"Where are we going, dad?" Lloyd asked as they started walking.
"We're going for help," Jay moaned. "Where, I don't know."
"But we've been walking for hours," Lloyd moaned.
"Why did we bring him again?" Jay asked.
"I'm not leaving my son behind to get himself into more trouble," Lord Garmadon said, eyeing Lloyd.
Lloyd smirked, "so even you call me a trouble maker."
"I guess so," his father sighed.
Lloyd cheered in victory and stuck his tongue out at Jay. Jay stuck his right back.
"Wu, how can you put up with these two?" Lord Garmadon wondered to himself.
Jay shrugged, "he spends the whole time in his room meditating while we do this."
Lord Garmadon sighed as the area darkened around them. The sky above became covered in dark clouds, and lightning struck. Lloyd tensed, but Jay didn't mind.
Lord Garmadon stopped in his tracks and brought his hands together.
"What are you doing?" Jay asked.
Garmadon muttered some ancient language and a portal appeared. Jay's jaw dropped.
"Quickly," Garmadon told them.
They followed him in and the portal closed behind them. Jay froze at what he saw.
"Not this place," he murmured.
They were in the underworld, and skeletons had their eyes locked on either him or the dark lord in front of him.
"Lord Garmadon," a voice boomed.
"So it was you that took over," Lord Garmadon hissed. "I thought it was only a rumor."
"Nope," Wyplash smirked. "Why have you returned?"
"I need you're help," Garmadon explained.
Jay scanned the area, hundreds of skeletons watched his every move, ready to attack.
"Go on," Wyplash said.
"The Serpentine have retrieved all four fang blades," Lord Garmadon said. "And they plan to awaken the Great Devourer."
"Go bother the other ninja," Wyplash dismissed.
"They've tried," Lord Garmadon said. "Only what's his face escaped."
"I have a name, you know!" Jay snapped.
"Whatever," Garmadon moaned.
"What's in it for us?" Wyplash asked.
Lord Garmadon thought for a minute.
"Well, what would you like beside the defeat of the serpentine?" he asked.
"Well, I take you want my army," Wyplash sneered. "How about a temporary trade?"
"Like?" Garmadon responded.
"My army," he said. "For the blue ninja."
Kai sat watching Zane and Cole play chess with anything they could find. Sensei meditated in the corner and Nya sat with the others, watching.
"This is so boring," Kai moaned, falling onto his back.
"We can't do much but wait," Cole told him.
"But what if he never comes?" Kai asked. "What if he doesn't care anymore? What if.."
"What if there are no more what if's," Sensei Wu told him. "Jay will come, and so will my brother with help. We will get out of here and we will save Ninjago."
Kai buried his head in his hands. Not crying, thinking. He looked back to the other boys playing chess, and a plan came to mind. One of them had a bottle of lotion, a slippery one at that. Kai looked at the bars and got up.
"What's up?" Cole asked.
Kai picked up the lotion.
"Kai, don't do anything rational," Zane warned.
Sensei Wu looked up from his tea, watching with worried eyes.
"I don't care if Jay's coming, the quicker we get out of here, the better," Kai told them.
He squirted lotion on his hand and rubbed it on his suit.
"Whoa, give us a warning next time you're going to do that," Nya told him.
Kai then managed to slip through the bars with ease.
"Yes," he silently cheered.
The others ran over to him, watching his moves. He jumped to another chain, which started swinging. He waited a moment, then made another jump. He made his way closer to his sword, the others watching with hope. Then he slipped.
"Oh no," he mumbled, looking below him.
Pythor and the other Generals stood below him, talking to each other.
"Don't quit now," Cole mumbled, as if Kai could hear him.
Kai swung and leaped for the next chain, but the lotion on his hands made him lose his grasp when jumping and he fell. He cried out, landing right on top of Acidicus.
"Trying to escape, are we?" Pythor smirked.
Skales grabbed him, lifting him off the other General and holding him. The other snakes hissed and laughed, mocking him.
"Chain the others," Pythor ordered. "As for him, keep him in my sight."
Nya grasped the bars tightly, looking at her brother with worry. He looked up at her as Chains were wrapped around his wrists.
"We're doomed," Cole sighed, sitting with a moan on the ground.
Snakes grabbed the bars and reached for them.
"Get away from the bars!" Cole cried.
Zane sprung up, but one of the snakes grabbed his gi. He pulled, but couldn't escape as they chained his wrist to the bars.
"Zane!" Cole cried.
"Stay away," Zane warned. "I'm fine."
Cole watched with Nya at his side as both Zane and Sensei Wu were chained, both hands, to the bars.
"Come now, ninja," a snake hissed. "Don't you want to be with your friends?"
"Hey! Stop it!" Nya heard Kai shout in anger.
Nya couldn't help but run to the bars to check on Kai.
"Nya, no!" Cole said, stupidly running after her.
"Got'cha!" a snake cheered.
Both Cole and Nya were chained beside Zane, sighing in defeat. Nya looked out the bars at her brother, gagged and chains around his wrists. Pythor held his one arm tightly as he looked at her. No matter what he did, things couldn't get much worse, right?