Chapter 8

Lloyd reached the suface by the time he heard Cole's voice shouting. He looks down at the sewer, and saw Lucas emerged from the darkness; frantically and was breathing fast. Lucas runs to the sewer cover and quickly places it over the entrance. He firgures it wouldn't slow his brother's down, because Cole could easily lift it, and lokks around the alley that could help them. He spots a dumpster and quickly runs to it. Using his strength, he pushes the dumpster over the entrance, and hopes it buys them time.

He throws Lloyd over his back and runs out of the alley. Once they were on the road, Lucas draws out his sai's and concentrated his powers to create his vehicle. Water came out of fire hydrants and sewer grates and started to swirl around them. Lucas kept concentrating his powers till there was a flash of light. Lucas created his grey motorbike, but was expanded for him and Lloyd, so now it's a all-terrains vehicle as Cole's. With them inside, Lucas pushes the lever foward and the engine whines to life as they drove off.

Back in the sewers, the ninja's were behind Cole, as he used his shoulder and strength, to push the sewer cover and dumpster above them. After one push, he blasts the dumpster and cover high in the air and land with a thud. The ninja climbed to the surface and run out the alley, but caught a glimpse of Lucas's vehicle driving away.

"Get the tank." Cole ordered, "We'll chase them if we have to."

Lucas was proud as there were no cars infront of him as he drove down the streets of Ninjago City. The inside was the same as it was before, a computer monitor to tell if the vehicle was damaged, the way he had to drive on his stomach, and a new feature Jay and Nya installed for him, a radio to communicate with the others. He turns it off so they others couldn't hear him. After driving for a few minutes, he hears a familiar engine roaring behind him and looks at another monitor, next to Lloyd, saw the ninja's tank behind them. He saw Lloyd's eyes grew wide as they were close to their heels, and needed to shake them off if they want to escape.

Lucas turns into another street and drove off in top speeds to lose his controlled brother's; but were closing in on them. Lucas cursed under his breath, for he knows they wouldn't give up easily. Using one hand, he scans around on a map, near his right side, to find a route to help them. Sadily he didn't find any. He continues driving through the streets and cars, as they were starting show up. As he thought hope was lost, he spots an express highway tunnel that ran underneath the cities building's.

He turns to the left, so hard he left skid marks from the tires. While he was turning, he presses a button, and black liquid comes out of the side; leaving a trail as he straightened his vehicle and drove towards the tunnel. Lucas and Lloyd look at the monitor and watch the ninja's tank try to follow them; but end up sliding away from them. They laughed at their attemp and continued driving away with hope.

Halfway through the tunnel, they heard the tank's engine roaring behind them. They looked at the monitor and saw the ninja's speeding up to them. Lucas tried to shake them off, but couldn't move much since the tunnel is narrow and there are cars inside. He looks at the control panel of his vehicle for a button to help them escape, but was having trouble for it may have changed for him when he transformed from his bike to the vehicle. He presses a random button, and out from the back, a black smoke conceals the tunnel and the tank.

As Lucas drove with a smoke trail behind him, the grey and green ninja drove out of the tunnel, but instantly drove into another tunnel. After they entered the tunnel, a blinding light breaks through the smoke; nearly blinding Lucas as he drove.

"Lloyd what was that?" he asked.

Lloyd looks at the monitor. The smoke cleared up, but the tank was still behind them. He looks closely and noticed there was red ninja still driving, but was missing a blue, white, and black ninja.

"They spilt up." Lloyd imformed him, "Jay, Zane, and Cole must be in their vehicles."

Lucas sighed in annoyance, but continued driving away from Kai. Suddenly chunks of rocks started falling down above them. Lucas saw the chunks crashing down infront of him and avoided them as more came down. Just as they were near the exit, they saw ice slowly climbing up to block the exit. Lucas realized the rocks were Cole's part to slow them down, while the ice was Zane's part to block the exit. Just as the ice was about to block the exit, a large chunk of rock crashes down ahead of them, and formed into an incline. Lucas saw this as a chance to escape and aim the vehicle at the ramp and picks up the speed.

"Are you serious?!" Lloyd yells at him, scared, "We'll never make it!"

"Trust me on this!" Lucas yells back.

The vehicle made contact to the ramp and started flying towards the ice wall. There was a flash of light, and Lucas was no longer in his vehicle, but he and Lloyd still flew towards the ice. As the ice was about to block the exit completely, there was a gap at the top, Lucas and Lloyd flew through the gap and and the ice blocked the exit behind them. Lucas looks down at the road and saw Cole's tread assult, and Zane's snowmobile near the exit, while they glared at them. He ignored it, but saw Lloyd moving his arms and legs frantically, and screaming the top of his lungs, as they were descending towards the highway road. He quickly draws out his sai's, grabs Lloyd, and transformed into his vehicle and drove off. He looks at Lloyd, who was breathing fast looking like he's having a heart attack.

"Promise...me...you won't... do that again." Lloyd panted in each breath.

"Can't keep promise's while I drive." Lucas presistent, and sped up on the open road.

Lucas looks at the monitor and saw the ice wall break, like shattered glass, and the tank speeds behind them; followed by Cole and Zane. There was a flash of light and Lucas and Lloyd watched at Kai transformed from the tank to his motorbike; speeding along with Zane, while Cole took the lead. Kai and Zane drove past Cole, up to the sides of Lucas's vehicle. They rammed into the sides of the vehicle, trying to slow Lucas down. They moved away from the vehicle, but they rammed into the sides and stayed there without moving away; preventing Lucas from escaping. Lucas tried to shake them off, but Kai and Zane only prevent that from happening.

