Chapter 13

With their backpacks slung over their shoulders and hoods down, Lucas and Lloyd were ready to escape the sewers. Lucas places an ear to the door and listen through for voices or movements. He gives Lloyd the 'okay' signal, for he didn't hear anything and picks the lock till he heard a click and swung the door open. He peeks through the door and looks both ways to see the coast was clear. He motions Lloyd out of the room and locks the door behind him to make it like they were still in there. As they walked silently through the tunnels and saw the ladders to the entrances were gone. Lucas stopped and looked around to debate which way to go.

"Do you even know where we are at?" Lloyd asked.

"Not really." Lucas admitted, "But if we continue our way through, we'll find a way out."

Just as they were about to walk off, they heard a voice shouting in the darkness. And it sounded like Cole.

"The prisoners escaped! Zane, do you detect anything?"

"My sensors tell me they went that way."

The two ninja's took full sprint as the footfall of their brothers were behind them in the distance. Lucas looked up to see if no ladders weren't taken down. Sadly, every entrance ladder was taken down. He looks back and see's a faint reddish-orange behind them. Lloyd looks back and they both can tell it's Kai using his powers to ignite their way through.

Lucas turns his head back to see where he was running towards to. But he see's there was no more ground to run on ahead of them and stops his feet on a ledge of a metal platform without the railing. Lloyd, however, wasn't paying attention where he was running to, continues running past Lucas, and starts to fall towards the dark abyss. Lucas, not wanting to lose his cousin, grabs the top strap of his bag and pulls him up to safety. Once he was on the platform, both ninja's were breathing hard from running and looked up to see their brothers walking up to them and were grinning at them for being trapped.

"He he, we have them trapped like rats." Jay joked about them.

"Lets make sure this time the ropes are tighter and they are seperated." Kai suggested.

"Now Lucas, don't try anything funny." said Cole, "Lets make this easier for all of us and you two turn yourselves in."

"Allow me to keep them in place." Zane insisted and throws his shurikens at them.

They watched as the two ice shurikens were heading towards them. Lucas couldn't accept the fact of being captured again. He looks at Lloyd, who was accepting the fact, had his eyes closed and was hugging onto him. Lucas had to agree with him as fate was leaving them. He knelts down to his cousin's height, closed his eyes and hugs him tighter and began to embrace the impact of being frozen.

The ground began to shake underneath their feet. Lucas opens his eyes, turn his head around, and see's two head lights heading towards them. He picks up Lloyd, glares at his brothers, and jumped off the ledge before the shurikens struck their feet. Lucas had timed it perfectly as the subway train came out of the tunnel and they landed on the second car and rolled to the section that seperates the other cars. Lucas stood up and looked through the window doors and didn't spot anyone in either cars. He opens the door and motions Lloyd in the second car. Once they were inside they heard four thumps from five cars away from them and could tell the ninja's were here.

"Lloyd, get in the other car and hide." Lucas tells him, "I don't know what may happen, but I'll do everything I can to protect you."

"Ok Lucas." said Lloyd and hugs him, "Take care of yourself."

Lloyd lets go of Lucas and runs across the car to the door. He opens the door, walks through the divided section, and opens the other door to open the first car to hide. Lucas stood guard at the door his cousin left and drew out his sai's as he heard on footsteps on the roof. The footsteps grew louder and closer, while Lucas prepared himself for the worst to come. The footsteps stopped above him as if time had stopped. Crash, crash. Lucas used his arm to shield his eyes from flying broken glass. He removes his arm from his face and see's his brothers, standing across from him, with their weapons drawn out.

"Well, well, well, it has come down to this." said Cole, "Like the first day we met. So lets settle this."

They all laughed at Lucas for standing up to them to protect Lloyd. Lucas looked at his brothers and realized the odds of facing them with their weapons were against him. He's been training with them and they would know his fighting stance and style. He looks at his sai's and decided a new tactic.

"No, lets not settle this with weapons." he says and threw his sai's aside and removed his hood, "Lets settle this like how real ninja's would, with our fists and kicks."

Cole looked at his brothers, who were nodding to the idea and tossed their weapons aside with his sai's and removed their hoods. Cole looked at his scythe and tossed it with the others.

"Alright then, your funeral." Cole teased at him and removed his hood, "We're going to enjoy this."

"I've beaten you four before," Lucas stated, "And I will again."

Lucas charged at Cole, jumped and kicked him in the chest; sending him flying across the car and hitting his head against the wall. He then uses his knee and made contact with Kai's stomach; making the fire ninja be on all fours in pain. Then he stood infront of Jay, and threw punches at him, while Jay blocked them. Lucas jumped and round house kicked Jay into a pole, and rolled his back on Kai's to face Zane. Zane threw punches at him, while Lucas blocked them and kicked Zane in the chest ; making the nindroid hit his head against unbroken glass and slumped into the seat. Lucas quickly picks up his sai's and kicks the other weapons to a corner near his cousin's car and stood infront of the door to protect him.

"Now whose weapon less?" Lucas mocks at them.

"Who needs weapons, when the subway has weapons everywhere." said Cole, recovering.

