Glad to see that you are enjoying this, Anon Omega. And I think a lot of people would've prefered to see him as Jay, but he sort of is a main character, and I wanted him to have a close connection with Lloyd. So, are you bothered that he's partially roboticized?

Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic or Ninjago. I only own the changes that I've made.

As they continued up the hill, pulling the horse-carriage behind them, Amy gave a sigh and said, "I just had to open my yap."

"I think," said Silver breathlessly, "this is some kind of team-building exersize."

"Just keep on pulling," said Mighty, "we'll get there soon."

As they continued along, Sonic- or rather at the time, Cinos- asked them, "So, you mentioned you had a friend who got kidnapped by Garmadon. How'd that happen?"

"It was about two or three months after a friend of ours... died," said Amy. She paused for a few seconds before continuing...

"We were talking to King Acorn and his daughter, Princess Sally about how much inactivity we'd gotten as of late. It almost seemed like a calm before a storm.

"Then, one of the guards came in and said that the town was getting attacked by what looked like skeleton warriors. When we got there, they were being held off by Sensei Wu.

"We started to help. Tails was right next to me when all of the sudden, this massive claw appeared and grabbed Tails. Then they left, taking him with them.

"When we returned to the palace, Sensei Wu told us who he was and what the skeleton warriors were there for; they had taken half of a map to the four Golden Weapons. Wu said that if we wanted to save Tails, we should go with him and train to become Spinjitzu Masters. Strangely enough, he would only take the three of us.

"We got there, trained for a few months, we went on a small mission, and when we got back, you were here, Cinos," finished Amy.

"So," Silver started to ask, "why'd Sensei Wu rope you in?"

"Well..." Cinos said slowly.

"Shh! Stop!" suddenly called out Wu. The horse carriage came to a stop and Wu hopped off, beckoning the four ninja to follow him. They crouched down behind a small rise as their Sensei said, "The Caves of Despair."

It looked more like a mine, which was swarming with skeletons that were chipping at the walls around them. Several lookout towers were in the middle of the clearing, with the large skeleton that Sensei Wu had been fighting in the tallest one. The walls of the clearing were full of caves, with a few of them standing guard on some of the larger ones.

They looked at it for a while, then Mighty said, "More like the Mine of Despair."

"Samukai must be close to unearthing the Scythe of Quakes," said Sensei Wu, "Do not use the weapon, or it's power-"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," said Amy, "it's too much for us mortals to wield. So, what's the game plan? If they are that close-"

"I don't think they're close at all," said Cinos, scratching the side of his partially metal head.

"Why do you say that?" asked Silver, his head tipped to one side.

"Well," he said, "Sensei said that he put guardians over the weapons, right? If they were digging in the right spot, they would probably have uncovered some kind of Stone Golem or a shrine or something. I bet they're digging in the wrong spot."

"I think he's right," said Mighty, "It looks like they've gone pretty deep, so they should've uncovered something by now."

"So then, where is it? Sensei?" Amy turned to look at the white hedgehog, but he had vanished.

"I hate it when he does that," said Silver, "He's worse than Shadow."

Nah, thought Cinos, At least you know when Shadow decides to leave. We didn't even notice Wu leaving.

"Looks like we'll have to get that map." said Mighty, "Follow me."

As they snuck among the skeleton armies, heading for the main tower, they snuck behind boulders, held to the bottom of rolling platforms, (where they heard a skeleton say that one of the rocks looked like a doughnut) and soon climbed up onto the canvas top of Samukai's tower. Through a small hole in the roof, they watched Samukai study the map, then set it down with a chuckle. Amy instantly realized why the skeletons hadn't found the scythe yet. "It's upside down!" she whispered, "They're in the right place, but they're digging in the wrong spot!"

"Then let's find out where it really is," said Silver. Using his psychokinesis, he levitated the map upwards to them without the skeleton king noticing. They studied the map for a few seconds, the Cinos looked around a bit and pointed to the largest cave that was behind them. "That should be it. C'mon." he whispered.

They got off the tower and snuck into the caves, avoiding the skeleton guards that were guarding it. As they walked in, Mighty pointed out a large boulder and said in a soft voice, "That's it."

"You sure?" asked Cinos.

"Yup. Let's pull this thing out of the way." The armadillo walked over to the boulder and started to push at it, Cinos and Amy joining him with Silver watching out at the entrance to the cave.

Soon, the boulder was out of the way, and their eyes went wide at the sight in front of them. A large, earth-brown dragon head was in the ground, with a glowing golden scythe hovering over its open mouth.

"WOW!" yelled Amy, "That is so COOL!" She gave a yelp as Cinos punched her in the arm and Mighty said as Silver floated him up to retrieve the weapon, "Can you keep it down? They'll know we're here!"

"We're at the opposite end of the caves," assured Amy, "They won't hear us."

"Well, let's sneak past those bone-heads before they realize that we are here." said Cinos. Mighty wrapped the scythe in a dark brown cloth and tossed it over to Cinos.

As they headed out, Mighty turned to look at them and said, "Okay, should be just around this corner." Then when he turned around again, he came face-to-skeletal face with Samukai. He backed up nervously as Samukai drew four daggers and the skeleton army behind him readied themselves.

The ninja team quickly drew their weapons, Cinos placing the Scythe of Quakes on his back and drawing his katana. Both of the groups charged at each other.

Cinos was instantly surrounded by skeletal warriors. As he started cutting off limbs and knocking off heads, he heard Mighty shout, "Cinos! Go long!" He quickly grabbed the scythe and tossed it the armadillo, who then tossed it to Silver, who used his psychokinesis to keep it high up in the air.

