Here it is! The ultimate face-off starts!

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Chapter 25: The Final Battle Begins

What was once the mountain where the Monastery stood, rubble remained. Bits and pieces of the sacred remains of the Monastery were spread across the stunted mountain of distorted rocks. Overlooking the scene it had made, the Garmatron II's dark matter engines released smog into the air, blocking the sun and turning the sky black.

In the center of the rubble, Lloyd lay down as he slowly regained consciousness to see Kai walk towards him. "Phew, you're alive!"

"Yeah, but... how? Those ballistics should have eviscerated us WITH the mountain!"

"I don't know, I guess it's just dumb luck. Or perhaps they had the worst possible aim. Come on, let's find the others!"

Kai helped Lloyd to his feet, allowing him to look around and see that the mountain they had previously stood on was now a significantly smaller pile of rubble. Bits of the rebuilt Monastery, rock, and metal polluted the surrounding desert. Lloyd looked up to see Zane standing over an edge in the distance. They both ran his way to see what he was looking at.

Roughly 500 feet away from them, the Overlord sat on a rock, with his Dragon Blade placed firmly in the ground and his golden helmet resting on top of it. He was just sitting there, looking at the ground peacefully.

"What's he been doing?"

Zane just shook his head. "Absolutely nothing. He just beamed down from the ship, and sat there."

"Where are the others?" Kai looked around.

"Somewhere under all this. I'm sure Cole made it to the cave in time." Zane nodded in agreement, but they all knew not even the cave was safe from the blasts. Lloyd's fist lit up in anger. Kai unsheathed his sword. Zane looked at them both. "You do realize it's a trap, right?"

"Yeah, but I don't really much care."

"Good. As long as we're all in agreement." He took out his shurikens, and Lloyd lead the way as they walked down to face their adversary. "Let's finish what Jay started."

They walked forward to the Garmadon-Overlord fusion with their guards up. But to their surprise, the hellbeast looked up at them with a bored look. As he turned his head to face rubble, cave wreckage, and bits of Monastery left lying around, he chuckled.

"You were foolish. Foolish and careless. When I was locked back in my dormant state, and my armies fell back, you considered your victory as an absolute."

Lloyd walked up to face him directly, while Kai walked to face his right, and Zane his left.

"You ignored the signs that my return was imminent. You dismissed my armies as small, petty attacks. No matter what happens, you never have a lasting peace. Because you cannot grasp what is necessary to achieve it. You failed to realize this, you failed to accept that I win. You could not live with your own failure. And where did that lead you? Back to me."

"Yeah, we're all kinds of stubborn." Kai said, holding his sword up to strike.

The Overlord chuckled. "I'm grateful. Because now, I know what I must do." Standing up, he placed his golden helmet back on, lighting his eyes up, and picked up his Dark Dragon Blade. "I will wipe out your resistance once and for all, and using my Dark Army which Garmadon has formed for me over the years, I will bring across a new order. All of the realms of creation will know me, and my followers, as the ultimate power. A new peace will be achieved, and new life will be born."

Lloyd looked at him, sickened. "Born out of blood."

"They'll never know it. Because you will be dead."

Kai screamed as he raised his blade and ran to strike, while Zane through a pair of shurikens and Lloyd flanked his red comrade. Quickly using spinjitzu, The Overlord deflected the shurikens, which hit Zane in the chest, and absorbed Kai, but Lloyd conjured up his own tornado before he could be absorbed as well. And the duel had begun.

Hundreds of feet underneath the rubble, within the majority of the cave's wreckage, Cole coughed as he and Clutch called out for anyone else. "Is anyone else down here?" He heard the muffled sound of Dareth yelling back "Here!" Rushing through the falling rocks of the inner cave, the Black ninja saw the Land Bounty completely crushed by rocks, along with the mechs. He picked up one boulder, where he saw Dareth and Pixal struggling to move. "Come on, guys, let's get up."

As the two picked them up, they all looked around for the others. "Lloyd? Brad? Mechanic?"

"Kai? Karloff? Zane?" A rock burst open across the cave, revealing a battered Karloff, with Brad and The Mechanic running towards them. "Cole! Over here!" The other four ran their way, avoiding the ensuing debris. "Where are the others?"

