Authors Notes: Thats it for this one. Hope you liked it. Onto the next one.

Rest Stop:

Rift Wars

Chapter 6

Clockwork

Zareth absolutely refused to put Danny down unless she had to go to the rest room. Even during meals he had her right next to him. Even pulled the chair over so she would be close to him. He felt so bad about pointing a gun at her. The thought that he was about to pull the trigger on someone he loved so much hurt his own heart. What was worse is the fact that Danny hadn't smiled since, much less spoke a word to him. She told Aaron who attempted to make her smile that she felt like she were thinning out. Her processor just felt so raw to the touch that the least she did the less it hurt. So she let Zareth carry her around. At least for now.

At that moment he had her curled up in his lap as they listened to Clay who was looking on from the front of the room. A small laser pointer on a large map on the screen pointing out where Monstrux has attacked previously. Then where they had found Zareth and Danny.

"Clay I think we're ready for Zareth and Danny." Ava's voice called through the intercom over the door. Zareth lifted Danny up.

"Light as a feather." He whispered to her.

"I can't be that light." She rested her head against his shoulder.

"Oh...beautiful. Theirs my sisters voice." He said kissing her forehead fondly. To him she looked incredibly tired. She blinked a few times before closing her eyes.

She jumped having heard Merlocks voice. She looked around to see Merlock who seemed a bit apologetic. She gave him a short smile before putting her head back against Zareths shoulder.

"We believe we found a rift for you." Robin said pointed toward the display. Zareth smiled.

"Danny look. Maybe its home." Zareth said. Danny nodded and pushed away from Zareth who placed her back on her feet.

"Then maybe we can at least sleep in our own beds." Danny said she walked toward the door. Zareth jumped up and ran after her.

"Danny? You okay babe?" He asked. Danny shook her head.

"I miss home. I wanna...I wanna go home." She admitted. That wasn't a problem was it? Zareth nodded.
"I know I miss home too babe. But hey you gotta admit you got to see a lot of me right?" Zareth said. "Never been out of the fog for this long huh?" He asked. Danny looked up at him with a soft smile.

"Yeah I missed you." Danny grabbed Zareths hand. "Come on...lets go to Skylars. We can have some real food." Danny said and walked off the ramp toward the rippling watery ground.

Their was a loud boom in the distance. Something red landed close by. It looked like a very large egg.

"What the…?" Clay walked over and pushed it with his shield. What sprang forth was large and incredibly oozy. It looked like slime. It latched onto the side of his shield and it began to smoke and fizzle. Clay yelled out. A few more were launched at them.

"Don't let them touch you!" Clay commanded. Danny watched one land right in the rift.

"Well he's going to new places." She said with a laugh dodging another that was aimed directly at them. Zareth kicked it right out of the air. Danny giggled and kicked one too. They both ended up laughing.

"To bad we don't have a metal chair huh Danny?" Zareth laughed being punched in the arm.

"I did that once!" She said.

"You killed the overlords daughter with a metal chair Danny...a metal chair!" Zareth yelled kicking another one.

"Yeah. The bitch deserved it." Danny crossed her arms and screamed having felt something red hot on her arm.

"Get it off her quick!" Aaron pulled something from his armor and set it onto her arm and wiped it off. When he pulled the towel away you could smell the burnt flesh. Danny looked at it and screamed, her head felt like it were swimming.

"Oh...Danny don't faint now." Zareth tapped her face. She closed her eyes and shook her head.

"I'm...I'm okay." She stood up leaning on both Zareth and Aaron.

"Hey...I thought your armor was green...whats up with the orange?" Danny asked running her fingers over it. It seemed to vibrate. Her arm popped and sputtered.

"Get them into the rift. They're who he's after!" Clay yelled. A few large gollum type creatures ran at them. One lobbed an egg at them. Zareth gasped as one hit his back and splattered. He and Danny fell through the rift, and landed hard on the grass in the park where they had been before. Danny brushed the slime from Zareths back. Luckily it wasn't so bad thanks to the layers. Their was only minor abrasions on his back.

"Come on babe...lets get you to Borgs." Zareth said. As he turned around and saw countless nindroids. He looked down at Danny.

"I don't think this is our ninjago… This is...nindroidtopia."

"Really…?" Danny crossed her arms and looked up at him.

"Aww come on baby look at it." He chuckled. Danny rolled her eyes.

Inky felt heavy. She wasn't sure what was going on in her head. She heard a voice. A very small voice at first. Then it started to grow. She opened her eyes and looked around.

"Heavy…" She whispered. She saw someones eyes come into view. It looked like they were under water. "So heavy…" She whispered. Her eyes fluttered closed again.

It had to have been a few hours after that. She felt something cold on her lips. She opened her eyes to mindroid running an ice cub over her lips. She hadn't been swallowing very well the best thing to do was to give her water in small amounts. She swallowed a little.

"Don't close your mouth Inky. Keep it open. Its the only way Mindroids been able to give you water." Cryptor said. Inky just nodded and her eyes slid closed again. When she woke up she didn't see anyone around her. She slowly sat up looking around. Her head felt hot to the touch, she felt dizzy.

"Where?" She looked around again trying to see anyone. She slowly stood up and walked out of the kitchen. He couldn't hear anyone at all. She walked down the hallway.

"Uncle Cryptor? " She looked inside the room their was ink on the floor. Must have been where she had been before. She looked up turning on the light. She walked down the rows and rows of different nindroids that looked just like her mother.

'Would you like to now who Danny is?' She heard in her head. She looked around slightly tired. She nodded her head. 'Oh you poor dear I know fathers dark matter put its tole on you, but you'll be fine...for now.' The voice was sweet sounding.

"Okay." Inky said and sat down on the floor. Before her eyes she could see words, pictures, things.

'Your mother was a nindroid having been created by Dr. Julien and Dr. Spencer as nurses and doctors for the wars. They were never meant to be anything but that. I had better plans. I wanted them as my soldiers. So we captured Dr. Julien. Reprogrammed Dr. Spencer...and we released a test subject onto the world." The woman laughed watching the girl who was in a trance.

"You made my mom kill?"

"She was programmed to. If it weren't for the sibling code placed within Danny and her siblings they can not kill one another inadvertently ensuring that their wasn't any friendly fire. We couldn't fight each other. Brilliant really. Means she can't kill Zareth." Their was a slight feeling of anger within Gaya. Inky could feel it.

"Now...theirs a way I can get my Danny back. If they were able to use their primary weapon they will lose any functionality at all...their memory, their hard drive will be erased. Danny...would be dead."

Inky gasped and shook her head. "No…" She was weak.

"So...what say we make this interesting hum?" Gaya smiled in front of Inkys vision. "Push the button…" Inky tried to fight it, but their was something within her. Something that wouldn't allow her to stop.

"Inky?" It was cryptors voice. "We went out to fill of the tanks with food and water. We should have enough to get us back h…" Cryptor gasped seeing Inkys hand over the activate all button.

"Cryptor...help me…" She shook her head trying to turn away from it. But her fingers locked around the button. Cryptors arms were around her.

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