A/N: Hello! Time for Kai to surprise himself and his friends…and just so you know, I love Brutus! Continue reading to learn what I meant by that…

Chapter One: Never let Kai get bored! Just…never.

I picked up some scraps that were lying close enough to me for me to pick them up, my fingers twitching. Cole was trying to keep Sensei busy, a frown on his face as he glanced back at us. "Zane, how's the radio coming along?"

Zane picked up some foil, attempting to make a makeshift radio. "It is coming along alright… just wish we weren't using scraps to do this."

Cole hummed in agreement, before calling to Jay. "How's the wheelchair for Kai coming?"

"Great! I found three of our kitchen chairs and Lloyd's old roller skates. Just need to figure out how to combine them together and such…it won't be super nice and someone has to push it…but it's better than nothing." Jay held up the aforementioned beat up rollerblades, a grin on his face as he eyed the miniature wheels.

Cole nodded, before looking at me. "Kai? What are you doing?"

"I'm bored!" I whined, knowing that I sounded pretty childish right then.

"I'm hungry!" Sensei whined as he tugged on the bottom of Cole's shirt, his sleeves having been ripped off sometime during the almost dying experience we just had.

Cole rubbed his hand over his face, exhaustion flooding him. "Zane? If I take Sensei to find food, can you keep an eye on these two?"

"Of course." Zane glanced over at the stuff I was filling my lap with. "I am beginning to wonder if Kai is bored, or if he is just missing his sister."

Jay sighed loudly at that, the mention of his girlfriend dragging him down immediately. "I for sure miss her…and Lloyd…and my parents…actually I miss everyone."

"I am bored. I guess I miss Nya a little, but I'm mentally connected to her…so…yeah." I twisted a bolt onto one of metal slabs I had managed to snag.

"You don't really miss her, I mean, you still do…but you can guess at what's going on via her emotions." Jay summed up as he took the wheels off of the skates.

Zane suddenly lifted a hand up to signal for us to be quiet. We fell silent, my fingers still messing with the scraps I was playing with, as we listened to the radio he was building crackle to life.

"…. Waylay….Mark….waylay….mark…" I frowned as I realized something that was off with the transmission.

"Um? Guys?" I timidly tried to get their attention, my fingers flying ever so faster with the scraps.

"Not now Kai. What do you think they mean by any of that?" Jay waved me off as he turned to face Zane.

Zane worriedly readjusted the radio, trying to get a better signal. "I am not entirely sure…but I think I know what they mean about waylay and mark… but it is hard to tell since it is so horribly broken up."

"Guys?! The transmission isn't coming from Ninjago! There's a group of people nearby that are talking into what I presume is walkie-talkies and I can hear everything. We need to move now! They're planning an ambush for us!" I curled my fingers tightly, using my fire to wield the metal pieces together.

"What!?" Zane and Jay whipped around to stare at me horrified, before Jay began a full blown freak out. "But I haven't finished building you a semi-functional wheelchair and you can't walk!"

The words had barely left his mouth when a mysterious fog rolled in, obscuring each other from view. A minute later, I heard Zane cry out in alarm. My heart nearly skipped a beat as Jay called after Zane, trying to figure out where he went, only for him to suddenly cry out in alarm as well. I continued messing with the metal scraps, panic flooding me as I took a deep breath. "Guys!? This better not be a trick! You know how much I hate being tricked! Guys!? Please…." I doubted they could hear my terrified whisper of please, since I was the only one with sharp hearing in our little group.

Just then, unfamiliar voices began to float around me. "What about this one?"

"I say leave him. You heard the others, he can't move on his own!"

"But that would be wrong! We can't leave him to die!"

"Then let's take him with. We can keep him separate from the others, easily enough."

Panic bloomed inside of me as I curled my fingers around what I was holding, my voice panicked as I spoke up. "No! Please, keep me with my brothers! We won't cause any trouble!" Unless you turn out to be a threat against our lives…then you will regret capturing us.

"Brothers? Do Oni even understand the concept of family?"

A minute later, everything went black….

…

I woke up to find my little project that really was cause I was bored lying near me, just in reach. I appeared to be lying in a cell of sorts…by myself. Pain stabbed through me as I worried about where Zane and Jay could possibly. Pushing myself up with my elbows, I sat up, before reaching over and grabbing my legs with my hands, pulling them over the edge of the cot I was on. Picking up my project, I started to fiddle with it again, noting for being just a mess of scraps it appeared to be taking shape.

"You seem pretty obsessed with that thing you are building there young one."

I snapped my head up, startled that a dragon would actually talk to me…or be in here of all places. "What are you doing in here? Shouldn't you be outside?"

A loud snort escaped the dragon, before an angry growl rippled from the mysterious dragon's throat. "Of course I would be if I could! I am like you, a prisoner against my will. My name is Slab. What is yours young one?"

I leaned my head back against the cool rock wall behind me. "My name is Kai. I am a ninja, not a dragon…but I have always understood your kind. It drives my brothers up the wall sometimes. Slab sounds like it is an earth dragon name."

"It is. You are intelligent aren't you? I am curious about what you mean by ninja though. I have never heard of them before."

"We fight for justice… and we each have different elemental powers. My brother, Cole, he has earth powers. My sister has water powers though." I could feel myself relax, my fingers twitching as I continued messing with the scraps. "Besides that, I am not intelligent. That would be my brother Zane, and his girlfriend, Pixal. She's not a full blown ninja, but she's still one of us." I felt a pang of sadness, realizing for the first time being comfortable with knowing that Nya was ok was hugely different than missing her and the others. Especially the others. I had no way of knowing if they were ok at all.

Tears streamed down my face, just as the mess of scraps in my lap suddenly came to life. My eyes widened in surprised as I stared at what appeared to be a little furry brown monkey with white and black spots looking around the cell on my lap. "What did I just do!? I'm gonna need a name for you now, don't I?"

A/N: Done! Um, yeah. They left Kai alone and he made a new friend and somehow built a working robot. He doesn't know how he did that last bit though. He just know has a furry little monkey to keep him company. Wait till you see his personality, I love it so far…if it goes the way it does in my head.

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