A/N: And another chapter. Second-to-last. Hope y'all enjoy!

Part 5- The Rescue

Lloyd tried to ignore what was happening right in front of him. Jay's screams as Pythor shoved hot pokers against his skin were worse than the two months of silence. Worse than Morro and Harumi combined. Because this… This was someone intentionally hurting his friends. Jay was hurting in front of him, and he couldn't do a thing about it.

But he remembered his promise not to break and he was trying. It was taking all his energy not to shout at Pythor to stop it. Because that would break his promise to Jay.

The screaming stopped and Pythor dragged Jay's broken and burnt body over to Lloyd's side before chaining him up again. Jay's breathing was short and ragged, and his head was hung, chin against his chest. His bright blue eyes were shut. Lloyd noticed the bright red welts on his cheeks and winced.

"That looks… nasty," Lloyd commented.

Jay only gave a ragged sigh in response.

"Operation Blue-and-Green is a-go," Kai whispered to the others through their comms.

"Oh, man," Cole whispered back. "I just hope they're okay."

"Jay's stronger than I think you guys realize," Nya added. "Same thing with Lloyd."

"And you were the only one there both times!" Kai whisper-shouted back at her.

"Can we please focus on the problem at hand?" Cole asked. "Save Lloyd and Jay and get Pythor arrested."

"I have found them," Zane told them. "They are currently residing in what was formerly the Anacondrai tomb."

"Great," Nya said.

"Thanks Zane," Kai whispered.

Twenty minutes later found the four gathered on the top of the Anacondrai tomb. "Let's hope you're right about this, Zane," Cole whispered.

"I am detecting two heat signatures as well as a Serpentine," Zane explained. "Are you sure you should doubt that?"

Nya tied a rope to the top of the horn like thing no one could really figure out the purpose of and lowered it through a hole in the roof. She put a finger up to her lips in the "be quiet" gesture. The boys nodded.

They slid down the rope, as silent as four ninja on a mission could be. Kai lit up his hand and the four gasped when they found their missing brothers. Lloyd seemed fine, other than whispering, "Stop, no please stop," in his sleep.

Jay was another matter. He had bright red streaks across his cheeks and was clearly in worse condition than Lloyd.

"That… that's cruel!" Kai gasped when they realized what was happening.

"He's using Jay to get to Lloyd," Zane voiced.

"Let's just help them," Nya whispered. "Zane, keys, please."

Zane used his Ice into the keyhole on Jay's left wrist, then his right before going to Lloyd. Jay collapsed forward and Nya rushed to catch him. Landing in Nya's arms woke him up.

"Did you really think it would be that easy?!" came a voice from behind. Nya, Cole and Kai whipped around to find Pythor behind them.

"Defend them!" the siblings called in unison. Cole took a very weak and confused Jay from Nya as she and her brother wound up ready to fight. Zane took Jay from Cole once he had freed Lloyd. Without hesitation, Cole plunged into the brawl.

When the police arrived on a call from the ninja, they only found Pythor chained to the wall in the Anacondrai tomb.

"I hate those ninja," he said.

A/N: Yep, Pythor's arrested.

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~NG