#Heck I'ma end up writing this aren't I

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

If Show Kai appeared in the Movieverse he would 100000% adopt the ninja and throw hands with anyone who even looks at Lloyd wrong. But also, the movie ninja realize his lack of childhood and try to give Kai the best teen hood they can

OKAY, EXCUSE ME, I DON’T THINK YOU UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS CONCEPT SKLDMAWOIEJKLSDFMAWEFIASF THIS IDEA IS CONSUMING FASTER THAN FLAMES EATING UP BONE DRY TREE BARK--

This got stupidly (amazingly >:P) long so I’ma just throw it under the cut slim;ASLIDFMAWEF

AU where Kai gets sucked through a portal (realm crystal probably) and dropped into the movie-verse and he runs into the ninja who were sent to investigate the anomaly, and he’s just: “What’s with these sassy lost children?” and immediately adopts them all, his big bro instincts turning up to eleven the moment Lloyd starts talking.

Is it weird that they’re technically alternate versions of him and his family? Pfft, he’s seen weirder, it’s certainly not gonna let that stop him from looking after them.

Kai’s the kind of character who’s like, the most reckless chaotic guy in the world when he has no responsibilities, he just yeets the brain cell and goes feral, but when he’s got younger siblings to look after he’s immediately the only one with a braincell and goes full big bro/dad mode so he can look after everybody, though he’s mellowed out a bit since the pilot episodes, so he can be chaotically him while still being marginally responsible and looking after people. So he kinda turns into the... cool older brother who will break into amusement parks after dark with you, but also insist on the buddy system while there slkdfmaweof

He doesn’t have the realm crystal with him, (due to some reason I don’t need to think up (yet) because I’m just here for the character dynamics,) so he’s kinda stuck there until his team comes to pick him up. The Movieverse ninja take him to Wu at his request so they can figure things out.

Kai: Do you guys have a Wu? He’s probably crazy enough in any realm to know what to do

Movie!Nya: We got a Wu

Kai: FANTASTIC, LETS GO SEE THE CRAZY OLD BAT--

Wu does indeed know a little of what’s going on, but also knows there’s no way to get him home unless the others on the other side come for him, but he says he’ll start looking for a way back for him anyways, cause there are bound to be portals somewhere somehow. In the meantime Kai needs somewhere to stay and so he ends up in Lloyd and Koko’s apartment with a sleeping bag and feeling a little out of his element, but he’s nothing if not adaptable after the life he’s lived, so he just takes it in stride and gets ready to hunker down until his family comes to get him.

(I have no idea when this is set, whether before or during or after the movie, probably after actually, but I dunno skdmfawoeifmd)

Anyway, so Lloyd asks him a ton of questions and Koko just… accepts the whole situation (she’s seen weirder, she literally married a part-oni warlord, an alternate version of one of her son’s friends isn’t that far fetched) and is perfectly alright with Kai staying with them.

Say this is after the movie, Garmadon still lives in his volcano but he’s invited over for dinner on weekends so Lloyd can see him (he’s still a bit of a ways away from moving in with them and “we’re not going to live in a volcano Garm, it’ll damage our lungs--”) which is hilarious because in the drama of Kai showing up they kinda forget about it and he shows up to the apartment and he and Kai stare at each other for a second, Garmadon with a wrapped plate of dessert and Kai with a forkful of instant noodles he’d made earlier half-way to his mouth until Lloyd goes to hug his dad hello.

Movie!Garmadon: Lloyd, did your brown banana haired friend go on a long life-changing field trip that gave him a better haircut, darker tan, two extra feet of height, and a scar?

Kai: Hey, who you calling banana hair ya charred potato

Movie!Garmadon: …

Movie!Garmadon: *busts out in full evil cackle* I LIKE HIM!

Anyway, yeah, so that’s fine. They explain the situation and Garmadon just nods along like he’s heard it all before (he most certainly has not) and Kai finishes his noodles.

Alright, so, remember when I mentioned Kai being adaptable? Yeah, well… he’s not that adaptable. He’s used to having something to… fight. To push his weight against and attack so that he can fight his way to get what he wants or save people, and now… there’s nothing to fight against or put his energy into, he just has to wait and it’s driving him absolutely insane. He spends a lot of time with Wu at the warehouse discussing his options, and he’s a little weirder than their Wu, but not in a bad way, just in a… slightly more eccentric, but in a well-meaning, gremlin old man kind of way, and he at least lets him feel like he’s doing something.

