Ninjago 1. A Normal Life

**Okay! New story where the ninja's kids band together! Let's see if you can guess who belongs to who! Enjoy!**

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><p>A young girl, about ten years old with blue eyes and brownish-auburn hair tied in a high ponytail was digging through a heap of garbage! I know what your going to think... GARBAGE!? THAT IS JUST UNCOUTH! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT GIRL!? IS SHE HOMELESS OR SOMETHING!?<p>

Actually, she's at her home. She lives in a junkyard that her parents own, she is also quite the inventor thanks to both of her parent's occupations. Her father is an inventor and her mother was an I.T. and robotics expert. The girl was looking for the right parts to finish her new invention, she just needed a few more parts. The girl had almost finished going through that trash pile when a voice summoned her,"Jackie, come inside it's time for breakfast!"

"Coming mom!" the girl replied as she hurried inside, her mom was quite the cook. She laid a plate of waffles in front of her daughter.

"Eat up." her mother with short, black hair smiled warmly at her daughter.

Jackie smiled in reply while pouring a tsunami of syrup on her pancakes. She cut up the delicious food with her fork and dug in. She finished in a matter of minutes before rushing outside again. She needed to get back to her invention! This is why Jackie loved Saturdays... Jackie. It sounds like her parents expected a boy, right? Well, you're wrong! Jackie was somewhat named after her father, the first two letters are the same as her dad's and that was good enough for him. Her father is a funny guy who appreciates comedy! In fact, when he's not inventing he's doing stand up!

The girl was mixing her two favorite things together, delicious, sugary pastries, and inventing! She was creating a cupcake creating machine! After she successfully finished this, she was going to move on to cake, or ice cream! All Jackie ever dreamed of was being able to press a button, and cupcakes would fly out. This girl was determined to make it happen!

She just needed the right parts and she would finally have her first working invention! Jackie sighed at the thought of that... she didn't mind wearing makeup, she was always happy and bubbly, she was silly and fun, but she didn't mind getting dirty.

The girl smiled at what she had accomplished, all she needed now was a few extra strings, her welding kit, yes... welding kit, and one thingamahop to finish it off! The blue eyed girl got strait to work as she went to find the other pieces to her invention. She hoped her dad would get home soon so he could help her find some of the parts that she needed.

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><p>Another small girl watched as the sun reached a certain spot in the sky, it shined down on the see through colored glass roof that protected her garden full of animals, flowers and plants of all kinds. Her platinum blonde hair seemed to shine as she watered her flowers and hummed a soft tune. She refilled her bird feeder as many colorful birds immediately flew towards it. Her eyes that were an extremely light shade of blue watched as the birds pecked as the bird feeder was slowly being emptied. "Eat well my friends." she said in a shy, very slightly monotone voice as she walked away.<p>

She and her father lived in a house that basically had a forest for a backyard! Even though she was only ten years old she cared deeply for animals and all kinds of life. However, that did not stop her from eating any of it. "Daughter, it's time for breakfast!" her father called to her.

"I will be there in a moment father!" she replied as she hurried into her house. She could smell the sweet aroma of sausage, bacon, and eggs even before she entered the wooden shelter that she called home. She lived there alone with her father, but it was never lonely. They had a close relationship with each other, the girl had tried to go to school and make friends, but she just didn't fit in. All she needed was her father's company, and from time to time her grandfather's.

"Zoey, how is your garden doing?" the blonde girl's father asked.

"My garden is doing wonderful, thank you for asking." she replied politely. Zoey was always polite and obedient, she loved her father dearly and he loved her back.

After breakfast, the small girl went out into her garden to meditate, and focus on more spiritual ideas. She had felt almost complete peace when she felt something on her shoulder, it was her pet eagle! She pet her friend as she sat there in perfect peace and harmony.

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><p>Kaylee woke up to the sound of shouts below her. She looked out her window to find her group of friends shouting for her. The girl smirked before yelling,"I'll be right there!" she slid down the stairs and grabbed her skateboard. She was about to leave when...<p>

"Where do you think you're going young lady!?" the brown haired girl turned around to face her father,"Without breakfast?" he handed her a stack of cash for her to do whatever she wanted with! She could now get herself and her friends a decent meal!

"Thanks dad!" she called as she ollie'd out of the door on her board. The ten year old had way too much freedom, but with only one adult around she made sure that she used her freedom wisely so she wouldn't set her father off. About two years ago she and her father lost her mother who ran into the face of danger and got killed in the line of duty as a cop.

Kaylee caught up with her friends outside,"Sheesh girl, don't take so long!" Grenda, one of her friends commented.

"Sorry, I was a little too busy getting all this cold, hard, cash!" Kaylee replied, holding up the stash of money her father had given her.

"So, where do we wanna go for breakfast?" Connor asked the group.

It was quiet until a tsunami of answers and yelling came out of the group's mouths.

"Wait! It's my money and I say we go to Dixy's." Kaylee announced as they took off on their bikes, scooters, skateboards and roller blades. For Kaylee, life was almost perfect!

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><p>A girl with pitch black hair and blue highlights was working on her mixing skills with her massive stereo! Her dad had gotten her it for Christmas and she had used it every day since! Every time the base hit, the house shook! It was like the house was a nightclub!<p>

Nicole was obsessed with music, exspecially music she created herself! Nicole wanted to do that as a career when she was older! She was only ten now, but in the future she would dominate. After the final base hit, Nicole heard stomping noises coming from the staircase,"NICOLE!" she faced her father whom she resembled greatly,"Why did ya turn the music off?" he asked after the song had ended.

"I was just about to start another beat pops!" Nicole replied as she started up another tune. She called her father pops because he said he would sometimes call his dad that.

You would also think that her mother would be bothered by this, but she wasn't! At least she wouldn't if she were there. Nicole's mother had fought Cancer and lost the battle... badly. Music was what made her smile the most, and Nicole loved it too, so she decided to pursue a career in music when she was older and had a job.

Her mother was kind, caring, sweet and man could she sing! Sam Brookstone could've become famous as a pop star, but instead she saved the singing for karaoke night at the plaza fair in her town every year, and became a photographer... her other lifelong passion.

Nicole would miss her mother but nobody would miss her more than her father,"So how about you mix up one more tune before we grab some grub?" he father offered.

"Okay..." Nicole trailed off. She would have to make this song really long to avoid her father's cooking as much as possible.

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><p>All four of these girls have a story, each of them is special and they don't even know it yet! However, not even breakfast could prepare them for what would happen that afternoon...<p>

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><p><strong>First chapter is always the hardest, but I did it! And I'm posting it at midnight, but I did it! I would appreciate a review and I hope you enjoyed.<strong>

**more to come...**

**-AwesomeAuthor13**


	2. A Little Bump in the Road

**HEY! Next chapter! I hope you enjoy!**

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><p>Nya Walker was busy working on some cupcakes for a school fundraiser on Monday. She mixed the batter in the bowl, making sure that every ingredient was turned into batter. She was about to pour the mixture into cups when she heard noises coming from the other room. Knowing her daughter was outside, she grabbed a frying pan and carefully walked into the other room.<p>

Nya shrieked as a cloth was put over her face and all that happened next was... darkness. Nya awoke with her hands bound, she was being led somewhere but she couldn't see because of the blindfold tightly secured over her eyes as she was guided. Then she stopped, and she heard a voice...

"Nya?"

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><p>Jay Walker had just got home from work when he realized that his wife wasn't in the kitchen. The blue eyed man ran into another room that he found was a mess. The window was left wide open, the wind blew in and moved the curtains with it's current. Jay gasped as he jumped out the window and followed some footprints into the woods located behind their house.<p>

He took a deep breath before taking off. He ran as fast as humanly possible... the tracks stopped as he laid eyes on a man with a hood on. He held the one Jay loved as much as his daughter.

"Nya?" he asked,"You're okay!" he was about to step towards her until he remembered that she was being held captive by a strange man wearing a cloak. Rule number eighty-seven of life- never trust strange men in cloaks, exspecailly if they are holding someone you love captive. "Let her go." Jay demanded as he stood in a fighting stance, he may not have his suit, but he still knew spinjitzu!

He spun into his tornado with lightning shooting out of it as he began to move closer to the man as a twisted smirk was hidden under his cloak. He grabbed Jay in the neck and held him in a chokehold as he injected a serum into his neck before dropping the former ninja.

The auburn-brown haired man fell on the ground a had short, narrow breaths."What did you do to me?" he asked.

"You will know soon enough Jay Walker... blue ninja of lightning." the man said before everything went dark for Jay Walker.

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><p>Kai Smith watched as Kaylee walked off with her friends, he smiled as he remembered his wife. She used to be like that with her friends, she was really close with them... all of us! To think she didn't even start out dating him! Kai went into the other room before he pulled out a box of Chief Crunch cereal and sat down in his chair located in the living room. He munched on his snack straight out of the box as he flipped through channels.<p>

He almost didn't notice a shadow in the window... almost.

He turned towards the window and walked towards it, he opened it up and looked around. He saw a figure climbing onto his roof as he followed, he may have been a little bit out of shape, but he still had it!

Kai panted as he finally reached the rooftop after his long journey up there... okay scratch that whole Kai... still having it thing. The man with somewhat spiky hair prepared for combat as the man charged. Kai jumped out of the way as the man nearly fell off of the roof. "NINJAGO!" Kai yelled as he spun into his fiery tornado.

The man threw a knife that stuck his shirt to the chimney. Kai tried to escape but he was immobile as the cloaked man slowly approached him. He injected a serum into Kai's neck before taking the knife out of the chimney.

He fell to his knees as the man grabbed him by the shirt and jumped off of the roof, landing on his feet he once again dropped the hotheaded man. Kai groaned as he passed out.

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><p>Zoey was still meditating with her eagle while Zane Julien was looking through the books on his bookshelf for something to read. He smiled as he picked out 'Of Rat's and Men' before sitting down. he began to read, but he saw something staring at him from outside of his window. He calmly stood up before walking outside and looking around. He froze as his eyes laid upon a figure in a black cloak. Luckily, Zane sensed danger right before he charged, so the former white ninja had time to jump out of the way as the figure threw some shuricans at him.<p>

Zane felt threatened, his own favorite weapon was being used against him! He climbed up into some trees and began to hop from branch to branch as the cloaked figure followed.

He eventually decided to turn around and fight, he knocked the weapons out of the figure's hands and battle him fist to fist. Zane tried to push him off of the tree, but his feet stayed glued to the branch.

The battle went on and on until... crack! The branch was breaking! More cracking sounds were heard as the branch broke and plummeted to the ground, Zane was on the ground, he laid there idly as the man injected the serum into his metal body before dropping him.

"Even though you are a droid, you are so lifelike that it will still work on you... and don't worry, I think it might work even better than the rest!" the cloaked man chuckled darkly.

"Rest?" Zane asked weakly before he went unconscious.

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><p>Cole Brookstone sat in the dining room, reading a newspaper a the music upstairs continued, it reminded him of Sam... she loved that kind of music when she was with them. He flipped the page of his newspaper, failing to notice the noises in the kitchen. He kept on reading until he noticed a shadow leaning over him, he gasped as he immediately stood up and took off.<p>

He ran into the kitchen,'Okay, what to do." he thought as he reached for the knife drawer and pulled out his make do weapon. He grunted as their weapons collided with each other, and Cole was losing badly.

He was thrown back by his opponent as he stumbled into a shelf. As the figure got closer, Cole thought quickly and crashed the shelf on top of him.

"Not so tough!" he teased. The monster raised his hand up and stuck Cole to the wall with his throwing knife. Cole held back tears as he felt blood on his ear. The red liquid dripped down onto the kitchen floor as the figure stood up and injected a vile of serum into Cole's neck.

The former black ninja winced over in pain."So weak... how were you the leader!?" the figure smirked.

"I am a great leader!" Cole choked, even though he was in pain, he was gonna defend his title!

"Oh no... no leader would leave his team behind, but no worries Cole Brookstone... you are safe with us. We will teach you how to be better." he said before everything went black for Cole as he lost consciousness.

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><p>Jay opened his eyes, they were bloodshot. He stood up straight and tall immediately and began to listen to whatever he was told,<p>

"Jay Walker..."

"Kai Smith..."

"Zane Julien..."

"Cole Brookstone..."

"You"

"Have"

"A"

"Task"

"To"

"Complete." The figures explained to each of the ninja their missions.

"Remember... we want them alive."

"YES MASTER." Each of them said in a monotone voice.

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><p>Jackie had finally found the final piece to her invention and was ready to fire it up! She pressed a button, but watched sadly as it began to spark, and explode. She facepalmed and grunted afterwards, but smiled when she saw her father approaching. "Hi daddy!" she called out to him as her father held an extremely serious face... she had never seen him that serious. "Ya, I know..." she trailed off,"Not my best work, but I'm trying my hardest!"<p>

Instead of replying, Jay walked away. Jackie frowned... did she do something wrong? Her father began to dig through some of the junk, maybe he knew how to fix it! However, when she saw what he came back with... she had second thoughts. He was holding a pair of nunchucks and a frying pan.

"Uhh... dad?" she asked as the nunchucks got dangerously close to her face, close enough to injure her! She leaned back just in time,"That was close but, cool trick!" she chuckled nervously as her father got even closer. The girl screamed in fear as she ran away, she hid behind a garbage pile. She was there for a few minutes and nothing had happened.

"Maybe I lost him." she muttered as she stuck her head above the pile of garbage, only to almost be met with a fiery doom! She ducked before thinking,'Usually my father comforts me when I have a failed invention, not attack me with a flamethrower that he dug out of the trash!'

The girl tried to run away as she almost reached the gate, she climbed it easily thanks to her gymnastics skills, but was pulled down by her father's hand. The last thing Jackie saw was her father's face before getting hit over the head with a frying pan.

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><p>Kaylee was on her way home from Dixy's riding her skateboard and taking her time. She was sipping a slushy that she had picked up on her way home. She was about three fourths of the way there when she saw her father, standing at the end of the street. There were no cars around, it was kinda empty except for him.<p>

"Dad?" Kaylee asked as she skeptically looked at him,"Is that you?"

Kai came out of the shadows with a cruel smirk on his mouth,"Time to get going Kay...lee." he finished her name a moment later, he spoke in a calm, monotone voice.

The girl almost stumbled backwards, she wasn't scared, that was an understatement! She was downright terrified of her father! She picked up her skateboard and rode it into an alleyway, if she was correct, this alleyway lead directly to Main Street! There were a lot of people there!

She rode her board faster, until she noticed that there was a pile of garbage in her way! The brown haired girl smirked as she cleared the boxes and garbage cans! She smiled as she rode faster into town, she needed help.

It was too bad that her father cleared it too, without a skateboard! Kai had jumped right over the boxes and caught up to his daughter! He grabbed her by the shirt and slammed her body into the ground right before the alleyway ended. Kaylee watched her vision blur as her father cruelly smirked and delivered one more blow... with his fist.

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><p>Zoey struggled in her meditation... her sixth sense was going off! She sensed great danger right in front of her! The girl opened her eyes and looked at who was there. Her father was walking towards her. Something must've been wrong with her sixth sense! Her father would never hurt her, he loves her.<p>

Zoey stood up to explain her situation,"Fath-" she was cut off by a sharp grunt that came from Zane's mouth, his eyes were glowing red. "Oh no..." Zoey was unsure of what to do, her sixth sense was going crazy! She saw no other choice, but to run.

The girl immediately turned and ran away, deeper into the forest. She looked up and saw her eagle following her as she ran. She smiled at her pet as she continued to run.

She just kept on going, deeper and deeper into the forest. She had never been this far into the tree infested land before.

She turned around and saw Zane approach her with shuricans in hand. Zoey cowered for she had no place to go. The nindroid raised his arm, ready to deliver a blow to her head. Zoey looked up at the sky to see her eagle friend flying away... abandoning her.

"Father?" Zoey asked weakly with tears in her eyes, pouring out of her sockets. Then... he delivered the blow.

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><p>Nicole had just finished her song when she noticed sounds coming from downstairs. She rushed down there to find her seemingly unconscious dad! She ran over to him and made sure he was okay. He got up and charged at Nicole!<p>

The girl shrieked as he took two throwing knives and nearly sliced her head open! "Pops, what the hell!?" she screamed as Cole tried to corner her. He once again lunged at her with another attack.

The girl with her blue highlights jumped out of the way and dashed into the living room. She backed up to a window and opened it swiftly before tumbling out. She hurried to the garage and grabbed her bike, she began to pedal.

She turned around to see her dad gaining on her, and quick! She was confused and concerned... maybe this was some sort of drill... yea a drill! Wait what kind of drill would this even be? A 'what if your father tries to kill you drill?' she focused once again as she sped up.

However, she turned around to be met with her fathers face who was throwing a knife. It hit her bike tire and it deflated quickly. The girl fell off of her bike and hit her head before she fell into a deep, forced slumber.

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><p>Meanwhile an eagle circled around Zoey being carried away by Zane. The bird then quickly flew towards a nearby forest where Jackie was being dragged away by Jay. The bird then caught up with Cole who was carrying Nicole to the location, then last but not least, the eagle then flew to a small woodland area near a city where Kai had Kaylee on his back as he made sure that he made it there on time.<p>

Yes... breakfast didn't prepare them for the day ahead... and it wasn't even lunchtime yet!

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><p><strong>I don't know why but I just like how I named them so closely to their father's. <strong>

**What do you think will happen to the girls?**

**How do you like this story so far?**

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**more to come...**

**-AwesomeAuthor13 **


	3. Mystery of the Masked Man

**Hey! I left you at a cliffie! Now it's time to know what the hell is going on! Enjoy!**

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><p>Zoey was forcefully thrown into a cell while Zane locked the door before turning around and leaving. Zane slowly made his way into the shadows as Zoey sat there, weeping. That was all she could do right now, cry...<p>

Zoey had never been this upset, confused, or afraid before. She just laid down in the cage, and with knees stuck to her chest, cried. Her cries were loud and stretched out, she hoped her father would hear her and come to his senses, or at least somebody would hear her and come to her rescue, but nobody did.

After a few hours of weeping in her cell, a tall, muscular man with shaggy black hair came in and tossed another girl into her cell, this girl had black hair, the same color as the man's but her hair had blue highlights. The girl was about the same age as her and looked as if she had been crying. Her eyes were bloodshot and puffy, she was sniffling a lot and her breaths were shaky. She also had may scrapes and bruises on her body.

After a couple minutes of the new arrival being thrown into the cell, Zoey finally had the courage to speak up,"Who are you? Who was that?"

"I don't know who I can trust anymore!" the girl lashed out at Zoey,"First I lose my mother and now I've lost my father as well!"

"That man was your father?"

Nicole nodded,"Mmhhhmm." she sniffed.

"My father threw me in here after he attacked me and caused me to fall unconscious."

"Looks like we've got the same problem."

"Yup..." Zoey trailed off as she let a yawn escape her mouth. A few moments later another man came in, he was tall, had auburn-brown hair and was carrying a girl with slightly burned hair that used to be tied up, the ponytail had almost fallen out, but was still in her hair, she also had bruises as far as the naked eye could see, a few small cut's on her face, and a large gushing wound on her leg. He threw her into the cell and walked off.

"Oh my gosh! What happened!?" Nicole rushed to the girl's side. The girl took a couple deep breaths,"It's okay, you can talk to me." Nicole informed.

"Uhh, umm, uh I uhh umm," the girl stuttered as she tried to find the right words, her voice was small and quiet.

"Talk, please." Nicole begged.

The girl took another, much deeper breath before saying,"MY DAD WENT WACKO BECAUSE I CAN'T CREATE A CUPCAKE MACHINE GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIS TASTE AND APPARENTLY HE THINKS THAT'S A GOOD EXCUSE TO USE A FLAMETHROWER ON ME! I MEAN WHAT KIND OF FATHER DOES THAT!? ANYWAYS HE KNOCKED ME OUT COLD AND THEN I WOKE UP HERE AND MAN AM I JACKED UP!"

Nicole and Zoey looked at the girl with hair to match her father's in shock, and confusion. "Ya... I tend to have that effect on people." Jackie admitted as she looked at their facial expressions. They all just sat in silence for a moment until they heard may screams of protest coming from yet another ten year old girl.

She cursed as she was forcefully shoved into the cell. She stood up and screamed unintelligible things at the man with slightly spiky hair walked off. She sighed and sat down. Everybody stared at her,"What?" she asked as if she never threw a five year old styled fit. She had brown hair and light brown eyes to match, she was obviously a major tomboy based off of what she was wearing. She obviously wasn't as beat up as Nicole or Jackie, in fact she barely had any cuts, she had some bruises but they appeared to be from a wipeout on her skateboard. However, there was one large bruise on her head.

"So... I was just minding my own buiz' skateboarding when my dad appears down the street and just stands there like a creeper! Anyways, he said it was time to go in a creepy voice so I ran for my freaking life! Eventually he caught up to me and smashed my head against the sidewalk." Kaylee sighed.

"You too?" Jackie asked.

"What do you mean 'you too'?" Kaylee was confused.

"All of our fathers turned on us and stuffed us in here." Zoey explained quietly.

"Well, I do know this happened for a reason, but I don't know what kind of relation I have to random shy girl." Kaylee looked towards Zoey,"Creepy, weird emo girl," Nicole gave her a sharp glare,"And whatever you are..." Kaylee trailed off after one look at Jackie.

"Hey, just because your pissed at the world doesn't mean that you have to be pissed at me!" Nicole yelled.

"Me? You're the one who's mad at the world with your freaky emo hair! Nobody wears blue highlights!"

"Blue means something special to me..." The dark haired girl trailed off.

"Oh my favorite color is red! It means something special to me, but you don't see me wearing it in my hair! Freak!"

"Hey, at least I don't lose my temper just because I'm confused! At least I know how to deal with my emotions! You're so hotheaded!" Nicole accused.

"How dare you! you're the one who's screaming!" Kaylee screeched.

"Look who's screaming, screamer mc. screamer pants!" Nicole yelled back.

"Oh I like screaming! Check out how loUD I C**AN YELL!**" Jackie was the loudest of them all.

"Of course _you _have to butt into this!" Kaylee rolled her eyes.

"Hey, I am just trying to lighten the mood!"

"How can you be happy right now!?" Kaylee looked her right in the eyes as tears welled up in her own.

"Leave her alone!" Nicole yelled as she separated the two.

"You have no place in this conversation!" Kaylee turned her attention towards the future DJ. Eventually everybody began to shout, fight and argue, however, Zoey just sat there, watching in helpless sorrow. This continued until... BING BING BING BING BING BING! The ten year olds looked towards the source of the sound, two cloaked men with a key wer banging on the cell to get the girl's attention.

They unlocked the cell, one took Zoey and Kaylee, and the other took Jackie and Nicole as they led them deeper into the cave that they were in. After what seemed like eons of walking, they finally arrived in front of a throne. This throne was made of bones and everything about it looked dead, even the stone base of it looked dead.

Eventually a large, tall, hooded man entered and sat on the throne. "Master, we have the girls." one of the figures said.

"Thank you." the voice was malicious and terrifying..."Young ladies, welco-" he was cut off.

"What do you want with us!" Kaylee demanded.

"It's not polite to interrupt... now as I was saying... You may not know who I am, but I know who you are... have you ever heard of the Overlord?" he asked.

"Yea, they only talk about it the whole year in history, five ninja defeated the Overlord and the ultimate evil was forever destroyed from this world." Kaylee remarked snarkily.

"Oh no, the Overlord was not the only being that was fully evil..." he paused,"The Overlord was stuck in between two realms, he was partly in ninjago, only a fourth of him was in this realm, however the rest of him was trapped in another place... an ancient realm known as the Oscurita Realm. This is the realm where he was created... the realm that he escaped from. The Overlord was left as a giant floating orb as a result, the Overlord had to battle the first spinjitzu master eventually, after he created the stone army. However... he could only go by himself, so he had to leave someone behind when he first went to battle the first spinjitzu master. Everyone needs a successor, someone to take their place when they're gone... The Overlord had a son... this being was known as... Shadow... and this dark shadow has finally gained enough strength to escape the ghastly place of Oscurita!" he boomed, removing his cloak. The man was pitch black, he had glowing purple eyes, and bat wings stretching out of his back, not to mention his epic beard he had going!

"What does this have to do with us?" Jackie asked.

"Now, I need to conquer Ninjago... my father attempted this, however he was stopped by five hero's who had much potential... so I caused them to turn their backs on their loved ones... and to bring any other possible elemental beings to me!"

"Wait... our fathers were the ninja?" Zoey whispered.

"No way! My dad couldn't have been a ninja! He's not cool enough!" Kaylee claimed.

Shadow gave her a glare colder than a glacier,"Silence child! It would be unwise to get rid of you... I have a solution. I have created a serum that can make anyone... and I mean anyone loyal to me and only me! It takes a while to create this serum however, and I can only create so much at one time..." he smirked,"So while you girls were locked away and sorting out your 'catfight', I had more than enough time to make some for you! And who better to have the honor to inject it than the ones who have brought you here." he began to chuckle cruelly.

They all gasped as they saw their fathers with needles, each of them had a dark purple liquid inside. Zoey began to cry out, and she didn't care how much it gave Shadow pleasure. Kaylee let tears of anger, sadness, and pain escape her eyes, she cried silently however. Nicole was just frozen... she couldn't move. Jackie just let neverending waterfalls of fear and sadness fall out of her eyes.

They were all as stuck as Nicole, however, right before the needles touched their necks,"NINJAGO!" a bright, golden tornado swooped up the four girls and carried them to safety.

"It's him! Get him! He's the most important one that we need to capture!" Shadow screamed.

Many tried to capture him, but none prevailed. The man in the golden kimono wearing a mask scooped the girls up and hurried back towards the way he came. The girls didn't complain or protest as they were carried away from the dark place. Eventually, they had escaped and they were all exhausted. It was about midday when they made their way out of there!

"I gave you one job... we have them all except for one!" Shadow yelled as his soldiers looked ashamed and the ninja stood emotionless.

Meanwhile... the moment they were as far away as possible, the moment they stooped, the moment they caught their breaths, Zoey began to scream and cry while the other girls screamed at frequencies only dogs should hear!

"Girls-" the man began, but couldn't finish because of the girl's screaming!

"Girls, we need to get to my-" the screaming continued,"GIRLS!" his voice got their attention. "We need to get back to my home..." they hesitantly followed him up a large hill and into a monistary!

"Okay... so who are you?" Nicole asked as they all sat on mats.

"I am your uncle." he admitted.

"Uhh I don't have an uncle..."

"Me either."

"Nope."

"Not me."

"I am not related to you, however I am a technical brother of all your fathers. I am Sensei Lloyd, the golden ninja, and now your master! It is all of your destiny's to defeat Shadow, and become the next generation of ninja!"

Nicole and Jackie both smiled widely at that news, while Zoey looked terrified, not to mention Kaylee's nonchalant facial expression. Jackie tried to stand up, but she winced and immediately sat back down. Her wound had been numb until now. Lloyd looked at their wounds and then began to nurse them with a nearby first aid kit.

"How did you know where we were?" Nicole asked as she winced at the touch of a cold cloth on her bruise.

"I found you with the help of a friend." he said before whistling and holding his arm out. An eagle came in and landed on his arm. Zoey's eyes brightened at the sight of the bird.

"Winter!" she yelled, as the bird nuzzled up to her. "My mechanical bird alerted you?"

"Yes, your father programmed her that way!" he explained as he finished dressing Jackie's biggest wound. He sighed,"Listen, you are not the only reason I went to that cave... Shadow also has my parents, uncle, and technical sister, not to mention my brothers or as you know them, your fathers."

"Who's your sister?" Jackie asked.

Lloyd froze,"Sweetie, my non-blood sister in your mother."

"Oh..." she trailed off.

"Now, you have a choice to either stay here and train or go to some relatives of yours." Lloyd explained.

"I could go to my grandparents." Jackie said as she tried standing up again.

"I could go to my grandfather." Nicole added.

"I could go to mine as well." Zoey shyly said.

"What about you Kaylee?" Lloyd asked.

"I don't have anyone." Kaylee said in an upset tone,"So I don't have a choice." she said looking up. The whole room was silent for a moment, it was such a sad mood in there, so Lloyd tried to brighten it.

"So who else wants to be a ninja!?" he yelled.

"Ooh me!" Jackie was bouncing up and down in her seat.

"I do!" Nicole also offered her services.

"Uhh, I will... I guess if it is my destiny." Zoey smiled at her robotic friend as she pet her feathers.

Kaylee frowned, the last person she could love, the last person that she could trust... was gone.

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><p>"So... we never really formally met!" Nicole trailed off,"I'm Nicole!" they were waiting for Lloyd to finish cooking some lunch.<p>

"Well, my name is Jackie!" the auburn-brown haired girl said.

"I'm Zoey." the blonde girl smiled shyly while making sure her bird's programs were alright.

"Kaylee," the brown eyed girl grunted.

"Guys, we have a common destiny, we need to save Ninjago! Only we can do it... so what do you say... teammates?" Nicole put her hand in the middle of the circle they were standing in.

"Teammates." Jackie stuck her hand in.

"Teammates." Zoey placed her's on top as well, they all turned towards Kaylee.

She sighed,"Teammates." she laid her hand on top of Zoey's before they all shot them upward.

"So what do we do now?" Zoey asked.

"We get ready for the battle ahead... it will be dreadful and difficult-" Nicole was stopped in the middle of her sentence.

"Okay, we'll get to that but can we at least have lunch first?" Jackie asked as all of the girls began to laugh, even Kaylee let out a chuckle.

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><p><strong>Sorry if this chapter hit you right in the feels! But you at least you know what happened now! Who's excited for an awesome, humorous, drama filled, action story!? I know I am!<strong>

**-Did this chapter surprise you?**

**-Are you excited for the next one?**

**-Which of the girls are you most like?**

**I hope you enjoyed! **

**more to come...**

**-AwesomeAuthor13**


	4. School Sucks

**Long chapter! Sorry it's so late at night! I had to got to my little bro's Patriot Bowl game! He won! Enjoy!**

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><p>Jackie rubbed the tiredness from her eyes as she slipped out of her bottom bunk and let out a loud yawn. She smiled as she saw everyone else in bed, back home she was never awake first! She carefully sneaked out of the room and slipped into the living room. She was about to switch on the T.V. when she realized that it was already on and it was on a music channel with calming music on. She was about to switch it to a different channel when,"I would prefer if you didn't."<p>

Jackie turned towards Zoey who had her eyes closed while she was meditating. She opened her eyes and looked at her eagle, Jackie could've sworn she saw her eyes glowing."Uhh, no problem! I'll go ask when breakfast will be..."

"I sense it will be fully prepared in about three minutes, you should wake the others." Zoey said once again with her eyes closed.

"Okay..." The blue eyed girl trailed off before running off to wake the others.

She tiptoed into the room and tried to shake the girls awake, but they didn't budge! She smirked at the idea she had while looking at an item in the corner.

Kaylee and Nicole slept peacefully until... BONG! Both girls awoke with a yelp as they fell out of their bunks. Nicole got the short end of the pain, having a bottom bunk, however Kaylee was less than fortunate, having a top bunk. The brown eyed girl groaned and rubbed her head before glaring at Jackie who held a giant stick and watched as the gong in the corner of the room vibrated.

"It's time for breakfast." Jackie smiled excitedly.

"Thanks..." Kaylee flatly said with a frown.

"No problem!" she replied as she skipped out of the room.

Everybody attended breakfast right on time... however they all weren't exactly on task... Kaylee had bags under her eyes, Nicole fell asleep on her plate, and Jackie was suspicious of Zoey who was eating her breakfast like she had slept for more hours than all of them.

"So girls, I have to tell you all something." Lloyd said, standing up.

The girls perked up, Kaylee looked up at him with her eyes and that was quite the challenge for the tired girl, Jackie and Zoey turned his way, while Nicole lifted her head up and gazed towards him with some eggs stuck to her face.

"I have decided that for now it would be best to enroll you all in school!" he said quickly.

"SCHOOL!?" the girls said all at once.

"Not something that's new to me..." Nicole sighed.

"Yes!" Jackie smiled widely.

"Uh..." Zoey was worried.

"Which one?" Kaylee asked as she picked at her eggs.

"Blackstone Valley Elementary." the new sensei answered.

"That's my school!" Kaylee jumped out of her seat.

"At least it's a different school than the one I used to go to..." Zoey trailed off.

"I love new places! That means new people and new friends!" Jackie said with a mouthful of bacon.

"Whatever, it's just another place for me to be unappreciated." Nicole blew her blue dyed bangs upwards.

"That's your opinion! I can see my friends again!" Kaylee shouted happily.

"One more thing, because I am your legal guardian now, I will have to sign off on some papers Kaylee, and I will have to enroll you three."

