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“I can’t believe Batman invited us to his mansion for movie night.” Benny grinned, floating above his friends with his usual zero gravity. 

“Yay! Sleepover at Batman’s house!” Unikitty cheered, jumping up and down with sparkles surrounding her. “This is so exciting!”

Emmet chuckled, still holding Lucy’s hand as they all walked up to the gates of the famous Wayne Manor on Wayne Island. Because if you're crazy rich, you can have one of those.

Stepping up to the gates, Lucy pressed the intercom on the side.

“Who is it?”

“It’s Wyldstyle.” Lucy replied, “You can tell Bats were here.”

“Very well, come in. I shall inform Master Bruce.”

The gates then slowly creaked open, allowing the group to pass through.

“Gotta say, it’s been a while since I’ve been to the Manor.” Lucy remarked, eyes tracing the outline of the manor.

“Yar! Me hopes this place has a door bigger than the last times!” Metalbeard remarked, trailing behind them.

Emmet, Lucy, Unikitty, and Benny winced at the remembrance of their previous movie nights, particularly their first one when the cyborg pirate ended up wrecking the doorway of Emmet’s apartment.

Hence why, Batman had invited them over, saying that he had his own theater room so they could have all the snacks they wanted and watch any movie they wanted without having to worry about wrecking stuff. And also because he just wanted to hang out with his friends. Shhh, don’t talk about that.

“I’m sure he’s got something for that, I mean, c’mon! He’s Batman! He prepares for everything!” Emmet responded, the others nodding and murmuring in agreement.

Walking up the cobblestone steps to the door, Lucy gingerly grasped the knocker and banged on the wooden door.

Two seconds later, the door was opened by Alfred.

“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.” The butler greeted politely.

“Hey, Alfred!” Emmet smiled with a wave, the other giving their own cheerful greetings.

“Master Bruce is expecting you in the living room. Follow me.”

After figuring out how to get Metalbeard through the doorway — by having him turn into a photocopier and having Emmet and Benny carry him in — they entered the manor and followed Alfred into the massive living room.

Emmet, Unikitty, Benny and Metalbeard couldn’t help gape at the room around them.

To say that the room was the definition of luxury was an understatement. It almost massive enough to fit a whole football stadium inside of it, and there’d still be room for President Business’ office.

“Woah! That’s the biggest fireplace I’ve ever seen!” Emmet gasped at the three giant fireplaces. “How’d he get all that wood?”

“Uh, he’s rich. Duh!” Lucy rolled her eyes in amusement.

“Yar, he be having some of the finest gold I ever laid me eye on.” Metalbeard whispered, fawning over the gold statues over the fire place.

“Ooh! Look at all these paintings!” Unikitty squealed, looking over the many, many pictures on the wall. “They’re all so pretty!”

“You could fit a spaceship in here!” Benny grinned, already gathering some parts.

“So where’s Batman?” Emmet eventually asked.

“Right here.” The Dark Knight replied, appearing seemingly out of nowhere.

All of them yelped, jumping back.

“Bruce! I told you not to do that anymore!” Lucy lightly scolded him.

“Shh! It’s Batman, okay?” Batman shushed her before turning his attention to the group as a whole. “Glad you guys came. I’m so used to having the Justice League and Avengers here. It’s a good change of pace.”

“Hey, we’re friends, right? We can hang out whenever we want!” Benny smiled.

“So what do you guys wanna do?” 

“Build a spaceship?” Benny suggested.

“Build a pillow fort?” Emmet added.

“Roast some marshmallows?” Unikitty put forth.

“What about a pillow fight?” Metalbeard held up his own large pillow.

The group began talking back and forth, unable to come to a total agreement on what they wanted to do.

“Hey, why don’t we watch a movie or something?” Lucy spoke up.

The others mumbled and nodded in agreement.

“But we can’t watch a movie without snacks!” Unikitty exclaimed.

“Yar, I need some pirate booty to have a good cinematic experience!” Metalbeard added.

“Oh yeah! We definitely gotta have popcorn!” Emmet nodded.

“Well, c’mon! Let’s go get some!” Benny floated over to the kitchen.

The others were about to head into the pantry when Batman landed in front of them. “Uh uh. You guys are my guests. Which means you guys get to enjoy some of my lavish lifestyle.” He then turned to his butler. “Alfred! Prepare us some snacks!”

“Of course, sir.” Alfred nodded, heading into the kitchen.

“C’mon, guys, check out my theater. You're gonna love it!” Batman smirked.

While Alfred prepared the snacks for them in the kitchen, Batman led his friends into his home theater.

Everyone (minus Lucy of course) couldn’t help but gasp again at the size of the theater. The fact that the home theater was literally a movie theater, widescreen and red seats and all.

“So what should we watch?” Lucy asked once they were settled into their seats while Alfred delivered their snacks and drinks. Emmet sat next to her while Unikitty sat on Emmet’s other side. Batman meanwhile was seated on Lucy’s left while Metalbeard and Benny sat at the far right side end of the theater.

“Yeah! What movies do you have?” Benny asked, floating up to get Batman’s attention.

Alfred then walked in carrying a pile of dvds. “You’re movies, sir.” He handed them to Batman.

“Let’s see… uh, Interstellar, nope. Serendipity, nope… huh…”

“What, what is it?” Lucy raised a brow at her ex.

Batman held up a specific dvd. “I don’t remember owning this movie.”

Emmet, Lucy, Unikitty, Benny, and Metalbeard gathered around the Dark Knight to see it for themselves.

“The Lego Movie?” Emmet read the title. “What does that mean?”

“Wait, is that… us?” Lucy noticing themselves on the cover. 

“Hey, it is!” Benny exclaimed in surprise.

“Ooh! A movie about us? Let’s watch it!” Unikitty beamed excitedly.

“Hmm, this might be interesting.” Metalbeard nodded.

Batman sighed. “Fine. Alfred, put this in the bat-projector.”

“As you wish, sir.” Alfred calmly took the dvd and walked out of the theater.

With that, the lights in the theater dimmed, and the gang got comfortable as they ate their snacks.

The movie opened with a display of the Warner Bros logo amongst a blue sky with some clouds

“Warner Bras.” Batman muttered. “Why not Warner Brothers? I dunno…”

The others quickly shushed him.

The logo and sky were then pulled back revealing a black Lego plate with the logo Village Roadshow Pictures before the logo was pulled back and the camera zoom in on the black plates of the ground before panning up to show a river of lava in a deep cavern.

Emmet, Lucy, Unikitty, Benny, Batman, and Metalbeard all couldn’t help but lean forward in anticipation, all collectively wondering where this opening was going.

As the camera flew across the river of lava, it then zoomed in on an old wizard standing at the edge of a bridge. One the gang was all too familiar with.

“Vitruvius…?” Lucy gasped at the sight of mentor onscreen.

“Vitruvius!” Emmet exclaimed happily before his smile fell at the memory of how his mentor/father figure passed.

Emmet, Lucy, and the others bowed their heads in solemn respect for their fallen friend before they continued.

Vitruvius brandished his staff out in front of him, guarding a large golden chest, “He is coming.” A dramatic beat. “Cover your butt.”

Emmet couldn't help but raise a brow at Vitruvius’ face, seeing two black eyes instead of the two white lights like he remembered. “Is it wrong for me to say he looks kinda weird when he’s not blind?”

Lucy rolled her eyes affectionately. “Well, you know he wasn’t always blind, right?”

“Well, yeah, of course I knew that!” Emmet shrugged sheepishly.

“He has such nice eyes, too!” Unikitty smiled. “They really go with his beard and hair.”

“Yeah, he looks nice for his age!” Benny complimented.

“He looks alright.” Batman admitted under his breath.

“Aye. There was truly was no one else like he.” Metalbeard nodded.

“Cover the what?” One of two knights guarding the huge door ahead asked before they were suddenly kicked open by none other than Lord Business, who laughed evilly.

Emmet, Unikitty, and Benny couldn’t help but laugh at the comedic timing, Metalbeard chuckled, and Lucy and Batman smiled in amusement.

“That was so sudden!” Emmet wheezed.

“I know!” Unikitty giggled in agreement.

“Vitruvius!” Lord Business exclaimed.

“Lord Business.” Vitruvius glared at his nemesis.

“You’ve hidden the Kragle well, old friend.” Business complimented the wizard, extending his robot legs. “Robots! Destroy him!”

“Yes, Lord Business!” A group of police robots exclaimed, carrying a large laser pointer with them. 

“Your robots are no match for a Master Builder! For I see everything!” Vitruvius exclaimed boldly, using his staff to create several birds out of bricks and send them flying at his enemies.

The gang sat at the edge of their seats in anticipation for the epic battle that was about to unfold.

That was until Lord Business’ robots activated the laser pointer, easily knocking back Vitruvius onto the ground as well as destroying his eyesight.

“Oh! My eyes!” Vitruvius cried, his hands flying to his face, “Ow!” 

Emmet, Lucy, Unikitty, Benny, Batman, and Metalbeard winced as they saw how their friend lost his eyesight. And in such an anticlimactic and unfair way.

“Poor Vitruvius!” Unikitty said sadly, feeling bad for the old wizard. “He didn’t deserve that!”

“No. He didn’t.” Emmet shook his head solemnly.

“But… if he hadn’t been blinded, then we wouldn’t have gotten the prophecy. And then we all wouldn’t have met and defeated Lord Business… right?” Benny tried to reason, though he sounded unsure himself.

“Well, they say everything happens for a reason, right?” Lucy smiled sadly.

“I mean, I’d probably be more like a bat if I was blind, because then I could use my echolocation.” Batman remarked.

The others gave him disapproving looks. “Too soon, lad.” Metalbeard stated, to which Batman mumbled his apology.

“The Kragle. The most powerful super weapon is mine.” Lord Business used his extended legs to easily cross the gap and reach the golden chest, opening it and causing a bright light to cascade out of it. “OH, the Kragle!” He laughed, with fire spewing from the horns of his helmet. “Now my evil power will be unlimited! CAN YOU FEEL Me?!”

“I can feel you!” Emmet joked with one of the robots onscreen, to which the others laughed.

“Woo! Nothing’s gonna stop me now!” Lord Business cheered, walking away as his minions closed the chest and carry it with them.

“Wait, there is a prophecy…” Vitruvius said weakly.

