Super board today!
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Inside of Borg Tower. Eleanor sat at her desk in the office as she typed furiously at her computer. Chantal paced back and forth.
"This is all my fault." She cried. "If I was a better lawyer, then none of this would've happened."
"No. It's not your fault." Eleanor argued. "Stop blaming yourself. Nobody else is."
"I wasn't prepared."
"None of us were." A map suddenly appeared on Eleanor's computer. "I got the map!"
Chantal rushed up to her side. "The work detail was going to be here." She points to a place on the map.
"And Nya and Dareth intercepted the bus … right here." Eleanor moves her mouse and zooms in on the map. "In the middle of the desert."
"But it's a lead." Chantal said. "I'm going!" She quickly starts to move.
"What?" Eleanor watches her. "You can't go alone! The Ninja are being hunted by a Bounty Hunter!"
"Then come with me." Chantal grabs her purse and looks at her. "I know you want to."
"We should get Nya."
"Nya left them out there!"
Eleanor looks back at the map on her computer, she gasps as a thought struck her. "I think I know where they're going."
That perked up Chantal. "You do?" She asked as she moves to her friend. "Where?"
"Twitchy Tim." Eleanor moves her mouse around again. "His gas station is in the desert." She zooms in the map and moves her mouse around. "Right here!"
Chantal grabs a pen and paper and writes down the address that the map shows. "I'm going!" She rushes towards the elevator.
"Wait for me!" Eleanor calls, she quickly closes out the map, before turning off her computer.
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Dareth, Will, Kai, and Zane continued to walk through the hot desert. Dareth, Will and Kai were sweating a storm as they were getting exhausted by the second from the heatwave the sun is giving off.
"So … you're not … thirsty at all?" Dareth asked Zane, noticing how the extreme heat was not effecting the ice Ninja at all.
"No. Being a Nindroid is not without benefits." Zane answered simply.
"I wish I were a Nindroid." Dareth breathed out.
Kai suddenly spots a car driving down the road. "Hey. Hey! Hey wait! Wait wait wait! Stop, stop please! Help! Help!" He yells as he chases the car down. William, Zane and Dareth following.
"That car looks familiar." Zane points out as the car stops in the middle of the road. The driver window slides down to reveal a familiar face.
"Eleanor!" Kai breaths.
"Kai! Will, Zane, Dareth!" Eleanor quickly puts her car into park as she and Chantal quickly climb out of the car.
"You're ok!" Chantal cried.
"Not for munch longer." Dareth said.
"What are you two doing out here?" Zane asked, as Eleanor opens her trunk.
"We were trying to find you guys." Chantal answered as Eleanor hands Dareth, Will and Kai a water bottle.
"Trying to find us?" Kai asked, after downing most of his water.
"I pulled up a map of where the prison bus was going to take you." Eleanor explained. "And from the map, we found the area where Nya and Dareth intercepted the bus."
"And then we got turned around and lost." Chantal added.
"We were going to get you guys at Twitchy Tim's gas station." Eleanor replied. "That's when we got lost trying to find it."
"Can you ladies please explain while we're in the nice cool air conditioning car?" Dareth asked, after he finished with his water bottle.
"Oh!" Eleanor quickly turns to open the back door behind the driver. "Get in, get it. We don't have much time"
Dareth sprinted for the back seat, followed by William, Zane and Kai.
"Thank the Spinjitzu Master that you came when you did." Kai said, closing the door as Eleanor and Chantal got back in the two front seats. "Or we'd be goners!"
Eleanor turns up the air conditioning. "Where's Cole?"
"We're suppose to meet the others by noon at Twitchy's." Zane answered.
"Ellie, do you have more water?" Kai asked.
"It's in the trunk." Eleanor answered. "You can get to it by pulling down the console behind Zane." She replied as she drove.
Zane grunted when he was suddenly pushed forward as Kai, William and Dareth dove for the console, pulling it open, Kai reaches his left arm in to pull a box of water bottles. The three humans happily took a water bottle.
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Eleanor's Buick is on the side of the road, everyone outside as Kai and William worked on getting the spare tire on after the back tire blew. Chantal was even explaining what happened in the mayor's office.
William let out a whistle. "Damn."
"The mayor can't fire you." Kai said. "He doesn't have that authority."
"After I left, I found out later that he went to my bosses and told them if they don't fire me, then he'll fire them and make sure that none of get work in the city again." Chantal explained. "So I just made it easier on everybody by quieting."
A police helicopter flies overhead, making everyone look at it. "This is the police! You are under arrest!"
"Ninja, how's my tire?" Eleanor asked.
"Good enough!" William exclaimed as he and Kai tosses the jack in the trunk and closes it.
"Everyone in, now!" Eleanor cried. The team jumps in back into the car. This time Kai and Chantal took each other's places.
"Hold on guys!" Eleanor cried, flooring it.
"Ellie, look out!" Kai cried. "The helicopter!"
"I can make it!"
