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// Harmony and Home 
// Story: My Little NinjaGo 
// by yolky206 
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	The first thing Twilight noticed when she woke up was that she was in a cage in the Ancient Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters with all of her friends waking up beside her. Her first friends were right next to her, but Lloyd, Kai, Nya, Zane, Cole, and Jay were separated by them with a cage wall. They were waking up as well. She looked through the front of the cage and saw Sensei in a cage on the opposite side of the room. She also saw a large black and gold throne pressed up against the back wall of the room with Garmadon sitting on it.
Twilight looked up and saw that there were shadow-like lights floating near the ceiling with Celestia and Luna being tied and hung there. She observed how different the room looked within..... Who knows how long? She certainly didn't know. But she did know that the decor around the place was much more sinister. Cages on chains hung from the ceiling, black and purple velvet carpets were rolled over the old stone, red banners hung from the walls, and the broken glass was replaced with stained glass that depicted wars and the darkness destroying the light.
Twilight felt herself grow numb when she saw one last change. There were weapons and torture devices hanging on the wall right above her head, sharp ends pointing down. She silently wished that the tools were ignored and that the supports holding them wouldn't break. She backed up to a corner of the cage so that in case the tools DID fall down, then her head would be as far away from them as possible.
While Twilight was backing up, she saw that her friends were just about completely awake. She pointed to where Garmadon was and then held her hoof over her mouth to tell her friends to shush. She received nods before she pointed above her head and made little shaking motions before bringer her hooves down. Overall she tried to tell her friends not to shake the cage unless they wanted to have their heads cut open.
Twilight then gathered them as close as possible (seeing as how Lloyd and his friends were separated by a barred wall) and began to whisper to them. "How are we going to get out of here?"
"Why don't we just break the cage and get out?" Suggested Rainbow.
"No, I don't think that will work." Twilight said. "When we were in our little dream-world things were generally the same as here. I can't use magic or remember too many of my studies."
"Well why don't we just slip out when we can?" Jay asked.
Twilight just glared at him and stuck her hoof against the cage, where it couldn't even squeeze through the bars.
"Oops. Sorry."
"It's fine, just next time think before making a suggestion here." Twilight told Jay. "We could get caught."
"Well, ah think we should deceive Garmadon an' any guards so they think we're gone." Applejack told them. "When the're out lookin' fer us, we'll come outta hidin' an' git ready ta defeat Garmadon."
"That's a pretty good idea." Lloyd said. "I like it."
Twilight watched all of her friends agree before speaking. "But how are we going to pull this off?"
"Well, there are rocks everywhere, right?" Applejack asked with a smile. "We gotta take a few rocks here, hide behind them, then grip onta them like ya ain't got nothin' left. If anypony lifts the rock, we jus' move and stay outta sight."
"That's a good plan." Twilight said. "Even though we aren't as strong as we used to be, I'm sure we'll be able to do something."
Twilight then dispatched their group and crawled into her corner. Garmadon didn't see them, he was currently listening to a pony give some reports, so that gave them enough time to know what to do. She saw that Lloyd and his group were already getting large stones from the walls and hiding behind them, and they were almost completely silent (seeing as how they lost their abilities). The rocks they moved barely made any noise. 'They really are Ninjas.' She thought.
When Twilight thought it was the best time, she slowly found a large stone and began to pull it out of the wall. The rocks weren't that strong in the wall due to the weather eroding to castle, but it was still pretty hard to pull out. She tried to chip away at the pebbles around her selected stone so it would be easier to get out, and it didn't help too much. She was pretty active, but she wasn't the strongest pony in Ponyville either.
Twilight wasn't getting the rock to move, so she decided to do something painful just to get it out. She lowered her head to a crack around the stone and closed her eyes before jamming her horn in it to slowly wedge the rock out. She felt small bits chip off the top of her horn, but she just bit her lower lip to hold back the pain. She slowly chipped away at the weak cement-like binding that held the wall together.
It took Twilight a couple of minutes, but she was eventually able to get the rock out of the wall and hid behind it. She looked to her left and saw that her friends were just about finished, and to the right Lloyd and his friends were already prepared. She nodded to all of her friends and watched as Kai threw a small rock to the other side of the room. It clattered against the other wall and got Garmadon's attention.
