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hot n saucy: zane just told me a very interesting story about u messing around w/ a tv remote. sound familiar, jay?
Choccy milk: Youre gonna need to give us a little more context, firecracker
Electric Boogaloo: shit shit i can explain
hot n saucy: apparently sparky here decided to make zane do all his chores by controlling him w/ a tv remote
Choccy milk: YOU DID WHAT
Electric Boogaloo: okay maybe i cant explain

(OR - the rest of the team finds out about the events of “Remote Control Zane” and react about as chaotically as you’d expect, group chat edition)

Notes:

These all seem pretty obvious but in case there’s any confusion -
hot n saucy = Kai
Electric Boogaloo = Jay
fish fear me = Nya
Choccy milk = Cole
Zane = Zane
Pixalated = Pixal
frogbean = Lloyd

(Yes, Zane doesn't have a fun username, but trust me that gets explained!)

Also, this is heavily referencing the Wu's Teas episode "Remote Control Zane." If you haven't seen that, you might be a bit confused.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

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hot n saucy: hey nya i kno u banned me from murdering ur bf but can i have a freebie just this once

Electric Boogaloo: UM???? UNPROVOKED????

fish fear me: Depends. What did he do this time?

hot n saucy: @Electric Boogaloo like hell this isnt provoked u blue gumball bitch

hot n saucy: zane just told me a very interesting story about u messing around w/ a tv remote. sound familiar, jay?

Choccy milk: Youre gonna need to give us a little more context, firecracker

Electric Boogaloo: shit shit i can explain

hot n saucy: sparky here decided to make zane do all his chores by controlling him w/ a tv remote

Choccy milk: YOU DID WHAT

Electric Boogaloo: okay maybe i cant explain

frogbean: jay whar the axtual fuck

Pixalated: axtual

hot n saucy: axtual

frogbean: >:(

fish fear me: How long ago was this? If it was before the nadakhan incident then i'd say he's a changed man who's paid for his shittiness so you shouldn't kill him over past sins. BUT if this happened recently then i say roast his fuckin marshmallow ass. In fact i'll even help you

Choccy milk: Oh yeah the pirate thing you two keep mentioning

Electric Boogaloo: askdlkksldf phew haha good thing this happened like a bajillion years ago thank fsm

hot n saucy: yeahhhh i call bullshit. hey @Zane when did this happen

Zane: Do not believe Jay's lies! This incident occurred while we were all working at Steeper Wisdom. It happened exactly 121 days ago, to be precise. 

Pixalated: I can confirm this.

frogbean: seriously? cmon jay youre better than this

Choccy milk: He really isnt though

fish fear me: shit jay what were you even thinking. WERE you thinking?

Pixalated: Knowing him, probably not.

Electric Boogaloo: im willing to admit that it wasnt my proudest moment. but i apologized! we made amends!

Zane: We did. I froze him in an ice block as revenge. That was fun!

Choccy milk: Haha nice

Electric Boogaloo: what, no sympathy for the guy who spent two hours thawing out while zane used him as a frozen footrest???

fish fear me: Okay new rule! Kai cant kill my boyfriend bc im gonna kill him first

hot n saucy: aw i wanted to kill him tho :/ 

hot n saucy: lets compromise. grummiller remix?

fish fear me: works for me

frogbean: grummiller???

Zane: I believe Nya and Kai are referring to the comically brutal way they used to assault their babysitter, Mrs. Grummiller.

frogbean: ahdkl oh yeah idk how i keep forgettinc they used to be demon children

Pixalated: forgettinc

frogbean: STOP

hot n saucy: @Choccy milk where r u and jay rn i just wanna talk 🔪

Electric Boogaloo: if you must know we are on our way up to the WAILING ALPS investigating a lead on wu's whereabouts. so HA take that fire boy im too far for you to reach. im on the other side of the country loser

hot n saucy: damn hes right. me and zane are on a train headed the opposite direction. nya its all up to u now

fish fear me: Dammit i cant get to him either. I'm out in the rice fields (busting a slavery op bc i'm a badass btw, feel free to applaud)

frogbean: how are you ecen getting reception al lthe way oit there

Pixalated: ecen

Pixalated: To answer your question, my father and I modified everyone's commlinks and cellular devices to operate on a much stronger reception service. I won't bore you all with the specifics, but it's the reason all of us are able to communicate so easily despite being in such disparate regions. 

Zane: Thank you for that by the way, Pixal.

Pixalated: Any time!

hot n saucy: we r getting off topic. is anyone else close enough to murder jay? pix, lloyd? anyone?

Pixalated: Alas, Lloyd and I are still holding down the fort in Ninjago City.

