Ok, when I was watching the episode "Ninja Roll", I was not able to find where I could split the episode into two chapters. So I went and just left it into one big chapter. Alright?

Anyway, Maniac at Midnight gave me a good idea as to what I could do to Star that won't kill her, hurt her or anyone else, and so that the story will move on easier. So Kairocksrainbow, I hope you like it, along with everyone else.

Oh, and HAPPY 2016!

Chapter 5 – Teamwork Beats All

Late at night, there was a terrible thunder storm raging with high winds and piercing rain over Chen's island, but one person in particular person could be found running through the blinding storm in search of the right building that held the next battle.

The reason Kai was in such a hurry was because he was unfortunately the bearer of bad tidings, and he had to get to the ninja and Garmadon.

Meanwhile, in the said challenge where it was inside a warm, sheltered building; Jacob and Skylar's challenge was to find the Jade Blade hidden within one of the numerous large vases spread throughout the room.

The large-dark-afro man with starry sunglasses and a lute, one would question why his only weapon is in fact his lute. While Skylar's weapon was a cross-bow with a quiver of arrows on her back.

"Skylar, Master of Amber vs. Jacob Pevsner—FIGHT!"

It was then that Jacob started playing some off-key notes on his lute, but it was as if he could see and feel the sound waves from his own instrument like a bat or a dolphin.

"Hmm…eenie…meenie…miney-mo…catch a Jade Blade…BY ITS TOE!" Skylar chanted as she pointed the end of her cross-bow at different vases, but when she pointed at the one to her back left, she fired an the arrow shattered the vase. And despite it being empty, shattering the worthless vase was just a distraction for Jacob.

After Skylar retrieved her arrow and hid behind a pillar, Jacob played another set of off-key notes and used them to find his way around; the waves even notified him where Skylar was. And when Skylar new she'd been compromised, she fired yet another arrow.

But Skylar seemed to have underestimated Jacob as the seemingly blind man dodged the arrow by suddenly using parkour, but he wasn't done there. Since he knew where Skylar was, Jacob played a different set of notes that had such a higher frequency that the sound waves shattered the vase Skylar was standing in front of before she moved out of the way in time.

But shattering the vase was also a bad idea when one of the pieces of shattered glass accidentally struck Skylar's lip, causing it to bleed, and she would've fatally bled-out if it weren't for it just being her lip. And when Skylar recovered and tapped a finger on her bleeding lip, only to find a huge blotch of blood dripping down her index finger…oh, Skylar was pissed.

Still, Skylar and the poor vases weren't the only ones affected by Jacob's music; Garmadon, Lloyd, Kate and Jay were all up on the other level, along with a few other Elemental Masters(not all of them attended this event)as the four of them covered their ears for a second when the high-frequency waves hit them.

"I'll be damned if I said the Master of Sound hasn't gotten stronger since I last remembered," Garmadon sighed with amazement after they uncovered their ears.

"I find it interesting that he uses sound waves to see…is Jacob-?"

"Blind? Not exactly, Kate. True, he has terrible sight, like that of a bat, and that is why he uses sound waves from his lute that has been passed down through generations of the Elemental Masters of Sound; that lute produces sounds that act as sonar waves that help Jacob be aware of his surroundings," Garmadon explained as the fight below continued.

Jacob was looking for Skylar again, but he didn't know that the said Elemental Master was actually right behind him, sneaking up and around some pillars and vases. And Skylar was suddenly able to go up to Jacob and lightly tap his shoulder and hide again while going completely unnoticed the entire time.

But when Jacob felt the light tap, he smashed the nearest vase and pulled out some throwing stars. When Jacob then assumed that Skylar was out of hiding, he started throwing each of the throwing stars, each in a new direction. But Skylar was able to easily dodge each of the stars by propelling herself into the air and flipping to dodge hair-splitting contact with the flying weapons.

"U-uh, excuse me…excuse me…don't mind me, just passin' threw," Kai said nervously as he tried to wiggle past some angry and distrustful looking masters, but that was the least of his problems when he saw his friends and finally reached them.

"Oh, thank goodness I finally found you guys," Kai said as he was breathless and he also sounded worried, making the others concerned too.

"What wrong with you?" Jay questioned.

"It's Star."

"What about her?" Lloyd asked.

"She's gone."

"What do you mean she's gone?" Garmadon asked firmly.

"What else would I mean? When I didn't see her leave with you guys to go see the next challenge, I went to go get her when I left…but when I got to her room…she wasn't there," Kai explained with fear.

"Oh no…you don't think my dad kidnapped her, do you?"

"Don't worry, Kate. I-I'm sure she's just fine," Lloyd reassured.

"You may as well be right about that, Son. Chen may have a dark and twisted mind, and he would use what he can to cheat and win—but he would never resort to kidnapping or murder…I don't think."

"Wow, it's real nice to know we have you to give us courage, Garmadon," Jay added sarcastically.

But suddenly, it seemed that the sadness was knocked clear out of the park when Kai suddenly looked down and noticed Skylar.

"Oh shit!" Kai hissed with fear as he hid behind Jay.

"What's wrong with him?" Garmadon questioned.

"He has, well—HAD a rush on her…until he found out she bends fire," Jay replied dryly.

