Chapter Seven: Scratch that, the End is Here!

~Drake's POV~

I lead the way up through the tunnel onto the roof...just in time for Zane, with Jay and the rest of the elemental masters, to arrive on the scene. 'Good. We're all here. Oh sis, what's the plan?' I signed casually, turning to face Nya.

Nya raised an eyebrow, before lifting up a bright red button. "I have bombs scattered all over the island. Particularly in heavily modernized areas like the underground factory that we just snuck out of. And Chen's manor... No one is to push this button until after we steal one of his ferries to take us back to Ninjago...unless you feel like swimming all the way there?"

"No..." The others hurriedly shook their heads at her. I was too busy counting the seconds that were passing since I called her sis in front of the others.

Skylor turned to face Nya, a timid smile on her features. "I didn't know that Drake had a sister."

"I'm still annoyed that he didn't warn me that I was dating her." Jay whined, though he appeared too calm for just learning this detail.

'Wait! You already know!?' I signed quickly, alarm flashing through me.

Jay tilted his head, confusion clouding his eyes. "Um...didn't you tell Zane without telling Nya that you were telling Zane?"

'No!' If I could scream coherently at him, I would definitely be screaming right now.

"I must apologize. I was able to connect the dots to figure out her identity. My sincerest apologies." Zane cut in, preventing more panic from erupting from his brethren.

I shook my head at him, before turning to face the, still irritated over the whole always had their powers, recently escaped prisoners. 'Who here feels like giving Chen a taste of his own medicine?'

~Chen's POV~

I couldn't understand it. None of my prisoners, not that they knew that detail yet, had picked up any of the tagged weaponry that I had left in the woods for their use. Why, no even grabbed the mech! Shaking my head, I pulled up the screen so as to check where my fool of a daughter was at. Uh... that was weird, she hasn't moved an inch for the last two hours. Pushing a button on my little radio, I spoke to a random henchman. "Skylor hasn't moved in some time. Follow the tracker on her to check to see what is going on here."

"Yes sir!" Now that I've seen to that detail, I can turn my attention back to tracking down my missing prisoners.

Now...where could they be?

~Garmadon's POV~

"Where are they!?" I frowned as I walked into the teacher's lounge, the bell just now had finished ringing for recess.

Misako looked up from the history essays she was grading, looking exhausted. "I'm sure that Wu is about to walk through that door with news..." Said door banged open, announcing a new arrival.

Whirling around, I opened my mouth to demand whether or not he was able to find my son and his friends, only to choke on the words as Dareth strolled in. "Man... who knew science was so interesting!"

"Dareth...have you heard from Wu recently?" For supposedly predicting that Dareth is important, Drake appeared to have made a mistake for once with his 'feelings'. All he's done so far is substitute for the ninjas whenever they couldn't teach their classes.

"Nope! Did you hear about that explosion in the middle of the ocean?" Dareth pulled open the fridge, pulling out a king sized candy bar. Well, that explained where that came from... wait.

"What explosion?" Garmadon lurched to his feet, glancing sideways at Misako as she sprang up, alarm in her eyes.

Dareth looked up, confusion crossing his features. "The one that Nya mentioned right before she disappeared."

That doesn't make any sense...not unless Nya is the mysterious Samurai X...but no. Samurai X could still be seen patrolling the area. At least, Ninjago City. For some reason Drake's mysterious sibling suddenly stopped doing patrols outside of the city...where as before he would go pretty far out looking for anything that the ninja need help with. "I'm calling Mystake."

~Chen's POV~

"Well?" The henchman that I had sent to check on Skylor finally checked in. Honestly, four hours is too long for checking up on one person! Particularly if said person still hasn't moved an inch since last time.

"Um...we found the piece of her uniform that had the tracker in it...it was caught on a bush..." Was it just me, or did he actually sound nervous? I only punish those that disappoint me. "I'm sorry sir... but there's no sign of her anywhere."

"What?!" I clenched my fist, nearly shattering the Elemental Staff in my hand. "How could you have possibly lost her?! Find her! Or else it will be you feeding Clouse's pet snake!" I clicked off the raido, still fuming. That was when something that he had said stood out to me... "Wait...since when did her tracking device snag on a bush..?"

Now really worried, I turned on all of my security cameras, scanning through them hurriedly. The sight that meet me was a smidgen worrisome...and by smidgen I mean there is seriously something wrong here. Five of my men were dangling over a cliff, held in place only by suspiciously fraying ever so slowly vines, another ten were snoring in the courtyard. In fact all of my men, minus the one looking for Skylor, were out for the count in one way or the other...and each of them appeared to have been taken out by one of my prisoners. Speaking of which...unease flooded me upon noticing that none of my prisoners were on camera...even the ones down in the Factory were gone. As was one of my ferries.

No sooner had I noticed that, a loud explosion shook the entire island. I fell rather ungracefully off of my chair, landing on my back rather hard. "What's going on here?!"

~Drake's POV~

"SKYLOR!" All eyes turned to gawk at the redhead, ignoring the smoke and ash filled smudge that used to be Chen's Island.

Skylor slowly pulled her hand back from the detonator that I'm pretty sure that Nya very specifically told everyone not to touch, a blush covering her features. "What? He was a horrible man."

"He's your father!" Zane blurted out, worry creasing his brow.

"So? That doesn't change the fact he's horrible!" Skylor crossed her arms in defiance.

Tox shook her head, before glancing over at Lloyd. "Where do we sign up?"

"Good question. Where do we sign up?" All of the Elemental Masters turned to face my baby brother.

Lloyd blinked slowly, before slowly raising his hands into the air. "Um... what are you talking about?"

"Where do we sign up to become ninjas. Obviously last thing we need is to be on Drake's bad side... so where do we sign up?" Neuro raised one eyebrow up at us, clearly expecting an easy answer.

"We're going to have to ask Uncle Wu about that..." Lloyd muttered under his breath.

Jay whirled around, staring intently at Nya and I. "How come you two didn't respond to Skylor blowing up everything?"

"I said all of that knowing that she'll blow it up." 'It's Skylor...of course she blew up the place that was more of a prison to her than an actual home! That and I suspected that sis wanted Skylor to blow the place up.'

"Seriously?!" Hey! We're all back together again! With extras... ah well, it's not like Sensei is going to kill us or anything. Besides that, if they have ninja training that would really help us out for when it's time to finish the mission. Wait...what!?

A/N: Done! I...yeah... pretty much I didn't want to write this chapter. Um... I also discovered that I either have to go on to Hands of Time next...or do SkyBound with Ronin releasing Nadakhan instead of Clouse's ghost. So please write into the reviews whether or not you want Ronin to start up that mess! Once we get to Hands of Time, we'll be almost over with this entire series... I also think I've got an idea on how the SOGs could still happen in this AU. With Garmadon still helping the ninjas that should be very interesting.

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phetiamwantip: Thank you! Here is the chapter you were so eager for! Almost done here, but definitely still going.

Ghostwriter008: Uh... time traveling robot... nope. Sorry, that is not how Zane figured it out. He'll reveal how he knows all of this same time Kai gets his memories back. I'm imagining a whole lot of head-banging when that happens for some reason. I have no idea why though...

Ghostwriter 008: Are you the same person as Ghostwriter008? How would that work anyways? He finds a random update in his system, mentally activates it...suddenly he has all these memories from his future self... sorry, but no. Interesting idea though!

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