Prime Empire
Disclaimer: Jeanette is mine!
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"There's the truck." Jeanette said quietly as a Noodle truck dives into an alley. The Ninja watch as the back door of the simi opens to reveal The Mechanic and his henchmen jumping out from the back.
"Wait for it." Lloyd whispered back as The Mechanic uses his mechanical arm to break down a warhouse door, it falls to the ground with a very loud crash.
"We're in boys!"
The bad guys look around at the old computers that's inside, some of them look like they haven't been used in years. "Huh, look at all this old junk." One of the henchmen, says.
The Mechanic grabs him. "Just because it's old doesn't make it junk, just forgotten!" He throws him, then points. "Find the motherboard!" He orders, he walks down the aisle while his henchmen search. "There! The top shelf!" He points to it after spotting it, one of the henchmen grabs a ladder from the floor and leans it on the shelves, then climbs up the ladder, as soon as he grabs the box he loses balance and everything in the box comes crashing down and he lands inside a crate full of styrofoam. The Mechanic grans him and tosses him out. "Careful with those!" He yells, picking up the box and tosses it away.
"What are we looking for, Boss?" Another henchmen, asked.
The Mechanic searches the motherboards that are scattered on the floor, spotting the one he wants he picks it up. "This is it. A needle in a haystack. A very, very valuable needle." No sooner had he said that, Lloyd gives the signal and warehouse is flooded in light and the bad guys have to cover their eyes.
"Sorry to crash the party, boys!" Nya announces before the Ninja jump down from the ceiling.
"Guess our invitations got lost in the mail, huh?" Jay said, reaching behind to grab his weapon.
Lloyd stops him. "No weapons, guys. These are just low level thugs."
"My fists are my weapons." Cole comments as he punches the air in front of him a few times.
"I would not classify the Mechanic as low-level. He's suspected in thirty-six unsolved criminal cases." Zane corrects Lloyd.
"Thirty seven." The Mechanic corrected before he extends his mechanical arm, punching Zane back into a pile of boxes.
"You're not getting away that easy." Jay told the villain.
"Who's trying to get away?!" The Mechanic challenged as he extended his arms, then quickly realizes that henchmen are trying to escape. He gestures for them to come back and they reluctantly do so, puling out their bats. "And we're not afraid to use our weapons." He lights up his fire arm and points at the Ninja, trying to hit them.
"Whoa." Cole dodges.
"Whoa." Lloyd jumps over it, while the others move back.
"I have no problem using these!" Jay pulls out three floppy disks. "Take that, obsolete file formats!" He tosses them at The Mechanic, one of them hits The Machanic in the arm - knocking the motherboard out of his hand and it flies through the air.
Kai dives for it, catching it just before it hit the floor. "Unh."
"Kai!" Jeanette cried as the henchmen surround him and dogpile him, fighting for the motherboard.
"Hunh-ahh!" Kai tosses the motherboard, but it lands in one of the henchmen's hands, who smiles and starts to quickly climb up the ladder.
"I got him!" Lloyd exclaimed as he throws one of the henchmen, he leaps up onto the shelf and chases the henchmen.
Jeanette throws out her wind at the henchmen who were still dog pilled on Kai, they cry out as their flown off the red ninja. "You ok Kai?" She asks with worry as she knelt down and grabs his arm.
"Yeah, thanks Jen." He said as he ues his free hand to rub his head.
Cole smashes a henchmen against a shelf. "Use the VCRs!" He calls up to Lloyd, who was dodging the thug's baseball bat.
Lloyd pauses. "What's a ... VCR?" He asks, scratching his head while looking at Cole with a questionable look.
"It's that old machine Wu watches his Ninja movies on!" Cole answered, now putting the henchmen he was fighting into a headlock.
Lloyd turns to see three machines that he assumes are the VCRs, he quickly presses the three buttons. "Eject! Eject! Eject!" He waits for a second. "Well, anytime now!" He complains as the henchman slowly makes his way towards Lloyd, but the three VHS tapes fly out, knocking the bat out of the henchman's hand. Lloyd runs at him, knocking him back, and the motherboard flies out of his hand. Nya slides in from below, catching it - just as the shelf starts to tobble over.