Electric Boogaloo: i didnt think id ever say this, but i am SO glad we split up

Choccy milk: Kai buddy i gotchu fam. Im sharing a hotel with our resident asshole at the moment. I stepped out for a sec to pick up dinner but i think hes still in our room

Electric Boogaloo: SHIT

Electric Boogaloo: GOTTA BLAST

hot n saucy: hell yeah get his ass

fish fear me: hell yeah get his ass

fish fear me: lol hive

frogbean: jay please tell me you had a good reason for rmotr controlling zane like that. bc i love you but thats a stupidly shitty thing to do

frogbean: wait pix dont you dare

Pixalated: rmotr

frogbean: im disowning you

Zane: @frogbean Oh, there was no good reason at all, as far as I'm aware! He was simply too lazy to do his own chores, realized that the new TV remote and I were keyed onto the same frequency, and took advantage of this fact to force me into slave labor.

Electric Boogaloo: IT WASNT SLAVE LAVOR IT WAS JUSY DIDHESS STOPPP

Zane: I begged him to set me free, but he just laughed. His cruelty knows no bounds, it seems 😔

frogbean: okay normally i try not to endorse team-on-team violence

frogbean: but i actually side with kai and nya on this one

frogbean: get his ass

Choccy milk: Alright thats three votes for ass-getting

Pixalated: Get his ass.

Choccy milk: Okay make that four. Zane, what say you?

Electric Boogaloo: cmon zane bestie buddy pal comrade you know i apologized. i did all your chores for a month just to make it up to you. you even forgave me!!

Zane: Hmm...

Electric Boogaloo: you trust me right??? i do your repairs all the time! ive been your trust mechanic, your best friend since day 1! you wouldnt sic cole on your best friend, would you?

Pixalated: Think about this rationally, Zane. This is not an isolated incident. Do you recall when, instead of repairing your damaged voice box, he made you talk like a pirate? 

hot n saucy: oh shit i forgot about that

frogbean: wait when did this happen?

fish fear me: During the morro situation

frogbean: ah

frogbean: @Electric Boogaloo when we get the team back together tou and me need ti have a chat about the way you treat zane apparently

Choccy milk: Oooooh someones BUSTED

Zane: Don't worry too much about it, Lloyd. Truth be told, he and I have made amends, and Jay was not acting maliciously. He can be a bit thoughtless at times, as you all well know, but he means well. 

Electric Boogaloo: THANK you zane 😭😭😭i said i was sorry 😭😭😭 im a changed man 😭😭😭 i had a wholeass character arc and everything 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Choccy milk: Having your eyebrows filled and getting freckles tattooed onto your face is not a character arc, Jay, thats just you woobifying yourself for clout

hot n saucy: wait those freckles are FAKE???

fish fear me: 😔 when i said we should get tattoos together for our anniversary i thought we’d get like. Matching dragons. Or maybe our elemental symbols or something. Little did i know jay wanted to turn into the living embodiment of uwu

Zane: Uwu?

hot n saucy: ill explain later

frogbean: what was your tattoo?

fish fear me: Sam x logo on my shoulder. It may not be my mech anymore but i still wanna honor my roots

Choccy milk: Youll have to show it off when we all see each other again!

fish fear me: I sure will!

Pixalated: As riveting as this tangent is, I believe Zane has yet to decide whether or not Jay's ass should be 'gotten'.

Zane: You're right as always, Pixal.

Zane: Ordinarily, I wouldn't condone this kind of cruelty. But for his repeated offenses against my person, I'm afraid justice must be served.

Zane: Cole, get his ass.

Choccy milk: You got it boss

Electric Boogaloo: NO NO ZANE CMON MAN YOU ALREADY GOT REVENGE YOU DROZE ME IN A BLOCK IF ICEEEE

Zane: Did I? I do not recall such a thing. All those TV remote frequencies must have scrambled my sensors. You all know how forgetful I can be, of course!

frogbean: ahldsafkdfklsjkljlkkkljl ZANE

hot n saucy: RIP

fish fear me: damn thats cold

Zane: I believe cold is the objective.

'Zane' changed their username to 'Cold As Ice'

frogbean: akljfkls nice

fish fear me: ksldajfkldjafkldjalkjdsklfjalsd

Pixalated: Lmao

Cold As Ice: Did I do it right? The nicknaming thing?

hot n saucy: u sure did buddy!

