Aeria's POV

Trudging through another day of physics lessons, I was starting to fall asleep with my head in one hand until several large *Booms* were heard outside.

"May I have a bathroom pass?!" I waved my hand in the air, but my teacher was too terrified to answer so I just let myself out.

"What took you so long?" Lloyd asked as he was already at the lockers behind the rest of the gang.

"No time for jokes, let's go!" I went down my locker's pipeline rapidly changing into my uniform, taking extra care that I didn't lose my hair clip before clipping it back into place underneath my mask.

Within a few minutes, everyone was ready to go announcing as our mechs flew, swam, and rolled out,

"Ninja, go!"

"Jay." Lloyd started to direct the team,

"Yeah?"

"You take the air. Kai, Zane, Xia, and Cole, downtown."

"Nya, water."

"You got it." Nya confirmed her position from where she was skating across the river.

"I'm going after Garmadon."

"Why don't I take your dad this time?" Jay suggested from his glider.

"Or at the very least, let me come with you again to make sure you don't do anything dumb." I told Lloyd with a bit of a glare towards the end of the sentence.

"I got this. I'm totes profesh." Lloyd told us, but everyone could clearly hear the uncertainty in his voice.

"Wait. What does that mean?" Kai questioned in confusion.

"I think he's trying to say he's a total professional." Nya guessed.

"Then why is he totes abbrevin'?" Jay asked using the same tone as Lloyd.

"I'm pretty sure Lloyd's nervous." Zane started before Xia finished her twin's explanation with,

"About facing his father after the emotional debate that occurred yesterday."

"What? T-That's crazy talk." Lloyd stuttered in his response making Zane and Xia chorus,

"Incorrect."

"Hey, I got this!" Lloyd drove his mech away right before Nya suggested to me,

"Maybe you should follow him and make sure he doesn't do anything too reckless."

"I'm on it." I saluted Nya before driving my dragonfly mech after Lloyd where he was driving straight for his father in a new, more advanced looking humanoid shark mech. I was falling behind because of some flying henchmen when Lloyd tried to order his father

"Stand down, Garmadon."

"Well, hello, Green Ninja! and I see you back there Purple Ninja..."

"Violet!" I yelled back making Lloyd see me behind him,

"What are you doing, I told you guys I can handle this, watch," Lloyd tried to protest to me before turning forward and saying, "It's time for you to ninja go away for good. Take this!"

Mega missile mode.

Left claw missile.

Toenail missile.

Wrist Rocket.

Feet bombs.

Spine missile one,

two, three, four.

Tail rocket one, two.

Eye missile.

Other eye missile.

Tongue rocket.

Head missile.

Other head missile.

Backup head missile.

Butt torpedoes.

However, all the missiles Lloyd fired didn't even scratch the paint job on Garmadon's new mech.

"Your weapons are powerless against my new mech."

"What?"

"Seriously Green Ninja just wait until I get there and we'll figure something out, if I could just get these guys off my back!" I yelled the last part as I opened the window to fight off the henchmen who were on my mech and to shoot down their flying mech with three well-fired arrows as they were preventing me from reaching Lloyd and Garmadon.

"No time for that," Lloyd dismissed my suggestion before turning back to his father and yelling, "take this!"

Releasing full payload.

"Here it comes!" Lloyd was stopped in his tracks when I saw in the distance that Garmadon had grabbed Lloyd's next by its throat to stop its attack.

Alert! Alert! Alert!

"You having trouble with that dragon mech, Green Ninja?" I could see Lloyd struggling to get his mech back under control when Garmadon yelled,

"Bye-bye." Right before he tossed the dragon mech aside like it was nothing.

"Wait. No!"

"No!" I shouted before I suddenly felt my protective instincts kick into overdrive mode.

"You're gonna pay for that Garmadon!" I seethed out as I flew my mech over the buildings to see him and his mech "walking" up the side of city hall.