"But Skylar's not the Master of Fire too."

"Do what?" Kai perked up.

"Skylar is the Master of Amber; she can-."

But Garmadon's sentence was suddenly interrupted when a dart came flying through the air with a whistle and nearly impaled Kate, but the Master of Absorption suddenly grabbed the end of the dart just when its sharp point was inches away from one of her blind eyes.

The cause of the dart was from Jacob when they had forgotten when Jacob broke another vase and grabbed out a small tube with some blow-darts. And now, the master of Sound was trying to shoot Skylar with the thin darts, but he missed each time.

And while Jacob was distracted again by one of Skylar's clever diversions, Skylar was able to sneak up to and break the correct vase that contained the Jade Blade. And when she claimed it, the challenge was filed under 'Over'.

"Winner: Skylar! Loser: Jacob Pevsner—hope to HEAR from you soon, Jakey!" Chen maniacally laughed as he activated another trap-door for Jacob to fall down into.

But out of all of the cheers in the room, Kai's cheers were the loudest and filled with the most spirit. He may not have found out what Skylar's Elemental Powers can do, but he found out enough to rekindle his 'burning desire' for her.

"I hope my tournament has been as entertaining to you all as it has to me. And to say thanks, I was going to give each and everyone here jewels and unimaginable treasures…"

Everyone, except the ninja and Garmadon, started to cheer for Chen's announcement as he beheld a huge platter of treasures in front of him…but then he snarled and threw them away.

"But…I changed my mind when in yesterday's challenge, Cole and Jay REFUSED TO FIGHT AND PISSED ME OFF!"

Now, all of the other Elemental Masters glared and growled at the ninja, Jay in particularly.

"So as punishment, I was going to have Jay's fancy and luxurious room taken away for the night—but since I don't want poow wittwe Jay to get wonwey—YOU'RE ALL GOING TO SLEEP TOGETHER IN THE CHOW HOUSE!"

Chen's anger was crystal clear when he grabbed a diamond, and literally shattered it with the single squeeze of his fist. And he only ignored the pain of his cut and bleeding hand.

"Thanks a lot, Asshole."

"Hey, hey, hey! Whoa there, Kai! Who's side are you on?!" Jay snapped.

"Guys, c'mon. They're not important, and you know that. We never came here to make friends, we came here to save ours," Lloyd cut in firmly as he split the Fire and Lightning Masters apart.

"That is still true, but your extrusion of others have only made you more enemies. Remember The Golden Rule here: treat others the same way you would want to be treated…so unless you want to be treated like a prick, I suggest you stop treating the other masters like one," Garmadon explained firmly.

Down in Chen's dark chambers, and locked away in a cell was one particular Elemental Master who was in prison orange clothes and REALLY wasn't happy to be down here.

"YOU CAN TAKE AWAY MY CLOTHES, MY POWERS AND MAYBE EVEN MY DIGNITY, BUT YOU CAN NEVER TAKE AWAY MY STRENGTH!"

Cole was absolutely roaring with rage as he reached for the bars in the small opening on his cell door, and soon tried to pry them open with his bare hands…but to no avail.

"Well…at least not mentally…" Cole sighed in defeat as he then gave up and slumped down with his back against the door. But then Cole's head perked up when he heard approaching footsteps, and then he heard a key being inserted into and turned in the lock of his cell door; Cole then jumped back up to his feet seconds before the door was pulled open, revealing Clouse with a few guards.

"You're letting me go?"

"Hell no! You're going where all the other losers of the tournament went: 'The Factory'," Clouse replied darkly.

"Facto-?! What the fuck kind of factory?! And why the hell would I do a damn thing for you, ya little piece of shit!"

But Clouse didn't reply as he had the guards take Cole out of the cell and place chains on his wrists behind his back. And then they pushed him forward when Cole was too stubborn to walk at first. And after a few minutes of walking or stomping, they finally reached a new part of the underground caverns and tunnels that was a set of large and heavy doors.

From the other side, the doors were mechanically pushed open…and the sight before Cole put him in a daze. It was exactly what Clouse said it would be: a factory; it was filled with many machines and conveyor belts carrying or making and cooking food…that food mostly being noodles.

"So this is where Chen's food is made…well, could've been worse; people could've been made into the food," Cole said with amazement at first, but then it turned to a shrug.

"But don't think we won't if you don't follow the rules," Clouse whispered into Cole's ear as he lead the Earth Master to his station while also removing the chains…and Cole was also freaked out.

"Oh, and one more thing. The number one and only rule in here is NO EATING THE MERCHANDISE!" Clouse announced with a growl before he left the factory.

"WHAT?! No eating the merchandise?! No! please! Take me back to the cell; it'd be better to get three square-meals a day then to watch all this delectable stuff go by and not be able to eat any of it! PLEASE!" Cole pleaded like he were a starving stray dog, and he would've ran after Clouse if a guard with a spear hadn't stopped him and lead him back to his post; Cole's post being watching delicious noodles go by on a belt…and he didn't notice that he was also standing next to Karloff until now.

"Oh jeez, Karloff. I forgot you were down here," Cole said nervously as he also noticed that what used the be the Elemental Master of Metal was also powerless and wearing orange prison clothes.

