Jay walked slowly around the palace, he admired it. Matter of fact he never thought he would ever been in the royal palace, despite being a ninja and all. So far their visit was great, protecting the family was an honor they all had been given, definitely a once in a lifetime privilege.

He'd been in other ancient ruins which were equally as unique as the palace, but to have living people in it was a treat.

"Guys!" A voice shouted in through his comms, it sounded like Cole, and it probably was him. He stopped walking and pressed his ear piece.

"Yes?" He waited for an answer, which is what the others were probably doing as well.

"Bl-st sa-p!" The connection was terrible wherever Cole was." Th-eres bla-st s-ap! It was Hutchins! This whole place is rigged to explode!"

"What?! We need to get the royal family out of here!" Kai said through the comms.

Jay looked around in a panic for the nearest exit, of course we wasn't near one. This place was like a maze, literally if you counted all the secret passages they have hiding in the palace.

In a split second Jay heard and explosion and found himself sprinting, attempting to get out of the burning palace.

Funny how an explosion can light a whole building on fire within a second, flames erupting from the wood that started to splinter and crack.

Jay pulled his mask over his face to block out the smoke and dust. He came to a halt, his exit was blocked off by a large beam that had fallen.

"Damn." He said."Hey, I'm stuck in the palace my exit is block, but I can try to find a way out."

His heart started to pound faster when he didn't get an answer back. The comms were blocked.

"Okay...Okay I can-cough- find a way out." He began to look around for another way. There was no way for him to use spinjitzu, if he did then the whole ceiling would come down. Jay turned and ran back the way he came.

"Come on." He growled as he tried to find another way that wasn't blocked. He looked around in the room he was in, he was pretty much stuck.

He pulled his mask down, he couldn't breath, his oxygen was running out and the time he had was slowly ticking away. Suddenly he heard an eerie creak, he looked up and saw the roof started to splinter and cave inward towards him.

"Oh no."

He took off towards the other room, but he tripped over the rubble. He turned onto his back and tried to get out of the way but it was too late. The ceiling collapsed onto him, unfortunately a large sharp metal rod found its way into Jay's thigh. He pushed all the light rubble off of him, but the large beams stayed, crushing him. He felt his breath literally blow away as one of the beams added pressure onto his stomach.

He screeched in pain as the rod dug deeper into his flesh. His breathing became quicker and he started to get light headed.

"Guys?" He used his comms on his last chance in an attempt for help, but they were still blocked. He laid his head back and tried to control his heavy breathing. His hands were rested on his thigh, it was painful, extremely for him.

"Someone...Please…"

XX

"Is everyone out of the palace?!" Lloyd asked in a panic as he rushed down the steps to the others They had dragged all the unconscious guards away from the palace, since they couldn't get in. Lloyd looked around at everyone who was hurt.

"Where is the blue one? Jay?" Harumi said from the side.

Everyone stopped and looked back at the palace."Jay was on duty inside." Zane stated.

Cole, Kai, and Nya took off towards the palace stairs.

"No stop!" Unfortunately for them Zane and Lloyd managed to snag Kai's arms.

"What are you doing?!" Kai shouted as Zane let go. They all looked back to see Cole and Nya disappearing into the burning palace."Jay could die!"

Lloyd lifted his mask."They will get him out, right now we have to take care of the wounded. Zane you help by putting out the fire we can see, but don't freeze off the exit."

Kai rolled his eyes and growled, the one time he wanted to be helpful he was told no, and if he ran in while ignoring Lloyd's command, he would surely get a punishment. Lloyd definitely had gained himself the leader title over the years.

XX

"JAY!" Cole hollered. He squinted through the smoke. Nya soon yelled the same thing and waited for a response.

They didn't receive a response.

Cole shook his head."Better not die on us." He mumbled as he moved a beam out of the way for the two to get through. As they moved on, Nya also did her best to put out any flames near them, but the area would just light back up again.

