Chapter Four: Never Underestimate Zane! Just...Never...

~Zane's POV~

Well, there goes Kai winning his match. The coughing fit at the end, while expectant, had unfortunately provided Ash with the perfect distraction to beat him. I settled into my meditation position, all the while vaguely wondering if I should have asked Kai for everything that he could think of about Chen and whatever it is that he is planning. Guilt briefly tugged at my power source as I wondered if I should just tell everyone the truth about Kai and Nya. Giving my head a quick shake, I made myself pull up the reminder that I had made years ago to let the siblings to take their time with telling the rest of us. Maybe if I imagined what Sensei's response to it would be like again when he finally finds out... I closed my eyes, quickly sending a small, encrypted text to the lovely Pixal to let her know what was going on with the rest of us since I strongly suspect that Nya is not being forthright with information.

Once that was done, I took a few deep breaths, a million different ways to protect Lloyd trying to crowd out any other thoughts in my brain. Shoving them to the side, Kai was with him and definitely would not let anything bad happen to him, I concentrated on ways to ensure that Jay and Cole will not be lost to me either. Not that the others were permanently lost to us, if Kai and Nya's presence amongst us was any indication on what the future held for us.

"Zane?!" The door to my bedroom banged open as Cole strolled in casually, worry edging his voice.

I cracked open one eye, eyeing my brother as he stood awkwardly in my bedroom, uncertainty dancing in his eyes. "Yes? Is something the matter, Cole my friend?"

"That's the problem." Cole walked over, plopping himself into one of my white couches. "They just came out with the next match. I'm supposed to fight you. How do you fight a friend?!"

Make that really should have asked Kai about this whole thing...maybe even reveal what I now know about him that he still does not remember. Sort of. I strongly suspect that Kai's nightmares are really memories of things that have, will soon happen?, to him. I stood up slowly, moving carefully to stand next to Cole. "I will throw the match so as to find Lloyd and, well, you know..." I have been successful so far in my desire to avoid saying Kai's name. In fact, from what I can tell, no one appeared to have noticed that I've been using an old recording of all of us yelling at him whenever we yell his name in unison since I connected the dots.

"Zane! I can't let you do that!" Cole lunged to his feet, his face pale at the thought of losing yet another team member.

Before I could say anything to him about how I knew something about a certain set of siblings that he didn't know, Jay walked into the room. "What is it that you can't let Zane do?"

"Throw the competition so that he can be captured!" Cole turned to face his best friend, horror flooding his voice.

Before I could say anything to the two of them, Jay threw himself down at my feet, clasping his hands together in a pleading gesture. "Please don't throw the competition for our sakes! You've got to find another way out of this!"

I sighed, sitting down at my table, hands clasped on top of the clean surface. "Very well then. Perhaps we should approach Neuro, Master of the Mind. There is a small chance that he will believe us and will help us out."

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Neuro was the most skeptical person that I have ever meet. I had insisted that he scan Jay and Cole's minds instead of mine, using the fact that I was a nindroid as an excuse. I did not want to risk him finding out Kai's secret that he had forgotten, as well as his mission that he's been struggling to remember, from scanning my own mind. Neuro rubbed his chin thoughtfully as he looked over my two brothers. "Interesting... apparently you're telling the truth about Drake's abilities to sense the future. Not that helped him earlier."

"Yeah...we know. Drake has a tendency to ignore his own feelings when it comes down to this kind of thing." Cole waved it off, impatience edging his voice.

Neuro frowned at that, puzzlement dancing in his eyes. "Wouldn't it make more sense for him to pay attention to that and not ignore it?"

"You and me both buddy." Jay grumped, clearly not over the fact that Kai was now gone.

I cleared my throat loudly, drawing their attention to me. "I really hate to ask this of you, but if when this is all over with, you would be kind enough not to scan his mind, that would be much appreciative."

Neuro, who knew what I meant thanks to Jay acting as translator earlier, blinked, confusion etched in his features. "Why does it matter if I read Drake's mind or not?"

"He has amnesia and I do not want to know what having his mind read will do to his missing memories." I left out the real reason why they were here, I was trying to protect Kai and Nya after all.

"Every well then. You have my word. I will never read Drake's mind." Neuro nodded solemnly, realizing now that I was just trying to protect him. Just not for the reason that he thought I was protecting him for.

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I wanted to scream. Everything had gone according to plan...up until Cole yelled catch and threw the Jadeblade at me. Next thing I knew, I was still in the game, much to Chen's annoyance according to my sixth sense, and Cole was out. I paced around my room, silently fuming as I wondered how I was supposed to help Kai protect Lloyd if I wasn't with them. I whirled around, pausing just long enough to glare at a photo of Nya and Jay on one of their dates, Kai barely noticeable in the background.

"Um...hey there? Any particular reasons why you're glaring at that specific picture of Nya and me?" Jay materialized in the doorway, leaning against it casually, one eyebrow raised up in question.

I sighed, deciding now might as well as be a good time to tell him. "Jay come on in... there's something about Nya that you need to know about..."

A/N: Hmm, have Zane reveal that Jay is dating Drake/Kai's little sister now, or wait another chapter..? Wait for next chapter it is! Oh, right... forgot one thing... Done! So... what do you all think about Zane's POV? Before you ask, no he has not told Sensei what it is he knows...or the people that he knows what they're up to... that's gonna be fun when Drake/Kai and Nya find out. I'm thinking that they don't find out until sometime with the Hands of Time since they kinda need to explain the whole time travel and amnesia thing to their parents. And yes, Zane has connected the dots and realizes that the younger brother that was brutally killed in front of Kai/Drake is Lloyd and wants to help protect him.

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PiratePirata: I made up Rentjitzu just for this story. Figured that I needed him to be able to do something that Sensei can't do to save his life.

Bookkeeper2004: Hey! What's up Bookkeeper? Sorry it took so long to get this chapter up, been really slow with my stories and then I took one and a half days to figure out whose POV I was going to use for this chapter. Not going to tell you about the paragraph that used to be the opening scene of this. Made it too long even though me emailing Cloud Kingdom in the end was a nice touch. Anyways... As you by now realize, Ash not being out yet is because Ash took the Jadeblade from Kai while he was coughing, thus making Kai lose. As for what will happen next, this chapter is the precursory chapter for Chen targeting Zane and trying to get him out since it just accord to him that having a nindroid compete was not a good idea because Zane is the one person that can defeat Skylor.

CopperHillsGrizzly2010: It's a martial arts form that I made up for this story. Basically, it can do one of three things. One: It can weaken or take away your opponents/magical artifacts powers. Two: It can reverse what it is that your powers can do. Three: It can strengthen your teammates powers... if you use it on them. YOU CANNOT USE IT ON YOURSELF!

phetiamwantip: Phew... that name might have been faster if I had copy pasted it instead of going back and forth with your name... anyways. Here's the next chapter that you couldn't wait for! Hope you enjoyed it!

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