Have another half chapter

So uhh... my mom has been having me watch a bunch of movies for school, and I do that at night when I would usually write, so... been hard finding time.

Review replies:

Ebony: Don't worry. I'm only mostly dead.

Entity: Oh heck, that's a long chapter. xD Nothing bad. He's human now. And just like in the RttCR timeline, the ghosts will all be fine. Heck canon.

NinjagoMLP: Should I be glad

Kitkat: I mean same

The Mayor of Ninjago City: Gosh ikr

Draconis: Yep!

Chapter 68

"So they're already coming." Lloyd B muttered, leaning precariously back in his chair with his feet on the desk in front of him.

"Lloyd, you're going to fall over backwards." Nya B pointed out.

"I am not." The blond turned to glare at her, and immediately his chair lost its balance and he fell with a crash. "The first one to laugh gets a pencil thrown at them." Lloyd muttered from the floor, followed instantly by Morro B snickering. When the blond followed through with his threat, he groaned as the pencil went through him.

"Nice try." The ghost shrugged. Lloyd pointed an accusatory finger at him.

"If we weren't in the middle of a really serious meeting right now, I'd come over there and make you pay for that comment."

"Okay."

"Good job setting the mood, Lloyd." Dyana called over, and Lloyd threw a pencil at her too.

"Can we be serious now?" Indigo B broke in. "In case you'd forgotten, there's a huge army of ghosts marching towards the city."

"Alright, alright." Lloyd got up and seated himself again. "So, we can hold this city easily. We have strong defenses, the wind masters, and a water master. Stiix can be held too, since the Nya there has unlimited water to work with. But the ghosts will just come back. So eventually we have to get rid of the Preeminent, obviously. The question is, how?"

"If we could lure her to the ocean, we could maybe drown her." Morro suggested. "But I don't know what we could lure her with."

"The Realm Crystal?" Cole A spoke up.

"Maybe. But how exactly would we go about it?" Dyana asked. "'Hey Preeminent! Look! A Realm Crystal! Go get it! Go fetch!'" She mimed throwing something, and there was snickering from most of the occupants of the room. "Nah, she's not that dumb."

"What about my double?" Morro B suggested. "She went to great lengths to try to get him killed." Morro clenched his fists at the memory, and Nicole rested her hand on his shoulder.

"Again, how do we communicate that to her? Yell really loudly, 'I GUESS WE'LL JUST SEND…' uh… 'MORRO A OUT TO SEA… THAT GOOD SALTY AIR… GOOD FOR HIS LUNGS.'" Dyana cupped her hands around her mouth as she mock-yelled, eliciting more snickering from the others.

"I meant, like, 'accidently' drop a note where one of the soldiers could find it, saying we're sending him to Stiix for safety." Morro B shook his head. "You're right. It won't work. She'd just send more minions."

"That's a good point." Lloyd cupped his chin in his hand. "What would be important enough for the Preeminent herself to come for?"

"I can't think of anything." Morro B admitted. "She has no reason to. She's smart enough to not put herself in a dangerous situation, and she can just send her ghosts to do anything she could. She has no reason to take risks."

"The only time I can think of is if she really needs to win a battle." Morro spoke up. "The closer she is to it, the sooner killed ghosts can get back into the fight. But she would only fight that hard is if she was sure she could beat us."

"And it's very unlikely she would go all-in on us now." Lloyd pointed out. "Even if we lost the city, we could easily fall back to Stiix."

"Good point." Cole A shook his head. "And she won't besiege Stiix, it's too well-defended. And we could fall back to here."

"That's it!" Indigo exclaimed, shooting to her feet.

"What's it?" Her boyfriend raised an eyebrow.

"If we want to win," The ghost girl explained, "We have to lose."

TheDarknessReturn

"Come on, Robin." Ronin coaxed his daughter, catching her by the hand to keep her from running off. The toddler only giggled and ran the other way.

"Honey, come here." Tara scooped the little girl up, bouncing her so she wouldn't complain.

"Thanks, sweetheart." Ronin gave his wife a kiss on the cheek before leading them and their guests down a side alley. "We're almost there. It'll only be a few more minutes." He called over his shoulder.

"Good." Ray and his wife exchanged smiles. "Maya and I can't wait to see our kids again."

IT'S THEM

~FFF