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The Ninja stiffen as Mammatus and the Keepers surround them. "Lock them up." Mammatus ordered. "All but one. The Gift."
"Which one?" A Keeper questions as he points his weapon into Kai's face.
"None of us are going anywhere with you tiki's!" Jeanette said.
"The insulting one." Mammatus decides. Jeanette is grabbed and yanked away from her friends.
"Wait, where are you taking her?" Kai demanded as the rest of the Ninja are pushed back as the Keepers continue to point their weapons. "Hey!"
"Back off!" Cole spat at a Keeper.
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"Careful with that thing!" Kai yelled as he and the Ninja are led into a cage. The door closes and Kai grabs the cage door. "You're making a big mistake!"
"Let us out of here!" Cole yells before he powers up his Earth Punch and attempts to lift the door, the others try to help, but a Keeper places his weapon on the cage door - electrocuting them and they flying back and land on the floor. "Remind me not to try that again." Cole groaned as he and the others sat up.
"Nya? Kai?" The voice questioned, and the Ninja turn to see Misako and Master Wu walk over to them.
"Misako!" Nya smiles. "Master Wu!"
"Are you alright? Misako asks.
"Yeah." Nya nods with a smile. "We're ok."
"How about you guys?" Cole asked with worry.
"Yes, we're fine." Master Wu answered with a nod.
"They've treated us pretty well, all in all." Misako added.
"I've been in quicksand that was more comfortable." Clutch Powers complained as he sat on one of his fellow explorers. "Dwayne! How's that tunnel coming along?"
The kid stops what he's doing and turns, his hands shaking. "My hands hurt." He whimpers.
"Why are they doing this? What do they want?" Nya questioned.
"It has something to do with some artifact they seem to be protecting. I believe they think we were trying to steal it." Misako answered.
Both Cole and Jay turn to give a suspicious look at Powers. "Were you trying to steal it?" Jay demanded.
"How dare you! I'm an archeologist, not a thief." Nya and Cole look at each other, then at Powers skeptically as Cole places a hand on his hip. "I study, and I, uh, bring back. To my place. To study some more." He added lamely.
"Where are Lloyd and Jeanette?" Misako asks the Ninja.
"Lloyd managed to get away. He's still out there somewhere." Kai answered. "And Jen, they took somewhere else."
"We have to find her!" Misako said with worry. "Oh, the poor thing must be scared out of her mind."
"They referred to her as a gift." Zane said. "I am unsure why."
"Maybe because she insulted them twice?" Jay tried to answer with a shrug.
"From my observation, the islanders aren't actually hostile, just protective." Misako said. "I don't believe they want to hurt us."
"Hopefully we won't be here long enough to find out." Kai said. "If I know Lloyd, right about now, he's finding a way to rescue us."
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Inside a room, Jeanette is pacing and running her hands through her hair as she tries to think of a way to escape and rescue her friends. She turns and jumps startled when PoulErik enters.
"Food? Drink? Canapé?" He's holding a big bowl of food as he advances on her, and she walks backwards until she falls into the only chair in the room and the bowl is shoved into her lap.
"What's going on?" She demands. "Where are my friends? And why do you have two heads?"
"We brought some food! Just for you. Insulting girl."
"No, no, no!" Jeanette stood up with the bowl. "I want answers!"
The strange man pushes her back into the chair. "Please, have a seat. And relax."
Jeanette growled. "I don't want to relax! I want my friends!" She yelled. "Where are my friends!?" She demanded.
"Eat, drink, and enjoy." The two headed man told her.
"You're not gonna answer me, are you?" Jeanette groaned, then her eyes narrowed. "Listen pal! You better start answering my questions!"
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In the jungle, Lloyd makes his way to the village, a shadow then starts to tower from above him and he slowly turns around to find Zippy had followed him.
"Oh, no. Not you again!" He complained as Zippy shook the branch they were standing on as he wanted to play. "Shoo, shoo, get, go!" Zippy pushes the coconut at Lloyd, who picks it up and throws it away, he turns around and yelps when Zippy is suddenly there with the coconut. "How - you were just." He trails off as he picks up the coconut and looks at it, then shrugs and prepares to throw it again when a boat of Keepers catches his eye. "Hey guys!" He calls out to them, the two Keepers look up just as Lloyd throws them the coconut, Zippy jumps down towards them.
