Hey everyone, happy Friday. It is time for another update. Now Cole has to become careful with his anger and watch his heart rate or else. But how long could that last for him? Find out and enjoy.
Chapter 10: You Wouldn't Like When I'm Angry
Sirens rang with lights flashing of police vehicles speeding down the road. Bells rang like it was next period in school with lights flashing of the alarm. Citizens were screaming and scattering like their lives depended on it. They ran past the surrounding the police department as they stood on guard in front of a bank. All was silent, except for the alarms. But then they saw movement to raise their guns to the doors. "This is the chief of the N. !" the chief shouted through the megaphone. "We have the place surrounded! Come out with your hands up!" Silence still clung the air, but suddenly the Serpentine generals slithered out.
The generals slithered side by side with burlap sacks of stolen money over their shoulders and their staffs in their other hands. The generals of each different tribe slithered down the last step with glares and smirks from their faces. But wait; there was only three, one red, green, and black. Where was the Hypnobrai General Skales? The three generals hissed with their forked tongues and didn't lower their sacks to surrender. "We request the Ninja!" Acidicus, the Venomari General, shouted.
Skalidor looked at his comrades and sack of money over his shoulder. The black and orange Constrictai couldn't understand the situation he and the others were in. They were told by Skales to cause a distraction. This was it? Or was there more? "Uh... Why do we have to steal this money even if we don't use it and don't need it all?" he asked, confused. "We've been through this before haven't we not?"
The two-headed Fangprye, Fangdom, looked at him with slight annoyance on his faces. "Because stupid," he hissed with his thick Romanian accent. "Skales has a plan to capture the boy and girl for hostages for their father. He has found a base in the desert and stolen something that can be of aide to our victory. Things aren't already difficult with the boy's grey protector back, but Skales has full confidence."
"Oh really?" a voice boomed through the megaphone to make the snakes direct their heads in front of them.
A gust of wind brushed past the citizens and gasped as droplets of water were blown away to reveal seven ninjas on top of the police cars in front of the generals. Talk about an entrance, right? Cole held his scythe in both hands while the others except for Lloyd drew their weapons out. The citizens cheered behind them meaning that help has come to stop the ancient snakes. He felt praised because of it and felt great to be back on the team and action with his brothers. Just hoping he doesn't change at all.
The earth ninja hopped off the hood of the vehicle and walked to the center with the others by his left and right side. It was time to lead the team again. "Come come now." he said, humbled underneath his mask. "Surely there are better things for you three to do than causing trouble with us."
"You don't know you're true intentions, earth boy." Acidicus retorted.
Jay lowered his nunchucks to smirk along with Cole. "Hey basically we know what your intentions are." he rebutted. "You're gonna call us out, fight, try to kidnap Lloyd, we beat you while you slither away and we go out and celebrate."
"It's basically three against seven ninjas." Kai finished. "Might as well run away."
"Haven't you heard?" Fangdom laughed. "Since you reclaimed your pathetic ship, Garmadon has been hiding but we still listen to him. So now our soldiers have returned. We're just doing this in secrecy without him knowing." and slammed his staff on the concrete pavement.
Cole heard the sound of multiple footsteps and watched a brigade of Serpentine soldiers with weapons surround the generals in front of him and the others. The earth ninja could see him could see the generals smirking now that they have them outnumbered. It was...who knows how many against seven ninjas. He watched Lucas nudge Lloyd back to the surrounding cars and gripped onto the long shaft of his scythe tightly. "Whatever you're doing," he said to the snakes. "We'll stop you."
The Constrictai general just chuckled with his comrades after him. "Very well then." he said and all three dropped their sacks and held their staff. Cole and the others took their stance while shooting glares at them. "Attack!" he shouted and the soldiers charged towards the Ninja.
