Heyoooo I'm here

The cold air nipped at his neck, and Cole couldn't help letting out a small smile. It had been so long since he had actually...felt. It was nice, and he was thankful for Zane actually having touch sensors. He felt alive.

"Okay, Cole. The clearing should be somewhere around here. Unless we're lost. We're probably lost." Jay rambled, turning the map around several times in his hands.

"PIXAL, uh...scan the area for a clearing or something. Please." Cole mumbled, looking around. Trees. Nothing but trees everywhere. Did PIXAL even know where-

"There's a lake about twenty metres ahead. Through the bushes." PIXAL answered.

"Ooh, that's better than a clearing! Told you we were gonna find something!" Jay said, elbowing Cole.

After a bit more walking and pushing though bushes (that turned out to be blackberry bushes and were covered with thorns) they found it. A beautiful, sparkling blue lake. It seemed like something out of a fairytale.

And they were going to absolutely demolish it.

"Alriiiight, let's do this! Go on Cole, do something cool!" Jay squealed, pushing Cole toward the lake. Cole winced and quickly broke away from Jay's grasp, keeping a safe distance from the shore.

This was hopeless. A lake? He's a GHOST. He'll die if he touches water!

Unless...it was frozen.

Slowly, Cole walked forwards, stopping only about a metre away from the lake's shore. He took a deep breath...and stepped on the water.

The water burst into frozen crystals, creating a rough but stable platform below his feet. He grinned and started running towards the other side of the lake, each step creating more ice under his feet. He could distantly hear Jay screaming with delight behind him, but he nearly fell over when he heard a second voice join in.

"Cole, be careful!" PIXAL warned Cole, "The stability of the ice you're creating is less than desirable, and if it were to break you would-"

"Yeah yeah, I know. I'd die." Cole said, rolling his eyes slightly. He did sort of slow down after PIXAL's warning, and he ended up jogging until he reached the end of the lake. He looked back and saw that he had made a perfect, if not a bit rough, frozen bridge across the lake. Jay was already making his way towards Cole, recorder in hand and running pretty quickly despite occasionally skidding on the ice.

"Okay, that was AWESOME!" Jay cried, "What else can you do-"

"ZANE! JAY! WHAT IN THE NAME OF WU ARE YOU DOING?!" Nya screamed, "AND WHERE'S COLE!?"

Cole and Jay turned back and saw Nya on the other side of the lake, pushing through the bushes and glaring at them.

"Uhhhhhh...Hey Nya." Cole said, nervously waving.

"Wait...COLE?!" You-oh my Wu-YOU POSSESSED ZANE?!" Nya yelled, starting to make her way across the icy bridge.

"Jay, Zane-I mean, Cole, stay there, we're coming to get you!" Lloyd yelled, charging through the bush with Kai on his tail.

Cole could feel a shooting cold pain in the middle of his forehead, and a fourth voice joined the conversation.

Cole, if you want this experiment to continue I would advise you to run. Nya is not the most pleasant person when angry.

It was Zane. Cole turned back to Nya, who was getting closer with every step. He knew she was in the right in this situation. This entire thing was absolutely ridiculous, and they already knew the answer to their experiment.

But there was so much he wanted to do, so much he wanted to feel and see! It couldn't be over yet!

"Nya, guys, give us some more time! Zane's fine with me possessing him!" Cole said, taking a step back.

"He never says whether he's fine or not. Once his arm was torn off during a fight, and he STILL made dinner. Zane's too selfless for his own good." Kai said.

"But SCIENCE!" Jay yelled, dramatically pointing towards Cole.

"FORGET SCIENCE! We can create tornadoes when we spin around and conjure literal dragon just by thinking!" Kai yelled back.

Throughout all the bickering, PIXAL had remained almost eerily quiet. Maybe it was because she preferred not to raise her voice in the situation. Or maybe she was so pissed she couldn't form words. Either reason was plausible. Anyway, that's why Cole thought she had started to speak again when he heard yet another voice.

"Well, well, well. Look what we have here."