Although it may seem to be the end, fear not! I have more craziness planned for the crew.


When the ninja finally reached the bounty, Nya almost cried with relief to see her brother unharmed. Both Sensei and Nya were in shock to have a white dragon transporting them back, however.

"What... how... what? Where's Zane? Is he alright?" Nya rambled as Shard sat on the deck, his tail curled around his legs with the embarrassment of all of the attention being on him.

"Hey Shard, you mind if we talk alone for a moment?" Jay asked.

"Of course not. I'll be in the field below." Shard nodded, and leaped off the side of the Bounty.

"Ok. I'll start off blunt. That's Zane." Jay realized the story he would have to tell.

"What?" Nya snapped. "How is that Zane? I was expecting a humanoid nindroid, at the very least." Nya peered over the balcony to find Shard napping in the fields below.

Jay told the story, ending with revealing the flash drive that held Zane's memories.

"Are you telling me Zane's not gone? Good thinking!" Cole held the flash drive very carefully.

"Hey Shard! Come up here!" Jay called over the edge, to which Shard responded by soaring above the balcony, ending with a graceful landing on the roof.

"Yes?" Shard asked.

"He meant on the deck, tin can." Cole called out, which confused Shard, but he still obeyed, leaping down next to Jay.

"Hold still." Jay warned, tactfully hiding the flash drive.

"What do you-" Shard was cut off as Jay forcefully opened his chest panel, and stuck the drive in. Shard collapsed on the deck, much to the horror of the others.

"Relax. He's fine." Jay dismissed them with a wave of his hand as Shard stirred, rubbing his temple before pulling out the drive.

"Zane?" Kai cautiously asked as he stood up.

"Yes, Kai?" Zane looked up, and the others buried him in a hug.

"You're ok!" Nya shouted.

"Why wouldn't I be? You all look to be in awful condition. What happened that I appear to have missed?" Zane was very confused.

"You don't remember anything in the past month?" Jay asked, his brain whirring away.

"No, I don't." Zane realized that he was taller than the others. "Were my ocular sensors damaged at all? You all appear to be-" Zane was cut off as he looked down at his own hand. He slowly looked up and down his body, noticing the scales, tail, claws, and most shocking of all, wings.

"How is this possible. This shouldn't be possible." Zane was panicking now.

"I want to see something." Jay smirked, and shoved Zane off the edge of the Bounty.

"Are you mad!" Nya shrieked, and they ran over to the edge. Jay was expecting Zane to fly. Apparently not, as he was sitting calmly on the grass below.

"Could you throw down the anchor? I have no way up." Zane paced around the field.

"Yes you do. You could fly." Jay suggested, receiving dirty looks from Kai. "Trust me on this one." Jay whispered.

The others watched as Zane clumsily tried to work out how his new wings worked. He stretched them out, moving them slowly. He flapped hard, leaving the ground by a few inches. He continued to try, eventually reaching the Bounty, dropping every few seconds before clumsily crashing into Lloyd on the deck.

"Sorry." Zane mumbled as he stood up.

"I think it's time for dinner. Who's cooking?" Nya looked around, causing the others, except for Sensei Wu, to stare at Zane.

"Why are you all looking at me? Somebody is yet to tell me how I ended up as a dragon." Zane bitterly looked away, annoyed that the others seemed to know something that he didn't. Jay sighed, and retold the story, much to Zane's horror. Jay left out the part about Shard sharing how he felt others though of him. He would ask about that later. When the story was finished, Zane gritted his teeth.

"When I get my hands on that demonic reptile..." Zane growled, not unlike one the ninja's former dragons.

"Calm, Zane." Sensei laid a hand on Zane's shoulder. "You are here now. That is what matters."

"Not when you don't even know who you are anymore." Zane hotly said, and brushed Sensei's hand off before climbing up to the roof of the Bounty.

Nya was about to protest when Jay stopped her. "I'll talk to him. You guys go inside." Jay began the climb up to the roof, balancing himself on the railings. He sat down next to where Zane was laying, being ignored by the disgruntled nindroid.

"Hey Zane." Jay said. No response. "You're listening. You would never ignore me, right?" Still no response. "Well, I was going to chat first, but I guess I'll dive right into it." Jay took a deep breath. "When you were still Shard. You told me that you knew nobody thought you were capable of being anything more than a soulless machine. And the worst part is, you said you agreed." Jay was inching closer and closer. "You wanna talk, bud?" Jay went to the other side of Zane, only to have Zane bore into him with icy-blue eyes, fixated on him. Jay looked away, deciding he couldn't get Zane to speak.

"The question I have is, do you agree?" Jay jumped. He turned to Zane, who had raised his head off the roof.

"Of course not. Why would I?" Jay was carefully choosing his words.

"Well, tin can doesn't exactly have a lot of intellectual intentions behind it, correct?" Zane was getting more agitated.

"You know, maybe this is a bad time." Jay started to inch away. Zane's tail wrapped around his waist, drawing him back in.

"No, this is an ideal time." Zane sat Jay down.

"You know tin can is just a nickname, right Zane?" Jay put a hand on Zane's talons.

"That may be so. But why I never thought of the comparison until now is still stumping me." Zane shook his head. "A tin can, a lifeless, worthless hunk of metal. What makes me different? Why am I different from a can? You will tell me that I feel like as a human would. But I don't. I'm not a human. And I never will be. Being treated like a mindless slave only furthers my point. Nobody except for the people on this ship think of me as being capable of human emotion. And if they do, they don't know my origins. Now, I wish to sleep in peace. I bid you a good night." Zane dropped Jay off the roof, to which Jay couldn't think of a proper reply. Jay went inside, mulling over the conversation.

"How'd it go?" Nya asked.

"I wouldn't talk to him for a while." Jay said glumly, and promptly collapsed on his bed.