Villages of Ninjago:

"There, that's everyone. I hope the others had it as easy as we did," Garmadon said, as he and Sensei Wu were at Jamanakai village with the freed villagers.

"We would have had you old geezers! Without that Spinning- utsu!" One of the tied gang members said.

"A sharp tongue does not mean you have a keen mind," Sensei Wu said, as Sensei Garmadon snickered while the gang member was confused.

"There they are," Sensei Garmadon said, as the Bounty was approaching them.

"Now we need to pick up the Travelers, and then we can find the Ninja," Sensei Wu said, as he and Sensei Garmadon climbed up a ladder to get to the top of the Bounty, since they needed to hurry.

In the Turret Cannon:

Nya and Marcell entered the machine from an entrance on ground-level. They were careful as they entered, weapons drawn, and they were in awe of the various mechanisms and structures inside.

They were in a circular room with various entrances that you could walk, jump, or had to fly through. Many neon colored pipes glowed along the ground and walls and entered each passage-way in various colored combinations. The walls, ceiling, and floors were all a light-bluish chrome, with lights that randomly blinked and glowed within dark patches on the walls.

"What in the world..." Nya said, examining but not understanding the mechanics of this machine.

"Dang, there's a lot more stuff in here than what we built. We only built the outside," Marcell said, as she looked around.

Then they heard movement in one of the upper entrances, as they ran towards an entrance ahead to hide in. A lizarian descended from the entrance and landed on the ground, but this wasn't just any lizarian. It's purple eyes turned this way and that, as they looked towards the main entrance and noticed that the door wasn't totally closed.

Nya grit her teeth, as she whispered to Marcell, "I know that purple-eyed lizarian! That was the one who POISONED me!"

The Purple-eyed lizarian turned towards where Marcell and Nya were hiding, although she wasn't looking at them, she was listening. The two held their breaths, and when the lizarian continued to hear nothing, she immediately ran through a different passage-way.

"We got to be careful then. If that one is willing to bite, it'll do it again, and we can't risk trying to get to Terrin in time for an antidote. Let's hurry up and get out!" Marcell whispered, and Nya nodded.

The two carefully maneuvered through the machine, as they reached the upper floors with less entrances and more neon pipes. They heard movement and would avoid it, which signaled to them that more than one lizarian was there. Finally, the two made it to the top floor, which was all dark besides a large power source in the center that was growing larger every few seconds. It was a pure energy sphere made of various neon colors and dark colors that kept spiraling together and merging in a dark crimson ball of energy. A mechanism, which looked like a control panel, stood a couple of feet away from the energy sphere.

Nya and Marcell stood before the control panel, as they noticed a long bar across it that was slowly filling from left to right in green:

60%.

"A loading bar…? It's getting ready to fire!" Marcell said, as both of their eyes widened.

"We have to shut it down! It's already more than halfway done!" Nya said, as she and Marcell carefully looked across the control panel for a shut-off switch or somewhere to hack into.

"SHREEEE!" A shrill scream was heard, as the two turned to see four Purple-eyed lizarians entering the room.

The poisonous one was the one who screamed, and the others followed her into the room. Another one in particular, the one who met Raven, stepped forward since she was their leader. She looked at Nya and Marcell with a dark expression, as she growled while the other three slowly stepped forward while baring their deadly fangs. The two male Purple-eyed lizarians walked on fours, ready to pounce, while the leader and the biter females stood in place.

"We're out-numbered, and I don't think these purple-eyed ones are going to be easy to defeat," Marcell said.

"We can't fight them… but we could run. There are so many paths here, maybe we could lose them for awhile," Nya said, and Marcell agreed with a nod.

"Split!" Marcell yelled, as she and Nya ran through two different passage-ways.

The leader lizarian snarled, as the biter went with the more stocky male lizarian to chase Nya, while she went with the taller male to chase Marcell.

Sky Floor:

Raven and Lloyd were using a shield generated by their golden and silver powers to block a double dark beam attack that Darkness was using against them. They were having a hard time fighting him, even though they were stronger, but they realized that their attacks were actually hurting him:

He had a wound on his side when Lloyd found an opening and punched him with a fiery-energy attack. Darkness had anger etched on his face, as he threw sharp energy staffs at Lloyd, and that's when Raven cut the staffs with a water-energy wave. Darkness attacked with his double dark beams, and that's when Raven and Lloyd made the shield.

