Inside what appeared to be a mansion with a giant fence and gates, four men were watching another man's presentation on a projector. The current image showed the member, a middle aged man with a moustache, a monocle and a fedora, entering a tomb. "Here I am, entering the Lost Tomb of Impending Peril." He said.
"Jolly good, old boy." A middle aged man with a moustache replied.
"Ah." The man with the monocle then pressed the remote he was holding to change the projected image to one of him moving along a bridge. "And this is your humble narrator crossing the 'Great Chasm of Discontent.'"
"By Jove!" A middle aged man with a safari hat and sideburns said, raising his cup of tea. "Quite so!"
The man with the monocle then laughed as he pressed the remote to change the projected image to one of him running away. "At this point, I am fleeing the Boobytraps of Inescapability."
"Gadzooks." A middle aged man with a bald head and reading glasses said. "However did you escape?"
"I didn't. They were inescapable." He turns around to show them all his back, which had arrows sticking out of it, frightening them.
"Perhaps you should have that looked at, old bean." A young man with a bald head and a brown beard said with concern.
"And be crucified by that torpefied doctor?" Loud noises were soon heard as everyone was soon annoyed and looked out the nearest window to see Zane's helicopter and the Land Bounty stopping in front of the mansion. "I do say, rather noisy contraption. What?"
"I haven't perceived that much dinning since the confronting of Clangourous Lagartijas."
Outside, Zane and Gewuji got out of the helicopter while Lloyd, Nya and Blake got out of the Land Bounty before they run towards the door.
They kick them open to find themselves in the main foyer. They all gasp at the interior before hearing throat clearing and turn to a nearby desk where a middle aged man with a beard and reading glasses, wearing a light brown suit, white shirt, brown vest, and matching bowtie, holding a cup of tea in his hand. They all soon turn to him. "This is an emergency." Lloyd said.
"Yeah, we need one of the items in your collection." Gewuji said.
Zane soon moves forward between Lloyd and Gewuji. "The second Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu." He said.
"The one Clutch Powers gave you!" Nya said.
"And we need it now." Blake said.
The middle aged man thinks for a bit before bending down to grab a book, places it down and opens it to find the right page. "Let us see." He replied. "'Scroll of Confusion', 'Scroll of Dancing Monkeys'. Ah, here. 'Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu.' Yes, that particular artefact has indeed been deposited in our archive."
"Great." Lloyd said. "We need it, fast."
"Of course, sir." He puts the book down. "I just need to see your membership card."
"No, we're not members, we just-" Gewuji was soon cut off.
"It pains me deeply to inform you that access to club archives is for members only." He slams the book shut.
"Come on, this is an emergency." Blake said.
"The fate of all Ninjago is at stake." Zane said as the man puts the book away.
"Oh, is it?" He asked, disbelieving him. "Oh, dear."
"So we can have the scroll?" Nya asked.
"Oh, my, no!" The man comes around from behind the counter.
"Listen, I'm the son of a famous inventor, can we at least give you a decent offer for it, instead?" Blake asked.
"Are you entreating that you wish to purchase the scroll?"
"Absolutely."
"I am nonchalant in your wish to purchase the scroll, or any artefact of your choosing. Rules are rules, after all. Where would society be without them? Hmm? We can't have anarchy, can we?"
"Well, then, can we join the club then?" Gewuji asked.
"Ah, want to be close with your inamorato, eh?"
"Clutch is not my boyfriend."
"Well, then." He moves toward them as they back away, heading towards the entrance. "Joining the club requires you to reach 10,000 hours of certified exploration, notify us, and we shall begin the multi-year process of examining your applications." Once they were outside, he closes the doors on them.
The middle aged man with the moustache soon comes out from toward the top of the stairs. "Keeping out the riffraff, eh, Cecil?" He asked.
Cecil sighs a little. "No one has a sense of decorum these days, major."
Outside, Lloyd, Zane, Nya, Gewuji and Blake turn to each other. "Did that just happen?" Lloyd asked.
"Oh, that makes me mad!" Nya replied.
"I know." Gewuji said. "What a jerk."
"Well, I'm going right back in there and giving that little pencil pusher a piece of my mind!"
Blake immediately stops her. "We do not have time for this." He said.
"Blake's right." Zane replied. "May I suggest another tactic?"
"What tactic?" Nya asked.
Zane smirks before he soon activates his cloaking device and turns into Clutch. "Deception." He speaks in Clutch's voice.
"Hey, that's pretty good." Lloyd said.
"You look just like Clutch." Gewuji said.
"Oh." Nya said, realising what Zane's tactic was.
Inside, Cecil looks at a book before the doors open and he turned to see 'Clutch' come in. "Hello, it is I, Clutch Powers." He said. "As you can see. I am here again, as I have been before."
Cecil sighs, annoyed. "Hello, Dr. Powers." He replied, not happy to see him again.
'Clutch' then started to move. "Since there is nothing suspicious about me being here..." His eyepatch fizzles from left to right and vice versa. "I will enter."
Cecil soon stops him. "Nah, ah, I'm afraid, doctor, that there is the minor matter of your membership having been suspended."