Twilight grabbed hold of her rock right when she saw Garmadon look toward their cage. She watched as he stood up and motioned for some guards to come over. The guards were carrying large axes that were made out of obsidian and gold. Their armor was also obsidian and gold, but the helm and shoes had carved rubies that looked like spikes embedded in them. All of their eyes were a bright red color and had the silver pattern over their faces, their coats were jet black, and their manes and tails were deep indigo.
Twilight moved as far out of sight as possible from Garmadon and the guards and tried to stay quiet. She heard them begin levitation spells on everything in their cage, which was when she began to loosen her grip a bit. The guards slowly rotated the large stones, so she had to climb around her stone just to stay out of sight. She had to move faster though, because the guards eventually began to rotate the rocks faster.
Time seemed to stretch on forever before the guards decided that they somehow escaped. Twilight felt her rock lowered to the ground, but just barely. She was exhausted from having to nearly run on the levitated rock. The guards sent out an alarm and ran out of the room with Garmadon following them, shutting the newly-repaired doors on the way out to try and block them from getting in or out.
Twilight got out from behind her rock and looked around. All of her friends were in front of their rocks as well and looking around the room. She looked to the left side of her cage and saw a little hook with a keychain on it. The keychain held a small, black key that radiated power. She looked to the right and saw an identical key, and radiated just as much power. She noticed that both of the hooks were connected to wires that traveled up the wall and hooked up to a contraption that held all of the weapons that were above all of their heads.
"I think I know how to get out." Twilight told everypony. "There are two keys, both connected to the weapon trap above us. I think that one of them will set off the trap while the other will set us free. I just don't know which one."
"Well why don't we just pull both of them off the hook?" Cole suggested. "The right key will hopefully deactivate the trap, and we'll be able to get out."
"That's too risky." Lloyd said to Cole. "It might not deactivate, which means lots of pain for us."
"Well what do we do?" Rainbow asked. "We can't get out without a key, and we don't know which one will get us outta here."
"The answer is neither." Sensei said from across the room, instantly grabbing the attention of everypony. "While all of you were knocked out, I grabbed the key from Garmadon before he put me in my cage. I made sure it was the right one by using it. Here, use it to stop my brother and save Equestria from certain darkness."
Twilight watched as Sensei threw the key and Zane grabbed it by sticking one of his wings threw the bars. She noticed that they key was patterned with red and indigo all over it, and it had a strange loop at the top that looked like it melted in a fire. She saw Zane hold it against the corner lock of his side of the cage and inserted it inside the lock hole, and within seconds the door opened and half of them were free. He then walked over to the other side and did the same, freeing all of them.
"Now find a way to stop Garmadon." Sensei instructed. "I'm afraid that he put no door on my cage, so you will have to stop him on your own. Good luck."
Twilight nodded and turned to her friends. "I have an idea. If Garmadon is stronger than anypony in Equestria, then the only thing stronger than living beings is the Magic of Friendship. We need to somehow get the Elements of Harmony and use them against him to end his tyranny."
"That's a great idea Twilight!" Pinkie happily agreed. "But the Elements are back in Ponyville, so how do we get them?"
'Oh yeah.' Twilight thought with sorrow. 'We can't get to them. My thoughts are horribly scattered, and I have no idea what to do.'
"Well, there is one thing." Lloyd said. "Remember Twilight's dream that we fell through? There was a strange pattern in it that resembles the pictures of the Elements of Harmony. I think there's something to do with that. There's also those lights above us, and they seem like the ones that said the strange stuff."
Twilight looked up at the shadowy lights as they descended to them. "Do you know how to stop Garmadon?" She asked the lights.
"Elements. Harmony. Twelve. Backup." The lights said.
"What does that mean?" Nya asked.
"You. Kind. Butterfly. Heart." The lights answered.
"I think they're..... ummm..... Saying that you're..... umm... Kind." Fluttershy said to Nya. "Sort of like my element."
"What about the others then?" Rarity asked the lights. "If my thinking is correct, then the others must be connected to our elements."
"Generosity. Diamond. Rock." The lights began. "Honesty. Apple. Flames. Laughter. Balloon. Lightning. Loyalty. Bolt. Ice. Magic. Spark. Tornado."
Twilight watched as the lights faded before she could ask any more questions. She turned to her friends and asked them if they understood. She received some nods, some shakes, and a couple of shrugs. She then took a sharp rock and instructed her friends to help her understand which element goes with which pony, and that she would carve their findings on the floor.