Emmet watched with bated breath upon hearing those words.

Lord Business rolled his eyes. “Oh! Now there’s a prophecy.”

“About the Piece of Resistance.” Vitruvius tried to push himself up.

“Oh, yes! The supposed missing Piece of Resistance, that can somehow magically disarm the Kragle!” Business said mockingly, “Give me a break!”

As Vitruvius stood up, he faced Lord Business and opened his eyes, causing a bright white light to glow from them.

Emmet, Lucy, Unikitty, Benny, Batman, and Metalbeard gasped along with Business, shielding their eyes at the sight.

“One day, a talented lass or fellow, a special one with face of yellow, will make the Piece of Resistance found from its hiding refuge underground, and with a noble army at the helm, this Master Builder will thwart the Kragle and save the realm, and be the greatest, most interesting, most important person of all times. All this is true, because it rhymes.”

Even though they knew that the prophecy was made up, the group couldn’t help but watch in awe as Vitruvius recited the famous prophecy that they had all heard. The one that had saved the realms from TAKO Tuesday.

Lucy, Unikitty, Benny, Metalbeard, and even Batman then turned towards Emmet with warm smiles on their faces.

Emmet smiled and blushed in embarrassment at his friends, humbling rubbing the back of his neck.

“Well… I guess that ruled me out.” Batman remarked, pointing to his own pale skin.

The others laughed at the Dark Knight’s humor.

“I guess that also excludes Unikitty too.” Lucy added.

Unikitty shook her head with a smile. “That’s okay! I don’t need to be the Special! Emmet can be that!”

“Aw, thanks Kitty!” Emmet chuckled, giving her a gentle head pat.

Lord Business, however, was not amused. “Oh, wow!” He gasped sarcastically. “That was a great, inspiring legend that you made up.”

With that, Business kicked Vitruvius off the cliff.

The group snickered at the suddenness of the kick, as well as Vitruvius’ scream.

“I feel like I shouldn’t be laughing and yet I am.” Batman said.

“A special one?” Business pondered. “What a bunch of hippy, dippy, baloney!”

“Ooh, baloney sounds delicious!” Emmet salivated.

Lucy rolled her eyes with a smile. She chose him alright.

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The movie then cuts to a yellow background with a text that read “8 ½ Years Later” before the text faded as an alarm clock went off, the camera focusing on the sleeping eyes of a familiar face.

Emmet gasped, “Wow! I’m in a movie, guys!” He smiled excitedly. “This is so cool!”

Lucy giggled, giving her boyfriend a peck on the cheek. “It sure is.”

Emmet blinked his eyes open with a smile, reaching over to shut off his alarm clock. He then jumped out of his bed and yawned, cracking his back.

“Goood morning apartment!” Emmet greeted his living space as he headed into the living room. “Good morning doorway! Good morning wall, good morning ceiling, good morning floor!”

“Good morning movie!” Unikitty said cheerfully.

“It’s the middle of the night.” Batman dryly pointed out.

“Good morning, Unikitty!” Emmet smiled.

“Good morning, Emmet!” Unikitty smiled back.

“Good morning, Wyldstyle!” Benny spoke up.

“Morning, Benny!” Lucy grinned in amusement.

“A good morning to ye, everyone!” Metalbeard exclaimed.

“Good morning, Metalbeard!” Emmet said.

“Good morning, Batman!” All of them yelled cheekily.

Batman’s face could not be flatter.

“Ugh, fine. Good morning everyone.” He muttered.

“Ready to start the day!” Emmet scrolled through his bookshelf before pulling out a set of instructions. “Instructions to Fit in, Have everybody like you, And always be Happy!”

“You don’t need instructions to do that, silly!” Unikitty smiled.

“Well, I know that now.” Emmet shrugged.

He flipped to the first page. “Step 1: Breath.” 

Emmet leaned back and breathed with his onscreen counterpart, with Unikitty and Benny doing the same.

“Okay, got that one down.” Emmet flipped the page. “Step 2: Greet the day, smile, and say…”

Emmet stood up from his seat.

“GOOD MORNING, CITY!” He yelled along with everyone in the city onscreen.

Lucy gently pulled her boyfriend back into his seat while Unikitty and Benny laughed.

Batman rubbed the side of his cowl. “Okay, I get it. You don’t need to yell.”

“You’ve got a nice view.” Benny observed.

“Yeah, it is pretty nice.” Emmet agreed.

“Step 3: Exercise.”

Emmet was now in his bedroom. “Jumping jacks, hit ‘em!” He jumped once, “One!” He jumped again, “Two!” He jumped a third time, “Three!”

“I am so pumped up!” Emmet jumped excitedly.

“Step 4: Shower.”

Cutting to the bathroom, Emmet turned on his shower as he washed himself.

“And always be sure to keep the soap out your— AAAAAAH!!!” Emmet screamed as some soap got in his eye.

Emmet blushed in embarrassment while the others laughed.

“Sorry, Emmet, but it is kinda funny.” Unikitty giggled.

“Yeah!” Benny agreed.

Emmet buried his face in his hands.

“Oh, babe, it’s okay! We’re sorry!” Lucy wrapped her arm around his shoulder.

Once Emmet was out of the shower, he continued with morning routine of shaving, brushing his teeth, and combing his hair.

“Wear clothes!” 

Emmet stepped outside before realizing he wasn’t wearing any. “Oop! Almost forgot that one!”

That got another laugh from the group.

Emmet quickly covered Unikitty’s eyes.

“Hey!” Unikitty cried in protest.

Cut to Emmet’s room where he’s trying on multiple outfits before finally settling on his orange construction worker jacket.

Now he was in his kitchen, retrieving a freshly toasted waffle from the toaster.

“Step 9: Eat a complete breakfast with all the special people in your life!” The picture on the instruction manual showed a typical family, a husband, wife, child, a dog, and a cat.

Cut to Emmet sitting on his couch all alone with only his potted plant to keep him company.

The mood immediately went down as Emmet’s friends gasped seeing the Special all alone. 

“Was it really that bad?” Lucy asked.

Emmet sheepishly nodded. “And I didn’t even realize it at the time.” He shrugged. “Plus, Planty’s good company!”

“Well, you don’t have to worry about being alone, Emmet!” Benny said, he and the others smiled at Emmet.

“That’s right.” Lucy nodded, pulling him closer.

“Thanks, guys.” Emmet smiled back at his friends.

“Hey, Planty! What do you wanna do this morning, watch TV? Me too!” Emmet grabbed the remote and switched on the tv.

Onscreen was President Business, addressing the city. “Hi, I’m President Business, president of the Octan corporation and the world.”

“We know.” Everyone said.

“Let’s take extra care to follow the instructions,” Business then whispered, “Or you’ll be put to sleep.”

“I knew it! I did hear him say that!” Emmet exclaimed, pointing accusingly at the screen.

“Babe, I’m sure he said that in all of his speeches.” Lucy smiled fondly.

“Honestly, sleeping doesn’t sound so bad.” Unikitty said innocently.

The others stared at her before continuing to watch.

“And don’t forget Taco Tuesday’s coming next week!” Business loudly said men with samba hats and maracas appeared behind him, “That’s the day every rule-following citizen gets a free taco and my love! Have a great day, everybody!”

“You have a great day too, President Business!” Emmet smiled. “Man, he’s such a cool guy! I always want to hear more about-” His eyes widened as he realized what the President said, “Wait, did he say put to sleep?!”

Immediately, the channel switched. “Tonight on Where are my Pants!”

On screen, a man in a blue shirt stepped into frame. “Honey, where are my paaaaaaants!” The camera zoomed out to show he was in his underwear. 

Emmet laughed so hard he fell off the couch.

Emmet laughed just as hard. “Oh! That never gets old!”

Lucy rolled her eyes, keeping her opinions on the show to herself. Though she was surprised when she heard Unikitty, Benny, and even Metalbeard snickering. “Seriously? You guys think this is funny?”

“I mean… it is a little funny.” Benny admitted, with Unikitty nodding in agreement.

“Ye learn to appreciate what little humor ye get on the high seas, Wyldstyle.” Metalbeard said.

Emmet sat up from the floor, “What was I just thinking? I don’t care.”

“That’s why you don’t fully remember it.” Lucy said to Emmet, “Because the sitcom and the joke was so stupid that it distracted you from whatever ideas you had.”

“Woah! I never thought about that!” Emmet gasped, “That’s so subtle and incredibly sinister!”

“Not that sitcoms are bad in and of themselves!” Benny quickly pointed out. “I mean, I love watching the Jetsons!”

“I like to watch me some SpongeBob.” Metalbeard offered.

“That’s a cartoon.” Batman dryly pointed out.

“Same principle.”

“Step 11: Greet your neighbors.”

Emmet walked along the sidewalk, greeting each member of his neighborhood.

“Hey, Joe!” Emmet greeted a man carrying a large pipe and plunger.

“Hey, pal!” Plumber Joe replied, nearly swinging his pipe at Emmet.

“Hey, Surfer Dave!” Emmet greeted said man across the street.

“Hey, brah.” Surfer Dave replied, stuffing his surfboard into the trunk of his car.

Continuing his stroll down the street, Emmet walked up to greet Mrs. Scratchenpost.

“Oh, good morning, Sherrie!”

“Hey, fella.” The elderly woman replied back as she loaded each of her cats into her car, with Emmet greeting each of the cats.

“Hey, Jasmine.”

“Meow.”

“Dexter.”

“Meow.”

“Angie.”

“Meow.”

“Loki.”

“Meow.”

“Bad Leroy.”

“Meow.”

“Fluffy.”

“Meow.”

“Fluffy Jr.”

“Meow.”

“Fluffy Sr.” 

“Meow.”

Emmet then glared at the last cat. “Jeff.”

“Meow.”

“Aww! They’re all so adorable!” Unikitty squealed. 

“Yeah, except Jeff.” Emmet muttered.

“Bet Catwoman would love her.” Batman remarked.

Emmet got into his car, driving in perfect sync with all the others cars on the road.

“Step 12: Obey all traffic signs and regulations.”

He drove his smart car through an underpass.

“Step 13: Enjoy popular music.”

He turned on his radio. “Top of the charts again, it’s Everything is Awesome!”

“Oh my gosh, I love this song!” Emmet grinned.

