"The School?" Jay repeated, voice wavering. "You all think the Serpentine took Zane back to the School?"
"It's the only thing that would make sense," I explained. "Why else would they come after us?"
"But we've been out of the School for years," Kai stated.
"Yeah, why would they try to get us now?" Jay wondered.
I shrugged. "Maybe it took them that long to find us. After all, Garmadon was really sneaky about stealing us away from the School. Maybe the whitecoats didn't know where we were until just recently. Maybe they just figured out where we are and finally came after us."
"But then why didn't they take all of us?" Kai asked.
"Maybe the whitecoats didn't know if the Serpentine would be able to capture all of us," I offered.
"So why-" Jay began.
"Look, Lloyd isn't a whitecoat, so he doesn't know exactly why any of this is happening the way it is," Cole interrupted. "None of us do. We're just trying to make as much sense of it as possible, and like Lloyd said, the only way this makes sense is if the whitecoats want us in the School again. The Serpentine must have been sent to bring at least one of us back."
"And they succeeded," Nya said grimly.
We all fell silent for a moment then. I was trying and failing not to think of Zane, on his own, back at the School, stuck in a cage, surrounded by whitecoats with evil plans. I guessed the others were trying not to think of the same thing.
Shaking off the horrible thoughts, I cleared my throat. "Yeah, they succeeded. For now. We don't have to give up. Actually, we have to not give up."
"But what can we do?" Kai wondered.
Nya stood and walked out of the room, calling over her shoulder, "Be right back."
Kai stared after her, then he turned to me and gave me a confused look.
"We do the only thing we can do," I stated. "We fight."
"How do we fight? The Serpentine are gone," Jay said mournfully. "It's not like we can follow them."
"Actually, if I know what Nya's going to get, it's exactly like that," Cole offered.
Jay frowned. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means that, just like the Serpentine brought the fight to us, we're going to bring the fight back to the Serpentine," I explained as Nya came back into the room holding a stack of papers. She headed for the kitchen table, pushing aside the breakfast dishes to spread the papers on the table.
I stood and went to her, Cole, Kai, and Jay hot on my heels.
"What's all this?" Jay asked, picking up a paper and frowning at it. "Wait, is this the stuff from Jeb Garmadon's office? The stuff we packed up after he disappeared?"
"It's that stuff, yeah," Nya agreed, sifting through the papers and pulling a specific one out. "More than that, though, it's the stuff that's going to help us get Zane back."
Kai's eyes went wide. "These papers can do that?"
"Yeah," Nya stated. "Check this one out."
Kai peered at the paper in his sister's hands. "It's a… Map? Of a building?"
"Of a very specific building," I said, my stomach rolling with fear and anticipation. "A certain secret facility. The School."