This was bad really bad Lloyd just watched the one he loved get his soul sucked out and replaced with an evil soul. The scarlet guards unchain him and he gets up moving his body as if he's never done that before. He sets his palm on fire and stares at it with a sinister light then looks at Palpatine's body and starts laughing. "It worked! It actually worked!" he said in Palpatine's voice. He turns his attention to the ninja who are paralyzed in shock and fear looking at there teammate. "Let's practice on some living targets shall we?" he said sarcastically as he throws a ball of fire aim right at them. Before it can hit them though a rock is thrown and it hits the rock not them. Everyone turns to who threw the rock to see the rebels at the entrance Palpatine looks annoyed but not angry at the arrival instead he looks a lot more sinister. "Let's see what I can do," Palptine said with a smile. He turns to the rebels who look conflicted on the course of action, Han takes the first shot with Chewi close behind him. Palpatine uses the force to stop all the lasers before any of them could hit him and then redirects them to go back. The rebels jump out of the way just in time to dodge the lasers barely as they hit a pillar instead. The scarlet guards are nearby watching in case the emperor needs them but in there distraction Jay and Zane manage to either freeze them or shock them till there out for the count. Palpatine doesn't even notice this as he gets surrounded by the group of rebels but he doesn't look worried in the slightest. Instead as they go in to overwhelm him he uses airjitzu and hovers ten feet in the air, laughing as the rebels crash into each other.
"Since when could he fly?" Luke asks. "It's called airjitzu it allows a master of spinjitzu temporary flight," Zane informs them. "That would've been nice to know!" Han yells at them as he tries to blast Palpatine. "Don't hurt him to bad!" Nya screeches at him. "How do we get the chains off?" Lloyd asks. "Let me try," Zane said as he lasers the chains off everyone. "You couldn't have done that when Kai was getting his soul ripped out?" Jay asks. "It was damaged using it now I might've accidentally lasered your arm off," Zane said defensively. "Forget that what do we do? The ritual was completed and none of us can read Sith, so we have no idea what to do," Cole said. "Okay let's try and get the bottle around his neck maybe if we open it Kai's soul will go back into his body," Lloyd suggests. No one had any better idea so they agree to that course of action. As the battle ensues the ninja and rebels can't even get close to Palpatine no matter how hard they hit. Jay tries shocking him but he returns it with his own force lightning knocking the lightning ninja into the far wall. Lloyd think he see an opening but it was a trick as he gets flung back using the force. Dazed Lloyd takes in the battle and finds something off about it.
Even though the ninja are a bigger threat Palpatine is making no move to actually hurt them. On the other hand he just keeps flinging them back saving any real damage for the rebels. Then an idea clicks in his head as he realizes why Kai has agreed in the first place and what the hooded figure said. He knew this was a long shot and was going to hurt but he had no choice. He summons his dragon and shoots a blast at Palpatine. He dodges it and summons his own deranged version of Kai's dragon. It still had the same shape only it had black rotting scales and was foaming lava at the mouth. They take to the sky or in this case the temple was big enough they could both fly in it.
"Give up little green brat it's over," Palpatine said Lloyd shivers at the sound of it coming from his brother's mouth. "You just don't get it ninja never quit and it's not over," Lloyd said. He charges his dragon forward knocking himself into Palpatine. It causes Palpatine to rear his dragon up but doesn't do any damage but that wasn't what Lloyd was aiming for. Lloyd takes the distraction and makes his dragon disappear and jumps on Palpatine's. The two go at it on the dragon and finally Lloyd manages to grab the bottle that was hotter than a furnace.
"NO!" Palpatine screeches grabbing Lloyd's arm and setting it a flame then pushing him off the dragon. On instinct Cole summons his own and manages the catch Lloyd who was clutching his arm that at very burned makings. "What were you thinking?" Cole scold him as they land on the ground and his dragon dissolved. "You'll see," Lloyd answers. Jay sends a blast at the dragon and it hits causing the dragon to disappear. Palpatine falls but uses airjitzu to slow the descent to a safe pace as he touches ground. "That was all in vain you shall all bow down before me!" Palpatine orders them. "Yeah I don't think so," Lloyd said smugly.
