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Chapter Eight: The end of the Story
~Destiny Bounty, What is Wu's room in the show~
Wu groaned as he slowly opened his eyes. He was lying on a bed in a ship's room, a simple grayish white blanket thrown over him. Throwing the blanket off, he swung his feet over the edge of the bed, and almost stepped on Dareth who was sleeping on the wooden floor.
"Dareth! Get up! We're in some kind of prison designed to look like a ship's room. That, or we somehow escaped and are now on a ship." Wu paused as he reflected on that possibility, either case, both weren't possible.
"Wha…Oh no! I'm too young to be arrested!" Dareth jumped up and ran to the door, seizing the knob.
Both of the apparent prisoners stared as the knob turned, opening the door. Peering outside, they realized that they were indeed on a ship, and by the feel of things, it was out on the ocean. Taking tentative steps forward, they slipped into the hallway, Wu glanced down the hall, before walking off. Dareth quickly following suit.
"Soo, where we heading?" Dareth asked as he leaned forward to eye his companion.
"No idea. Originally I was going to use the footprints in the dust, however the hall has been cleaned very recently. Not a speck of dirt anywhere." Wu answered.
"What made you think there would be dust on the floor?" Dareth was bewildered by the answer Wu gave.
"This is an old ship, one that went out of style before the Overlord took over. I was hoping that a fellow rebel had found it, and is using it as a way to get us away from danger." Wu responded.
"Oh, so we're looking for fellow rebels? You know, they could be behind one of these closed doors, thinking their locked in like we did." Dareth pointed out.
"I… did not think of that. Let's start looking." Wu started at the fact Dareth actually had a good idea.
Several minutes later they had opened all the other doors. So far, they have found three other bedrooms besides the one they were in, a bathroom, and stairs leading to the deck. They also found what looked like a ninja training room/sitting area. Realizing that they had gone through all the rooms below deck; including a tea storage room, and a normal food storage room, and a library of ancient texts, for some reason all the ones about spinjitzu were open and had the least amount of dust.., they decided they might as well go on deck. Shrugging, they headed upstairs. Like below, the deck was devoid of all life. A single post in the middle with a dragon statue on it was the only thing on deck, besides the two sets of stairs leading to the bridge. Dareth took charge this time, leading the way up the stairs to the bridge. Once there, he froze, signaling Wu to keep quiet. A minute later, voices slipped out of the bridge, drifting to them.
"GARMADON! MISAKO! Seriously?! Dareth looks nothing like them!" Kai's angry voice broke through, screeching at someone.
Panic seized Dareth as he noted that Kai had just mentioned two of the rebel leaders.
"Sorry! Come on Hothead! It's not like you've made a mistake before!? Like, I don't know? Nearly blowing our cover to the rebellion!?" Another voice, this one unfamiliar, snapped back.
"I'm beginning to question agreeing to the whole bandit thing! I mean, seriously! Everyone is scared if us! Their all worried about their stupid businesses we could care less of…makes me wonder why we even agreed with the idiot that came up with this idea in the first!" Kai bellowed back, shock slipping into Dareth and Wu.
"Kai! It was your idea! You're the idiot, as you soo nicely placed it. Now, do me a favor and stop yelling at Twinkle Toes already! Argh!" A female voice suddenly erupted.
"Nya! Water! Ah!" Kai screeched, terror filling his voice.
Alarmed, Wu and Dareth barged in…to find a dark haired girl shooting water out of her fist and onto a bawling Kai. Stunned, they stood there gawking at the master of water, when a raven haired boy suddenly attempted to bury her with earth flying out of his fist. A boy with light brown hair promptly screamed something about how that was his girl friend, same time Kai screamed about how attacking his sister is the last thing that anyone wants to do. Kai then shot fire out of his fist at the first boy, while the second boy shot lightning out of his fist. A full out brawl broke out as they fought amongst each other. A few minutes later, another boy, this one blonde, came in closely followed by Lloyd. Freezing, they stared at the others for ten seconds before the new boy lunged forward, ice shooting out of his fist as he tried to freeze Kai, who promptly melted the ice. Wu took a step backwards, alarm flashing through him about how the lost elemental masters were behaving. Lloyd suddenly caught his eye; the teen went wide eyed, right before he used the green ninja's power to make a small explosion right above the fighting elemental masters.
"Guys! Break it up already! Uncle and, argh, Dareth, are in the room with us. That and Nindroid, I thought we're comin' to tell everyone that lunch is ready?" Lloyd glared at the fellow blonde boy.
"Nindroid?!" Dareth yelped, staring at the master of ice.
