Chapter 4

Extreme Pressure

"So…yeah, I'm kind of lost without you guys responding! Hello?" Nya shouts into her communicator and waits for an answer from the boys. Nothing. "Seriously, you ninja!" she screams in frustration, navigating her Samurai Mech towards…somewhere.

"Nya are you...there? Nya…can you…hear…me?" Jay's tinny voice is interrupted by static over the walkie-talkie.

"Jay, where are you?"

"No, just…don't…ask," Jay's voice cracks a bit, sounding emotionally strained.

"What? What's the matter? Are you crying?"

"Y-yes I am. There's…wrong…Z…"

"What? I couldn't hear you?"

"Z…be…beaten…t…death…op…chest…"

"Repeat."

"Za…b…beat…to…d…open…chest."

"Jay honey, I can't hear you," Nya says.

"Zane…b…be…t…death…open…ch…"

"Jay, are you there?"

Suddenly, his shaky voice becomes clear. "Zane is being beaten to death," Jay whispers so his captors don't know he's talking to the samurai, "They're making me watch and his chest is open."

"What?" Nya exclaims.

"He's got a wrench," Jay explains in further detail and starts sobbing, being more emotional than the other ninja, "and he's hurting Zane. You've got to save him!"

"These guys are sure persistent!" Lloyd exclaims, landing on the rooftop as his dragon disappears, and forms a golden ball surrounding himself, Kai, and Cole in a protective shield. Apparently, it helps with the blades that are being shoved at their faces, yet as for bullets…

"No…why are doing…this?" Zane gasps in intense pain as HD2 crushes his hand under his metal boot with sheer sadistic pleasure.

"I'm getting revenge. Don't tell me that you forgot about the Glass Lady incidents," the droid leader snarls.

"Josh committed suicide and he killed Desolate, not us," Zane responds as HD2 gets off his hand and fingers the cash register thoughtfully.

"If it weren't for you convincing all of the dumb HD's, unlike the ones I built, he wouldn't have," HD2 picks up the heavy register; then slams it on Zane's hand and the ice ninja screams in horrible pain, "killed himself."

Zane shuts his eyes as a camera is set on a tripod in front of him and the evil droid says, "Smile for Jay and the camera."

Zane just gasps, feeling every inch of pain in his broken hand, and HD2 gets on one knee, grabbing the white ninja's chin and turning him to face it. "Smile," he tells him, and squeezes Zane's crushed hand unmercifully and his victim cries out again. "I said smile!"

Zane opens his blue eyes, staring at the camera with a cold expression of defiance, and says, "Heck no."

"What did you say?"

"Heck no."

HD2 steps on Zane's hand. "Say that again, ninja."

Zane musters all his strength to respond. "H-heck…no."

"Foolish ninja!" HD2 screams, stomping on the ice ninja's hand in vexation; then grabs a fistful of Zane's blond hair, and slams his head on the cold tile, enough to knock the Nindroid senseless, yet not unconscious at all, merely unable to stop the evil droid from damaging him any further. "Flip him over and let go of him," the leader robot commands. After it is done, HD2 opens Zane's chest, scanning the ninja's interior with a red light emanating from his single eye, and he finds this one "interesting" as he usually refers to a complex robotic system.

"I think completely destroying your interior would be such a shame so I've decided not to kill you," HD2 says nonchalantly, "Instead, I'm going to have more fun. Being dead is kind of boring."

Zane can't respond from the blow to his head, yet he's fully aware of what is going on. He knows that his system will be able to respond in approximately two minutes, so he will have to wait it out, hopefully before any severe damage is done. That's certainly doubtful, considering this droid is a mad sadist.

HD2 points a finger at Zane, the Nindroid expecting a blade to pierce his body at any given moment, yet none comes out. A wrench comes out of the droid's forefinger and he smiles with contempt.

Zane's blue eyes widen when he realizes what is going to happen, his mind the only thing fully functioning currently and he attempts to get away, but only manages to twitch his fingers on his undamaged hand. The wrench is thrust into his chest and it snaps a few wires before Zane can react, paralyzing him from the waist down. He cries out in pain, still tying to move as the wicked droid laughs.