(A/N: If anyone likes to, check out a piece on my deviantART page: TEK1996, that I did for RPM Shadow's story, Ninjago The Elements, which I had a small hand in giving them the idea)
Lloyd, Kai, Jay, Cole, Nya, Geoff, Gewuji and Okino ran along the cliffs, holding their ropes and grapple guns before Lloyd, Kai, Cole, Nya and Geoff summon their hoods, attach the rope to their grapple guns, skid to a halt, aim at the top of the cliffs and fired. Once the grapples had reach the top and latched on, they start to climb the ropes while Red Visors were shooting at them. Kai scoffed as he climbed. "They're too late!" He said before stopping to give them the bird. "See ya, fellas!" He sarcastically called out. The Red Visors crouch a little before blue exhaust flames appear underneath their feet and they start to fly over to them. "What? I didn't know they could do that!" He resumes climbing as the Red Visors kept flying up.
"Faster!" Lloyd yelled before they start to keep climbing, some nearly hitting Gewuji, who stops out of shock.
"We're sitting ducks up here!" She yelled. The Red Visors stops in front of her and aim their blasters at her. "Oh, crap." Lloyd summons and activates his sword as the others do so as well. Okino notices them before getting out his sword, sighing as he did so as a blaster shot each hit the cliffs side by side of him. Lloyd runs along the cliff wall while still holding his rope to avoid blaster shots from the Red Visors before jumping to swing at one about to shoot Nya and strikes it down while stopping next to her as two Red Visors come at their left, only for Geoff, with his ankles tied by the rope, swings down to them, striking down both Red Visors before quickly getting up to grab hold of the rope, untangle himself and stop on the other side of Nya. More Red Visors soon show up and start to fire at them before they start to swing to strike a few of them, making them disappear before they came back at the cliff wall to spin their weapons about to deflect a few blaster shots from some drones. Jay swung his kusarigama to deflect a few blaster shots before swinging around to strike a Red Visor, making it disappear. One Red Visor charges at Lloyd, who runs along the cliff wall, narrowly avoiding two blaster shots before raising his sword and struck it while passing by. The Red Visor didn't realise until its helmet comes off and it disappears while its helmet falls down, passing through the clouds.
Down on the ground, Shifty was counting his credit total before the helmet lands in front of him, scaring him. "Hey!" He said. "Oh, hah!" He picks it up. "Hello. We'll just put you right over here." He puts the helmet on a nearby hanger.
Back above the clouds, a Red Visor fires at Cole, who deflects its shots, until another one comes up behind him and strikes him, making him let go of the rope and fell as he lets go of his scythe as well, passing Nya and Geoff. "Cole!" They both yell.
"Not again!" Cole said to himself, remembering how he fell into the Oni cloud before noticing a rope coming towards him, and he quickly grabs hold of it. He then faces the cliff wall, puts his feet onto it and drags along it as he slid down before eventually managing to stop. He looks up to see at the very top of the rope was Gewuji, who waves at him. "Thanks, Gewuji!"
A drone passes through the clouds, which she notices. "Cole, watch out!" She yelled, pointing at it. But it passed by before it shot the rope over Cole, weakening it. "Cole, the rope is breaking!"
Cole shrieked at the news before he started to climb it. Nya, who blocks a Red Visor's blaster, notices the rope about to snap. "Cole, hurry!" She yelled.
"I am hurrying!" He replied as he half climbed and half ran up the cliff wall while avoiding the drone's shots.
"Hurry faster!" Nya has the Red Visor by its neck.
"Do you want to switch places?"
"No."
"Then don't rush me!"
A drone comes up to Okino, who was looking before it fired at him, but Okino simply moved his sword to deflect the shots, one ricocheting and hitting the drone, which started to descend before disappearing. Another drone notices Cole still climbing the weakened rope before it fired at him, scaring and making him swing a little. "Stop shaking the rope!" Gewuji yelled, noticing it about to snap. "It's gonna break!"
Kai jumps and kicks a Red Visor before placing his feet on the cliff wall and notices Cole moving about, trying to avoid the drone. He immediately lets go and freefalls down to it. "Kai!" Geoff said as he passed him, Lloyd and Nya.
The drone moves close to Cole, until Kai lands on top of it and stabs it, making it briefly descend before stopping. "Ha, gotcha!" He yelled before the drone started to shake and fire in random spots, trying to get him off of it.
The drones wild firing hits a Red Visor that was facing Jay before it disappears, and he looks at it. "Ya, nice!" He said.
Cole keeps moving up the rope until he reaches the weakened part and it snaps, causing him to fall and scream, but he quickly jumps to try and grab it, but was too far. Fortunately, Gewuji had slid down and quickly caught his hand, making him sigh out of relief. "Thanks again, Gewuji." He said.
