Rin jumped over the furniture in her way as she ran from the crazy fans. She was honestly having a fun time, dodging random strangers that worked in the skyscraper she escaped into, trying to confuse her fans, and letting out all of the energy that built up over the time they were in Ninjago. She WOULD have brought her road roller to scare the pursuers, but the Manager made sure it was kept back at home.

Rin made a sharp turn before running up a flight of stairs. The fans were getting a bit tired from the constant running, but she was doing fine at pacing herself. She jumped over a few steps at a time and bolted when she reached the top into the office of someone working in the building.

After receiving a few 'carefully worded' threats and complaints when she sent papers flying, Rin sprinted toward an elevator. It wasn't the BEST way to escape, but she was confident that the fans wouldn't have enough energy to make it before the mechanical doors closed. She practically punched the 1st Floor button before trying her best to squeeze into one of the corners. A quick glance through the closing doors let her see that the fans were being told off by the poor employee, which gave her a bit of time to relax.

Rin slid down onto the floor to try and catch her breath. She had plenty of running energy, but after a long time of sprinting and mild parkour she just needed a minute to calm down. When she got in the elevator she was on floor twenty-six, but the elevator was fairly slow and taking it's time getting her down to ground level.

'It's a good thing I have time.' Rin thought. 'If this elevator wasn't so slow, then I wouldn't have this time to relax. But I wonder how everyone else is doing, and if they got eaten alive by the crazy fans. I don't think they did, but you can never be too sure. Speaking of not being sure, where are we going to group together? It's obvious by now that we can't wear our normal clothes and look like ourselves, so we're going to have to wear disguises, but how are we going to get the information we need?'

Right then the doors to the elevator opened up with a ding. Taking no time to waste, Rin ran out of the building and onto the slightly empty street. Because there weren't many people, she looked around to decide where to go. Before she could make a decision, she felt someone tap her on the shoulder, spooking the living daylights out of her.

Rin turned around to see a person wearing girl clothes, but looked more like a guy to her. She noticed the overuse of the color pink and odd outfit choice, but the one thing that stuck out was the face. The person was removing their sunglasses and the eyes told her who it was.

"Len!" Rin nearly shouted once she recognized her twin brother. "How did you make it out alive?"

"I ran into one of those girly shops where you can only buy clothes." Len told her. "I managed to get a few clothes, run into the dressing room, and sneak out wearing this. Please don't take pictures, because nobody will ever let me live this down!"

"I would if I had a chance, but we didn't bring any cameras." Rin said. "But they'll see you like this anyway. At least you have a good disguise!"

"True, but I still just want to leave as quickly as possible." Len said with a bit of an upset tone in his voice. "This is embarrassing, and we didn't come here for clothes. We still need to find someone with a bit of information."

"Yeah. We should go find the others now. I'll stay hidden if you look around more openly so we don't attract any more unwanted attention."

"Good idea. I think Miku ran a bit further up this street, let's go follow her."

Rin hid behind bushes, trees, buildings, and streetlights every time she and Len walked near someone. Whenever they were alone on the road, she was calmly walking next to her brother so they could defend each other if more insane fans decided to chase them again. The whole time they were walking, she looked around, trying to spot any familiar faces.

'Everything is just too quiet here, and there aren't enough ways to tell if someone you know is coming.' Rin thought. 'If the others are wearing disguises, it'll be even harder to know where they are. What do we do?'

Rin just let her thoughts wander to random plans that weren't likely to work as she followed Len. The plans varied from yelling as loud as possible to stealing a car or something to find any of them easier. Most of the plans were just stupid and wouldn't work, so it wasn't really worth suggesting them to Len. So she just kept walking and hoping that she'd run into someone like how she and Len did.

Right then, Rin thought she saw something flash in the corner of her eye. She turned to where she noticed the movement and saw something blue hide in the shadows of a building. She grabbed Len's arm and pointed where it was hiding, and they walked up to it to see what it was.

Rin crept up to the splash of color in the darkness and poked it with a stick. It gave a startled yelp before she knew who it was.

"Rin! Don't scare me like that!" Kaito told Rin with a hand over his heart to steady it. "I just barely got away from those fanatics, and I'm still trying to make sure I truly got away!"

"I think you managed to escape." Len said to Kaito. "We haven't seen any crazy fans so far, and if we did they didn't take notice."

"Wait, Len, that's you?" Kaito asked with a bit of surprise in his voice. "You cross-dressed to look like a girl? That's hilarious!"

As Kaito laughed, Rin looked over to Len to see how he was reacting. He looked both annoyed and upset, but just hung his head low and not keeping eye contact with anyone. She waited out the laughter before speaking to Kaito. "Okay, I think that's enough. I already made fun of him anyway. But we need to find the others, do you have any idea where they might be?"

