Chapter 77: Into the Breach

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The ninja is sailing the Destiny's Bounty away from Ninjago City.

"How far, Nya?" Cole asks.

"We're going as fast as we can, but this ship needs some fine tuning for sure" Nya replies.

Jay busily types away on the UHF, he looks around cautiously and finds himself looking at Garmadon.

Garmadon inspects the buttons "Hmm."

Jay walks to the rest of the Ninja "Am I the only one freaking out about this?"

"Why freak out? Our derange, psychotic, arch-nemesis is now our house guest" Kai answers sarcastically.

"I find the term freak out inadequate and imprecise," Zane comments "I prefer to say deeply troubled."

Nya whispers nervously "Reika, are you sure he can be trusted?"

"Oh no, not at all." Reika replies "I seriously would've taken the heartbroken puppy over him."

"Heartbroken puppy?" Kai questions.

"Lloyd," Reika replies "after all, he still thinks Aria's dead. I know we all came to the conclusion that it would be better for him to not know, he might change his mind and go crazy looking for her."

"But as far as we know she's still in the first realm." Zane says.

Garmadon walks around inspecting the buttons.

"Anyway," Reika sighs "he doesn't have his powers back, so how much trouble can he really cause?"

Garmadon presses a button, the sails fold in and the thrusters turn off. Everyone looks at him as Garmadon walks away.

Zane looks at everyone "Did he just turn off the—"

The ship starts to plummet.

"He shut off the engines! We're gonna crash!" Jay shouts

Zane starts for the emission switch, but Kai crashes into him, pulling him farther away from the emission switch.

"Ah! I can see the ground! It's getting really close, really fast!" Jay shouts.

"I'm killing him!" Reika shouts hitting the emission switch, just in time for the Destiny's Bounty to rise up into the air.

The Ninja sigh, getting back their breath.

"No no, it's fine." Reika takes a breath as well "It's all cool, he probably didn't know what it was."

"I did," Garmadon comments.

Reika slowly turns her head; Kai quickly grabbed her around the waist before she lunged at him.

"Let me at him!" Reika shouts.

"Heel," Kai says.

Garmadon climbs down the ladder. Later on, the ninja all head to the bridge.

"Ahem" Garmadon got their attention "The Oni entered this realm through a portal or rift between our world and theirs. There are only one or two ways this is possible. And I'm willing to wager, it would've been through the Realm Crystal. To stop this darkness from spreading, the crystal must be destroyed."

Zane looks up on information about the Realm Crystal, typing faster and faster "The Realm Crystal is currently housed in the new high-security vault, below Borg Tower."

"That's smack in the middle of Ninjago City!" Nya shouts

"Uh, we just escaped from there, remember? It's engulfed in a giant, black cloud of destruction, and now you're asking us to turn around and go back?" Jay questions

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