Chapter 1
It was always a pretty tough job to run errands for the ninja in the city they had saved countless times. They were always being swarmed by hordes of fans and could never get done what they needed to do; no matter how hard they tried to hide the people recognized their civilian clothes, but most of their troubles came from this: the extremely shiny, electric blue eyed, ninja of ice. Zane was incredibly awesome at just about everything including stealth missions, but sneaking threw a city was unnecessarily difficult.
Today was especially bad because it was today that they were going to the Supermarket to restack the Bounty. Zane didn't come on normal errands because he was so noticeable, but on days like this, everyone had to go. Because there was so much to do in town in one day, they were all required to go.
This time when they went, though, Cole had an idea that would hopefully work. They did as much sneaking through the city as they could, but when they had arrived at the Supermarket, and they had to actually walk out in public, they walked in a casual circle around Zane, and wore different civilian clothes. They knew if they were spotted, they would never get out, or at least it would take a long time; and today was even worse because the store was packed.
Jay's P.O.V.
"Phew!" I gasped, "last trip to Supermarket for this month."
"Ya," said Kia, "I can't believe it took all day."
"I can," said Cole, "that place was packed!"
"I just can't believe we weren't recognized." said Lloyd.
"I can believe that to." announced Cole, "It was my idea to do what we did anyway."
"Alright Mr. Arrogant," I said, "just carry the stuff." (We were carrying it because we definitely weren't going to drive our elemental vehicles threw the city and our other vehicles were to awesome and they both drew too much attention.)
We were walking to the Bounty, which was behind some trees in a meadow on the outskirts of Ninjago. We were just getting to meadow when Zane stopped in his tracks.
"What is it, Zane?" asked Kia, stopping to. By now, we all knew that if Zane stopped like that, he sensed something. Close.
"Someone is following us." said Zane. Just then, a shot fired and thanks to his robot reflexis, Zane threw his arm up and shielded Cole from the bullet. It bounced of his titanium exoskeleton with a loud "Ping" but left a small dent. We all spun into ninja attire and drew our swords. Ready for what was to come, more bullets came down. We blocked the bullets while trying to figure out where they were coming from.
We were doing pretty well, until Lloyd got shot in the leg, just barely missing the bullet. He dropped to the ground screaming and holding his now bloody leg.
"Lloyd!" I called. I tried to go to him but had to stay were I was because I was narrowly missed by a bullet. But good thing titanium is bulletproof, Zane was there guarding him from bullets that still came at him. Me, Cole, and Kia slowly made our way over to help guard Lloyd because we knew that Zane couldn't keep this up forever. When we finally made it over to where Lloyd and Zane were, Zane was on his hands and knees and Lloyd was curled up underneath him. There were dents all over Zane and electricity zapping from his shoulder were a bullet had hit the joint.
. We gathered around them and blocked the bullets the same way we did before.
"We gotta get outa here!" cried Cole, "Is Lloyd ok?"
"We need to get him back to the Bounty," said Zane with a slight shake in his voice, "I'm contacting Nya right now."
Chapter 2
Zane's P.O.V.
My whole body hurt from the shots I took. Electricity leaked from the spot the bullet had hit my shoulder joint.
"We gotta get outa here! Is Lloyd ok?" I heard Cole ask.
"We need to get him back to the Bounty." I tried to keep my voice steady threw the pain but it shook just a little bit. "I'm contacting Nya right now."
I was just in the middle of sending the message, when out of nowhere, one of the bullets got past the guys and hit the most vulnerable spot on my body: my extremely breakable, electric-blue, glass eye. The shot ricocheted around in my head and I slammed my hands over my face as I fell backwards.
When the bullet quit, I realized that I was disconnected from my body, I couldn't move and I couldn't see, but I could hear, but after what happened next, I kind of wish I couldn't.
"ZANE!" Jay literally screamed. (And that is why)
"No No No No No!" cried Kia, "How did I miss that?"
"I hope Nya got the message we sent 'cause we can't keep this up much longer!" worried Cole.
Nya's P.O.V.
It had been a pretty busy day with restacking the Bounty and everything. The guys had made three trips already and were on their last one. Man, was happy for that, me, Misako, and Sensei Wu were putting away everything the ninja brought back so we were equally busy. We should really get a normal car, poor guys had to carry everything.
