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I sadly don't own Ninjago...
No Ones POV
The three trudged along, following Zane's falcon, giving all they had to keep moving.
Lloyd's mind kept thinking about the last REAL time that he saw just father, chained up like a slave in the Preeminent, waiting for help. Sadly he couldn't help him, only get help from him on what to do.
His heart had felt empty from the day his father went down with the Preeminent.
"So, future me, what's it like in the future." Past Lloyd asked, snapping the present ninja out of of his thoughts, tears were threatening to leave his emeralds eyes. He blinked several times before he said anything.
"It's fine...for the others." He mumbled the last part, he just wanted to get home, he never wanted to go back in time, just to see his long dead father.
The group slowed as the falcon landed on an old, dried skeleton of a large beast."The samuruai X cave." Garmadon said pressing a button, a section of the ground the were on started to lower, forming a ramp.
"That's all? The way you said it makes me worried, you didn't sound happy." The younger green ninja stated as they walked into the cave. Garmadon decided to keep his mouth shut and listen to the conversation.
Lloyd looked to his left, not wanting to look at the other two with him." It's fine" He growled, holding in tears. His two companions stopped, taken back by his response.
"Lloyd whats wrong?" Garmadon asked, Lloyd kept walking. Past Lloyd started forward, but his father put a hand out to stop him, Garmadon started toward Lloyd.
"Lloyd, please. We want to help, even though we are in the past." He grabbed a hold of his shoulder, making him stop."Please."
Memories were racing through his mind, he couldn't take it much longer. Lloyd spun around and bear hugged Garmadon, tears falling.
"You sacrifice yourself to save us,"He whispered, trying to control himself. Garmadon hugged back, ignoring what he said, he didn't want to think of himself dying."I had to send you." Lloyd whispered into his ear.
Garmadons eyes were glistening with tears, past Lloyd looked at the two, he felt fear growing inside him for the future.
"Let's keep moving." Lloyd let go and used his arm as a towel and shipped away his tears, along with his nose."I agreed." Garmadon straightened himself up and started towards their vehicle."Why must everything have so many weapons." He grumbled.
Past Lloyd snickered,"Says the man who had four arms to possess the golden weapons."Lloyd smiled, when he said it long ago he felt so smart for quickly thinking of that come back.
Garmadon gave a fake laugh,"I walked into that one." All three hopped onto the vehicle."I swore off fighting, not driving." Garmadon said with a grin, as the past green ninja sat in the driver's seat.
"Oh boy." Lloyd said.
(Present)
Tim, Ben, Jack, Cyrus, and Kent were back down in the cold sewers, where the portal was. Each had dragged down piles of wires and scrap pieces of metal, mainly to rebuild Zane.
Cyrus rolled over to the computer,"Bring that big to this plug in, I'm afraid you'll have to put it in, I don't have the strength." He said to a man, who now has a black eye. That man is Ben, he started to act like Mitch and mouth off to Cyrus when they first got down to the sewers.
Tim, the only real adult of the six criminals, had gotten tired of everyone complaining and decided to end his scene. Now his left eye is purple and blue mixed, along with a hint of black, now he knows not to mouth off.
Ben obeyed and dragged the six inch thick cable over to the large computer and lifted it up to fit it into place."After he plugs it in you two have to quickly connect those wires, or else it won't work..." Cyrus informed the two males on the other side of the portal, Jack and Kent, both nodded.
"Alright in three...two...one." Ben rammed the cable into the hole and twisted it so it would stay in place. Kent and Jack fumbled with the wires trying to get them connected in time. Fortunately, they connected them in time and the computer started to load, on the inside of the portal ring you could see a faint blue color forming on the inside edges.
Tim, who was standing behind Cyrus, pulled out his walkie talkie,"Nya it's loading, transfer all power down here."
Roger that, transferring all power we can give.
Nya slammed her hand on a red button and the lights imeddiately went out. She turned on a flashlight on her desk, since she was prepared.
"We are in business." Max said, lean back on the wall, even though he didn't do a damn thing. Nya shined a light at him."Shut up," Skylar joked."I'm going to go check on Flare," She added heading out of the room.
"If this does work, how do we know if the portal will go where we want?" Wu asked his student. Nya turned to her large computer, and with a flick of a switch, emergency power was transfered to the screen."It'll take at least and hour, or longer for the portal to be up. In the mean time we will be trying to contact Cole."
"Is that even possible?" A voice spoke from across the room, both turned, Nya flashed the light around and saw Mitch stand up." They're in an alternate dimension, communication seems impossible unless we go in the portal."
