[3P POV]
After deciding to retreat out of the city due to the danger the Digital Overlord possesses Theo, Garmadon, and Lloyd eventually reach the Samurai X cave in the middle of the desert; to Theo however the Overlord posed no threat to him at all in his current digital state, however he did want to protect Lloyd regardless.
Following the Falcon the 3 of them eventually arrive at the fake set of bones "The Samurai X Symbol" Lloyd says as he presses a somewhat disguised Samurai symbol engraved on the fake set of bones.
After the entrance opens up the Falcon lands on Lloyds right arm as they traverse down the stairway "Woah, how did Nya have time to build all this? Maybe I should have been a Samurai instead" Lloyd says "Remember Lloyd the power you have and your status as a Ninja is nothing to joke about, you are the chosen one afterall" Theo says "Hm, I guess so" Lloyd responds feeling quite prideful at the statement regardless
Lloyd, Garmadon, and Theo eventually reach the middle of the cave and pull down a red carpet from over it to reveal an advanced and armed buggy vehicle "Why must everything have so many weapons?" Garmadon questions "Says the man who had four arms to possess the Golden Weapons" Lloyd responds jokingly.
"Haha, I deserved that" Garmadon said partially amused by the irony; Lloyd tries to get in first "I swore off fighting, not driving" Garmadon clarifies "There isnt a seat for Theo though" Lloyd points out "Dont worry about me, ive got my own" Theo says; Garmadon and Lloyd are dumbfounded.
"You couldnt have mentioned that before?" Lloyd says "No one ever asked before" Theo answers; Garmadon and Lloyd drive out a hidden entrance before Theo summons his own vehicle using his Golden Power and drives off behind them, and over the fault.
"Where to now?" Lloyd asks "As far away as possible" Gaarmadon answers as they drive off; after a few hours they eventually stumble across a lake right next to the road, Lloyd then goes and drinks from it.
Garmadon, Lloyd, and Theo eventually spot the Mech Dragon flying through the air and after them "We need to go now!" Garmadon say at the same time; Lloyd flips in the car and Garmadon attempts to turn it on but to no avail, Lloyd then uses his power to jumpstart it.
Instead of summoning his vehicle he soars through the air using the power of wind and blasts torrents of it at the dragon to attempt to hold it in place "Woah Theo! You alright?" Lloyd shouted from a distance "Fine, but I wont be able to hold this for too long!" Theo said slightly strained.
Theo had seemingly had enough as before he could struggle further he then enhanced the element of Wind using Dragon Energy which managed to blast it back very far before being hit by an Anti-EMP Shockwave that took out all the technological power instantly taking down the Mech Dragon.
As the storm culminates and subsides Theo, Garmadon, and Lloyd walk on the depowered mechanical dragon "Do you think its safe to go back?" Lloyd asks "They may have turned off the power, but they still need to reboot the system, until we know the Overlord is gone for good we need to keep moving" Garmadon issues before walking towards the next destination.
Eventually Garmadon, Theo, and Lloyd arrive at a mountainside "Lloyd, bend over" Garmadon says "Uhm, why?" Lloyd asks "You will see" Garmadon responds and as Lloyd hunches Garmadon places a rock on his back.
"Wha- whats that for father?" Lloyd asks somewhat struggling to carry the weight of the minurature boulder "Why dosent Theo have to carry a bunch of rocks?" Lloyd asks "Because son, Theo has displayed far more mastery of the Golden Power than you have" Garmadon responds.
"Actually Sensei Garmadon, I have full mastery over the Golden Power" Theo clarifies "If I may ask Theo, how did you gain Golden Power in the first place? I thought it was reserved to my father and his descendants, excluding Wu and me of course" Garmadon asks "That is a secret, but dont worry I will explain later" Theo responds; Garmadon just smiles in acknowledgement and moves on to training Lloyd.
After a few minutes Garmadon is standing on toff of a small clifftop stacking more rocks on top of Lloyd "We underestimate the importance of balance, when its there were at peace if something is off, everything falls; Ninjago is no different: it put too much faith in technology allowing the Overlord to return, and because of your friends now the world is without power" Garmadon explains.
"When one relies on something too much, we become weak, vulnerable, inbalanced; In order to find your Full Potential and unlock your true power, you must find your own balance" Garmadon adds "Im already the Golden Ninja, how much more power do I need?" Lloyd asks.
"Youve only scratched the surface, you have the potential to move mountains, the power of the First Spinjitzu Master" Garmadon states "The Ninja destroyed the power substation essentially destroying the Overlord and his Nindroids, why cant we go back?" Lloyd asks.
"Essentially, until the Overlord is fully erased from the system we must not go back, but foward" Garmadon issues as he places a larger boulder over the smaller ones causing Lloyd to lose his hold over the other rocks; crashing down until it hit Lloyds back.
"If you cant move mountains, I gues we'll have to move over mountains" Garmadon issues as Lloyd throws off the rocks in a spin motion, though not Spinjitzu "Oh yeah?" Lloyd asks seemingly prideful "This next one looks particularly steep" Garmadon states upon looking at the range of the landmass.
