Chapter 7: The Void
The rocket had just exited the planet's atmosphere as the Ninja were now floating in zero gravity. Thunder looked out the ship's porthole and saw that they were now in space. Objects inside started to float around as well as Landrush was floating towards a wall before he pushed himself off it. Frost was using his front hooves as if he was swimming around while Gaia was having trouble with the zero gravity.
Landrush accidentally bumped into Frost as Thunder put his hooves behind his head like he was relaxing. Lloyd was waving his hooves around as Trail and Flash pushed off the wall in zero gravity. "Is this the greatest thing ever or what?" Thunder asked excitedly as he was doing backstrokes.
"Where are you?" Trail asked him rhetorically. "We're trapped in space and you… Where did you go?!"
"Guys, we're in space," Thunder reminded them as he was doing a bit of dance moves. "I thought this stuff only Space Ranger gets to enjoy!"
"Space Ranger is from a comic book, dude. This is real!" Lloyd shouted before he bumped into Gaia.
"And I would like to have gravity back, if any of you wouldn't mind?!" Gaia added as she did not like the zero gravity.
"Well, Lloyd, you got me hooked on the character," Thunder reminded as he did a fighting pose. "Would you lighten up and not step on my dreams of being a real Space Ranger just yet?"
"We have to find a way to take control of the ship," Flash spoke up. "If they get the Golden Weapons back to the Overlord, Equestria doesn't stand much of a chance."
Lloyd and Gaia let out a scream when Flash and Trail bumped into them. "But there's no access to the rest of the ship," Trail pointed out as he rubbed his head. "The only way out is through the same airlock we came in."
"And if memory banks serve correctly, space has a way to take one's breath away, in the negative sense," Frost added while looking out the window.
Meanwhile on the bridge of the ship, a Nindroid pressed on a screen to show coordinates to a comet while the others were hard at work. General Cryptor was sitting in the captain's chair as he was giving orders. "Delta V guidance," he spoke. "Data-point zero thirty. Initiate auto sequencing."
"Yes sir!" Min-Droid saluted before he used the Jets under his hooves to hover over to the front console before activating his gravity servos. He then pressed a few buttons as a timer showed five minutes on a screen.
Back on the bottom of the ship with the Ninja, Frost floated his way over to a console and some of the schematics for the ship as the bottom part of it was blinking. "Enjoy it while you can, Thunder," he told him in a worried tone. "Because in five minutes, the entire ship is scheduled to lighten up. The supplemental boosters are set to detach."
"Uh, I'm a Ninja, not a spacepony," Trail pointed out. "What does that mean?"
"The portion of the ship we are currently stationed will soon detach and we will be abandoned in space with it," Frost explained, which cause worry in the others.
"Hello? Flash? Anypony?" Twilight's voice was heard as a transmission was coming through on the screen. The Ninja saw her and her friends, along with their allies on said screen.
"Can you read me?" she asked as she and the others were back in Borg Tower trying to contact them.
"We read you loud and clear," Flash answered as the group was immediately elated.
"They're alive, They're alive!" Garmadon declared.
"Good to hear you, my little ponies," Celestia said, "We're going to get you home safe, Pixal was able to find the blueprints for the rocket. You need to escape the cargo hold before it's too late."
"How?" Gaia asked.
"Near the front of the ship is an A2 storage compartment. Inside are emergency spacesuits," Wu explained.
"That will be a doozy," Landrush pointed out, accidentally hitting Lloyd in the face "We can't get the spacesuits unless we go outside. Problem is, we can't go outside without the spacesuits. Any other suggestions?" he asked.
"They are completely out of their element," Garmadon whispered harshly. "Even if they get through this, what chance do we have of getting them home?"
"Uh, we can still hear you," Trail pointed out.
"Yeah, we could really use some encouraging words right about now," Lloyd added as they all looked at each other.
"If you cannot change your circumstances, change yourself," Wu told them.
"Hm, can anypony else figure that one out?" Trail asked the others.
"His wisdom usually takes a while to set in," Thunder told him before looking back at the monitor. "But we don't have a while!"
"Frost, you're the only one who can survive outside the ship," Gear told her son. "After all, you're the only one who isn't organic."
"She's right," Frost agreed. "I'm the only one who doesn't need oxygen. I must go alone."