"Try not to worry so much. After awhile, it not so bad," Karloff said as he pulled a lever that chopped the noodles, and since that was also Cole's job, he followed Karloff's gestures.

"Well, I for one think this all sucks like hell!"

A new voice that sounded stuffed up and nasal attracted Cole's attention, and he was surprised at who he saw was on the other side of the noodle-chopping machine who was the one who was handling and laying the noodles along the belt.

"Jacob?"

"Yeah, yeah, it's my, Rocky. But the bigger picture here is for us to get the hell out of here," Jacob replied dryly.

"Good luck, Bat Man. Even if there was a way out of factory, there is still damnable guards guarding the factory entrances and then there's the damnable large snake guarding the tunnels."

"My name isn't 'Bat Man', Metal-Head—it's Jacob Pevsner. And you've given up hope, my friend; that's not a good thing to do considering where you're at right now. I still believe, and so does Cole. Right buddy?" Jacob asked with a smile as he leaned to his right…but Cole wasn't to his right.

"I'm on your left," Cole reluctantly pointed out in a whisper.

"Oh, uh…you really are a sneaky ninja, aren't ya?" Jacob joked while trying not to look more stupid, only to clearly fail again.

Night had blanketed over Ninjago City, but there were a few more things then just mice still scurrying.

Out in front of Chen's Noodle House were two big box trucks with the Anacondrai tribe symbols on the sides, as a few of Chen's cronies were moving boxes of food packed in boxes into the back of the restaurant; each of the men wore jackets with their hoods up to hide their tattoos and fangs.

But despite how sneaky they may think they are, Chen's minions were being watched from a few yards away by Nya in the DV-Express as she remained hidden in a dark alley.

"So the trucks disappear only at night? But where to?" Wu's voice emerged through the built-n phone in the vehicle.

"I have know idea, which is why they're about to have a tail," Nya replied with a grin as she hung up, but then she flipped a switch on the panel in front of her, "Activate replica software."

And with that, the high-tech software of the DV-Express was able to cloak itself and instantly looked like one of the food trucks, and so Nya drove off and followed the convoy.

But just before Nya drove off, she never noticed that old Darreth was at the front counter inside Chen's restaurant.

"What?! What do you mean there's no more Goddamn puffy pot-stickers?!" Darreth complained to the register.

"Hey, I'm not the one you should be talkin' to. If you wanna chew someone's ass out just 'cause ya ain't getting' yer food, take it up with them," the register said as he somehow remained calm with Darreth's childishness, and then he pointed out the window towards one of the food trucks that was driving away…and that truck was Nya.

"WAIT! I NEED MY PUFFY POT-STICKERS!" Darreth shouted at the top of his lungs at the truck as he sprinted after it with his arms waving frantically in the air.

The sun wasn't even up yet over Chen's island, and neither of the ninja now Garmadon could sleep. Chen kept his promise for them to sleep in the chow house; luckily, he brought in many bunk-beds for all of the contestants so that they didn't have to sleep on the tables.

The first one to finally rise from their bed with no sleep was Jay, but he was soon joined by Kai, Lloyd and Kate.

"You guys couldn't sleep either?" Jay yawned.

"Hell no, not with these lumpy beds," Lloyd whispered in pain as he rubbed his back.

But suddenly the lights flipped on, making everyone cover their eyes, and they soon had to cover their ears when another gong was rung loud and rapidly.

"I would grant you all a good morning if it weren't for two things. One: I hate you and hope you all go to Hell. And two—it's the middle of the night," Clouse announced grimly.

But as the Elemental Masters woke with anger, some of Chen's minions walked in with…strings of roller-skates on their backs? And the first thing they did was walk up to the Elemental Masters, took of their shoes and slipped on and laced up a pair of roller-skates onto their feet without warning.

It didn't matter if you were standing; the men would just sweep you off your feet to put the skates on.

"Oh great. I just love another one of Chen's 'eccentric' battles," Lloyd said with sarcasm as he slowly rolled his way to a pillar to get his balance.

The worst one on skates was Kai as he was all over the place and falling onto his back faster than Octodad surrounded with banana peels. But Kate and Jay seemed to be like professionals.

"Who cares about the fight? I LOVE roller-skates!" Jay laughed as he was practically dancin' around like a ballerina.

"How are you two even this good on skates already?" Lloyd questioned as he watched his wife and blue-clad friend skate gracefully around the room.

"Hell if I know. It just comes naturally," Kate guessed.

"I got first place in the Mother-Son Skating Contest," Jay added as he was now grinding off the edge of the tables, "I regret saying that out loud."

"What a fucking weirdo," Paleman added under his breath.

"Don't be late to the royal arena!" Clouse suddenly shouted.

"But wait, how come we're ALL in skates if we've all already fought?" Skylar questioned.

"You could say each and every one of you has a part to—effect the outcome," Clouse replied darkly.

"Well, don't leave us hangin'! who's fightin'?" Turner asked with anticipation as he skated up to Clouse.

"The Master of Creation vs.—the Master of Form."

And with that, Clouse and the rest of Chen's cronies left the room. And the ones most affected by Clouse's announcement were the ninja and Garmadon.

"Who the hell is the 'Master of Form'?" Lloyd questioned.

