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Midnight Sun

Fractured Code

Chapter 21

Little More?

The colors that adorned her mothers wings caused the whole lagoon to become shadowed in her colors. They seemed to fluctuate in the moonlight. Inky looked on at her mother, it looked like she was still her at least, except her skin looked normal rather then nindroid. Well that did make sense right? She always wanted normal skin. Danny stood there in regular jeans, a regular blue t shirt without anything on it, and no shoes. Her hair was just as yellow as it was before and those stupid wings that took her away.

Inky had to close her eyes and look away. She balled up her fists trying her hardest not to cry. Here she was, still alive. Why didn't she...she felt warm hands on her cheeks. She looked at her mother who was just as tall as she was. Her thumb running over her cheek to wipe away the tear that had escaped her walls that she had built up for so long.

"Your a jerk allowed." Inky breathed out almost too afraid to say it.

"I know." She whispered back. She didn't continue though. She was ready for whatever Inky said, because she herself believed it to be true.

"Why would you…" She took a labored breath and just threw her arms around her mother and cried. She wasn't totally sure if she cared about the answer anymore. She was there right?

"I had to stay hidden, fight off whatever came. I wanted you to grow up without the worries that plagued you Inky. They keep coming, they know your here. I've been beside you the whole time." Danny pulled her away looking at her. "Guardian Angel, yeah?" She asked. Inky just nodded her head and hugged her again.

"They miss you so much mom. They think something at this...Observatory will get you back." Inky said. This seemed to baffle Danny. Danny thought about it for a second.

"Who?"

"Someone named Angela." Danny held Inky at arms length. Inky looked a little standoffish.

"Thats...impossible. Angela...died...well then again...hum." She tapped her chin and sat down on the rocks. "Well...when I was still very young my father left my 'mother' and went to berchwood with mine, Zanes, and Echos hard drives. She wasn't a very good woman and it was her that killed her sister and created her nindroid clone. So maybe she created another her to...carry on while she was gone." She sighed and ran her hand down her face. "But the observatory a huge black case? I…" She shook her head and looked at Inky. "No idea."

Inky shrugged her shoulders dipping her feet into the water. She turned and looked at Danny. She seemed so much more confident then she was before.

"How?" Inky asked. Danny gave Inky this crooked smile she should have only inherited from Zareth.

"Underground facility under ninjago city?" Danny said with as much of a joking sarcasm as she could. Inky blinked and looked at Danny.

"Mom…" She turned back around. "Your not joking...are you?" Danny let off a sigh.

"No...I'm not." Inkys shoulders slumped and she looked deep in thought again. "Inky I…"

"Do you still...want me?" The last word was spoken as quietly as she could. Almost as if the answer very well could kill her. Which was true, that would cause her to go into full despair. Her own mother not wanting her.

"Nina Darzuski...you and your father are all I have ever wanted. I fought to come back to life fast enough to insure that you and your uncles could get to you in time. I had to blow up a gas station to do it, but they got away. Nearly blew my cover that day." Danny said. She gasped hearing a shout coming from the house.

"What have you done to my Inky!" It was Zareth. Danny turned and squinted her eyes. There was a red glow coming from it.

"Crap…" Danny jumped up. "Stay here." She ran toward the small house Inky had called home for three months now.

Zareth growled at Cryptor his eyes were a causing the whole room to turn red. The first thing he noticed was that Dannys body was in his arms. The second thing he noticed that Inky was gone. Furiously he jumped forward at Cryptor.

"What have you done to my Inky?!" The doll fell to the floor, forgotten. The jaw cracked, but Zareth didn't seem to care.

"I have done nothing to your Inky!" He yelled swatting Zareth away from him. The swat caused Zareth to fall over the fire pit causing a fire to erupt in the flat. The bamboo floorboards caught quickly. Zareth stood up ready to fight when all he saw was glass, and metal begin to fight. Danny was on Cryptors back pulling the plating and wires and cloth from it. The look on her face was of pure murder. Zareth watched as if from a far off dream.

"Danny…?" He breathed out unable to say it properly. He stepped forward trying to get to her, but the flames were licking the ceiling. He felt someones arms around him. He turned to see Inky. He was pulled into the kitchen and out the back door. "What...what happened?" Zareth continued to watch the dream he was having. Things were going in slow motion. He couldn't understand it. His processor couldn't take it. Was he seeing Danny? His Danny? He took a labored breath seeing there house up in flames. He could see Inky trying to talk to him, yelling at him. But he couldn't move, what was going on?

There was a shadow coming from the building dragging something heavy. Danny stopped just short of them dropping Cryptors steaming body to the ground. Most of his back ripped out. Zareth however didn't seem to take notice that Danny beat the hell out of someone he couldn't.

"Hello Zareth." She said with a smile. Her wings folded up and disappeared into her back.

Zareth stepped forward slowly, reaching out, running his fingers along her jawline, along her hair. Almost trying to see if she was real. He leaned forward putting his forehead to hers. Picking her up and hugging her to him.

"Hello yourself...my Dannygirl."