Chapter 2: What the Heck!?

10:00 a.m., outskirts of Ninjago

"Whoa, where the heck am I!?" Amu wondered aloud. She walked over to the only light switch in the small hut and turned it on.

She could see that the beds were bare except for one other girl sleeping on the bed opposite to her. She saw a mirror in a corner of the room and looked into it.

And screamed again.

She was a Lego character.

"I thought you'd know something, Jay!" Cole shouted at Jay. Then he showed his bad breath. "Oh, and by the way? The fight for Nya is back on. And you're losing right now."

"Hey, Nya was how I unlocked my True Potential!" Jay protested.

"Will you guys PLEASE stop arguing about my sister?" Kai moaned. "I think I've heard enough back talk about her. We have another problem on our hands- hello? Zane?"

"Speaking of Nya, where is she?" Lloyd asked. "She could help us solve this mystery."

"I'm here!" replied Nya, rushing into the room. "Oh gosh- complications with Zane again… hmm… suppose I close this flap…"

"No Nya, don't!" warned Kai. "He's going to go all awry again, and it's going to take us ages to stop him."

"Okay, I won't touch it," Nya replied, noting Kai's advice in her memory.

"P.I.X.A.L is here!" Garmadon shouted from downstairs. She also hurried into the room.

"Zane, oh my Zane!" she cried horribly. She embraced the broken Nindroid, just missing the flap.

This time it was Jay's turn to advise. "Watch the flap or your lover may become your dismantler. In other words, the scheme will flip."

P.I.X.A.L backed away from him slowly. "I know, Jay. And by the way, nice dry humor." She smiled a little.

"Yeah Jay, that's some humor right there!" Cole teased.

"Cut it out, Cole!" Nya snapped.

"I came to place his memory switch in place again," P.I.X.A.L said. "Then we can close the flap once more."

"Phew," murmured Lloyd. "That sounds easy."

"It sounds easy," Nya broke in. "But it really isn't."

"Let me start then," P.I.X.A.L said. "If you could all now please exit the room…"

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! I'M A LEGO CHARACTER! WHAT THE HECK! WHAT AM I GONNA DOOOOOOO!?"

The other girl yawned and woke up. "Amu, why are you screaming so much?" she asked.

"Get up! Can't you see I'm a Lego character? Please help me, stranger, whoever you are!"

"Dahrrr… Amu, it's me, Kavi."

"Eh?" Amu said weakly. Her soul tried to escape.

"Oh no, not this time!" Kavi said, clenching Amu's mouth shut. "We don't want any bad Residents finding us again."

"But… how come you aren't as surprised…?"

"I am just as surprised as you. However, I just took it in a more mature direction, by staying calm. So what if we're Lego characters? I've always wanted to be one. Remember what I said? I have it plainly here in my records:

"Well, I don't know why I'm saying this, but I do hope we go on another adventure like that one."

Silence.

"Yeah, yeah, impossible," Amu retorted. "I mean, it's not like that random Warp Pipe would appear again and we go there- bazinga! I don't think it's like that."

"Oh well, we shall see," said Kavi, about to end the conversation. "Good night, Amu."

Now Amu was becoming furious. "You brought me here?" Amu yelled.

"Not me, I swear!" Kavi said protectively. "I think it was the Humpty Lock and the Lightning Heart Orb, bringing us here for some weird reason. But I can't be sure. However, I am sure my notion came true. Tee-hee…"

"Ok, but… RAN! MIKI! SU! DIA! JOKA! (Joka is Amu's secret Guardian Character who had re-hatched recently) Where did you guys go?"

"We're here too!" Ran called. "But we look different…"

"Please don't tell me you've turned into Lego figures too…" Amu groaned.

"Probably something worse," Kavi said. "Maybe they're made entirely out of Lego, who knows?"

"Uuuhhh…" Flute moaned. "Fortunately, that isn't the case, but we're still something different."

"Just come out already!" both girls shouted.

The Guardian Characters slowly came out. Amu became dumbstruck, yet Kavi became simply surprised.

"Heeeeeyyyy… what the heck are you?" Amu whispered.

"Well, this is weird. They've turned into microfigures," Kavi contemplated.

"What the heck are microfigures?" Amitha asked.

"We'll talk about that later. Right now, we need to get moving, there could be some X-Eggs out there…"

"But why would there be X-Eggs in Ninjago?" Amu wondered aloud.

"Well, isn't that what our amulets brought us for?" Kavi answered sharply.

2:00 p.m.

The ninja waited. And waited. And waited.

And finally…

"Operation successful!" P.I.X.A.L shouted gleefully.

"Is he on yet?" Nya asked.

"Not yet, but I'm going to close the flap now. Sensei's gotten a new uniform for him- he can't go out looking like that!"

Everyone walked in again to the ice- decorated room. Sensei Wu and Garmadon joined them.

"As you can see, I have installed a memory switch for him, connected to his memory chip. All we need to do now is flip this switch on and close the flap."

"It can't be that-"Jay started.

"Shush Jay, you'll jinx it! Loser," Cole added.

They both stared at each other. Hard. Kai sighed. "They'll never stop as long as Nya hasn't decided over them, huh Lloyd."

"Yup," Lloyd replied.

"Everyone, be quiet!" Wu announced. "P.I.X.A.L is going to flip the memory switch now."

"Does there have to be a ritual for this, though?" Garmadon wondered.

"Resurrection, brother," Wu answered.

Everyone watched as P.I.X.A.L flipped Zane's memory switch on, and slowly closed the flap, covering it with his uniform. Immediately Zane rose up as if from the dead, and stood, motionless.

"He's still trying to remember who you all are," P.I.X.A.L told. "He'll animate when he remembers."

It was five minutes before the white ninja even spoke anything.

"Kai? Cole? Jay?" Zane finally asked. "Lloyd? Sensei? Is this all really you guys?" he asked slowly.

"He remembers us!" Jay cried happily.

"Welcome back, brother," Kai murmured, embracing him tightly.

"So good to have you back again Zane," Cole said. "We were all pretty imbalanced without you."

"Oh, such beautiful humor, Cole," Jay retorted. "Ha! Right back at you!"

Zane sighed. "You two are still fighting over Nya? I guess that will never change."

Then a confused look came over him.

"But, I thought I got sucked into the Digiverse forever after defeating the Overlord. What- how-?"

"We made you a new body and transferred you to it, Zane," Lloyd interrupted.

"Ah, that must account for the sudden void I was pulled into a couple days ago," he concluded.

Silence once again fell over.

"Well, what about lunch, everyone?" Sensei Wu asked. "Come on! Everyone to the first floor."

4:00 p.m.

The two girls had been walking out for two hours, looking for any signs of X-Eggs- and a way to escape.

"Uhhhh… I'm tired, Kavi," Amu complained.

"Me too," she answered back.

"I can't even fly now," Peki muttered.

"Don't lose your mood, everyone! Your sparkle is getting dimmer, girls," Dia advised.

"But I really am exhausted, desuuuu…" Su whined.

"Do I really need to give you guys all a boost?" another voice asked.

"Bra!" all the Guardian Characters said, surprised.

"How'd you come here?" Ran asked.

"What, we aren't Guardian Characters? Obviously we came with you guys like the rest of you," Shi rambled.

"Look! Civilization!" Kavi suddenly shouted, pointing at the Fire Temple. "And it looks inhabited too!" She pointed at some figures who were actually Serpentine.

"Yessss….!" Amu gasped, for breath and in surprise. "We'll be there by tomorrow morning."