In the bridge, Gewuji comes up to the helm.
On the deck, Geoff hands Dragon to Cole. "Let's go, little Dragon." He said as Dragon babbles, and Geoff takes off. "You looked after us. It's only fair we look after you."
Further back, the Sons of Garmadon drive along the jungle before Ultra Violet drives off a rock wall, landing between Seymour and Timor. Seymour almost swerved on his bike, shaking the person on the back of his bike. "Stop moving around too much!" She yelled.
"How about you shut up?!" Ultra Violet asked before speeding off, ululating as she did so, and passing by many bikers before joining Mr. E, Scars and Killow, only for an explosion to go off near them, making them swerve as Mr. E looked up to see P.I.X.A.L., in her Samurai X mech before she fires another shot, which explodes between him and Killow, making them swerve again.
Killow soon presses a nearby button on his bike, making some rocket launchers on the back of his bike fire some rockets. P.I.X.A.L. swerves to the left, avoiding them before landing in front of them. "Time for the all mighty Samurai X to be taught a lesson for making a fool out of me." Barry said as he soon charged at her, pulling out a Heckler & Koch MP7.
Most of the members stop, except for Barry, who was charging at her, but she strikes him, knocking him aside. Three more members soon charge at her. P.I.X.A.L. strikes two of them to the left, and the other to the right. Killow chuckles as he controls his rocket launchers to rise up, and fired them. P.I.X.A.L. quickly jumped back before they could hit her mech, and immediately charged at them. "Open fire!" Killow yelled. Some of the members, including Seymour and Timor, get out their guns, and start firing at her, but P.I.X.A.L. raises her mech's arms to deflect the bullets.
In the bridge aboard the Bounty, Zane and Blake press a few buttons. "The timing of their arrival is unfortunate." Zane said.
"I know, we haven't even had a fully successful engine test." Blake replied.
"Fully successful?" Jay, who was listening to their conversation, asked. "It blew up in my face!"
"Uh, in our faces." Kai replied, correcting him.
"Not mine." Geoff said.
"Because you cheated!" Jay replied.
"Let's not argue over the details." Gewuji said. "What we should be arguing about is getting ready to get out of here."
By the Black River, the boat slowly moved along. "No rocks." Lloyd said before checking another part. "No rocks."
"#Spider's in the house, sleep, sleep#" Harumi quietly sang to herself. "#The spider bit the mouse, sleep deep. Don't wake up or else-#"
"Stop the boat." Lloyd cuts her off. Harumi pulls a lever back, slowly the boat down as Lloyd pokes about the water. "There's definitely rocks in the water. We need to find another-" The stick is soon forced out of his hands. "What the hell?" They watch it move along the water before sinking. "It's definitely not a rock. We're not alone." The boat soon rocked, knocked Lloyd down, and making him roll as Harumi moved to try and stay still.
"Wha- What's that?"
"I'm thinking what the earlier expedition ran into. Start the engines. Go, go!" Before Harumi could start it, something passes by as Lloyd got up to see its back sticking out of the water. "Hurry!" Harumi quickly moved the lever forward and started moving faster. Unable to see the creature from where he was, Lloyd runs into the cabin, grabs the rifle, and comes out from the other entrance to see it.
"What's in the water?"
"Whatever it is, it's gaining on us. Is this as fast as it can go?"
"It won't go any faster."
The creature briefly sticks a claw out before diving down, causing Harumi to scream. "We need to lighten the load!" He grabs some nearby crates, and throws them off the boat. The boat briefly moves fast as Harumi made a brief right, and Lloyd sees the creature catching up before it starts going underneath the boat.
