A few hours later
Back on the Bounty Zane was in the kitchen preparing blueberry pancakes and strong coffee; the late night having little to no effect on the elemental master of ice he was busy trying to cheer everyone up on board this dull and grey morning.
Lloyd had opted to stay on board with his mother when his brothers had gone out for the night, he had things to do, he needed to focus. PIXAL had replied to the message whilst the ninja were at the night club and had managed to give some helpful information that Misako might be able to use. She had taken the time to explain this information to Zane in the early morning which included details of the rumoured weapon. According to PIXAL the weapon had been created by Cyrus Borg when he was under the control of the overlord, it was, for want of a better word...a torture device and meant for hurting any nindroids who stepped out of line. The thought of this device being used on either of them made both Zane and PIXAL shudder. She noted that the weapon had been stolen by General Cryptor and tampered with in some way. She sent across details of new files that were on the old server relating to amendments that had been made to the weapon which altered its initial purpose. She worriedly explained that as of 3 weeks ago it had found its way into the hands of Pythor. The weapon had been recently reprogrammed to detect electricity in large amounts. Zane pondered this information for a millisecond until he realised that his powersource wasn't the desired target, it was in fact Jay. Before she ended the call with Zane she also mentioned what the weapon was called.
"Zane it is an electromagnetic field generator, it is meant to cause the nindroid a level of pain that their circuits cannot contain causing them to switch off and reset, however, in Jay's case...I...I do not know...I'm sorry Zane."
"Thank you PIXAL at least we have something to go on now...you are still coming over tonight I assume"
"Yes Zane, I will be with you in the afternoon...I have missed you"
"Likewise" Zane said "I look forward to your visit".
Jay had been the first to arrive back on board at 9am following his night with Skye and was soon followed by Cole at 9:30am, both gave each other a wink as they sat down at the table.
"Ahh glad to see you back Cole and Jay, I take it a good night was had by all?" Zane questioned as he served up the pancakes whilst looking into Cole's eyes.
"Although, Cole I notice that you do not look to be in the best of health at this moment, you look…." Zane tapped his head looking for the right word "Drained".
"Pfffttt, yeah you could say that" Kai snickered loudly and ran off in a fit of laughter with a plate full of pancakes. The humour going right over Zane's head.
"Wow he's recuperated pretty fast, I was sure he would have had a headache or something" Cole stared after him.
Nya shook her head and stated "Think about it...he's a fire elemental, fire needs fuel and...hello alcohol...he's buzzing, he'd climb the walls if he could" as she tried to cosy up to Cole. Cole shifted uncomfortably he hadn't told Nya of his night with Rose, he couldn't she'd be devastated...the perfect match told her that he was the one, he did prefer Rose though after all he went all the way with her last night which was something he hadn't even done with Nya and the thought at the moment didn't even enter his mind. Nya ate quickly and went to find Kai noting the cold shoulder she was getting from Cole meant she was wasting her time trying to talk to him...he clearly had something else on his mind.
Jay nodded in agreement and tried some humour on Cole when Nya had left the room "I heard that the earth moved for you last night" Jay joked teasingly as he nudged Cole in the ribs "did she ROCK your world" Jay giggled as he tried to stifle his laughter..."No,no,no wait I can do better...Did she quake in her boots when you dropped your pants...pffftttt hahahahahahahahaha" Jay couldn't help himself he was fighting a fit of giggles over his own wit.
"Yeah yeah thanks for that...hilarious" Cole hollered as he quickly countered Jay's sharp wit.
"Take it your night was electrifying as well… Jay", "Was she the spark that lit your engine?" "One more...was she shocked at your lovemaking technique?" Cole said as he glugged a large amount of hot coffee into his mouth...Jay immediately began laughing. "Touche, lame but touche" Cole spat his drink out before he chocked on it as he too was suppressing laughter. Both ninjas fell of the breakfast bench onto the floor and giggled, Zane walked through on his way to the control room" I do not see what is so funny about mocking each other in this way".
"Hey Zane...turn on your humour switch" Cole shouted after him.
"Thanks for last night Cole, I really enjoyed it, honestly!", "I left early if 1am is considered early but you know what! it was still great and hey you finally got to meet Skye!".
"Yeah…..about that Jay", "what do you mean by finally, have you seen her before?"
