Cole was pacing the hospital corridor after his treatment was finished, he had almost worn the floor tiles out in frustration.

"Hey err...excuse me...do you know where Jay Walker is?" Cole asked.

"Who are you?" the nurse questioned "are you a relative?

"I'm Cole Hence...Jay's my best friend", he added.

"I'm afraid I can only share details of Mr Walker with his immediate family"The nurse stated drylly.

Cole was infuriated, it took all of his strength to keep calm and not destroy the nursing station. "He's my brother" he said to himself ..."my best friend, what is so wrong that they can't tell me?" he hissed under his breath, slightly worried at what he was thinking.

"Come on Sensei I need you I can't do this on my own. Cole backed away from the nurses station and hastily went to look for Kai and Zane in the hope that they were ok and knew what the hell was happening. He saw Kai in a small curtained off area in the ER and waited until the nurse had finished.

Kai was being discharged with pain medication and dressings to take home, he had numerous stitches in 2 layers, ones that could dissolve and ones that would need removing "Now Mr Bilens we'll need to see you in 14 days to remove these stitches, an appointment has been made for you to attend our outpatient clinic" the nurse muttered.

Kai's response was automatic and without emotion "hmph yeah...ok Doc", he looked at Cole and raised an eyebrow which to Cole meant that Kai would do anything except stick to this appointment. The nurse promptly left to care for the rest of her patients and left Kai to get himself dressed.

"Damn it" Kai groaned not realising how hard it was to do this one handed his arm was still incredibly sore even with the morphine and he knocked it on the wall trying to put on his clothes, he sucked his breath in through his teeth as he rode out the wave of pain that came over him threatening a bout of nausea, Just breathe Kai he thought.

Cole approached him after the nurse left and noticed how much difficulty Kai was having with his jeans and hoodie, he quickly came to help.

"Kai, you're ok, thank god, I've contacted Wu and Nya, they're en-route to our location in maybe 10 minutes or so".

"We need to get out of here, what the hell were they thinking attacking us like that in the city...? with civilians around too" Cole shouted.

"Cole, keep it down" Kai hissed still in visible pain.

"I don't know what happened but we have bigger things to deal with right now".

"What" Cole spat..."what does that mean? what could be bigger than having our asses whupped by serpentine in broad daylight...for no reason?, besides when I get my hands on Pythor he's dead, Skales too" Cole muttered. Kai could've sworn he felt the ground tremble when Cole had spoken to him.

Flashback Jay's POV

"Great...snakes I love snakes" Jay said sarcastically as soon as he saw the huge group of serpentine surrounding his brothers. "What do we do guys? we don't have our weapons, this was supposed to be a trip to the mall, heck even Sensei doesn't know where we are and I'm supposed to be meeting Nya in an hour for a date. Omg we are soo totally hooped" Jay whined, he was nervous at the thought of this unarmed fight that was about to take place with no idea what the outcome could be, their only weapon...spinjitsu.

"Jay, pipe down" the earth ninja scolded, and then simultaneously raised an eyebrow at the 'date with Nya' remark,

"Don't let them see your weaknesses, it'll just make them stronger" he added.

"Great" Jay mumbled, "err guys what are they holding over there?".

Pythor spoke first "I've had enough off you ninja, messsssing around where you don't belong, too long you have thwarted my planssss for domination, that iss, until now" he hissed and chuckled evilly whilst aiming a weapon in the ninja's general direction, he then pulled the trigger of what looked to be a gun of some sort.

Before any of them could answer the question they all heard a loud bang from Pythor's direction and Jay felt a huge searing pain rip through his chest on his right side, he looked down momentarily to see a mass of scarlet appear on his clothes, although at first it looked black as he was wearing blue, but then came a feeling of heaviness, pain, weakness and profuse sweating followed by more pain.

"Ungh w..what...the...hell...guys, err w...what is this?" Jay whispered breathlessly as he struggled to speak, his brothers however could not hear, it was almost as it the wind had been knocked out of him. His world was spinning and he was beginning to see stars but he was still standing...just. He instinctively put his left hand on the rapidly expanding wet and warm area on his chest to ease the heavy feeling now residing in his chest and was horrified to see that when he removed his hand that it was now covered in blood...his blood dribbling slowly down his hand from the short time it had been pressed to his chest.

"Aww come on I love this top, you snakes have no idea how much these things cost", Jay whined to himself as his eyes stared to glaze over and he concentrated on keeping upright.

Skales was holding a strange looking weapon and mocked the ninja, "ha ha ha bye ninja" he swiftly pointed his bizarre looking weapon in Jay's direction and pressed it, within a second or two Jay's whole world crumbled into intense white hot pain followed by complete unconsciousness.

Before the explosion rocked the city, the ninja's last memory before waking up at the hospital was that of the loud bang and within three seconds the blast. Everything had happened so fast that couldn't piece together what exactly had happened.


Jay had come round briefly in the ambulance, or he thought he had, he had attempted to open his eyes but the pain was too much, that was until he felt like he was as light as a feather for some reason. He could hear distant voices surrounding him but his mind felt like it was miles away, he could hear everything but couldn't say anything.

"This is strange" Jay thought as he floated in the darkness.

"Where is everyone? or Nya aahhh lovely Nya" Jay was in what was considered a chemical coma, whilst the paramedics attempted to stabilise him and stem the blood flow that was issuing from his chest.

"Ninjago paramedics handing over a Mr J Walker, male approximate age 20, gunshot to the right chest area, possible internal bleeding, head injury, possible broken ribs and we are struggling to get his heart rhythm to stabilise, he is going into AF. He needs the resus trolley now..."