"Okay." the girls all agreed.

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><p>"I can't believe I'm stuck in the same class with you dweebs." Kaylee complained, her friends were in the class and she was stuck going in there with the shy, weird girl, the freaky emo, and the Jackie! What could've been worse!?<p>

"I'll stay out of your way Kaylee." Nicole rolled her eyes as she hid her ipod in her sweatshirt and hid her earbuds behind her hair.

"You better!" the annoyed girl retorted as she entered the classroom, followed by her three new teammates. Everybody high-fived kaylee as she made her way to the back of the room, however they only stared at the new students.

They all turned towards the teacher who stood up before clearing his throat,"Attention students! We have three new kids joining our class today, so make them feel welcome, this is Nicole..." Nicole waved for a moment,"Jackie," the girl was bursting with excitement,"and Zoey." the blonde girl waved shyly.

All of the girls then took some open seats, Nicole took one in the third row, Jackie had a front row seat, while Zoey was stuck with the only seat left... in the back... next to Kaylee's friends.

Class began and all of the students did their work, except for Kaylee and her friends, they preferred to talk and spit spitballs, not to mention carving into their desks.

Zoey tried to pay attention, but it was hard when Grenda was spitting spitballs at her. She tried to ignore her, but it was so hard when they asked if Zoey was even alive after sitting there emotionless.

After a lesson about the Pilgrims, they all exited the classroom to go to gym. Apparently, Jackie was amazing at dodgeball. They split the class in half, and Zoey was stuck with Nicole and the losing team.

The blonde girl was reasonable and hid behind everybody until they all got out. However Nicole wasn't as fortunate when she was hit in the face with many dodgeballs at once.

Eventually, Zoey was the only one left on her team while the other side had almost all of their players. The coach gave the girl an advantage... Zoey could have one shot, nobody could shoot at her. If she got it in the hoop, she saved the game by adding another player, if she hit somebody she also added another teammate.

Zoey took a deep breath as she held the ball, and threw it with all of her might! it landed three feet in front of the player closest to the line. Connor grabbed the ball and tagged Zoey who it only took a weak toss to reach."You're out."

Finally, lunch rolled around. Jackie made immediate friends, Nicole sat with a couple goth kids, they were the only ones who would agree to let her sit there, and Zoey sat alone. At least that was until she was invited to sit at Kaylee's table!

The shy girl slowly picked up her lunch and went over to sit at the table. "Hey! Zoey, is it?" Grenda greeted.

Zoey nodded slowly,"I'm Connor, and that's Grenda." The green eyed boy introduced,"That kid with the shades is Adam, he never takes his shades off. That girl over there is Jessica, she has a wide variety of hats in her collection." he explained, pointing to a girl wearing an exotic hat."Not to mention Beef, he's a ruthless football quarterback, and last but not least and Benji and Belle. They are the most interesting twins in the school!"

Zoey smiled, these kids were actually accepting her! She began to talk and laugh with them until Grenda began to speak. "Ya! I never met a girl as amazing as you! What kind of freak doesn't react to a spitball? Not to mention thirty six more..." she teased. Zoey got a strange sad feeling as she remembered how she was bullied the last time she went to school.

The whole table, sans Kaylee kept on teasing her until she had enough,"LEAVE ME ALONE!" she cried out loudly,"YOU'RE THE WEIRD ONES! THE ONES WHO ARE CLUELESS!" she shouted with tears in her eyes, standing up.

Everybody just stared at her, until Kaylee stood up... walked over to her, and then stuffed the poor girl's face into her messy lunch. The whole lunchroom was quiet, until the whole entire place erupted in laughter! All of them laughed and pointed at the poor girl. The shy girl began to sob loudly and uncontrollably, she ran to the bathroom and looked at her appearance. She had mush all over her face from whatever they were serving as the main course for school lunch, she had baked beans in her hair, not to mention the sticky marinade they came in, Salad dressing dripped down her face and hair as many other vegetables were in there too.

All Zoey did was cry. She hid under the sink counter, and wept... this is why her father had pulled her out of school! Her father... she missed him dearly. On that fall afternoon on the fifth week of school, Zoey mourned over her father once again.

After several minutes, she heard a door open, she didn't care who it was. Her humiliation was already as bad as it was going to get.

"Zoey?" a voice asked.

The girl sniffled and footsteps approached the sinks. Nicole leaned down and sat next to her. "You okay?"

"No, and don't tell me that it wasn't as bad as I thought it was, because it was extremely humiliating, and it cannot get much worse." Zoey tried to dismiss any thoughts her friend had on the situation.

"Ya, your right.. it was pretty bad!" Nicole chuckled as she looked at the other girl's appearance. "Let's get you cleaned up." she smiled as she helped Zoey get all of the gunk out of her hair, off of her face, and then let her borrow her sweatshirt to hide the food stains on her shirt.

"Thanks Nicole." Zoey sniffed.

"No problem."

The girls walked out together. The tables were being dismissed for recess, so they sat at the end of a table and got up once it was dismissed.

The two ten year olds walked over to the wall, where Jackie skipped over to them. "Hey Zoey! Glad to see you're alright!"

"Thanks." Zoey replied quietly.

Then, the group that insulted Zoey earlier approached the trio. Connor grabbed Zoey and pulled her into a corner, it was a small, square concrete area with a tree and a bench in the middle of it. "You're going to pay for what you said earlier. Connor dug his fist into her face and began brutally beating her. The rest of his group either joined him, or cheered the bully on.

Then, without warning,"What do you think you're doing!?" the group turned to the two girls she was with. "Why can't you just leave her be!?" Jackie yelled at the gang.

"Stay out of this! This is our business and none of your concern." Beef yelled as Benji landed another blow, Zoey's cries for help were being drowned out.

They kept the other girls out as Zoey was at the point of just giving up. That was until a ray of hope in disguise entered,"LEAVE HER ALONE!" everybody looked towards the source of the voice.

Kaylee stepped forward,"I said, leave her alone!"

"Kaylee? What are you doing? By the way, you didn't bring us any cash today... pay up!" Belle smirked as she held out her hand.

"I don't have any money today, I'm broke." Kaylee sighed.

"If you don't have cash! We might cut off your friend here's air!" Benji threatened.

"We'll see about that!" Kaylee yelled as she fought her way through the gang. She single-handedly defeated all of them. She looked like she was fighting with a bright flame burning inside of her, and her anger fed the the fire.

After she had her 'friends' running for the hills, she helped the beat up girl onto her feet. She looked like Jackie when she was first thrown into Shadow's cell, except she didn't have a gash in her leg.

"I'm sorry." Kaylee began to cry.

"I accept your apology." Zoey choked as they hugged before taking Zoey to the nurse.

"How did she even get this way?" the concerned nurse asked.

"Our clumsy friend fell out of a tree." Kaylee explained as the nurse gave her a strange look, she also had scratches, and some bruises looked as if something had intended them to happen.

"Are you sure?" the nurse asked.

"Yes! She fell out of the tree and got attacked by a squirrel..." Nicole trailed off.

"With a STD!" Jackie added quickly. The whole entire group looked at her in shock and disgust. "Uh, ya that." she finished, clearing her throat.

The nurse brushed off Jackie's disturbing comment and eventually sent them all back to class, Zoey had many bandages around her body. They walked to Art where they all sat together. They were supposed to draw something that powered them.

Kaylee drew a skateboard with flames growing out of it, Nicole drew a musical note with a rock behind it, to her it represented her love of rock music. Jackie had drawn an invention with lightning striking it as a power source. Jackie was an amazing artist! Zoey drew a snowflake with a bird in the middle.

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><p>After Art class they all walked into the hallway talking and laughing, they were the last ones out, and were going to be a little late to class if they didn't hurry. They were about to make a run for it when all of the lights in the hallway shut off, one by one...<p>

The girls stopped giggling as the only things they saw at the end of the hall way were two pairs of purple glowing eyes. They all froze as they came into eye view, the only light left on was the light above them. It shined on them like a spotlight as the figures approached. The ten year olds recognized them as Shadow's dark soldiers. They all got into battle stances.

Kaylee nearly fell down, Jackie stumbled, Nicole had a pretty good figure, and then their eyes landed on Zoey,"What happened little girl, fall out of a tree!?" the evil being teased as the girls were about to challenge these soldiers who were created with all the experience they need while all they had was anger and fear to fuel them.

"NO!" Jackie yelled,"But you're gonna be the ones who looked like they fell out of a tree once we're finished with you!" Jackie stuttered her awful comeback.

They all began to charge at the figures, however when they reached them the cloaked warriors sent them flying through the floor down to the gym! Thank goodness it was empty! The soldiers jumped down and landed on their feet as they cornered the girls in a corner. They all hugged each other in fear when...

"NINJAGO!" A golden tornado stormed in and took on the two shadowy figures. He sent them flying to the other side of the gym,"Let's get out of here!" he yelled as they all bolted towards the exit. Then as they had almost reached the exit, Lloyd's shadow grabbed him and turned into one of the cloaked, pale figures. They held him hostage as he yelled,"RUN!"

The girls took his word and continued until Zoey stopped,"No! We can't leave him! He saved us twice!" Zoey exclaimed as she ran back to her sensei who she couldn't abandon.

"Zoey's right, come on guys!" Nicole lead the team towards the shadowy figures as they tried to attack as one!...tried. They were pitched to the another corner where they were stuck. A look of disappointment and fear was on their sensei's face as the girls were cornered in another one of the gym's inescapable corners! They were about to grab them as well when...

WHAM! One was pegged in the face with a dodgeball! He let go of Lloyd as a result and rubbed his forehead, Nicole, Kaylee, and Jackie turned towards Zoey who was armed with a dodgeball! She actually hit something! They each grabbed as many as they could before preparing for battle.

One figure had a look of rage on his face before Jackie hit him where the sun don't shine with another one, the figure let out a high pitched squek and fell to the ground. "Ya! Take that! she shouted as they all continued their assault. Eventually the figure were knocked unconscious, giving them a change to escape.

"Let's go before they wake up." Lloyd said, leading them out of there.

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><p>"Well that was exciting!" Nicole commented as she sipped some hot cocoa next to the lit fireplace.<p>

"Exciting is an understatement." Zoey sighed as she took a sip of her drink.

"I agree." Kaylee said as she laid on the couch.

Lloyd walked into the room,"Okay! I un-enrolled you all out of school!" Lloyd said with a smile.

"Good!" Nicole smirked as she laid down on the floor.

"I thought that enrolling you into school to keep up your education while training was a good idea, however it appears that you all need a better learning environment, so from now on you are all homeschooled. You also will be getting chores and will get allowance for these. Training does not count as a chore, and I expect you to train to the best of your ability." he explained,"So... the real question is, are you ready?"

"Yes master." they all said with a respectful bow before going back to what they doing.

"Your training starts tomorrow." Lloyd finished.

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><p>Later that night, Zoey had finished dinner early and retreated to her room that she shared. She looked around in the hallway before closing the door tightly and putting her hand up to her chest. She felt around it until she pushed down on a certain spot and a door opened! Inside were many gears, wires and switches, she also opened a panel in her arm.<p>

She tried to type a few things in on it but ended up accidentally shocking herself, she wasn't exactly the best at using her arm panel yet. So instead she turned to her chest panel and flipped a couple of switches a few times. She watched as her bruises disappeared before her optics.

She heard footsteps and quickly closed her chest panel as the door opened. Lloyd flipped the light on and saw Zoey sitting on the ground, with her arm panel open. The girl gasped at he mistake, she looked at her sensei who had seen her robotic panel and curled up on the floor and began to cry. She didn't want him to think less of her because she wasn't human, however she was extremely close to being human.

The girl, to her surprise felt comforting arms wrap around her and shut her arm panel. Zoey looked up,"I-"

"Hush..." Lloyd soothed,"It's okay, I already knew." Zoey smiled as she knew a person that she could trust with her secret.

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><p><strong>I can totally imagine Lloyd like that, I don't know why! <strong>

**So Kaylee and Zoey got a lot of character development, YAY for characters that learn lessons and change throughout the story!**

**-Do you know people like Kaylee's old gang at your school, in your town, or in your life?**

**-Has you ever been stood up for when you were being bullied, or stood up for anyone else?**

**-What was your favorite part of the chapter?**

**-Do you think the STD joke was a little inappropriate?**

**-Did you think that this chaptr screamed filler until something finally happened in the end?**

**I hope you enjoyed!**

**more to come...**

**-AwesomeAuthor13**


	5. Choking on Chili

**Hey! This is a fun chappie! Enjoy!**

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><p>The girls woke up early thanks to the amazing aroma that entered the room. Kaylee nearly drooled at the smell of the amazing food, Nicole smiled with a dreamy look on her face, and Jackie nearly floated out of the room.<p>

They all rushed into the kitchen to find Zoey preparing a meal! It looked amazing! Each of the girls began to reach for a plate when Lloyd stopped them.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk." he told the girls,"You cannot eat yet."

"What?" Jackie asked.

"You need to train before you can have any cinnamon buns, muffins, or waffles."

Zoey walked over to her teammates and stood beside them, she was ready to begin her training. They followed him out to a courtyard where there was a ton of training equipment!

The group smiled in awe at the amazing equipment. "You all need to complete this course... before I finish this muffin and my tea." Lloyd said, motioning towards his cup and muffin that three out of four girls stared at in awe. "Once you finish the course successfully, you may eat."

Jackie immediately began, she wanted to eat as soon as possible! She began to fight her way through with a sword, but failed on the first ax that hit her in the face. She jumped up and went to begin it again when..."Failed." he had finished his food."You must all take turns, next is Kaylee."

The hotheaded girl got past two challenges, but failed on the third when she tripped and fell. "Failed." her stomach grumbled loudly after she took her fall. Lloyd sighed,"Let your hunger motivate you. Let it be your muse to do your best."

Zoey was next the girl, she failed almost immediately.

Nicole however, swiftly made her way and made it a little bit more than halfway! She didn't even fail on the training equipment! She just ran out of time. "Failed, however you did an excellent job Nicole, Zoey you really need to practice, go through it twice more."

Zoey carefully got onto the course and focused on her goal, she then slightly opened her chest panel, just enough to reach a certain switch. The switch caused her to perk up and notice everything a bit more. She then began the course and cleared it right after Lloyd finished his small meal. Lloyd had a slightly fazed look while her teammates faces were priceless!

That switch had never been turned on before, her survival switch. She would have to program it as one of her main switches from now on. "Do you want me to run through it again?"

"No, Jackie, it's your turn." Jackie let the hunger drive through her as she raced towards the training equipment! She was doing quite well until a punching bag decided to assault her.

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><p>Eventually Lloyd had called it quits and allowed them all to eat. They devoured the food immediately and didn't hesitate to stuff their faces.<p>

With a mouthful of food, Nicole asked,"Zoey, did you really make this?"

"Of course. Cooking is a natural talent of mine." she replied.

"I'm great at cooking too!" she said back!

"Oh! then why don't you make lunch?" Zoey asked.

"Uh guys, it is lunch time." Kaylee said , pointing to the clock.

"Then I'll make dinner!" Nicole suggested. As she began to start her preparations early, leaving everyone else to their own devices. Zoey went into their room to read, Kaylee rode her skateboard around, and Jackie was bored! She had absolutely no idea what to do!

The bubbly girl walked down the hallway and looked for things to do. She saw Zoey reading, BORING! She saw Kaylee skateboarding, pretty ok! However, Jackie didn't know how to skateboard, and she didn't own one either.

She then wandered to the kitchen and saw Nicole cooking. She was quiet enough for the other ten year old not to notice her. After Jackie walked out of there, she bumped right into Zoey.

"Sorry Jackie, it was m- Are you okay!?" the small nindroid asked.

"Sometimes you see things you can't unsee. I'm gonna go watch T.V." she said flatly before walking away.

Zoey was confused, but shrugged it off and continued reading her book that was knocked out of her hands.

Later at dinner, everybody got their bowls of Nicole's chili! It looked kind of like melted roast duck over a pot of boiling magma. Jackie was the first to receive her bowl, she just kinda stared at it. Nobody ate anything yet because Jackie didn't eat it! That was new, if Jackie wasn't eating something was going on!

"Well, eat up!" Nicole said as she dug into the chili. "It's my father's special recipe. Lloyd froze as he was about to let the inedible solid-liquid enter his mouth.

"Excuse me for a moment." he said as he stood up and walked away.

"What's wrong with him?" Kaylee asked.

"He's sensei! He's just probably doing sensei stuff!" Nicole claimed as she shoved another spoonful into her mouth. Jackie knew why he left, it was probably a father like daughter kind of thing. They all carefully tasted it all at once.

Kaylee spit her's out, Zoey forced herself to swallow it, and Jackie just ran to the bathroom. Eventually everybody came back and sat down.

"Something's off." Zoey tried to explain.

"Ya, this is really awful!" Kaylee complained as she tried to wipe any of the taste left over from the first bite of it.

Nicole got up from her seat with a huff and went over to her pot of chili and covered it up. She didn't even bother to put it away. She sighed before heading off to bed so she wouldn't be so tired tomorrow for training.

"Girls, I'm heading out for a few hours, Nicole's in charge!" Lloyd yelled as he left, not knowing that the young girl had already entered her dreams.

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><p>The birds chirped and the water glistened under the sunlight. It was the perfect day, at least on top of the ground. Underground Shadow was enraged, his soldiers had once again failed, his highly trained field agents, FAILED!<p>

Shadow paced in his room until he had an idea! A brilliant, amazing idea that would guarantee him victory! His main priority was to get the golden ninja, he had tried to track him, he had tried ransom, he hadn't tried a weakness that he had used on a certain quartet. He smiled and cackled evilly as he was shocked that the idea hadn't come to him sooner!

All he needed were another foursome that were forever loyal to him. He turned to a guard of his,"Bring me... the ninja." the servant immediately obeyed and brought the four men.

"Zane, you are the best at what you do, you do not make mistakes for you are not human, you are leading this mission..." he trailed off,"Bring me the Golden Ninja, ALIVE!" he paused for a moment,"Do not fail."

"Yes master." the four hypnotized men chorused.

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><p>All four of the girls had crawled into bed and their sensei hadn't gotten back yet. They all were sleeping peacefully as they didn't know of the danger approaching.<p>

Jackie was snoring quite obnoxiously as a window was broken. Nicole jolted awake at the sound,"Girls, I think somebody's in the monistary." she said, giving Kaylee a nudge.

"Of course somebody's in the monistary Nicole, us!" Jackie yawned as she turned over towards the wall. The the girls heard another crash as they all woke up. The four girls carefully wandered into the other room to fins four men walking around and causing destruction, their fathers!

The girls shrieked as they rushed to the other room and barricaded the door with a few heavy objects. "There's no way they can get in now!" Jackie claimed as the door was broken down.

"You were saying!?" Kaylee screamed as the four kids ran towards the kitchen.

The four men inched closer to them as the girls tried to find an escape route,"Where is the golden ninja?" Kai asked.

"We don't know!" Kaylee claimed as the ninja each took out their weapons. They were cornered, they had no way out!

"We're so screwed!" Jackie cried. The girls backed up into a shelf full of canned goods, Nicole had knocked some off of the shelf. she looked at one, took a deep breath and chucked it at her fathers head, she kept on throwing the cans at the adults, they stumbled backwards as canned peas, peaches, and potatoes kept on being thrown at them, this gave the girls lots of room to escape. Nicole filled up her arms with the cans as she saw her escape route.

"You really think throwing canned goods at them are going to stop them!?" Kaylee yelled sarcastically.

"It's slowing them down, isn't it?" Nicole chuckled as she tossed another can at Jay. Before they knew it the whole team was covered in a pile of cans. They cheered at their 'victory' until, a hand shot up out of the pile.

Zane snarled at his targets as he lunged at them. "What do we do now?" Zoey asked Nicole.

"I say we split up! They have to each take one of us!" the leader shouted as they each went a different direction. Kaylee rushed into the living room and hid behind the sofa. She took shallow breaths as she heard the grunts of her father. Then man looked around for a few moments and sniffed the air, he then lifted the sofa, and with a grunt, found his daughter. Kaylee shrieked as she ran outside.

Jackie ran upstairs and left two trails of cake frosting to throw her father off. She chuckled as she finished her real path. To the girls surprise she saw Jay tumbling after her! "What are you, a bloodhound?" she shouted as she hurried towards a window and slid own the roof.

Zoey quickly made her way into the training area. She quickly made her way through the course with her survival switch on! The blonde nindroid challenged her father as she threw a pair of shuricans. She was shocked to see that a little bit of ice appeared where they landed, she processed that through her systems as she delivered a swift kick to Zane's face.

Nicole made a dash back to the the kitchen and she faced her father, she still didn't know spinjitzu but she could be quick and clever. She could use her surroundings to her advantage. She quickly began chucking random things at Cole, until there was only one thing left, her chili! Nicole grabbed the pot and spilled it's contents all over the black ninja. He grunted as the chili got into his mouth. He shrieked in pain before the pan fell off of his face. Nicole gasped, his eyes weren't red anymore!

"Ni-Nicole." he gasped as he reached out to his daughter.

"Pops?" she asked with tears in her eyes. The chili was so familiar to him it brought him back! "Pops!" she yelled as she ran to him.

"No!" Cole shouted,"Nicole, don't go near me... I could hurt you." he said backing up.

"Pops, I- but..." Nicole wasn't sure what to say.

"Listen Nicole, I am s-so p-p-proud o-of yo-o-ou!" he smiled as his eyes once again turned red. He growled as he attacked once again, Nicole led him outside with tears in her eyes. They finally met up with each other and made a quick plan.

Jackie ran inside and got a green scarf,"They're looking for the golden ninja, then they're gonna get him!"

Zoey handed the scarf to her eagle and let it carry it away. Zane sniffed the air,"The golden ninja! He's escaped!" he sniffed the air again,"This way!" they all ran in the direction that the eagle flew in.

The girls then went through a lockdown process in the monistary while the 'golden ninja' was being tracked. It had been several hours since the ninja had gotten lost and confused, and the girls were still on lockdown when Lloyd got home. He was shocked to find every door and window possible locked and boobytrapped!

He knocked on the door and heard whispering on the inside until a girl's eyes looked through the keyhole,"What's the passcode?" Jackie asked.

"Let your sensei in because he might freeze out here." he said.

"Nope, not even close!" she shouted.

"Cupcakes?" he asked.

"Yup! Come on in!" she opened the door and let him enter,"Sorry but we had to up our defenses after the attack." she said calmly.

"Attack?!" Lloyd asked with concern.

"Ya, our dad's are wackier than ever!" Kaylee complained,"They were hunting you!" the girls told him everything that had happened while he was gone.

"Strange, usually Shadow would send a warrior, however he must've sent them because he knew I would struggle with fighting my brothers." Lloyd mused.

"Where were you?" Zoey asked.

"I was picking up some things." he said as he put the box he was holding on the floor.

"What could be so important that you had to leave us defenseless?" Nicole said as the eagle returned and landed on her shoulder.

"These." Lloyd smirked and put the open box down.

"WOW!"

"COOL!"

''AWESOME!"

"WONDERFUL!"

Inside of the box were four ninja suits. The girls each grabbed one. "Strange, you each grabbed our own suits..." Lloyd mused, interested.

They each went to try them on before hurrying back to their sensei, Zoey was in white, Nicole was in black, Jackie was in blue and Kaylee was in red.

"Sensei, something... happened." Zoey shyly explained.

"What?" he asked.

"I threw a normal pair of shuricans but when they landed they froze the land around them." she explained.

"You channeled your elemental powers into the weapons, do you know where they are?"

"Yes! I have them right here!" she handed him the shuricans, and let him examine them.

"You channeled some of your power through them, some of your elemental power lies in them, you can retract it and put it into other things. Do not put it in more than one weapon though, you only have so much to give." he told her,"Your power is ice, Kaylee's is fire, Jackie's is lightning, and Nicole's is earth." he finished.

"You must continue training, so the next time that you fight, you will be able to fight back." he said, heading off to bed.

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	6. Spilled Secrets of a Tweenage Girl

**Sorry for the short chapter! Enjoy anyways!**

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><p>The girls had been training for several weeks now, and they had all completed the training course at least once.<p>

"My students." Lloyd entered the room where the girls were each doing their own things, Jackie was enjoying a cupcake, Kaylee was checking the wheels on her skateboard, Zoey was still reading her book, and Nicole was listening to her headphones. "You have come quite far since we have begun, and I think that you are all ready for a mission."

"What kind of mission?" Jackie asked excitedly, munching on her cupcake.

"I need to trust you all to be able to camp out and investigate local sightings of Shadow's warriors." Lloyd explained.

"But sensei, we don't even know spinjitzu yet!" Zoey said.

"Spinjitzu is inside all of you, you already know it! The key will be revealed when it is ready to be unlocked." he said before giving them some stakeout supplies and a map before sending them off on their first mission.

"I am so excited!" Jackie yelled, jumping up and down.

"Ya! I'm excited too!." Nicole agreed.

"No! But really! This is our time to shine girls! Now that we have training, we can kick their butts if they dare to challenge us!" After a lot of walking, and many words flowing out of Jackie's mouth, they finally arrived at their location.

They walked around the village in their ninja suits without their masks. The girls acted somewhat normal as they found a good spot to hide and stake out! The team quickly ducked as they looked towards the town where a couple of masked, figures in cloaks were walking around and pointing out certain people.

"Ooh! Look! There they are!" Jackie said a little bit over a whisper.

"SHHH! We can't get caught!" Kaylee hissed as the girls turned their attention back to the masked men as Nicole took out some binoculars. She focused on the taller of the two as he pulled out a bomb!

"OH NO!" Jackie screetched at the top of her lungs, getting the figure's attention.

"JACKIE!" her team yelled as they all slipped on their masks, and prepared for battle.

"Hi little girls, long time no see." one teased.

"We happened to improve since we last faced off!" Zoey threatened calmly.

They all charged towards the figures.

"He, cute." he teased as the girls threw themselves into combat. They challenged the warriors! And lost... badly!

The man threw down his bomb as all of the girls held their breath. Gas began pouring out of the device as it knocked out everyone that inhaled it. The girls had to make a retreat, but the shadow warriors weren't gonna let them leave just yet!

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><p>"Ohhhh." Nicole groaned at their campsite they set up as Zoey nursed her wound. "I hate these guys! These guys must be impossible to beat without spinjitzu!"<p>

"Chill, we just need to find that key and we're homefree!" Kaylee smirked as she sipped her energy drink.

"It's all Jackie's fault!" Nicole pointed at her teammate who was busy with her stick fort,"She's the one who blew our cover!"

"Nicole, she di-" Zoey was cut off.

"Nicole's right! You revealed our location and ruined the mission!" Kaylee accused.

"Hey! I didn't mean to do it! I was just excited!" Jackie claimed.

"Next time, try to contain your excitement!" Nicole spat as they all began to argue.

"Oh so you think my ears are big!? Look at those feet! By the way, bigfoot called, he wants his feet back!" Jackie yelled at Nicole.

"Jackie! You have no right to speak after how you destroyed our mission! We don't know how many people were hurt, because of your outburst!" Kaylee yelled.

"Fine! IF THAT'S HOW YOU FEEL, I'LL JUST LEAVE! HOW WOULD YOU FEEL THEN!?" Jackie yelled.

"We'd feel a lot safer." Nicole snorted.

"FINE! Then I will leave!" she shouted as she picked up her bag and walked away.

"WE'RE BETTER OFF WITHOUT YA!" Nicole yelled into the distance.

"Did you really mean what you said? Won't sensei be mad?" Zoey asked.

"She'll be back by morning." Nicole rolled her eyes before crawling into her sleeping bag.

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><p>"Who do they think they are... talking to me like that." Jackie grumbled to herself aloud as she trudged through the forest. She was still angry and as arrogant as ever.<p>

The girl sat herself down on a log to think to herself,'Maybe I should turn back...' she was about to get up when a hand clamped over her mouth and pulled her into the bushes. She screamed as she fell unconscious.

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><p>Kaylee opened her tired eyes,"Jackie?" she jumped up to her feet and looked around,"She's still not here!"<p>

"Maybe she got lost... I wouldn't be surprised." Nicole snorted.

"Oh no!" Zoey let Winter land on her arm as she read the note that it had brought her.

'Dear young ladies,

We have kidnapped your friend, she didn't put up that much of a fight, she is nothing without you! If you want her back, bring me the golden ninja!

-Shadow'

"We have to save her." Zoey said as they all ran off to find some clues.

Kaylee found some tracks behind a log,"Guys! Footprints! They must lead to Jackie!" she announced as they all hustled on the trail of the kidnappers!

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><p>Jackie coughed as a bag was lifted off of her head. She looked around to find herself in Shadow's cave. "Good Morning Jacklyn." Shadow mused.<p>

"SHADOW!?"

"Now, you are going to tell me where the golden ninja is!" the girl squealed as she tried to escape using her hands that were bound by rope, the girl gasped as she realized that she was tied to a chair!

"Stuck?" the son of darkness teased as the girl struggled,"You are going to tell me about your friend the golden ninja now!"

"If I don't?"

"You wont get this treat..." Shadow trailed off as a lone, huge cupcake laid on the table. Jackie's eyes widened as she began to drool.

"I'll tell you about the golden ninja! His name is Lloyd Garmadon he used to be the green ninja until he turned golden after defeating the Overlord His father used to be the dark lord but he turned out to be good in the end so yay for him and he also likes to play the tambourine he says that he gets it from his mother but I actually think that his uncle sounded like a more tambourine kind of guy I like tambourines but I prefer the drums have you ever played drums they're supe-"

"ENOUGH CHILD!" Shadow boomed as he shut Jackie up. "Enough with your mind games! Now tell me where the golden ninja is!"

"OKAY!... WHERE THE GOLDEN NINJA IS!"

"NO! Just tell me everything that you know!"

"Everything?" Jackie asked.

"Everything..." Shadow hissed.

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><p>The girls wanted to give up hope, they might never find their friend! Zoey turned towards her eagle,"Winter, please aid us in finding our missing sister."<p>

The electronic eagle flapped it's wings before taking off into the distance and following the tracks. The girls waited several hours for the bird to come back, just for it to return covered in snow!

They all gasped at the dry ground below them,"I believe our friend is much farther away then we think." Zoey pointed to the snowy top of the mountain.

Zoey took out a shimmering shurican and focused on her powers before getting rid of the snow on her feathered friend. The bird nuzzled her before letting out a caw, and flying off. The girls began their excursion to the mountain.

"I hate not being able to ride on my skateboard..." Kaylee huffed as the mountain was fifty meters away. "This dirt road doesn't let my wheels move!"

"Kaylee stop complaining!" Nicole scolded as they reached the mountain.

The tomboy sighed,"Don't tell me we have to climb this!" Kaylee whined.

I sense that the cave is far below, it's another entrance to his fortress!" Zoey exclaimed as she began running into the cave, man she loved her survival switch! She could sense things much quicker than she ever could before!

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><p>Shadow sighed as he drummed his fingers against the table.<p>

"And when I was eight years old," Jackie sniffed," I wasted all of the water in Ninjago City on a seven hour bubble bath!" she cried as Shadow repeatedly hit his head on the cave wall.

He wasn't getting anywhere anytime soon!

"But the worst thing I have ever done-" Shadow looked at a knife in the corner, would it be wrong to stab himself?

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><p>The girls were racing down deeper into the cave, the girls stumbled into a room full of cages! Everybody in there was trapped in a cell! They recognized the people in the cages! They hadn't seen them in reality, but they had seen them in pictures!<p>

Everyone was asleep at the moment. They needed to tell their sensei about what they had found, but first they needed to save Jackie.

The girls rushed into a room where they heard high pitched screaming. Kaylee used her fire-focused sword to break the door down, she was face to face with a screaming Shadow! "Make it stop!" He cried as he curled up in a tiny ball in a corner,"I'll destroy you all another day, just plaese take her back!" The evil villain pleaded.

"Excuse me?" Zoey asked.

"Just take her away! I give her back! I don't care about the golden ninja right now! Just get that little virus out of here!" he wailed. "How can you live with such a thing!?"

"We tolerate her, and love her because she is our sister!" Nicole yelled as she untied Jackie and held out her scythe that she had enchanted with her powers. The girls then got the hell out of there before Shadow could try anything funny.

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><p>"So that's why you were so late..." Lloyd chuckled.<p>

"YA! Just because Jackie may have screwed up once, it was the thing that she used to screw up that saved the day!" Kaylee pointed out.

"It seems you all have learned an important lesson."

"Yea sensei, but while we were saving Jackie we saw... something."

"Something." Sensei questioned.

"Yes, you see... we saw Sensei Wu and Garmadon, along with Misako and Nya all locked up in his dungeon." Nicole revealed.

