Chapter 10

"You sure this is the right place?"

"I'm positive it is."

Morning has swepted across Ninjago. Lucas and Lloyd were standing near a collasped billboard that over-looked the empty lots of Ninjago City. Lucas had the picture he took last night out and studied it carefully to find the exact location of the venom source. He kept looking at the lots and the picture, but the sound of metal being lift brought him back to reality. He puts the photo back in his pouch and grabs Lloyd to a nearby bush to hide. They peered through the branches and saw Cole, Kai, Jay, and Zane coming out of the sewers. They watched as they formed into a huddle, walked away from each other, transformed into their vehicles, and drove off in different directions.

They waited for a few minutes for the coast to be cleared. Lucas steps out of the bush and gives Lloyd the singnal that it was okay. After Lloyd walked out of the bush, the two ninja's ran to the sewer entrance that their brothers climbed out, which was three blocks away. Once they reached the entrance, and just like before, Lucas uses his sai as a crow bar and lifts the cover off the road. He lets Lloyd climb down first and follows behind to close the cover above them and conceal them in darkness. As he climbed down the ladder and jumps off the last rung, he lands on a metal floor and echos in the darkness. Lucas and Lloyd closed theirs and hope no-one hears them.

After a minute, they opened their eyes and sighed in relief. They looked over the ledge railing and saw a dark abyss below them. They felt the ground shake beneath their feet and saw a subway train run underneath them. Once the train passed through, Lucas directs Lloyd to a tunnel and leads in, followed by Lloyd. As the two ninja's ventured into the darkness, Lucas stops Lloyd and peeks around a corner to see a Fangpyre and a Venomari snake walking past them. Being the grey ninja can have an advantage by blending in the stone walls. He just hopes they don't see the gold on his shoulders and hood.

But the two snakes kept walking till Lucas couldn't see them no more. Lucas steps out of the corner and continues the other way with Lloyd behind him. After an hour or two, and making the choices and a few dead ends, Lucas kept searching his way through to find the venom, and without looking his surroundings, he bumps his against something metal. He cursed under breath and notice it was ladder he hit and it was in the center of three tunnels. Lucas didn't know which way to chose till his cousin was calling him.

"Lucas, over here." Lloyd whispered to him.

Lucas looked at the right tunnel and saw a silhouette of Lloyd against a green light. He walks up to the tunnel and saw it was boarded up, but green light broke through the cracks of the boards. They peered through the cracks, at their heights, and were suprised to see the venom they were searching for. They scan the room and saw Garmadon pacing back and forth infront of the pool and saw a cage hanging above it. Lucas looked closely and saw his father, meditating, and Kai's sister yelling at his uncle.

"You're going to be sorry for what you did to my brother and the others!" Nya yelled, "When your son and nephew find you and save us all, we're going to kick your sorry butt!"

"Quiet you twerp!" Garmadon yells back at her, "When my ninja's return with my son and apprentice, they'll be on my side and you shall join them soon."

Lucas grew furious at his uncle for leaving his father like this and his whole plan is to have him back as a...servant for him. He walks away from the tunnel and stood infront of the ladder. He looks at Lloyd who was waiting to hear the next phase of the plan.

"I need you stay put while I mark the entrance, so we'll know where the venom is." he tells him.

Lloyd nodded and watched his cousin climbed up the ladder to the surface. Unbeknownst to him, someone was in the shadows behind him. Using one hand, Lucas lifts the cover and squints his eyes to the bright sunlight. He draws out a sai and draws a crudely shape of a raindrop to symbolize the location of the venom and climbs down to retrieve his cousin. Once he reached the bottom, his eyes adjusted to the darkness and couldn't see his cousin anywhere. He looks down and found his green backpack lying on the ground without its owner. He picks it up, opens it, and found the falcon was missing.

His suspicions were growing on what may have happened to him. He looks around his surroundings till a cry of help was calling for him.

"Lucas, help!" the voice cried.

Lucas easily recognized it as Lloyd. Adrenaline ran through his body as he slung Lloyd's backpack over his and ran to save his cousin. As he ran through the tunnels, he turns a corner to a brightly lit hallway, and see's Lloyd with a bandana over his mouth and arms tied behind his back. He was furious to see his cousin's captor behind him, but was shocked to see it was Cole, with his hood down, smirking at him.

"I thought you guys left to search for us." Lucas says and draw out his weapons.

