Oh boy, this one took me awhile to write, but it was probably the most fun!

Lloyd is slightly OOC in this, but again, crack!fic and the plot demands it *shrugs*

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Impatience:

Lloyd would have been fine if not for the fact that Zane was feeling rather impatient. That and Lloyd's ego was currently the size Kai's used to be, but Zane preferred to say it was because he was impatient.

Zane could confidently say that he was an intelligent being, no questions asked.

So why, for the love of the First Spinjitzu Master did New Leader Lloyd, think he had the time and the audacity, to stand on the deck of the Bounty and listen to him give his little speech about being on time.

Zane is ALWAYS on time, give or take a few moments when he had showered a little too long or got lost in his meditation for a few extra moments.

Kai had been two minutes late to training, and normally two minutes didn't matter, but Lloyd must have been in a bad mood or was abusing his power as new team leader, for he had gone off at all four of the ninja because of it.

Kai had tried to explain himself, give his reason for being late (as Zane was sure he had a good one for none of the ninja were ever truly late without a good reason), but Lloyd had shut him down before he could even say "I'm sorry".

When Kai tried to say something once more, the green ninja began ranting about how no one was to interrupt him while he was speaking and how he needed more respect.

The thing was, none of them could do anything about it. They all were forced to stand there and listen because Wu was gone and Cole technically wasn't the leader anymore.

All four ninja were rather ticked off, understandably.

Three hours later saw all five ninja sweaty, shirtless, and breathing heavily on the deck of the Bounty after training was completed. They were about to go take a shower when Lloyd stopped them.

"Since you guys were late to training, I want all of you to stay back an extra hour," he snapped, a small amount of snark evident in his voice. Oh he was enjoying this.

"What!" Jay screeched. "Kai was the only one late!"

"Hey!" Kai retorted. "I was late because Nya needed-"

"Stop making excuses and start getting your crap together!" Lloyd commanded. "I told you all to train for an extra hour and I expect you all to do so!"

"But Lloyd-" Cole began.

"Ah! I don't care that it was just Kai! Take this as a lesson: when one of you messes up, you all get screwed over. So, don't mess up!" And with that, the green ninja walked away.

"Well, someone's having fun with their little power trip," muttered Jay. "Does he actually expect us to train for an extra hour?"

"Probably," Kai seethed through clenched teeth, his face as red as his gi (which was discarded on the ground beside the other four). "I was giving Nya her medicine! She had a migraine! She is sick in bed right now! Sorry for being a good older brother, Lloyd!" The fire ninja rolled his eyes as he heard the distant sound of a shower being turned on.

"Ugh, I miss it when Cole was leader, he never did this to us!" Jay complained, plopping down on the ground and wiping sweat from his forehead.

"Well, hate to break it to ya, Motor Mouth, but I'm not the green ninja so Lloyd's in charge now," Cole commented, raising his hands in the air. "And don't go blaming me for this because I gave him the leader talk and everything!"

"Ugh, well that's not fair!" Jay pouted.

"I agree, Lloyd's being a little brat," Kai put in, sitting besides Jay. "How about we all just sit here for an extra hour instead of training and tell Lloyd we did it." Cole and Jay nodded in affirmation as Cole sat down as well. "You won't rat us out, right Zane? Uhh, Zane?"

The white ninja had been completely silent up till that moment. "Lloyd wasted thirty minutes of my life," he stated simply. "I could have done much more valuable things with my time than sitting there listening to Lloyd abuse his power."

Jay applauded. "Well said, Zane!"

"I will not stand for that," he continued ignoring Jay's applause. "I was not late, I did not speak, yet I had to sit there and listen to him tell me that I am always late and always interrupt!"

"Uh, Zane, you okay, buddy?" Cole asked hesitantly.

Zane glared at the black ninja. He blinked then softened his gaze. "I apologize, it is not you I am upset with, just Lloyd. I do not like having my time wasted. I am merely feeling impatient and irritated."

Jay pumped his fist in the air. "Yes! I love irritated and impatient Zane! He's so much fun to be around!"

