Night had fallen, and everyone was sleeping. At least, was supposed to be sleeping. Kai watched Cole and Zack sleeping soundly next to him on the sandy beach, cuddled with each other. Kai turned and looked up at the starry sky above them, and the bright reflection of it in the calm lake.

"You should be sleeping."

Kai jumped, turning to see Booker looking at him.

"I just can't," Kai muttered.

"Why not?" Booker asked him.

"With everything on my mind, I just can't think about sleep," Kai sighed. "Knowing that everything lies on our shoulders, and the team is practically gone."

Kai sighed, picking up a stick next to him and proceeding to draw lines in the sand with it.

"I just want this to be over," Kai sighed. "But the only easy way out of this would be to surrender, which would be us giving up. I just wouldn't be able to live with myself if we did that."

Kai hung his head in his arms, dropping the stick. He looked back up at the sky after a moment, biting his lip.

"Although it would mean we would all be together again, just not in the case we ever would want," he muttered.

There was a moment of silence between the two as Kai stared at the sky.

"What are you going to do, then?" Booker asked him.

"I don't know," Kai sighed. "That's the one issue I have, I don't know what to do anymore. One wrong move will lead to disaster and possibly death."

Booker heard Kai humming to himself softly, then he stopped.

"I know Cole wouldn't be with me on this, but I need to find Linda," Kai turned to Booker.

"Why?" Booker frowned.

"We need all the help we can get right now, and if she escaped the Overlord, we could use her help now more than ever," Kai said.

"You know that's asking for a deathwish," Cole muttered.

Kai turned, seeing Cole looking at him.
"We don't know if she was helping him all along," Cole frowned.

"I know you're against her, but she's changed, Cole," Kai frowned at him. "You might not see it, but I do."

Kai turned and stormed into the forest. He walked in silence for several minutes, his thoughts swirling in his mind constantly. He stopped, looking up at the sky in silence. He looked down before him. (Never Surrender by Skillet)

"Do you know what it's like when you're scared to see yourself?" Kai sang softly. "Do you know what it's like when, you wish you were someone else? Who didn't need your help to get by? Do you know what it's like to wanna surrender?"

Kai kept walking deeper into the forest.
"I don't wanna feel like this tomorrow," Kai sang, looking up at the sky as he walked. "I don't wanna live like this today. Make me feel better, I wanna feel better. Stay with me here now and never surrender."
Kai sighed, looking around at his surroundings. Looking for anyone who was following him.
"Do you know what it's like when you're not who you wanna be?" Kai sang. "Do you know what it's like to, be your own worst enemy? Who sees the things in me I can't hide? Do you know what it's like to wanna surrender?"

Kai clenched his hands together, almost surprised when bolts of lightning jumped to the trees around him.

"I don't wanna feel like this tomorrow," Kai sang out. "I don't wanna live like this today. Make me feel better, I wanna feel better. Stay with me here now and never surrender."

Kai felt the air around him cooling, and felt confused inside. All these powers inside him left him with no control over his own anymore.
"Make me feel better."
It made him feel helpless.

"You make me feel better."

He hated feeling helpless. Especially right now.

"You make me feel better."

When all he wanted was for everything to be normal again.

"Put me back together."

When they were all living happily in the Temple of Airjitzu.

"I don't wanna feel like this tomorrow. I don't wanna live like this today. Make me feel better. I wanna feel better. Stay with me here now and never surrender."
It made him upset and angry, and he just wanted to give up, yet he couldn't.

"Put me back together."

Not now. Not ever.

"Never surrender."

Not as long as Ninjago was in the hands of darkness.

"Make me feel better. I need to feel better. Stay with me here now and never surrender."

Not as long as the Overlord controlled his friends and family.
"Maybe this will make you feel better." a voice called out.

Kai jumped, taking a fighting stance. He looked around, hoping to find the source of the voice.

"Who's there?" Kai cried out.

"Such a shame, I thought you would recognize me," the voice mused.

"Show yourself!" Kai shouted.

Kai yelped, looking down and seeing a sleep dart in his arm. He sway and fell to his knees. He watched his attacker come out of the shadows, grinning at him.

"No," he muttered.

"Goodnight, brother," she smirked at him. "See you on the other side."

Kai collapsed, allowing his world to go dark. The disbelief before with who he saw never left him, though.

Cole sighed, returning from the forest. Zack and Booker were both resting on the beach in silence, looking up at him as he emerged from the brush.

"Nothing," Cole sighed. "He's long gone."
"Hopefully he's safe," Booker said. "We don't know who else might be here. Or if he left the safety boundaries and was found."

"You can do that?" Zack asked.

"Oh yes," Booker nodded. "Once you get out of range of the spell over the area, your open to tracking and being found."

"If he's found, they would think we're nearby, though," Cole cut in. "Then they would come looking for us, and we would all be found and there would be no stopping the Overlord from getting the golden powers."
"That's not good," Zack muttered.

"We need to find Kai before anyone else does," Cole said, panicked.

Cole turned to run, but stopped when he found a katana pointed at his chest. He slowly backed away as Zack jumped to his feet and grabbed Booker. Cole backed away from the katana, looking up to see who was holding it.

"I would rather us just stay here."

Cole's heart skipped a beat as he panicked. He looked around, seeing more nindroids surrounding them. Jay was in front of him, holding the katana while Zane was behind them. Nindroids surrounded them from the sides and the sky, trapping them.

"Nya's done her job, now we have to do ours," Zane told Jay.

"Dart them," Jay nodded.

Cole suddenly felt a pinch his the back of his arm, and a wave of dizziness. He spun around as Zack collapsed to the ground. He looked back at Jay, his vision blurring around him. Jay smiled at him.

"Just relax, Cole," Jay smiled to him. "You'll be fine once this is all over."

And with that and a horrified look on his face, Cole collapsed to the ground unconscious.