Lloyd jumps away and the shelf falls down on the henchmen - causing Kai, Jeanette, Cole and Zane to jump back as a cloud of dust comes up.
The Mechanic sneaks up behind Nya and snatches the motherboard back.
"I'll take that!"
"Hey!"
"Thanks! Haha!" He runs away.
The Ninja run outside just in time to see him leaving in the Noodle Truck. The team run into an alley and follow him in the Rock Cycle and the Katana 4x4. As the Ninja chase the Noodle Truck, it pulls out a claw, it reaches out to grab a street lamp, whipping the truck around.
"Hold on!" Nya warns, just as the Noodle truck comes back at them.
"Whoa!" The Ninja cry out, as they take the sharp U Turn and pursue after him. The Noodle Truck knocks into boxes and cars, sending them flying at the Ninja. The team accelerate and Kai catches up to The Mechanic.
"Look out!" Jay cries, just as the truck rams into the ATV.
"Unh. Hey! Watch the paint job!" Kai yells, just before The Mechanic speeds away, leaving them spinning.
"Whoa! Whoa! Ahh!" Kai, Jay, Lloyd, Nya, Zane, and Jeanette cries out.
Kai manages to get back control of his ATV, coming to a screeching stop and wobbled on both sides.
"Everyone ok?" Kai asks, looking at his friends.
"Oooooh." Jeanette was doubled over and holding her stomach.
"Jen?" Lloyd asked in concern, grabbing her shoulder gently, but she quickly straightened up.
"Give her the gas, Kai!" She said firmly, he gives a firm nod and accelerates.
The Katana quickly catches up to the Noodle Truck just after it's jerked to a stop thanks to Cole. The Ninja quickly and immediately surround The Mechanic who had jumped down.
"It's over, Mechanic!" Lloyd said as he and Ninja take off their hoods. "Give it up!"
Growling, The Mechanic throws his hands up in surrender.
"I'll be taking this!" Jeanette said as she snatches the motherboard and stares at it with confusion.
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The Ninja are now outside The Mechanic's Headquarters with the police. They watch as The Mechanic is put into the backseat of the police car, the car drives off with its siren.
"Great work, Ninja!" The Commissioner praised, getting their attention. "You guys saved the day!"
"Yeah. But what exactly did we save the day ... from?" Kai asked him confused, folding his arms.
"Uhh, I don't know yet." The Commissioner admits. "The Mechanic's not saying anything, but we'll take him downtown and maybe we'll get some answers then. Let's go boys!"
Jeanette pulls out the motherboard and looks it over. "And what exactly does this old motherboard have to do with it?"
Jay suddenly appears behind her left shoulder. "If we only knew what this was for."
"Well, it's a motherboard to a computer." Cole points out, and Jeanette gives him a look.
"Yeah, thanks for that Captain Obvious." She remarks dryly, and he just shrugs.
"Sorry."
"But which computer?" Zane questions. "There are 3,412,870 computers in Ninjago City, approximately."
"But only one secret lair!" Nya exclaimed with a smile. "That's where he was running when we caught him! Maybe that's his hideout!"
The team walk towards the building, that was on the other side of the street.
"Um. An abandoned arcade?" Jay questions as they head for the front door. and walk inside into the mess.
"Look at all these robo-arms." Nya states, raising an eyebrow. "This guy has an obsession."
Jeanette sneezes loudly. "Ugh." She sniffs. "He collects dust too." She said. "What are we looking for again?" She questions.
A robo arm falls down onto Lloyd's shoulder, scaring him. "Ahh!" He screams, throwing it off. "Oh, ok. let's make it quick." He said as he places his hands on his hips. "This place is super creepy."
"No way!" Jay's excited voice had them turn to see him blowing and sweeping dust off an Arcade Pod, he turns around to his friends. "Do you know what this is!? It's Prime Empire!"
"What!?" Cole smiled. "No way!"
"Look at it! It says Prime Empire right on the side!" Jay gasps, grabbing his face. "It's real!" He closes his eyes as he jumps.
