I had three different versions of the last chapter! I didn't know which one to put up. Hope you like!
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Wu finishes his history with Aspheera.
"You're the Deceiver!?" Jay cried in disbelief.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Let me get this straight." Kai starts. "You broke your own father's law, snuck into the land of the Serpentine, and nearly started a war?"
"It - it wasn't quite that."
"And you befriended a snake and thought it would be a good idea to teach her Spinjitzu?" Cole added.
"Well, it was complicated."
"And then you stole a dangerous scroll from your father, the First Spinjitzu Master, breaking the law again to defeat her?" PIXAL finished.
"I'm not understanding this at all." William said.
"Master Wu, how could you?" Eleanor questioned.
"I admit it! Ok!?" Wu exclaimed. "I admit it all! I was young, and reckless, and-and … foolish. I never thought to hear the name Aspheera again. I thought all of this was in the past."
Suddenly the Monastery shakes violently.
"What was that?" PIXAL asked.
"The past catching up to us." Kai answered.
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Once outside. Cole, Jay, Kai and PIXAL leaped up onto the top of the wall that's surrounding the Monastery, while Wu Eleanor and William stood on the ground. The three Ninja on the wall could see Aspheera and her Pro Vipers and Fire Fangs coming up the mountain. It was her whole army.
"Look out!" Cole yells, as a Fire Fang spits out a fireball right at the Ninja. The three jump out of the way and back into the courtyard. "Looks like Lloyd and the others didn't slow Aspheera down much."
"This is because of you, Wu." Kai blamed, glaring at the elder. "You're our teacher! The one that's always lecturing about responsibility, and and true potential!"
"I made a mistake!" Wu pleaded for forgiveness. "I never thought this would come back to haunt me."
Another fire ball hit the doors of the Monastery.
"I can't believe this!" Kai shouts.
"GET DOWN!" Jay screams as another fire blast nearly hit them, and the team dodges.
William turns to Wu. "You said your father created two Scrolls of Forbidden Spinjitzu, correct?"
"Yes." Wu confirms. "We used them to defeat Aspheera, which made my father very angry. He hid them from us."
"Hid." Cole starts, but the team dodge another fireball. "Hid them where?"
"I don't know."
"Well, someone must have found them because Aspheera got one of the scrolls at the museum." Kai huffed.
Another bust hit into the doors, so everyone hid behind the golden statue in the center of the courtyard. "So, where's the second scroll?" Jay asked.
"If the scroll was at the museum, logic would dictate an archeologist or explorer found them." PIXAL replied causing Jay, Cole and Kai to look at each other.
"Clutch Powers!" The three boys immediately remember.
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The team quickly head inside the building and into the game room, while Cole stays in the hall with Eleanor as he tries to reach the others. "Lloyd! Nya! Zane!" He calls over his ear piece.
"We are here." Zane's voice came through. "But we have bad news. We have lost Aspheera."
"That's okay, we found her." Eleanor informed, her hand on her own ear piece.
"She's attacking the temple!" Cole cried.
"What?" Lloyd asked.
"Lloyd. There's more." Eleanor didn't mean for her voice sake, but it came out that way.
"We found out who the Deceiver is." Cole said. "Um, well."-
"Lloyd, it's your uncle!" Eleanor cut off Cole.
"What!?" Lloyd cried, he couldn't believe that his uncle, his uncle? He couldn't believe it! That had to be a mistake, right?
"It's a long story." Cole said. "The good news is, we have a plan. We know how to defeat Aspheera. There's another scroll out there somewhere, and we think Clutch Powers knows where it is."
"Great, so where's Clutch Powers?" Nya asked.
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Aspheera finally makes into the Monastery, a Pyro Viper tried to climb the wall, but Wu uses his staff to hit the snake with a nearby rock as Cole runs into the room with Eleanor.
The Fire Fang kept shooting at the doors.
"All those doors aren't gonna hold much longer." Cole said.
"And we just replaced them!" Jay complained.
"What do we do?!" Eleanor asked.
"We still have a few surprises in store." Wu turns to the female nindroid. "PIXAL!"
"Come on!" PIXAL said as she ran up to a wall that's on the right of the door. She presses on the wall, opening a compartment to reveal a computer screen. PIXAL puts in a code and two machines come out of the ground, facing the invasion. The machines start shooting water at the two snakes that's guarding Aspheera, the two turn to charcoal and fall apart. Two other machines come up and shoot a bunch of rubber shurikens at Char.
"Ho, oh, oh, rubber shurikens! Nice!" Jay cheered as they watch what's going on.
PIXAL continued to shoot the water at the enemy, but it was only making them more anergy.
"The Deceiver uses his weapons against us!" Char said as he plucked a rubber shrunken off his armor and threw it to the side.
"Bah, parlor tricks for one who possesses his Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu!" Aspheera said using her scroll on the machines. "Fire Fang, the doors!" She orders.
The Fire Fang shoot at the doors again, this time destroying them, and the Ninja flew across the courtyard.
"Ellie!" Cole turns and runs over to her, just as Jay is helping her up and she winces a little.
