Hey everyone, happy Friday and time for a new update. Uh...I didn't know that this one old FanFiction app I have on my phone was able to let me go to my actual online profile on the desktop and let me actually update my story from my phone which I see is actually neat considering I tend to work on Fridays once and awhile. So basically all I'm saying is that I updated during my lunch break from work. Neat. But anyway, enjoy.
Chapter 7: Electrify
Hours have past and hasn't realized how late he was for curfew. When you lived under Sensei Wu's rules, you could not miss curfew or else. And he did not want to endure double chores as he raced down the quiet streets. Darkness laid across the sky without a hint of starlight due to light pollution from city, but the half moon hung brightly through the thin clouds. Streetlights and neon signs buzzed in soft hums with the miniscule gnats buzzing toward the light. And the ocassion car would tend to brighten his path before it became dark after it passed. Such a quiet night in Ninjago City.
Jay paced himself quietly through the quiet streets in the histroical district of the city. He couldn't tell what time it was but he knew it was late late or maybe a little after ten. He couldn't tell unlike Zane would off the bat in his head for being an android. He didn't care though as he jogged while labouring his breath to keep his stamina controlled. He also couldn't help and chuckle past his old apartment he and his friends stayed before winning the Destiny's Bounty back from Garmadon. The blue ninja continued to pace down the streets until he could see the sign of Dareth's dojo and the stern of the Bounty ahead. He smiled as the ship was still docked to not leave him marooned on the streets and eased his jog to stand in front of the building.
He gazed upward to notice how quiet was and wondered if everyone had had retired for the night and figured the dojo was locked and the fire escape would alarm them to think he was an intruder. An wild idea popped to his head and looked at his gloved hands. Since the discovery of his new spider powers, he had a ball to know what he was capable of. Wall climbing, speed and agility, reflexes, web swinging, and his sixth sense. Maybe I should call it...Spidey Senses. Haha! he said to himself and began to run and jumped onto the building. He felt his fingers stick through his gloves and slowly climbed up until he vaulted himself over the ledge to the roof and quickly and quietly ran into the ship.
Darkness surrounded the lightning ninja as he quietly tiptoed to shift his weight on each step of the floorboards to not cause a single squeak. His eyes were his guide as he dare not switch on a light to alarm the ship and quietly transversed to the bunkroom. He stopped as he noticed a light coming from the game room of the ship and heard movement. Must be Kai waiting to kill me. he guessed and quickly began to crawl on the walls and soon the ceiling to quietly crawl past the doorway and landed softly to smirk. I can get use to this. No doubt.
"Jay?" a soft, quiet tired voice said. "Is that you?"
The blue ninja's ears perked to the voice and carefully peeked his head into the room to see Nya lying on the couch with a blue blanket on her. He gazed around the empty room to notice the television was on with the late movies channel. Crud. I forgotten it was movie night. he said to himself. But still after this morning with Kai. Sighing with a blushed smile, the auburn teen quietly walked over to the samurai as she slowly sat up to let him sit with her. He felt relief wash over him as she laid against his chest and wrapped his arms around her. "Hey Nya," he said to greet her compassionately. "Sorry about movie night. And also sorry about Kai. But I have a reason to explain why and it's because-"
"Jay, wait." Nya stopped him. "Kai needs to be the one to apologize, not you. My brother can be overprotective and he was trying to prove a point. Only to himself though. The others understand my side of the story. But we're curious and worried on what gotten into you." Jay, listening to this, became nervous to look away. "I know you're not doing on purpose but still though. So now what was it that you wanted to tell?"
Sighing, Jay gently pushed her off of him to sit up and looked away. He could sense Nya was becoming worried for him. He wasn't trying shut her away, but now felt he needed more time to explain himself and his powers. "Nothing." he lied with a sigh and stood up to head for the door and stopped. Nya could see the mask of worriedness adorn his lightly tanned face and slowly frowned. "I think I need more time to collect myself before I explain myself. Now is just not the time. Can you respect that?" He saw her nod to softly smile at her. "I think I'll spend a couple of days at my aunt and uncle's just until I get my thoughts right.
The samurai nodded to his idea and watched him leave the game room and quickly followed after him. She watched him jump off the roof to gasp and watched him perform Spinjitzu to land softly and walk away. As he left on the quiet streets, she could imagine everything being like a story read as a kid but more into reality as he turned a corner and left. She sighed as she leaned on the railing to watch the lightning ninja leave. "I hope you find what you seek, Jay." she sighed with a small smile. "Or Tiger."
