The day was humid but sunny as Ninjago had just been coming out of the rainy season. Jay and Kai were bored of being on the Bounty training day and night with no bad guys to deal with, life was ok but pretty dull and tensions were rising.
Jay, had suggested an outing. He asked cheekily, he was quite repetitive but it had the desired effect. He was only asking for his brothers to have a day off from training and sensei Wu had begrudgingly agreed.
The guys took it upon themselves to go to the mall and the cinema to watch the new Fritz Donigan movie that Jay had been going on about incessantly for the past week. Cole finally caved in and agreed as long as a trip to the cupcake shop could be arranged before and after the cinema trip.
"Hey this is great guys, you gotta love the sun, the warmth ahh the freedom, I was getting pretty antsy with all this rain and sheesh I'm supposed to love it what with being the elemental master of lightning hahahahahaha, so did ya like the movie? omg I thought it was aweesome, Fritz is amaaaazing" Jay added finally taking a breath "so where to now?".
Kai spoke before Cole had a chance to and motioned towards the cupcake shop that was two blocks away from their current location, "wow take a breath zaptrap", Kai chuckled "Cole wants another cake remember".
Zane decided it would be a good time to calculate how much time it would take to walk to the shop instead of catching a taxi. "My calculations tell me that it should take no more than four minutes and 32 seconds to reach our destination then a further three minutes for Cole to successfully choose a cake before we can notify Nya that we will be returning."
"Heh, impressive, let's just see first. They might have specials on offer and that could throw off your calculations." Kai snickered from nearby.
"Thanks Zane, no pressure then? What if there's red velvet cake or chocolate fudge, how am I supposed to make a huge decision in such a short amount of time?" Cole complained with a hint of sarcasm.
The off duty ninja made their way to the cupcake shop, Jay was casually checking his watch every few minutes unaware of the large group of serpentine emerging a block away. None of the Ninja noticed until they were completely surrounded.
Time jump
Kai was being bandaged in one of the many beds in the emergency room at New Ninjago hospital, after receiving a nasty laceration to his upper arm and minor contusions to his head during the most recent attack on himself and his fellow brothers. Jay was in another bed also in the ER however he wasn't doing as well.
The trauma nurse shouted none too quietly to her team of nurses surrounding his bed. "He's losing blood, blood pressure is very low!"
It seemed like Jay was losing his battle with his injuries and fast. The charge nurse relayed a message to the team and motioned the need to get him to resus and intubate for emergency OR.
The consultant hollered "We need his blood group crossmatched asap and his next of kin need contacting."
"On it!" Another staff member chimed in.
Kai could hear all the commotion like it was taking place in his own cubicle. They were only separated by thin curtains. Being in the hospital emergency area carried no privacy at all he thought.
He lay there in semi quiet contemplation, willing his brother to fight. He had no idea of his injuries, he didn't understand the lingo they used yet he knew that Jay's injuries seemed too severe and from what he could hear he assumed Jay's body was failing...but why?
That was when they wheeled Jay away from the ward and Kai could do no more except worry and wait.
Cole was in a treatment room undergoing minor stitches and dressings to multiple lacerations on his forearms from the multitude of glass and metal splinters embedded in his skin...Cole had to hold back the fear he was feeling at this point, he knew he couldn't show that he was unsure or that he didn't know what to do anymore, he felt weak and this attack on the ninja had been unprovoked but he needed to know why.
He pushed his inner turmoil and anxieties to the side and concentrated all his effort on getting through these next few minutes of stitches and then he could think of a plan of action to get his brothers back fighting fit again and whup those serpentine into the next millenia.
His first job was to phone Sensei Wu and Nya who were currently residing on the Destiny's Bounty (the famous hero's sanctuary and home), according to Nya they were 45 minutes away from the hospital so he would have to wait it out or maybe not...
"I'll go and check on my brothers, see if we can get out of here and find and what the heck kicked off downtown...plus I need some comfort cake food and I didn't get my second cake he thought to himself.
Zane seemed to be the only one of the brothers who was relatively unscathed during the battle that took place, the explosion merely dented his back panels and fried a few circuits; namely his humour and colour display circuit. During his down time he remotely accessed the Bounty's server and security systems to upload his fellow ninjas beacons, he was relieved to see all beacons glowing, however he frowned when none of the beacons were lit with the correct colour or any colour for that matter.
