Authors Notes: Sorry for the Delay. I should be powering through these chapters pretty quickly now.
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Twisted Cogs
Shadows
Chapter 11
Shift
Jay opened his eyes looking around the maze. He was warm for once in the last twenty four hours. However he did feel a little squished. He looked around at the guy who had his arms around him holding him like a bear. Both arms around him and one leg over both of his. Yup he was a cuddler.
"Okay Cole...time to get up. We need to find our way out of here. Bef…" He looked on and squinted. "Cole...Cole look...a door!" Cole sat up groggily looking around. He rubbed his eyes for a few seconds and looked up at the door.
"Its been their and we didn't see it." He said and slowly stood up and grunted as his stomach protested loudly. They hadn't eaten all day yesterday and the smell of the room told them their was food on the other side. Cole walked toward the door and slowly opened it. On the other side was a factory. Within was a group of people crowding around something talking heatedly. Cole narrowed his eyes trying to see just what they were talking about. One of them picked up said thing and threw it down onto a table.
"I say we tear him apart. Use him for parts."
"N...No...please." Cole knew that voice. Jay was already running toward the crowd of people.
"Stop!" He called out. Cole gritted his teeth.
"Kids going to get us killed." He ran after Jay.
Zane was held up off the ground by a guy wearing a lot of metal. He kicked Jays chest. Zane looked up from his slumped position.
"Jay…" He cried out and coughed up some oil he had just ate. Cole reached down to help Jay up.
"We caught him eating the oil. We need the oil! He must pay for oil."
"And to take him apart isn't how you get him to pay it back. Put him to work. We'll help." Cole said helping Jay up off the ground.
"Cole…" Zane opened up his tired eyes seeing the earth elemental. It was a rather hopeful word. His eyes however fluttered closed coughing up more oil.
"Let him down!" Jay yelled running up under Zane trying to jump up to the ropes. "Its hurting him!"
"What he doing is throwing up an oil he can't have eaten." A girl with green hair said. "Thats not machine oil...thats vegetable oil." She said and looked around at the ninja. "He's sick."
"Well thats no excuse for holding him up like that! He's…" He looked around and gasped. "Your all the missing contestants."
"Yeah...we lost...so did you." A guy with really curly brown hair said. His sunglasses shielding a third of his face.
"So your just going to except that your now being forced to work in a factory against your will?" Cole yelled. Jay growled and turned around yelling.
"Let him down!" electricity ran through his hands and he turned to look at the other people. The girl let go of the rope and Zane hit the floor hard.
'Zane...Zane can you hear me! Your mechanics are shorting...Zane!' Pixal called out. Zane felt Jays hands on his side as he was rolled onto his side as he started to cough again.
"S'not 'k…" Zane tried to speak but their wasn't much that came out that was audible. He looked around at them before she finally he throw up the rest of the oil onto the floor. Cole rubbed his back.
"This is why we read before you eat right bro?" He said leaning over Zane who was panting for air. Cole could feel his vents opening and closing. "How you feeling now?" Jay asked. Zane rolled onto his back and nodded his head.
"Some got in-in-into my systems. It will take t-t-time to purge it." Zane said and gasped as the heavy set guy covered in metal picked him up.
"Hey!" Cole called.
"They will be coming soon. Turn on the machines. We must hide you."
"Just put us in suits they won't realize we shouldn't be here." Jay said. "They're dumb."
"Karloff." The guy who had Zane said. "Metal man is…okay now I think." He lay him down around the back of the machines. "We hide him." He said putting a tarp over him. Cole nodded and looked around at Jay.
"You'll be to little to work here. Climb under the tarp and keep Zane company." Cole said. Jay crawled under and curled up around Zane trying his best to look like a lump of something other then human.
Echo jumped and sat up looking around the room. Nya peaked out of the bathroom when she heard a knock. She jumped up and pulled Echo into the closet. "Stay there." She said. Echo was shaking they heard another knock.
"Room service!" She ran over to the door and a woman in all red and adorned in jewels stood there bowing. "I have clean towels and breakfast for you. I heard that you were under the weather after losing a very good friend last night." Everything seemed to fall back down around Nya again at the mention of Jay. She stood there for a moment and the woman bowed to her again. "I do apologize I shouldn't have said anything."
"No its fine. I just...was busy and I…" She looked away and swallowed moving out of the way so she could come in. Nya walked over to the table and jumped when she heard the closet door open.
"No don't!" She yelled. The woman stood there as Nya ran over and looked inside the closet. Their was no one there.
"Yes miss?"
"Its uh...fine I just…don't want anyone touching Jays things. I just realized he doesn't have anything in here. Must have them in the drawers." She said and sighed.
"Oh thats understandable." She said patting Nyas shoulder before putting the towels down and leaving the room. Nya waited till the door was closed before she rushed back into the closet and looked around.
"Echo!" She cried out. Echo jumped gasped as the wall turned around and he looked at her.
"You have got to see this…" Echo said and grabbed hold of Nyas arm and pulled her toward him. The wall spun around and they saw a very deep cavern throne room.
"Oh no...this is worse then I thought." She said
"Oh its far worse then you could have ever imagined." Nya turned to see a man with long hair.
"Nya run!" Echo stood in the mans way. Nya gasped as the wall turned back around.
"Echo!" Nyas voice could be heard from the other side of the wall. "Echo let me back through." He picked up a rock and shoved it into the gears.
"It doesn't matter robot. Once I'm finished with you I'll go after her." The man had a monotone voice that bothered Echo. He sounded more like a robot then he did.
"I will not allow you to harm Nya. You will have to get passed me first." He held up his hands as he had saw his brother do many times.
"Oh...I plan on it. To bad you are just a robot." He held out his hands. Echo gasped holding his chest.
"Wh...What are you doing to me?" He felt a great pressure around his power source. It felt like something was going to crush him. Suffocate him.
"I don't think you'll mind if I borrow...this." Echo gasped.
"N...No. Stop...thats my h...heart." He made a gagging noise as his chest plate opened and the clock pulled free and the young mech fell limp. "Zane...h…" His optics faded.
"I'll just keep this...for safe keeping." Clouse chuckled walking back into the cavern.
