Chapter 1: Just Dance!
Disclaimer: I don't own Ninjago.
A/n: This story takes place after Season 8, episode 7. The ninja have come back to Ninjago City, and are hiding from the SoGs. This is an AU where Cryptor did not die when the Overlord was defeated. Instead, he was taken to Kryptarium Prison.
This is my very first fanfiction. I started it in late May, and I promised myself I would prewrite the ENTIRE thing. Surprisingly, I kept that promise. It's almost July now, so I guess it didn't take me THAT long. Anyways, here it is.
PIXAL and the ninja were walking through Ninjago City. It was a nice day, the sun was shining, birds were chirping, and there was a cool breeze. It was one of those days that wasn't too hot, but wasn't too cold, either.
Jay, Kai, and Nya were at the front of the group, Cole, Baby Wu, and Lloyd were behind them, and PIXAL and Zane were at the back.
"I still cannot believe you were Samurai X, this whole time!" Zane exclaimed.
PIXAL just smiled, remembering the day she had first saved him as Samurai X.
She'd been able to hack into Zane's mind, having literally been a part of him, at one point. She was determined to save Cyrus Borg, and raced into action. However, when she saw Zane, she had been overwhelmed with anger. It wasn't until that day that she realized deep down, she'd blamed Zane for her body getting dismantled.
She'd just wanted to take Cyrus, and leave. So, throwing a bunch of Vermillion Warriors around proved to be a very helpful outlet for her anger.
She knew what happened on Chen's island wasn't Zane's fault, and that it even proved to be helpful, at times. After all, she could tell him what to do, she didn't have to walk, because he did it for her, she always knew what was going on, and, best of all, she was constantly saving his life, for a change.
Still, PIXAL sometimes wondered what would've happened if she'd never been scrapped, in the first place.
Suddenly, her phone rang, interrupting her thoughts.
She looked at Zane, who nodded for her to answer it.
"Hello?" She asked, "…Mr. Borg? What is it?"
There was a long pause, before PIXAL answered.
"Of course. Would you like Zane to come, too?" She asked, "…Yes, we will be right there."
PIXAL hung up the phone.
"What does Mr. Borg want?" Zane inquired.
"He said that there is something he needs us to see." PIXAL explained, "He would like us to meet him in Borg Industries, now."
Zane nodded, grabbed her hand, and summoned his power dragon.
"We're going to see Mr. Borg." He told the other ninja. They nodded, and he and PIXAL got on the dragon, taking off. They flew for a few minutes, before reaching Borg Industries.
As they stepped through the door, PIXAL realized how long it had been since she worked there. Everything was different; the front desk had been moved, the elevators were bigger, the walls had been repainted, and even the plants had changed.
"PIXAL, Zane, thank you for coming." A voice said behind them. They both turned to see Cyrus wheeling over.
"Of course." PIXAL said, "What is it you wanted us to see?"
"Come." Cyrus motioned for them to follow him.
They did, and he led them behind the front desk. They walked into the hallway containing the employees quarters. PIXAL recognized the room that used to belong to her.
It still had the sign with purple letters that read "PIXAL-Personal Assistant to Mr. Borg."
Cyrus stopped in front of a pink painted door next to it. Singing could be heard inside. PIXAL opened the door, and saw a little girl, maybe a bit older than ten, standing in front of the TV.
The girl was playing Just Dance, and doing a pretty good job. She was dancing to the song called Heart Attack by Demi Lavato.
Each time it got to the Corus, the girl would stomp her feet to the beat, spin around, and do some jazz hands.
She seemed to have lots of energy, bouncing around with the character on screen. At the end, she did a little hair flip, and took her final pose.
When she finished, Cyrus, PIXAL, and Zane clapped. The girl turned, and blushed.
She had medium length, straight blonde hair that was pulled into a high ponytail. She was wearing a pink hoodie with gold swirl designs, and a matching pink and gold skirt that came down to her calves. She wore pink boots with little gold clips, and even her eyes were pink. Though they were a dark shade, and actually quite pretty. They seemed to sparkle in the light.
"I didn't know we were having visitors…" The girl said sheepishly.
"I didn't either, until I found out they were back in town." Cyrus said, smiling at PIXAL and Zane.
Suddenly the girl seemed to realize something. She ran over to PIXAL, her eyes wide.
"You're Samurai X!" She gasped.
"Indeed, I am." PIXAL smiled.
"Code, this is PIXAL. PIXAL, this is Code, my foster daughter. Unfortunately, I could only think of technology based names for her, so…" Cyrus chuckled.
Code's eyes lit up.
"Wait, this is PIXAL?!" she gasped, "That means…Samurai X is my foster sister!"
She gave PIXAL a huge hug.
"You're the coolest person ever!" She said. PIXAL smiled, returning the hug.
"When did you adopt her?" Zane asked Cyrus.
"After I built those vehicles for you and the other ninja to defeat the Preeminent, I realized how hard it was to do anything without my assistant." Cyrus looked at PIXAL, "So I adopted Code. I would've rebuilt PIXAL, but I knew you needed her in your head, at least, back then you did. And I didn't want to replace her with another droid, so I got a human assistant, instead."
Code chuckled, pulling away from her sister.
"Of course, she's not your replacement, PIXAL." Cyrus shifted his gaze to Code, "You're free to return to your old job at any point. You'd probably get much more work done than this little teenager could."
Code smirked. She knew how difficult she could be. Sometimes she was like that on purpose.
"How old are you, if you don't mind my asking?" Zane inquired.
"Thirteen." Code said simply.
Zane tried to hide his surprise, but didn't do a very good job.
"It's okay." Code said, "I'm short for my age, so I get that a lot."
"And there's one more thing we need to show them, right, Code?" Cyrus said.
"Yeah." Code answered.
She took a deep breathe, and put her hands together. When she separated them, she was holding a glowing gold ball.
"Amazing." Zane gasped.
"You have an elemental power?" PIXAL asked.
Code just nodded, but, for that split second, she broke concentration. The ball exploded, knocking everyone backwards.
"Whoops." Code said sheepishly.
A/n: I don't own the game or the song featured in this chapter!
So, what do you think? If it was horribly rushed, please tell me (nicely) because I do have a problem with rushing my stories too much. With this story, I will most likely post every MONDAY and THURSDAY. Don't ask me why, that's just the schedule I came up with.
I've prewritten the whole thing, so I SHOULD stay on schedule. But, if I don't, it's probably because my computer broke, I had issues uploading, I died, or I forgot. In which case you can all yell at me in the reviews.
If no one reads this, I'm still going to post it.