Lloyd's P.O.V.
Cole, Jay, Zane and I all waited above the boiling sea on the Destiny's Shadow. It was dead silent. No one said anything. Jay didn't even crack a joke. Yes, that silent. Cole, Jay and Zane watched for Kai and Nya to return while I piloted the ship.
Where are they?" Jay asked. "They've been down there for a while now. Do you think they're OK?"
"I'm sure they are fine," I told him.
"Maybe they are, but we've got company," Zane said. "Incoming!"
I spun around, just in time to see a missile shot past us and explode in front of us.
"Who's shooting at us?" Jay cried out.
"Who do you think!?" Cole yelled at him.
I looked up, seeing a large, floating ship come into view. It was the Hands of Time. They were here.
"Watch out!" Zane cried.
I dropped us rapidly to the right, barely avoiding another missile.
"Guys! A little help!" I cried to the team.
"To the sky?" Cole suggested.
"I'll stay here," Jay said. "Go!"
Cole and Zane nodded to each other. They jumped off, summoning their dragons. I watched the black and white dragons flying towards the large ship.
"Lloyd! Left!" Jay shouted at me.
I quickly turned us left. I missile exploded, knocking Jay off his feet.
"Jay!" I cried to him.
"I'm alright!" Jay told me. "Just knocked back."
I nodded. I looked up to see Cole and Zane flying around the ship, distracting them. They were aiming their shots at Cole and Zane, not us.
"Get us closer," Jay told me. "I can do some damage to them."
I nodded, steering us closer to the Hands of Time boat.
"Take that!" Jay cried.
Jay shot a bolt of lightning at it, causing a missile to be shot off course and nearly hit Cole. I watched Cole quickly lose control and start plummeting towards to ocean below, screaming the whole way. I saw Zane try to go for him, but get blocked by a missile strike in front of him.
"Cole!" Jay cried.
There was silence, I saw Jay looking around frantically.
"Where did he go?" Jay looked to me. "He disappeared."
"He couldn't have," I told Jay. "He must have fallen in."
"There was no splash," Jay told me.
"Guys!" I heard Cole call.
Jay and I looked up, seeing a large dragon above us. Cole landed on the deck, followed by Kai and Nya. In Kai's hands, the pause and the reversal blade.
"You got them!" Jay cheered.
"Now we can get out of here," I said.
"Zane!" Nya cried.
We all jumped, turning to see a missile flying right at Zane. He was directly above the Hands of Time. His dragon disappeared and we heard a faint scream as he fell onto their ship.
"They have Zane!" Kai cried.
"And they're still coming!" Cole cried. "Lloyd, get us out of here!"
"But Zane!" Nya started to argue.
"We can't win this, Nya," I told her. "We need to go. If they follow us, we'll take them on once we have more equal playing fields. If they leave, we know where to find him."
Nya nodded, Jay hugging her tightly. I turned, casting one final glance at the Hands of Time boat. They didn't follow us. I saw Zane, watching us leave. The horror he must feel right now.
Zane's P.O.V.
They left. Clearly to protect the blades, but still. There was no attempt whatsoever to save me. Krux and Acronix held me in place as they left.
"Do you want us to go after them?" Machia asked.
"No," Acronix said. "There's no need. They'll come to us."
"You won't win," I told them. "We'll stop you."
"Oh, Zane," Krux smirked at me. "You ninja will see the end. Those blades will be ours, as well as Ninjago."
I pulled on my arms, trying to escape, but couldn't succeed. They chained my hands behind my back, wrapping them around a pole so I couldn't run. I was forced to just wait. It took a while to get back to their base, then they took me off the pole and escorted me off the boat. I tried to shake them off me so I could run, but had no luck.
"In here," Krux said.
He pushed me into a building, and I looked around, seeing the building to be made of cells. Two cells exactly. One was empty, and I was pushed in it. They pushed me to my knees, chaining my hands above my head. I couldn't get up without damaging my shoulders, severely. Then I noticed Master Wu sitting in the other cell.
"Master," I called to him.
He looked up at me for a second, then turned away.
"What have you done to him?" I glared at the Hands of Time.
"The Time punch is taking him out," Acronix smiled. "Not long and he'll be gone."
"No," I cried.
I fell forwards, landing on my face. I was pushed up onto my knees.
"You can't do anything without the reversal blade, which your friends have," Krux snapped. "They better bring it, or your pathetic Master will die, and you'll shortly follow."
I glared at them. They walked out, locking the cell behind them.
"Zane."
I turned to seeing Master, his head down to the floor.
"Master?" I said.
"No," the voice said.
I recognized it. He wheeled out in his wheelchair.
"Cyrus," I smiled.
"I snuck over here when they left," Cyrus whispered to me. "And I grabbed an extra set of keys."
I smiled. Cyrus unlocked the cell door, quickly wheeling to my side. He undid the chains, allowing me to get up. He smiled at me. He gave me the keys and I ran to Master. I opened to cell and moved to his side.
"Master, say something," I begged.
He didn't respond. I got down on my knees, looking up at his face.
"He's asleep," I sighed.
"Zane, you must leave," Cyrus told me. "They'll come back once they realize I'm not where they left me."
"You're coming with me," I told him.
"But Wu-" he started arguing.
I pulled a shuriken out, cutting the ropes off Master. I picked him up, carefully placing him on my shoulder. With one hand around him, I used the other to push Cyrus Borg's wheelchair and we ran.
"Which way, Cyrus?" I asked.
"That way," he pointed left.
After a few minutes of running, we had no encounters with vermillion and had the exit in our sight.
"I'm going to get Master up to the top, then I'll come get you," I told Cyrus.
"Hurry back," Cyrus told me.
I raced to the top, set Master against the stone wall and made sure he was alright. I turned and raced back down the Cyrus, getting him up the ramp. It was a harder process, but it was easier with both hands. We reached the top and I heard an engine in the distance down the tunnel.
"Someone's coming," Cyrus told me.
"We need to hide," I said.
I moved him behind a large boulder, then quickly move Master behind it. I watched in silence as the engine shut off. I heard a murmur of voices, then saw two people. They were in black and blue, talking.
"Where do you think he is?"
"No clue."
"Cole! Jay!" I cried to them.
Both of them tensed up, taking fighting stances. I popped out from the hiding spot, waving to them.
"Zane!" they both cried.
As they ran to me, I saw Nya, Kai and Lloyd appear out of the cavern.
"You escaped," Cole smiled.
"And you found Master and Cyrus," Kai smiled, walking over to join us.
"Kai, good to see you as yourself again," Cyrus smiled.
"Good to see you to," Kai smiled.
I turned to see Lloyd kneeling beside Master.
"Is he OK?" Lloyd looked to me.
Then I remembered.
"Where's the reversal blade?" I asked.
"Here," Nya said, handing it to me.
I smiled. I tapped it against Master, and little sparks flew from it to him. There was a couple moments of silence, then his eyes opened.
"Master!" everyone cried.
He looked around confused.
"What happened?" he asked, holding his head.
"It's a long story," Lloyd sighed in relief.
"With more to come," a voice called out.
I grabbed the person with the pause blade and jumped out of the way. A slow-moe bubble surrounded the others and I looked to see Kai beside me.
"Well, looks like all the blades are here," Krux laughed. "Hand them over."
"You hand yours over," Kai snapped.
"Like we would ever do that," Acronix mocked. "Now be good ninja and give them to us."
Acronix lunged at me. I stepped back, out of his grasp. He glared at me. The possibility of this being a final battle between us. 91.4%.Otherwise known as very likely.
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