Chapter 13
Major Issues
Thirty Minutes Earlier
"Is that why you are alive?" Zane questions her.
"Yes, but I switched myself back to being a human after a month," Marcy responds.
"How could you do that to yourself? I mean, with your own hands?" Zane asks.
"There are ways and besides, I didn't say I did it alone."
"Can you switch me back, after changing me into a human?" Zane speaks softly.
"Yes, after one month, but during that time your artificial heart will remain off and the operation takes three days," Marcy informs him.
"Can I die," Zane asks the question that's been bothering him the entire time, "while I am human?"
"Yes. All humans are mortal and we-"
Her voice becomes distant to the ice ninja as another voice speaks in his head. If you go along with her, you're going to be miserable. Being a human isn't helpful at all, but of course, you can die more easily. Zane puts his fingers in his ears, but the index falls off and drops with a thud on the ground. He screams and grabs his zapping hand in agony, while the finger wires fall out of the hole. He crumples into a tight ball on the floor, writhing in pain and knocks into the mirror, cracking it from top to bottom. Marcy runs to the table and hastily clears it; then lifts Zane with surprising strength, and places him on it. She rushes to a pile of boxes, wires, and light bulbs. She soon finds a toolbox and runs back to the Nindroid. She opens it and dumps the contents on the floor, rummaging through the pile, searching for pliers. She cannot find it and grabs a wrench instead as well as a knife; then cuts Zane's shirt open in the center, pulling the cloth back to reveal blue liquid mixed with black pouring out of a slit wire, connected to his heart.
She throws the wrench on the floor in frustration, picks up a roll of black duct tape, and cuts a long strip of it with the blade. She drops knife and roll and begins wrapping the tape round the slit wire, while Zane screeches, grabbing the sides of the table as the liquid mess seeps into the rest of his body. "Just a minute Zane. Don't move!" she shouts as the ninja turns abruptly, slamming into the edge of the blade and the woman, only causing more pain to erupt in his digressing body. "Please, stay with me! You need to hold still!" She lets go of the knife handle, imbedded in his abdomen, and rips more tape off the roll, covering Zane's mouth and then taping his arms to the table. She lightly takes hold of the knife and gently pulls it out an inch, making Zane's pain increase as he screams through the tape, and kicks his legs wildly.
Marcy yanks it out in one swift pull, squirting artificial blood all over them, and Zane flips the table away from her, on its metal side, squirming to get out of the tape. "Zane!" Marcy screams and rushes around the table.
"Lloyd, will you stay with Kai for a moment?" Melissa requests and puts a hand to her mouth.
"Are you okay?" Lloyd asks.
"Yes. I'll be right back," she responds and departs swiftly out of the room, shutting the door behind her.
Lloyd sighs and turns back to his sleeping brother, who lies on the bed, pale and thin. "I hope the others return with Zane," he says to himself.
A shadow slips into the room, closing the door silently and smacks Lloyd's head with a baseball bat. The assailant drops his weapon and pulls the IV needle out of the fire ninja's arm; then lifts him quietly onto his back.