Quickly going around the other side, Lloyd aims the rifle out into the water when he sees it before firing a shot. It barely does anything before the creature sticks a claw out, knocking Lloyd back. "What do we do?" The boat starts to shake as they start to look at their surroundings until a giant splash causes them to turn and see the creature before it struck down, rocking the boat, and knocking them both down. Sitting up, Lloyd and Harumi look around as the boat drifts along the river before Lloyd looks to his left to see one of the creature's claws rising up, and prepared to strike them. Quickly getting up, Lloyd fires a shot at it, but it barely makes a dent. But as he was about to pull back the bolt, the creature makes its strike, breaking the rifle in half, causing Lloyd to throw it away, into the river. They both look forward to see it fully surfacing, causing Harumi to scream. Before it could attack them, the creature suddenly turned right, and took off. "Why did it stop?"
"I don't know. It's like something kind of...scared it off." Curious, Harumi comes over to their other side of the boat. "We have to get to shore."
"The currant's pulling us away."
"What currant?" He looks down to see the river was flowing very fast, and the boat hits a nearby rock, moving it around a little before they come up to the front where Harumi went back to the helm, and Lloyd looked on from the front. The currant forces the boat to hit some rocks before Lloyd notices something. "We need to go the other way."
"The other way? That thing is back there."
He starts pulling a rope. "Reverse. Reverse!"
Harumi pulls the lever back. "It doesn't work."
"Shit. Grab onto something. Now!" Harumi looks on to see there was a waterfall ahead of them before Lloyd comes up next to her with the rope, and they tie themselves up. "Hold on!" Harumi screamed as the boat soon went over the waterfall, falling down to the lake below, and sending Lloyd and Harumi flying in the air. The fall causes the both of them to scream until the steam that the waterfall was giving off engulfs them, and they land in the lake.
In the bridge aboard the Bounty, the Ninja were still trying to get the ship up and running as Nya moves one of the levers forward, and the engines start up, causing everyone to whoop. Close by, the Destiny's Bounty shakes as it tries to get free of its crash site. In the bridge, Nya looks at Zane. "Thrusters?" She asked.
"70 percent." He replied.
"Systems?"
"She'll live." Kai said.
"Get us in the air." Geoff called out before Nya moves the lever down.
"Wait, what about P.I.X.A.L.?" Blake asked.
"I said it already." Nya replied. "She can take care of herself."
Blake sighs a little before looking at the monitor to see something. "What's that?" Jay asked.
"The trace program the computer was running to find The Quiet One's location." He replied as it showed a beacon. "It's finished, but that's odd. It says it originated from the Bounty."
"But, that-" Maggie stuttered a little. "That can't be."
"Yeah, that's impossible." Cole said, still holding Dragon in his arms.
"The only ones on the ship were us, P.I.X.A.L., and-" Zane soon cuts himself off when he realises the truth.
"Harumi's The Quiet One." Geoff stated the obvious.
"That bitch!" Gewuji muttered.
"We must warn Lloyd immediately." Zane said.
Gewuji heads over to the helm to try and grab her communicator where she left it, until a sai tapped on her hand. "Ah, ah, ah." Ultra Violet was heard as Gewuji turned to her. "I wouldn't do that if I were you." She soon laughs as the Sons of Garmadon started to surround them. Blake takes off his glasses as Zane activates his cloaking device, and they, along with the others, except for Cole as he still held Dragon, put their hoods on as Kai, Cole and Geoff see Seymour and Timor entering from the back. "The Quiet One wouldn't like that."
