Chapter Seven: Rock Paper Scissors...

Lloyd sipped his juice through his straw, eyeing the museum in front of him. Cole was inside, getting the inside scoop from the head of security. Kai was nibbling on a sandwich, Nya using chopsticks to eat some Chinese food out of a container. Zane was drumming his fingers, his pet Falcon perched on his shoulder. "Should Jay be taking this long?"

"Probably has to stand in a long line. Chill out dude." Kai licked his lips, trying to sound more confident that he felt.

Nya lifted her chopsticks up, a piece of broccoli trapped between them. "You could always ask him what took him so long. Its not like he is running straight to us with the hot dogs he was buying."

Startled the friends turned to find Jay full out sprinting towards them. Gasping for breath, he stopped next to them, handing the one hot dog to Zane. "One sauerkraut dog. Sorry it took me so long. Apparently they didn't have any barbeque sauce or ranch!" As Jay spoke, he unwrapped his hot dog to reveal that it indeed have barbeque sauce and ranch drizzled over the top of it.

Kai wrinkled his nose as he leaned away from Jay. "You know..? I would expect Cole to like that...not you!"

Jay rolled is eyes, before taking a bite. Zane carefully unwrapped his hot dog, to reveal that it had sauerkraut stuffed into it. Biting into it, he chewed thoughtfully. "You know, this would be great for us if Lloyd is correct that Fangtom will be after the Magna Carta. Ninja Incorporated will be all over the news if we succeed in saving that."

"Zane." Lloyd's voice was sharp, and almost cold. "We cannot have that happen. We need to stick to the shadows to fight them. The government will pull our funding if we any happens that will make it hard for us to fight Darkley's."

"Sorry. But this is still good for us...right?" Zane still looked hopeful that they could use this to propel their agency forward some.

"Of course. We'll get a bonus if we manage to do this." Lloyd shrugged as if that made perfect sense.

The museum door banged open as Cole and the head of security came out of there. Cole turned to shake the man's hand, before walking at an almost run to the others. "We're in! We're in charge of the Museum security tonight."

"Sweet! Let's stop Darkley's in their path!" The friends high fived each other, grins crossing their faces.

~That Night...~

Lloyd crouched down, with a clear view of the Magna Carta. Of course, the museum was going to have problems if someone standing on top of their lights couldn't see the artifact. "Everyone is in position. Any sign of Darkley's yet?" Zane's voice crackled over the earpiece that Lloyd was wearing.

Lloyd lifted a pair of night binoculars to his eyes. Peering out, he shook his head. "Nope. Hang tight guys, I'm sure that someone will show..." A flicker of movement caught his attention. "Up! There! Over by you Kai! Can you see who it is?"

"You are not going to believe it...but I think its me. I mean, it would be me if I had tattoos, ear piercings and hair long enough to pull back in a ponytail. Who exactly is that anyways Greenie?" Kai's voice crackled over the earpiece, sounding highly disturbed by how mush he looks like the agent from Darkley's.

"Derek." Lloyd groaned, dismay edging his voice. "He joined us my second year in the Academy. Let's just say... his moves are very unorthodox. Scales never really liked him. He is a master at hand to hand combat...and pick pocketing. Stay on your toes guys. He can turn any paper he gets his hand on into a deadly weapon."

"Great..." All of Lloyd's friends groaned with annoyance.

Lloyd leapt down, landing softly in front of the Magna Carta...just as a young teen wondered lazily into view. Just as Kai had warned them, he looked an awful not like Kai. He had long auburn hair that was pulled back into a greasy ponytail, stud earrings protruding from his earlobes. His sleeves were ripped of so as to show off about six different tattoos on his arms. Interestingly enough all six of them were of dragons...midflight with their claws extended as if they were fighting each other. "Derek...Long time no see." Lloyd rolled his shoulders to relieve some tension in his neck, though he doubted that would stop Derek from completely beating him up.

Derek snorted as he cracked his knuckles. "Come on shorty. What's ya going to do? Beat me up with your powers? We all know that you can't control them."

Lloyd blinked, an idea quickly taking hold. "Wanna bet on that?" He flexed his fingers, green energy crackling as it popped into existence.