“Everything is Awesome!” Emmet sang along with the song, with Unikitty, Benny, and even Metalbeard nodding along. “Everything is cool when you're part of a team, Everything is Awesome! When your living a dream!”

Lucy resisted the urge to plug her ears for Emmet’s sake. Even though she secretly didn’t hate the song anymore (not that she’d ever admit she hated it), that didn’t mean she was entirely comfortable listening to it. Especially since the song itself was a painful reminder of her unintentional contribution to Business’ oppression. Though, she wasn’t quite ready to tell anyone that, at least not yet.

“Always use a turn signal.” Emmet switched on his turn signal as he pulled over and parked. “Park between the lines, yes!”

“Drop off dry cleaning before noon.”

“Read the headlines.”

“Don’t forget to smile!”

“That’s the only rule I like!” Unikitty smiled before it fell as she turned to Emmet. “But still, that’s a lot of rules just to live your life.”

“I realize that now, yeah.” Emmet nodded with a slight grimace.

“Can you blame him, though? He’s spent his whole life up until now following the rules.” Lucy gently took Emmet’s hand.

“Yeah, but now I know what living life really is, thanks to you guys.” Emmet smiled, to which his friends smiled back. “But especially thanks to you, Lucy.”

Lucy smiled, pecking her boyfriend on the cheek. “You’re welcome.”

“Always route for the local sports team!”

“GO SPORTS TEAM!” Everyone in the theater cheered along with everyone on screen.

“Always return a compliment!”

“Hey, you look nice!” Emmet said to someone while walking to the coffee shop.

“So do you!” Everyone in the area replied.

“Drink overpriced coffee!”

Cut to inside the cafe where Larry handed Emmet his coffee. “That’s thirty seven dollars.”

“… Wa-ha-awesome!” Emmet cheered.

Emmet, Lucy, Unikitty, Benny, Batman, and Metalbeard all laughed at the slight pause.

Cut to Emmet at the construction site with his coffee, marching to work with his coworkers while Everything is Awesome played in the background.

“Did you see Where are My Pants last night?” A random construction asked.

“HONEY, WHERE ARE MY PANTS!” Everyone in the site yelled as the camera zoomed out to show all the dozens of construction workers.

“Wow, you really blend in with the crowd.” Lucy observed, just barely keeping track of Emmet on screen.

Batman nodded. “Could be good for espionage.”

Emmet raised a brow at the Dark Knight. “Wait, was that supposed to be a compliment or an insult?”

“Yes.”

“Instructions coming in from central!” Frank the Foreman yelled as said instructions were delivered. “Okay, it says here that if there’s anything weird we blow it up!”

“Oh, hey! There’s Frank!” Emmet pointed.

“Your former boss?” Lucy asked.

“Yeah! He was the guy in charge of what we did on the site. Like, what we build, what we tear down, that kinda stuff. He also made sure we all followed the rules and regulations.”

“Uh, yeah, like we don’t know how construction works.” Batman said sarcastically.

“I don’t.” Unikitty replied innocently.

“Yeah, since we usually build stuff ourselves, construction workers are kinda redundant.” Benny said, before looking at Emmet with a sheepish expression. “No offense.”

“None taken.”

“Aye, whenever me ship take a hit, I usually repair it meself with me own bricks or what I can find. No need for others to repair it for me.” Metalbeard stated.

The continued watching as the construction workers went about their day, blowing up buildings and building new ones, all while singing and listening to Everything is Awesome, with them only spotting Emmet himself a couple times.

“So, Emmet, is this what it was like for you everyday?” Unikitty asked.

Emmet shrugged, “Pretty much, well, except for the weekends. And even then, sometimes I’d be called in for an extra shift.”

“Sounds boring.” Batman stated.

“Batman, be nice.” Lucy partially glared at her ex.

“No, no, it’s okay, I get it!” Emmet quickly reassured her. “I mean, it’s probably not super thrilling or epic like you guys’.”

As the construction continued, most of the workers were unaware or didn’t pay attention to the security cameras watching them.

“Man, I feel so good right now!” Emmet said happily, standing on an iron beam with some of his coworkers. “I could sing this song for hours!”

Cut to a blank screen with a text that read “5 hours later…”

Emmet blushed in embarrassment while the others laughed.

“Ye know what they say, time flies when ye be having fun!” Metalbeard laughed heartily.

“It sure does!” Unikitty giggled. “But it’s worth it!”

“Yeah it is!” Benny agreed.

“Can’t blame him, though. If I had a song I really liked, I’d sing it for hours too.” Batman grinned.

Lucy shook her head in amusement. Typical Emmet.

Cut back to the movie where the construction workers are still singing Everything is Awesome as the sun had almost fully set.

“Everything is Awesome, when you living a dream!”

“When your part of a team!” The construction workers finished, with Barry riding and smashing a wrecking ball into the ground as a finisher while explosions went off in the background. “Woo!”

Unikitty and Benny applauded the end of the song.

“Yeah! I’m going to sports bar after work tonight. Who wants to eat some delicious chicken wings and get craaaazy!” Barry said, pulling out some chicken wings.

Unikitty salivated at the sight of chicken wings before shaking her head. “No! You made a solid vow to not eat anything that had once been alive!” She winced as she tried to look away, “But why does that chicken have to look so tasty?!”

Lucy seemed to notice something was up with the unicorn cat. “Uh, Unikitty? You okay?”

“Fine! Fine!” Unikitty cried. “Just… could I have some more snacks, please?”

Batman looked over his shoulder. “Alfred! Get us more snacks!”

Emmet perked up. “Chicken wings?! I love chicken wings!”

“Hey, who wants to share a croissant with this guy?” Another construction worker yelled.

“Croissants, I love croissants!” Emmet smiled, but is seemingly ignored.

“Oh, yeah! I sure do love giant sausages!” 

“Giant sausages, no way!”

Emmet walked alongside his co workers, still talking although nobody was paying attention to him. “You know what I love to do? Is share a meal with the special people in my life!”

“Well, you got your wish.” Lucy smiled at him, still holding his hand while the others smiled at him.

“Thanks, guys.” Emmet smiled back.

“Fred, Barry, Gail? Me and you?” Emmet was so busy trying to join his co-workers that he wasn’t paying attention to where he was going as he smacked into a construction post, dropping his instructions. “Ah! No! Wait! Guys, wait up! Okay, I’ll meet you there!”

Emmet stared at the screen in deep thought. The whole reason he found the Piece of Resistance in the first place was because he was trying so hard to fit in. 

If he hadn’t hit that construction post and lost his instructions, well, he might not have been here today. In fact, he might have been frozen like everyone else on Taco Tuesday. That, or maybe someone else would’ve found the Piece, Lucy most likely.

“The prophecy chose you, Emmet.” He remembered Vitruvius’ words. 

Coincidence? Or was it just being in the wrong place at the wrong time?

He quickly got up, chasing his precious instructions as they wind carried them off towards the piles of rubble and abandoned buildings. “Oh, where did it go?”

Eventually, he found his manual at the top of a pile of rubble. “Oh, there you are!”

He turned around, about to head back and join his co-workers when he heard a sudden ‘woosh!’

Unbeknownst to him was the shape of a figure wearing a black hoodie leaping into the site.

“I think I heard a whoosh.” Emmet stated.

Lucy mentally slapped herself for being so careless. But at the same time, she didn’t regret it, as it was getting Emmet’s attention that ended up eventually saving the universe.

Inside the ruins, the mysterious figure held up a small device as they scanned the area, with the screen on it saying ‘Relic Found.’

Emmet finally noticed the figure. “Hey, pal, I hate to tell you this, but uh… I don’t think you're supposed to be here.”

The figure seemed to ignore him as they continued digging around the area.

“Yeah, as the rule specifically states: work site closes at six, it’s a hard hat area only.” Emmet continued. “That’s not official safety orange.” He then looked down at his instructions again. “If you see anything weird, report it immediately.” He read.

Emmet shrugged, “Well,” He pulled out his phone, dialing 9-1-1, “Gues I’m gonna have to report…”

As he spoke, the figure took off her hood, revealing herself to be Lucy — or Wyldstyle as she went at the time — in a beautiful golden light.

“Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…” Emmet froze, as he couldn’t help but stare.

Emmet’s cheeks burned bright red in embarrassment as he hid his face in his hands, feeling like a creep.

Lucy lightly blushed, glancing down.

“Eeee! Love at first sight!” Unikitty squealed like a little schoolgirl.

Batman, Benny, and Metalbeard meanwhile laughed at how long Emmet had been holding the word.

Wyldstyle then turned away and ran off, causing Emmet to finally snap out of it.

“Where are you going? Miss? I didn’t mean to scare you! I was just—!” Emmet tried to jump down, but tripped on some rubble, sending him tumbling through the air and into a large hole in the middle of the ruins.

“AAAAAAAAHHHH!!” Emmet screamed as he fell down the hole into a long twisty, turny, tunnel, bouncing off the walls as he fell.

Everyone in the theater, Emmet and Lucy especially, winced as the Emmet on screen bounced around the walls of the underground tunnels.

“I’m surprised you lived through that.” Lucy said.

“Me too.” Emmet nodded.

After falling and hitting the walls some more, he fell on an apex, nearly splitting him in half. “Ya-ow!” On the right side was rainbows, clouds, and ice cream while on the left side was several spikes and pointy weapons.

Emmet cringed at the memory of that particular moment. His back still ached just thinking about it!

“Ooh!” Unikitty’s eyes sparkled at the right side. She hoped Emmet would go down that way.

“Hey! That’s not so bad!” Emmet said, leaning towards the right side.

Right before his hard hat hit his feet, causing him to fall to the left side. “Yow!”

Unikitty sighed in disappointment as Emmet fell down the left side, and winced with her friends as she saw Emmet get poked full of holes.

Eventually, Emmet finally came to the bottom of the chasm, landing face first. “Ow!”

He was about to get up when his hard hat hit him in the head shortly after. “Ow!”

“Ye be a tougher lad than me though if ye managed to survive a fall like that, Emmet.” Metalbeard stated, surprised by the construction worker’s durability.

“Uh… thanks?” Emmet smiled awkwardly. 

As Emmet sat up, he could hear strange sounds in the wind as he looked up, seeing a strange glowing red piece sticking out of a glowing mass.

Lucy, Unikitty, Benny, Batman, and Metalbeard stared wide-eyed in awe at the sight of the legendary Piece of Resistance.

