the eyes of the lightning ninja slowly opened, a little suffering from the light on the retina

his vision a bit blurred, but it soon stabilized, so that he could notice that both his hands and feet were tied in a chair

he looked around, trying to understand why he was in what looked like a huge warehouse

he turned around when he heard a grunt

Nya was by his side, and he was relieved to see that his Yang was alive and well

"Nya? are you injured?" he soon asked, moving meanwhile between the ropes that held him in the wooden chair

"uh.. yeah, I'm fine.. where are we?" she asked, looking around the room, and soon realizing herself that she was tied up

"Do you remember what happened?" Nya then asked, trying to figure out how they were there

"Um.. Not quite.. just a blue and short figure- then I saw you fainting on the ground, and after that I fainted too"

"h-hey! I'm not short!"

"yeah, blue boy, you are"

from the sudden voices, both Nya and Jay remained on guard, stealthily moving their eyes all over the room, or at least what they could see in front of them

"who are you?" Jay asked, anxiety in his voice

figures have come out of the shadows

"great question, why don't you answer first!?" one, presumably, girl with her face hidden spoke, pointing her spear at both Jay and Nya

"woah! calm girl, we don't-" Jay tried

"to whom did you say calm girl!?" the gray figure was about to hit him with her weapon, but another red figure stopped her first

"waterlily, don't kill our hostages" he paused, leaving the girl's shoulder "at least until they give us answers"

"look, maybe there was a misunderstanding, but we don't want to cause any problems" Jay tried again in a kinder tone

"he's right, we don't want to hurt you, we're just looking for answers" Nya continued

"answers?" the white figure asked

"exact! therefore, how about freeing us and-"

"as if it were going to happen! probably you two made part of garmadon's ally" the gray figure attacked

"garmadon's ally?" Nya repeated confused

"do not pretend not to know, we know it very well. you tried to hit the blue ninja, TWICE!" the girl's eyes were red

"hit? No! Jay was trying to saving him but then you came! and then the second time it was your blue guy who came to meet us!" Nya began to get annoyed with that girl

"Jay?" the gray ninja replied

"yeah" she replied, curious that her frown was a now confused look

the gray figure turned to the others, as Jay and Nya shared a look

but it was a safer look, they had to free themselves and have the situation safely in their hands

while the figures were arguing, Jay approached Nya slowly, without making any noise with the feet of the chair or any sound he could create himself

after the move, Nya forced her arm, positively managing to bring her hand closer to a pocket of Jay's gi

from there she found a shuriken star. they always had three spare, in case their weapons were lost or destroyed

Nya rubbed the little blade against the knot that held her to the chair

she was succeeding, it was just so close to the end, aaand..

BOOM!

a sudden bang alarmed the figures called "Ninja" and also the two ninjas

the door of the warehouse, which was previously closed, now found itself on the ground, under the feet of new figures

"where are Jay and Nya!?" a guy with brown and spiky hair shouted, not taking a negative answer for any reason

"what the... AND WHO ARE YOU!?" the red figure said, putting himself in a combat position, and then he was copied by the others. obviously it was their "combat position" given already the poor impression

"we are the ninjas, and we will kick your ass until you direct us where our friends are" another guy who was with the other three people spoke, and seemed also quite pissed off right now, together with his lava arms

"um no.. we are the ninjas" the black figure countered, not seeming very interested in his tone of voice

"oh right! you are those ninjas who fought Garmadon.." another person, but this time with green colors hinted

"yeah, we're pretty much fighting with Garmadon that we look like friends- but that's not the point. unmask yourself!" again the red figure came forward

"not before you, if you have to trust us, we should trust you too, right?" Kai proposed, with his arms now crossed

"Agh.. it's a long battle with these teen.." another voice behind the local figures said

The ninja looked over the back of colorful figures, soon noticing an annoyed Nya, and a bored Jay looking at the scene yawning

"if you just dared to touch them-" Cole started, but before his arms and scar could light up and be replaced by hot lava, Jay also spoke

"JUST FREE US!"

"you will get your friends back as soon as you have shown yourself and removed the masks" the green figure spoke, standing in front of his friends. the role of the leader had to be heard

they shared a look, and soon accepted, taking away their masks, and opening wide the jaws of the "ninjas"

"wait a minute- you look very familiar" the "black ninja" was confused. and in no time at all, he also took off the mask he wore

carried by the boy, shown that he now had black hair and headphones present, his friends followed his gesture

"wha- Zane"

"yes, Kai?"

"Is what I'm seeing true?"

"yes, yes it's true.." he too a little baffled "they- they are really our clones"