Everyone immediately charged at them as Cole moves out of the way to protect Dragon. Seymour and Timor come at Jay and Maggie, who strike them back. Zane moves back to avoid a member's strike before punching him off the bridge before turning to kick another member aside. Blake grabs hold of two members' Heckler & Koch HK33s before raising his right leg to kick them in the heads, side by side, until he lets go of the left rifle, forcing the other into the left member's face, knocking him down, and forced it back to its owner. Kai and Geoff block two members' swords with their own weapons before Geoff drops back, quickly placing his hands on the ground, and raised his feet, kicking back the member he was fighting with while Kai kicks one aside. Cole runs along, still holding Dragon, as Barry chased after him, until Nya punches him, knocking him down. As everyone fought, with Gewuji fighting Ultra Violet, and Zane fighting Killow, one member tries to sneak up behind Gewuji, but she quickly raised a leg behind her, kicking the member back as Killow soon grabbed Zane's arm. Ultra Violet soon charged at Gewuji, causing her to get out her karambits, and tries to strike her, but Ultra Violet blocks it. Killow soon lets go of Zane as Scars tries to come behind him, but he quickly turned and struck him down. Kai kicks a member back while Nya strikes a member off the bridge as well as Geoff, who kicked off two, Maggie forces a member over her and throws him overboard, and Gewuji and Ultra Violet clash their weapons, Killow gets out the Mask of Deception, immediately chuckling as he does so, shocking Nya and Blake before Mr. E lands next to Ultra Violet while pulling out one of his swords, and holding the Mask of Vengeance. Everyone started laughing as the members knocked down or off the Bounty get up, and start surrounding the Ninja with Mr. E and Killow about to put on their masks. "Time for you all to drop your weapons." Killow said.
"Make us." Geoff sarcastically replied.
"Yeah." Jay said.
"What makes you think we will comply with that demand?" Zane asked.
"How about we have a little persuasion for a certain someone?" Ultra Violet asked before turning to the back of the bridge. "Bring her in!" Barry walks out briefly before coming back, forcing the tied up individual forward while holding a Heckler & Koch USP Compact at her back. "You want to rethink your answer, Ninja?" She moved her head up to him.
Barry grabs hold of the sack, and pulled it off to reveal the woman's face. This got the Ninja to become completely shocked. "CIRRUS!" Blake yelled.
Cirrus, who now had longer hair, reaching halfway down her neck, looked at the surprised Ninja while she breathed heavily from having the sack removed before they turn back to Ultra Violet. "Unless you want your girlfriend's blood on your hands, Wind Ninja, literally, you and your friends will drop your weapons." Killow puts the Mask of Vengeance, growing his horns.
Blake looked back at Cirrus, who looked on, fearless. "Don't listen to them, Blake!" She yelled, causing Barry to put his gun to her head, and shushes her.
"One last chance, Ninja, or the Cloudian dies." Killow said as they felt reluctant. "Time's up!"
He prepared to hold his hand out to her, causing her to shriek, but Blake stands in front of him, holding his kamas up. "Wait!" He yelled as most members with guns, including Scars, aim them at him. "Wait." He immediately threw his kamas down, took off his hood, and turned to the others, who also drop their weapons, and took off their hoods.
Ultra Violet nods her head at Barry again, who pushes Cirrus forward, and she flies into Blake's arms, who quickly hugged her and she started to cry into his chest. "Tie them up." Ultra Violet said before the members start moving forward.
By the waterfall, the boat surfaces, capsized before Lloyd and Harumi also surface, immediately coughing before they start swimming to the shore, still coughing. Once they got out, they collapse forward before Lloyd turns around, and sees something. "Rumi, we made it." He said.
Harumi breathes heavily. "Yeah, barely." She replied, not understanding what he meant as he soon stood up.
"No. I mean, we made it to the temple." He points to it. "Look." Harumi turns around before turning to see that he was pointing to an entrance behind the waterfall. As they look on, Harumi moved her right hand behind her back to grip a Heckler & Koch P30SK S that was tucked in the back of her overalls.
Several Minutes Earlier
While they were looking at the map on the table, Harumi moved her right hand underneath it, and pulls the pistol off that was taped underneath it. While Lloyd was distracted with looking at the blanket map, she took the tape off the gun and puts it in the back of her overalls.
Present
Harumi lets go of her gun before she briefly smirked at Lloyd, knowing that the time has come.
To be continued...
(A/N: Well, that makes it the last chapter for this story, and of the year. It has been one hell of a year with COVID-19, many losses including Chadwick Boseman, Sean Connery, and most of all, Kirby Morrow. But we will always remember the greatest shows they had ever done. As Martin Luther King once said, 'We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.' Hope you have a great Christmas, and a Happy New Year)