A/N: Wahhhh... You guys make my day. Thank you for all the support, on my other Ninjago work, I really appreciate it. I'm incredibly happy to see you enjoy my writing. But here's a new Pixane story for you all, in my AU.

Rough AU Description: Zane does get scrapped, but Pixal doesn't. And Chen only got the powers that flowed through Zane's body, not the source of it. Pixal takes the other half and combines it with the half already in her body, which renews the ice powers. But that's not all- Zane's neural drive has a spot right in the center of their new power source. Pixal has better repair tools than Zane, and they break out. Takes place in Season Four, when the ninja are walking around looking for Zane.

Oh yeah, and I am firm in my belief that the android couple we all know and love are tiny. Pixal is like 4'9, Zane is 5'4.

-Chapter One: beneath the sky (there's us, passing by)-

Pixal jolted out of offline mode, the memory of recent events flooding her mind. But first and foremost- Zane was alive. He was there with her. He was different, but he as there.

"Zane?" She whispered, remembering their being captured. She couldn't quite make out where they were in the dark, but there were no chains around her wrists. Either their captors were incredibly foolish, or they simply did not expect her to have the proper tools to escape from the room, which, as her newly activated night-vision determined, was a cell with a locked door. Crossed iron bars on the left wall. She could easily slice through with her repair tools.

"I'm here, Pixal." Zane's voice carried through the bars with a little blue glow coming from his cell. His voice was metallic and sounding quite worried, but that was to be expected. They had been captured, after all. Pixal silently marveled at the fact that his emotions leaked into through his voice, and sounded like he was even trying to surpass them. Most androids could make their voices sound monotone and control every aspect of their voicebox, but Zane didn't. He had such real emotions, so much unlike other androids.

Pixal had already began to work on the bars, her tools fairly silent. She possessed innovative tools and weapons that even the upgraded Zane didn't have, as he had built his body with only the barest of upgrades and tweaks from his original one. However, he still possessed the other half of the power source. She had managed to find it among the frozen wasteland that was New Ninjago City, miraculously unharmed, though it had seemingly exploded when Zane destroyed the Overlord. But it must have been simply the body that exploded, for the glowing half-disk was without a scratch. She had preformed an experiment of her own on the other half- hers- and it revealed that it was made of a nearly indestructible crystal made even more powerful with the massive elemental reactor levels it contained.

Even herself, with just the half of the disk, had the barest of elemental powers. She suspected that with the other half, she would have incredible power. But it must've had something to do with the compatibility of the amazing device with Zane's design, for they possessed nearly the exact same amount of the divided disk, but he had so much more power than her.

"I'm going to break through these bars," Pixal replied, tools almost halfway through. She decided to use an expression neither of them understood very well, but Kai had once said it in both of their presences, so they were a little familiar with it. "hang tight."

"...I will." Pixal grew worried at the solemn tone, and the pause that preceded it. But she continued her task, small body crouched in the window, a shower of sparks blocking her view of what lay beyond.

The bars fell away, and she gasped at the sight when the shower of sparks stopped.

Zane was disassembled, and she felt the elemental power source inside her pause for a beat as she fought the overwhelming urge to scream for help, scream for anyone anywhere to help her Nindroid, help her love.

Wires strewn everywhere sparked at occasions, and shiny new plating was dented and cast around carelessly. The work of a disinterested grunt. A single blue eye was glowing near her foot with intense brightness that affected her own eyes not.

"...no...!" She whispered, but her voice cracked, a new experience. But she didn't bother to take further notice of the action, though alien. For the moment, it didn't matter. Nothing else mattered but the pulsing screen in the rightmost side of the room, with Zane's neural hard drive plugged in. Ancient technology, in comparison to the device designed by Doctor Julien that it held.

"Pixal," Zane's voice breathed from the screen, his image flickering upon it. She felt intense anger, but not at Zane. At whomever captured them. At whomever did this.

It was new, the powerful anger. She had felt incredible sadness before when Zane had sacrificed himself, and overwhelming relief when he returned like he had promised to. But never anger. Not to this caliber.

Zane made her feel new things, but that wasn't the reason she loved him. She loved him for Zane. She loved him for his innocent questions, his loving icy-blue eyes wide with curiosity and care. Pixal loved everything about him.

And she would always love him.

It didn't matter if he wasn't in his own body, they would always be together. Zane had promised he would return. Now Pixal would make a promise of her own, one she intended to keep until they both fell- in their shared body.

"Zane, I love you." Her hand reached toward the neural drive without hesitation, and plucked it from the computer seamlessly. The simulation of him on the screen was calm as it flickered out, trusting of her every action. With her other hand, she picked up the glowing disk balanced precariously atop the computer, and placed it into her chest, now open, to fit with the other half.

