Chapter 10

Does Good or Evil Prevail?

A/N: I'm going to from now on PM review replies to anyone with an account and only do guests on here so there's more room for writing.

Thank you FireIce, ForeverDreamer12, Astrid16, jaya forever, and wafflestheninja for your fantastic reviews! :)

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"Pixal slow down!" Nya calls the untiring mother, who has already gained quite a distance between them.

Pixal halts, waiting for her to catch up with Zan and Pix starts crying as well. "Shh. It's okay baby. You're okay."

"Behind you!" Nya screams and Pixal whirls around in time to see a Nindroid swings a katana at her.

She ducks and kicks his kneecap; then grabs his arm, twisting it behind his back. The katana drops to the ground and she shoves it to the side with her foot as the Nindroid pulls away and shoots a laser beam at her. She leaps out of the way and slips, dropping and rolling a few feet closer to Nya. She knocks into another droid's cold legs.

Nya spots three Nindroids heading toward her and Jay and Cole in pursuit. She turns and bolts the other way, to help Pixal, but another robot appears in front of her, pointing a sword at her. Pixal smacks into him, causing him to lose his balance, and the samurai uses the opportunity to grab his katana and thrust it through his body. He falls on top of Pixal and Pix as Nya withdraws the blade.

Zane freezes five Nindroids and covers another one's hands in ice; then takes both swords away, slashing two more. They drop onto the bodies of their other fallen warriors and one comes up behind the ice ninja, blade raised, poised to strike, but he never does. Kai catches him on fire and he sizzles. "Look out Zane!" he shouts, backing away.

Zane whirls around and leaps to the right as the droid explodes, knocking everyone to the asphalt.

Jay shocks a Nindroid and grabs his "jugular", ripping the wires out and shoving him into the tree. Cole blasts dirt in the scanners of another and grabs the droid's blades, piercing his chest. An explosion nearby causes everyone to start as Nya shoves the Nindroid's rigid body off Pixal and Pix. "You okay?" she asks.

"Yes, thank you," the female droid responds.

"Watch out!" Jay yells, grabbing both girls and pulling them down as the other Nindroid shoots three laser beams at them.

They hit the dirt and blood splatters as Cole throws a sword into the robot's head. "Is everyone okay?" he asks.

Jay and Nya get up very slowly and the samurai says, "Zan and I are fine. Oh, Jay."

"I'm okay," the lightning ninja responds, holding his bloody arm, "It's just grazed anyway.

The female droid gets up, groaning from a hit that went through her left shoulder.

"Pixal!" Nya gasps upon sight of her.

"Pix?" Pixal calls her daughter's name softly as she gazes at a hole in her child's chest. "Pix!"

"We have to stop the Nindroids. Nya, get the car with Pixal and get help. Cole and I will hold them off for you four to get to safety," Jay instructs them.

"Is everyone okay?" Lloyd asks as he stands up and glances around. The Nindroids have mostly been burnt or have pieces of them strewn about on the cracked asphalt, though a few of their bodies remain intact. No one stirs. "Zane, Kai?"

"Guys?" Jay gasps as he and Cole rush over with the girls in the rear.

Kai grunts as he gets up and responds, "I'm fine. I just scraped my knee."

Zane also gets up with two bloody knees and asks, "What's the matter Pixal?"

"Pix has…been…hit," his wife explains between sobs.

"What are we waiting for then?" Zane rushes up to the hover vehicle and opens it as everyone else gets in too.

6 Hours Later

"Can you save her?" Zane asks Cyrus Borg as he wheels out of the repair room with a grim face.

"Is Pix okay?" Pixal says, clutching her husband's hand fearfully.

Cyrus sighs deeply before responding, "Zane, Pixal, I have some bad news."

The End

The sequel will be 'Our Connected Lies'. Thank you all for your support!

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