Hey everyone and happy Friday. Time for an update and I've been excited for this one because the moment of the story has come for Cole. Oh and I forgot to mention this before in my other chapters. This entire story is a rewrite from scenes from the two Hulk movies but with the Ninja added in. The first one sucked but the second one was better. Anyway, I have a soundtrack to set the tone just right for Cole. Type the link, watch?v=1oiG8KmKpqo and wait at the time at 0:25 and when you see the mark, *, play it and stop the soundtrack when you see the next mark, *. Enjoy.
Chapter 6: Transformation
Cheers of joy waved in the air on the Bounty as the earth ninja slowly walked up onto the ship's deck. A week has passed and Cole was finally checked out of the hospital. He no longer felt weak or tired, but strong and active. But was told to stay away from training and fighting for another week or so until he was fully recovered. He felt upset that he couldn't fight with his family when he heard the bad news. But he understood after he threw himself to stop gamma rays from spreading wide. But he was glad to be home though.
Cole looked around the deck to see his family congratulating him or patting his back as they were glad that he was home. He now felt how Lucas felt when he finally woke up and came home. But was still glad that they kept his promise on visiting him and telling him news during his absense. Been told about the Serpentine attacks, Lloyd's slowly healed injuries, and even Betty came to visit him a couple of times. He even heard Blolasky checked out before him. But whenever she came to visit him, he kept wondering about the kiss they had before. What was that all about? He didn't care to ask as he was glad to be home.
The sun was setting as it was getting dark as the earth ninja finally stood in the center of the deck. The Ninja were proud to have their elemental earth leader back to the team as they could be whole again. They even threw a little welcome home party for him. Nothing much but pats from the guys and hugs from the girls. It was great to be home.
Cole heard the sound of a staff tapping on the wooden floor to smile as Sensei Wu walked up to him. The elder gave him a warm smile and placed a hand on his shoulder; welcoming his student home. "It is good to have you back, Cole." he said softly.
The Ninja of Earth smiled back to his teacher. "It's good to be home, Sensei." he said back. He looked around the deck to smile at everyone as they smiled at him. He could tell that they were glad to have him back home. But he was glad to be out of the hospital room so he could be with everyone again. "And thank you for doing this for me."
Kai walked up to him and playfully pulled Cole's hood of his black hoodie over his head and looped an arm around his neck. "Hey it's no sweat, Cole." he laughed. "We thought it would be helpful now that you're out of the hospital. So you want to go back to your roots and train that flabby body of yours." He chuckled and lightly punched his shoulder.
Cole chuckled with his fiery brother and removed his arm off his neck and pulled the hood off. Normally he would be pounding Kai to a pulp, but he knew he was joking since he was bed-resting for the time. "Can't." he simply replied. "The doc said that I should lay off on training for awhile. Even though I have those Nanomeds inside me, it's best if I get some rest still. Plus I'm still tired."
Everyone looked at the leader to nod in agreement. It's best to follow doctor's rules. "I agree it is wise to follow the doctor's rules, Cole." said Zane. "You should head down and I'll make some Miso soup for you later."
Cole smiled. "Thanks Frosty." he said. "Well... Night everyone." The earth ninja turned to the steps and slowly walked down the hall without tripping on his feet and walked down till he reached his shared bedroom. He couldn't help, but smile as he was back. After he entered his room and kicked his shoes off and threw his hoodie to the floor to be in his black tee shirt and sweatpants, the earth ninja looked at his bed to smile as he glad to be back in his own bed under Kai's. For once he couldn't wait to sleep on the lumpy mattress. The black ninja turned his head to the window to see the sun had finally set and the moon was rising to darken the room and slowly climbed into his bed, threw the comforter over him and slowly drifted into sleep as soon as his head touched the pillow.
It was great to be home.
