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After the fall of the Devourer, Scales moved from the red snake tomb to his tribe where he met the other Generals and snake. That word was used for the name of another. One of Scales' troops named General looked in shock as he saw his master and ex-appearance.
“Scales? You're alive.”
“Of course, I would not stay to be eaten.”
“You mean you left Pythor to be-”
“Silence! I respected Pythor, but it was insane plans that led to his downfall, weather I was there or not wouldn't have affected the outcome of Pythor's plan to destroy Ninjago.”
“So... what now.”
“Revenge of course, those Ninja continue to believe that they are superior to us, however, I believe is it not our skills that lead us to defeat but our Leader's ideas.”
“And how do we know victory will come from your leadership?”
“Well we do fail, I'm sure I won't be alive to listen to your complaints.”
“I don't see why not following will be than bad not that I think about, besides with you gone I’ll be in charge again. ”
Scales laughed for a few minutes; it was finally time for his plan to go under way.
Scales led the serpentine troops to a cave where Fangtom and his men were working. As the tribes walked through, Scales said.
“As you can see, these Red boys are creating new machinery for us to use in combat, the ninja have found ways to use their so-called golden weapons to deflect our every move. However, I believe that with these vehicles and armour, we shall be victorious.”
“But, Scales!” yelled General “The ninjas are more fit and agile than us, what makes you think the abilities to take a hit will help us fight?”
You see, the ninjas don't use battle claws or huge silver fist glove things when fighting, they use their hands.”
“They have weapons too...”
“And when their weapons do nothing then they shall use the hands, hitting our newly designed armour made using the scales from the devourer himself; their hands will feel pain. You will ALL be given gloves made from those same materials that will increase your strength and power.”
“You mean no weapons?” asked one of the Lizarus from behind.
“You will be given one Katana each” Scales replied. “But that's not all you're getting, when collecting the remains of the Devourer I stumbled across a substance leaking from the devourer's insides. With help from Hypnobri scientists I discovered that it can be converted into a sort of green beam.”
“And how do we fire these lasers?” a Rattla asked.
“With blasters of course, blasters bitten by the red snakes-”
“Why can't you remember our names?” shouted Fangtom in aggravation.
Scales ignored and continued “This will make the weapons only usable by us, if any human gets their hand on it, the blaster will unleash the red-tribe venom and turn them into one of our soldiers.”
Rattlejets flew over Ninjago city, they looked like a cross between the rattlecopter and Jay's jet. They fired missiles into buildings and watched them fall, this was clearly an invasion. Cole and Zane both ran with metal versions of their Golden weapons to defend the city from the invaders. They all stopped in shock as a Serpentine Gunship landed and a squad of Rattlas walked all in black armour chest plates and black helmets (that space police wear), they all held out their Katanas and charged at the two ninjas. Cole began to swing his scythe around his body hitting many of the snakes however whenever one fell, it would get back up immediacy.
“WOAH!” Cole yelled “since when did the Serpentine get skilled?”
Before Zane could answer, another gunship flew by and General jumped out followed by 2 Mezmos. General had the same chest plate as the others except his had a Blue stripe down the middle. He held sword in each of his hands while both Mezmos had magma-guard sticks. Zane front flipped towards General and threw his shurikens at him but General swung his sword deflected them both. Zane landed next to the ex-Hypnobrai leader, he threw a punch in the direction of General’s face in an attempt to weaken his sight but General dodged and tried to swing with his white katanas, but Zane back flipped dodging all attacks. General became enraged from Zane’s mockery; he dropped both swords and stimulated his arms away from his body exposing his chest.
“If you are the powerful ninja you claim to be, show me your skill!” he yelled out.
Zane ran at General and without thought punched the blue snake in the centre of his armour. Zane screamed in agony as he felt his hand crack from colliding with the armour. In reaction to this, General punched the ice ninja's chest which sent Zane back a few steps, the pain was beginning to overcome him. The impact of Generals hand coursed Zane’s chest-plate to fall off and reveal his nindroid skeleton. Without hesitation, General ran at Zane and waved his fists at Zane’s artificial heart. Zane fell to the ground.
Cole jaw dropped. “ZAAAAAAANE!” he roared.
General picked back up his swords, while ignoring Cole, he signalled his gunship to land. Cole stood still, recovering from the sight of Zane’s defeat, he began to analyse the armour to see if he could find a weak point; this however distracted him from the Mezmo that had slid behind him. The Mezmo electrocuted Cole with his stick; Cole screeched and dropped on to the ground. General order his Mezmos to pick up the bodies; while boarding his own gunship looked up in the sky and saw Scale's fly over.
It landed outside of the radio tower, the only part of the city that wasn't destroyed. He was followed by 3 Bytars; the Bytars using electro staffs hacked into the system and aimed a camera at Scales.
“OK! We are on air!” a Bytar said.
“Good.” Scales spoke. “PEOPLE OF NINJAGO! I have placed my image into your TVs to give you this message. As you can see the wreckage behind me, you know the city is a goner; 1 million lives have been lost in less than ½ an hour. By that you know you've already lost, however I will cause less damage to your land if you do me a favour. Bring me the Ninja and anyone who is in relation to them. And to make things easier for you, they don't need to be alive.”
Back at the village Kai was walking to buy fruit when he noticed serpentine gunships flying over. He put on his hood and jumped onto the roofs to fight, however, instead of a group of snakes jumping out like he expected, Acidicus appeared. He looked very different than last time Kai saw him. Acidicus now had cyborg legs and black armour that unlike the others covered his whole body, this snake didn't have a blaster and sword but instead one large blaster rifle and an axe. He swung the axe at Kai, but the red ninja did a limbo slide under it, he then swung his foot into the snake's back, from that moment Kai's leg went numb. Acidicus aimed his blaster at Kai's chest and fired. Kai could no longer feel anything, his entire body felt like a broken vehicle and he had no control over his movement. Rattlejets fired missiles into the houses of the village. The Venomari marched around the destroyed buildings and picked up villagers carrying them to gunships. The gunships landed outside the Hypnobrai tomb, the snakes placed their prisoners on the ground and Fangdoms began to bite them turning them into serpentine themselves.
At last, the serpentine empire was beginning to form. Scales had become extremely joyful; his plan was so simple yet far more effective than anything Pythor had suggested.
Cole and Jay both awoke, chained up to the walls of the Hypnobrai tomb.
A Rattla walked past them and said: “Finally, now I can ask you some questions.”
“Wha- where are we? Where's Kai and Zane?” Jay asked in a worried tone.
“Oh, the red head and white droid have been dead for some time now.”
“You MONSTER!” screamed Cole “You think you won't face consequences for this!”
The snake chuckled and left. The two ninjas looked at each other and frowned.
“So, we're all that's left?” Jay asked himself.
“No!” replied Cole. “Lloyd's still out there,” he paused, “I… I just hope they haven't found him yet.”