"Are you sure about this?" Gaia asked, sounding a bit nervous for him. "If you end up drifting off, you'll end up keep going. There's no up and down or left or right. You'll just be drifting off in one direction and unable to stop as you drift off into the empty void of space!"
"I'll be fine." Frost then floated his way over to the airlock before opening the door. He gave one last look to his friends before floating in and closing the door behind him.
"Go get 'em, Frost," Trail cheered for him.
"We're counting on you," Gaia added as Frost nodded.
He then floats over to the hatch and opens it, but as soon as he does, all the air blows out into the endless abyss as he grabs onto a loose wire to stay with the ship. Once it was over, he climbed up the booster up to the main vessel.
On the bridge, the Nindroids were coming up on a blue comet. "Approaching comet. Prepare to disengage supplemental boosters," he ordered his droids as Frost peeked his head through the window.
When Cryptor turned his head, Frost immediately ducked down and lost his grip and started floating away from the rocket, "No, no!" he said, futilely trying to grab onto something.
In the booster, the other Ninja saw they were about to be detached.
Frost kept floating further and further away from the ship and started to panic, but then he calmed down, "Come on Frost, you can do this. You can get back," he told himself, closing his eyes before opening them with determination. "Ice!" he called, using his powers like propulsion to fly back to the ship.
He then grabbed onto the wing and just by it he saw the door to the storage compartment. He floated over to it, entering random codes rapidly before getting the door open. He entered to find several spacesuits and quickly grabbed them.
Back with the others they watch the counter to when they would be detached, "Less than 20 seconds left," Gaia said in panic.
"Come Frost, where are you?" Flash asked as the counter was now at sixteen seconds.
"Booster separation, on my command." Cryptor ordered and started counting. "Five."
Outside Frost floated over to the booster's hatch.
"Four."
Back at Borg Tower, the others stood in worry.
"Three."
The Ninja watched the door, hoping Frost would return fast.
"Two." Cryptor then turned to one of his droids, "Disengage," he said.
The droid flipped a switch and the booster detached from the rocket and fell right down, towards Equus below.
At Borg Tower, they all listened and hoped that they got out from the booster in time. "We made it!" Lloyd's voice came through before they all cheered in relief that they were all right. "We have our space suits and found one way to change ourselves."
On the spaceship, the Ninja had their masks over their muzzles as they had their spacesuits on while they were riding on the wing of the shuttle. "At least now we can stay on this ride a bit longer," Lloyd continued as he turned on the lights on his helmet.
"All right, to commandeer the ship, you have to get to the cockpit," Aqua informed them. "You'll find an access patch just ahead of you." The Ninja looked forward and they could see one on the roof of the shuttle.
"You know what's also ahead? An absolute void of nothingness!" Landrush complained. "If any one of us falls off…"
"As I said before: drifted off into nothingness!" Gaia repeated.
"We'll take it slow," Flash assured the two. "Together." The jet on the booster then powered up as the Ninja held on tight to the wing when the ship moved in the direction of the comment.
"I can't wait to see the expressions on the faces of those metal chrome domes when they find out we've stowed away onboard," Thunder told the others as they carefully moved towards the roof.
"They're Nindroids, nimrod. They don't have expressions," Landrush groaned.
In the cockpit, the Nindroids heard the voices intercom.
"Yeah, well Frost has expressions," Thunder pointed out as Cryptor slammed his hoof in rage.
"Frost is not like them, are we seriously having this talk now?!" Gaia asked.
"It's just so quiet, I'm only trying to fill the space," Thunder explained before he realized what he just said as he chuckled a little. "Get it? Space?"
"Would you three just quiet down? We're almost there!" Flash told them.
"We have a few stowaways," Cryptor said before he turned to Min-Droid and a few other Nindroids. "Get rid of them."
"Yes sir," Min-Droid as the other Nindroids saluted before they left the bridge.
Cryptor then contacted the three commanders. "Report," Tirek requested on the other end.
"We are on route to the comet, but the Ninja have hitched a ride on Arcturus," Cryptor explained.
"Oh, of course they did," the Storm King complained.
"Stay the course for Delta V and the Golden Weapons," Pythor told him. "We've already acquired the other items we need for our master."
"The Ninja must be getting help. We'll track down who's aiding them," Tirek added.
"Understood." Cryptor said.
Outside, the Ninja were getting closer to the cockpit. "So much for our surprise attack. Look out!" Landrush yelled as Nindroids came out.