"You don't know her? She can take the form of ANYONE; she'd be right under your nose, and you'd never know it," Kai replied, but his tone sounded darker than usual.

"Oh, I hate these things."

"KAI?!" Lloyd gasped as he found Kai behind him wobbling around on his skates…but he just saw Kai in front of him. And suddenly, this Kai fell down again.

But it was then that they heard the imposter Kai start chuckling evilly.

"Be careful out there, Green Ninja," the imposter said, but not in Kai's voice; it turned to more of a young feminine voice. And it was then that the Master of Form revealed herself.

The Master of Form was Chamille, a fit woman who loved purple; wearing purple clothes, and even her short, silky hair was dyed dark and light purple. Even her fricking EYES were purple.

Fumes that luckily weren't too hot continued to whoosh down in the dark, dirty factory.

Despite the rule that none of the food should be eating, one of the guards has been sneaking fortune cookies…but it wasn't long before he regretted eating so much when he had to go to the lavatory. But when Jacob heard the door that the guard was watching, he already knew it meant that that door was left unguarded, so this was his chance to escape.

Jacob started to crawl under some of the machines and moving belts, hoping to not be spotted, but he didn't go completely unnoticed when Cole saw him. But when he went to go join Jacob in his escape, Karloff grabbed his shoulder in a vice grip and turned him back towards the noodles.

"No, no, no. Make noodles, not trouble."

Meanwhile, Jacob continued sneaking around as he occasionally had to listen around for guards. And he soon made another smart move when taking an empty box and using it as cover while moving closer to the door.

The whole time, Karloff and Cole couldn't help but watch. And Jacob thought he was home-free when he took off the box and he sensed he was right by the door…but he assumed too quickly when he opened the door, and didn't notice at first that not only was the guard coming back, but so was Clouse.

And when Cole tried to warn Jacob, Karloff wasn't going to risk it as he grabbed Cole and covered his mouth.

When Jacob went to exit the door, he bumped chests with Clouse, and the said right-hand man of Chen's glared at the once Master of Sound. And when the guard came back in, he grabbed and restrained Jacob.

"Let this fool be an example to all of you!" Clouse announced, but then he turned to the guard and lowered his voice, "take him away, my 'pet' is very hungry."

But Clouse's voice wasn't low enough for Karloff and Cole.

"His 'pet'? You don't think he means-?"

"Ah, ah, ah! Karloff no want any part of trouble."

The remaining Elemental Masters skated down a dark, damp, stone hall that was dimly lit by torches, and soon a huge wooden ramp lowered itself down for them.

"I REALLY don't like the look of this," Lloyd whimpered.

"Don't worry. You've always got us," Kate reassured, but then Kai once again fell down, "well…most of us."

It was then that they reached the ramp and rolled up it, and out into a huge roller-skating ring.

"Welcome to my absolute favorite event" THUUUUNDEEER BLAAAADE!"

Chen's maniacal voice range through the ring as he suddenly came in faster than a bullet because he was also wearing skates.

"Oh cool, so it's a game!" Turner pointed out.

"No! I-it's not like that…this is MY game!" Chen growled as he rolled up to Turner and glared into his scared brown eyes, "some rules have changed in here! For example: there's TWO Jade Blades instead of one. There's one for Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon, and one for Chamille!"

Chen then grabbed two Jade Blades and tossed them to Lloyd and Chamille, and then he grabbed two helmets and tossed them to the said Elemental Masters.

"Each lap you finish when crossing the finish line with your blade, you earn a point; whoever has the most points before fifteen minutes wins!" Chen announced while pointing up at a huge score board with Chamille and Lloyd's name on it.

"But hold on! What about the rest of us?" Kate questioned.

"Why, the rest of you have the most important part! You can either help—or hurt—whoever you want! So get your helmets and pick a side!"

And after Chen's reply, all of the other masters grabbed their helmets, put them on and chose Chamille to lean towards, but the ninja stayed with Lloyd.

"Don't worry, we're still a tea-YEET!" Kai tied to say…but he only fell…again.

"Yeah, but to be honest…we're in deep waters!" Jay whimpered as he and the other ninja stared fearfully as they were outnumbered by the other masters on Chamille's side.

As the Elemental Masters rolled up to the starting line, Chen and Clouse went to his throne in the center of the ring, and since Garmadon was not a contestant, Clouse had him wait by Chen's throne.

And the other masters took their place behind Chamille while the ninja stayed close behind Lloyd.

"Lloyd, Master of Creation vs. Chamille, Master of Form! The one with the most points scored by crossing the line with their Jade Blade wins! Thunder Bladers get ready…get set…"

"Make a Move" by Icon for Hire starts to play.

"GOOO!"

The race was on. The fifteen minute minute-set clock on the score board started to count down, and everyone was literally on a role. But the others had to wait for about another ten seconds before Chen pressed a button that sounded as horn, and THEN they were off to catch up.

"No matter what, we have to stay close to Lloyd!" Kate shouted back to Kai and Jay, but as Jay sped forward, Kai fell a little behind since skating wasn't his specialty, but soon Skylar came rolling back to him.

"Listen Kai, Lloyd's you're greatest competition! What the hell keeps holding you back from winning it all?!" Skylar warned Kai in a loud a bit of a hushed voice.