Emmet meanwhile, held his breath. Remembering that this was the moment that everything in his life changed forever.

“What is that…?” Emmet said aloud.

As he stared at the mysterious piece, he could the vague sound of voices in the air, almost like something was beaconing him. He was stuck.

“What do I do?” He murmured to himself. “I don’t have my instructions.”

“… Touch the Piece…” A faded voice whispered to him, whether he was hearing it in his head or not he couldn’t tell. And yet, he felt a strange compulsion to do what the voice told him.

“I feel like maybe I should touch that…” 

The whispers repeated themselves as Emmet stood up, not even taking his eyes off the piece.

Everyone in the audience watched silently, with Lucy griping Emmet’s hand tightly while Unikitty nuzzled his shoulder.

Emmet slowly walked towards the piece, almost like he was in a trance, even walking over his precious instructions, which ironically had been set on ‘Rule 181: Don’t touch strange pieces.”

Now within reach of the piece, Emmet slowly reached out his hand towards the piece.

Emmet stared unblinking at the screen, hardly even breathing as he knew exactly what came next.

As soon as his clawed hand touched the piece, images and lights began flashing.

Everyone in the theater jumped at the sudden cut, the trippy visuals following keeping them locked onto the screen.

Various images flashed across the screen in different colors, places, people, and events from the past, present, and even the future.

“A special one with a face of yellow will make the Piece of Resistance found from it’s hiding refuge underground.”

As the images flashed, there was a brief glimpse of a giant human hand reaching towards the camera.

Emmet shook his head while Lucy, Unikitty, Benny, Batman, and Metalbeard all gasped at the sight of the hand.

“The Man Upstairs…” Lucy whispered in awe.

“This Master Builder will thwart the Kragle and save the realm…”

“The Special has arisen…”

“Come on, everyone, protect the Special…!”

As everything faded to black for Emmet, he vaguely heard another voice in the back of his mind.

“It’s your turn to be the hero.”

Chapter Text

“So… was that really the Man Upstairs?” Lucy asked, the others staring at Emmet.

The construction worker nodded. “Yep. That was him, alright.”

The others gasped and whispered to each other.

“This… this could change everything we know about ourselves and the universe…” Benny murmured in awe. “The sheer scope of what this could…!”

“Guys! Guys!” Emmet stood up from his seat. “I get this is kind of a big existential discovery, but could we go back to watching the movie? Please?”

A moment of silence before the others nodded and murmured in agreement.

Emmet blinked his eyes open, his vision blurry.

“Where are the Master Builders?! How did you find the Piece of Resistance?!”

“Good morning, apartment…?” His vision became clearer, realizing this was not his apartment.

“Wake up!” Bad Cop yelled, flashing a light in his face.

Unikitty and Benny both jumped in fright.

Lucy, Batman, and Metalbeard all glared at the two-faced cop.

Emmet simply frowned, it seems the movie was finally getting to that scene.

Emmet yelped in fright.

“How did you find the Piece of Resistance?” Bad Cop questioned.

“The… piece of what?” Emmet voiced in confusion, realizing he was handcuffed to a small chair in what seemed to be an interrogation room.

“The Piece. Of Resistance!” Bad Cop growled before throwing his flashlight and slamming his fists on the table.

“I-I don’t…! Where am I? What’s happening??” Emmet stammered.

“Oh, what’s happening?” Bad Cop mocked. “Playing dumb, Master Builder.”

“Why is he being so mean to him? He hasn’t done anything wrong!” Unikitty protested.

“It doesn’t matter if he’s done anything wrong. They’re just trying to get a confession out of him.” Batman scowled, having dealt with his fair share of corrupt cops in Gotham.

“Wait, what about due process? Court of law, that kind of stuff?” Emmet blinked.

“They don’t need that so long as they say you're guilty. The rest they can sweep under the rug.” Lucy frowned.

“That’s horrible!” Unikitty cried. “This is why there’s no government in Cloud Cuckoo Land!”

“Yeah, that’s messed up.” Benny murmured.

“Aye, that is evil even by pirate standards.” Metalbeard nodded.

Emmet shook his head, “No, I — Master Builder…?”

“Oh, so you’ve never heard of the prophecy?” Bad Cop questioned, standing up on the table.

“No, I—!” Emmet shook his head.

“Or the Special?”

“No! No! I—!”

“You’re a LIAR!” Bad Cap snapped. He then back flipped off the table and tackled one of the chairs in the room.

Everyone in the theater watched the cop completely manhandle his chair in stunned silence.

Batman snickered under his breath at the ridiculous sight of Bad Cop wrangling his chair. “Big dumb baby.”

“Look, um…” Emmet tried to speak up, but went mostly ignored by Bad Cop. “I watch a lot of cop shows on tv!” He winced as the Cop headbutted the chair. “Isn’t there supposed to be a—!” Bad Cop suplexed his chair into the ground. “Isn’t there supposed to be a good cop?!”

Bad Cop kicked his chair past Emmet. “Oh, yes. But we’re not done yet.”

He then flipped his face, switching to Good Cop, “Hi, buddy!” Good Cop smiled cheerfully, “I’m your friendly neighborhood police officer!” He held up a cup. “Would you like a glass of water?”

Emmet hopped slightly in his chair, “Yeah, yeah, actually…”

Bad Cop took the reins. “Too bad!” He punched the glass away.

Unikitty huffed with a pout. “Rude.” 

“I really was thirsty.” Emmet rubbed his arm shyly.

“Security cameras picked up this!” Bad Cop leapt onto the table before slamming his fist onto a remote, turning on a small screen. “Boom! You were found at the construction site convulsing with a strange piece.”

“That’s disgusting!” Emmet gagged.

“Then why is it permanently stuck to your back?”

Emmet looked over his shoulder, yelping when he realized the Piece was indeed stuck to his back.

“Get it off me!” He cried, slamming his back into the wall trying to get it off. “Off me! It won’t come off, it’s chasing me!”

Emmet rubbed his chin, “Come to think of it, how did it get stuck to my back?”

The others simply shrugged.

“Look, i-it’s not my fault! I have no idea how this thing got on my back!” Emmet pleaded to Good Cop.

“Of course, buddy. I believe you.” Good Cop replied with a good-natured smile.

“Great!”

“I believe you too.” Bad Cop said sarcastically, using quotation marks. “You see the quotations I’m making with my clawed hands? It means I don’t believe you!”

He then leaned over Emmet so far that he was nearly touching the ground. “Why else would you show up with that thing on your back just three days before President Business is planning to use the Kragle to end the world?”

“President Business is gonna end the world?” Emmet whispered in astonishment. “But he’s such a good guy!”

Everyone in the audience, Emmet especially, winced at that sentence.

While said president had helped them in the end, most of them were still pretty hesitant to trust him. Namely, Lucy, Batman, and Metalbeard.

Others though, like Emmet, Unikitty, and Benny were more hopeful in the belief that his change to good was genuine.

“And Octan, they make good stuff! Music, dairy products, coffee, tv shows, surveillance systems, all history books, voting machines…!”

Emmet blinked. “Wait a minute…”

“Yeah, I probably should’ve picked up on that sooner.” Emmet rubbed his neck sheepishly.

Everyone else gave him a look that flat out said, ‘you think?’

Bad Cop slammed Emmet onto the ground. “C’mon! You can’t be this stupid!”

 Emmet sputtered frantically, “Wha - this is a misunderstanding! I’m just a regular, normal, ordinary guy! And I’m late to meet my best friends in the whole world! And they’re probably missing me right now! They’re probably out looking around! ‘Hey where’s Emmet!’ ‘Hey, where’s my best friend Emmet!’ Hey you know what? Ask all my friends! They’ll tell you!”

Bad Cop pulled him upright. “Oh, we asked them, alright.” He grabbed the remote. “Boom!”

He slammed the button and turned the tv on, showing various interviews from the construction site Emmet worked at.

“That guy’s not an evil mastermind.” One of the construction workers said, having been shown a picture of Emmet.

“See?” Emmet pointed out.

“Yeah, he’s like an… average normal kinda guy…?” Fred said.

“Thank you.” Emmet sighed in relief.

“But you, he’s not - he’s not, like, normal like us, no, he… he’s not… that… special…” 

Emmet looked down, his friends watching the screen in surprise seeing Emmet’s friends giving their brutally honest opinions on him.

“Wait, I’m so confused. Who are we talking about?” Gail asked before she looked at Emmet’s picture. “Wait, does he work with us?”

“Gail doesn’t remember me…?” Emmet sounded surprised that his somewhat crush apparently didn’t recognize him.

Lucy frowned at Gail. She seemed like someone Emmet thought himself close to. And to see her not even recall him at all filled her with a sense of fury. 

The same was true for the rest of their friends, many of them watching with sadness and even some anger. But most of all, they were concerned about Emmet and how he was feeling.

The Special himself had this unreadable look on his face, with only the slightest hint of a frown. As if he were contemplating something.

“Look at Randy, he likes sausages. That’s something.” Barry said. “Gail is perky. That’s something! And Harry, well…”

Cut to Frank and camera. “When you say Harry, I go,” Frank laughed hysterically, “When you say the other guy, I go…” He gave a blank stare.

Emmet’s smile fell as he listened to the other interviews. 

“I know that guy, but I know like zippy zap about him.” Surfer Dave said.

“We just talked earlier.” Emmet weakly pointed out.

“I mean, all he does is say yes to everything everybody else is doing.” Frank shrugged.

“He’s just sort of a… little bit of a… blank slate, I guess.” Larry commented.

Emmet’s frown fell even further.

“We all have something that makes us something and Emmet is…” Barry tried to articulate the right word. 

“… nothing.”

Emmet looked like he was about to cry.

“There you go.” He mumbled quietly. “I told you I was a nobody.”

Emmet looked down, reminded of those harsh words. What hurt more was that they weren’t even from a place of malice. Just their brutally honest opinions. Because really, who was he outside of being the Special? Just another face in the crowd? A background extra in someone else’s movie? Just a simple ordinary construction worker that no one really cared about?

Suddenly, he felt Lucy tighten her grip on his hand. 

He looked up at her, smiling at him with a sad but fond look. 

