Raven and Darkness noticed the bright energy, as they covered their eyes from it while standing a few feet from one another. When the light faded, Raven and Darkness uncovered their eyes, as they saw a thick cloud of smoke covering the area where Lloyd was.

After a few seconds Lloyd appeared from the cloud mist although he fell on one knee while panting. Raven was about to walk over to him, but Darkness outstretched his hand in front of her to stop her from moving. It wasn't because he was being protective, but because he wasn't letting his guard down by letting the two ninja unite. He noticed that someone was still in the cloud mist, and he breathed out a small gust of wind to blow the mist away.

Darkness' body froze as his eyes widened to see her standing there in place of the mist. Raven's jaw dropped in shock, while Lloyd smiled somewhat cheeky at their reactions.

Standing in place of the mist and a few steps from Lloyd, stood Akemi with her long blonde hair almost defying gravity as it waved on it's own in an unknown wind. She held a confident and determined expression on her face, as her hands were in fist, but not tightly clenched, with her elbows slightly bended. She wore a green kimono with a gold belt around her waist, a short, open white jacket, and white pants and shoes.

After a moment of silence and staring, Akemi relaxed her hands, and she took a step towards Darkness with a pleading expression as she gestured with one hand towards him.

"May I… please?" Akemi asked in a gentle tone, and Darkness lowered his arm as he slightly nodded with a calm expression on his face.

As Akemi walked towards him, Raven took the opportunity to quickly walk towards Lloyd.

"Lloyd. Are you okay? What just happened?" Raven whispered to him, as she rubbed his back.

"I brought Akemi back from whatever realm she was in. We're connected after all," Lloyd whispered his reply, and Raven nodded.

Akemi stood before Darkness, as she slowly raised her hands to his face, but stopped mid-way. Darkness raised his head up a bit as his eyes slightly softened. Akemi raised her hands up, as she rested her palms on the sides of Darkness' face. She gently ran her left hand through his hair, as she brought her right hand across his jawline.

"Meir. My darling... what has happened to you?" Akemi said sadly, as Darkness' eyes turned away from her.

Outside:

The Ninja were fighting with the Overlord in mid-air: The ones with the flying vehicles were Auria, Lucy, Jay, and Christa, although Christa's vehicle jumped, while the other Ninja were standing on the flying vehicles and attacking the Overlord and lizarians with their elements. The Overlord was spitting dark fireballs at the Ninja, and attacking them with claw attacks and wing strikes. Both sides were giving it their all, but the Overlord was taking too many hits from the Ninja. Eventually, the Ninja were able to surround him from above, as they shot their elements at him, which merged into a powerful elemental beam that sent the Overlord into the sand.

"YOU PESKY NINJAAA!" The Overlord screamed, as he sunk into the sandy ground.

"That takes care of him. Let's stop the machine!" Kai said, and the Ninja jumped back on Ultra dragon's back since they told him to cover them in case any of them fell.

Inside the turret:

Nya and Marcell were having a hard time trying to escape from the Purple-eyed lizarians. Nya tried to fight them, and did very well, but these lizarians were crafty and strong. One of them was taking her weapons and breaking them, while the other kept Nya on the move so that the other could grab the weapons. Cutting her next to last sword in half, Nya could only back away from the two lizarians as they had her cornered.

'Well, this may be it for me... I just wish I could have seen the others again... and my Jay,' Nya thought, as she clenched her fists since she was still going to fight them.

Suddenly, the two lizarians were shot from their left away from Nya into the wall by a translucent platinum beam. Nya looked towards the lizarians and saw that they were dizzy, and then she looked towards who shot the beam.

"Ryan!" Nya said, happy to see him standing with his arm still outward towards the lizarians.

"Are you okay? You weren't bitten?" Ryan asked, as he lowered his hand.

"No, I'm fine. Thanks. How did you get here anyway?" Nya asked.