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"Man it sure is great to have Cole home." said Jay as he sat next to Nya on the couch. Everyone began to pile into the living room after the small celebration they held for the team leader's return and sat around. All was quiet now. Not even the TV was one or video games being played. Just utter quietness. The lightning ninja raised his scarred eyebrow to the quietness and kept thinking of a way to break the ice. "Eh... Now that our leader is back," he continued. "We can a ninja team again. Not that I hate having Zane as the temporary leader, but it's great to have him back."
Lucas slumped into the bean bag chair while Lloyd sat next to him. "Yeah it's great to have Cole back." he agreed and picked up the two controllers and handed the other to Lloyd. "But as soon as he recovers, we'll be back to his commands, not that I hate them before, but it'll be great from him." and turned the TV on to begin playing Fist to Face 2 with his cousin.
"You know Lucas," Nya smirked. "I've been wondering. I've been noticing that Betty has been visiting Cole for awhile now, but what about things with you and the girl, Dawn, from the ball. I think she has a liking to you." and winked at the water ninja.
Lucas chuckled while jamming his fingers and thumbs on the buttons of the controller. "Oh her." he said. He knew what the samurai was doing. She was trying to get him to set up a date. "Oh that was nothing really. She was my dance partner like for Zane and Lloyd so it's nothing really. Plus she's in a village in the mountains so I probably won't see her again. And she's only a friend."
"Sure." Kai remarked with a sly grin on his lips. "That's what they always say. But by then, we'll be seeing you climbing onto the deck with lipstick marks all over your face in the morning." Lucas paused his game and gave the fire ninja a blank stare while he still had a smirk. The water ninja placed his controller down and held his hand up to blow mist over his fiery brother's face. The Ninja of Fire cringed his face to feel the wet droplets touch his face to open his eyes to stare at the TV that had a dark background to show him his reflection. He turned his gaze at the grey ninja to glare at him for the message. I'm a fire head jerk that can be beaten by water. "Oh you're so gonna get it." he threatened and lunged himself at Lucas.
Both boys rolled on the floor and Lucas quickly placed his socked feet on Kai's chest and pushed him off. The fire ninja gave out a grunt of pain when his back made contact to the wall and lunged himself again at the water ninja to wrestle. Both ignored the cries or pleads from everyone else as they were making a ruckus while Cole was close to them to bother his sleep. Laurie watched her boyfriend and cousin fight and sighed in annoyance as her cousin was using his powers to push Kai back while he threw whatever he could find to throw at him. She quickly yelped in surprise as something tapped her shoulder to surprise her and turned to see Zane. "I am sorry if I startled you, Laurie." the ice ninja apologized while shifted his hands on the tray of soup he was carrying. "But I was on my way to give this to Cole, but can you do it for me so I can stop this feud?"
The wind ninja looked up at the nindroid to nod. "Yeah sure." she replied. "I can do that." She got up to her feet and gently took the tray from Zane. The Ninja of Ice gave her a warm smile of a thank you and quickly walked up to the brawling ninjas. She watched from the doorway to see him pushing Kai and Lucas away to shout at them and left.
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Cole tossed and turned as the noise outside the room disrupted his sleep. What were they doing out there to wake him up? He tried to muffle all sounds by throwing his pillows over his head, but it didn't help and quickly prompt himself up to glare at the door. "Keep it down will ya!" he shouted. "I'm trying to sleep here!" He suddenly felt nausea hit him in the head. His throat felt dry to prevent him from swallowing. Not to mention being light-headed, clammy skin, and the feeling of vomiting. He didn't like the last feeling and climbed out of his bed to stagger to the bathroom to fall near the toilet to dry heave.
He didn't feel anything coming out of his stomach and grabbed onto the wall to pull himself up and walked over to the sink, unbalanced. He turned the faucet to have cold water pouring out and cupped his hands under the water and felt a shiver to his burning skin. Once the water filled up the small makeshift cup, the earth ninja quickly splashed it onto his face and steadied himself on the sink. He still felt sick. He heard the noise growing louder and he kept glaring at the door. Will they ever shut up?