Kai and Zane forcefully directed Lucas to an exit that lead to a skyway bridge. Lucas looks at the monitor and saw Cole's vehicle speeding up behind him and rammed into the backside of his vehicle. Up ahead of the four vehicles, a blue lightning bolt shoots out from the sky and crashes down on the bridge; causing it to break and leaving a large gap. Lucas saw what was happening as he saw Jay flying by after destroying the bridge. He quickly pulls down the lever to reduce his speed, but was still being pushed by Cole. Just as they were near the huge gap, Kai and Zane moved away from Lucas, but Cole still pushed him near it till he finally moved away; leaving the grey ninja skidding to a stop. Lucas's vehicle finally stopped, but the front wheels and half of the vehicle went past the crack of the gap; leaving them to balance to safety or death.

"Remain calm Lloyd, I'll...I'll...think of something." Lucas hesitated to say.

Lucas looked at the monitor and saw the ninja's surround the backside of his vehicle, got off their vehicles and walked up to him and his cousin. Lucas began to worry for they might finally capture them. He looks through the wind-shield of his vehicle and looks over the ledge and saw it was huge drop to the ground. He then remembered he has a feature on his vehicle, but still hoped it was still there when it transformed from his bike to the vehicle.

"Nobody hurts my family." he says to himself, and thrust his body foward to tip his vehicle.

Lloyd's eyes grew wide as he watched his cousin leading them to their deaths. With another thrust of his body, Lucas finally tips his vehicle forward and they start hurling towards the ground. Lloyd was screaming the top of his lungs as they freefall towards the ground. Lucas remembered Lloyd hasn't seen the vehicle in this situtation before. He presses a button and hopes it was the right one. Suddenly the canopy splits in half and fly over their heads and creates into wings. Lucas cheered for it was the right one as the vehicle turned into his jet, pulls up, and flies away from the possessed ninja's.

"What did I just tell you?!" Lloyd asked angrily.

"Hey, it was either this or be captured okay." Lucas pointed out, "Now we have to hide from them."

Lucas looked at the monitor and saw Jay flying towards him at lightning speed. Lucas looks at the map to find an area to lose his brother's and hide. He smiled as he came across an area called, 'Scattered Canyon', and thought it was perfect. He lowers the jet to the road, transformed back to his vehicle, and drove off the road to the canyon. He heard more engines racing behind him and saw Cole, Kai, and Zane behind them, with Jay flying close to the ground with them.

He finally reaches the canyon, enters with the ninja's behind him. Everywhere he turned, there were more mesa's, cliff sides, and places he already drove past before; hencefore, the title, 'Scattered Canyon'. Lucas needed to lose the ninja's if they want to escape, and noticed a button was flashing green. He presses it without hesitation and black smoke surround the tailing ninja. He turns away from the others, while the smoke continued its way forward from Lucas's spot; allowing them time to hide. Lucas sighs in relief as they were no where seen. He spots a cave up ahead of them and took it as a chance to hide.

He slows down the vehicle and transformed back to normal. Lucas and Lloyd run into the cave and wait for the ninja to leave. Lucas stood infront of the mouth of the cave, draws out his sai's and struck them to the ground. He closed his eyes and began to concentrate his powers as mist came out of the handles. The mist began to surround the cave mouth and completely covered the cave.

Outside the cave, the mist blended into it's surrounding's and created into a cliff side. Lucas backed away slowly, leaving the sai's in the ground, as he heard a vehicle nearby. He reaches into his pouch and pulls out a small vial with silver liquid in it, and hands it to Lloyd.

"Here, drink half of this." he tells Lloyd.

"Why?" Lloyd asked back.

"It will regulate you body heat, so whoever comes by won't detect us."

Lloyd shrugged a it and uncorked the vial. He brought the vial to his lips and drank half of it. He retched and coughed to the taste and gave the rest to Lucas. Lucas drank the rest of the silver liquid, but didn't twitched or retched to the taste. They both began to feel cold on the inside, but became quiet as the noise was getting closer. They both stood still as they saw Zane's vehicle cruising by.

Zane was driving in the lead with the others behind him, as his eyes were red, scanning to find Lucas and Lloyd. Zane suddenly stops his snowmobile infront of the hidden cave and looks straight at it. Lucas's and Lloyd's heart was racing against their chest as they watch Zane look at them for heat signatures. Lucas hopes that Zane wouldn't detech them or the mist fails on them. Zane's eyes turned from red to green and drove away from them; followed by the others. Lucas and Lloyd sighed in relief as they drove away and began to feel warm as the potion was wearing off. Lucas plops against the stone wall, exhausted after many attemps of escape from his brothers and looks at Lloyd, who was pacing back and forth, not wondering what's going to happen now.

"So now what?" Lloyd asked.

"Well, for now, lets rest and think of something to help us find our family." Lucas responded.

Lloyd nodded to the idea and walked to the other side of the cave. He laid on the hard ground and quickly drifted into sleep. Lucas laid his head on the ground and began to think of ideas that could help them. But sleep over-powered him and drifted into slumber.

So when I created Lucas's vehicle, I was thinking of it as the batmobile from the Dark Knight movie. Not with Val Kilmar, or Micheal Keaton, but with Christian Bale. That batmobile. Let me know if you can see that, because I can. Also keep up with the reviews, I enjoy reading them.

Also this is a shoutout to my sis on Fanfiction. You're a wonderful sis and can't wait to read what you'll post next. :)