"There's too may of them!" yelled the metal hedgehog. Amy appeared by his side and said, "I've got this!" She zipped around the skeleton warriors, knocking them around with her nunchucks. Then she noticed something. "Hey guys! It's just like the training course!" She moved forward, saying "Over the planks! Dodge the swords! Here comes the dummy!" As she bonked another skeleton with her nunchucks, she turned on her foot, and a vivid, electric blue tornado with lightning flying out of it appeared around her.

"Is that?" asked Mighty as she zoomed around them.

"Spinjitzu!" finished Cinos, "Amy! What's the key?" he yelled over to her.

She laughed and said, "I'm just going through the motions! This must be what Sensei meant when he said that we already knew it!"

Cinos thought for a few seconds, the went through the motions as well, yelling, "Over the planks! Dodge the swords! Here comes the dummy!" And as he twisted on his heel, making a red-orange tornado with streams of fire appear around him.

Silver and Mighty quickly followed their friends examples, forming their own Spinjitzu tornadoes, a silvery-white one with ice for the silver hedgehog, and an earth-brown one with bits of dust and earth for the armadillo.

Soon enough, the whole skeleton army rushed out of the cave and the four ninja soon stopped, and Silver allowed the scythe to come back to the ground. "That was awesome!" yelled Amy.

"Hah! Look at 'em run! They're going faster than Eggman when he's being chased!" said Silver, laughing.

"Always wonder how he kept ahead of Sonic," said Mighty, chuckling.

Cinos flinched slightly at his actual name, then shrugged and said, "We all know what adrenaline can do."

"Uh, guys," said Silver, looking behind him.

"You know Eggman?" asked Amy.

"Guys?" Silver repeated.

Cinos nodded and said, "I've got him to thank for me being like this."

"GUYS!" yelled Silver.

"What?" asked everyone, turning around, then freezing at what they saw.

"I-is that ah-ah-ah dragon?" squeaked Amy, looking at the large earth-brown dragon behind them, which looked very ticked.

"Yup," said Mighty. The dragon gave a roar and slammed it's feet into the ground, causing a large crack to appear. The four Mobians quickly got out of the way and Silver asked, "How are we gonna defeat this thing?"

Cinos leapt onto a boulder close to the entrance and said, "Hey big guy! Sensei Wu sent us! You know, the son of the first Spinjitzu Master? He sent us to get the Golden Weapon!"

The dragon swung it's head around and looked at Cinos. "Cinos, what are you-" Amy started to say, but Mighty held up a hand and said, "Shhh!"

The dragon continued to look at the part-metal hedgehog as he continued, "Garmadon's back and he's sending these skeleton warriors to collect the weapons. We're trying to get the Golden Weapons before they do. We're sorry that we didn't ask for your permission to take the Scythe of Quakes, but we didn't realized that you were alive! We thought you were a decoration or something! So, once again, we are sorry for taking the weapon."

The dragon stomped forward and brought it's muzzle close to Cinos' face, where it looked into his eyes. Cinos flipped the visor up, allowing the dragon to see his emerald green eyes, with the scar across his right one.

They remained like that for a few minutes, with everyone else standing still, afraid that the dragon would attack them. Finally, it nodded and walked over to the Scythe where it had been dropped. It picked it up and looked at them, then walked over to Mighty and handed the weapon to him, then it nodded and went back into the cave.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, then Amy said, "How'd you know that would work?"

"I know a few things about dragons," said Cinos, starting to walk towards the entrance of the cave and flipping his visor back over his eyes. "I had a friend who was a dragon. She said that because of a dragon's purity, they can sense the truth in others. Even though that isn't the kind of dragon that I'm used to, I knew that it was a pretty good shot."

"Well, it's a good thing that that worked," said Silver, "otherwise we would've been dragon food."

"Let's get outta here before something worse shows up," said Mighty, headed for the entrance with the Scythe of Quakes.

When they walked outside, they were momentarily blinded by the bright light, but were soon greeted by Sensei Wu. "I see that you've retrieved the Scythe of Quakes." he greeted them.

"And we've unlocked Spinjitzu!" said Amy, spinning around to prove her point.

"So, now where do we go?" asked Silver.

"There is a harbor in a village not to far from here," said Wu, "we shall rent a ship and start for the location of the Shurikans of Ice."

"I think I'm the best driver here," said Mighty.

"Mighty, you've never even ridden a bicycle!" said Amy as they headed off. Well, almost all of them.

As soon as Amy, Silver, and Mighty were gone, Sensei Wu turned to the hidden Sonic and asked, "Is something wrong?"

"Don't you realize that they'll realize who I am soon?" said Sonic, referring to his friends, "I don't know how they don't recognize me now, but they will soon! And I don't know how they'll react!"

"I told you that when you asked to join me that I would help you come to terms with your past." said Wu, starting to head back, "How you will greet your friends is up to you. But when they realize who you are, you must stay with them. They've gone through too much after you supposedly died. You must be there to help them back." And with that, the old hedgehog left.

Sonic stayed where he was for a bit, then looked back towards the cave. While he and Sensei Wu had been talking, the guardian Dragon had appeared at the entrance, watching them. It bowed it's head to him, and after a bit, he nodded in return, then he followed Wu. He didn't notice the red-eyed shadow that stood in the corner...

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The evil overlord watched the figure of Sonic walk away, then mused to himself, "Hmmm. So after everything that the doctor did to him and he still cares about his friends. Perhaps that could be useful." Then he chuckled quietly.

So, that's the second chapter. I hope you guys are enjoying this story so far. I know that I am!