“You are not nothing, babe.” She said softly. “You are the most talented, most interesting, and most extraordinary person in the universe. And I am being 100% serious when I say that you are capable of amazing things. Because you are the Special. You saved everyone. And no one can ever take that away from you. And for the record…” She drew in a deep breath. “… I love you, Emmet Brickowski, from the bottom of my heart.”

Emmet’s lips twitched upwards. “Thanks, Lucy.” He said quietly. “Love you too.”

He then felt something fluffy slam into his side. He looked down, seeing Unikitty hugging him.

“Yeah, we’re your friends, Emmet, your family.” Unikitty sniffled, her eyes brimming with unshed tears. “You're something to us. To all of us! Your Lucy’s special best friend, your Benny’s space buddy, your Metalbeard’s first mate, your Batman’s Robin, and…” She brushed away her tears. “And you're kinda like an older brother to me.” She whispered.

Emmet blinked in surprise. “…Really?” To which Unikitty nodded.

“Yeah, you saved the universe when no one else could.” Benny said, floating over and hugging Emmet from behind. “And you’re a great guy to talk to. Whenever we’re feeling down, you're there to cheer us up. You inspire us to keep going, even in the worst of odds. You willingly threw yourself into the abyss to save us all. If that’s not best friend material, I don’t know what is.”

“Yar, yee may not be the smartest or the strongest, but yee have one of the biggest and brightest hearts I’ve ever seen.” Metalbeard nodded, placing his mechanical hand Emmet’s head and rubbing it affectionately. “Yee are the glue that keeps this hearty crew together. Without yee, we are doomed to shipwreck.”

Emmet smiled, even feeling some tears building up in his eyes. It felt great to have friends, real friends. A real family.

All of them then looked at Batman expectedly.

The Dark Knight groaned. “Fine. I may be a superhero, but in all honesty… you're the hero this world needs and deserves. You saved the world and you're the chosen one and all, but you never let it get to your head. You always face strife with a smile. And honestly…” He gave Emmet a small smile. “That makes you alright in my book, Brickowski.”

Emmet smiled back, “I’m really glad you guys are my friends.” He held out his arms. “Bring it in.”

The others smiled before piling on Emmet in a large group hug.

Eventually they returned to their seats and continued the movie.

“It’s the perfect cover!” Bad Cop growled.

“ Cover ?! Cover for what??” Emmet said incredulously.

“I can’t break him.” Bad Cop stated before walking away. “Take him to the Melting Chamber!”

“The what…?” 

Before Emmet knew it, he was being strapped to some kind of mechanism that had his back facing up towards a giant laser.

“AAAAAAAAGH!” He screamed.

The camera panned back.

“AAAAAAAAGH!” 

The camera pulled back again.

“AAAAAAAAGH!”

“Alright, alright, we get it, stop screaming.” Batman grumbled, rubbing his ears through his cowl.

“You're gonna melt me?! Am I gonna die?!” Emmet yelled in a panic.

“You’ll live. You’ll be fine!” Good Cop said reassuringly before the phone rang and he switched to Bad Cop.

“President Business,” Bad Cop picked up the phone, “I have him right here, sir. Yes, we’ve told him so he doesn’t try to escape but…” He pressed the button to activate the laser, “… we’re lying to him.”

“Wait, what did he just say?!” Emmet cried as Bad Cop left the room.

“Hold still!” One of the robots said, pulling a switch that raised Emmet up towards the laser.

“Wait! There’s obviously been a mixup here! You’ve got the wrong-!” 

The robots fired the laser at the Piece on Emmet’s back, ignorant of his pleas.

“OW! Ow, ow, ow, owhahahaow!” Emmet cried in pain, “That is gonna start hurting pretty soon!”

The gang winced at the pain Emmet was going through on screen, but they were quickly relieved by who they saw next.

Unbeknownst to the robot firing the laser, a mysterious hooded figure lowered themselves from the ceiling, grabbed the robot and tossed him off. The figure expertly dodged the robots firing at them before redirecting the laser at the weapons cache, causing a massive explosion.

Emmet, Unikitty, Benny, and Metalbeard cheered seeing Lucy take out the robots while Batman nodded in approval.

Lucy gave a small smirk, feeling appreciated by her friends.

The figure easily maneuvered through the room, taking out all the robots with ease before taking an axe and cutting Emmet free.

Emmet gasped. “Woah! Who are you?”

The figure removed her hood, revealing herself to be Wyldstyle.

“It’s you?” Emmet whispered, recognizing her from earlier.

Wyldstyle held out her hand. “Come with me if you want to not-die.”

“Aw, yeah, Judgement Day.” Batman grinned, knowing the reference.

“What’s that?” Emmet asked, with Unikitty also looking confused at the reference.

The rest of the group looked at the two awkwardly.

“It’s… it’s a… grown-up movie. Something for when you're older…” Lucy stammered.

Emmet reached out to take her hand, but they were interrupted as the door to the room opened.

“Hi everybody!” Good Cop smiled, carrying a croissant, “How’s the melting go-” He immediately switched to Bad Cop when he saw what was going on. “Hey, hey, hey!”

Emmet and Wyldstyle quickly climbed out through the skylight as Bad Cop pulled out his gun and began firing on them.

“Red alert! I need everyone, repeat, everyone to go after the Special!” Bad Cop shouted into his radio.

“So is that how you got in?” Emmet asked, pointing to the skylight.

Lucy nodded. “Yeah, why?”

“Just curious.” Emmet shrugged.

“It was something I taught her.” Batman stated. “We did a couple stakeouts in Gotham back when we were dating.”

“Ah, that makes sense.” Emmet nodded.

“To be fair, they were pretty boring.” Lucy admitted.

Wyldstyle landed on her feet in the alleyway. “The tunnel’s that way!”

Behind her, Emmet tumbled down the fire escape, landing headfirst into a trash can. “Ow!”

The group snickered and giggled at Emmet’s little blunder.

He stood up, but found the can was stuck on his head.

Wyldstyle turned around. “Oh, sir, you're brilliant!” She then grabbed a few pieces from the streets and walls. “We’ll build a motorcycle out of the alleyway!” She yanked the trashcan off of Emmet’s head.

“Oh.” Emmet said in a bit of a daze.

Wyldstyle leapt around the alley, the camera to her vision as it showed off various parts that she needed, including the names of said pieces as well as the numbers for them.

“What’s with the numbers?” Emmet asked, pointing at them. “Whenever I build stuff, I always see them. What do they mean?”

The rest of the group shrugged. 

“Nobody knows, not even some of the oldest Master Builders.” Metalbeard stated.

“I’ve heard some people say that they appear because that’s what identifies them. Like, so you can tell what pieces they are.” Lucy explained.

“So, uh, I didn’t catch your name!” Emmet spoke up as Wyldstyle continued to zoom through the alley assembling the motorcycle. “Or anything about what you’re up to, or what we’re doing here.”

“It’s brilliant, sir, that you pretended to be a useless nobody, but you can drop the act with me, it’s cool!” Wyldstyle told him, thinking Emmet was just putting on an elaborate act.

“Oh, the act…” Emmet looked away.

Lucy buried her face in her hands in embarrassment, feeling like an idiot for not realizing Emmet’s normalness sooner.

Emmet quickly saw this and put a reassuring hand on her shoulder.

Wyldstyle then flipped the cycle over, attaching the handle bars and starting the engine.

“WOAH-HO-HO!” Emmet exclaimed in awe.

“Not gonna lie, that bike looks pretty sick.” Batman nodded in approval. “Of course, the bat cycle’s better.”

“Well, I think it still looks awesome!” Emmet grinned.

“Yeah, it looks really cool!” Benny added with Unikitty and Metalbeard nodded in agreement.

“Thanks, guys.” Lucy smiled.

“Jump on! Let’s go!” Wyldstyle drove out of the alley, grabbing Emmet by the arm and yanking him onto the bike.

“Hang on, sir!” Wyldstyle yelled as they drove out onto the main square, with Bad Cop and the rest of the police force hot on their tails.

“All units! Cut him off on Elem, now!” He then switched to Good Cop. “Or, whenever you can.”

“Alright, epic chase scene time.” Batman tossed some popcorn in his mouth.

“Ooh! This ought to be exciting!” Unikitty wiggled in her seat.

“It’d be more exciting if they were in spaceships.” Benny said.

“Ten-four, Bad Cop!” One of the robot policemen yelled, blocking off the road.

“Watch out!” Emmet cried.

“Hold on!” Wyldstyle jumped the cycle over the barricade, Emmet screaming in fright while civilians fled and laser fire flew everywhere.

“We need to meet up with Vitruvius and tell him the Piece has been found!” Wyldstyle drove the motorcycle up a flight of stairs and up onto the monorail tracks.

“Uh huh…” Emmet nodded wearily.

“You sound so flabbergasted!” Unikitty giggled.

“To be fair, this was probably both the craziest and scariest night of my life.” Emmet shrugged with a smile. 

“They’re up on the monorail!” Bad Cop yelled. “Release the cover choppers!”

Said chopper soon arrived, dropping a police cycle on the rails. The cop robot sitting in the back firing at Emmet and Wyldstyle.

Emmet ducked while Wyldstyle reached back and used the exhaust pipes as machine guns to annihilate the police robots.

“That was quite brutal.” Metalbeard nodded before he grinned. “I love it!”

Lucy smiled. “Thanks.”

Emmet screamed as they veered off the rails and back down onto the street. “Can you please tell me what is happening?!” 

“Yeah, context is nice.” Emmet nodded.

“Well, I did give you context, didn’t I?” Lucy raised a brow with an amused smile.

“I’m rescuing you, sir! You're the one the prophecy spoke of, you're the Special!”

Emmet blinked. “Me…?” He whispered in surprise.

A helicopter spotlight shined down on them, causing everything around them to seemingly slow down.

Wyldstyle smiled at him. “You found the Piece of Resistance. And the prophecy states that you are the most talented, most interesting, and most extraordinary person in the universe.”

As she said this, Emmet began to smile, and it grew the more she talked about the prophecy.

Emmet smiled as he remembered those words. It being the first time anyone had ever really told him that.

He felt Lucy squeeze his hand, which he squeezed back.

“That’s you, right?” 

Emmet paused for a moment. “Uh… yes! That’s me!”

“Great! You drive!” Wyldstyle let go of the handle bars.

“WHAT?!” 

Unikitty, Benny, Batman, and Metalbeard all laughed while Lucy chuckled.

