Chapter 14: The greatest trap of all, Part 4

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"Be my guest." You step back and give him some room. Morro blasts the wall with a tremendous gust of wind, but the wall doesn't budge. "In the name of the First Spinjitzu Master!" He fumes. "Open, I command you!"

You can't suppress a giggle at his infuriated expression. "Might I make a suggestion, Morro?"

"Yeah, fine." He grumbles. "This isn't working anyway."

"Try using the droid to hack it. If everything here is integrated"..

"I understand." He places the droids' hand on the wall, and a small, glowing blue grid materializes on it. The droids' eyes turn the same color as the grid, and thousands of 0's and 1's start running across the screen. "All the circuitry in the bots' neural pathways, and this.. thing, is run using a simple binary system. Incredible." Morro muses, fascinated.

"Come on, come on. Hurry up." You mutter.

"You can't rush this." Morro tells you calmly.

"I don't want to stick around and end up in Kryptarium Prison because of this! Jay says that there's pudding in prison. I don't want to know how he knows, but I certainly don't want to know what prison pudding tastes like!" You hyperventilate. "Prison pudding, Morro!"

"Almost there." As he speaks, the last few 0's and 1's freeze in place, and you hear a small click. The wall slides aside, revealing the real Realm Crystal. Morro goes over to it and picks it up. "Yes, this is it. It's the authentic Crystal." He says, turning it around in his hand and examining it closely.

You squint at it. "It looks just like any other gemstone in Ninjago."

"Ah, but looks can be deceiving, darling." You give him a quizzical look. "You'll see soon enough, YN." He says. He then holds it out to you. "Can you replicate it?"

"This is your master plan? It's clever, for a guy, but I don't know if I can do it. Looks, yes. But I'm not sure it will actually work like the real one."

"You won't know if you don't try." He answers encouragingly. You hold out your hand and accept the proffered gemstone. He curls your fingers around it and looks into your eyes. Though he's possessing the droid, you can still see a small glimmer of Morros' eyes in the robots'. "I believe in you, YN." He says quietly.

You look at the Crystal. "I hope this works, because it would suck if we got all this way for nothing." You smile up at him. "Okay. I'll try."

You tighten your grip on the Crystal and concentrate every fiber of your being on it. You let your consciousness drift through and around it, sensing, rather than seeing, every facet, every atom that composes it. Then you pass the Crystal into one hand, hold your other hand out, palm up, and focus all your energy into your palm. You draw the particles from around you to your hand, and sure enough, a hazy blue crystal begins to emerge. As you pack matter into it, it solidifies, and you gaze at it worriedly. "It's done." You say, handing it to him. He holds it up to the light, but nothing happens.

"I told you it wouldn't work." You state flatly. You sigh in defeat and put the original Crystal down.

"One more try." Morro grabs your hand, and in a flash of blue, you're transported onto a plateau made of sandstone. There are several humanoid animals sitting on it, and you land in the middle of them. The force of the landing jars Morro from the robot.

"You again?!" Sputters a lion, disentangling himself from Morro.

"What is that?!" A female eagle screams, pointing a feathered hand at the bot.

"Uh"..

"Ditch the droid, Morro!" You shout.

"You can kill it." Morro quickly tells a crocodile, who looks to be the most likely to kill without questioning him. The crocs' one good eye lights up and he closes in on the unfortunate machine. "Thanks for your help." Morro smirks at the droid. He takes your hand, and you end back up in the room with the crystal.

"I never doubted you, YN." Morro says, his eyes shining with pride.

You grin at him. Just let me put the first crystal back properly, and we can go." You pick it up and spot an infinitesimally small speck of a strange darkness in it. You stare at it, but it disappears, so you shrug your shoulders and place the gem back on its pedestal.

You use the second crystal to get back into the Labyrinth.

"We make a great team." Morro tells you.

"Hello, master." Bansha greets him, emerging from the vegetation. "We would have arrived here sooner, but Ghoul-Tar got us lost." Ghoul-Tar lowers his head in shame.

"No matter. We got what we came for." Then Morros' eyes harden. "Bansha, cuff YN."

"What?!" You don't believe your ears.

Morro ignores you. "Now, Bansha." Bansha gives you an evil little smile and conjures up a pair of vengestone cuffs. She grabs you and forces you into them.

"Why, Morro?" You ask him brokenly, fighting back tears.

"I don't need you anymore, YN." He answers coldly. You flinch.

"A pretty little trap, wasn't it?" Bansha cackles gleefully.

Your shoulders slump and you heave a wretched sob. Then you start to cry as the only person you've ever loved abandons you in the middle of the jungle.




A.N.  Sorry for the slower updates!  I'm stitching Christmas gifts as well, so it's getting a little hectic.  But I promise you, I'm writing as much as I can in my spare moments, it just takes some pre-planning to get the time I need to type it into the computer, which is why I have to wake up earlier than everyone else!  Enjoy!

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