A dark sky surrounded the dojo that day, cloudy and dismal. Kai, Zane, and Cole looked up at the sky though the window. For them Gloomy skies at times meant bad news,

"You're call, Zane," Cole said, "Garmadon, or rain?"

"Lord Garmadon…but it's strange," Zane replied, "I sense he is not actively in Ninjago. I suggest we wait for now and see what come our way, be it an attack, or orders from Sensei."

The others nodded, and went to breakfast. Kai made the rice and miso and the 3 ate.

Half way through the meal Kai finally realized why it was so quiet.

"Where's Jay?" he asked.

"Maybe he was up late working on an invention. I'll go wake him up," Cole said.

He got up and headed towards Jay's room, a short walk. He opened the door and his eyes widened.

"KAI! ZANE! SENSEI! COME QUICK!" Cole shouted urgently.

Zane and Kai immediately left their half-finished breakfast and ran to Cole's side, Sensei Wu joining them.

A shocking sight met their eyes. Jay wasn't there. Furniture was overturned. Scuff marks were on the floor. There had been a struggle, and Jay apparently did not win.

Zane could not believe it. He had sensed danger the night before but hadn't acted on it out of exhaustion. If he had known Jay would be the cost…he simply felt awful.

Sensei entered the room and picked up a scroll that was under Jay's pillow. He read it over then faced the other ninjas.

"Jay is alive," he announced, "but he is being held captive by lord Garmadon's army. They claim he will be returned safely in return for the golden weapons. But I doubt their word."

"What are we going to do?" asked Kai.

"I have an idea but it's pretty risky," Cole said, after a moment's thought, "we could hand over a bag with the weapons in it. Trick is the weapons won't really be in the bag. One of us will be. Anyone want to volunteer?"

At first no one spoke.

Then Zane said, "I will. I'm partly to blame for this. It's only right that I go after him."

The others didn't quite understood what Zane meant, but his face told them there would be no argument. He was going.

Hours later Zane was handed over in a sack to the enemy. As predicted Jay was not handed back to them.

Zane soon felt himself taken at top speed into the underworld. The speed and the fact that Zane could not see his surrounding made him sick to his stomach. It took all of his effort not to puke and give himself away.

At last the vehicle slowed down and stopped.

Zane felt the bag he was in lifted up and set on the floor. He prepared himself for battle.

As soon as the bag was open Zane sprang out like a jack-in-the-box. Before the two skeletons who had opened the bag could react he kicked him doth in the chest.

"NINGAAAGO!"

Zane then became a tornado of ice that crashed through skeletons with a fury of martial arts and icy energy.

When he finished only one skeleton was still conscious, and said skeleton was decapitated. Zane picked up the skull and held it over the ledge.

"Don't drop me!" the skull pleaded.

"Then tell me where Jay is," Zane said coldly.

"He…he's in the prison area. Just past the battle camps," the skull confessed.

"Battle camps?" Zane raised an eyebrow.

"L-Lord Garmadon is planning a huge attack. But I don't know any details! I swear I don't!" the skull stammered.

Zane put the skull safely back on the ledge.

"Thanks" he said before slipping off into the shadows.