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It took a while, but they eventually figured out which pony was which Element of Harmony. Butterfly was Fluttershy, Heart was Nya, Diamond was Rarity, Rock was Cole, Apple was Applejack, Flames was Kai, Balloon was Pinkie, Lightning was Jay, Bolt was Rainbow, Ice was Zane, Spark was Twilight, and Tornado was Lloyd. The lights were basically saying that Nya was Kindness, Cole was Generosity, Kai was Honesty, Jay was Laughter, Zane was Loyalty, and Lloyd was Magic. They just had to unlock their power.
"But why are you six also Elements of Harmony?" Twilight asked. "I thought that only six ponies could wield them, so why is there another set?"
"I believe the lights already answered that question." Zane told Twilight. "They said 'backup', so I believe that we are supposed to be backup for the Elements of Harmony in case something goes wrong."
"That makes sense." Twilight said. But before she could continue speaking, the doors to the room were suddenly thrown wide open. On the other side of the doors was Garmadon, who was alone but looked extremely angry.
"I looked everywhere for you pesky Ninja and ponies, and it's about time I finished you off." Garmadon said with heavy frustration. "I should have kept all of you separate, but it's too late now. I'm forced to fight you so I can keep this world and take over Ninjago as well!"
Twilight began walking backwards when she saw Garmadon make a kusarigama appear out of nowhere and grip it with his magic. She saw the weapons above their cage and slowly stepped toward it. She noticed that her friends were keeping Garmadon busy by trying to dodge the kusarigama's chain and blade. She quickly got close to the weapons and pulled some down from their chains. There were swords, spikey nun chucks, shurikens, scythes, axes, spears, spike-tipped hammers, and even maces on her back when Garmadon looked straight at her.
Twilight knew Garmadon was going to attack her, but she held up the weapons before the kusarigama could get to her. Her efforts to defend herself were in vain though, because Garmadon used his magic to pull all of the weapons out of her grasp. The weapons were then melted into liquid steel, which dripped onto the floor useless. She then ran as fast as she could to a corner of the room before Garmadon could send the kusarigama after her. She hid behind a pillar and calmed herself down before peering out from the side to watch what was going on.
The sight in front of Twilight horrified her. Within the minute it took to calm herself down, All of her friends except Lloyd were caught in the chain from the kusarigama, but the blade was slowly headed toward him. She knew that Garmadon and Lloyd were father and son, but there wasn't a single bit of mercy from Garmadon's side. She was about to run over there and help Lloyd, but she felt herself being slowly wrapped in a chain before she could move.
"That took much longer than I hoped." Garmadon said. "But I'm afraid that any tricks you try to do are worthless. Lloyd, you know that you can't do anything about your friends, so it's time that you change sides before I have to finish you off."
"No." Lloyd told Garmadon. "I will fight for what's right, even though things seem hopeless. But even though all of my friends are trapped in the kusarigama chain, there is still hope. While we were fighting I was thinking about what our journey here was filled with. Kai, that door that was blocking our path required a secret to be revealed. You were truthful enough to tell the truth so you could show us the way. You showed that your element could show us how to get past problems, with the power of Honesty!"
It was then that an orange and red light appeared from the roof of the room. One of the shadowy lights appeared and began to shine red above Kai, who was surprised and excited at the same time.
"Nya, that huge snake was just about to eat us whole. But you learned how to understand snake body-language after fighting all of those Serpentine. You knew that although there was a high chance that it would eat us, you were nice to that snake. You all showed us the power of Kindness!"
This time the roof shined again, but with soft pink and hot pink light. The shadowy light floated over to Nya and showered her with a hot pink light before Lloyd spoke again.
"Jay, when we walked into that cockatrice statue garden and it came out to turn us to stone, I thought we were goners. But you managed to somehow stop it from using it's powers to change us, which made it run away in fear. You showed everyone that you can drive away terror with the power of laughter!"
The ceiling began to shine again, but now with light blue and dark blue. Another shadowy light appeared, and it went right above Jay's head with a bright flash of dark blue.
"Cole, you knew that we shouldn't take anything in the Diamond Dog territory because it wasn't ours. But when the Diamond Dogs came out and surrounded us, you made sure that they got their shiny rock back. But in order to satisfy their sudden need to stop us, you paid them with a treasure from your past that you didn't want to give away. You demonstrated that some problems could be solved with the power of generosity!"
Once again the ceiling shone with color, but this time purple and brown. As the purple faded another shadowy light appeared and flew above Cole while lighting him up with the color brown.
