Kai's POV

"That literally couldn't have gone any worse. I thought last time was bad, but this really takes the cake," Cole grumbles while lying across the entire couch.

"Due to my calculations, there are actually several other ways it could have been worse such as..."

"I know, Zane, it could've been worse, but this sucks," he sulks, eating the ice cream straight out of the container.

"We still have a chance guys," Lloyd tells us. All of us look at him disbelievingly.

"I don't want to be that guy, but they have two of the gemstones, one of our teammates, a girl who can teleport and take things with her, and a girl who can mimic elemental powers. We're screwed!" I elaborate. I'm sitting on the ground, leaning against the wall. My arms are crossed.

"Last time, when the previous generation fought, it was four versus five and the four won. They had the odds against them, and they still prevailed," Lloyd looks for the bright side, standing in front of all of us. Wu, Garmadon, and Misako are all up near the steering wheel, talking. They left us to deal with ourselves.

"Yeah, but they also got a gemstone, something we don't have," I bring up, sighing. "Lloyd, it's no use."

"We can't just give up! We didn't give up when we were stranded on the Dark Island! Why would we give up now?" Lloyd glares at me when I say it.

"Statistically, we are still able to defeat them. It just gets more unlikely with each battle," Zane explains to us.

"Kai, your dad told you the story. How did their team defeat the team of girls?" Cole asks me, looking up from his tub of ice cream.

"Well, they got a gemstone, so my mom pretended to get kidnapped as an attempt to get it. While there, she fell in love with my dad and realized she was on the wrong side. She went back to her team and Ciara and stole the three gemstones her team got. She brought them back to my dad and his team," I explain. When I say that, Cole sits up. He sets his ice cream down.

"Are you guys thinking what I'm thinking?" he asks, suddenly hopeful.

"Clearly not."

"Jay is literally kidnapped right now! What if he's able to get one of them to fall for him?" he proposes. I raise an eyebrow.

"This Jay we're talking about. He has zero game," I bring him back to reality.

"He's had more girlfriends than all of us but you. Besides, thousands of girls across Ninjago thirst for him."

"Please, never say 'thirst for him' while referring to Jay ever again. I'm going to be sick."

"What I'm saying is if he's able to find a crack and slide his way in, we'll be golden," Cole shrugs.

"We're putting our faith in the one person who can't hear our plan?" I ask, looking at the three of my teammates who are here. They nod.

"There's nothing we can do besides that and prepare for the next gemstone. It's located at the Ninjago Museum of History, but do you know what's better?" Lloyd asks, seeing if any of us know. None of us answer. "It appears on the same day as the banquet for our victory and the museum reopening. They won't be able to get in through the actual entrances, but we will."

"But we will be the center of attention. It will be hard for us to sneak off to obtain the Obsidian of Earth," Zane brings up.

"Plus, won't people be a bit suspicious that Jay isn't there?" Cole offers another point.

"Oh everyone already knows that Jay was kidnapped," I say casually. The rest of the guys look at me with wide eyes.

"How?"

"People recorded the whole thing and posted it on Chirp. On the plus side, people can alert authorities if they see any signs of him," I pull out my phone before showing them the video. "It sucks none of the girls' faces were shown though. Stupid masks."

"We only know what two of them look like, partially three since I doubt that many girls have silver skin. We could run into them and not even know it," Lloyd brings up.

"Especially the master of form," Zane adds.

"If we're being honest, it's best that they took Jay out of all of us," I admit as the video ends. Cole raises an eyebrow.

"Why?"

"Well, he can be annoying on accident, but imagine him trying to be annoying. He's definitely driving them insane."

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Nya's POV

"He's so annoying. He never shuts up!" Chamille exclaims when her and PIXAL walk out of the room. We're doing a buddy system watch, and PIXAL and Chamille took the first watch. Seliel and I have the second watch, Skylor being exempt since she's still recovering.

"At the rate of how much he was talking, he should not have been able to breathe," PIXAL sighs, exasperated. "Chamille may or may not of gotten so fed up with him that she punched him in the face."

"Guilty, but he still kept talking!" Chamille throws her hands up in the air. "Good luck."

"Thanks, we'll clearly need it," Seliel sighs as we walk past them. When we enter the room, I immediately turn my back to him, not even bothering to look.

"If you say a single word, I will not hesitate to make it so you can't say a single word for the rest of your life," I snap, not even caring enough to see his reaction. I sit down, facing away from him to work on an invention I've been working on for weeks now.

To both my surprise and Seliel's surprise, he shuts up. He stays quiet as I work on my invention. Seliel is looking through some magazines she picked up when we were going shopping.

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It's been two hours, two hours of deafening silence. Seliel is still occupied in her magazines, a page of paper next to her. She's flipping through the pages and writing stuff down. She's concentrated, not saying a word.

I, on the other hand, have lost all concentration. The anger floods through me as I look at the dumb machine in front of me. I thought I was done an hour ago, but it won't work. I've tried seemingly everything, reassembling parts of it, checking the battery, all of that stuff. All of the patience has left my body, and I snap.

"Dammit! This dumb machine won't work!" I finally let some anger out, throwing my hands up in the air. Seliel jumps in her seat

"My gosh, Nya. You nearly gave me a heart attack," she places a hand over her pounding heart.

"I'm sorry, but I'm done with this damn machine! I've been trying for two fu..." Seliel glares as me when the words nearly leave my mouth,"frustrating hours, and nothing is working!"

