Ladybug and Cat Noir stood silently as most of the people in the room stared at them mouths agape.
"Marionette?" Luka asks looking at her and Lady-bug looked at him. Luka smiled widely with eyes shining. "I always knew you were special," he said making Lady-bug smile at him shyly and hide a small blush.
"You've been putting yourself in danger!?" Tom exclaims to his daughter in complete shock and disbelief. "Dad I had too," Marionette defends. Tom had crossed his arms and everyone except Cat Noir decided to leave them be.
"I can't believe this! We always told you to never go out during a attack leave everything to the professionals and you have been purposely lying to us and putting yourself in life or death situations?!" Tom scolds her angry at being lied too. It does not matter to him his daughter had been saving lives and defending Paris from evil what mattered to him was the fact she had been lying to him and his wife for nearly two years now and putting herself in danger.
"Dad I had too," Marionette defends herself. "No anyone else could have done it, but not you," Tom said. "Sir she was just helping," Cat Noir tried to but in for her. "No! You brought on this destructive impulse on her. She was fine before she met you," Tom crossed his arms at him. "Dad! Do not blame him he is innocent in this. It was my decision on how to use my miraculous and I use them to better the world as much as I can. I thought that you would be supportive if you ever found out, but I guess not," And with that Marionette left wiping the tears from her face followed by Cat Noir who was determined to help her as much as he could right now.
The others waited outside and saw Marionette just walk over to them quickly hiding the tears, but they all saw it. All the other miraculous heroes had come once they heard about the two heroes return though were completely unaware of the identities of the two famous Paris heroes. Chloe, or Queen Bee had smiled seeing Lady-bug and quickly ran over to hug her tightly knocking the wind out of her. "Lady-bug thank goodness your here!" She said than separated keeping her hands on Lady-bug's shoulders and said with her almost signature snooty face and manner. "Where on earth have you been? We have been slaving away and you just decided to come back from your vacation?! You were able to get to space in a matter of minutes, but it took you nearly two weeks to get here?" Queen Bee asks almost ranting.
"Okay I need to know how many people are left?" Marionette asks. "Around one-fifty to two hundred," Kagami answers. "What? There's nearly millions people in Paris how can we only have a couple hundred left?" Cat Noir asks in shock and desperation. "There are likely more, but we can't be sure because we have cut most radio contact to stop the chance of being intercepted and tracked. We are just the left over people who were not able to evacuate, chose to fight, or were captured by the skeletons," Kagami explains. "Alright do we have a defined leader? Where's mayor B?" Lady-bug asks. "Dear daddy-kins and mommy-kins was captured after that blue skinned bird brain took over Paris!" Queen bee said overly dramatic and wiping away a few of her tears. At this Lady-bug rubbed her forehead.
"Okay who's the leader of this faction?" Ladybug asks.
"I am,"
Everyone looked at the voice and saw master Fu transformed with the turtle miraculous. Nino kind of stared mouth agape at the old guy and how differently people would actually look in a different miraculous if given. Master Fu walked over to Lady-bug and Cat Noir with a calm, but angry expression. "I have been told what had happened to cause your absence, but I must know if you have a plan," Master Fu asks the pair of superheroes. Lady-bug was silently thinking for a moment. "I need intel I need people to go in and report in on what exactly is going on what Lila could possibly want," Lady-bug said. "Wait? Lila? She's bluebird? You sure?" Pegasus asks.
"She is we have had reason to believe she has been working with Hawk-moth for a long while, but I just did not have the proof to go to the police. The peacock miraculous is broken and she's had it with her for a long time. It is very possible she may be influenced by the broken miraculous it can cause moods and personalities to become completely different, so we can't be very sure of anything for now," Cat Noir explains getting a look from Lady-bug. He had no dam idea why he was defending Lila, but he thinks it is based on the fact he does not want Lila to go through so much scorn so young so he wants her to have a scape goat for all this and it is not really a entire lie because the peacock miraculous is broken. Lady-bug just did not want to correct anyone and wanted to focus on the problems here right now.
"Well how are we supposed to get in to the citadel? Those literal and figurative bone heads are patrolling it twenty four seven," King Monkey aka Kim said. Marionette thinks for a second before she got a idea. "Lloyd we need your ninja skills and what you know about these guys," She said and everyone looked at him. Lloyd smirks and looks to his friends and they smirked too. "What do they know about being some ninja?" Queen bee asks. Nya smirks and has been waiting for this opportunity for ages. She steps forward and says. "Chloe come at me right now," Nya said and the bee themed super-heroine scoffs. "As if you could," Chloe began. "Your blonde hair is fake," Nya said.
