(Lloyd's POV)

I can't let the Devourer get her! I have to get my mom out of the city so I can protect her! Argh, why couldn't I have gotten a dragon and a Golden Weapon that could become a vehicle to help me reach the city sooner?! 

"Wait......for me.......Luh-Lloyd!" I heard my father's voice panting from behind me "I want to save your mother too!" Argh! And why did I have to get stuck with him!? 

I should probably feel somewhat glad that he seems to actually care about my mom but after what he just helped happen I can't, if he truly cared about her or anybody but himself he would have thought twice about helping those snakes unleash their Great Devourer. But of course his mind is only ever thinking about being the best and taking everything over for himself, throwing everyone else who should be important to him to the side 

"Hey Lloyd! My feet are getting..........pretty tired and it's kind of hot out here........I think it's time for a.........break" Garmadon gasped as he finally managed to somewhat catch up to me "No! There's no time for a break!" I snapped at him as I kept staring forward, refusing to look him in the eyes

He was right about it being hot though, it's always burning hot in the Sea of Sand! I'd also be lying if I said the heat and the constant running wasn't taking a toll on me, I really do want to sit down for even just a second to catch my breath and give my legs a break but we have no idea where the Great Devourer could be right now so no matter what I have to keep running until we reach the city and save my mom, nothing will stop me fro-

Wait, is that a.....it couldn't be right? Out here? 

My running came to a complete stop and I began walking toward what had caught my attention, with the sound of Garmadon cheering and then flopping onto the sand coming from behind me as I got closer to the rusty machine covered in a small mountain of sand. I got to work with brushing away a majority of the sand that buried what I hoped wasn't a mirage, soon my green eyes were able to get a good luck at what was thankfully real and not just a figment of my overheated brain

"Haha! Yes!" I practically jumped as I cheered with joy, my hands making quick work of whatever sand was left hiding our way out of the desert "Huh? What are you cheering about?" My father asked as he began walking over to me"Did your colourful Ninja friends destroy the Devourer?"

"Look!" I moved to the side and gleefully pointed at the treasure I just uncovered "It's a car! A real car! We can use this to reach the city way quicker!" I happily explained to my father who didn't look as happy as I was "I hate to tell you this kiddo but this old hunk of junk does not look drivable at all" He told me as he circled the rusty and broken down vehicle, examining every part 

Once again he was right about something, the car certainly wasn't in brand new condition, half of it was still buried in the sand and the entire thing was covered in rust with only a little bit of its dark green paint being visible. Not a single door was attached and the engine had nothing covering it from the natural world, all four wheels were in surprisingly decent enough condition though 

"We have to at least give it a shot! This is our best option if we want to reach the city before the Devourer" I told the four armed warlord with a determined look "I'm sure that Jay, Nya and Zane will know how to fix anything wrong with the car, if something isn't working then I can just give them a quick call"

"Well you won't have to do that" My father stepped away from inspecting the cars engine "Even with the engine looking out of shape it seems to be in somewhat working order, this thing not having any fuel is our main problem" 

Ugh, I forgot about the fuel. The others vehicles don't have any problem with fuel so it kind of slipped my mind, I looked inside the car for any sort of extra fuel container but all I saw was torn up leather seats. Wait, the trunk! Of course! If this thing has any extra fuel it would be in the trunk! I mentally facepalmed before heading over to the slightly busted open trunk 

"Ah don't bother checking the trunk Luh-Lloyd, the chances of this piece of junk having an extra fuel container back there is literally impos-"

"Found one!" I shouted out, proudly holding the red fuel container above my head "Geez, that's awfully convenient" Garmadon muttered as he hopped into the car while I started pouring the gas into the barely functioning vehicle, hopefully it won't break down before we reach the city

I tossed the empty gas can into the backseat of the car before walking over to the passenger seat, only to find my dad already sitting there "Uhhhh, what are you doing?" He turned his head to look at me with his eye lids opening lazily "Waiting for you to start driving duh" Garmadon told me 

