Thought my last chapter was a nice little twist.
Anyway ... hope you like
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Inside the Mechanic's truck, the Ninja are pursuing Lloyd's signal.
Jay moves from the back to get between Kai and Zane. "Remind me again why Lloyd has to dress up when Zane has Nindroid disguise capabilities?"
"Again, we need Zane here to track Lloyd." Kai answered as he drove. "What don't you get?"
Zane has currently pulled up a hologram of the city through his eyes. "Turn left at the corner."
"This is boring." Jay complains after sitting on a box for awhile, he moves to look inside an open box. "Oh, wow!" He reaches in and pulls out two noodle cantinas. "Look at all these noodle soups!" He turns to show Cole, who was keeping an eye on the tied up Mechanic.
"There's soup?" The black Ninja asked with a smile.
Jay looks at the titles of all the soup. "Chicken noodle soup, minestrone, egg noodle soup." He turns to the Mechanic. "Do you have any beef noodle soup?"
The Mechanic grumbles angrily through his gag as he struggles.
"I think that's a no." Cole said.
"Bummer!" Jay whined, before turning back to dig through the box.
"Hey, Jay. You said there's egg noodle soup?" Cole asked.
Jay lifts himself up from the box. "Yeah!" He smiles, turning to him. "Want one?"
"No." Cole shook his head. "Eleanor had a hundred cravings for that kind of soup when she was pregnant with C.J."
"Huh." Jay turns to look through the box again. "I thought she only had a craving for pickles and ice cream."
"That was your wife. Not mine."
"Slow down. I think Lloyd's stopping near the same location we investigated earlier." Zane told Kai. The abandon end line."
"Maybe Jay was right about there being a secret entrance." Kai said. "Wouldn't that be crazy? Jay being right" Kai snickered as he parked the truck on the side of the road.
Jay comes out suddenly. "Hey!" He makes a face at Kai as he holds a noodle cup in his hands, he turns to Zane. "Zane, do you mind putting this in the instant noodle maker?"
From his place in the corner of his own truck, the Mechanic watches as both Jay and Cole have their backs to him, the Mechanic detaches his mechanical arm and it falls to the floor of the truck.
Cole straightens up with a frown. "What was that?"
"Ooh, I can't wait!" Jay bounced in delight. "I'm so hungry!" He takes a sip. "Aww, it's cold."
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"Whoa! Lloyd just took off!" Kai exclaimed as he looks at the hologram map as Lloyd's signal moved like a torpedo.
"He must've gotten on a train!" Cole said, back to guarding the Mechanic.
"He is traveling at a speed greater than the maximum velocity of an ordinary subway train." Zane said.
"Well, whatever he's on, we better get after him quick! Before we lose him!" Kai makes a sharp turn, causing Jay to stumble and slam into the side of the truck.
"Ugh! Kai, do you mind?"
"Yeah, I mind!" The Mechanic suddenly said, putting his arm back in, then punches Cole in the back, sending him flying and knocking into Jay and other boxes.
Jay sends a bolt of lightning at the Mechanic, who ducks and the lighting hits the door before bouncing off the ceiling and hitting the hologram map, and the truck goes off balance.
"What's going on back there?" Kai asked as he tried to keep the truck on the road.
"The Mechanic's freed himself!" Jay answered as he fought the Mechanic with one hand, the Mechanic punches Jay towards the front, between Zane and Kai - startling them. "Don't worry, we got it under control!" The Mechanic grabs him with his robo arm, pulling him back. Cole comes out of the boxes and throws a box at the Mechanic hitting him in the side of the head and letting go of Jay.
Cole leaps over the boxes, kicking the Mechanic, The Mechanic uses his robe arm to get to the ceiling of the truck.
"Time to get off this ride!" He presses a button on his robo arm, making the noodle truck to flip over.
"My soup!" Jay cried, loosing his soup in the process.
"Whoa!" Kai screamed as the truck flew through the air, going under a traffic light and landing on its side.
The back door starts thudding, before the door breaks open and the Mechanic jumps out, and running for a manhole.
Jay pushes some boxes off him. "There he is!" He's soon covered by more boxes as Cole comes out.
"He's getting away! Get after him!"
The Ninja are quick to follow the Mechanic down the manhole.
"Stay sharp guys. He's here somewhere." Cole said as they look up and down the tracks.