"What do you mean?" Palpatine asks. "Well I was there to when Kai agreed and the hooded guy said that as long as the agreement is held." He nods to his arm for effect as Palpatine's face turns into a look of horror. "So yeah you broke your side of the deal," Han states catching on to Lloyd's drift. The bottle around Palpatine's neck starts glowing bright and shatters as the red mist spills out. It starts to form the outline of a figure and it jumps at Palpatine knocking him to the ground. "I will not be beaten!" Palpatine screeches clutching his head but it also sounded like an echo of another voice. "Then read the fine print buddy," he said again but clearly it was Kai talking not Palpatine. There fight for control is hard as smoke rises from Kai's body and his eyes flicker from Amber to red.
The ninja and rebels want to move in to help but this was his fight not theirs. "If I am beaten than I will not go without reward!" he said. He grabs his lightsaber and activates it then in his last ounce of control throws it. The others duck out of the way but Lloyd wasn't fast enough and it grazed him in his leg as he yells out in pain and falls to the ground. "NO!" Kai screams. His body convulsed and two misty figures rows out as Kai's body goes slack. The black figure is trying to get back into the body but the orange one blasts him back into Palpatine's body on the throne. The orange figure goes back into Kai's body and he sucks in a breath and opens his eyes that had an amber colour. He looks around frantically and moves over to Lloyd who was surrounded by the others.
"Are you okay? How deep did it get you?" He asks Lloyd who smiles despite the pain. "I'm fine just need some bandages what about you?" Lloyd asks. "I have a headache and feel like I just got my life ripped from me otherwise fine," Kai replies with a smile. "NO! This was not supposed to happen! I was supposed to become all powerful!" Palpatine screams from his throne getting up. "Would you rather be dead?" Liea asks threateningly as she aimed her blaster. The others nod with him but before they could shoot they get flung back as Vader limps in. "We must leave my Emperor," Vader said. Palpatine didn't want to go but he knew it was his only option to live. He quickly runs out before anyone could do anything and boards his ship. "I will become all powerful one day," he mutters as he leaves.
The ninja on the other hand are too tired to do anything as they just sit there for a moment. Lloyd takes Kai's hand in his and he looks down at him in surprise before he could say anything Lloyd leans in and kisses him on the lips. Kai is shocked but returns it with happiness flowing through him. The others watch with sly smiles as they quietly leave the new couple to there moment. Once they finally separated they both look into each other's eyes with warm smiles. "Your not ashamed?" Kai asks. "I've loved you ever since you rescued me from that volcano," Lloyd replies with genuine honesty. Kai goes a little pink and Lloyd laughs finally happy to have him back. "I missed you," Kai whispers looking away. Lloyd leans in and kisses him on the cheek. "Not as much as me," he replies and Kai smiles.
"Why did you feel to keep it a secret? We would've accepted it," Lloyd asks. "The only other person I told was only with me, so he could get close with Nya. When I confronted him he got a knife out and pinned me to the ground nearly blinding my eye. He said that it was a reminder that people would only leave me including Nya if they knew. After that I just kept making excuses not to tell you because I didn't want it to happen again," Kai said not making eye contact. "Well you don't need anymore excuses," Lloyd states squeezing his hand tighter. Kai smiles and they finally get up with Kai grabbing his lightsaber while keeping Lloyd up. "By any chance can you still do that force stuff?" Lloyd asks. "Probably not I'd rather not what they made me do. It wasn't pretty it was wrong the writing said that the force of the sacrifice would be taken once the markings started glowing. I don't mind though I'm still awesome with the fire thing I definitely don't want that power." Kai said and Lloyd is relieved to hear that. "Yeah we saw what happened to the prisoner it was scary we thought we had lost you. The effects were permanent Kai they lied to you about it he's going to stay that way," Lloyd said. Kai looks ashamed at it and looks down as they hobble out. "I didn't want to do it I really didn't but all those people he killed just broke me. They weren't lying about that I checked he really did kill all those people." Kai said he didn't sound defensive just full of regret. "It's okay he deserves it and you weren't yourself they kept on making them believe you were abandoned. At one point we saw you so mad you almost pulled Zane's arm off." Lloyd said. "What! I never did that!" Kai said. "You did but you stopped almost instantly it was part of the training. Zane forgave you but they gave you a drug or something and it took your memory." Lloyd said. Kai looks unsure on whether or not to believe it but he decides to just ignore it for now. "Just promise me you won't agree to be a sacrifice again," Lloyd asks. "You know me I'll do whatever I want," Kai said with a smug laugh.