"Me drive? You're the adult here! You should be driving!" I pointed out to him but he didn't look to care "Ah you'll be fine, what we're doing is super important so I'm sure if you're caught they'll let you off the hook" He casually said to me "B-But I can't drive!" I stammered out, with Lord Garmadon almost hitting his helmet off the car's roof in surprise 

"What!? What do you mean you don't know how to drive?! All those Ninja friends of yours can drive fine but you can't!?" He questioned me in shock "Well they all have actual vehicles, the only driving experience I have is that Mech Dragon I used to fly and that is very different from any other kind of vehicle" I explained "Mom tried to teach me how to drive with her car in an empty parking lot once and she ended up having to take the tram to work for like 2 months!" 

If there were any seatbelts in this car Garmadon would have taken his off before jumping out of his seat and ushering me into the driver's position "No son of mine isn't going to know how to drive!" He said as he put both my hands onto the old steering wheel "Hang on just a second I probably have to hotwire this thing real quick" I heard him mutter as he dove down below to play with some differently coloured wires 

"Alright this one does this and this one goes he- OW ok this one goes there and then that one links with the red one and then the red on- OW okay never mind the red one connects with the blue one and then this one goes here" I could hear him rambling about as his four arms frantically messed around with the bright copper wires, sparks flying off of them. After awhile of him shocking himself the car engine finally started up and Garmadon jumped back into his passenger seat beside me "See! I told you I knew how to hotwire a car!" 

I have to admit I'm a little impressed with his knowledge on cars, I wonder how he knows all this stuff? "Now let's get you driving! This car is a pretty simple model so it shouldn't be too hard, you're gonna have to push your foot on that gas pedal pretty hard though to get this thing out of the sand and onto the main road up ahead" He began to instruct me, I nodded in understanding as I placed my right foot onto the cars gas pedal pushing lightly and then pushing as hard as I could with the sounds of the wheels throwing sand into the air encouraging me to keep going

Eventually I pushed hard enough and the car shot forward out of the desert sand and I just about managed to steer the vehicle onto the cracked road that led towards the city, avoiding crashing back into the sand we just escaped from "Hey look at that! We're on the road!" Garmadon laughed as one of his four arms gave me a pat on my shoulder "I don't see any cars around here so I think it's time to speed this bad boy up, keep pushing hard on that gas pedal and shift that little knob over to that number six, that'll really get us there quickly" He once again instructed me, I nodded again and did as he told me, making the rusty old car speed up as fast as it could go without breaking apart 

"Hey so uh, how do you know so much about cars?" I finally asked my father who just chuckled at my question  

"I've been around for 174 years! I was there when the first car was made!" 

The car ride to the city was going.........pretty alright so far. I really thought I would be jumping out of this junk the first chance I got but my father hasn't been as much of an annoyance as I thought he would be, we've kind of just been relaxing with the occasional talk about mom with a shared laugh here and there. Even more surprising is that I haven't managed to bury this car into sand again.........yet, this thing feels like it's just one more unexpected pothole away from breaking down or breaking apart  

"Look Luh-Lloyd!" Garmadon suddenly sprang from his seat with two of his arms pointing right ahead "I can see the city from here! I recognise that big building I must have destroyed 5 times!" Ignoring his last comment and mispronunciation of my name I looked up ahead and sure enough I could see that the city wasn't too far away, and with the speed this car was going it wouldn't be long until we were saving m-

Wait, what's that noise? I peered over the steering wheel to look at where the horrible sound was coming from and sure enough it was the engine. Ugh! We were so close! "Uh oh, that doesn't sound good" My father said as he too looked over at the cars exposed engine

A few more terrible splutters came from the engine before the car slowed down and finally came to a stop, at least we were just outside the city so we didn't have to run toward it anymore "At least it dropped us off right outside our destination" I sighed "And you learned how to drive!" Lord Garmadon made sure to remind me with a.........proud smile? "Lloyd, I have to tell you that I am so proud.......of myself! I never thought I had it in me to teach a teenager like you how to drive a car" Yep, that's the Garmadon I know.....

