Hey everyone happy Friday, I always have nothing to say for some reason but I do have a little soundtrack I thought would be a nice touch and a little funny for this small moment in Jay with his new spider abilities. Take it from me, a guy who listens to soundtracks because they're amazing to listen to. Anyway the link for YouTube is, watch?v=2OX0UVCzCXc and when you see the mark, *, enjoy it.
Chapter 8: Names and Costumes are Difficult
Quietness filled the small bedroom of the condominium complex. Jay's hazel eyes just stared at the ceiling of his old bedroom from when he visited his aunt and uncle to sigh the number of times he lost count to. After his fight with Kai yesterday and the discovery of his new spider abilities, he couldn't bring himself out to admit it. He felt it was a secret to be kept, but wanted to reveal it to everyone and be a big help to the team. But still though. After his choice to be with his relatives for a couple of days, he was thankful they brought him in; course he had to lie a little at first but they were family. The lightning ninja sighed yet again as he wish to tell Nya the most, but couldn't. Why does having amazing spider powers and can't talk about it be so hard?
He blinked for the first time in ten minutes ago to feel a small sting of dried eyes and gazed around his small bedroom to smile at least. It was everything exactly how he had left it the last time in years; except for the clothes on the floor of course. Walls were painted blue, similiar to his blue ninja attire color, and covered with many blueprint designs over the years. Some were sloppy at first while they began to develop over the years to become clearer. His bed had also reminded him of his bed on the Bounty, but nothing like a bunkbed. His smile slowly vanished as he felt bored and lifted his gaze to the clock that was by the headrest to sigh as it was six in the morning now.
He snorted a little to the time to realize he stayed up all night without any sleep. Maybe a nap, but it lead him to the same nightmare like last night. What could it mean? The auburn turned his head from the clock to stare at his window across from him to see it was dark still for being the autumn season. Everyone would still be asleep to the time. He sighed again to slump his head on the pillow to topple his hair a little. "Why does having spider powers and keeping secrets have to be so hard?" he wondered quietly. "I just wish I could show Ninjago my powers somehow, but how?"
How indeed.
The blue ninja gazed around his room and stretched his arms out to stifle a yawn and felt his fingers brush against something thin and papery. Interested, Jay rolled himself over to see the item was a comic book he hasn't seen in years. It was an old Starfarer comic from when they started publishing the books when he was about Lloyd's age at twelve. That was like six years ago. The Ninja of Lightning stared at the illustration cover of Fritz Donnegan in an odd wardrobe of a costume than his normal space attire. Colorful designs to have him in while he was perched on a ledge to gaze at a futuristic city below him. An idea buzzed in Jay's head as he read on to see him donned on a mask to conceal his identity and fight against the villain to have a new smile tug on his face as it became clear to him. "That's it!" he squeaked quietly to not disturb the household. "My powers can make me a superhero. My childhood dream! What should I call myself? Bugman, no lame. The Mysterious Spider-wait! This is better. Spiderman."
*He let the enthusiasm swell into his chest with excitement. The name suited him for having spider abilities. And many may call him that or maybe the Sensational Spiderman. Fantastic Spiderman. Or even the Amazing Spiderman. Okay now he was starting to get ahead of himself. He felt the excitement slowly deplete to relax himself and looked back at his comic to see what he was missing to chuckle now as he found it. Every hero needs a name and a colorful costume design. he inquired and in no time grabbed a notebook, a marker, and turned to a fresh page to tap on his ideas and began working.
The felt tip brushed the black ink as he slowly sketched his ideas. His outline design of a hero with wings made him groan to tear out the page and began a new one. Page after page, the lightning ninja started to become frustrated to where in the world could he stick out. No wings, capes, or gadgets. But needs color, red and blue he felt like, and a simple logo and mask. Crumpled paper balls had littered the carpet floor and bed as Jay slowly colored the final sketch of his hero identity. Red on the full body suit and mask with blue on the legs from his waist to the mid-calves while the rest had red, sides and back. A black web pattern encased his body that only had red except his eyes were white and shaped as curved triangles. And a black spider logo with four of its legs raised on his chest and the rest climbing down to his abdomen. Jay smiled to his finished work as he thought it was perfect.
He set the design aside to lean back against his pillows and stretched his tired muscles to stifle a yawn and blinked toward the time. It was almost noon. He didn't realize he had been working on his costume nearly half of the day to rub his eyes to see if he was dreaming but he was awake for sure. Everyone in the complex would be awake and moving around while they think he was sleeping still. "Wow." he gasped. "Making Spiderman can really pass the time." He set the notebook aside to then lift his wrist up to stare at the white blister or whatever it was that gave him the ability to fire web strands. His hazel eyes stared past to caught sight of his sketch firing webs from his wrists and averted his gaze away to stare at a can of soda on his desk. He smirked as he knew what had to be dealt with.
Target Practice.