"Yes, it is a nickname. My real name is Zane. I believe Kai told you about Falcon, would you like to meet him?" Zane introduced himself.
"Hold up, you all know our names, but we only know Kai, you wouldn't mind introducing yourselves?" Wu interrupted, wondering vaguely how this would go.
"Sure. Cole, master of earth and dance, leader of the bandits, and the black bandit. Code name, Twinkle Toes." Cole pointed to himself proudly.
"Nya, master of water and mechanics, samurai bandit. Code name, Samurai X." The only girl in the group introduced herself.
"Zane, master of ice and chef, white bandit. Code name, Nindroid. Do to the fact I am an android ninja protector that is older than the so-called nindroids that the overlord uses." Zane reintroduced himself.
"Jay, master of lighting and inventions, blue bandit. Code name, Mouth of Lighting. My friends seem to think that I don't shut up or something. Completely crazy right?! Say! Have I ever told you about that time I…" Jay began to ramble, unaware of the eye rolls everyone was giving him.
"Kai, master of fire and Nya's big brother, red bandit. Code name, Hothead. I have a tenancy to be a smidgen impatient and easily can come off as hotheaded." Kai reintroduced himself.
"Lloyd, green ninja and umm, student, I guess, green bandit. Code name, Kid. Can we change my name puh-lease?" Lloyd begged his friends.
"Nope, not till you're not a kid anymore." Cole ruffled Lloyd's hair.
"These are your friends Lloyd!?" Dareth exclaimed, gawking at the now extremely friendly with each other elemental masters, who were trying to kill each other off just moments before.
"Yep. Sorry you had to meet them when we're all stress out… it's usually all of us against Cole." Lloyd blushed with embarrassment.
"Now that you're up, we can plan on how to save the rest of the rebellion without revealing Kid 'cause he is not ready to face off the overlord." Kai clapped his hands together.
"We can do this over the feast I have made, with Lloyd's assistance, for lunch." Zane piped up.
Immediately, all of the friends got excited, squealing as if someone just told them that both their birthdays and Christmas came early this year. Bolting they lead the way to the dining room, which was connected to the kitchen and bridge.
~Dungeons, hours later~
Misako was in tears. There was still no sign of Wu, Dareth, or Lloyd. Even though a bewildered nindroid general had declared the hide out devoid of all life. Burying her head in her hands, she sniveled loudly as she leaned against Skylor. They had placed the women in different cells than the men, and the police-bots would shock them if they tried talking to any of the others. She was just about ready to label all things lost when Skylor suddenly stiffened. A minute later, Misako knew why.
"Halt! In the name of the law you are under arrest for breaking into and stealing from these places, Borg Industries, the military base, His evilness' private office, the…" Alarm shot through her as she realized that the police-bot was listing everywhere that the bandits had robbed.
"Hey! Have you ever heard of the element of surprise?" Kai's voice rang out through the dungeon.
Immediately, all rebels shot their heads up to stare at…the red bandit. His hands were placed on his hips, his eyes smirking at the bots. A second later, Dareth dropped down on top of them, completely destroying the confused bots. Groaning, he rolled over as he pushed off of the new pile of scrap metal.
"Why couldn't Wu jump down again?" Dareth muttered, rubbing his back.
"You do know you're younger than him. And someone has to keep Kid from doing anything stupid, and by stupid I mean attempt to attack the Overlord when he is not ready to fulfill the prophecy yet." The red bandit responded, sounding suspiciously like Kai.
"Uh, Kai, you lost me once you started using bandit lingo. That, and what happened to waiting for your fellow bandit, I forget his name, to shut down the power since we're dealing with electric locks." Dareth folded his arms across his chest, glaring at his companion.
"Mouth of Lighting," Kai sighed as he noticed Dareth's confused look, "Jay, has already unlocked the cell doors." Kai yanked open the cell door that Neuro was behind to prove his point., "Did you even pay attention to the introductions?" Kai grumped the last part.
"Yes. No." Dareth scratched the back of his head, "You started throwing in who was which elemental master, different bandits, code names, real names. Some of you even included explanations to why your code names were certain things. Pretty sure you guys confused Wu with all that!" Dareth threw his hands in the air out of frustration.
"Ok…you do know that Wu asked us to help him out with our names, right?" Kai pulled his hat and kerchief off so that they could see his face.
"Umm, no. How about we get everyone out of here." Dareth shifted, clearly uncomfortable with being inside the dungeons.
"Wait, you know the bandits…what elemental masters?!" Skylor was relieved to see that her date was not working for the overlord.