"Good to see you're not angry, but it isn't Impossible, if the portal is now loading, we should be able to have our signal go through, therefore we can have communication." Nya stated proudly. She pulled up a loading screen and other functions no one knows how to use except Misako, Jay, Pixal, Zane and herself. Mitch grinned," So we have a chance?" Nya nodded and turned back to her computer.
"This bar will tell us how strong our signal is, as of now you can see that it is a very weak signal, but hopefully soon we will get a strong one." She said, returning to trying to communicate. Mitch sighed,"I'm gonna go check on Flare as well." He said turning and started to walk into the darkness.
THUMP!
The rest that were in the bridge looked around, wondering what the noise was."I'm okay!" They heard a voice yell." Ran into a door!" Everyone laughed, knowing it was Mitch who shouted.
(Blast to the Past!)
Cole, who was now basically giving Kai a piggy back, looked out over the hill as lightning threatened to strike anywhere it could."The sub power station." He growled, the present master of earth didn't like to be back here, it brought back too many memories he'd rather forget.
"Are we supposed to get in there?" Past Jay asked, looking around at his teammates. Pixal gave him a nod of approval."We have to, gotta shut down the..power." Younger Cole stated as he glanced at Pixal, he started remembering what they had talked about on the train. Of course he is going to keep his word and not tell, even though the future ninja already know, they seem to not want to change anything.
"We gotta be stealthy!" Kai shouted, getting ready to charge."You mean we get to be ninja for a change?! AWESOME!" Young Jay shouted with excitement, but was shushed by his friends. Jay looked around him, he felt dizzy, his mind was thinking about too many things at once. Also he hadn't said a word since they started to head to the power station. Cole noticed.
"You okay?" He whispered as everyone started to run to their destination, Jay watched as Zane begged for Pixal to come with them. He felt bad that Zane had to go threw with pain long ago, and when Zane sacrificed himself, he'd never have the guts to do it. Well, now he'd probably do it, but back then, nope."No...No I'm not..." He stated, as Zane was called upon by his brothers up ahead. He slowly started to jog, and Cole sped up."What's wrong?"
"Memories, hatred, depression, losses, the triangle, dizziness, you name it. I can't be here much longer." He sped up trying to get with the group. Cole groaned and moved Kai so he was laying on his left shoulder, boulder brain pushed forward to catch his friend."Why?" Kai groaned and shifted his body, nearly taking Cole to the ground."Damn it Kai, stop moving." He pushed the master of fire back on his shoulder and ran after his friend."Shut up." Kai mumbled.
"Why?" Cole asked again, slightly annoyed. Jay gave a small grunt as he nearly tripped over his own feet."Because I'll breakdown," He hissed through his teeth. That was the last thing on his mind, all he wants to do is get home.
Cole stared at his friend as they silently ran, he could sense the pain growing inside of him. He scanned Jay's expression, he could sense the same thing that the master of lightning does. There will be a disaster, and something tragic will happen.
The master of earth changed his focus to the groaning man on his shoulder."You okay Kai?" He grabbed the hot head's back and dragged him into his own arms, like a baby. Kai groaned as a response."Don't worry buddy, you're gonna be okay...I promise." He whispered, only words can be better than reality.
The portal was only five percent loaded, it created anger amoung the adults and young adults. It had been around forty five minutes since they first started it, and now they have to wait.
"Nya when are you just gonna quit trying to contact them?" A male voice asked, irritated. It was Mitch, of course. He sat slumped back in a chair, tired, bored, and annoyed. He and Skylar came back around ten minutes ago from checking on Flare. They said he was fine, his wound wasn't bleeding anymore, so they decided to do some stitching and put a wrap around the wound."There's no point, if we used that power for the portal it would be up by now." He said barely loud enough for everyone to hear.
"You never know, at any moment we could get a signal."Nya protested, tuning the signal, trying to hit the right spot. The red haired women next to her shifted in her seat, trying to get a comfortable spot."I hate to say it, but I agree with him. Nya we could have the portal half way loaded by now." She said trying to stay awake. Nya shook her head without saying anything, they don't who they are telling to quit.
"You think I'm just gonna give up?" She asked in a stern voice, shocking both Skylar ad Mitch, along with everyone else in the room. Nya turned to her companions."Giving up is what you do, no me. I wanna get them home just as much as you do, but we have no idea where or when. If I could get them to communicate with us, I'd never give up." Mitch stood up, he seemed calm and inspired from Nya's little speech.
"You know what? Yeah, you're right, won't hurt to wait. Just gotta find something to pass the time." He said with a weak smile. He jumped to the ground and started doing pushups, just for the hell of it.
"Fine, but is there anyway to speed up the portal or make our communication connection stronger?" Skylar asked, walking over to her friend."There's always a way." Nya stated with a huge smile.
