Jay

The fake Nindroid was hurting him, even though he explained that he was fragile.

But something told him that maybe it was his own fault, going on and on about how he was an egg to explain that he was fragile. Maybe he should have explained some other way…

Glass? No, the glass didn't break… Spiderweb? I think there's some on me right now…

"I'm going to scream now," Jay told the fake Nindroid the moment he noticed that there was web on him, and that the spider (a monster as big as his hand) came along for the ride.

"No, don't scream," the fake Nindroid told him, not even looking around while the other one and Other Lloyd were too busy talking with each other to notice the creepy, leggy thing. "Remember the Nindroids?"

It reminded him of a skeleton, but brown and with hair and eight eyes and legs, all which were on him.

"I'm going to scream!" Jay cried, completely uncomfortable with the spider edging closer and closer to his face. "Then I'm going to cry! You're hurting me!"

The fake Nindroid and the two others stopped running.

Good, now I can scream without having to run at the same time.

"Aaaargh!" The spider was almost on his face now. "Get it off! Get it off!"

The fake Nindroid spun around and let out a startled squeak. "Is that a spider?!"

Jay nodded and continued to scream as he told the other three he was going to. The fake Nindroid grabbed a nearby leaf and used it as a mitt to grab the spider. It wiggled its legs at him, to which the fake Nindroid jumped and let go of the leaf, causing the spider to go and sit on Jay again.

Jay stopped, dropped and rolled, something he remembered one was supposed to do when something dangerous (he couldn't remember what exactly) was on one.

"Jay, you do that for fire," Other Lloyd told him with a sigh.

Much to his horror, the other fake Nindroid grabbed the spider with his bare hands and let it go into some nearby bushes. One does not do that with spiders!

His attempts to get rid of the spider must have freaked out his lightning, because there was a weird taste in his mouth and he started having a coughing fit, his insides burning as the lightning attacked him.

The world around him was blurring and slowly getting darker and darker.

Everything was spinning, and he wanted them to stop, but when he tried to say something, all that came out was "Argnrgngrngrnrrrr," which seemed to be the password for making everything go dark.

Okay, then. This is a good place to sleep anyway.


Pixal (Flashback)

That thing kept following her, angrily beeping whenever she was out of his line of sight, putting her in danger of being caught by whoever was working for the Overlord in the area.

It's been a month already, why can't he just give up?!

That was when she found herself shutting down.

Her core had overheated, several of her wires had come loose and were exposed and she was experiencing multiple errors, which was a bad thing, considering that Minidroid could easily take her apart while she was trying to deal with the errors.

It was only her, and an angry killing-machine, in the middle of nowhere.

When she woke up again, something was a little off.

She wasn't where she shut down, and a strange woman was sitting by her side, reading a book on Ninjagoan culture and taking a drink from a bottle of lilac-coloured something every now and then.

"Where am I?" Pixal sat up, and found, much to her surprise, that she had been repaired, her wires had been replaced and so was her core. "What happened?!"

The woman looked up and groaned. "I quit, that's what happened."

Pixal blinked at her. "I do not understand."

"Look, I was just minding my own business, hallucinating in the rosebushes, when all of a sudden, your little friend comes right at me, beeping like the traffic in Ninjago City, and dragging me to you." The woman took another drink from her bottle before speaking again. "Next thing I know, I'm helping that little beast fix you while my chickens keep attacking me for not paying attention to them."

Wait, Minidroid went to get help?

The woman stood up and left through the bushes, either to hallucinate in peace or to check up on her chickens.

A few minutes later, Minidroid came up to her, beeped angrily, and pulled her to her feet.

"Thank you for helping," Pixal told the little Nindroid. "You did not have to, but you still did."

Minidroid stopped beeping and handed her a piece of paper.

Printed on it with sharp black ink, was the name of a volcano so active, that nobody ever tried to settle there in the entire history of Ninjago.


Pixal

After helping Nya back to bed, she returned to Zane, who was busy studying the extra parts removed from his falcon with a confused expression.

"Maybe it's a puzzle," Zane told her, "or some kind of device that needs to be assembled…"

"If it's a device, it can't be the one that Jay meant to use against the Overlord."

Zane nodded. "Of course, but what if it's a part of the device?"

Almost by magic, a small swarm of moths appeared.

They were rather colourful, and might be mistaken for butterflies, if it weren't for their feathery antennae.

It was like a rainbow threw up all over them.

"What are they doing?" Pixal could hear Zane ask behind her as they arranged themselves to form shapes.

There didn't seem to be a pattern, but all the same, neither she nor Zane could look away from them.

Then they disappeared, and some letters appeared on the table, carved into the wood.

"Time is running out," Pixal read. "In twelve hours, he will be gone for good. Hurry if you wish to save your friend."


Looks like somebody's in trouble.

But who? And what's the device that was in the bird? Also, nobody ever told me what Lloyd's dragon's name is, if you know, please tell me in the reviews