Pixal paused for a second after the quick actions to hope, and then placed Zane"s neural drive into the port in her chest alongside the glowing power source.

"Pixal," he breathed, a side program appearing in the side of her vision. "you're amazing." She smiled, relieved, and the intense anger washed away as she saw Zane appear.

"And we are compatible." The android closed her chest, and breathed a sigh of relief, glad that she was not forced to abandon Zane. They would be together, no matter in which body- or even if they had separate bodies. From the moment they had first completed Spinjitsu together, they knew that they were two separate beings, but two beings that needed each other. They shared the same power source, and now the same body.

It made no difference whether they shared a body, for they had belonged together from the moment Zane had given her his power source.

"Yes, we are."

Pixal had slipped through the window again not a minute before pain enveloped her body. It was odd, a new sensation she did not quite appreciate. But Zane could feel it too, a little bit, and that's what made it bearable. They talked amidst the pain, quiet and civilized. It appeared that she was talking to herself, but Zane was on the other end of the conversation.

"Pixal, your elemental reactor levels are rising!" When Zane said this, she was hardly surprised. The other half of the power source had been reunited with her half, and now the energy was adapting to her body, which caused the pain.

"Our elemental reactor levels are rising," she said with a little smile. A self diagnosis affirmed his words, though she had already believed them the moment they'd come from his mouth.

"...if you'd like to say so." Zane said shyly, a little blue blush coming to his cheeks on the side program.

"We share the same body now, there's no reason not to." She rather enjoyed this, having Zane right there to talk to. It was nice. They sat there against the wall in silence, simply enjoying the company of each other.

The pain was slowly decreasing, until it had disappeared completely.

"Pixal, if you wouldn't mind, may you let me take over? I want to see if we've gained the elemental powers of my previous body." She obliged, reducing her own concours to a side program which took Zane's place. He moved his limbs, which had a lot less mass than he was used to, but it was fine. He adapted quickly, and managed to call some power that glowed blue to his hand. "We have it."

"Amazing," Pixal marveled at the strange feeling of ice elemental power in her hand. They definitely had power, as Zane managed to create a miniature blizzard in his hands.

Zane crept over to the lock, and peered inside it with green eyes. "I've got it. I'll make a key with our power." Pixal fought a smile at the usage of our, before remembering that it was no longer unnatural to exhibit emotions. Often, she saw the emotionless husks that used the be the minions of the Overlord- Cryptor's army- and wondered if it was strange that she had such emotion. So she hid it when in front of big crowds, worried that it would unnerve them.

But Zane didn't care. All he said was- "I like your smile," which made her metal face flush emerald green.

"Thank you. Yours as well." His green eyes widened a little, before realizing that he had been smiling. His (and her own as well- for they shared a body now) face flushed green, which Pixal thought was a strange design choice for her creator to make for their blushing. But it had the same effect, showing both innocent embarrassment and pleasure at the compliment. Neither of them were used to compliments, and became quite flustered when receiving one.

The ice key was done, and Zane used it to unlock the door, which loudly creaked open. Many guards heads whipped in their direction from beyond the door- curiously, none were stationed right outside of it, their captor was a dimwitted fellow after all- but none were able to react as a metal leg slammed into the face of one and ice blasted the rest in quick succession, leaving them frozen but melting.

"Let's go." Zane said, already stealthily creeping along the wall, eyes darting every which way in search of an exit or more guards. Neither of which he found.

"I wouldn't leave even if I had a choice."

They had been walking along the side of the wall for hours, freezing a few guards in the process. But very few. It seemed that most of them were probably off doing something else, or their captor was even stupider than they already thought, hiring only a few guards to protect captured, trained ninja. As Pixal and Zane had agreed on a few minutes ago, they wouldn't put it past them.

A new voice rang from a path behind them, where they'd just frozen a line of guards. "Ice? It has to be Zane! He's alive!"

Zane's eyes grew wider, if possible, and he began running back, caring not for any sort of stealth at this point. Metal steps echoed through the tunnels, and probably alerted nearby guards, but Zane didn't care. It was the voice of one of his brothers, the voice of Jay. He rounded the corner and saw the four people in the world he loved just as much as he did Pixal- Lloyd, Kai, Cole, and Jay.

"You guys!" Zane and Pixal screamed in tandem, though only one was actually heard by the other ninja. "You guys!"

Four loud gasps, and two feet that rushed forward to meet them. Jay- the first one to get over the shock. He stopped right in front of Zane's outstretched arms, but after an awkward pause he stepped forward and accepted the hug.