Right then and there... the golden ninja fainted.

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	7. Grocery Grinch

**Wow! Longest chapter yet! I hope you enjoy!**

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><p>Zoey was peacefully asleep on her bed, letting the sound of nature outside of her window guide her dreams. She may be a nindroid, but she was programmed with many upgrades that Zane had given her. So she usually used her abilities to dream.<p>

Her dreams would almost never run wild, in fact they were calm and serene. They were tamer than most dreams a normal person would have. They mostly involved things that had and were happening around her.

The young android sighed as she peacefully slept, in her dream, the birds were chirping a beautiful, natural tune that she sang along with as well. She was about to hit a high note with Winter when a loud noise came out of her companion's mouth, the blonde girl gasped,"Oh no! Winter that sound wasn't natural!" she was concerned until the bird opened it's mouth once again and the loud booming sound came out again.

Zoey opened her eyes and found herself at the foot of her bed that she had fallen out of, she heard the sound of the bass dropping,"NICOLE!" she shouted as she was literally carried down the stairs from it, the noise shook the entire monistary!

Finally, Zoey found the strength to stand up and slowly walk towards the machine, the sound waves held her back as she tried to move closer, the finally! She reached the off switch.

"H-hey! You killed the wub!" Nicole shouted out of ignorance at her teammate. Zoey let out another sigh, they had all recently visited their old homes to get some of their old belongings so they could make their new home feel like home to them.

"Nicole, please, don't wash the dishes so loudly." Zoey said politely as her friend's face turned into a smirk.

"Come on! It's like the best way to wake up in the morning!" she retorted, placing another plate in the cabinet. Zoey sighed and looked over to the rest of her 'family' sitting at the table, they didn't seem to mind the loud music, in fact they almost seemed to enjoy it! "You should be thanking me!" Nicole continued,"And I made you a sandwich! So that's two thank you's ya owe me!" the girl with the dyed hair chuckled, handing Zoey a plate with an egg and cheese sandwich on it.

"But... uhh, thank you Nicole. We're still going to have to talk about your dish washing tactics after I'm done." She said taking a bite of the sandwich. "It's good but... something tastes, off." The young blonde's face began to turn red, it was one of the curse's of being so close to a human! "H-HOT!"

Nicole burst into laughter at the sight of her friend's face turning as red as possible! "Ha, ha! Oh my gosh Zo, you should see your face!" she said cackling into laughter once again,"I didn't think I put that much on there!"

The blonde girl ran over to the sink and turned the faucet, but no water came out! "Oh, I forgot, they said they're turning the water off for a few hours, guess somebody set something loose in the water or something." the future DJ chuckled.

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><p>A shadow soldier walked up to another one,"Hey Jeff! Guess what!"<p>

"What is it Waldorf." the other one sighed.

"I have created the most delicious drink in the universe!" he yelled, holding the drink up into the air.

"What does it taste like?" Jeff perked up a little at his friend's antics.

"I dunno!" Waldorf yelled.

The taller of the two facepalmed,"Then how do you know if it's delicious or not?" the annoyed soldier asked.

"Well, it says it on the label... and I may or may not have found this in the soldier barracks and claimed it my own."

"Dude, why don't you try it then?"

"I think I will!" Waldorf replied, taking one long, good sip of it. The soldier smiled, that was before he made a face that said,'Eww! This is disgusting!' He looked left and right before looking at his friend for help.

Jeff rolled his eyes,"Wally, just spit it into the sewer!" he said, kicking the sewer cap open.

The shorter one smiled gratefully as he spit it out before dumping the rest of the horrid, toxic drink into the water,"Hope that won't have any effect on the city water." Waldorf commented, looking down where the drink fell.

It looked like a pile of black sludge with a green gas rising from it,"Well that looks toxic." Jeff commented,"I wonder who would make such an awful creation?"

As if on cue, the corrupted voice of Cole rang through the entire headquarters,"**HEY! WHO TOOK MY MOST DELICIOUS DRINK IN THE UNIVERSE!**"

The two soldiers looked at each other in fear before getting rid of the evidence that was the container that the 'drink' used to dwell in.

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><p>Zoey ran over to the fridge, but all she found in there was an old, molding bowl of shrimp, a carton of milk, half a bottle of hot sauce, and a day and a half old butter cream pie. Zoey reached for the carton, and... she didn't care how barbaric it was, she tried to sip the cold liquid from the carton, just to find it was empty!<p>

The girl let out a high pitched squeak as her throat felt hotter and hotter. She tossed the carton to the side and stared once again into the almost empty refrigerator.

"Oh yeah! I also forgot to tell you we need more milk... and, food." Nicole smiled sheepishly since Zoey usually got the groceries.

The girl saw no other option! She grabbed the pie in her hands, took a deep breath, and stuffed her face into it! Her action was followed immediately by the howling laughter of her teammate. "Haha! That was the greatest pr-" Nicole was interrupted by the pie hitting her right in the face, Zoey threw it so hard, it knocked the other girl to the floor! "Hmm, not bad." Nicole said, tasting the pie for herself.

Zoey had been feuding with Nicole for the past few days, they were just so, different from each other! It was pretty hard to meditate with Nicole constantly blasting her wubs throughout the place they called home. Nicole wasn't exactly fond of Zoey wanting everything to be quiet all the time.

Later in the day Jackie and Kaylee had been sent on a mission to go undercover in Shadow's base to get any information on what he plans to do next, but Lloyd asked Zoey and Nicole to stay behind because had an even more important task for them, they had learned spinjitzu and were quite happy about it when they found out they just had to do the moves of the training course.

"Girls, I need you to... get me everything on this list." he said, handing the girls the two mile long scroll.

"Really!? A scavenger hunt!?" Nicole rolled her eyes.

"No, a shopping trip, besides, it's too dangerous for all of you to go. Also, if they need backup, they will have two of their sisters to rely on." the sensei stood up,"I expect for you to have everything on that list by the time the sun sets, good luck."

The girls sighed at the impossibly long list that would take forever to finish. They set off towards the marketplace in Jamaniki Village so they could get it over with.

The outdoor market had many stands and many places to go to! Yo could get anything there!

"Okay, what should we get first?" Zoey asked, looking over the list.

"I'm not exactly cool with the 'we' thing, why don't you take half of the things and I take the other half." Nicole offered, ripping the list in half.

"Sure! I'll get mine and you'll get yours! Winter will lead you to me when I'm finished shopping." Zoey smiled as her eagle landed on her shoulder.

"Okay! If Winter doesn't return right away, it might be just for the reason that I'm still shopping so ya might want to be patient."

Zoey nodded in reply before the girls went their separate ways, Nicole was planning on being really late with her groceries, the longer away from that boring old wall of drying paint, the better.

Zoey sighed with relief after escaping the insane party lunatic who is obsessed with bass. The girl looked around the market for the things she needed, Bread, check! Frozen pizza, check! Milk... definitely! Check!

The girl's eyes scrolled down her shopping list until she heard an explosion it the distance, it caused her to drop the ripe tomato in her hand. She watched as it splattered onto the ground. She gasped and ended up splattering a small crateful of them! The young girl sheepishly looked at the stand owner.

She looked up at the angry man in front of her,"Here you go." She said, handing the man who ran the stand five dollars before spinning into her ninja suit and hurrying over to the source of the booming sound. The girl sighed with relief and annoyance once she found the source.

"Hey Zoey! Check out this-"

"Giant speaker that you plugged your ipod into... I know."

"Well, that's not the actual name of it but-"

"Nicole! Please turn it off! Everyone here is trying to shop." the slightly shorter girl told the wubmaster off.

"But it's on non-violent mode!" Nicole whined.

"NO! That noise is very violent in my opinion, now please, just turn it down." Zoey grumbled as she walked away with her baskets of groceries,"And start shopping!" she ordered. Nicole let out a sigh as she began to look for some of the things on her list.

She smiled a little bit when she saw,'ingredients for chili' on the list, it didn't specify! Nicole could get the supplies for her father's special chili!

The girl began running to different sections of the market as she grabbed the many ingredients.

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><p>"Are we there yet?" Jackie complained as Kaylee was getting frustrated.<p>

"No!" Kaylee harshly whispered,"You need to be quiet and stop whining! Look, I'm sorry that I chose the vents, but it's one of the only ways we won't get caught."

"I'm sorry, it's just that I'm eager to get back home after we see what Shadow's up to." Jackie whispered this time.

"Same here, I-Ahh!" The brown eyed girl took quite a fall down into the dungeon hall.

"Psst! Kaylee! Is?It?Safe?"

The brown haired girl sighed,"Yes Jackie, it's safe!" Kaylee hissed back at her teammate.

"Okay! Incoming!" the perky girl yelled, getting ready to jump down.

"Jackie wait!"

"Yipee!" the blue yed girl took a fall, but had a soft landing. "Thanks Kay-Kay!"

"Welcome... and don't call me that." the young red ninja groaned.

"W-who's there." a voice asked.

"Jackie! You got us caught!" Kaylee hissed as she pulled her mask over her face.

"No! No! You're alright, I'm a prisoner. Jackie? Is that you?"

"Mom?" the cheerful girl's face turned serious as she ran towards her mother,"MOM!" she did her best to hug her mother through the cell's bars.

"Jackie! You're okay! Oh! Nice Ninja suit."

"Ya like it! Sensei Lloyd is training us!" she told her mother.

"Sensei Lloyd?" Wu turned around with a smile on his face.

"Ahah." the ditzy girl nodded.

"That's right." Kaylee added as she approached the cell as well.

"So you're Sensei Wu?" Jackie guessed as the wise old man nodded.

"Wait, if Wu's here... then where's Garmadon?" Kaylee asked, looking around.

"Garmadon... has lost himself." a weak voice on the other side of the cell spoke up. A woman with gray hair in a messy braid came out of the shadows. "My husband has gone mad." Misako said, pointing towards another cell on the far end where the shadow on a man passed out on the floor could be seen. "He is a crazy old man." she cried as she looked back to the cell wall with tears in her eyes. "He is kept in a separate cell."

Jackie frowned and looked at her mother's stomach, it looked a bit... bigger. "Mom, do they really feed you that well?" Jackie giggled a little.

"No sweetie, in fact, they feed me the least on purpose..." she trailed off,"Jackie sweetie, I have been pregnant for about two months now..."

"Oh my..." the girl looked at her suffering mother in the cell. Jackie was about to try to help them escape when she heard footsteps.

"Ya! Waldorf is such a moron!" a gruff voice chuckled as they walked down the hall.

"mom, we have to go, but... we will be back." Jackie said, brushing her hand over her mother's stomach.

"Did you hear that?" one of the guards asked as they both began to run towards them. The two girls quickly made their escape through the air ducts.

"We know we heard voices that were not yours! Tell us! Who was here!" one guard ordered.

"Hmmmabumbbbelnasssglle."

"What?" the guards turned around to see Garmadon making unintelligible sounds and noises as he began to shout like he was crazy!

"Just the crazy cook." one of the guards rolled his eyes before escorting himself and his friend out.

The girls had escaped quickly through the vents, once they were outside, they began to run, and they didn't stop until they were far away from the hideout.

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><p>Nicole and Zoey had nearly finished their shopping, Nicole passed by a certain stand and a joke came to mind that would make even Zoey laugh!<p>

The future DJ approached the nature lover, holding a large fish. "Hey Zoey! Look what I've got-" she pretended to almost slip and drop the fish. "Oops! Looks like I dropped the-"

"I get it." Zoey cut her off before looking at the fish once again,"And that's a salmon." she sighed as she continued her shopping.

Nicole frowned,"I swear, I cannot get that girl to laugh!" she picked up her basket and walked away.

"Ugh, we apologize greatly General Cole! We're so, so sorry!" the two lower class soldiers apologized to the high class general.

"Enough!" Cole barked,"Just get the ingredients we need to recreate my drink and then..." he stopped talking.

"And then what?" The taller soldier known as Jeff asked.

"Boys, I have a new mission for you, get that girl over there!" he pointed to a blonde young lady in a ninja gi. "And make sure to cause as much chaos as possible. It will make a good distraction for her teammates."

The two men nodded and slowly made their way towards Zoey.

"There! I'm finally done shopping!" Zoey smiled, as she checked off the final item on her list she was about to send her falcon to find Nicole when...

"Well hello young lady." Zoey gasped and turned around,"I'm afraid we haven't met..." a shadow soldier was standing right before her very eyes, and she couldn't move because of fear.

"Uh, uh," Zoey began to back up until she hit a figure behind her.

"Hey kid, want a bike?" the other one teased as they tried to corner the girl. Zoey took a deep breath before letting her falcon fly free.

"NINJAGO!" she became a white tornado of ice as she beat up the men twice her size! Cole looked at the commotion, some people were starting to notice the possible abduction as Cole facepalmed, if you want chaos to happen, you have to do it yourself!

Cole kicked a cart to the side, a muscular man turned around,"Hey! What gives!"

"Me? oh no sir, I saw that man at that cart kick your cart out of jealousy sir, he think's that his tomatoes are better." Cole said innocently

"Tomatoes huh?" the man stood up and punched the other cart owner in the face, causing a full blown riot! Everyone was running and screaming, not to mention the ones who were actually fighting.

"Thank goodness I finished my shopping." Nicole yelled to herself as she joined the fun and threw what she thought was a Bass at first but it turned out to be a salmon. She then saw the eagle, she let it land on her arm as she sighed,"Let me guess, she sent you because she wants to leave the fun riot." Nicole sighed again, but then a video message popped up as a holographic image, Nicole clicked on play as she saw Zoey being attacked!

"We've gotta save her!" Nicole yelled and got a squawk in response as they ran towards Zoey.

The young blonde was getting tired, but still wasn't giving up! Then, she saw Nicole spin into her earth tornado. The taller girl turned towards the General,"DAD!" she yelled as the man smirked and began to slowly approach her, clearing his own path by tossing others aside.

The girl grabbed the spices and ingredients she had gathered earlier, the first thing she did was open her can of beans. Then, Cole and his daughter were face to face, however, the man was met with beans being poured all over his head, and many spices being flung at his face as he sneezed.

He closed his eyes to avoid any temporary blindness because of the spices in his eyes, Nicole looked at him, hoping and wishing that they would be brown. Cole opened his eyes, they were a glowing red as he growled and pushed Nicole down.

"Calling Kai, I need backup here, I found to wanted fugitives, over."

"On our way." Kai replied. In a matter of minutes, many vehicles pulled up and an army of soldiers were either on them or tagging behind.

The two girls stood back to back, Zoey looked over to her sister to support to find the girl with the slightly blue dyed hair running away! Zoey was then attacked by nearly the entire army, she couldn't focus much so her shuricans couldn't do much of anything at all! She was terrified!

But, she still had to fight! The blonde kicked her way through as she spun around the army, confusing them. She began to dodge and avoid their blows until she was struck down and taken by surprise. Cole was standing above her with a cruel smirk on his face.

She accepted defeat, and prepared herself for the pain of the final blow when... creak! A lot of squeaking sounds had caused evryone and thing to stop fighting and look towards the ten year old rolling a giant speaker towards the army.

"What's that?" Cole asked.

"Oh nothing," Nicole flipped a switch that read,'Violent Mode! Take Caution!' on it and pointed the speaker at the group,"It's only my BASS CANNON! she plugged her ipod in and pressed play as the speaker expanded widely and blasted loud wubs with amazing bass that shook the lands and had the enemies running for the hills. The beat continued even after they ran away, she just switched it off of violent mode.

"I thought you had abandoned me!" Zoey smiled.

"I thought you couldn't fight that well!" Nicole smirked as the two girls giggled. "There it is! I finally made you laugh!" Nicole chuckled as the grils grabbed their baskets and began to walk home.

"So... what are we going to tell sensei about the chili ingredients?" Zoey asked.

"I dunno... I can just say that a lemur stole it."

"Yes, because he would believe that?" Zoey asked accusingly.

"Yup!" Nicole chuckled as they ran home, the sun had almost set as they heard a terrifying roar come from the sky. They both immediately ran up to their home.

"We're back! What was that noise?" Zoey asked.

"Oh, Ultra Dragon's just a little sick, but don't worry! She'll be fine in about a week." the sensei reassured them.

"Okay!' the girls said together before breaking out in laughter.

"Well you to bonded." Lloyd commented.

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><p>Once everybody was finally home Nicole had to... she just had to. She walked into the family room, with fish in hand,"hey everyone what's-whoah!" she dropped the fish by accident,"Oops looks like I dropped the Bass!" she yelled her joke getting a laugh out of everyone except for Zoey.<p>

"Once again, that is a salmon." the nindroid corrected as her team broke into laughter once again while Lloyd walked into the kitchen to start dinner.

"Nicole? Where are the chili ingredients?" he asked.

"A lemur stole it!"

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><p><strong>That was fun! Who was surprised at Nya being pregnant? <strong>

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	8. A Twist in the Weight of Ninjago

**Would you look at that! I am not dead! Hey guys! A nice long chapter for yall' with action, adventure, and a huge plot twist that will change the entire story! Enjoy!**

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><p>Nicole slowly opened her eyes as a loud roar echoed throughout the monistary. The girl with the dyed hair fell out of bed and smacked face first onto the floor.<p>

"Ugh." she groaned.

"That was louder than yesterday." Kaylee complained as she stuffed her pillow over her face.

"It's so annoying! Zoey, your good with animals, make him stop!" Jackie yawned as well.

"Girls, first of all, the ultradragon is sick! Also, it is not he, it is them, they are male and female as well." Zoey almost scolded them as they heard the footsteps of their sensei once again rush outside.

The girls all yawned and forced themselves out of bed. With four thuds on the floor, they all slowly made their way towards the open back doors as they heard a loud yell.

"Sensei!" the girls cried in concern as they rushed out the door to find him clutching his arm in pain.

"Oh my gosh! Are you okay?" Zoey asked, she had the first aid kit in an almost impossible amount of seconds. "Did your dragon... bite you?"

"Yea." Lloyd groaned as he allowed his youngest student tend to the wound. "She has never done that before... she has been really sick over the past few weeks as you may have noticed and, something is very wrong. I can't figure it out because I don't know much about dragons. I wasn't taught much about caring for them when they were sick... nobody knows much about dragons."

Zoey approached it before doing a quick secret scan with her robotics, she gasped at the results and then cleared her throat and announced her observation. "I think I know what's wrong with your dragon..."

"What?"

"He, She, well... they are going into labor." as Zoey finished speaking, another terrifying roar escaped the lips of the monster.

"No time to question it!" Lloyd covered for her computers before watching the dragon begin to give birth...

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><p>Finally, after many hours, five circular shapes were out of the dragon, but that was what confused Lloyd...<p>

"Why are they eggs and not live dragons!? It should've been painless! They probably still need to be fertilized or something like that!"

Zoey searched her computers for an explanation,"Actually, the eggs are fertilized for the other half of the dragon is male... that explains the size and the slight movement in the eggs, and also to why it hut so much for your dragon to lay them."

"Oh..." Lloyd trailed off as he looked at each of the eggs. He then turned to his dragon who nuzzled him lovingly in apology for the injury,"It's okay guys! You felt threatened! It was my fault."

Lloyd scratched his pet before looking back at the girls with a smile,"With how far the eggs are developed, they should hatch soon!"

The girls smiled at this before spinning into their ninja gi's and walking into the kitchen for some breakfast. Zoey began to cook the meal as everyone else went to do their own things. Jackie and Kaylee went to talk about the dragons while Nicole did some training warm ups in the same room.

"I wonder what the baby dragons would look like!?" Jackie giggled, thinking of how cute they might look.

"Ya! They could be that... or hideous beasts with giant teeth, claws, and could be pure evil from birth! Who knows what horrors they could be hiding!" Kaylee said in a spooky voice as Jackie shrunk down a little.

"Leave her be Kaylee." Nicole stepped in,"You know that's not what they are really like!"

"They're not?"

"Of course not! They are about ten times worse than Kaylee described! these beasts have huge fangs and are ruthless killing machines... but when they bite you... you turn into one!" Nicole began to describe the creatures as actual monsters! Right as Nicole finished her story... the lights flickered out.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" the girls screamed together as they clung onto their neighbor.

"V-very funny Nicole, turn on the lights." Kaylee stuttered as she began to get goosebumps.

"I am not near the lightswitch." she grunted back as they saw four figures with glowing red eyes appear in the doorway. One of them was holding someone. The girls squinted and gasped as they saw Zoey struggling against her father's grip.

"Hey guys." Jay's voice was abnormally low. "We thought that you would've been smart enough to move your base once we found it the first time!"

They each grabbed a hold of their daughters and began to search around. Cole tied them up as he let Kai drag them around behind them.

"Let me go!" Kaylee yelled as she struggled against the tight grip of the ropes.

They however ignored her as they reached the courtyard where a golden hero was standing, with his arm still bandaged. They saw the weakness and immediately aimed for it, causing the golden ninja to take a blow... then another blow was landed as he was knocked out.

"Sensei!" Zoey cried. She bit her lip, letting out a grunts as she let tears fall out of her closed eyes. She quickly opened up her arm panel and turned on her survival switch, however she received a shock. She however was surprised that it worked afterwards!

The blonde girl spun out of the ropes before helping her teammates escape as well. They all ran off with a few belongings, Zoey grabbed a bag of Lloyd's before taking off, but her sixth sense kept on going off like crazy!

Zoey stopped for a moment to clear her head, the more it went off, the more of a headache it gave her. She then remembered! "Girls! The dragon eggs!"

They all gasped as they each picked up and egg, except for Nicole who carried two, there were too many eggs for everyone to only have one egg. They looked up at the pen to see the ultra dragon had gone missing.

They all ran out of there as fast as possible and made sure to keep the eggs safe and hopefully warm.

The girls ran and ran, farther and farther away... they kept on running and didn't stop.

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><p>"Master Shadow." the generals threw their brother down onto the floor in front of him.<p>

Shadow smirked as Lloyd began to wake up,"Oh... poor Lloyd... it seems that your arm is injured golden ninja! I have the power to fix it..." he trailed off for a moment as Lloyd gave him a cold glare,"Oh but there will be some payment necessary..." Lloyd rolled his eyes, he wouldn't be surprised if Shadow turned into an octopus and began to sing about poor unfortunate souls.

Lloyd was forcefully sat upward as a needle was held to his neck,"You were the only thing I needed out of the way, but now it's even better, you're on my side!" Shadow cackled as the serum was shoved into is neck. Lloyd's vision blurred, and he began to see in all different shades of red.

"Now Golden Ninja... you shall be loyal to me!"

"Master." Cole stepped forward.

"Yes?"

"We have failed in capturing the children... they got away. We have failed." Cole got into a pleading position as he awaited his punishment.

"Oh! Those girls are as good as dead! You did light the monistary on fire did you not?"

"Yes..."

"Good! They have no shelter, no money no belongings, and now no sensei to guide them! The brats are doomed!" Shadow chuckled as Cole's eyes flashed brown for a moment before glowing red once again. They have nothing to help them! The toddlers are going to pay for what they have done!" Shadow chuckled,"Now, rise my minion! Boys, meet your new head general..." Lloyd rose upward as he stood up tall, the other generals bowed in his direction, a small part of each of them however was happy to have their brother back on their side once again.

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><p>"I-I think w-w-we- we're good girls." Kaylee puffed as she flopped down on a log. Right as Zoey sat down, an awful image came to her... it was Sensei Lloyd, with the serum injected into his neck.<p>

"NO!" Zoey stood up as she cried.

"Zoey!? What is it!?" Jackie asked, concerned.

"I had a vision... of sensei... he's gone to the dark side..."

"He chose cookies over us!?" Jackie shrieked as she sat down on a nearby tree stump. The girls had been running away since breakfast and were finally stopping. They saw the sun beginning to set in the distance as warm colors filled the sky.

"It's gonna get cold... we should get firewood... I'll grab some." Nicole stood up and began to walk into the forest.

Jackie sighed as Zoey got lost... deep in thought. 'Would I ever see father again as himself? Will I find a way to save him? What if I can't? What if I'm too weak?' Zoey sighed,"What if I fail you father?" Zoey asked herself just under a whisper as she rested her face on her knees.

A few minutes later, Nicole had come back with the fire wood, she lit a match that she found in a bag of supplies that they had picked up and set it down on the kindling under the wood.

It was silent, completely silent until Jackie sighed,"I miss my mom."

Those four word's made Nicole's straight face break! She stood up and yelled at the top of her lungs,"Oh, Boo, hoo, hoo!" she fought back tears,"At least you knew them for most of your pathetic wasted life!"

Tears sprung up in Jackie's eyes as Kaylee stepped in,"Hey! I know you miss your mom and everything but, news flash, you aren't alone! So join the club! The 'I Have No Mother Club!'

The two girls continued to bicker until they both took a long, shaky breath when another voice broke in. "I never knew my mom..." she swallowed, trying to make it sound like she had been natural born,"I have always wanted to know the comfort of a mother..."

"Ya, well it's worse knowing her! I found her in an alleyway! I was a little girl! How do you think that effected me!? HUH!?" Kaylee let tears fall.

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><p><em>A young girl was running around in her backyard when she heard a loud bang! She could her her father approaching and she didn't want to get caught being outside when she wasn't supposed to, so she ran off and made it through her backyard fence...<em>

_She walks in an alleyway, lost, hoping that she finds her way home soon. As she walks down the alley, she sees three figures run away, leaving one lying on the ground. The girl looked at her face and screamed in terror at the disfigured face of her mother._

_"NO...no... no..." she sobbed,"It's not fair..."_

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><p>"It's not fair!" Kaylee shouted as the flames of the fire rose due to her elemental power.<p>

"At least you got to see her... I wasn't allowed to attend my mothers funeral... my dad wouldn't let himself... it was just too much, too soon."

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><p><em>Hi! My name is Nicole Brookstone! I am seven years old! My mommy loves music! It's her favorite thing to do. She is a popular DJ, known for her blue dyed hair. I wanna be just like her when I grow up.<em>

_But mommy says she feels sick... and that she hurts... and there's also nothing I can do._

_The nurse told me that mommy had to go... and real soon._

_ She has to wear a wig now, and spends most of her time in the hospital. I barely saw her... but as I thought about it one night, I had an idea! Music was what made her happy! So, maybe if I created some of my own and make her happy again, then she wouldn't leave... and stay instead!_

_And it worked! _

_She Stayed!_

_She still hurt..._

_But she was happier!_

_Then, the day came when I decided I was going to become a DJ when I was older! I had won a contest! It was such a great day! _

_But then..._

_Mommy had to go..._

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><p>"And she wasn't coming back." Nicole choked on her words as she she took in heavy breaths.<p>

"I d-didn't know Nicole." Kaylee looked at her with great sympathy. However, as they continued to speak, they didn't notice one's absence.

Zoey had hid behind a rock for some privacy... she could not stop thinking about her father! It pained her so greatly! She just wished she could make the feeling go away! She just wished she could... forget.

Zoey quickly opened up her chest panel as she heard voices behind her. "Hey, where's Zoey?"

"Zoey?" Nicole got up and began t call her name as she got closer to the rock. Zoey quickly skimmed over the labels until she found it...,'Memory Switch' she was about to flip it when Nicole ran up to the rock and screamed at the top of her lungs.

Thankfully Zoey clamped her hand over her mouth before she could alarm the other teammates. Nicole struggled as Zoey calmed her down.

"Woah! Woah! Calm down! It's me, Zoey!"

Nicole broke free,"No you're not!" she spat,"Zoey is a kind and caring _person_, not a heartless robot! What have you done with her!?"

"Wait I can prove that it's me, ask me anything."

"Okay, what kind of fish did I mistake a Bass for?"

"A salmon! And would it kill you to learn it?"

"It is you! What were you doing?" She looked at the panel and saw zoey's free hand hovering over the switch labeled memory. "Z-Zo... were you really gonna?"

"Wipe my memory? Yes. The thought of my father was too painful to bear anymore!" She cried as NIcole hlped her stand up while closing her panel. The two walked back to the campsite.

"Hey, what's wrong Zoey?" Jackie asked as Kaylee watched them as well.

"She has something she wants to tell you!" Nicole shouted as she nudged Zoey forwards.

"Everyone... I am an android!" she opened up her chest panel to reveal her gears and switches. From that moment on, she told them everything, and how depressed she was.

Eventually, they were all in one group hug, and for Zoey, she felt as if a huge weight had been lifted off of her shoulders.

But then...

"Alright kids! Give us your belongings!" The girls looked around for their weapons, they were nowhere to be found! Of all the things to leave at the monistary...

"I said gimme your belongings!" the head man threatened again, there were at least twelve men... they could use spinjitzu but it wasn't as effective without weapons!

"Sorry, we do not have anything!" Zoey yelled to them.

The leader looked around and fixed his gaze on something,"How about those?"

He was pointing towards the dragon eggs! Zoey ran in front of them in a protective manner,"NO! I WILL NOT LET YOU HURT THESE INNOCENT CREATURES! I WILL HURT YOU BEFORE YOU LAY A HAND ON ANY OF THESE DEFENSELESS BABY DRAGONS!" it was the loudest Zoey had ever shouted.

The men however still came at her. Zoey fell behind the eggs and closed her eyes, accepting the fate of the knife that was before her. That was when...

CRACK!

The eggs sprung open as five dragons flew out, the first one was quite strong and blew fiery earth at the unsuspecting thieves. The next one was the next strongest and was built for fire judging by the fiery designs on her scales. She blew pure fire at them. Next a blue dragon popped out of an egg and it shot lightning at the thieves! Even after that, the next one was pure white with dark blue designs imprinted on the scaled of the dragon, ti shot ice at them, and that had them running for the hills.

All of the girls looked at the last significantly smaller dragon, it was light green and had golden designs, it tried to conjure up fire, but only small green flames came out of it's mouth.

"Oh! Poor little runt of the litter!" Zoey could pick her up! The other dragons were just too heavy to be picked up.

"Hey, you know what I've heard?" Nicole smirked,"Dragons grow pretty fast up until they're just big enough to carry us!" Nicole smirked at the idea.

The girls spoke about it wile Zoey picked up a satchel, inside of it laid a book, she opened it and gasped,"Girls! Look!" Zoey had found a book of lessons! "Sensei is here to guide us! We can do this!"

"Ya! Things are looking up!" Nicole added, I am calling my earth dragon... Rocky!

"I am gonna call mine Wisp!" Jackie added.

"I'll go with Flame!" Kaylee smirked.

"I am naming mine shard!" Zoey patted her dragon atop it's head.

"What about green goldy over there?" Jackie asked as the dragon laid there.

"We save her... for sensei when he comes back!" Zoey smiled.

"How do you know he even will come back at all?" Kaylee asked.

"Trust me, I know..."

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><p><strong>Okay guys, let's play a game to see how many references I made to random things in here! The winner gets to say that they won in their head!<strong>

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	9. Jocks

**Hey guys! I am writing this chapter thinking of my little brother... you will see why! Enjoy!**

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><p>"So, you can't tell me my future?" Zoey sighed as Nicole asked her the question,"Is it like... a robotic ability?" the girl with black hair sighed,"Well, what-"<p>

"It's a sixth sense! It has nothing to do with me being what is known as a nindroid!" Zoey said with frustration before turning back towards the many shops located in the small market. They were in a remote village, trying to find ways to make some money, it had been almost a week since Lloyd had been captured and they were tired of living off of nature.

"So..." Jackie trailed off,"I have a plan that can get us some cash!"

"Really, what is it?" Kaylee asked.

"First, we are going to need some watermelon and a very large peanut!"

"I don't even wanna know anymore." Kaylee turned away.

Zoey looked around the town, she spotted many things, but one building stuck out to her,"Girls, look!" they all directed their attention towards the large building.

"Master Chen's noodle house!?" Jackie asked,"I think we need to pay to get food there."

"NO!" Zoey yelled,"Beside it!"

They all tilted their heads to the right to see a large high school,"There must be food in there that will be easy to grab!" Nicole smirked as they headed towards the building. As they raced indoors they noticed something... everybody was wearing either a jersey or a school t-shirt.

Kaylee tapped a freshman on the shoulder,"What's with all of the merchandise?"

"Oh! We are having a playoff game tonight and we are gonna win for sure!" the boy yelled excitedly. Kaylee sighed as he walked away.

"Girls, I think we need disguises to fit in."

"Where are we supposed to get that?" Jackie asked.

"I have a few ideas." Kaylee said, looking towards the locker room entrance next to the cafeteria.

The girls slipped in and grabbed some of the gear from some sports bags. Jackie, Kaylee, and Nicole were wearing team shirts while Zoey pulled out a jersey and slipped it on.

The girls then slipped into the cafeteria's kitchen going unnoticed. Nicole and Kaylee grabbed two boxes of pizza, and Zoey took some fruit cups and milk jugs. Jackie however's eyes darted to the left, then to the right before she grabbed a tray of cookies and ducked under the counter after her sisters.

