A/N: Hello! Soo, I need to get Kai out on the field…and have Officer Nicholas realize that, uh, Dareth tried telling him that the six missing students and the mysterious sibling group are one and the same. And this apple gives me the most brilliant idea about how to do that!

Disclaimer: I own Nothing! Except for my OCs! And my apple. I do not own the song!

Chapter Twenty-one: Apples are a wonderful breakfast…and ammo

Officer Nicholas walked into the flying ship's kitchen, rubbing some sleep out of his eyes. Cole was eating a bowl of cereal while reading the box, Earth hovering behind him, while Jay was slathering butter on a piece of toast, with Lightning zipping around the room. Lloyd and Nya were nibbling on leftover apple pie while their spiritia whispered to each other. Zane and Ice were mediating at the table, unaware of anything going on. Kai and Fire were rummaging through the fridge looking for something to eat.

"Morning everyone." Officer Nicholas dropped the newspaper he was carrying onto the table.

"Morning Officer Nicholas." Kai stepped out of the fridge, snapping it shut while taking a bite out of an apple.

Hums of agreement rose up from the other not at all missing students. Nodding his head towards them, Officer Nicholas pulled a chair out, sitting down…even as the doorbell suddenly rang out. Startled, he snapped his head up to look towards the door, trying to figure out who could possibly be here. Everyone who knew about the flying ship was in the kitchen; it didn't make any sense for someone to be at the door.

Kai, still holding his apple, promptly spoke up. "I'll go check to see what that was." With that, Kai and Fire left the room.

Nya spoke up, a tiny smile on her face. "Guys…we have a couple of birthdays coming up…"

Jay rubbed his forehead, shooting Cole and Zane a really look. "I still can't believe that you three have birthdays that close to each other."

Zane cleared his throat. "Do you need Cole and I to leave so as to plan our big day without us in the way?"

"Nope." Nya had barely told him to stay, when a loud thud echoed through the ship, followed by a familiar voice crying out suddenly.

~With Kai~

Kai opened the front door to find…Dareth standing there looking around as if amazed by what he is seeing. "Dareth?!"

Dareth snapped his head back to look at him, a huge grin flashing across his face. "Hey Kai! Nice place you have here."

Kai did the only thing that made sense to him; he threw his apple right at the older boy. A loud thud echoed through the place as it connected with his forehead, an equaling loud yelp escaped Dareth has he stumbled backwards, reaching up to catch the apple. Holding it out to Kai, he smiled again. "I think you dropped this."

Kai! What happened!? We heard a thud and what sounded like Dareth yelping. Cole demanded through the mental link that all of them had.

Kai grimaced as he responded back. That's because you did. Dareth is here and I threw my apple at him…either he honestly thinks that I 'dropped' it by mistake…or he is ignoring what just happened. "Dareth? How about you come on in and join us."

"Sweet! Can I get a tour of this place too? You guys did an awesome job with it." Dareth strolled into the place as if this was totally normal.

"Dareth…you really need to explain yourself here."

Officer Nicholas arched an eyebrow at the sight of their classmate casually sitting down in one of the chairs. Dareth beamed at everyone as he placed his hands behind the back of his head. "Hey guys! What's up? Besides the sky…the ceiling…the ship…the sun, well I guess you can't really see the sun today so it would be the clouds."

Nya folded her arms, eyebrow shooting upwards. "Dareth…why are you here…for that matter, how did you know to look for a flying ship? The only way for you to figure that out is if you somehow figured out that we had escaped and that the mysterious sibling group was us?"

"That's because I did! I tried telling Officer Nicholas here that the guys that kept saving him were you but he wouldn't listen!" Dareth shot the police officer an I-told-you-so look.

Officer Nicholas promptly raised his hands in the air in surrender. Lloyd helped himself to another slice of pie, interest dancing in his eyes. "Soo, why are you here?"

"Umm, the entire school was overran by skeletons, serpentine, and those Stone Warrior thingies. We need help. Particularly seeing as uh, your boss appears to be on their side. She won't do anything to help us at all." Dareth pointed to Officer Nicholas.