"Suspended?" His eyepatch fizzles from left to right and vice versa again. "Clutch did not mention that when I spoke to him." He immediately realised. "I mean, when I spoke to me." His eyepatch fizzles from left to right and vice versa once more.
"Yes, well, rules are rules, I'm afraid." 'Clutch' then turned to leave. "By the way, I hope that patootie of yours has straightened herself out."
Immediately knowing he was referring to Gewuji, 'Clutch' sighs. "She's not my girlfriend."
Outside, Lloyd, Nya, Gewuji and Blake were still waiting until 'Clutch' comes out and turns back to normal. "What happened?" Lloyd asked.
"Apparently, Clutch Powers' membership has been suspended." Zane spoke in his real voice.
Nya soon growled. "That's it!" She said, frightening Lloyd, Gewuji and Blake. "I'm done with that fucking pencil pusher." She puts a fist into her other hand. "You know what time it is? It's Ninja o'clock!" She runs towards the wall before jumping to press her foot on it and bounces off to reach the second story edge, jumps again to the third, and finally jumps and spins to reach the rooftop. Smirking at each other, Lloyd, Zane, Gewuji and Blake prepare to join her. They all jump and bounce along the wall to reach the roof, but Gewuji unintentionally kicked a nearby window.
Inside the main room, the member with the bald head and beard had heard the noise, and turned to it. "What was that?" He asked, missing Gewuji by the skin of his teeth.
"Probably just a bird." The member with the sideburns and safari hat replied. "Don't worry about it." The bald headed member turns back. "So, young Reddick, where were you on your fabled exploration to find the Sword of Kuraishoji?"
"Well." The young man starts to explain. "I was in..."
Outside, on the roof, Lloyd, Zane, Gewuji and Blake land on top and came up to Nya before she points to a nearby fan. They all immediately went over to it, moving from one hiding spot to another before looking at it. Blake soon held his arm out, blowing out some Wind, which slowly started to slow down the fan before getting out his axe, and jammed the handle between a small gap in the blades and one of the supports. Zane soon fired a blast of Ice to freeze it in place. "Okay, that looks safe..." Blake said before the fan creaks a bit while Nya got out a grapple rope. "...enough."
"I'm not so sure." Gewuji replied, a little skeptical.
Nya swings the grappling rope before hurling it to a nearby chimney pipe. "We go stealth here." Lloyd said, unsheathing his sword. "No weapons." He puts it down. Nya, Zane and Gewuji follow suit before Nya heads into the vent first, followed by Gewuji, then Zane, then Lloyd and finally Blake.
Inside, they slowly slid down the rope before stopping when they hear voices of the members and Nya shushes them, only for them to hear Blake's hyperventilating due to his fear. "Wish we'd hurry up." He whispered.
"Try to conquer it." Lloyd whispered.
"I'm trying. Damn slow progress." Suddenly, a water drop from the ice falls down and hits Blake on his head. As soon as he felt the drop, Blake looked up to see the ice keeping his axe in place was melting. "Gumdrops." He muttered, hoping the ice doesn't break. "Guys, problem." The ice soon breaks apart, freeing the axe, and the fans starts up again, cutting the rope and sending them all falling, screaming as they do so.
In the main room, which was underneath the air vent, the members were still talking. "Reminds me of the fall months-" The member with the sideburns and safari hat was immediately cut off when the grate breaks open, and Lloyd, Zane, Nya, Gewuji and Blake land on the table, breaking it, knocking the moustached member down, and making the bald head and bearded member fall back onto a nearby chair.
"Oh, dear." The moustached member said.
"What is the meaning of this?"
"Uh, sorry, we're, um..." Nya tried to explain as Lloyd turned around to them.
"Working on the air conditioning?" Lloyd asked, making an excuse.
"Uh... yeah, we're... uh, ventilation cleaners?" Blake stuttered as he tried to make up an excuse before standing up and held his arms out in reassurance. Suddenly, his axe makes a clanking noise as it fell down the shaft before it lands in his prosthetic hand and he nervously smirks.
The bald head and bearded member quickly got up. "Security!" He yelled.
A nearby door opens as a guard comes in, followed by Cecil and two other security guards before one of them closes the door. Cecil then turned to the five intruding Ninja and gasps. "You again!" He yelled.
"Shit." Zane muttered as they get up.
"Run!" Lloyd yelled as they head for a nearby door. Cecil and the guards immediately ran to chase after them.
Once they were through the door, Zane turned to the girls. "Close it, quick!"
Nya and Gewuji immediately push the door, hoping to shut it, only for Cecil to stick his arm through it, preventing them from closing the door. Blake immediately held up his axe, turned it around, and used the handle as a club by striking Cecil's arm, causing him to howl in pain and back away from the door, which briefly opened a little before Nya and Gewuji immediately close it fully. "An act of barbarity!" He yelled from behind the door, and Zane freezes the handle to try and prevent them from getting in.
(A/N: You may notice that apart from two OCs, one of them is named after two actors. The young one, Reddick is called Frank Reddick, after the surnames of Jason David Frank and the recently passed on Lance Reddick, who was in the John Wick series, White House Down and Angel Has Fallen, as well as the video game Quantum Break. Know what other movies or games he did? Let me know)