It was the next day in Ninjago city. Bright and early, enjoying today's morning breeze, Garmadon stood triumphantly on the edge of the rooftop. His eyes were shut, what was remarkable was the ambitious smile on his lips as he fell into his inner thoughts. What happened yesterday all went according to plan. The main threat to his reign was finally crushed and under his thumb as well.
It pleased the man to see the resistance against him so weak. Not to mention, the presumable backup they earned. Right, the four other ninjas and his brother. They arrived right on cue, did they plan all this? Garmadon doesn't remember ever seeing them when he stayed on the bounty all those weeks ago.
Besides, when Lloyd was sent undercover, he didn't report ever seeing those four walker of shadows anywhere on site. Ever.

If they were able arrive to a dire situation like that one, the dark lord could only come up with a few possibilities. Were the resistance purposely hiding them for when the time calls for it? Garmadon couldn't imagine the patience they had to endure, especially the blue-coded one, if he remembered correctly, he was the 'more talk, less action' type of motormouth. Another conflict popped up in the man's mind: Why did his brother look so young? Like a child? Surely he wasn't fed some permanent age-o-matic sort of tea. What was that woman's name?
Mistaké? Yes, he remembers now. That's the woman that was always crazy with her pots and remedies. It has been awhile since Garmadon has tried one of her teas, he honestly can't remember how they tasted like. Why should he care in the first place? He doesn't need tea for guaranteed power.

The man exhaled, inhaling a new wave of air as footsteps were heard from behind him. He opened a single eye as he recognized who has just arrived, he didn't even need to turn around to take a valid guess. "Right on time." His voice was calm this fine morning. The footsteps stopped as rustling of a document was heard instead. The blonde haired boy flipped through the pages of a 3-paged report in confusion. When he was done analyzing the words, that were pretty much meaningless for Garmadon since he was aware of all the contents written down on them, he lifted his head from the pages and faced his father. "Father, I don't understand why you summoned me so early in the morning? It's just sunrise." The green ninja mentioned, his eyes directing to the orange aura blending into the daytime skies. Garmadon chuckled.

"My boy. Have you read the report?" He inquired, turning around and placed a pair of his arms on his shoulder. The man's bloodshot eyes looked down on the document his son had in his hands. He noticed that he held them rather firmly.
"Im sorry, forgive me but I don't understand why exactly you want us to go capture some citizens from Ninjago city." The boy handed the describe back to the emperor of Ninjago city. Garmadon gladly took them back, even tempted to throw them off the rooftop, "Don't. You don't want the citizens being aware of our plans, right?" that temptation was snapped by Lloyd. The man sighed and placed the papers back on his throne. "I suppose you're right. I don't like foiled plans after all. But to answer your bewilderment, having the resistance as our only guinea pigs won't satisfy us long enough, right son?" He shot a question back at the blonde standing behind him.

Lloyd shrugged, he honestly didn't care for others other than his father and unwillingly under his father's authority, that white haired girl. Having lost his memories, his senses and desires to protect this ruined city have faded away along with his status as green ninja. "I thought you only cared about the resistance. So why have the need to capture petty villagers?" The blonde boy didn't show understanding for the current idea he was ordered to follow. Garmadon chuckled once more and patted him on the back. "My boy, you don't quite understand the concept huh? The people in Ninjago dislike who's currently in power at the moment. That being me, there should be secret resistances formed in the city against me. We wouldn't want them making any secret moves right?" He grinned as foul ideas traveled his mind.

Lloyd shook his head. "Ofcourse not, father. I wouldn't want anyone getting in your way. However, I never knew there would be other resistances than the one that white haired girl works under." The former ninja showed mild concern about this topic. Garmadon nodded at his statement, "Son, that resistance that has that goody-two shoes Harumi is an arrogant one. They revealed their intentions too easily. What's embarrassing is that they have ninjas in that resistance yet managed to get captured. Talk about stealth." The man laughed, his words practically dripping with sarcasm. The blonde understood where his father was coming from after his explanation. Now, he wondered how they were going to forego with the plan to capture the remaining resistances around Ninjago city. "Do you have a visual to what the members of the other defiance teams look like?" He questioned.

