Hey everyone, happy Friday and time for another update. I really got nothing else to say other than the story is also including two OC's, mine, Lucas Wu and Kaitoukiwi's, Laurie Garmadon. But enjoy the chapter as we're now to the present Jay.

Chapter 1: Morning Surprises

*Ten Years Later*

Sunshine broke through the small curtains of the quiet bedroom in a ship. All was silent throughout the flying vessel known as the Destiny's Bounty. The wooden hull groaned as it settled on a tarred roof after being anchored inside Ninjago City and nothing crept or stirred. However, in a shared bunkroom, multiple snores filled the room; deafing the alarm clock's ticking countdown. A teen with auburn hair in blue pajamas stirred in his bed to stifle a yawn and turned himself over to receive much more needed sleep.

Jay absentmindly felt around in his sheets until his fingers brushed across a pillow and pulled it closer to him and hugged it tightly. A smile crept on his face as he could imagine in his dream of a person he was in love with and pulled it closer to his chest. "Mmm... Nya," he mumbled to his dream and pillow. "Your body wash makes you smell like lilacs. Have I ever told you that I love lilacs." He then began to pull his pillow closer to his face until his lips locked on the fabric. In his mind, he was dreaming of kissing the samurai without know it was his pillow, until a snicker of laughter broke him free.

The blue ninja tiredly groaned to pry his eyes open and turned his gaze to have both hazel eyes crossed and widened at the sight of his pillow. He dare not yelp in surprise to wake the others from their slumber to quickly push his pillow away and prompt himself up. After the small adrenaline rush he had endured, he began to relax and tiredly stared at the clock to groan and sigh. Ten more minutes? he thought. Really woke up before the alarm. Again. Great. The lightning ninja quickly settled back into bed and threw his smotched pillow over his head and squeezed his eyes shut to have the last few minutes of sleep. But the sound of a light chuckle of evil and mischievousness followed by the groan of annoyance made Jay peek an eye.

The mattress squeaked a bit as Jay prompt himself with his elbows and rubbed his tired eyes to see where the noise was coming from. His hazel eyes guided him to the set of bunk beds next to his and Zane's to see a small child in matching green pajamas on the top bunk. He squinted his eyes as he could see a blur image of Lloyd, the legendary green ninja, conjure something in his palms from his elemental water powers taught from his cousin, Lucas, the grey water ninja. His eyes were squinted as he could slowly watch beads of water take a mirage in his hands. A spider. A large hairy tarantula even.

Jay felt small bumps form in his skin in startlement to the arachnid in his palm. May be a mirage mist. But still looked scary and realistic. The auburn haired teen watched the smallest member of the team slowly crept closer to his sleeping cousin and placed the misty spider on his shoulder and began moving his fingers in rythmic form. Surprising to Jay was that the giant tarantula was actually moving on Lucas' shoulder from the movement of Lloyd's fingers as his hands were together and tapping on the comforter for spider movement. As the arachnid crawled closer to the grey ninja's face, it slowly began to shake until it dissolved. The green ninja then scoffed in defeat. "Stupid spider and mist trick." he scowled quietly. "Lucas makes it look better." and crossed his arms to pout.

An idea blossom in Jay's head to help the small ninja pull off his prank on his cousin. He even noticed some signs from him that caused him to lose his concentration. "Psst... Pipsqueak," he whispered. "Whatcha doing?"

Lloyd lifted his emeralds green eyes to notice Jay was awake and jumped back a bit without falling off, startled. For being a loud mouth to the team, he sure can be quiet to startle the boy. The green ninja sighed as his beating heart eased and turned his head to face his cousin. "I'm trying to scare my cousin because we all know he's afraid of spider." he whispered back. "I'm practicing with his mist tricks to create a realistic spider to make him scream." He then looked at his hands to blow onto them to expell water droplets and took form of another spider as he concentrated. "But everytime I do this, it just stops working. I don't know why." and clenched his fist to destroy the mirage and crossed his arms.

"That's because you kept shifting your eyes when you had the spider on his shoulder." the Ninja of Lightning stated. "The more you shift your eyes to watch your hand eye coordination, the more you're gonna lose focus. It's what we always tell you when we train you. Never lose focus and you'll learn and master the power within." He watched the green ninja looked at his hands to create a new spider and placed it on Lucas' shoulder and started to make it move again without looking at his hands as it crawled to his head. Jay smiled a little to the concentration in his eyes, but saw the movement and the spider dissolved into the air and heard Lloyd sigh in defeat. "Hang on, hang on," he said comfortly. "I think I got something to help you with this. I just need to grab it really quick." He quietly kicked the covers off of him and hopped down from the top bunk of his and Zane's bunk to land on his feet quietly on the wooden floor.