Zane was confused, before he realized that they were in Pixal's body, not his own. But it wasn't the time for explaining now, he was simply to relieved to see them.

"I missed you," he whimpered into the hug- Jay was much taller than him now, he realized. The ability to have his emotions leak through his voice was not lost despite the new body, as his voice was obviously choked and full of emotion. "I missed you."

"I missed you too, Pixal? Where's Zane?" Jay was confused, but never turned down a hug. Especially from a friend.

"Right here." He replied, tightening the hug. He was incredibly short now, somewhere around 4'9. Even Jay was almost a foot taller than him. He was practically a child's height! But it was fine, just unfamiliar. It was unusual having to crane his neck upward to look at his brothers, but it was ok.

Jay got the message immediately, while the other ninja still were dumbfounded. "Wow..." He whispered, electrical blue eyes wide. "Wow."

Pixal laughed at his response, though she couldn't quite see his surprised face. Zane had buried his face deep in the blue fabric of his friend's gi, sniffling. That reaction also took a part in her laughter.

"Oh, Zane, don't cry!" Cole had apparently broken out of his trace to realize that Pixal and Zane were now in the same body, if nothing else. Zane broke the embrace to dive into the hug of his other friend, who now towered over him by at least a foot. Pixal was about to calculate the exact height difference, but decided that it might be best to forget about it for a second. Zane was already overwhelmed as it was. He was simply so relieved to see his brothers safe. He had no indication that they were even alive before that! If he was captured, they might've been in danger as well.

"ZANE?!" Lloyd and Kai screeched in unison, further alerting any more guards in the nearest vicinity that weren't already aware that the ninja were doing ninja stuff. "That's Zane?" They chorused in unison. It truly was made obvious their shock when neither of them jinxed each other.

"Yes." Pixal took the liberty of replying to the question, as Zane was rather occupied with hugging the earth and lightning elements out of his two brothers, who were patting him on the back with the hand that wasn't hugging the short android. "Me and Zane now share a body. Right now all I am controlling is the voicebox. While Zane is hugging the life out of your brothers." The two looked startled, but joined the hug regardless.

There were some quick footsteps, from around the corner, but Pixal took care of them by raising an arm out of the hug that preoccupied Zane to freeze the two guards. The rest of the ninja hardly realized, as they were too busy mocking Zane's height. Zane didn't care all that much, but put on a petty front to entertain his brothers.

"I'm not that short!" He whined, then giggled. It was odd to the ninja to hear Pixal's voice, knowing it was Zane talking, but they didn't care. Cole pretended to be a looming giant over Jay and Zane while Kai snickered. Lloyd, however, was checking around the corners for more guards. When he saw some heading their direction, he pushed them all into a small room in the side- likely an armory for the guards. Strange, sharp swords lined the walls neatly, but they looked unused. Shields covered in thick leather were propped up in a row against red armor.

They all immediately realized the purpose behind the action and hid, though close to the entrance, so they could ambush the row of guards.

"Go!" Lloyd whispered, and they popped out from their hiding places as the last man went past the door. Cole popped him in the side of the head, and before he hit the floor the rest of them were incapacitated- Kai and Lloyd having beat up their own chosen targets, Jay and Zane using their powers to respectively shock and freeze two more guards.

It all happened in a second.

Pixal remarked, "Whomever hired these men is stupid." A blunt statement that revived a smirk from Zane.

"Agreed, Pixal." Cole's eyes widened a little more as he realized who Zane was talking to.

"Pixal? You've got a girl stuck in your head?" Zane pondered it for a second before shrugging.

"We share the same head, now. Though not the same mind." Cole seemed satisfied with the answer, if not a bit confused. But the ninja had learned to never ask Zane what he meant exactly, for it usually led to math, detailed explanation of many words, and occasionally getting burned by the ninja of ice. For a Nindroid, he was surprisingly sassy.

"What's that sound?" Lloyd asked. It was of beating drums and chanting, far away.

"Chanting and drums." Pixal confirmed for Zane to relay to the team. He did, while already removing an animal skull off of one of the guards.

"Pixal says chanting and drums. Let's sneak in!"

Zane sounded much too excited. But nobody blamed him. It had been months of waiting, bored, as his body was assembled. Then some weeks spent in a basement guarded by weird guys in animal skulls. But now he was back in action.

"Sure, Pixal-Zane. Oh! Let's call you Pixane!" Jay remarked, but Zane shrugged.

"We'll figure out names later, okay?" Kai said, following Zane's lead and stripping the armor off one guard.

"Fine. But I have some great ideas!" The next few minutes were spent in near-silence as they took the armor and animal skulls off of the unconscious men.

Before Lloyd broke it. "I actually have some too."