Cole felt his heart rise up and moved his sleeve to check his wristwatch and noticed his heart rate spiked up by ten beats than before. Remain calm and don't get angry. he said to himself and took the first charge towards the snakes. Soon after, the others followed suit. Everyone spun into their miniature elemental tornadoes and knocked the soldier off their feet. Cole heard his watch going off and looked to see it was over a hundred and fifty beats and quickly stepped aside to calm himself down. How? he wondered about his heartbeat going over one hundred and fifty beats so quick.
The black ninja peered from his shelter, behind the stair walls of the bank, to watch his teammates. Jay was fighting against the Fangprye general and nearly got bitten if it wasn't for the armor on his right arm. Cole then averted his gaze to see Kai in his fiery Spinjitzu to fend himself against the united tribes and used his sword to block the other attacks. He then watched Zane used the small hook attached to a length of rope, rope dart, to swing at Acidicus; like he used it before to fight against when the pirates attacked. Finally the earth ninja turned his gaze to Lloyd as he was being protected by Lucas and Laurie as the two guardians was protecting him. The water ninja, being an experienced ninja, while the wind ninja, being a novice, used their elements to defend themselves and helped the others when needed. Cole sighed as he watched to fight like them but needs to be careful on his heart rate. But where was Skales though?
"Serpentine, take cover!" a familiar snake's voice commanded.
Cole watched the generals and soldiers scattering away while leaving the others dumbstruck. He saw something flashing in the sky and saw it roll on the ground near the other's feet. Everyone saw it was small, spherical shaped, and shiny to reflect the sun and was beeping. Wait, beeping!? "Grenade!" Jay shouted and everyone quickly began to run away. Cole gasped on the Serpentine's tactics. These snakes aren't playing around.
The device stopped beeping and caused an explosion. Cole turned his body away from the blast to shield it at the flight of stairs. When all was silent, the black-haired teen slowly moved away to see the damage the snakes have done to his family, but he furrowed his brows in confusion as the entire area was covered in...Foam. Foam? Cole wondered.
A lump of foam moved to stand up and shook his arm reveal a red sleeve and black glove and removed his mask to reveal Kai. The fire ninja looked around the area to see more lumps move to stand and removed their masks. He and the others brushed themselves off and looked around for the Serpentine. Where did they go? And what was the point of the foam? "These snakes keep getting dumb every time." he mumbled to himself and tried to take a step, but couldn't. "What the?"
Cole watched in surprise as everyone, but him and Lloyd, couldn't move their legs. Almost like they were flies caught on a spider web. Their legs were encasing in the foam and couldn't move them. The earth ninja looked at the nearest lump and poked it with his gloved hand to not leave a dent as it was hard. He realized that the device the Serpentine was used to trap them. The foam was a trap and captures your enemy. How and where did they get that?
Lloyd, which was thankful as Cole to not get caught, ran up to Lucas and looked at him worriedly. "Is there any way I can help to free you all?" he asked quickly.
Before Lucas could reply, another voice spoke up. "I don't think so, boy." Cole peered through his location to see the missing general slithering down the steps with the other by his side. Skales. The blue cobra smirked at the others as he averted his red eyes around the trapped ninja. "You all have fallen into my trap." he hissed in delight. "This is much easier than before."
Zane tugged on his legs to free them while using his shuriken as a chisel to chip the foam off to free himself. "How did you obtain this such of a device." he grunted in failure.
"That's my own business for you to never know." he retorted. The general kept shifting his gaze around the trapped ninja and huffed. "It seems that the pesky earth ninja isn't still around." he acknowledge and looked at Lloyd. "Doesn't matter though. Capturing you will be easier than before." and started slithering towards Lloyd.
Cole gasped quickly to see the Hypnobrai slither closer to Lloyd while the others try to escape. They were about to lose the green ninja if they don't break free. He watched the cobra grabbed Lloyd by the collar of his gi and wretched him away from Lucas as he clung onto him and Skalidor binded his wrists behind his back and gagged him. He furrowed his brows in anger as they were about to lose Ninjago's greatest hope to the Serpentine and moved his sleeve to check his watch. He noticed his heart rate went back to normal but rose up a little by his anger. Just don't lose your anger. he thought and gripped the handle of his scythe tightly. He stepped out of his shelter and ran towards them. "Ninja-Go!" he shouted and created his rocky tornado.