Lloyd laughs to as they exit the temple and head over to the others who are discussing something important. "Okay but how are we going to get home? Not even the rebels know and the empire probably has a back up somewhere." Nya states as she noticed Kai and Lloyd joining them. She tackles Kai to the ground and he drops Lloyd who falls over wincing in pain. "You ever decide to agree to a freaky ritual I'll drown you in a river," Nya threatens with a small laugh. "Whatever you say I love you too," Kai replies with a laugh. "Glad your okay but seriously how are we getting home?" Cole asks as Kai helps Lloyd back up. "We could try going to uncharted space," Luke suggests. "No that would just get us lost. We need to infiltrate the base where they keep the location." Liea said. "How? We don't know which base that is," Jay questions. Chewi roars and Han shakes his head. "Not gonna try that too much risk of blowing up the engines," Han said.
"Or we could just ask me," Kai suggests. They all turn to him as he reaches into a compartment on his lightsaber and opens it. He then carefully pulls out a small drive that had the empires official seal on it. "I present to you the location of our home planet Ninjago. It's going to be a while before they find it again, trust me I made sure." Kai said holding it up smugly. They all stare at him in shock and he just smiles wider. "How did you…" Zane asks at a loss for words.
"Well while I had the power I found someone in a high enough position. Used that cool mind trick on them so they would do what I wanted, gave me the only copy of Ninjago's location then deleted the first one, and got them to reprogram the location to the opposite side of the galaxy." Kai explains like it was no big deal. "You did that when?" Leia asks. "About ten minutes before I agreed to the ritual," Kai answers. The ninja don't know what to say so first they take the drive, so it doesn't get damaged then tackle the fire ninja into the ground. "I just found us a way home what about a thanks?" Kai said sarcastically shoving the others off him. "Next time tell us sooner," Jay said laughing. "It was totally on my mind while getting my soul ripped out then fighting for control." Kai said simply and everyone laughs harder with Lloyd giving him another peck on the lips. "Now let's get that foot healed up," Kai said as they get on the Falcon to go home.
Once they get Lloyd's foot in a splint and all healed up they soon arrive back in Ninjago in the corridor of elders
"Who's the old guy?" Han asks pointing to a statue at the end. "That old guy is my father who died to save this world," Lloyd answers with a glare. Han backs off as the others look around, especially at the city in the distance. "About time you got back glad you two finally got together," A voice behind them said. They all jump as they turn there heads to see master Wu drinking some steaming tea. "Who the in the name of stars are you?" Han asks. "That's Wu I talked to you in my dream," Luke said. Wu chuckles and drinks his tea that for some reason annoys the heck out of Han. "How did you know we were coming back? Also what do you mean by glad you two finally got together?" Lloyd asks. "It was obvious you liked Kai and I was unsure about him but pretty sure about that too," Wu chuckles. "You never thought to say something?" Jay asks. "It was not my place," Wu said simply as he finishes his tea. "It was worth the wait," Lloyd said and leans into the fire ninja's shoulder.
"Agreed," Nya comments with a approving smile. "That's great and all but we better head back before the chancellor gets suspicious," Han advises. They all nod and hug the ninja in thanks for all they did for them and bow in front of master Wu. "Thanks," Kai said with a grateful smile. "No problem," Luke said. They all wave as they get into the Falcon take off and go into hyper space. "So do you want to tell your parents?" Jay asks the new couple. "Umm later," Kai answers. Lloyd laughs and locks lips with Kai again as the others laugh glad they can finally relax after a whole lot of craziness.
The end hope you enjoyed it I know it was a bit quick but I got inspiration for my next story and wanted to hurry it up a bit.