Me: Also if ppl wanna insert their OCs that's fine with me...
Just about everyone: OOOH OOH OOH ME I HAVE AN OC
Me: what

So yeah... I've got a ton of OC applications... not sure what do to with them all...

Review replies:

Nurse Medusa: xD yeah. Hmm, yes, we need more evil OCs.

Breana: That is an original element - I've never seen an OC with that power before - but it's just a bit too... I don't know what a good word for it is.

KRR: HEY! Be nice to my characters! You'll scare them off! Must I hit you with my fanfiction again? It's not as big this time because as of now it's only 5 chapters, but still. Ally is rather indifferent, it appears. All she said was "Rip".

Samantha: All will be revealed in time, my dear reader... Also, do you mean the Shadelings?

Leb: All will be revealed... ;) AHH ALL THE STAR WARS QUESTIONS yIKES Okay. 1) Yes. 2) Quite a bit. It's very intresting. 3) I have watched 4 and 5 so far, and the next one I watch will most likely be 6. I would have watched them in order starting at the prequels, but my Mom got the 4th out of the library first, so that's the one I watched. 4) Like I already mentioned, the next one I watch will most likely be 6. I'm not sure if I'll watch the 7th one after that, or do the prequels first. Which would you suggest? 5) Mmm... Han Solo. Though I know he dies eventually, sooooo... yeah. 6) A woodchuck would chuck all he could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood! 7) Most likely. 8) I don't know what that is, but I'll probably watch it too. 9) I don't even think that's a question... xD 10)Also not a question. Somehow I am not surprised by the Star Wars-themed OCs. xD I'll do my best to put them in, but currently I can't think of a place to put them... ooh, wait, I have an idea for a one-shot now. ^ ^

Starry: Wow, that sounds like my reaction when I figured out that Ninjago Season 6 was out... xD I'm so glad you love this so much! I like your OC. ^ ^ I think she's outta luck with Kai, though...

Petal: You're welcome. :)

Okay that was a lot of review replies. Anyway! Have a chapter!

Chapter 3

Lloyd woke up to the soft squeak of his room door opening. Confused, he opened his eyes, blinking in the dim, light that flowed through the window. Why was someone in his room? It was the middle of the night! He sat up, blinking the sleep out of his eyes, to see Kai in the process of trying to sneak towards him.

"Kai?" Lloyd whispered, since he didn't want to bother anyone nearby with a loud voice. "What are you doing in my room? And why do you have a rope?" he added a moment later, noticing the coil of thick rope over his brother's arm.

"I, uh..." Kai looked like a rat caught in a trap. "...I don't know... um... I was gonna try to play a prank on you, but then you woke up."

"I'm a ninja, Kai. I'm a light sleeper." Lloyd pushed the blanket on his bed off himself, now fully awake. "We could go play a prank on someone else." the younger ninja suggested.

"Maybe." Kai shrugged, glancing over at a desk covered with various awards Lloyd had been given for... well, various green-ninja related things. Taking a step towards it, Kai picked up one of them, a tall, solid gold trophy. "Where'd you get this?" he asked, turning to Lloyd with the trophy in hand.

"I don't know." the blond boy shrugged, sliding off his bed and walking over. "What does it say on-" he never got a chance to finish his sentence, as Kai abruptly swung the trophy at his head. Reflexively, Lloyd jerked away, out of the trophy's path. "Hey!" he exclaimed. "What was that for?!"

"Don't resist." Kai snarled in reply. Lloyd blinked in surprise at the fire ninja's voice, which sounded... dark. Evil. Dangerous. Lloyd jumped back as Kai took another swing at him, landing in a defensive stance.

"What are you doing? Why are you attacking me?!" Lloyd demanded as Kai stepped forward, one of his hands catching on fire.

"My orders are to bring you back to base." Kai replied, using the same cold, angry voice as before. "And I mean to carry them out."

"What orders?! Who told you to do this?!" Lloyd sidestepped a fireball, which luckily didn't set anything on fire. It occurred to him then that he should probably call for help, so he did. "Everyone, wake up!" he yelled as loud as he could. "Kai's attacking me!"

"I said, don't resist!" Kai growled, throwing another fireball. "And if you must know, my commander is the Overlord."