The snakes stopped and turned their heads to the shout and were surprised to see the earth ninja coming towards them. Cole directed his Spinjitzu towards them and pushed all three generals' away and enveloped Skales into the vortex and was tossed aside. He stopped spinning and gently placed Lloyd down on the pavement. "Stay here." he commanded and the small ninja nodded.
The Ninja of Earth smiled to his agreement and went to the recovering snakes. He suddenly felt his speed increasing than before. Skalidor hissed and lunged his tail towards him, but the black ninja saw the attack and quickly jumped while twisting his body to dodge the attack and landed a kick to the head. The earth ninja landed on his feet and dodged the bites from Fangdom and used the handle of his weapon to lodge the handle between the jaws to prevent them from biting and used the advantage to jump and kick him squarely in the chest to line him up with Acidicus and Skales. "Triple Tiger Sashay!" he shouted and ran towards them. He jumped onto Skales to kick him on the head, used both fists for Fangdom's heads to push himself to a flip and collided his head with Acidicus' and landed in a crouch while the three snakes fell. And to show off, he growled like a tiger. "Roar!" he growled.
The gathering crowd witnessed the lone star stand and cheered for the earth ninja fending off the generals. The black ninja was breathing heavily while feeling sweat on his brows. He felt great. He hasn't done that in a long time. He heard a beeping sound and quickly checked his watch to see his heart rate slowly climbing and decreasing to make it stop. He sighed in relief. That was too close.
Skalidor recovered from the kick from the black ninja saw his comrades groaning in pain. The black snake noticed his back was turn and hissed in anger at him and slithered up to him. Laurie struggled as well as the others to free her legs. She looked up to gasp as the Constrictai general was heading for Cole when he wasn't even noticing. "Cole, behind you!" she cried.
Cole heard the cry too late and felt something grip his shoulders. He was forced to turn around to face Skalidor and felt a scaly fist collide into his cheek and felt himself flying off his feet. He landed roughly on the concrete to groan and removed his mask. The earth ninja felt something wrap around his ankles and was lifted up to dangle off the ground and flung over like he was a rag doll and broke through the windshield of a police vehicle. Another groan escaped his lips and heard the watch beeping rapidly and quickly moved his sleeve to gasp as the watch was climbing up. Not good! he screamed in his head and slowly climbed out of the damage.
Skalidor watched the black ninja walk away from the vehicle and saw him still standing. He hissed in anger and lashed his tail at him and wrapped his coils around him, pinning his arms to his sides and lifted him up and slammed his back against the wall. "It's been while since I gave you a squeeze." he said and slammed him again. "Time to repay that."
Cole groaned and heard the watch beeping rapidly. He looked down at his hand and twisted his wrist to gasp as it was over a hundred and seventy-four beats per minute and it was still climbing. Skalidor doesn't know what he was doing. "Please stop." he begged. "You wouldn't like it when I'm angry."
"Oh I bet you would like that." the Constrictai sneered and threw him against the wall.
The others saw what the black and orange snake was doing and struggled harder to escape to help Cole. Lucas saw the three generals picking themselves up and stopped struggling for a minute. "Skales!" he shouted a little. "Our friend and your comrade are in trouble if he doesn't stop doing that to Cole. Free us before he kills Skalidor.
The blue cobra looked at the grey ninja to huff. "That'll be the day." he doubted and watched his comrade deal with the earth ninja.
Cole kept crying out in pain as Skalidor kept throwing him to the wall and squeezing him with his coils. "Please I'm begging you to stop!" he shouted and looked at his watch to climb up rapidly. Skalidor kept ignoring his pleads and slammed him again. Cole looked at his watch and as it was over two hundred beats per minute and felt his head pounding hard and felt himself shaking. It was happening. He squeezed his eyes shut tightly and opened his eyes to reveal the green irises.