"I'm ok." She tried to reassure Cole as she stumbled into Kai.
"Run!" Kai told his friends.
Everyone turned and ran inside, making their way to the secret elevator. Just as Aspheera entered the Monastery.
"Come out, you coward!" The Serpentine yelled. "Come out and face me!"
"Yes! Face Aspheera, Queen of the Serpentine and rightful ruler of all of Ninja."-
"Oh, stop blathering, you fool, and ransack the temple! Find him!" Aspheera told him.
"You heard her! Stop blathering and start ransacking! Go!" Char screamed at the other snakes that are behind him.
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The Ninja head through the hanger. "We'll have to make our way out through the vehicle bay doors." Jay said.
PIXAL turns on the security system to look for the snakes. "Negative. We are surrounded. We cannot get out that way."
"Great! Now we're trapped! Another thing I blame you for!" Kai points an accusing finger at Wu.
"Kai, uh, maybe it's time to back off Master Wu and focus on what to do next." Cole suggested as he placed a hand on his shoulder, Kai shrugged off his hand and walked away.
Cole sighed as he turns to his master. "Aspheera stole his elemental fire." He explained. "He feels useless now and that's why he's so angry at you."
"PIX, if we can't get out of here on foot, what's the plan?" Jay asked. "You usually have something up your sleeve!"
"Well, it's not complete yet, but there is this." PIXAL walked up to a console, pressed a button and a huge white mech with green stripes appeared.
Jay cheers wildly, as Kai who seemed to forget about his anger with Wu, ran up to Jay's side.
"New Mech!"
"What are we waiting for? Let's get to work." Jay said, before running to the mech.
PIXAL hurries over to a piece she hadn't gotten to install yet, and throws it to Kai. "Weld that to the manifold."
"On it." Kai lifted the piece over to the spot and tried to use weld it with his fire, but couldn't. "Oh, right. I'll just grab the welding torch, I guess." He jumps down to grab the welding torch.
"If it weren't for me, he'd still be able to control the Element of Fire." Wu told Cole and Eleanor as the three watch Kai. "He's paid the price for my mistakes."
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The Pyro Vipers are still searching the Monastery for the Ninja, but couldn't find them. One looked behind a picture on a wall, one looked behind the oven and was attacked by Master Wu's chicken, and another looked inside of a bin that's full of weapons and is surprised when all the weapons fell on him.
Aspheera groans in annoyance. "Enough, you fools! Find me the Deceiver!"
"B-But we searched everywhere." Char protested. "H-He's not here. Maybe we should take a break. Get some dinner and come back with a full belly and a fresh set of."-
"Silence!" Aspheera shoots her fire at Char, he screamed and ducked, and the dark board is revealed along with the button to the elevator. "A lift, by the - the, a lift!"
"Yes!" Char cheered. "Well done, my Queen! We have found it together! All hail the Queen!"
Awkward silence filled for a long moment as Aspheera looked at Char, wanting him to move, luckily for him he moved and pressed the button again to call up the elevator.
"Now." Aspheera laughs. "I will have my revenge!"
Nothing happens.
"Revenge in a minute." Char replied, and another long moment went by. "Sometimes it takes a while." He said nervously as she glares at him at the same time. "Anyyy minute."
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Jay quickly noticed something. "Oh no! Someone's called the elevator! PIXAL!"
PIXAL immediately jumps from her mech and presses a couple of buttons on the console, deactivates the elevator. "I've stopped it. But it's safe to assume they know where we are."
"What do we do?" William asked.
"Oh, I wish Lloyd and the others were here." Jay was slowly starting to panic.
"I guess we're just gonna have to fight them. Power, or no power." Kai said.
"No." Wu told them. "I will pay for my own mistakes. Alone."
"Master Wu, don't." Eleanor protested.
"You can't do that." Cole added. "Aspheera would destroy you!"
"Perhaps that is for the best." Wu said as he stops at the bottom of the steps.
"What-how can you say that?" Jay asked.
Wu finally turns to the Ninja. "Because Kai was right. I cannot be your master. I cannot teach you to take responsibility, if I run away from my own. You have paid for my mistakes. For that, I am sorry. Allow me, now, to make amends."
"Kai." Eleanor turns to him. "Say something." She said desperately. "Are you really that angry that you're going to let Lloyd, your friend's uncle, do this?"
Kai closed his eyes tightly, then shook his head and turns to face his master. "Master Wu. I'm sorry I was angry. We all make mistakes. But giving yourself over to Aspheera would be another one. She can't be trusted. She'll still be dangerous and on the loose and—besides all that, we're family. We stick together. No matter what." He walked up and hugged his master.
Kai pulled away from the when he heard sobbing and turned to see Jay. "What?" The fire Ninja was annoyed and little embarrassed.
Eleanor also had tears, but kept them silent as she stood between Cole and PIXAL.
"That … was beautiful." Jay said as he wiped his eyes.
"Let's get ready to kick some Serpentine butt!" Cole punched a fist into the air. "Together!"
"Yeah!" Everyone, except Wu, cheered.