A/N: Anything in parenthesis after foreign words is just the translation so that you guys don't have to do it yourselves. Thought I'd make it easy on you.

Chapter Sixteen: Back to the Apartment...

"Which one of you wrote the message? For that matter, how were you able to write it within the sliver of time that you had?" The police captain began to grill the two ninjas the second they walked into the apartment.

Zane raised an eyebrow upwards, silently staring at him for the longest time, it felt like at least, before calmly answering the police officer. "I wrote it. I typically write about two pages worth of words within a matter of two seconds."

"Without making mistakes?" Padme had a hard time believing that anyone could write that fast.

Zane was glanced over at Kai, his expression neutral. "Watashi wa karera ni watashi ga nandearu ka o tsutaeru tsumoridesu. (I am going to tell them what I am.)"

Kai sighed at that, rolling his eyes skyward. Gesturing to them, he raised one eyebrow upwards. "That's up to you, not me, icicle."

Anakin opened his mouth to ask what he meant by that, what it was that Zane had apparently said, when Zane opened up his chest suddenly. "I am a nindroid. Thus making such mistakes is impossible for me." He calmly closed his chest.

Anakin was immediately confused. "Wait... how can you be a droid?! I can sense you in the Force! Only living things can be sensed in the Force!"

Zane went quite still at that, while Kai found himself curling his fingers into a tight fist. "Okay don't know much about here...but back home droids, as you so casually call it, can be living beings. When that happens we label them as human and we call them nindroids. As in Ninjago." Zane glanced over at Kai, his calm blue eyes calmly piercing the angry hazel eyes that were glaring at Anakin.

Kai ducked his head, a mumbled apology escaping his lips. Anakin frowned at that, suddenly confused on how they could tell the difference between droids that were more human than machine and how that all works out... since apparently the Force accepted it. Padme cleared her throat, gesturing to her table where dinner was spread out. "Perhaps we should eat some dinner?"

Kai huffed slightly as he shifted in his seat. He had just spilt some ice water onto his lap by accident and responded the same way one would if it had been a scolding drink instead. Zane cleared his throat slightly, one eyebrow raised. "When you said you were fluent in Skullkinese I did not realize that they had swear words."

Kai turned red at that, turning his attention back to his plate. "Sorry..."

3PO shuffled over, holding out a handful of napkins. "How many languages does your home planet host?"

"Five. Everyone that isn't a Stone speaks this langauge... and then we have our native tongue that I have no idea what it is called... the Skullkin have Skullkinese...and the Serpentine have Serpentinese. Stones speak in Darkian... only knows that one and they appear to be unable to learn any other language." Kai explained quickly.

Ahsoka pushed her salad around with her fork, one eyebrow raised upwards. "Uh... most planets only have one or two languages. Depends on how many sentient species lives there, kind of thing."

"Well we have humans, serpentine, skullkin, and stone... and when you add all that together it is close to four different species. Of course there is always the chance that there are more out there that we haven't personally met yet that Sensei knows about." Zane breezed through it like it was no big deal.

Personally Anakin didn't care about how many langauges they grew up with, he was completely flummoxed about the nindroid. Zane didn't stand to the side to watch the others eat, like most droids do, but rather sat down and has actaully eaten the food placed on his plate in front of him. "Where does it even go..?" Too late, Anakin realized that he had spoken out loud. Turning bright red, he ducked his head down.

Zane smiled pleasantly, sitting down his fork as he looked at Anakin. "I don't charge the same way that droids do. I need sleep, actual sleep, and food for energy same as an human. I have a digestive track that works the same way yours does, turning the food I eat into energy for me to use. Of course I don't need to eat near as much as you, and it lasts far longer for me than it will you."

Anakin nodded slowly, even as Obi-wan cleared his throat. "Excuse me. But I couldn't help but wonder...since you know these other languages as well as your own... could you by chance..?"

"Of course!" Zane beamed at him, not needing the Jedi Master to finish his sentence to realize that he wanted to learn more about their languages. "I recommend Skullkinese. They use similar writing to us, and happens to be the easier language out of the two."

"Two? What about that other one you mentioned... Darkian? Wouldn't that make it three?" Padme didn't understand why they couldn't teach Obi-wan that one.

"We don't actually know that one. No one does. That and it doesn't have a written form." Kai stabbed his chicken. "In all honesty it sounds a lot like random noises... and it can honestly be compared to this 'Sith language' that Sensei Plo told me about while we were with him. Only those embedded with darkness uses it."

Shivers rippled through the group at that, Obi-wan making a small note that for Kai to not know it, supposedly, would mean that he wasn't dark... yet. Hopefully he wasn't. Obi-wan frowned slightly as he continued to eat, suddenly concerned that it was so hard to get a good reading on both of the young men. One was so... calm that he appeared to be completely emotionless, while the other was so full of emotion that he felt like a ticking bomb in the force...

A/N: Hey there! Sky suggested that if I try to respond to reviews I might get more... I don't see any for this chapter so please review!

Ella