Because of the attack and subsequent explosion his colour display was now only showing black, grey and white...Zane was making a mental note to himself that this issue would need to be repaired quickly as it was annoying almost as annoying as the pirate voice, but a sixth sense in him couldn't get away from the feeling that something was wrong.
Lloyd was nursing a minor head injury and was in the infirmary on the Bounty, he chose to stay behind at the scene to make sure his brothers were all on their way to the hospital, well except for Zane who was accompanying his unconscious team mates. Lloyd decided against the hospital and contacted the Bounty who were very close by, once aboard the Bounty he was under the care of his mother Misako with Nya assisting.
He needed a few stitches on the top right of his forehead where sharp glass had lacerated his scalp and turned his platinum blond hair to a horrid red matted mess on one side but Lloyd didn't feel like this little injury warranted a stay in Ninjago hospital...truth be told he didn't really like hospitals...it was the smell and the un-natural lighting but mostly the smell.
Sensei Wu and Misako were trying to understand what actually caused the explosion and needed to run some security footage on the Bounty to find out what happened so naturally Nya was called upon once she had checked Lloyd and swapped places with Misako.
Nya was needed in the control room where she had to painstakingly repair certain parts of the security system as something had short circuited the computer on-board which made this security footage much more difficult to piece together and decipher.
Nya shouted enthusiastically "Guys I've finally managed to repair the playback on the security footage, do you want to watch and see if this works?"
Wu replied with a calm yes and Lloyd and Misako were eager to find out what had happened.
Misako stated "it seems that the ninja were almost successful in this attack which they were unprepared for against the Sepentine so what happened?".
As they all looked at the screen in front of them they saw a massive electrical explosion which appeared to come from Jay and in doing so the force of the explosion sent all of the ninja into various buildings causing damage to themselves and their surroundings.
Misako, Wu, Lloyd and Nya all looked on in confusion and worry. Nya replayed the clip in slow motion, there was no sound from the footage but it looked tense, yet the ninja appeared calm.
Nya suddenly sqeaked at the footage and noticed two of the Serpentine generals pointing something in Jay's general direction one seemed like a standard gun, athough not exactly a weapon of choice to bring to a hand to hand combative fight...Nya thought to herself.
With a sickening grin one general pulled the trigger of the rudimentary gun and shortly after the other general pressed a button on their handheld device, within a millisecond the explosion was on screen again. The generals had been lucky to escape unharmed they had no idea how powerful this weapon was until now, however many of their tribes had lost warriors not many of them but enough.
"It would appear as if the ninja were targeted on purpose" Misako said.
Nya bit her lip she wanted to shout and scream at what she had just witnessed but chose to remain quiet, she muttered under her breath instead "at least they got some of their own in this cowardly attack".
Nya had left the room, visibly upset by seeing her brothers needlessly injured in this unprovoked attack especially her brother Kai and her best match Cole or was it Jay? "silly Nya", she scolded herself now is not the time.
Lloyd immediately offered to go on a mission to find out what this device was and if there were traces of it at the site of the explosion which they could attempt to research. He wanted to go undercover and see if there were other devices that the snakes were planning on using.
Misako insisted they try and find some answers later and stated "right now we need the ninja, they are vulnerable in their current state and they will be safer here". We've just received a phone call from Cole, he's at the hospital and we'll be arriving within 45 minutes" Wu stated and further admonished the green ninja from putting himself in danger, "we need to stick together now more than ever Lloyd; my students, your brothers have been attacked and we need to know why? "Misako sorrowfully added "they could be planning on something bigger we just don't know yet".
"Lloyd, shall we call in at the hospital to see our brothers?" Nya said nervously to clear the tension, Lloyd answered with a distinct shaky voice "sure...n-now?".
"You don't like hospitals much do you?" Nya jokingly teased "what is it about them you don't like?" She quickly wiped a rogue tear away from her face before Lloyd noticed, "come on lets go to the hospital and bring them home...
Lloyd solemnly thought to himself that this day was going to get worse