"Connect the blue wire with the yellow wire instead of the green," at the sound of his voice, I turn my head towards the lightning guardian.

"Excuse me?" I ask, glaring at him.

"Th-the cords, the adaptors don't line up," he explains softly.

"Don't trust him. It's a trap," Seliel tells me, crossing her arms and glaring at him. While she watches him, I turn back to my machine. I open up the compartment with all the wiring. To my surprise, the adaptors actually don't line up. I make sure the machine is off before fixing them. When I turn the machine on, it functions just as it's supposed to.

I turn to the lightning guardian,"How did you know I did it wrong?"

"Cause he got in your head," Seliel taps her temple with her pointer finger before turning back to her magazine.

"I'm an inventor too. I've made that mistake hundre...no, thousands of times," he tells me, a small smile on his face. I take this time to take a good look at him for the first time.

His hair is auburn, disheveled from the mission. His eyes are an electrifying blue, the bluest eyes I've ever seen, which actually isn't much considering none of my sisters have blue eyes. The blueness of his eyes sharply contrasts with the swelling around one of them from where Chamille punched him. His right eyebrow has a slit through it. Even while being held captive, he has a small smile on his face. He's still wearing his wetsuit that's clinging to his skin, tight around his entire body. Now that I looked at him, I can't take my eyes off of him.

Taking my chair away from the table, I turn it to so I'm looking at him, "What's the coolest thing you've ever built?"

"That's a hard one. I helped fix up the Destiny's Bounty, which is our ship, and I also made the engine and boosters so it could fly," he answers, and my eyes widen.

"That was you! I just assumed that someone else made it for you guys. I used that as a model for this ship," I admit.

"Wait, you built this all by yourself?" he asks, astonished. Feeling heat rush up to my cheeks, I nod.

"For the most part. My aunt gave the supplies and helped here and there. PIXAL also would help me if I needed a second person, but it was mostly me. I built this baby up from scratch," I pat the ground next to me.

"That's so cool! When we found the Bounty, the physical ship was already built, even though it was worn down. It just needed to be cleaned up and given an engine. This ship is also a lot bigger than the Bounty," he talks animatedly.

"I made sure each of us could have our own rooms, and I wanted a workshop, so I added that," I shrug.

"How long did it take to build?"

"A long, long time."

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"And then we used them to fly down from the temple away from the dragon," he finishes his story. I've been listening to his stories for a while because I have nothing better to do. Besides, they're actually fairly entertaining. I don't understand why the rest of the girls found this annoying.

"No way that happened," I call him out on his lie. He raises an eyebrow.

"It definitely happened," he counters.

"Dragons don't exist," I cross my arms. His eyes widen.

"You're telling me you've never seen a dragon? They're literally so cool! We used to have some as pets that we used to fly around places. Mine was named Wisp, but she went away with the other dragons. When they came back, they had formed into one giant dragon called the Ultra Dragon. It had four heads, and Lloyd flew it," he explains, talking really fast to get all of his words out.

"Don't let him convince you of his lies, Nya. He's already talked our heads off for the past two hours with unbelievable stories," Seliel doesn't even look up, flipping a page in her magazine that she's surely already read.

"I haven't said one lie since I've stepped foot on this ship, Seliel," he says her name mockingly, making her glare at him. "Gosh, I'm thirsty. I haven't had water since this morning."

"That sucks," Seliel responds dryly.

"What happens when I die of dehydration? You'll sure be laughing then when you're charged for murder," he goes to cross his arms, but his hands are tied behind his back to the back of the chair.

"Dehydration takes at least several days to kill someone, Jay," she counters, saying what seems to be his name in the same manner he said her's.

"How do you know my name?" he asks, skeptical.

"I could ask you the same thing," she leans back against the couch.

"Cole told us. You told him," he explains. It doesn't explain how he knew my name back at the Explorer's Club. "Your turn."

"There's information about you guys everywhere," she lifts up her magazines. "The media loves reporting about you all, which is awfully convenient for us. I was able to find some helpful information." She looks at the paper she was writing things down on.

"That's a lie. We don't disclose any of our weaknesses to anyone else," he calls her out. She raises an eyebrow, amused.

"Cole used to be afraid of dragons, but he got over that. Now, he's afraid of ghosts. Kai is terrified of water; I found that out fighting him today. Oh, and..."

"Alright alright, you made your point. Now, can I have some water? Some food? A bathroom break? Some new clothes? Anything?" he asks.

"Nope," Seliel deadpans, going back to her magazine.

"Why not? Do you know how uncomfortable this is? I'm starving, and I've had to pee for at least the past 3 hours! My wetsuit is still damp, and I feel all sticky. My eye is also throbbing!" he protests, trying to move around in the chair.

"Not my fault you got kidnapped," she shrugs.

"It literally is! You were the one that poofed up there and grabbed me!" he exclaims, groaning afterwards. Turning away from Seliel, he looks at me. "Please."

I sigh,"We should at least let him go to the bathroom." At the suggestion, his face lights up, a smile appearing.

"But that's work, and we don't know what he's capable of. What if he finds a way to escape?" she looks up at me.

"He has on vengestone, meaning he can't use his powers. All we have to do is undo one of them and leave the other one on. Plus, if he tries to escape, you can just grab him again. We're also over a mile above the ground. Not even an elemental master can survive that fall," I reason. Seliel sighs standing up.

"Don't make me regret this," she warns him, starting to untie him.

"Thank you," he mouths to me, and I can't help but get a small smile on my face.

A/N I'm back on that every other day update schedule (yay)

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