Ninjago Lava Ship - It's messed up

Something in the air

Jay, Nya, Cole and Kai arrived to the base in a short time and got out of their vehicles, Jay and Cole mostly out of breath.

"Jay, Cole, you are alright!" Zane starts heading their way as the rest followed after him. "I am glad nothing happened to you."

"What actually happened to you two?" Pixal asks, extending her hand in front of her as a gesture, her palm facing the ceiling.

Both Cole and Jay just left themselves fall on the floor as they were too exhausted from what they've learnt. "Guys, you would never believe us." Jay started to talk while breathing heavily then Cole continued. "When I got inside the building where the dot was that I was following, there was that awful smell and tons and tons of rats! Like, I've never experienced anything more disgusting than that! They all went on me and somehow, I passed out. The next thing I know, I was hanging upside down back to back with Jay, I guessed. With all his mumbling through the tape, I knew it was him because of his reactions and his annoying voice."

"Hey!" Jay gives him the daggers with his eyes.

"Alright, we get that. Just continue on explaining everything else." Kai was starting to be impatient once again. He still didn't understand what was the danger back at that old building, as the others didn't as well.

"Well first hear my side of the story." Jay sits up, crosses his arms and scoffs while looking away with closed eyes. After that, he looks at everyone. "When I parted with Zane, I went after that one dot which happens to go to an old amusement park.." He gulps then continues. "There was this fog around so I couldn't see anything clear, but I'm sure I saw zombies!"

Everyone stays quiet for few moments until Lloyd breaks the silence. "You get why this is so hard to believe, right?"

"Well I don't know if what he saw was real.." Cole went to defend himself, but Jay interrupted him, "It was real! They all attacked me and made me pass out! I tried to fight them off, but as much as I broke their bodies apart, they were still moving towards me!" After yelling all the words out, he takes a deep breath to get his composure back. "However, when I came back to, there were some people around us, mumbling something about ninja heading there to that building."

"They must have had some sort of plan to trap you guys, but maybe you did something they didn't expect, I don't know." Cole shrugs.

"We believe your story. We have no reason not to." Pixal tries to explain. "But there is so many missing parts and parts that just do not go together. Rats and zombies, then people. We even found a flesh of a human on the street where the signal was coming from."

"Hmm.." Master Wu's humming could be heard as he got down to the base with Misako, holding onto his chin and thinking while going up to them.

"Sensei!" Kai turns to look at him. "Do you maybe have an idea what is going on here?"

"I might know.." He started stroking his beard, still walking towards them, but with closed eyes. Once when he reached them, he opens his eyes and starts with the plan. "You should go and see those places where they disappeared. In groups, of course."

"Are you serious right now?!" Kai raises his voice. "Can't you explain what is even on your mind?"

"We should first see if my theory is right. I don't want to rush in assuming." Wu proclaimed. "Kai, Lloyd and Jay, you explore the amusement park where Jay disappeared. Nya, Zane and Cole, you will go see that old building where Cole was. Pixal and Harumi, you stay here and watch over the base. We might need you here."

Although, they have no idea what is on Wu's mind, they listened to him and all the ninja nod then headed to their destinations. After all, Wu doesn't make sense most of the times.

With Kai, Lloyd and Jay, they soon arrived to the amusement park and both Kai and Lloyd followed Jay to the place where all of what he said has happened.

"There." Jay shows around the place gesturing with his arms.

Lloyd and Kai look around with their gaze, not actually understanding in what they need to look at. Then after few seconds, Kai speaks. "Uhh... Jay.. There is nothing suspicious here. Everything looks normal for an abandoned amusement park."

"Are you serious right now?!" Jay raises his voice. "This is ABANDONED amusement park! Which means just the place is creepy by itself. But it was even creepier when I was here before, alone. I, at least, expected there are still few zombie parts around so I can prove to you that I wasn't hallucinating!"

"Wait.." Lloyd interrupted Jay before he could add anything else to his sentences then holds onto his chin and mumbles through his breath. "Hallucinating..." He raises his head up towards Jay and asks. "You said you were trying to fight them off, right? Do you remember if you hit or punched them hard at something?"

"Could be possible, yeah." Jay shrugs. "I was hitting them all around the place."

Lloyd began to walk around the area and look at the machines and any stuff which are there. "Well if that's the case, there should be signs of fighting. Torn things, dented, broken, you get what I mean.."

"Ey, you do make sense, Lloyd." Kai also began looking on all sides, Jay joining them in a search, but they couldn't find any signs of struggle or anything that would point that someone, or something, was here.

"This doesn't make any sense!" Jay holds onto his head, thinking he's going crazy, but Lloyd goes to calm him down, putting his hand on Jay's shoulder "Calm down. I agree this doesn't make any sense. Therefore, the only possible explanation is..."

"Hallucination?" Kai finished Lloyd's sentence in a questionable way. "Great opinion and all, bravo, but.. - How does THAT make sense?"

"It does." Lloyd, from looking at Kai, turns to Jay. "Because.. The fog? The zombies? Not any signs of fighting? It was all in your mind, Jay."

Jay yells once again, tired of hearing other people knowing better than him about what he saw or felt. "I am telling you! I am not some crazy maniac who just makes up some stupid nonsense stuff!"

Red and green ninja just shut one of their eyes and moved their heads away from Jay as their hearing could be in danger because of his yelling. Kai puts his hands on his ears to cover them then finally speaks. "Yeah. You sure sound like a normal human who doesn't speak nonsense." He then rolls his eyes.

Lloyd, before Jay got the chance to yell again, speaks loudly for those two to listen to him. "I'm not saying you're crazy!"

Kai raises his eyebrow while looking at Lloyd and slowly putting his hands down. "Are you sure?"

Lloyd decides to ignore what Kai said and continues what he wanted to say. "I am sure what you saw was really real for you, Jay. To fight them off of you and literally feel the punches. I think there might have been something or someone who fought against you, but you hallucinated that the zombies were attacking you."

Jay only had Unbelievable expression on his face. "So explain how is that possible now. There is still no signs of fighting and no explanation to why I was "hallucinating" that the zombies were attacking me."

"Easy." Lloyd finally begins with explaining his theory. "The fog. It wasn't just the fog. It might have been some substance or matter that made you hallucinate and see zombies. About no signs of fighting, it is mostly that you thought you fought them off and hit them against something, like their parts of body flew at something, but as those things weren't actually zombies, nothing was hit. You were only outnumbered and passed out."

"But.." Kai slowly starts to talk. "By what? Or who?"