Oh, body is KILLING me as I'm writing this. I kid you not, I am in SO MUCH PAIN!

But the pain is worth is when writing.

Chapter 10 - Free

The ninja were now up in Cyrus' office as he was pressing a few buttons and rewiring things.

"You just said we could easily wipe out the Over Lord without his hard-drive when earlier you wouldn't shut up about 'there's no defeating the Over Lord without the hard-drive'!" Jay mocked Cyrus' voice.

"Yes, but that was before I discovered the further abilities Zane's powers would allow us," Cyrus said while still wearing a smile, even after Jay mocked him horribly, and he was hooking two wires together.

"And how do you propose we do that?" Star questioned.

"With Zane's powers, and those," Cyrus replied as he referred to five chair that look like video-game playing chairs.

"By the time we even find Lloyd, the Over Lord would've had already drained his powers from him. But I have one last option: enter the Digiverse, the place where the Over Lord is being imprisoned. Once in there, than you really CAN stop him, even without his hard-drive," Cyrus explained.

But suddenly golden orbs of light energy began to appear floating around the office.

"Why do I have a hunch that these orbs have something to do with my husband?" Kate asked with worry.

"We need to hurry; the Over Lord has already begun to take Lloyd's powers.

And Cyrus was right. Back on the Over Lord's ship, Lloyd was trapped in a giant glass container, where his golden powers and energy were rapidly being sucked out of him. As he grew weaker by the second, he could see his powers swirling around him, but he was too weak to do anything.

Lloyd's powers were being transferred into another container, that once again held black armor. And the longer Lloyd's energy was being drained, the more a dark purple aura began to glow from the armor.

"Nothing will stop me when I become whole and all-powerful…and you, Boy, will be utterly powerless. I will soon be the Golden Master!"

Back in the city, more and more golden orbs of energy began to appear all over the city, and all technology began to come back to life again.

"P.I.X.A.L., put the building in lockdown; the Nindroids have already found us! And ninja, be seated. You need to hurry, get into the Digiverse, and defeat the Over Lord!" Cyrus demanded, and the ninja, including Star, all took their seats in the video-game chairs, and the hooked up their Techno Blades into the chairs' systems too.

"Now remember, when you get in there, it is still the Over Lord's turf, and so it is all his rules as well," Cyrus added and then wheeled over to the activation button, "hope this doesn't blow up," Cyrus mumbled, but the ninja heard him.

"What?!" the five ninja asked in unison, but then the system made them go unconscious as they slipped into a bright, coded world.

When the five woke up again, they found that they were still in the same room of Cyrus' office.

"Oh, it didn't even work!" Kai grunted as he and the others got out of their chairs.

"No, Kai, it did work. Don't you see the codes everywhere? They're even in you, look!" Star said as she grabbed Kai's hand and showed it to him, and Star was right when Kai saw thousands of digital codes traveling through his hand and wrist.

Even when Star let go of Kai's hand, he still continued to stare wide eyed at it.

"That's kinda freaky," Kai simply said.

"It's totally like a dream," Cole said as he looked out the window.

"Uh, nice metaphor, Cole. But now that we're in here, and you guys have the keys, we need to find that activation point, like Cyrus said," Star reminded them firmly.

The Nindroids, Pythor and tech Wu were had finally breached through the lockdown system, and they were about to go in when the savage citizens of the city came out of the building.

"Nothing will get in the way of letting us continue to watch Lost! Attack!" the leader cried, and they all began to fight, but they didn't notice Cyrus' empty mechanical limbs sneak by and into the building.

"Their vitals are very strong," P.I.X.A.L. pointed out while looking at the computer screen.

"Good, and the Over Lord still hasn't discovered where they are yet. This is excellent," Cyrus said with joy.

"It's like Cyrus said: the codes are all going in the same direction," Zane pointed out, as they were now on an outside ledge of the building.

"Yeah, they're all falling like ashes," Star added.

"So let's go and follow them," Kai suggested.

"That seems to be jumping the gun a bit there, Kai," Cole stated.

"No, not really. It's like Cole said: video games are like dreams, which means you can do anything you want…including not dying. Here, watch this," Star said with a huge smile as she suddenly walked off the edge, but she didn't fall at all, she just seemed to be walking on air.

"Says the master of shadows and GRAVITY!" Cole pointed out.

"I swear to you, I'm not using my powers. Jay, you're a game nerd. Show 'em," Star said.

"With pleasure. WHOO-HOOOOO!"