Lloyd then makes his way towards the cages, he looses his balance when a loud thud hits the boat he's standing on, he turns to see Zippy next to him, grabbing the coconut he smirks, then throws the coconut and Zippy flies after it, frighting the two Keepers and they run away, with Zippy giving chase.
Nya turns to find Lloyd. "Lloyd!"
"It's about time." Cole said as Lloyd unlocks the cage door, it slides open and he walks in and throws the away the weapon.
"Oh, Lloyd!" Misako cried, running over to her son.
"Mom! Master Wu!" Lloyd smiles as he and his mother hug. "Are you ok?"
"Fine, fine." Misako answers as she pulls away from the hug.
"Well, let's get out of here." Lloyd said. "This place is crawling with islanders." Lloyd said. "We gotta go. Quick!"
Kai grabbed his shoulder. "Lloyd, they have Jen."
Lloyd blinked, he looked around to find that his wife isn't with them. "Where is she?" He asks with worry.
"We don't know." Cole said, shaking his head. "They took her somewhere."
"We need to find her!" Lloyd said, he looks at Powers and his team. "You guys head for camp, get the catamarans ready." He looks at the Ninja. "You check that way." He points in an area. "I'll check this way." He points in a different area. As they split up, Powers stays back and pulls Dwayne in a different direction.
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As the Ninja search the village, Zippy distracts the Keepers, causing chaos.
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Later that night, the team regroups without Jeanette.
"No sign?" Lloyd asked with worry. "None at all?"
"I found this." Cole said as he held up a hair scrunchie in his right hand, he walks over and gives it to him.
"Yeah, this is her favorite one." Lloyd said as he clutched it, then placed it on his wrist. "Wait a minute. Where's Powers?"
"You don't think he'd be foolish enough to go back for that artifact?" Kai asked.
"Even Clutch isn't that reckless." Nya said, then added. "Is he?"
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At the throne room, Clutch Powers is busy taking out the Amulet while he's standing on Dwayne.
"Hold still, Dwayne!" He complained.
The Ninja run over. "Powers! Don't!" Lloyd exclaimed.
"Leave it." Cole added.
"This is a valuable cultural artifact! It deserves to be studied, at my place." Powers said as he held the Amulet to his chest.
"We don't have time!" Lloyd said, worried about Jeanette. "Leave it!"
"I am inclined to agree. Any second the Keepers are likely to."- Zane is cut off when the Ninja are electrocuted by the Keepers, then they moves their weapons to point at Powers.
"Gumdrops."
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The Ninja wake up to find themselves tied to poles on the beach.
"Oh boy." Lloyd sighed.
"I'm getting a little tired of being zapped." Nya said, just as a spear is thrown at Cole's pole, zapping him.
"Me too."
Suddenly the Keepers walk passed them with Jeanette on a palanquin.
"Jeanette!" Lloyd cried, causing her to turn at his voice.
"Lloyd! Misako! Master Wu!" She cried happily.
Lloyd struggled against his pole.
"Where are they taking you?"
"I think I'm gonna be a sacrifice!" She cried in panic. "Help!" She cried as she struggled against her bounds as she's placed on a raft.
Mammatus turns around. "Keepers, hear me!" Realizing that they can't, a Keeper gives him a stool to stand on. "Ahem. Long before time had a name, we were charged with protecting this world from the wrath of Wojira."
"Wojira!" The Keepers chant.
"Wojira?" Lloyd questioned.
"An ancient myth." His mother explained. "A storm spirit. Some cultures believe it was a giant serpent."
"For countless generations, we have fulfilled our duty as the First Spinjitzu Master tasked us." Mammatus continued, making Wu gasp. "Now, for reasons we know not, Wojira awakens. Wojira rises! So we send her this gift, the mean one, but pretty one."
"Wojira!" The Keepers cheer as Lloyd struggles harder to break free.
"To placate her anger, we pray Wojira will take this gift, and go back to sleep." Mammatus finished, moving his staff to push the raft and it starts to drift.
"Lloyd!" Jeanette cried. "Guys! Help!" She struggles against the rope that's keeping her in place.
"Let us go!" Lloyd yelled in anger as he and the Ninja try harder to break free.
"You're making a huge mistake!" Cole added.
"Lloyd!" Jeanette cried. "Ninja!" She struggled harder to break free. "There's something out here! LLLLLLLLOYD!"