Everyone stared in awe at the boulder. It was the size of three or four houses combined. And it was sitting smack dab in the middle of the town. The landslide that drew the ninja to Ignacia hadn't been that bad, but somehow this boulder had made its way into the center of town without damaging a single thing.

"… We need Cole," Jay said, eyeing the villagers who expected the ninja to remove the boulder for them.

"Cole isn't here right now. We can do this without him," Lloyd said.

"Yeah. Think about how much fun it will be to tell him that we took care of a huge boulder without him," Kai laughed. He walked over to the thing and started shoving. It didn't even budge.

"Someone up in Cloud Kingdom must be having a blast right now," Lloyd muttered as he and the others joined Kai in trying to shove the thing out of town.

"You guys have fun with that. I'm going to go see Ray," Hermes said.

"Wait!"

Hermes either didn't hear them, or he chose to ignore them. Either way, he made his way to the blacksmith shop at the edge of town. It was empty, except for the remains of a struggle. Throwing stars were everywhere. Closer inspection of the walls and equipment revealed several deep gouge marks from blades. A piece of blue fabric was on the floor, and one of the edges was jagged where it had been torn off.

"Ray? Maya?" Hermes let himself into the residential part of the building on the second floor. In the master bedroom, along with more throwing stars and general battle damage, Hermes found a dagger sticking out from under the chest of drawers. He picked it up with a handkerchief so he wouldn't disturb any fingerprints that were on it. A quick scan of the rest of the room revealed nothing interesting, nor was there anything interesting in the rest of the upper level. He ran back outside and saw the ninja still struggling to move the boulder.

"Enough with the boulder. We have a bigger problem," Hermes said. Everyone stopped and stared at him.

"What?" Kai asked when Hermes didn't continue.

"Ray and Maya are missing."

"What? Have they been kidnapped again?" Nya yelled. She and Kai ran to the blacksmith shop.

"Uh… I'm not sure. Were they kidnapped before?"

"Krux kidnapped Ray and Maya fifteen or so years ago. We just found them a little over a year and a half ago," Lloyd explained before running after Kai and Nya.

"… Oh. And I just thought Ray was being a bad friend. Huh. The more you know," Hermes muttered to himself. He followed everyone to the shop.

"Mom! Dad!" Kai yelled from upstairs.

"Who did this?" Nya demanded. She stormed over to Hermes, ready to hit him with a blast of water as powerful as a firehose.

"I don't know, but maybe we can find out. Robot! Can you analyze some fingerprints and figure out who they belong to?" Hermes held out the dagger.

"I can try." Zane took the dagger and scanned it. He easily found the fingerprints and after hacking the police database, discovered that they belonged to a common street thug who had been in and out of jail their entire adult lives. The thug did have a juvie record, but it was sealed. Zane relayed this information to his teammates.

Meanwhile, Kai was taking out his anger on his dad's equipment. Skylor tried to comfort him, but he was having none of it.

"We know who did this! Let's storm that cave and make her pay for everything she's ever done!" Kai grabbed a sword and stormed towards the door.

"Kai, we don't know if Morgen is responsible for this or not," Lloyd said.

"She has to be! Kidnapping our parents is her M.O."

"Lou made it clear she was going after Cole for years. Cole is in a coma, and Lou barely leaves his side, so what good does it do to kidnap your parents?"

"Maybe it was Krux and Acronix? Maybe they escaped the time vortex when Wu did?" Jay asked.

"That is possible. We have not seen them since they tried to change the past," Zane said.

"Temporal Idiots did what now?" Hermes asked.

"We'll explain later. Right now, we need to figure out who took Ray and Maya," Lloyd said. He saw Hermes' confused expression and wondered why he didn't know about Krux kidnapping Ray and Maya.

Morgen smiled as Ray and Maya were dragged in. Maya was the more vocal of the two, but Morgen knew that would change soon enough. The pair clearly had no idea who she was or what was going on, and she loved it.

"Ah, finally. Master of Fire, Master of Water, I'm so glad you could make it. Now say goodbye, because you'll never see each other again. Take them to their cells." Morgen watched as the guards separated them, even as the pair yelled and reached for each other.

Once they were safely locked in their cells, she went to the kitchen and grabbed a tray. She walked to a cell deep in the cave system and unlocked the door. The prisoner didn't move from his spot on the bed. She placed the tray on the floor and picked something up off of it. She glanced up and saw the prisoner was awake.

"Time for your medicine, old man." She injected the needle into his thigh.

"Please, just let me die."

"Oh, I can't do that. You're going to live and watch me succeed. Then, I'm going to take your elemental power. Once that's done, I'm going to track down every last one of your teammates and take their powers."

"Your father would be disappointed in you."

"That's where you're wrong. He would be proud of me for getting revenge on you lot."

"He betrayed us."

"He was being controlled by Master Chen. He went back and apologized, but none of you would give him a second chance."

"Is that what he told you?"

"Just eat your food. I'll be back to check on you later." Morgen got up and slammed the door shut behind her.

The prisoner sighed as he heard the door lock. He sat up and picked up the tray of food. He had to use his hands to eat since Morgen didn't even trust him with plastic cutlery for fear he would try to take his life. As he ate, he wondered where in this cave system Morgen had her parents locked up, since that had to be the only reason Hermes and Kelly hadn't put a stop to all this. He refused to believe Hermes would betray everyone a second time.