“That was mean, Wyldstyle!” Unikitty giggled.

Lucy shrugged with a smile.

Emmet rolled his eyes. “Yeah, a little warning would’ve been nice.” He mumbled.

Wyldstyle then shot a grappling hook into the air, swinging up and kicking the helicopter above them before landing on one of the bikes pursuing them.

Emmet, meanwhile, was forced to take the handlebars of the alley motorcycle, frantically weaving through oncoming traffic.

“ AAAAAHHH! I wanna go home!” Emmet screamed.

Ahead of him, a large truck carrying a fully built house slid to a stop, with the house being dumped onto the road.

“This is not what I meant!”

The others laughed while Emmet grinned sheepishly. “I mean, it’s what I asked for!”

“But not exactly what you wanted!” Benny snickered.

He crashed through the front door into the house, driving up the stairs and into the hallway on the second floor.

“ AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!” Emmet screamed as he drove up the ceiling ladder into the attic before crashing out the window and back out onto the road.

The group were in hysterics at the scene, with even Emmet laughing a bit thanks to the gift of hindsight.

“Yee have the lungs of a whale, laddy!” Metalbeard cackled.

Wyldstyle was beating up a cop robot with their own arm when she noticed several police motorcycles driving towards Emmet. “Oh no! Look out Special!”

“Oh sorry!” Emmet yelped, clumsily steering his vehicle into the police motorcycles and causing them to crash. “Never been on a motorcycle, sorry!”

He then accidentally hit the breaks, causing the back wheel to grind a cop behind him into pieces.

“Wow! He’s amazing!” Wyldstyle said in awe while Emmet took out three police cycles by spinning around and slamming into them, giving Wyldstyle the chance to jump back onto the alley cycle.

“You sure you haven’t driven a motorcycle, Brickowski?” Batman questioned. “Because that was pretty rad.”

Emmet nodded. “Yeah, the closest I ever got to that was like riding a bike through the park a few times on the weekends.”

“That was incredible! You're even better than the prophecy said you’d be!” Wyldstyle told Emmet.

“Oh, r-really?”

“I’m, uh, I’m Wyldstyle!”

“Oh, I’m sorry, what was it?” Emmet asked, focusing on steering the motorcycle.

“Wyldstyle.”

“Wyldstyle?” Emmet raised a brow.

“Mm-hmm.”

“What are you, a DJ?” 

“No.” Wyldstyle shook her head.

“Oh, so that’s your name is Wyldstyle?” Emmet asked, not noticing the cops gaining on them. “Like on your birth certificate, it just says Wyldstyle-”

“Let’s not talk about my name!” Wyldstyle quickly said.

Unikitty squealed. “You guys… are so cute!”

“Well, I was dating Batman at the time.” Lucy said.

“Still, it was a fun first date, eh?” Emmet teased with a cheeky smile.

Lucy rolled her eyes, but still smiled. “You're lucky I like you.”

“I like you too!” Emmet smiled kindly.

“Don’t let the Special get away!” Bad Cop yelled.

“Sir, we’ve blocked the freeway!” One of the cop robots said, the camera cutting to further down the highway, which was now blocked off with dozens of police cruisers and barricades.

“Hang on, sir!” Wyldstyle exclaimed, quickly changing pieces on the bike.

“What are you doing…?” Emmet questioned as the action girl shifted the vehicle from a motorcycle to a hover bike.

“Let’s fly!” Wyldstyle grabbed the handle bars and flew them above the barricade.

“Ooh, cool!” Benny went starry-eyed. “You built like a miniature spaceship!”

“It’s more of a hover bike but I get what your saying.” Lucy said.

“Head for the secret tunnel!” She yelled as they flew further outside the city.

“Uh, these are the city limits!” Emmet pointed out, noticing the dozens of signs saying ‘stay out!’ And ‘forbidden!’

“Let’s just head for the tunnel!” Wyldstyle ignored him, pushing a button on her relic scanner.

Up ahead, the entrance to the secret tunnel opened.

“You want to drive into that weird swirly hole?! What are you, insane?!” Emmet cried.

“Don’t brake! Go! Don’t stop! Go, now!” Wyldstyle yelled.

“I can’t do this!” Emmet tried to bail in a panic, but Wyldstyle quickly pulled him back in. “That is against the instructions!”

Everything seemed to slow down again.

“Wait, what’s your favorite restaurant?” Wyldstyle asked, fearing the worst.

“Any chain restaurant!” Emmet immediately answered.

“Favorite tv show?”

“Where are My Pants!”

“Favorite song??”

“ Everything is Awesome~!”  

Wyldstyle’s face filled with dread. “Oh no!”

Emmet winced, “Sorry you had to find out that way…”

“It’s okay.” Lucy quickly reassured him. “Besides, it’s probably better we got it over with then instead of later.”

They flew through the secret tunnel, the entrance immediately closing behind them.

Several police cars and helicopters crashed into the wall in pursuit, starting a massive fire.

Emmet, Wyldstyle, Unikitty, Benny, and Metalbeard sat stunned at the amount of carnage left behind.

Batman whistled. “That’s probably gonna be a lot to pay for.”

Bad Cop soon arrived, flipping out of his car. “Darn, darn, darn, darny, DARN!” He yelled in anger, one of the police robots placing down a chair for him.

He immediately began kicking the chair into the robot before kicking the chair some more to vent his anger, one of the police robots starting to flee in fear of the chief.

Bad Cop then grabbed the chair and threw it into the air, the chair landing on the fleeing cop robot.

“Grrr…!” Bad Cop growled, likely clenching his fists if he could.

The group breathed a sigh of relief.

“That was so exciting!” Unikitty exclaimed, little sparkles flying from her horn.

“Oh, believe me, it gets better from here.”

Chapter Text

Emmet screamed as he and Wyldstyle went through the secret tunnels, the hover bike falling apart as they fell.

Benny sighed in disappointment, seeing the hover bike go. “Spaceship…” He murmured sadly.

As the screen faded to white, the camera then swept through an opening in the clouds, displaying a rocky desert with a giant naturally formed arch, the music kicking in.

Ohhhhh, oh, ohhhhhh! Ohhhhhh, oh, oh! A background chorus sang.

Emmet, Lucy, Unikitty, Benny, Batman, and Metalbeard stared in awe at the movie's visuals, the music only enhancing the experience.

“AAAAAHHHH!!” Emmet screamed as he fell out of the air.

Benny, Unikitty, Batman, and Metalbeard all burst out laughing at the beat.

Emmet chuckled a little while Lucy rolled her eyes in amusement.

Emmet tumbled down the large hill below the arch, with Wyldstyle sliding down next to him.

She landed to a sliding stop while Emmet landed face first, still screaming loudly. Wyldstyle scoffed and walked away.

Just when the laughter had died down, it picked back up again as the on screen Emmet continued to scream.

“I think I nearly broke my jaw in that fall.” Emmet remarked, rubbing his chin.

“It’s such a good scream!” Benny chuckled.

Emmet finally stopped screaming, “Wait, where are we?”

As if to answer his question, a series of words appeared in the sky reading ‘The Old West.’

“This is so weird—!” Emmet was about to say when Wyldstyle smacked him with a cactus hard. “ Ah-how!”

Unikitty gasped, “Wyldstyle! That wasn’t very nice!”

Batman, however, snickered. “Nice hit, though.” Though he quickly shut up when Unikitty glared at him.

Lucy grinned sheepishly. “Sorry, I was just… a little frustrated.”

“I get it.” Emmet nodded. “You were probably expecting someone more… I don’t know, cool and epic to be the Special, huh?”

Lucy quickly put her hand on his shoulder. “Oh, babe, you're perfect and special the way you are. I just didn’t realize it at the time.”

“You're not the Special, you lied to me!” Wyldstyle yelled angrily.

Lucy flinched at the reminder of her harsh words, to which Emmet squeezed her hand reassuringly.

“Well, uh, it, uh, really-really kinda depends…” Emmet futility tried to explain.

“You're not even a Master Builder, are you?” Wyldstyle scoffed, walking away.

“I mean, I know what a Master Builder is!” Emmet quickly got him, following after her. “Why don’t you tell me what that is, that way I can see if you’re right?”

“You ruined the prophecy!” Wyldstyle almost sounded close to tears.

The audience looked saddened by that, Emmet and Lucy particularly.

Lucy knew she had been harsh back then, but man , did she really seem like a jerk here.

Emmet stopped with a sad look. “Look, I’m sorry! Okay? It’s just… you made being special sound so good.”

“And to think I was going to follow you to the end of the universe!”

Emmet blinked in surprise. “You were…?” He murmured. “Well here’s the thing, how do we know for sure that I’m not the Special? We just don’t know it yet—”

“Quiet!” Wyldstyle hushed him, pulling him behind a tombstone.

Ahead of them were two cowboys next to a horse-pulled wagon outside of a small town.

“You want a giant turkey leg?” One of the cowboys asked.

“Do you have any idea what that does to your colin?” The other cowboy questioned.

Before they could react, Wyldstyle jumped down and knocked them both out in quick succession.

“Nice to see you remember some of those moves I taught you.” Batman nodded in approval.

“We had to be quiet during that time, Batman.” Wyldstyle told him.

“That was still awesome by the way!” Emmet gushed.

“Yeah, that was cool how fast you took them out!” Unikitty added.

Lucy smiled in appreciation.

“Oh my, G. O. S. H!” Emmet gasped before Wyldstyle tossed a hat to him.

“Just put the hat on!” Wyldstyle told him before tossing some other things to him. “Oh, and this, and this, and this, and this!”

She tossed him a poncho, a pistol, a fake mustache, and finally a brown horse, which nearly squashed him.

The gang laughed at Emmet’s onscreen expense, even Emmet himself finding it a bit funny.

“And by the way, I have a boyfriend.” Wyldstyle emerged from the carriage wearing an old west style dress.

“Ooh! Wyldstyle, that looks good on you!” Unikitty gasped. “I’m normally not one for dark colors, but you really pull it off!”

“Oh… uh, thanks…” Lucy blushed a bit in embarrassment.

“All black with some skulls on it.” Batman nodded. “I dig it.”

“You making a move on her?” Emmet narrowed his eyes at the Caped Crusader.

Batman held up his hands in surrender. “Hey, I was just complimenting her!”