The girls dashed down the hall as Jackie stuffed her face with cookies. They avoided staff until they went out two double doors.

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><p>The new general that made five all together walked into the break room and sat at the table and watched as the youngest and newest of them looked down almost in a shy manner. The rest of the generals looked at him with a confused expression planted upon each of their faces.<p>

"So Lloyd..." Jay began,"How are ya?"

The blonde man looked away from the reddish-brown haired one as he drummed his fingers on the table while biting his lip. "How much of the elixir did we give him?" Cole asked, leaning over to Kai.

"We knew would resist a lot, so we added something that would weaken his courage a little so he would give in faster." Kai replied with a roll of his eyes,"He should be a bit braver in a bit once he warms up to us again."

"Hopefully." Cole whispered back before looking back to the shy man,"Dude, you know that you don't have to wear your helmet in the break area right?"

"B-but what if there is an emergency, like a prisoner escaping, o-or an attack by invaders?!"

It was silent for a moment before the entire group burst out into laughter,"Don't worry, he'll settle in soon enough!" Zane chuckled. They continued to talk to the boy who just got quieter in return.

They all sighed as Cole's watch beeped,"Oh! It's time to keep the prisoners alive by feeding them." Cole looked at his team, "Jay! It's your turn! Go and feed em some scraps or something!"

Jay frowned at his teammate as he stood up and collected some scraps for the prisoners to eat. He filled a small bucket and carried it down the stairs that lead to the dungeon area.

He smirked with glee as he chucked the bucket in the direction of the cell. He cackled as the obviously pregnant woman got covered in the slop. He saw the slop slide down her face alongside tears...her lovely face...

Jay turned away with a mild blush on his face, he was about to ditch the scene when he couldn't help but take one more glance at the woman... his red eyes faded to a light blue as a word came out of his mouth in a shaky voice,"N-nya?"

The woman looked up slowly as Jay flung himself towards the cell, trying to get to her. "Nya!" he yelled.

"Jay!" Nya smiled at her once again goofy husband. He looked at her stomach which looked inflated,"Y-you-why? Why didn't you tell me?"

Nya frowned,"I was going to the day we were captured." she finished right as a loud gurgle came from her stomach as she kneeled over in pain. Jay looked at her weak features and felt as if he was in pain. The blush on his face had grown brighter, much brighter.

"You're starving... I am gonna go steal you an actual meal." Jay gave her a quick kiss on her forehead through the bars before resting his hand over her stomach. They gazed into each other eyes for a few minutes until Jay got up and walked up the stairs, slipping on some shades, meant for the generals so that nobody would see his blue eyes.

He stepped into the cafeteria and grabbed a meal that was big and filling before turning to leave when,"Jay? Are you gonna eat that here?" Cole questioned.

"Uh, no! I was just actually going to eat in my quarters... I need to get my attack strategies sorted out!" he claimed before turning to leave once again as Cole replied.

"Okay then."

Jay sighed with relief before wiping the sweat off of his brow and rushing the meal downstairs and feeding it to Nya. After she had finished, she looked into her husband's eyes again,"I wish it wasn't like this, I wish I knew what it was like to be in my conditions, but near a warm fire i-i-ins-s-stead of freezing..." Nya began to full out weep into his lap for she could only fit her head through the bottom of the bars. Jay stroked her slop covered hair in a comforting manor as she cried his name.

"Hey, hey, it's okay." he said soothingly with a small smile on his face. They stayed in that embrace for many minutes until Jay heard voices coming from upstairs,"I need to go... please, hang in there, for me?"

"Mmhmm." Nya nodded as Jay gave her a quick peck on he forehead. He then raced up the stairs and into the main hallway when a surge of pain shot through his head... it hurt, real bad. He slid down the side of the wall and yelled in pain as he closed his eyes.

"Jay!" the ninja rushed in to see their friend yelling in pain on the hallway floor. Lloyd rushed over.

"Jay! Are you alright!?"

Jay opened his eyes that were blood red once again. "Y-yeah."

"What happened?"

"Nothing, just a migraine." Jay shook his head,"I'm gonna go lay down for a while." he sighed... for some reason he didn't want to tell them that he hadn't been under master's will for at least an hour... maybe it would be best if he kept this a secret, but he was looking forward to the next time to feed the prisoners. He would be the first to volunteer.

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><p>Jackie munched on the last of the cookies while sitting behind the bleachers. They had been there all day, and the sun was going to set soon. Zoey, noticing this got up and looked around,"I am going to find us a way to escape without being seen.<p>

She got up to walk away right when her eye caught a couple of the players from the opposing team that the school was playing... without their helmets.

They had dark faces with red and white lines that trailed across them in patterns, Zoey gasped,"Shadow Soldiers!" She ran back to here teammates.

"Ya find a way out yet?" Nicole asked.

"No, but I found something else, or someone else to put it specifically."

"What do you mean by someone?" Kaylee asked, poking her head out to see the soldiers.

"Let's go girls!" Nicole smirked as she led the team to the other side of the football field. They all listened to the soldiers as they spoke.

"Okay Wilburt, got the bomb?"

"Yup! I have it steve! Right when they score the winning goal... boom!" he laughed,"They won't see it coming! I'll stick it on the quarterback's back when he's gonna score the winning goal! That will show the public who they're messing with!"

The girl's heads popped up one by one from behind the snack stand,"Okay, who has the plan?"

"Wait, you're the leader, why don't you have the plan?" Kaylee questioned.

"I am the leading girl, Zoey is the easy plan girl, Jackie is the crazy plan girl, and Kaylee is the brute of the team, she scares the little kids away."

"Hey!" Kaylee retorted with a huff as Nicole continued.

"So, who has one?" they all looked at each other as the football team passed, a large hand grabbed Zoey by the back of her jersey.

Her big blue eyes looked up at the coach,"Where were you!? You needed to be at practice an hour ago number 43!"

Zoey looked at the 46 on her jersey,'He must need visual assistance." Zoey observed as the coach forced a helmet over her head and pushed her into the starting line.

Zoey looked up at the giant player in front of her... it was the soldier! They looked deep into each others eyes... both pairs of orbs showed shock, but soon enough the man's eyes showed anger and annoyance as Zoey's showed fear.

Then... the whistle blew and Zoey let out a squeak...

Her whole entire team winced as they saw the girl fly into the air before hurdling towards the ground once again.

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><p>As the game progressed, she had taken many blows... many, many blows...<p>

Eventually the final play came, and Zoey was not in good standing. She was worn out as she saw the two soldiers pull out the bomb... she sighed as she slid don to the ground behind the bench.

She felt like quitting, she was sick of this! She couldn't take it anymore, she just wanted to quit. A water boy approached and offered her a water,"Not now, just leave me alone." Zoey sighed as she pushed the bottle away.

"You are going to drink it and like it!" a familiar voice broke in as Nicole shoved the bottle into her mouth.

"N-nicole!? How did you get out here? What happened to the real water person?"

"Uhh..."

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><p><em>A young man wearing a team shirt and a hat that read,'Water Boy on Duty!' was walking by the snack stand when three pairs of hands grabbed and pulled him into the back door.<em>

_Sounds of a struggle was heard until two smaller hands opened the door again and a ten year old girl with black hair put on the hat to match the rest of the uniform the boy had on before racing towards the field._

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><p>"Th-that doesn't matter! All that matters is you getting not letting them get the bomb on the quarterback!"<p>

"But I can't, I am too beat up and exhausted."

"Listen, just flip a switch of yours! You can do this, I believe in you!" Nicole sighed before running off.

Zoey faced the field,"She's right, I can do this!" the girl stood up and messed with the compartment on her arm, she found a speed setting and activated it. After feeling an electric shock as usual for she didn't know how to properly use it, she got up and ran towards the field, feeling energized and ready to go!

She heard the whistle blow and began to dodge the many players rushing at her... shr saw the soldier holding the bomb in his hand as he took the quarterback, chasing him.

She was however surprised to see a small blinking light on the football that only her robotic eyes could catch. Before she knew it, another player had flung the ball into her hands and she looked at the crowd screaming,"RUN!"

"Okay!" She yelled before racing away, towards the end zone. She pulled the bomb off of the ball and tried to disable it, however she was discouragedto find that the number went down from thirty seconds to ten seconds.

She let out a yelp and ran even faster than she did before, before she knew it, she was in the end zone and she threw the ball to the ground, she heard the beep of a button being pressed, and then it said,'Bomb deactivated.'

Zoey smiled after she heard the words and the screaming crowd continued to cheer as she was lifted up and thrown up again, time after time. After they let her down, she was handed a trophy, but she couldn't move after she was asked to remove her helmet...

"Uh... no." she replied, deepening her voice.

"Why not?"

"Because-" she was interrupted by the man taking off the helmet.

"A six year old won the playoff game!?" one teammate yelled.

"A six year old girl won the game!?" another asked, even more shocked.

Zoey took off with the 'water boy' and motioned for the others to ditch too as they hurdled over the gate. The four girls spun into their suits and got out of there in no time! Two red eyes narrowed at the four spinning figures before it began to follow them.

Once the girls got back to camp, panting they all took a well deserved rest. Nicole had gotten a fire going and they all were laughing about Zoey playing football. "Up until this point, I didn't even know what a football was." she said with a shrug. They all continued to talk and laugh, until Kaylee noticed a shadow in the bushes. She grabbed Flame and told the baby dragon to be alert, however the baby dragon was growing fast and was getting taller and more developed wings. "What is that?"

"Oh! Maybe it's a puppy!" Jackie clapped her hands.

"No..." Kaylee replied seriously while gazing into the bushes... she shrieked as a tall figure jumped out. He was a tall man with pale skin and blonde hair, his red eyes shone as he growled.

"Sensei!?" The girls yelled in union as he lunged at them.

"What has Shadow done!? Sensei said he was strong! He-he lied!" Jackie yelled, grabbing some things and piling them onto the dragons.

"We need to go!" Nicole yelled, climbing onto her dragon after completely packing up the camp. She dug her heels into the side of her dragon as the beast began to run away from the enemy.

They all took twists and turns through the trees until they could no longer hear the grunts of the general.

"Sensei." Jackie sighed as Zoey came over and gave her a hug.

"Don't worry, we'll get him back..." Kaylee sighed,"We'll get all of them back." she let a tear slide down her face while looking up at the stars from the top of her dragon... things had just gotten even more complicated and personal than ever before.

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><p><strong>Hey! The reason I was thinking of my brother is because he won his playoff game and the little kid superbowl! It was adorably awesome! <strong>

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	10. Remotes Control

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**Martzz- How did you know!? I was already planning some of that already, it is in the is chapter, I have a set guideline of how I want this story to go, but suggestions are always open and if I like them I might take em!**

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><p>Nicole sat at a river bank while patting Rocky's head. She sighed as she attempted to grab yet another fish as Zoey approached behind her.<p>

"Nicole, are you alright? You are quite frustratingly attempting to catch that fish-" Nicole reached for the catfish but missed,"And are failing very terribly."

"Thanks for the play by play little miss roboto." Nicole rolled her eyes before blowing her hair out of her brown orbs.

"Well, you are trying to catch it wrong, in fact I think you should use something more natural than your elemental scythe..."

"What is more natural than an _elemental _scythe?"

"Your dragon perhaps?" Zoey pointed towards Rocky who was building up his own stash of fish on the side of the riverbank.

"You know, it's strange..."

"What?"

"You are so connected with nature, yet you are the farthest thing from it, I just don't understand." Nicole sighed.

"It's the way I was programmed, I grew up with nature and learned as much as I could about it. It is a big, beautiful world if you open your eyes." Zoey smiled,"I wasn't programmed for any other reasons other than to love and to understand, as well as to nurture."

"I see, so you are like a robotic companion?"

"No, I would prefer not-uh to be called that, I uh-I just..." she looked hurt, and tears were visible in her almost glowing blue eyes.

"B-but that is what makes you different from other robots and machines!" Nicole replied quickly,"You have emotions and can feel things, the fact that you can love and have emotional attachments is what makes you truly unique."

"Thank you sister." Zoey sniffled after her quiet statement.

"Well, I think rocky has gathered us a month's supply of food!" Nicole giggled at her dragon sitting next to his pile of fish. The girls chuckled and began to walk back to the campsite.

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><p>"UGH! We need to get rid of those pesky brats!" Shadow hissed at his generals who all stood at attention with ashamed faces, especially the short one with blonde hair, who looked deeply ashamed as if he were a dog who had directly disobeyed his abusive master. However, the situations were one in the same, if Lloyd had a tail, it would in between his legs while he whimpered.<p>

"I deeply apologize master, it was all my fault! I deserve any punishment you give me." Lloyd stepped forward as a memory flashed in Kai's mind...

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><p><em>"It was then that I realized that all of my preparation wasn't to become the best ninja... it was to protect him..."<em>

_"What? What is everybody looking at me for?"_

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><p>"WAIT!" Kai yelled,"I am the one to blame! Lloyd is confused, he thinks it was him, but it was my fault... I let the girls disable the bomb... I apologize... give me the punishment!" his statement was followed with his teammate's gasps of shock and confusion.<p>

Lloyd leaned over to him,"But Kai, you weren't even on the mission-"

"Trust me Lloyd, just go back to your place in line." Kai's red eyes looked to the ground.

"But Kai-" Lloyd whispered.

"Go." Kai whispered boldly as Lloyd stepped back.

"Very well then..." Shadow trailed off,"Kai, stay. The rest of you are dismissed."

"Yes master." They said together with a bow of respect before leaving in an orderly fashion. Shadow stood up and circled around Kai.

"Tsk, tsk, Now what have you done... is your dosage weakening?"

"No sir... If you feel that more is necess-"

"No! I cannot waste it! We only have so much!"

Kai winced as his master hissed at him, why did he take this punishment,"Maybe a little pain will remind you of the cause we are working for!"

Shadow's hand lit up in darkness as he lifted Kai in the air and let his magic aura surround him. He yelled in pain as the purple aura turned a dark red color. His screams could be heard across the corridors, everywhere in the hideout.

Nya gasped at her brother's voice, yelling in pain... she let a few tears slip out of her eyes as she heard footsteps begin to walk down the corridors of the dungeon. She closed her eyes and waited for pain, or for something to hit her, but her tensed body relaxed at the feeling of a soft kiss on her forehead instead. She opened her brown eyes only to meet bright blue ones that belonged to her husband.

"Jay." she smiled happily as he gave her a meal.

"I have something for Sensei and Misako too." he pulled out some food for them as well. "As for Garmadon," he sighed,"I think he's happy eating the slop, when I tried to give him food earlier, he just threw it back at me like some sort of ape!" Jay rubbed his arm,"I wonder what's in that stuff, he must eat so much, he's getting a little chubby too. Just between you guys and me."

"He's a mad man." Misako sighed as she took a bite of her roll of bread.

"Don't worry things will look up! I promise that." Jay smiled.

"Jay, what was that noise, Kai... is he-" Nya choked on her voice, she couldn't finish her sentence.

"No, he's fine... just a punishment, but the thing is that he took the punishment instead of Lloyd! He claimed our defeat his fault and claimed Lloyd innocent! Even though Lloyd had let the kids get away."

"You're right Jay, things are looking up." Sensei Wu sipped his tea that Jay had brought him.

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><p>Zoey ran down the street as Jackie did cartwheels, following her closely. The two were looking at new products the magazines in the stands had to offer, they ranged from mind reading devices to underwear that lasts forever.<p>

"You know these are fake, right?" Zoey asked as she turned a page.

"NO! I bet these are real! If they weren't they wouldn't have reviews like spectacular, and amazing! Look it this one! 'It works! Buy it!'

"I doubt it, a universal remote? I don't think that there is something that can control everything... uh, forget this magazine! She tossed it way with anxiety in her voice.

"You're just afraid of it! Because you are robotic!" Jackie teased as Zoey rolled her eyes.

"No. I do not like the false advertisements."

"Sure." Jackie teased with a giggle.

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><p>Later in the afternoon, two cloaked men were walking as a paper got stuck to one's foot,"Aggh! What is thi- what?"<p>

The shadow soldier picked up the magazine,"Oh! A universal remote! We could use one of these things!"

"For what?" the second piped up.

"One of our generals is robotic, and that means, so is his daughter!"

"Where are they!?" the other one asked.

"Here! Available in five weeks!?"

"That isn't right! We need it now!"

"Where would they deliver it anyways... '188 Shadow's Secret Underground Bunker, Ninjago?'"

The other face palmed as they saw a couple kids place down what looked like a remote!

One of them inched over to it and snatched it up,"It's a match!"

"We have our own universal remote! The boss will be so proud of us!"

"Will we get promoted?"

"Maybe!"

"I hope so!"

"Let's present our idea to the generals, but first we need to test it." the soldier aimed the remote towards a TV and clicked the button... nothing happened, he tried all the buttons, still nothing.

"Why won't this work!?"

"I know! Maybe general Jay can get it to work! He is good with machines!"

"Perfect! We are in his close circle, I wouldn't try to get in with general Cole though... after his drink incident..."

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><p>"General Jay!" a voice boomed down the stairs of the dungeon as Jay's eyes flashed crimson.<p>

He stumbled backwards as his head throbbed,"I have to go... goodbye."

"Goodbye Jay." Nya sighed as he ran upstairs before he could become a monster again.

Jay greeted his soldiers in a formal manner as all the generals did. "General, we need you to find a way to make this Universal Remote work!"

"Why?" Jay's red eyes glared into their souls.

"Well, one of the girls, is a robot!"

"General Zane's daughter?"

"Yes sir."

"Give me that remote." Jay snatched it from them and examined it,"I may be able to mess with the wiring and create a magnetic charge with it that can reach miles! Because it was your idea, you two will come with me and help create it!"

The two soldiers smiled as the general welcomed them into his office, Jay opened up the remote and began to mess with wires,"Okay, I am going to need a long extension chord, go get me one from supplies.

"Yes sir!" Wilburt immediately complied and rushed to the supply room. he looked and rummaged around, it took him an entire day to get the right part! He ran out only for Jay to thank him and use the extension chord to plug in a light.

"Ugh." the other soldier facepalmed.

Many more days were spent on the project until one day, all sound of construction stopped...

"Is it? Is it finished?"

"Yes, finally my invention is complete!" Jay held up the remote and messed with some settings,"Hehe, perfect! I will gather the other generals and find the girls alone... this will be a general order mission by the order of Master Shadow."

"Why?"

"He wants us to have each other to back up if we need it." Jay replied in a monotone voice before opening the door and walking down the corridor towards the other general's quarters.

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><p>Nicole and Zoey were walking down main street of the town that happened to be near their campus. They had just gotten some money by Nicole's breakdancing next to a hat on the ground and was going to buy herself some well deserved gummy worms, and maybe a slice of cake if she had enough left over.<p>

"Here it is!" the DJ shouted, rushing into the candy store, gazing at the treats when she heard the bell ding again. She turned around to see four men, wearing suits of darkness. Zoey screamed as she began to spark and spasm uncontrollably.

"Zoey!?" Nicole yelled.

"What do you want!? leave her alone!" Nicole looked at the three,"Wait!? Where's your ice elemental!?"

"Our ice elemental is grabbing your other two friends... now Zo-Zo, come here." Jay teased, pressing a button on his remote as Zoey began to spark even more and even begin to walk towards him.

"Zoey!" Nicole screamed.

"I-I cannot control myself!"

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><p>Kaylee and Jackie were trying to attack with the dragons, but they had just woken up for a nap and were not in what you would call combat consciousness.<p>

"Get up Flame!" Kaylee yelled.

"Come on Wisp!" Jackie urged as she tried to push her tired dragon's head upwards, only to be grabbed by the back of the collar of her ninja gi, followed by Kaylee. "Let us go!"

Surprisingly, Zane dropped them and began to walk away, sparking a little bit.

"What the?" Kaylee asked, dazzled.

"Something ain't right! Let's follow him!" Jackie yelled, racing after the nindroid.

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><p>The girls gasped at the generals guiding Zoey towards them, they were in the outskirts of town with Nicole chasing them.<p>

Jackie gasped as she came face to face with the generals who had stopped to look at them, they both looked to the robots glitching out and back to each other, then back to the androids.

"The remote!" Jay gasped, it's affecting Zane too!"

"Shut it down!" Kai yelled.

"No! Then we'll lose the girl!" Lloyd argued as Zane twitched... but suddenly they both began to... dance. The generals looked at Jay who wasn't even touching any buttons, then turned to a laughing girl behind them, Jackie had a remote too!

"What!? Impossible! How did you get it to work?!"Jay yelled,"It's a decoy!"

"It was easy, you put batteries in it!" the young inventor called back. "I ordered one of these weeks ago, I was hiding it from Zoey as a prank! This is sure useful! Totally worth my money!"

It was battle of the wills of the father and daughter as they both aimed their remotes at the other parent-child pair and fired up the remotes.

They did many different moves and spasms for many minutes until they touched hands and they shocked each other. The remotes fizzled and smoked as they shorted out.

Zoey fell to the ground with a soft, quiet groan of pain, completely knocked out. Zane approached her,looking down on her. His glowing red eyes faded to a light blue that couldn't look more concerned.

He gasped at his daughter's knocked out tear-stained face, he stepped backwards in horror, tears were streaming down his pale face as he began to breath heavier. He raced off into the forest, then, out of nowhere Jay followed quickly, his eyes shining a brilliant blue as well.

The other generals watched as their team just left them. Jackie rushed over to Zoey and tried to revive her as Kaylee and Nicole saw a chance to get the upper hand.

They planned a sneak attack while the generals were trying to figure out what had just happened.

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><p>Jay walked up to see Zane petting a white and light blue baby dragon,"Evening Jay, the weather has good conditions, does it not?"<p>

"Yea, how did you know I wasn't under Shadow's influence?"

"Sixth sense remember?" Zane smiled as he continued to stroke the delicate scales of the creature.

"I am so proud of her..." Zane smiled even more..."I just regret-"

"It isn't your fault, it was me and Jackie, she will be just fine Zane!"

"Okay, I trust you brother." Zane replied as they ran back to the battlefield.

Jay and Zane gasped at Cole who had Jackie by the collar of her shirt, taunting her, and also how Kai was holding Zoey, who had awoken, very close the his face by her hair as he teased her.

"Who's a helpless, useless little ninja?" he laughed.

Zane's face got red with anger as he tackled Kai,"Zoey run!"

The girl followed his order as she raced to her team and watched the generals fight. "Let go Zane!" Kai grunted, but after one glance at Zane's eyes, he gasped. He shoved Zane off of him, ready to signal Shadow when Cole stopped him.

"Wait! They should get one last moment before the loathing sets in again... I got that chance wit Nicole." Cole sighed.

Kai turned away with a huff. As he nodded towards the two good generals and allowed them to go to their daughters.

"Zoey..." Zane's eyes were full of tears.

He watched her light blue teary eyes meet his as she let out a yelp,"FATHE-E-E-ER!" she cried as she latched onto him, taking in long, heavy breaths as he consoled her,"I am sorry Zoey, I didn't mean for-"

"It's okay father." Zoey sniffed again, digging her face into his chest.

"Jackie, come here, I don't have much time." Jackie slowly walked over. Jay took her hands in his as he looked in her eyes, please remember that I miss you every day, it is hard to cope on the inside, but the serum... it makes us ignore those feelings..."

"I know dad." Jackie leaped forward and caught him in a tackle-hug.

"Zoey, please remember that I will always love you, always... now and forevermore." Zane's eyes flashed red as he saw Jay getting up and stepping back, Zane did the same as Zoey waved goodbye one last time.

"Let's go!" Nicole yelled as the other nodded as a reply before running off to their base.

"Okay Cole, now what!?" Lloyd huffed.

"Now we find an excuse, like maybe the remote didn't effect the girl because..." Kai trailed off.

"It was a hoax in the first place!" Cole suggested.

"Sure! Lets... go with that." They all agreed as thy walked back to their hideout.

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><p><strong>So that just happened! I have an announcement!<strong>

**I am quitting fanfiction... Just kidding!**

**I haven't been on for even a year yet! I am not gonna stop now!**

**Okay, but the real announcement is that I am going on hiatus for about a week and coming back with a whole bunch of updates for stories I haven't updated in a while, and ones you all enjoy in general,as well as the first chapter of another new story I have had the idea about for a while!**

**Question time!**

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	11. Enter the Fortress Part 1

**Hey guys! Part 1 of 2! I am so excited! Just to mention, any new OC's in this chapter that you have trouble keeping up with? Don't worry, they are just for this two part special! So don't worry about the OC's they are just here for these two chapters! Anyways, this is very important to the plot of the story and is an interesting plot twist! This part 1 is normal! However Part 2 will hit you in the feels! It is already typed up! I am just waiting to post it! Enjoy!**

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><p>Kaylee walked down the street, looking her nails with boredom as the other three girls spoke of music they liked and how it spoke to them. Kaylee liked all kinds of music and therefore could not add onto the debate.<p>

As they walked, Kaylee turned her attention towards a man who was pulled into an alleyway, he looked to be in his late teen years. "Guys, look!" Kaylee nudged Jackie who stopped as well as the rest of her teammates.

"Let's go!" Nicole, being the leader took charge.

They then, without haste ran right towards the valley and hid themselves, sliding up against the wall.

They were surprised however, to hear what they were talking about.

"You can have all you have ever wanted, all you have to do is join Shadow's army…"

"I'm not sure…" the teen trailed off.

"Come on! Everything you can dream of! This world treats you like you are nothing! Shadow can give you everything… and more!"

"More?"

"Yes! Just take my hand!"

"He smirked before saying,"I never really liked how the government was run in these parts of Ninjago anyways!" he took his hand and sealed the deal!

In a puff of purple dust, they were gone.

"Great! We lost them!" Nicole groaned.

"Girls, look! Zoey pointed towards some of the purple dust lying on the ground in the alleyway. She cautiously grabbed some, only to be nearly shorted out. She shook it off of her hand frantically. "It carries an electric charge when touched!"

The girls gathered around, held out their hands and touched it simultaneously. With a bright flash of purple light, they were gone…

Kaylee gasped at her new surroundings, they were in the guard common room of Shadow's Fortress! The girls quickly jumped into the nearest vent without haste, hoping they were not spotted.

"Great plan Zoey,'Hey! I had this idea where we go and touch the magic dust that may kill us, or lead us to a place where we get killed!'" Nicole frowned, sarcasm ripe in her voice.

"SORRY!" she apologized.

"Let's just get out of here." Nicole offered, as Jackie and Zoey nodded in agreement.

"NO! We have to help that boy! He doesn't know the danger of here!"

"Kaylee, he chose to come here, remember?" Nicole rolled her eyes as her voice echoed in the narrow vents.

"He doesn't know better! We have to warn him!"

"How are we supposed to do that without being caught little miss girl with the plan?"

"By joining Shadow's army of course!"

"NO!" Zoey yelled as loud as she could,"That would not be wise-"

"Relax, we aren't really going to join the army! We are gonna go undercover!" she smiled towards Jackie who had a wide grin on her face.

"Like a secret mission!? We can be like secret agents!?"

"Yea! Like that!" Kaylee said, transferring the ecstatic girl to her side.

Zoey looked to Nicole, then back at the smiling girls, shrugged and crawled towards them. Nicole sighed,"FINE! Let's rescue him! First we need disguises!"

"Where are we supposed to get those! This place has guards everywhere!" Jackie threw her arms up as her team looked towards her, each with a deadpanned look on their faces. "Oh," She smiled sheepishly, "Right."

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><p>They looked down onto a hallway where they could see two pairs of guards all around the same height on patrol. Nicole did many hand movements when out of nowhere, the vents below them creaked and the floor beneath them fell. They each landed on a guard, they all smiled seeing that each of them was conveniently knocked out.<p>

They all grabbed the armor off of the soldiers and slid it on, smiling as they did so… except for Zoey, who's helmet was much too big for her head and the armor was a little loose around her shoulders. Jackie was the tallest of the group, causing the armor to fit just fine, the same with the slightly shorter Kaylee, next to Nicole who was about the same size as the fire elemental.

"I am so not in a believable disguise!" Zoey exclaimed, turning her helmet frontwards once again, trying to get it to face front.

"I think we will fit right in! Just be normal! Like how normal new recruits would act!" Jackie cut in. They all took a deep breath as Jackie fixed helmet on her head.

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><p>Kai, Cole, Jay, Zane, and Lloyd were hatching a plot when all of a sudden the door was kicked open as four small figures walked in, giving the one in the lead gave everybody a small glare as she passed. The girl snatched up a lunch tray and got in line, grabbing whatever she wanted aggressively and with a strong look to her.<p>

Another soldier approached her,"Uh, excuse me?"

**"WHAT!?"** the girl retorted in a high pitched voice.

"I wanted some salad. You are standing in front of it."

"Well maybe I wanted some salad! She turned around sharply and glared down at the mess of healthy greens and dressings to go with it. She gulped…

"Well?"

"She grabbed some with the spoon and let it slide off of the scooper onto her plate. She grunted as she walked over to an empty table. Zoey, Nicole, and Kaylee all awkwardly got their lunches and sat down next to her, the crowd of guards watching them the entire time.

"Way to play it cool." Kaylee mumbled.

They saw a couple other guards approach their table. One looked about their age, curly brown hair, and a pink highlight, the other two were slightly older one had blonde hair, while the other had short black hair that reminded Jackie of her mother's haircut.

"Hey, are you guys new recruits?" the one with the giant head of curls asked.

"Yes-" Kaylee began,"Uh-"

"I know, you have not had training yet, or orientation by the looks of what your friend was like up there!"

"Yea, Ja-" Kaylee nudged Nicole,"Uh, Jamie! gets carried away, she likes to over-exaggerate every situation possible! My name's uh-Nancy! This is Kyra," she pointed to Kaylee,"And this is Zelda!" she motioned towards the blonde who looked like she wanted to hide.

"Nice to meet you all! I am Evelyn! These are my friends Jill," she motioned to the short haired girl,"And Olivia, but we call her Livvy!" the blonde waved at the 'new recruits' as Evelyn slipped her helmet on.

"So where do we go to get the orientation and training?" Nicole questioned.

"There is one later today, just meet in the training area at noon, it's down the hall from here but one floor down." Jill answered.

"Thanks! Uhh, so what convinced you to join Shadow's forces?" Zoey messed with her straw that belonged to her milkshake.

"Same reason everybody joined, not only do we miss out on school, we will rule the world once Shadow gets his way!" Livvy cut in.

"Have you always wanted this?" Jackie asked.

"Well, we don't want it, we need it. We are constantly put below others, but here we are equals!" Evelyn explained as a taller guy smacked her helmet off her head with a cackle. The girl with the highlight sighed as she picked up her helmet and placed it upon her head once again.

The four teammates each raised an eyebrow as they continued to eat silently.

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><p>The girls swallowed hard before following a group of people into the training room where Kaylee gasped almost immediately. She hid behind the other girls.<p>

"What's wrong?" Zoey asked as Kaylee pointed to her father who stood above them on a podium.

"NOW! You are all going to be soldiers of Shadows army! Now I have a question to ask you! ARE YOU READY!?"

"Yea!" the teenage boy from before yelled out with enthusiasm.

"You do?" Kai approached him.

The man swallowed hard before nodding.

"WELL YOU DON'T!" he shouted in the young adult's face. "NONE OF YOU DO!" he smiled,"That is why you are lucky to have me! I will teach you the ways of Shadow and how to gain his favor!" he boomed as the other soldiers cheered.

"Now, time to get down to business…"

He gave a little orientation about how acting tough was only necessary on the battlefield, and how they were allowed to be themselves where they felt at home in their quarters. He was looking at Jackie the entire time.

At the end of the speech, he told us to split up into groups of six and begin to spar. The girls were together, but they needed two more people. They looked over towards a group of two who they called over, one had light brown hair and was waving wildly as Jackie waved back like it was a game. The other had short blonde hair in a ponytail.

"Hi I'm Grace! she introduced herself, and my friend who likes to wave at your friend is Mary!"

"Cool! We're Jamie," Kaylee pointed towards the girl with a similar name,"Nancy, Zelda, and I'm Kyra!"

"Nice to meet ya, I guess we are a group!"

"Yea! Let's begin!" Nicole began to flip around to everyone's amazement until she was hit down by Kaylee to whom she gave a glare.

She leaned down as she helped her up,"Tune it down a little, we are inexperianced, remember?"

"Gymnastics!" Nicole rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly.

"Okay then!" Mary shrugged, giving a little laugh.

After training that had lasted all day, the four girls earned their official places in the fortress as soldiers with their skills as ninja.

"As they were leaving the training area, Kai called out,"Does everybody have a dorm room?"

