A/N: () surrounding a name means that is who is speaking…

Chapter Twenty-Five: A Ninja Really Shouldn't Mess with Perfectly Good Technology...

Cole punched a punching bag, sending it flying across the room, where it then crashed into the far wall. Any luck yet finding the others? (Cole)

Nope... Garmadon is still stunned over the view... and we're just over the ocean! (Jay, exasperation flooding his words)

Meeting in the lounge, mandatory. (Kai)

Cole turned and left the training room, making a beeline for the lounge room. On my way. (Cole and Zane) Comin'. And I've got Garmadon with me. (Jay)

Cole entered the lounge room to find the others already there and waiting for him. For Garmadon's sake, Cole choice to speak up out loud. "Sorry I took so long. I was in the training room."

"It's fine Cole. Now then." Kai rubbed his hands together, before turning to face Zane. "I think its time that we turn IT on."

Zane nodded in agreement, already pulling a hidden keyboard and screen out from behind a wall to activate IT. Garmadon frowned, confusion crossing his features. "What are you talking about?"

All eyes turned to stare at him as if they had only just realized that he was there. Jay rubbed the back of his neck, turning red with embarrassment as he realized that he needed to explain what they took for guarantee. "Well... you see since we all have powers we actually give off an energy that is basically unnoticeable by humans...animals and Falcon can pick it up though... and umm... help me out here guys..."

Zane cut in, his voice flat without any emotions. "We used Falcon's programming to figure out how he could see our energy signals and then used that to build a large scale scanner that basically scans all of Ninjago to detect our various energy signals. It can tell us apart from everything else that gives off energy."

Garmadon blinked slowly, before turning to face Kai. "And we had to go to Mystake to get that old map to find the others because..?"

"It's never been tested. For all we know it'll backfire and explode the second we tell it to locate Sis and Kid." Kai scratched the back of his neck, shifting away form the slowly loosing it father that was sitting right next to him.

"That is still better than a thousands of years old map that a crazy tea lady gives us in the back of a tea shop!" Garmadon just about exploded as he glared at the awkward teen.

Cole coughed, his eyes flickering to the keyboard that Zane's fingers hovered over. "Z... punch in the activation code already. The sooner we get it over with the sooner we get the kid back."

"I'm not sure my son appreciates being called the kid..."

"Don't worry, he hates being called little boss more." (Kai)

"Oh... okay. Wait a minute!"

~With Sensei~

Sensei paced across his office, positive that he had to be missing something. "Nothing makes since... according to the police, Garmadon's phone's GPS signal is coming from the middle of the ocean, BUT none of the boat rental places, or ticket booths, recall seeing them enter. In fact none of the security cameras..."

"Has caught them on camera and we personally checked them and there is no blind spots anywhere. We're probably missing an angle or something. Remember, Kai knew about Garm's phone. Could be he slipped the phone into a passenger's or even crew members, luggage when they weren't looking." Misako interrupted him, exasperation flooding her features.

Sensei shook his head, before pulling it up to notice something odd. "If its in the luggage off a passenger or crew member, why does it now read that its coming from the Toxic Bogs?"

Misako's eyes widened in surprise, before she quickly calms herself. "If Kai was foolish enough to leave it on Garmadon, then that must mean that they... travel very quickly."

"I'm sending our best ninjas out to investigate." Sensei strode to the door, yanking it open.

~Back with the friends~

"Did the ship come with the turbo jets... or did you add that in like you did the scanner?" Garmadon asked as soon as he was done dumping his dinner over the edge.

"Jay added it during some downtime. He was bored." Kai casually explained, as if adding turbo jets that makes the ship move faster than the speed of light was totally normal thing to do when bored.

Garmadon tightened his already white knuckled grip on the ship railing, muttering to himself. "This is good...they can get to my son much faster than any ninja... this is good..." Voice breaking off, he groaned loudly. "Who am I kidding? You all are crazy!"

"Thanks!"

"That wasn't a compliment... and the fact that you all took it as one is a bit disturbing..."

Kai rolled his eyes skyward as he glanced over to watch Zane quickly approach him. "According to the G.E.F. they are underneath that tree over there."

"Sweet! Secret hideout! Let's go blow it up and drive the bad guys up the wall!"

"Jay! You can't do that!" Garmadon yelped, staring at him as if he were crazy.

Cole frowned, confusion crossing his features. "Why not? We can't let them have a base of operations!"

Garmadon felt his eye twitch as he resolutely looked straight ahead. "What did I ever do to get involved with you four..."

"Five. Never forget Nya!" Kai declared slash reminded Garmadon as he jumped over the edge of the ship down to the swamp below.

Jay nodded fervently as he moved to follow Kai. "Yeah... she's the scariest out of all of us, just in case you forgot or didn't know this already."

"I didn't know... and I don't think I want to know!" Garmadon vaguely wondered if the less he knew, the better off he will be.

A/N: Done! Hmm... the ninjas have had quite a bit of free time on their hands apparently. Don't worry... I think the ninjas will catch up soon? Um, I actually still need to get them to the Temple of Light somehow to get Lloyd to his Golden Power... and um need to figure out what it is about Kai that the villains think they can use against the ninjas... All in favor of agreeing with me that I didn't plan this out as good as I thought I did please say Aye.

On the bright side, now that I have a wireless keyboard I am no longer having to stop every other sentence to fix mistakes I made whenever I accidentally bump the mousepad. Which is exactly why I bought it in the first place. :)

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