Lauren was in her room, along with Susanne, Lily, Kaitlyn, and Nya. She was sitting on her bed, looking at the wall.

"I- I'm sorry, I shouldn't have lost control like that," she said. "I never wanted to use my Silver Power. I'm so, so sorry." Lauren began to tear up. She had lost it, her feelings got the better of her. Were those fourteen years of training not enough? Could she be... vulnerable? No. She could not, and would not, accept it. Lauren wiped away her tears, and stood up to face the others.

"Well, we've already decided our goal, but there's another thing. How to reach it," she said. "You all are used to using your main strengths, like your weapons right?" The others nodded, and Lauren continued.

"Right. So now, you need to rely on mostly your fighting skills," Lauren said. "Susanne, punch my hand."

"But won't it hurt you?" Susanne responded.

"Just do it." Lauren outstretched her hand so her palm wasn't covered. Susanne looked back at the others, who nodded their approval. She stood up, and walked over to Lauren.

"Don't blame me if you get hurt," she muttered. Lauren smirked, and Susanne threw a punch. Lauren was unmoved, and Susanne shook her hand.

"Woah, how'd you-"

"Fourteen years of training out on the mountainsides can get you pretty strong. I spent a lot of my time punching and kicking trees. However, I also meditated in them, so I guess only half the forest was scarred," Lauren explained. "Anyway, if we want to get to DISCORD, you're going to have to learn some more than what Sensei Kaguro taught you."

Lauren and the others had walked into the forest, and they were about to start their new training.

"Now, how can I make this easy," Lauren said. (Here comes a Mulan moment...)

"Ground, sky. Day and night. Sound and silence. Dark and light. One alone is not enough, you need both together. Winter, summer, moon and sun." Lauren knocked down a bamboo shoot with one swift kick, and stamped it on the ground beside her.

"Lesson number one," she said. "Like a rock, you must be hard." She swung her shoot with ease and power.

"Like an oak, you must stand firm," Lauren said, still swinging the shoot. "Make quick, and light your way. Think fast." She swung it over all of the girls' heads, all of them feeling the air.

"Unafraid." Then, she set her makeshift staff down, and sat in the meditating position. She breathed in, and out.

"Like a cloud, I am soft. Like bamboo, I bend in the wind," she said, almost singing. "Keeping slow, I'm at peace because I know, it's okay to be afraid." Soon, all of the girls in the clearing were practicing the mantras. Some wielding bamboo shoots, some meditating under trees.

"You have begun," Lauren said at sunset.

The four ninja groaned, barely able to stand up in their cells.

"I, think I've lost hope," said Jay between breaths. They had come back from their "experiments", where electrocution followed if they messed up. Kai pounded the bars of his cell.

"How can you say that?!" he said angrily. "How can you lose hope so quickly?"

"How come the girls haven't come to save us yet? Also, where's the Sensei, huh? We haven't seen him here, so where would he be?" Jay said, with the same anger as Kai. "If you're happy, and you know it, then there must be something wrong with you."

"I never said I was happy!" Kai yelled back. "All I know, is that we need to get out of here."

"Thank you, Captain Obvious," Cole muttered. Kai growled, and everyone tried to get some sleep. They didn't even know if it was night, since there were no windows, other than in the cockpit, but they didn't know where that was. There weren't any clocks either, so there was no indication of time. People just sort've crashed after they finished their share of the experiments.

"Good night, my brothers," said Zane.

"Good night," the rest said in unison.

"I don't think so," said a voice from outside their cells. A soldier, carrying one of the guns that had been seen on every single one that worked here.

"Chancellor Fiera wants to talk to you four," said a second one. "Now get up!" The ninja obeyed, slight groans escaped from them, as it was hard to get up, or move a muscle for that matter.

"Move!" the first soldier commanded. They all knew where they were going, since they'd had talks with the Chancellor before. They went down the steps of the cell room, and they went into Chancellor Fiera's office.

"Hello," she said. "I suppose you all are wondering why you are here. Well, here's the thing, after today's experiments, we've hit a breakthrough. We haven't really explained why you were brought here, the strengthening, as you've probably figured out already, was a lie." Fiera walked around her office, to the ninja's location. She smiled, and continued her thought.

"You see, men are the weaker of the two genders, and are meant to serve under women," she said with a glint in her eye. All of the ninja snarled, and Fiera noticed.

"Oh, seriously, don't tell me you aren't as excited as I am?" she asked them. "You mean to tell me that you wouldn't want to serve your exceeds? I can't believe you don't understand my main point! Soldiers, take them back to their cells."

"Yes, high Chancellor," said the two men. They were part of the organization, yet they weren't women? They all guessed that they had already been turned. What if that was what they were going to be like?

I won't let them do this to me, Kai thought. They won't get away with it. Lauren, where are you?