A Red Visor started to fire at them before Gewuji throws Cole back to his own rope, and he, Lloyd, Nya and Gewuji start to resume climb their ropes as another one joins it before Kai, on the drone, flies up behind them and fires at them. "Ha, yeah!" He said. "How do you like that, huh? Not so fun, is it?" The drone starts to shake wildly, scaring him a little. Lloyd, Jay, Cole, Nya, Geoff, Gewuji and Okino kept trying to deflect blaster shots from more Red Visors before Kai swoops in behind them and makes the drone fire at them, making them disappear. He then noticed the last Red Visor clashing with Geoff. "Come on. Just a little to the left!" He makes the drone fires, and the shot hits one of the Red Visor's boosters.
It starts to fall as Geoff quickly dispersed his naginata and grabbed hold of it. "Oh, no, you don't." He said. "You won't get away that easy!"
"What the hell are you doing?" Jay asked as he and the others put their weapons away.
"I think Geoff has an idea." Lloyd replied, knowing what Geoff plans to do.
They resume climbing up the cliff wall as Okino, who was the first to reach it, looks down the cliff with sadness and turns away before Jay reaches the top, followed by Gewuji, who catches the Red Visor that Geoff throws once he reached the top, followed by Lloyd and Nya before Cole started to climb up and Lloyd holds his hand out to him. He takes it and is pulled up as the drone Kai was riding was shaking rapidly, trying to get him off of it, while he yelped before stopping to spin and Kai pulled out his sword from it before it disappeared and Kai falls down. Nya dispersed her hood to check up on her brother, who dispersed his hood as the others do so as well. "Whoa." He said before turning to his sister and gets up to see Lloyd, Jay, Cole, Geoff and Gewuji looking at the captured Red Visor. "What do we have here?"
"A Red Visor." Okino replied.
"It looks like it's a robot." Nya said, kneeling down to it.
"Maybe we can learn something from it." Lloyd replied.
"I don't know." Jay said, scratching his head while Kai knelt down, and Cole and Gewuji sit it up to look behind it. "It looks pretty banged up."
"Nya, can you take a look? See if you can do something?"
"Mm hm." Nya muttered before pressing a button on its shoulder. The Red Visor opens a display, which was fizzling a little. "It's computer code. Let's see." She presses a button, and the Red Visor jolts. "Oh, whoops, didn't want that." She presses some buttons a little. "Hang on. Here we go. Rebooting communications."
The display closes as the Red Visor looked up. "Unit RV, 12 da-" It said, jolting it's head to the left. "...d- dash 99. Communications... o-o-o-online." It fizzles as it spoke.
"Go ahead. Ask him whatever you want."
Lloyd comes up to it. "Tell us about the Energy Cubes." He said. "What is Unagami doing with them?"
"Energy Cubes are used to construct..." It fizzles a bit. "...con- con- construct the device."
"What device? What does it do?"
"The device is..." It fizzles. "...to the other... other..."
"The other what?" Jay asked.
"Repeat." Nya said.
"The portal- portal to the other place." The Red Visor replied before lowering its head as it shuts down.
"Other place?" Geoff asked.
Cole moves its head towards him. "What other place?" He asked.
Gewuji realises what it meant. "Ninjago." She replied.
Jay then puts his hands on Nya, concerned. "Unagami is building a portal into the real world."
"Is that true?" Nya asked the Red Visor. "Confirm."
The Red Visor simply shook about before disappearing, leaving its helmet behind. "Aw, crap." Lloyd said as he picks up the helmet and sighs. "We're not getting any more out of it." He throws it aside.
"My friends..." Okino speaks up. "You should go. Before more of them come."
"Aren't you coming with us?"
"It is better if I stay."
"What?" Nya asked.
"Why?" Geoff asked.
"You told me." Okino replied. "Unagami created Prime Empire. I am part of that. Part of the game."
"Okino, no." Lloyd said. "Listen-"
"If I was created by Unagami, how can I be trusted? Perhaps I serve him."
Lloyd comes over to him. "You don't serve Unagami." Jay moves forward. "You make your own choices, Okino."
"Yeah, we trust you, dude." Jay said to him.
"How can you be certain?" Okino asked. "What if... what if I betray you?"
"You saved our lives, Okino." Cole replied, moving Lloyd and Jay aside a little and puts his hands on their shoulders.
"Yeah, we trust you." Gewuji said.
"Unagami may have made Prime Empire, maybe even you, but he can't force you to do anything you don't want to. You have a choice, Okino. You decide what you are. And what you do."
Okino was surprised at what Lloyd had said before smiling. "Then... we will go together." He said.
"Together." Okino gets out his sword, raises it high before holding it out to Lloyd and then sheathes it. He then turned around, and they start to head onward.
