"Haha! Run! Haha! Run away! Oh, watch your step!" Chen laughed as the village he raided cowered into their houses.

"I feel sorry for them, Zugu. They rely so heavily on the ninja. They don't know what to do when they're not here. Doesn't anyone here want to fight?" Chen raised his voice.

A pepper was thrown at Chen, making his head dress twist.

"Hey!" A girl shouted. Zugu threw a boulder at the girl and she ran away.

"Haha! Onward, my slithering soldiers, until there is no village left unturned." Chen yelled.

. . .

Kai was just outside of the anacondrai tomb where he chased the truck. Kai was currently inside the truck, trying to get the coms working because it wall all scratchy and broken up.

"Chen has-- cai Village--Everyone--" Nya tried to say.

"I can't read you, Nya. Repeat!" Kai yelled.

"Attacked first--Nothing--Stop them!"

"You're breaking up. Where do you need us? We're all scattered, and there's not time to play fill-in-the-blanks!" Jay hit the radio.

"Hurry!-- too late!"

"Tell us where we need to go. I can't use my Dragon power, so if anyone is close--" Lloyd said before his radio completely died.

"Nya? Nya? Can anyone hear me?" Lloyd asked. The radio buzzed again. Lloyd saw the key still in the truck and he started to drive.

. . .

The bounty was up and in the sky. Nya tried to get the radio working while Skylor, Wu, Garmadon and Misako were all in the bridge.

"They're attacking Jamonacai Village. You have to stop them." Nya said into the mic. The radio shut down.

"All communication is cut." Nya said.

"If our fighters don't know where to go, who's gonna stop my father?" Skylor asked.

"Hello. As you can see, I've taken control of the airwaves, just as I'll take over Ninjago." Chen's image appeared on the monitor.

"You'll pay for this, Chen." Garmadon growled.

"Brother, enough." Wu halted.

"What do you want?"

"A truce." Chen said.

"Ha! Like the one the real anacondrai wanted during the last war? The truce that you destroyed by deceiving both sides?" Garmadon shouted.

"I will honor my word and no one will get hurt, if you and everyone you know leave Ninjago and never comes back." Chen offered.

"We're not leaving our home." Garmadon protested.

"Wait. Let us think about it." Wu said.

"How can you even entertain him?"

"Our ninja are gone. We need more time."

"You should listen to your brother, Garmadon. He's always had a way with words. Hehe. It convinced Misako, didn't it?" Chen snickered. Garmadon turned away.

"What's wrong? You look a little purple. Oh, that's right. Once a snake, always a snake." Chen said.

The attention turned to Garmadon.

"Haven't you hurt enough people, Father?" Skylor shot.

"What is he talking about?" Misako asked.

"Oh, he hasn't told you?" Chen asked.

"The letter he wrote that made you fall in love with him...it was written by Wu."

Misako gasped as she turned to Wu. Garmadon had his back turned.

"I...I was trying to tell you." Garmadon stuttered.

"How could you, brother?" Wu said, with hurt in his voice.

"Oh, and about that truce? Deal's off. I actually only wanted to drop that delicious little bombshell. Toodaloo!" Chen cut the transmission.

"Of all the things..." Wu walked up to Garmadon.

"Brother, don't let anger cloud your judgement." Garmadon said.

"Don't tell me what to do!" Wu shouted.

"You're no Sensei, and you've never been one!"

Garmadon bit his lip as he turned away from his family.

"Don't you see what he's doing? He's divided the ninja, now he's dividing you!" Skylor intercepted.

. . .

Pythor, remember him? Yeah, he was still being chased by the rat in the wheel.

"Wretched contraption. I can't run forever, you filthy rodent. What's the point in being friendly with the ninja if they're never around to save you?" Pythor shouted.

The shrunken anacondrai spotted the spell book.

"If there's no ninja to be found, may as well become one." Pythor threw the helmet thingy off if his head and turned around.

"Ninja, roll!" Pythor used the wheel to spin out of the contraption and to the speed book.

"The Book of Spells, finally. Time to find me a spell to make me big again." Pythor flipped through the pages.

"Another village has fallen, and the ninja have yet to be found. It's only a matter of time until they take over Ninjago City." The radio announced.

"Hmm. News, always a downer."

"How the Anacondrai returned is a mystery."

"Not a mystery. They're frauds. A true Anacondrai would never stand for this."

"If you hear this message, find shelter or find help."

"Hmpf. A true Anacondrai would never stand for this." Pythor thought for a second.

"I am a true Anacondrai."

. . .

Lloyd crossed roads with Neuro.

