Chapter 5: Dead Man's Squall
Up in the Destiny's Bounty, Nya, Jay, Kai, Harumi, and Lloyd were still looking for Zane. "I don't see him." Nya observed. "Maybe he caught up with the other members." suggested Jay. "Hey, guys you there?" asked Cole's voice over the intercom.
"We're here, Cole. Where are you?" asked Kai. "I'm just on the streets of the city." Cole told them. Suddenly they heard cooing. "What was that?" wondered Lloyd. "Uh, just come pick me up, I'll explain when you get here." Cole explained.
"Pixal, to the city, and quickly." Nya said. "Right away." Pixal answered. The ship sailed away from the desert, and to the city. When they got to the city, and saw Cole, they were surprised to see him holding a baby.
"Boy, am I glad to see you guys." Cole replied, getting on the ship. "Where did that come from?" Jay wondered, referring to the baby. The baby cooed and smiled when he saw the other Ninja and Harumi.
"The Sons of Garmadon had him, they said this baby is the key to finding the third mask." Cole explained. "But who's baby is this?" asked Harumi. "I don't know, but we can't let the Sons of Garmadon get him."
"Well we'll take the baby with us for now, but as soon as all this is over, we try to find his family." Lloyd announced. "Great, how's Zane doing?" "We have to get back to the desert, and check on him." Jay answered.
Zane and Mr. E were now facing off with each other. "Who are you, are you the Eye?" Zane questioned. But Mr. E charged at him, Zane tried to block, but he was hit hard. The two battled, Zane tried, but Mr. E was advanced, and kept getting off hits.
Just when it looks like Zane was gonna be defeated, he used his ice powers to freeze him. "Now are you the Eye, if not who is?" Zane questioned. But Mr. E broke out of the ice, and gave him an uppercut hit right in the face.
He fell back, his systems had taken quite a beating, and eventually shut down. The last thing Zane remembered seeing was Mr. E standing over him, and opening up his chest component.
The others looked around the desert, until they finally found him. Cole, Lloyd, Nya, and Jay quickly lowered themselves down, and looked their friend over. "Zane, can you hear me?" asked Lloyd. Zane didn't say a word.
"He's got bad injuries, we better get him back on the ship." Nya told them. "Pixal, send the gurney down." Called Lloyd. Pixal did so, and after Zane was placed on it, he was lifted up, and the others followed him.
In a room on the Destiny's Bounty, Zane was lying on a table connected to a computer. "How's he look, Pixal?" Kai questioned. "He's sustained many injuries to his systems." Pixal told them. "Will he be okay?" Jay wondered.
"I've done all I can, but he'll have to reboot himself." she explained. "Isn't there anything else that can be done?" Harumi wondered. "The only thing we can do is find the last mask before the Sons of Garmadon." Lloyd told them.
"And we need to keep the baby away from them." Nya pointed out. "How could a baby be a key?" asked Kai. "I don't know, but that's what they said." Cole answered. "Then we gotta get as far from here as possible." Jay mentioned.
"But what about the city? We can't just leave it." Cole pointed out. "We don't have a choice. Besides Samurai X is there to protect it, while we're gone." Lloyd answered. And with that the ship flew away from the city.
While Nya stayed behind with Zane, the rest of the Ninja were in the sleeping quarters dealing with a crisis, which was trying to stop the baby from crying. "Try giving him something to drink." advised Lloyd, giving the baby to Cole.
"I tried everything, milk, juice, water, we doesn't want any of it." Cole answered, giving him to Jay. "Well what else could he want?" Jay asked, giving the baby to Kai. "How would I know. Ask him." Kai replied, giving him back to Jay.
"He can't talk yet, he's a baby." Cole reminded Kai. "Maybe he needs his diaper changed." suggested Jay, giving the baby to Cole. "Do we even have any diapers?" Cole wondered. "We're Ninja, what would we do with diapers?" asked Lloyd.
"Let's use one of our hoods instead." suggested Jay. "Who's hood?" wondered Kai. "Let's draw straws. Shortest one gives up their hood." Lloyd told them. Suddenly, they heard singing.
"Hush a bye, and goodnight, and may your dreams be wonderful. Hush a bye and goodnight, may your dream sweet dreams, hush a bye, hush a bye, and goodnight to you. May your dreams be as wonderful, as you." Harumi sang softly to the baby.
The baby cooed, and then went to sleep. "Wow, you really know how to take care of babies." complimented Cole. "Oh, he's just sleepy. After all this excitement, I don't blame him. He should go to sleep now." Harumi explained.
She set him back in his little makeshift crib, and left the room. She and Lloyd went up to the deck, and Harumi looked out at the beyond. "Well, it looks like I'm finally gonna get my wish." she replied.