"That's just something I try not to think about."

"Well, you should try it!" Skylar said angrily as she skated farther ahead, but not before not Kai off his feet. Some of Chen's cronies only laughed at Kai as he tried to stand back up.

Meanwhile, Chamille and Lloyd had crossed the line for the first lap, and but still had their blades clasped tight in their fists. So both of them earned five points on the score board.

But as Lloyd continued to try and catch up with Chamille, all of the other Elemental Masters surrounded him and stayed on him like a fat kid on cake.

"He can't get through them!" Jay called with fear when Kai finally caught up with him and Kate, as the three of them could not reach Lloyd.

"But how?!" Kai questioned.

"I've got an idea! Jay give me your hand, and when you get close, use your powers!" Kate said firmly, and Jay knew what she had in mind. So Jay let Kate take his hand, and no sooner had she had Jay in her grasp had she stopped skating forward but now started spinning around and around and around. But she was only building energy because when she let go, Jay skated faster then before towards to other Elemental Masters.

"Lloyd, heads up!" Jay called, and Lloyd looked behind him, and ducked in time for Jay's strands of lightning that swept over him and shocked all of the masters' necks; temporarily stunning them as they all fell, letting Lloyd finally skate farther ahead.

Out on the coasts of Ninjago were the food trucks out on some docks that were being loaded onto a large ferry boat…and Nya was still following them unnoticed as the last truck.

"Hmm, hmm, hmm…nothing to see here," Nya sang softly to try and comfort herself, "nothing but a high-tech vehicle disguised as yours."

TAP. TAP. TAP. TAP. TAP. TAP. TAP.

The sudden hard tapping on the passenger window made Nya shriek, only for it to be Darreth.

"Hey! Tell Chen to NEVER stop makin' the puffy pot-stickers!" Darreth pleaded, not knowing it was Nya since the window was tinted.

But then Nya noticed a guard walking down the docks with a flashlight to look for stow-aways, so she rolled down the window for Darreth to see her.

"Nya?! When did you start workin' for Chen?!"

"Will you shut the hell up?!"

"Hey Nya, why is your truck totally tripping me out?" Darreth asked in a calmer voice as he touched one of the truck's exhaust pipes, which that temporarily revealed that portion of the its true identity. And since Nya wasn't going to risk getting caught because of some jackass, she grabbed the collar of Darreth's brown ninja gi and yanked him into the passenger seat through the window, while then frantically rolling the window back up when the guard was getting closer.

"Ooh, for out. But wait! Where's the food?"

"It's NOT a food truck! It's my only chance at finding the ninja!" Nya hissed while she got up in Darreth's face.

"The ninja? Missing? Please, they're probably just off doing ninja-things," Darreth scoffed, only to earn an angry and disappointed look from Nya.

"Uh, no! That's not it…and you're not coming with me!"

"I don't think you've got a choice anymore," Darreth said as he pointed forward to show Nya that they were the last truck to load onto the boat, and the guard was still coming.

"Oh…I'm gonna regret this," Nya sighed as she drove forward slowly.

The skating challenge still went on, and it wasn't going to be over until seven more minutes. At least Lloyd was still close to Chamille, and the two were now tied with eighty points.

"Oh, the Thunder Blade tournament NEVER fails to deliver! Of course, that's because I hold the highest record of two hundred points" Chen laughed maniacally while clapping his hands like a child.

"That may be the only true thing I've ever heard you say," Garmadon added grimly.

"Like you're one to talk. There was a time when you had your fair share of lies, Garmadon—you're lies even worked on Misako," Clouse whispered darkly into Garmadon's ear.

"Button, buttons, how I love you! Buttons, buttons, let's see what you can do!" Chen sang as he looked at his panel of buttons, and pressed a random one.

That random button activated a ramp right in front of Lloyd, as he then flew into the air. And he was luckily able to roll when he hit the ground and kept skating. But when Kai came up to the ramp, he(hope you guessed it)fell flat on his back after flying a few feet into the air.

After Lloyd caught up to Jay in the front, Jay looked back and stretched his hand out to him.

"Grab my hand and I'll throw you!"

And Lloyd wasted no time in letting Jay grab his wrist tightly, and he was soon thrown a couple yards forward…but it was mistake when it turned out to Chamille disguised ad Lloyd as she laughed evilly while continuing to skate faster. And Chamille soon caught up to Shadow, who was on her side.

"It seems that the little Green Ninja's back is hurting today, Shadow—end his misery!" Chamille commanded Shadow, and the raven-haired man skated back towards Lloyd, who was holding his back in pain with his free hand.

As Jay skated with the real Lloyd to protect him, he looked up in fear when he heard Chamille's plan…but then Shadow suddenly disappeared into thin air.

"AAAHH! WHERE THE HELL IS HE?!" Jay cried as he frantically looked everywhere for Shadow. And while Lloyd and Jay kept skating, they didn't see Shadow suddenly reappear behind them, and he jumped up and bashed Lloyd directly in his back with his skates, causing Lloyd to fall over. Though has back did not break, he still dropped the Jade Blade as it slide a few good feet along the track, and so the other masters started kicking it around until Paleman finally swooped it up from the ground and laughed evilly.

"Hey! Shadow!"

