Jeanette stood in the kitchen, the smell of a roast fills the air, but Jeanette is occupied she's trying and failing to open a bag of chips. She growled as she struggled, then tried to use her teeth to open the bag.

"You shouldn't use your teeth." Jay said as he stood in doorframe.

Jeanette growled. "I can't get this open!" She complained, and Jay walked further into the kitchen.

"Need help?" He offered, reaching for the chips.

BOOM

Jeanette stumbled backwards as the bag broke open and chips rained down all over Jay. "Oops." She said as Cole and Lloyd busted up laughing as they walked into the kitchen, followed by Zane and Nya.

"Oh that was good Jen!" Cole grinned.

Jeanette set the now open bag of chips onto the table. "Sorry Jay." She apologized, with a little giggle.

"It's ok." Jay said dusting the chips off him.

Zane walked over to the stove. "I believe dinner is ready." He smiled, turning to his friends.

"Good. I'm starving!" Jeanette said with a smile.

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Later, the whole team is now grouped together. "This fight is far from over!" Lloyd started. "I know we had a set back, but."-

"It's always the darkest before the dawn." Kai cut in, holding a helmet as he leaned against a pole. "Blah, blah, blah. Come on, let's get going already ok?"

"Kai!" Nya protested.

"We don't need a peptalk!" Her brother cut her off. "We need action!" He turned to look at Lloyd.

"I agree." Lloyd said. "They actually gave us a brake by taking the Time Blade."

"Uh, are you ok Lloyd?" Jeanette asked. "I believe you wanted to tear their heads off yesterday."

Lloyd shrugged. "Yeah, they have my uncle. But I was able to sleep off that anger. So the only way to save him, is to have a good solid plan."

Everyone turned to look at Kai. "What?" The red Ninja asked.

"You're the one who dives into battles without a game plan." Jeanette giggled.

"If any of you have captured something that powerful, what would you do?" Lloyd asked.

"Umm, immediately haul it back home, to show it off to you guys!" Jay answered, and Lloyd pointed at him.

"Right! Unless I miss my guess, that's exactly where the Hands Of Time are headed as we speak!" He smiled. "Their home!"

"So if we can find a Time Blade." Cole started.

"We can find Acronix, and Krux's base." Zane finished.

"Think you can locate the Blade, like your temporal scanner?" Lloyd asked Zane.

"Attempting access." Zane said, closing his eyes. A minute later he opened his eyes. "I'm afraid it was damaged when we fought the Vermillion Warriors."

Jay snorted in laughter.

"I fail to see the humor Jay." Zane told him.

"Yeah." Jeanette folded her arms. "What are you laughing at?"

"I still think the Vermillon Warriors is a stupid name!" Jay laughed.

"I can see if the scanner on the Destiny's Bounty." Nya suggested. "If it still works."

"Yes!" Lloyd smiled. "Good thinking Nya!"

"And the rest of you should go to the museum." Nya replied. "Acronix hid it in plan sight, as Dr. Saunders for 40 years." She stood up. "I bet there's a clue to where their secret headquarters is." She finished and the others stood up.

Jeanette took that time to run out of the room.

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Jeanette leaned on the side of the bathtub, and placed a hand on her stomach. Nya poked her head in, before she walked further into the room.

"Maybe you should stay with Misako." The water Ninja suggested, she frowned when Jeanette shook her head.

"No. I'm ok." Jeanette said firmly. "I am not missing this mission!"

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Jeanette sat on her dragon, watching as the Destiny's Shadow flew with a shake. The vessel did a few loops through the air. "Just watching Lloyd drive that thing, is making me feel sick." She continued to watch as the Destiny's Shadow started to drive straight.

After a little while, Jeanette saw the musuem in the distance. "Cole!" She called, turning to her left to find him still flying next to her. "The museum! Dead ahead!"

"Right!" He nodded.