He quickly sprung to himself to land in a crouch on the covers and held his right hand out. And with a quick aim, he pressed his middle and ring finger into his palm with his other digits stretched out to fire the sticky strands. Thwip! He felt the tickling feeling from his wrist to fire the strands at his target but missed and collided with a small toolbox to clatter the tools everywhere on the desk. He groaned and carefully took aim to fire another strand and finally made his mark and pulled it back to have it fly back into his hand. And for a reward, he took a sip of it. "Haha, easy!" he laughed and fired another strand of webs. But it struck onto a vase he made on a shelf and pulled it back. He choked a bit on his soda to quickly duck his head and watched it shatter behind him. "Great." he scoffed. "That was my favorite one even."
Knock-knock-knock!
"Jay?" Mary's voice rang. "Everything all right in there?"
Jay gulped a bit to realize how much commotion he caused after it and quickly climbed out of bed to open his door ajar. "Y-Yeah, everything is alright." he lied hesitantly. "I-I've been up for some time now."
Jay's aunt hefted the laundry basket she had rested on her hip to squint her light blue eyes to look past him. Jay could see she wasn't convinced the slightest to become slightly nervous. "What's going on in there then and why the loud noises?" she wondered quickly to know an answer. "The last time this happened, we had the fire department over after that small robot malfunction. I don't want anymore holes in my floors."
"I can rest assure you that it's nothing like that." the blue ninja said defensivly. "I'm just doing some stretches like I do at the Bounty. And I bumped the vase. Everything is a-okay."
Mary stared into her nephew's eyes to roll hers to sigh. She rather not bother with it now. "Fine. Clean it up then and yourself as well." she said. "Your uncle and I are going to take you out for lunch today since we never got to before. Capesh?"
Jay's head quickly nodded in haste while giving her a solute as a promise. He watched her turn on her toes to leave for the stairs and quietly slammed his door to lean back to breath. That was definitly close. If she had walked in, he would've been hooped. No one can know, not even his aunt. He knew how she can suspicous and optimistic to many of his activities happening around in the complex with him and his uncle. Whether it's plans on inventing or starting a war zone in the living room. Things turn out for the worse for the both of them. Hey, he still loved her as his aunt, she just can't know anything about this one at all. Sighing, the Ninja of Lightning turned his head to the mess of webs he fired before to gaze down at his wrists to chuckle. "Oh yeah, I got this in the bag." he smirked.
Amazed. Surprised. And even scared. After Dillions regain consciousness, he stared at his light blue skin to hyperventilate a little to his new form. Amazed that he managed to survive an attack from the Electro Cobrai after he fell. Surprised that he wasn't killed and transformed into something new. But was scared to what he had become and was worried he could harm someone. Those three words in his head described him on how he felt to this new and terrifing transformation. He didn't know what to do.
The new man stared at his hands and looked over his shoulders to see the eels that had changed him hovering by him as he leaned against the tank. He could hear them hiss softly while flashing their fangs with bits of electrical currents emit from their slim bodies. He somehow could feel their electrical fields as they stared at him and knew why. They want his field as it was stronger than theirs and Electro Cobrai have the tendesy to be attracted to higher levels of electricity like a magnet on metal. The electrical engineer gazed at his left palm to see small currents of electricity run through his transparent like body and then the eels to see from his new vision of electricity currenting through the room. "You gave me new life and new abilities." he spoke to them, voice reverbing in a electric echo. "I think I should repay you for what you have done to me. By making me into a monster!" and held out his left hand.
Electricity danced across his body and then blue sparks soon appeared on his hand. Volts of plasmic lightning struck from his fingertips as he felt the current tickle feeling flow from his body. The volts struck the water to which the Electro Cobrai danced in joy to feel the generated current absorb into their bodies to hiss in delight and swam around in the tank. Dillions lowered his hand to stare at it and watched the rare eels swim past his conductors to emit more electricity into the power grid above him. He watched in amazement that he had an ability to conduct his own energy and when he released to lash at the eels, it gave them more energy to create power. He felt pride to what he accomplished, but horried to what he had become. "I don't understand." he whispered to have his voice revert softly and watched the eels gather around. "I should be dead and yet...you gave me new life. There is something rare and extradorinary about you."
The eels simply swam still, not caring to listen but want more power. Dillions gazed at his labs to walk over to his laptop while his bare feet crunched on the dried shell of what used to be his old skin and flipped the small computer open. But before he could lay a finger on the keyboard, small static sparks sprung from the keys and absorbed into his skin. He felt the tingling feel swim through his body and then somehow stored like a battery would to blink. He tried in many attempts to turn it back on but sighed as he hypothesised he had drained it for good. Not only he could conduct electricity, but absorb it as well. "Is there any way I could keep myself from this?" he asked the eels who were still staring at him. "No. Great."
What was he going to do now? He was a whole new person with electricity consumed into his power to can be absrobed and created. He was a living battery. How were people going to see him now as well if he stepped out of the lab? A monster and freak? Or himself? He doubted it would be the second as his gut was saying to him as it would the first one; a freak. He sighed while rubbing his now bald head after his short hair was gone to feel static sparks dance to feel an idea flash in his mind. "That's it." he gasped. "I must find the lightning ninja. Only he could help me control these powers." Problem was that where could he find him though? And would he seem him as a threat? This was going to be difficult than he thought.