"Whatever" I flipped my Ninja mask on with my eyes being rolled "Here" I said to Garmadon as I handed him a red flag advertising some sort of sushi restaurant I found attached to a close by market stand which thankfully was left unattended "Uh Luh-Lloyd I don't think now is the time for a sushi break, your mother could be in danger" Okay now I'm starting to regret this again 

"You're supposed to wear it, we won't get very far if people recognise you" I told him with a face palm "Ooh! Like a cape! Great idea kid!" He said gleefully, tying the red banner around his neck and striking a heroic pose "I've always wanted to be a superhero!" 

I let out an annoyed groan as I ripped the "cape" off my father and then tossed it over him, covering his face and for the most part his extra arms "Wear it like a cloak, hopefully nobody will notice who you are underneath" I explained as he fixed the banner in a way he could actually see me "A little less cool than a superhero's cape but I think I can make it work" I heard him say before I jumped onto a wall and began climbing one of its pipes, hopping onto a nearby rooftop "Try to keep up!" I shouted down to him as I started running across the various buildings 

It was nice to be back in the city again, even if I was going lightning speed across it to save my only family from being swallowed by a gigantic serpent. Well, not only family..........I reluctantly turned my head behind me to check on Garmadon and he seemed to actually be keeping up, the disguised warlord was only about 3 rooftops behind. I went back to parkouring my way around the last few streets we needed to go down in order to reach the apartment and soon enough we reached the apartment building 

"Wow, this place looks like a dump" Garmadon noted as he caught up beside me "Geez, thanks" I muttered before starting to carefully scale the building, trying not to attract any attention from the other tenants who might be home. It only took a few windows until we reached mom and I's apartment, I gently placed one of my hands on the window we were next to and slowly lifted it up to allow myself entry to the apartment 

I cautiously and quietly slipped into the small apartment, followed by Garmadon who ended up getting stuck. Wonderful. One strong pull was all it took to free him from the window and thankfully he didn't hit the floor too hard, we really don't need any of the nosy neighbours making sure everything is okay right now "I forgot how tiny this place was! You actually live here?" He said looking around at the so called tiny apartment 

Trying to ignore the fact that Garmadon was even here, I sighed in relief noticing that my mom wasn't home yet, must be caught up in the usual rush hour traffic "Okay it looks like she hasn't come back from work yet. We should use this time to-" 

*CLICK*

Oh good! That's her now! I was hoping we would have a little bit of time to work out an escape plan or I could at least change out of my torn gi but I'm sure I can think of something on the fly. The apartment's front door opened and my mom stepped in, locking the door before turning around and locking eyes with me, freezing in place once she got a good look at my condition 

"W-What happened to you?" She asked me with a face of concern as one of her hands were placed on my cheek "Y-You look awful, are you alright? Who did this to you?" My mom questioned while surveying every cut and bruise on me with my face in both of her hands "Mom I'm fine I promise, just a little scratched up that's all" I assured her "No no you're not fine, you're bleeding, I'm going to get the first aid kit you stay right the-" She instantly stopped talking once she walked past me and her eyes saw Lord Garmadon standing there 

I looked at the two of them just staring at each other not moving a muscle, that was until my mom decided to make the first move "YOU! YOU DID THIS TO HIM DIDN'T YOU!?" She yelled at my father at a volume that would make even Zane recoil "I'M GONNA MAKE YOU LOOK TEN TIMES WORSE THAN HIM!" She threatened Garmadon before lunging at him, I grabbed onto her and held her back from potentially destroying my father which I honestly wouldn't be against, but unfortunately Zane is right about us needing him during this time......

