{7:43}

"Destiny?" Skylor asked. "What are you talking about?"

Garmadon had a strangely distant look on his face. He knew full well the prophecy of the green ninja, knew that the warrior in emerald would bring an end to his reign.

In order to avert destiny, Garmadon would have to take drastic measures... he'd have to either kill his son or lock him in a deep hole and throw away the key.

Neither option appealed to the dark lord. Despite his supposed heartlessness, he loved his son... he really did. The day Harumi had ordered Lloyd's interrogation, many workers had died by Garmadon's wrathful hand.

Garmadon growled darkly. "'Tis nothing for you to concern yourself with."

{7:43 AM}

The next day, Lloyd was once again drilling the ninja in training on their katas. Despite it merely being day two, he was seeing significant improvement.

"Hey, Garmadon!" Lloyd instantly noticed Ronin approaching him. Where was his father? No that anger would never be directed at the dark lord himself... That meant Lloyd was the target.

The others stopped as Ronin drew near to Lloyd and snagged his wrist with a yank.

"Hey, let go of-"

Ronin put one finger over the remote controlling the electric emitter. That was enough for Lloyd to pause mid sentence.

"You think you can pull a stunt like the one you did this morning and get away with it punk?"

"Lloyd wha-"

"Shut it sweat pea." Ronin snapped, causing Nya to shrink back quickly. "I need to have a talk with your fearless leader." He growled, jerking Lloyd roughly so the kid stumbled a bit.

Ronin dragged Lloyd through the village, earning wary glances from the towns folk as they passed.

The grip on Lloyd's arm was tight enough to send daggers of shooting pain lancing through his bicep... possibly from the tracker being rubbed the wrong way.

Soon they were on the opposite side of town, in a small valley. Ronin shoved Lloyd away from him and pressed a button on his gauntlet remote. Electricty tore through Lloyd's arm, driving him to his knees. It stopped after about ten seconds and Ronin pressed yet another button.

"Agh" Lloyd cried, panting heavily as the black receeded from his vision. "Why would you do that?!"

"Sorry. I needed an allibi." Ronin replied. "Every shock's recorded in the logs. Our cuffs recorders are off now by the way... it's safe to talk." Ronin had an ease to his voice... as if he hadn't just shocked Lloyd to a crisp.

Lloyd coughed and accepted Ronin's offered hand. He made sure to dust himself off and stoop at the waist to regain his breath.

"So you're... the intrepid agent Rowling."

"I stopped going by my birth name decades ago, Lloyd. The only one who still calls me that is your uncle... Now... I saw that... that... green last night... Did you really unlock it?"

"Yeah... I think so."

"You think?" Ronin dryly asked, an eyebrow shooting through the roof.

"Okay. I did." Lloyd threw his arms out in exhasperation. "Happy?"

"Not exactly. You aren't supposed to be here!"

"Actually, I'm exactly where I need to be." Lloyd replied. "The best way to take Harumi's forces down is from within. We can sabotoge her operations. That is what Master Wu intended wasn't it?"

"Yeah, but you were supposed to remain on the SOG strike squads! Not join the grunts!"

"Well I changed the plans."

"That's Wu's job!"

"I learned from the best, Ronin. I learned from the best."

{8:29 AM}

"Commander Pythor. We are recieving a transmission from agent Rowling."

"Sssso? That'sss Wu's business. Not mine."

Pixal spun her desk chair to face Pythor with a furrowed brow. "Master Wu left days ago for an unknown mission."

"Anssswer it yourself then... Or patch it through the ssssatelites."

"Yes Commander."

"Are you okay, Lloyd?" Cole asked as the Master of energy trudged up the hill.

"Got the living daylights zapped out of me. Otherwise, I'm good."

"What'd you do to tick him off?"

"Long story. How's your training going?"

"Pretty good." Cole confirmed. "I've pretty much got it down to a science... Not that I'm any good at science, but you get the point."

"Hey, Look!" Jay called, pointing at the road. "A merchant with more than apples and jerky!"

They watched as an elderly gentleman with a cart full of wares pulled his load up a small grassy knoll. He wore all white, with a straw hat to block out the sun.

"Look, he's got candy!" Nya grinned. The village had very little in terms of treats, a great dissapointment to those who had spent the week in the pits. Some new goodies would make some very happy recruits... but that wasn't what was on the green ninja's mind.

"That's... no merchant." Lloyd stated icily, looking nervous as he took a step back.

"What are you talking about?" Kai asked, turning to face Lloyd.

"That's my uncle."

Boom bada bang. Enter Wu!

Nuppa Nuppa: Hmm. A great question. I have a few ideas for that. Guess we'll have to see.

Northern Goshawk: Let me reiterate that. I made it clearly obvious that Ronin and Rowling were one and the same. No surprise there really. I was just a little surprised (in a gpod way) at the fact that ya mentioned it.As for your question regarding Ships... ABSOLUTELY! I've already hinted at Kailor and Jaya. Pixane will be in here a bit later on.

FireWriter316: Ah gotcha! My bad. Still though, it applied to me too in that instance. Also, you asked a question in a previous review that I forgot to reply to. When do they get out? Well that's the one element I haven't decided on. They will at some point, and I plan to move things along in the next couple of chapters, but to start out, they are working inside the army to sabatoge Harumi.