You have no idea, the Nindroid thought, fighting the urge to roll his eyes. "This needs to be dealt with before Lloyd gets the idea that he can treat us as though we do not know what we are doing," he said aloud.

"Dealt with?" Cole questioned, raising an eyebrow.

Zane nodded in affirmation. "I shall waste Lloyd's time while spitting useless information at him," he said, a grin slowly taking over his face.

"How're you going to get away with that, Zane?" Kai asked sceptically. "You do realize that he's our leader, is on a power trip, and will punish you if he realizes what you're doing?"

Zane only smiled wider as a plan started to form. "Do not worry, brothers. The chance of Lloyd finding out is 29%. I will be fine... I may need some help though..." and then, without saying another word, the Nindroid walked away, leaving his three teammates on the deck, two with confused faces and the other with a toothy grin.

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Zane had a conversation with his trolling partner, then began calling a few people who owed her. Now how they owed her, he had no idea, and a part of him didn't want to know, but all that matters is that they owe her and they have now become an integral part of his plan.

It was funny how quickly some of them complied too. He thought it would have taken much more from him to get their help, but they all said it sounded like fun.

The first part of his plan was to happen in three days, and he was oh so ready.

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Zane did not feel the slightest bit of remorse for what was about to happen. The past three days had been miserable thanks to Lloyd.

His ego somehow seemed to get larger over each night and he continued to waste their time by lecturing them.

Kai and Jay made Cole talk to him about leader stuff the second day, hoping that Cole could fix it, but the black ninja returned with his brows furrowed and an angry look on his face. "He told me the punishment for my insubordination was training for an extra hour and cleaning the deck," he grunted, walking past his teammates and towards a punching bag hitting it as hard as he could. "But it can't just be clean, no no, it has to be spotless!" He turned to face his friends. "Thanks a lot guys!"

"Don't worry, we'll help you clean, Cole," Kai said, rolling his eyes. "But we have to do something about the way he's been acting!"

"Yeah, his ego is worse than yours ever was, Kai!" Jay piped up.

Kai gave him a sideways look. "I don't know if that's a compliment or not so thank you and-" he smacked Jay upside the head.

"Ow!" Jay glanced at a silently fuming Zane. "Zane, have you started your revenge yet?"

Kai shook his head as he picked up a broom and began sweeping the deck. "Oh come on, Jay. Zane pranking Lloyd?"

Zane's eyes twinkled for a moment as he remembered the moment he trolled Kai, oh what a fool.

"Well, he pranked Cole that one time!" Jay insisted, grabbing the dustpan and the little sweeper that went with it. He started sweeping Kai's piles into it. Zane mentally chortled. His teammates were so clueless.

"Yeah, please don't do that again," Cole spoke up, continuing to punch the bag.

"Okay but that was Cole, this is angsty Lloyd," Kai continued. "If Lloyd finds out, you'll be in big trouble."

"Like I said before, there is only a 29% chance of him figuring it out," stated Zane.

"Okay, fine then, say that's true," Kai said. "Then what are you planning?"

"Ah, brother, it won't be as fun if it is not a surprise for everyone!" he wiggled his eyebrows as he said that.

"Which means you have nothing," Kai concluded, handing his broom off to Cole who had finished letting his anger out on the bag. "Hey, Zane you wanna do a good ol' freeze and melt instead of mopping?"

Zane just winked at the red ninja, and began freezing the places Kai and Jay had already swept as Cole started making piles for Jay to sweep on the other half of the deck. Once a good chunk was frozen, the red ninja began melting it.

"Do not worry, Lloyd won't be making us clean for him again for awhile," Zane said as they worked. Kai rolled his eyes once more, Jay squealed in excitement, and Cole just pursed his lips.

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Zane woke up giddy the third morning. Today was the day.

He got all of the ninja up early for Sunrise Exercise, despite their protests. "If we're there early, Lloyd will have no reason to berate us," he had lied. The three thought that was reasonable and had gotten up with him. He didn't want them to know everything yet, they could ruin his plan if they knew even the littlest detail!

The four were standing on the recently cleaned deck, when they heard a roar come from inside the ship. Nya was 'still sick' and Wu was still gone, so they all knew it had to be Lloyd. "Oh no, what now?" Jay asked nervously.