"UH, we don't!" Jackie raised her hand without thinking.

"Oh, well follow me then." the general led them to a dorm area, glancing at Kaylee every once and a while. "Well ladies, welcome to Shadow's army!" he gave them the key to their room and left glancing back one more time.

Once they heard his footsteps walk away, they began to talk.

"So what do you think of all of this stuff?" Jackie asked, taking off her helmet.

"I'm not sure, It's not the hard knock life I had expected…" Zoey slipped off her armor as well.

"Well I kinda like it! I missed having actual training equipment!" Nicole put up her feet.

"I think my father is suspicious… he was watching me…" Kaylee bit her lip in anxiety.

"Relax, he was watching everyone!" Nicole yawned.

Kaylee sat down on her bed,"Not the way he was watching me, he may think something is up."

Let's just get some rest, goodnight girls!" Zoey offered. As the girls chorused it back, they all let sleep overcome them except for Kaylee, who stayed awake thinking… she hadn't thought things like this since her mother died.

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><p>The next morning they all got their breakfast before glancing around the cafeteria. They spotted the group of girls and sat with them. Not soon after, Mary and Grace sat down with them as well. Evelyn was munching on some bread, with her nose in her book when general Zane and Cole approached.<p>

"Hello young ladies." Zane greeted.

"Good Morning General Zane." Nicole greeted instead of Zoey.

"I see how quickly you have gained skills." Cole flipped down his shades, revealing his red eyes.

"Yea, I did gymnastics and I taught my friends before we made the right choice and joined the army!" Nicole smiled sheepishly, pushing down her helmet on her head a bit more.

"Hmm, anyways we have a task for two of you,"Evelyn and Zelda, we would appreciate it if you would take food to the prisoners today instead of general Jay." Cole crossed his arms,"Just grab some scraps from the trash and pile it in a bucket, just chuck it at the prisoners."

"O-okay." Zoey looked down at her feet.

Zoey and Evelyn finished their lunches quickly before grabbing two old buckets and filling it with scraps before they headed towards the dungeon stairs.

As they walked down, there was a point where it split in two, "I will take the Western Dungeon, you take the Eastern Dungeon."

"No problem." Zoey went down the stairway heading West while Evelyn headed East. As Zoey walked down there, she saw some familiar faces in a cell. One was a woman she had seen in pictures… she had a hopeful look on her face until she saw it was a small guard with a helmet too large for their head.

She ran up to the cell and just stared at them… studying them, she performed a quick scan and gasped, which startled the young pregnant woman.

She reached out her hand towards her,"Nya Walker." she placed her hand on her swelled up stomach and closed her eyes. Nya winced at the touch of the guard…

Zoey smiled,"Your baby is quite healthy for somebody kept in your conditions. I am pleased that your child is alright."

Nya turned towards her… the girls voice was so smooth and calm, it was slightly monotone as well… all traits that reminded her of somebody. "Who are you?"

"I am…" she began to whisper,"I am Zoey, Zoey Julien."

"What!?" Nya gasped as she took off her helmet,"You have grown so much! Last I saw you, you were just a little girl!"

Zoey giggled,"That is probably the reason why I cannot remember!" she sighed,"The girls and I are-" Evelyn began to walk down the stairs, but heard them talking. She positioned herself up against the wall and listened closely.

"-on a mission, we are undercover as guards and have new friends already, we have false names and everything!"

Evelyn jumped into view,"YOU!"

Zoey let out a squeak before taking a breath and yelling,"NINJAGO!" She tackled Evelyn to the ground. She had spun into her ninja gi by instinct after she performed spinjitzu.

"You better not uh, tell anyone! Or I will freeze you!"

"Freeze me?" Evelyn scoffed,"Look, I am not gonna tell… you are General Zane's daughter… Zoey, right?"

"Correct." Zoey replied, getting off of her."

"Look, I won't tell, but you need to go, you are fighting for the wrong side. That means you need to leave! It can get dangerous here."

"I do not care! We have a mission to carry out, and carry out we will do!"

"Okay, I am just warning you, it will only get worse."

"Alright." Zoey put down the bucket of food in front of the cell and then turned towards another cell where they heard noises of insanity…

"Don't go near there." Misako looked up, "He is mad, he gets special food, he prefers it…" she scoffed, her voice dry and cracking.

"Al-alright." Zoey replied as she and Evelyn headed up stairs, Zoey putting on her armor as they trekked up the stairs.

They turned to go separate ways… "Zoey, be careful… okay?"

"I'll try."

**To be continued...**

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><p><strong>Dun dun ddddddddduuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnnnn!<strong>

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	12. Enter the Fortress Part 2

**Het guys! It is finally here! You all asked for it, well, here you go! I am surprised at how popular this story has gotten in it's short time, but do not worry, there is much more to come! My friend was the first to see this chapter and she was so excited and crazy! Enjoy!**

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><p>They got frequent breaks to walk out around Ninjago as long as they wore cloaks, these came in handy so nobody would suspect you…<p>

However, female guards needed an escort everywhere they went, for they were not going to let them be tempted by men.

"How sexist." Mary rolled her eyes as the escort for their group, Enrique, a boy the age of the girls escorted them around town.

"It is not my fault! The boss says that this is mandatory!"

"Well the boss' rules are stupid." Jill muttered, her friends nodding in agreement.

"Come on ladies, we can get you all a nice ice cream cone, will that make you feel better!?" he teased.

"Hey! We are not animals that can be won over with treats!" The hotheaded as ever Kaylee retorted.

"He can win me over with treats!" Jackie added to the conversation, picking a light blue flower. Evelyn nudged Zoey.

"Shouldn't we ask her to tone it down a little?"

"Well, she is just being herself!"

"But herself draws unwanted attention."

"Fine." Zoey approached Jackie,"Hey, we don't want to draw attention to-" Zoey turned around to see Enrique looking at them.

"Uh, right Jamie?" she nudged her.

"Of course Zelda! Who doesn't like Harry Potter!?" they plastered fake smiles on their faces as Enrique continued to lead them to the ice cream parlor.

"OH! Harry Potter!?" Evelyn turned around.

"Sorry, false alarm." Zoey replied as Evelyn turned around with a frown.

"We have to lay low guys!" Nicole informed them through the gritted teeth of her fake smile.

"I know, I am saying that to this one!" Zoey motioned her head towards Jackie.

"STOP FIGHTING GIRLS!" Kaylee walked beside them, they ended up looking like they were in the wizard of oz, ams linked while walking in sync.

They stopped at the ice cream parlor where they each ordered and paid for the treats. As they ate, Evelyn, Jill, and Livvy looked a little pissed off at Enrique.

"Why is it again that you get more ice cream than us?" Jill asked.

"Because I am a man, and a man has gotta eat!" he finished off the first quarter of his ice cream sundae as the girls finished their small ice cream cones.

"I am sick and tired of this." Evelyn grunted as she leaned in towards the other girls,"I am gonna be the first to do something…" she got up,"Excuse me Enrique, I would like another ice cream cone."

"Another… ice cream cone?"

"Yes please, you are paying with our money…"

"Listen woman, you are lucky we even let females become soldiers! The female gender is weak and useless! You call yourself an equal, men are stronger and don't have to answer to any women such as yourse-"

"LEAVE HER ALONE!" Livvy and Jill stepped in, followed by Grace and Mary.

"Do I need to teach all of you how to talk to your authority figure again!?"

"WE ARE SICK OF YOU! YOU ARE THE WORTHLESS ONE! TREATING US LIKE THIS!" Mary yelled as everyone else seemed surprised, they had never heard the ditzy girl yell.

Enrique scowled,"Want some more ice cream, THEN HAVE SOME!" he forced his sundae all over the girls and then held out his hand. "You are the reason I no longer have my treat, I think I deserve another one, it is your fault anyways." he snarled.

The girls, looking as if they were about to cry, reluctantly handed him the money as the ninja team in disguise watched in horror.

Jill and the girls tried to hide their ice cream covered cloaks, but it was hard because the bright colored sugary dairy showed up clear as day on the pitch black cloaks.

Zoey, Kaylee, Nicole, and Jackie trailed behind,"What was that all about?" Jackie asked,"Evelyn says we should be expected to be treated as equals."

"I don't know Jackie, but whatever that was, I know it wasn't equality." Nicole sighed,"So, what do we do now?"

"I don't know, I wish sensei were here." Zoey sniffed as Kaylee, once again ever observant spotted some unmistakably familiar figures in the forest.

"Maybe we don't need sensei! Follow me!" Kaylee raced off towards the figures.

As she got to the forest, she was tackled by the beast as he licked her face with his forked tongue. "Knock it off Flame!" she cackled as she reached inside the saddlebag and pulled out a book.

"Of course! Sensei's lesson book!" Nicole grinned ear to ear.

Kaylee opened it up, "All the guidance we need! Right here!"

We should get back, it is getting late, and we do not want Enrique to notice that we left." Zoey pointed out as the others nodded in agreement before they rushed back to the group.

Thankfully nobody noticed that they had left, nor did they notice the book hidden under Kaylee's cloak.

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><p>They were sitting at the lunch table before their training session in the afternoon.<p>

"Hey, are you guys okay?" Zoey questioned.

"Yeah, we are fine…" Grace mumbled.

"Evelyn, you said that we are treated as equals here, yet that was just unfair what he did to you." Kaylee pointed out.

"It will happen eventually, we see the older girls! When you reach sixteen, if they try to unhook your bra, or touch you in a way you don't like, you are allowed to punch them in the face!" she retorted.

"Ya! I have seen it happen!" Mary added.

Nicole glanced at the clock, "Uh I think it is time for afternoon training, let's go!"

After their training session, the girls went to their separate dorm rooms. They all laid down and got out of their armor.

"What happened today was not right." Kaylee sighed.

"I know!" Jackie agreed as the hotheaded girl took out the lesson book. She flipped through the pages, skimming them, there has to be something! Anything!

Then… "Girls! Look!" Kaylee yelled.

They gathered around the book as Kaylee began to read,"If you have a false sense of security set, you have all the power, your poker face is unbreakable! Once you are trusted, turn the situation around and reveal your deck of cards to the opponent!" Kaylee yelled,"This is perfect!"

"Yeah! Uh… what does it mean?" Jackie questioned.

"It means that if we have them convinced we are with them we can turn it around, but I think we will need more people to do so…" Zoey sighed.

They all sat and pondered for a moment until Kaylee's face lit up,"I have an idea! We can lead a women's rebellion!"

"I still don't think us, Evelyn, and her friends would be of much help." Zoey explained.

"NO! An all women's rebellion! We can turn every woman against the men that treat them so badly!" Kaylee stood up and sprung her fist into the air!

"An all women's rebellion!?" Jackie giggled with excitement.

All we need to do is get our group in on it, then the rest are sure to follow! Come on guys! We need to ignite a spark of willpower in these young women!"

The girls all agreed,"We should do it tomorrow, but we need somebody to sneak out and tell the others." Nicole smirked,"I know just the ninja for the job!"

"Me too-" Zoey began as Nicole interrupted.

"ZOEY!"

"WHAT!?" she shrieked, the ice ninja fell backwards.

"In order for our plan to work, we need bait, and a pretty girl should work, and you are undoubtedly the most beautiful out of all of us!" Jackie explained.

"I am sure Evelyn and Jill can help you with your hair!" Kaylee smiled as they began to send her out the door.

"Good luck!" Jackie whisper-called out to her as she went ahead.

As she snuck through the halls she heard voices coming from another room. She zoomed in her eye optics as she examined the scene before her.

Enrique was talking to a slightly older boy.

"It didn't feel right…"

"Well it is our job to put them in their place!" The older boy retorted.

"But Seth-"

"Do not talk to your leader that way! We keep girls in their place, and show them who is in charge, and when we make the decisions. You did well today, and I don't want you apologizing!" Seth flicked off the light as he and Enrique went to bed.

Zoey slid down the shadows of the hallway, until she reached a room that she recognized. She slowly opened up the door and peeked inside.

The girls were shocked to see her, but welcomed her inside. They all sat down in a circle as Zoey told them of her plan.

"I don't think that is a good idea…" Evelyn trailed off.

"I can't I am sorry but these women could never do that…" Livvy added.

"At least the girls and I can try! You don't need to rebel! Just please, for the plan to work we need bait, and we need my hair and makeup to look amazing!"

"I'm on it!" Jill smirked as Evelyn grabbed a bag of beauty products.

"Lets begin right away!" Evelyn announced as they began to make Zoey unrecognizable.

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><p>At breakfast the next day, everybody's attention was on the girl who walked in with full armor, but no helmet, and man did her face look amazing! Her blonde hair was in light curls at the ends and her face was captured an illuminated in beauty as her makeup gave her a less natural look.<p>

The boy who she had seen the other night talking to Enrique smirked as he walked up to her, he held the look on his face as he walked her into a corner,"Why hello."

Zoey tried to step away,"Please leave me alone, I need to see my-"

"Hey! You don't talk back when a man is talking to you!" Seth was at least four years older than the ten year old girl. "I make the decisions." he had cornered her and was leaning in for a kiss when Zoey delivered a blow to his face that knocked him to the other side of the room.

He slowly got up,"Why you ungrateful little underaged-" he got up and stepped towards her, grabbing for her wrist. Zoey escaped to a tabletop.

"Women of Shadow's army! We are treated unfairly and criticized for crimes that other commit! Everybody stand up join me, and walk out! Shadow promised us equality! Is this what you seek!? Who will join me!?" the entire room was silent. As Seth grabbed her wrist and pulled her off of the table.

"You will be punished by Master Shadow, he is only kind to us when we are loyal! You will be punished by means of dark magic!" he yelled as Zoey struggled against his grip. As the generals watched, Zane didn't know why, but he felt his temper getting worse, he didn't even recognize this girl.

"Hey! Leave her be!" everybody gasped in shock as Enrique came over to him,"I am fed up with your ideas of the superior sex, the truth is that there is no superior! We are equal and should be treated that way!"

Seth stood up and struck the boy in the stomach, causing him to lose his breath, leaning over, and wheezing in pain. Seth grabbed the girls wrist tighter only to turn around and be punched right in the nose three times in a row!" Evelyn wore an angry frown on her face.

"I am sick and tired of this crap! Let's walk out of here and take back our lives!" she shouted as the rest of the women in the room yelled and cheered, they all ran around and began to plan an escape.

The generals took action too, trying to keep anyone from leaving!

The female soldiers stood against the male ones who were fighting for the false idea. There were many injuries received by both sides, and the girls were almost there! When two generals blocked their path! They all stopped while Zoey swerved in her spot she let out a groan as she fell to the ground sparking. They looked at the wrist that Seth had grabbed and he had broken her exoskeleton! A few wires had snapped and left Zoey defenseless.

One of the two generals, Zane finally recognized the girl… he stepped away, trying to stay under his master's influence.

Jackie and Nicole ran into the room he was in with her unconscious form in their arms. "Please! She is broken! We don't have her original design! You are the only one who can fix her!" Nicole yelled.

"NO! I will stay with master, I will stay with master, I will stay with master…" he repeated over and over again.

"We're losing her!" Jackie yelled alarmed, as the young ice master began to spark more rapidly.

"Zoey!" Nicole yelled, tears in her eyes.

Zane breathed heavily as his eyes shot to the color blue in a millisecond. He pushed Nicole and Jackie aside as he examined her arm.

"Girls, listen closely, I need my toolbox in the room next door, be careful."

"Yes sir!" they yelled, racing towards the other room as Zane finally let all his tears fall, what if he was too late? He was sure of one thing though, he was going to make that boy who hurt her so badly pay!

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><p>Kaylee stood up against her father,"Let us go!" she took off her helmet, spinning into her suit.<p>

"I knew something was off." Kai snarled, stepping towards her. Kaylee stepped backwards and ignited her sword in flames.

"D-don't make me do this dad, p-please don't make me." she wore a look on her face that he had only seen one other time.

_KAI FOUR YEARS AGO_

_Kai walked down the alleyway he had heard Kaylee scream from. He turned to see his little girl hugging a figure… a familiar figure… he had trouble remembering what her face looked like nowadays…_

_However one thing he did remember was the look on his daughters face, utter horror, it was a straight face yet she was sobbing, it was painful to see her this way…_

Kai did what he did four years ago, he dropped his weapon, and hugged his daughter as tightly as he could, his eyes were a brilliant brown as he hugged his daughter tighter in a loving embrace. "I'm sorry, I would never leave you or hurt you in my right mind. He heard her muffled sobs as she dug her face into his chest as she let her tears fall. Kai's own tears fell like waterfalls out of his eyes as his daughter sobbed into him. He stroked her hair in a comforting manner as she sobbed,"Da-a-add-dy!" she sniffled, she was the only one of the team to not see her father normal again, and now it was her chance after all of this time.

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><p>Zane grabbed his tools and worked as fast as he could, patching the wires, he grabbed some more scrap metal and he even had some prosthetic skin. He had finally patched her up, stepping back he held his breath, shaking her a little bit. "Zoey?" his voice cracked as she remained idle.<p>

He brushed her hair out of her eyes as he sobbed, holding her close. He whispered words of encouragement to her, begging her to wake up as her internal fans slowed. Eventually, she dropped to the ground as the last glimmer of hope was lost. He got one last look at her face, her face of natural beauty plagued with the burden of artificial color. He cleaned her face up, crying as he pet her head that he laid on his lap… A soft groan was then audible! Zane looked down, and the first thing that Zoey's blue eyes met was the blue eyes that matched hers.

She latched onto him, hugging and crying into his shoulder taking in deep breaths as Zane tried to console her, he told her it was going to be okay and that he never wanted to let go of her. They eventually had to though…

"Uh Zoey, we need to go before our escape chance disappears." Nicole commented as Zoey sat up.

"Of course." both she and Zane sat up and went back to the other room to find Kai consoling his daughter who was crying like she would win money for it!

"Brother." Kai looked up at Zane, smiling at his blue eyes,"We need to help them escape."

"I agree." Kai replied with a smirk.

They all led them to a tunnel passageway, allowing the women to escape. Zoey and Kaylee hugged their fathers goodbye before the generals turned back to the caves.

Zoey turned to Evelyn,"What if they come for you?"

"Nothing we can't handle! We know all of their tricks! From now on we are a group dedicated to fighting the dark forces of Shadow!" she smiles,"Thank you Zoey."

"No problem Evelyn."

"Hey!" Enrique ran into view,"I want to apologize! I am sorry, I just never really knew how awful doing that was! I would, if it was okay with you, like to join you!"

"Of course!" Evelyn replied.

"Thank you for accepting me."

"No problem." Evelyn sighed,"This it it."

"Yea." Zoey smiled at her new friend. They hugged each other goodbye as the groups went their separate ways.

Zoey fell asleep right on top of Shard once they got back to camp, it felt as if all they could do now was rest…

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><p>While the chaos upstairs was going on, it gave a man a perfect opportunity to use his escape plan! He stepped up to the metal bars and used his massively sized muscles to break the bars open! He then ran across the dungeon halls until he saw the vent! He quickly made his escape! Once he took his first breath of fresh air in a long time, he simply sighed and said,"Finally… freedom."<p>

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><p><strong>DUNDUNDUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN! <strong>

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HARRY POTTER IS LIFE!

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	13. I Smell Something Fishy

**Hey! Sorry this took so long! I have been trying to get ahead with chapters! This will be a funny on the good side but angsty on the bad side! Enjoy!**

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><p>Everyone stepped aside, gasping at the giant's footprints that it left behind. The beast was tall and mighty, covered head to toe in white and light blue scales, and was the size of two buffalos. What they were even more shocked to see were the four girls sitting on top of it!<p>

Zoey guided Shard through the middle of town as Kaylee looked around at the people gazing in awe at the dragon. "Hey Zoey, maybe bringing Shard here was not such a great idea, we could've walked…"

"But walking is no fun!" Jackie complained, laying flat on her back, gazing at the sky. "Besides, she needs the practice! She is gonna need more exercise to learn to gain enough momentum to take to the skies! This girl is the only dragon who cannot fly yet other than greeny!"

"I thought we were going to let sensei Lloyd name the runt, if all goes well at least."

"Yea! But we need to know who I am talking about!"

"Whatever." Nicole rolled her eyes, standing on the dragon's back and looking around for the shop they had gone into town looking for.

"See it yet?" Zoey questioned.

"Yes Zoey, I saw it," Kaylee replied with sarcasm,"I totally would not have told you if I did see it."

"No need for sarcasm Kaylee, Zoey doesn't understand it." Nicole shot back at the girl.

"Yes she does."

"No she doesn't."

"Yes she does."

"No she doesn't!"

"Girls please stop arguing and look out for the shop." Zoey spoke up.

"It's Nicole's fault!" Kaylee shot back.

"Kaylee!" Zoey gasped.

"Nicole!" she pointed to the girl she blamed.

"Zoey!" Nicole complained.

"JACKIE!" the spunky girl herself yelled, wanting to join in on the fun. The little battle of words turned into a full out war! They were yelling as the neighborhood could clearly hear the outbursts of the four sisters. Many mothers covered their children's ears to censor the things coming out of Kaylee's mouth.

"Ma'am." the girls turned their heads to meet the eyes of a police officer.

"Oh, um, uh… yes officer?" Zoey asked.

"You have a licence for that beast of yours?"

"Sir, you do not need a licence to drive a dragon." Zoey stated plainly before motioning for Shard to continue walking.

The girls laughed at Zoey's statement even though she did not get the joke in not needing a licence. To her it was simply a fact and nothing more.

Eventually, they had finally spotted the shop which Jackie, happy to have found it was jumping for joy. She ran around picking up the arts and craft supplies until she ran right into a kid with large glasses and a camera around his neck.

"Oops! Sorry, here let me help you!" Jackie offered, holding her hand out which the boy took after several moments of gazing at her.

"OH MY GOSH!" he yelled as loudly as possible, taking her hand and practically dragging her outside before yelling as loudly as possible,"HEY! THIS IS ONE OF THOSE NINJA GIRLS!"

"Uhh…" Jackie rubbed her arm after pulling it away.

A young man piped up,"That is one of the girls who beat me up and stole my mascot uniform!"

The other three girls ran outside to be greeted by the crowd,"Hey! You defeated those weird looking dudes with that bass cannon!" a boy about eight years old ran up to Nicole.

"That is the girls who destroyed some cloaked dudes with dodgeballs!" another girl pointed towards Zoey.

"That girl beat down some bullies at my school!" another girl about their age pointed and shouted.

"Oh! That girl over there won my schools football game!"

"Oh! That girl and some dude caused that girl and some other dude to have a dance off!"

"The one in blue said that a squirrel with a raging STD attacked her friend!" They all began to crowd around the girls.

"Hey! I didn't know that we were famous!" Kaylee smirked.

"I don't know about this girls." Zoey squinted as camera flashes met her eyes, she was only untying her dragon!

"I kinda like it! It makes me feel like a popstar! But instead of singing we fight crime and junk!"

"What kind of crime do you fight?" a young girl with pigtails in her hair asked, rocking back and forth on her feet.

"We fight the evil forces of uhh…" Nicole elbowed Jackie, stopping her sentence, she realized that she didn't want to cause panic…"Uhh, the evil forces of evil?"

"Yup, if it's evil we can handle it!" Nicole said dismissively, boarding Shard, taking her seat behind Zoey. Kaylee rolled her eyes at the fans of the girls as she got on top of Shard as well, Jackie followed suit grudgingly and with an attitude.

"Come on buddy! Off you go!" Zoey encouraged, only to have the dragon get two feet off the ground before flopping into the dirt below.

"That settles it, next time we are taking flame! He actually knows how to fly, not to mention how he is the best flyer!" Kaylee bragged as Jackie and Zoey rolled their eyes. As Shard began his walk back to camp, Nicole opened her mouth to argue.

As they got back to camp, three out of four girls flopped onto their sleeping bags while Jackie began to dig through her bag. "Jackie, just go to bed, we have to create a plan to infiltrate Shadow's base ASAP because of his weakened forces, and we need our sleep to be able to think in the morning." Kaylee groaned.

"If we need to create a plan as soon as possible, then why don't we create one right now?" Zoey turned towards her, in her own sleeping bag.

"I would but-" Kaylee yawned and stretched,"I am just way too tired and exhausted, I already sat down, and… yep, too late!" Kaylee sunk into her neverending abyss of a sleeping bag with a grin.

"Hey girls! I am back with dinner!" Nicole called out, signaling Rocky to drop the load of fish he had collected. The oaf of a beast collapsed as Nicole patted his head.

Jackie pulled an old sketchbook out of her bag before flipping through it.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…" Kaylee groaned.

"What?" Nicole rolled her eyes.

"It's always fish! Why is it always fish!?" Kaylee retorted.

"Fish is all we have." Nicole retorted with clenched teeth.

"I want some fruit, or you know, something from the other sections of the food chain!?" Kaylee complained endlessly. Jackie's grin grew wider as she flipped through her notebook. She was staring at images she had drawn as a child, she saw a crudely drawn version of her younger self with a microphone singing like a popstar! She Loved all the attention the team was getting! She had always wanted to be famous!

As her teammates argued, an amazing idea popped into her head,"HEY GUYS!" the two arguing ten-year-olds turned their heads towards the spunky girl,"What if we sell the fish!? We are already famous!" she showed them the old picture in her notebook,"It could boost our little business!"

"You wanted to spend our little money we have on arts and crafts." Nicole rolled her eyes.

"Which will come in handy… anyways we can make way more money this way!"

"You may be right Jackie!" Zoey grinned.

"Okay, I'm cool with it." Nicole turned away from Kaylee.

"Alright, but let's get some sleep first, I am too lazy and I seriously doubt that anyone wants to buy a bunch of fish at 12:27 am." Kaylee yawned and slid into her sleeping bag once again.

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><p>"WHAT!? FIRST WE LOSE HALF OF OUR ARMY, NEXT WE FIND OUT THAT OUR NUMBER ONE ENEMY WAS RIGHT UNDER OUR NOSES AND WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT, THEN… OH THEN, A PRISONER ESCAPES!?" Shadow boomed.<p>

"We are sorry sir, the female guards rebelled, and… and… well even some male guards went with them, they thought the treatment they had given the girls were unfair and decided to well… walk out as well."

"They thought… what!?" Shadow was enraged, even he never treated anybody differently because of their gender. He sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose,"Is there anything else I should know about?"

"Well, master we have a confession to make…" Kai blinked his red eyes multiple times, taking a deep breath,"Zane and I broke free of your influence for a short period of time…" he paused,"IT HAPPENED TO COLE AND JAY TOO!" he pointed an accusing finger towards his brothers after seeing Shadow's angered face.

They all winced, ready for pain when they heard… laughter… they all slowly looked upwards to find Shadow chuckling. "I-I am not even mad!" he cackled, there were traces of him possibly being a mad man in there,"You know what!? That was an early batch! Time for an upgrade! I do not even care how little of it we have! We should just waste it all right now haha! On you four! It worked for Lloyd!" he took a few deep breaths,"There will always be more." he whispered to himself. "You have about six hours before we have a big enough batch produced! You are lucky we began making it right after Lloyd's crossover to the right side! We may have just enough!" he stood up and walked towards his laboratory.

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><p>They all gulped as they looked at each other with fear. Then, without warning Zane stood up and left… he had something he had been meaning to do…<p>

"FISH! GET YOUR FRESH FISH!" Jackie called, flipping a cardboard sign. They girls watched as the people walked by, even turning their heads away from the stand.

"Ugh! This isn't working! Maybe I should play some music with some sort of instrument!" Nicole suggested.

"I would prefer not…" Zoey trailed off, sitting on the ground with her legs crossed.

Many hours passed and the girls still earned nothing… absolutely nothing…

"UH! It's girls scouts all over again!" Jackie complained, banging her head against the table.

"Well, what do you want us to do abou-"

"HELP! HELP! THAT MAN HAS MY SON!" the girls turned their heads to see a thief wearing a ski mask sprinting away with a baby carrier!

"I've got him! I've got him!" Zoey ran ahead, only to be pushed aside by Jackie who used her method, which involved repeatedly hitting the poor man in the head with a sun dried, stinky fish that smelled like old gym socks.

Zoey grabbed the baby and carefully returned the child to his mother.

"Thank you young lady!"

"No problem ma'am, just doing my job as a ninja." Zoey replied quietly and respectfully. Another small crowd had gathered as they cheered.

"Ninja, Ninja, Ninja, Ninja!"

"Yes!" Jackie shouted,"Time to get some cash!" she raced over to the stand,"Get your ninja fish! They have been laying out in the sun all day and smell like gym socks!"

"Why would we want those?" a disgusted teenager asked.

"YOU AREN'T GOING TO EAT THEM! You use them as a weapon, duh! How do you think i saved that baby!?"

"Um, actually, I saved the bab-" Zoey's voice was drowned out by the crowd gathering around the stand asking for the ninja-est fish she had.

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><p>General Zane walked down the corridors until he stumbled upon a room… he turned the door handle…"Seth… I would like a word with you."<p>

"Y-yes general Zane." he gulped before stepping into the cold, gloomy office of the general.

Zane sat in a lone chair in the corner of the room,"Have a seat…"

Seth sat down in the chair across from him,"Yes sir?"

"I am here to discuss important matters… we recently lost more than half of our army."

"Yes sir… am I in line for…" he paused,"A promotion?"

Zane clenched his teeth and bit his lip, tears threatened to spill out of his eyes as he stood up. "A promotion? A PROMOTION!?" he screamed,"You broke my daughter! Quite literally! You are an abuser, you don't care for others! You use them at your own expense!" he snarled. She is like me, very delicate in fact!" he took a deep breath,"I spent a while building her… very advanced technology."

Seth was silent, completely silent…

"You broke her exoskeleton! She was shorting out… she nearly powered down for good." he chuckled. "YOu know what I find quite amusing about all of this?"

"Wh-what sir?"

Zane pinned him against the wall,"You had the guts to talk to her like that in front of me, and abusing her, humiliating her in front of every single person that could see. To show that you were strong, to show you had power and control, but you know what!? That only shows that you are weak, and selfish, barely a man… let alone a person in the first place."

Seth winced at his general's piercing blue eyes that glared with hatred into his soul. Visible tears were flowing out of them as he spoke.

"I-I'm sorry! I-I didn't kno-o-ow!" Please, I ask for your forgiveness!"

"I cannot do that…"

"Wh-what?"

"I cannot forgive you."

"What will it take!? I-I'll do anyth-"

"No, only the ones who you hurt can forgive you… for they are the ones you have wronged." With that Zaner stood up and left the office, yet his eyes remained blue for several more minutes before resorting to a faded red.

Cole looked around before he entered a room. There was but one person sitting there,"Hey, uh Lloyd?"

"Yea Cole?" he asked.

"L-listen, you know when Shadow brought you to his side?"

"Mmhmm…"

"Well, he wants to give me and the others a stronger dosage, the one you got…"

Lloyd turned towards them,"Yes and...?

"Okay," He took a deep breath,"Does it hurt!?"

"What?" Lloyd had just seen his most serious older brother walk into the room and ask if getting a stronger dosage hurt like a little kid asking his mother if a filling hurt at the dentist. So Lloyd, did what any mother would have done in that situation with Cole. "Cole, it hurts like hell."

"Wh-what?" the former ninja's voice got smaller.

"You heard me, you need it, you will pay for it, I sure did." Cole just stared as Lloyd casually turned away. The nervous man then simply stood and left the room in unimaginable horror.

Jay had volunteered to feed the prisoners, he wasn't allowed to lately…

The scrawnier general rushed down to the cells with some actual meals for them to eat. Jay sat down and began to give everyone their respected meals.

"JAY!" Nya cried, latching onto her husband, crying tears of joy.

He hugged her back, as his red eyes immediately flipped to a gleaming light blue. Jay sighed in relief and happiness as a cold feeling rushed through his body, he felt as if he had been unable to move for a long time and had finally been able to move.

"Nya." he sighed, holding her tighter in his embrace.

"Jay, wh-what's wrong?"

He looked at her with sad eyes,"It-it's Shadow! He is strengthening our dosage!"

"Why? He cannot afford to waste his serum!" Nya retorted.

"Kai sold us out after he and Zane broke free after the escape, this may be the last we see of each other as ourselves in a long time." He gave her a long kiss on her forehead before holding her head close to his chest as she wept through the bars of the cold cell.

"Kai, he-ugh! I can't lose you again!"

"I don't want to lose you either!" Jay bit his lip,"I am sorry Nya."

"I know Jay, I'm just gonna miss you so much!" she choked on her words.

"I am gonna miss you too baby." he hugged her tighter as he took in deep, shaky breaths.

Neither of them noticed a figure walking down the dungeon stairs. They released each other from the warm embrace when they heard a gasp from behind them.