A frown crossed his face as he recalled seeing her eyes turn colors. Lifting a hand up, he pulled his badge off. "From now until this whole mess is over with, I am off duty by order of me. You all can call me Nick. Since that's my name…Nick Nicholas."

"Wow…you're parents were creative." Jay commented as he finally starting eating his toast.

"We need a plan… any ideas?" Lloyd asked the others, ignoring Dareth.

Dareth tapped his fingers together. "I think that I know what's Kai's phrase he needs to say to transform…and you do realize that you each have a pet bird…and are connected to the dragons, right?"

"First part, yes. The second part not at all." Kai folded his arms, wondering why Dareth was suddenly proving to have a brain in his head.

"Also…did you know that the serpentine are looking for a band to play for them?" Dareth smirked, even as what he was suggesting hit the others rather quickly.

"Can you sssssix even play?" Pythor turned his nose up as he eyed the six supposed siblings that were standing in front of him.

Kai and his friends had tucked their pendants into their shirts again, and were dressed like a barber quartet. Matching black wigs were under their hats, their respective instruments in their hands. Cole spoke up in his slightly modified voice. "Of course! Or my name isn't Twinkle Toes! Do I need to tell you all of our names again, or did you get it?"

Pythor pinched his nose. "I got it. Twinkle Toessss, Mouth of Lightning, Hothead, Sssssamurai X, Nindroid, and I believe you ssssaid that the little one issss…Greenie?"

Kai tilted his head to the side, a goofy grin crossing his face. "Hey look…someone actually got our names down. That's new. Most people just look at us all funny like every time we tell them our names."

Pythor rolled his eyes, before pointing to the room that used to be where the music lessons for the Random classes were held. "Set up in there. Please note that there are already quite a few bands in there already…including the Royal Blacksmiths."

Cole curled his fingers into a fist upon hearing that his father and his quartet was there already. Then again, apparently loosing the school and everything caused all of Ninjago to surrender immediately. And the real threat hadn't even arrived yet. A brown cat padded along next to them, seemingly weaving amongst them.

The second they were in the class room, they dropped their instruments into a heap and turned to the cat. Clearing its throat as if it were a person, it suddenly spoke in Dareth's voice. "Ok…the mailman should be here with our order of apples soon. Everyone remember the plan?"

All six heads nodded firmly in acknowledgement. Dareth the cat nodded, before titling his head to the instruments. "Better at least act like you are practicing."

With that, they pulled out their instruments and began playing. Nya then began to sing quietly. "Can you see me?
'Cause I'm right here
Can you listen?
'Cause I've been trying to make you notice
What it would mean to me
To feel like somebody
We've been on our way to nowhere
Tryin' so hard to get there

And I say, oh
We're gonna let it show
We're gonna just let go of everything
Holding back our dreams
And try to make it come alive
Come on let it shine so they can see
We were meant to be
Somebody (somebody)
Somebody, yeah (somebody)
Somehow
Someday
Someway
Somebody

I'm so tired
Of being invisible
But I feel it, yeah
Like a fire below the surface
Trying to set me free
Burnin' inside of me
'Cause we're standing on the edge now
It's a long way down

But I say
Oh, we're gonna let it show
We're gonna just let go of everything
Holding back our dreams
And try to make it come alive
Come on let it shine so they can see
We were meant to be
Somebody (somebody)
Somebody, yeah (somebody)
Somehow
Someday
Someway
Somebody

We will walk out of this darkness
Feel the spotlight glowing like a yellow sun
Oh oh oh oh oh and when we fall we fall together
Till we get back up and we will rise as one, oh, oh ,oh

Oh, we're gonna let it show
We're gonna just let go of everything
Holding back our dreams
And try to make it come alive
Come on let it shine so they can see
We were meant to be
Somebody (somebody)
Somebody, yeah (somebody)
Somehow
Someday
Someway
Somebody
Somebody
Ooh ohh oh
"

Just as they finished the song, the doorbell rang…only this time it wasn't a band this time. At least by what Pythor was bellowing it wasn't. "I didn't order one hundred cratesss of applesss!"

"Uh…looks like our apples are here." Jay cheerfully announced.

A/N: Done! Hmm, looks like I am actually almost done with this story. Did not see that coming. Also…why did they order soo many apples?!

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