"You lost my brother?!" Nya repeated.

"Not necessarily!" Jay exclaimed, "We haven't looked yet!"

"You lost Kai and didn't bother to even look for him? I know boys can be dumb sometimes, but really?"

"No, you got it all wrong! He disappeared like a second before you got here!"

"How'd this happen in the first place?" The samurai was surprisingly calm as she looked at Cole for answers. Scary calm, the earth ninja thought.

"I don't know, why don't you ask Lloyd?" the leader said in an accusing tone.

The golden ninja suddenly found his shoes very captivating as he nervously admitted, "I kinda-sorta told him he was a government experiment."

"Lloyd! Okay, that is kinda funny, but still... Lloyd! Go look for him!"

The green ninja raised his arm to salute, shouting, "Yes, ma'am! " before he ran off in the direction he'd thought Kai had gone.

"I'm gone 10 minutes and this happens?" Nya sighed.

"I was not a part of this!" Cole exclaimed, taking a step away from the lightning ninja.

Jay sported a surprised yet annoyed look on his face before shouting that it was Lloyd's idea.

"Don't blame Lloyd, I already yelled at him."

The blue ninja took a bunch of small steps towards Cole and whispered in his ear, "Why is Nya acting like our mom or something?"

Cole shrugged and Jay moved back to his computer the same way he came.

"You know I saw that, right?"

"Why are you acting like this? "

"The old lady at the tea shop wouldn't let me buy the Tomorrow's Tea because she said I'd already bought it within the last year. I had to argue with her for what felt like 20 minutes before telling her our entire situation!"

Lloyd suddenly appeared in the entrance of the hallway. "He's not in the bathroom, bedroom, or closet," he told them.

"Then look in other places."

The golden ninja nodded and ran towards the deck.

Just then someone's phone rang.

"I should see who that is," Cole said, his hand going to his pocket and pulling out a phone. "Blocked number. Think I should answer it?"

Jay said he should at the same time Nya said he shouldn't.

"Nya, I ain't scared of some mysterious person on the other end of the phone. Let's do this!"

[a/n: semi-cliffhanger. I'll be surprised if I still have readers after the last chapter. *sigh*]