Kai was standing there in awe…

"Go on! Tell on me! I don't care! We are getting our stronger dosage anyways!" he shouted as tears fell out of his eyes.

"Jay…" Kai trialed off, his faded red eyes were now a light brown that gleamed with shame.

He slowly approached Nya, he took a deep breath and got down on his knees as well,"I want to apologise, I didn't know that what I was doing was wrong, I-I am just sorry." he held his head as he brought it to the ground with a groan. He looked up and sighed,"I suppose Jay has already told you that we are getting a stronger dosage huh?"

"Y-yeah."

"Remember that I am still your brother, and that I love you, okay sis? I wish we had more time, our six hours are almost up…"

"I-I understand."

She got a hug from her brother before turning back to her husband. He got one last long hug as well, allowing her to cry as he pet her head, undoing the knots in her messy hair. Then, the loudspeaker went off,"Generals Cole, Kai, Zane, and Jay, please report to my quarters."

They all said their goodbye and headed towards the intimidating room.

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><p>About a week had passed and the girls were getting attention for just about every little thing they did. Even Nicole and Kaylee were beginning to accept the attention!<p>

"Yea, I make music too, it's pretty awesome!" Nicole looked at her nails as Kaylee showed her skills on her new skateboard she had gotten with the money they had made from selling… well…

"NINJA FISH! Get your NINJA FISH!" Jackie's sale pitch was still popular and everyone wanted a ninja fish.

"I have a bigger fish than you! One child yelled to another."

Zoey however was just plain confused… how did that lead to… to… this? The little computer had trouble deciphering what had caused one event to lead to another like this?

However, one thing Zoey did understand was that her teammates were acting differently… very differently.

Jackie signed another autograph as a store was being robbed! "Uh girls!?" Zoey yelled, tackling the thief and trying to hold him down.

"Yeah, uh one sec!" Kaylee did a kickflip on her skateboard before heading towards Zoey, helping her and then handing him over to police." Kaylee of course got the attention. Things like this had happened before, something bad was happening, and the other girls just put their newfound fame first!

Eventually, they crossed the line...

Zoey went back to camp, once again aggravated when she noticed something was missing… three dragons were gone! She ran back to town to tell them the news but was ignored and brushed off. She was simply shoved away by the crowd. Zoey frowned, there was one thing to do…

Jackie gave another fish to another fan as the air suddenly felt very cold…

She looked over the crowd to see Zoey on the back of her dragon!

"Hey Zoey! Where have ya been!" the spunky girl called.

"ARE YOU BLIND!? Our dragons are missing! Flame, Wisp and Rocky are gone! They took greeny too…"

"What!? They took Rocky!? Now who's gonna catch us ninja fish?"

"JACKIE!" Nicole screamed in concern for her dragon.

"What!?" Nicole snapped back to reality as she boarded Shard, with Kaylee behind her.

"Come on!" Zoey yelled, only for her dragon to begin to walk on the ground.

"UGH! Of all the dragons to get left behind!" Kaylee groaned.

As they reached the forest, Shard had picked up her pace. "Okay, so they took the flying dragons! Why did they take greeny?"

"She is small, she can fit on another dragon's back! Rocky most likely." Zoey mused as they saw figures flying up ahead.

"There they are!" Kaylee pointed as they heard a voice behind them.

"Wait up girls!" Jackie was sprinting towards them.

"How do we get to them? We can't fly!" Nicole shouted as Jackie grinned.

"I have an idea! Come on Shard! Flying is fun! You do not know if ya like something until you try it! So lift off the ground!"

Shard grunted and flapped her wings. "That's my girl! FLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAP!" she yelled. as they began to get off of the ground. "YES!" Jackie yelled,"RISE!"

Shard was flying! She flew towards her sister and roared to them, signaling them to fight back. They roared and tried to throw the thieves off, the girls were shocked to see the thieves in Shadow cloaks!

"UGH! Not these guys again!" Nicole groaned as the girls watched the dragon force the invading people off of them they took quite a fall into the trees below. However, the runt dragon also took the fall…

"NO!" the girls screamed as the dragon plummeted to the ground.

"No…" Zoey sighed.

"Come on girls, we need to go," Nicole began, looking down at the soldiers who had landed in a bunch of trees.

"Goodbye Greeny." Jackie sighed, jumping onto Wisp from Shard. "Let's never let fame get in the way again." Jackie sighed…

"Agreed." the other replied in union.

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><p>"Are you ready!? You will feel so much better after this! I promise!" He brought out the serum…"Go on! Grab your needles! Inject yourselves appropriately!"<p>

Each of the men took a deep breath and injected them selves… pain overtook their entire bodies as they yelled out in pain and agony.

After many minutes of painful screams each of them stood up at attention.

"Who are you and what is your purpose?"

"We are the generals of Master Shadow's army, we belong to him, nobody else." they answered in union.

"Good… that is better." he chuckled,"Anything else?"

"Nothing else unless you would like master." they answered again.

"Good, now… you are dismissed, all of you!"

"Yes master." They bowed and left the quarters...

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><p><strong>HAHA! Time to kill your feels with that chapter! We are about halfway through the story, sad to say and have reached a story arch! I will update in a little while! Don't worry! You will not have to wait as long this time, a week at the most!<strong>

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	14. Four is Company, But Five is a Crowd

**This is gonna be good! This was a lot of fun to write and took about two hours of editing because my laptop has a bad case of what i call 'sticky keys' when you have to press really hard down on a button to get it to go back to normal.**

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><p>The girls sat around and yawned as the summer sun's rays woke them up. It was either that or the sounds of people seemingly going insane!<p>

"What's going on!?" Nicole shot upwards, looking around at the mob surrounding them.

"Ninja! Ninja! Ninja!" those were the only words they could make out as the crowd grew louder.

"EVERYBODY JUST SHUT THE FRICK UP!" Nicole yelled as Jackie was coming back with some food from the market.

"What's going on?" Jackie asked, sticking her head through the people making a commotion.

"I don't know!" Nicole screamed, climbing on top of Rocky,"HEY! TELL US YOUR ISSUE PEOPLE!" she screeched at the top of her lungs.

A man raised his hand,"Well, um it's Ninjago City! It is being attacked!"

"By what?" Kaylee questioned, slipping out of her sleeping bag with poofy hair.

"We don't know! That's the problem! It is some crazy gang, and nobody knows who or what they are!"

"Well we will figure it out! Come on girls!"

They all boarded their dragons before taking off to the skies. They soared towards the puffy white fluffs visible in the blue oasis above. Jackie smiled and screamed,"WOO HOO!" as her dragon took the lead.

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><p>The generals were bedridden for the next few days because of the most recent development, however people were still keeping a close eye on them, specifically Lloyd. One day, he was called into Shadow's main fortress. "General Lloyd?"<p>

"Y-yes master?"

"You are aware that we are low in numbers, correct?"

"Yes sir."

"Well it is about time we get some new recruits…"

"How would we do that sir?"

"Well, we go to the one place where people are isolated and begging for a way out…"

"Wh-which is?"

"An orphanage, you will bring a team out and pretend to be separate people, you will adopt those children and then recruit them into the army." Lloyd stood up and could not look him in the eye. Most of the time he would follow orders without question, but a voice inside him was telling him,"No, this is wrong!" However the voice was mostly ignored by the serum injected into him. He then walked off to go rally his troop.

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><p>A man of good stature took another deep breath as he trecked on through the wilderness. He had to find food, anything… it was all he needed, after escaping from the prison that Shadow held him in. He stopped for a moment to examine some berries on a bush… these were what he was looking for. He grabbed a handful and shoved it into his mouth. He enjoyed the taste of the sweet berries as he continued on his search for water… but he ran into the complete opposite of water...<p>

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><p>After flying for another half hour Jackie piped up,"Are we there yet?"<p>

"No, you would know, aren't you leading?" Kaylee asked.

Jackie froze…"Uhhh."

"You do know where the city is, right!?" Nicole leaned forward and caught up with her sister.

"Oh, you thought I knew where it was? What gave you that idea?"

"You did take the lead." Zoey replied flatly.

"Well I just guessed that uh, maybe Wisp knew the way?" Jackie chuckled nervously.

"Yes, with the map he has." Nicole rolled her eyes sarcastically.

"Not with a map, with dragon instincts!" Jackie crossed her arms.

"Whatever ya say." Kaylee sighed as the dragon continued on the wrong direction.

They eventually had flown so far that they noticed a figure in the distance…

"Is that-?" Kaylee sat up.

"It can't be!" Zoey smiled and giggled,"Looks like dragon instincts are useful anyways!" They got closer to the city as the dragons let out a roar.

"Come on! Let's find a place to land!" Nicole grinned ear to ear.

They scanned the city, but realizing that the busy parts of the city were not the place to look. First of all they could not find a clear spot, second of all they did not want to start a panic because all of a sudden four giant dragons landed in the middle of the city.

So they decided to land in the outskirts of town, there was mostly small businesses. "Hey? Where should we go from here?" Jackie called back to her teammates.

"Well, I suggest we ask around on information on this notorious gang." Zoey exclaimed as they landed in an alleyway and tied up their dragons.

"Where should we start?" Nicole asked.

"Ooh! How about that place!?"

"Are your about that place Jackie?"

"Of course I am Zoey!"

"A-alright then, it looks a bit rundown and well, shady."

"Relax!" Jackie let out a chuckle,"It is open to the public, what is the worst it could be?"

"Okay then…" Zoey trailed off.

They entered the slightly aged building, it was dusty, dim, and reeked of the elderly.

"Hello?" Zoey called, being the only one not coughing.

"Uh- oh! One moment! I apologize but classes do not begin for at least another forty minutes and I would not like any students here until then-" he stopped his trail of thought when he gazed upon what they were wearing…

However the girls were more focused on what he was wearing… he looked like an Elvis impersonator! He probably was… he was clad in a brown top with a v-neck that gave them a lovely view of his chest hair, as well as a pair of old khakis. His sandals gave them a good picture of his overgrown yellowed toenails. The body odor flowing off of the guy however topped the entire outfit off!

He stared blankly at the girls…

"Uhh…" Kaylee began, clearing her throat, but before she could speak she was interrupted.

"Woah! talk about deja vu! It feels like yesterday your parents were standing here asking to train at my dojo!"

"Oh, um, no.. you misunderstand Mr. uh-"

"I am Grand Sensei Dareth!" he shook their hands, quite tightly. "It has been so long since I have seen you!"

"Seen us?" Nicole questioned as he went towards each of the girls.

"Aw! You have all gotten so big? How old are you all now?"

"Ten." Jackie grinned with a chuckle.

"That is the age of my kids! Fred! Ginny! Get out here!"

"What do you want dad?" The twins' heads popped out from behind the door. The boy was dressed just like his father, however the girl looked the exact opposite. She looked like an eight year old's wardrobe of sparkly shoes, hand me down scarfs and nail polish collection chewed her up, spit her out, swallowed her, then proceeded to spit her out because you could taste how awful she looked.

"These are the next generation of ninja." Dareth introduced them.

"Cool! Name's Fred!" he shook their hands before returning to his video game on his phone.

"Hey! My name is Ginny!" She took each of their hands,"You don't have to beg me to join your group! I will offer, being the awesome person I am!" She struck a pose in her pocket sized mirror.

She however was replied to with the laughter of the girls. "Sorry, but club's already full." Nicole chortled.

"B-but I can fight!" Ginny whined as she looked around frantically,"Check out my sweet moves! She kicked a punching bag only to yelp and hold her foot in pain. "AGH! Stubbed my toe this motherf*-"

Zoey turned off her hearing devices for what was to come as the girl screamed at the punching bag saying every word in the book.

"Ha! She knows a lot of em' for a ten year old!" Nicole chuckled,"But that ain't gonna earn ya a spot. Now, have any of you heard news on gangs around Ninjago City? We have come to investigate."

"I have heard news that they may be hitting all the big landmarks in the city first!" Dareth sighed,"They trash the place and then they spray paint graffiti all over the place!"

"So what have they hit so far?"

"They did the courtrooms! The next most important building would be town hall! If that were pillaged then the government in the city would shut down for a good week."

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><p>Lloyd and his army marched onwards towards the building… something about this just felt wrong to Lloyd…<p>

The place reeked of cigarettes, they walked up to the lady at the desk who glanced at them before turning back to her books.

"Excuse me?" Lloyd grunted.

She sighed and looked them in the eye,"Yes?"

"We are here to adopt a group of children."

"Hmm? A group!? That is great!" She smiled brightly as she brought them to the back room.

There were children of all ages playing with toys and even on arcade games. "It's sad really, the state does not allow them to get out all that much, but I do what I can for these poor children, in my small orphanage we house only about twenty eight children."

Lloyd looked around…

"We will take half of them, most male, only few female." he didn't want a repeat of what happened last time with the recruits.

"Okay then… go on and meet the children first at least…" she allowed them into the room.

They eyed many of the younger children, so impressionable, so easy to take.

"The highest age we take is nine." Lloyd ordered, thinking ahead.

"Yes sir." the others answered quietly, looking towards the boys.

Lloyd looked around himself and took interest in a group of children gathered around a gaming machine.

"YES! CHAMPION AGAIN!" he heard a feminine voice yell. The crowd almost dispersed as a girl wearing a baseball cap became visible. "Who dares challenge my video game skills!?" She let out a cute laugh. Her Blue eyes were hidden behind messy dirty blonde bangs pulled behind her head in a messy ponytail that went behind her baseball cap.

"You may be the master of video games, but how about ping pong!?"

"You're on!" she challenged, jumping down from the chair of the arcade game. Lloyd smiled a little bit, he wanted to see this.

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><p>"They are hitting Town Hall? You sure?" Nicole asked as Dareth led them to the site while Ginny trailed behind.<p>

"Positive."

"Well so we just wait?" Kaylee asked, getting as comfortable as she could in a bush.

"Yup! Exactly!" See you guys soon!" Dareth ran back home… however Ginny stayed still.

"Go home Ginny, we are actually trying to complete a mission!" Kaylee barked at her.

"What Kaylee means is that we are a four person team and have a lot of experience, so please go home where it is safe!"

"Fine." she sighed, walking home… slowly.

"What's that?" Jackie asked, listening as Ginny jumped into the bushes.

"Come on! This will get them off track!"

"Oh my gosh! IT'S THE BAD GUYS!" Ginny yelled, standing up and pointing at them, screaming at the top of her lungs.

The group turned towards the girls as a guy yelled,"NINJA!" they all began to circle around the bushes as the girls gave Ginny a glare.

"NINJA-GO!" Nicole screamed as she spun into her tornado and attempted to clear them a pathway out.

They made it out of the circle, but still had to fight their way out of there! They spun around aimlessly, not really having a plan...after a few minutes they had destroyed much of the Town Hall as the gang made up of six people laughed and attempted to run.

"I have got them!" Ginny ran after them only to be pushed into a puddle of mud! "EEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW! DIRT!" she whined.

They got away, leaving the ninja at the crime scene… just in time for the cops to get there.

"Uh oh." Jackie sighed as the lights of the police cars shone on them.

"Ninja!?" the officer called out.

"This was not us! PROMISE!" Nicole yelled out of anxiety.

"Take the sparkly girl covered in mud! She did it!" Jackie pushed her forwards.

They were all forced into the cop car and taken back to the dojo where Dareth waited for them… this was going to be fun to explain.

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><p>The escaped prisoner gasped at the sight before him, a small dragon, near death was laying there… covered in cuts and bruises. he would not have survived if it wasn't for his thick layer of scales covering his body. The man put his hand on the beast's muzzle and rubbed it in a caring manner. "I can help you get healthy once again my friend." he patted the monster's snout.<p>

The beast grunted in response as the man offered another chuckle.

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><p>The girls frowned as they helped clean the town hall. "I cannot believe we were blamed!" Kaylee groaned.<p>

"Well Jackie did try to put the blame on someone else…" Zoey trailed off, calling Winter to her so she could replace another one of her trash bags.

"Girls we do not blame you." an official reassured them,"We just needed some extra help and you know what happened, and you were the only ones at the crime scene too…"

"We get, it looks like we were responsible." Kaylee scoffed.

After thirty more minutes they had cleaned up a lot…but the leader of the building security noticed something missing…

"Oh no! The remote is missing!"

"Remote?" Nicole stepped forwards.

"Well there was a remote here that controls the city's new test models of fighter jets!"

They all swallowed, looking towards the empty safe. "Well, our city is doomed!" the officer sighed.

"No it's not, they have not attacked yet, we can get back to our base at Sensei Dareth's Mojo Dojo and gather our materials before following them on our dragons." Zoey informed the officers.

"Thank you ma'am, good luck Ninja!" the officers waved goodbye as they sent them off.

They all raced back to the dojo and began to gather materials they needed. They soon were almost packed when,"What are you doing?" the girls goaned and turned around to see Ginny excited and ready to fight.

"We are going out to fight." Zoey sighed.

"OH! CAN I-"

"NO!" Nicole at that point had enough of this girl's crap! She was going to stay out this time, for sure,"You Screwed us up last time! No way!"

"It was an accid-"

"NO! No, means no… if you are gonna be remotely close to being on the team, you have to be able to take hits, control your outbursts, and most of all listen to orders, which you obviously are unable to do!" Nicole took a deep breath, slinging her bag over her shoulder before running out to the dragons.

The team followed her out and boarded their dragons as well right behind her. "Th-that was not all that nice Nicole…" Zoey quietly exclaimed from Shard's back.

"Whatever, she needed to hear it!" Nicole spit towards the ground before taking off into the sky,"I will patrol this area of the city! You guys stay on the lookout in the other areas that you can disperse between yourselves! Winter will be monitoring us all and giving us information! Good luck!"

The other girls sighed as they discussed which areas of the city to take.

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><p>Lloyd smirked as the girl won every game, she loved to win… he approached her.<p>

"Hello young lady."

"Sup', ya here to adopt someone? There is a nice collection of loser kids over there!" the eight year old smirked as a chuckle escaped her mouth.

"Yes, I am here to adopt, do you not want to be adopted?" he pushed his sunglasses up, hiding his red eyes.

"Well I am am fine here, I am happy here, I have all I want and need here."

"Listen kid, we have an army… we want you!" the girl raised an eyebrow as he spoke,"You can change the way this world works once this world works once we take over, as long as you are loyal…"

She froze and blinked a couple times, most likely in thought…

"Join us."

She sighed and took his hand right as the other men had gathered some children of their own… the girl picked up a fedora on her way out.

"Why are you bringing that fedora?" the general questioned.

"I have always wanted to go on an adventure, this is my adventuring hat!"

"Okay then!" Lloyd genuinely smiled a little at her antics, she reminded him of himself at her age...

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><p>"I am not going to give you a name for I assume you already have one… I will call you friend for now." the man chuckled as he built a fire and cooled the beast down with an herbal mix of water and leaves from a few plants. He poured some more of the mix from a small weaved basket into a bowl made out of a hole in the ground. the dragon was conscious now and awake enough to drink, she had been for a few days. She was surprisingly trusting…<p>

"Come on girl, let's try to get you in the sky!" the dragon yawned and stood up slowly, letting me climb on… she flapped her tiny wings as hard as she could before flopping onto the ground.

He chuckled,"Looks like you are not quite ready yet, but do not worry, once you are ready you will take to the skies. I promise."

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><p>The eagle flew to each of the girls after an alerting message from Nicole,"GUYS! I FOUND THEM!"<p>

"Okay! I am on my way!" Zoey replied to the eagle as she flew away towards the center of town… just when another girl caught sight of where Shard was heading.

"Okay! Everyone here?" Nicole said loudly, counting the dragons as they hovered above the clouds. They all looked down to see the smoke of an engine that belonged to a jet below.

"PEOPLE OF NINJAGO CITY! THE HORRIBLE CLUELESS GOVERNMENT OF THIS PLACE HAS CONTROLLED US FOR TOO LONG! JOIN US! We will succeed!"

"Not if we stop you!" Kaylee yelled as the four girls jumped into view.

"Get them! We will take control of the city!"

The gang began to surround them as the four ninja glanced at each other before yelling,"NINJAGO!" they spun their way out of the situation once again before running away towards where the dragons landed for them.

Three out of four jumped on, but Zoey fell of of Shard as she slipped on the smooth scales of the dragon. She then climbed back on then signaled him to fly upwards once again.

After a couple minutes of slower flying since Shard was still learning, a voice distracted her flying.

"So what's the game plan!?"

Zoey yelped and spun around,"Ginny!? What are you doing here!?"

"I am here to help you!"

"Are you crazy!?" the sudden outburst startled the dragon and caused him to lose his track of flight, causing him to plummet towards the ground.

They also happened to land right in the middle of the gang.

"Hi?" Zoey nervously waved as Ginny blushed and waved out of embarrassment. Zoey attempted to spin them out of there, only to get grabbed and restrained by the men of the group. "HEY!" Ginny stood up, full of courage, remembering the tales of the brown ninja that her father told her before bed every night…"Let her go, or face the wrath of, THE BROWN NINJA!" she shouted as loudly as possible… only to have laughter thrown back at her. She took a deep breath,"Hi-yah!" She kicked a tree… the wrong way, she held her foot which was basically now a home of five jammed toes.

One of the gang members pushed her back, she laughed as Ginny fell backwards into the mud.

Ginny looked towards her ruined nail polish and her messy hair that she had spent two hours on this morning…

"HEY! You can mess with my friends, everyone in Ninjago, even my family, but nobody, I mean nobody! Is allowed to mess with my hair! I CHIPPED A NAIL!"

She punched the girl in the face, then proceeded to send her own personal message to each and every single other gang member. Among them happened to be the men restraining Zoey. This gave Zoey room to keep them enveloped in her spinjitzu long enough for the officials to get there.

"Great job on getting stuff done Zoey!" Kaylee hugged her sister.

"It wasn't me, I would not have gotten out if it were not for Ginny!"

Nicole faced the girl,"Listen, I want to apologize for what i said earlier, it is just that you get distracted by things that don't really distract our team! It can just get really stressful for a leader of a team!"

"I understand, I am not exactly ninja material unless I get angry!" Ginny admitted with a shrug and a giggle.

"Well we want you to stay here and always be prepared to be angry! We need you to keep this city safe while we are elsewhere!" Jackie winked and joined the group hug it was becoming.

"OH NO! The leader is getting away!" Kaylee yelled, pointing towards the leader of the group, sprinting away.

"He is getting too far away!" Jackie boarded Wisp.

They were about to take off again when another familiar beast landed on top of the criminal. The girls gasped as Jackie let out a faint whisper…

"Greeny?"

"HEY!" Nicole ran up to the man with his face hidden under a mask,"You stole our dragon!"

"No. You misunderstand." the man took off his mask.

The girls gasped in shock… "B-but how did you know we needed assistance!?"

"I just happened to be close to the city when your eagle pal flew overhead…"

"But why would Winter come to you?" Zoey asked.

"He is programmed to come to the closest Garmadon family member when trouble arises." he smiled and chuckled.

"Sensei Garmadon…" Jackie exhaled as they looked upon the escaped prisoner, the assumed 'mad man' he was here… they had a sensei to guide them… as well as a dragon back to cherish.

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	15. Settling In

**HEY GUYS! OMG I AM SO SORRY IT HAS BEEN SO LONG! However I now have chapters piled up and inspiration! From now on it will update every tuesday starting next week!**

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><p>"Welcome to your new home!" the general opened the doorway to reveal a small, colorless room with a bed, bathroom, and mirror.<p>

"Thanks." the girl with blonde hair sighed. Stretching, she dropped her bag on the ground and flopped on her bed because of the long journey they had taken.

She sighed, hogging the pillow and immediately falling asleep. Lloyd chuckled at the sight of the girl drifting off into her dreams.

She acted as he did when they first took him away from Pythor. All he needed was a warm bed to bring up his spirits!

He grinned at the sleeping girl before closing the door and heading to his quarters with an emotionless look on his face once again...

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><p>"How did you escape!?"<p>

"Why did you act crazy!?"

"How did you even play dumb for that long!? It is fascinating!"

"Can I have another popsicle!?"

The older man laughed as the girls surrounded him with questions as they ate their treats on the curb as a reward for their successful mission.

"It all happened when you girls freed most of the guards! The walk out was amazing! I finally had a chance and I took it. All that time, to not arouse suspicion I was getting stronger and exercising, the food may not have helped but I was able to pass of as a chubby cray old man with the help of many dining napkins gathered over time stuffed up my shirt." he chuckled.

"That is so smart!" Jackie yelled,"So you were making those weird noises on purpose so we could escape the dungeon! You are amazing!"

"Thank you Jacklyn!" he patted her head a little as he chuckled. "But I do regret worrying Misako so much… she cried the entire time… I am not sure if she would ever forgive me. I just could not let anyone know or else the act could have been spoiled."

"Hey you took one for the team, no biggie." Kaylee leaned back on the bench they were sharing, relaxing a little. "I have recently learned to let loose and worry a little less! Focus on the task at hand, then you can handle the next problem when it happens! Go with the flow."

"Okay, I will take your advice young firestarter." he chuckled. "Come on! We should get going. I know of a great place for us all to stay."

"YES! THE CAMPING TRIP IS OVER!" NIcole sighed in relief,"Let's gather our things!" they all headed back to Darreth's dojo where they packed up their things on the elemental dragons.

"Here you go Rocky! Just one more bag!" Nicole packed her things as the dragon grunted in response.

"You want the fireroot!? I know ya do! Catch Flame!" Kaylee threw the plant in the air as the dragon lunged for it, trapping it in it's jaws before happily munching on the root.

"Shard!" happy giggling was heard as Zoey was gently thrown in the air and caught by her dragon's tail.

"Put me down!" she laughed as the dragon gave off a pleasant grunt before setting her down gently.

"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Jackie came zooming into the scene on Wisp going at her full speed.

As they landed, Jackie slid off and began to pack up her things."Great flying Wisp!"

Garmadon chuckled,"Strange how you named them the same as your father's named their dragons."

"Really!? Cool!" Kaylee laughed,"What a coincidence." they all climbed onto their dragons, Garmadon on Wisp's back, she being the biggest dragon.

"So where do we go!?" Kaylee called from Flame.

"I recall that you girls had a monastery." Garmadon smiled.

"Yea but, we cannot go back, it is trashed beyond repair and it would be easy to find us." Zoey sighed.

"That is why it is the perfect hideout!" Garmadon replied as the dragon flew ahead towards the direction of the monastery.

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><p>The Generals with their new renewed venom injections finally had gotten over their temporary illness and had begun to watch the new recruits train.<p>

They saw the young boys challenging each other over who could do better on the equipment. Kai and Zane laughed at the young boys who were arm wrestling when it wasn't their turn.

"Alright! Lunch time!" all of the boys followed them to the dining hall,"No, not you." the young girl was tripped down by Cole.

"You have not yet trained on the course, you don't train, you don't eat!"

"Uhh, okay." she moved some stray strands of dirty blonde hair from her face as she climbed onto the first course, beginning to maneuver her way through,only to see an axe fly her way! Her mind did the natural thing and her fight or flee instinct kicked in. However it took too long to decide, so she simply winced and took the weapon to the face. She was flung off of the obstacle, her fedora flying away in the process of her falling.

"You cannot prevail on the battlefield if all you are able to do is jump on to of a couple wooden platforms! Go through it once more! This time, do not hold back." Cole instructed.

The girl went through it multiple times, her stomach being her guide. However her stomach was guiding her a little too much. It grumbled loudly as hunger pains shot through her stomach, causing her to grab it and try to console it… which led to her being hit off multiple times.

"THAT IS IT! YOU HAVE BEEN HERE ALL DAY!" Cole squinted his eyes at her. The girl curled up a little bit. "I cannot put you under any of the generals because the way you train is so unbearable that none of us could handle you!" he kneeled down to eye level with her, she found red eyes glaring into her soul. "You are not cut out for this, you cannot be in the army."

"Y-you are sending me back to the orphanage!?" she stammered.

"No, you know too much." he looked down at her,"Because none of us four generals can train you, and you know all of our secrets. I think that you belong in the dungeon where hopeless cases belong."

"Wha- D-dungeon!?" she backed up into another figure… glowing red eyes stared her down before glancing up at Cole.

"I will take her."

"But general Lloyd, you do not have any recruits training under you, you have no experience. You could not possibly train his hopeless ca-"

"She shall train under me! My own private student, an apprentice more like."

"But-"

Lloyd gave him a dismissive glare.

"Yes General Lloyd." Cole sighed before walking away, glancing back at the obviously disturbed girl.

"Are you okay?" he asked, putting his hands on her shoulders.

"Mmhmm." she sniffed.

"Are you hungry, have you eaten?"

She stuttered,"I'm not that hungry-r-really, I am fin-" she was cut off by a loud growl of anger from her stomach.

"That is why I didn't see you at lunch." he helped her up as she sniffled a little.

"I did not think everything would be like this, it is all so new and different. I just wish it was actually as sugarcoated as you made it seem." she let out a sad chuckle as she felt her hat being placed back on her head. She looked up at Lloyd who had placed it there. "You heard that other general, I'm a hopeless case."

Lloyd kneeled down to eye level with her,"You are not a hopeless case, you just need some special training, apart from the others. You are the only girl here and it may get lonely sometimes, but remember that i am here for you, as your teacher and mentor to guide you."

"Thanks general." the eight year old wiped her eyes of tears before walking to the dining hall, she was starving!

"You know, I never did catch your name..." Lloyd looked down at her.

"Courtney, it's Courtney."

"Well it is nice to meet you, Courtney."

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><p>"Wow… this place is, trashed…" NIcole sighed at the sight of the torn apart monastery.<p>

"There is nothing we can't fix!" Garmadon encouraged her as they all got to work. "Zoey, you handle the extra pieces of wood lying around, Jackie, go get the small fortune located in the main room behind the gong, you need to buy some building supplies! Kaylee… you start moving furniture and suck back where it belongs! Lastly, Nicole can keep track of everything. We can do it!"

"NINJAGO!" they all cheered.

Zoey began separating the the trash into piles, she dumped all of the smaller pieces into trash bags and moving the bigger pieces aside into a larger pile.

Jackie ran through the nearby building supplies store. She held her bag of golden coins close as she looked around for anything she might need to get building.

She grabbed several hammers, and other tools before hauling them behind her on a pile of wood strapped together tightly,

Kaylee pushed the couches back into the order she last remembered they were in. However she added a bit of her own touch. Jackie got back with the paint and Kaylee got right to work painting the main room a faded red.

As Nicole walked around, she smiled as everything began to come together… there was just one detail left.

"Great job guys, but there is one small detail that needs to get done." Nicole smiled.

"What!?"

"Oh, I don't know, how about the giant hole in the wall!?"

"Oh… right." Kaylee awkwardly laughed. As they all approached the wall they looked at what they had to work with.

"JACKIE!? This is not enough wood to fix this gaping hole!" Nicole yelled.

"Sorry! I got the last stack of wood that they had!"

"Well how are we gonna fix it!?"

"I may have an idea." Sensei Garmadon stepped in. "Your father's used to be able to do an art, known as the tornado of creation. It could create something out of nothing."

"HOW DO YOU DO IT!?" Jackie grinned widely, approaching the man.

"You must all perfor spinjitzu at the same rate of speed, velocity, and at the same time, before merging into a giant tornado. But be careful, if done incorrectly, it can lead to disastrous consequences."

"Gotcha!" Kaylee cracked her knuckles,"Let's do this girls! FIRE!"

"EARTH!"

"ICE!"

"LIGHTNING!" they each spun into their elemental tornados. Before combining into a giant mass. As the tornado dispersed, what was left wasn't what they expected.

The hole was even bigger than before they did the tornado! "UGH! What went wrong!?" Kaylee looked around.

"I think this went wrong." Zoey picked up what looked like a wooden pineapple.

"HOW DID THAT EVEN HAPPEN!?" Kaylee barked.

"Do not ask me." Zoey plainly stated,"It just happened by itself because of our actions in the tornado of creation."

"Hmph… a least it's not a disastrous consequence." Nicole shrugged and tossed the pineapple to the side.

"Looks like we will need professional help!" Jackie jumped up. "Luckil I know some of the best inventors around!"

"Actually I know someone who I am positive is the best…" Zoey quietly added.

"What? No! It cannot possibly be! I know the best!"

"I know the best!"

"OKAY THEN! How about you go get your person, and I will get my people!?" Jackie suggested.

"DEAL!"

"DEAL!" Jackie grabbed Kaylee and dragged her away as Zoey walked off with Nicole.

"We'll come back eventually sensei!" they called out as Garmadon took a closer look at the hole.

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><p>Courtney grinned as she finished her meal. "This food is certainly worth the wait!" she chuckled.<p>

The dining hall had cleared out hours before they showed up.

