A bright flash of light emerged in the center of New Ninjago City. As the light dimmed, it was apparent that a girl had appeared there. Slowly, she got up and looked around. The light had attracted the attention of many of the city's denizens, and they formed around this new girl as if she was the byproduct of an earthquake that created a sinkhole. If anything, the ground around her suggested that she had landed like a comet to the ground, created a crater.

Among the citizens to crowd around the girl was Cyrus Borg.

"What is going on here?" he asked as PIXAL helped him navigate his wheelchair through the crowd. When they saw the girl laying there, PIXAL gave an unintentional gasp.

"What's the matter dear?" Cyrus asked his creation.

"She's..." the android started to say, but was wary.

"Who is she?" Cyrus asked, turning to look PIXAL in the eye, but the android refused to give him eye contact.

"We need to call the ninja." the android finally said. Cyrus looked at PIXAL, confused as to why the android seemed to be uncomfortable, but he agreed.

. . .

The ninja gathered around the girl as if she was dead and they were simply paying their respects. Cyrus and PIXAL had moved the girl to Cyrus's headquarters in the center of New Ninjago City and had placed her on a mat. There she was sleeping rather peacefully, not that it stopped the Ninja, Nya, and Garmadon from staring at her. Something about her seemed familiar, but it was nothing that anyone could place a definite finger on.

Kai in particular felt a strong connection to the stranger, and it was a feeling that extremely annoyed him, but he could not find a way to act on it.

Suddenly, the girl made a noise of coming to, and started to sit up. Everyone backed up a bit from the stranger as she used one hand to prop herself up, and used the other to hold her head.

"Alice..." the girl mumbled, "Next time, don't press the red button. Okay?"

No one answered her, so she looked up and saw the ninja for the first time. For a moment, she just stared. Slowly, her face started to pale as if she was going to faint. Her gaze in particular fell onto Garmadon.

"Who... who are you?" she asked Garmadon, then she looked at the others, "Where am I?!"

For a moment, no one was quite sure how to respond. How could this girl not know who they were, their names were known in practically every household after the defeat of the Overlord.

As if in an effort to distract everyone from the confusing matter, Zane's falcon came through an open window and hovered around the group.

"Crow!" the girl said happily, forgetting the situation at hand and possibly her age as she started reach toward the falcon as if it were an old friend. The robotic bird looked at her and perched on her shoulder in a sort of compliance, although it had been addressed by the wrong terminology. Everyone then exchanged a confused look.

"Perhaps you are mistaken," Zane told her, "Our robotic friend is a falcon, not a crow."

"I know." she said, snuggling the falcon. "I've just always called him that. Haven't we had this discussion before Zane?"

This earned her an odd look from everyone. Since when did this child know the falcon any way? And what made her think that they already knew her? Better yet, how did she know Zane's name without introductions?

"How do you know my name?" Zane asked her curiously. "We have not met before."

The girl made a face, and ceased snuggling with the robotic bird.

"I know all of you." she admitted, looking at all of them. Her gaze again stopped at Garmadon. "Some of you however... I've just never... known."

"What do you mean?" Zane inquired.

"She's from the future." PIXAL then said, speaking up. Everyone's reaction was unanimous; pure surprise and shock.