"What?!" Lloyd barely dodged Kai's next attack as his mind whirled. "That's impossible! He's dead!"

"You can't kill the Overlord." Kai rolled his eyes, a sinister smile spreading across his face. "What, you don't believe me? Well maybe this will convince you." A moment later, Kai's appearance changed. His tanned skin faded to pale grey and his hair darkened, paling as well. His eyes, however, turned purple. Glowing purple. Lloyd stepped back in shock, almost tripping over something on the floor. That was obviously the effect of dark matter. And the Overlord was the only one he knew of who had access to it. It was true, then. The Overlord was alive.

"Guys, wake up! Help!" the green ninja shouted again as Kai chuckled at his shock.

"Wow, you took that hard. Hopefully you'll take this hard, too." the fire ninja stepped forward and swung the trophy again. Lloyd, his reflexes impaired by his shock and fear, dodged too late, and the gold crashed into his head with a slam. Wait... Lloyd realized as he crumpled to the ground, stars flashing in front of his eyes. That sound wasn't from the trophy hitting him, it was from the door of his room.A moment later, he heard an angry shout from Kai, and blinked the stars away to see Jay and Zane pinning the fire ninja to the ground. Hands touched Lloyd's arms, pulling him to his feet, before he heard Morro's voice.

"Are you alright?" the ghost asked. Lloyd nodded blinking a couple more times to clear his vision as Morro set him down on his bed.

"Get off me!" Kai snarled, struggling underneath the white and blue ninja.

"Uh, no." Jay winced as Kai grabbed his injured shoulder and tried to throw him off. "You just tried to, like, kill Lloyd or something. Zane, give me a hand with him."

"He says the Overlord's alive." Lloyd lifted a hand to his forehead to feel a bruise forming where Kai had hit him. "And I think he's telling the truth."

"It certainly looks that way." Zane said grimly, finally managing to snatch the trophy from Kai.

"You can't stop us!" Kai yelled, struggling violently. "Ninjago will fall to the Overlord's alliance!"

"The Overlord has allies? Great. That just makes him more dangerous." Lloyd muttered. "Who's he allied with, Kai?"

"I'm not telling you anything." Kai stopped struggling, evedently realizing that he was beaten.

"You already told us something." Jay pointed out.

"What's going on?" Lloyd looked over to see his father standing in the doorway, Sensei Wu and Cole standing behind him.

"Uhh... the Overlord's back and he somehow infected Kai with dark matter and Kai attacked Lloyd and the Overlord's allied with someone but we don't know who!" Jay explained in one breath.

"Are you alright, son?" Lloyd's father asked worriedly, eying the dark bruise on the blond boy's forehead.

"Mostly." Lloyd shrugged. "Kai hit me pretty hard."

"Good to hear." Kai muttered. Lloyd frowned. It was... unnerving, Kai being like this. It hurt to have his best friend act so cold and unfeeling. This, Lloyd realized, must be how Kai must have felt when Lloyd was possessed by Morro.

"What are we gonna do with him?" Cole asked. "We obviously can't let him go, and there isn't exactly a prison in the monastery."

"There's a deepstone cell in the Bounty." Jay pointed out. "We can put him in there."

"Yeah, but first we need some Vengestone to put on him so he can't escape with his powers." Lloyd reminded them, rubbing his aching head. "Anyone?"

"I'm sure we can get hold of some soon," Sensei spoke up. "But for now he needs to be under constant surveillance."

"Hah. You'd do better to just let me go." Kai sneered. "The Overlord can see through my eyes and hear through my hears. As long as you keep me here, I'm just a spy for him."

"Correction. He needs to be under constant surveillance, far away from where we'll be making any plans." Sensei corrected himself. Kai scowled. Evidently that wasn't the result he was trying to get.

"Right. Cole, go wake everyone else up. This can't wait until morning. We need to prepare for the Overlord's attack." Cole nodded at Lloyd's instruction and ran off through the wall to wake up the rest of the monastery.

Cue everybody staring at me in silence again. ALL WILL BE EXPLAINED, DEARIES~ *runs off to hide from KRR*

Lloyd: Also, in case you're interested, now you can ask EVIL Kai questions!
Morro: Whee.

~FFF