Ok. Last chapter was a dud
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It was now dawn, and the remaining Resistance had brought the captured Harumi into a storage container. Lloyd pulls out a chair into the middle of the room, and William places a now tied up Harumi down, then ties her to the chair. "Comfy?" He questions as he tightens the knot and she growls under the bag.
"What do you think?" Is her response.
"Good!" William tightens the knot even more, then stands up and yanks off the bag. As he walks back to the others, Nya walks up to her and decks her in the face.
"That was for my brother, you monster!"
"My turn!" Chantal cheer, walking up and decking Harumi. "That was for tricking Lloyd." She hit Harumi again. "And that was for single handling destroying our city."
Lloyd walked up to her and wrapped his arm around Chantal. "Sweetheart, leave her be." He pulls her back toward the others. "What matters is that we're trying to take it back." He kissed the side of Chantal's head.
"Your plan worked." Dareth smiled at Lloyd. "We got Harumi. Now what do we do?"
"What if we use her for trade?" William asked. "Our friends in the Kryptarium Prison for her."
"How does that make you feel, Lloyd?" Harumi asked, and they turn back to face her. "That your father cares for me more than his own son."
Lloyd walked up to her and pulled out gun, holding it in his right hand as he aimed it at her.
"Whoa, Lloyd." Dareth gasped. "When have you been packing heat?"
"My father cares for no one, only his thirst for more power." Lloyd held the gun steady, but he lowers the weapon and turns to his friends. "He won't free our friends. We'll hold on to her until she's valuable to us."
"My generals have been here before. It's only a matter of time until they find me."
"I hate to admit it, but she's right." Dareth said, turning and placing a hand on Lloyd's shoulder. "I hope whatever courage you have up your sleeve is an ace, because right now, we're about to fold. But don't tell me right now cause I think she can hear us."
The door immediately opens to reveal Skylor. "Found something, in her belongings."
"I think you need to see this." Mistaké added as she stood behind Skylor.
Harumi tries to break free of the ropes.
"Go. I'll keep watch over her." Nya said. Lloyd takes Chantal's hand and pulls her out of the, followed by Dareth.
Outside, the three walk up to Rainn and Eleanor. Who is standing by a box. "What is it?" Lloyd asked.
Rainn held out one of the three Oni Masks to him.
"The Oni Mask of Hatred." Mistaké said.
"If your Elemental Power doesn't return, this could certainly help." Skylor said.
"If it's an ace you're looking for, that's a pair of them." Dareth replied.
"Wait a minute!" Eleanor exclaimed. "When Kai and I held Chen's Elemental Staff after everybody's powers were pulled into it, it temporarily turned us evil, the longer we held it."
"Oni power is dark magic." Mistaké warns Lloyd. "Wield it only at your own peril."
Lloyd turned the mask around, studying it.
"What do you want to do?" Skylor asked, as Lloyd continued to study the Mask Of Hatred.
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Nya to the door as it opened to reveal the others walking in, and Lloyd throws the mask in front of Harumi.
"My mask! You're going to steal it?"
"Save the performance, I'm not going to use it. It's a trap." He walks over to his friends. "The only reason someone as smart as her was captured is because she wanted to be."
"Ooh, very perceptive, Lloyd." Harumi said sarcastically as he glared at her. "You're smarter than you let on. If I can't trick you, perhaps I can deliver a message: Emperor Garmadon will destroy you, and you can do nothing to stop it because you can never change." He looks away. "As much as you want to, you don't have it in you to hurt your dear Poppy."
"You don't know Lloyd!" Dareth glares.
"Don't I? Let me ask: How do you see this ending? You can't because there is no happy ending. Once Green, always Green."
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It was now sunset. Lloyd is leaning on a railing on a roof, he turns when he sees a shadow and drops into a defense stance.
"Lloyd." Eleanor and Chantal walk out of the shadows, and he drops his stance. "Sorry it took so long." Eleanor apologized.
"Girls." Lloyd smiled as Chantal ran to him and hugged him, kissing his cheek. "Did you have any problems?"
"We got lost." Eleanor admitted as she hugged the backpack she was carrying.
"Lost?" Lloyd frowned.
"Can you believe it?" Chantal asked with a huff. "We got lost in our own city!"
"Borg Tower is on Main Street, and somehow we ended up on Maple Drive." Eleanor shook her head.
"But did you get it?" Lloyd asked, hopeful.
