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Jay's POV
It's so boring these days! Ever since the Overlord was destroyed by Lloyd, it's been nothing but peace. There has been barely any crime on the streets of Ninjago. Even Sensei has stopped pushing us so hard in training!
I went out onto the Bounty's deck to train a bit. I had nothing to do anyway because Lloyd was playing a single-player game, Zane was making dinner (no one wants to interrupt that), and Cole was sleeping.
I was whacking my training robot and doing flips when I saw Kai come to the deck. "Wanna train together?" he asked, picking up his katana. I just shrugged since I couldn't care less. I just wanted something that would be at least a bit interesting.
We fought each other for a while, but my mind started to wander. I started to think about my childhood. Growing up in a junkyard with all the things I needed to let my imagination fly, it was actually a very fun life. Not having to worry about waking up early to train, defeating our enemies, or being scared in each battle that my fellow teammates, especially Nya, will get hurt, or even worse, die.
I soon forbid such dark thoughts and try to think of some fun ones. Kai was still trying to hit me with his katana, but all I did was dodge, block, and try to hit him with my nunchucks from time to time.
Then it hit me. How could I have not thought of this before! It was a perfect thing to do when I'm bored!
Kai's POV
Sigh. I thought Jay would at least challenge me in a fight, but all he does is block and dodge me. He's only tried to hit me once or twice and he looks like he's in his own world!
I started to feel frustrated. This always happens when I'm bored, so I started to fight him harder, yet he still managed to defend himself successfully. Then, for a split-second, I saw a open spot. I quickly blocked Jay's attack and kicked him in the stomach, sending him straight into the mast.
"You okay?" I asked him, giving him a hand. Jay just nodded. Quickly. Too quickly. Like how he always does when he has an… oh no.
"Jay" I fearfully said, "Whatever you're thinking, don't do it!"
"Come on!" Jay protested, as he smiled from ear to ear, "This will be fun! I promise I won't destroy anything!"
"But that's what you always say!" I snorted, "You always end up breaking something!" I put my katana away and faced Jay again.
"It's something I did when I was a kid. It'll be fine!" Jay started to run towards the kitchen and all I could do was sigh. Well... we're doomed.
Zane's POV
I smelled the mouth-watering taste of roasted chicken as I opened the top oven and set the chicken on the counter. I checked the pot on the stove and saw that my vegetable soup was cooking well. I peeked into the bottom oven to see that the bread was starting to turn golden-brown. I smiled to myself knowing that my brothers would be delighted tonight.
I had forgotten to put away things as I cooked, so I had a lot of things on the counter like carrots, knives, cutting board, flour, spices, and yeast. I took all the vegetables to the refrigerator and started to put away the flour and spices while waiting for the bread to bake.
My sensors then picked up readings of high excitement. Who could it be? The next thing I see is Jay running into the kitchen with a bottle in his hand.
"Zane! Where's the yeast and dish soap?" Jay asked, searching desperately in all the cabinets. "Right here brother." I said while taking the requested items off the counter and handing it to Jay.
"May I ask, what are you gonna do with it?" I tilted my head, puzzled. But Jay never heard me because he darted out of the kitchen right after he grabbed a glass a water on the way out, onto the deck. Kai, all worn out from chasing after Jay to see what he was planning to do, stuck his head into the kitchen.
"Where'd he go?" He breathlessly asked. I pointed towards the deck. "Thanks" he said, running to where I had pointed. Curious, I followed Kai onto the deck to see my fellow brothers and sister.
"Hey Zane!" Lloyd greeted me, "Here to see what Jay's about to do?" I nodded my head. As the ninja crowd around Jay they see him pouring a liquid from the bottle he held before into a plastic bottle and scoops a spoonful of yeast and puts it into the cup of water, mixing it.
"As you can see" Jay explained, "What I have here in the bottle is hydrogen peroxide." He swirled the plastic bottle a bit to show everyone. "And if you add yeast to it, something amazing will happen!"
Jay took the cup that had the water and yeast and dumped it into the plastic bottle, then quickly put the cap, which had a hole poked in it, onto the bottle. A reaction between the hydrogen peroxide and yeast instantly occurred, as the ninja watched in curiosity as some bubbles, no, a thick foam formed. The foam slowly increased as it made it's way to the top of the plastic bottle when it shot straight out of the hole made in the cap.
The ninja stared at this reaction with great interest when Jay grabbed the plastic bottle and started to aim it at his fellow teammates.
"ELEPHANT TOOTHPASTE GUN!" he screamed, aiming the plastic bottle randomly.
"RUN!" yelled Kai as he and his friends quickly scattered across the bounty. Jay quickly pursued one victim, which happened to be Cole.
Cole's POV
Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! Why is Jay following me!? I ran across the hallway and tried to open the doors to rooms but they wouldn't open! Why would they be locked!? I desperately looked around for an escape path, I could hear Jay's loud footsteps behind me. I continued to run, to somewhere, on the bounty when I crashed into Kai.
"Got ya!" Jay yelled spraying us with the foam. It got all over us as Jay ran to go get the others. One by one, Jay got us all and by the time no more foam was made, Jay collapsed on the deck out of energy.
"Should we help him up?" I questioned to my fellow friends. All of us had what Jay called, "elephant toothpaste" all over ourselves.
"Nope!" Kai remarked, "just leave him there until we all finish taking a shower." Everyone nodded their heads in agreement.
"Well" Zane said, "if it makes you guys happier. I did make vegetable soup with roasted chicken and bread."
Everyone smiled at this.
Nya started to sniff the air, "What's that burning smell?" Zane's eyes went wide as he ran to the kitchen just in time to take the bread out of the oven before it was too late.
"It's a bit burnt," Zane observed, "but it's still edible."
"It's gotta be better than at least Cole's though." Lloyd said as everyone laughed except for Cole. He just pouted.
That night, the ninja, all cleaned up, laughed around the table as they told Jay to NEVER do experiments like elephant toothpaste ever again.