Lloyd stormed onto the deck in his pajamas, glaring at his teammates. "Okay, who took my gi?" he asked angrily. Zane hid his smile and forced his eyes to widen in surprise like his teammates. "It was on my dresser last night and now it's gone! This is not funny guys! Fess up, who took it?"

No one said a word, but Kai, Cole, and Jay each gave Zane a quizzical look at different times as if to ask, "Is this really your revenge? Just stealing his gi?"

Lloyd sighed then rubbed his temple. "Fine. If none of you will confess, all four of you will be punished!"

"Lloyd, are you kidding?" Kai gawked.

"That's not fair!" Jay whined.

"Come on, Lloyd!" Cole complained.

"Lloyd, if none of us stole your gi, then it would not be wise to continually accuse and punish us for it," Zane stated calmly, staring the green ninja dead in the eyes.

"I am the green ninja and to be disrespected like this-" Lloyd cried out.

Zane mentally sighed as Lloyd continued ranting. He gave him a chance. He pretend to scratch his head when really he had pressed a small button and whispered, "It's go time," so quietly that not even Cole, who was next to him, heard.

All of a sudden, a loud whirring sound could be heard approaching the ship. Lloyd stopped talking as they all peered around the hull to see the mailman riding his flying bicycle towards them. "I... have... an urgent... letter," he panted as soon as he landed, handing the note to Lloyd.

Lloyd inspected the letter, noticing there was no return address. He carefully ripped it open and gasped when something jumped from inside, causing the letter to fall on the ground. A small metallic box ripped the middle of the envelope open and crawled out, expanding as it did so until it was as large as a head, a screen in the middle. The screen suddenly turned on, showing a person in a black mask.

"Hello, green ninja," they said in a raspy, feminine voice.

"Who are you?" Lloyd demanded.

"I'm the one who stole your gi~" they replied in a sing-songy voice, giggling a bit afterwards. Kai, Jay, and Cole all gave Zane yet another quizzical look. Did he orchestrate this? they all thought.

"Who are you?" Lloyd repeated firmly.

"Ugh, fine! You're no fun, green ninja! I am Mr. Yang and that gi should be mine! I should have been the green ninja! Not you, you insolent beast!"

"Umm, what?" was all Lloyd managed to say in response.

"Wu trained me before he trained any of you!" Mr. Yang screamed. "I deserved to be the green ninja! I had the power of storm! I could control the skies! What's more powerful than that!" she slammed a fist on what was presumably a table in front of her, then snorted as she looked Lloyd up and down. "Yet, the weapons choose you, such a pity. If you want your gi back then come find me!" she cackled before hanging up.

All five ninja stared at the now blank screen, none quite sure how to react. Lloyd turned towards the mailman. "Okay, she must have given this to you somehow! Did she say anything about where she would be?"

The Mailman scratched his head for a moment before hesitantly saying, "Hmm, well I think I heard her say something about a dojo and excessively big hair if that helps at all?"

Lloyd snapped his fingers. "It sure does! She's at Darreth's dojo!" he sighed with relief before crying, "CRAP! SHE'S AT DARRETH'S DOJO!"

Lloyd, Kai, Cole, and Jay all scrambled to the middle of the ship where the wheel was, preparing to get to Darreth's as fast as they could. Zane shook the Mailman's hand before he followed.

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Darreth was pacing outside of his dojo when the team got there. "Oh thank goodness you guys are here!" he cried upon seeing them.

"Darreth, what's going on?" Lloyd asked, running towards him.

"Some random lady came into my dojo and kicked me out!" he exclaimed, grabbing onto Lloyd's shoulders and shaking him.

"Alright, we'll go in there and stop her-" Lloyd started, only to be interrupted by Darreth.

"Oh, it was horrible!" he said dramatically. "I was in the middle of training when she came in! I was practicing my spinjitzu! I am so close, just a few more days and I think I'll finally get it and then the brown ninja will be able to officially join your team! But she came in as I was about to spin and she grabbed my ear and started dragging me out of my shop! I started kicking her and punching her, as any good Sensei would, and she let go of me because I managed to hit her arm! She grabbed it in pain and then smacked me! Can you believe it? She just smacked me! And then pulled on my hair and-"

"Okay, Darreth, none of this is really necessary right now," Lloyd said hastily, shrugging Darreth's hand off of his shoulders. "We need to get in there and get my gi!"

