[a/n: I posted this in the morning before school, and when I got home I had 19 emails just from Fanfiction. First time I've ever seen it say that many unread. (Mainly because I check my inbox about every 5 minutes. Can't do that at school.) Anyway, thanks to everybody who reviewed, followed, & favorited!]
"Where's Nya?"
"Are you sure it's not still messing with his mind?" Lloyd commented, "Jay just said where she went a minute ago."
"Oh, I'm sorry!" Kai said sarcastically, "I got distracted trying to wrap my head around how the heck my so-called memories could be on a laptop!"
"Trust me, we're all confused by that," Lloyd told him.
"Hey, Kai, what happened after Nya tried to take apart your DS?" Jay suddenly asked, earning a confused look from everyone but Kai.
"How do you know about that? And if you really care, she couldn't find her screwdriver. Mom's such a jerk, she'd have let her do it if she had the stupid tool. She'd say, 'It's your own fault; you shouldn't have played with a lighter,' when I didn't really- Crap!"
"Why would your mom think you played with a lighter?" Cole asked, raising an eyebrow.
When Kai nervously stared at his socks (Jay guessed that his shoes were still in the compartment, too big to stay on his feet), the mouth of lightning decided he should answer. "He used his powers accidentally and burned a bully named Dan."
The 12-year-old's eyes widened, his expression a mixture of surprise and anger. "How in the world do you know this stuff?! I didn't even tell Nya about that! And what makes you think Dan's a bully? He used to pick on me sometimes, that's not- You're really creeping me out right now."
"He hit you in the one Nya and I saw. And you hit him back... What do you even call that?"
"Self-defense, ever heard of it?"
"Right, because self-defense consists of punching someone with your fist on fire?"
"I was mad, I hit him back, I didn't even know it was on fire until- dang, I feel like I've explained this a thousand times already. I got enough grief about it from Dan yesterday... At least I think it was yesterday."
"Probably wasn't."
"Didn't the guy with the straw hat say 'chit-chat won't help' earlier? And something about tea for tomorrow?" the boy said, in an attempt to change the subject.
"He said tomorrow's tea, Kai," Jay corrected.
"So? That still means the same thing, right?"
Cole sighed. "Tomorrow's tea is a tea makes you older."
"Dang! Tea can do that?"
Lloyd laughed.
"Welcome to the future, kid," the blue ninja jokingly told him.
"Wait, how in the world could tea make you older?"
"You ask too many questions," Jay decided.
"It is normal for children to frequently ask questions. It is one of the simplest methods of learning." [a/n: does that sound a little off? Cause it kinda does to me.]
"Thank you, uh...robot..."
"We never told you Zane was a-"
"I'm 12, not stupid. 'Face recognition software'? What normal person has that? I mean, no offense. I haven't got anything against robots."
"He's a nindroid," the lightning ninja grinned.
"Isn't the term android?"
"It is. Nindroid is ninja and android combined."
"Ninja?"
"Dang, this'll take a while," Lloyd whispered, sighing as Jay attempted to tell Kai about everything from their elements to the Overlord.
"What's the rush? Do you have somewhere to be?"
"Nah, I'm just bored."
"Kai's a kid again and you're bored? This is gonna be funny."
"You're right! We should mess with him."
"That is definitely not what I said."
"Well, it's what I heard."
It was things like this that reminded Cole and the others that Lloyd was technically still a child, disguised by the added years of a certain tea.
"We are not gonna pick on Kai," Cole said firmly.
"No problem. We is now just an I." Cole gave him a weird look, though he was curious about what exactly the green ninja had in mind.
"Kai?"
"Yeah?" he looked away, relieved. Jay was starting to get boring, considering he already knew most of the story he was being told on Ninjago's origins.
"Listen, the reason Jay knows so much about you is because you were part of a government experiment. They've been watching you to see how well you could fit in with society. Since you hurt someone with your powers, they had to bring you back to headquarters."
"Lloyd!"
"Ignore them! They just don't want you to know the truth!"
[a/n: I can't decide if Kai believes him. What say you? (Idk why, but I really wanted to use that term.) Also, I cracked my screen trying to eat a donut. Schist, there's that randomness only some people find funny. ]