After she had finished eating Lloyd took her into another room. "I am going to show you what you will learn with me." they were in his office. "You will start slow, small things like punching bags, you cannot just simply throw yourself at the course with all you have got! You have to ease into it." he opened another door that led to a private training area.

"Here is where you will train." the area was huge and vast with plenty of room.

"Your training begins tomorrow. You should get some rest." general Lloyd walked out of the training area as Courtney headed to her room.

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><p><strong>HERE YA GO!<strong>

**Hehe it was such a struggle to name her! YOU HAVE NO IDEA!  
>I hope you enjoyed!<strong>

**more to come…**

**-AwesomeAuthor13**


	16. Family is a Crutch

**Tuesday already!? Welp, here ya go! TIme for some stories from the past and foreshadowing for the future!**

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><p>"Okay so we just take a right here and- welcome to my Grandparent's house!" Jackie yelled, dragging Kaylee along the sidewalk.<p>

"They live in a- trailer?"

"Hey! The term is mobile home!" she ran up to the house and knocked on the door three time before hearing a gasp and footsteps.

The door swung open as a woman with gray hair grinned widely,"JACKIE HONEY! My favorite granddaughter!" she hugged the auburn-brown haired girl tightly.

"Mema! I am your only granddaughter!" she giggled, returning the hug.

"And that makes you my favorite by default! OH! You brought one of your little friends… you are here, alone." she looked around. "Where are your parents may I ask?"

"Yea… about that." Kaylee rubbed the back of her neck.

"It would be better to discuss inside." Jackie cut in.

"Of course! Edna opened up the door,"I just made a fresh batch of cookies anyways!"

"Thank you." the girls said together as they took a seat on her couch.

"So tell me where my son and daughter in law is?"

"Well Mema-" Jackie continued to tell her the story, her grandfather had come in as well to listen in as well.

"-and so now we basically need some help repairing the hole in the monastery." Jackie finished.

"Oh! I am so proud of you for being that brave Jackie! You as well Kaylee." she gave them both a hug.

"I guess that explains your ninja getup." Ed chuckled.

"Papa! Do you think you can help fix it?"

"There is nothing I can't fix!" he grabbed the hammer from his toolbelt and swung it around in his hands.

"YES! Thanks so much!" they all shared a big hug as Kaylee awkwardly sat by, eating a few cookies…

"Okay, our other teammates Zoey and Nicole are getting some help that they think could be helpful too. But I seriously doubt anybody could be better than you!"

"I doubt it too!" Ed chuckled as he, Edna, and the girls headed out to their car where they set course for the monastery.

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><p>"Why does he live here!? I am freezing my butt off!" Nicole complained, shivering as she hugged herself.<p>

"He got tired of society and went off to live on his own in the woods a while ago." Zoey explained,"I can see why."

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN SEE WHY!?"

"We're here!"

"That's a tree." Nicole rolled her eyes as mechanical footsteps were heard behind her. She screamed at the sight before her,"ZOEY!"

A robot made of bronze and copper with a green and red eye was staring them down. To Nicole's surprise, Zoey walked right up to it and looked at it directly in the face.

"Facial recognition match… Welcome Zoey Julien and friend." the robotic voice told them.

Then the door to the treehouse swung open to reveal a white-haired man in a labcoat. "Zoey! Darling!"

"Grandfather!" her face lit up as she hugged him closely.

"Is that a ninja gi I see? Speaking of that, where is your father?"

"Oh, uh that- well I guess that is a reason we are here, kinda."

"I understand, come on inside there we can discuss."

After they got inside, Nicole was relieved to find that it was warmer inside of the hollowed out tree than it was on the outside.

"Before we talk, I must check up on your systems." the inventor leaned down to her eyes level as he opened up her chest panel, revealing her switches and wires… he then opened that are up further to reveal a glowing heart piece in her core. "Everything looks to be in order!" he glanced at her heart piece. "I see the piece of your father's heart is still glowing strong!"

"Yes, it indeed has grown stronger since the incident a few years back…"

Nicole cleared her throat,"If you don't mind me asking, what exactly happened a few years back."

"Oh… that." Zoey sighed,"You see, it all started back when I was very young, still in school in fact…"

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><p><em>Zoey looked around the small school playground. She sat down on a bench, alone as usual. She took out her mucus-salt sandwich and took a bite… maybe she would make a friend today… it was her third day of first grade, she had to be more outgoing… but she wasn't much for conversation. The other day she had screwed up while talking to some kids whom she angered by accident. She was planning on avoiding them today, just to be safe.<em>

_Recess was her only time she would really get to run around and talk to others. Not wanting to waste the opportunity, she set down her sandwich and began to look around until a voice interrupted her scanners searching for a compatible person to join with in friendship._

"_Hi! She grinned,"My name is Gwen!"_

"_Oh, good afternoon, I am Zoey." she smiled._

"_Do you wanna play with my friends and I? You look so lonely over here by yourself."_

"_Of course!" she yelled with happiness, sliding off of the bench and running off to meet the other kids. By the time recess was halfway over, she had made at least five new friends!_

_They were hanging out in the back corner of the playground near the edge of the school building. They were all laughing and talking until all of a sudden someone grabbed Zoey's shirt and spun her around._

"_HEY UGLY FACE!" the boy shouted into her face._

"_Hey! Leave her be!" Jackson, a friend she had made tried to pull her away._

"_Don't defend her! She's weird!" Angelise, another girl on the opposing side argued._

"_YEAH! WEIRD GIRLS DON'T BELONG!" the boy then shoved her down… right into the schools power box._

_Zoey found herself being electrocuted, the kids gasped at the girl being fried. Then… her worst nightmare happened! Her chest panel came loose… her inner panel falling out, revealing her heart which was glowing and fading at a rapid pace._

_The kid's gasped as the power finally went out… making the electricity stop coursing through her body._

"_OH MY GOSH! IT IS SO CREEPY!"_

"_I CANNOT BELIEVE I WANTED TO BE FRIENDS WITH THAT THING!"_

"_SEE! I TOLD YOU IT WAS WEIRD! IT SIMPLY DOESN'T BELONG!"_

_Weak tears leaked out of her eyes, her insides were out of her panel, these kids were making fun of her and she felt life coming to an end quickly…_

_A few teachers came to investigate and gasped at the sight of the girl, the had no idea what to make of it. The first thing they did was call Zane who immediately rushed over there in return. As soon as he got there, he scooped up the fallen out inner door of her chest panel that contained her switched before picking up his daughter himself._

_He rushed back to his car when he noticed that her heart was not beating… just faintly glowing._

"_ZOEY!" he cried out, holding her face as he quickly closed the car door and sped to the birchwood forest which was not far._

_He forced his car to a screeching halt before leaping towards the door of the birch tree. Dr. Julien opened it to see his son in tears on the verge of a nervous breakdown with his daughter limp in his arms. Gasping, the inventor pulled Zane in by his wrist and they flew down the stairs. Setting Zoey down on a work table, the inventor pulle dout his tools and examined her heart, before looking down in sadness._

"_Her heart has been fried."_

"_Wh-what?"_

" _I am afraid she may be gone soon."_

_Zane was dead silent for many minutes… until he mumbled something barely audible._

"_What was that?"_

"_I said, NO!" he stood up, rustling through drawers and cabinets, looking for something, anything that would do! Then he grabbed a jumper cable, forced his chest panel open and threw out his own inner panel on switches to connect the cable the his heart._

"_Z-Zane!? What are you-" Dr. Julien was cut off by a bright light engulfing the room and zaps of electricity being heard. Zane was forcing his own life into her heart… then it all fuzzed out. the sounds of electricity stopped and the light dimmed. Revealing a weak Zane taking off the jumper cable and slowly reapplying his inner chest panel. He stood up, closing his door as he took the jumper cable off of her heart… it wasn't dim. It was not even glowing. Zane slowly slid down against the thick wall of the tree. He quickly found himself in a fetal position on the floor, crying in despair. It was dead silent in there except for the sound of a few sparks and a few 'whomp' noises. Zane felt two small arms wrap around him._

"_Father, why are you crying?"_

_He then gasped, wrapping his own arms around her as they shared the embrace._

_the hug faltered little by little until Zoey was able to move her body a little. Leaning back, she gazed up at him with big, crystal blue eyes._

"_D-do I have to go back to school?"_

"_No, never again." he held her close._

"_I can never go back… they called me a thing… they used 'it' to describe me… I wish I wasn't around… I wish you never made me in the first place…" Zoey whimpered as she buried her face into his chest._

"_No- please don't say or think that." he looked her in the eyes. "I need you more than anything in the world my Zoey. Please remember that." he kissed her head as he rocked her back and forth in his arms._

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><p>"I- I miss him a lot." Zoey hiccupped.<p>

"Could you please tell me what happened so I can understand how I can help?" the inventor asked.

"Oh- of course." they went on to tell him the story of how they got to where they were now and all of the craziness that went with it. "Will you help us fix our home?" Nicole asked.

"Of course! Let's head there right away!"

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><p>Heavy, shaky breaths came from the girl attempting to dodge the constant weapons being thrown at her.<p>

"Come on Courtney! Do not let your fear control you! Show that sword who's boss!"

She quickly ducked in time for the sword to pass over her… continuing to slide across the wall she had found herself on before finishing.

"That is the first time you have ever completed the course Courtney, great job." Lloyd scribbled something down in his notebook before closing it, you have some free time, go get to know some of the other soldiers, I have a meeting to attend to."

"Okay general!" the girl grinned as she walked towards the lounge area for the soldiers.

She walked into the doorway as several guys whispered around her… she awkwardly sat on a chair next to the fireplace.

"Hey you…"

"Uh-yeah?"

"Is it true you are a soldier? I do not see you at training." the boy plainly asked.

"Yes, I am a private trainee, and apprentice of general Lloyd."

"General Lloyd?" there were murmurs of confusion throughout the room.

"I did not know he could train soldiers."

"She is the only girl."

"I bet she is just an accountant or something."

"N-no, I am just training under him, a private student, that is all."

"I dunno about her." Seth whispered to a friend of his, Patrick.

"What is wrong with her?"

"There is something suspicious going on…" he frowned,"Are there no other female guards or guards in training?" Seth questioned.  
>"No, but that was kinda your fau-" Patrick was cut off.<p>

"EXACTLY!" Seth frowned,"She has got to be hiding something.. why else would she be trained privately?"

"Maybe she just has a different way of learning… she needs special training."

"NO! Then we would have tossed her to the side, kicked her out." Seth looked over to the girl picking up a book. After many moments of staring at the eight year old, Seth smirked. "Let's spy on her." he turned to Patrick.

"WHAT!? NO WAY! There is no telling what master Shadow would do if he found out!" Patrick screamed.

"Hey! We could be uncovering a conspiracy!"

Patrick looked at his feet,"I dunno Seth…"

"ARE YOU IN OR NOT!?" the other boy clenched his teeth.

"Fine." Patrick shook his hand.

They both stood up and began to walk out of the room,"Hey," Seth stopped in his tracks,"What was your name again?"

"Courtney." she glanced up from her book.

"Okay, see you soon… Courtney." Seth chuckled, slipping out the door behind Patrick.

"Goodbye?" she looked at the door as it swung closed. "Way to be cryptic." she muttered under her breath, flipping another page in her book.

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><p>"Oh… that is a big fix." Ed looked at the gigantic hole…<p>

"How did one person make that!?"

"Well ya see, at first it was the size of a person… but then we kinda attempted to do this really hard move, the tornado of creation… and we accidentally made a wooden pineapple.:

"How did you manage to- I am not even going to ask." Dr. Julien sighed at Nicole's response.

"I can fix it!" Ed and the inventor said together.

"I mean, I can fix it." they once again said at the same time… looking at each other.

"I will fix this wall." Ed chuckled.

"I think my granddaughter came to get me."

"SAME HERE!"

"How about you both try and fix the wall?" Kaylee stuck her head out into the argument.

"Fine." they both grumbled, crossing their arms and turning away from each other.

They continued to argue over building techniques and style… they were not helping the situation at all…

"WE COULD NOT FIX THE HOLE ANYWAYS! WE NEED MORE TO WORK WITH!" Dr, Julien sighed.

"But we are out of money." Jackie reasoned.

"OH! The blade cup is coming up!" Nicole grinned.

"The Blade What!?" the girls all looked at her in curiosity.

"THE BLADE CUP! It is this huge competition in the town where my Grandpop lives! You win a lot of money and the blade cup if you are good enough! Looks like it is time to grab my Grandparent!" Nicole giggled,"Let's get moving girls! We will be back soon!"

"Time for another adventure." Kaylee rolled her eyes as they set out.

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><p><strong>TIME FOR AN ADVENTURE!<br>Or a Journey…**

"**Don't do it AwesomeAuthor!"**

**A JOURNEY OFF THE MAP!**

**Sorry I have VBS still stuck in my head from the beginning of summer…**

**I hope you enjoyed!**

**more to come…**

**-AwesomeAuthor13**


	17. Musical Journey

**HEY GUYS! OMG this chapter could have been so many things, at fiorst I was like,"Blade cup!" but then i was like,"WAIT! SIRENS!" but then I had a few more dumb ideas I shall not speak of... and now I give you this with some unexpected character development.**

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><p>"Once more Courtney!" Lloyd yelled as the girl was pale, dizzy and looked close to collapsing.<p>

"Yes general." she exhaled tiredly.

"Do you see them?"

Yea, but nothing is wrong, she is just training." Patrick rolled his eyes.

"NO! SOMETHING IS UP!"

"Did you hear something?" Lloyd turned around as Patrick and Seth slid down…

"Okay, it is lunch break, I say we get outta here and discuss it over a frappe or something okay?"

"Fine…" they both slipped out of their hiding place and jumped through the window to Lloyd's office before heading out the door.

"Let's go check in with general Cole before we leave!" The both rushed into the office of the general they trained under. Seth used to serve under Zane, but there were issues and he was put under Cole. However this was the way he met Patrick. Giving a respectful bow, they told the general their plans.

"We are going out for lunch sir."

"Okay boys, be back in time for your next training hours. But first remember to change out of your army uniforms, we do not want to cause trouble with the pesky brats."

"Yes sir." they answered together.

"One more time!"

"General, you said that twelve times ago." Courtney's stomach grumbled.

"Fine, go get some lunch, come on. It is lunch time anyways."

They both walked down to the lunch hall. She looked around, this was her first lunch with everyone else.

"You have to sit with people training under the same general… sorry Courtney, I may not have thought this one through."

"It's okay, I can sit alone…"

Lloyd frowned and looked around to see two boys leaving.

"Hey you two!"

They stopped, frozen.

"Y-yes general Lloyd?" Patrick swallowed, did he know?

"Where are you going?"

"Out to eat sir." Seth answered.

"Great, she is going with you!" he pushed Courtney forwards.

"General, we can only eat with people in our clusters."

"Not anymore, different circumstances, different rules."

"Fine, yes general." Seth sighed. They all changed out of their attire and walked out of the fortress.

"Great, now how are we gonna discuss our plans!?" Seth hissed.

"Don't worry we can discuss during break."

"Whatever."

"Hey, so how old are you?"

"We are thirteen."

"Oh. I am eight… well it is nice to see you again!"

"A-again!?"

"Yea, we spoke yesterday."

"Oh," Seth let out a nervous laugh,"Right."

"So where are we going?"

"To a diner a few miles away."

"Alright then… race ya there!" she giggled as she ran up ahead.

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><p>"HERE WE ARE!" Nicole laughed with excitement. They approached the door… Kaylee reached her hand up to knock when Nicole smacked it down. "No, use the doorbell." she rang the bell which then sounded off a choir which sang 'Welcome' in a quartet's group.<p>

"Is that who I think it is?" a voice rang from behind the door.

"Hey Grandpop!"

He opened the door,"NICOLE! Where is my son?"

"He is… outta town… so I came here with my friends! As you can probably see, my friends and I are wearing ninja gis!"

"Oh yes! I see."

"Well we are low in funds and need you help to win some money… I heard the blade cup is this time of year!"

"Actually no… sadly the contest has been moved two months from now, but the young talents competition is coming up soon! That can get you a considerable amount of money too!"

"Really? COOL!" she laughed a little,"I guess it is time to get going on an act! When is it!?"

"Later today!"  
>"WHAT!?"<p>

"Yup! You have better get your performance ready."

"Alright." Nicole grinned,"We will be back soon," her stomach made a loud noise,"We have gotta get lunch."

"Hurry back!" he waved them off as they spun into casual clothing.

"Where are we going?"

"I know a diner down the street!" Nicole had a small grin on her face,"My dad used to take me there a lot… they make really good frappes!"

"OH! Do they have extreme chocolate!?" Jackie grinned widely.

"I would not have recommended it otherwise!" Nicole laughed as they made their way down the street.

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><p>"No way man, she is way too… innocent to be in an evil scheme! She would be more serious."<br>"That is what she wants you to think." Seth replied, they both turned to the girl slurping down her frappe.

"Look, nothing is off about her."

Seth scoffed and turned away, drinking his cool beverage. Then a loud screech came from across the room.

"JACKIE! I TOLD YOU NOT TO DRINK IT SO FAST!" Nicole facepalmed at the sight of Jackie lying on the ground with a horrible brainfreeze.

Kaylee and Zoey giggled and laughed at their friend… trying to get rid of the ice cream headache.

"WOAH! You see them?"

"What?" Courtney asked, confused.

"Those girls over there! The ninja!"

"Ninja?"

"OUR ENEMY! THEY ARE WHO WE TRAIN TO FIGHT AGAINST!"

"Oh… we have to listen in… Courtney, they don't know you! Go over there and sit next to the girls, tell them you are waiting for you mom!"

"Okay." she slowly walked over to them and listened in… sitting in the only seat left next to them at the bar.

"Uh kid? THis is kinda private." Kaylee frowned.

"Sorry! I am just waiting for my mom here!"

"Alright then." Zoey brushed it off.

"So we have to win that money in order to finish our project! How do you propose we win the talent show?" Zoey asked.

"We could show off my gymnastic skills!" Jackie grinned.

"NO! We need something more musical!"

"How about a little song from a band!?" Kaylee grinned.

"No… hey! I know! I will play a song I created with my dubstep system!"

"But where will we come in-" Jackie was cut off.

"You can… uh-set up my equipment! Yea!"

"But Nicole, we would be better off doing something that is fair for ever-"

"Pssh! Fair!? I am plenty fair! Come on! We have got this act in the bag! Look, let's go get equipment, then we can go to the competition later today at the stage in the park!"

Courtney gasped and rushed over to the boys, telling them everything she heard, and not sparing a detail.

"Okay, we need to beat them! We will most likely attract attention if we bring the whole army back here, we have to do this ourselves." Patrick sighed.

"Looks like we need to get a talent." Seth groaned.

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><p>"OKAY! We have everything we need." Nicole grinned as she pushed her system forwards.<p>

"What is the act?" Kaylee asked.

"The act is I play my original song!"

"Then what?"

"I win!"

"What do we do?"

"You are my groupies! You cheer me on!"

It was dead silent. "Of course Nicole."

Meanwhile, in an alleyway a trio was trying to decide on an act.

"I say we do a classic song! It is the only thing we can do!"

"Yea but we do not have materials Patrick." Courtney replied.

Seth however was silent… too silent. He listened to the two bicker and argue for what seemed like ages until he mumbled,"I have a lenmt."

"What was that?"

"I have a talent." he spoke louder this time.

"COOL! What is it?"

"Jmophmt eromingeg."

"What?"

"I said it is…-"

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><p>Finally the talent show had arrived! Nicole rolled her speakers out into the backstage area.<p>

"Okay so just do not get in my way while I play my song, okay?"

"Well we kind of-"  
>"Hey! Leader knows best!"<p>

"Yes Nicole." the other three girls grumbled in return.

"Um girls? Isn't that Seth!?" Zoey pointed to the boy.

"HEY! That is the little girl we saw earlier!" Jackie pointed out.

"Looks like the army got new recruits."

"What do we do?"

"Pretend we did not notice them, you can strike while I am performing so they cannot ruin my spotlight!"

"FIne… whatever Nicole." Kaylee barked through gritted teeth.

The rest of the girls Stomped backstage and Nicole put on her song for her act…

They spotted Shadow's soldiers talking in a circle. "HEY YOU!"

They all turned and gasped. "MAKE SURE SETH IS NOT INJURED!" Patrick yelled.

Kaylee smirked,"Everybody aim for Seth!"  
>"That is something I can agree with." Zoey snarled as Seth showed obvious fear on his face.<p>

"NINJAGO!" she charged with as much rage as she could conjure. She used almost all of her energy on attacking him.

He winced at the pain to come when a shriek from Zoey was heard, Courtney had shoved her icy tornado down. Zoey gasped at the girl giving her a glare.

"Leave him alone! We do not want trouble!" Courtney boldly said.

"I will handle her." Kaylee charged as Jackie stayed behind and ran off. Jackie peeked behind the curtain at Nicole's music act ending.

That was when she saw Seth walk on stage with a… jump rope…

HE suddenly started jumping and doing tricks with music in the background.

"THEIR TALENT IS JUMP ROPING!?" Jackie laughed, turning away and flipping her mask up.

The act ended after a few minutes of laughing by Jackie and Seth exited the stage.

"OKAY! Impressive! The announcer laughed. I think the trophy should got to one of two very special acts… one was amazing altogether, and one was truly unique!" Jackie watched intensely,"The winner is the shadow jumper!" she heard the soldiers of Shadow cheer as they made their way to stage.

"DON'T WORRY GIRLS! I AM COMING!" Nicole suddenly yelled,"I have got my bass cannon!"

"Nicole!" the girls yelled, happy for once.

She loaded it up with a beat before pointing it on Seth…

Then a gasp was heard and the entire stage suddenly lit up in flames everybody screamed and evacuated… except for one person.

"COURTNEY!" Seth and Patrick frantically dug through the burning wood of the stage to find her.

"Help!" a muffled voice came from nowhere. The two boys ran over and helped her up.

"Come on, let's get you back to Genernal Lloyd."

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><p>"Nobody got any prize… and we lost anyways." Nicole sighed.<p>

"Hey, just because you failed this time does not mean you will always fail!" Lou comforted her.

"Yea! Remember that we can always try again! As long as we work together it will turn out." Zoey reminded her, initiating a group hug.

"Yea, I am sorry I was such a jerk… wait as a team! That is it!" Nicole laughed as she rushed to the door.

"Where are you going?" Jackie asked.

"I have another idea on how to fix our home! Come on girls! Bye grandpop!

After several hours of running the girls were panting and out of breath…

"HEY! Did you get the wood?" Ed asked.

"Nope." Nicole smirked.

"Then what did you do?" Garmadon asked.

"I figured out why the tornado of creation did not work at first!"

"Why?" Dr. Julien questioned.

"We just need to work together."

"EARTH!" she yelled.

"FIRE!"

"ICE!"

"LIGHTNING!"

The adults all stood back and watched at they repaired the wall with the scraps of wood. As they dispersed they looked at what they had created.

"I think we can finally live here girls." Sensei Garmadon pulled them all into a group hug.

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><p>"COURTNEY!" Lloyd quickly ran up to her upon seeing her state of health.<p>

She coughed and looked up at him with blue eyes. "I am okay…" he took her back to his office where he stitched her up and placed bandages where she needed them.

"There we go…" all better. he laughed a little before he began to go for a hug but pulled back. Patrick and Set stood outside the door as Lloyd left.

"Aw man this is all our faults."  
>"Yea I was wrong she is innoce-" Set cut himself off.<p>

"OH MY GOSH!" Seth pushed his friend towards the window of the door. "LOOK!"

Courtney was making sure the coast was clear before closing her eyes and conjuring a bright zap of power in her hands before watching it flash away from existence in wonder

"I do not know but I do know that I was right!"

"But we need more proof…"

"I know that is exactly what we are going to get… I also think that is how the stage caught on fire as well…" Seth glanced back into the room where Courtney drifted off to sleep.

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><p><strong>WOW! Some unexpected character development from villains!<strong>

**-Favorite of the three soldiers of shadow's army? Why?**

**-WHAT IS UP WITH COURTNEY!? Hehe lets see who can guess, (NO ONE WILL! YOU MAY THINK YOU KNOW BUT YOU DON'T! TRUST ME!)**

**I hope you enjoyed!**

**more to come...**

**-AwesomeAuthor13**


	18. Sick Day

**HEY GUYS! Long time no see! Okay so I have a really full schedule lately so no more expecting updates, I will update whenever I write, sorry. But here is an extra long chapter for you all! ENJOY!**

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><p>Jackie opened her tired eyes as she sat up, yawning. She slid out of her top bunk and landed swiftly on the floor before suddenly holding her stomach, man did it hurt! She held herself upwards with the wall as a support as she nearly stumbled down the stairs to where the smell of Zoey's breakfast reached her nose.<p>

"Yea, we found it right before he was… taken." Nicole's voice was muffled from the distance.

"Thank you for giving me this, it makes me proud to know how great a sensei my son had become."

"Why wouldn't we Sensei Garmadon? He is your son, and it is his lesson book."

"Thank you Kaylee."

"Breakfast is ready!"

"FINALLY! I AM STARVING!" Nicole grinned.

Jackie hurried to the bottom of the stairs, despite the sudden pain in her head and the woozy feeling in her stomach.

"Jackie?" Nicole questioned.

"Were you guys gonna have breakfast without me? Why didn't you wake me up?"

"Well, I was going to, but your forehead was at an abnormal temperature." Zoey explained calmly, setting down some plates.

"What? Can someone translate?"

"You are sick so we let you stay in bed, Zoey thinks you have a bad version of the Flu, so you shouldn't eat anything or else you might throw up." Nicole took a bite out of her bacon.

Jackie frowned, maybe she was right. Zoey's usually appetizing food seemed to look sickening and just the thought of it made her want to throw up, yet she was so thirsty.

'"Can I at least have some water?"

"Here, you may be able to digest it." Zoey tossed her a water bottle which she struggled to catch. Strange, she was usually more coordinated. Jackie sat in the living room until they were done eating and they all crowded into the area, each taking a seat.

"Girls, I think I may have uncovered one of Shadow's motives." Garmadon looked at all of them.

"WHAT IS IT! MOVE ALONG WITH IT!?" Nicole stood up, yelling.

"Nicole, calm down." Zoey plainly stated.

"BUT WE NEED TO KNOW!"

"At least let him speak first." Kaylee rolled her eyes.

"Oh, hehe, sorry." Nicole blushed and sat herself back down to her seat.

"As you know," Garmadon stood up and began to pace across the room. "Shadow has created a serum that can make one ignore their feelings and affections for others and push that into loyalty for him. I believe when he has enough of it, the effects could be disastrous."

"But it takes like a billion years to make it, so what harm can it do?"

"The reason it takes so long to make is because it is but one ingredient that is hard to find. Girls, I am going to send you out on a field mission to retrieve a sample of the serum and return it to me. Do you understand?"

"Yes sensei." the four girls answered. Jackie hopped out of her seat but her face showed dismay once she was gently led back to a sitting position by Garmadon's hands. She looked up at him with confusion in her eyes.

"I apologize Jackie, but you cannot go. Your condition is far too serious."

"I am fine! I can fight!" she jumped up and weakly kicked at the air before grabbing her head,"Uh, vertigo…" the auburn haired girl felt herself flopping into the chair.

"You cannot go." he sternly stated before turning back to the rest as they bowed and took off out the door towards their dragons.

"Get some rest."

"Yeas Sensei." Jackie sighed. However as the man turned around a smirk grew on her face, she had a plan...

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><p>"Let's park our dragons here!" Nicole ordered. They had come upon the mountain that his Shadow's fortress and had found a place to land.<p>

The thick gravel on to of the rock crunched as Zoey did a scan of the area. "There are three areas where we can enter… the rock in extremely thin over here!" they all rushed over to the area as Kaylee began to jump on it.

"Do you really think that is all that smart?" Nicole rolled her eyes.

"Of course it is!" Kaylee laughed,"How else are we going to ge-agh!"

Kaylee yelped as she was sent soaring downwards. She let out an 'oof' as she found herself in a cell, she grabbed her elemental channeled sword and melted the metal keeping her captive as she ushered the rest down.

"Okay," Nicole shrugged as she spoke in her hushed voice,"I was about to mock you but now I actually mean it, good going team!"

"Girls!?"

"Wu! Misako! Nya!" they all rushed to them.

"Where is Jackie?" Nya had a glint of concern in her eyes.

"She is home sick, sorry aunt Nya." Kaylee sighed.

"That is fine, I hope she feels better. Why are you three here?"

"We have a mission to collect some of Shadow's serum so we can reverse engineer some of it. Do you know anything about it?" Zoey asked.

"I know a thing or two about it… here is what I've got for you." Nya began to talk about Jay and what he had gone through with the serum as well as beginning to discuss what the girls had seen.

"Heh, they won't even feed the rats this stuff." Courtney chuckled to herself, walking down to the dungeon. She was nearly downstairs to feed the prisoners when she heard voices.

She slowly leaned her head around the corner and gasped at three of their number one enemies chatting with prisoners.

She immediately rushed upstairs, slamming the door on her way up. "General! General Lloyd!"

"What is it Courtney?"

"I-I was-uh," she coughed,"Feeding prisoners…" she inhaled deeply, out of breath. "I saw, I saw-"

"WHAT DID YOU SEE!?"

"I SAW NINJA!"

"Lloyd gasped and took her hand, nearly dragging her towards his quarters as he grabbed Seth and Patrick who were passing by.

"This cannot be known throughout the fortress, I need a small few to go and take care of them, we need to take them by surprise."

"Alright! I'll go!" Courtney hopped up but was gently sat back down.

"You are not ready for something like this Courtney, not after what happened last time, you were not even on a mission. You sit this one out…"

"Yes general." she frowned.

"Seth, Patrick, you are my agents, good luck."

"Yes sir." they saluted him as they walked outside the office to formulate a plan.

Courtney looked very much bothered by the situation, choking back tears. "H-hey, why so upset, why the tears?" Lloyd got to his knees, making himself shorter.

"Wh-What t-tears." Courtney hiccuped.

"Courtney." he gently lifted her chin up with his hand so her gaze met his own. "You will be ready soon, I promise." he gave her a hug, which she returned. He then stood up and ruffled up her hair as he left the room to watch over the plan the boys were formulating.

Courtney walked right by them and into her room before closing the door.

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><p>As soon as Sensei Garmadon had left the room, Jackie had taken off into the courtyard and sprinted to the dragon stables. She boarded Wisp and recovered from the feeling that running gave her before signaling for him to take off.<p>

She suddenly regretted her decision for as the higher she got the sicker she felt. Thankfully Wisp was able to keep at a low altitude, but she could not say the same about speed.

Wisp was a fast dragon with tons of energy who needed to use it all up.

She held on and did not order for him to slow down, she would have to deal with it in order to get to the fortress in time.

She landed next to the other dragons, hitting Rocky in the head on the way down. After she got off of Wisp, Rocky gave him an annoyed look as the other dragon did his best to pretend nothing had happened.

Jackie began to walk around, roughly hopping every once and awhile until she fell through a loose spot, finding herself in the air vents. She coughed a bit before crawling through the vents. She could hear muffled voices, all male.

Eventually she could hear utters of a female. She stopped for a moment to be sure it was her sisters when the vents creaked and she fell right through.

She heard a gasp, her head turned to see a girl with wide eyes. Courtney rushed over to a buzzer as Jackie lunged towards her,"WAIT!" the older girl pinned the younger down as she struggled to get up.

"Where are your ninja friends!? How did you get out of the dungeon!?"

'My friends are locked in the dungeon!?' Jackie thought with concern. "They- left me at home, I am alone here, I was going to meet them."

"You stayed home? They left you?"

"Not exactly, they said I was too sick to go with them." she coughed,"But I ..I-I am J-ju- ju- JUST FINE!" she coughed several more times as Courtney turned her head away from the germs.

"Look ninja, I feel you. I am not allowed to go and help restrain your friends. Just because I got hurt last time and I am not ready according to general Lloyd."

Jackie grinned before getting off of her and offering the smaller one a hand. Courtney hesitantly took the hand as she was pulled up to her feet. Courtney allowed her to sit on her bed as they began to talk.

"Hey, before we say anything else, it isn't ninja,"My name is Jackie!"

The Brunette giggled,"Courtney."

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><p>"These guys are tougher than I remember!" Nicole snarled as Seth came at her. "One of us needs to escape and finish the mission!"<p>

"Zoey, slip through that door." Kaylee whispered to her as she kicked at Patrick.

"I AM A BIT HELD UP AT THE MOMENT!" she yelled back, holding off Lloyd.

"If only Jackie were here! Was she really THAT sick!?" Kaylee huffed, shoving Patrick again.

