Ch 7

After receiving the story from the boys, Alex was able to fit together the pieces of the group's recent adventures. Apparently, Lloyd had unleashed an ancient evil race known as the Serpentine in order to try to follow in his father's footsteps. Rather than obey him, the Serpentine set out with their own intentions, and with the Anacondrai Pythor uniting the others for his own goal of awakening an ancient beast known as the Great Devourer, the ninja were currently trying to thwart the plan by obtaining the Fang Blades. After some misfortunes and unlockings of true potentials, the ninja were currently bladeless, while the Serpentine had only one more to go.

Now the real goal was to locate and obtain the last Fang Blade to prevent doomsday at the hands, or rather tail... scales... whatever, of a giant snake. Problem was Pythor was already at the site of the last blade, according to the boys' encounter with a Serpentine in Ninjago City last night while Alex was asleep.

Despite her disappointment in not being able to go on the mission last night, Alex was intent on helping the others obtain the Fang Blades. She wanted to at least save this world successfully.

Jay turned to the others, "C'mon guys. This is the last Fang Blade. We have to think of some way to stop them."

They all pondered over what to do, until the silence was broken by Lloyd, "Hey, but if they need all four, why don't we just take the other three while Pythor's distracted?"

"Huh. It's so simple" Cole said. "Why didn't I think of that," Kai mused.

The idea would be dangerous and the blades would be well guarded, so who knows what the team would face.

Alex had to give credit to Lloyd for this idea, but she agreed with Garmadon when he mentioned, "But how do we know where they're keeping the blades? You have no idea of where they are."

Nya managed to solve this by using the computer's sonar to discover that the snakes have been traveling underground this whole time. "Right under our noses," Jay remarked. "Or rather, our feet," Zane commented.

"Then what are we waiting for?" Alex asked, "Let's go get these Fang Blades!"

Alex watched the ninja, and Nya and Sensei in the samurai suit, head into the Serpentine hideout, a glum look on her face. She had ended up begging for Sensei Wu to let her join in on the fight, but he had insisted she was not ready and too important to lose. "Perhaps when you have trained more, I can allow you to start with small missions."

"Small?! I've been in waaay worse situations than this. Heck, I've put up with weeks of torture! There's no way this mission meets that situation!" Alex was steamed and very upset.

"Your time will come later, but for now, stay on the ship with Lloyd and Garmadon. I'm counting on you to take control."

Alex took those last words into affect as she made her way into the training room to begin vigorously exercising, going through the steps of Spinjitzu.

She was in the middle of practicing her sword fighting when Nya's voice came on intercom, "Operation Stealth...zz...total bust...zzz...need back up...zzz..."

Alex immediately sheathed her weapons and headed for the bridge to find Lloyd and Garmadon. As she ran, she nearly avoided a collision with the dark lord, who was coming out of the room looking dejected. "What happened?" Alex asked. Garmadon looked to her, "If my own son cannot look at me without seeing my evil nature, then perhaps it's best I leave."

"You're giving up? After all you've been through?"

"I'm evil at heart; I don't want my son to be influenced by me. He hates me enough as it is."

Alex took a deep breath, "Let me make this quick, since I have an emergency to deal with. I haven't been here long enough to know any of you, but I do know that any father would do anything for his son, no matter what the cost and how bad it may seem. Abandoning him now could shape him into something neither of you would want. I know he may seem to hate you now, but inside he knows what you're going through and he knows what destiny has in store for you and for all of us. So before you walk out on him, think for a minute about what YOU want for your son, and STICK with it; no switching around between being there and then pushing away."

With that note across, Alex walked into the room before stating, "You should feel lucky, at least you remember who your family is."

Alex and Lloyd climbed up the mountain towards the entrance hurriedly, Alex in her ninja outfit, and Lloyd in a spare black gi. Helping him up a few times on the craggy steppes, she and Lloyd finally made there way inside, where they looked over the spectacle of the Serpentine groups gathered in a circle, watching a fight, while their friends were trapped in a cage.

"Ok Lloyd, we can do this, just be quiet."

Lloyd nodded, and the two ran down the slope to free the others.

It would have gone well had Lloyd not tripped on a crack in the floor, careening into Alex and sending the two spiraling into the middle of the Serpentine group.

Standing up, Alex looked around at the bewildered looks of the snakes, and the first thing out of her mouth at the spectacle was, "Jeez, you guys are uuuugggllllyy."

Lloyd stood up, glaring at the purple snake, who must have been Pythor, and began to preach about how the Green Ninja and her trusty sidekick would defeat them all with a flurry of fists. This caused the Serpentine to laugh, and the one called Pythor to jeer at their small numbers. It got to the point where Alex got so pissed at them making fun of Lloyd and herself that she officially strutted up to Pythor and slapped his smug scaly face, adding a defiant spit in his right eye.

She was pretty sure Pythor would have killed her had it not been for Garmadon's magnificent timing with his army of skeletons. With the snakes distracted, Lloyd freed the ninja, Sensei and Nya, while Alex obtained the Fang Blades. The timing allowed their quick escape, with more than what they hoped for.

After the mission, Sensei spoke to Alex about her acts. "What you and Lloyd did was rash, especially how you slapped the leader of the Serpentine and spat in his face." Alex lowered her head. "However you did well and perhaps your next mission will be sooner than you think."

Alex couldn't help but smile as she left the room.

Whoa! Actually had time for that! I had to rewatch the season to figure out the basis of this chapter :P

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