"Sensei Reine brought me here on Malentha's aerocycle. Did you find the control room?" Ryan asked.

"Yes. Me and Marcell found it, but these lizarians got in the way and we had to split up," Nya replied.

"Let's hurry up and find Marcell so that we can shut this machine down. It's almost charged up," Ryan said, and Nya nodded.

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Marcell was cornered by the two lizarians, so she rolled up her sleeves and said,

"Alright you lizard-punks, time to get kicked..."

–

Ryan and Nya ran up the tower looking for Marcell, and they ended up in the control room.

"This is the core, but where is Marcell?" Ryan asked.

"Ya called?" Marcell said, as she just walked into the room while rolling down her sleeves.

"Oh thank goodness you made it. What happened to the other two lizarians?" Nya asked.

"They're a bit tied-by-their-tails at the moment," Marcell replied, as the three stood in front of the control panel.

"Alright, so what are we going to do about this?" Nya asked, as they examined the control panel and the buttons.

Ryan started trying to hack the computer, but then he realized that the control mechanism to fire the machine was broken on the 'ON' setting.

"Darkness must have broke the firing mechanism so that we wouldn't be able to stop it from firing..." Ryan speculated.

"Then how are we going to stop it? Unless..." Marcell said, and Ryan finished her sentence,

"We weaken it enough for the Ninja outside to counterattack or block the energy from striking the ground."

"Do you think it'll work?" Marcell asked.

"It has to. That's our only option now. If we try to attack it here, it might absorb whatever we throw at it," Ryan said, and Marcell nodded.

"I'll let them know," Nya said, as she brought her hand up to call the Ninja through her bracelet.

Outside, Zane received Nya's call, and he put the call on speaker so that the others could hear it.

"You need to counterattack or block the machine when it fires. We can't stop it from firing, but we can weaken it so that you guys will be able to fight it back. Take this time to get ready now, but hurry. It's going to fire very soon," Nya said over the speaker.

"How are we going to compete against that?" Jay asked, pointing towards the TC.

"Hm. We could combine our powers again like with the Overlord and overpower the attack," Auria suggested.

"But would it be enough? That turret is HUGE," Kai asked.

"If only we had our own machine," Cole thought outloud.

"Hey, wait a minute! We COULD have our own machine!" Jay said.

"How? We don't have time," Flare asked.

"The Tornado of Creation! We could combine our powers to create a machine that could counter-act this one," Jay replied.

"Tornado of Creation? That is what you used before to create a vehicle that could fight the Great Devourer yes?" Auria asked, and the guys nodded.

"Could the girls also contribute to the tornado?" Dr. Julien asked, as he already flew close to them on Pearl's back.

"We'll have to take the risk," Flare concluded.

"But what if it's too much? It takes only four of us to make the Tornado of Creation. Eight might be too much," Kai said.

"Maybe eight is just what we need. We can still balance each other out, all we're doing is adding more power to the tornado," Lucy said.

"We have to try it. There's nothing else we can do," Christa said, as she pointed towards the turret.

The TC began to glow around the cannon, as everyone's eyes widened.

"Okay. Nya! Weaken the turret as much as you can and we'll counter-attack from the outside," Kai said.

"Alright guys. Give it your all and let's stop this thing," Nya said, and Zane hung up.

"Let's get ready. Dr. Julien, may you fly a safe distance away from here. We're not sure if the Tornado of Creation is going to work or if we can block the turret's attack well enough," Auria said, and Dr. Julien nodded.

"Be safe Ninja," Dr. Julien said, as he tugged on Pearl's reins, which made her fly upward and away.

The Ninja jumped on the ground, as they let Ultra dragon follow Dr. Julien and Pearl. They gathered together before the TC as they stood in a circle formation. They held their weapons firmly, as the Platinum weapons began to glow. After looking towards one another and nodding with confidence, the Ninja used spinjitzu and came together.

"NINJAAAA GOOOO! TORNADO OF CREATION!"

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