"So what say ya huh, punk...you feeling lucky?" Cole asked as he felt himself being pushed into a side street in this new city he'd decided to venture into partially alone.
He wasn't alone for long. His brothers and Nya had quickly found him after their impromptu arrival on this blueberry looking planet they'd just found themselves on. They were evidently too dazed to talk, Nya was being held up by Kai and Lloyd was draped over Zane. They all stood leaning heavily against the wall. Still illuminated gently by the street lights of New York.
"C-Cole, y-you alright bro?" Kai struggled to speak, he quickly vomited on the floor.
"Oh the cavalry's arrived," one of the thugs muttered in a very strong New York accent as he held a dazed Cole up against a filthy dumpster.
"You're all wearing such bright clothing too, kinda easy pickings when you wander into this neighbourhood so willingly."
"Yeah, it's like you wanna be mugged or somethin." The second thug sneered and retrieved a crude flick knife holding it up to Cole's wiped out face. "Wearing all this gansta shit, you lot from China town?"
The master of earth looked completely washed out, they all did...except for Zane but he was largely hidden behind Lloyd and Kai because of the odd looks he was getting from the people that walked by., "I don't know wh-what the hell you're talking about."
"Reckon you all look like you've come from a comic convention?" he chuckled and pressed the blade into Cole's neck as the other one checked Cole for a wallet or anything of any value.
Cole was mildly incensed by this behaviour but chose to bide his time. He felt them take his wallet, not that it was of any use in this realm. They found his keys too, again useless here. Then they found his weapons and pocketed them themselves, leaving him weaponless in the process.
How was it that he, the master of earth, had wondered so helplessly in his dizzy state into the darkest alley where some utter lowlifes were laying in wait to make their move. He had wondered that if it wasn't him, would they have taken a female or an older person and beat the ever living shit out of them?
Still, he waited for his moment, his breathing calming down from the horrid journey they had all taken to get here, to rescue Jay.
"You all look like extras from Street fighter," one thug muttered, "Or Mortal Kombat!"
A good and usually descriptive part of their faces were hidden by hoods that obscured their eyes and facial features. The lower halves were covered with t-shirts that had been pulled up haphazardly to cover their mouths and other identifying features that could be used with a criminal line up. Cole had nothing on them, he couldn't even see their faces clearly. Just the fact that they were slightly smaller in stature and they both had possibly illegally owned firearms...Their voices though, these thugs sounded quite young. They were probably a part of a gang, which didn't give him much time.
"You come any closer-" He warned the others at the end of the alley, "-and this one'll get a new smile, eh pretty boy," He taunted holding the blade back at Cole's face.
Cole's eyes widened. He was just too exhausted to do anything, let alone stand up and fight.
None of them had any money, they only had their weapons. Well, Cole did but his had been removed when he was accosted or jumped in the alley.
They had only just arrived here too. Completely bewildered when they had opened their eyes because it was so different to where they had come from. The definition here was phenomenal and it far surpassed that of Ninjago. It took them a good few moments to gather their bearings after staring at each other for a good few moments more.
Cole was unlucky enough to stumble backwards into an alleyway when he lost his balance and when his team had finally managed to stand themselves they had attempted to look for him.
Such was the way of travel by infinity and wormholes. Tesseract was never a gentle journey. It was an infinity stone first and foremost, the very same that Jay had tinkered with almost eleven weeks ago Ninjago time.
Lucky for them, they arrived at nightfall. Unluckily for Cole, he was pulled quickly into the side alley when these thugs saw the amount of shiny metal on his body.