"Yeah, you could say that!" Jay blushed as he knew he would have to divulge the truth sooner or later
"She was my night nurse and during my last 2 nights at the hospital…we…..err….well we had...err...sex….mind blowing...orgasm inducing sex".
"We got caught though hehe, 2 nights before I left and I was k'now inside her when they busted the door down".
"It was soooooooooo embarrassing, Skye almost lost her job she was moved to another ward…lucky me cos she still came and visited me on the last night".
"WHOA…Jay, how come I'm only finding out about this now!, we're supposed to be best friends ya know".
"Yeah….I know and I'm kinda sorry I didn't tell ya, but now ya know so there".
"You lucky thing…you got yourself a naughty nurse…y'know most men fantasize about that sort of thing…well Kai does I'm sure" Cole teased, "But hang on…..the doctor said no strenuous exercise, cardio and so on, and err isn't sex…well the type I'm used to considered strenuous?"
"No….well yes sort of….I mean she knew what she was doing" I didn't have to do much…except…. Well….. you know, the main bit!".
"Well… I'm just glad you enjoyed your night out Jay,it was nice to meet Skye briefly and she's a nurse too so a double thumbs up from me" Cole added.
"But no problem sparky, happy to oblige, besides it's not every day we're allowed to do this sort of thing and when Wu returns we won't be able to do it at all…according to him we're poisoning our bodies". Cole laughed.
Out on the deck Lloyd and Nya were sparring against each other as Misako watched on from inside the control room, she was studying the scales they had collected a few days prior. She had managed to find out which snakes were involved in the impromptu attack, this was just to back up what they already knew. The initial security footage wasn't clear enough to distinguish which serpentine generals were present but the scales she had gave a clearer picture that it was an Anacondrai tribe, so she deduced Pythor and a Hynobrai tribe which gave her Skales. These 2 snakes were obviously the ring leaders in this attack but why? Misako carried on trying to look back over the security footage that the Bounty captured on the day of the attack, before contacting Borg industries and leaving a message for PIXAL to call back as soon possible. Maybe PIXAL could explain what the weapon was as up until now no-one on board knew the answer to this and time was running out.
Kai was in the infirmary having his stitches removed painlessly by Zane as they were due to be removed anyway but he couldn't be bothered to travel back to the clinic to have them removed when Zane was perfectly capable of doing it on board. His skills were second to none, so much so that Kai thought if Zane ever retired from being a ninja he could become a surgeon…..or nurse.
Jay was busy in his inventing room and was trying to create some type of tracking device that all the ninja could wear, something discreet which could be worn close to the body without being detected. Zane had been interested in helping him and assisted Jay with finishing up the devices before handing one out to each and every member, the purpose of them was obvious they were to be worn if the ninja were due to go on patrol around the city; their own coloured beacons would be visible to the Bounty and each member would be able to keep in contact by relaying short messages.
After a few hours had passed Jay walked to his shared dormitory, he was damned if he was going to be sleeping alone in the infirmary again. He opened the door and settled into his own bed ahhh perfect he thought "maybe just a little nap, inventing things is tiring" he said to himself as he closed his eyes.
Zane was looking for him as he had the last of his medications to take signalling the end of his treatment, he had looked almost everywhere for him, but then realised he might just be in his own bed. Zane cautiously opened the door to the shared sleeping quarters and was surprised but happy to see Jay in his own bunk. He approached him and sat down on his bed to gently rouse him as lunch was being cooked by Kai but the second he touched him Zane flew across the room with an ear piercing shriek. Jay woke up and looked around to see what had awoken him from his nap only to find Zane on the floor still with his eyes closed and behind his body was a perfect imprint of his nindroid brother on the wooden wall. Zane had hit the wall so hard he had temporarily lost consciousness or more precisely he powered off.
Jay jumped off his bed and slowly walked over to Zane to shake him awake, he didn't even know what had happened up until then, had no recollection of Zane even being in the room. Jay touched Zane on his arm and involuntarily shocked him, of course Jay didn't realise what he was doing or what he had done and he was completely oblivious to the amount of voltage he had just transferred. It was similar to being tasered and Zane still didn't wake.
Nya, Cole and Kai burst into the room following the loud bang and saw Zane on the floor and Jay next to him. They wanted answers from Jay being as he was the only one in the room with Zane.
Nya was the first to speak" Jay what happened in here?"
"Err I don't know, I was SLEEPING" he stated a little too sarcastically, earning him a disgruntled look from Nya.