Upon arriving at a broken bridge Lloyd seems to get an idea "Hey, who needs bridges when you can manifest a Golden Dragon to–" Lloyd is saying but is cut off "You rely too much on your Golden Power, let this be a lesson, center yourself and move the mountain with your mind" Garmadon instructs.
"With what, Move that? Are you kidding?" Lloyd asks confused "Its not that hard" Theo mumbles which Lloyd and Garmadon did not hear; Lloyd tries to walk off but Garmadon stops him "Find your balance, concentrate" Garmadon instructs.
Lloyd sighs before focusing and raising his hand, as he does the landmass starts to crack and shift before Lloyd takes a chunk of the mountain off one of its smaller points and attempts to reshape it into a bride, Lloyd manages to form the first part but eventually his it becomes too muchfor him and loses his focus causing the rocks to somewhat explode due to the impact.
"This is pointless! Especially when I can do–" Lloyd says but is cut off "Relax Lloyd, try it a bit like this next time" Theo says and as he does Theo focuses and relaxes his mind and moves the remaining landmass and chunk of small mountain areas with ease and manages to easily create a rock bridge formed around his Golden Power.
"Ah yes you could learn a thing or too son, maybe Theo should be the one teaching you" Garmadon says amused by Lloyds reaction; Garmadon, Theo and Lloyd move up the mountaintops.
After climbing up for almost an hour the Falcon locates the three of them but does nothing "Wish you still had four hands? It would have come in handy" Lloyd jokes "Your potential is great, not your sense of humour" Garmadon responds half-heartedly.
Lloyd chuckles "Still wont let me use the Golden Dragon?" Lloyd asks "Still wont; if you want to harness the power of the First Spinjitzu Master you must focus on your balance, find your center" Garmadon instructs.
Lloyd decides to climb up a different direction than Garmadon and Theo "Uhh, dad, Theo?" Lloyd says aside the a strange birds next "A Rapture Youngling, dont touch him, he needs to learn ti fly on his own" Garmadon says.
"Keep climbing, solwly" Garmadon instructs; the bird falls off his nest and Lloyd jumps down to catch it and he puts it back on the nest "What have you done? Its going to know someone has touched its young" Garmadon says worried.
"It? Who?" Lloyd asks; a bigger Rapture shows up and screeches from a distance "Daddy" Garmadon responds, for some reason Theo chuckled "He was gonna fall, I was trying to help" Lloyd says "Unless you speak Rapture theres no use trying to explain; Hurry we need to climb to shelter, there!" Garmadon says as he jumps down and starts climbing to the left side of the mountain.
The Rapture flys towards Lloyd but he manages to duck while the young Rapture nearly fell off the nest but Lloyd managed to cacth him before he fell "Your not gonna fall on my watch" Lloyd says to the young Rapture "Your compassion is not helping" Garmadon says.
The Rapture aims for Garmadon but to avoid it, Garmadon let go however after doing so he was falling down the mountain "Dad!" Lloyd said "I take it back, I do want my four hands!" Garmadon says struggling to hold on.
"Theo do something!" Lloyd says "Lloyd this is up to you" Theo says blandly "What do you mean, use your powers or something, hes gonna fall!" Lloyd says, Theo just dosent respond "Hes circling back!" Garmadon points out as he is then grabbed by the rapture.
"Dad! No!" Lloyd screams and attacks the Rapture with his Element of Energy causing it to drop Garmadon out of its beak "Son!" Garmadon screams as he his falling down again; In an attempt to save his father Lloyd focuses and centers himself as he reshapes the landmass to create a massive hand that cathes his father.
"You just moved mountains son" Garmadon says dumbfounded "Told you it was up to you" Theo says smiling to Lloyd; Lloyd also smiles "Yeah yeah, ill make sure to listen to you next time" Lloyd says in somewhat acknowledgment.
The young Rapture eventually falls off the small clifftop "No!" Lloyd says as he tries to reshape the mountain but before he can the young Rapture begins to fly "Looks like your not the only one whos grown up" Garmadon says jokingly.
Garmadon then jumps off the miniature mountain top-shaped hand back to the main mountain and when he does Lloyd focuses and alters the shape of the mountain to create stairs down to the other side of the mountain.
"After you" Lloyd says to Garmadon kindly before the Falcon shows up and plays a projection "Hey the Ninja have sent a message!" Lloyd said glad to hear from them "Lloyd weve got some bad news: we had a run in with a mysterious someone who found a new way to power Nindroids" Nya says through the hologram.
The hologram then switches to a seemingly crying Jay "And he turned Sensei Wu evil! He had a black beard!" Jay adds; The hologram switches back to Nya "We have a suspicion that this person may have stolen the hard drive containing the Overlord, and has reawakened him!" Nya explains.
