It was now dawn as Nya, Lloyd, Oni and Magna look at the main building from a bridge. "He knows I'm coming." Lloyd said. "But I can't just hide here and do nothing."

"We have to wait until nightfall." Nya replied. "There's too many."

"And then what? Every minute we're out here, he grows more powerful-"

"Son, Chen grows strong by taking from others." Oni cuts him off. "But real power does the opposite, it empowers those around you."

"We will get you to Chen and you will destroy his staff." Magna said.

Close by at a door, two guards watch Eyezor pass by as he stares at them before making a left. One of them soon sighed. "Would you look at that?" He asked. "If a foot soldier like Eyezor can move up the chain of command, why can't we? I mean, the guy's only got one good eye and we each got two. Not to mention Textilis also has two eyes. We could spot a ninja twice as fast as he could." Eyezor soon spots a nearby guard, sleeping on the job, and comes up to him.

"But he's got a mohawk and Textilis has a mullet." The other guard replied. "And his name, Eyezor. It's got a real ring to it. And it's practical, you know, what with his creepy sore eye and all."

Eyezor kicks the guard's spear down, making him wake up and is shocked. "That's it, that's it! We need names! We need something that'll make us, you know, stand out. I've got it. Call me Kapau!"

"Oh, that's good! What should I be? Oh, I know! Hey, who's that? It's Maleficium!"

"Malefici-? That's a- That's a horrible name. I can hardly pronounce it."

"Then how about, um...Chope!"

Their talking gets Eyezor's attention as he was intimidating the guard. "Hey!" He yelled before dropping the guard coming up to them.

"Chope?" Kapau asked. "Yeah, I'm not gonna judge. Wait a minute, yes, I am. That is AWESOME!"

"Look out, world, Kapau and Chope movin' up the ranks." Chope replied.

"Yeah." Kapau laughs before Eyezor came up to them.

"No talking on duty, minions!" He yelled.

"Uh, it's actually Chope and Kapau-"

"I said no talking!"

In the factory, the prisoners and all the eliminated Elemental Masters move about, doing their jobs as the guards supervise them while one forces Jay and Spider, both in ruined orange coveralls, near a conveyor belt with noodle boxes on it. "Work." He said before leaving.

"No, no." Jay replied. "It's not work if you love what you do. The power of positive thinking."

"Power of positive thinking?" Someone asked before they scoffed. "Please."

Jay turned to see it was Blake. "Blake! You're here!"

"Yep, so is Geoff."

Geoff and Gewuji come up to them. "Hello." Geoff said. His stubble had grown more, almost resembling a five o'clock shadow and was wearing a beanie again, along with clean, but still ruined, coveralls, covering his entire body, once more.

"Geoff." Jay replied. "Who is she?"

"Actually, you met her already, but with kabuki paint and a dress."

"She's that kabuki?"

"Formerly kabuki." Gewuji said. "As it turns out, I am also the Elemental Master of Glass."

"Glass, eh? No doubt Chen took them as well. What other surprises do you guys have?" They point to a couple of workers and they lift their heads. It was Cole and Zane. Cole was wearing an orange hat so he wouldn't be recognised, with Zane having orange coveralls and a white shirt over his gi as well as an orange hat. "Cole?" He asked before looking at Zane. "Zane! Is that you?" He gasped. "You look amazing!"

"Not so loud." Cole whispered. His stubble also grew more. "They think we've escaped and don't know we're here."

"Why would you come back?"

"'Cause we're breaking everyone out."

"Correction, we're building our way out." Zane said, pointing to Karlof, Powder and Patrice, who are all working on something covered by a sheet.

"They think we're fixing a noodle machine, but we're fixing a Roto Jet."

"A Roto Jet?" Spider asked. "But aren't we underground?"

"That's what I've been saying!"

"What happened to positive thinking?" Patrice asked Jay as he got off the top of the covered Roto Jet.

"Shut the fuck up!" A nearby guard yelled. "And hurry up with that noodle machine!"

"Ok, ok." Karlof replied. "It will be ready soon. When ready, noodles will fly out of here."

"Someone needs anger management classes." Powder sarcastically said.

"I HEARD THAT!" The guard yelled.

"By the way, where's Kai?" Geoff asked.

"Last I heard, he's getting the 'special' treatment." Jay replied.

"Something I refused."

In a hallway, Chen and Kai move along it. "I read your book, 'A Titanium Friend', loved the ending." Chen said.

"Thank you." Kai replied, uninterested, before they come up to some display cases. He soon notices something. "No!" He soon ran up to a katana in a display case. It had a lion engraving on the handle. It was his dead mentor's sword, Leo. "James' sword."

"Ah yes. Leo, I think you named it. It didn't look good, just rusting on a statue." Chen soon shows Kai some more displays. "A scale from the Great Devourer." He said, pointing to a piece of the Great Devourer and then some gold pained shurikens. "Zane's shurikens." He then points to an improvised axe. "Geoff's Dark Island axe." He then points to a sabre. "A Skulkin's sabre and this-" He grabs a spine-bladed sword, swinging it a little. "-an Anacondrai sword. They are the sharpest blade in existence, fit for the greatest warrior to ever do battle in Ninjago." He cuts a nearby curtain to pieces to demonstrate before putting it back on display and then gets out Arcturus' dagger. "Plus, this dagger is said to have been wielded by Arcturus himself."

"Why are you showing me all of this? You do realise if you weren't holding that staff right now, I'd grab Leo and strike you down right here."

"Skylor was right, even without your power the fire burns right through you." He puts the dagger away as they resume walking down the hallway. "Unlike you and my dear Skylor, who inherited her powers from her mother, I was never born with natural abilities. I was told I would amount to nothing." Kai just yawns. "But I will show them they were all wrong!" He soon points to a painting. "Look! I call it the 'Charge of the Dark Brigade.' It's beautiful, isn't it? The reds, the purples, the super-dark purples. After I defeat your little green friend and take his powers as well as the Masters of Magnetism and Water, I will have all the elements I need to conjure a spell that will transform me and my worshippers into Anacondrai. With you and your friends gone, nothing will stop me. And I've seen inside your head. You still hold hatred for one Master Oni Garmadon because he was involved in your mentor's death and you were disappointed that you only gave him a scar instead."

"You don't know James like I do. He was more than my mentor. He was my friend and like a father to me. And if you think I will turn on my friends, you're wrong."

Heianmofa soon came up them. "Master, it is nightfall." He said. "The Green Ninja will be making his move shortly."

"Think about it." Chen said. "You're not the only one with a grudge against Garmadon." They both walk away as Kai looks at the painting and then at the Leo sword.

18 Years Earlier

A young Kai watches as his parents leave so that Maya could give birth to Nya before the carriage hits a bump and a big metal pole falls off the back of it. He soon came up to it and picks it up, swinging it before a teenaged James came up to him and caught it as it nearly hits him. "Easy, Kai, that's not a toy." He said.

"I just wanted to see how it feels like to hold a sword." Kai replied.

"Don't worry, when you're old enough, I'm sure you will." He soon looked at the pole and smiled. "You know, I think I'll make something out of this."

"You will?"

"Yeah. Just you wait and see, Kai. And one day, when I finish it, this piece of metal will be yours until you're old like your dad."

"Thank you."

Present

Kai looks at the sword as he soon realised the metal on the blade was from the same metal that fell off the carriage and smiled. "It was mine, briefly, James." He said. "But you deserve it better than me. I already have a part of it." He soon removed his glove and looked at the lion shaped burn scar on his hand.