Chapter Six:The End Is Near...

~Zane's POV~

It was not looking good... I rubbed my forehead, as if I had a headaches, physically impossible of course since I am an Nindroid. We were all inside of a large blimp... were Jay was attempting, with some help with Neuro to follow through with Nya's instructions and form an alliance with them. "Yo Zane! You okay there?" Jay suddenly placed a hand on my shoulder, concern flashing in his eyes.

I gave a quick nod of confirmation, before turning to stare out the blimp's window. "What is Chen up to now..." Somehow I knew that the siblings knew, or well... suspected in Kai's case, though they didn't exactly have time to tell us anything.

Skylor, I had recalled what it was that Nya said about befriending her and had asked her to sit by me, shifted slightly, worry creasing her brow. "I don't know."

Startled, I peered at her, puzzled by that statement. It almost sounded like she was admitting to knowing about Chen's plans in the first place... and this wasn't one that she had known about. "Perhaps we can discover what it is together. In truth the sooner we can get this over with the sooner I can go back to my girlfriend."

~Nya's POV~

I rubbed the back of my neck as I crouched down on top of the roof to Chen's extravagant manor. I had stolen the spell, avoided every single security camera that I had memorized the locations of years ago, and was now back where I had started. Glancing to the sky, I tracked the blimp that was carrying my hus...boyfriend, Zane, and the rest of the elemental masters that weren't in the underground factory slaving away for Chen... while building that jet. Maybe Kai can convince them to build something else that the Lázadó Alliance in the future would consider the perfect getaway vehicle. Closing my eyes, I found myself hoping that the Lázadó Alliance no longer exited due to the changes that Kai and I had made... mainly Kai made. For being amnesiac and not remembering why we have gone into the past, he was doing an amazing job. Crouching down so that I was laying on my stomach, the sharp shingles pressing against me, I gritted my teeth together as, not for the first time, I found myself wishing for my Lázadó gi. Unfortunately, I had left it with the others in the future. Gritting my teeth together, I ran my fingers over the ridges, knowing that Skylor had at the age of six built a tunnel that lead from the underground factory to the rooftop behind Chen's back. If only I could find the opening!

~Drake's POV~

Something was wrong. I tilted my head to the side, wishing that I knew why I felt that... or why it was bugging me so badly. Lloyd must have noticed my confusion, nudging me gently. "Is something wrong Drake?"

I shook my head as my fingers flashed. 'No... Just that the hunt for the spy is taking place right now and we're down here and there is a secret tunnel that Chen doesn't know about that leads out of here.'

Lloyd stared at me for five seconds, before tossing back his head and yelling. "Cole!"

Cole looked up from where he was questioning Karlof's sanity, his brow furrowing. "What? Did I miss something?"

"Drake seems to think there's a tunnel out of here this entire time!" No sooner had those words escaped Lloyd's lips than the far wall opened up and Nya fell out.

"Oof... found the entrance!" Nya sprang to her feet, grinning broadly.

I bit back a silent groan as my fingers twitch ever so slightly. 'Sisters...'

"I heard that Drake!" Nya snapped, glaring at me as if I were the one in the wrong.

'I didn't say anything... I signed it.'

"Same thing!"

"Okay... I am going out on a guess here that Nya is Samurai X?" Cole looked like he was torn between hiding behind a random barrel, or strangling us.

'I thought it was obvious.' "I made it as obvious as possible..."

Cole and Lloyd gave us some pretty impressive looks at those statements. Lloyd flung his hands in the air, exasperation flooding him. "If you say so. We still need to get out of here and Chen stole our powers, so we need to find a way to get them back."

'Not exactly...' I shifted slightly, suddenly worried about what they might think about what it was that I had done before as nowhere as funny as I clearly did.

"Drake..." You know I'm in trouble when Lloyd stresses my name.

'I may have used Rentjitzu on his staff on the first night before he used it on Lloyd so... he gave us a power boost instead of stealing our powers..?' Nervously I backed away from them, reaching up to rub the back of my neck.

Cole promptly began to shake me as if I were a rag doll. "You should have told us that earlier!" Pausing, he tilted his head to the side as he stared straight at me. "Uh... what's Rentjitzu?"

Nya pinched the bridge of her nose, before answering that question for me, thankfully. "Rentjitzu is a form of martial arts that, well, a fellow named Kai Smith created. It affects the powers of artifacts and elemental masters." There was that name again! Who is this guy?! He seems to be pretty important if he invented Rentjitzu. I quickly shook my head, trying to clear it from distracting thoughts.

~Zane's POV~

If I never see a forest again for the rest of my life... it would be too soon. Rolling my shoulders to get some of the tension out, I glanced back at the others. Karlof was arguing with Ash, Neuro was pestering Skylor about...something. Paleman was questioning Jay about something, I couldn't tell what though, and Chamille was next to Tox, the two of them glancing around wildly. Griffin slipped over to me, his brow furrowed in confusion. "So what signs are we supposed to look for?"

"I have... no idea." Would Nya leave footprints for us to follow, or would she carve her Samurai X symbol into trees? By the looks of things, she had done both already. Running my hand through my hair, I closed my eyes trying to think more like her. That was when it hit me. Nya was from the future! Most likely she had done both of these in the original timeline, thus why she did it now... but if my theory on what the future holds for us is correct, then that means that she would expect us to follow both and... "We need to get back to the manor." Snapping my eyes open, I whirled around to lead the way back, ignoring the perplexed looks everyone was giving me. "She would expect us to look for her out here... however the manor..." Especially since her push about befriending Skylor, whom Kai did label as Chen's daughter earlier, meant that she most likely gave them a very thorough tour of the manor later in their lives.

"Back to the manor!" Jay punched the air casually, drawing laughs from everyone. As Skylor laughed, she very carefully ripped a piece of her sleeve off, leaving it on a bush to be found later as she followed them back the way they had just came from. I quickly scanned the fabric to find that a tracking device was stitched into the seams of the sleeve. Hmm... looks like Skylor just might be on our side just like Nya had hinted at.

A/N: Done! Uh... what do you know. Lots is happening, basically final battle is looking to be taking place here and not at the Corridor of Elders. I'm not entirely sure if THE LETTER will come up in this AU or not. On the bright side, Zane and Jay insisted that they don't split up to find Nya in the woods, and the others agreed... and now Skylor is actually enjoying herself for once in her life since they are treating this as if it were social hour at school or something, and thus she removed her tracker. Oops... Chen is going to have so much fun with that detail!

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Bookkeeper2004: Yeah... but then Nya doesn't know that Zane knows about the time travel part of the deal. She thinks he just knows about their names and relationship. This is going to be so much fun to write once she finds out that he knows that detail as well...

grungekitty: Around the time that he figured out about Nya being Samurai X... uh... don't actually know when he figured out the whole time travel thing though... he'll explain it later I'm sure!

phetiamwantip: Thank you! Hope this chapter was as awesome as you were hoping for it!

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