Ninjago Highschool: Chapter Eleven: Confrontation
"Hey Lloyd, how have your days been?" Brad asked. "Ugh...not good...not good at all" Lloyd tilted his head back and sighed. "School things, ya know?" Brad nodded. "Mhm, school be like that...what exactly happened?" "You sure you want me to complain about my day?" Brad shrugged. "If it makes you feel better, man." Lloyd went on about what happened over the past few days, from Karlof, the English assignment, the club, and Morro the bastard. When Lloyd was done angsting, Brad spoke up. "So this 'bully hunter' is basically trying to start a fight with you, over something ONE guy claimed you did?" Lloyd nodded. "Yikes, that's pretty cringe." Lloyd nodded again. "Well, I'm real sorry that happened man. I'm sure you'll get through it all though." Lloyd smiled a little. "Thanks man...honestly I'm not getting high hopes though...hey, do you wanna take a walk around the park?" Both of them stood up. "Sure man, I've got plenty of time." Lloyd thought this was poggers, and started to walk with Brad. They talked about lighter topics, like Brad's sport stuff. Lloyd didn't understand anything about soccer, but he went along with it for Brad. After that Lloyd talked about his pillow collection. "It's only two for now, but soon, it will be LOTS of pillows!" "Do you NEED that many?" "Brad, it's a want, not a need." Both of them laughed along. "It's great to be hanging out again man..." "Yeah, I agree..." Lloyd said. "Hey, if you're still gonna be available, do you wanna go eat somewhe-"
"LLOYD!" A deep, metalonian voice yelled from behind. Lloyd froze up. "FUCK..." He whispered to himself. He was so enamored with talking to Brad he forgot about meeting Karlof at the park, and was unlucky enough to end up in the same park Karlof went to for the fight. "Turn around coward!" Brad and Lloyd turned around. "Is...this the guy who wanted to fight you?" he asked. Lloyd nodded with a grimace. "Fuck off Karlof, I'm not here to fight you!" Karlof slammed his fists together. "Well now you are! Why did you bring stranger here? Were you afraid and need company?" Karlof walked over to Lloyd and Brad, and Brad stepped between them. "Listen, I don't care about your beef with Lloyd, fuck off, or there's gonna be trouble." Karlof gave a nice condescending laugh. "You think you can hurt ME!? I laugh at your attempts of threats, HAHAHAHA!" Lloyd tried to speak up, but Brad ignored him. "Take one more step, I dare you." Karlof stood there for a second, but took a few steps towards them. Brad, to Lloyd's surprise, swung his fist hard at Karlof's face, causing Karlof to stumble to the right really hard. Karlof looked up at Brad, and laughed darkly. "You made horrible mistake, little man." Brad glared at him. "I'm not little...", and ran up to Karlof, kicking him in the stomach hard. Lloyd did not expect Brad to stand up for him so easily, let alone beat someone up! Brad walked over to Karlof, who was on the ground now. "Is that enough for you, bastard?" Karlof staggered while getting up, and stayed silent...then gave a left hook to Brad's stomach. Brad tumbled back, but stood his ground. Lloyd tried to run between them, but Brad put his arm in front of Lloyd. "Lloyd, I got this guy." Karlof laughed. "Oh sure you do! Let me handle Lloyd, or I won't fight fair!" "You're practically a grown man, was it going to be fair anyway?" Brad shoved Karlof back hard, but this time Karlof didn't fall. "I'm not letting you put a finger on him!" Lloyd was certainly glad Brad felt this obligated to protect him, but was still worried for him. Especially since Karlof was about to use his powers..."Alright you, I will not go easy on you now..." growled Karlof. Karlof slowly turned his body metal. First his hands, which became bigger. Brad saw this, and stepped back. "Uh...Lloyd...what's going on?" Soon Karlof was taller, and now fully metal. "He's...an elemental master of metal..." Lloyd said, pulling Brad back. "AHAHAHA, let us see you fight me NOW little man!" Brad was terrified out of his mind. A giant metal man? Hell no...but he wasn't going to ditch Lloyd. Slowly, Brad walked up, to both Karlof and Lloyd's surprise. "You are moron." Karlof sighed. Lloyd was about to watch his friend, who he hasn't seen in years, get beat up by a crazy man who thinks he bullied the worst kid in the school. All of this over some teasing. Lloyd's surprise and anxiousness turned to anger, rage, it boiled over quickly, until...
Lloyd had enough of this. "BRAD! STEP BACK!" Brad turned around, confused. "I'm not gonna watch you get your ass kicked! Lloyd took Brad's place. "I'm settling this myself!" Karlof smirked. "About time. Now, let us fi-" Before Karlof could finish his sentence, Lloyd ran up to him and punched him with a energy infused arm, sending green sparks of light throughout Karlof's chest. Karlof fell over and coughed like crazy. "Lucky shot!" He slammed the ground with his metal fists and got up, trying to grab Lloyd, but Lloyd was faster. He uppercut Karlof with another energy filled fist, staggering the metal man. Without giving him a chance, Lloyd punched his chest rapidly several times. Sparks and zaps were shooting everywhere, even almost hitting Brad, stunned at the site. If he knew Lloyd could do this, he would of let him handle it. Karlof made a heavy swing at Lloyd's side, that he didn't catch in time. It sent Lloyd falling, but that didn't stop his green rage. He got up, furious, and kicked Karlof's shin, getting Karlof unstable, which Lloyd topped off with a jab at his stomach. Even as a walking tank, these blows were so hard, Karlof could feel them like he would normally. Karlof fell over, for real, and turned back to his human form, on the verge of passing out. Lloyd was about to continue his barrage of fury, until Brad grabbed his shoulders. "Lloyd Lloyd! Chill out!" He tried to pull back Lloyd, who was fighting his grip. After some fighting between the two, Lloyd relented, the green aura around him fading out. When he came to his senses, he watched Karlof struggle to get up, coughing up some blood. "You...did a number on him..." Brad said quietly. Lloyd NEVER got that mad before, he didn't know what to say. He walked over to Karlof and helped him stand up. He wanted to apologize, but couldn't bring himself to it. "Get out of here." was all he said to Karlof. Karlof didn't need to be told twice, so he turned around and grumbled to himself. Lloyd's breath was irregular, as he watched Karlof stumble away. Brad walked behind him. "You okay man?..." Lloyd took a seat at a nearby bench. "No..." Brad sat with him. "That was kind of cool..." Lloyd didn't say anything. "I mean, I didn't expect you to do that, but you really showed him, huh?" Lloyd still didn't say anything. "...I'm sorry about getting in the way, I...I didn't want him hurting you. I also had no idea you could do what you did, so..." Lloyd finally spoke up, quietly. "I can't believe you fought him...and even tried to when he got all big..." Lloyd laughed a little. "Hey, I couldn't pussy out on you man." Lloyd looked at Brad. "You were really gonna risk becoming a pile of meat just to protect me?" "Yeah, you're my friend, even if we haven't talked for years." Lloyd didn't think putting yourself in front of a giant man for someone you haven't talked to in years was right, but didn't feel up for debating it. "Well...thank you..." Lloyd put his head on Brad's shoulder and sighed. "No problem man..." The two of them sat there and watched the park the rest of the half-hour, saying nothing.