2000s

This is a timeline of events that happened during the 2000s.

#### 15th

* Krux breeds an army of Vermillion from the Great Devourer's eggs. Around this time, he also gains posession of the Yin Blade.

## 2001

* The Ultra Agents are formed with Solomon Blaze becoming their leader.
* Chen begins recruiting citizens of Ninjago to a cult dedicated to worshipping the Anacondrai. The members of the cult would receive tatoos that would eventually be integral in a spell that would turn the cultists themselves into Anacondrai warriors.

### January

* Laval and Cragger become fans of the legendary racer Dom De La Woosh and compete over which of them is the "better Woosh".

### February

#### 7th

* A photo is taken of Wu, Garmadon and Misako. Wu would keep this picture until 2012.

### March

#### 17th

* A photo is taken of Zane, Dr. Julien and the Falcon.

### April

#### 5th

* Nya tries to eat ice cream, but she accidently drops it and cries.

#### 6th

* Kai has a nightmare of Serpentine, led by a Venomari king, attacking Ingancia.

#### 7th

* Nya plays with a ball but she accidently drops it.

#### 8th

* Monstrox betrays the Wizards' Council, turning most of the wizards evil, except for Merlok.
* Merlok confronts Monstrox in Brightwood Forest, where he petrifies his army of Grimrocs and blasts him out of the forest, making him drop the Forbidden Powers, which Wanda picks up and gives them to him.
* Merlok's magic also petrifies the inhabitants of Garmadon City, inside the forest, causing them to lose their memories, except for the mayor's advisor, who seemingly realises why they have been turned into stone and begins to study the Stone Army.
* Merlok traps Monstrox's evil into twelve evil books and keeps them in his library, trying to study them.
* Merlok seals Monstrox's castle and miniaturizes it. To ensure that it wouldn't fall under the wrong hands, he gives it to the Knights' Academy librarian, Persnickety Marge, in a form of a snowglobe for safekeeping.

#### 9th

* Wanda descends into darkness, changing her name to Ruina Stoneheart and begins to use dark magic. In a last resort to stop her, Merlok transforms her into a statue. After that event, the Wizards' Council disbands and eventually disappears, leaving Merlok as the sole wizard in Knighton.

### November

#### 6th

* Lloyd Garmadon is born.
* Garmadon fully succumbs to the evil inside him, and prepares to claim the Golden Weapons for himself, but Wu stops him. Garmadon attacks his brother and a duel breaks out between the two. As their respective Golden Weapons clash, the impact creates a storm, knocking both of them to the ground. As Garmadon prepares to kill his brother, the symbols on Wu's kimono glow and a bolt of lightning strikes Garmadon, giving him a twisted appearence, much resembling an Oni. The floor of the Monastery breaks, causing Garmadon to fall through to the Underworld, Wu being unable to save him.
* Garmadon lands in the Underworld, where he is confronted by Samukai and the Skulkin army. Wanting revenge on his fight with Garmadon and Wu centuries ago, Samukai attacks Garmadon, but the latter manages to evade his attacks, before using Spinjitzu to defeat Samukai. Garmadon then declares himself King of the Underworld before laughing maniacally.
* Wu realizes that Garmadon will stop at nothing to get the Golden Weapons, so he hides them away in secret locations, each guarded by an Elemental Dragon. Wu then makes a map of the four secret locations so someone could find them if he perished, and gives the map to a trustworthy friend. During this, Wu also meets Kai and Nya.

#### 7th

* Krux, disguised as Dr. Saunders, visits Ray and Maya, and seemingly befriends them, before revealing himself and kidnapping the two former Elemental Masters, threatening their children if they refuse to work for him.
* Kai and Nya are left alone at the blacksmith shop, soon being taken under the care of Mrs. Grumbmiller.
* Ray and Maya are forced to work for Krux in a blacksmith shop in the Vermillion Swamp to design the armor and weapons for the Vermillion. Ray secretly stamps his work with his blacksmith stamp, hoping that one day, someone would figure out where they were.

#### 23rd

* Dr. Julien tells Zane that he was built to protect those who cannot protect themselves.

## 2003

* Curtis Bolt begins working on his helmet.

## 2005

* Misako, knowing that destiny would take her son as the Green Ninja, drops off a young Lloyd at Darkley's Boarding School in a precognitive precaution, so she can go find a way to prevent the father and son from facing each other.

