"Uh, Chase? What are we doing?"
"Just…taking a little detour. I need to check something first," said Chase, turning around from facing forward in the co-pilot seat, a headset on to look at the Master Builder.
Emmet, Wyldstyle, Laval and Chase had piled into one of the Agent's helicopter and, strangely, Chase had insisted on taking co-control of the Helicopter before it took off, they had taken off. Emmet thought they were going to be heading towards either Jones' Universe or the Adventure Universe for Johnny Thunder.
But as it turned out, he was wrong; Chase was taking the Helicopter to a point of the Realms that he hadn't seen before.
This realm was very dark; the only source of light, that Emmet could see anyway, was coming from the helicopter's flood lights itself; and even then, it looked as though the darkness itself was beginning to have an effect on the flood lights. Because it seemed as though it was getting dimmer by the minute.
"Can you tell us exactly where we're going?" asked Wyldstyle.
"Sorry; I can't tell you. This is a top secret location; the reason why we're heading there is because I need to check on something, since we're heading in this direction to head back to my Universe," answered Chase, taking the controls of the helicopter once again as he guided it to the right, making everyone in the back shifting to the left from the sudden turn.
"Then why are you taking us along for the ride?" added Wyldstyle, a bit of annoyance in her voice as she righted herself again.
"Because you need to see this; it could prove helpful," said Chase, not turning his head to answer this question as he guided the helicopter in the other direction, causing the figures in the back of the helicopter to swing to the other direction.
After a bit more moving and flying, Chase got the pilot of the helicopter to start turning down the power to the helicopter's blades, and they began to lower down to the ground. Where ever the ground was, since Emmet couldn't see outside the window; it was so dark now, that even the flood lights were starting to struggle.
He was met with his answer when, after a few seconds, the helicopter abruptly stopped moving down, and the whining of the engines started to slow down again.
"Alright, everybody off; and remember, it's best to stick together here. It's easy to get lost here," said Chase, unbuckling his seat belt and getting up, pressing the button to open the side doors before he moved into the main section of the helicopter.
The other three who were in the main part of the helicopter got up, grumbling a little at how they were being kept in the dark, but followed Agent Chase out of the helicopter. Instantly, they were plunged into darkness.
Agent Chase slowly walked back into the helicopter, and brought out several lights with head attachments. "Put these on; you'll never see otherwise," said Chase, handing on to each of the three figures.
Laval was the only one of himself, Emmet and Wyldstyle to glance up at the headsets; the two Master Builders took the head lights and put them over their hair, and instantly it made it easier for them to see where they were going.
Once Laval had put the head piece over his mane, Chase headed in front of them and began walking along a path that he looked as though had been down several times beforehand.
Emmet and Wyldstyle glanced at one another, before Laval slowly approached them as they all walked behind Chase.
"Have you just noticed…something, well…different, about Chase?" asked Laval lowly, glancing up at the Agent as they walked.
Emmet looked up at the back of Chase's head as he walked level with Wyldstyle, before he said, "Uh…he's…a bit greyer?"
Laval face-palmed and Wyldstyle rolled her eyes in slightly amusement, before she told Laval, "It's just stress; he's probably been put under a lot of pressure lately. Give it some time."
The four of them continued walking towards an unknown area that three of them didn't even know where they were going, with the fourth one being completely silent through most of the walk.
After a few minutes, Chase stopped and said, "We're here."
Emmet, Wyldstyle and Laval all came to a stop, looking around to see what Chase had stopped at. But no matter what place they turned their lights to face, they couldn't find anything that made it look like he would want to stop at.
"Uh…Chase, there's nothing here," said Emmet, scratching his head slightly.
"Do we need to get you checked for glasses?" asked Wyldstyle with a slight smirk, trying to break the silent atmosphere.
Chase didn't answer the question presented to him; instead, he reached into his pocket and pulled out something; what appeared to be a small controller. He pointed it at a large, black rock and clicked one of the buttons.
The side facing the group suddenly shifted and split down the middle; a bit of dust coming from the uneven surface of the rock face, indicating that it had been a while since it had to be used. In the middle of the rock, strangely, was what appeared to be a projector device, which looked rather industrial sized.