Lucas looked at them confused; wondering what the earth ninja meant. Cole grabs a rail that is used to rest people's feet, rips it off the wall, and holds it like a blunt instrument. Jay ran out of the car and came back with coil of chain and started to swing it. Zane recovered from his kick, grabs a pole, rips it off its foundation, catches the washers and hands Kai the pole to be used as a weapon. Lucas now understood what he meant as the subway has weapons everywhere and took a defensive stance.

"Brothers, I know you better than this," Lucas tries to reason with them, "You four can fight the venom. You can free yourselves from Garmadon's control. Deep down there, I know you can fight it. Fight it! Fight it!"

"Why should we?" Cole asked him.

"Having the venom inside us has given us more than what we can bargin for." Zane added.

"We are more powerful than we were ever before." Kai added.

"And with this power we will be more powerful than you and your father." Jay rambles in, "And we'll keep our loyalty to our master to help him rule Ninjago."

Lucas couldn't believe what he just heard. Has he run out of time and the venom finally consumed them to be comepletely evil? He couldn't bear the thoughts of losing his family to evil. He knows deep inside their hearts they are fighting the venom; but are losing. If they are going to be like this, then he'll fight them as the enemy, not his family.

Cole was the first one to charge at him with his blunt object raised high. Just as he was about to struck down, Lucas places a foot on his chest, lays on his back, and launches Cole over him and sends him flying till he hit the metal wall; leaving a dent and wasn't moving. Lucas stood back and ducked as Jay was swinging the chain at him. He lets the chain wrap around his arm and pulls Jay towards him. Once Jay was near him, he wraps the chain around a pole and kicks Jay in the chest; sending the lightning ninja towards the broken window, leaving him hanging and flying while the train cruised at high speed. Zane threw his washer at him and ran to pull Jay in. Lucas easily dodged them, crossed his sai's to block Kai's pole, and used his strength to push against Kai's strength till he felt something hit him in the back of the head.

Lucas vision was swimming and felt being lifted and thrown against the wall. Everything he heard was silence, except his ears were ringing. The only he did hear though was his heart beating against his chest and his fast and shallow breath. He looks at his brothers, regrouping, and were coming towards him. Before darkness consumed him, he saw a white light, and it hits his brothers; freezing them in place. He felt something grip his shoulders was being dragged away from them. Once he was away from them, he felt his shoulder being loosen, and looks up to see Lloyd mouthing something to him, but couldn't hear it for awhile.

"Lucas! Lucas! Please don't leave me like this!" Lloyd pleaded as Lucas regained his hearing.

"I'm not leaving you. I'll promise you that." Lucas promised.

Lloyd smiled to his cousin and helped him up to his feet. Lucas grabbed onto the chain railings, that keep people from falling over board, to support himself. Once he was up, his head was in pain from being hit was starting to lose consciousness. He looks at his brothers and see's a red glow coming from Kai as he was using his powers to melt the ice to free himself and the others. He turns his head and look ahead of the track to see a bridge with pipe, that was slanted towards something. He uses his sai's to slice a length of chain off and wraps it into a coil.

"Lloyd, climb up to the top and wait for me." Lucas informs him.

Without hesitation, Lloyd climbs up the ladder, that was near the door, and waited for his cousin to climb up. Lucas used his sai's to slice off the rest of the chains. He places a foot and hand on the rungs, looks at his brothers, and breaks the connections of the cars; leaving the others behind them, slowing down, while Lucas's gained speed. He climbs up to the top to be with Lloyd. Once he was up, and after placing his sai's back in his belt, the wind was blowing in their faces, blowing their hair in wavy directions, and dust was scraping against their faces. Lucas throws Lloyd onto his back, which caused him more pain, but he kept pulling through. He looks at the cars with his brothers and saw they were free, and had their weapons, and jumped towards them. Once they were on the bridge, Lucas jumps off the car, uncoils the chain, and aimed himself towards the pipe.

He lashes the chain over the slanted, catches the other end, and zips line his way down. As they zipped line to darkness, Lucas squints his eyes to see better and see's light aimed at a platform with a ladder towards the surface. Lucas smiles to see their escape, but the pain in his head was excruciating and his world went black. Lucas's limp body lets go of the chain and they both fell towards the dark abyss. Lloyd didn't know why his cousin let go of the chain and looked over his shoulder to see him out cold. Lloyd closes his eyes and grips Lucas tightly as they freefalled towards the whatever was at the bottom; and it sounded like water.

Splash. The impact of the water made Lloyd let go of Lucas. He quickly swims to the surface of the water and coughs up water and gasped for air. He moves his arms and legs to keep himself bouyant and looks around for lucas till he spotted him floating on his back. He quickly swims towards him and watched him moved away from him and realized they were on a current and swims harder and faster till he finally reached him. He shakes Lucas's shoulder to wake him and felt the current getting stronger. He looks at the water ahead of them and see's the water getting choppy and rapid and could hear a waterfall. He hugs onto Lucas, buries his head in his chest, and screamed as they went over the waterfall till his world went dark.