"Just wait a second mom!" I tried to calm her down while she still attempted to attack Garmadon "For the most part he had nothing to do with me getting hurt, it was the Serpentine's fault not his!" I decided to let go of my mom after she seemed to have calmed down a little bit after hearing my explanation, but she still continued to staredown Garmadon with a look that would terrify even The First Spinjitzu Master "Is he telling the truth Garmadon? Did you really have nothing to do with why my son looks like he was thrown out of a moving vehicle?" Well she's not too far off...

Instead of getting into an argument with my mom like I thought he would, Garmadon simply crossed his four arms before responding in a sulking manner "I can assure you that I had nothing to do with your son being injured....." 

"Good" My mom sternly said, going after to the bathroom and grabbing the first aid kit "Now let's get you fixed up then" She smiled at me, opening the red and white box then starting to take supplies out of it "There's no time for that mom!" I grabbed her attention "Garmadon and I came here to get you because the entirety of Ninjago is in danger! You have to come with us now!" My mom was taken aback by my sudden outburst "Why? What's happening? Is it Garmadon's fault?" She shot the warlord a dirty look  

My father huffed and looked away "I uh guess it is? Look I'll explain everything to you once we get back to the other Ninja, now come on we have to get out of here!" I grabbed my mom's hand and ran off toward the window we used to get in but my mom pulled me back over to the first aid kit "We are not going anywhere until those injuries of yours are properly treated, if you sit down and cooperate this will go a lot quicker" She told me, making it sound more like a command than a suggestion 

"Fine..." I sighed in defeat before sitting down on the sofa so she could treat some of my more major wounds, thankfully her old job as a nurse sped the process up and I was back on my feet in no time "Alright now that's done we really have to go now! There's no telling how close the-"

*We just jump up kick back whip around and spin
and then we jump back, do it again
Ninja-Go!
Ninja-Go! 
come on, come on
and do the weekend whip*

What is with everything interrupting me today?! I grabbed my phone out of my belt and answered whoever was calling me "Hello? Lloyd? Are you there?" The robotic voice of Zane came from the phone's speaker "Yes Zane I'm here, what is it? Garmadon and I were just about to leave with my mom"

"That is good to hear, we require your appearance at Ed & Edna's Scrap N Junk. We are in need of the Sacred Flute and you seem to be the one who has it" Zane explained to me, I quickly checked the back of my belt and felt the wooden flute safely tucked in it "Oh right, sorry I'll be there right away!" I was about to press the end call button before I remembered a pretty important detail "Wait hang on Zane, could you maybe send one of the others to come pick the three of us up? We don't have anything to get us there" 

"Of course Lloyd, I will send somebody to the city right away" He told me "Okay thanks Zane" I ended the call with the White Ninja before turning back to my mom and Garmadon "Zane is sending someone to come get us, now come on we have to hurry!" I ushered the both of them over to our exit window, letting Garmadon leave first before helping my mom out onto the tiled rooftop just across from our window 

"Well mom you better hold on tight, things are gonna get fast real quick!" I warned my mom as I scooped her up into my arms "W-Wait Lloyd what are you-AHHHH" She screamed loudly as I suddenly took off, Garmadon following behind with the red banner covering him from the public view, they'll probably just think its the Green Ninja and the Red Ninja saving an innocent woman from some dastardly foe

But by the sound of my mom's screaming you'd think it was the Green Ninja and the Red Ninja kidnapping some poor woman, they won't actually think that right? Right!? Oh no, Gayle will have a field day with this! 

I guess we'll have to wait until the next chapter to see if Gayle does indeed have a field day with Koko potentially being kidnapped! What does Zane have planned for Lloyd, Garmadon and Koko once they arrive at Ed & Edna's junkyard? Will Garmadon open up his own car garage!? And who will be the mystery Ninja to come and get our three problematic family members?! Well I can go ahead and spoil that the last question will definitely be answered in the next chapter

I think.....

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