*The black ninja felt his hands shaking and looked at them to see his veins bulging out and could see tints of green on his skin. "What the?" he asked and shutted his eyes tightly as a migraine headache grew and held his head. He tried to pass the pain to open his eyes to look for some aspirins, but froze as his eyes were no longer amber, but were bright green. "What the hell?" he said to himself and cried out to squeeze his eyes shut and flung himself out of the bathroom.
Cole felt his body ripping itself apart as the wet sound of bones were dislocating from where they were. In the dark room, he could see his veins and skin turning green with his fingers growing longer and thicker. The sound of bones popping made him look down to see his legs were growing larger to make his black ankle socks snap in half to the large feet stretching them. He tried to call for help, but only gave out low growls and felt his face changing. He heard something ripping and noticed that his chest was growing larger and his shirt was being stretched out to see his large dark green muscles while the calves of his sweatpants were ripped to be into shorts while he was growing till his head touched the ceiling. He slouched a little to see his hands, feet, face, and even muscles grew larger as he stared at the reflecton from the bathroom. He tried to speak, but only gave out grunts and growls.
What happened to him?*
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The small bowl of Miso soup rattled on the tray after each step was taken. As well as the plate of crackers. The orange ninja's footfalls echoed in the empty hallway while the sound of shouting and destruction was behind her. She was glad to stay out of the room while they settled their argument. She didn't want to take part of it. When the red-haired girl reached the door to the guy's room and before she knocked, she could hear low grunts and wood groaning. Is Cole alright in there? she wondered. Curiously, she knocked on the door and slowly opened it. "Cole, are...you...all...right?" she asked with her voice cracking to gasp what was in the room.
Laurie felt her hands slip and the tray crashed onto the floor to shatter the bowl and plate. She couldn't find her voice as she was staring at an eleven foot, muscular dark green giant with black shaggy hair and green eyes like the stone warriors before. The giant stared straight at her and took a step forward while reaching a massive hand at her. This time, Laurie found her voice and screamed to the top of her lungs and held her hands out. She felt a gust of wind run through her hair and watched the giant being pushed back and slammed the door shut and tripped on her feet to hit her back against the wall across the room. Her heartbeat was pounding against her chest while giving out quick breaths. "Laurie!" she heard Kai and Lloyd's voices shouting.
The orange ninja heard multiple footfalls running down the hall and turned her head to see everyone running down the hall to see everyone pile in. She saw that everyone, but Lloyd, had their weapons drawn out and were worried for her. They could see the wide light blue eyes and paler skin that was shaking like a leaf. She looked like as if she seen a ghost. Lloyd walked up to his sister and knelt next to her. "You alright, Sis?" he asked, worriedly for her. "You look like you've seen a ghost or something."
The wind ninja couldn't find her voice after the scream and tried to calm herself down. Once she felt her heartbeat slowing down a bit, the red-haired girl raised a shaking finger and pointed at the door. "Th-there's something in there!" she replied quickly.
Everyone looked at her confused and slowly lowered their weapons. "Uh Laurie, the only thing that would be in would be Cole." Lucas stated. "And he's asleep."
"He is not!" the Ninja of Winds bellowed. "Before I entered that room, I heard grunts and growls of a monster. He was big and had green eyes!"
Green eyes? Kai wondered. He thought it over and wondered if it was the stone warriors before Lucas woke up. The ones terrorizing the streets and the four-armed one Laurie fought against on the rooftop of Ninjago City Tower until theu disappeared after Rhea died. Were they back? The fire ninja looked over at Zane. "Do you think it's those stone men are back?" he wondered.
The ice ninja looked at him to shrugs his shoulders. "I haven't sensed their presense since the last time they were around." he shrugged. He closed his eyes and felt a buzzing feeling in the back of his head with his sixth sense. But he didn't feel any of the stone warriors. He still felt Cole in there. The nindroid opened his eyes to look at everyone's wondering eyes. "The only presense I feel is Cole's." he said and looked at Laurie. "Laurie, are you sure you just thought of them and didn't see Cole?"