"Eliminate the Ninja!" Min-Droid ordered as they fired lasers at the Ninja.
The Ninja kept their heads down to avoid the laser until on Nindroid deployed their wings and boosters and flew over their heads and in front of Thunder. "Any last words?" he taunted.
Thunder glared, "Yeah, think fast!" he said before pulling back an antenna and flicked it in his face. With the Nindroid stunned, Thunder grabbed his blaster and started blasting the Nindroid.
The Ninja cheered for Thunder after seeing what he did before he started blasting at the other Nindroids. "All right!" Landrush shouted as he started the fire back
"Not Thunder Crack. Space Ranger! Fear isn't a word where I come from!" he recited.
"Oh, man," Lloyd sighed. "I'm sorry for introducing him to that."
"Don't be," Flash told him. "If we can't change our circumstances, that's one way to change yourself."
The Nindroids continued to fire at them before the Ninja pushed themselves towards the roof. Trail then lit up his hoof with fire when they were in formation. "Fire!" He threw a fireball at one of the Nindroids, knocking it off the ship.
Lloyd quickly stepped to one side from a blast before he summoned his light power and created a shield around him.
Landrush then pried a piece of the ship off and launched it at the Nindroids. "Hope we didn't need that," he sassed.
"Wind!" Flash then flapped his wings, blowing the Nindroids back.
Frost then threw an ice ball at them. "Ice!" he shouted as one of the Nindroids was frozen by the ball.
Gaia soon faced a Nindroid and tried to use her powers but nothing happened, "Ugh, no plants in space. All right, let's try, NINJA-" Gaia performed Spinjitzu, but it failed and she got thrown off, "Uh-oh!" she cried.
"Gaia!" Landrush called as Gaia floated away from them.
"Boys, a little help please!" Gaia asked, waving her legs trying to right herself. "Oh, I hate zero-gravity!"
"We can't use our Spinjitzu without gravity," Frost explained, dodging a laser. "There's too little resistance!"
"Too little?!" Lloyd retorted, still holding his shield up. "I say the resistance is a little more than we can handle at the moment!"
Thunder then knocked a Nindroid off its hooves. "Haven't you heard, scourge?! No free rides!" he quoted before kicking the Nindroid away.
"Stop making movie one-liners and HELP!" Gaia yelled as she kept floating away.
"Thunder! Don't let Gaia get away!" Flash ordered as he saw her drift farther and farther away. "Ugh… Ranger! Save her!"
"I'm on it, Commander Sun Blast!" Thunder declared as he did a flip over a Nindroid before kicking it Off. He then grabbed hold of a pipe to blow Min-Droid off. "I just blew you away! Ha, ha!"
"Whoa! Not cool!" Min-Droid shouted before he tried to grab hold of the ship only to grab hold of a cord as he was pulled back. As he was at the back of the ship, the boosters went off right when he was in front of them. "OW, HOT!"
"HELP!" Gaia called out as she waved her hooves. Within her space helmet, she was breathing heavily as she was drifting farther away from the ship. Thunder saw her almost out of range before he saw a tether on the roof of the ship. He quickly attached the tether to Landrush.
"Hey, what are you doing?!" Landrush asked before Thunder jumped behind him.
"Lieutenant Meteor to the rescue!" Thunder declared before bucking Landrush towards Gaia.
"Whoa!" Landrush yelled as he was flown through the void.
"Landrush, help!" Gaia called.
Once Landrush got close to her, he grabbed her, holding her bridal style. "Gotcha!" he said before giving a smirk. "Next time, try not to get too carried away."
Gaia merely blushed and looked away. "Very funny," she huffed with her forelegs crossed as the others pulled them back. "Thanks Landy, you saved my life."
"Hey, no Ninja left behind," Landrush reminded her.
Gaia blushed and looked at him. "Land, once we make it back to Equestria, there's something I should tell you, something important," she told him.
"Okay, Gaia," Landrush told her.
Back on the bridge, the Nindroids saw that they were close to the comet's as Cryptor sat up from his chair. "The Golden Weapons," he said it before he got an idea on how to deal with the Ninja. "Prepare for entry. But take us through the comet's tail."
"General, the comet's letting off a high volume of debris," one of the Nindroids reported.
"Do it!" Cryptor demanded before they complied and steered the ship towards the tail of the comet.