Darreth gasped dramatically. "My boy! I haven't even finished telling you what happened yet! Isn't that important?"

"Well, yes, but nothing you've said has helped me in any way!"

"Ah, but it isn't finished yet!" Darreth crowed. "So she was pulling my hair and knocked over my trophy case, destroying three of my trophies!"

Darreth continued babbling on for ten minutes before he finally ended with, "Then she threw me out of my shop and barricaded the door!"

Lloyd sighed and rubbed his temple. "Okay, Darreth, NONE OF THAT WAS HELPFUL! I need my gi!" Lloyd nodded at his teammates and began advancing towards the door.

"Oh yeah, she's not here anymore," Darreth said suddenly.

Lloyd spun around and glared daggers at the man. "What?"

"Yeah, ten minutes after she kicked me out she kicked down my door and ran away, mumbling about a school and planting flowers?"

"Why didn't you tell me that from the beginning!" Lloyd erupted. Darreth just shrugged.

"If she kicked your door down, why didn't you go back inside?" Kai spoke up.

"It's actually quite nice outside," Darreth responded simply. He looked between all the ninja before adding, "Well, now I'm hungry. I'm going inside now, see ya!" He began walking inside, discreetly fist bumping Zane as he did so.

"Okay," Cole spoke up. "He said our villain mentioned a school and flowers, anyone know what that means?"

"Uh, Cole, let me do the leader stuff, okay?" Lloyd butt in. Cole rolled his eyes and motioned for Lloyd to take over.

"Okay, he said our villain mentioned a school and flowers, anyone know what that means?" the gi-less green ninja inquired. Cole facepalmed.

Zane shook his head. Lloyd still didn't get it.

Jay scratched the back of his head. "Well, the only schools I can think of are Ninjago Highschool and Darkley's-"

Kai snapped his fingers. "Darkley's! Remember, those kids were obsessed with gardening or something, right?

"Yeah! Brad loved gardening!" Lloyd remembered. "He tried getting the other guys into it too after they realized they didn't want to be evil!"

"Then that must be where she went!" declared Zane.

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Four kids were pacing outside of Darkley's gate when the team got there. They jumped down from their ship and raced towards them. "Brad, Gene, Elliot, Steve!" Lloyd cried, addressing the four boys. "Did some evil lady stop by here!"

Gene nodded excessively. "Yeah!"

"Okay great now-" Lloyd was about to rush past them when Gene continued talking.

"The four of us were gardening when suddenly it started to storm! Then this lady dressed in dark clothing came down from the sky and dropped in front of us! She ran towards us and demanded to be let in, since, you know, the door is by our flowers! We told her visitors weren't allowed with a pass and then she screamed and crushed some of our flowers!"

"We asked who she was," Brad started, "but all she told us she was the green ninja and well we knew you were so we told he Lloyd is and she let out just this ear piercing shriek! Then she continued stomping on our plants! She stomped on our yellow tulips and our blue tulips and our purple tulips and our red roses and pink roses and white roses and our poppies and our lilies-"

Lloyd began impatiently tapping his foot. Kai, Jay, and Cole all looked at Zane once more and were bewildered when they saw a bemused look on his face. What is going on?

"-until Steve latched onto her leg and bit her! Then she screamed and tried kicking him off so the rest of us jumped on her back and grabbed her arms and tried taking her down! But she was really strong, like I bet she was stronger than a bus or a giraffe or a tiger or a bear or even a building but not like a library or a police station, more like a house or an elementary school-"

And the four boys talked for ten more minutes. And Lloyd was getting irritated and impatient which made Zane very very happy. Once the boys were done Lloyd let out a sound that resembled a trash bag being placed in a trash can before saying, "NONE OF THAT WAS RELEVANT TO ANYTHING AT ALL!" He looked down at the four boys then added, "Is he still here?"

