A Nindroid's Tears: Forgotten 2

by A. L. Huang

Zane is in an accident and goes into a coma. His family turns him off for a year, not realizing their Nindroid can perceive everything, even after dead. Can a touch after that long, from a loved one, bring him back? If he does return, will people accept him? What has changed in a year? He was intending to tell Pixal about his memories. Rated T for my usual violence stories.

9. Chapter 9: Slipping

Chapter 9

Slipping

(No P.O.V.)

"Kai, honey, can you hear me?" Melissa softly takes her husband's pale hands in hers and places them against her stomach. "Can you feel them?" Kai's eyelids lift ever so slightly and he smiles, nodding weakly.

"Zane! Why are you down there? Someone, help!" the couple hear Pixal scream from the room next to them.

Melissa lets go of Kai's hands and tells him, "I'll go see what's going on. You stay in bed."

"But-" the fire ninja begins, but she shuts the door behind her before he can say anything farther. Melissa walks briskly to the other door and knocks twice; then opens it. She hurries in the room to find Pixal leaning out the open window with a metal bar and a syringe on the floor.

"Pixal, what's the matter? Don't tell me Zane is-" Melissa stops herself and gets behind the pretty android, peering over her shoulder. "W-what is he doing?" She stares exasperatedly at Zane, who is climbing to the sill below, holding onto the above one, his feet dangling, yet touch the foothold. He lurches forward, free falling, but catches his foot on the sill just in time.

Jay and Nya burst in the room asking, "What's going on?" Nya's baby, Emma, begins crying as Zane slips and drops.

"No!" Pixal screams as he lands face down, slamming with immense impact against another sill, and catches an electrical wire with his left hand.

Zane looks down, seeing ninja stars dancing in his face as everything blurs and he reaches for the wire with his other hand. He grips it, pulling himself up, his muscles burning with the strain and lifts his body up to where he wraps his feet round the thin, black wire, similar to a two-toed sloth. He opens one hand and moves it farther behind him, gripping the wire. He cautiously reaches out with his other hand, repeating the process, slowly making his way backwards while everyone else gazes at him in horror. I wish there was such thing as Spiderman, Zane thinks as sweat rolls down his forehead.

"Zane, hang on, I'm coming to get you," Cole calls to his brother, but before he can step a foot through the window, Jay pulls him back.

"I've got this. I'm lighter and faster than you," the lightning ninja tells the earth ninja and steps both feet onto the sill, holding the sides of the window to steady him, and leaps towards the wire, catching with both hands. He swings himself lightly onto in, landing on his feet, with his two hands still gripping it, his body bent in an animal-like crouch. Inch by inch he grabs the wire one hand at a time, his legs following, coming progressively closer and closer as thunder rumbles in the distance. The lightning ninja rants in his head. Great, now we're going to slip if it rains, on top everything else we have to deal with! The rain pours on cue, causing Jay's right hand to slide forward as he places it on the wire. He slips, grasping it with both hands as he flips downward, and wraps both legs round the wire like Zane, but finds he is facing the way to climb to the window.

Sorry that I had to switch P.O.V.s. This is the most difficult scene I have ever written so I need practice and Third Person-Omniscient is easier.