Cole slowly opened his heavy eyelids. He looked around the room and realized he didn't know where he was or how he had gotten there. He tried to turn his neck, but pain shot through his body. When he tried to move his arm, the pain was even worse. He forced himself to stay calm and think. He heard beeping next to him, and he realized the bed wasn't entirely flat and had plastic guardrails. A single lamp near his head was turned on, and he could see the walls were a shade of white. He added everything up and figured he was in the hospital, but he had no clue why he was there. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Lou lying down on a bench or cot.

"D… D… D…" Cole tried not to panic as he realized he couldn't speak. He stared up at the ceiling to think. He couldn't move or speak, and he had no idea how he would get his dad's attention. He looked around as best he could. As his eyes adjusted, he noticed the monitors on his chest, the IV in his arm, and he was aware of a tube in his nose. If he could take off the heart monitors, take the IV out, and get the tube out, he could simulate a code blue and nurses would come rushing in. But that required movement. And movement hurt. Cole waited nearly ten minutes, but no one came, so he started mentally preparing for the pain of movement. He took some deep breaths and attempted to raise his right arm.

The pain was worse than anything he had ever experienced before. He tried to scream, but no sound came out. Every little movement made the pain ten times worse. He remembered the tube and he actually succeeded in ripping it out somehow. But the pain was too much. He managed to roll onto his left side and fling his arm over the railing, banging his hand against the plastic guardrail. He gripped it for dear life. The movement caused the heart monitor to fall off and the machine flatlined. The oxygen monitor on his finger fell off, and that machine went into standby mode.

"Oh my gosh! Cole!"

Cole couldn't see anything besides his arm muscles contracting against his will, but he felt Lou lean over him and grab the nurse call button. Tears escaped his eyes as he heard commotion in the hallway.

At the monastery, Zane woke up at one-thirty in the morning to an alarm. It wasn't the usual alarm to signal trouble in Ninjago. He realized it was an alert from one of the machines monitoring Cole. He quickly read the alert and started to panic. Another alert came in. Then another.

"Cole's heart stopped beating! And he's not breathing!" Zane screamed at the top of his metallic lungs. He ran around, banging on everyone's door, waking them up. More alarms started to go off in Cole's hospital room. They bolted out of their rooms and ran to the Bounty. Nya had it up and running in record time.

"They said we would have a few more days! What happened?" Lloyd demanded.

"I do not know," Zane answered.

"We'll be there in less than ten minutes," Nya said from behind the wheel.

"Can you make it five?" Kai asked.

"I'm at max power."

Everyone prayed they weren't too late.

Lou placed his hand on Cole's back and felt Cole's back muscles spasm repeatedly. Cole had somehow managed to climb on top of the railing and seemed to be stuck there. Nurses and a passing doctor ran into the room to help. They tried to peel Cole off the railing, but stopped when they realized his muscles were more or less locked into place and it was too painful for him to move.

"Okay. Lou, keep him calm. We're going to give him a muscle relaxer and some pain killer. And support him so he doesn't fall off the railing."

"Okay. Just no morphine. He's extremely allergic to that," Lou said.

The nurses rushed into action. They tried to get a gas mask on Cole, but his face was buried under his arm, so they resolved to give him some medicine through his IV, once they managed to inject it into his arm again. Which was not an easy task, since his muscles were still twitching.

"Keep him calm until the medicine kicks in."

Lou nodded and knelt down he could see Cole's face through the holes in the railing. It pained him to see the fear on Cole's face. There were tears in his son's eyes, but Lou didn't know if they were from fear, pain, or both. Cole looked at him.

"It's okay, it's going to be okay." Lou rubbed Cole's arm. Cole's breathing was very shaky, but after several minutes, it started to slow down.

Twenty minutes later, the medicine had kicked in enough to where they felt they could move Cole around without causing him too much pain. Lou carefully pried Cole's fingers off the railing and the nurses moved his right arm. Then they slowly moved his right leg back onto the bed. Within five minutes, Cole was lying on his back. His muscles were still stiff. They put a mask over his face. Cole fought sleep, but the medicine was making him drowsy. He slowly blinked at his dad.

"It's okay. You're safe now. I'll be here when you wake up," Lou whispered as he stroked Cole's hair. Two minutes later, Cole was out. A minute after that, the ninja came running into the room, followed by security. A nurse quickly ushered them into the hallway. The ninja were all talking over each other, so the nurse waited until they quieted down before speaking.

"Cole woke up."

"Can we see him?" Jay asked.

"No. He's resting, and we need to do some tests first. We will let you know when he is ready for visitors."