They all shook their heads. "No, she said something about giving up and going back to where she got it," Gene informed them.

Lloyd threw his hands in the air. "Great!"

"Well, we've got to get back to our flowers," Gene stated.

"Bye Lloyd!" the four kids said in unison.

"Good luck!" Brad added. Then the four started walking back to their school, each secretly giving Zane a small high-five as they passed him.

Lloyd grumbled something about how precious his time was before saying, "Okay, back to where she got it? Any ideas?"

"Hmm, what does she mean by 'it'?" Jay asked.

"How am I supposed to know!?" Lloyd squeaked.

"Perhaps she meant she was going back to the Bounty," Zane spoke up. "'It' could mean your gi, perhaps she wants to face you there!" All five looked to the Bounty then looked back to each other.

"Crap, she could be there now!" Kai exclaimed, and all five took off towards their ship.

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"Empty!" cried Lloyd, "Empty, empty, empty!" The team had searched the entire ship but had yet to find her.

"Maybe she hasn't come on yet?" Cole suggested. "I mean, if I were her, I would want the element of surprise on my side."

"Okay, well, it's been an hour!" grunted Lloyd.

There was his cue. "You know, Lloyd," Zane started. "She could still be on the ship. We have searched all of the rooms, but there are many other places to go. For example, remember that one time when we all played hide-and-seek? You had hid in Sensei's room under his bed, which technically wasn't allowed, Cole had hid behind the tv in the video game room, and oh we cannot forget that Jay had hid in the same room, in the video game shelf, and we took longer to find him than Cole, and Kai hid in the hamper in the bathroom, and I had hid behind the couch- but not the one in the video game room, the one in the living room. And Nya had looked for us, remember? See, if we can all hid that easily, so could Mr. Yang, so Mr. Yang could be anywhere!"

Lloyd stared at Zane with hatred in his eyes. Cole, Jay, and Kai looked shocked. Could it be? Is this really what Zane had planned all along?

"So, naturally, Mr. Yang could be hiding somewhere in the cupboards in the kitchen, or perhaps in Nya's closet, or behind the shower curtain, or under Cole's bed, or under my bed, or maybe even under Sensei's bed like you hid that one time-"

"Okay, Zane, we get it! Just get to the point!" interrupted Lloyd.

Zane stopped talking immediately and snapped his fingers. "Ah ha! Get to the point! Why don't you get to the point!"

"Huh?" Lloyd asked, genuinely confused by Zane's sudden change from monotone to excitement.

Zane whistled and both Nya and Pixal entered their bedroom (where they had been talking). "Looking for something?" Nya asked, pulling the gi out from behind her back.

"You took it? What- you- how- what?" spluttered Lloyd.

Nya nodded and gave Pixal a high five. "I do think everyone should applaud Pixal for her moving performance earlier, it really was quite touching!"

Pixal bowed as Zane aggressively applauded for her. "And we should all," Pixal started, her voice raspy like Mr. Yang's was as she opened a switch on her arm and flipped it, "thank Cyrus Borg for the invitation," she finished in her normal voice.

Lloyd turned to look at everyone around him. "What was the point of all of this!" he cried eventually.

"The point is," Zane said, "that my time is valuable and I expect you to stop wasting it with petty rants and petty chores every day do I make myself clear?"

Lloyd nodded slowly. "I understand that adjusting to being leader is difficult," Zane then acknowledged, placing a hand on his shoulder. "But Cole has tried to help you and you've let the power get to your head. Stop wasting our time and start listening to Cole because he knows what he's doing."

Lloyd blushed. "Okay, okay. I get it. I'm sorry! But was all of this really necessary?"

"Absolutely," Kai said.

"You were pretty bad, dude," Cole nodded.

"Yes," answered Zane.

"I love impatient and irritated Zane," Jay sighed happily.

"I can't believe I'm saying this," Kai started sheepishly. "But, Zane, you were right. That was awesome! I should not have doubted you."

"Thank you, Kai," Zane smiled. "I enjoyed that quite a bit too."

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Freaking I love troll Zane guys. He's so pure. Next up is Nya's! Hope you enjoyed!