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Twisted Cogs:

Shadows

Chapter 5

A Game

Mr. Borg wheeled into the warehouse, looking up at the unfinished mechs and shook his head. He was in astonishment, he never thought he'd see any of this before. Their were a few blueprints in the sand over by a freezer. On top of said freezer were a few video games, and magazines too.

"How…?" He looked around at the teenagers. Lloyd shook his head.

"I don't like what my dad does to the city. I'm tired of being blamed for something I didn't do." Lloyd sighed. "I didn't have friends until just recently. I want to keep these friends and I was aiming to protect the city on my own, but...they are...relentless." He chuckled and pointed at Wu standing on the catwalk near them. "Besides. We have a teacher." Lloyd said. Julien looked up seeing the old man standing there. His hands in his sleeves and a knowing smile on his face.

"Alright we don't have much time. Lets see those blueprints." Borg wheeled toward them. He looked over them and smiled. "Who did this?" Borg asked looking around. Jay hid behind Nya.

"I did sir." He said. Borg looked at him.

"You? At your age doing something this intricate? How extraordinary." he smiled and held up a pen. "But a few modifications? As much as I'd like to think mechs in general can fight them. Weapons maybe a must." He said. Jay nodded his head and watched a Borg added a mega sound systems to the quake mech, a combustion engine to the back of the fire mech, rockets and guns all over the green dragon, an ice gun on the ice tank, a water cannon to the water strider, and then the last one was the lightning generator on the lightning jet.

"Alright...lets get to work. Zane and Echo are all alone, and they need us." Borg said. Lloyd sighed.

"Even if we worked all night we all couldn't have possibly been able to do this on our own." Kai said motioning to the blueprints.

"Oh...who said you were on your own?" Borg said and tapped something into his phone and held it up. The doors opened an a team of over twenty people walked into the room. "It'll take few hours at best." Borg said and smiled at the kids who watched the Borg personnel would into the room and take up positions around the mechs waiting for their orders.


Zane had his brother tucked under his arm. The boat was rocking back and forth, the bucket they had been using to wash the floor earlier had been drifting around the floor. Zane had his other arm around the bars. Echo would flinch every time he heard the thunder boom. Zane would whisper words of encouragement into his audio. Echo would nod, but shiver all the while. He jumped when someone kicked the gate to the brig. "Go to sleep!" The guy yelled. Zane slowly pulled Echo into a sleeping position.

"We need to keep up our strength Echo. Get some sleep alright." He told him putting his arm under Echos head letting him use it as a pillow.

"But brother...I'm hungry." Echo looked up at Zane. zane nodded his head and lay down too keeping his arm around the bar.

"I know...I am too." they hadn't ate since breakfast, and that was just a hurried piece of toast.

He looked up at his brother for only an instant. Zane looked down at him and smiled slightly leaning down and kissing his brothers forehead before closing his own eyes.

Zane had only begun to power down when he felt the ship jolt and fracture on something that looked like a large rock. Water began to rush in and cover the nindroid boys. Echo jumped up and lumbered to the side.

"Brother!" Echo yelled holding onto the bar. "We need to get out!" Echo yelled. The water was up to their chest now. Zane wobbled over to the door and shook it. He pulled something out of his chest plate and started to mess with the lock. It swung open.

"Why didn't you do that earlier?!" Echo asked. Zane turned to his brother holding out his hand.

"Because we would have got re-caught. Right now theirs a panic. We can slip by into a life raft." Zane said pulling his brother out of the water. They both ran up the steps seeing the others running for life boats or trying to carry things from their quarters. Zane slowly peaked out and looked around at the people rushing. No sign of Dr. Christopher. He probably already left. Zane pulled his brother along and helped him into a lifeboat and climbed in too. He lowered them down into the water. They rowed as far away from the ship as they could. Zane decided to row them toward the one place that had light. At least their would be land and they could get out of these peoples line of sight.

Zane could see his brother in front of him. Even in the moonlight he could see that his brother was shivering. It was cold outside and they had left the shelter of the ship.

"Echo?" He held out his hand. His brother slowly clambered over the seat and sat down against his brother. Zane sat down on the floor of the life raft and pulled his brother to him.

"Brother...we're going to drift." echo said. Zane shook his head.

"No the current is taking us right toward the island." He told him. Echo nodded his head and lay down against his brothers chest. That reassuring sound of his power source was his favorite sound. It was the first sound he remembered hearing as he came into existence.

"Brother?" Echo whispered although he wasn't sure why he was trying to be quiet.

"Yes? His brother asked.

"What now?"

"Well...we'll wait here and find a boat to take us home." He told his brother. He heard his brothers breathing slow down indicating he was falling asleep.

"Won't dad come for us?" Echo asked.

"Perhaps still thinks we're in Ninjago City." He closed his eyes and started his own shut down.

Soon enough light was shining through at them. Zane peaked out of the boat seeing that they were on land. He looked around, just sand and trees as far as the eye could see. He climbed out of the boat and walked inland a little.

Echo opened his eyes and gasped looking around.

"Brother...Brother?!" He jumped up looking around. "Brother!" He yelled.

"Here Echo…" He called out a fishing pole in the water and a few already on a stick over a small fire. He pulled the fish from the water and walked over to cut it open using a sharp piece of wood he had created from a broke ore.

"Hope your hungry." Zane said motioning to a few fruits near them that he had picked.

"Oh wow Zane…" He took a bite of the fish and smiled. He began to dig in eating as much as he dared. Filling his repaired tank back up. "We'll have to find oil elsewhere though brother. Theirs no such thing as an oil fruit." he giggled at his own joke. Zane smiled at him. At least he woke up in good spirits. Zane was sure the food did the trick. He was always so angry till he got food.

Echo threw the fish bones to the side for the other scavengers to find and he picked up a fruit.

"How do we cut it?" He asked. Zane took the coconut from his brother and used his wrist blade to saw the top part off.

"Here...drink this." He held it out for his brother. "Coconut milk is good for you. It'll help lubricate your limbs." He told his brother. Echo took a drink and smiled.

"Its good." He said and held it out to his brother. Zane took a few swallows before handing the rest back to his brother. Their wasn't much in there, but Echo started to pull the rut out and eat it.

Soon enough is chin was white from the rut, and his finger were sticky. He giggled and lay back on the ground. He hadn't eaten so much in his life.

"Come on Echo...lets wash that off you huh?" Zane asked throwing sand on the fire and stomping on it. Zane smiled as he and his brother sat down in the surf. The water felt pleasant to the touch. It was actually kind of cool, but not cold. Zane smiled and looked at his brother, reaching out and cleaning his face.

"There...all clean." He smiled at his brother who just smiled back.

"Where do we go now?" He asked and followed his brother into the jungle.

"We find shelter."