Enter The Ninjaverse

CHAPTER 4

Lloyd would normally have said he could go his entire life having never ridden a shark. Sadly, or thankfully given whom he was talking to, the closest he seemed to be getting to that was riding in a shark-themed Mech. The Garmamech stepped through the city streets, forcing traffic to divert around and between its massive legs as it went. Lloyd stood on a small platform inside the mouth of the creation, Garmadon beside him working his arms and legs back and forth to move the thing.

"Whew... oh yeah... good workout, oh geez who designed this thing?" Garmadon huffed, "No, no this is good, this is a good workout. Gotta stay in shape, those ninja gonna make me go soft if I don't keep this up... oohhh why does the city have to be so big?!"

Lloyd ignored Garmadon's ramblings and looked out across the city. Two days had already gone by, and he had nothing to show for it. With the ninja roaming the city in their mechs, Lloyd had spent the majority of his time on the Bounty with small incursions into the city on whichever mech was available at the time. So far, he'd seen what the Lightning and Water mech had to offer.

Today, however, Garmadon was leading one of the incursions himself. Despite the fact the city had accepted Garmadon as its new protector, it didn't mean that the sight of the massive hammerhead robot going down the streets was made any easier. Jelly subs had flown the mech in from the Volcano, a sight which Lloyd was still processing.

"Garmadon, this is Nya," A voice rang out from around the cockpit, "We've completed a sweep of the area, no sign of the Twins."

"Good work, silver," Garmadon responded, hiding the wheeze in it, "Continue the perimeter sweep and rejoin Blue when you're done. Black, this is Garmadon, status report."

"Cole reporting in," Another voice rose up, "No sign of anything so far. Your guys went off to go get sushi."

"What?!" Garmadon shouted, "And you let them?!"

"Lady Iron told me told me to let them," Cole replied nonchalantly, "She's on her way to meet up with you. Should have said that first."

"Wait, Coco is coming?" Garmadon paused, "Did she give a meetup location?"

"She said you'd know when she arrived," Cole answered.

A few seconds later, a loud clink snapped Lloyd's attention to the front of the cockpit. Embedded in the metal was an arrow attached to a thin piece of string. Following the string led to a woman with flaming orange hair, standing in full battle armor atop an earby building, her longbow still in hand from the shot. The attacker waved a hand towards the mech, causing Garmadon to grin.

"Give me one second," Garmadon turned the mech to the building, then pulled a red lever to park it. Stepping off the controls, he leapt up from the opening and grabbed the string, crawling his way up with all four arms towards the person on the roof. Lloyd, blinking, leapt from the cockpit and spun into Airjitzu, carrying him up towards the same roof.

When Garmadon got to the roof, he watched Lloyd land with Airjitzu and rolled his eyes before he turned his sights to the woman. She smirked and reached up, drawing her bow and firing a shot off towards Garmadon. He in turn caught the arrow and stepped forward, tossing it aside and grabbing her bow to pull her forward.

"I've done my sweep of the city," Lady Iron Dragon smirked, "Seems like you're still tracking this one down, Garmy?"

"Not as bad as General Tyren, though," Garmadon grinned, "We spent nearly what, three weeks looking for him before we cornered him in that cave?"

"Four weeks, honey," She rolled her eyes, "Remember, we used our last wish on that Djinn in order to find him?"

"Oh yeah... those Djinns are a tricky bunch..." Garmadon sighed, "Not as bad as you are, Coco. Maybe we should plan ourselves a date where I need to go and hunt you down?"