Derek blinked, surprise flashing across his features for five seconds. Then he leaned forward, punching through one of the exhibits stands. "So what? Just a slightly bigger challenge than I originally thought is all."

Lloyd smirked, tilting his head in silent signal. Immediately his friends slipped out of the shadows, their own powers crackling to life. "Yeah...but I'm not alone anymore."

Derek narrowed his eyes before launching himself forward. Lloyd swallowed hard, suddenly glad that they had convinced security to move anything of value out of there. The exhibit he broke was just a cheap replica made in China.

~Next Day~

Cole reached a hand out, grabbing Lloyd by the arm. "Where do you think you're going?"

Lloyd glared at him, before shrugging him off. "Come on...Derek will expect us to send someone else in since he thinks that he should expect me to come which means that I have to face him."

"Kid...have you looked in a mirror recently?" Kai gestured to Lloyd's face, indicating the fresh bruise that was spread across his face.

Lloyd winced as he poked at the bruise that Derek gave him, wishing that the stronger boy could have held back at least a little. "I'll be fine. Trust me...I'll protect my face this time!"

"What about the rest of you?" Jay questioned, pressing an ice pack against his head.

"Guys! Just chill." Lloyd sprinted ahead of them, jumping onto the train, flashing the ticket that he stole from Kai to the train conductor.

Slipping into his seat, he stared out the window as he watched as the trees outside of it rolled past. "Well well… if it isn't Lloyd Ninja." Dareth suddenly sat down across from Lloyd, smirking as if he were confident that this time he will catch him. Upon glancing at his face, Dareth paled. "Um...what happened to your face!?"

Unfortunately, Lloyd just spotted Derek make his way to the dining car. "Much as I would like to stay here and chat...I've got some unfinished business to deal with."

"What? No! Stay here!" Dareth launched at Lloyd. Moving quickly, Lloyd managed to chain Dareth to the seat, using the handcuffs Dareth was holding.

Darting forward, he slipped into the dining car. Frowning upon realizing that Derek was just sitting casually at one of the tables, he walked over and sat down at a mostly empty table. "Oh hello." Pixal blinked rapidly as she looked up to see what to her looked like an average teen sitting down across from her.

"Hey." Lloyd glanced over at his table companion, noting a card similar to the one he just plucked from Dareth's jacket pocket resting just at the edge of her briefcase. "Waiting for someone?"

"Err..yes?" Pixal felt nervous as she shifted nervously.

"Cool." Derek got up and moved, signaling Lloyd that it was time to move on. "I've got to go." He reached into his pocket and pulled out his Ninja Incorporated identity card. "Official business."

"Oh my." Clearly she had some kind of dealing with them before seeing as she didn't question it. Standing up, he followed Derek this time to an empty passenger car. Time for some fun...

~Pixal, Thirty minutes Later~

Pixal felt her mouth drop open in surprise as she stared down at what was sitting in the seat that one of the Ninjas from Ninja Incorporated had sat in just minutes ago. The stolen Magna Carta. "You have got to be kidding me. Lloyd Ninja wouldn't return what he stole...it doesn't make any sense!" Pausing, her mind flashed to the mysterious Ninja Incorporated that she presumed that the Masters knew about. What if they didn't actually know about the Ninja Incorporated? She had no idea which Ninja was sitting with her...but now that she was thinking about it, he did match the description of Lloyd Ninja. "Oh dear... this complicates things."

~Same time with Lloyd~

"I cannot believe that Derek managed to steal that card from me!" Lloyd whined as he slouched down in the seat he was currently sitting in.

He and his friends were back on the private jet that two of them co-owned. Zane shrugged as he typed away at his laptop. "Perhaps with your memory of what it looks like I can see if I can't find out about it on the web? Surely someone knows about it."

"Thanks Z..." Lloyd sighed, glad that he had his friends with him and that he wasn't a solo act.

A/N: Hello! Derek is an OC for Ninjago that one of us, leaving you to guess which one of us, made up a few years back and never used. Basically, he is either Kai and Nya's no good older brother that thankfully doesn't have any powers, or he is Kai's mirror image twin brother that is no good and has fire powers. Really need to figure out which version we like better. Both versions show up in Hunted in her headcanon to help protect Ninjago slash drive Nya up the wall. Their abilities with helping the Resistance depends on his age.

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