Lloyd notices pretty quick, he’s rather observant in any realm/reality/dimension and so he gets his friends together and they agree to drag Kai out of the warehouse and show him around the city after school--which Kai isn’t too sure about at first, but, heck, it’s something to do alright, might as well-- (and it does give him a chance to check up on the group he’s subconsciously adopted) so off they go!

Kai’s still restless most of the evening, and they ask  him about it and Kai confesses that he’s not used to just… chillin, especially when there’s something that’s happening elsewhere, which leads to a whole lot of other questions about his realm. Kai’s hesitant to answer at first, until he remembers that it isn’t an alternate timeline or whatever so he won’t mess anything up by telling them stuff and promptly spends the rest of the evening telling them every cool thing he’s ever done.

He also… inadvertently takes over as leader a little bit? Only kind of though. It’s more of just follow the cool guy and maybe the cool will rub off or he’ll acknowledge us kind of lead tho skdfmawoef He’s the oldest, and also the better fighter, and they all just think he’s really cool, so they kinda follow him around with stars in their eyes, like lost puppies, including Lloyd, who’s never really had someone who’s older than him, but also close to his age, while sharing a lot of experiences, and for real, Kai’s really freaking cool, so like, I’d be following him around too LOL. But Lloyd’s really funny because he goes from kinda… cool distant leader to stumbling around after him and asking him excitedly if he can show him that cool move back there--slkdmfaoKLDASFMAOWF

Kai just thinks it’s kinda funny and doesn’t actually realize it’s distracting him from his restlessness, but it does lol. He’s 100% okay with teaching them how to fight a little better, and how to harness their elemental powers too. He’s got all kinds of tips that he and his fam have learned over the years that he’s happy to share. Movie!Kai is easier to teach cause he knows himself pretty well, even if he’s an energetic ADHD crazy person who has no volume control whatsoever in this universe skfawoefmasdf

Movie!Kai: *stims*

Kai: Freaking excellent, you funky gremlin. You’re doing perfect, keep it up

Even though they're from another realm/reality/universe(or whatever skldmfaw) They’re very much still versions of him and his family, and he gets bonding moments with all of them where he encourages them to be themselves and to grow and become more confident. There’s a really fluffy moment between him and Movie!Jay because he’s really shy and stammery and Kai just smiles at him really fondly and tells him he’s really smart and ;A; Yeah. lsakmdfawoiefsdf Everybody gets a moment with Big Bro Kai encouraging them and learning something from him (and maybe him from them too) and it’s all verY FLUFFY *sobs*

Kai actually ends up telling them a lot of stuff that he’s never told his own family, things he’s thought, but never actually voiced, and they could all use a little praise so he never fails to let them know just how cool they are in their own ways, cause he can.

You know what, let’s just go through them all.

He encourages Jay to be smart and make things and be confident with what he has to say, because what he says is worth hearing; He tells Zane that he doesn’t need to pretend to be normal, and that he can just be himself and that’s his normal and that’s what matters; He lets Nya know she’s cool, and that no matter where she’s at or what she’s capable of she is important and her worth and importance to him isn’t based on what she can do; He makes sure Cole knows that he’s doing enough and that it’s okay to talk about it when he’s having a hard time, that the others would listen and support him and they cared; (OH THE GOODBYE IS GONNA HURT SO MUCH) he lets himself know that it’s okay that he cares as much as he does, and that he’s gotta be okay with letting people go sometimes, but that they’d always care about him and come back; and he talks to Lloyd a lot cause they’re living in the same space, so they spend a lot of evening’s on the couch or on the floor talking or playing video games. He tells him he’s doing good with the whole leading thing and that powers or no he’s just as important and that the others care about him a whole freaking lot. Lloyd tells him a bit about the bullying and Kai offers to throw hands, which makes Lloyd laugh and politely decline cause he’s a good person like that. (Maybe Kai sets off the fire alarms in the school and gets everybody drenched while the ninja are out running an errand for Wu.)

ANYWAY. Bonding hours with Big Bro Kai is just… T-T Yes, thank you very much.

Kai really likes Koko. She’s just… very much the mom Lloyd deserves and she’s just hecking cool and one of the kindest people Kai’s ever met, so after a while he starts to go out of his way to like… clean the house while she’s gone instead of spending all his free time at the warehouse with Wu slkdfmawoisadf And makes food! He’s actually a pretty good cook since he did a lot of the cooking while Nya was too little, and even if there are some things he does not recognize in the fridge, a lot of it is the same concept so he makes them food.