Shadow had to look back when he heard his name, but he regretted it when he saw Kate coming right for him with rage in her eyes. And not only that, but she had created fire in both her fists as she used the fire power as boosters to push her faster.

"Oh shit…" was all Shadow could say before Kate threw a fire ball at him, and as soon as he caught on fire, he just forgot about the challenge sand stopped, dropped and rolled.

But Kate wasn't done there; she soon then used more fire to go faster again and she skated through the crowd of Elemental Masters with such flawless ability until she caught up to Paleman.

"Jay, Kai, don't leave Lloyd's side-!" Kate tried to say firmly, but Kai only…fell again, "…ok, Jay, don't leave Lloyd's side, and leave the rest for me!"

And with that, Jay did as he was told while Kate continued to speed towards Paleman. And when she finally caught up, she used the unnatural strength of Cole's earth powers that she absorbed from him, and then she grabbed Paleman's neck and effortlessly tossed him back, but not before she yanked Lloyd's Jade Blade from his hand and skated back to give the blade back to her husband.

"Damn!"

"This is no time for judgment, Lloyd! JUST KEEP SKATING!" Kate replied with a loud growl, and Lloyd did as he was told.

But Toxikita wasn't going to have it. Toxikita was a woman who loved all things green and poisonous; she had bright green eyes, she wore punk-rock fashion that consisted of torn up black jeans and a ripped, bright green tank top with a toxic symbol, and even her hair that was in a big, spiky pony-tail was dyed bright green. And she was the Master of Poison.

So Tox used her venomous powers to produce a green cloud of toxic fumes meant for Jay, Lloyd and Kai to breath in. But Jay was able to push Lloyd and himself out of the way and dodge the cloud in time…but due to his poor skating skills, Kai rolled right into the cloud and ended up coming out the other end with his hands over his mouth, a cringed up face and he was viciously coughing.

But luckily for Jay's little push, it wasn't long before Lloyd was once again able to catch up with Chamille and also crossed the finish line, earning another five points…but Chamille was ahead of him by tine points with a total of ninety-five points.

"CONDRAI-CRUSHER DRIVERS, GET YOUR SORRY ASSES OUT HERE!"

Chen was getting angry with all the underestimated help Lloyd was getting, so he pressed a button that opened a door for an underground garage and one of Chen's cronies burst out on a Condrai-Crusher. And now the skaters had to watch out for the on-coming vehicle.

And since the Condrai-Crusher was only after Lloyd and the ninja, Chamille used the chance to get a lift when the vehicle caught up to her and Lloyd as she jumped onto the back of the vehicle.

"Hey, that's not fair!" Lloyd called angrily after Chamille, as some of the other remaining masters on her side grabbed each other's hands and the back of the Condrai-Crusher as they rolled along in a chain.

"Life's not fair, Sweetie!" Chamille called back with a grin.

The remaining Elemental Masters surrounded Lloyd, Kate and Jay to stop them. And Neuro and Turner were handling Jay.

"Neuro?! What the hell?! You're on OUR side!" Jay said while freaking out that Neuro was helping the enemy.

"Shut up, Jackass!" Neuro shouted with a lie, but apparently Turner believed him, especially when Neuro looked at him with an evil grin, "Turner, you take this one."

"On it! Watch this!" Turner said with a grin, as Neuro knew he should let go of Jay, and he was right to when Turner used his super-sonic speed to push Jay along the ring…but he wasn't going to get too far.

"HEY!" Kate called angrily as she suddenly used Cole's super strength again to break free of the other masters, and then she used Turner's speed that she secretly absorbed from him earlier to go after him.

And it wasn't long before Kate caught up to the Master of Speed as she then grabbed the back of Turner's shirt, and she stopped while causing sparks to fly from her skates, and she took Turner with her…but that caused Turner to accidentally lose his grip on Jay, and so when he let Jay go, Jay only continued to role uncontrollably forward, and he crashed into Lloyd, which was Turner's plan in the first place.

So after Lloyd and Jay became a groaning-in-pain pile, the others went to go join Chamille. But that's when Kate came rolling in while holding Turner in a neck-lock, and no matter how much Turner struggled to break free of Kate's vice grip, she wouldn't budge.

"Got any other plans, Babe?" Lloyd groaned in pain after Jay got up and helped him back onto his feet, "huh…at least my back doesn't hurt anymore."

"Hmm…I got it! Give me the blade!" Kate said as she perked up with a brilliant idea, but Lloyd wasn't at all reluctant to hand the blade to Kate, despite he had now idea what she had in mind.

But as soon as Kate had the blade in her hands, she let go of a suffocating Turner, who collapsed after he was free, and then Kate used Turner's speed to make her way around the ring in just seconds.

Each time Kate made a lap around, she got Lloyd five more points each time since it was still Lloyd's blade. And it wasn't long before Lloyd was five points ahead of Chamille.

"Oh, that's IT!" Chamille snapped as she launched herself from the Condrai-Crusher and sped off towards Kate since she had stopped using speed since Lloyd was ahead now.

But Kate should've kept going faster when Chamille caught up with Kate and swiped her legs to knock Kate off her feet. And when Kate was one the ground, she didn't have the time to retaliate when Chamille quickly jumped up into the air and landed feet-first onto the hand that Kate was holding the Jade blade with, and her hand and wrist broke; she could hear her bones cracking too.

