Several hours later, at an arena, everyone, except Oni, Magna and Gewuji were cheering as a Jadeblade was embedded on a pillar in the middle as Chen soon sat down. In one corner, Kai waits as Jay, in a cage, was hitting a punching bag with Cole's poster on it, in anger. "Thinks it'll be an easy fight?" He asked before hitting it again. "Well, I'll show him!" He soon fired a bolt of lightning, destroying it. Jay laughs before he soon sadly looked at the remains of the poster.
In the other corner, Cole, in the other cage, was kicking at a punching bag with Jay's picture on it before turning in triumph, but the punching bag comes back and knocks him onto the bars as Lloyd watched him before he uses Spinjitzu, destroying the bag.
As soon as he dispersed, Cole sadly looked at the photo while Neuro came up to Jay's corner. "You're cutting it close!" Kai yelled. "So, did you see into his head?"
"I'm sorry." Neuro replied. "I couldn't get past Clouse."
"Good." Jay said. "Then we can finally put our feud to rest, gladiator style."
"But I did see something. For a brief moment while he was distracted by his daughter, I saw inside Clouse's mind. The powers he's collecting, they are for a spell. A spell for what? I don't know. But it's in his spell book, on page 149. I'm sorry it's not enough to stop the fight. I wish I could've done more."
"That's ok." Kai said. "You've done what you could." Kai soon turned to Lloyd and Cole and shook his head.
Lloyd sighs as he turned to Cole. "You don't have to say it." Cole said. "It was inevitable we were gonna have to face each other. May has we'll be Jay. This fight's been a long time coming."
"Well, I'm not at peace with this, but that doesn't mean you still can't find peace with each other. Geoff found peace with us by getting himself eliminated. We don't have control when we fight, but we do have control how we fight. Jay's not your enemy, Chen is. Remember that."
"Dragon once said the best way to defeat your enemy is to make him your friend, but how are you supposed to defeat your friend?" The cages soon open as the crowd cheers and music was playing through the speakers as Cole and Jay put their bandanas on.
A few seconds later, Kai, Lloyd and Neuro join the crowd. "You tried your best." Oni said to his son and Kai. "The rest is up to them."
"I hope they can see that too." Lloyd replied.
"Let the tournament continue!" Chen yelled. "Jay, Master of Lightning, vs. Cole, Master of-" Before he could finish, Jay and Cole run at each other as Jay fires a lightning bolt at Cole, but he dodges and slammed the ground, creating a trail of rocks coming after Jay, but he backflips and chuckles.
"That's all you've got?" He asked. "Least valuable Ninja!"
"Eat dirt, Bluebell!" Cole yelled, firing a blast of Earth power, but Jay dodges it and fires a bolt of lightning at him, but Cole makes a shield of rock, which breaks upon being hit by the lightning.
Chen chuckles as he sees the two fighting. "Oh, Heian, go get me popcorn." He said. "This is turning out better than I anticipated."
Meanwhile, in Zane's cell, he had managed to get free of his chains as he was soon cutting the bars between his and P.I.X.A.L.'s cell. "Hurry, Zane." She said. "Before they come back."
The bars soon come off. "I'm through." He replied as he crawled through. "Now let's get out of here."
But as he came in, he saw P.I.X.A.L.'s parts scattered around and is shocked before coming up to a computer. "P.I.X.A.L.! You're...you're-"
"Scrapped." P.I.X.A.L.'s image was on the computer as he soon sat down on a chair. "I know, but I couldn't tell you. Not when you needed to get out of here. Sadly, like Geoff said, this is my ending, but you have a new beginning." Zane holds P.I.X.A.L.'s hand. "Zane, you must go alone. Find your friends. Stop Chen. I know you have it in you. And don't worry about me." Zane holds his hand onto the computer as P.I.X.A.L. did so as well. "I will always be part of you." Zane soon saw a hard drive, connected to the computer.
"You're right, you will always be a part of me." He goes to grab the hard drive.
"Zane, what are you-?" He removes it and inserts it into the back of his head and P.I.X.A.L. was now in his head. "Zane, you've taken my neural drive and input it into your processor. You're ingenious!"
"Not ingenious, upgraded. I'm sure there'll be other surprises about me we'll find out together, but until then, let's both get out of-"
"Zane, behind you! Initiate evasive-" Zane turned to see Heianmofa and Textilis as Heianmofa uses a taser to knock him out.