"Look Jay I know you're hiding something from us, so just spit it out" Nya said with a look of impatience beginning to appear on her normally calm face.
Nya stood up and walked over to Jay and touched his shoulder and tried to relieve the tension that was building however that didn't go to plan as she was forcefully thrown across the room with the equivalence of an electric shock. Cole instinctively caught her before she could hit the wall.
"What the fuck Jay! what did you do to my sister? First Zane and now Nya" Kai shouted in distress as he saw his sister lying unconscious in Cole's arms. He was almost ready to punch Jay in the jaw for this attack as he was known to have a fiery temper.
"Stay the fuck away from her, you weirdo" Kai said although not meaning it as it came out before he could take it back.
"Jay back away now", Cole glared at the lightning ninja and asked "What did you do to to Zane...Zaptrap?"
"N….nothing, I swear I did nothing honest… hehe" Jay backed up against the wall as all eyes in the room felt like they were burning a hole into his soul, Kai's words had cut deep, he wasn't a weirdo...how insulting can you get Jay thought.
Cole opened the front panel under Zane's gi and checked to see if any button had been switched off, Jay squinted and noticed that power button was in the off position. Whatever happened must have tripped his switch to off Jay thought as he attempted to help, he didn't like feeling that all his clan were looking at him wearily and with a distinct sense of distrust. Jay walked across the room and said "look I think his power switch is off" he went to switch it back on but the sudden touch caused Zane's body to shudder violently. "Jay….stop…just stop touching him, stop touching anyone….for Fucks sake" Lloyd shouted as he was getting flustered at the scene unfolding in front of him.
"B…..but I was trying to help" he pouted indignantly before running out of the room and onto the deck.
He rested his elbows on the deck edges and looked down at the streets below, underneath the ship that he called home. At that moment he felt sad, alone and useless, he knew he was to blame for what had happened but he didn't actually know what happened….he sighed and felt tears prickle his eyes until they escaped freely down his face "what have I done?" he said to himself. His alarm beeped on his phone and disturbed his feelings of woe as he realised he had an appointment at the facility in 30 minutes, he didn't think that anyone would want him around anyway after what had just happened so he quickly disappeared of the Bounty before anyone noticed.
Both Nya and Zane had woken up after 5 minutes, Nya had a headache and Zane was fully energised. "That was unexpected" Zane stated as he got up of the floor "I must remember to thank Jay for this impromptu power surge he provided me with", "speaking of which where is he?" Zane asked "I need to apologise, I sense that Jay did not mean to do this"…"I….I disturbed him as he was sleeping".
"Sorry Zane we thought he did this on purpose...omg what have we done?" Kai looked beside himself with guilt as did Nya.
Cole looked at Kai who then looked at Nya, "Come on guys we gotta find him" Cole stood up quickly and left the room.
All the remaining ninja on board including Misako were thoroughly searching the ship and 10 minutes had passed before they admitted defeat,"Well where is he?" Cole asked as he put his hands on his hips.
Zane scanned the entire ship before responding "I sense he is no longer on the ship".
"WHAT!, what do you mean NOT on the ship?" Cole looked shocked as he processed this new information. Nya, Lloyd and Kai all looked guilty as they looked down, realising what they had done. Shouting at Jay probably wasn't the best idea in the world but at the time it seemed the only thing to do.
"Great...that's just Fucking great, y'know what fuck it all to hell, we ALL heard what Sensei Wu said and now this….great team we are" Cole huffed as he turned away from his team in anger. He stormed outside onto the deck to swing a rather earth shattering blow at the hanging punch bag, he hit it so hard the shackles broke and the bag went flying overboard,Cole sighed. Kai followed him outside "W….wait! h...he can't have gone far and doesn't Jay have an appointment today? maybe he decided to go it alone!" Kai said hopefully as Zane, Lloyd and Misako came onto the deck.
"The point IS…Kai, he wasn't supposed to be ALONE, did everyone on here forget that little nugget of information" Cole snapped again.
"Right….look….whatever….Kai we gotta go and find him", "This is the last thing we need right now".
"Nya you and Zane stay on board with Misako and us 3 will go on foot to Jay's destination where ever that is" Cole said.
"Zane, keep us updated if any new information comes to light and Kai go and get the details of this facility, address, phone number that sort of thing" Cole finished….I got a bad feeling about this he thought.