3rd Person POV

8 : 3 5 A M

The next day everyone stayed at home. Why?

They'd all been fired.

Zane and Pixal were fired but Borg still let them live with him. Chen had added Kai, Jay, Cole, Zane, Morro, Nya, Skylor, Pixal, Seliel, Ray, Maya and Lou.

A knock on the door woke Lloyd from his thoughts. Opening it, he saw a neatly dressed man holding a briefcase and a clipboard, "Residency of Lloyd and Misako Garmadon?"

"Y-Yeah..."

"Says here you've been evicted." Lloyd felt his whole world shatter, "Evicted?"

"Appears so. Amoren Chen requires you to be out by tonight. This is non-negotiable." He turned on his heel and walked down the pathway leaving a horror-struck Lloyd. Silently shutting the door, he sunk to the ground, burying his head in his hands.

Crap.

Reaching for his phone, he rung someone he never thought he'd ring.

"Son?"

"Hey..."

"Is everything alright?"

"We've just been evicted."

"What? You too?"

"What do you mean 'you too'?"

"Clouse came by my desk this morning. Said he was the new number 2, and I had to be out by this afternoon. Landlord came by and kicked me out too."

"What do we do?"

"I think this calls for a meeting with everyone against him."

9 : 0 1 A M

By now, everyone had crowded into the Smith's small home. There were panicked voices arising every now and then. Garmadon cleared his throat, "All right. Chen's clearly pissed off at us, and is making our lives literal hell."

"And this is just the start," Maya added on, "Soon, he'll be killing our loved ones. No-one says no to Chen."

"What are you suggesting we do?" Cole asked, "Kill him?"

Lloyd exchanged a glance with his dad. Cole noticed, "You're not actually thinking..."

"One gunshot to the chest. That's all it can take. Chen's dangerous." Morro agreed. Wu looked at his brother, "What if we turn everyone on him by forging an airstrike?"

"We're not killing anyone innocent." Pixal stated firmly, "Just Chen. Only if..." she turned to Skylor, who gave a nod, "He's cost me too much to refer to him as my father. He's dead to me."

Jay put his hands together, "Well that settles it. How are we gonna do this?"

"You mean...how are you gonna do this?" Lou asked, standing up, "I won't involve myself in murder, and neither will my son. Let's go, Cole."

"Dad, Mom hated Chen. Killing him would be doing her a favour-"

"Oh, do not use your mother's death as an excuse for murder!"

Cole jumped up abruptly, "I'm not! If Mom were here right now, she'd suggest the same thing." Lou simply shook his head at Cole, who stood his ground, "Do what you want, dad. But I'm staying."

"Fine." He simply stated, before walking out the door.

"Back to the plan." Cole mumbled, "How are we gonna do it?"

Jay smirked, "Easy. We dress up as giant turtles-"

Kai rolled his eyes, "And that's Jay's plan foiled."

Nya shook her head, "It could work..."

Zane raised his eyebrows, "What, storming into Chen's mansion dressed at giant turtles?"

"No, not the turtles, but with suits. Fancy, Capitol-worthy outfits. We could blend in and-"

"-And shoot Chen!" Seliel finished, "I know just who can help us!"

1 0 : 2 4 A M

"So...you guys need 10 suits?" Dilara asked with confusion. Seliel nodded, urgency in her eyes, "Not 10, just..."

Wu stepped forward, "Me, Lloyd, Cole, Jay, Seliel, Morro, Pixal and Garmadon"

The woman sighed, "All right. I'd normally charge, but since Pinkie and I are friends...it's on the house. Come with me."

"Thanks, Dilara! You are a lifesaver!"

They entered the back room, which had fancy gowns and suits galore. "What type of dress exactly are you looking for?" Dilara inquired, tossing a tie away.

"Something simple, easy to get away in, and blending with the Capitol."

"Okay, I have these for ladies, and these for men. These should fit, but they're adjustable if you need them."

"Thank you!"

The suits were perfect for business wear. Dilara wrapped them up in tissue paper and handed it to them.

Seliel and Wu took the bus back to Ignacia where everyone else was waiting. Garmadon stored the parcel under the rickety couch, "First, we talk strategy. What's our plan?"

 Wu glanced at the female nindroid, "Pixal, I need you to hack the cameras, turn off the alarms. Can you do that?"

"Affirmative."

"Morro, Seliel, Cole, Jay, Lloyd and Garmadon, we sneak in."

"Guys, guys, guys! It won't work. Tomorrow is some sort of parade walk in honour of Chen. He won't be in his office." Skylor stated, checking her laptop.

"What do we do, then?" Lloyd asked. Wu smirked, "We go with the next best thing. If we kill Clouse, it could be like a warning to Chen."

Garmadon cracked his knuckles, "I'm up for that."

Kai looked around, "What do the rest of us do?"

"Stay here. We need people with eyes on the situation, Zane, I want you to have eyes on Clouse' whereabouts. Can you hack the cameras in the streets?"

"Should be easy. I can't do it in Borg's Tower. I'm fired, so I can't use any of the equipment. My old house in Birchwood however..."

"Then do what you need to do." Wu tells him, "If we can get a shot on Chen, we could use someone to lure him out. Skylor?"

"Sure."

Lloyd stood up, "Then it's settled.

1 1 : 3 6 P M

"Hey, thanks for letting us stay over," Lloyd said. Kai and Nya looked at each other and smiled back at him, "Anything for family."

The three of them had crowded together in Kai's room and were squashed up on the bed. Misako and Garmadon were using Nya's room.

"This isn't gonna work," Kai grunted, "Nya, you be in the middle, you're much smaller."

"Hey!"

"I'm just saying!"

After a lot of jostling around, they finally settled down into a peaceful sleep.

1 1 : 3 8 P M

"This is a little awkward..."

"Awkward is an understatement."

Misako and Garmadon were sharing a room and things still weren't patched up between them.

"Look. You take the bed. I'll sleep on the floor-" Misako cut him off.

"Actually, I think your back would be used to the finer things in life. You take the bed. It's what you Capitol people like anyway."

"Capitol people?" Garmadon sounded hurt, "Is that really what you think of me? Misako, I would've given anything to drop everything and move with you years back."

"Then why didn't you?" she asked, her voice wavering. Garmadon stared at the picture on Nya's windowsill, with her and Lloyd pulling funny faces at the camera, "I did it for our son, to secure his future. I wanted to be able to support him...and I failed."

"We both did." she sighed sadly, "But...I think Lloyd would've preferred his parents still being together, rather than apart because of money."

"Are you saying..."

"When we divorced, my life changed for the worse. I missed you terribly. Whenever I saw you on the big screen in the centre of Ignacia, you looked so...settled, happy, successful. I still miss you."

"I know I've made some bad choices in life. Can we...go back to how things were, for Lloyd?"

"For Lloyd."

But both of them knew it was also for each other.