"They're heading west. I tried to stop them, but I'm just a mind reader. I couldn't help anymore." Neuro reported.

"But you can help me. Can you send a message to all of the fighters at once?" Lloyd asked.

"I can try."

A few minutes, maybe more, later, everyone met at the samurai x cave.

"Thank goodness you got my message." Neuro sighed in relief.

"Look at you." Kai said to Skylor, which purple steam was coming off of her.

"The spell is wearing off, but my father's antics sadly have not." Skylor turned back to Garmadon and Wu.

"Tea?" Wu offered. However, he skipped Garmadon and handed it right to Misako.

"He knows about the letter?" Lloyd asked his dad.

"The message was delivered." Garmadon replied.

"So why were we asked here? We should be fighting snakes." Griffin asked.

"Because anyone can fight. Only one side can declare victory." Wu said.

"In the time it took you to get here, Chen has taken over the entire Eastern seaboard and is moving inland." Nya showed on the map.

"With each village destroyed, they grow stronger."

"That's a lot of red. Karlof not like red." The master of metal clasped his fists.

"How are we supposed to stop them? Most of us have lost control of our Dragons, not to mention we're outnumbered ten to one." Gravis said.

"Actually, 62.4 to one." Zane added.

"Look, I'm scared like the rest of you. It may look like we've lost, but it's not over. When we thought we lost Zane, it nearly tore us apart." Lloyd pointed to the ninja.

"But we didn't quit. We let it fuel us. We grew stronger." Lloyd said.

"There's hope. The Corridor of Elders." Wu pointed to a narrow spot of land on the map.

"Corridor of Elders?" Shade repeated in question.

"I know we don't stand much of a chance taking on his entire army at once, but after he's controlled the East, he'll move West tomorrow and have to pass through Echo Canyons." Wu demonstrated movement with his staff.

"Our best tactical position is to make our stand where it bottlenecks: here, at the Corridor of Elders, the monuments honoring our ancestors." He pointed.

"It's the narrowest channel, but our greatest chance."

"If we can't stop them here, the rest of Ninjago will fall like dominos." Garmadon said.

"Karlof not like to lose. Karlof fueled!" Karlof raised his hands in the air.

Morro was muttering to himself while pacing around in a small area.

"What's wrong, Morro?" Zane asked.

"I can't do this anymore." Morro said.

"Fighting them, knocking them to the ground, leaving them scared and defenceless, I don't want to see that!" Morro shouted. The other ninja started to come too.

"But you're powerful. You can really fight them!" Cole said.

"I don't want to anymore. Leave me out of this next fight." Morro pleaded.

"We need you. Why don't you want to fight them so much?" Kai asked.

"How about almost killing one when you were a child because of your full potential?!" Morro lashed out. The cave went quiet.

"That's what happened." Kai said.

"Your wind was so strong that you--"

"Yes!!" Morro shouted.

"It happened when I got angry, then that lead to the promise, then everything is falling." Morro waved his hands out.

"How?" Jay asked.

"I wanted to protect. And then I almost killed someone. As a child. You don't think that would happen to a normal person. I don't want to see that again!" Morro said.

"You're going to throw that away." Lloyd said.

"You protected once, I'm going to ask you to protect again. They are not real anacondrai. I don't care what they look like, I don't care if they act like them. That army is going to attack Ninjago and you need to protect." Lloyd hit Morro's chest.

"You want me to protect? I can protect"! Morro hit Lloyd back.

"The ones back then were decived. The ones now are acting in their own!" Morro walked forwards as Lloyd stepped back.

"I didn't ask for this power but I'm going to use it. AND I AM GOING TO FIGHT!!" Morro shoved Lloyd back, the green ninia shouted.

"SO LET'S HOLD OUR OWN IN THE CORRIDOR OF ELDERS!"

The whole cave errupted in cheers.

"I wish I could say we're not facing an army unlike we've ever seen, but we have, and we know what they're capable of." Kai told a crowd in doomsday comics.

"Right now, our cities and villages are falling, which is why we're asking everyone to rise up." Jay said to a crowd near his home.

"We all may have different backgrounds, but we all share the same future." Zane said, in front if his titanium ninja statue.

"You may wonder why we're asking you to fight for Ninjago. We aren't. We're asking you to fight for each other." Cole said in kryptarium.

"Ninjago is our home. We all have to try and protect it. It doesn't matter who you are." Morro announced with a crowd gathered by a few commercial buildings.

"We're asking you to fight as one!" Lloyd yelled on the steps if the Ninjago city bank.

. . .