"Next time, maybe it would be best to tie up the Nindroid with chains thick enough that he couldn't cut through." He said to Textilis.
"I'll bring the Vengestone ones." Textilis replied.
At the arena, Jay and Cole were blasting their Elemental powers which are clashing before Jay's moved close. "Stronger than you thought, eh?" He asked. "That's your betrayal flowing through my veins."
"I'm looking forward to the peace and quiet when you're out of the tournament." Cole replied, holding his hands out further, the blast knocking Jay back. The blast caused his bandana to come off and the front of his gi showed small tears as the tear behind his pants grew bigger. The crowd cheered as Jay slowly got up, couching blood out of his mouth. Cole was shocked to see his beaten opponent and friend. "What are we doing? I don't want you out. You're not my enemy, Chen is."
"Oh, sure, lower my guard by pretending to be my friend, then swoop in to steal the prize, typical Cole manoeuvre." He spits the blood out of his mouth and conjures Lightning and moved up to Cole as he conjured Earth.
"I never meant to hurt you, Jay. If I knew it would destroy our friendship, I'd take it all back."
"Well, if we're being honest, I was upset about losing Nya, but I take blame for that. I was more upset about losing you. We used to be good friends."
"The best! Right? We should've been honest with each other instead of bottling this up."
"Agreed. But how are we supposed to stop fighting? We can't both win."
"Well, maybe we can draw it out till they call it a tie. Quick, attack me! But not as hard as I did to you."
They soon charge at each other and start sparring as Chen groans while eating popcorn. "What is this, patty cake?" He asked before throwing the popcorn onto a nearby cultist member's head. "I'm bored! Release the Condrai Crushers!" He presses a button, which opens a door and some cultist members on vehicles come out.
"Hey, that's cheating!" Magna yelled. "He can't do that!"
"He always likes to bend his own rules." Oni replied.
Cole and Jay move their backs to each other. "I got you back." Cole said.
"And I've got yours." Jay replied.
One of the Condrai Crushers comes at them. "Ninjago!" They both yelled, doing Spinjitzu, dodging the crusher as it crashed into a wall and the member face plants in it.
"Ah, they fight together." Oni said. "Good work, son."
"Yeah, I do listen to you every once in a while." Lloyd replied.
Cole soon ran up to one, jumps and hits his hands on the ground, creating a ramp and sending the crusher up, before grabbing the back of it and slams it into another one, into a wall. The last one soon comes at Jay as he soon flipped forward, landing on the back of it before conjuring lightning and shocks the cultist member, making the crusher stop before it hits Cole. The crowd cheers as Jay and Cole high five each other. "Enough!" Chen yelled, making the crowd stop. "I know what you're trying to do. If neither of you win, then both of you will lose." The crowd starts to cheer again as Chen presses a lot of buttons. The ground soon starts coming down, revealing many trapdoors as they all interconnect. Jay and Cole try their best not to fall into any of them as Chen keeps pressing buttons. "We can't both lose." Cole said. "Chen's right, there can only be one."
"And it should be you." Jay replied. "You and I know I'm lucky to have even made it this far. And I'm hurt. You take the Jadeblade."
Cole runs up to the pillar and climbs up it. As he was about to take it, Cole soon looked at Jay before soon jumping and kicks the Jadeblade over to Jay, who catches it and is shocked. "Winner!" Chen yelled, pointing to Jay as most of the crowd groaned and Chen soon pointed to Cole. "Loser. Master of Lightning moves on."
Cole soon looked at Jay. "She's yours, Jay." He said, referring to Nya. "I shouldn't have let her kiss me. Win this thing." He soon goes down a trapdoor.
"About time."
"Cole may be gone, but unlike Geoff, he did not lose." Oni said to Kai, Lloyd and Neuro. "Let what he did here today be a lesson for us all. Know thine enemy, but more importantly know thy friend. He fought like a true Ninja."
In the Badlands, the DB Express was moving along the road as Nya looked through some binoculars and sees the falcon come up to it. "Why did you call me here?" She asked as she looked at it. The falcon squawked as the screen soon showed Chen's island on the map. "Zane's beacon. Coming from somewhere off the coast. But that's impossible." She soon pressed a button. "Master Wu, come in! This is Nya. Do you read? I think I may have found the Ninja."