The floor squeaked loudly to the new weight to cause Jay to stand rigid and avert his gaze to stare at the bunk bed adjacent to him from the room. He watched a hairful of spiky brown hair stir and groan to turn over and slept. He sighed the breath he didn't know he was holding with Lloyd as he almost woke the Big Bad Wolf, or the fire ninja, Kai as they know what happens to him whenever he was woken up early before the alarm; cranky hothead. The auburn teen waited for a few seconds and quickly tiptoed into the closet door at the foot of his bunk to enter and quickly walked out with a box to meet with Lloyd in the center of the room. Once he removed the lid, Jay browsed through his box of tinker toys from years of inventing back home in the junkyard and pulled out a small exo-skeleton of a robot that had eight legs on its sides like a spider. Lloyd's eyes widen slightly as it was like a spider to snatch it from his hands to observe it.

"Originally it was suppose to be a spy spider to climb on walls, but I couldn't figure out how to control it without being being close to it all times." he explained. "Or even got the camera to work properly." He reached over to flick a small switch with his finger and the toy sprung to life to move like an actual spider on Lloyd's arm. "So instead, I scrubbed the plan and made it into a toy. Flip a switch and does what a spider can do. Can it spin a web, no sadly. But give it a try on him now and don't lose focus."

The boy nodded and plucked the toy that had climbed to his head as Jay was putting his box away and walked over too his bunk he shared with Lucas. He quietly climbed up without disturbing him and became quiet as he laid the toy on his shoulder and lifted his eyes at Jay. He saw him nod from his side and crawled into his blankets to pretend he was sleeping and turned back to his cousin and lifted his hand to blow across from it. Mist sprayed from his palms and took form around the toy as it walked on his shoulder and chuckled in amusement as it looked like an actual spider without him conjuring its movement and quickly ducked down to his bed while keeping concentration.

Now they wait.

RRRRRRIIIIIINNNNNGGGG!

Kai was the first to stir and groan to the loud alarm clock echoing in the room followed by many other groans of his friends or brothers as they were like a second family to each other. He tiredly reach for his pillow and threw it across the room to whack the clock off its resting place on a dresser and stopped as it made contact to the floor. He sighed as he couldn't fall back asleep and slowly sat up to stretch but became startled to the sight of the tarantula on Lucas' shoulder. Even the other elemental ninjas realized it and became unsure how to remove it as it crawled closer. "Uh...what do we do here?" he wondered while yawning. No one had an idea.

Lucas stirred in his sleep as he felt something tap on his shoulder and slowly slid his hazel grey eyes and turned his head to expect his cousin but his heart stopped. His eyes went wide to the sight of the tarantula on his shoulder and screamed in fear and scrambled out of his bed to fall off the top bunk to collide to the floor. Pain spread in his body and looked over his shoulder to see the spider was still on his back and quickly scrambled out of the tangle of blankets and scooted across the room. He felt his heart racing to his childhood phobia as it crawled closer and felt himself trapped as his back was pressed tightly against the wall. He looked up to see one of Zane's shurikens lodge into a dart board for their bedroom games they have on nights and wretched it free. "Stay away from me!" he shouted and threw it to strike the spider and it stopped; dead. He slowly breathed to relax his heart, but squinted his eyes to see wires were sticking out of the puncture wound from the weapon and glared at the blue ninja. "Jay!"

Jay's slightly smug grin vanished as he stared at the fiery hazel grey eyes and turned his hazel eyes at Lloyd to notice he wasn't blinking and still concentrating. Now he saw he was taking the blame again like he sabotaged Cole's Violet Berry Soup when it was really Lloyd. The trickster. He quickly grabbed his pillow and threw at the back of Lloyd's head, causing him to lose his focus. "Hey!" he chasisted.

The spider flicker and materialized to reveal the metal exo-skeleton of a toy. Lucas' eyes widen to the trick and gave his cousin a hard stare. "Shrimp?" he growled to his cousin. "Jay!"

"It was his idea!" Jay and Lloyd shouted while pointing fingers at one another.

The water ninja still gave them both hard stares as he stood to his feet and brushed himself off and crossed his arms. Tag team and he was not amused. "Oh really," he scowled. "Then who was the pawn?"

There was a long silence until the green ninja sighed. "I'm the culprit, Lucas." he admitted. "We all know of your fears with spiders so I wanted to practice my water powers on you with your mist tricks. But I kept failing. So Jay was up as well and helped me out."

