☯☼🏮Ninjago: The Master of Crystal💎🏹✳

A Time of Traitors

(The ninja and Izzy grunt as Jay tries on a helmet.)

Jay: Sorry, guys, nothing.

Cole: Darn, I was sure trying on the helmet was gonna help us figure out who those samurai snake guys were.

Nya: Me too. Jay, are you positive the helmet doesn't do anything?

Jay: Ha! Besides make me look cool? (Everyone looks at him.) What? I know how to accessorize.

Kai: (He takes the helmet.) Hm. Something about this is familiar, though. I just can't place it. Perhaps knows. (They go find Wu, who is resting on a bed.) Master Wu, this helmet. I feel like we've seen it before. Can you tell us anything?

Wu: (He takes it.) Curious. Time...

Kai: Time?

Wu: Time waits...

Nya: Time waits...

Wu: Time waits for no... (He falls back asleep.)

Kai: Uh, Master?

Coral: Master wake up! 

Wu: (He wakes up.) Did someone mention lunch?

Lloyd: No, Master, no one mentioned lunch.

Wu: Then why did you wake me? (He sleeps again.)

Lloyd: He isn't himself.

Jay: Clearly. Lunch isn't for three more hours. Ahh, this is just perfect. Mysterious snake samurai, uh, things attacked Ninjago, Cyrus Borg is missing, and our team is down one master and one ninja. (He looks at Zane who is unconcious.) 

Lloyd: We've got to get Zane back online. He was the last one to see Cyrus Borg.

Cole: Yeah, except Cyrus Borg is the only one who has the equipment to get him back online.

Izzy: What do we do now? 

Nya: I might be able to reboot Zane with the computer in the Samurai X cave. Although I could use some help.

Cole: Well, I'm in.

Jay: You know I am.

Izzy: I'll come too. Better than being stuck here all day.

Lloyd: I'll stay. One of us should keep an eye on Master Wu.

Coral: Make that two of us.

Kai: I'll go to the Museum and talk to Dr. Saunders. He's an expert on all things Ninjago. Maybe he knows what Master Wu is too weak to tell us.

Lloyd: Good thinking. Go and see what you can see.

(The Vermillion bring Cyrus to the museum and traps him in a sarcophagus.)

Krux: The Vermillion warriors have done well, brother. Borg is captured and the first step of our plan is complete. It's time to begin phase two.

Acronix: How? Phase two requires many more Vermillion than we have.

Krux: We'll have them shortly. With even more growing in the swamp. Soon, there will be a force of thousands.

Acronix: Okay, but how do the two of us control a force of thousands?

Krux: I've had forty years to develop this plan, brother. Do you not think I took that into account? May I introduce...Commander Raggmunk, Commander Blunck, and Commander Machia. Hand selected from the most genetically superior serpentine. Their superior intellect allows them to communicate telepathically with the Vermillion warriors and control them to the hive mind.