"You are almost to the cockpit," Gear told the Ninja through their communication as more Nindroids came to the roof while the Ninja were behind Lloyd, but their communication started to sound all gargling. "Just make sure to continue your course. And focus on the task ahead."
"Dr. Gear? I'm getting interference," Flash said as he tapped his helmet. "I can't hear you!"
He turned around just in time to see a large rock zooming towards them and banged on the ship. "Asteroids!" Frost gasped as Lloyd was knocked out of his shield.
"Cryptor is steering us into the tail of the comet!" Trail exclaimed.
"Is he mad?! If one of those rocks gets a direct hit then we'll all die!" Gaia said as she ducked another rock, "Find cover!" she told the boys as they ducked down and pieces of the ship flew off.
"Cover? What cover?!" Landrush asked her.
Some of the Nindroids retreated into the Cockpit as the remaining crew stayed to endure the meteor shower.
"Oh, I don't like this!" one Nindroid whimpered as he and another hugged each other in fear.
Thunder laughed, "Hey, ha-ha! See, they do have expressions!" The Nindroids were then blown off the ship, leaving the Ninja behind, "Never mind," Thunder squeaked.
"Hold on tight!" Flash told his team.
Back at Borg Tower, the others were having trouble communicating with the Ninja. "They can't hear us because of the asteroid shower." Gear told them.
"They must be preparing to land." Pixal theorized.
"But we have to warn them about what else is on that comet," Garmadon added.
"Yeah, and they're really bad news." Nyx said in a worried tone.
"Yeah, uh…" Aqua spoke up after looking at the security monitors with a worried look. "We're not alone either." They saw on the monitors that an army of Nindroids were entering the building. On another monitor, they saw they had blown open at the entrance before they saw Pythor, The Storm King, and Tirek enter with the Nindroids.
In the main lobby, some of the Nindroids carried in a big containment unit with Borg with them. "The Transmissions are coming from here." Pythor told the Nindroids.
Within the containment unit, the Overlord was starting to take a form as it was stabilizing him. "Cease the entire building!" he ordered. "This place will play a crucial role to our greater agenda once they return with the Golden Weapons!"
"What are you waiting for, you tin cans?!" the Storm King exclaimed. "Do it!"
The Nindroids scattered across the building as they began to take over.
The Overlord then looked to Tirek. "And Tirek, did you acquire what I requested?" he questioned.
Tirek smirked and held a chest. "I did," he confirmed.
"Excellent," the Overlord mused.
"We must go!" Wu told the others.
"But we have to warn them," Luna reminded him. "We can't just leave them without telling them what else is out there."
"Then grab everything that you can and bring it with us," Twilight quickly ordered before they scattered across the room and grabbed whatever they could.
"Okay, but where do we go?" Sandbar asked. "They'll probably have every exit covered!"
"This way!" Aqua pointed towards the hole that was made when Borg was taken.
The Ninja were not faring any better, as the meteor shower was not letting up. "Looks like we're coming in hot!" Trail exclaimed before Lloyd lost his grip and slipped off the ship.
"Lloyd!" Flash shouted as he grabbed onto him as they others formed a pony chain, "Hold on!" he yelled as they got closer to the comet.
The Ship flew over and under the rock spikes on the comet as they came in for a landing.
Back at Borg Tower, the three villains and the Nindroids reached the top floor, "The Transmission came from here." Tirek said as they walked into the room, only to find it was abandoned.
"Hmph, the cowards have fled." Pythor commented.
The Nindroids carrying the Overlord's container and Borg walked in. "But Arcturus has landed," the Overlord told them. "Prepare the factory," he ordered as they all stepped back and the pod opened. The Overlord breathed heavily as he walked out. He looked to be a pitch-black pony but he had dragon scales on his body while dragging claws on his front legs and a griffin's paw on his back hoods while having a griffin's tail. The Overlord had a black helmet on while the wings on his back look to be dragon-like with claws on the tip of the wings.
"Wow, so this is what you really look like?" the Storm King said after seeing the Overlord's true form. "You look… so awesome!"
"The Golden Master will rise on their return!" the Overlord declared and turned to the chest in Tirek's hands and opened, revealing what remained of the Elements of Harmony crystals. "And with the Elements, I will control not only Equestria, but the lands beyond as well!"
Outside the others heard the Overlord and were shocked by what he said, "He has the Elements of Harmony?!" Twilight whispered.
"Fantastic," Rainbow grumbled sarcastically.