The holograms witches to Kai "And now that the hard drive has gone missing, we cant reboot the system, our Techno Blades are useless!" Kai adds; the hologram switches back to Nya "But the stranger left a clue, a white scale; thats right we think it may be Serpentine!" Nya says as the hologram shows a digital picture of the scale.
"Were headed to New Ninjago City to get to the bottom of this, we thought you should know so you can keep your distance, hope your faring better than we are, we'll stay in contact if we learn anything new! Over and out" Nya explains as the hologram dissipates.
"Serpentine?" Lloyd asks "We must not go back, but forward: Hiroshi's Labyrinth, miles of Jungle so dense all who enter are never found, we must not rest" Garmadon issues "Okay, lets get lost!" Lloyd says somewhat optimistic as they walk down the mountainside.
After another few hours of walking down from the mountain and traversing Hiroshi's Labyrinth Garmadon, Theo, and Lloyd finally get closer to the center of the jungle "How anyone got through this jungle is beyond me" Lloyd says presumably exhausted.
"Hiroshi's Labyrinth, legend says no one has ever escaped its deadly maze except for Hiroshi himself, but the maze is no match for your or Theo's powers; this is the perfect place to hide from the Overlords clutches" Garmadon states.
"Hide, thats all I ever seem to do!" Lloyd says disappointed "Your and Theo's Golden Power only strengthens his cause, we must not lose sight!" Garmadon issues "But I miss my friends, what good is being All Powerful if I cant ever have any fun?" Lloyd asks.
"Lloyd trust me on this, as I have thousands of years of experience: Golden Power is not something to be taken lightly, while at times it can be fun wielding that power; Our duties when wielding such power stretch far beyond conventional entertainment" Theo explains.
"You should listen to him Lloyd; The Golden Power needs to be protected, honored evil forces will seek it, try to take it for their own: it seduces, even your friends may one day covet it, aside from Theo of course" Garmadon explains.
"My friends would never hurt me!" Lloyd states "He who holds the power, has a tremendous obligation, you must be prepared to handle this journey alone, something which Theo has gone through to gain such control over the Golden Power himself; even without me one day" Garmadon states.
"Yeah I know" Lloyd says sadly "Keep your chin up son, legend also states there is a jewel inside the maze: The most beautiful oasis no one has ever seen before, perhaps we will be the first" Garmadon adds.
After walking for a few more minutes they eventually reach their destination; a beautiful lakeside and small waterfall right in the heart of the jungle "The jewel of the labyrinth Its–" Garmadon says upon looking at the peaceful area; he is cut off.
"The most beautiful thing ive ever seen" Lloyd says in awe "Yes, beauty can be born even in darkness" Garmadon says presumably due to his own experience; revving sounds can be heard as the nearby trees are cut down "They found you two, you must both leave, go!" Garmadon issues to Theo and Lloyd.
"I said leave!" Garmadon repeats as Theo and Lloyd run off up the side of the waterfall; Upon reaching the top Lloyd and Theo are surrounded by Nindroids, despite this Lloyd smiles and activates his power "No! Trust in the balance!" Garmadon says, but instead of using his Golden Power to fight he summons his own green motorcycle and drives off.
Theo then uses the Element of Wind to fly and follow Lloyd through the jungle; despite getting chased by Nindroids Theo manages to stop them all before Lloyd pulls up at the edge of the jungles cliff.
Waiting there for a few moments the Cyber Dragon shows up in front of Lloyd and Theo "Dad!" Lloyd calls out "Go Lloyd and Theo! And never look back!" Garmadon responds "Leave and your father falls" the Overlord states through the Cyber Dragon Lloyd evaporates his vehicle and charges up an attack with the Golden Power.
A strange figure in the background releases two Electrocobrai the almost the size of the human body but this dosent slip past Theo "Not on my watch Pythor" he says as he evaporates the two cobrai with Destruction "Pythor?" Lloyd mumbles.
"No! NOOO!!" The Overlord screams in frustration as he loses the only two things in his arsenal that could restrain their Golden Power "And also, I would like to propose a third option" Theo states grinning.
Theo's hands glow bright blue as he slows down all 16 realms, the entire universe came to a near halt "Like this Overlord? Learned this trick from a friend far far from here" Theo says remembering Akira; Theo jumped up onto the Cyber Dragon and took Garmadon from Cyber Wu's hold.
Theo then stops the time deceleration relative to Garmadon and Lloyd "We need to go, that should hold them for a few hours" Theo says "A few hours?" Lloyd asks dumbfounded "Dosent matter, We need to leave" Theo repeats.
"But how?" Garmadon asks "Like this" As Theo says that he summons a giant vehicle using his Golden Power "Is this the power of Creation? I havent seen this since–" Garmadon says remembering his father but is cut off "Not exactly Creation, still the Golden Power but maybe Ill use that another time though" Theo clarifies.
As they board the vehicle they instantly fly off in it and dont even consider looking back; in this Timeline Lloyd had fully retained his Golden Power and the Ninja already had their powers activated, meaning that this changes things, a LOT of things.