Okay, okay, okay. So I'll admit it's not that big of a shocker. I'd say the size of a building in Ninjago. Give or take.
The ninja sat in the cage. Their weapons were taken. Alex sat as if waiting for something. The snakes were keeping guard.
"So where exactly is Pythor?" Kai eventually asked.
"Why would you want to know?" one of the snakes asked.
"I'm guessing you don't know," Jay replied.
"Well uh..." a snake stuttered.
"Where's Skales?" Cole questioned.
There was no respond from the snakes. They only exchanged looks.
"Do you know where any of your generals are?" Zane asked.
"We don't think we should tell the likesss of you," a snake hissed.
Alex rolled her eyes. "If you don't know where the generals are, then we have the upper hand."
"How do you sssuppossse that?" a snake asked.
"This," Alex stood up and revealed a hidden knife.
"A hidden knife? Since when did you keep those?" Lloyd asked.
"Since this morning," Alex replied.
Alex rushed to the bars and swung the knife back. It began to glow and she swung it forward. Then she swung it back across. Two cuts with in the bars revealed and they fell out. Alex tucked the knife back in a secret pocket hidden at her lower leg. The ninja jumped out of the cage and grabbed their weapons, except Lloyd. Then Skales and the other generals came into the city.
"What isss going on here?" Skales asked.
The snakes stopped dead in their tracks. The ninja immediately turned their attention to the generals.
"Where's Pythor?" Cole growled.
"How am I sssuppossse to know? He left after Alexxx betrayed usss," Skales hissed.
"You haven't seen him since? You'd think if he planned something like this then he'd at least get some help," Alex said.
"If Pythor's not here then we have no reason to stay," Kai noted.
Cole struck the ground causing smoke to come up. When it cleared, the ninja were gone.
The ninja returned to their apartment.
"I still don't get why Pythor wouldn't get help from the other serpentine," Lloyd said.
"Maybe it isn't Pythor," Kai suggested.
"Who else could have snuck past us?" Cole asked.
They all thought for a moment. They walked over to the couch.
"Maybe Pythor didn't ask for the serpentine's help. But that doesn't mean he wasn't going to," Alex said.
"What are you talking about?" Zane asked.
"Well when he said he'd 'help' me, he didn't ask for the serpentine's help until after he got me to go with him," Alex replied.
"So what you're saying is he's going to ask for the serpentine's help," Jay guessed.
"I'm not a hundred percent sure but that's what I'm guessing," Alex corrected him.
Nya walked over to the ninja and asked, "Is Pythor behind it?"
"We don't know yet," Kai told her.
Misako and Garmadon came back into the apartment. They seemed to be in a bad mood.
"Alex where's Wu?"Garmadon asked.
"I don't know," Alex said stiffly.
"He's in his room," Nya told him.
Garmadon immediately ran upstairs.
"Did something bad happen?" Lloyd asked his mom.
"Lloyd," Alex snapped in a whisper. "When they come home like that you don't ask what happened."
"Lloyd your father and I are going through a rough patch," Misako said.
Garmadon heard and yelled, "We are not!"
"We didn't ask!" Misako yelled back.
Alex got up and began to sneak away.
"Alex Dakota Garmadon where do you think you're going?" Misako asked.
Alex's cheeks turned bright red at the sound of her middle name.
"You're middle name's Dakota?" Kai laughed.
"Mom we agreed you wouldn't use my middle name," Alex moaned.
"Alex I asked you a question," Misako snapped.
Alex hesitated. "Nya and I are heading to bed." Alex grabbed Nya's arm and pulled her to the stairs.
"We are?" Nya asked.
"Yes. We are," Alex said.
Nya got the point and the two ran upstairs. The boys all looked at eachother and split to their rooms. Misako when up to her and Garmadon's room. Garmadon stayed with his brother that night though.
"Okay Alex. I know I'll regret asking but, what just happened?" Nya asked.
"What happened was dad did something stupid on their date and now mom's about to blow the roof off the apartment unless we keep out of it," Alex replied.
"Did this ever happen when you were little?" Nya asked her.
"Only if they would go on a date on a Thursday. Like today," Alex responded.
The girls got in ther beds and went to sleep.
I had to find someway to get Alex's middle name in there. Just wait until one of the ninja use it. That's going to be like liting a bomb and forgetting to run. Now review before something happens. By something I obviously mean Alex.