Garmadon stepped closer to his son. "In fact, according to some reports from the patrolling guards, we don't have to look rather hard to find the members." He claimed victoriously head-on. Did the Oni lord not know about karma?
Lloyd nodded in understanding, he can always trust what the guards say for he has seen tenir reports happen before his eyes a few times when he caught some fresh air around there. "There's one team that is composed of two members at the moment." The man told Lloyd, in which the boy gave him wide eyes and a slight smile. "But father, it's only two people, we don't need to organize a whole-" he was cut off by the black-coded emperor. "Pathetic right? But apparently, their sense of strategy is quite brilliant." Lloyd only looked at his father, curiosity washing over him. "Who are these people?"

"I'll tell you our plan and their identities. Listen carefully." Garmadon leaned his head to reach the blonde boy's ear. The boy simply sighed and prepared to listen to whatever his father had to say about this whole operation. Though seriously, his father has already crowded the people with fear. Why is there such a resistance going around? Did these people not understand that his father was the most powerful being in Ninjago at the moment? He had all the control, there were no possibilities of him being dethroned. If that was the case, he'd be recrowned very quickly. The dark lord whispered slowly into the boy's ear a bit of information about their master plan. When he pulled away however,
"Eh? Um...sorry about that, I didn't quite get it." Lloyd apologized.

Garmadon repeated what he said, only to have Lloyd show a confused expression. "What? Sorry, I still didn't get it." He apologized once more.
The man tilted his head with a small smile. "Like I said.." he started and recollected himself to repeat the information for the third time. "Pst...psttt....psst...pstttttttttt.." The boy wasn't at all amused by the buzzing noises being heard in his ear, he had a small bothered expression. Lloyd stopped his father there. "U-Um...sorry sorry, I can hear you. But all you're saying is: 'psst psst'. " he mentioned much to his father's amusement. Was he taking this seriously or not? "Do you mind telling me proper-" was cut off by his father backing away from him. This time, when he spoke, he spoke clearly and calmly, recovering from his small laugh just there. "Antonia and Nelson. Those are the members of the resistance we're after. As for the plan, I have a little set up in mind. I'll explain on the way."
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The green ninja walked down the remaining steps to be completely out of the building. From there, he spotted two guards waiting for him by outdoors with their motorcycles parked. Lloyd turned his attention to them, he had a serious expression on his face along with a clean green gi on him. This was apart of their plan- well his father's plan specifically. "I assume you're the guards my father sent for this operation?" He looked down on the two lower rank guards.
It was Luke Cunningham and Mohawk. The two punks turned their glances at Lloyd, who had just arrived. The latter stopped learning on the side of the building and nodded, uninterested at the mission in general.

"Yeah, so are you ready to do this? Or do you need encouragements from your dear papa?" Mohawk mocked the green ninja. Though the blonde didn't let himself get intimidated by someone like him, someone with such a low position in the organization. "I'll have you reported to my father for bad behaviour. It isn't tolerated here, dishrag. So pull yourself together." Lloyd warned. Mohawk simply whistled in astonishment, a small smirk formed on the guard's lips as Luke watch the scene unfold before his very eyes. "I was merely kidding there, Lloyd. I wouldn't want to test you nor your father's legendary temper." Mohawk apologized- not even the word apologized could define what he had just said right now. He didn't feel sorry nor threatened by the higher-up. He just wanted to mess with him, that's all. But oh poor him, having to hang around people who can't take a hint at his clowning.

