A/N: Hello! About Kai going all OOC on us with the scene with the baby… yeah I somehow possessed him back there. That was not how Kai would react to a baby…that was how I would react to a baby. Sorry about that. On to the Story!

Chapter Five: Samurai X is who now!?

I scanned the area for Zane, panic slowly rising up inside of me. Dropping down another cliff, I spotted something silver sticking out nearby. "Guys! I think I found him over here!" I brushed the dirt off to reveal that it was indeed Zane's hand. Soon, the others were next to me, brushing the dirt off to unbury him.

After awhile Lloyd carefully lifted Zane's head up, placing it into his lap. Pressing a finger into his ear to activate his earpiece, he spoke directly to Pixal. "Pixal? We have him. Lower the gurney, he needs medical attention stat."

Next thing I knew, we were onboard the ship, Zane was lying on top of the table, and we were discussing where we need to go.

"We need to leave Ninjago City…at least for now." Lloyd announced as he watched Nya hook Zane up to the computer so that Pixal could better heal him.

"But that sounds like abandoning it!" Jay gasped as he fidgeted in the corner.

"We're not abandoning it. Samurai X will keep the place safe for us. Whoever he is." Nya muttered the last part under her breath, annoyance flooding between our bond.

Just then the baby burst into tears, sobbing loudly. Cole, who was holding the baby, promptly began to panic. "Oh no! We don't have any baby supplies! We're ninja! What do we do!?"

I lifted my eyebrow at him, before tilting my head. "Cole…we have an entire room full of baby supplies. Koko only recently finished potty training and Garmadon kinda went overboard with buying diapers. I'm sure we have something that will fit him."

The Princess, who was in the room with us, took the screaming baby from Cole and looked to us. "I'm confused…why do you have a room full of baby supplies and who is Koko?"

Lloyd smiled as he looked out the window. "Koko is my baby sister. We still have some supplies from when she was still in diapers and used bottles."

"Okay… uh, I think he was just tired. He fell asleep." All eyes turned to the now snoring baby.

Shrugging, we all separated, knowing that it will be awhile before Zane will wake up.

…

Kai! Get in here, we have something! I nearly flinched, my sword missing the target by three inches. Sis...this better be good! I shoved my sword into its sheath, whipping around to leave the training room.

Once I entered the bridge, I knew immediately knew that something was wrong…extremely wrong. Nya had a look of pure terror on her face and that wasn't including the fear that was flooding through our bond.

Pinching my nose, I turned to face Jay. "What exactly is wrong here?"

Jay nervously rubbed the back of his neck. "Um, Pixal found a cryptic message to the Quiet One that Mr. E sent…that Zane recorded. She translated it to 'the trap has been set.' We're not entirely sure what that means. She's trying to trace the call to the Quiet One's location."

I nodded in agreement even as Pixal spoke up. "The storm is giving me too much static. I need to go down lower."

The Princess, who just entered the room with Lloyd, spoke up immediately, concern edging her voice. "But won't dropping down lower make it so that the Sons of Garmadon spot us?"

Lloyd glanced at her, before turning to face us. "She's right. We stay in the storm for a little longer. Pixal? Keep trying."

"Of course Lloy….Ah! Something is hacking into me!" Pixal cried out in alarm.

"Fight it!" "Nya, Jay figure out where it is coming from!" "This is not good! Not good at all!"

Before I could speak up, Pixal spoke again, her voice strained. "It is a foreign object…the trap! Mr. E hid something in Zane that can enter my systems!"

Jay glanced out the window and promptly pointed. "Hey look! Samurai X! maybe he can help us!"

"I am afraid that is not possible as I have been compromised." Pixal stated calmly, though I detected a rising panic in her voice.

Jay rolled his eyes as he crossed his arms in annoyance. "I don't see how that means that the samurai can't help…ah!" We all tumbled forward as the Samurai X attacked our thrusters suddenly.

Understanding immediately flashed through me. "The Samurai X isn't here to help us…because it's Pixal!"

"Ohh…" "Glad to see one of you can connect the dots!"

Another small explosion that rocked the ship sent Lloyd into leader mode. "Nya! Stay here and look for the trap, get rid of it! The rest of you with me!"

A minute later, we were standing outside on the deck, the wind and rain tearing at us. Lloyd grinded his teeth together as he ran past Jay. "Jay! Keep the lightning off of us! Kai, Cole, help me fight off of possessed Pixal!"

Cole materialized next to me, a frown on his face. "Not sure that Zane will appreciate us attacking his girlfriend…"

"Pixal basically told us to attack her so stop your whining and go." I snapped as I tore off to the thruster she was attacking at the moment.

….

"Soo, do we want to stay in the room or leave?" Jay whispered to me as he eyed Zane and Pixal's reunion. I quickly elbowed him in the side, hard. "Ow!"

Zane snapped his eyes off of Pixal and her new body, towards Jay, a frown crossing his features. "Are you alright Jay? You just cried out in pain."

"I'm fine…it's Kai that's going to be in trouble if he doesn't start running now." Jay growled as he looked at me.

Cole coughed loudly, before picking the adorable baby back up. It was when he did so that I realized that he had changed the baby into an old worn brown sweater, the cloth he had been previously wrapped in was in Cole's hand. "Ok, now that I have your attention. I found this wrapped around the baby." He spread the cloth out… revealing a map with a large x on it. "I think that they think this is a map to the Lost Oni Mask of…I forget what the last word is."

"Hatred." Nya supplied for him as she began tapping away at the keyboard. "It looks like it's at the Primeval's Eye."

I glanced around the place, before realizing something really, really wrong. "Guys…where's Lloyd and the Princess?"

Pixal spun around, her eyes scanning everywhere. "I am not detecting their life signatures anywhere onboard."

Nya rubbed her arm nervously, glancing back at me. "Maybe since we are on solid ground now, they are outside examining the damage to the ship?"

Or we were both wrong and the spy used Pixal's attack to distract us. "We need to check up on the Princess, make sure she is ok after a, uh, bumpy landing." I spoke loudly, trying to elude to calm, while inside I was leaning more to the panic that what I had mentioned to Nya was closer to the truth…

A/N: Done! Um… yeah we have a problem here. You see, we are missing two very important characters now…and Kai is, as the 'eldest' ninja, expected to step up and lead if Lloyd can't. Wonderful. Well! See you next time!

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