Far across Ninjago City, in the downtown district, stood a large building with green tint color from the lights of the city; Oscorp Corporations. Maxwell Dillions waited rather impatient in the glass elevator as it descended to the lower levels. A file envelope packed with important documents rested underneath his right arm and rolled up his sleeve to breathe more easily. He gazed at his watch wrapped around his left wrist to tap his foot nervously while fixing his glasses. He was nervous about his breakthrough to alternative energy from the Electro Cobrai and after his meeting with the board executives, he could tell he was a mockery to the corporation for his idea. Even though he knew it would work and he created the power grid outside the city. He had to scoff for that. "I'll show them." he grimaced to feel the elevator stop and retained his posture as the doors opened to let more people aboard. "Good evening, Miss Stacy." he greeted Doctor Walker's assistant.
The snow-white haired girl smiled as she entered to hear the doors close behind her. "Main lobby please." she commanded the elevator for it was operated to take commands for the floors. "Evening Mr. Dillions." she greeted back and felt the elevator descend. A minute of utter silence later, she coughed to form a question. "Um...heading home?"
"Wha-oh, no." he replied hastily. "I'm actually heading below ground to conduct more on my research on the alternative energy from living organisms. I just had a meeting with the board members and they said...they can't wait to see how it'll work." He received a silent nod from the girl to smile softly and remained silent to pop another question. Dillions averted his gaze to the small television monitor embedded in the metal wall to watch the late news cast to smile a bit. It casted old footage of the Ninja fighting against the large snake known as the Great Devourer with the blue ninja using a pair of golden nunchucks to electrocute the snake to slither away and also have his body envelope in electric currents. He had to smile to that. "The Ninja of Ninjago." he said quietly.
"Huh?" Gwen inquired to turn to the monitor to watch the past events unfold. She even had to give a sheepish smile to the blue ninja and looked away to hide her blush. She had to marvel on how fasinating it was to meet the Ninja in person. I wonder if the blue ninja is seeing someone. she wondered. Maybe we can do coffee or something. She shook her head to reality to break free from her trace. "Uh...what about them?"
"Their incredible powers." Dillions smiled. "Even the lightning ninja's." He turned his head to receive an odd look from the lab assistant. "With power like that, it could be a huge leap in my research. And maybe I can be like him. Harness electricity and help the world." He heard a small snort that lead to a giggle from the girl. "What? What's so funny?"
Gwen retained her posture while hiding her smile to breathe deeply and exhaled to have her smile gone. She didn't know to believe on how ludicrous the idea was; seemingly impossible. "Nothing." she lied. "But it seems impossible to harness such a discharge. The power stations and your power grid are able to harness the power, but for him." pointing to Jay. "For him, he can't alone." She then pointed at the lightning ninja's golden nunchucks in his hands. "In legends I've been read to, these golden weapons are what gives him the element. With them gone, he's normal. No one can harness electricity alone."
Dillions gazed at the footage to realize she was right. All of the lightning comes from a set of weapons and he was the only wielder. But now that they're gone, he's nothing but a blue ninja, but still can master an ancient form of martial arts. I will find a way to harness such a power in my hands though to help the world. he said to himself. One way or another. Nothing will stop such a goal. He felt the elevator slow beneath his feet to rock a bit and the doors slid open. "Thank you for the information, Miss Stacy." he said contently. "Maybe I just got carried away that's all."
Stopping in mid-track, Gwen turned herself to face the engineer with a small smile. "Don't doubt yourself on what you can or can't accomplish." she said reasssuring. "Many may see you as the odd person with his crazy ideas, but I don't. We all have brilliant minds and ideas to help the world and I know you'll be there for when you're needed." She watched his head perk with wide dark brown eyes. She smiled to make him feel rest-assured. "Do what you think is right for your research. I have faith in you." and turned away with her heels clicking on the tiled floors of the lobby.
Dillions had his head poked out to smile at her for believing in him on his research. At least someone has faith in me. he sighed. Even if it's from a teenanger. He sighed and commanded the elevator to take him to the lowers and felt the elevator descend into darkness with little light illuminating from the walls protuded from the mounted fixtures.
As the elevator descended, Dillions began to recap his meeting with the board members to feel his anger swell up. They found his ideas to be of a joke of using Electro Cobrai as the new power source. Such a rare species with power like that even and still to be laughed at. "They have relied on the Lightning Fields for far too long, they'll see my creation become the solution." he muttered under his breath. "They'll see. I'll become the master of lightning itself." He felt his anger burn to storm out of the elevator to head down the corridors. After swiping his I.D card to a scanner of a lock, he heard a ring and the doors slid open to enter and gazed around to smle slowly in his lab.
Walls weren't bare but hidden by multiple cords and wires and tubes of water that lead to a large circular tank. Diodes and monitors rested in the center of the room to record the needed information when needed daily. The large generator hummed loudly when electricity buzzed through to collect and help the turbines conduct power. But surprisingly in all of the large lab stood the massive cylinder tank of silvery blue eels with electricity emitting from their slim bodies; Electro Cobrai. The dark-skinend man gazed at his work to marvel in hopes for better power and walked over to a monitor attached to the tank and typed away on the keyboard. "Okay my friends," he smiled while typing. "Let's create a better world." and slammed his finger on the Enter key.