"Almost dun," said Misako.
" Ya, and the guys aren't even back yet," I said.
"Ahhh," sighed Sensei, " that is a relief, mabey I have time for some tea."
"Sensei!" I laughed, " That's an addiction and-," I was cut of by the master computers siran followed by a shaky but strong metallic voice.
"Nya," said the voice I recognized as Zane. " We need your help out in the field, we were ambushed, Lloyd is hurt-," We heard a shatter and his voice stopped leaving only static.
"Zane!" I cried, " I'm going after them, you guys get the Bounty ready."
"Nya!" said Misako, "Please be careful."
" I will."
Coles P.O. V.
"Guys, we need to get out of here before someone else gets shot," I said. It had been only a minute since Zane had been shot, I really hoped that the message got to Nya and that she was coming. But not only that, I was worried about Zane and Lloyd. But mostly Zane (Lloyd was leaning over Zane trying to help him) I hoped that since he wasn't human, he would all right.
"Guyyyyyys," Lloyd said in a worried voice.
It was just then when I heard the trees russell and Samurai X (AKA) Nya come running out into the open in her mech. The gunmen were momentarily distracted so I took that time to shout at Jay and Kia, " Grab Zane and get to the trees!"
I picked up Lloyd and raced to the trees, soon followed by Jay and Kia, then Nya.
Jay's P.O.V.
I ran after Cole with Zane draped over my back. He was lighter than I thought he'd be, I mean he was still heavy but light for his size. I was kind of surprised but then I remembered that titanium was not only bullet-proof, blast-proof, and fire-proof, but was also 10x stronger than steel and lightweight. No wonder Zane decided to rebuild himself with it.
As soon we all entered the Bounty, it took of and we all breathed a sigh of relief; up until we remembered our brothers injuries.
"We'll take care of Lloyd," said Kia as he walked out of the room with Cole and Sensei Wu. Kia and Cole were on either side of Lloyd, helping him to the infirmary.
"Me and Jay will see how bad the damage is on Zane," replied Nya. At that, we carried Zane to the workshop.
When we got to the shop, Nya cleared of the work table and I set him down on it.
"I hope he's ok," worried Nya.
"Me to," I said. I picked up a cord that ran from my hand to a large computer and plugged it into the side of Zane's head. Nya typed some keys on the computer and a downloaded picture of Zane's blueprints showed up on the screen. She pressed a few more buttons and the blueprints showed the damage done. The blueprints turned red and showed circles and diagrams were there was damage. There were lots of small dents all over his exoskeleton and a solid alert sign on his left shoulder (that meant it wasn't serious). All these injuries were small and extremely fixable, but the thing that bothered me a lot was the flashing alert sign on his head were the bullet had done the most damage.
"Uh-oh," said Nya, "I hope we can fix that."
"Ya, that looks pretty bad," I said looking at the blueprints. "Let's get an inside view." I picked up a screwdriver
"Wait!" cried Nya.
"What, what is it!" I said confused.
"What if he's awake and can feel everything!?" worried Nya.
"That's a good point, but what if he's losing power, then we have to get him fixed as soon as possible?"
"What if we power him of, that way, he wouldn't lose power." said Nya.
"I mean he would lose core power, like in his heart," I said. "Also, he really doesn't like being powered off because it's like a coma in people and makes him really weak for a while."
"Ya but he wouldn't loss as much, and if we do more damage, than it wouldn't affect anything and we could fix it. I know Zane doesn't like it but it's for his and our safety; he holds a lot of volts in his heart and if that power surged, it would hurt us." responded Nya.
I thought about this for a minute then said, "I guess you're right."
"Aren't I always though," said Nya with a grin.
I reached over and opened his chest panel. I was ironically shocked at what I seen. This technology was almost 10x more complexed and awesome than Zanes old self. It took me a while to find the power switch in all the other settings; it kind of scared me to think what would happen if evil hands got this kind of tec.
With Zane now of, I went to work on getting his face-plate of.
Chapter 3
Kia's P.O.V.