"He's vulnerable! We must strike him down, now!" Luna declared.
Wu shook his head. "No, not until we get the Ninja home safe," he said as Borg heard their voice.
"We must find somewhere they will not find us and get back in contact with them," Celestia added.
"I know just the place," Garmadon said before they felt the platform trembling and looked up to see Borg using his laser eye to cut the wire holding them up.
"We've been spotted!" Pinkie yelled.
"And it's a very long drop!" Gallus pointed out after looking down.
"Don't lose those computer components!" Aqua told the others. "We need them all!" Bored then cut through the wire as the one side of the platform broke off. They tried to hold on as they fell back before a component Pixal held onto bounced off when she fell back. She quickly caught it as Sensei Wu noticed a platform just overhead.
"Hurry, use our momentum. Together," he told the others as they used their momentum on the platform to swing back while Borg was cutting the other wire. "Now!" Wu shouted when it was cut and they all jumped to the platform. Wu however was falling before his brother quickly jumped off and caught him. Celestia and Luna used their magic to hold on to Garmadon when he did.
"We got you, brother!" Garmadon grunted as the Nindroids started to fire lasers at them. Twilight put up a shield around them as they were pinned down.
"Great, now we'll never get out of here!" Smolder complained.
"Leave that to me," Pixal told them as she closed her eyes and accessed the Borg system.
"Get them, you imbeciles!" Pythor ordered just before they heard a HoverCopter coming up and firing back at the Nindroids.
"Good thinking, Pixal!" Gear praised when she saw the HoverCopter. "You're still linked into the security forces."
"Now let's get out here!" Rainbow exclaimed as they jumped onto the hover copter and flew away with the components.
"I hope the city can survive without us," Garmadon said as he had a bad feeling what they have in mind for Borg Tower
"So too the Ninja, I pray," Wu added as they flew off.
Meanwhile in space, the shuttle crash-landed on the comet as it had a smoke near the boosters with large jagged rocks around. The Ninja also had made as they were just a mile away from the shuttle as they are seen on the ground. They all set up as they were lucky to have survived the trip. The lights on their helmets flickered on as they stood up. "We survived!" Thunder cheered before he started to kiss the ground through his helmet.
"Twilight, are you there?" Flash asked as he tried to use the communications but no one responded. "Rainbow Dash? Cozy? Wu? Anyone?"
"Maybe the others didn't make it," Trail guessed as they walked towards the shuttle. Once they were inside, they made it towards the cockpit only to find it completely abandoned.
"They're all gone," Frost told the others as they walked in.
"They must have already left for the weapons," Gaia theorized as they looked around.
"Quick, let's take the ship before they get back," Thunder told them as he rushed towards the control panel, only to let out a groan in frustration. "Agh, they took the launch key."
"Are you telling me this entire ship starts up with a simple little key?" Trail asked as he was sitting in the captain's chair.
"Come on, tell me one of you knows how to hotwire this thing," Landrush said as he rushed to one of the controls.
"No time, we'll just have to stop Cryptor and his droids before they can leave with the weapons," Flash told him.
"Boys, take a look at this," Gaia said from down the hall as the boys followed her to the launch bay and found a vehicle. "They took most of the Planetary Rovers. Looks like they left one, along with some tracks to follow," she pointed to outside where they saw tire tracks.
The Ninja piled into the rover and drove off but it was a bit of a tight fit, "Gah! Move your gas tank, I can't see!" Thunder complained to Trail.
"Your blaster is in my rib!" Trail told Flash.
"That's not a blaster, that's my wing!" Flash told him.
"Ow! Frost, you're pulling my tail!" Gaia told Frost.
"I thought that was the accelerator," Frost said sheepishly.
They yelled as they made a jump and kept rolling until they came upon a cave with golden glow. "This must be where the Golden Weapons landed," Flash said as they came to a stop.
The Ninja climbed out the rover and went into the cave. Once inside they found the Nindroid excavating a molten ball of gold, "There are the Weapons!" Gaia said quietly.
"And there's the key!" Trail pointed to the metal object to around Cryptor's neck.
"But which do we grab?" Thunder asked.
One of the Nindroids looked at the golden ball with awe. "Oohh, shiny," he said, reaching for the ball.
But Cryptor panicked, "No don't-" He could not finish as just went the Nindroid touched it he exploded and the rest of them back away. "Only the Overlord can withstand the power of all the weapons combined. No droid directly touches the orb," he ordered as the Nindroids wisely listened.