After a bit of flicking and the sounds of what sounded like a dying engine in a car, the projector slowly died down and it slowly revealed a section of the face of a cliff to be a set of golden gates. They were held together by what appeared to be heavy, golden chains. The parts of the gates attached to the wall glowed a little, as though they were held in place by some sort of ancient, magical spell.
Chase walked towards the newly revealed piece of the area, while the other three were still recovering from the sudden reveal.
"Impossible…" muttered Laval, before he quickly rushed forward to try and catch up with Chase.
But before he had the chance to get close to him, he was thrown to the ground when a large shape landed on the ground between Chase and Laval, facing Laval. A ear-piercing roar suddenly broke the silence of the area, sending Laval stumbling back into Emmet and Wyldstyle, who helped him back to his feet.
The two of them were still just as stunned as Laval.
"Wow, wow; easy there," said a voice from on top of the large beast, as it snorted smoke out of its nostrils. The voice was very familiar to a voice the three of them knew well…
"Lloyd?" asked Emmet, raising an eyebrow as he asked this new voice if he was right.
"Emmet?" asked the voice, as a figure slowly stood up from his point on the back of the beast and jumped down in front of the beast.
The beast let out a strange noise and it opened its mouth, revealing a fireball in its mouth; it also bathed the figure that now stood in front of it in light.
It was Lloyd; though he had received an upgrade since the last time Emmet and Wyldstyle had met him. He was wearing his, dubbed, 'Techno Robes', with the silver armour over his dark green, with his double silver Katanas crossing on his back. His dark green face wrap around his mouth and nose, with his ruffled blonde hair visible.
"Lloyd!" said Emmet with a smile, approaching Lloyd; the Green Ninja having calmed his Golden Dragon down now that he knew who the figures were.
"How's it been?" asked Lloyd, a smile behind the face wrap as he hugged Emmet back.
"Why haven't you visit?" asked Emmet, pulling back as Wyldstyle hugged Lloyd in greeting.
Once Lloyd had parted from Wyldstyle, he rubbed the back of his head as he said, "Uh…I've been…busy…"
The four of them were interrupted by the arrival of Chase and another figure; this figure was wearing similar clothes to Lloyd, with silver shoulder pads and silver armour covering their sky blue robes. Though from the long brown hair coming from the figure's head, it was revealed that the new figure was a girl.
"This is Tara; she's been assigned to work with me," said Lloyd, gesturing to the light blue robe-wearing figure that had just appeared with Chase. Tara nodded silently in greeting, not saying a word.
"Nice to meet you, Tara. Wait, what work? What have you been assigned to do?" asked Emmet, turning to look at Lloyd, before looking at Chase.
Chase simply turned to look at the golden gates, which caused Emmet and Wyldstyle to follow his gaze.
"Behind those gates, there is a weapon that is the only thing that is powerful enough to both release and control the Oblivion Trinity," said Chase, turning back to face Emmet again and pointed to the gates.
"What is it?" asked Emmet.
Chase looked at him emotionlessly, before he looked back at the gate.
"The Wheel of Oblivion; it was created at the same time as the Oblivion Trinity were sealed away. A mad man tried to awaken and control the Trinity. But an unknown figure managed to stop him and prevent the Trinity from escaping. Ever since that day, the Wheel of Oblivion has been locked away in there, unable to be destroyed."
"I just came here to make sure that nothing has come to try and steal the Wheel; I trust Lloyd and Tara," finished Chase, tapping Lloyd's shoulder.
Lloyd glanced at Tara and they both nodded, Lloyd heading back to his Golden Dragon, climbing back onto it; Tara pulled out what looked like a golden whip, which must have been her weapon of choice.
"C'mon, I've arranged for Jones and Thunder to meet with us at my HQ," said Chase, directing his speech to Emmet, Wyldstyle and Laval now.
The three of them nodded, before they headed back with Chase towards the helicopter.
Though as the helicopter lifted off from the ground and headed off back to the location Chase was guiding it to, they failed to see a dark figure standing on the edge of a cliff opposite the golden gates protected by Lloyd and Tara. The figure watched the Agent helicopter head off; it's fog lights all but useless now.
The figure looked down at the gates once again, its face covered by a worn old black hood; though it was the only source of light for what appeared to be miles.
A faint, dark red light coming from under its hood.
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