"Let's see, there's ice, lighting, earth, fire, the green ninja, and water. We actually found that last one when she tried drowning me…great times, one of my best memories." Kai cheerfully announced as he started opening the cell doors.
"How is that a great time?" Garmadon asked as he walked out of his cell.
"How often does one find out that their only living relative is an elemental master? Not that often." Kai cheerfully announced as he skipped off.
"Wait, your RELATIVE tried drowning you?!" Misako found her voice now that she was back with Garmadon.
"Don't worry. I'm sure Lloyd would know what was going on…seeing has these are Lloyd's friends we're talking about." Dareth attempted to calm Misako down, and completely failed.
Misako lounged forward, ready to shake Dareth and scream some more. Luckily, Dareth noticed and bolted after Kai. The rebellion quickly followed them. After they had gone upstairs, and down a large hallway, a falcon suddenly appeared, frantically flapping its wings.
"Kai! Ain't that Nindroid's pet, up ahead?!" Dareth called out to Kai.
Kai looked up to stare at the bird, concern flashing in his eyes. "Something's wrong. One of the others must be in trouble, or else Falcon won't be here."
"Uh…who's in trouble? And why can't I sense the bird's mind?" Neuro asked nervously, unsure on what to think that Kai apparently knew, and was friends with, someone named Nindroid.
"Last I check robots don't have minds. And he is telling us who it is right now…" Kai broke off as the bird did what could only be some kind of complicated dance, "Samurai X!" Kai gasped suddenly before breaking off at a run.
"Dareth, do you know who Samurai X is?" Mr. Borg prodded.
"That one is easy. That would be the code name for the only female in the group. Her first name is Nya, and I think she's related to Kai in a way, not sure." Dareth shrugged, confusion evident on his face.
"Related to Kai? But, he said that he only has one living relative…the master of water." Misako recalled the information Kai gave them earlier.
After looking at each other for five seconds, they ran after him. Falcon quickly followed suit, and took the lead, taking them to where the other bandits were cornered by nindroids and police-bots. With an angry yell, Kai threw a fireball at the nearest robot. The elemental masters started in surprise before springing into action, fighting off the evil robots. The bandits looked at each other for a split second before joining in, using the rest of the lost elements. Unfortunately, that made the rebels freeze in shock, minus Dareth. Super unfortunately for the bots and droids, the green bandit and Wu showed up right then.
"Lloyd, get back here! We all agreed you would not help with the rescue mission!" Wu screeched loudly.
"THEY TOOK DADDY!" Lloyd then used the green ninja powers to blow up all the nindroids and police-bots.
While a shocked Garmadon and Misako gawked at their son, Kai and his friends turned on Lloyd.
"Kid! You didn't leave any imposter-droids for us!" Kai yelled, the others quickly agreeing.
"Again with the bandit lingo! Honestly do you guys ever talk normally around each other!? And why is, I forget his name, the one in white, staring at P.I.X.A.L?" Dareth broke off as he noticed the young bandit staring wide eyed at the android.
"P.I.X.A.L? A beautiful name, for a beautiful lady." He murmured softly, as he pressed his lips onto the back of her hand.
"I am a robot, not a person." P.I.X.A.L. responded to the sudden display of charm directed at her.
"All the more reason you are gorgeous." He bowed to her.
"Zane…please tell me that you were programmed to fall in love, cause your acting like Kai." The blue bandit pulled his hat and kerchief off.
"I…umm…do not know if Father had programmed me to do that for sure. However, it does make sense for him to that, seeing has he wanted me to be as realistic as possible." Zane shifted slightly as he scratched his head.
"KAI, I CAN'T BREATHE!" A female voice suddenly screeched.
Whipping around, all eyes landed on Kai who was squeezing the samurai bandit to death. Wu stifled a laugh as he watched this interaction. Garmadon took this opportunity to sneak up behind his brother and hug him tightly.
"Garmadon! Ok, I'm beginning to see why Nya is soo annoyed about having an older brother, GET OFF ME!" Wu yelped as he wiggled out of his brother's arms.
"Who is Nya?" Misako asked, eyebrow arched.
"I'm Nya!" The samurai bandit whipped her mask off once she wiggled free.
"Bandits! Introduce yourselves. Just not the same way we did with Wu and Dareth." The black bandit announced as he pulled his hat and kerchief off, "Cole Brookstone, master of earth."
"Jay Walker, master of lighting." The blue bandit announced.
"Nya Smith, master of water." Nya tapped her bracelet.
