There was a small movement in an alleyway as a little kid started to wake up.
Nova yawned as she slowly sat up before looking around. "Wait, this isn't my room." She said, slowly getting up, and noticed that she was in some kind of alleyway. "And why does everything look so big." She questioned, leaving the alleyway, trying to see where she was.
She looked around and didn't register anything, causing her to get a little worried, so she pulled her hoodie over her head, and started walking down the street trying to find any signs of where she was and what was going on. But after walking for a while, she couldn't take it anymore. "Okay, where the fuck am I!?" She shouted out loud, causing some of the people walking by to turn and look over at her weirdly.
"Shit." Nova cursed as she hadn't paid attention to her surroundings and only now noticed the crowd around her, causing her to grow nervous. "Hey, kid, where are your parents!" shouted a person, causing her to turn around and saw that it was a cop.
"Oh hell no, I am not dealing with cops." Nova said and started running, trying to get away from the cops that were now chasing her down the streets further down the city, until she noticed the alleyway she woke up in earlier.
She quickly made her way through the alleyway, trying to lose the cops that were quickly catching up to her. "Kid! Stop running, this isn't a safe place!" The cops were shouting, but Nova just ignored them.
"Come on I need to lose these guys, if only I were a little faster I could-" She thought, but quickly lost her train of thoughts as she got some kind of speed boost, and was now running a lot faster through each alley and passing a few buildings until she was far enough away.
But now there was a new problem. "How the fuck do I stop this!" Nova shouted out in a panic until she ran into someone, causing her and the person to fall over. "Well....that worked." She thought to herself, feeling a little lightheaded from that. "Hey, what the hell kid, don't you know to watch where you are going." said a man with a grumpy voice, getting back up and was now glaring at her.
Nova looked up at the man nervously but for some reason he looked somewhat familiar, though it was a little hard to remember from the hat, to the mask and that weird thing that was covering one of his eyes.
She was snapped out of her confusion when she heard what he called her. "Hey, I'm not a kid!" She told him, narrowing her eyes at him. "I might be small, but I'm not kid small." She thought to herself.
The man looked annoyed as he placed his hands on his hips. "I don't have time for playing around with you kid, I'm busy here." He told her grumbly, clearly not wanting to waste his time with a kid.
Nova was really starting to lose it with being called a kid when she wasn't even one, until she noticed her reflection in a window and was shocked to see that she actually was a kid.
"....Fuck." she mumbled, not able to believe it. "Where did you learn that language from, kid?" The man asked with a raised eyebrow as it wasn't normal for kids to curse, not that he really cared but just found it weird.
Nova looked back at the man and only now remembered who this was. "No way that is Ronin from ninjago, I mean I've already watched all of the seasons but seeing him of all people in front of me is like-Wait did I die to fucking truck-kun and ended up in fucking ninjago!?" She shouted in her head, starting to panic, looking around and back up at Ronin a few times until she began hearing the voices of those cops from earlier.
"Shit, I thought I lost them." Nova thought to herself until she noticed Ronin was leaving, clearly from the cops. "H-hey wait up!" She shouted, running after him, trying to catch up.
"Hey, stop bothering me kid, I'm not your babysitter, and I'm not gonna have you being the reason the cops catch me." said Ronin, running down an alleyway to a ladder. "No! R-mister, please, those cops are after me too!" She shouted while following up the ladder as they were soon up on a roof of the building.
"Oh boo-hoo like I care kid, now beat it and stop following me!" He said, running and jumping from the roof of each building, trying to lose the cop and Nova, who was still trying to keep up with him. But was falling behind as she was trying to catch up to him.
"Mister, please just wait a minute would you, I can't keep up!" Nova shouted back at him. "That's the point kid now, leave me alone and go back to your parents!" He shouted while getting further away from her.
"No I can't lose him, while he isn't the best person to ask help from, I don't know my way around ninjago, and I'm not even sure what season I'm in or if this is the pilot or even before all of that. Hell, even as a kid, I'm not gonna survive a day out on my own." Nova thought to herself, worried.
"I haven't even figured out a backstory for myself, I know I can't just say I woke up in an alleyway and that I'm not even from this world. For fuck's sake, not even telling anyone that this is just a kid show." getting lost in her thought she missed a jump, screaming as she fell but kept kicking with her legs and to her surprise, she just jumped in the midair and was now going much further and closer to Ronin.
"Mister, wait up!" she shouted, clearly getting closer as he turned around and was surprised to see her catching up to him. Let alone jumping from the air, causing her to get closer. "What the fuck, kid! Are you a rabbit or something?!" Ronin shouted before seeing that he was getting closer to where he was going.
Nova kept doing what she would call double jump, it felt like her favorite game she played last night. Just more real, and it was so much fun that she started laughing, while catching up to Ronin. "Mister, please, at least hear me out." She begged, since she clearly wasn't gonna stop following him, until he had at least heard her out.
Ronin let out an annoyed sigh, knowing that he wasn't gonna get rid of her now. "Fine!" He said annoyed, getting on the last roof and stopped before turning around, crossing his arms as he looked at Nova with a raised eyebrow.
Nova landed soon on the same building and had to take a moment to catch her breath, exhausted from running and jumping so much, along with this small body of hers. After catching her breath, she looked up at him.
"Mister, please, I don't have anywhere to go. I've.....been alone most of my life, and I can't live with the cops after me." She tried explaining while just thinking on the spot on some kind of backstory.
"Listen, as sad as that may be, I'm not a babysitter nor do I care about some little kid clinging to me, I'm a busy person and I don't have time for this." Ronin told her sternly.
"Maybe I can help you with your work, or even just clean your home." Nova suggested, knowing he was a hard person to work with.
Ronin let out a hard laugh. "You help me? I don't think so, kid, I'm not running a charity here and I best work alone." He said, placing his hands on his hips, looking at her, not interested.
"Then how about we make a deal, mister?" Nova asked with a smirk growing on her face, hiding her hands behind her back. "Give me a month to prove myself that I can be of help, and if it doesn't work out, I'll leave you alone."
Knowing she had used the right word, Ronin now also had a smirk on his face. "Oh, really now, a little kid wanting to make a deal with me. Well now I think I've seen everything, but what makes you think I wanna take that deal?" He questioned, raising a brow at her.
"Well, if you don't take the deal I'm just gonna annoy you until you take it, and because I'm sure you want these keys back." Nova was holding up the keys to his airship or whatever it was called, now this actually caught his attention.
"Wait! What?! When did you take my keys, I didn't even-oh I see now, okay looks like you might not be completely useless." Ronin said a little impressed, which was very rare for him to be. "Okay, fine, but we are cutting it down to two weeks, I don't have time to waste a month, I'm a busy guy here." He said, taking the keys back from her.
"Okay I can go with two weeks....so, I'm Nova Ocean, nice to work with you mister, oh, and sorry for running into you." She said, with a big smile, hold out her hand.
Ronin rolled his eyes at her. "Well, I'm Ronin and I hope this isn't gonna be a waste of my time." He said, shaking her hand.