Sacred Dragonblade: Hello humans! I hope that you are all doing well during this time. I have some news for you all concerning this fanfic. The next two chapters will be the final chapters. This isn't exactly what I originally planned but there is another fanfic that I want to start writing. However I know that finishing the two that I still am writing first. Once this chapter is publishing the last should follow as soon as possible. Now onward with the chapter, totally didn't write this with a british accent in my mind.
Lloyd POV: After convincing them to come back with me, with the kids, they were packing them up along with security tapes for the others to look at. I found Kai in the room we agreed to use. He seemed nervous, and I can guess why. The last time he saw the rest of the team, and his sister, he told them to get lost and left him alone. Guess he wasn't sure what he was going to say, and that is something I can understand.
I walked in and said, "Hey."
"Hey. You ready?" he said, trying to collect himself.
"Nervous?" I asked.
"Is it that obvious?" He asked, looking like he's about to groan.
"Yeah. Very." I said, and we both chuckled.
Then he sighed and looked away.
"If you're worried about what they will say you don't have to. They are just waiting for you to come home." I said. He nodded, but I don't think that helped him much.
He'll just have to see to believe.
"He's not ready to leave." someone said at the doorway.
We both jumped and saw it was Anthony. This kid is basically a ninja already.
"Uh, you could say that. When did you get there?" Kai asked.
"I followed Lloyd in, so the whole time."
"When were you following me?" I was so confused.
"When you got finished helping Mercy with her computer." That was a while ago.
At this point I am not surprised by this kid anymore. Lucy came running in and said, "Anthony! There you are! I thought you left without me!"
"How could I leave without you? You were with Mercy and she has the portal opener."
"Still!" she moaned, extremely loud.
Kai was trying very hard not to smile, when Mercy walked in and said, "Oh, again. Great."
"Is this something that happens often?" I asked.
"More than you think." Mercy said, and opened a portal with something that looked a lot like the Realm Crystal.
Once it was opened she cleared her throat and took a deep breath. Looks like Kai wasn't the only one that was nervous about going back.
Lucy must have picked up on that because she grabbed both their hands and pulled them through. Anthony sighed and followed, and I took up the rear. The portal landed us outside where the Bounty was parked.
Kai took a deep breath and said, "It's been a while since I've been here."
"Well then. Let me welcome you home." I said, he smiled back. Then Lucy punched him in the back.
"Ow. What was that for?" he asked her.
"You didn't tell me that you lived in a pirate ship! This could have been so much fun!" Then she ran onboard.
We followed her and saw that she has met Zane and Cole, who were training on deck.
"Uh Lloyd? Who is this?" Cole asked.
"I'm Lucy." she said. Then grabbed his weapon.
"Hey!" he said.
"This is so cool!" she said, then ran around with it.
Kai, Mercy, and Anthony came onboard and just moaned at the scene in front of them. This must happen a lot with her.
When Zane saw them he blinked and said, "Kai. You're back."
"Yeah. I am." Kai said, extremely nervous-like.
Zane didn't say anything, just went over and gave him a hug. Kai looked surprised then hugged him back. They let go and Zane said, "Good to have you back."
"Thanks."
Suddenly we heard someone running down the stairs at top speed. Jay yelled out, "Kai! Incoming!" Before he could turn around Nya crashed into him and said, "Kai!" and they fell onto the floor.
Mercy and Anthony looked genuinely concerned for Kai, and honestly so am I.
"You idiot. Don't you know how much I missed you." she said, still on the floor.
"..."
"Are you going to say something?" she said, almost yelling in his face.
"...can't...breathe…" he croaked out. Nya realized that she was squeezing him so hard that she was preventing him from breathing.
She got off him, helped him up, and then punched him hard in the chest.
"Okay, that hurt." he said.
"You deserved it, you knucklehead." then she punched him again.
"I'm assuming that is his sister." Anthony whispered to Mercy.
"I think you're right." she said back.
"Yeah another girl! I'm no longer surrounded by boys!" Lucy yelled, coming back around.
Cole grabbed his weapon, got it out of her hands, and said, "And who are the kids?"
"They aren't… um." Jay said.
"No. We were just charged with caring for them." Mercy said, before he could anymore.
"Ah, that makes a lot more sense." Zane said.
"Yeah. And you're not surrounded by boys, I'm here." Mercy continued, looking at Lucy.
"Yeah, but you act like an overworked desk person." Lucy said, with a straight face.
Jay choked and coughed at that, and Kai was trembling. I, myself, was trying hard not to laugh. Mercy looked annoyed and shook her head a little bit.
"Anyway. We have a lead on Discord and stop them, once and for all." I said, getting serious.
"Just getting back and already working." Nya said, with a slight smirk.
"Pretty much." Kai said, smirking right back.
"What's the lead?" Zane asked.
"Well, first. Let me just get these two out of here." Mercy said. Then lead Lucy and Anthony away, with a lot of commotion from Lucy I might add.