"We couldn't find them!"

They were lucky to even have survived the wave of ballistics sent at the mountain. Pixal looked at the cave closing in. "We have to find a way out of here. The docking bay is crushed, and so are all our vehicles!" Cole saw The Mechanic and Karloff grin at each other. "What?"

"Not all of the Vehicles." Pointing back the way the came, the Mechanic showed them what they were talking about. Clutch grinned.

"Perfect. Let's get it running!"

Flying back from the punch he had just received, Zane slammed into a chunk of metal, rendering him unconscious. Kai spun around the Overlord in an attempt to outflank him. Lloyd tried to keep the Dark Master's attention on him by screaming. Both of their attempts meant nothing.

By simply swinging his dark sword, he knocked Kai out of his tornado and grabbed him by the throat midair. Ramming him into the ground, Kai dropped his sword, giving the Overlord the ample opportunity to raised the dark sword, and as he swung down, Kai raised his hands to stop it. Although he kept it from impacting his chest, the blade was quickly cutting into his hand.

That is, until Lloyd's green tornado spun into the back of the Overlord, knocking him off balance and letting Kai go, though the red Ninja was too shocked to get up.

Now the Overlord's attention was on Lloyd. He raised the blade to hit Lloyd's golden sword, and the two clashed. Lloyd kicked at his legs, but to no avail. He was too strong, and the Ninja was tired. Noticing his advantage, the Overlord raised his two left fists and clobbered his face and right side. As Lloyd backed up, the dark blade swung at his head. In the last second, he raised his golden blade, but the force was so strong that it shattered.

Lloyd gasped at the sight of his broken blade, but The Overlord gave him no time to process it before spinning and hurtling him several hundred feet into the rubble, where he stared up at the black sky, beaten to near submission. He had no fight left in him.

The Overlord, on the other hand, smiled as if he just woke up from a long rest, and as he gazed over the field of victory, he focused back on his Green enemy.

"You know something Lloyd? In all of my years of destruction, all this violence, and the butchering... it was never personal. I simply needed to kill in order to establish my Order. But I'll tell you now, what I'm about to do to you and your pathetic, stubborn little Resistance... I'm going to enjoy it. Very, very much."

As if on cue, several beams shot down from the flying Garmatron II, and out of the lights appeared the entire force of the Dark Army. Every single faction; Skulkin, Serpentine, Stone Army, Nindroids, The New Anacondrai, Ghosts, The Sky Pirates, Vermillion, the Sons of Garmadon, Dragon Hunters, Oni, Pyro Vipers and Blizzard Samurai, they all marched forward by the thousands to form up behind their Master.

Emerging from the vast bay of the Garmatron II were several of their smaller ships, including the Misfortunes Keep, one-manned pirate flyers, Raid-Zeppelins, Bladecopters, Skulkin Copters, Rattle-copters, Nindroid Jets, Dragon-hunting jets, and the Blizzard Dragon Boreal with General Vex riding on its back all flew above the Army.

Beamed from behind and the sides were the ground vehicles: Skulkin bikes and trucks, Rattle-cycles, Stone army bikes, Nindroid Mechs and tanks, New Anacondrai Mechs, Ghost Bikes, Sky-Pirate Catapults, Vermillion Mechs, SoG Bikes, and several Diezelnaughts.

Riding through the center of the Army's bulk was FireFang with Aspheera on it's back and hundreds of smaller firefangs and the Giant Anacondrai Serpent with Pythor riding its back.

The rest of the collective generals and faction leaders were all beamed in the front line, right behind their Master.

The Overlord smirked as he peered at Lloyd lying on the ground several hundred feet away from him.

But Lloyd could only pick himself up. As he saw the Garmatron II beam down more and more waves of the Dark Army by the thousands, eventually millions, he stood up. After he picked up his broken sword, he grunted slowly and shuffled forward, putting his mask on with his twitching hands.

Shaking his head at the pathetic sight before him, The Dark Master chuckled some more.

Lloyd walked into the limelight that the smog had made, as if he was symbolically now the only being that stood between the millions of Dark Army soldiers and their total conquest of every realm. He shuffled forward when he heard some static through his mask's communicator, causing him to stop.

