12:00 p.m

"Ever had the feeling you're being followed?" Amu asked Kavi suddenly.

"I'm having that feeling right now," Kavi replied.

"Even I sense something!" Miki warned.

"The dragon says the Blades are right… there!" Lloyd pointed. He was pointing at two very distant figures carrying four shiny objects.

"The Techno Blades," Kai breathed.

"Hey come back here!" someone in the distance shouted.

"Uh oh!" Kavi shouted. "Transform. Then RUN! Amu, you take to the ground, I'll cover the skies. GO!"

"Character Transformation: Amulet Heart!"

"Character Transformation: Athletic Prodigy!"

"Ack! So bright!" Jay complained.

"This calls for drastic measures," Zane said, summoning his Ice Plane. "We lost the Blades, now we have to get them back."

"Agreed," Cole replied, making his Earth Exosuit. "Kai will go with Zane. I'll deal with Jay. Let's strike on a little competition, shall we?" He grinned sadistically.

"Bring it on," Jay sinisterly smiled back.

Kai and Nya sighed and shook their heads in exasperation.

Amu hadn't gone very far when she saw a mud ball zoom by her, just missing her face. "What the…" she started. She looked down to check to see her inventory, which was good.

"Dang it! Just missed," Cole muttered.

"That's minus one for you, zero for me!" Jay taunted. "Now watch me get my first point!" He quickly fired a lightning bolt at Amu.

"Amu-chan, protect yourself!"

"Spiral Heart!" Amu countered, sending her Heart rod at the bolt. They clashed, and the weapons returned to their respective owners.

"Looks like we're tied, wisecracker," Cole teased.

Meanwhile, even as a team, Kai and Zane weren't having better luck even disarming Kavi.

"Zane, try an ice missile! Roger," Kai spoke from Zane's radio.

"I will do my best. Roger," Zane replied. He focused the target in Kavi, then shot two missiles in rapid succession.

"Ice missiles at six o'clock!" Flute called out.

"Gotcha!" Kavi confirmed. She summoned her bo staff and twirled it quickly, acting as a shield, and the ice missiles shattered.

"Dang it!" Zane groaned. "It seems the target countered them, Kai. Roger."

"I'll try, roger that," Kai answered. "Here I go." This time, he fired two fire missiles at her from two different angles.

"Here comes a big one!" Peki shouted. "It looks like one missile at ten and another at 4."

The fire missiles were approaching closer, and she felt the increased warmth. "How am I supposed to counter those?" Kavi asked in worry.

"I don't know!" Amitha shouted amidst the confusion.

"I think it's a hit!" Kai cheered. "Roger."

"Aha!" Kavi suddenly said. "I think I have an idea." She took out two shuriken, threw them at the fire missiles, and zoomed away on her Flames of Fury as fast as she could. The missiles exploded with the weapons and disintegrated.

Kai thumped his hand on the dashboard in utter annoyance. "I almost got 'em!" he muttered.

"That was close, Kai." Zane said from over the radio. "Over and out."

Kavi looked at her left hand to check inventory. The two Blades were still there, held tightly by her fingers, which protected them from falling. She felt bad taking them away, but what other powerful weapon did she have?

Kavi suddenly dived down beneath the clouds, to check on Amu.

"Wha- where did she go?" Zane asked, quite puzzled.

"You were exactly as confused when I sneak-attacked you during a dragon race," Kai reminded.

"I did not forget that."

"Well, where did you think she went?" Kai replied.

"Ok there, Amu?" Kavi called.

"Yeah, I'm ok," Amu called back.

Kavi dived back up again. By that time, Zane and Kai had gone down.

"Aw, what?" Kai said in exasperation. "But I could have sworn she came down here!"

"Then let us go back up again."

"I hope this isn't a trick…"

After a long period of fighting (with no success), all the ninja heard Cole's voice on the radio. "Are you all doing fine?" he inquired.

"I'm fine, but only because you're losing like a snake in a three-legged race!" Jay bullied.

"Glad to hear some enthusiasm, but we have not gotten even close to disarming them yet," Zane talked.

"Let's try a couple more times, then we'll have to fly back to the Monastery for a better plan. Combine your powers if you need to," Kai advised.

The four-way talk ended.