Jay stood awkwardly silent after the confession to nervously chuckle at the water ninja. "What?" he asked while giving him a sheepish smile. "He kept losing his focus so yeah I helped him out and gave him a few tips. No harm was done. Hehe." He gave him a smug grin now. "But you should've seen the look on your face! Ha-ha! You were like Ah! Spider! Spider! Get it off! And crash land to the floor. That's better than turning Zane's suits pink."

"Oh you should see the look of your face when I come over there and I-"

"Brother, stop!" Zane intervened while resting hand on his chest to resist him back. He gave him a hard stare with his dark blue eyes while shaking his head. "It was a simple prank. You may have been gone for four month from your coma, but it was only a trick. These things happen a lot since your absence, but we always have our revenge. You shall as well." and turned his head to give Jay and Lloyd a sly grin with the other elemental ninjas. "You shall as well."

The blue ninja felt his body become stiff with the small ninja at the sight of Lucas' revenge look. He could tell her was hungry for revenge now. But he had to agree about the continous pranks that have happened while he had his coma. A lot has happened after the Black Bounty incident when Lloyd caused the mast to fall and he happened to be in the wrong place and Laurie comes into the city to become the wind ninja. But now that he was awake, he could join the crusade of pranks and obtain his revenge on him and Lloyd. "That actually makes me feel better now to know." the Ninja of Water chuckled. And Jay and Lloyd gulped.

Rrriiinnnggg! Rrriiinnnggg! Rrriiinnnggg!

"Can somebody get that?" Nya's voice boom through the intercom. "I'm a little busy trying to get Laurie up. Also, did I hear one of you scream like a girl not too long ago?"

Jay chuckled with the others to the blushing grey ninja and recollected himself to walk over to the dresser that rested the clock and picked up the phone. "Destiny's Bounty, what's your emergency?" he asked like he was a 911 dispatcher. His hazel eyes grew wide and became soft to the voice to smile. "Uncle Ben!?" he squeaked in enthusiam. "It is you! What!? How did you know I was a ninja-oh wait, TV or the papers or my parents even. Hahaha! What? Yeah we're in the city over by Grand Master Sensei's Dareth Mojo Dojo, why?" He listened to his uncle's explanation while ignoring the glances and shrugs he received from the others. "Really!? Yeah! Come over! It'll be great to see you and Aunt Mary. See ya then. Bye." After he placed the phone back on the receiver, the lightning ninja cheered in joy. "Yippie! My uncle is coming over!" and spun around the room in his blue energenic Spinjitzu tornado to stop to be dressed in his pajamas still.

The four elemental and green ninja gave him each a confused look, but he shrugged as he didn't care. He was filled with excitement after the call. He couldn't hold it. "Whoa calm down, Sparky." Cole said while raising his hands in defense. What are we all giddy about after that call?"

Jay couldn't remain still to have a larger grin form on his face. He had very exciting news to spread. "You mean you couldn't hear my excitement!?" he squealed. He was received with more shrugs to roll his eyes and shake his head. "My Uncle Ben is coming over to see me. I'm just excited because I get to see my favorite uncle, well since he's my only uncle in my family, and I just can't wait to see in like a year or more. It's just that I'm excited that he's coming over and has big news for me to hear. I can't wait!"

There was silence to the lightning ninjas excitment until it made sense to his talkative message. Now they understood. "We never knew you had an uncle, Jay." Zane wondered. "In fact, we didn't know much of family legency. How come you never told us this before?"

"Beeecause no one bothered to ask in the first place." the auburn retorted. He saw their expressions changed slightly embarassed to him. "Anyway, my Uncle Ben is from my dad's side and is the older brother. When I was little I never knew him until I was eight and stayed with him for a weekend with my Aunt Mary. He's pretty cool unlike a dark lord or sensei for an uncle." He shrugged away after receiving glares from Lucas and Lloyd. "During the summer every year after it, he and I would spend awesome weeks together. He would take me camping, have cookouts, and even fun activities. He even has the best job ever. You guys know that second tallest building here in Ninjago City?"

Cole tapped his chin to ponder to think of the buildings he know of for living in the suburban area of the city to shrug. "Isn't called Oscorp or something like that?" he wondered. "That weird looking building on Parkway and Osborn?"

"Yeah that's the one." Jay nodded while pulling the curtains open. "Anyway over there they create many things that could help change the world mostly with medical stuff or gadgets on the side. My uncle is an enviromental scientist to help create plants to survive longer and produce more. Lately he has been telling me that he is onto something else and been quiet about it. Maybe that's what he's gonna tell me about. But right now, all I care about is seeing him again after a long time. It's gonna be awesome!"