"Kai Smith, master of fire." Kai ran his hand through his hair.
"Zane Julian, master of ice." Zane whipped his hat and kerchief off, revealing his snow white stiff hair.
"Lloyd Garmadon, green ninja." Lloyd pulled off his hat and kerchief, shoving them into his pockets.
"LLOYD!" Garmadon and Misako both screeched.
"Really? No Kai? You guys know him too!" Lloyd whined at his parents.
"He's not our son!" They hissed in perfect unison.
"So? The only thing my friends will let me do, is tell them which businesses are rebel owned. And where you guys are wishing you could strike, but don't have the man power to do it yourselves." Lloyd rolled his eyes.
Just then the ground rumbled, the lights flickered on and off, and something moved down the hall…
"The overlord. Lloyd! Get out of here!" Kai yelled as horror began to spread across his face.
"GREEN NINJA! YOU HAVE FINALLY DECIDED TO SHOW YOURSELF TO ME! I CHALLENGE YOU TO A DUEL! IF YOU WIN, I WILL LET YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS GO! IF I WIN, YOU WILL LEAVE NINJAGO FOREVER!" The Overlord roared he reared into view.
"I..I…" Lloyd stuttered as he stared at the large thing.
"Lloyd! Don't do it! He doesn't have us! You do! Go! Save yourself!" Cole yelled as he slipped into a fighting stance.
"WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT!" The Overlord bellowed before he cast a spell, trapping them in large cages, except for Lloyd.
"No! Daddy!" Lloyd screamed loudly, terror surging through him, making him lose control of his powers.
A loud explosion erupted from Lloyd, debris rammed into the wall and ceiling, causing dust to fall down on top of them. Lurching forward, Lloyd tackled the Overlord. They were quickly lost in the dust, flashes of Lloyd's power only being the sign that the battle was still going on. Suddenly, there was an extra big flash, followed by an even bigger explosion. The cages fell away releasing the rebels and the not-so-lost elemental masters. Breaking at a sprint, Kai and his friends tore off into the settling dust yelling out Lloyd's name, and the nickname they gave all those years ago.
"Kai! Slow down!" Wu yelled out to the master of fire.
"No! It's my fault! If I never teased him about going on a rampage if anything happened to Garmadon…" Kai pressed his fingers underneath his eyes to prevent tears from spilling out.
"Umm, guys? How do I get down from here!?" Lloyd's voice called out suddenly.
Startled everyone looked up to see that…Lloyd was sitting on a golden dragon, his outfit having changed to gold. Laughing, Garmadon held his arms out to his son, who immediately jumped down, the dragon disappeared, into his arms. Lloyd muttered something into his father's shoulder.
"Sorry, Lloyd what was that?" Garmadon asked as he pulled his son away from him.
"I did it. He's gone. The overlord is no more." Lloyd's voice was soft as he looked up at his father.
Silence fell as everyone absorbed what it was that Lloyd had just said. As it sank in, a great cheer rose up amongst them. Everyone who could blasted their powers into the air in celebration.
"And that is the story of how I knew your grandfather was the one for me." An elderly woman with gray hair announced as she finished knitting her bright red scarf.
A small girl sitting across from, one with Skylor's bright orange hair scoffed loudly, "I don't think any of that is true Grandma. The overlord and elemental masters? Where did you come up with such things? Look, its stop raining…so I'll go on outside and mess with my hover bike. I have some new updates I want to add to it." The girl jumped up and pretty much ran outside.
"A.J. Borg, you take after your great uncle." The elderly lady shook her head at her granddaughter.
A sigh escaped her as she eased way out of her chair. Walking over to the calendar, she lifted it up to look at a wedding picture, one of Skylor and Kai as the happy couple, their friends and family crowding in to fit. Chuckling to herself, she dropped the calendar to show the year... 2077.
"A lot can happen in sixty years, huh Kai?" Skylor whispered has she pressed her finger against the calendars' picture of the legendary red ninja.
"Grandma! Come check me out!" A.J. screeched from outside.
"Jay! I swear she is your granddaughter! And I'll prove one of these days!" Skylor growled as she hurried to make sure that the young one didn't hurt herself.
After all, she was the granddaughter of the masters of amber and fire…
A/N: Done! Yes, the whole thing was Skylor telling the story to her and Kai's granddaughter, Amber Junior 'A.J.' Borg. I am going out on a limb and presuming that Mr. Borg had children, one of which married Kai's daughter.
Hope ya'll enjoy this story while it lasted. I might do a collection of one-shots in this universe, might not. Depends really.
SkyTalon signing off!