"You think we didn't know about your little plan." said Cole, "You may have hit Zane's falcon, but you only hit its connection to see, but we still could hear what you were planning. Now that you're here, he finally have you."

And after that, two ropes come out of the shadows and wrap themselves around Lucas's wrists. This surprised Lucas as his arms were stretched out; forcing him to drop his sai's. Lucas struggled to escape the bindings around his wrists and saw Kai and Jay coming out of the shadows holding the ropes to prevent him from escaping.

"You think this going to hold me down?" Lucas asks them sarcastically, "Ninja-Go!"

Before he created his grey torando, Kai and Jay let go of the ropes and watch it wrap itself in Lucas's spinjitzu. The fire and lightning picked up the rope from the floor and pulled hard to make Lucas stop. Lucas found himself on his knee's and the rope was wrapped around his body; pinning his arms to the sides. Lucas struggled to escape and saw his brothers smirking at him for his failure.

"In hindsight...I should have seen that coming." Lucas says and looks down to see his sai's on the ground, next to him, "But things happen when you least expect it."

Lucas picks up his sai's and slices the rope; freeing himself. The three ninja's growled through the teeth and drew out their weapons, while Cole gripped Lloyd's shoulders to keep him in place.

"Water!" Lucas yells and water shoots out of his sai's.

He aims the water at the walls and the jets ricochet off the walls and surround the betrayed ninja's.

"Now, you three will release my cousin, or will suffer the consquenc- wait three?" Lucas says, confused, and saw one was missing, "Where's Zane?!"

After the realization of the missing ice ninja, he saw ice starting to freeze his jets of water and climb it way to his arms. Lucas was late to stop the water as it freezed his arms to the wall and continued to climb down his body and to his legs; leaving his chest and head exposed. Lucas struggled to escape the ice; but couldn't. He looks at the others and saw Zane join the group, while Kai used his sword to melt the ice around them; leaving Lucas's arms pinned against the wall. Lloyd saw what was happening and couldn't believe it that they were in trouble. He may not be able to use his arms, but he still could use his legs.

He steps on Cole's foot, which made the earth ninja yelp in pain, and releases him. Then he kicks Kai in the back of his knee. Then kicks Jay in the back; making him hit his head against the wall. Then kicked Zane in the shin. That wasn't a smart idea, as Zane is metal, and Lloyd was hopping on one foot in pain. Cole recovers from his little stomp, picks up Lloyd, and place him over shoulders so he can face Lucas.

"Is there anything we can use to quiet this brat?" Jay asked from recovering his head bang.

Kai walked up to Lucas and used his sword to melt the ice near his hips to reveal his leather pouch. He reaches in and pulls out one of the Knock-out leaves. He smirks to see the leaf and walks to the others.

"We can use this to quiet the brat." Kai suggested and showed them the leaf.

Lloyd's eyes grew wide as he saw the leaf and started to squirm away; but couldn't.

"By his reaction, he knows what it does." said Zane, and snatches the leaf from Kai.

Lucas watches as he saw Zane place the leaf over Lloyd's nose and breaks the veins; releasing the gas in the leaf. Lloyd was screaming through his gag and struggled to shake the leaf away, but started to feel weak. He looked at Lucas one last time till his eyes drooped and slipped into unconsciousness. Zane removed the leaf off his face and Cole throws the limp body to the floor.

"Lloyd!" Lucas yells to his cousin.

Anger ran through his body and began to break free from his imprisonment. He tried to use his potential power to break the ice. His body was covered in a glassly grey reflection, but it quickly disappeared, as the ice was thick to break, and was breathing heavily. Jay walked up to him and reaches into his pouch to pull out another leaf. But couldn't find anymore.

"He doesn't have any left." Jay tells them.

"Then think of something." Cole retorted back to him.

Jay turns back to Lucas and removes his hood. Jay drew out his nunchucks and grins at Lucas. Lucas saw the expression on his face and could tell he's hungry for revenge from the Bounty.

"Whose got who now?" Jay asked.

Lucas gulped and said, "You do.".

"Right answer." and swings his nunchucks to build electricity and hits them against Lucas chest.

Lucas was screaming in pain as volts of electricity coarsed through his body. He tried to move his body away, but the ice held him place. Jay removes the nunchucks off his chest and break the ice off his body. Lucas fell to the floor hard and his sai's landed with a clank. He was breathing heavily in pain and his vision was cloudy as he saw his unconscious cousin and then at his brothers. The final thing he hears from them was 'We fianlly got them', and slipped into darkness; unconscious.