"Zane, you helped us try to cross that ravine even though the winds would have normally blown us down it. But when you fell in you tried everything in your power to get back to us, even though things probably seemed pretty hopeless to you. You managed to come back with the power of loyalty!"
For the last time the roof lit up with color. This time, it was red and white. The next shadowy light appeared and shone a white light above Zane.
"That Dad, is how we still can beat you." Lloyd said with determination. "The Elements of Harmony are the most powerful artifacts in Equestria, and the last one, the one that binds them all together, is the Element of magic!"
The last shadowy light descended toward Lloyd and lit up with a bright green color. The chains surrounding everypony in the kusarigama suddenly broke loose and cracked the blade, rendering the weapon Garmadon had useless. Kai, Nya, Jay, Cole, and Zane ran up to Lloyd while the others ran to the far side of the room, knowing what was going to happen. All of Lloyd's friends began to glow with their respective color, which then made Lloyd's eyes glow white while the rest of him green.
Twilight watched with an open jaw at the scene unfolding in front of her. The light surrounding Lloyd and his friends intensified. Colors above them began to form and create two section of the rainbow, cool colors (purple, blue, and green) on one side with warm colors (yellow, orange, and red) on the other. The two sections began to form ribbons that began to twirl around each other, eventually combining to create a large rainbow. The rainbow soared upward and arched over to Garmadon, whose red eyes were wide in fear. The rainbow began to swirl around Garmadon in a tornado of color that cut him every time it touched him.
"NOOOO!!!!" Garmadon yelled with pain before the rainbow closed in on him with a bright flash of light. It blinded everypony in the room and spread out to all corners of Equestria, purifying everypony, creature, living being, and thing back to their original state. It took nearly four minutes for the light to dim down enough so everypony could see.
"Is everypony alright?" Twilight asked as she stood up.
"Yeah, just having a little problem adjusting to the flash." Rainbow said, with agreeing nods from everypony else.
"Hey! Look at the others!" Pinkie suddenly yelled while pointing at Lloyd and his friends.
Twilight gasped when she saw the others. Kai, Nya, Jay, Cole, and Zane all had gold bracelets attached to one of their forelegs that bore a jewel symbol representing them. Kai had a red flame, Nya had a hot pink heart, Jay had a dark blue lightning bolt (not the same as Rainbow, his is sideways), Cole had a brown rock, and Zane had a white snowflake. But Lloyd's was the most interesting. Instead of a bracelet, there was a crown (not tiara) placed on his head that had a green tornado inserted in it.
Just as they were opening their eyes, Twilight walked over to them with her friends and complimented them on their new jewelry and elements. But that was when a groan was heard from Garmadon's direction, along with the sound of a pony resting beside another. She turned toward the noise to see Sensei trying to help Garmadon up, whose eyes were back to their indigo color.
"It looks like everyone is awake." Sensei said as Garmadon fully stood up. "But I do believe that there are two more ponies to help."
Twilight turned to where Sensei was pointing and saw Celestia and Luna on the ground with their eyes closed. She ran over to them and shook them gently to wake them up, and succeeded after a few seconds.
"Twilight, I knew you could do it." Celestia said softly as her eyes opened.
"No, I didn't do it." Twilight said with a smile. "Lloyd and his friends did. They are the backup Elements of Harmony, and they restored Equestria and fixed everything."
It was then that everypony walked up to Celestia and stood next to Twilight, all with smiles on their faces. Twilight showed Celestia and Luna the Backup Elements, and pretty soon one important question was asked by Jay.
"So what are we going to do now?"
"I know what we should do!" Pinkie yelled. She then took all of the boring traveling paragraphs and crumpled them up, leaving all of them at the center of Ponyville where balloons and streamers were set up. "We should have a PARTY!"

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The party lasted for the rest of the day and a majority of the night. Everypony celebrated, even Celestia, Luna, Garmadon, and Sensei. Some ponies that were talented in story writing and legend-making recorded what happened so nopony would forget the day that the Elements of Harmony doubled.
Although the party was fun and the Ninjago ponies found a place in Equestria, they still had to defend their own land and eventually stop any more plans Garmadon and/or the Serpentine had up their sleeves. Many goodbyes were exchanged before Garmadon activated the Mega-Weapon and wished them all home, leaving the Equestrians to adjust themselves back to their normal lives.