"What! How dare you even suggest that!" Queen bee screeches and charged. Nya easily judo flipped her and stood above her with a happy proud expression. "I have been wanting to do that since I saw you flirting with my brother," Nya smirks and Kai face palms hiding his embarrassed blush caused by his overly protective little sister in his hand.
"How? How?" Chloe fumbles for her words. "Next time pay attention to master Wu when he teaches us," Nya smirks still smiling victoriously. "Seriously Nya?" Jay asks his girlfriend. "Hey you willing to do that again I want to video tape it," Lloyd asks. "Seriously Lloyd? Not you too," Kai said. "What? I want black-mail next time she flirts with you," Lloyd defends himself.
"Get off me now!" Queen Bee yells no demands and Nya does so having proved her point. The ninja looked at Lady-bug.
"Alright what do you have in mind?" They all asked.
Later
Zane, Cole, and Jay were sent in to be purposely captured. Zane used a hologram mode to change his appearance by darkening his skin tone more similar to Alya's and Nino's while also changing his hair to be a dyed at the tips black and wearing very 'Gothy' clothes as put by the others. Jay had put in contacts and was wearing Lloyd's green hoodie and styled his hair differently. Cole had switched out his shirt for Kai's and wore his hair with a bandana around his forehead. Cole was going in for muscle, Zane was going in so he can attend to any injuries taken while the people had been put into captivity, and Jay was there to take out any security cameras and other electrical components.
The changes in appearance were a lot different than what they wear on a regular basis, but they did not want to be recognized. It had been a few years since they had been seen by the skulkin, but they did not want to be recognized and take unnecessary risks. They were wondering the streets as said and as predicted they were quickly found by a patrol troop. They pretended to put up a chase, but it was all fake and got caught and thrown into the back of a truck.
After about half a hour of driving they were taken in too the citadel. It was actually really just the triangle shaped museum that was guarded by a lot of skeletons. They were tied and chained and taken below. A buff skeleton expected each of them and decided.
"They are strong enough for the digging," the skulkin said confusing the three ninja.
What digging?
They were once again lead down a lot of flight of stairs until they came across the room the Mona Lisa painting should be, but found a portal instead!
The three were pushed through the portal after some yelling and screaming which was real because they were terrified of what was through the portal or how the heck there was a portal in the first place. They got pushed through and were blinded by a blinding light of a dessert.
"Guys! Guy's we have lost your location where are you? I repeat we have lost your location where are you?"
Nya's voice rang through the communications. "We are unsure Nya we were taken through a portal and are in a dessert," Zane responds to the commutations. "Like in Egypt?" Cat Noir asks. "No we would have known that. They could be anywhere in the sixteen realms," Lloyd responds. "How do you know there's only sixteen spastically there could be so many more out there so we are unable to narrow it down from that assumption," Pegasus said. "That is so not helpful! Also while I am at it how is Marionette Lady-bug? Did you just steal her miraculous or something because I refuse to believe and blah blah blah," Queen Bee was tuned out. "Try and see some sort of land mark on where you guys could be and how you got there in the first place," Kagami said. "Got it," Jay said.
The trio was looking around and saw something out of a history book.
People lots and lots of people were digging at the sand ground beneath them. There were three silos most likely filled with water and some of the older people had hats on and most people were sun burned as they digged at the sand.
There was a large peristal covered by a tarp from the blinding son and sitting on top it was the one and only Blue Bird. Some were attending to her needs as she laughed at their misery like a villain from a old kids cartoon. This was no cartoon though and the disguised ninja were handed some shovels and told to get to work in the crowd of people.
Jay looked around and realized something. "There's no kids here. We have been told at least six hundred people were captured among the ones who were not able to evacuate where are the kids?" Jay asks. Zane scans the area as Cole was touching his hand to the ground concentrating on something. "Cole what are you doing?" Jay asks.
"I'm listening trying to sense what's below up. They are digging something up," Cole said as he concentrated. Zane and Jay blocked the odd sight and after around ten minutes Cole opens his eyes shooting up.
"There's a pyramid below us. We are digging up a pyramid!" Cole hisses in a whisper to the others. "What could she want with a pyramid? And how could she know what's in there?" Jay asks. Zane scans the area and used his vision to look far into the distance.
After a few miles he saw something unsettling. "Guys," Zane said looking at Jay and Cole with a grave face and tone turning to them.
"We are currently in Ninjago," he confesses in all honesty.