"Oh, and what was the score for us again?" Cole thought aloud. "Oh right, I'm at 100 points, and you're at negative infinity."

"Shut up, Cole!" Jay shouted into his mouthpiece. "Looks like we're both going to have to put our heads together… as a team."

"I think they're going to try to do a team attack!" Su shivered.

"Be ready Amu-chan!" Ran coached.

"Yeah!" Amu answered.

"Cole, you size the land-" Jay started.

"-and you'll do the rest," Cole finished. "Let's do this!"

"Ninja-GO!"

The ground underneath Amu started to quake as Jay and Cole focused their inner power solely on leveling and electrifying the land beneath her. One touch would at least make her unconscious.

"Amu-chan, JUMP! NOW!" Joka yelled.

"But-"

"JUST DO IT!" the rest shouted.

"Hop, step, JUMP!" Amu cried. She jumped high in the air and saw the ground had turned into an earth-shattering, completely electrified earthquake zone.

"Found her! Roger," Zane said.

"Forget the 'roger' please, Zane!"

"But I thought it meant-"

"Forget it!" Kai yelled.

"Oh. Right," Zane said bashfully. "Now, how are we going to combine our powers this time?"

"I know!" Kai exclaimed excitedly. "Here's what we're going to do…" He spoke something in a soft voice to Zane.

"Oh, I get it," Zane murmured thoughtfully.

"I have a bad feeling about this," Bra shivered.

"Oh, it's gonna be EPIC!" Shi argued back.

"Shut up, both of you!" Kavi said firmly. "What's happening?"

"Uh… I think they're going to combine powers!" Flute muttered.

"Ok, firing it up!" Kai said with glee. He built up his hose and made it so the fire was concentrated in one spot.

"I'm starting!" Zane cheered. He surrounded the fire with a thin yet sinister, cold ice. The ball was almost as big as the ship itself and it was glowing with fire and ice energy.

"Ready to release?"

"You betcha!"

"Ninja-GO!" The ships suddenly lurched forward, boosting the ball towards Kavi. They both focused their powers so the ball got even stronger and even more powerful as it approached her. Their powers combined became so intense that even little fire and ice balls came around it.

"UH-OH! ALL AROUND THE CLOCK ATTACK! MAYDAY! MAYDAY!" all the Guardian Characters shouted.

"You know what? I've had enough! No more pitying these ninjas! Time to go full power!" Kavi quickly pulled out her sword with astonishing strength and did four of the most powerful cuts ever made. She waited to cast the final jab.

The huge fire/ice ball was coming ever so close… Kavi could feel its energy as it rebounded against the four protective beams.

And then she unleashed the final jab with a fierceness she had never felt before.

The effect was such a powerful force field of light that she could actually see it. It tightly enclosed itself around the ball as Kavi darted back and then… it exploded. It all ended in a brilliant show with shards of ice and balls of fire, raining down like a beautiful firework in the sky.

The two jets emerged from the explosion of fierce heat and coldness.

Zane coughed. "Did… it… hit…?" he managed to speak.

"Unfortunately, I don't think so," Kai said regretfully.

"Let's fly down then," Zane said sadly.

10:00 pm, Monastery

"We need a better way to retrieve the Techno Blades!" Cole shouted in despair.

"I agree," Lloyd muttered.

"But how? We've tried almost every way humanely possible!" Jay cried.

"Except for one," Kai murmured.

Everyone looked at him. "What is your plan?" Zane asked.

"Remember how you three- Cole, Jay, and Zane- snuck up on me as stealth ninjas for my final test? Maybe we could do that! We'd have to fight them to get the blades back."

"And if we lose?" Sensei Wu asked, walking into the lounge with some chamomile tea.

"Let's try NOT to think about that," Sensei Garmadon said back.

10:15 p.m. By the Monastery

Kavi and Amu had set up a spare tent they had picked up on their peaceful way to find a stop. Someone had been kind enough to lend it. They took off their ninja outfits, placed them aside, and wore their dresses they had worn before the uniforms.

"I like this place," Amu said. "It's so close to a place of… peace."

"Yeah, me too," Kavi agreed.

"Well, we'd all better get to sleep if you want to find some more X-Eggs tomorrow," Bra reminded.

"Agreed," Joka said.

Those were the last words spoken before the girls fell asleep in their sleeping bags.