Would've had this up sooner! But I got distracted with the new Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet trailer came out, so I really got distracted with that!
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"Ok! I got it!" Raya cheered as she sat Indian style on her father's bed inside the Monastery. "Mainly spoons! We dig into a Kryptarium wall, find the Ninja, your dad uses his super strength to break more to make room for all of us. Then we use Traveler's Tea from the abandon Tea Shop, and presto! We're making new lives inside the First Realm!"
Lily turns from looking out the window. "Spoons?"
"That's it! I'm done!" Raya snatches up the paper and crumples it up. "Giant slingshot, can't do, giant wooden horse, can't do!" She throws the paper wad to a corner where a mountain of paper wads is at.
Master Wu walks into the room. "Girls. I thought I told you to do your training?" He scolds.
"I wanted too!" Lily exclaimed. "But Raya."-
"Nobody likes a tatle tail!"
"Enough!" Wu scolds. "If you girls aren't interested in training. Then I'll put you to work instead."
"Chores!" Both girls cried in union, groaning.
"Yes, chores." Wu nods, confidently. "Let's go."
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Chantal parks her car in front of Kryptarium Prison in the parking lot. Both driver and passenger door opens. Skylor climbing out of the passenger and Chantal climbs out of the driver seat, then opens the back door behind the driver door to pull out a brief case.
Once the car is locked, the girls walk inside.
"Miss. Chantal. Your uncle's in his office." The male officer said.
"I not here to see him. I'm here to see my clients. The Ninja. I am a lawyer. Wanna complain? Go to the mayor!"
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Inside the visiting room. Chantal grabs Lloyd in a tight hug, as Skylor does the same to Kai.
"Are you guys ok?" Skylor asked with worry after pulling away from her hug with Kai.
"Yeah." Lloyd answered. "We did have a few scuffles with Ronin and Pythor."
"Ronin?" Skylor repeated, making a face. Kai's arm around her and holding her close. "How's he back? I thought he was stuck on the Island Of The Keepers?"
"We did have to bring him back." Jay answered. "Despite Cole trying to snap Ronin's head off."
"I told you guys, you should've just let him rot where he was." Chantal moves to the table and sits, Lloyd sits across from her.
"What's the plan Chanti?" He asks.
"I've been studying none stop at trying to get a new court date with a different judge."
"Really?" Lloyd asked, then grunts when both Jay and Cole lean heavily on his shoulders.
"I like that!" Jay said brightly.
"Yeah, me too!" Cole added.
"Will you two get off me?" Lloyd pushes his friends off him.
"But!" Chantal presses. "Here's the bad news."
Kai groans. "There's always a 'but'."
"What's the bad news?" William asked.
"The mayor refuses it! He chose that judge. And he's got those Skittle/Rainbow Ninja constantly checking up on me." Chantal leans back in her chair, folding her arms.
"How are the kids doing?" Cole asked.
"They miss you guys." Skylor answered. "Raya is constantly getting into fights at school, Eleanor had to transfer Lily to a different school, and the younger kids are still too young to really understand."
"Lily had to be transferred?" Cole asked. "Why? And what school?"
"The other kids at the school kept picking on her, about you guys being here and treated like criminals, Raya would defend her and get into trouble for it." Skylor answered. "And Lily was transferred to a school that Eleanor went too."
Cole nods, seemly to accept it. "How is Eleanor?"
"She's ok." Chantal answered with a nod. "She's constantly arguing with the mayor and the Rainbow/Skittle Ninja."
"And sorry to pile on the bad news." Skylor replied. "Something else happened. That king you busted in Shintaro?"
"Vangelis?" Jay asked.
"The Skull Sorcerer?" Cole asked.
"Yeah, that's him." Skylor nods. "Last night, someone or something sprang him from prison. He disappeared."
Lloyd narrows his eyes. "The Crystal King."
"Who?" Skylor asked.
Kai turns to her. "Some weirdo in a kabuki mask visited Lloyd yesterday, spouting a bunch of villain jabber."
Lloyd nods. "He said someone called the Crystal King is assembling our enemies against us."
"To do what?" Skylor asked.
"That's what we need to find out." Lloyd turns his attention back to his wife. "Chantal, honey. You gotta get us out of here to investigate this."
"I'm trying!" Her voice shook. "Nobody wants to help us." A tear slides down her cheek.
"Yeah, the mayor is constantly sending his pets to check up on us." Skylor said, as Lloyd quickly moved around the table to gather Chantal into his arms.