"Those are the Golden Weapons, all right," Thunder stated.
"Yes, but how do we get them?" Gaia wondered before she noticed something crawling on Frost's hoof, "EEK! Frost! On your hoof!" she shrieked quietly.
Frost glanced at his hoof and saw a small green beetlelike creature with red eyes. "Hello there, little friend," he greeted with a small smile.
"Aww, would you look at that?" Thunder said as he took the creature from Frost. "Can you believe it?! It's an extra-Equustrial lifeform!"
"It's a creepy, crawly bug!" Gaia retorted as she hid behind Landrush. "And it's not important right now, so get rid of it!"
"But there's so much we could learn from it, so much we could teach it. I'm gonna call him 'Glowie'," Thunder said as Glowie crawled on his leg before taking flight. "Aw look, Glowie can fly. Heh, how cute," he laughed.
"More like creepy," Gaia shivered before Glowie landed on her helmet and her eye twitched. "AHH! Get it off! Get it off!" she begged as she waved her hooves at Glowie.
"Shh! Don't worry, I got it," Landrush said as he plucked Glowie off Gaia. "There, all gone!"
Gaia gave a breath of relief as she rubbed her head on Landrush. "My hero," she gushed as Landrush smiled embarrassedly.
Flash chuckled a bit before he heard his communicator gargling, "You must not disturb the alien Pzzt-ife!" Celestia said through the static. "They're extrem-Pzzt- Da-Danger-pzzt-ous! Can you hear me?"
"I couldn't make that out Celestia. What did you say?" Flash asked with a raised brow.
The Mane Six, Young Seven, and their allies arrived at Garmadon's monastery as they set up the equipment in the training room trying to communicate to them. "The alien life. They're very dangerous," Celestia repeated as Misako brought some tea while on the monitor showed the alien life that Thunder called Glowie.
"A few years ago, scientists studied a meteorite that had fallen into Equestria," Twilight told them as she was reading out of a book. "It most likely came from the same comet you're on."
"Inside the meteorite, there were the fossilized remains of some kind of parasite that feeds on metal alloys," Twilight continued as more of the same bug started to crawl up Frost's and Thunder's legs.
"They tickle," Frost commented as both him and Thunder started giggling.
"Stop it, silly Glowie!" Thunder laughed as more started to swarm around them.
"Ow!" Frost grunted when he felt one of them bit him.
"Do you hear me?!" Flash heard Twilight called out. "Whatever you do, don't come in contact with the parasite. They eat through metal!"
"THEY WHAT?!" Gaia shouted without her accent as her eyes widened with fear.
"Agh! They're eating through my exoskeleton!" Frost shouted as he saw a few of them chewing all over him.
"Bad, Glowie! Bad!" Thunder shouted as they were all screaming to get these little alien bugs off them. Cryptor and the other Nindroids overheard their commotion with the alien parasites as they saw them panicking.
"They're on me too!" Gaia shouted before they all started to run away from the bugs.
"They're everywhere!" Thunder shouted. One of these parasites flew over towards Cryptor and freaked him out.
"Ah! Agh!" he shouted before he swatted that parasite often while a few others landed on the golden ball before they disintegrated. "The gold must remain intact. Back to the ship!"
Their space vehicles started up and drove away as they hauled the golden ball on one of them.
"What do we do? Any ideas, guy?!" Frost asked as they continued to try and swat the parasites off them.
"Space! Why did we come to space?!" Gaia complained without her accent. "If I could change any circumstance, I'd change ever coming here in the first place!"
"If you can't change your circumstances, change yourselves!" Lloyd declared.
"Now's not the time to be quoting Wu," Thunder told him.
"No. I finally see what he means," Lloyd corrected. "This is just like the Starteeth. Come on, I've got an idea." They followed Flash back to their rover they drove on with the parasites following them.
The Nindroids were on their way back to the ship with the golden orb hauling behind the one in front. The Ninja drove theirs as they were following them close behind. "Ninja!" one of the Nindroids told Cryptor when he spotted them. Cryptor looked back and let out a grunt as he saw them when he looked out the window.
"Get them!" he ordered before the Nindroids started to fire blasters at them. The Ninja swerved from side to side to dodge each blast being fired at them as they continued to drive on.