"Ellie, Ellie, the chopter's landing!" Kai cried in panic.
Eleanor slams the breaks, and the car slides to a stop.
"Who's that?" Dareth asked as they watch a very scruffy man with sunglasses climb out of the helicopter.
"His name is Hounddog McBrag." Chantal answered. "The mayor called him. He's a bounty hunter!"
"I don't like the sound of that." Kai said.
"Hold on!" Eleanor puts her car into reverse, but suddenly two police hummers speed up and block the car in.
"Listen up, Ninja!" McBrag said into the blow horn he's holding. "Y'all all rode the bull to the end of."-
"Hold on!" Eleanor yells, turning the wheel hard, her friends all cry out as the car tilts, but remain on on fours as it speeds off.
They reach the edge of a cliff, Eleanor screams, slamming hard on the breaks and the car spins to stop and now the team is facing the police.
"Let's try this again. You're trapped, ninja. No way out! Do the smart thing and surrender!"
"I have another Crazy Kai idea!" Eleanor cried, making Kai look at her.
"What's that suppose to mean?"
"This!" Eleanor shifts her car into reverse and leets go of the break. Everyone screams as the car falls into the river.
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"Is everyone ok?" Kai asked after the car floated down stream.
"This is one hell of a ride." Chantal said, her hand on he side of her head. Suddenly they hear sirens behind them, and they turn to see McBrag floating down stream after them.
"You gotta be kidding me!" Dareth cried.
"Ok. I've had enough of this guy!" William rolls down a window, he leans out and blasts McBrag's hummer with a hard gust of wind, pushing Eleanor's car forward as McBrag's hummer is shoved backwards, William continues to do this til they get closer and closer to rapids further down the stream.
Dareth yanks William back inside and rolls the window back up.
"Hold on!" Kai yells as the car gets close to a large rock.
Eleanor turns the wheel, but the right side of the car slams into the rock and spins in a fishtail, coming to a stop where they're facing McBrag.
"Y'all are under arrest! Stop the van and get out with your hands up!" McBrag yells as he hangs out of his driver window.
"Is he joking?" Kai asked.
"He doesn't look like a jokey kind of guy." Dareth replied.
"Zane, do something!" Eleanor yelled. "Don't just sit there with lights on, but no one home!" Eleanor yells, turning to him. "Turn your emotion switch back on!" She demands, letting go of the wheel as she turns to the backseat. From the passenger seat, Kai quickly reaches over to grab the wheel as the car starts to turn around. "Do something already!"
"Ok." Zane rolls down the window and reaches out, blasting Hounddog McBrag, using up the whole river to do so.
"Whoa!" The team cried when Eleanor's car drops down to the ground after having no more water under them. Eleanor quickly turns the car around and quickly drives off.
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The team make it back into the desert. But it doesn't make it that far as it breaks down. All the windows are cracked and the car is completely muddy.
Eleanor loses it and breaks down, quickly climbing out and walks away. Her friends watching her.
"She's been trying to stay calm as a cucumber ever since you guys were arrested." Chantal told them. "I don't think she's even cried after she puts the kids to bed at night."
Zane looks at her. "Why would she cry?"
"It's called emotion, Zane!" Chantal snaps at him.
Kai moves to Eleanor. "Ellie." He sits down next to her. "I'm sorry for what I said, back when we were trying to find a way to save Nya." She chokes on a sob. "Ellie, I'm sorry. Cole had every right to slug me. And … you were right." He looks away when she looks at him. "I was not thinking straight, I was only thinking about my sister."
She took a shaky breath. "I forgave you for that Kai."
Zane walks over to them. "Eleanor, when my father died for the first time, he was protecting me, by turning off my emotion switch. But now, years later, I understand now that emotion is a good thing, even if you're a Nindroid."
"Ellie." Kai placed a hand on her shoulder, she turns to him. "We know we're just racking up more years of prison time on ourselves, but we have to look into this Crystal King character."
She sniffs. "Who's that?"
"We don't know." William said with a shake of his head as the others walk up to Eleanor. "But his name keeps popping up and he's assembling most of Ninjago's bad guys against us."
"Pythor was the most recent one join up with the Crystal King." Zane replied.
Eleanor turns away, as she presses her lips together as more tears slid down her cheeks. "I knew there was something going on, I just didn't know what." She said brokenly.
Zane knelt down net to her. "Eleanor." He places a hand on her shoulder. "We can use your help with investigating who the Crystal King really is."
Eleanor looks down. "It won't hurt to just poke around." She agrees, and Kai notices something.
"Say, did you turn your emotions back on?"
Zane smiles and nods. "I did indeed."
Eleanor turns around to look at him "Why?"
"You are my family." Zane holds out a hand for her, when she takes it, he pulls her up. "All of you. I've come to realize there is benefit to having emotion. Even grief."
Kai grins as he thumbs Zane's shoulder. "There's hope you for you yet, Zane."
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I hope you like it! I kept bouncing should I stick with Sally or not. But I like this one, so I hope you do too