"-zzt-Lloyd, can you hear me?-"

Stopping abruptly, he put his hand up to hear it more clearly. "-zzt-Lloyd, it's Ronin. Do you copy?-zzt-"

A light was glowing behind him, though he didn't turn to face it until Ronin's voice said, very clearly now:

"On your left."

Lloyd turned to see a bright blue portal forming in front of him, and out of the hazy blue light he saw three figures. The one on the left was Nya, in her Full Samurai-X gear. On the right was some lean yellow-and-blue robot carrying two large pistols. But in the middle...

Lloyd almost passed out at the sight of the scarred, chiseled, one-eyed, but undoubtedly recognizable Jay Walker.

Finally, after ten grueling years, the Blue Ninja had returned from the dead.

(FROM HERE ON OUT IT WILL BE 3RD PERSON OMNISCIENT)

Jay nodded to Lloyd, and above them flew Ronin from out of the portal, alongside a few Mandalorians. As Lloyd looked up at them, he saw hundreds of other large portals beginning to form.

As the trio walked forward, behind them were Jay's personal Clone squadron, along with the full 501st corps.

Anakin and Padme walked out of one, followed by platoons of Naboo Warriors. Obi Wan walked out of another, being flanked the 212th and several other marching Mandalorians and Bo-Katan. Behind General Kalani marched platoons of Commando droids and Droideka's. Maul, Savage, and Ventress walked through with their Orange blades, and Mother Talzin floated behind them with her army of Nightsisters and Nightbrothers. Behind Several Jedi came out their respective divisions of clone troopers. Ahsoka jumped out of a Portal to line up next to MoBy, Jay, and Nya.

Kai got up from where he lay, regaining full consciousness, and stared speechless at the sight before him.

Zane smiled as he got up, knowing that they had done it. They held out.

Hondo Ohnaka emerged alongside his large crew, along with several Bounty Hunters. More B1 and B2 Battle droids came out of portals. Many portals also began to form above those on the ground, and several small ships slowly came through, including Vulture droids, Clone Gunships with troopers manning turrets, Headhunter fighters, ARC-170 Fighters, the Slave 1 being Piloted by Boba and Bossk, Y-wings, Naboo Starfighters, and Mandalorian fighters.

The Overlord only stared in awe at the sight before him. But he knew he still had the numbers and upper hand with the Garmatron II.

As their forces kept on stepping through the portals and lining up, Jay and MoBy stopped next Lloyd, now at the front face of their full army. Jay turned his head to his mechanical companion. "Is that everyone?"

With his blasters already pointing towards the Dark Army, MoBy turned his head back to Jay. "What, you wanted more?

They all looked up at the sound of a thundering storm coming from a few miles behind them, and as Jay smirked, a gargantuan-sized portal formed thousands of feet in the air, out of which The Wisp pierced through, with all central and secondary cannons aimed at the Garmatron II.

Bursting through the rubble, the old earth driller pierced through, revealing Cole, Clutch, Karloff, Pixal, The Mechanic, Brad, and Dareth coming out of the tunnel to view their reinforcements. Cole, Brad, and Dareth bared their masks and weapons. Pixal raised her sai. Clutch aimed his revolver. Karloff raised his fists. The mechanic put his real hand on Karloff's shoulder and lifted up his cannon arm with a grin. "Hell, yeah."

Lloyd stood proudly by his old friend's side as he smirked at the Overlord, who now looked concerned. As the rest of Jay's army lined in formation to face off the Dark Army, Lloyd yelled

"Ninja!"

And he raised his broken sword with glowing green eyes. "GO."

Jay ignited his blade, and as he gave out a battle cry, all of his Galactic Army charged forward. Ships and speeders sped forwards blasting. The Wisp's cannons fired at the Garmatron II.

Regaining his serious expression, The Overlord raised his sword in a forward motion, signaling his own army to charge. The Garmatron II raised its shields, deflecting the blasts. All of the smaller air ships started to head forward, guns hot. The ground troops and vehicles ran to meet their enemies in the field.

The Final Battle for Ninjago had begun.

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