Eleanor held out the backpack to him. "In here."
He smiles as he takes it. "Thanks." He does Spinjitzu, when comes out he's now wearing a spare Green gi. "Much better."
"And very handsome!" Chantal smiles, she reaches up to grab his face and kissed him.
Eleanor rolled her eyes, but was smiling. "I'm gonna get the others." She walks away.
Lloyd leans down to kiss Chantal gently, then rest his hands on the railing and looks at the Colossus. After a few minutes the others soon join them.
"Lloyd, you're wearing green again." Nya said.
"Harumi gave me a lot to think about, about how this will end."
"And?" Skylor asked.
"Harumi said I was unable to change." Lloyd answered as he turns to Mistaké. "But you said to defeat what my father's become, I would have to change. Well, I'm ready."
"Ready for what?" Dareth asked.
"I have to be ready to accept." Lloyd pauses for a long moment. "I may never get my power back."
"Lloyd.-" Nya trails off when he looks at her.
"It's ok. I'm not afraid. Power is never lost, it's only given away when you don't think you don't have any." He turns to Mistaké again. "You also said that."
She giggles. "Wise words. I should talk more often."
Nya walks up to Lloyd. "Lloyd, if you go after your father." She cuts herself off briefly. "We've seen what that thing can do. We barely survived the last time." They all turn to the Colossus.
"We don't need to cower from it when we can control it."
"But it's controlled by your father's power." Dareth points out.
"Power ... that I can absorb!" Skylor turns to Lloyd. "But I can only borrow Garmadon's power if I touch him. Just how am I supposed to get close enough without him knowing our plan?"
"You'll be a prisoner." He turns to her, then turns to Mistaké. "And Harumi will take you to him. If Mistaké can turn nto a rat, can she turn into a mole?"
Dareth scratched his head. "How would that?" He cuts himself off. "Oh. She's gonna be Harumi. I love it when a plan comes together in my head."
"Who needs an army when all you need is an army of one?" Nya grins.
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They head back into the storage container. "Harumi, I would like to introduce you to." Lloyd side steps to reveal 'Harumi' walking in.
"Huh-ahh. You think you can pass as me!? Nothing's beneath you!"
"You think you can pass as me!? Nothing's beneath you." Mistaké spoke in her own voice.
"Uhh, that's not gonna fly." Rainn said as she stood close to Nya, she didn't feel comfortable with Harumi, even though she's tied to a chair.
Mistaké starts to gag and cough as she bends down. "Maybe ... it will sound more convincing." She stands. "If I talk like this." She spoke with Harumi's voice.
"Hey, that's pretty good." Dareth smiled.
"You'll never get away with it!" Harumi struggled against the rope again. Eleanor walked up to her.
"Here." She put duck tape over Harumi's mouth. "That one's for Cole." She cut another one. "For Kai." She cut two more slices of duck tape. "For Jay and Zane!" She then turns the chair around so Harumi's facing the wall. "Now stay quiet. Quiet One!"
"Mnmph-mnmph!"
Lloyd turns to 'Harumi'. "Remember, you just need to get Skylor to get close enough to touch my father." He reminds as Skylor turns around and puts her hands behind her back for Mistaké to tie them together. "Once you can absorb his power to control the Colossus, get out of there."
"You're sure you're okay staying back?" Skylor asks, looking at Lloyd.
"I'm gonna be ok when all of this is over."
Skylor and 'Harumi' walk out.
"For the first time, I feel like this could work." Dareth said.
"Dareth, don't jinx it." Eleanor pleaded. "Please don't."
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Hours later. Chantal is leaning on the railing, and looking at the Colossus. Lloyd walks up behind her and wraps his arms around her waist to pull her close and kisses the side of her neck.
"You have my full trust back, Lloyd." She whispered. "I see someone more prettier then me. I lose confidence, cause they're more smarter and have more confidence."
"I love you. I'm sorry I never said it before til now."
Chantal turns around in his arms. "Really?" She beams as she places her hands on Lloyd's chest. "I love you too."
"LLOYYYYYYYD!" Dareth's panics scream, breaks the romantic moment. "LLOYD HELLLP!"
Lloyd pulls away from his girlfriend and runs into to the storage container.
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Dareth is sitting in Harumi's place and tied to the chair. "I know this looks pretty bad, I take full responsibility."
"Dareth?" Lloyd walks further into the container. "Where is she?"