Chen's forces made their way to the canyons. Kapau and Chope where carrying the roto jet, with Chen in it, on the ground as the moved forwards.

"Uh, maybe Master Chen knowing our names isn't such a good thing." Kapau said.

"Yeah. Tell me about it." Chope replied.

"I'm hot and this skin doesn't breath like my old one. How much further?" Chen complained like a child.

"The Corridor of Elders is just up ahead." Zugu said.

"Good. Maybe we can stop for a break." Chen said. The warriors carrying the jet sighed.

"And you four can carve my image into the walls in my honor." Chen pointed to the.

The narrow pass of the corridor of elders came up ahead. The elemental alliance stood together at the narrowest pass. The ground shook as the anacondrai approached.

"Huh. There's so many of them." Jay sighed. The serpentine front stopped a large distance away from the pass. Lloyd drew a line in the ground with his energy. He turned around and flipped on his hood.

"We fight for each other. We fight as one."

The alliance raised their fists. The ninja threw on their hoods.

"The ninja." Chen noticed.

"Hold the line!" Lloyd shouted. The anacondrai drew their swords forwards. The alliance readied their stances.

"Charge!" Chen shouted. The anacondrai started to move.

"Hold the line!" Lloyd held everyone back. The anacondrai got closer.

"HOLD!!"

just before the alliance, the ground split open and multiple warriors fell in.

"Trap door? That's my signature move!" Chen yelled.

"Argh! Destroy them!!"

"NOW!"

Zane iced the ground and Morro ran forwards to push the force back as the others prepared for impact. Kai and Jay ran back to back.

"Fire!"

"Lightning!"

Multiple citizens of Ninjago came to the battle too. One old lady used perfume to blind an anacondrai warrior. Smart. In turn, she grabbed the fallen sword and started to chase after the anacondrai.

"Fear? Fear isn't a word where I come from!!" Mother doomsday, (lmao remember him?) had brought his light sword to fight off.

Skales Jr. and a kid threw gumballs on the ground, making a few anacondrai trip.

Bolobo blocked a part the path either vines as Gravis lifted some warriors off the ground. The alliance was starting to overwhelm the anacondrai.

"Not backwards, forwards! You're Anacondrai! Crush them!" Chen commanded. The alliance regrouped and raised their hands. The two sides clashed and the alliance needed to keep them from crossing the line.

"I'm slipping!" Cole shouted.

"Argh! Don't let up!" Kai encouraged.

"Push!" Lloyd yelled.

"Push harder!" Chen shouted.

"Jay! Move a bit." Morro said. Jay shuffled to the side as Morro reached his hands out.

"Front line, bow your heads!" Morro shouted. They followed the command and Morro blew wind over their heads and onto the anacondrai, making the front force slip back.

"They can have the ground. We'll take the skies." Chen flew up with the roto jet and a few blade-copters followed. Shade disappeared into the shadows and reappeared on top of the canyon side. He when shadow traveled onto a blade-coptor, pulling the pilot out and taking control of the copter.

"Morro!" Zane called.

"Yeah?!"

"I suggest you- ARGH! Cover the sky!" Zane advised, pushing away an anacondrai. Morro looked up and shot up into the air with his glider. Morro landed on a blade-copter and shifted the glider back to a staff.

"Hello!" Morro closed his eyes and kicked the pilot out. Jumping off, Morro slashed wind, cutting the copter in two and making it explode.

Shade was still in control of his blade-copter and he used the charged to shoot at the anacondrai.

"Bright colours." Morro took a deep breath as he landed.

"Push!" Zugu commanded.

"HOLD THE LINE!" Lloyd yelled.

"Argh!" Jay threw the head on an anacindrai away from him.

"They just keep coming!" Jay cried.

"PUSH!" Zugu shouted more.

"ARGH! DON'T GIVE UP!" Kai shouted.

"NINJA NEVER SAY QUIT!"

"The new girl hates feeling left out. Now!" Nya piloted the renovated bounty and turned into the canyon. Garmadon and Wu piloted the cannons, shooting weighted nets to hold some anacondrai down.

"Ships aren't supoised to fly! Sink it!" Chen ordered.

"NINJA-GO!!" Six spinjitzu tornados spun, pushing the opposing foes back. Nya took a dive down into the corridor.

"Misako, Nya, drop it like it's hot!" Wu shouted.

"Aye, aye, Sensei!" Nya shouted, tilting left. Misako pulled a lever, dropping the anchor.

Skales was about to be cut up by raider blades when the Bounty's anchor crush the vehicle.

"Never thought I'd be happy to see that ship again." Skales admitted. As Nya piloted, Misako conteoled the anchor, making it destroy the land vehicles of the anacondrai.

