the people who raised you, the people who'd fight for you. Krux is a DNA donor but you're my sister. Just like the Ninja are also your real family." Kit smiles a bit before her eyes go white and she fumbles around for something to paint with. The end result is a monster of a machine painted on Nelson wall.

"What the heck is that?" Nelson wheels in.

"I think he should know." I poke Kit as I pull out my phone to take a picture of what looked like an Iron Doom. Kit sighs as she sits on Nelson's bed and explains as I clean up.

(Kit's POV)

"So you can control the future?" Nelson looks at me like I am a different person.

"I can see it." I take a deep breath. "Only the fate writers in the Cloud Kingdom can do that."

"Why wouldn't you tell me?" Nelson looks hurt and covers my glowing hand. "I thought we were...um friends." His expression, however, says,' at the very least'.

I look down as I attempt to figure out what to say, "We are. But I didn't want to be looked at like a freak show."

"I'd never see you like that." Nelson picks my chin up as my stomach bursts with butterflies.

"So how do you see me?" I feel my cheeks get hot.

Willy then decides to cough loudly and destroy the moment. "I'd hate to interrupt but it is getting late. And we can't stay here." She smiles knowingly, promising much teasing later.

"But we can't go home either. And we can't just call up our own ninja force." I growl, I kinda wished she wasn't here. Three's a crowd.

"We can stay the night at a motel." Willy puts the bucket of drastically different paints under the sink for the nurses to get. "Something tells me that Kruxs will only pursue us."

"If you girls need a little safety," Nelson pulls out a purple ninja mask, "Just give the purple ninja a call."

I giggle, "Ok," and crawl off the bed. "When this is all over, I'll stop by for a visit."

"I'll be waiting." Nelson smiles as Willy leads me out the door and down the hall to the elevator.

{Location: Easter side of New Ninjago City/Food District}(Willow's POV) [Three days later]

"Two hot noodles, fresh off the stove." Skylor sets two colorful bowls down for us then scoots in next to me.

"Thanks." I pick up my chopsticks and the noodles slip out. "Ugg, stupid things."

"You had more practice that I have, why can't you use them?" Kit smirks and successfully picks up her noodles.

"Show off." I roll my eyes, "Thanks again for letting us crash with you."

"No problem. I happy to help." Skylor smiles and sighs.

"Long day?" Kit plays on her newest borg watch.

"You don't know the half of it." Skylor proceeds to talk about various rude customers.

"HISSSS!" Two red snake samurai kicks down the door. One of them grabs a tray full of silverware.

"HEY!" Skylor jumps out and blasts them with fire. "No taking the silverware without pay."

"Mainly because it'd come out of my paycheck." I scooch out and pull out my bow. I shoot one in the knees but the snakes in it wrap around the arrows with no damage.

"I hate snakes." Kit jumps on the table as another snake tries to take her Borg watch. Kit fends him off with her chopsticks.

"Go with the others." I recognize Acronix's voice as the snakes drop what they had, "I need to have a word with these fine ladies."

The snakes bow and leave the restaurant as Acronix pulls out a sword.

"Who the..you know what nevermind." Skylor shakes her head and uses the power of shadow and reappear behind him and kick the back of his right knee.

"I mean you no harm. My brother just wants a word with his child."   Acronix jumps away as I fire at him. Even without the time blade, he is quick as each shot misses him.

"Then why isn't he here to get me himself?" Kit drops the chopsticks and looks for another weapon.

"He is quite busy keeping Borg in line." Acronix rolls behind the conveyor belt and flips onto the table as Skylor and I fire on him.

"What are you doing with my teacher?" Kit hops off the table and tries to punch Acronix in the thigh. Unfortunately, he sees it and jumps away.

"I will tell you..if you agree to come peacefully." Acronix attempts to grab Kit with his left hand but misjudge his distance and falls onto the floor.

"I'd never..wait. Is that the new borg watch?" Kit drops her stance as she gets in my line of fire.

"Yeah, I picked it up when one of my minions raided the store on thirty-fourth street and main street. It's so cool."  Acronix puts his sword away and shows off the tech.

"I know. Did you see the heart rate monitor I programmed into it?" Kit looks at the watch with pride.

"It can track a person's heart rate?" Acronix looks at the watch.

"Yeah. See that button?" Kit walks up and starts pressing buttons.

"Plan, if I can distract him, can you teleport him far away?" I ask Skylor as I put my bow away.

"Definitely. But the furthest I can go are the southern swamps and I will be out of it when I get back." Skylor nods and turns invisible.

"I can take care of that." I smile then draw my sword.

"Check it out, you can even see how many steps you take." Kit squeals as another app is pulled up on the watch.

"That is awesome."  Acronix smiles.

"HEY!" I slam the flat of my sword on a table, "Can you geek out with the bad guy after he's in jail?"

"Oh, right." Kit drops low and elbows his stomach then back handspring to me.

"OW!"  Acronix holds his stomach as he backs up. "What the?" He stops when Skylor reappears and backs up further into a shadow then the two disappear.

"You ok?" I put my sword away and force Kit to face me.

"I'm fine. Just got a little excited." Kit nervously chuckles as Skylor reappears, she is definitely out of it as she falls over.

"I pulled it off." Skylor looks white as a sheet and wozzie.

"Easy." I walk over to her and catch her before she falls on the floor. Small waves of strength pump into her as I hear Kit stumble into a table looking for something. "There, you should be able to stand up now."

"Thanks." Skylor stands on her own then frowns. "Oh perfect."

Kit has grabbed a bunch of napkins and sauces and started to doodle a picture of the desert. Another time blade is stuck in the sand and the distance some snakes are charging in.

"This is good news." I smile as a plan clicks in my mind. "Kit can always see the time blades coming then we're one step ahead of Kruxs and Acronx."

"My head." Kit stops and holds her head. "I don't think we'll grab this on in time."

"She's right, that's the far end of the eastern sea of sand," Skylor points to the picture as the lights black out. "And now you can't even get out of the city. All the gate are on an automatic timer for if the power goes out."

"And there's a ton of snakes probably waiting for us." I play with my hair.

"We could try something else." Kit frowns at the idea as she scurries over to her bag and pulls out her art tools. "Do you think you could help me?"

"No, last time I did that I wasn't a good person." Skylor looks scared as Kit pulls out a flashlight.

I feel my eyebrows scrunch together, "What are you two talking about?"

"On the island, Skylor was forced to do this technique on me to show Chen what elementals master to bring and how to bring them to the island." Kit opens up a blank sheet and pulls out colored pencils.

"It's called forced mind. And I haven't done it in a long time." Skylor looks uncomfortable.

"It somehow forced my powers to look for more specific things." Kit hands me a flashlight.

"So we don't have to get the next time blade, but the one after." I like this plan as I click on the flashlight.

"Exactly." Kit smiles.

"I don't know if I can even do it again." Skylor takes a deep breath.

"We won't make you do anything you're uncomfortable with..however, we can't let Krux or Acronix get all four blades." I pat Skylor's back like a friend would.

"I give it a shot." Skylor smiles and walks over to Kit. She does something with a lot of raised hands then lightly taps Kit's forehead. Kit wobbles and looks around then seems satisfied with something and begins drawing. It isn't her normal lighting fast speed, it is a lot slower.

My hands go to my locket, I miss you Greenie. You would have been a real help against Acronix. I close my eyes and remember the night I discovered I was the White Rose. Maybe my memory was over-romanticizing the thought, but it seemed so sweet at the time.