"Hide while you can! I'll get you out EVENTUALLY!" Darkness yelled, as he added more power to his attack.

"He's still strong! Even when we got stronger… how much power does he have?" Raven asked Lloyd, with worry lacing her voice.

"Don't think about how much power he has, just think about our objective: Stopping him. We need to find a way to get through to him or a weakness," Lloyd replied.

"But what can we do? Even the people in his time couldn't stop him, and they were his friends," Raven asked, less worried but more wondering.

"I'm not sure. The only one who really stopped him was Akemi, but she's not here, and I don't think sealing him will stop him this time," Lloyd replied.

"… He has a past," Raven said, thinking out loud.

"What do you mean?" Lloyd asked.

"In his time they couldn't stop him because everything was happening in that moment, but if we remind him of his past with Akemi and what happened, maybe while he's reminiscing, we can find a way to stop him or help him remember who he was," Raven replied.

"Yes… and actually, I'd prefer to think of it as reminding him of who he IS," Lloyd said, and Raven nodded with confidence.

Darkness stopped his attack, as he disappeared. Lloyd and Raven called off the shield, as they quickly scanned the room for movement.

Suddenly, Darkness jumped up from their shadows which stood between them, and shot them with dark sound waves, as Lloyd and Raven went flying in opposite directions. Lloyd hit his head on the wall, which left him dizzy for a moment, while Raven hit her arm on the wall, which hurt pretty bad even though it didn't break.

Darkness noticed Lloyd's dizziness, and he instead turned towards Raven. With a stern expression, he raised his hand towards Raven's left leg, as a shadow rose up and grabbed her leg.

"I should have took you myself when your leg was damaged. It would have been easier… this time, if your leg is damaged, I wonder how much easier it would be to defeat you…" Darkness said, with no emotion in his eyes, as another shadow rose in a fist-form above Raven's leg.

Raven looked at Darkness with widened eyes, as she tried to get up with her hands and back against the wall, but the shadows wouldn't let her.

"Please Meir! This isn't you! You're not like this, you never were..." Raven said, as Darkness halted from his attack.

"Once a Purple ninja, always a Purple ninja. That's who you are. Without you, I wouldn't be where I am," Raven said, in a soft voice while her expression held sadness.

Darkness' expression didn't change, although he felt a small twist in his heart which made him push it away. His expression became ominous, although his eyes were ambiguous, and he said,

"That's right… you wouldn't be in so much trouble if it wasn't for me..."

He lifted his arm up, and quickly stroke downward, but Raven closed her eyes as she instantly sunk into the ground with sound power. Darkness was surprised, as he quickly sensed the area while his shadows retreated. He looked downward as he jumped up with wind power, while Raven came up from where he was and attacked with a sound wave upward. Darkness was hit by the sound wave, but then he used a dark water slash, which Raven quickly side-stepped out of the way to dodge it.

While Darkness and Raven continued to fight, Lloyd was able to stand up and shake the dizziness from his head. He thought,

'How are we going to stop him? … I wish you were here Akemi…'

'I am here,' Akemi's voice called out to Lloyd's mind.

'Y-You can hear me?' Lloyd asked.

'Yes. As I told your grandfather, we're connected, but me and you have a closer connection since your the Green ninja,' Akemi said.

'Isn't there a way to stop Darkness? I mean, Meir? You stopped him before, but sealing him isn't going to help him,' Lloyd said.

'I wish I could help you… but I can't leave this realm,' Akemi said.

'Wait… Akemi! Your not dead?!' Lloyd asked.

'Dead? No. I used up a lot of power to seal Meir, but I ended up transporting to another realm. It took a long time before I could use my powers again,' Akemi replied.

'… That's it!' Lloyd said, and he started to concentrate his golden powers.

'Lloyd! What are you doing?' Akemi asked.

'Meir is about to receive a blast from the past…' Lloyd said, and his energy concentration grew larger and brighter.

Am I posting these chapters too fast, or is that okay?

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