"What do you mean?" Kai asked.
"I lost business because of them."
That angered Kai. "I'm gonna torch those freaks!"
Skylor smiled a little. "Raya and Lily came up with a carawash idea, they got their friends together with your parents, Master Wu, Chantal, PIXAL, Dareth, and Eleanor helped a lot."
"My sister didn't help?" Kai asked, surprised and a little angered by that.
"All she's doing is hiding out in the Hanger Bay a lot."
An officer walks over to them. "Time's up, Ninja."
"I'm working hard on this guys." Chantal told them, hugging Lloyd's arm tightly.
Jay nods. "We know. But don't strain or hurt yourself."
"Dareth says he has a strategy that in his words 'that just might work'." Chantal replied, still holding Lloyd's arm. "He also says 'It's a tried-and-true tactic that's worked in similar situations.'"
"How is Nya doing?" William asked.
Skylor shrugged. "Physically, fine. But she doesn't have her powers, and the judge won't give her permission to visit. Which is tough, because." She pauses. "Well." She trails off.
"What?" He asked.
Skylor was quiet for long moment.
"Sky." Kai presses.
"She blames herself for all of you being here. And she feels powerless to do anything about it."
"That bad huh?"
"Don't worry, Will." Kai said, placing a hand on his shoulder. "I know my sister. One thing about Nya: whenever she gets knocked down, she always gets back up."
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Back at the Monastery, after making sure Raya and Lily have each done three chores, Masters Wu walks into Nya's room. Finding her packing all her weapons.
"Nya?" He's surprised. "What are you doing?"
"Spring cleaning! Getting rid of a bunch of junk I don't need anymore." She answered as she moves around her room. "Putting things into Cole's dad's garage sale."
Wu picks up a weapon to look at him. "But these are your training weapons." He said with a frown. "You can't put your weapons in Lou's garage sale."
Nya turns to him. "No, those are staying here in the hall closet. I got regular stuff to go into his garage sale. And I'm no longer an Elemental Master, so I don't really need to train anymore. What's the point of keeping all this junk?"
"Sometimes, when people get upset, they do rash things, like throwing away all their possessions."
"I'm not upset! Ok I'm just being realistic. I'm not an Elemental Master anymore, right?"
"You may not possess elemental powers, Nya, but you are not defined by your powers. You are more than that."
Nya turns around. "I'll remember that. Thanks! Now if you don't mind, I really have to get back to throwing all this stuff out." She starts to pick up random things from the floor.
Wu sighs, he then sees a letter addressed to Samurai X. "Hmm." He picks it up and hands it to Nya. "Some things are worth keeping."
Nya takes it and reads what it says. "'Dear Samurai X, when there was a fire on my street, you saved my whole family.'" A thoughtful look crossed her face. "Samurai X?" She raises an eyebrow. "Hmm." Picking herself up, she looks around before finding and box, she dusted off the dusted before opening the box and pulls out a rolled up paper, she unrolls it to reveal her old Samurai X Mech. Samurai X, huh?"
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At Kryptarium Prison, the Ninja are in the lunch room during lunch. "What is this food supposed to be?" Jay asked, lifting his spoon to look at the food on his tray.
"I was gonna say oatmeal, but oatmeal isn't green." Cole lifts his own spoon to look at whatever food the prison gave them.
Zane is holding an oil can. "I told them I do not drink motor oil, but they still gave me this."
Lloyd pushes his bowl away. "I think I'd prefer the oil." He folds his arms.
Cole smiles at the snack they all have. "At least there's cake!" He grabs it with his left hand and bites into it, causing pain to shoot through his mouth. "Ow! That hurt! If you want to keep your teeth, don't eat the cake!" He said as he rubs his cheek and jaw with his right hand.
"Well, well. Lookie here." A familiar voice they hadn't hard in years, had the Ninja turn to see Pythor, still white instead of purple.
"Pythor?" Lloyd, Kai, Cole and Jay said in union.
"You do-gooders got locked up with the baddies you put away. Ironic, isn't it?" Pythor laughs
Kai sarcastically laughs. "Laugh it up, Pythor." He points at the snake. "But you're stuck in here too."
"Yes, I got busted. By the New Ninja, who are so much better then you ever were, by the way."
Kai growls and moves to attack, but is restrained by Cole and Lloyd.
"He's not worth it, Kai." Jay said.