"Okay, ever since the destruction of their desert base outside of Ninjago City they have been pulling all of their members to their main base here. Probably to regroup and come up with a master plan." she said, pulling it up on a hologram.
She is really good with computers and stuff like this.
"That's a safe bet." Cole said.
"Is that why you guys stuck around?" Jay asked.
"For the most part." Kai said.
"You also stayed because of Wu." Nya said. He nodded slightly.
"What did you guys talk about when we left for that mission. If that's okay with you, of course." Zane asked.
"Just some training stuff. Nothing surprising." Kai said, crossing his arms.
"When will all the members be there?" I asked.
"This afternoon. Our plan was to go in and disable them. This is something that doesn't happen often for this long. We have to act fast if we want to end this in one shot." Mercy said.
"Then here's the full plan. Nya, Jay, and Mercy will head to the control room while the rest of us will distract the leaders until then." I said, turning off the hologram.
They all nodded and the rest of us got ready. I took Mercy to our control room to show her our computer.
"Nice. State-of-the-art system you have here. Connected to Ninjago City's servers?" she asked, looking over our screens.
"Yep. Also some satellites too." I said, hoping I don't sound strained. I know that she knows about Wu's condition, but I don't know if she knows about her mother.
Mystake is gone, for a while now. And she never got the chance to know that her daughter is still alive. She was a closed-off person, and I don't want to push Mercy away by telling her that her mother is gone forever.
"If you're holding back, don't worry. Kai told me everything." she said, not even turning back to me.
"Huh?"
"I know my mother is gone. Even before I met Kai." she turned back to face me.
"How?" I couldn't stop myself from asking.
"Well, technically I am the elemental master of energy. I honed in on her and found her as she was dying."
"Oh. I'm sorry. I didn't…" how do you respond to that?
"It's fine. We got to see each other one last time. That's all anyone can ask for." she didn't seem upset about it. Guess she found her own peace with it.
Zane came in and said, "We're ready to go."
"Did you tell Lucy and Anthony?" Mercy said, crossing her arms
"Yes, and made sure that they will stay onboard."
"Good. did you lock the door in case?"
"Yes. Seemed like that was necessary."
"Oh yeah. You could say that." she walked out the door.
"I did say that." Zane said, following her.
I exited the control room and we went. Mom was with Sensei and I filled her in while we were running to the location. She wanted to talk to Mercy when we got back and she agreed. Though I could tell she was nervous about that too.
We got there Nya, Jay, and Mercy went on their way while the rest of us went to the meeting room, where all the members were waiting. There were a lot fewer members than I thought. Then Screak and Howl walked in and Screak said, "Thank you all for coming on such short notice. We have lost our only base in the desert to the two that have plagued our existence."
"Now we must remove them from the equation. At all costs." Howl said.
"Well then. Guess we should get it work?" Kai said.
"I was hoping that you would say that." Jay said, taking out his nun-chucks.
We dropped down and started fighting. We managed to take out several guys before their shock. Screak and Howl just stayed up there and watched us fight while we continued.
"Doing good over there?" Kai asked, blocking then pushing back a guy.
"Yep, you?" I said, slashing downwards, nailing a couple of guys.
"It's going swell." He took down his guy and was facing another.
"Hello!" Mercy said on coms.
"Yeah. Is everything okay?" I said.
"It's going great. Another than the fact that the whole building is going to explode."
"What?" we all said.
"What happened?" Cole asked.
"Jay pressed a button I told him not to press."
"It was flashing. You can not blame me." Jay said
"I can when the building is going to explode!" I heard a crash that I assumed was Mercy hitting Jay.
"That freaking hurt!" he said after a few moments.
"You deserved it! You guys have two, three minutes tops until you become ash on the ground, so hurry up."
"Got it. Let's go!" I said to the others.
We tried to leave but Screak blocked our way and screamed. Her scream caused us to fly back into the wall.
"What the heck?" Cole said.
"Did I forget to mention that they're the elemental masters of chaos and destruction." Kai said, brushing himself off.
"That would have been helpful." I said, getting back up.
Howl then came down and almost punched Zane into the ground. He moved just in time and Howl's punch created a hole in the floor. Kai blasted him with a giant fireball at him. He blocked and roared at him.
Zane froze the floor, causing him to fall when he tried to charge at us. Screak tried to scream again, but Cole threw a boulder at her, which knocked her out.
"Screak! You will perish for that!" Howl yelled, and stomped so hard he broke Zane's ice.
Kai and I mixed our powers and that managed to send him flying. He was knocked out.
We picked them up and ran down the halls. After the alarms were sounding the other members weren't interested in fighting us, and the fact we beat their leaders probably did put them off.
We managed to get out there right before it exploded.
"How many times am I going to have to blow up?" Kai asked, falling backwards in exhaustion.
"Probably not anymore. But never say never." I asked, sitting up.
"Great." he said. It was good to have him back.