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Bronze Colored Heart

Chapter 7

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Kate never did understand a lot of technology, it wasn't for the lack of trying though. Of of her electives at college was robotics. She figured she needed to learn something for it just in case she got something mechanical with her job and more often then not their wouldn't be anyone for miles that could repair it. So she sat in front of the injured bronze nindroid and sighed. His chest plate was opened and her fingers were inside him. She had snagged a few more tools before the other pirates realized she was out of her hiding spot. They weren't very smart to begin with.

That other pirate Captain she learned the name of. Delphina. She was incredibly mean even to her own men. She also realized that half the men were def. Probably because of that God awful scream of hers. Kate still had the headache she had given to her.

Kate looked down at the unconscious nindroid once more to see if she was hurting him. That was the last thing she wanted. She knew Echo was incredibly gentle. Every so often he'd take a gasp of air. Which that couldn't be right at all. She had only knew him for a few days, but she had never seen him do that. Even while he slept. She looked over his mechanical and realized Zane had replaced a bunch of stuff. But the one thing that concerned her the most was the power source. The clock on his chest had been cracked. She watched it every so often. It would tick and hesitate before ticking again. She reached up and felt around to afraid to unscrew it from anything. So she leaned sideways and used a piece of Echos armor to flash the sunlight in to see that a few wires had come undone. She reached up and redid them. Echo gasped and turned his head a little.

Finally the rest of Echos inner workings started to click properly. He stopped making that gasp noise and even his optics began to slowly turn on again.

"Kate...?" He slowly moved to look up at her. His words were slow, and very tired sounding.

"Shhhh rest Echo. You took care of me now its my turn to take care of you. Stay quiet we're hiding." She said. Echos optics looked around their hiding spot. He looked down seeing Kates fingers were caked in oil. Even some other parts of her were covered in oil. Even the white shirt she had borrowed from his father. The shirt was terribly big on her.

"You fixed me?" He whispered and looked around. "No books too?"

"Theirs still some things that you need done, but I'm sure your brother was going to do them before..." Kate sighed looking over her fingers. She had cut them on wires, and nearly shocked herself. She sighed looking over them. Echos eyes covered hers.

"We couldn't have saved them. They even took the ninja. No one is that powerful, their is always someone bigger."

"Their was this one book I read a lot time ago." Kate smiled looking at her fingers again and clamped her hands. "Maybe it'll help?" She said. Echo nodded.

"Better then nothing."


Zane leaned back against the wall in the brig. Jay, Kai, and Lloyd were in the one across from him, and the others were with him. He looked down at his chest plate. It was wide open and Nya looked over everything. A lot of it was burned.

"Am I far enough in?" She asked having to use Zane as a compass. She couldn't see in for the poor lighting, and she had no tools so she had to use her hands. Zane gasped and swallowed having been able to feel her in his chest plate. He hated the feel and he couldn't turn off his pain receptors.

"No...more to the left." He said closing his eyes again. Cole was pacing around in the brig. He hated hearing his friend in pain.

Their was a loud pop and Zane could feel his internal fans turn back on again. He took a deep breath and patted Nyas hand to show her it worked.

"Thank you Nya." He whispered and pointed to something else. "I have a pop thats dislocated. Thats the last of it if you would." He said He could feel the cool air going through his body now. Their was no need to gasp for air anymore. Nya reached in and felt around.

"Now only if we had some tape..." She said and looked up at Cole. She reached over and grabbed Cole. Cole yelped as he was pulled down. She grabbed his bracelets and pulled them free.

"Hey!" He saw that she was putting the rubber into Zanes frame. "Hopefully it holds." He said.

"I seen these things go against my brother in your sparing and that can get worse their the battle with the stone soldiers. I think this will do fine." She said and looked at Zane who smiled at her tiredly.

"I think I should be up and about in a few minutes." He closed his optics going into rest mode. In Nyas opinion she wished he could stay down for the night. He nearly died.

"Did anyone see Echo or Kate?" Lloyds voice echoed in the brig.

"Yes...they were on the deck hiding among the boxes." Zanes quiet voice said. "I'm sure my brothers body took as much strain as my own did or more because his frame was so rusted. That poor girl..." He said shuttering at the thought of a young girl being hit by the force that can crack titanium.

"Shhh." Kai warned standing up seeing the Captain coming down the steps.

"So I guess this is the part where we get to ask you if you want to join the crew or not..." She said running her fingers over the bars. "Of course you being the ninja and all...more then likely it'll be a no." She said looking over them. "Pity really." She whispered looking at Zane.

"You stay away from him." Lloyd growled grabbing the bars. She reached out quicker then Lloyd could blink grabbing his face and pulling him against the bars.

"Or what?" She whispered. "Is the legendary green ninja going to cry?" She cackled snapping her fingers. The bars were thrust open and each one dragged to the top deck.

"Good evening gentlemen." A man with a purple hat said. The plank was pushed out. "We have a good show for you. Fish...in a barrel."

"Mr. Doodles please tell them the rules." Delphina said watching them drag everyone out.

"Everyone gets one gun two bullets. The prisoners get thrown in the drink. If you pelt one you get something from the big pile of loot we just got here." He pointed to all the stuff the stole from the Bounty.

"Wait I can't swim!" Kai gasped being pushed up onto the plank. Every ninja yelling in turn as Kai was thrown into the water. He yelled as he went in. Cole jumped in after his friend. Kai spat and sputtered. Jay jumped in after to help Cole.

"Guys what are we going to do? We're in the middle of the ocean and they're going to start shooting at us!" Jays loud mouth continued to complain as Zane was thrown into the water followed by Nya and Lloyd.

"Alright you lot?" Delphina said looking over the edge. "Swim my little fishies and we'll see who won. On the count of three...one ..." She shot in the air which signaled the start.

"What ever happened to three!" Jay yelled swimming toward the Bounty. Shots were fired and several balls hit the water. Eventually they all stopped. The Ninja looked at one another to see if anyone was hit.

"I got one Cap!" One yelled pointing toward Kai.

Kai looked at himself.

"No you didn't I'm fine." He said and then it hit him like a ton of bricks. He gasped and looked around at Cole.

"Jay...Jay!" He looked around again. "JAY!" He pushed Cole away from him and dove down. He realized just what happened. Jay protected him. Kai could see Jays silhouette as it floated down, blood coming from his midsection. He grabbed his friends hand and pushed him back toward the surface with Lloyd and Coles help.

"Perfect Jax...you can have whatever you want in that pile!" Delphine said seeing the very happy man pick out a small pen.

"This here ma'me then I can write those lovely stories you like so much." He said with a smile.

"To bad for them...they lost...someone."

"Jay..." Nya ran her fingers through his soaked hair.

The engines on the Bounty engnited and began to lift off. The anchor came up to meet the Ninja. They hung onto it and Jay for dear life.

"No! Stop them!" Delphina yelled not realizing the ship flew. Now she really wanted that ship.