Pythor comes up to Kai. "Oh don't fret for me. Word is, someone's breaking villains out for a big job. I'll bust out of this joint before you know it." He said, circling the red Ninja.
"You think we're gonna let that happen?" Kai demanded.
Pythor cackles. "I'd like to see you try and stop me. Compared to the New Ninja, you guys are a joke." He throws the brick cake at Kai.
Angered, Kai grabs a tray and slams it into Pythor, Pythor lets out a shout and grabbing another brick cake and throws it at Kai, knocking the red Ninja backwards and into the wall. "Ow! That hurt!"
Cole comes up to him, holding a tray over his head. "I warned you!" He said as he moves his tray to shield himself when another brick cake is aimed at him.
Pythor grabs everybody's trays and throws them at Kai, who dodges, and soon it's a food fight, before the prison guards come rushing in with whistles blaring.
"Wrap it up! Back to your cells!"
"You'll see Ninja!" Pythor said, when a guard shoves him back and the villains are escorted away. "You'll see! All hail the Crystal King!"
"Crystal King." Lloyd repeats, looking at his friends.
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Inside the Hanger Bay under the Monastery. Nya runs towards PIXAL.
"Pix, I was hoping you'd help me build something." She said, coming up the female Nindroid, who turns to her.
"What did you have in mind?"
"This!" Nya unrolls the paper, showing the blueprint.
"The old Sam X plans." PIXAL notices as she unroll a corner.
"Yeah! Except I made a few modifications."
"Very interesting. This will require 1276 hours to complete."
Nya looks dejected.
PIXAL grabs a torch. "I will have it ready in the morning."
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In the suburbs of the city, and in the dead of night, Eleanor is sitting on the front porch swing of her home, wearing home of Cole's shirts for her nightgown. She's currently looking towards the night sky as she gently twirls her wedding ring around her finger. "Cole, I hope you're ok." Her voice breaking, the front door opening gains her attention.
"Mommy?" Lily walks out, holding a teddy bear close.
"Come here, sweetheart." Eleanor said as she holds out her arms, Lily quickly comes over and climbs into her mother's lap.
"I want daddy."
"Me too, baby." Eleanor said gently. "Me too. Your brother still sleeping?"
Lily nods. "Yes, I just checked on him."
"Good."
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At Kryptarium, Crystal Spiders break in, and crawl past the Ninja's cell, gaining Lloyd's attention.
"Huh?" He turns a little. "Wake up!" He yells, kicking the top bunk, waking a snoring Cole. "Something's happening!"
"What is it?" Cole asked after he climbed off the top bunk. "What's going on?" He asks as the other Ninja group in the middle of their cell.
Lloyd has his back to his friends as he grips the bars. "I just saw some Crystal Spiders go past our cell! In the direction of Pythor's cell!"
"Crystal?" Kai asked, walking over to the blonde. "As in the Crystal King?" He punches a fist into his open hand. "We have to stop him!"
Lloyd turns slightly and hesitates. "If we do this, we're gonna be making it worse on ourselves." He said. "And remember, Chantal's uncle is the Kryptarium's warden. I don't want my wife to get involved."
"She is involved Lloyd." Jay reminds. "We're all married, incepted for the two baby daddies, and the not caring Zane." He points at Kai, William and Zane.
"We can't worry about our families right now, Lloyd." Kai said, shoving Jay in the arm. "We have bigger things to worry about." He flames up his hands. "Stand back!" He blasts the bars with his powers.
Creating an alarm going off as the Ninja climb out and run down the catwalk. They come up to a cell.
"I think it's this one!" Lloyd said as they slid to a stop at an open cell door, just as Pythor is escaping through a burned out hole in the wall.
"Pythor! Stop!" Zane yells.
"I don't think so, I've got a meeting with the Crystal King! So long, Ninja!"
A Crystal Spider shoots at the Ninja.
"Look out!" Kai tackles Zane to the floor, Lloyd rushes up to the hole with his Energy power in his hand, he blasts the Crystal Spider, but it escapes.
"After him!" Lloyd yells, crawling through the hole.
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Inside her office, Chantal is fast asleep on the couch, her office is cluttered with paperwork. The door suddenly bangs open, startling her awake.
"I hope you're happy!"
Chantal rubs the sleep from her eyes. "Uncle? Have you lost it?" She folds her arms as she looks at him. "And what are you talking about?"
"You better comes to Kryptarium with me."
Chantal fully awakes. "Now!?"
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