Jay cheered as he just jumped off the building and fell far below to another level outside the building, and Star flew down after him. And they both landed safely.

"As long as you imagine it, you can do it!" Jay and Star shouted up to the others in unison.

Cole and Zane agreed, and jumped down too; also landing safely, but Kai was hesitant.

"C'mon, Kai, you'll be fine!" Star urged.

"AAAAAHHHHH!"

Kai eventually decided to jump, and though he didn't land on his feet and landed face-first instead, he still lived.

"Not all cats land on their feet, I guess," Cole assumed.

In Cyrus' office, he was watching the computers excitedly.

"Yes, yes! They're slowly but surely learning the ways of the Digiverse!"

But P.I.X.A.L. and Kate were too busy watching the ninja, and Nya was too busy fighting Cyrus's legs.

"Yeah…that's great…now, if only they could maybe hurry it up!" Nya grunted while continuing to wrestle the limbs.

"Oh no!" Cyrus said as he saw the Nindroids, Pythor(who was no longer wearing his cloak, and that was forgotten to be mentioned ealier), and Tech Wu make their way up to his office on the security cams.

"Cyrus! The Over Lord has found the ninja! They will soon be consumed by the corrupted codes in the Digiverse!" P.I.X.A.L. pointed out in fear.

"Uh, guys, who's imagining THIS?!" Star asked as she and the other ninja were being sucked down into the codes like quick-sand.

All of the ninja answered with an 'it's not me!'

And then the large, evil eyes of the Over Lord appeared in the Digiverse.

"You had the audacity to come into MY world, AND defeat me?!" the Over Lord asked in rage.

After a few more moments, the ninja were completely consumed by the codes, but before it was too late, the giant mechanical arm nearby grabbed them, and pulled them out to safety.

"It's me, P.I.X.A.L. I don't have much time, the Nindroids are on their way! You need to hur-!" P.I.X.A.L. was struggling to say before the Over Lord could cut her off, but luckily she was able to get enough information to the ninja before that happened.

"Enough! I took it easy on you before, but you're in my world now; I will show you no mercy!" the Over growled.

"Let's not wait around, guys! Let's go!" Kai shouted.

"But the activation point is all the way down there. We won't reach it fast enough by just free-falling," Zane pointed out.

Suddenly the Over Lord startled to rotate the whole world, and he pretty soon turned it all the way upside down. And the ninja would've fallen if they hadn't grabbed the top of the building to stop from falling.

Meanwhile, the Nindroids, Tech Wu and Pythor continued to travel up towards Cyrus' office, but then they stopped when they saw Nya standing in their way with a game-face.

"I will give you ONE LAST opportunity to turn and go home!" Nya said firmly.

General Cryptor only laughed.

"How cute," the robot general said sarcastically.

"I'm not cute, I'm fierce," Nya grumbled as she looked out the large window behind her, and then in the blink of an eye, her Samurai-X suit came crashing through.

But when Nya was fighting the Nindroids, she didn't notice that Pythor, Tech Wu had snuck passed and continued to make their way towards Cyrus' office.

The ninja were making their way through the still-upside down building.

"Wait a minute! Star, are you thinkin what I'm thinkin'?" Jay asked the Master of Shadows and Gravity.

"Totally! We've been looking at this the wrong way all along. Time to use your imagination again, guys. Let's go, Jay!" Star told everyone, and suddenly she and Jay jumped out of a window.

Jay formed a blue car, like the one he hacked in the city, and Star jumped in with him as they sped up the upside down building.

"Those two play way too many video games," Kai commented.

"But they're also right. Let's go!" Cole said, and jumped out of the window too while also creating his earth mech, and running after Jay and Star.

"I can do this, I can do this," Kai repeated in his head and jumped. He was able to create his red jet at first, but then his concentration broke, and he continued to fall.

"Nope! I can't do this! I can't do this! AAAAAHHH!"

Kai would've fallen into oblivion if Zane hadn't swooped in and caught him with his helicopter.

"NINJAAA-GOOOOO!"

All five ninja shouted as they traveled on the side of the building, dodging anything the Over Lord was trying to throw at them.

Cyrus was continuing to fight his limbs, and P.I.X.A.L. and Kate were still watching over the ninja.

But then they noticed that Tech Wu and Pythor had finally reached the office.

"Uh, oh," Cyrus whimpered.

And then it only got worse as Nindroid that was driving a jet suddenly flew up to the office window, and shot a grappling hook that shattered the window, and grabbed Cyrus.