Hissing filled the entire lab and the water valves slowly opened to let the creatures hiss loudly and wiggled their bodies to swim through the large tubes around the lab. Electricity conducted off their bodies as they passed through the conductors to catch their volts and transfer them to the generator. The more they passed through, the more electricity built up and fired a bolt of lightning to a small power grid spire to catch and obtain the power. Dillions had to laugh in amazement to victory as his research was gaining its way to fortune and glory. And as a treat for their hard work, he threw in a dead fish for them to feast on. The water churned and bubbled as the eels senseory glands smelled blood to their savaging appetite.
As his friends feasted on, the engineer turned away to head back to a different monitor to observe his studies. He watched the video footage of the Cobrai conducting their electricity from their slim bodies and jotted it down on a notepad. Much more powerful than normal eels than I thought. he guessed and observed the screen more. Power levels, good. Power grid operations, not ready yet. Generator-
There was darkness with a soft whine of the generator powering down with the Electro Cobrai illuminating the entire lab in a soft white-blue light. "Caution. Power cables disabled, please wait for assistants." a voice called. "Caution..."
Dillions sighed while tossing his glasses aside to rub his temple. "Not again." he sighed to the blackout and started to look around for the cable. He gazed around to see sparks burst in short bursts and sighed to it. Not again.
Metal groaned under his weight as he climbed up the ladder to be on a catwalk above his lab and gripped the railing tightly. He drew in a shaky breath as he couldn't see a couple feet in front of him, but was thankful that the Electro Cobrai emitted their light for a slightly lit path. His hands traced over to a computer on the catwalk to tap on the screen to end the warning message. "Yeah yeah I've heard enough." he said the voice ended. He sighed and looked around for his power failure. "Now where are you?" he wondered and spotted the cable looming over the large tank of eels. "Great."
He carefully reached up to the wire to gulp as it was above the cylinder tank of Electro Cobrai swirling around inside. He took a shaky breath and wiped the sweat of his head to carefully stand on the railing as the cable was far from his reach and carefully grabbed both ends to make sure he wouldn't get electrocuted. He knew he was doing a dangerous job. And should've waited for assistants but it had to be dealt with quick. "And then there was power." he said while closing his eyes and plugged the two cables together. He waited for anything awful to happen but he peeked an eyes to see nothing had gone wrong to smile and carefully placed the cable to a resting spot. A rouge volt suddenly danced through his body to have him scream and felt his footing slip off the rails. He knew then realize his fate as he fell with the cables being pulled with him to then splash into a tank of water.
A tank full of Electro Cobrai.
Pain radiated his body as he was being electrocuted with the cables still glued to his hands the creatures hissed to their new prey swarm around him. Some dug their fangs into his body while sending currents of electricity to help kill their prey while some swam to conduct their electricity to help. Dillions thrashed around and screamed to let water fill his lung to increase the risk of death as he was also being strucked by the lightning of his experiments. What a cruel fate to die from. As he screamed in pain, the eels continued to kill the man with their abilities, his body slowly began to turn a new shade of brown to light bluish-purple and absorb the currents into his body after each bite and he felt the gap of his front teeth seal itself and suddenly exerted electricity from his own body to the eels; stronger than theirs. They hissed in disgusted to the power and swam away to let the man drown.
The man now had charred skin submerged from the water to become bouyant to lay on the surface. His entire body was nothing but a crusty shell of charred skin but underneath it was a light blue glow. His light skin was close to an Electro Cobrai after he...fired back. He remained motionless, but his eyes snapped open to reveal very light blue eyes as his skin to scream and felt electricity conduct through his body and expelled to be caught in the power grid. The current became too powerful to withstand to cause the power levels to break and sent large amounts of electricity throughout the building to make every computer and light fixture to black out to cause a panic inside and fired a bolt of lightning from the antenna into the sky. Clouds swirled and absorbed the voltage to cause thunder to rumble and sent discharges around in the sky. All was quiet and city blacked out.
But inside, there was still was power. From a man. He shakingly climbed out of the tank with pieces of his charred skin breaking off like pottery clay to where he stumbled and crawled on the floor. As he stopped, he felt more electricity being absorbed into his body from the many electronics around him and slumped to pass out.
He was a new man.
So what did you think? I know that seemed...rather quick for him to become like that but it was to slowly build tensions one where Jay and him could meet if you know what I mean. ;) Anyway, I don't have much else to say but thank you for reading today's update, have a great weekend, leave a review if you wish to, and I'll see you all next week. :)