"Come on..." Then they heard a very faint moan, just barely audible, it could've been the boards of the palace getting to splinter and crack.

Cole and Nya look at each other.

"Jay!?" Cole called, they heard it again and their eyes went wide and took off sprinting in the direction of the weak attempt for help."Jay we are coming!"

The two jumped over, crawled, and lifted rubbled to get to their friend. They came to the room where the ceiling had caved in. It was a mess.

"There is no way he-" Cole spotted a blue sleeve laying behind a large beam."Or maybe he is."

Both carefully made their way around the beam to see their friend lying helplessly under the rubble.

"Jay!" Nya gasped. She kneeled down next to his head and brushed the hair out of his face. It was blackened from the smoke.

She checked for a pulse and sighed with relief." He's breathing, barely."

Cole released a large breath as he examined the wound and he felt a guilty of the pain Jay had been through in just a short time."It's lodged deep in his thigh, I can lift all this but you need to be quick to pull him out." At any moment the palace could crumbled and crush all three of them.

Nya nodded and looked down to Jays face. He barely opened his eyes.

"Nya." He said in a very weak voice.

She had tears in her eyes, just emotions washing over her, the thoughts of the worse things that could've happened to the blue ninja.

"Hey, it's okay we are gonna get you out, Cole has to-cough- lift the beam, it's gonna hurt." She grabbed his hand and wrapped her arm under his right arm.

"Alright." Cole got a good grip on the rod and prepared himself to lift it."Three, two, one."

He used all of his strength to lift it up and Nya quickly dragged Jay out from under the rubble. The blue ninja gave a cry of pain as the rod was removed, but it still felt relieving knowing it was out of his thigh. Nya stood him up and waited for Cole to take him. He let the rubble drop softly, grabbed Jay and lifted him over his shoulder.

"Alright let's go." He said with a cough after.

XX

A beam of light slipped through the blinds and woke the sleeping man. His blue orbs were welcomed with the light.

The smell of eggs and bacon filled his nose, he was really hungry.

A door opened and in came Nya with a tray of food, she smiled when his eyes met hers. Slowly he started to remember the night before.

He winced as a small pain shot through his leg.

"You okay? I can go get you some pain killers if you need them."

"No." His voice was faint, throat felt a little parched."Water would be nice." He laughed and Nya handed him his glass.

"You feel okay?" Nya asked as she started to unwrap the bandages on his thigh, they needed to be changed.

"It hurts, mind filling me in on what happened the rest of the night." Jay assisted Nya and did his best to lift his leg."Oh that's gross." Jay looked away for a split second but then examined his wound. He had stitches and the edges were extremely red since there was some fresh blood.

"Yeah, you are lucky that the rod didn't go through your whole thigh, that would've ended up with a hole in your leg. Anyways the Sons of Garmadon ambushed us shortly after Cole and I went inside to find you, Lloyd and Harumi were forced to run away from the fight since they had possession of the mask. To sum it up they got the mask and we got away with the Bounty."

Nya added gauze and a patch to the wound then began to wrap up his thigh again with the support of Jay doing his best to lift it up.

"Unfortunately Harumi's parents and Hutchins didn't make it." She added quickly.

He frowned, they had one job, but they didn't do their best. They had been too focused on saving him before them.

"Cole isn't here right now, he is undercover with Zane. They went to spy on the Sons of Garmadon, but I know he was just as scared as everyone else. He was happy we found you on time." Nya handed him a small tray of food for him after she had finished securing the bandage.

"Thanks." He smiled, he wasn't that hungry at all, but to make her feel better he took a piece of toast and started to nibble on it.

"You scared all of us." Nya said looking directly at him with a pained expression. He looked back with the same face and a small smile.

"I couldn't get out and comms were blocked."

"Just don't let it happen again, okay?" Nya cupped his cheek and waited for his response.

Jay smiled."I won't."

"Good." Nya kissed him on his cheek and then stood up and headed for the door."Get some rest and don't move your leg too much. I am going to check up with the others."