Lloyd remembered she told him she always wanted to see the world outside New Ninjago City. "Yes you will." he answered. "It's kinda scary, I mean we have no idea what's out there." "That's part of exploring, you never know what's gonna be there."
"Well, I'm glad I have you and the other Ninja here." Harumi said gratefully. Lloyd smiled at her, then he realized how close they were to each other. "Uh, I better go and see if, uh, I need to go that way." Lloyd sputtered quickly, as he hurried away.
Harumi smiled. "Nya was right, he is shy." she whispered. Back in the sleeping quarters, Cole was keeping an eye on the baby. He had to admit, the baby was really cute. But then the baby started fussing.
"Uh oh, don't do that." Cole pleaded. The baby started crying. "Please don't cry. Oh how do people do this? Look at me I'm not crying." Cole said. But the baby kept crying. "Oh, okay. But I'm only gonna do this once." he told the baby.
He started singing "Glow Little Glowworm", and tickling the baby. He giggled when Cole ticked him. "So you like that, well maybe I'll sing a little more." Cole kept singing, and as he saw something on the baby's blanket.
On the deck, Nya and Jay were steering the ship. "Looks like we're heading into a storm." Jay pointed out. Up ahead there were dark clouds and flashes of lightening. "Don't worry, the Destiny's Bounty can get through it." Nya assured.
"Nya, Jay, I've found something you better hear." Pixal's voice said. They went over and a few of the others came to listen. "I intercepted a message Zane recorded between Mr. E and the Eye." she answered.
"What's it say?" asked Kai. "It's encrypted, but I've managed to decipher it." Pixal explained. The message played over the computer. "The trap is complete." it said. "Trap, what trap?" wondered Jay.
"Can you track it?" Lloyd asked Pixal. "I'm already doing that. But the storm's interfering with the system." Pixal answered. "Well can't we just leave the storm?" Harumi suggested. "Not a good idea, the storm's keeping the Sons of Garmadon from finding us." Nya replied.
"Nya's right. We keep going." Lloyd announced. "But where?" wondered Jay. "How about here?" Cole spoke up. Everyone looked at him and saw that he was holding up the baby's blanket, only there was a map on the other side.
At dinner over spaghetti and meatballs, they discussed the map. "But why would the baby be wrapped in a map?" asked Kai. "Probably didn't have any diapers." Cole suggested. "This looks like the center of Ninjago." Harumi said, looking at the map.
"And that X could represent where the third mask is." Nya proposed. "I know that place, my mom told me about it. It's called Prime Evil's Eye." Lloyd said. "What's that?" asked Jay. "It's a vast wilderness of death, people go in, but they don't come out." Lloyd explained.
"Sounds like the perfect place to hide something." remarked Nya. Jay, who was trying to get his last meatball with his fork, almost had it. "I've got you now." he told it, and he jabbed his fork right into...Kai's hand!
Kai froze with pain, while Cole covered the baby's eyes. "Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. Let me..." Jay apologized. "No, just..no." Kai winced.
While Zane he was still lying unconscious, when something broke out of his chest compartment. A spider-like robot, crawled out, and made its' way into the wall. Back at the table, Cole was just about to have a sip of some tea when the baby started fussing.
"What's wrong, now little guy?" he asked. The baby continued to fuss, and not knowing what else to do, Cole let him have a sip of his tea. The baby sipped and sipped it. "What are you doing?" asked Nya.
"Giving him a drink." Cole answered. "So you're giving him your tea, babies can't drink tea." Nya replied. "Well he seems to like it." Suddenly, the lights went out and the ship hit turbulence. "What the?" asked Jay.
"We gotta get to the bridge." Lloyd said, he grabbed the blanket map, and everyone went back upstairs. There they saw that all the monitors were off. "What's going on?" questioned Cole. "Maybe it's a blackout." Kai suggested.
"The back up generators would've kicked in." Nya pointed out. "She's right, this is something else. Pixal are you there?" Lloyd said. "I'm here, and we have an emergency situation. I've picked up a foreign entity in the system." Pixal warned.
"Entity, what kind of entity?" asked Harumi. "Whatever it is, it's hacked out system, I can't control the ship." Pixal explained. "How did something even get in here?" Cole. Everyone turned their eyes to Zane, and saw where the little robot had escaped from.
"The trap. Mr. E implanted something in Zane, and then let it loose here." Lloyd realized. "Something's approaching the ship." Pixal informed. "Who is it?" asked Kai. "Samurai X." "Great, he can help us." said Cole.
"I'm afraid that won't be happening." Pixal said. "Why?" asked Kai. "My system's been taken over." "What does that have to do with anything?" wondered Nya. "Well, I suppose now would be a good time to confess that...I'm Samurai X." Pixal admitted.