"Sensei meant instead of focusing on how wrong things are, focus on what's right!" Lloyd explained as he steered the rover with the parasites following behind. "We have to think positive! Those parasites aren't just a menace, they're a weapon! Attack!"
The parasites flew past them as they started to go after the Nindroids and their rovers. Some of the Nindroids started freaking out as the parasites swarmed all over them before one of them bumped into another. That bump caused them both to crash as the one that bumped into them still swerved with the parasites all over them. Soon that one drove off the cliff as the Nindroids on board screamed when they fell.
The rest of them continued onwards as the parasites were still on them and the Ninja were catching up. Cryptor spotted a large gap in the road as he didn't want to slow down or stop so the Ninja could get the gold. "Go!" he ordered the driver which surprised him. The driver shook his head as he was frightened. "What?!" Cryptor then bucked the driver out before he took the wheel and pressed down the gas.
They then jumped the gap with four of the Nindroids on board falling off. The other Nindroids then jumped the gap but only two of them made it as one crashed.
The Ninja soon saw the gap up ahead as they started screaming before Lloyd pushed down the gas pedal to go faster. They soon jumped the gap and flipped in the air before they made it across, causing them to cheer. "Now let's go get that launch key!" Trail declared as they got out of the rover, minus Lloyd, while the Nindroids resumed to blast at them.
"NINJA, GO!" the Ninja declared as they did Spinjitzu, minus Frost, and jumped towards the rover in front of them.
"Ice!" Frost froze one of the Nindroids in the front seat before ducking under some blast from a couple of them. He then kicked one of them off the rover. As it fell off, Lloyd gave it a kick when it came straight towards him as the others knocked the rest of them off. Trail punched one off as both Flash and Gaia flipped two more of them off. Landrush grabbed two of them by the blaster before slamming them together as Thunder blocked punches from another before kicking him off.
"Hello!" Flash greeted the driver up front before he punched him off. Landrush, Thunder, and Gaia then did Spinjitzu back to Lloyd as the other three jumped towards another while the other they just finished crashed. Trail then tossed the driver of the rover he was on out.
"NINJA, GO!" he shattered as he spun his way back to the others while Flash and Trail took care of the second rover before it hit a bump. It caused them to go up in the air as they were beating the two Nindroids. They then slam them into the ground before Frost froze the one behind them and knocked the two Nindroids into the gold orb that disintegrated the two.
They quickly grabbed hold of the straps holding the gold as it was bumping alongside the road. They lost their grip as they fell back to the others before they used their powers to get on top of the rover. The only ones on board the rover with the gold were Cryptor and Min-Droid as Min-Droid looked nauseous as he was holding on to the side. Trail then spun his way over to that rover before he got on top of Min-Droid as he faced Cryptor.
"You can keep your gold!" he told Cryptor before he snatched the launch key from his neck after he kicked him in the face. "I got it, let's get out of here!" The others drove up beside Cryptor as Trail jumped back on.
"NINJA, GO!" They declared as Cryptor came to before he screamed when the rover he was on drove into a wall, flipped and landed upside down. The Ninja laughed at him as they continued driving back to the ship.
"Ninja!" Cryptor grunted as Min-Droid groaned from that crash.
The Ninja laughed and cheered as they got the launch key for the ship. "We're home free!" Thunder told the others with excitement. However, their celebration was short-lived when Lloyd stopped the rover and saw the ship being eaten away by the parasites.
"The Rocket. It's…destroyed," Lloyd pointed out when they saw what remains the ship.
"Then how are we gonna get home?" Gaia asked.
"There's no way back," Flash said as there is now no way off the comet.
"You're not the only ones who can adapt!" They turned around and saw Cryptor and the Nindroids, along with the gold before they saw them take off. They saw that their hooves are really jets and are using them to fly off with the gold. "So long, Ninja!"
"No!" Lloyd shouted when they saw the Nindroids fly back to Equestria with the gold.
"They got away. We failed," Flash radio in and told the others. "I repeat, they got the Golden Weapons."
"Are you on the rocket?" Aqua asked in hope that they are. "Can you stop them?"
"No. The rocket's destroyed," Flash answered in despair. "We're not coming home." This has left them in shock as the Ninja are now stranded on a comet far from Equestria. Now that the enemy had the gold and the elements needed to turn the Overlord into the Golden Master, this just leaves one beckoning question: How will they return to Equestria to save it from its fate?