The group made there way, quietly, to the top of the sub power station, and were doing their best to not get caught or seen. Jay still felt dizzy and now a little nauseous, his stomach dropped everytime a lightning bolt struck.
"Hey since you guys are from the future, why don't you tell us how to do this." The young blue ninja hissed to Cole, who was leaning up against a wall, still holding Kai in his arms. Cole shook his head," It doesn't work like that, you guys have to do this, we are just here to stop someone, but everything else must continue, the way it originally happened."
He watched the others finally start moving towards the door, but he kept his eye on the sick looking man, Jay."Change anything, change everything...you know this." The master of earth started to follow his friends, young Jay followed.
They all snuck in and started pressing random buttons, hoping to shut down the power.
Jay felt his head spinning, he felt even worse than when he was outside. He leaned up against a back wall, chest heaving, he gasped for air as if he was drowning. He clentched his fists and frantically looked around, trying to note his surroundings. The blood in his veins was moving faster, his knuckles were nearly white.
Finally he forced himself to step forward and grab a hold of a railing. He knew he had to call for someone, being that he was on the complete other side of the control room, no one was paying attention to him. Jay opened his mouth, but nothing came out, sweat was dripping down his face and back. He tried once more, the only thing that came out was a weird squeak which made him hoping no one heard that.
Both of his legs were so close to giving out, so he tried again and actually got something out."CO-COLE!" Jay shrieked, everyone turned just in time to see him collapse.
"JAY!" Cole shouted, dropping Kai gently before running to his fallen friend. Both calls of fear were heard from the outside nindroids, and they started to rush in.
Lloyd hummed a tune while sitting in the seat of their vehicle. He quietly watched his past spec drink the water from the small stream they had come across. He kept glancing back over the horizon, from what he remembered this was a live or die situation here soon.
"Why do you keep doing that?" Garmadon asked, obviously noticing Lloyd's behavior.
The green ninja was thrown from his thoughts,"Doing what?" He brushed hair out if his face.
"Looking over there."Garmadon pointed to the horizon. Lloyd looked out and gulped, it was time to run."We need to leave. now!" He shouted, younger Lloyd noticed and took off towards the car.
"Why didnt you tell us this happened?" Garmadon hissed as he tried to start their vehicle. Lloyd moved over for his past self to get in." Because I cant let anything change!" He shouted kicking a black box to started the vehicle, even though that's not how it started last time.
The mechanical dragon roared in fury as it raced after them. Things were mainly the same except, two others were on the dragon instead of another place. Cryptor smiled as the dragon got closer, he prepared himself to jump down along with his leader. Zen stared at the vehicle like a hawk.
He refused to let anyone get away from him this time."You better be right Zen, or else." Cryptor growled as he looked back at the two teens."Dont even try to escape, you would get very far." The nindroid general said.
"Don't worry, the overlord wouldn't trust me if I was wrong." Zen said, his eyes glowing a deep purple instead of his normal hazel color.
The mechanical dragon sped up and was barely over the rear end of the vehicle."Now!" Zen shouted as he leaped down, landing perfectly on the rear. Cryptor landed next tk him and gave a hand signal to the dragon.
"There on the car!" Young Lloyd shouted, unblocking himself. His future self stopped him,"You're more important...this isnt supposed to happen." Lloyd hissed as he climbed to the back of the vehicle.
Him and Zen had a stare down, the wind made both claw at whatever they could get ahold of, so they wouldn't fall off.
" Zen...come home. Your mother misses you. Whatever Python did to you, we can help." Lloyd finally said.
Zen gave a smirk," I am who I am, can't change it." The blonde closed his eyes, relaxing himself, he doesn't wanna fight Zen."If you won't come willingly, I'll drag you home." The green ninja's emerald eyes shot open and he lunged at Zen, both tumbling painfully onto the side of the dirt road.
"Lloyd!" The faint sound of people yelling could be heard as the car and dragon raced away.
"You're coming home." Lloyd groaned in pain as he pushed himself on his hands and knees. His chest started to hurt once more and a large cut was now oozing blood on his head. He looked up and saw Zen bending over with his hands on his knees. His shirt was torn and had several cuts.
"I'm..n-not coming back." Zen stood up straight and stared daggers in Lloyd's direction."Never!" With all of his might, Zen shot high voltage bolts at Lloyd.
The master of energy gave a horrifying screech of pain, the lightning stung him in every place on his body."No one will stop me!" He stopped and watched as Lloyd collapsed on his stomach. He was still breathing when Zen approached him.
Zen bent down and grabbed Lloyd's left ear and said,
"Nobody can stop me."