The Ninja waited for their lightning brother's enthusiam to relax. But with that talkative mood, it'll take some time. Especially with a relative of his that he was excited to reunite with. They had to roll their eyes while giving him small smiles. "Well since he'll be here soon then," said Kai. "I guess we get our day started and have some of Zane's homemade pancakes. It's his turn anyway"

"It'll be my pleasure, brother." the nindroid said sincerely.

"You need any help with that?" Jay asked.

There was a snort and the blue ninja turned to Cole. What was that for? "The last time you helped with breakfast, you accidently put cumen instead of cinnamon in the frech toast." the earth ninja stated. "Or when on that last stealth mission on the Serpentine, you screwed up when you wouldn't stop talking and nearly got us captured." Jay had to look away as both were true, he had to admit he could be a klutz once and awhile. But it was an accident, not on purpose. Cole sighed while patting his back. "Look if you're excited for us to meet your uncle, then don't make us sick. Just get showered, changed, and wait for breakfast."

Sighing, Jay didn't look at them and walked over to his dresser to grab his suit for the day. One by one, the auburn teen waited his turn for a shower, but never made eye contact to them after the small rant from the leader. It made him feel like he was treated differently. He was their teammate. He should be treated the same as the others. But after that, it made him think of the past before becoming a ninja. Being an outcast at school for living in the junkyard gave him a hard time to coop especially when dealing with an old gang that harrassed him a lot until a friend of his fended them off. But as this, it made him feel like an outcast again. Don't be like the past. he said to himself. Be the present and a ninja.

"Jay, your turn." Lloyd announced after spinning into his green gi and pants and ran out.

The lightning ninja snapped out of his trance to blink and looked around the empty room. He shook his head clear and stepped into the bathroom to slide the shoji door shut. "There better be some hot water left." he muttered to himself and turned the faucet. Minutes after the mediocure warm shower, Jay staggered to change into his suit after feeling a bit off from the recent scowl, but shook it off as he'll not be bothered by it now and gotten himself freshened up. "Now the piece of resistance." he said to himself and pulled out a drawer to grab a small case of contact lenses.

He had to smirk to himself every morning that he was proud to wear such a great invention than his old, bulky glasses in the past. The others know of his contact lenses, but not the glasses part though. It made him proud when he was at the right age group to start wearing contacts. Hello perfect vision, goodbye dumb old glasses. That's what he had to say to himself when he starts to put them in.

The auburn teen quickly unscrewed both caps and carefully dipped a finger into the watery cleaning solution to scoop out the piece of soft plastic that enables to let oxygen to breath through for his corneas to not dry up and slowly brought it closer to his right eyes after pulling his eyelid down. But he felt a sneeze form to cause him to react and after he did and looked at his finger to squeak a bit. "Where'smylense! Where'smylense!?" he screamed. He aggreviately searched on the sink for the missing lense until he saw a bluish rim in the basin, but exaggerately gasped. He watched the small circular lense being swept away on a trail of water the faucet and slipped into the drain; gone. "No! Nonononono!" It can't be! Oh please be spares!"

He searched around in his drawer until he found the box he needed to sheepishly smile but it vanished as it felt empty and opened it to gasp as it was empty. No more spares. He now knew it was time to panic. "Ah! No! Why me!? Now I can't get more until my next appointment! And my uncle will be over soon! No!" He sighed in defeat as if hope was lost to him and shifted his gaze to a small black, rectangular case in the back of the drawer. He groaned as he pulled it out and opened it.

He groaned a second time to almost be mistaken for a whine as he thought he would never have to see them again to pull them out and slip them over his nose. His vision became clearer, but his appearence was different. Upon his face, he hoped he would never see the large black rectangular plastic frames from when he was little; his old glasses. He could imagine his doom now as he could see himself on the headlines of the Ninjago Timelines. Dork of the Year. "Okay, Jay," the blue ninja murmured to himself. "There's no way the others will laugh at you. He-he. Just be yourself. Why I'm even sure Nya will like these. She may even see as a smarter person."

With that surge of confidence in him, Jay could feel his heart relax and took a deep breath as he turned to the doors and left for the dining room while reciting his words. Relax. No way the others will laugh.

Will they or they not? I'm not a mind reader. But Jay is back to his old glasses especially when seeing his uncle like when he was eight. Got to have you think of a character who had glasses like that in the Marvel Universe. *wink wink* Anyway, I got to announce I won't update next Friday because it's the day after Christmas and I got a lot on my plate with parties and other stuff. I'll probably update Sunday the most. Anyway, I hoped you enjoy the update, leave a review if you wish to, and see you all next week and have a Merry Christmas. :)