Kate's shrill cry of pain stung Lloyd's ears like bees when he now knew that his wife was injured. But when Lloyd looked ahead, he saw Chamille grab his Jade Blade and she continued on with it.

"Chamille now earns double points!" Chen announced with a grin, and just as Chamille completed another laugh, with put her ahead of Lloyd again with Lloyd at one-hundred points and Chamille at one-hundred and ten.

"WHAT?! Ok, that's it! I can't skate, but I can still use my powers!" Kai yelled angrily, and with that, he created strands of raging fire from his hands and pointed them behind him so that they rocketed him faster and easier across the ring.

Kai was aiming for Chamille and the crusher, so when he reached her, not only did her grab her and throw her back a few yards, but her also used his fire to explode the gas tank; thus also exploding the whole vehicle to be obliterated, and even that portion of the ring was destroyed as there was now huge hole in it.

But the hole and the fire didn't stop the skaters as they were able to jump over the hole or use their powers to help them. And as Jay caught up and jumped passed the hole, he dropped the blade that Chamille dropped and he let himself gain five more points for Lloyd.

"Nice one, Hot-Head!" Jay called back to Kai.

But Chamille only had one thing on her mind, and that was to get Jay and retrieve Lloyd's Jade Blade back. So she dropped everything and skated quickly up to Jay; the said Master of Lightning was grinning back at her while skating backwards.

"Ha! Ha! You want it, but I got it!" Jay taunted as Chamille tried to get closer, but since Jay was backwards, he could see some of the other Elemental Masters also trying to catch up, so before hey jumped to try and dog-pile Jay, he jerked one way so that Chamille would follow him and she got attacked instead.

And coming up from behind the pile was Lloyd with the other blade in his hand, and he jumped and used a front flip to get over the pile of masters.

Meanwhile, Kai was still catching his breath at the scene of explosion, so Skylar came skating up to him in anger.

"What are you doing?! We need Lloyd out!"

"WE need to stick together! We're ninja!"

"Oh, right, and the rest of us aren't," Skylar scoffed with disgust, but as the others started to make their round, she skated off with them. But then Jay skated in with Chamille's Jade Blade.

"Lloyd's cutting it close; time is still against us!" Jay pointed out.

"Yeah? Well, so is everyone else! The more we try to help Lloyd, the more we all get ganged up on!"

"What are you saying, Kai?!"

"I'm saying we should warn them—about Chen! If they knew what this tournament is really about, they might as well help us!"

"I don't know. Lloyd's still got a lot of ground to make up, and time's almost up!" Jay said with worry as he and Kai looked up at the clock on the score board, and there was only two minutes left.

But suddenly Chamille managed to catch up with Jay and took him by surprise by knocking her Jade Blade right out of his hand and swooping it up from the ground and skated on with it.

Meanwhile, Kai skated back to get to Skylar, and he grabbed her shoulders in a vice grip. But as she struggled, she wasn't able to break free of Kai's grip.

"Alright, fine! You wanna take me down too?!" Skylar growled.

"No! You were right, we're all competition, but Chen is the enemy here! All he really wants to do is cheat to take everyone's powers for a spell!" Kai explained as he pointed at Chen in his throne as he pushed another button that activated another ramp for Chamille and Lloyd. But due to his legit ninja skills, Lloyd landed on his feet and continued on while Chamille did not.

"A spell? And what the hell would Chen do with a spell?" Paleman asked with suspicion as he caught up with Kai and Skylar.

"I don't know, but we can't risk finding out!" Kai replied with fear.

"It's not about anyone winning or taking all the glory! It's about stopping Chen to save EVERYONE!" Jay tried to explain to Turner.

"And why are you telling me this now?!" Turner growled.

"Because it's never too late to do the right thing!" Kate said as Lloyd appeared to have gone and helped her back up, and she also created a block of ice and held it on her broken left hand and wrist.

But when they weren't looking, Shadow and Neuro were sneaking up behind them to take them…but Neuro was secretly on the ninja's side again as he knocked Shadow back.

"They're telling the truth!" Neuro pointed out.

"Why are you NOW helping us?!" Jay snapped.

"Because I like to be on the winning team," Neuro replied flatly.

"Fifty eight seconds on the clock!" Turner suddenly pointed out, but then he had an idea, "grab my hand and don't let go!"

Lloyd immediately knew what Turner had in mind, so he let the Master of Speed take hold of his hand, and Turner used his super-speed to speed around the ring like a bullet while taking Lloyd with him.

"NO! THIS IS TERRIBLE!" Chen cried.

"I know, Master. The ninja might win!" Clouse added angrily.

"Not just that…they might beat my high score!" Chen continued to whine, only making Clouse roll his eyes, but Garmadon grinned.

But Chen was right; Lloyd was at a total of one hundred and fifty points while Chamille was at a total of one hundred and twenty five.

So Chen started to press more and more buttons; activating ramps to pop up from the floor, slug-buddies to drop from the ceiling, spiked walls to pop out from the side, and holes to open up in the floor. But no matter what Chen threw at them, Turner was determined to get Lloyd through unscathed.