"In the reports, it is said that our targets are situated in the 15th avenue. I'm assuming everyone is ready to go there?" The captain of the operation assumed confirmation from the two guards. Mohawk and Luke nodded until,
"Are your contacts in?" Mohawk, once again asked a ridiculous question.
Lloyd was starting to lose his patience with this, he got closed to Mohawk, widening his eyes. His eyes were clearly a shade of emerald, like his father intended. "What does it look like? You think they'll fall off?" He inquired strictly.
Luke shrugged, answering for his comrade. "Perhaps sir. It is always possible. Mohawk here just wanted to make sure. For your safety, I mean." He spoke.
The green ninja simply huffed and began running off.

They were supposed to meet at the 15th avenue, in front of an alleyway situated two meters from an abandoned apartment by the numbers of: 1403. If Lloyd rode with them, using logic here, their little scheme will be found out by the wandering Nelson and Antonia. So they had to be careful to not be seen together until the destination of the plan. The two guards, possessing vehicles, were certainly gonna arrive there faster than Lloyd, so Garmadon planned that that they were to make a few detours starting from the 7th and 9th avenue.
As for the green ninja, he would travel by the house's roofs. This would be step 1 of their great plan to capture the two wanted members of the second resistance.

Seeing Lloyd run off, the two guards got on their and started their vehicles.
Luke turned to Mohawk, he squeezed the handle, twisting it from time to time.
"What are the chances of succeeding?" He asked, buying more time for Lloyd to get away. Mohawk slowly drifted off, staying slow due to his friend still being behind. "Dunno. Hopefully high ones. I just wonder why the beat has to come along. I'm sure we could have captured the two ourselves." Mohawk ambitiously said. Though, that was a lie- as much as Mohawk hated to realize it. Luke sighed. "He's the green ninja after all. He plays a big role to Ninjago city. We need to have him along." He said. The two guards then drove away from their base, entering the 9th avenue first.
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A door shut carefully and two individuals were seen exiting the alleyway.
One had violet-red as a side bang and the other had short brown hair. One seemed to be an adult while the other was a young boy. They made their way towards their bikes that were installed near another building's wall. "This is too risky, why do we need to go out again?" Nelson asked, accompanied with a small groan. It was obvious that the little boy showed small interest in whatever the two of them had to do today. The older girl chuckled and bent down to check the tires of her bike. "I already told you Nelson. We're gonna look for parts for your bike. It got pretty damaged last time we were chased around town, right?" She reminded, getting on the vehicle then beckoned the younger boy to get on as well. There was a seat premade in the back for him.

A sigh escaped his lips. "But Antonia, remember what happened last time? We almost got caught. I swear, I don't what to ever leave the apartment again if I have to rego through tags same experience again." The boy showed massive concern as he got on and held onto the girl tightly. Antonia began driving off.
She was smiling the entire time as they made their way to the next alleyway.
"Relax, we won't get into any trouble. I promise-" she immediately squeeze her hand-break. "Hey why'd you- woah-" Due to momentum,  Nelson's body was slightly flung back then laughed forward, bumping into Antonia's back.
In front of them were two SOG guards. Luke Cunningham and Mohawk.

"Not good..." Antonia whispered under her breath as she prepared to make a 'U' turn. No, she couldn't allow herself- mostly Nelson get captured. Not like this. "Antonia, what's going on?" Nelson asked, from the back. He couldn't really see anything from where he was. Though, Antonia ignored him, instead, she focused on trying to get out of here. Her attempt was unsuccessful because, "Aw, leaving already? But emperor Garmadon wanted to see you." Luke taunted, leaving his bike behind and approached the two. "Not good not good not good.." the girl panicked slightly, seeing that there's not enough room in this narrow street to turn properly. She may have to abandon the bike. That's when Nelson understood what happened, his eyes snapped open as he hopped off the bike. "Antonia! I told you! We shouldn't have came! Who cares about my bike! Come on run!" The brown haired boy began running for his life and freedom.