"Break through the line!" Chen shouted.

"We can't. The canyon's too narrow!" Zugu shouted.

"Then make it bigger!" Chen fired the missiles at a statue of an elder, making start to tumble off the side of the cliff.

"Look out!" Karlof alerted. Gravis caught the statue and floated it over the alliance, placing it down behind them. More space was in between the alliance and the wall of the corridor. The anacondrai started advancing.

"We have to stop them!" Lloyd shouted.

"We don't have enough people!" Kai cried.

"We can't hold them all!" Cole shouted.

"They crossed the line!" Nya pointed.

"Come on, Rodrigo! They need our help! Hiya!" Pythor shouted as he rode the rat towards the battle. The speed book was open and on the back. Pythor made his way to Lloyd.

"I have something your father needs to see." Pythor said. Lloyd raised his suspicions.

"Oh, come on. You can trust me because if anyone is going to take over this world, I'd rather it be me." Pythor admitted. Lloyd was getting suspicious now.

"Take me to your father, and he can end this once and for all." Pythor said.

"Uh, Morro!" Lloyd shouted.

"What?!" Morro yelled back.

"Pythor has a thing that could end this! I need to get to the bounty!" Lloyd said. Morro looked up.

"Okay." He said.

"Let's go!" Lloyd grabbed Pythor and the book.

"Hold on." Morro grabbed Lloyd's wrist and jumped up, boosting them up with his wind and using his glider to guide them. The brother's reached the anchor of the bounty and used it to get to the top.

Chen landed the roto jet and opened the hatch.

"Now nothing can stop me." Chen raised his hands. Little did he know that Skylor was right behind him, and she threw Chen out of the jet.

"Sorry, but I have a few daddy issues." Skylor sneered.

Lloyd and Morro jumped onto the deck of the bounty, high in the sky.

"Pythor says that he has something that can end this war." Lloyd placed the book and Pythor down on the ledge.

"They've crossed the line of no return. No amount of power can stop this now." Wu said.

"But the might of a true Anacondrai can." Pythor smirked.

"Do you see what's happening? This isn't about you. Making you big solves nothing." Garmadon said.

"But if the generals you banished to the Cursed Realm so long ago saw this mockery, they would stop this travesty at once." Pythor flipped through the pages and stopped on one.

"No one comes back from the Cursed Realm." Misako said.

Maybe so.

Morro hit his head.

"Sorry. Keep going." He said, shaking his wrists.

"No one comes back... Unless he that cursed them takes their place. I could unleash the spirits of the Anacondrai Generals." Garmadon picked up the book and read the page Pythor marked.

"If you banish yourself. Magic has its rules, you know." Pythor added. Lloyd stole the book away from his dad.

"We're not cursing you. We're not losing you to bring them back." Lloyd said, pulling himself away.

"If we do nothing, we lose Ninjago." Garmadon said.

"We don't even know if they'll help." Misako pleaded.

"We do know that the real Anacondrai wanted peace as much as us. It was Chen who started both wars. I never thought I'd say this, but Pythor is right." Garmadon admitted. Pythor seemed proud.

"I cannot allow this, brother." Wu said.

"Who are we fooling?" Garmadon asked.

"There's not enough time for me to make up for the pain I've caused in my life. But if I could save Ninjago..."

"You want my blessing to walk out on us again, fine!" Lloyd shouted.

"But don't expect me to stick around to watch you go. My real family needs me." Lloyd handed the spell book to Morro and jumped off the bounty.

"Lloyd, wait!" Garmadon cried, but Lloyd already left.

Morro looked at the ledge and back at his family.

"And what are your thought?" Misako asked.

"For me, if I lose someone close to me to win, that's not winning at all." Morro dropped the book and jumped off the ledge, following Lloyd.

The bounty shook from fired missiles. Nya struggled to keep it steady.

"If this is going to happen, I suggest we do it now." Pythor said.

As Lloyd dived towards the ground, he closed his eyes. He remembered the time when him and his father got reunited at the temple of fire. Lloyd dropped onto an anacondrai with a hover board and held him by his armour. Lloyd threw him to the ground.

As the green ninja lowered towards the ground, he closed his eyes once more. Remembering the time that Garmadon fought through the Overlord's possession to try and save Lloyd. The green ninja was enraged. He blasted his way through the battle field. It seemed like every critical moment that Lloyd shared either his father was being replayed right in front of him.

"What's gotten into Lloyd?" Zane shouted.

"I don't know, but it's too late. We can't stop them now." Kai said.