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"Kai, get out of here!" Linda shouted.
Kai watched from his sister's side as everyone charged into a battle they knew they couldn't win. Kai backed away, then raced to the ladder down. He was about two feet from it when someone tackled him from behind and sent him toppling over. They both fell down the hole and Kai found himself tangled in the rope ladder. Kai glanced down and saw Jay grab a hold on the ladder, grinning at him.
"I'm coming for you, Kai," Jay grinned.
Kai panicked, unable to free himself from the ladder without falling to the ground, which wouldn't end well for him.
"Leave him alone!"
Kai watched a blur of white and red fly past him. He heard Jay yelped, and then a loud thump below him. He looked down, seeing a dragon standing over Jay, growling at him. He looked up, coming face to face with Nicki.
"What the heck is that?" he cried out.
"That's Zack," Nicki told him.
Nicki wrapped her leg around the ladder to stabilize and secure herself before freeing Kai from the rope. She grabbed his hand and helped him back onto the ladder before the two climbed to the ground below them. As Kai's feet touched the ground, he heard Zack whimper behind him.
"No! Zack!" Nicki cried.
She jumped off the ladder and raced towards Zack. Kai spun around, seeing Jay on his feet, looking down at Zack as he transformed back into his human form. Zack collapsed as Nicki caught him in her arms.
"Zack, speak to me," Nicki pleaded. "Come on, say something."
Kai's eyes widened, seeing the red pooling on Zack's shirt. He looked back up at Jay as the blue ninja wiped a dagger clean.
"You killed him," Kai gasped.
"Little kid should have stayed out of my way," Jay shrugged. "If he knew better, he would still be alive."
"You monster!" Nicki shouted at him.
Nicki dropped Zack and ran at Jay. She froze as Jay pulled the dagger up, holding it at her chest.
"I wouldn't get any closer unless you plan on joining him," Jay growled.
Nicki slowly backed away from Jay, her hands in the air. Jay smiled, pulling a second dagger out and turning to Kai.
"Are you going to surrender, or do I have to hurt more people?" Jay taunted.
"I would never surrender to you," Kai frowned.
"Kai!"
Kai spun around, looking up. He could see the jet above the leaves and branches, with Nya stuck on it.
"Nya!" Kai cried, looking up at his sister.
"Tisk, tisk," Jay shook his head. "Would you look at that?"
"What are you talking about?" Kai spun around to Jay.
"You realize with one move, I could order for her, your sweet little sister, to be thrown over," Jay smirked. "She wouldn't survive the fall. Or at least, she would succumb to any injuries she got from the fall."
"You wouldn't dare," Kai glared.
Jay smirked at Kai, and waved his hand in the air. Kai heard Nya scream from terror, and didn't even look up to her.
"Last chance, or she falls," Jay taunted.
Kai could hear the others all screaming her name, terrified for her. All echoing around her screams of terror from above him.
"Kai," Nicki whispered.
Kai looked up, seeing Nicki looking at him.
"What do we do?" she whispered to him.
Kai glanced up, seeing the others all trapped and chained on the ship, with Nya hanging over the edge of it. He looked back down to Nicki, then to Jay.
"Just leave her alone," Kai said.
"So you surrender?" Jay grinned.
"Just don't hurt her," Kai spat at Jay.
"Fine," Jay smiled.
Jay turned, waving at the jet. Kai looked up as Nya was pulled back into the jet, and sighed with relief. Then he felt hands on his arms, pulling them behind him. He glanced over his shoulder, seeing Jay cuffing him.
"See you in a bit, Kai," Jay taunted.
Kai felt a pinch in his wrist, then a dizzy feeling in his head before he passed out.
Nya gasped and ran to her brothers side as his unconscious body was thrown into a cell with them.
"I thought Master wanted him unharmed," a droid told Jay.
"Unharmed, a couple cuts and bruises, what's the different?" Jay shrugged. "He put up a fight and got himself hurt anyways."
"Nya looked up for a split second, glaring at Jay before turning to Zane and Linda.
"What do we do?" she whispered.
"I don't know," Zane sighed.
"What you do is stay put until Master says otherwise," Jay turned.
Nya looked at the others, worried. Linda knelt next to her and pulled the water ninja in for a hug. Nya buried her face into Linda's chest, trying to stop herself from screaming and attacking someone. She heard Jay laughing at them, then his laughter faded and a door closed.
"Did we lose?" Nicki whimpered.
Nya sniffled, looking down at her brother. Everything he's just gone through was unbelievable, and he would still keep fighting. She knew it.
"We can't give up," she whimpered. "We have to do something."
"Like what?" Roy asked. "Kai's out cold, and who knows when he'll wake up. They also just killed Zack."
"We-" Nya started.
"We've lost, Nya," Linda whispered. "There's nothing we can do right now."
Nya pushed Linda away from her and crawled to her brother. She lied next to him, staring at him and praying he would wake and side with her. Linda sighed, shaking her head.
"They have the same fighting spirit," Zane sighed. "You can't get through to either of them anymore. We'll just have to wait for them to see it themselves and hope they don't get killed."
Linda nodded, sighing softly to herself. She looked up to see Jay was back, watching them from the doorway. They made eye contact, and the look in Jay's eyes sent shivers down Linda's spine. Jay smirked and turned away from them, walking out again.
"What's wrong?" Zane whispered.
"His eyes," Linda whispered.
"Jay's?" Zane questioned.
"That's not Jay," Linda corrected him. "That's someone else that the Overlord is using to make us think it's Jay."
"What?" Zane gasped.
Now everyone was looking at them.
"His eyes," Linda said. "With what the Overlord's done to him, his eyes would still be their normal sapphire blue. They aren't red, they're hazel."
"Jay never had hazel eyes," Nya frowned.
"That's why I'm saying it's not Jay," Linda replied. "The Overlord's created a replica of Jay, but the flaw was the eyes. And it's showing through."
"Then where is our Jay?" Zane questioned.
The ship lurched, stopping.
"We might only have a couple minutes to try to find out," Linda muttered.
They were there.