Emmet then laughed, “Ah, I’m just kidding! It’s true, she does look great.” He smiled at Lucy, who smiled back.

Batman blinked. “Uh, yeah, yeah, I totally knew you were joking.” He huffed, folding his arms. He totally knew.

“Uh, not sure exactly why you’d bring that up.” Emmet said awkwardly, now wearing his cowboy disguise.

“Super serious, you do not want to mess with him.”

Batman smirked. “Darn right you don’t.”

“Okay.”

“So, don’t get any ideas.” Wyldstyle then mounted a black horse from the carriage.

“I never have any ideas.” Emmet said, pulling his brown horse to it’s feet, to which said horse tried to run away. “Wait!”

The two quickly got onto their horses and ventured into town.

“Hey, uh, listen, you think you could explain to me, like, why I’m dressed like this, what those big words in the sky were all about and like where we are… in time?” Emmet asked.

Wyldstyle huffed, rolled her eyes.

Her horse snorted, also rolling its eyes.

The group laughed.

“Great minds think alike!” Benny remarked.

“I really liked that horse.” Lucy nodded.

“They’re both so beautiful!” Unikitty gushed.

“Yeah, Alvin was a good boy.” Emmet smiled with a nod.

“Alvin?” Lucy raised a brow.

“It’s what I was planning to name him.” Emmet shrugged.

“You’re home, Bricksburg, is one of many realms in the universe.” Wyldstyle explained. “There’s also this one, Pirate’s Cove,”

“Yar, no place like home.” Metalbeard nodded with a grin at the mention of his home realm.

“Knight’s Club, Viking’s Landing, Clown Town, a bunch of others we don’t need to mention…” She said as many different Lego themes were shown including Friends, Speed Racer, Bionicle, Ninjago, and Fabuland.

“Uh-huh, yeah, we know.” Batman rolled his eyes. 

“Mm hmm.” Emmet nodded.

“Lord Business, or as you think you know him, ‘President Business’,” Wyldstyle seemed to roll her eyes saying that. “Stole the Kragle, the most powerful weapon in the universe…”

As she kept talking, Emmet still stared, the heat starting to get to him as he began daydreaming a bit.

“ Blah, blah, blah… proper name, place name, backstory stuff…” Wyldstyle in the daydream said in a sultry manner.

Emmet once again buried his face in his hands, feeling both embarrassed and feeling like a creep.

Lucy, meanwhile, blushed seeing her boyfriend onscreen practically ogling at her.

Unikitty, Benny, Batman, and Metalbeard, meanwhile, laughed hysterically at the drama of the scene.

Emmet nodded, a delirious smile on his face while Wyldstyle kept talking in the background.

“I’m so pretty, I like you, but I’m angry at you for some reason…” Daydream Wyldstyle said, brushing her hair.

Emmet nodded dumbly again.

“... Put the Piece of Resistance onto the Kragle, and disarm it forever!” The real Wyldstyle finished.

“Great!” Emmet said. “I think I got it… but just in case… tell me the whole thing again, I wasn’t listening.”

Wyldstyle groaned, rolling her eyes. Her horse snorting and rolling it’s eyes as well.

Just as the laughter had started to die down, it started back up again, with even Emmet and Lucy finding it pretty funny.

“Sorry.” Emmet grinned sheepishly.

Lucy rolled her eyes with a smile. “Well, it’s all in the past now.”

“Okay,” Wyldstyle took a deep breath, trying very hard not to lose her cool, “All the people of the universe were once free to travel and mingle and build whatever they wanted!” 

“Hey, that’s me!” Benny excitedly pointed out, noticing himself in the flashback with all the other Master Builders. “And there’s my buddy, Henny!” He pointed to the red spaceman in the corner.

“Nice, man!” Emmet smiled, happy for his friend. 

“Yay!” Unikitty cheered, sparkles flying out of her horn.

“Ah, the good old days.” Metalbeard nodded in remembrance of those times.

“But Lord Business was confused by all the chaos, so he erected walls between the worlds, and became obsessed with order and perfection. And he stole a mysterious secret super weapon called…” 

“ The Kragle! ” Lord Business yelled in the flashback.

“And he hired Bad Cop to hunt down all the Master Builders, who were always changing everything.” Wyldstyle said. “And those of us that remained, we went into hiding, built tunnels to survive.”

The mood immediately went down as they frowned at the imagery of Lord Business’ former tyranny, creating the walls between the realms while Bad Cop went around arresting several Master Builders while others built the tunnels between the realms to avoid the police.

“And we searched for the Piece of Resistance, the only thing that can stop the Kragle.” Wyldstyle said, finishing the flashback.

“The Kragle, I know that, it might’ve been that cop, he said something about the Kragle.” Emmet mused as they got off their horses, “‘President Business was gonna use the Kragle to end the world in three days…’ I can’t make any sense of it.”

Wyldstyle’s eyes widened in realization. “Taco Tuesday!” She exclaimed. “I knew that was suspicious! There’s no time to lose! We must find Vitruvius and get to the office tower before it’s too late!”

“Yeah, just say that out loud for everyone to hear.” Batman muttered.

“Oh, boy! The plot thickens!” Unikitty said excitedly.

“Okay,” Emmet laughed nervously, “How scary can someone’s office be?”

“Scarier than yee think, me laddy.” Metalbeard said grimly.

Chapter Text

Cut to the Octan Office Tower itself, a wolf howling in the background as the camera zoomed all the way up to the top of the tower. The words beside reading “President Business' Office.”

Unikitty shivered in her seat, with Emmet giving her a comforting pat on the head.

“You had to ask.” Lucy remarked.

“Eh, still not as big as my tower.” Batman scoffed, folding his arms while sipping some coffee.

Inside the security room, several of Lord Business’ robots were trying to locate Emmet in their database while Business himself was signing off some papers and getting his hair done.

“President Business! We’ve tried to locate the fugitive, but his face is so generic it matches every other face in our database!” One of the robots informed him, holding up a wanted poster for Emmet.

“Hey, would you look at that, your normalness saved you.” Lucy smiled, nudging Emmet with her elbow.

Emmet sheepishly rubbed his neck. “Yeah, I-I guess it did!”

“ Diabolical.” Business snarled as he exited the security room. “Okay! Have Bad Cop meet me in my office in twenty three seconds, ciao!”

“Coffee sales are through the roof, sir!” Another robot said as Business entered the boardroom, tossing away some instructions.

“Wouldn’t know anything about that.” Batman said, sipping some more coffee.

“Me either.” Emmet agreed, sipping his own cup of coffee.

Lucy, Unikitty, Benny, and Metalbeard all stared at them, unamused.

“ What?” Emmet and Batman asked simultaneously, both still sipping their respective coffee.

“Glad to hear it, let’s rebuild that roof to be even higher!” Business said with a laugh.

“Roof team is on it!” A construction robot replied.

“Sir! Can you approve this poster for Taco Tuesday?” Another robot said, holding up a massive poster of Business holding a pair of tacos.

“Wonderful. Whooo! I love everyone in this room!” Business exclaimed.

“We love you, sir!” All the robots in the room shouted.

“That’s kinda sad. Just having robots and no real friends.” Unikitty frowned.

“Well, that’s business for ya.” Batman shrugged, having experienced his fair share of corporate shills as ceo of Wayne Enterprises.

“Yar, business be rather gloomy without ye hearty crew.” Metalbeard nodded.

“Hey, guys! Great job on the radio station!” Business walked into the music room, a red carpet laid out for him.

“Thank you, sir! We love listening to this song over and over again!” The two robot DJs inside said.

“Keep it up, guys!” Business told them, dancing to the music.

Lucy groaned, once again reminded of how her hit song was being used to subjugate and control the masses.

Cut an episode of Where are My Pants being filmed.

“Honey, where are my paaaaaants…?” Where are My Pants Guy said while a robot test audience laughed.

Emmet couldn’t help but snicker, much to his friends’ amusement and slight annoyance.

“I’m sorry, but it’s still kinda funny to me.” Emmet said.

Lucy rolled her eyes, still not understanding why her boyfriend found humor in that repetitive joke.

“Cut! Ha, ha! Hilarious! That never gets old!” Business laughed, walking up to the set.

“It does not!” Where are My Pants Guy said.

Cut to Business in the work room, followed by his overbearing assistant robot.

“Bad Cop is waiting for you in your office.” Overbearing Assistant Bot said.

Metalbeard shivered at the sight of her.

“Metalbeard? You okay?” Benny asked in concern, noticing something off with his friend.

“That be no robot, me friend. That is the devil incarnate.” Metalbeard whispered, pointing to Overbearing Assistant Bot on screen.

Benny raised a brow. “Okay, whatever you say.”

“Wonderful. Fantastic.” Business said, heading up to said office. “Would you cancel my two o’clock? This next meaning could run a little bit… deadly.” 

He said the last word in a very sinister manner.

Emmet and Unikitty flinched while the others frowned.

Entering the hallway leading to his office, Lord Business walked onto several panels, building up his robotic stilts, attaching his cape, armor, and helmet.

“Okay, that’s actually kinda cool.” Emmet said.

“I’ve got something like that down in the Batcave.” Batman added. “Ironman totally got the suit-up thing from me and yet he gets all the credit.”

“ Activating helmet.” A computerized voice said.

“ Light sequence.” The lights on Business’ stilts lit up.

“Flame test.” The horns on Business’ helmet blew flames.

“Engage dramatic entrance.”

Business then kicked open the door to his office, kicking his robot guards out of the way.

The gang snickered as they recalled Business doing that at the beginning of the movie, only this time to his own robots.

“Bad Cop!” Business exclaimed.

“Lord Business, I know the Special got away, but—” Bad Cop tried to explain, backing away from his approaching boss.

“Don’t be so serious!” Business said, playing it casual. “Where’s the other guy?”

Bad Cop then switched to Good Cop. “Heh-heh-hey!” He smiled.

“Hey, buddy! I missed you!”

Good Cop looked bashful. “Aw, did you really?”

“Well, that’s sweet!” Unikitty smiled innocently.

“Have I ever shown you my relic collection?” Business asked.

“Uh, no, I don’t think you have.” Good Cop shook his head.

Metalbeard shuddered at the sight of the relics in the room. The ones that entrap, snap, and zap.

“Nobody knows where this stuff comes from.”