But even if Chen's stuff couldn't touch Turner, Chamille was an exception when she had the idea to stop and wait for Turner and Lloyd to come to her. When they did come back around, Chamille was able to knock the life out of Turner, and then she dealt with Lloyd when she grabbed his upper-wrists and it sent them in a spin.

"We don't have to fight each other, Chamille! We can work together!" Lloyd tried to reason with her, but he could still se the anger and betrayal in Chamille's dark purple eyes.

"That'll be the death of you," Chamille whispered with a smile.

Now the challenge really was between the two as there were fifteen seconds left on the clock, and Lloyd and Chamille were bumping around to slow each other down.

The other Elemental Masters watched in agonizing tension as they skated many yards behind the two; Clouse and Garmadon felt the tension too, but Chen was laughing maniacally he had so much confidence that Lloyd would lose.

…10…9…8…

They were so close to the finish line that Chamille decided she didn't want to risk it, so she knocked Lloyd off his feet and tried to jump over him, only for Lloyd to use his Jade Blade to trip her.

…7…6…5…4…

The two retaliated and continued to move forward as the finish line was now only a few feet away…but Chamille was slightly closer.

…3…2…1...0

It was too late. An air-horn went off in the ring as Chamille had been the first to cross the line.

Lloyd and Chamille skidded to a halt while catching their breath.

Everything was quiet.

But that was when Lloyd raised his Jade Blade into the air victoriously, for when he tripped Chamille, she dropped hers and didn't pick it back up. Lloyd was the winner.

"WHOOO! LLOYD WON!" Jay cheered as he and the others skated up to him and surrounded him with even more cheers.

"Look Chen—record broken," Garmadon said with a grin while pointing up at the score board. Lloyd had two hundred and five points, and Chamille had one hundred and ninety.

"NO…NO! L-Lloyd can't win!" Chen stammered.

"Uh, yeah he can! He won fare and square, Fuck-nut!" Turner called angrily, which made Chen plop back into his throne with aggravation.

"Yeah? Well, my tournament, my rules."

"And just what rules are those, 'Father'?" Kate mocked, "if Lloyd's out, then so am I!"

"Me too!" Paleman called angrily.

"And so am I!" Kai added.

"Me three!" Jay also added while pointing his finger high up into the air like a child.

"What kind of tournament would it be—without any contestants?" Skylar pointed out, only making Chen growl angrily. So he looked to Clouse for advice, but he only nodded calmly.

"Di-you—FINE! Chamille's out!" Chen stammered when pressing another button for Chamille to fall down another trap-door.

But when the others on the ninja's side started to cheer, Skylar pulled Kai secretly aside.

"If what you're saying about Chen is true, then know you're playing an even more dangerous game now. You know will still do anything in his power to take you out," Skylar pointed out in a hushed voice.

"Hey, the more allies we gain, the more hope that comes with it," Kai softly protested.

A guard was taking some of the workers from Chen's food factory while they were all chained together with heavy shackles. And that included Cole, as the said used-to-be Master of Earth was sadly sulking his head, hoping his friends were still doing ok…but then he heard something that made his head perk up as he walked by a closed cell door.

"I-I'm not so sure, P.I.X.A.L….these chains seem very unbreakable…"

Cole knew he heard that voice, so he ignored the guard and the chains around his wrists and went up to the cell door to peek through the tiny opening.

"Zane?" Cole questioned aloud in a hushed tone.

But when Cole stopped, Karloff was getting worried.

"What you doing? No make trouble!" Karloff whispered harshly.

And when Cole stopped, Karloff stopped; when Karloff stopped, the rest of the prisoners stopped, making the guard aware as he glared back.

"What the hell is the hold up?!" the guard called back angrily.

"Just a moment! Karloff tie shoe!" Karloff lied while behind down to pretend to tie his shoe; all to stall for Cole.

The said ninja continued to look through the tiny opening…and he couldn't believe it when he was greeted with the upgraded, titanium Zane as the Nindroid stood up slowly.

"Holy Hell…you're alive?!" Cole said with amazement, "…a-and silver?"

"No. Titanium."

"Oh, that doesn't matter! You're brand new and everything; you look awesome!" Cole laughed.

"Wait a minute…you don't have shoes," the guard said aloud as he remembered that the prison clothes were like footed-pajamas.

"Don't worry, Bud. I'll get you out—I'll get is BOTH out. I promise," Cole said firmly as the guard came stomping to the back of the line, but not before Cole and Zane went back to their places and didn't get caught.

So the guard sneered and went back to the front and continued to lead the line.

"Karloff, I'm makin' more than just noodles from now on—I'm also makin' trouble," Cole whispered to Karloff with a grin, "Chen may think that he can split us apart, but he has no idea how strong we are or what we're like together."

As dawn crept over the ocean, the ferry that carried the food truck was only about a mile away from the coast of Chen's island, and a couple of stow-aways on that ferry was Nya and Darreth, hiding in the food truck-disguised DV-Express.

Kairocksrainbow, I hope you're not mad at me for making Star disappear. She's not dead or hurt, and she's not going to be.

Anyway, I wanna ask you authors out there somthin': would you be able to remember each and everyone of the Elemental Masters too?

Until the next chapter, I'm TRikiD, bye-bye!