"What?" asked Lloyd. "Come again?" questioned Kai. "No way." remarked Jay. "Seriously?" wondered Cole. "Wow." said Harumi. "Excuse me?" added Nya. Outside they saw a laser beam, which hit one of the rotors.
"I may not know much about boats, but I'm pretty sure we needed that." Haurmi replied. "The suit's going for the other rotor. If we loose it, it's disaster." Nya informed. "Nya try and find the entity, Jay control the lightening, the rest of us get ready for a little battle." Lloyd ordered.
Everyone went to their stations, Cole stopped by the sleeping quarters to put the baby in his crib. "Don't worry, little buddy. I'll be back before you know it." he told the infant. He joined the others on the deck where the searched the sky for Samurai X.
"Harumi, you'll be needing this." Lloyd told her, handing her a sword. "But I don't know how to fight like you guys." she said. "You're gonna have to if you want to live." said Kai. "Well, I am a fast learner." she replied.
They used their elemental powers to find Samurai X, and when they did, they tried to take the suit down. In the bridge Nya searched for the entity, but it snuck up on her and attacked her. The others battled Samurai X, when the suit landed on the deck.
The suit almost got Lloyd, but Harumi knocked his weapon out of the way. The two smiled at each other, but the moment was interrupted when Samurai X grabbed Harumi and jumped off the ship with her.
Lloyd jumped down after him. "Let her go!" he shouted. "There's no Samurai X or Pixal anymore only the Eye." said an automated voice. Lloyd stabbed the suit damaging it, Pixal ejected herself from the suit, leaving Lloyd and Harumi free falling to the ground.
"You could've thought that through a little more." Haurmi told him. "I know." Lloyd answered.
Pixal landed on the ship's deck, and pulled out a sword. "I thought you were our friend." Jay remarked. "Sorry to have to do this, Pixal." Kai apologized, the three pulled out their weapons and charged at her.
Back with Lloyd and Harumi, he made his way to her. "Lloyd, what are we gonna do?" she cried. "Don't worry, everything's gonna be okay." he told her. He got her out of the hand, and put her in the suit.
"It'll break your fall." he said. "But what about you?" she asked. "That doesn't matter." he answered. He let go of the suit, and tried to use the blanket at a makeshift parachute, but it didn't work very well.
He and Harumi fell into the jungle and landed hard on the ground. On the Destiny's Bounty, Nya was battling the spider robot. "Get away from me, you creepy robot." she told the robot, while trying to keep it away from her face.
Suddenly, a sword came flying through the air, and destroyed the robot. Nya looked up, and saw that Zane was awake. "What happened?" he asked. "You've missed a lot, but you're in for a nice surprise." Nya told him.
"The entity has been successfully removed, my system will be rebooted in thirty seconds." Pixal's voice said, on the computer. Outside, the rest of the Ninja were still battling Pixal's body. "Drop your weapon." Jay commanded her.
"Be happy to." the automated voice said, and she threw the sword in the direction of the second rotor. After that she regained control of her body. When the sword hit the rotor, the ship started to fall like a rock.
"We're gonna crash!" cried Jay. "Any ideas anyone?" Kai asked, no one said anything, "Me either." "Maybe the rain could slow us down?" suggested Zane. "Good idea." said Nya. She went to the front of the boat, and used her elemental power.
The rain slowed the ship down, as they headed for the ground. "Brace yourselves!" Nya called to the others. Everyone held onto something, but Cole heard the baby crying. He raced downstairs to the sleeping quarters, grabbed the baby, and held him tightly.
The ship tore through some trees, until it landed on the ground. Shaken everyone got to their feet. "Is everyone all right?" asked Jay, as he helped Nya up. Luckily everyone was. "Are you okay, little buddy?" Cole asked the baby.
The baby smiled and cooed at him. "Zane?" asked Pixal's voice. Zane turned around, and smiled. Pixal took of her helmet to reveal her face. "It was you, all this time. How come you didn't tell me?" Zane said surprised.
"I needed to keep my alter ego to myself, so you all wouldn't be harmed." Pixal explained. "Please Pixal, we both know you wanted to be out of my head." Zane told her. "That too." she replied. "From now on, no more secrets between us."
"Agreed." The two hugged tightly. Harumi and Lloyd were miles away from the ship, and Lloyd had hurt his arm. So Harumi used the blanket as a sling. "Thanks, Harumi. But it looks like the two of us are on our own." said Lloyd, looking around the jungle.
That's chapter 5, plz review (Sorry quimby, but I liked that Samurai was Pixal so I let that stay the same)