NINJAGO: Eternal Masks

V

"What do you mean he left?!?"

It was the ninja. They had gotten back from their mission empty handed. No leads or anything. Kai confirmed that the suspect wouldn't talk. And then he received They were now hovering over Ninjago City.

"I don't know! He just said he was going to the deck and he just... left. I'm sorry."

You had one job. One. Kai thought to himself, then turning to PIXAL he said "PIXAL track his location. He can't be that far."

"He turned his location off," PIXAL announced.

"Ughhh. Seriously?" Jay commented. "Why does he have to be so complicated?"

"Like you aren't" Nya teased.

"Yeah but at least I'm not this complicated!" Jay defended himself.

The ninja were stuck

"Have we tried talking to him through our comms?" Cole asked. Then he saw the ninjas shake their heads. "Oh come on, don't tell me we've just been here arguing for no reason?"

Cole pressed a button in his comms.

"Lloyd? Can you hear me? Are you there?" Cole asked.

Silence.

The ninja waited.

"Cole? Is-... you? Where...." Static.

"We're at the bounty! Over Ninjago City. Pix, track his signal," Kai said.

"I am attempting to, but his location is difficult to track. However, he is in Ninjago City though,"  PIXAL reported.

"Zane, whats a difficult place to track within the city," Nya asked.

Zane thought for a moment. "Perhaps he's in the subway, or maybe perhaps locked up in an underground bunker. Those places are pretty difficult place to track,"

"Ok so let's head to the subway then." Kai said, stepping up as the leader. "Me and Zane will head north and west, Jay and Cole you guys head south and East, and Nya stay here if you hear anything and protect Harumi,"

"I can protect myself, thank you very much," Harumi said.

"I know how hard it is to stay back, Princess. But right now, your safety is our top priority," Nya said. "I should know,"

Harumi decided to leave the conversation seeing that nothing good was coming from it. She wondered what Lloyd was up to right now. He was probably scheming up a plan. Harumi went into the ninja's quarters. She looked around and saw a picture of Lloyd and his dad.

"If you can believe it, that used to be Lloyd's dad right there," It was Nya.

"Lord Garmadon?" Harumi asked, while turning around. Nya nodded. Harumi then said, "I can't imagine how hard it must've been for Lloyd to lose his father. I mean, he was just a kid,"

Nya agreed. "Yeah, it was pretty rough for him in the first few years of his passing, but he's fine now. He's moved on. Sometimes I feel bad for him,"

"Yeah," Harumi said looking down. She turned away from Nya. She pulled a piece of paper from her pocket.

It was a picture of her family. Harumi stared at the photo, remembering the last moments with them.

"I know how it feels to lose a parent," Harumi said, her eyes shut in sadness. She felt like she was about to cry.

"I'm sorry Rumi. I know it was hard to lose the Emperor and the Empress," Nya said.

"I wasn't talking about them. I was talking about my real parents. Before I was a princess." Harumi clarified solemnly.