Emmet could make a slightly educated guess where they came from though, given his time in the realm of the Man Upstairs.

Business picked up a large real bandaid. “This one is the Cloak of Ban Da’id. I hear it’s super painful to take off, you want to try it on?”

“Well, uh,” Good Cop switched back to Bad Cop. “No, but thank you.”

“We’ve done some great work over the years, Bad Cop, capturing all those Master Builders and torturing them and whatnot.” Business said, tossing the Cloak of Ban Da’id onto a nearby robot.

“Thank you, sir.” Bad Cop nodded.

The Master Builders frowned at the reminder of Business past crimes. Particularly, Emmet’s friends remembered the days when they were forced into hiding. To discourage their creativity in order to survive.

Thankfully, those days were over, the scars from them still ran deep.

“Although…” Business said, raising the height of his stilts. “You did let the Piece of Resistance go, the one thing that can foil my plans. The one thing I asked you to take care of!”

He lowered his stilts so that he was at Bad Cop’s level, slapping his hand onto the twin-faced cop’s shoulder. “That’s super frustrating! It makes me… just want to pick up whoever is standing closest to me…”

Grabbing Bad Cop by his shoulder, Business raised his stilts and walked over to the window behind his desk.

“And just THROW them through THIS window and OUT into the infinite abyss of NOTHINGNESS!” 

Business slammed Bad Cop against the window, the camera panning down to the swirling abyss below the tower.

Emmet shivered, remembering his fall through the abyss. That was probably the wildest experience of his life. Like riding a roller coaster that was in free fall the whole way.

“I wanna do it so bad!” Business said shakily.

“I know you do, but please, please don’t.” Bad Cop said, his teeth sliding on the glass.

“And it’s not just you, Bad Cop, who keeps messing up my plans.” Business clicked a remote, displaying a screen on the roof that showed CCTV footage of Emmet and Wyldstyle’s escape from Bricksburg. “People everywhere are always messing with my stuff!”

“It’s not all your stuff, you big meanie!” Unikitty snapped, her fur briefly turning red before she calmed down again.

“But I have a way to fix that!” Business pressed the remote again, the screen cutting to several robots in hazmat suits carrying the same golden chest from the beginning of the movie. “A way to keep things exactly the way they’re supposed to be! Permanently.”

The robots began to crack the chest open with crowbars. “Behold, the most powerful weapon of all the relics…”

“THE KRAGLE!”

Lucy, Unikitty, Benny, Batman, and Metalbeard all gasped at the sight of what was once Lord Business’ most powerful weapon.

Emmet, meanwhile, was strangely silent. Staring at the Kragle with a grim look on his face.

Bad Cop gasped in awe.

“As you can see, they’re loading the Kragle in a big machine upstairs.” Lord Business explained. “I call it the Tentacle Arm Kragle Outside Sprayer, or TAKOS.” Although he said ‘taco.’

“The S is silent.” Business quickly added before anyone, both in the movie and in the audience, could ask.

“So on Taco Tuesday, it’s going to spray the Kragle all over everyone and everything with a bunch of super scary nozzles, like this one!”

As he spoke, one of said nozzles lowered from a hatch in the roof.

The gang shivered, the nozzle reminding them of the fierce battle on that very Tuesday.

“I’ll show you how it works.”

“Sir, I-I don’t know if this is necessary…” Bad Cop let out as the nozzle lowered towards his face.

“Oh, don’t worry, I won’t test it on you.” Lord Business said. “I’ll do it on your parents! ”

Emmet, Lucy, Unikitty, Batman, Benny, and Metalbeard all gasped in shock.

“WHAT?!”

“What…?” Bad Cop murmured as a platform underneath the floor opened up, with a small house and garden being raised up. Along with two elderly cops.

“Heya, son.” Pa Cop smiled at his boy. 

“Hiii!” Ma Cop chirped, waving to her son.

“How’s it going in the big city?”

“Mommy, daddy… what are you doing here?” Bad Cop stammered.

“Okay, Pa, I just want you to act naturally, like you-you’re going about your day,” Lord Business instructed.

“Gotcha!” Pa nodded.

“Yeah, keep your hand up like that.” Business then turned to Ma. “Ma, scoot two steps into the right.”

Ma did that, but as soon as she did, Pa turned away from his wife.

“Pa, why do— whenever I talk to Ma, you start to move.” Business griped.

“Must be a case of restless leg.” Metalbeard noted. “I get that all the time.”

“But, Metalbeard… you don’t have legs… anymore…” Benny looked confused.

Metalbeard huffed. “You know what I mean.” He crossed his arms. “Plus, ye think this shipwreck of a body doesn’t twitch every now and then?”

“Get back to where you were!”

“Oh, sorry.” Pa apologized, moving back to where he was before. “Here?”

“Perfect! That’s great! You can’t do anything better! There’s no reason why you should move!” Business told him.

“Right!” Pa nodded.

“Now, Ma, hand on his shoulder.”

Ma moved to put her hand on her husband’s shoulder, but Pa moved away once again.

“Pa, you just moved and you just wrecked it.” Lord Business said.

“Uh huh.”

“You wrecked it!” Business yelled, growing frustrated.

The gang couldn’t help but snicker a bit at Pa’s confusion and Business’ frustration.

“Bad Cop, you see what I’m talking about??” Business asked. “All I’m asking for is total perfection.”

“Well, hey, they say nobody's perfect!” Unikitty cheerfully pointed out.

“That is true.” Emmet nodded.

“Send in a micromanager!” Business ordered.

Another platform opened beneath the floor, with a large micromanager being raised up.

“ Commencing micromanagement.” The micromanager spoke with it’s robotic monotone.

Emmet, Lucy, Unikitty, Batman, Benny, and Metalbeard tensed as the micromanager on screen raised its claws towards Bad Cop’s parents.

“He’s… he’s not going to hurt them… right?” Unikitty asked in disbelief.

No one was able to respond, which didn’t help the hybrid’s fears.

The micromanager quickly fixed Ma and Pa Cop into their respective positions before backing off and making way for the TAKOS.

“Hold still you guys.” Business told them.

Bad Cop could only watch, mouth agape, his hand reaching out for his parents.

“Then, I’ll just spray them with the TAKOS.” Business said as one of the robots handed him the remote.

Pa and Ma looked fearful as the TAKOS sprayed glue onto their feet.

“Oh, Pa, hold me!” Ma cried fearfully, reaching out to him.

“Darling, I can’t move me legs!” Pa struggled to lift his feet, but couldn’t.

“Does that upset you, Bad Cop?” Business asked his second-in-command in an almost mocking fashion. “Surely you feel bad for your parents, and you want to help them don’t you?”

Lucy, Unikitty, Batman, Benny, and Metalbeard could only glare at Business for his cruelty.

Emmet, meanwhile, felt a sense of pity for Bad Cop, realizing that he too was a victim of Lord Business’ machinations.

“We’re okay, son.” Pa Cop reassured him. “Just a little stuck is all.”

“Go ahead,” Business grinned as the TAKOS closed in. “ Finish the job.”

Bad Cop hesitated before he saluted. “Of course, sir.”

He then switched to Good Cop. “No! I don’t want to!”

He switched to Bad Cop. “You have to.”

“I don’t want to! ”

“Will you please be quiet?”

“I can’t!”

“You must.”

“But they—!”

“Shut it!”

“It’s not nice-!”

“ It’s your job man!”

Good Cop finally took over. “I can’t do it!” He cried. “They’re innocent!”

Emmet, Lucy, Unikitty, Batman, Benny, and Metalbeard could only watch Bad Cop/Good Cop’s internal conflict helplessly. Their sympathy for the two-faced cop only growing.

Lord Business scowled. “Just as I thought.” He sneered. “Your Good Cop side’s making you soft, Bad Cop.” 

“Robots!” Business threw down the remote. “Bring me the Fleece-Crested Scepter of Q-Teep and the Po-lish Remover of Na-il!”

As he said this, two robots grabbed Bad Cop while some others brought over a large cue tip and a bottle of nail polish remover.

“You’ve already let the Special get away once.” Business dipped the cue tip into the polish remover.

“Sir,” Bad Cop barely got out before the robots forced him to his Good Cop face up.

“I’m just gonna make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

“What is he…?”

“No more MISTER NICE GUY!”

Business then rubbed the cue tip on Good Cop’s face, wiping away the ink and leaving a blank yellow face.

The gang gasped in horror.

Faces to minifigures were somewhat sacred. They represented your identity, your individuality, who you are. 

They represented yourself on a fundamental level, being one of the ten parts of the minifigure’s body. Having a face was essentially a sign that you were alive.

And Lord Business didn't just erase one of Bad Cop’s faces, he essentially erased a part of his soul.

“ HOW DARE HE!” Unikitty screamed, shifting into her angry form.

“Not even Joker would do something so horrible…” Batman whispered, hiding his horrified expression behind his cape.

“Arr, even the worst pirate punishments were not that harsh.” Metalbeard growled.

“How… how could he just do that…” Benny murmured.

Emmet found himself at a loss for words, remembering how much he used to admire the man he called his president, his leader, his hero. And seeing him do such a nigh unforgivable act made him remember how much of a villain the man used to be.

Next to him, he could see Lucy glaring hard at the screen, her hands clenched into fists that threatened to make them bleed.

Quietly, Emmet slipped his hand into hers and gave it a gentle squeeze.

“It’s okay…” He whispered. “It’s over now.”

He felt the tension in Lucy’s body lessen as she squeezed his hand.

“Oh, son!” Ma Cop cried.

“On Taco Tuesday, I’m going to Kragle the entire universe so everyone will stop messing with my stuff!” Business said as the robots released Bad Cop. “Are you gonna be with me, or are you going to be stuck having a tea party with your mom and dad?!”

Bad Cop fell to ground, weakly clutching at the blank side of his head where his Good Cop side used to be. “…”

“… Son?” Pa Cop spoke.

Slowly, Bad Cop stood up, his face switching to his Bad Cop side for good.

“Sorry, dad.” Bad Cop said, picking up the remote, arming the TAKOS.

“I have a job to do.”

With that, he pressed the button, fully Kragalizing his parents, their faces frozen in horror forever.

Emmet, Lucy, Unikitty, Batman, Benny, and Metalbeard could only watch helplessly all the while, knowing that there was nothing they could do to change it.