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Cryptor's pov
"Did you find the ninja there?" I asked my nindroids.
"No, General Cryptor. There was no sign of them there," one of the nindroids replied. So, the prisoners were wrong. I get to punish them. That should be fun.
"Did you find anything that would lead you to them?" I asked. I doubt it. They are supposed to be ninja after all.
"No, nothing," he replied. That's what I thought.
"We still have to look for the ninja. We have no clue where they are, but maybe I can get the prisoners to tell me where they could be," I said.
"Do you want any of us to help punish them?" one of them asked.
"No, I don't. Not this time. Let it just be me and I'll see what I can do," I said.
"Yes, General Cryptor," they said.
"You are dismissed," I said. They walk away.
"You better get them to talk," the Overlord said.
"I will…I don't have to watch Min-droid anymore, right?" I asked.
"Do you know if he should still be treated the way he is now?" he asked.
"…I think he does still have to be treated this way. He is very short-tempered and he is a brat at times," I replied. A part of me doesn't want to 'baby' him though. But I think I'm doing the right thing.
"That is the same thing I thought. I do not want to take any chances of what happened with him before to happen again," he said.
"I agree," I said.
Min-droid's pov
I am just walking around. When will General Cryptor be done talking to the Overlord? I hear people talking. It sounds like the Overlord and General Cryptor. He's still talking? Well I can't listen to what they say, it doesn't involve me at all. It's just important general stuff, as always. I know I shouldn't, but I walk closer. I can hear some of the stuff they are saying. Boring. I hear them say…my name? So it does involve me. It's not bad if I listen now, it is about me after all. Why are they talking about me? I get even closer.
"That is the same thing I thought. I do not want to take any chances of what happened with him before to happen again," I heard overheard the Overlord say. What are they talking about? They can't be talking about me. They must be talking about something else. Or I just heard the word nindroid and thought they said Min-droid. They do sound alike.
"I agree," General Cryptor said. He agrees? He hardly ever agrees with the Overlord, why is he now?
"He hates the way he is treated, but he is too much like he was before he was reprogrammed," the Overlord said. Reprogrammed? Which nindroid was reprogrammed? I hate the way I am treated though. So are they talking about me? No, I don't hear them saying Min-droid at all.
"I would have thought that reprogramming him would have solved the problem, but I am beginning to think I was wrong, it didn't seem to do much of anything, it just made him different," General Cryptor said.
"The only thing that it seemed to do was make him forget about what he did, and some other stuff of course that would possibly make him do what he did before," the Overlord said. Forget? I feel bad for that nindroid. What could a nindroid do that was so bad that he had to be reprogrammed? All the other nindroids are the same though. If one did something wrong, wouldn't the rest of them do the same thing? The only one who is different…is me. Are they talking about me or are they talking about a different nindroid? Maybe one of the other nindroids was messed up when they were made and he did something wrong so he had to be reprogrammed and now he's like all the other nindroids. But then why would he hate the way he's treated? As far as I know I'm the only one who is being treated differently. But I don't ever remember doing something wrong and getting reprogrammed. They did say that the nindroids doesn't remember though. If they are talking about me then that makes sense why I thought I heard my name. …But what would I have done that was so wrong? So if they are talking about me that's why I have to be babied.
"Yeah, I just don't want him to do anything like last time. Obviously reprogramming didn't work as well as we hoped. We just have to make sure nothing like that happens again. There must have been a way we could have prevented what happened," General Cryptor said.
"Just keep an eye on him at times since you seem to care so much about him. If he does anything wrong though he is being turned off, permanently this time, like what I wanted to do last time, but you didn't' want me to," the Overlord said. I hope they're not talking about me now. I don't even know what I did but if I do it again I'll be turned off forever, if they are talking about me. Wait…General Cryptor cares about him? It has to some other nindroid, General Cryptor hates me.
"Yes, Overlord," General Cryptor said.
"You are dismissed," the Overlord said. I hear footsteps. Uh-oh, I can't be seen. I'll be in so much trouble for listening. Especially if they were talking about me because I don't think I was supposed to hear it if that was about me. I'm still not sure. I see an air vent. I walk over and get in the air vents. I hear the footsteps get closer. I see General Cryptor walk by. I don't hear his footsteps anymore. I get out of the air vents. I guess I should just go back to my room then. Wait, if I'm the nindroid they were talking about and General Cryptor is going to try to find me and watch me, then shouldn't I be somewhere I would normally be? …Oh no…I'll just go to my room and if I run there I may be there right as he gets there…hopefully. If I run then I think I can if I take the short cut too. I run the way General Cryptor didn't go. I am probably not going to beat him, but I might. I'm running and I think he is walking. Why would he be running? I'm almost to my room. I hear footsteps. They sound like General Cryptor's. For some reason I can just tell if it's him or not from the footsteps. It's weird. He might wonder why I'm running though. I stop running and just walk. Wait so if it is me who he is looking for, he must have been talking about me. So I'm the reprogrammed nindroid? How? Why? What could I have done that was so bad? Well he could just be walking past my room to where some other nindroid is. I see General Cryptor. He looks at me. Please tell me I'm not the one who he is looking for. But something tells me I am. I hope I'm wrong about that.