## 2006

* Roger the Scrubber has a meal with the Knighton Royal Family in Cleanington.

### January

#### 15th

* Merlok locates Clay Moorington in Dnullib, after looking for him for five years.
* Clay is sweeping the streets when Merlok finds him and sees his potential to become a knight. He takes him to Knightonia and they attend a tournament. After one of the knights defeats the other, Clay gives the knight his sword back, but he lets him keep it and takes him to the Knight's Academy to train.
* Aaron Fox launches himself with a catapult against the bell tower, missing the top and hitting the tower instead. He is brought home to his parents by a knight.

#### 16th

* Princess Macy Halbert is forced to do basic princess tasks, despite wanting to become a knight, until she discovers her mother training with a mace. She heads back to her bedroom and finds the mace on her bed and begins training with it, while Merlok observes her through his snowglobe.
* Aaron performs another stunt but fails once again.

#### 17th

* Lance Richmond is sent to the Knight's Academy by his parents, despite not wanting to become a knight.
* Aaron tries another stunt, but fails this time as well.

#### 18th

* Axl eats with his family while complaining that he wants to become a knight, but his father refuses. He leaves the town and trains, before returning and saving his father's life. Seeing this, his father agrees that he should be a knight, while Merlok observes.
* Aaron and his brothers stick the knight's vehicle to a post with a chain, tricking him that there is danger and the civillans need his help. He tries to speed away but fails due to his vehicle being stuck. He brings Aaron home.

#### 19th

* Aaron tests out a rocket, despite his brothers urging him not to, but overshoots it and lands further than he intended. His parents decide that his antics have gone out of hand and send him off to the Knight's Academy, as Merlok observes him.

#### 20th

* A thief steals a sword from a knight. He tries to escape with it, but bumps into Jestro, who returns the sword to the knight. The knight thanks him and asks him if he should be in school. When Jestro tells him that he doesn't go to school, the knight takes him to the Knight's Academy.

#### 21st

* Clay, Macy, Lance, Axl and Aaron arrive at the Knight's Academy. Clay meets Macy in the halls and befriends Jestro after saving him from bullies.
* Lance and Aaron meet during training.

#### 22nd

* Lance rehearses for the school play with Jestro, where Principal Brickland finds them, angry at Lance for missing practice for the tournament team. He compels Lance into training by making him think of his knightly training as preparation for his dream of being an actor.
* Clay, Macy and Jestro meet Lance, Axl and Aaron at dinner and they decide to form a team together.
* The new team trains on the training grounds, but fail to work as a team, due to Lance criticising Jestro for not being a good knight. Clay advises them to be better next time.

#### 23rd

* Clay goes to Merlok and asks him to train Jestro to become a wizard as he isn't very good at being a knight. Merlok agrees and begins to train Jestro, but he isn't very successful.

#### 24th

* Jestro juggles in Merlok's library and Merlok tells him that he could be a good royal jester. Jestro refuses, as he does not want people to laugh at him, but Merlok convinces him that the people would laugh with him. Jestro manages to entertain the king and queen and becomes a jester.
* The Book of Monsters notices Jestro and, knowing he could use him to fulfil his plans, begins watching him.

#### 25th

* The team, now only consisting of Clay, Macy, Aaron, Lance and Axl, participate in another tournament. Lance manages to hit the target, winning them the competition. Principal Brickland awards them with a trophy and a picture of them is taken.

#### 26th

* Clay and Merlok watch a competition held in the royal arena, during which a thief steals a woman's treasures, but Clay stops the thief and returns the stolen item.

### February

#### 21st

* Cole watches his parents dance in Ninjago City.

### November

#### 8th

* Lou brings Cole to Lilly's bedroom, who is very ill. Cole hugs her mother and wishes she was not sick anymore. Lilly then asks why Cole got in trouble at school, and Cole explains that a bully was picking on the little kids, and Cole wanted to stand up for what was right. He then apologizes for getting into a fight with the bully, but Lilly is proud of her son and wants Cole to promise her to always stand up to those who are cruel and unjust, and Cole promises.

### December

#### 1st

* The Elemental Master of Ice arrives at Birchwood Forest and gives Zane his powers, Zane being completely unaware of this. The Master of Ice passes away shortly after this.

#### 2nd

* Wu meets Dr. Julien and Zane, and tells Zane he will see him again one day.