"I saw Gakupo not too long ago climbing down a building. I can show you where, but it might not have hung around."

"I'm sure we'll find him."

"Well we didn't find him."

Rin, Len, and Kaito looked around the whole area where Gakupo hit to the streets and couldn't find much. They found little remnants of material from clothes the fans were wearing hanging from a balcony above them, but that was about it.

"We can figure out where he might have gone though." Len spoke up. "We came from over there, and everywhere else is blocked off somehow. So unless he climbed back up there, then he went further along this street."

"That's actually a good point." Kaito said to Len. "But what if he did jump over the buildings again?"

"That isn't likely. Those crazy fans were chasing him from above the buildings, so if got down first then they'd still be up there. If he wanted to get away then running down the street is the best option."

"Well then what are we waiting for?" Rin asked with impatience in her voice. "We need to get moving, and maybe Gakupo found some of the others!"

Gakupo walked quickly down the street, following a strange trail of oily exhaust and twigs with leaves attached. He had a feeling that it was one of his friends who made the trail in the first place, and the only way to find out if that was true was to follow the path and hope that he was lucky.

'And maybe I should check the market area.' He thought. 'I could see almost everything from above the buildings, I thought I saw her running into that area, and that place seems likely for GUMI to hide in. There's plenty of places for her to blend in there, plus if she were hungry she could just steal some carrots or something.'

As he walked past the place where he and his friends were found by the crazy fans in the first place, Gakupo heard shaking from a manhole in the center of the road. With no time to waste he hid himself behind a bush and waited for the shaking to stop. He peered around the edge of the bush and saw arms slowly rise over the hole. Then a head, and followed by the rest of a female body. Although she was covered from head to toe in sewer water, he recognized her almost instantly.

"Hello there Meiko!" Gakupo called out while rising from behind the bush. "I see you have escaped from those insane fans, and we need to go find our friends. I was just heading over to the market area to find GUMI, care to join me?"

"Fine, let's go." Meiko grumbled. "And as soon as we're outta this mess, I'm cleaning myself."

Gakupo made sure Meiko was following before walking in the direction he was earlier. He noticed that the trail he was following seemed to start becoming harder to see and the twigs were becoming much sparser. All of the excess exhaust and oil was also disappearing. But he pursued the trail and continued onward without too much doubt in his mind.

Eventually, Gakupo and Meiko managed to find the market area. It was empty, sans a few stall workers, but good enough to hide. He started looking behind barrels and stalls and told Meiko to do the same. 'With our combined efforts,' He thought. 'We just might be able to find GUMI and anyone she has met up with.'

Both of them continued to search for their friends in silence until Meiko shouted out to Gakupo. "I think I found someone!"

Gakupo ran over to where Meiko was calling out to him and looked where she was pointing. A large sized crate was what Meiko showed him, and according to her it shook and made noises when she grabbed the lid.

"It could be anyone in here, maybe even one of our friends." Meiko told Gakupo. "We're going to be either lucky, or not so lucky. Now help me out with this lid, will ya?"

Gakupo went to the other side of the crate and took hold of the edge. He unhatched his end and lifted it up while Meiko followed in his movements. They tossed the lid to the side and looked in to see a slightly fearful GUMI curled up into a ball.

"Hi Gakupo, hi Meiko." GUMI greeted before uncurling herself. "I was hiding in here and I accidently locked myself in, plus I thought you were more of those crazy fans. Thank goodness you aren't, but do you guys know where everyone else is?"

"No, but that's why we're searching." Meiko said to GUMI. "You might as well come with, but bring the crate. If you need to hide you can use that."

"Okay!"

Rin, Len, and Kaito managed to get to an intersection once they were further down the road. One led to a quiet market area, and the other led to a park with almost nobody in it. They all crowded around in a circle to discuss where to go, and it was a two against one vote to head to the park. Kaito was the one who picked the market.

Rin happily skipped down the sidewalk to the park with Len and Kaito walking behind her. When she looked ahead, she noticed a dirty pond with disturbed algae and ripples in it. She stopped skipping and took the time to look around, trying to see what caused all of it. After asking for Len and Kaito to help her and searching around behind trees, she heard a familiar voice from behind her. She turned her head and saw Luka covered in something found at the bottom of the pond walking towards them.

"LUKA! KAITO! RIN! LEN!"

Rin looked at where the new voice came from. At first she thought it was a fan, but then she saw Miku jump out of a bush and run over to where all of them were standing.

"I finally found you! I've been looking ALL OVER the place, trying to find any of our friends, and now we're together! But where's Gakupo, Meiko, and GUMI?"

"We're right here." Rin heard the voice of Gakupo from the path heading into the market place. "It appears as though we are all together now."

"FINALLY!" Meiko shouted. "Now we can get what we need information-wise and get out!"