Now that the Bounty was up and moving with Cole now driving, Misako and Sensei Wu were taking care of Lloyd. I wasn't much help so I was sitting in the living room feeling guilty for letting Zane get shot. Jay and Nya were trying to fix him.
Maybe I should go see if I can help, I thought. With that, I got up and went to the workshop. The workshop was on the lowest level of the Bounty. I walked down some stairs and went threw a few rooms before I came to a large wooden door labeled, "WORKSHOP." I was about to go in when I heard drilling noises and Nya and Jay talking.
"I...can't...get it," I heard Jay grunt.
"Dang it," said Nya, "that's tite." I then heard sputtering drill noises like they were trying undrill a screw that was drilled in to tite.
I opened the door and was shocked at what I saw: Zane was on top of a table with his head tilted to the side and Jay and Nya were practically on top of him pressing a drill into he head.
"Come on," said Jay frustrated.
Nya then realized my presence and look over and said, "Oh, hi Kia, do you think you could help us?"
"Uhhh, what are you doing?" I said a little shaken up and walked over.
"We're trying to unscrew Zane's face-plate," explained Nya, "but it feels like the Hulk drilled it in. Maybe a third person would make a difference."
"Ya," said Jay setting the drill down and coming over, "we could really use some help, we really don't want to get Cyrus Borg but we might have to."
I just stood there and looked at them, then walked over to Zane. with his head tilted to the side, I could see the titanium faceplate was healed on by two barely visible screws. Careful not to cut myself on the broken glass of his eye, I turned his head over and seen the same on the other side.
"Huh" I said as I looked at Zanes head, " Do you have the drill power all the way up?"
"Ya," said Jay with his head drooping.
"Did you ask Pixal if she knew what to do? Or is she offline to." I asked again.
"Yes," said Nya, "we've had her hooked up to the computer all day." She motioned toward the computer where I seen a cord hooked from it to Zanes head. "Nothing." Her voice was sad.
"We need Zane online and you guys might not be able to fix him before…" My voice trailed of, then I said, "We need to get Borg."
Nya hung her head, "I know, we didn't want it to be as bad as so we'd have to get him."
"He's going to be alright, Nya." I said pulling her into a hug.
"Sir, the ambush was a success," said the minyon, "The target was hit and is out of commision."
"Very good, Echo 9, bring in the radio and lets do some spying."
Echo 9 brought in the radio and tuned it onto the stolen hi tech military bullet that was very difficulty placed on the android we were interested in.
"I do love stollen tec. Seeing as we don't have great tec. at all."
"Indeed sir. If we can get the technology and its inventor, we could rule this city with an iron fist." said Echo 9.
"You mean a titanium fist; commence with faze two, get as much metal and as many mechanics as you can."
"What about the ninja, sir?"
"Wait until they have the android fixed and Borg is there, then bring the three items to me. We will have an army. You are dismissed."
"Oh dear," said mr. Borg, " this is quit a problem."
"Duh," mumbled Jay. Nya elbowed him in the gut.
"Ya, and we don't no how to fix it," said Kia, "can you help?"
"I can try," answered Borg, "but Zane will have to do most of the work."
Borg wealed himself over to the computer. He looked at Zane then started typing a sequence of keys on the computer. "You can't unscrew Zane's faceplate because it is code-locked and air-locked. If I can find the right code, it should unlock. Got it! The code is 47219."
We all looked over at Zane when we heard a 'Shhhh click' noice. Mr. Borg wealed his wheelchair over to him and grabbed the face plate; with quick flick of his wrist, he clicked the faceplate of, revealing all the inner mechanisms.
"Wow," breathed Jay.
"I had no idea Zane was that high tech!" exclaimed Nya. "Well, I did, I just didn't quite believe it."
"Yes," said Mr. Borg, "We will do as much a we can hear, then we will put him on a reconstruct and reboot program, but he will have to do the rest."
"So, we just wait now?" Asked Kia.
"Precisely," said Borg.
All right, this is my first formal fanfiction so that's why it's a little rusty. I was having trouble figuring out how to use this site so I was just writing in the word pad, so it's a little longer than I hoped for but I'm working on it. So please review and tell me what you think! Any tips? Ideas? You tell me. And tell me if the code was familiar to any of you. I'll try to put the next chapter out as soon as possible!