"Look at me go!" He called out in joy before I fired a stun laser at him that barely missed his head.

"Well well well, if it isn't the Purple Ninja." I was already burning with anger, but that was what sent me over,

"It's Violet!" I hit the accelerator on my mech to ram his off the building, but right before impact, his mech caught mine in a single hand that kept me pinned in place as I struggled to take back control.

"Nobody stops me or else your little buddy is a goner!" Garmadon announced to the others as he made his mech hold me up in a crushing grip while continuing up the building slowly, stopping every few floors to fire some sharks at people.

"Violet, what's going on?!" I heard Nya speaking through the slightly busted comms.

"Guys I need an escape route from my mech like right now."

"If you press the button on your left, it will activate an emergency escape ejection." Xia explained as a red Eject button popped up from the left armrest. I was just about to hit it when Garmadon interrupted my plan with,

"You're not getting away that easily." Before he made his mech tighten its grip on mine, keeping me pinned in place as the walls bent toward me, destroying the panel in front of me cutting off the communications the others were sending through to me.

Thank Ninjago Zane and Xia had our mechs reinforced or I'd be a goner by now… I thought as I looked out of the window to see where everyone was.

Where are you, Lloyd...?

"Hey, Ninjago!" My thoughts were interrupted when Garmadon reached the top of the building and used his mech's free hand to plant a flag with his emblem on it before jumping up and down in triumph and firing sharks up into the air, "Whoo! I've done it! I'm finally the ruler of Ninjago! Forever! And ever!"

"Stand down, Garmadon!" A new voice called out and I looked out to see Lloyd rising up on his mech from the building with some kind of weapon in hand.

"Green Ninja? And the legendary Ultimate Weapon? Ugh, it's not fair."

"'Ultimate Weapon'? Seriously, what kind of name is that?" I snarked from my entrapped position.

"Don't disrespect the Ultimate Weapon, it could destroy us all if it wanted to." Garmadon lectured with slight fear in his voice making my eyes widen.

"And you're using it Green Ninja, of all the dumb things you've been doing lately this has to be the stupidest."

"Uh 'thank you Green Ninja for coming to my rescue'? No? Fine…" I smirked ruefully at Lloyd's ego while he was in Ninja form before he went on with his threat to his father,

"I'm sick and tired of you trying to conquer Ninjago!

"All right, Green Ninja. Now, listen. Just calm down. You don't have to use that thing." Garmadon seemed genuinely afraid of the strange weapon in Lloyd's possession.

"So you're gonna leave Ninjago?

"Yeah..."

"Forever?"

"I promise." Garmadon held two arms up but kept another hidden behind his back.

"Why is your hand behind your back? What are you doing back there? Are you crossing your fingers?"

"That's physically impossible. How could I be crossing my fingers? I have these things." Garmadon held up his claw hands while I muttered,

"Wouldn't be surprised if you found a way to, honestly."

"You keep quiet!" His threat was punctuated by another crushing motion around my mech, making a panel from the console pop out and press against my leg painfully.

"I'm warning you, Garmadon!"

"Fine! No crossies! No crossies! Just chill. Okay. Look, I'm getting rid of all my sharks." All his sharks were flushed out from the pack behind his mech, "See? No sharks."

"And the sharks in your ankle holster."

"I don't have any sharks."

"What's in your ankle?"

"It's a couple of dolphins, man. Now you're acting loco. I mean…"

"Hey! Get rid of 'em."

"Fine." The mech's leg was kicked down a few times to shake all the dolphins out, "You happy now?"

"I'm done. You win." The mech walked forward a few steps while its grip tightened ever so slightly with each step.

"What are you doing? What are you doing right now?" I could see Lloyd's stance falter as his father got closer in his giant mech.

"Easy, Green Ninja."

"Don't come any closer!"

"Easy."

"I'm warning you, Garmadon."

"Let's just keep this interaction very chill."

