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The streets of Ninjago City stretched like a spider's web as the ninja rose rapidly in a glass capsule mounted on the side of Borg Tower. Y/n watched the buildings below grow smaller and turned her attention to the elevator control panel. Numbers flashed white across it.
"Welcome to floor one hundred," an automated voice announced.
The elevator doors slid seamlessly open into the lab of Cyrus Borg. An entire wall was made entirely of glass panels, framing a view of the city skyline. A web of glowing screens defied the laws of physics as they hung from a wiry metal frame attached to Borg's desk.
Cyrus spun around his wheelchair to face the visitors. "Ah, ninja. Your little game has kept me quite busy."
After their conversation with Bob the Intern, the ninja had sent the Mechanic's Prime Empire cabinet to Borg in hopes that he'd find an explanation for the sudden outbreak of Prime Empire machines.
"What have you found?" asked Nya.
"A new appreciation for the designer, Milton Dyer," Cyrus admitted.
"He designed a pretty killer security system on Dyer Island, too," Kai said as the group made their way to Borg's workspace.
Cyrus faltered as he wheeled himself with them. "Wh- More- more impressive than mine?"
"Do you have robot dogs?" Kai mentioned. "Because he had robot dogs."
Cyrus tried his best to not look heartbroken and wheeled up to his desk. "Yeah, well, ahem. I've run diagnostics on the cabinet, and this game is far more complex than anything I've ever seen," he said. "Even more than my ill-fated Digiverse." He pulled up a map of the game on the main screen. "It's a virtual world made up of different zones inside the game."
Nya squinted at the color-coded diagram. "So Jay's in one of those zones?"
"Not just Jay. The game's play account has exploded," Cyrus explained gravely. "Over 800 players are now trapped inside Prime Empire."
"All the people who reached level thirteen and disappeared into the cabinet," Kai realized.
Cyrus nodded. "The world inside Prime Empire is controlled by Unagami," he continued.
"And Unagami is Milton Dyer," Zane finished.
"Which means there are two ways to deal with this: find Dyer in real life and stop him, or . . . enter the game, just like Jay did, and stop Dyer's avatar, Unagami," concluded Cyrus.
"I think we should divide up and go for both at the same time," Lloyd said, quickly deciding their plan of action.
"I'm afraid Zane and Pixal cannot enter the game," Cyrus informed them. "The Prime Empire code is so complex, they could overwrite your programming."
