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Zareth belongs to Grumpy-Zane

Inky and Danny belong to me.

Ninjago belongs to Lego

Between Sea and Sky

Fractured Code

Chapter 12

Under

It was a little comfort looking up through the grate at the moon. Hopefully her family could see it too. It barely broke through the clouds. But it was there. Shining brightly. She jumped when the grate opened and someone was thrown in too. This caught Inky off guard she wasn't to sure who this person was, but their eyes bore a hole into her. He looked around at her. He looked a lot like Zane did. Only his skin was just as dark as her Uncle Cryptor or Min. But the hair was blacker than night. When he got up his joins grind. It sounded incredibly painful. She rushed forward to help him. When she touched his hand and elbow he pushed her back. She gasped seeing the Sons of Garmadon symbol rubbing off on his jacket and the number 103 at the top. She remembered them from a few years back. The whole streets were full of people. Everyone was so afraid of...something. She couldn't remember. She was far too young to know everything. She backed away from him.

"Are you alright?" She asked and jumped hearing the wave hitting the side of the hollowed out area. It made weird gulping noises from the holes. Water flooded the floors again. It was up to Inky's ankles. Her feet were soaked. She gasped having been picked up by this odd nindroid. Placing her on his shoulders he made a whine noise and pointed to the ceiling. Inky looked up trying her best to reach the grate. She strained and grunted. She gasped when she was lifted higher. Having been lifted from his shoulders and pushed higher with his arms. He was strong, but they were still not high enough. Her fingers scrapped the metal.

'I can get us out...I really can.' Gaya said as if she were amused at what she was doing. Inky growled and then gasped hearing the nindroids arm pop and fail. There was an electrical whine and Inky fell to the stone wet floor. She gasped holding her hip. She felt the old wound there hurting her really really badly. She looked up at the nindroid.

"Well that smarted." She said rubbing her side. Momentarily feeling dizzy she sat up and leaned against the wall. She took a deep breath and gasped when her stomach growled loudly. She was hungry. She hadn't eaten for a day and a half. Actually that would probably be two days. She was so tired too. "At least I'm not clay anymore." She whispered closing her eyes. She felt the nindroid sit down next to her. She looked up at him. It wasn't anything really right. She didn't know him and he didn't know her. So what was up with him?She closed her eyes and started to nod off when she opened her eyes again about an hour later she wasn't leaning against the man anymore. Actually he was looking up at the grate. His arm was pulled up and he was fixing it using his own hands. It popped and sparked and he yelped in pain again. She stood up and walked over to him. Fishing a tool from her pocket she had gotten from Cryptors bag that she was going to use to fix mindroid. He snatched it from her and pushed her away. Inky growled.

"Such a jerk… So hey...what's your name anyways?" she asked. He looked up showing her his gutted vocal cords. He must have been in a big fight and had them pulled out or something. She held up her hand. Inky floated in the air. Spelling the alphabet. He looked amazed for a moment there and narrowed his eyes and just pointed to the E.

"That's it?" She asked he shrugged and nodded his head. He touched the ink spelling out something on the wall. "Just a line of experiments and you were the fifth one? Makes sense. So did Julien, or Gaya make you? Or Borg?" She asked. He shook his head and took more ink.

"A man by the name of Dr. Gilbert? He was killed by a competitor." She read and sighed.

"My mom was made by Dr. Julien. My Aunt was made by Borg." She smiled rocking back and forth on her heels. She yawned and jumped when she heard something pop again. She looked up and narrowed her eyes seeing the fire shadow on the side of the grate. "Kade you chicken!" Inky yelled and gasped when a bone fell down into the water. It was a chicken bone. "Oh haha...your very funny...but gross." She growled and sat down feeling the water rush in again. "We're going to drown here E…" Inky whispered hugging her knees. "Hopefully Zareth gets here in time."

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"Your an idiot." Zareth was a little tired of hearing her voice. He had picked up a large stick and was using it as a cane. He had to get to the cottage. He needed to get to his Inky. He was so worried about her. She was there with Mindroid. If Kade and Hillary had as many 'friends' as he figured then he was going to go after them. They were going to kill Inky and Mindroid and he was 50 miles from her. He needed to get a car or something. Right now however he just limped up the gravel sidewalk.

"You said you weren't going to fly me. So I'm just going to have to walk."

"I wasn't built to carry people. Your even lucky I'm here! If my sister hadn't of called for aid I would have let you drown." Her voice boomed in his chest. She commanded superiority.

"Wait...Danny asked you for help?"

"If that is what you are calling her then yes." River said holding up her hand as a car drove by splashing water everywhere. The water didn't hit them. It just disappeared into a cloud of vapor.

"What do you mean 'what I call her' she's Danny."

"She is called something else to us."

"Something else? She was reprogrammed by Spencer what was she called be…"

"Spencer didn't call her Danny. It was 'Gina. I'm amazed you haven't seen her yet."

"Dr. Spencer's first name was Virginia Danielle Spencer."

"Wait so...they're two different people then?" River turned and nodded to Zareth.

"One was Angela's twin sister while the other is a nindroid created to do her work once she's dead."

"Dead?"

"Yeah...dead. Spencer would be 83 now."

"If Danny isn't her name...then what is it?" River turned and looked at Zareth and shook her head.

"Maybe you should ask her...when you see her. But for now...you are exhausted. You should sleep." She walked into the woods and pulled a blanket from her pack and rolled it out. She motioned for Zareth to lay down.

"Next to you? I'm sorry I don't...I...I'm not that kind of man. I'm sorry if y…" River burst out laughing and waved her hands.

"No...its cold...its safer to sleep together." She said and shook her head rolling onto her side facing away from him. Zareth curled up behind her.

He lay there for a second thinking of his sister. His head was beginning to lul a little.

'Lyra...her name was Lyra.' Zane whispered. Zareth slowly began to smile.

"Its a beautiful name." He whispered.

'You should tell her when we see her next.'

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Mindroids head hurt sooooo much. He ran his fingers to one side feeling something sharp in his elbow. He looked down to see tube. He slowly followed it with his fingers and then felt another elbow. He slowly turned his head and saw Cryptor laying there. He breathed evenly.

'General what else did you do?' seeing something else on his chest having been broken open and taken out. He looked down to see the slightly larger part. They were built differently. Cryptor however was built to run at only 10% capacity which allowed for him to use his own parts to fix someone else. Mindroid wasn't that lucky. Although he wished he was. He looked around at his general again. His optics were online. He watched him slowly turn over and address his commander.

[They took her. She was about to try to fix me…] He was speaking in droid. It was all he really could speak. Except short one word speech.

"Min...did she stab you?" Mindroid ran his fingers along his wounded belly. He slowly looked up at Cryptor. He couldn't lie to him. He was his general after all.

[I like to think of this as a kiss.] It was his way of saying it wasn't her fault, that she was forced to do it. Cryptor nodded and sat up pulling the line from his arm and then wound it around Mindroids arm. Just in case he needed to access his pump line quickly.

"We need to go get more oil for you. You were running on empty. I had no choice but to fuse a line with you." He helped Mindroid up. "Come on Stumpy. Toothpick shouldn't be to far behind." He picked up the suitcase.

[Sire...is that Danny? Why did he entrust her to you?]

"He didn't, he fell in a river." He barked with laughter as he walked.