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(For @twigs-sprigs and @shadesofvermillionvoid ninjago sonic au)
KA-BOOM!
Smoke pours in thick grey clouds out of every window of the workshop. For the past few hours, a series of almost cartoonish noises had been emitting from the inventor’s shack. Loud crashing, drills whirring, you name it, the sound had been heard. But the explosion was the loudest of all, startling anyone nearby to attention.
From where he sits on a large flat stone redoing his bandages and ropes, Kai’s tail flares with fire, fur rising like a spooked cat. He whips his head around to stare at the workshop, wondering what could have possibly gone wrong for that explosion to have ripped through the otherwise peaceful afternoon.
A short figure stumbles out of the door, waving smoke from his face. The end of his scarf is on fire, his metal body coated in soot.
Kai rolls his eyes and rises to his feet. “Jay, what did you blow up this time?”
Jay coughs, wiping soot from the outer glass of his bowl with his tentacles. “Oh, nothing much, just the stupid PLANE I’ve been working on for HOURS because some IDIOT decided to use the propellor as a FRISBEE during the last fight—”
He cuts himself off— a very rare thing for him to do— and stares at his bowl.
There’s a tiny crack along the side, spraying the faintest trickle of water.
Jay is quiet for a solid five seconds— a new record, in Kai’s opinion— before letting out an ear-pitching wail. He throws himself at Kai, mech arms grabbing him by the chest strap and dragging him down to his level. “KAI! KAI MY BOWL IS CRACKED! I’M LOSING WATER!”
“Jay, you’re fine,” Kai scoffs. “It’s just a tiny drip. You’re fine.”
Jay shakes him in a panic, leaning all his weight forward onto Kai. “I’M DYING! GET NYA! I NEED LIFE SUPPORT! ANOTHER BOWL! MORE SALTWATER! I’M GONNA DIE!”
Shaking his head, Kai sets him back upright. “Get a grip, man, you’re not dying.”
Jay puts a hand up to his bowl and swoons, collapsing to the dirt. “I CAN FEEL MY LIFEFORCE FADING! GET A CHAOS EMERALD! GET AN AMBULANCE! GET—”
Kai scoops the bowl off his shoulders and trudges off with an annoyed huff. It doesn’t take long to reach his living quarters in their base camp, though with Jay’s continuous whining in his ears, it feels like it takes decades. He kicks open the door, a startled Lloyd crashing off the couch with a yelp. Kai pulls him back onto the couch with one hand, holding the still-yammering-squid-in-a-barely-cracked-bowl under his other arm.
Lloyd rubs his eyes with a stifled yawn, stretching out before eying the bowl. “Uh, what happened?”
“Jay’s dying, apparently,” Kai says dryly.
He walks over to the bathtub, turns the water on, and dumps Jay in. He hits the bottom with a wet squelch and looks up at him in surprise, then (to no ones surprise) immediately begins complaining. “KAAAAAAI- I’M A SALTWATER SQUID! NOT FRESHWATER!”
Kai sits back on the counter, tail flicking back and forth. “Just be grateful I didn’t dump you in the toilet bowl instead.”
That shuts Jay up pretty quick.
Thinking about your amazing sonic au now so you're just going to have to accept a bunch of ask spam <3
On a scale of 1-10, how doomed is Jay if his bowl cracks? And can Nya improvise as water/life support if necessary?
not that doomed, he can probably stay on dryness for a while, but yeah nya would probably act as water support JKDWWD
so, like... a 5/10, only half doomed