Koko’s pretty much already adopted Kai at this point, and can tell he’s got a lot of trauma cause he’ll jump at things and play it off, or she’ll find him awake at really late hours with singed clothing, and he’ll get a distant look in his eye whenever someone mentions a specific thing before snapping back to the present and making some excuse. Maybe she totally pulls him aside one evening to talk about it and Kai gets a hug that smells like the cookies they’d just been baking, and a bunch of unfamiliar things, but the most at home he’s felt in a long time. He certainly doesn’t cry over that HA (yeah he cries a little.) It’s very much a mom hug and yeah ;-;

We could add angst where somebody gets hurt during a mission if we really wanted, but pfft, I’m just aggressively vibin with the fluff rn ksmsdfaoiwefdf (one of them gets thrown into a wall and Kai goes feral--)

Anyway, they’re different versions of his family, not them, but also not not them, they’re their own people, but they’ve got a lot in common, and as time passes they become less like mini-versions and more like a bunch of unique little siblings for Kai.

He uh… gets really lonely sometimes, and it hurts like crazy to not be around his family after so long with them and after going through so much and while he has faith in them insecurities happen, and sometimes he just has to repeat that they are looking and they will come for him to help him sleep at night. There are days when he doesn’t want to move, but Lloyd and Koko don’t really let him wallow and Lloyd stays home from school those days and they make popcorn and cookies and sit on Koko’s bed and watch something on Lloyd’s cracked laptop. (WHY AM I MAKING MYSELF EMOTIONAL WITH THIS LKDFMAWOIEMASDF)

He’s there for a while, maybe a month or two, (maybe more depending on how high you want the angst level LOL) before Nya finally drops out of the portal and slams into him in the tightest hug of his life, which is perfectly fine with him because he’s hugging back just as tight even though he can’t really breathe, and he taps out wheezing that she’s “--crushing the life out of me sis, need to breathe here--” She squeezes tighter for a second before finally putting him down (HEIGHT DIFFERENCES, GIMME A SECOND HERE, SO--Movie-Cole’s pretty tall, but he hasn’t hit his main growth spurt yet, that’s not for another year or so, so he’s the closest to Kai’s height, but Kai’s taller then all of them, and show Nya is taller than Kai so she’s WAY tall and buff and awesome looking and they’re all standing there staring cause WOW, Kai looks rather small next to her and he’s been the biggest most awesome thing this whole time and then there’s THIS?--but yeah, Buff tall stronk Nya is my jam  that’s all I was getting at ksLKAAKSLDFAOWEF)

Nya finally notices they’ve got an audience.

Nya: Uh… Kai? Why are there mini versions of us?

Kai: Meet alternate reality/universe/realm us, but also not us. I’ve adopted them all.

Nya: Of course you have.

There’s some laughing, and the movieverse crew rushes forward to meet the sister Kai’s been talking up, (Nya’s freaking thrilled, AU her is EPIC--) except for Lloyd because… well, he knows what’s coming next.

Goodbye.

Which is just… gonna be soul crushing. Lloyd’s happy that Kai’s finally gonna be able to go home, they all are, but… it means they have to say goodbye. And it’s not like he lives in a different city, he lives in a literal other realm for crying out loud, it’s not like they can even give him a phone call.

So that’s a whole other thing ;-;

Which Kai realizes too after a second, and his smile fades.

They all kinda stand there for a second and Nya sees what’s happening and yeah, he wasn’t kidding about adopting them, they all looked like they were about to cry.

Jay goes first sniffing and wiping at his eyes and Kai just kinda melts and just… “aww no, Jay… come ‘ere--” opening his arms and Jay stumbles forward and hugs him; Cole comes over wordlessly, brows furrowed and kinda leans into him; Kai (show Kai probably had to come up with a nickname for himself so that they didn’t all get endlessly confused. He also probably came up with nicknames for all of them as well lol) practically throws himself into his arms and Nya and Zane are there next, Zane’s just aggressively frowning like he’s having trouble following the situation and Nya’s stubbornly not crying.

“Hey, hey, it’s okay, guys,” which it’s not, but… y’know. It kinda has to be.

Lloyd joins the hug: “I don’t want you to go.”

Yeah everybody starts crying.

“I’m really sorry, but we have a time limit, we gotta go, Kai.” CAUSE YEAH, OF COURSE THERE’S A FREAKING TIME LIMIT. D’:<

“Right, right,” Kai wipes his eyes and they all step out of the hug also wiping their eyes and sniffling and D: AAAHHHHHHH SOMEONE HELP THESE POOR CHILDREN--

And Lloyd’s kinda distraught and maybe looking for an excuse to maybe convince him to stay: “But, but you haven’t said goodbye to mom yet, and--”

Jay tumbles out of the portal, kinda ruining the moment. “nYA! TIME CRUNCH, WE KINDA NEED YOU TWWWwwwwhaaat am I looking at?”