Cold As Ice: Good. Nicknames are always so confusing. Thank you for explaining the concept to me, Kai. Or should I say, thank you, Spiky.

hot n saucy: k i respect the initiative but please never call me that again thats a terrible nickname

Cold As Ice: Very well. I suppose I will have to keep experimenting with nicknames until I find one that suits you, Campfire!

hot n saucy: oh no

hot n saucy: what have i unleashed

frogbean: for the record kai i appreciate you helping him out bc i dont think i could handle one more moment of zane calling his falcon 'my falcon friend'

frogbean: instead of giving the poor bird a fucking name

hot n saucy: yea we won a goldfish at this carnival we were staking out last week and he kept calling it his aquatic friend instead of giving it a name and i knew i had to intervene

Cold As Ice: Don't be so dramatic, Kai. It isn't that bad. But if our aquatic friend’s lack of a name bothers you that much, perhaps I shouldn't name her after all! 

frogbean: nooooo zane think of the fish!!!

Electric Boogaloo: Hey yall this is Cole, i stole Jays phone

Pixalated: I take it the ass-getting was a success?

Electric Boogaloo: Oh yeah definitely. Jay and i had a dramatic rooftop chase sequence but i caught him because im amazing and now im sitting on him

Electric Boogaloo: HE SLAPPED ME WITH A LOAF OF BERAD

Electric Boogaloo: That was Jay trying to steal his phone back by the way. Youre not getting this back loser

hot n saucy: bread??? you slapped him with bread??? smh cole you gotta step up your game

Electric Boogaloo: Jay is weak and fragile, like a baby duck. My only other ammo was our new hiking bag and i didnt think hed survive a blow like that

hot n saucy: fair

fish fear me: I'm so disappointed i didn't get to witness this in person

Electric Boogaloo: im being BULLIED

Electric Boogaloo: oh uh this is jay again btw i got my phone back

frogbean: alright what did we learn today hay?

frogbean: *jay

Pixalated: hay

hot n saucy: hay

Choccy milk: hay

frogbean: fuck all of you actually

frogbean: but back to my point! im sure cole sitting on you taufht you a valuable lesson in respecting others

Electric Boogaloo: yeah yeah i know, im sorry, now cool it with the life lessons reading rainbow

Choccy milk: Bold words for someone in bread-slapping range

Cold As Ice: Your phrasing indicates to me that you are, in fact, not sorry at all. Cole, get his ass again.

Electric Boogaloo: wait, WAIT. time out. real talk here for a sec

Electric Boogaloo: i really am sorry, zane. i know i already said it before but like. i mean it. it was a shitty thing. and its like you said i wasnt thinking things through and the implications of what i was doing didnt hit me until later and then i felt really shitty about it, but that doesnt change the fact i still DID it. and im sorry. im working on thinking things through better

Cold As Ice: I appreciate and accept your apology! And as you know, I've already forgiven you. That's why I feel so comfortable joking about it. We have had this conversation before, if you recall.

Electric Boogaloo: yeah but i just had to make sure. we all good then?

Cold As Ice: I suppose. 

Cold As Ice: But to be honest, I don't think we will be 'all good' until Cole has gotten your ass again.

hot n saucy: LMAOOOO

fish fear me: HKKLSJDKLFS

frogbean: KASLDFKLJKLLKDJSFKLJDSL

Choccy milk: asklzjdf ZANE

Pixalated: 😂

Electric Boogaloo: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Choccy milk: Oh fsm Pix you really need to marry Zane or else i will

Pixalated: I'm working on it.

Choccy milk: Well marry him faster

frogbean: oh shit gtg i just got a message from the commissioner saying they got a lead on that biker gang weve been investigating i gotta got talk to him about that real quick

hot n saucy: sick! have fun kiddo👍

fish fear me: Good luck!

Electric Boogaloo: knock em dead, slugger

Choccy milk: Sounds good, stay safe

Choccy milk: On that note Jay and i should probably head off too. We have a lot of ground to cover if we wanna make it to the temple by nightfall

Choccy milk: And before you ask, yes im forcing Jay to carry all our equipment

Electric Boogaloo: rude

Cold As Ice: I wish all of you the best of luck in your assorted endeavors!

Electric Boogaloo: you too zane! the mechanic is one tough customer and i dont envy you for having to chase him down

hot n saucy: and lets not forget my sis being the baddest bitch in ninjago for taking on a slavery op all by herself! 

Choccy milk: Id wish you good luck nya but lets be real you probably dont even need it

fish fear me: THANK you finally im getting some appreciation around here

frogbean: okay im loving all the support and brotherhood happening rn guys but i really gotta get goint now

Pixalated: :)

frogbean: no. NO

Pixalated: >:3

frogbean: pix dont you fucking dare

Pixalated: goint

frogbean: alright THATS IT

Notes:

Wow, this was my first chatfic as you could probably tell! Thanks for sticking around to the end, yall <3