Chapter Seven: Some Monkey We've got here...

Amber pulled the hood of her orange gi up over her hair, grumbling the entire time. "Dad's completely lost it if he thinks we can stop something that he isn't sure what it is."

"Amber...stop grumbling. At least your name matches your ninja name!" Storm growled as he drummed his fingers on the steering wheel in front of him.

"Someone's grouchy... did you not get enough to eat?" Ocean shot a glare at her brother, unamused that he was still grumbling about his name.

"I checked my blood sugar before we left. I'm fine." Storm rolled his eyes skyward at that, knowing that his blood sugar was an actual concern for his family.

"Did you pack a snack in case something happens and it drops?"

Amber rolled her eyes skyward, before turning to face Ocean. AJ beat her though before she could speak up. "Storm's a big boy, he doesn't need you to remind him on his first mission about his diabetes, Ocean."

"Fine... I'm just worried is all."

Brutus screeched loudly right then, pointing out the window to the panic filled crowd at the amusement park. "We are here." Icey unnecessarily announced as she unbuckled.

Juni swallowed hard, before speaking up, his voice shaking with nerves. "Don't forget, we have to use our new code names."

"Got it, Tech." Rocky breezily leapt from the vehicle.

Amber followed quickly, Brutus resting on her shoulder. Glancing around the park, she eventually spotted the cause of panic same time they were noticed by someone that, by the looks of things would have been a young child when the original ninjas retired. "Look the ninjas are here! We're saved!"

"Well aren't you just plain ugly." Amber wrinkled her nose as she stared at the odd looking things that were rampaging the park, clearly looking for something. The things all had six arms, antlers growing out of their heads, and lopsided legs... literally. The left leg was several inches longer than the right. They appeared to be using their extra arms to balance themselves. Their skin was pitch black and they had beady red eyes that oozed with hatred.

"Amber! How about you don't antagonize these guys?" AJ pleaded with her, panic edging her own voice.

Amber bit back a retort at that, before quickly slipping out a katana. "Okay okay… I won't antagonize the weird looking obviously minions of some sort that are clearly looking for something around here." Amber tried to recall what was of value here that they might be looking for. The only thing that she could think of though, made her flinch. "Um...they might be after the same thing Dad sent us to get..."

A nearby civilian gave her a weird look, even as Icey coughed into her hand. "You mean Fire sent us to get..?"

"That's what I said...didn't I?"

Rocky rolled her eyes as she stepped forward. "How about we just admit right now that we're just the next generation and that Amber is Fire's daughter. How does that sound?"

"Code names were invented for a... no wait... that is my codename..."

"Brilliant Earth... just quick question... how are we supposed to stop these guys then?" AJ backed up slowly as the things appeared to be converging on them.

"Didn't Uncle Fire mention that his dumb pet monkey will be able to help us fight?" Ocean blurted out as she glanced over at Brutus.

Amber curled her fingers around the monkey, yanking him off of her shoulder so as to hold him to her chest, knowing her cousin well enough to realize what it was that she was about to suggest. "You are not throwing Monkey at the things, Water!"

Storm turned to face her, raising his hand timidly up into the air. "Um...I'm Water... she's Lightning."

Ocean tilted her head as she stared at Amber. "We're not even twins. I mean sure... Mom and Uncle Fire are twins... And Dad and Aunty are twins...but we're not twins."

"That's one way to explain Mom without revealing her or Uncle Lightning's identities." AJ sarcastically announced.

It was about this time that Brutus decided enough was enough. They needed to get these guys out of here! Leaping from Amber's arms, he screeched loudly as lasers shot out of its eyes. Startled the things stumbled backwards, before disappearing into thin air. "You're a robot!?" Amber yelped as she stared at the robotic monkey.

"That explains soo much!" Storm explained, relief and understanding flooding his voice.

"Cool! I want one!" Ocean exclaimed, excitement dancing in her eyes.

"Guys! Focus!" Rocky yelled, before sighing. "Our first mission and we get distracted by the robot monke…how did you not know that Fire's pet monkey was a robot?! You're his daughter!"

Pulling out the device Kai had given them, Juni spun in a slow circle. "Looks like that piece of the Overlord is this way." Upon noticing that everyone was staring at him, he huffed loudly. "Earth just said we need to focus. So I'm focusing!"

"Little brothers." Icey muttered under her breath, before reluctantly following him.

It took some time, but eventually they found the dark purple goo that used to be the Overlord. Juni removed the pair of squeezers, carefully lifting it up. "This is taking gross to a whole new level..." He hurriedly dropped the gunk into the special container, ignoring how it splashed a little.

"Tech! Careful! Fire said that..." Icey started to warn her younger brother.

"I know what he said Ice! I was there too, you know!" Juni scoffed at her as he sealed the container. "Let's just get this back to him so that he can dispose of it."

Amber shook her head, before warning her younger teammate. "Ice as a point though… you can't get even one drop on yourself. You need to be more careful in the future."

"Fine. I didn't get any on me though!"

Amber flipped through her textbook, a scowl crossing her features as she was unable to locate the vocabulary words that Karlof had assigned to them that week. A knock at her door startled her, for only a minute. "Come in!"

"How are you doing?" Maya walked in, glancing around the room that used to belong to her daughter-in-law.

"Great... my first mission was today and apparently Brutus is a robot." Amber eyed her grandmother, wondering vaguely if she had known that detail.

Maya plopped down on the edge of the bed, amusement flashing in her eyes. "To be fair... I had thought you already knew that Brutus was a robot."

"Grandma!"

Maya laughed, before picking up the vocabulary list. "You know, all of these definitions can be found in the back of the book in alphabetical order..."

Amber grinned as she flipped the book to the back to find that her grandmother was telling the truth. "Grandma... I love you so much."

"I know sweetie..." Maya handed back the worksheet, her smile falling as she wondered when was the last time Amber had told her parents that she loved them...

A/N: Done! Finally! Just had writer's block on what the minions were supposed to look like is all... in case you haven't picked up on it yet, Amber is very close to her grandmother… not so much her parents. This is important for later in the story. Not sure how I'll figure it out...but yeah. The fact Juni was the one to pick up the goo is another important point later in the story. That's all I'm saying for now.

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