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-Ninjago Theme Song-
“Kaiden, run!” Jayden shouted, aiming his gun past Kaiden at his target: a guard trying to take them back.
Let’s start from the beginning. Many years ago, the overlord was defeated. Twice. Somehow, in between those two times, he had a daughter, though absolutely no one knows how. She bid her time slowly waiting. It was now over 35 years since the overlord was defeated and the ninja had kids. The overlord's daughter took over, being more powerful than the overlord himself. She kidnapped the ninja and their kids when the kids were only between 0 and 6 years old. Horrible things were done to them during that time and each kid was forced to watch as their parents were killed. Each kid was, i order from youngest to oldest: 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. The kids escaped when the oldest of them was 12, the youngest being 6. They lived on the run from the overlord’s daughter, or as she named herself, the Empress of Ninjago.
Kaiden ducked when Jayden said that, giving him time to shoot before following after the rest of his team, throwing a crudely made grenade back in the direction they had come from to give them enough time to get away.
“Max!” Ari said, shoving him forward. “Get going.”
“I’m going as fast as my short legs will carry me!” the green-eyed brunette huffed, struggling to keep up with the taller kids. Maxwell, the youngest of the group, was 11 years old and looked almost exactly like his dad, only his hair was brown instead of blonde. Then there was Juniper. She was somehow born like a normal baby but she was an android like both of her parents. She had metallic skin, electric blue eyes, and odd blue hair.It was hard hiding her since she didn’t even look human. After Juniper came Arianna who was 14. She had Orange/red hair, fire red eyes and could start an argument over anything. After Ari came Kimberly or as the others called her, timber. Timber had red-ish hair, ocean green eyes, was Ari’s cousin and was excellent with tec. Then there was Kaiden, Ari’s older brother. He looked exactly like his dad, only he had his mom’s amber brown eyes. He was hot-headed just like his dad, very stubborn, but to make up for it he was very protective of his friends, who were just like family to him since they’d pretty much grown up together.
“Well go faster!” Kaiden replied. “You know we can’t afford you going slow.”
“Inside the building!” Jayden shouted, ducking inside one of the abandoned buildings. Everyone followed without complaint. It was that or get killed.
“Down to the basement,” Max whispered loud enough for his family to hear.
“Are you crazy?” Ari snapped, glaring at the younger one.
“When have my instincts ever been wrong?”
“Every time we get in this type of situation!” Ari growled.
“You just have to trust me this time. Somethin’ tells me there’s somethin’ useful down there!”
“No! You may be my family, but i do not trust your instincts.”
“To the basement, we go.” Jayden interrupted, heading that way very fast. “Gut feeling too.” Everyone followed, the sounds of the police getting closer as they too entered the building.
“What is that?”” Kaiden said in slight amazement when they got down there. There was a big machine unlike any he had ever seen.
“Don’t know, but let me check if anything’s broken and then we’ll see.” Timber pulled out some tools from her bag and set to work, finding nothing broken.
“Search the basement!” Came to a shout from up above from one of the police officers.
“I still don’t know what it does, but get in!” Timber said, shoving her tools away. It was barely big enough for all of them, but if they squeezed, they fit. Timber pushed some buttons on the thing before jumping in, slamming the door right as the officers came down. The kids felt a very odd sensation, like they were moving, being stretched and yanked and pulled, and it took all their willpower to keep down the only food they had eaten. After that, they blacked out.
Max POV
“Guys! Come look!” i heard someone say.
“Woah! They’re kids. Wonder what happened to them? They took a pretty bad beating” i heard another voice say.
“It would be in our best interest to take them back and tend to their injuries.” a third voice said. I was drifting in and out of consciousness and i had no feeling in my body.