Well I survived this week's school
unfortunately I seem to have come down with depression. Unfortunate.
Anyway, it's late, past my curfew, so I can't do review replies xd
enjoy this short-ish chapter.
"We have to go rescue them." Indigo said firmly. "That's my family."
"It's really not." Jay B tilted his head.
"Shush. Yes it is." The void mistress glared at him until he looked away.
"I agree that we should do something." Lloyd B folded his hands together on the table. "But what? Bansha is very crafty. I'm not sure we can outsmart her. Last time we tried that…" He gestured to Kai A.
"And we clearly can't give in to her demands." The fire ninja in question added. The group nodded. Bansha had ordered, in return for the release of Indigo A and her family, their total surrender, the release of all their prisoners, and all the females in their group to give themselves up to be her prisoners. Why the females, Morro wasn't sure, but he assumed it was because the rest of them wouldn't dare attack with their sisters, girlfriends, and daughters at stake. Lloyd sighed.
"We can't surrender, and we probably can't rescue them. The third option is to leave them to their deaths." Bansha had threatened to kill them if they didn't surrender in three days. "And we can't do that."
"What if we… like… sent all our ghosts in, invisible, and see if we can rescue them?" Indigo suggested. Lloyd rubbed his chin.
"Not sure if that would work. They'll most likely be under constant surveillance."
"We could at least scope it out."
"But that's two days trip there and back. That takes up almost half our time, and you could get caught." The blond shook his head. "I don't know. I don't know what we should do." In the few moments of silence that followed, Morro heard footsteps approaching him from behind, and glanced over his shoulder to see Andreea stopping next to him.
"My Lloyd wanted to apoliogize." She said quietly. "He doubted you want to see him, so he asked me to pass along the message." Lloyd A was… sorry? Really? How in Ninjago did that happen, he didn't seem to feel any remorse when he was chopping off his fingers. The wind master looked down at his prosthetic fingers, then back up at her.
"Tell him I said 'thank you," He flexed his fingers a bit. "But I'm not sure I can forgive him yet'." She nodded, then left the room again.
"Maybe I can like… I dunno, go in there and pretend to give myself up, then mess with her head or something." Nicole was saying. Lloyd shook his head.
"She'd mess with your head first. Reena, remember?"
"Oh, but I can do more than just make people see things." The dark-haired girl grinned. "I can actually mess with their heads. Like, I can put ideas in her head. I can make her think how I want her to think. I might even be able to switch her to our side." Lloyd frowned.
"You can put ideas in people's heads?"
"Yeah."
"That… no offense, but it makes it a bit harder to trust you." The blond cast a glance at Morro. The wind master frowned. Lloyd had a point, but… he really wanted to trust her. Nicole shrugged.
"I'm used to that, honestly."
"Well, okay then."
"I have an idea." Morro B spoke up. "Remember our plan from earlier, drown Ninjago city? We could just do that."
"But if Bansha saw us coming, she'd kill the prisoners, making them ghosts, and they'd be killed in the flood." Indigo frowned.
"I thought of that. We can send a small team – of humans – into the city. Right up to Bansha and her prisoners. If she makes a move to kill them, the team attacks her."
"But how would they get close to her without her seeing? And how would the Nyas get enough water without being spotted?" Lloyd still sounded skeptical.
"For the first question, Dyana." Morro's double gestured to the darkness mistress on the other side of the room. "Her powers can keep us hidden. For the second, the Coles can lift up some earth between the Nyas and the city, hiding what they're doing from Bansha's view."
"I guess." Lloyd nodded. "That could work."
"Unless someone has a better plan, it's all we've got to go on." Indigo said pointedly. "And we have three days."
"Then let's get planning. We'll need all the time we can get." Lloyd turned to Dyana. "How many people do you think you can keep hidden at once?" The young woman pondered this for a moment.
"Maybe five, if it's dark enough out." She said at last. "Excluding myself."
"Right. We'll have to do it at the end of the day, then. Who wants to be in the strike team?"
"I do." Morro spoke up. Lloyd frowned.
"Are you sure? You're still healing, and you're still getting used to being human."
"I'm sure." The blond frowned again, but didn't protest further.
"Alright, then I'm coming too. Who else?"
"I wanna go." Indigo announced.
"You can't. You're a ghost." Lloyd replied bluntly.
"So? When Nya floods the city, I can just possess Morro."
"Indigo!" Her boyfriend scolded her. "Possessing people isn't something you just do lightly. It hurts." Indigo raised an eyebrow.
"Since when are you a fan of your double?"
"I'm not a 'fan'. But I know that possession isn't pleasant. It's cruel. And my double has been hurt pretty badly already. Being possessed… I'm not sure what that would… do to him." Indigo frowned.
"But why do you care?" Morro's double hesitated, casting a glance at him.
"Let me talk to you privately for a minute." He lead his girlfriend out of the room, and Morro stared after them. The other him had… stood up for him? It confused him almost as much as it had Indigo. Out of the pair, he honestly thought the void mistress liked him better. Lloyd, he noticed, was smiling. Did he know something about this? Or was he just glad his Morro was being… nicer?
The group kept talking, planning, picking the other three members of the team. Morro's double and Indigo didn't come back. They must have gotten distracted. Lost in his thoughts, Morro barely noticed when Nicole said his name, and she had to repeat it a couple times before he looked up.
"Huh?"
"I was saying I'll keep an eye on you during the mission, make sure you don't run into any walls." She was smiling, and he blushed.
"I ran into a wall one time." He muttered, and she giggled.
"I know. And I intend to keep it that way." She smirked, then turned back to Lloyd. "When do we execute the plan?"
"We might as well start off as soon as possible. It will take a day to get there, after all." The blond sat up a bit straighter. "Kais, Jays, go tell everyone about our plans. Except the prisoners. That includes the other me. Everyone else, start getting ready to go." The others nodded, and quickly dispersed. Lloyd, however, stayed, stopping Morro as he made to leave. "As for you, come on. It's time for you to get a haircut."
who's ready for short hair morro
~FFF