Antonia's jaw opened as she saw the boy carelessly sprint away from her and the guards. She immediately chased after him, leaving the bike behind after all.
However, Luke sighed and crossed his arms In disappointment. "I wouldn't go there if I were you." He warned quietly, not actually being loud to warn those two atleast. Antonia and Nelson ran for their lives, ran and ran, adrenaline pouring inside of them. Their hearts could have sworn to have stopped beating at some point due to fear and the constant movement. They were close to making themselves out of the street. Just a few more steps and- they came to a halt when a figure leaped down on them.

Nelson's fearful eyes turned into lit eyes of determination upon recognizing who the newcomer was. It was Lloyd, stood there with his mask over his face.
"Oh Lloyd, the green ninja is here...we're saved!" The little boy dressed in purple cheered, joy filling him. Antonia, however, didn't feel the exact emotions as Nelson straight away. "Green ninja, please help us. Wait.where are the rest of your comrades? Like the other ninjas?" She approached Lloyd. The green ninja moved away from them, going behind them. "I'll take care of these geezers." He affirmed. Nelson and Antonia looked at eachother with relieved expressions. The green ninja were really going to save them..."Come on, let's go." The older girl told Nelson and both began to run,

but were flung back to their initial spot. Antonia felt something tugging at her neck. She winced in pain and looked around, only to realize Lloyd pulling on a chain. Clips were attached on their clothing, resulting in their freedom being taken from them. Nelson shivered, trying to flee but couldn't. "Lloyd! Let us go! What's going on?" He called. Antonia wasn't amused by the little joke either.
"What are you thinking? Where are the rest of the ninjas? Are you even on their side?!" She shouted at the unbelievable green ninja. Lloyd was unaffected by all this, not having any memories about who he used to be, it was easier to be cold and ruthless towards the people his previous self wanted to oh so desperately protect. With his free hand, the one holding onto the chain that kept the two in place, he lifted his mask-Only to reveal a mic near his mouth, a headset was dangling from his ear.

Lloyd smiled at them victoriously. "My comrades will be arriving shortly, yes. In the meantime, my emperor wishes your presence in refined cages. We will get to that." He claimed to their of their loss. Antonia couldn't her what she was hearing. "No! You will let us go right now!" She growled, trying to break free.
The green ninja approached them and slid cuffs on both individuals' wrists to guarantee their chances of captivity. Before pulling them along, "Luke, Mohawk! Your jobs are concluded. Please follow me." He called. The two guards nodded at that, they grabbed their motorcycles and followed along from behind. Nelson moved along, his head hung low. He couldn't help but let tears escape his eyes. It certainly hurt getting betrayed by your favourite hero.

"Lloyd...why?...Why would you do this?"
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"My son. You have done an excellent job today. I'm very proud of you." Back at the SOG lair, Garmadon ruffled through his boy's hair. The two were on the rooftop, overseeing the broken city. The two captured members were sent down to the dungeons along with a handful of innocent citizens from the city. Right, Garmadon didn't only intend to capture resistance members but people with no crimes too. It just showed how ruthless and cold the emperor of Ninjago city was. "Thank you father. Those two were fools. Very easy to capture." The blonde informed his father. Garmadon only pulled his hand away, a frown forming on his lips.

"Oh is that so? Well I'm sorry for not giving you a proper battle I know how much you enjoy those. You were a ninja after all." He reminded his son. The blonde narrowed his eyebrows at the mention. "Yes, I would enjoy a tougher victim next time, father, please consider it." was his response to what his father's comment.
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A/N Hey guys! LillaSmolBean here and I really hope you enjoy the first chapter from the hiatus this book took! I am deeply sorry for that by the way. I saw how much you guys wanted the next chapter to be out! But atleast my finals are finally done and so are the chapters! If you liked this one, please leave a vote and show your support for the book by leaving a comment down! Oh boy the story is getting good, I really am intrigued that me and Jdizzle have made it this fair into the story. I'm excited to see what happens next! Anyways, that's all I have to say in this author's note. Cya guys in next chapter!