"Kate, P.I.X.A.L., it's up to you now-AAAAHHHH!" Cyrus managed to tell them before the Nindroid flew away with Cyrus being clutched in the grappling hook.

"The activation point is underground, we'll need to break through it!" Cole shouted.

"Then let's get surgical about this!" Jay shouted and fired a missile. And when it hit the ground, it shattered like glass.

Then the ninja all went through the gaping hole and into the below. When they fell down there, the room was much bigger.

They deactivated their vehicles, and looked around. And that's when they saw a huge, crystal-like structure with a huge gear in the middle.

"The activation point, that's it! But is this it? There's no way the Over Lord would've given up?" Kai questioned.

"Well, we shouldn't wait to find out!" Cole replied, and then he lead the other ninja up to the gear, while Star stayed behind since she had no Techno Blade; there was nothing she could do.

"Let's hack it!" Kai said with confidence as he and the other ninja put their Techno Blades together and over the gear.

Something began to glow and whir at that point.

"You're doing it!" Star said with joy as the ninja jumped down.

But then the joy was crushed when a huge dark clue cloud rose up from the ground, and evil red eyes showed that it was the Over Lord.

"The game isn't over until we've beaten the epic, final boss-battle, I forgot!" Jay cried with worry.

"But there's no defeating me, foolish ninja!" the Over Lord yelled, and at that moment, a golden light lit up, and a golden beam shot towards the Over Lord, and he easily caught it in his hands. Once he had the ball of energy, he chucked it at the ninja, and it would've killed them if they hadn't moved out of the way in time.

"Oh no! He's blocked the reboot signal; we have to move him," Zane instructed.

"MOVE HIM?!" Jay shouted.

"We'll have to!" Zane replied back. And then he and the others just ran towards the Over Lord.

But it's like the Over Lord said, there was no defeating him…at least, not at first when he easily knocked back the ninja.

Back in Cyrus' office, P.I.X.A.L. continued to fight while Kate had to stay back again.

P.I.X.A.L. was suddenly able to knock Tech Wu across the room, but he landed near the master button that would probably destroy the operation of the ninja being in the Digiverse if pushed again.

"Push it!" Pythor called to Tech Wu.

"No, then they'll be stuck in the Digiverse forever!" Kate cried.

"You mean like you left me in the Devourer?! Jusssst press the button already!" Pythor screeched, and Tech Wu would've pushed it, if another Nindroid hadn't suddenly entered the office, and suddenly just sprinted and bashed Tech Wu out of the window.

But he didn't fell to his death, he only fell to another level on the outside of the building.

The Nindroid removed its hood…and it was acutally Garmadon in disguise.

"What? But you 're oath to never fighting; you said you kept it!" Pythor grunted angrily.

"Well, all bets were off when you took my son," Garmadon growled.

"It'sss too late for him anyway. Your son ours now!" Pythor said and jumped out the window, and was caught by another jet being driven by another Nindroid.

Garmadon looked out the window, and he focused his attention onto Wu far below. And then he jumped out and rode the walls like a ninja. And it looked like a Mexican stand-off when he reached Wu.

"It ends here…and now…Brother!" Garmadon said firmly, and Tech Wu only growled.

The ninja were still having a hard time fighting the Over Lord in the Digiverse.

"They say the good guys always win…I don't think so. The Golden Ninja and his powers are mine!" the Over Lord shouted.

Lloyd's energy was still being drained back on the ship, but he was somehow still awake.

"I am not…alone. I…am not…alone!" Lloyd said with all his strength, and then he could've sworn he heard Zane's voice saying: "You are not alone, Lloyd!"

"I am not alone!" Lloyd's voice seemed to have travlele into the Digiverse, and Zane was first to hear and notice Lloyd's voice.

"Lloyd," Zane said and picked himself back up, "Over Lord, you are wrong! Good guys may not always win, but they' don't give up either!"

And with that statement, and amazing thing happened: Zane's white ninja suit suddenly turned golden, like Lloyd's.

"We can't move him, so we'll go around him!" Zane shouted, and then began to dodge his way around the Over Lord.

"But Zane, you're golden!" Kai called out.

"Exactly! Use it to reflect the reboot signal. Cole, get into the light!" Zane called down as he was now standing on top of the Over Lord, and the golden reboot signal was reflecting off of him and was following his directions.

The armor in the chamber on the Over Lord's ship was starting to be able to move as it lifted an arms to pull itself up.