BANG-BANG-BANG!
Three loud, reverbrating knocks on the metal doors made the electric man snap his head in worry. "Maxwell, open up!" Octavios' voice shouted, muffled and worriedly. "The building is out of power and the board thinks you had something to do with it. They think you're overpowering the system to destroy Oscorp. But I'm here to see if you're not causing it to help clear your name. Please help open the door before the arms do."
Panic rushed into the man's eyes after hearing the call. His partner was going to see him as a new thing and wouldn't know how to expect him to be like. What was even worse that the company thinks he doing something to the outage of the whole building. Was it really him that caused it or not? So much was happening to him to figure it out another time, now he had to leave. He couldn't let the people of Oscorp see him and maybe perform experiements on him.
He needed the lightning ninja. And fast!
He heard the metal doors whine as two metal claws broke through the seam and were slowly being pried. Gasping, Dillions scanned around to find another exit and watched currents of electricity flow through the walls and lead themselves to a vent above the power grid. He saw his chance now. He heard two more claws breach the doors to slowly hiss the door more widely to have him panicking. Luckly the doors had an electromagnetic lock, but still the arms were much stronger.
He quickly scaled up the ladder to reach the next level that lead him to his fall with the Electro Cobrai to reach the ledge with the vent across from him. He felt lost and stuck as the vent was bolted to the wall and watched as the metal claws were almost through to breach the doors open to have energy swell into his hands and felt it released without his command to strike the grate off the wall and clattered onto the floor. He felt confused to what happened, probably adrenaline making him scared to do this but he saw his chance. He quickly stepped back to the wall and breathed in deeply to sprint across and jumped over the large tank below him. He met his target but came close to slam his chest on the ledge to gasp a breath of air that left his body but quickly climbed in to feel himself slipping into darkness and slumped as he fell into light.
He slowly picked himself to dust himself off to gaze at the smooth round walls and felt a breeze to turn and watched a fan rotate softly behind him. He realized he had slid into one of the building's exhaust vents that released warm air to the city to ventilate the entire building and slowly began to follow the opposite flow to hopefully find an exit. The remaining thing that in his mind was that he had a new life to hide away for good. And even find the blue ninja.
Metal whined loudly as four metal claws wretched the door open and skiddered on the metal floor as they carried their creator into the lab and gently rested him down. Doctor Octavios gazed around the empty lab that he had given to his assistant with Doctor Connors by his side. The mechanical engineer and herpetologist gazed around to hear any form of communication from Dillions, but heard nothing. "Maxwell?" Octavios called out. The robotic arms stared at the Electro Cobrai to study the eels inside.
"I don't think he's here, Otto." Connors observed as he glanced through a clipboard with notes in it and over to a computer monitor attached to the Cobrai tank. He saw that there was still power to it and tried to review the tapes but nothing came on screen. He found it odd, as well with the dried dirt on the floor everywhere. He glanced at the tank to hear the eels hiss softly at the arms. But something then caught his eyes floating on the surface. "Otto, I think I found something." he exclaimed. "Think you can get it without getting caught by the eels?"
Octavios looked at him oddly but looked up to see what he found and his eyes widen to what he saw. Quickly, he sent his thoughts to the mechanical arms and the upper right carefully climbed up to the top of the large circular tank and quickly snapped the item before an eel could latch its teeth and released it to land in Connors' good arm. Both stared at the thin plastic card to blink as he flipped it over. "It's Maxwell's badge." he gasped to stare at the tank and saw a long electical cord broken in the tank to have an idea what happened.
Connors felt his heart tug a little to bow his head with his friend. Even the arms lowered the claws as if they had heads to join them. They now understood his fate. "He must've slipped while trying to fix something." he concluded with a mournful sigh. "A loss now to our friend and partner. We all knew how dangerous these Electro Cobrai are and now our friend and a brilliant man is gone." He and Octavios sighed in sorrow to turn and exit the lab. "If only he could hear us now to know that we believed in his works. But I now think it should be scrubbed so no one else meets his fate."
"Yes." the engineer agreed and stood in the elevator shaft since they couldn't use the elevator down. With power out, he had to use a second method. Three claws each grabbed onto a slab of concrete while the fourth gently wrapped itself around the herpetologist's waist and both began scaling up to the lobby floor since they didn't have stairs even. Bits of dried stone fell after each claw landed onto their slab. "The project should be scrubbed and we will surely miss our friend and partner. Doctor Walker is going to be upset to hear the news. The whole company will as well."
In fairness, that last part to me wasn't the greatest I did but trying to do other people than one of the ninja is a bit hard. But hey, I got what I wrote down before and imagined it as I wrote so whatever. For those that listened to the soundtrack on a computer while reading it, I hope you enjoyed it and maybe got a little laugh out of it because I did a little. But anyway, I hope you enjoyed the update, leave a review if you wish to, and have a great weekend and I'll see you all next week. :)