"Ugh, we need one more to overpower them, are you sure Courtney was not ready to fight?" Seth uttered to Lloyd as the general growled. He formed his spinjitzu tornado as Zoey did the same to combat it.

"I can go and get her if you hold off all three of them, but good luck because you do not know spinjitzu." he sighed before leaping towards the stairs.

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><p>"Yea, weird we both have the same sensei."<p>

"But in this case he is my general."

"Meh, potato- pOtAtO."

"You mean tomato- tOmAtO."

They both laughed about it as they talked they had been speaking for a bit now when a knock sounded on the door.

"COURTNEY!" Lloyd's voice rang in.

"Quick! Under my bed." Jackie complied as Courtney allowed him inside.

"We need backup, can you help us?"

"I-I what? You said I was not ready."

"I need you, if I tell anyone else they will alert the whole area.

"Okay general…" she slid off the bed and got into some armor sitting on the wall,"Let's go."

The two ran out of the room as Jackie peeked her head out from under the bed, she needed a plan…

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><p>"OH COME ON! NOW THEY HAVE ANOTHER SOLDIER!?" Kaylee groaned.<p>

"Okay! I really regret not having Jackie here." Courtney bit her tongue at the statement as she held off Zoey.

"Wait! Where did Lloyd go!?" Zoey gasped, looking around.

"That is general to you brat." he spat at Zoey, shoving her from behind with his spinjitzu. Courtney took this opportunity to lunge on her but zoey shot ice shards out of her elemental focused daggers. The sharp frozen liquid pierced her skin and inserted itself into her shoulder. She cried in pain as she collapsed onto the ground.

"Courtney!" Lloyd reached out to her but was kicked down by Nicole.

"Get off me ninja!"

"THAT'S NICOLE TO YOU!" she tossed him a few feet back with spinjitzu as Kaylee began to work with the other two boys. Eventually Lloyd was able to reach the girl and pull out the ice shards. She let out another cry as he held her close.

Kaylee shoved the boys back again, being the weakest at spinjitzu. She turned around to see Lloyd pinning Zoey and Nicole down as Courtney groaned behind him.

She rushed towards them when she felt a sharp blow to her stomach and was thrown beside her teammates.

"We're done for…" Zoey squeaked.

"NO you-yo- AAACHOO!"

Jackie rushed down the stairs,"I meant no your not!"  
>"EWW! I cannot get sick no!" Patrick stepped backwards in panic.<p>

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING GERMAPHOBE!?" Seth spat.

"Stay out of this jump rope!"

"None of us can get sick." Lloyd sighed. Jackie sneezed again. They all stepped back. "Leave us peacefully and we will leave you peacefully. We have reached an impasse."

The boys nevertheless attacked while their guard was down, only for nicole to fire earth at them, knocking them both out cold. Lloyd facepalmed as he uttered,"At least Cole is training them, this goes on his report…" he tried to pick up Courtney but found that moving her caused much pain, he watched the ninja disappear as he left her to get some medical supplies.

After she was sure he was gone, Jackie jumped back down and looked down at her friend.

"Jackie!" a voice whispered.

The girl lifted her head at the voice and rushed over to her mother.

"Bring her to me…"  
>"Why-"<p>

"Hurry!"

Jackie slowly dragged Courtney to Nya as she watched her mother lay her hands upon the girl's shoulder. She gasped as a light blue aura surrounded her hands. It seeped into the wound and slowly faded as a nice cool feeling flooded the room.

Nya took her hands off of Courtney to reveal the wound was gone!

"Mom… how did you-"

"I have healing properties, it is in my blood, my mother had them too."

Jackie giggled,"Will you ever be out of secrets to tell me?"

"Never." Nya teased with a smile as Courtney opened her eyes a little.

"You are gonna be fine, I promise!" the blue eyed girl smiled warmly as Courtney reflected the action. The girl said one last goodbye to her mother before crawling out through the vents.

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><p>"I can't believe we went through all of that for nothing." Nicole sighed as she signaled for Rocky to speed up.<p>

"I wouldn't say nothing…" Jackie held up a vile of a dark purple substance.

"WHAT!? How did you get it!?" Kaylee had Flame join Wisp in the lower elevation.

"Turns out the lab where they make this stuff is right next to the room I ended up in, it was pure accident I found it to tell the truth… there was like two dudes in there arguing over a black and blue dress… or was it white and gold? But then I was able to grab it with the distraction they had." she cleared her throat,"Anyways, now that we have the serum we can reverse engi-uh Zoey?"

"The term you are looking for is reverse engineer." Shard swiftly glided towards them.

"Yea that, anyways we will be one step closer to saving our parents, and Ninjago!"

The girls laughed as the dragons headed home.

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><p>Lloyd was still amazed,"You would not believe it master, she was perfectly healed! In five minutes!"<p>

"I see... " Shadow stood up…"Keep a closer eye on her…"

"W-what do you mean? Master?"

"She may not be who she seems Lloyd… this Courtney looks a bit strange to me…"

"I promise you she is ever loyal to the army and yourself."  
>"She better, I would hate for something like this to fly over my BEST general's head…"<p>

"Yes Master Shadow." Lloyd left the room with a bow and a lump in his throat.

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><p>"Splendid job girls!"<p>

"Thanks sensei Garmadon! I am actually feeling a lot better now!"

"I am glad to hear that."

"Yea, we SURE ARE TOO!" Kaylee choked as she blew her nose that was bright red.

"You gave us all your sickness!" Nicole complained.

"Even I got something…" Zoey trailed off with a small sneeze.

Garmadon smiled as a timer beeped. "I think we have our results!"

As they all followed him into another room, he approached a table. He adjusted the microscope and gasped at a familiar sight…

"I should have known… it was so obvious…"

"What's wrong?" Zoey sniffled."

"It's about the serum…"

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><p>"I bet she healed herself with her powers." Seth poked Patrick. Courtney's powers was slowly turning into an inside joke between them that wasn't that funny.<p>

"Yea well we were tired when we saw her use them the first time. We do not know what we saw…"

"But soon we will!"

"What do you mean?"

"We have to spend more time with her…"

"Seth no-"

"SETH YES!"

"Oh my gosh." Patrick facepalmed, this could only end badly.

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><p><strong>Hopefully the wait will not be too long this time!<strong>

**THIS IS A BIG CLIFFHANGER!**

**So…**

**Who do you think Courtney is? NO ANSWERING PINKIEPIELUVSNINJAGO! YOU KINDA KNOW A LITTLE-ISH!**

**What do you think it was inside the serum that surprised Garmadon so much?**

**I hope you enjoyed!**

**more to come…**


	19. Trusting You

**HEY! LOOK! I AM NOT DEAD! Sorry for the long unannounced hiatus. BUT I AM BACK! We get a special appearance in this chapter of thearomanticninja's oc! I Hope you all enjoy!**

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><p>"What if she is really an evil alien from outer space!?" Seth mused loudly in the dark secluded room, he was sitting on a bed that Patrick resided in. He was speculating who or what Courtney could be.<p>

"Could you quiet down!? Really you are not helping my headache." Patrick sniffled. He had managed to catch Jackie's illness from her last visit. He was put in his own room with plenty of books to read but the only thing was that he couldn't leave because he could contaminate the rest of the fortress. However even though he had to stay idle, people could come and go as they wished. "At least be useful and get me a warmer bla-bl- achoo!" he sniffled,"Blanket."

Seth frowned,"I don't know, your forehead is warm, I don't think more of that will help."

"That isn't how it works Seth." Patrick nearly growled.

"Hey Patrick?" a higher pitched voice rang in his ears as small knocks were at the door.

"Yea, come in." Courtney approached him with several comic books, a warm blanket, and a bowl of warm chicken noodle soup. A smile grew on the fourteen year old's face at the eight year old.

"I know you have been sick the past week and I thought I would help you out a little."

"Thanks Court." Patrick gave her a warm smile as she gave a goofy grin back. Seth gave him a deep scowl. "Can I talk to Seth in private?"

"Okay!"

"REALLY PATRICK!? Court!? What happened to Courtney!?"

"Relax, it's just a nickname Seth."

"You cannot see her as a friend! SHe is dangerous and will betray us eventually!"

"What evidence do you have?"

"HER POWERS!"

"Calm down, you are overreacting."

"Fine. I will find evidence myself!" Seth paused,"It is bedtime. I am going to see what she does after lights are out…"

Patrick sighed,"Yea! Because watching an eight year old girl sleep is totally normal and not creepy!"

"Good night Patrick."

"Seth." Patrick groaned, annoyed.

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><p>"Aaachoo!" Kaylee sniffled.<p>

Kaylee, I thought that everyone was over their sickness."

"Yea Jackie, but I always have a little something left over, it comes with the fire element." She looked at the box full of metal in her hands. "What do you have there?"

"Zoey is upgrading Winter. The eagle needs a few patches in her system and Zoey figured out a way to make her fly faster too."

"Need a hand?"

"Naah, keep your snot to yourself." she stuck out her tongue as Kaylee did the same in retort.

Jackie ran towards the door to the balcony before shoving it open. "Zooeeey!" Jackie sang a bit as she skipped ahead.

"WHAT!?"

Jackie was taken aback by her response, Zoey was usually so calm.

Seeing how her words affected her sister she sighed,"My apologies sister. My new upgrades are a bit more than frustrating to figure out."

Nicole then entered. "Hey, uh I overheard that you may need a bit of inspiration for your new upgrades…" she held up a flier. "There is a festival in town with all kinds of inventions and stuff about technology! You and Jackie could go!"

"Is that really what should be on our list of priorities?" The young girl questioned in the light of the early morning sun.

"What do you mean?" Kaylee asked.

"Well we now know that Shadow's serum is made of to of the most powerful forces known to Ninjago, and he is searching for large masses of it and could strike some any minute!"

Nicole frowned,"Zoey, don't stress it. Devourer venom is rare, and dark matter isn't exactly lying around everywhere."

"But it is a mix of both, and once they find a deposit of one, they are halfway there!" Zoey gulped. After getting a sample of Shadow's Serum, they discovered it was a mix of Devourer's venom and Dark Matter, along with some common ingredients like high fructose corn syrup, and vanilla extract.

Jackie pt a hand on her shoulder,"Zoey, don't worry, they are not going to find it in one afternoon, come on! Relax a little and get some inspiration and supplies from the festival!"

Zoey sighed,"Okay, fine."

"YAY! Festival!"

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><p>The fourteen year old wandered down the hallways as he neared a room. He glanced into the window to see General Lloyd speaking to the girl and giving her a hug before returning to his quarters. Seth waited until the general was gone before watching the girl further.<p>

After about five minutes had passed with nothing happening, he was about ready to just go back to his room and call it quits. However, suddenly the covers were swiftly thrown off the bed as the girl hopped out of bed and climbed up towards the window.

Seth squinted as she jumped out the window in her casual clothing. He immediately perked up as he snuck back to his shared room.

Several other teens his age and multiple of them, older than him slept peacefully as he opened the window, hopping out he silently shut it behind him. He planned to be back before daybreak.

He sprinted down the mountainside that remained before sliding down into the mud below the pine trees, along with some birch. He chased the small footprints in the night.

He lowered his pace as he saw the footprints leading to a clearing, where a small figure stood, back facing him, but golden wisps flying above her head. They shimmered in the nearly pure darkness of the forest. Only the light of the moon and the stars. But that, was beautiful. The golden wisps of magic. The eight year old sighed and laid in the grass. She gazed at the stars.

It was silent for about fifteen minutes, Courtney laid there, gazing at the sky with a grin on her face.

Seth was beginning to think of leaving the girl when.

"Do you ever wonder what's beyond the stars?"

Seth was silent, unsure if she was talking to him or not.

"They are so pretty, bright, shining, like diamonds… it's like a light show that goes all night." she sighed. "You think so too Seth?"

"I-uh…"

"Looks like you caught me…" she blushed in embarrassment at the golden wisp's source she held in her hand.

"It looks like a flower…"

"Yea, it's kinda like that… I mean it's like this golden flower in my hand is the life source for the beauty it creates." she shot the flower into the air and watched it evaporate into nothing, the air seemed to lose it's magic. "Then, if it it's gone… the beauty and importance it was had is meaningless." the last traces of golden dust trailed off in the wind. She sat down, her legs crossed in the grass.

"You're an elemental, like the generals. Have you always been?"

"I guess so. I just never really unlocked it until the talent show… I had to do something, and then my powers activated, but I couldn't control it… the stage… it was all my fault."

"Don't be upset about it Court." Seth put a hand on her shoulder, using Patrick's nickname for her. "Everyone was okay, if anyone was hurt it was you."

"Yea, I guess so…"

"So, why do they look like general Lloyds?"

"I don't know."

"From my knowledge only direct offspring can inherit powers."

"Yea but I don't think Lloyd could be my dad. From what Ms. Spring, the lady who ran my orphanage said, my parents were an older couple, they were older than the general is now."

"Oh."

"Seth, are you going to tell anyone about my powers?"

"..."

"Please, don't I am afraid what would become of me…"

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is that I am happy being general Lloyd's apprentice. I have had enough change in my life for now… I like things this way… I am kinda happy for once. If someone finds out… it could cause change."

Seth sighed,"Okay Court, I won't tell."

"Really?!" her eyes brightened immediately.

"Of course! So, you like the stars?"

"Mmhmm." the dark skinned eight year old hummed with a grin on her face.

"Do you know much about them?"

"YEA! I can name nearly all the constellations!"

"Well I can't, can you point out a few to me?"

"Yea! I would love to!" as a shooting star passed, Courtney began yapping about the big dipper, and how it led to the little dipper. She also spoke of which stars were considered which on orion's belt.

Seth smiled, he could wait on heading home.

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><p>The sun shined down on the many tables and carts as the two girls marveled at each of them. Zoey looked for prices on multiple things as she asked about each of them. Meanwhile Jackie was on an invention spree as she sped from stand to stand and squealed at each of the items. They were all so great to her.<p>

"Jackie! Where are the blueprints? I think I found a part we need!" Zoey called as her eagle perched on her arm. The spunky redhead bounced over to her sister as they looked over the prints.

"Well?" Jackie asked.

"Mmnope, this wire is incompatible with the system we are using."

"Dang it." the other girl frowned in return. "I am going to look around some more. Good luck!"

"Same to you!" Zoey called after the taller girl as she raced off.

Jackie walked around, one item on her mind. a new sight microchip. One of Winter's issues was that the eagle's sight was in standard definition and it would sometimes fuzz out.

She wandered from table to table, but still,"Nothing." the freckled girl sighed aloud.

But then, as if by a miracle, the clouds departed, shedding light on the lone microchip on the table.

"Multroprone brand 345.9 sight microchip! Only one left in stock!" the man advertized.

In the distance however, two eyes peeked out from under a black hood.

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><p>Seth, Patrick, and Courtney got back late that night, and now were now eating breakfast together in the main cafeteria as two generals spoke.<p>

"You're soldiers and my apprentice seem to be getting along nicely. It's good to see Courtney has finally made some allies." Lloyd grinned as his red eyes shone with a bit of pride.

"It seems," Cole responded,"Seth doesn't usually act like this though… he is always such a loner, his only friend is Patrick."

The group they were looking at laughed again at a joke by Patrick as suddenly a hooded man entered.

"What is it?" Jay stood up.

"Ninja sighting, in Masturi Village." the man explained.

Cole smiled,"Seth! Patrick! Go see what they are up to!"

Lloyd hopped up as well,"Bring along Courtney! She is ready for a field mission!"

The eight year old smiled giddily as she ran up and joined the two boys six years older than her. She skipped alongside them as they exited the area.

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><p>A choir of angels sang in Jackie's head as she nearly danced to the table, only to collide with another girl.<p>

Jackie glared into the short brown haired girl's blue eyes. She scrunched up her nose on her freckled face in annoyance. "Sorry! I just needed that microchip!"

"Oh no, I uh, I actually needed that microchip for my cat, Silver." she whistled sharply and loudly as a small metal cat trotted beside her.

"Well my friend needs it for her mechanical eagle Winter!"

"Psh! Likely story! Who ever heard of a mechanical pet, am I right Silver?" the cat raised an eyebrow at his friend, he was a mechanical pet himself.

"Winter's sight is blurry! He is crashing into stuff!" Jackie grabbed hold of it.

"HEY!" The short brown haired girl with jeans, a Gravity Falls shirt on, and a gray jacket grabbed it as well, both the girls were pulling on it hard.

"Now girls," the man began, I am sure we can uh reach some sort of an-"

"NO!" they yelled together.

"LET GO FRECKLE FACE!" the girl with the cat tugged harder.

"SAYS YOU! IT LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE ATTACKED YOUR FACE WITH A FRECKLE STAMP!"

"That makes no sense!"

"YOU MAKE NO SENSE!" they both said together. they let go of the microchip at the same time, plunging it into some unknown liquid in a neighboring booth. They watched as it fizzled and burnt out, now useless.

The man running the booth cleared his throat,"That will be seventy nine dollars!"

"Uh oh, I don't have enough!" both girls said in union, before taking off into the crowd.

Zoey came dashing towards them, "Jackie I found a par- why are you running?"

"GET BACK HERE YOU PUNKS!"

Zoey was rudely grabbed by the arm and joined the two running girls,"What did you do this time!?"

"More like what did we do this time?" the girl with her cat racing alongside her grinned guiltily.

"Oh you have got to be kidding me." Zoey ripped herself from Jackie's grip and ran towards the man.

Jackie and the girl ran into an alleyway, they looked into each other's eyes for a moment before breaking down in laughter.

Zoey grabbed her wallet and paid full price, plus an extra twenty dollars for the trouble.

She met up with both girls in the alleyway.

"WHAT WERE YOU BOTH THINKING!?" Zoey raged! "Jacklyn! When we get back home I am going to-"

"Who is she. your mom!?" the girl snorted.

"Nope, but she acts like it. She's actually my sister, and she is younger than both of us." she paused,"I think, how old are you?"

The Brown haired girl smirked, "Madison Jura, eleven." she put out her hand for Jackie to shake.

Jackie gladly took it,"Jackie Walker, ten and seven quarters!"

Zoey groaned,"Ten and seven months, there can only be four quarters Jackie." Winter landed on her shoulder and a hologram of Sensei Garmadon shot out of his eyes. "Get home soon, we have more updated information of the progress of examination on the substance, there may be more dangerous side effects."

"Ha, can your cat do that!? HOLOGRAMS OUT HIS EYES!?" Jackie challenged.

Madison smirked,"No, but he can do this!"

Suddenly the cat was no more as mechanical parts shifted and turned, and then before them stood Silver the dragon.

"Cool! You have a dragon! Check out mine!" Jackie whistled as a dark shadow loomed over them before Wisp landed in the cramped space.

"Wow! I can't beat that, so I guess we are at an impasse." Madison smirked.

"Indeed." Jackie jokingly replied.

"Come on, we need to get our supplies." Zoey nagged, tugging on Jackie's arm.

"FINE! Hey, wanna join us Madison?"

"I would love to!" she brushed off her jeans and adjusted her jacket before they all headed back towards the many stands.

"Now where is the next piece?" Jackie asked.

"Why don't you ask the guy sellin' em!?" A voice challenged. The girls turned and gasped at Seth who was holding a booth owner by his collar. Courtney stood next to patrick, them both smiling as the man cowered.

"DROP THE MAN!" Jackie spun into her blue suit,"Nobody like's bullies like you butting into their business!"

"Take him then!" Patrick shoved the man towards her, knocking the ten year old over.

"Leave my sister be!" Zoey seethed, spinning into her own suit with her spinjitzu. She called Winter to land on her arm, only for the bird to spark up and malfunction. "Of all the days…" she grumbled.

"Make us!" Seth challenged.

Courtney sighed as Seth punched her down while Patrick was attacking her,"Well this was uneventful, you guys need to work on your witty banter!"

"Well Court, looks like this mission has all the loose ends tied up!" Patrick smirked as he secured ropes around the girls.

"Ha! You do need to work on your banter! That was such a crappy pun!"a new voice broke into the situation. Everyone looked upwards to see a girl with short brown hair and glasses in a gray ninja gi with black armor on the sides. It also had a blank ribbon zig-zagging between the armor plates.

"Who are you supposed to be?!" Courtney cried in shock, "There are four ninja!"

"Name's Madison Jura, Master of Technology!" She spun into a spinjitzu tornado as she pulled out a high tech staff. "Come, on, you want a fight?" A blade stuck out of her staff as she cut the other two girls free,"Let's make it a fair one!"

"Okay, you are so telling us what's going on later." Jackie bit the inside of her cheek in bewilderment.

Zoey immediately took on Seth as she tackled him to the ground. Patrick was challenged by Madison, leaving Jackie with Courtney.

"Oh, h-hey, Jackie, you are feeling better! Yay…" they both paused, well this is awkward.

"Yea! Look! You finally got your mission!" They awkwardly paused as they glanced at their friends fighting…

"Look, I don't wanna fight you…"

"Me either."

"Then how will one of us win?"

"Does there have to be a winner?"

"I-I think so…"

Meanwhile Madison was shoved into the familiar alleyway by Patrick. "LET ME GO!" She demanded as she was pinned.

"Look kid, you are fighting for the wrong side. They are evil! Besides, you are way cooler than them."

Madison paused,"You think so? I am cool!?"

"Yea! I am impressed kid."

"Impressed, by me?"

"You are good material for our army."

"Army you say?" Madison let a smile creep onto her face.

He didn't reappear until several moments later with a smoke bomb.

"Come on let's get out of here." Patrick said as he ran away, A puff of smoke appearing in front of where the group one stood.

"Yeah you better run!" Jackie smiled triumphantly as she smacked her hands together at the defeat, as if brushing dirt off of her hands.

"Glad you took care of them," Zoey remarked with a roll of her eyes,"Where is Madison?"

Jackie frowned,"I dunno, HEY MADISON! You around?" Maddie!? Ms. Jura!?"

"Where could she have gone?"

"Not sure, think she is in danger?"

"I am sure she can take care of herself, probably fled home."

"Okay…" Jackie sighed as Zoey helped up a fallen shopkeep and asking him about the part needed for her bird.

"Of course! Here you are young lady!"

"Thank you, how much-"

"No pay necessary ma'am. You have done enough, it is on the house!"

"Really? My great thanks to you sir, I hope we meet again sometime soon!" The man handed her the part in a plastic bag as he waved them off. He sighed.

"Man, that kid has one strange way of speaking."

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><p>"So okay, you are Patrick,"<p>

"Yup."

"Okay, Courtney,"

"Mmhmm."

"And Sal?"

"Seth."

"Got it."

"Okay," Patrick interrupted as they reached the corridors,"All the generals' groups are filled up except for Lloyd's, so Courtney will have to convince him to take on Madison."

"No problem." Madison and the two boys hung outside of the door as Courtney knocked on the door.

"Enter." A mature voice answered. Courtney quickly took that as her cue to enter the room.

"General?" She asked in a cute, small, and innocent voice.

"Yes Court?"

She smiled at the use of the nickname, he was in a good mood. "How did your first official outing go?" He continued.

"Great! We even got in a good fight! Those girls didn't stand a chance." She boasted.

The boys watched as she had the youngest general basically wrapped around her finger. "How does she do it!? She just bats her eyes at him and she gets everything she asks for!" Patrick said, amazed at her skills,"With any of the other generals they would see through her facade and banish her. Heck, if we tried, we would get our heads sliced off or something!"

"I am telling you Patrick, she is a witch." Seth whispered a little too loudly.

"I doubt she is a witch," Madison spoke up,"She is just doing the thing a lot of little girls can do. I see my neighbors kid do it all the time with her dad."

"Yea well he isn't her dad." Seth argued.

"She is still his trainee, right?"

"Actually his apprentice." Patrick corrected.

"See?" Madison grinned,"He is a guardian figure for her. She is good at playing that game." The three older kids watched Lloyd's mouth curve into a grin as he spoke and patted her on the head before she smiled and rushed back to open the door.

"General Lloyd, meet Madison Jura, Master of Technology!"

"It is an honor to stand before a General of such a great army." Madison gave him a nervous grin.

"So you think you are good enough to train under me?"

Madison opened her mouth to reply, only for Courtney to cut her off. "Yes she is! She has an elemental ability!"

"Courtne-" Madison began.

"Not only that, but a cool one! TECHNOLOGY!"

"Courtney!"

"Hmm, interesting, care for a demonstration?" Lloyd smiled.

"Really!? Okay! I just need Silver here to- Silver?" She turned her head to find the cat nowhere in sight,"Silver? SILVER!? Oh no! I left him behind!" She looked ready to pull her hair out.

"That stupid cat of yours?" Seth scoffed,"How about you build a second one to impress the general! Don't stress over unimportant things."

"B-but this is important to me-"

"Quiet already, just show the general your skills and power, Master of Technology."

"O-okay…" she sighed.

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><p>"Madison!?"<p>

"MAAADISON!?"

"I don't see her Jackie, let's go home.:

"NO! Not without our new friend!"

"Madison probably went home!"

"No! I don't think so… something's off…"

"How can you tell?"

" I just can…" Jackie wandered into the alleyway where they spoke with their friend, Zoey trailing behind her. The alleyway seemed darker than before, as if something changed within the amount of time they had left it. There was a cold chill as an unnatural glow was seen hiding in the corner. Jackie edged towards it as did Zoey, them both being cautious…"

They both gasped at the sight.

"Silver!?"

The robotic cat looked a little beat up, but nothing too bad. The cat stood up and rushed to Zoey, feeling naturally inclined to go to her.

"Don't worry little friend, we have a lot in common, I will take care of you in the time being." Zoey comforted the poor cat that was left behind.

"See! Something is wrong! Madison would not have left Silver out here all alone! She loves him too much!"

"He does seem distressed…" Zoey trailed off, petting the cat slowly. "We should take him home, maybe we can track down Madison."

Jackie frowned,"Okay, but when Sensei Garmadon asks who wanted to take the cat home, I am so not covering for you."

"Whatever." Zoey let out a small snort.

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><p>"What happened this time…" Garmadon sighed at the sight of the cat.<p>

"We made a new friend, this is her cat!"Jackie explained.

"Where is the friend?"

"We don't know."

"Mmhmm…"

"We have reason to suspect Shadow's army of taking her." The blonde girl cut in,"They were fighting us in the marketplace." Zoey paused, "She appears to be an elemental master."  
>"Of which element?" The gray haired sensei questioned.<p>

"Technology."

"She is of value to the other side then…"

"Yes,"

"Okay, you two lost her , so you two find her."

"WHAT!?" Both girls asked alarmed.

"You heard me, get on Wisp's back and then head off to rescue her."

"But Sensei, where is the logic in-" Zoey was cut off.

"OPERATION SAVE MADISON IS A GO!"

"You might as well have just blindfolded us and sent us into a minefield…"

"The logic is in trusting each other Zoey, good luck."

"Yes Sensei." She sighed.

She wandered outside to see Jackie pulling on Wisp's saddle. "COME ON GET UP ALREADY WISP!" Jackie sighed,"We have to take you because all the other dragons are asleep!" Jackie huffed,"You lazy dragon!"

"Allow me." Zoey interrupted,"Come on Wisp sweetie." He approached Wisp as Jackie ran over to Silver and began to pet him. The cat seemed happy at the action, turning up his head as she scratched under his chin.

"You simply must get up, or else we cannot save our friend, where else are we supposed to get another dragon?"

Silver seemed to perk up at that as the cat began to emit a slight glow as the lines on his body began to extend and change his appearance.

"Uh Zoey?"

"Not now Jackie, what will it take to get you up!?" She growled at the dragon.

"Zoey?"

"Not now!"

"But Zo!"

"NOT AT THE MOMENT!"

"But-"

"JACKIE!" She raised her arms above her hand, waving them above her head frantically. "WHAT COULD BE SO IMPORTANT!? Unless you found us another ride to Shadow-" she cut herself off at the sight of the mechanical dragon.

They both climbed on Silver with caution as the dragon suddenly took off into the skies.

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><p>"Wow! This is amazing for such short notice!"<p>

"You like it general?"

"Of course! It is like a miniature dragon!"

"That's what they are! Their name is Wizzi, but they wouldn't stand a chance against any bigger dragons, they are pretty weak…"

"This is a perfectly acceptional display Madison." He smirked, it would be a pleasure to train you."

Madison grinned ear to ear, he had accepted her! She allowed Wizzi to land on her hands, being the size of one of her hands. The small green dragon looked up to her with mechanical eyes.

"Looks like it is you and me now…" she muttered as she held the invention close. She held back tears reserved for Silver. Courtney grabbed her arm and pulled her to their room.

Courtney showed her the extra bed in the room.

"This is where you are going to sleep!"

"Thanks." Madison sat down on the bad, it was soft… it was kinda nice.

Courtney went over to her bed and put on a fedora.

"What is that for?" Madison asked.

"It's my adventure hat! I only put it on when I am going on an adventure!"

"What adventure could you possibly be going on?"

"The adventure," she jumped off her bed and soared right over to Madison's,"Of getting to know you!" Courtney gave her a goofy grin as Madison giggled at the display. This girl was sweet.

"So, what do you want to know?"

"EVERYTHING!"

"Well like what!?"

"How old are you? What is your favorite color? Why does your hair look so good on you? What do you enjoy other than inventing? Have you ever played tetris? I know it sounds fun, but it can actually be a bore sometimes… You know what isn't a bore though? Cats! They are so entertaining! THEN THERE ARE PARAKEETS! THEY ARE SO GOOFY! I love them! Don't you!?"

Madison began to answer all the questions as they engaged in conversation. They were talking for a good hour when they heard a crash outside their corridors.

After a loud roar followed by a low growl, Madison knew exactly who it was…

"Silver?"she ran up to the door and swung it open. No doubt about it, there stood the tall silver dragon with Jackie at the reigns, Zoey holding on for dear life to the other girl's shoulders.

"MADISON JURA! WE JACKIE WALKER AND ZOEY JULIEN HAVE COME TO RESCUE YOU!"

Zoey facepalmed,"What did Sensei say about trust again?"

"I don't need rescuing!"

"Yea!" Courtney joined in.

"You are going to be the ones who need rescuing by the time we get through with you!" Lloyd challenged. "This is what you get for trespassing in my hallway!" He grinned,"Madison, bring out Wizzi…"

"W-what!? General, Wizzi could get destroyed… he is too weak against Silver…"

"You created Silver right? Control him…"

"He has free will, and he doesn't seem to like me being with you."

"Your invention has poor judgement."he sighed with frustration,"Use the one that has sense."

She ran into her room and came back out with Wizzi, she set him down in front of Silver.

They all watched and waited, expecting a battle, expecting a fight but… nothing happened.

"What is wrong!?" Lloyd growled in anger. "Make them battle!"

"Come on Silver, crush the little dragon!" Jackie urged but the dragon remained still, refusing to harm his younger sibling.

"Why won't you work!?" Seth kicked Wizzi down as Madison ran to her invention.

"WIZZI!" Silver growled as he turned his head. He snorted as he smacked Seth across the hallway and into a staircase.

"He- he, Wizzi?" Madison was tearing up at the dragon. It was sparking and glitching.

"Madison?" Lloyd questioned.

"He- Seth, just kicked him… he hurt Wizzi."

"He deserved it…" Lloyd grumbled,"He wouldn't fight."

Madison frowned deeply as she stood, Wizzi in her hands. I am going to go back with the ninja."

"WHAT!? You are choosing their priorities over mine!?" Lloyd roared.

"NO! I am choosing Silver's priorities over yours! He doesn't have poor judgement!" She scoffed as she leaped onto sliver with the unmoving Wizzi.

The dragon leaped out through a hole in the wall he had created coming in as they all headed back to the monastery.

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><p>"I'm sorry guys… especially to you Silver." She pet her cat as she looked towards her project once more, repairing Wizzi.<p>

"It's okay Madison! Everyone gets confused sometimes, everyone is there at one point." Jackie gave her a hug as Wizzi buzzed to life.

She smiled as the mini dragon curled up in her life.

"Well sensei, Trusting Jackie didn't do anything."

"I never said you had to trust Jackie, I was referring to your silver friend, as well as his creator."

Zoey froze,"Daaw! Why have you gotta be so cryptic sensei!?"

"It's my job." He patted her on the head twice before heading to his quarters for the night.

Madison stood, "Well, I think it is time for me to go home at last."

"I AM GONNA MISS YOU MADISON!" Jackie gave her a tackle-hug."Remember to call sometime! We have gotta hang out sometime!"

"I will be sure to!" She smiled as she, Wizzi, and Silver headed outside. Signaling for Silver to transform, she hopped on, Wizzi in her arms. "I have to head home now. But I am sure I have learned quite the lesson on who I should trust."

"As did we." Zoey replied,"Safe travels!"

"Same here!" Jackie added.

"Bye!" Madison replied as she flew off with her companions.

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