Chapter !

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT!"

The ninja stood in a huddle around the sensei, who was holding a thick roll parchment. The last few minutes had been very strange. the sensei had called them in because of another prophecy he found in one of his old sock drawers. The scroll depicted 4 new ninja, each of them girls.

"Wait," said Lloyd, after a minute of silence, "you mean that an overused plot in all of the fan mail stories I got is true!"

"Yes, precisely," answered Sensei, "I'm so glad you understand."

"So 50% of the fangirls just happened to guess our future," said Kai.

"Actually only 43% of the Ninjago fanfic community is about 4 ninja girls," said Zane.

"Yeah, so helpful."

"Guys!" shouted Nya, who had stormed into the room. "A couple of the bad snake gangs are terrorising civilians in New Ninjago City!"

"We'll handle this prophecy later. Now let's go!" ordered Cole.

The five ninja rushed into the tech-filled city in their vehicles. They whizzed around until they found some of their reptilian friends.

"Ninja, Go!" they shouted in unison. They rounded up the snakes and threw them behind bars.

"We'll handle them from here, ninja," said one of the cops who only showed up at the end of the fight without any guns (cops, right?). They still had time, so they walked to the park.

"So then, these agents were in their mobile base when a helicopter -" Jay was interrupted by the sound of helicopter blades.

"Hello again, Ninja." The sound of their old foe reached the ninja.

"Pythor," said Lloyd. "We just defeated a bunch of snakes, who says we can't defeat you."

"Unfortunately the handful you just defeated are some of Skales', who serves no purpose. I however have come here for a reason." Pythor held up some sort mechanical piece with black and blue wires all over the place.

"Pythor! Give us that... uh, thing!" shouted Kai.

"Kai, that is a JX CCC Compactor Elastic Springback v. 11, a vital component to the power system!" corrected Zane. "If it doesn't get back to regulate the power system, there will be no more electricity and the power system will blow!"

"Alright, Kai, Zane, Jay, go after Pythor," Cole commanded, as Pythor's Rattlecopter took off. "Lloyd and I will get to Borg Tower to see if Cyrus Borg can delay the explosion. Ninja Go!"

Kai and Zane soared in the sky while Jay followed down below on the rocky surface.

"Pythor, give us that Springback back!" called Jay from below.

"Not a chance boys!" Pythor yelled back. Two snake missiles dropped down from the rattlecopter.

"Whoa!" Jay swerved to avoid the missiles, that landed with a loud BOOM behind him, knocking the raider into a tree.

"So that's how you want to play it, huh!?" shouted Kai who shot his two gold capped missiles straight at the rattlecopter. Pythor veered off to the left as Kai's missiles exploded into a mountain at the front, sending a whole bunch of rocks tumbling down into the forest below. Kai dodged to the right to avoid the mountain while Zane went higher above the clouds. Kai activated speed mode and soon caught up to Pythor, who rammed into the Kai Fighter. Kai cantered to the left as the Ninjacopter showed up in the rattlecopter's path. Zane leapt out of the vehicle and snatched the Springback from Pythor's hands, then quickly climbed back into the Ninjacopter. The two ninja raced back to Borg Tower to save the city.

Lloyd and Cole arrived at Borg Tower just as Kai, Zane and Jay disappeared over the horizon.

"Oh, Ninja, thank goodness you came," said Cyrus Borg, as soon they stepped onto the 100th floor, "the JX CCC Compactor Elastic Springback v. 11 is gone! I was filling out the paperwork for the gigantic amount of electricity used to make video games and love testers that probably don't work when I heard that Serpentine were in the electricity room downtown. I was just on my way down to see what I could do about the Springback, so why don't you two come along?"

"Yeah, that's why we came, come on," Cole said as they walked to the elevator. They got down in a couple of minutes and Borg began inspecting the machinery. "The 4 Watt Electricity Converter should do the trick, at least until the currents get too powerful." he said, as he inserted a piece that looked like an upside-down W, or an M into the system.

"I don't get it, why can't we just create another one?" said Lloyd, who was just as confused as Cole or Kai in this room.

"Because," Borg replied, "There are only enough crystals to power two JX CCC Compactor Elastic Springback v. 11s and I'm using mine to create a portal to a world with limitless clean energy, unlike the world we live in right now." Just as Borg finished his sentence more snakes broke into the system, but this time Skales was leading the attack, instead of letting them be mindless snakes who destroy stuff.

"Desssstroy the machine!"

Skales is also mindless.

"Take the boy assss well!" Skales shouted.

Lloyd shot three beams of green light into the crowd of Serpentine but got dragged beneath the earth and metal by one of the Constrictai.

"Lloyd!" Cole shouted, as he spinjitzu'd his way to the spot where Lloyd vanished. "No! The converter!" Cole heard Borg shout behind the hordes of snakes.

"Cole!" he heard Kai shout from the door, "catch!" The Springback flew through the air into Cole's hands. There was no time to lose. He Triple Tiger Sashay'd over the heads of snakes and slammed the Springback into the power system. The three ninja defeated most of the snakes and the remaining retreated, seeing as they had the most important thing they came for anyway. The ninja went back to the dojo, not as fast as they could though, because who would tell Sensei Wu that they lost two ninja?

Lloyd travelled deep underground for what seemed like an eternity, even though he wasn't conscious for most of it. When he finally emerged he saw he was in some sort of abandoned warehouse. Skales slithered out of the shadows into Lloyd's sight.

"Hello boy," Skales said maliciously. "I have big planssss for you."

He gestured to some makeshift stage, with four stands. His laugh reached Lloyd's ears and scarred it for life.

"Yessss," he said.

"Big planssss."

Jay climbed out of his damaged vehicle.

'Now how am I supposed to get home?' he thought.

He walked around, trying to identify where he was. He was in some sort of forest, which wasn't very helpful, since Ninjago had loads of forests. He smelled a horrible stink coming from the other side. He was probably near the Toxic Bogs, which meant Serpentine might be nearby. A second after he figured this out he heard a horrible scream in one of the caves. He rushed to that person's aid, holding out a ball of lightning in his hand to see. There were three girls inside, dressed in robes fit for a ninja, each of them asleep.

"Oh, no," Jay whispered, "the prophecy," and he moved up a little to see something even more horrible.

There was another girl.

With dagger in hand and clothes stained in blood, she stood over the body of the fourth ninja, who was covered in blood and wounds. The fourth ninja's eyes glowed and the essence escaped her mouth. After that the fourth rolled over and turned into steam, leaving only the yellowy-orange robes.

Jay's eyes shifted to the killer's face. She had brown hair that fell across her face, a wild look in her eyes and a blank expression on her face. Her blood-red lips parted to say:

"Tell no one."