Hey-o! Sorry It's been so long. I've been completely and entirely obsessed with the new installment to Tales of Arcadia on Netflix, 3Below. COMPLETELY. AND ENTIRELY. I've been writing fics for it left and right, and I've been doing daily prompts for a new year's resolution besides. You'd think I would care enough to make time for this since Ninjago is one of my all-time favourite shows, but man, I guess not… Sorry again!

Trying to fix it though, here's the next chapter! Aftermath to "Inspection Day". Thank you guys for your patience! It means the world to me!

-LizzyLucky

The Aftermath - Episode 7 - Inspection Day

"Oops…" Kai said quietly, chuckling lightly. Everyone in the room turned to glare at him.

"Way to go, Kai." Cole said loudly. "We could have gotten a perfect score from the pickiest inspector in Ninjago!" Kai hunched his shoulders sheepishly. Nya sighed heavily but didn't comment.

"I just mopped the floor, too…" Zane said disappointedly.

"And we're gonna have to rewash some of these dishes." Lloyd added.

"I sweep this floor every day, Kai. EVERY. DAY." Jay blurted out.

"Alright, alright! I get it! I screwed up! Sorry!" Kai said, looking around at each of his friends. He was relieved to find that, in spite of all the things they'd just said, most everyone looked more amused than angry. Except maybe Jay. But he always looked like that.

"I suggest you all get back to work. Perhaps we can ask a second opportunity." Sensei Wu said wisely. "This time," he added, albeit with a mischievous glint in his eye, "I would advise you not to hide bags of trash underneath the floorboards."

Kai offered a goofy grin in response and ran to the corner to pick up a broom.

"Come on, Lloyd." Nya said with a sigh and a tired smile. "Let's go tackle those dishes."

"Alright." Lloyd answered simply, waiting for and following Nya into the back room with a stack of dishes.

"Oh, hey, guys, wait up a second!" Cole called after them. Lloyd turned around and staggered for a moment as Cole carefully placed a teacup on top of the stack of dishes. "I figured you'd want to get them all the first time around." He said.

"Yeah, that makes sense. But this is the second time around." Lloyd grunted. Cole chuckled and offered a sympathetic smile. The two turned their own ways.

"Can I work on something that's not sweeping or counter duty this time?" Jay asked, leaning against the wall with a broom in one hand and a sponge still in the other.

"You could switch me." Zane offered, holding out the mop he had. Jay rolled his eyes.

"Zane, the jobs are almost exactly the same." He deadpanned.

"No they're not. Sweeping is purposed to removing solid grit from the floor. Mopping is purposed to disinfecting the floor and absorbing spills." Zane said, obviously confused by what Jay said. Kai chuckled behind the two.

"I mean that they use similar repetitious movements." Jay rephrased after a moment of thought. Zane put a hand on his chin, puzzled for a second.

"Oh." He finally said. "Understandable." Jay shook his head and smiled fondly at the Nindroid.

"I'll just get a rag and work on the walls or something." He decided.

"That seems fair." Zane agreed.

"Anyone wanna help me locate a new box of garbage bags?" Kai called out behind them, in the process of picking up a banana peel. "I wonder how in Ninjago the inspector missed this smell…" He added quietly to himself.

"I think we have a new box next to the back door. We haven't moved it since it was delivered with the extra stock of green and black teas." Jay answered.

"I thought you said you put that away?" Wu questioned suddenly. Jay cringed, hunching his shoulders. Somehow, he'd forgotten Wu was there.
"Uh… IIIIII did." He responded. "Just that the old box was in there…" He paused, trying to think up what he would say. "And so I went to put the new box back by the door where it was out of the way… While I went to throw away the empty box! Exactly! And then I bumped into Nya on my way back in and we sorta got to talking and-" Jay cut himself short when he caught sight of the look Sensei Wu was giving him.

"I… forgot to…" He corrected. Wu chuckled and shook his head.

"I will be making a quick trip to the Monastery to clear my mind. I need also to relocate the inspector and ask a second opportunity. Work as quickly as you can, and I want each of you to have taken a shower by the time I return." Wu said. He tapped his staff on the floor twice, as though signifying that he were prepared to leave, and turned around. Kai and Jay watched him leave (Zane was busy opening the aforementioned box of garbage bags) and looked at each other to burst into laughter when he was gone.

"I don't even know what I'm laughing over." Kai admitted, chuckling heartily.

"Me neither!" Jay added, although his laughter was much more hysterical.

"I think you are both just tired. You begin acting like children when you are." Zane commented, re-entering the room with a black bag which he handed to Kai.

"As if you don't!" Jay said.

"Well…" Zane trailed off sheepishly. "I suppose that's true…" He admitted. "But I don't "giggle" they way you two do." He defended.

"No, of course not. You giggle the way you do." Kai said, completely unphased.

"I-" Zane cut himself off. "That wasn't even a very good comeback. It hardly made sense!" He said.

""Well, I suppose that's true…"" Jay responded, somewhat mockingly of what Zane had said. Said Nindroid rolled his eyes but laughed along with Kai.

"Come on, guys, even Nya and I are getting more work done than you!" Lloyd said, popping his head into the room.

"We're working!" Jay said defensively. To prove his point, he took the rag he held and began scrubbing the walls vivaciously. Lloyd shook his head.

"Have you guys seen Cole?" Lloyd asked instead of commenting on the fact that Jay had chosen an area of wall that was already clean.

"Ah-ah-ah, I don't want any part in your situation or your conversation!" Cole spoke up from the other corner of the room. Everyone present turned to see him standing in the far corner of the shop, working hard to clean off the surface of a table that had gotten a large portion of the mess.

"Oh really?" Kai asked teasingly.

"Nope! Last time you got me talking when we were all supposed to be cleaning, you got me all wrapped up in a story and Sensei Wu walked in to find that I was the only one not cleaning, because I was talking, even though I did half the work!" He exclaimed.

"What? Zane wasn't cleaning then either. You totally made it sound worse that it was!" Jay said.

"I wasn't even working that day Jay." Zane deadpanned. Jay whipped around to face Zane.

"If you weren't working that day, how do you know which one I'm talking about?" Jay countered. Everyone turned to look at Jay now, confused.

"You're the one who told me about it…" Zane answered, giving him a puzzled look.

"Oh. Right." Jay blushed.

"Okay, guys, come on. Let's get back to work." Cole said from his corner. A glance around the room told Kai that Lloyd had already gone back to washing dishes. He sighed heavily and turned back to brushing the trash into a pile with his broom.

"Alright, fine. Cole's right, guys." Jay added, also sighing heavily and turning back to his work. With that, and a smirk from Cole, the rest of the shop got cleaned.

And the the next day, they got a perfect score on their Inspection Test.

Not sure what that was…. Mostly just dialogue and witty banter between the characters. It seemed more like a blurb of random thoughts with a little context, but okay XD What do you guys think of it? It's been so long since I initially published this book, and I haven't written for Ninjago in a while either. I feel like I'm totally losing my touch with these guys, and I've had 3Below on the brain maybe a little too much…

-LizzyLucky