"Hey. I see a light coming." Jay said, pointing down some tracks. "I think it's a train!"
As the Ninja watch the light of a train getting closer, they are unaware of the Mechanic sneaking up behind them, then he knocks the distracted Ninja onto the train tracks.
"Hey! Look out!" Jay cried. Kai quickly does Spinjitzu to avoid the train, while both Cole and Jay scream as they barely dodge the train.
The train finally leaves, and the Mechanic laughs. "Haha! Just wanted to make sure you guys were awake!"
"Get him!" Kai shoots a blast at the Mechanic, who dodges. Jay runs at him, but the Mechanic uses his robo arm to latch onto Jay and swing him.
Cole runs at the Mechanic and tries to fight him. "I don't get it! Why is - this guy - giving us - so much trouble?!" The Mechanic shoots his robo arm, sending Cole flying backwards.
Kai and Zane rush forward, Kai jumps into the air to catch him. "I guess we're a little rusty."
"In my case, that is impossible. I am made of a corrosive-resistant alloy." Zane said as he dodges each of the Mechanic's attacks.
"Resist this, Zane the Pain!" The Mechanic uses his robo arm to smash Zane into the ceiling and scarpes him along the ceiling. Dropping Zane, he shoves both Cole and Kai onto the tracks. "Haha. Is that all you got?"
Jay comes running up. "You want more? How about ten thousand volts of justice!" He shoots his powers onto the tracks, the Mechanic uses his robo arm and himself up, the lighting goes through the tracks, electrocuting Kai and Cole.
"Jay!" They cry out, before collapsing.
"Sorry! My bad!"
The Mechanic laughs as he comes down. "This is too much fun!" He comes back up. "Man, you guys are out of practice!"
Another train approaches. Zane rushes to his collapsed friends, grabbing them and leaping out of the way just in time.
"I could do this all day!" The Mechanic said as he dangles from his robo arm.
Kai pushes himself to stand up. "Time to bring the heat!" He throws a fireball at the enemy, who dodges it.
"But it seems I'm late for a meeting with the Crystal King!" The Mechanic shoots his robo arm at the passing train. "Gotta run! Bye bye!" He soon escapes.
"What do we do?" Jay asked.
"We gotta warn Lloyd, before the real Mechanic shows up and ruins everything!" Kai said.
Cole quickly pulls on his hood. "Lloyd, come in. Lloyd! Do you copy?"
"Cole, is that you?" Lloyd's voice comes through.
"The Mechanic broke loose, Lloyd. He's coming after you!"
"What?" There's heavy static through the signal. "I - can't hear you! Something's in."- The signal goes out, and Zane pulls up Lloyd's becan, and it's suddenly lost and a warning sign appears shows up.
"Oh no." Cole said.
"What does that mean?" Jay asked. "What just happened?"
"Something seems to be interfering with the signal." Zane answered.
"What do we do?" Jay asked.
"There's nothing we can do." Kai said. "Lloyd is on his own now."
Suddenly a beeping is heard, Jay franticly pats himself down, and Kai scratches his head confused as he looks around.
"I believe you are beeping, Cole." Zane said, turning to him.
"Me?" Cole reaches the pouches on his gi, before pulling out a beeper. "It's Cyrus Borg." He quickly moves to the ladder.
"Wait up Cole!" Jay cried, running after him as did Kai and Zane.
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At Borg Tower, the Ninja sneak into the office through a window.
"Cole!" Cyrus Borg cried, wheeling himself over to the Ninja. "Thank heavens!"
"I got your emergency." Cole said with worry. "Are the kids ok?"
"The kids are fine!" Borg said. "But it's Eleanor, I'm worried about. I haven't seen or talked to her in hours! We always have lunch together, but today she never showed up."
"That doesn't sound like her." Jay said with a frown. "She's the one that's it important to not skip meals." He folds his arms.
Cole frowns with a nod. "Yeah. She made herself my personal life couch to get back into shape."
"And that works?" Kai asks him.
"You should see our basement." The black Ninja nods.
"Doctor, are you saying that Eleanor has disappeared?" Zane.
"Yes, yes!" The good doctor nods rapidly.
"But she said she was on her way to the Monastery." Jay said with frown.
"Something must've happened along the way there." Cole said with worry.