|| HEART OF STEEL || ZANE X MALE!READER ||

𓆗 CHAPTER VIII - CAN OF WORMS 𓆗

• NARRATOR POV •

Y/N was on the deck, minding his own business when he spotted a rather nervous looking Lloyd wandering around. Luckily, the boy spotted him too.

"Oh, good morning, Y/N." The boy greeted with a somewhat nervous yet giggling undertone, Y/N rose an eyebrow as he gently waved back, "Sensei Wu set me on a task to go spread rumours about the Ninja. Want to help?"

Y/N shrugged, bookmarking and closing his book before he stood up and ruffled the boys hair. And they set to work.

They were awake before the Ninja, so it was relatively easy. Firstly, Y/N logged into Cole's account and beat all of Kai's high scores on his top game, whilst he did this, Lloyd was putting spices into Cole's soup. Y/N began to tamper with Jay's robot, as he knew precicely what not to do, and Lloyd put Zane's whites in with Kai's reds.

"Done!!" Lloyd cheered quietly, earning a gentle high five from Y/N, "Now, we spread the rumours."

"Hey, Kai! Ha. Saw Cole beat your high score. You should have seen it. It was pretty spectacular.." Lloyd commented nonchalantly.

"Uh, you must be talking about Sitar Legend. This is Fist to Face 2." Cole said, "No one beats me on my game."

"Huh. Could be wrong. See ya!" Lloyd said, before he walked away and whistled. Kai checked the high score screen, and it was all Cole.

"Huh? Cole!!" Kai yelled, enraged. Meanwhile, in the kitchen Cole was preparing dinner.

"Mm-mm! Violet Berry Soup, my culinary achievement. If the recipe is not followed exactly.." Cole tried a little, but yelped at the taste.

"By the way, I saw Jay spice things up." Lloyd said from outside, "I told him not to, but he said your cooking could use it. Bye, Cole!"

"Jay!" Cole bellowed, after spluttering out the horrible tasting soup. On the upper deck, Jay had his Kendo gear on and was prepared to fight the sparring bot.

"Let's ease our way into this. How about level 2, shall we?" Jay said, clicking a button as he turned it on, but instead of level 2 it immediately shifted to level 9.

"Hey, Jay." Lloyd whistled, "I saw Zane try to repair the sparring bot earlier. Isn't that your expertise? Later, bro."

"Wait! What?!" Jay yelled, as he desperately tried to switch the robot off but it laughed and began smacking him, "No! NO!! ZANE!!!!"

Further up the deck, at the bow, Zane was doing the laundry in his pajama's, when Lloyd came up to him, whistling.

"Hello, Lloyd. What brings you up here this fine morning?" Zane quieried.

"Kai wanted me to pick up his ninja suit. He said he threw it in with your whites." Lloyd explained, as e searched the laundry before finding it, "Here it is. Thanks."

Confused, Zane pulled out of of his Ninja suits which was now pink instead of its usual white which got him angry. Eventually, the Ninja had all gathered and kept accusing and arguing with each other.

"You couldn't just be happy with the top score. You had to rub it in my face!"

"Do you know how long it took me to make that? Three days. Three days!"

"It's an unsaid law, okay? You don't touch a man's robot!"

"How am I supposed to strike fear in this? It's pink!"

Master Wu entered as the Ninja argued with each other, before he slid open the bathroom door half way to reveal Lloyd who was cackling evilly. The Ninja soon found the spices used, the toolbox, and the laundry detergent used.