Cole was able to turn his suit to a golden one too, and then Jay was too; even Star did it.

Cole caught the light Zane was giving him, and then he threw it to Star, and Star threw it to Jay; Kai was all that's left.

"Kai, hurry up and get into position!" Jay called and Kai sprinted to get into the right position.

The percentage of the extraction of Lloyd's powers was almost done as it was now at ninety percent.

"I've come too far to fail now!" the Over Lord grunted.

"C'mon, Kai. Believe!" Star shouted to Kai.

"But I just can't. this just isn't my world!" Kai shouted in fear.

"Yes, you're right, little Red Ninja. There's nothing you can do now…it's too late for you all!" the Over Lord said as he looked down at Kai.

Lloyd had finally had the last of his energy sucked put of him as he finally collapsed, and then the armor sat up and came to life too.

Garmadon and Tech Wu were continuing to fight high up on the building's outside edge, and they kept their balance to not fall too. But then Tech Wu got the advantage, and he knocked Garmadon off his feet.

"I will not allow this to happen," said the Over Lord.

"BUT I ALLOW MYSELF!" Kai shouted at the top of his lungs, and finally got his suit to turn golden too. Which also gave the golden reboot signal the chance to finally go around and reach the activation point.

A bright beacon shot up as soon as the signal reached it.

"No…no…NOOOOOO!"

The Digiverse was filled with a bright light, and it was over.

The evil in the technology throughout the city, had left, and then the technology protected the people from the Nindroids, and they cheered.

And just when Garmadon was hanging on for dear life when Tech Wu was truely about to kill him, Wu turned back to normal when the evil left him too. And he even grabbed Garmadon before he accidently lost his grip and was about to fall.

Nya was still fighting when the system was rebooted, but what General Cryptor and his Nindroids were with him knew that the rebooting was complete, they stopped fighting.

"Switch offline!" Cryptor commanded his Nindroids, "I'm looking forward to our next date," Cryptor growled at and then he and the other Nindroids left her.

P.I.X.A.L. pressed the master button, letting the ninja awaken.

"I'm…just…Zane," Zane mumbled that one thing when he first woke up, and P.I.X.A.L. greeted him with a big hug.

"Zane, you're more much than just that," Kai added.

"You all are," Wu said as he and Garmadon walked into the office too.

"Oh, Sensei, you're back!" Jay said happily.

"So, is that it? Has the system really been wiped clean now?" Zane questioned, and P.I.X.A.L. checked the computers.

"There are no readings of the Over lord; he's gone," P.I.X.A.L. replied with a smile, and everyone cheered.

"But what about Lloyd?" both Kate and Garmadon asked in unison, stopping the cheering.

Speaking of Lloyd, he was crawling through the ship that was now falling out of the sky and on fire again as it was plummeting towards the ocean. And he reached the door to the way out and he was greeted by the sight of a fast approaching ocean.

So then he jumped out, and landed a safe distance away from the ship when it crashed into the vast waters.

They all waited for the computer to search every radio station to search for a signal from Lloyd, but there was nothing but static…at first.

"Hello?" Lloyd's voice was heard, and that made them all smile and cheer.

"Guys…is that you?" Lloyd asked on the radio.

"Yes, it's us Lloyd, and we're so glad to hear that you're alive!" Kate said happily.

"Kate, good, you're ok…thank the First Spinjitzu Master," Lloyd sighed happily.

"Yes, I am…and so is Garmadon."

"What?! Dad's alive?!" Lloyd aske with excitement.

"Yes, I'm right here Lloyd. Where are you right now?" Garmadon asked.

"Don't worry, I'm safe in a remote village," Lloyd replied.

"Well, stay there, and we'll be there soon to come get you," Kate instructed.

"Y-yeah, that seems like the best option…since my powers are a little spent," Lloyd said nervously, making everyone else chuckle.

But while they were laughing, P.I.X.A.L. was staring at the empty wheel chair of Cyrus Borg…who was not with them at the moment to celebrate with them.

Zane noticed this, and places a reassuring hand on her shoulder.

"Don't worry. We will find Cyrus again, and I'm sure he's fine," Zane said softly.

But on the bottom sea floors, where the decrepit ship of the Over Lord now lay…the mass that had been draining Lloyd's powers had come to life, but as some pink blob.

"I…am…free!" the Over Lord said meekly.

Yes! Everyone is ok, yay...but we all know that it is still not over.

And with that being said; until the next chapter, I'm TRikiD, bye-bye!