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The Ninja look around the museum. "This place is creepy!" Jeanette shuttered as they searched.

"Agh!" Jay kicked a vase. "This is a waste of time!" He bumped the vase and walked away from it, as it tipped back and forth. "There's nothing here but old junk!" He complained, tossing other vases over his shoulder.

Jeanette opened a door, and screamed when something fell out. Lloyd, Cole, Jay, and Zane ran over to her.

"Whoa! Now that's what I call a skeleton in your closet." Jay said, and Zane frowned looking at the blue Ninja, as Lloyd wrapped his arm around Jeanette.

"Are you ok?" The blonde asked her gently.

"That should've been a sign for us eailer!" Jeanette pointed to the skeleton on the floor, agreeing with Jay. "This place is giving me the serous case, of the creeps!" She shuttered.

Lloyd tightened his arm around her. "Cole, your Earth Punch under control?"

Cole now stood at a different wall, his hands on his hips. "Oh yeah!" His arms started to glow as he did a serous case of punches, until he punched the wall and it exploded. "Uh ok." He said nervously as the others ran up behind him. "Mostly." He said.

"Guys!" Lloyd pointed inside. "It's a secret room!"

Jeanette smiled, hugging Cole. "You found it Cole!"

"Uh yeah, cause obviously I meant to do that." The earth Ninja said.

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Jeanette followed Cole into the room, then followed him while the others looked around.

"This place just got way to creepy." She shivered.

"I will admit, that it is creepy." Cole agreed, he paused. "Jen?" He turned to her. "We all know how you and Lloyd got engaged. But did he actually do it right? Ya know, dropping to one knee and a speech?"

She smiled. "It was close enough, and I loved it!" She turned and leaned against a wall, then yelped as she fell.

"Jen!" Cole ran over to her, he pushed the wall to the side. "Damn, are you alright?" He knelt down and gently helped her up, she clung to his arms as she tried to balance herself.

"Yeah." She nodded as she bumped into the wall that opened on her. Wait, wall? "This isn't a wall." She said as she touched the smooth surface.

"It's a door!" Cole gasped, his eyes widened as he looked behind her. "A tunnel!"

"A tunnel to where?" Jeanette asked, looking down the tunnel.

"Don't know yet." Cole shook his head, Jeanette started to go down the tunnel, but he stopped her.

"Wait, don't go down there alone!" He insisted. "Lloyd will kill me for sure!"

"Well then come with me." She pulled her arm away and started to walk down the tunnel, leaving the earth Ninja just standing there.

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Jeanette was walking further down the tunnel, she didn't know how long she'd been walking so she figured maybe two or three miles. When she heard hurried footsteps she looked behind herself to see a dark figure running in her direction, Jeanette turned back around and ran, then rounded a corner to hide.

She quickly hid behind a crate, she waited for a long moment before peering above the crate, and a hand landed on her shoulder making her scream and jump. She sent a blast of wind at the person.

Cole fell back and landed on his back.

Jeanette gasped. "Cole!" She ran over to him. "That was you following me!?" She asked helping him up.

"Yeah." He rubbed his head. "Lloyd took a swing at me, and would've decked me to if Jay and Zane hadn't stopped him."

"Where are the others?" She asks. "And why did Lloyd try to deck you?"

"For letting you go down here, by yourself." Lloyd's voice had the two turn to find him, with his arms folded. And the Destiny's Shadow behind him with Jay and Zane aboard it.

Cole laughed a little, then hid behind Jeanette.

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The Destiny's Shadow drove through the tunnels. "Agh, does anyone have any idea, where we're going?" Jay asked.

"Not really!" Lloyd admitted, and Zane turned around to face him.

"I'm trying to track our progress, but these tunnels are confusing!"

Jeanette tuned out the conversation as she and Jay watched the tunnels.

"It's an ambush!" Cole cried, before the Destiny's Shadow started to fly down the tunnels.