There was a large roar and heard a large crash from the bedroom to have everyone stare at the door. That definitely did not sound like Cole. Something else though. "You believe me now?!" Laurie asked while jumping to her feet. "Something else is in there with Cole!"
Everyone looked at her to see the fear in her eyes and slowly drawn their weapons out and the fire, ice, water, and lightning ninja pressed their backs against the wall near the door while Laurie, Nya, and Lloyd moved aside. Zane grabbed the door knob and held up three fingers and slowly counted down till he made a fist and turned the knob. The four ninja jumped into their room to approach the danger inside but lowered their weapons as it was empty with a large hole in the wall from the bathroom. What ever was in there was gone. They slowly walked up to the hole to inspect it and noticed the torn shirt, socks, and parts of black cloth and bent wood on the floor. Jay looked up to see Ninjago City in the distance and turned around to gasp. "Cole's missing!" he screamed.
Everyone turned around to see where the blue ninja was shouting about and gasped to the empty bunk bed. Laurie, Nya, and Lloyd entered the room as it was clear to enter and were shocked on the news. Cole was missing. There was no trace of him anywhere or presense of Zane's sixth sense. The Ninja of Earth was missing in action, M.I.A. Lloyd walked up to the bed and looked at the others. "Who could've taken him?" he asked.
That was the thing. They didn't know. Well maybe not for Laurie, as she saw it with her own eyes, but what was it still? Everyone ponder on what could've happened until they heard the familiar roar in the distance and turned their heads to the hole and saw Ninjago City. "What ever it was that Laurie saw must've snucked in and took Cole and is heading to the city." said Lucas and spun into his armorized suit. "I say we follow it and get him back."
"You think it's wise?" Jay asked. "What does it want with Cole?"
"We're not sure why, Jay." Zane chasisted. "But Cole is our brother and I agree with Lucas on getting him back." and spun into his suit. Everyone ninja nodded in agreement and spun into their suits, besides Nya since she couldn't perform Spinjitzu. Even Lloyd, itching to join in on the search, spun into his green gi and pants and threw the mask over his face.
Laurie saw what was happening from her brother and crossed her bo staff lightly across his chest. "Oh no you don't." she said. "You're still injuried and don't want to rethink on the last time this happened." Thinking about Rhea saving him from Skalidor, but injuring him as well. "You're staying here."
The boy looked up at his sister to pout. "Come on, Sis." he argued. "I'm fine and want to help find Cole."
Lucas walked up to his cousin and placed a gloved hand on his shoulder. "We know you do," he agreed. "But I agree with your sister that you're injured to help. Plus we don't know what's out there that can hurt you. I don't like it when something happens to you, Lloyd. Neither does your sister. So as your guardians, we are telling you to stay put. My dad will make sure you're safe while we search for Cole. Understand?"
The green ninja looked up at his cousin's eyes and then at his sister's to sigh and removed his mask. No point of arguing now if they were gonna win. He watched everyone gather around near the hole and jumped down to the dirt ground and run towards Ninjago City. He was now alone. He could hear his uncle calling his name and looked at the city in the distance. He knows his cousin and sister said 'No' but he wasn't keep that promise. He was a ninja too and part of the team. "I'm gonna help no matter what." he said to himself. "Cole is my friend too and I'm gonna help. Whether they like it or not." and walked up to the wall. The green ninja pulled the green breathable mask over his face and jumped down to land clumsily on the ground and ran after the others in darkness.
Oh I enjoy leaving cliffhangers. Especially what happened to Cole. I hoped you enjoyed the chapter and soundtrack that took me forever to find and hey why not use one from the movie. So that worked out perfectly. So what do you think is gonna happen? Don't know, find out next week. Have a wonderful weekend and see you all next week.