“Jay! You were supposed to wait on the other side!”

“Nya, are you aware that there are a bunch of mini us’s here?”

It makes Kai laugh, which makes Jay realize he’s there and he basically leaps at him for a hug “KAI!” before releasing him immediately like “ wAIT, NO, hugs later, we gotta go!”

And then Cole pokes his head out of the portal and is like “JAY! I TOLD YOU NOT TO--why are there are bunch of mini us’s?”

“That’s what I said!”

“DO YOU HAVE KAI!?” Lloyd’s next, accidentally pushing Cole all the way through the portal sending him crashing into Nya. “Sorry, Cole! Zane says we got thirty seconds, and--” he stops upon noticing their doppelgangers and blinks. “Um… hi?”  

Movie Lloyd waves and Lloyd gives a yelp as he’s yanked back and Zane’s head pops out next and he’s like Y’ALL BETTER MOVE IT OR I’M GONNA LOSE IT--completely unphased by the mini-them’s, which finally gets them all moving.

(Yes, everybody gets an appearance sdklfmawef why? Because I said so. And because I want the Movie!Ninja to see their show counterparts all epic and aged up and *incoherent screaming*)

“We’ll deal with this later,” Nya says, pushing Kai towards the portal.

“But--!”

“No buts, get through the portal, we’ll figure out a way to contact your mini ninja so you can keep in touch or something, but we gotta go now.”

Kai looks back at them and Movie!Lloyd musters the best reassuring smile he can despite his very clearly sad-about-this-whole-thing aura, and Kai gets a determined look on his face and nods once. “I’ll be back.” A promise.

And then his family pulls him through the portal and he’s gone.

(Heck, what is this? A whole fic concept? LAKMSDFA;OWEIF WHY NOT)

Things are… quiet without him. They’re all pretty sad about it. Koko didn’t need to ask to know when Lloyd got home that day and just pulled him into a hug. They had a sleepover in her room that night and watched some movies while Lloyd tried not to feel like he’d just lost a member of his family.

(OUCH?????)

If this was a fic this last chapter would mostly be from the Movieverse’s POV to keep the suspense and whatnot, but as it is not I’ma throw that out the window lkasmfwoef

Kai’s reunion with his fam is basically a big group hug that just turns into a hug pile because they all got knocked over by somebody and ended up in the floor, and Kai’s happy and relieved and WOW it’s so freaking good to see them and be home, but after the initial happy high, he gets a little quiet. Nya pulls him aside and assures him that she was serious about what she said and they were gonna figure out a way for him to be able to communicate and visit with them.

And they do. They might have to uh… chip a piece or ten off of the realm crystal, but they’re small ones so it’s fine, probably not at all dangerous or anything, or gonna mess with the crystal, and they make a phone for him to keep in contact with them--actually they make communications devices for the whole team so they can keep in contact if they ever get stranded in another realm. They’re fancy and you can change where your reception is tuned to, so Kai can receive texts from them.

Lloyd gets a text from an unknown number with like Yo, wassup, that-nick-name-kai-probably-gave-him-that-only-he-would-know? And AAHH EXCITEMENT LESSSS GOOOOOOO >:D!!! ;A;

So he’s part of a group chat, and they can text him when they need a pep talk or just… want to talk to him cause he’s their big brother now. (Also Kai 100% makes a group chat for both universes and calls it Fruit Ninja or something dumb/amazingly funny and clever which I am not currently capable of replicating, and it is utter chaos of the best kind)

(The movieverse crew all think that the show crew need to get therapy as soon as  humanly possible though LAKMFDAOWEF)

The realm crystal is pretty dangerous though, so visiting is… not often, but he does pop in now and again when he can, sometimes surprising him, usually because it’s unplanned and not even he knows he’s going until he’s opening the portal LOL.

So yeah, and they talked to each other regularly and sent memes and lived happily ever after or whatever sldfamweiofmasd

I may have… gone a little overboard with this, did nOT mean to write a whole dang fic summary, but yOU KNOW WHAT, WHY NOT, it was a perfectly valid use of my time. RIP IF YOU READ THROUGH IT ALL LOL

Sorry/not sorry for going feral skksmdfoaiweasdf