"Excuse me." Nya had both boys turn to her. "Can you two pretend that we're not all video game nerds and tell the rest of us what Prime Empire is?"
"Oh, it's this legendary game created by the most famous game designer ever! Milton Dyer." Jay explained, playing with some buttons. "But for some reason, it was never finished and they abandoned it." He turn to the back of the game and plugs it into the wall, when he comes around he presses a button.
Nothing happens.
"Well, that was exciting." Cole said, not impressed.
"Yeah, its no surprise that it's not working." Jeanette said, folding her arms.
"Can't have been that good, if they never released it." Kai added.
"I find old games to be unchallenging." Zane replies, while looking at his hands.
"Yeah, I like new ones." Lloyd smiles. "Where they really make you feel like you're there."
"Can we get back on track?" Nya wants to know, a hand on her temple, she looks around. "There's a lot of nooks and crannies here and we're not even sure what we're looking for, so let's spread out!"
"Uh, yeah!" Jay's voice had them turn to him. "Ok, good idea, except I think I should stay here and keep checking in this, uh area." He unconvincingly points at the floor.
"What?" Jeanette puts her hands on her hips, raising an eyebrow.
"Why do I feel like you're just going to fuss around with that broken game?" Nya adds.
"Pfft, what?! No, no, I'm just gonna start here first. You know we don't want to miss any clues. Right?" Both girls give him unconvinced looks, but leave to head further into the building with the others.
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"Wow. He's got a lot of hats." Cole says as he walks up to a wall, showing off the same hat that's hung in a row.
"Yeah, who would have thought a guy super into stealing things would have too much stuff?" Kai said lazily as he continues.
"Says a new father who almost single handedly bought out Toys R Us and Baby & Me." Jeanette said with a really big smile, making Kai trip over his own feet.
The Master of Fire turns to her. "That wasn't me!" He cries panicky, even as his sister tries and fails to hold in her laughter.
"That was you, big brother!" Nya laughs louder.
Kai folds his arms in a grumpy fashion. "Oh yeah? If I'm not mistaken, Cole and Lloyd did the same!"
Cole puts his hands on his hips. "Not me." He said in a matter of fact tone. "My dad!"
Zane suddenly gasps as he straightens up. "Uh. What was that?" He asks.
"We better keep looking." Jeanette said as she turns to move, but pauses. "Hey! There's a door back there." She points to it.
The Ninja, minus Jay walk toward the back door. Nya opens it and they walk into a very messy room.
"What a mess!" comments. "Maybe he should steal a filing cabinet next."
Jeanette sneezes. "And a good duster, too." She sniffs.
Kai walks up to her side, and sees slips of paper on a billboard. "That's the same weird symbol that's on the back of that motherboard."
"It's everywhere!" Lloyd said as he sees a folder on a desk and picks it up. "But what does it mean?"
Something flashes on behind Zane, the Ninja turn to look at the sound as Zane pushes away two piles of cabinets and the other Ninja crowd behind him, to find a computer.
"Did you locate the motherboard?" A computerized voice asked, the Ninja look at each other. "Did you locate the motherboard?!"
"Yes. We did." Zane said, while typing it in.
"Unagami is pleased. Activate the game." The screen turns to black.
"Unagami? Who's Unagami?" Lloyd asks.
Jeanette sneezes again, this time falling backwards and into Cole and catches her.
"Come on Jen." He says as he wraps his arm around her shoulders. "Let's get you out of this dust pan place." He said, she could only nod.
The team head out of backroom and towards the main room.
"No doubt that Jay is still playing around with that old arcade game." Nya said as she opens the door for the main room. "Jay! We found a clue!" She pauses and frowns as she looks around.
"The Mechanic's working for someone who calls himself Una - huh?" Cole stops short as he too quickly notices the disaperance of Jay.
"Jay?" Lloyd asks as he walks further into room.
"Where'd he go?" Jeanette asks as she walks over to the arcade game. "He was."-
"Would you like to enter Prime Empire?" The video game questions, scaring the daylights out of Jeanette and she jumps backwards bumping into Lloyd. "Would you like to enter Prime Empire? Would you like to enter Prime Empire?" The game repeats the question.
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Here it is. Season 12!