Everyone gasped as it was too late. Skalidor saw the change and felt his tail loosening. "What the!?"
Cole furrowed his bushy brows in anger with his skin tinting green. "I warned you!" he growled through his clenched teeth and broke himself free and landed in a crouch. He squeezed his eyes shut and felt his body being torn apart with the wet sound of bones dislocating and expanding and growing.
The generals slowly slithered back in surprise to what was happening to the earth ninja. His skin was turning to a dark green while his gi and undershirt were torn due to his large muscle growth and his pants remained on. Everyone and the Ninja gasped to Cole's transformation. "Skales!" Lucas shouted again. "Free us and we can stop him before he causes damage. Or else die from him!"
Skales looked at him, and hated to admit it with him, and nodded. "Think about it, boy." he said. "What washes foam away? Serpentine, let's get out of here!" and lead the others to a sewer entrance.
"What washes foam away?" Lucas wondered. "Water! That's it!" The grey ninja looked around and spotted a fire hydrant near them and held his hand out. He felt his powers taking hold and broke the spout to spray water over their feet. They all felt the foam loosen and freed their legs.
"Nice thinking, Lucas!" Kai complemented.
The water ninja took his sai's and cut Lloyd's bonds free. "Thanks." he said and pulled his cousin to his feet while the green ninja ripped his gag off. "But now we got to help Cole."
Cole kept growling to his transformation and stopping growling; it was done. He opened his eyes to reveal the green eyes and shouted again to the top of his lungs. Citizens screamed in fear and ran away. Policemen and women were stunned and quickly aimed their guns up at him. The Ninja saw what they were doing and shouted at them to stop, but were ignored and they opened fired. Cole raised his arms up to defend himself and felt the hot metal bullets bouncing off his beefy arms with no harm. He looked at the bullets on the ground, then the shocked ninja and cops, and screamed.
The Hulk grabbed a bronze lion statue that stood on a platform on the stairs and ripped it off its foundations. He held the bronze figure over his head and threw it. Everyone ducked and dodged the flying projectile as it crashed into a police car and the momentum caused the car to slide across the street. Cole shouted again and ran towards the fleeing cops while some remained and fired their guns.
Lloyd had his ears covered to the loud shots fired and held his hands out to freeze the weapons. Zane and the others saw what he did and quickly stood in front of the force while some stood in front of Cole. "Please stop!" the ice ninja shouted. "You're making him angrier!"
Lucas raised his arms up to create a wall of water separating them from the police. "Cole, get out of here!" he shouted. "We'll find you again when you're normal again! Now go!"
Cole looked at them while trying to calm down and huffed. He turned around and scaled up the building and ran across the rooftop with a helicopter following him. He looked back to see the others fleeing from the police for helping him escape and continued to flee and hide. He reached the city limits and ran. He felt his speed increase until he was gone. Possibly back in the jungle.
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Back in the city, Betty gasped to what she witnessed. "Cole." she gasped in a low whisper and quietly followed the fleeing crowd. She doesn't know how he was able to do that, but she hoped it wasn't from her research. Even in Blolasky.
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Up on top of building, Ross lowered his binoculars from his dark blue eyes in amazement. "Incredible." he said. "I never have seen anything like that."
Blolasky lowered his down as well. That power. he thought to himself. Do I have it as well? The lieutenant turned to the general. "Do we engage on the capture of him, general?" he asked.
Ross turned to him and shook his head. "Negative." he said. "Wait for the right time and we'll study him more. Is that clear?" Blolasky nodded and followed the general off the building.
Well that didn't go well for Cole. If Skalidor haven't triggered him, he would've been fine. But now everyone knows. How will this go for him now? Find out next week. Also I enjoyed the part of Cole using that great line from any Hulk film. You wouldn't like it when I'm angry. Love it as it makes you excited for him. Hoped you enjoyed this week's update and can't wait to see the reviews. Have a wonderful weekend and see you all next week. :)