## 2008

* A thief jumps into the Chrono Crater, hoping it would make him immortal, but it instead causes him to live one second of everyone else, becoming known as the Time Ninja. He later battles Master Wu but is defeated and imprisoned in the Tower of Tears.

### October

#### 12th

* Ras visits Imperium from the Wyldness to meet with Emperor Levo and discuss plans of capturing a Source Dragon. However, Levo refuses to comply with providing Ras the necessary equipment as he doesn't believe Source Dragons exist before having his older daughter, Zeatrix, throw him out with her Elemental Power, proudly proclaiming her his successor while a despised Beatrix notices a leaving Ras smirking at her.
* Beatrix finds Ras on the streets of Imperium and they create an alliance to overthrow Levo and Zeatrix. They plant bomb under Levo's hover chariot to explode and it crash lands, killing him on impact. Zeatrix is arrested, presumably being framed for her father's death and Beatrix takes control of Imperium with Ras at her side.

## 2009

### January

#### 14th

* A meteor lands in Ninjago and scientists discover the remains of an alien parasite embedded within it.

### February

#### 24th

* In his final moments, Dr. Julien erases Zane's memories. Zane becomes an orphan, but Dr. Julien is soon revived by Samukai to construct vehicles for them, being reunited with his son as ransom. When he disagrees, the Skulkin take him to a lighthouse guarded by a Leviathan, to force him to design their vehicles. After he successfully complies with their demands, the Skulkin do not release him from the prison and leave him there.

#### 25th

* Dr. Julien builds Echo Zane and Tai-D while trapped in the lighthouse. Over time, he would begin to forget about Echo Zane and he is left in the basement.

### March

#### 16th

* Faith becomes Iron Baron's second-in-command in his Dragon Hunter clan. He forces her to wear a mask, disguise her voice and change her name to "Heavy Metal" as to not let the other hunters know that she was a woman.

### November

#### 18th

* Ronin is contacted by the Soul Archer, who offers him a deal that would cost him no coin. Unaware that he was indebting his soul to the Archer, Ronin agrees, but eventually realizes that his soul would be banished to the Cursed Realm if he didn't pay off the Archer in time.

#### 21st

* Soul Archer is banished to the Cursed Realm, seemingly erasing his deal with Ronin.

#### 22nd

* Following his ecounter with Soul Archer, Ronin creates an eyepiece to detect paranormal essence. He also obtains Deepstone armor and Aeroblades.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *Pause and Effect*
2. ↑ *Day of the Departed*
3. ↑ The Invitation
4. ↑ Spellbound
5. ↑ The Day of the Dragon
6. ↑ The Biggest Race Ever
7. ↑ *The Day Ninjago Stood Still*
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 *Tick Tock*
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 *Curseworld, Part II*
10. ↑ Card 54 - Panic Stations
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 *Beetween a Rock and a Hard Place*
12. ↑ *Rock Bottom*
13. ↑ Warriors of Stone
14. ↑ *The Fortrex and the Furious*
15. ↑ *Back to School*
16. ↑ *Island of Darkness*
17. ↑ Secrets Discovered
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 *Way of the Ninja*
19. ↑ *Battle Beetween Brothers*
20. ↑ *An Underworldly Takeover*
21. ↑ The Book of Spinjitzu
22. ↑ *The Attack*
23. ↑ *Tick Tock*
24. ↑ Game of Masks
25. ↑ Curtis Bolt's Personal Helmet
26. ↑ *The Stone Army*
27. ↑ 27.00 27.01 27.02 27.03 27.04 27.05 27.06 27.07 27.08 27.09 27.10 The Knights of the Realm - Part 1
28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 28.3 28.4 28.5 28.6 28.7 The Knights of the Realm- Part 2
29. ↑ Good Knight Clay Moorington
30. ↑ Balance
31. ↑ *Infamous*
32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 Dungeon Crawl!
33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 *Snake Jaguar*
34. ↑ The Book of Elemental Powers
35. ↑ Stone Cold
36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 Absolute Power
37. ↑ *The Void*
38. ↑ *Boobytraps and How to Survive Them*
39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 The Last Voyage
40. ↑ *The Last Resort*
41. ↑ The Gilded Path
42. ↑ 42.0 42.1 42.2 Stiix and Stones
43. ↑ Public Enemy Number One