"Ha, ha!" Jay laughed. "Finally some payback!"

Lloyd pulled the vessel to a smooth stop, at the end of a tunnel. Jay, and Cole both jumped off and started to attack something.

"Lights!" Lloyd cried, looking around. "Lights!"

Jeanette quickly looked around, before spotting the button and hitting it. A big over head light shown down on Cole and Jay. Jeanette screamed, jumping backwards bumping into Zane.

"Those arn't the Vermillion Warriors, or Krox!" She said, quickly hiding behind Zane.

"Wait! Jay! Cole!" Lloyd called, waving a hand. "Let them go! That's Skales!"

The two Ninja stopped, and turned to look towards Lloyd through the blinding light.

"And my son." Skales added, the two Ninja turned to him, with Jay standing up. "Skales Jr."

"Who are these creepy things?" Jeanette asked, poking her head around Zane.

"They are the Serpentine." Zane answered, and Jeanette's eyes grew, she then noticed Skales was watching her, she quickly hid behind Zane again.

"You have a new Ninja on your side now?" Skales asked. "Where's the red Ninja, and his sister?"

"On a different mission." Cole answered the last question.

"It has been awhile." Skales decided.

"What are you two doing down here?" Lloyd asked him.

"Don't you know Lloyd?" Jay asked, sitting on the ground and leaning back on his hands. "They're sewage experts!"

Jeanette made a disgusted face, poking her head once again around Zane. "Eww!" She cried as Lloyd jumped down from the Destiny's Shadow.

"I meant, what are you doing down here now." He clearified his question, as Jeanette continued to hide behind Zane.

"Tracking the Vermillon Warriors. With the Constrictai." Skales answered, Jeanette eeped and quickly hugged Zane's arm tightly.

Skales turned his attention back to her. "What element do you possess?" He asked, looking at her.

"Her element is wind." Zane answered for her, his sensers picking up how scared she is.

Lloyd frowned. "Zane, is she ok?" He asked in concern, and Zane nodded.

"Yes, she is just frightened."

"I don't blame her!" Jay folded his arms, and looked towards his former enemy. "You're taller then we last saw you."

"Jeanette, why don't you have a seat?" Zane offered gently, and gently guided her to the chair that Cole had abandoned.

"Thanks Zane." She thanked, sitting in the chair and placing a hand on her stomach. She tuned out the rest of the conversation, even when Zane held out a juice box for her. Smiling she took it.

"Can you take us there?" Lloyd's voice asked, and Jeanette jumped startled with the now empty juice box falling to the floor of their vessel.

"I cannot." Skales shook his head. "I have a family to protect. But I can give you a map." He pulled it out and handed it to Zane. "The Constrictai are experts." He told Lloyd. "I must warn you, there's more going on in there with more then just raising eggs. They're readying them for war! They have your uncle with them."

"We already know they have Wu." Jeanette said, and when Skales looked at her, she squeaked and nearly fell out of her chair, Zane stepped in front of Skale's eye sight.

"Thank you Skales." Lloyd thanked before he, Cole, and Jay jumped towards the Destiny's Shadow and Jay apologized to Jr.

And after a few remarks from Jr towards Jay, the Destiny's Shadow took off.

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The Ninja walked towards the swamp, finding it to be nightfall. "That's a lot of eggs!" Cole said.

"And a lot of armor!" Jay added.

"Wu's gotta be down there somewhere." Lloyd said, and Jeanette hugged his arm.

"Don't worry Lloyd, we'll get your uncle back."

"Yes, and Cyrus Borg." Zane added, and Jeanette lowered her head as she felt a pang in her chest.

"They won't hurt either of them, will they?" She asked with worry.

"No." Zane shook his head, and gently placed a hand on her shoulder. "They took Wu because of an old grudge, and they need Borg to make machines."

"One things for sure." Lloyd said. "We're gonna need the whole team!" He pulled out his cell phone.

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