"I'm the definition of chill right now!"

"Quit losing your cool!" I interrupted the back and forth banter which earned another crushing motion that brought the panel down on my leg even more to where I had to bite back a pained shout.

"Stand back!"

"Put down the Ultimate Weapon, Green Ninja. We both know you're not gonna fire it. Especially not when I have your little friend right in the palm of my hand."

"Oh, yeah? This is your last chance. Let my friend go and get out of Ninjago, now and forever!"

"No." Garmadon stated plainly, making Lloyd up his threat,

"Alright, fine. You ready for this?"

"Yeah."

"It's coming."

"Okay."

"You've been warned."

"I'm waiting."

"Here it comes."

"Any time."

"All right, here it comes!" He pressed the huge button on the side of the weapon which activated a red dot that landed on Garmadon's mech, making him panic wildly,

"Oh, my gosh! He actually shot and it exploded, and then…" He finally realized nothing bad was happening and his panicking faltered, making me facepalm silently in disbelief, "But nothing is happening. Why is nothing happening?"

"What the heck?" Lloyd looked to the weapon in confusion and worry.

"It's like the Ultimate Lamest Weapon."

"Come on! Why won't you work?" He flipped it around to hit it repeatedly while failing to notice that the red dot was now shining down on the city.

*Thump*

"You hear that?" Garmadon questioned before more was heard,

*Thump*

"What have you done?"

*Thump*

*Thump*

*Thump*

From behind a building, a giant kitty was revealed making the crowd go,

"Aw!"

Right before a single strike from its paw completely knocked over and destroyed a skyscraper with a fierce snarl, making everyone down below panic and run.

"How do I turn this thing off?" Lloyd frantically pushed the button while simultaneously waving the weapon around as the dot did the same in the city below and the cat followed it everywhere it shone,

"Come on!"

"Stop you're only making it worse!" I tried to bang on the windows of my mech to get Lloyd's attention, but I was interrupted when Garmadon commanded his henchmen,

"Generals, grab the Green Ninja." Right as Lloyd was being overrun with the henchmen as they tried to get the weapon from him,

"Keep away."

Lloyd was almost pushed over the edge of the building before he managed to regain his footing, only to be dogpiled on after Garmadon kicked the weapon out of his grip.

"Whoa. Whoa."

"Wait! Wait! No, no, no!" Lloyd struggled against the henchmen restraining his arms as Garmadon made his way back up to the opening of his mech and telling him,

"Remember, Green Ninja, I didn't fire this thing first. That's on you. But, since you got it all warmed up, let's try it on some moving targets."

"No!" Lloyd and I yelled out as he used the light to take out Kai's mech first, the cat breaking it down in one swift jump. Cole was next as the light blinded him right before the cat pounced on his mech as he shouted,

"What the heck!"

"Stop it, Garmadon! Just stop it!" Lloyd pleaded as he continued to struggle against his captors while his father just laughed wickedly as he targeted Nya next, the cat batting her mech around as she screamed,

"What is this thing?!"

Catching his mech out of midair, the cat took down Jay's mech right before he ejected out of his seat and cried out,

"I'm gonna throw up!"

Zane and Xia were attacked next as the light blinded Zane and they both chorused,

"Prolonged scream."

The last of the rampage coming to a close as the Ice Tank was the last one to be taken down aside from the dragon and dragonfly mechs.

"Five ninja down, two to go," Garmadon lowly stated, making his mech kick Lloyd's mech off the building before adding, "Soon to be one."

Right before he completely crushed my mech in his mech's hand, my leg fully crushed against the crushed console making me cry out before me and my mech were tossed through the air off the building,

"Noooo!" I heard Lloyd scream before I got too far from them in my airborne mech.

Flying through the air toward the ground, I felt the shock that I hadn't felt since the accident and I started to hyperventilate right before my mech crashed to the ground and I was forcibly knocked out.