"Why were you running, Min-droid?" he asked. How does he know that?
"What makes you think I was running?" I asked.
"I heard loud footsteps, which means you were running, and then I heard quieter footsteps, which means that you stopped running and you are the only one around here so I know it wasn't any of the other nindroids running," he replied.
"Well maybe a nindroid was running away?" I said.
"That isn't possible because the footsteps got closer because they got louder. Also I only heard one pair of footsteps, which were yours. So stop lying to me," he said. I can't think of a lie. Now I'm taking too long to answer.
"What is so wrong with me just running?" I asked.
"First of all you lied about it. Second of all, you obviously didn't want me or any other nindroid to know. And my guess is you didn't want me to know," he replied. Wow he is very smart. I see why he is the general.
"I just thought I would get in trouble for running," I said.
"Then why were you running if you were worried you would get in trouble? There are video cameras you know. Either me, the Overlord, or Pythor would have seen you running," he said. Uh-oh, they must have video proof of me watching them when I wasn't supposed to! What do I do about that? I don't know anymore! What do I do?! Well for now, just lie. Lying should work.
"I just wanted to get away from the other nindroids, and I didn't want them to know that I hate being around them," I said. Huh, that's not that bad of a lie. And it is kind of only a half lie.
"That makes sense, you are different from them after all," he said.
"So why are you here?" I asked.
"Can't tell you, general stuff only," he replied.
"What kind of general stuff?" I asked.
"The kind where I don't tell you," he replied.
"It has to do with me, so why can't I know?" I asked.
"You're not supposed to know, that's why!" he replied.
"Why not?" I asked.
"You're just not supposed to, so stop bothering me about it. You never listen!" he yelled. I never listen? What is he talking about? I listen!
"When have I never listened!" I yelled. He glares at me.
"You didn't listen when you were told to stay with the other nindroids during patrol!" he yelled.
"That's only once!" I yelled.
"I can't tell you the other one! And don't you dare say I can't come up with anything else and I'm just using this as an excuse! I know many times you never listened!" he yelled. I only remember not listening once. So, he was talking about me. I'm the reprogrammed nindroid. I messed up so bad once that I had to be reprogrammed. If I do what I did before then I will get turned off permanently. I don't even know what I did before. Is this why I have to be babied? It has to be. I can't believe I was reprogrammed. I don't even remember though. What was I like before? I have to make sure not to do the thing I did before, even if I don't know what I did. I have to listen no matter what now and not care if I get babied or not. I wanted to know the reason why, and now I know. Although, I wish I didn't. I have to worry more about capturing the other stupid ninja. The other nindroids and General Cryptor captured two of the ninja that were in the city. The black one and the red one, we don't know why they were in the city though. Anyways…I see General Cryptor looking at me.
"What?" I asked.
"…Nothing," he replied.
"What?" I asked.
"You just looked a little freaked out and upset," he replied.
"No I didn't! I just thought about something scary and just freaked out," I said.
"Then why did you say that you didn't freak out when you did apparently?" he asked.
"I just didn't want to tell you about being freaked out because it seems babyish, but then I changed my mind. Also I don't like being yelled at," I replied.
"Really?" he asked.
"Yes," I replied.
"Then what did you think about?" he asked.
"Um…a scary thing," I replied.
"Tell me the truth," he said.
"I am," I said. He glares at me.
"Tell me the truth, now Min-droid," he said. …
"I can't," I said.
"Oh and why not?" he asked.
"Min-droid stuff, so I can't tell you," I said. Wow he looks mad.
"You are so lucky you aren't a normal nindroid," he said.
"What is that supposed to mean?" I asked.
"I like you better than the other nindroids," he replied. I did not know that. He doesn't act like it.
"When have you ever shown you liked me more than the other nindroids?" I asked.
"I can't tell you," he replied.
"Why are there so many things you can't tell me? What can you tell me?" I asked.
"I can tell you what to do," he replied.
"What else?" I asked.
"Stuff," he replied.
"I just don't understand why you can't tell me anything, especially when it is about me. Why can't I know?" I asked.
"You wouldn't understand and I am not allowed to. I would be in serious trouble if you knew," he said.
"So it's that bad?" I asked.
"I can't tell you," he replied. General Cryptor walks away. At least I already know that I was reprogrammed. So I guess I am the worst nindroid ever then, huh. The nindroids were always right about me. I am obviously defective if I had to be reprogrammed. They were right and they didn't even know that I was reprogrammed since it seems to be very secret. I really do wish I had never heard that though. I can't believe I was reprogrammed. I must really be bad at being a nindroid if I had to be reprogrammed. But why would General Cryptor care so much about me that I got reprogrammed instead of permanently turned off. Why did he care?