Requested by: aurathestar

Request: Overlord/Cyrus

Warnings: Yaoi

Cyrus was happy that he was able to lead the design team in remodelling and rebuilding Ninjago City, the first building finished being the tower for Borg Industries at the exact spot where the Overlord was defeated. It gave him just the right amount of inspiration to come up with how the city would look in next year or so.

But after a while, the citizens of Ninjago City, or as it would soon be called, New Ninjago City, began to notice something about the inventor was amiss. It could have been his increased reclusion, his constant denial of anything being wrong in the tower, the way he seemed to always stutter or whisper or pause whenever he spoke. He never addressed their concerns, rather he insisted he was fine, and they should instead focus on rebuilding the city.

What he never told them, however, was that he and a group of engineers found something, or rather, a certain someone, lurking in the systems of Borg Industries. The engineers offered to get rid of it for Cyrus, but it reacted very badly to that suggestion, and Cyrus did not hear from the engineers since then.

The Overlord wanted Cyrus to keep his existence a secret from the public, to let him fester in the systems, to let him monitor everything going on inside the city, to keep watch for someone he wanted revenge on. As long as Cyrus promised to do this, he promised not to harm him, or let any harm come to him. The inventor did not trust him at all, but he decided that if that was all he was going to do, there was no harm to be done, and promised the Overlord that he would tell no one.

What he underestimated, though, was the lengths he would go to keep Cyrus from telling anyone. At one point, he activated the automatic locks on the doors to keep Cyrus from leaving unless he had a valid reason. Taking this into mind, Cyrus began work on his next project: building PIXAL, his assistant who would take care of public relations.

While PIXAL interacted with those who came to visit the tower and let them tour the lower floors, Cyrus stayed in his office, keeping the Overlord occupied while he tried to learn more about the state he was in. To his understanding, the Overlord was now a virus, incapable of affecting the outside world without a vessel or piece of technology.

Cyrus did feel sorry for the Overlord, since he was constantly comparing his virus state to being in an inescapable digital prison. He thought about offering to build the Overlord a body he could inhabit, so he could roam freely, but realized his sympathy was getting in the way of logic. The Overlord was still evil, and could still cause harm to the citizens of Ninjago. With that in mind, Cyrus worked on what would be his final project if the Overlord ever found out: building the Techno Blades, and somehow give them to the Ninja, all without him noticing.

As he hastily typed codes into the computers, knowing the Overlord would be back to speak to him again soon enough, he didn't notice a mechanism approaching him from behind, and he nearly jumped out of his wheelchair when it nudged him roughly.

"I decided to build this for you, based on blueprints I found in the systems for it," the Overlord's raspy voice sounded from a speaker on the wall, the familiar yellow "eyes" staring at him from one of the monitors on the opposite side of the room. "Watching you wheel yourself around becomes tedious from time to time. These artificial limbs will make it much less so."

Cyrus looked at the mechanism the Overlord gave him. It looked like a bulky chair, with six spider-like legs as the main source of movement. He smiled gratefully. "Thank you, Overlord," he said. "But you didn't have to do this. I'm perfectly fine with-" He was cut off when a pair of mechanical claws grabbed him by the arms, lifted him out of his wheelchair, and into the new one with ease.

"I never said you had a choice in whether you used them or not," the Overlord stated simply. As Cyrus looked around curiously at the buttons and switches on the mechanism, he added, "The switch on the left is for walking forwards and backwards, the switch on the right is for moving left or right."

"I-I see," he stammered, still surprised by the Overlord giving him a new chair to make up for his disability. He tested the controls out, surprised at how responsive they were and how easy it was to move. "Thank you, again. I would have built it myself, but between rebuilding the city and inventing other things, I've had my hands quite full for some time."

"Well, what else have you been building?" the Overlord asked, now almost invasively curious. He didn't like how Cyrus nervously gulped upon hearing his question. "What are you planning, Borg?"

"N-nothing," he replied, looking away, not realizing the information for the Techno Blades was still up on the computer. "Nothing that you wouldn't like, of course."

There was a long pause, the Overlord falling completely silent. Cyrus realized too late that he was actually searching through the system again, and probably found the information on the Techno Blades.

"So..." the Overlord hissed at last. "You've been making blueprints for weapons to destroy me? All of this, behind my back?" His voice rose to a near-deafening screech. "And you thought I wouldn't notice any of this?!"

Cyrus' eyes widened as the mechanical claws came down again, snapping viciously just above his head. "W-well, I actually wasn't planning on building them, exactly. Like I said, I have my hands full, these weapons are just-"

"Are just what?!" The Overlord's patience had worn thin. Cyrus knew he had to be careful with what he said next, otherwise he wouldn't have the chance to actually build the Techno Blades and give them to the Ninja.

"They're just...hypothetical weapons." Cyrus hoped that was a good enough excuse. "If such a weapon were ever created to destroy you from inside the system, I should know how to deactivate it, correct? So I created these blueprints to better understand how something like it would work."

The Overlord growled. "That better be what it is... Otherwise I'll have to be rid of you completely." One of the claws extended to pet Cyrus' head gently, as though in a form of affection. "And you know how much I would hate to do that, don't you?"

Cyrus hung his head. "Yes."

"Good. Now get back to work. I want to be out of this prison sooner rather than later." The image on the monitor disappeared, and with it, the Overlord's presence.

Cyrus nodded, turning back to the computers. He knew the Overlord would come back to speak with him again in a few hours. The blueprints for the Techno Blades were almost complete. He sighed, shutting the monitor off and leaning back in his chair. And I'd rather have you defeated, sooner rather than later, he thought bitterly.

Sorry if the yaoi isn't obvious, but it's definitely there. Anyway, March Break is gonna be great :D

I might actually be able to do daily oneshots again, I have no other schoolwork to do, and for once I don't feel stressed. In other words, expect a oneshot tomorrow :D

Thank you aurathestar for requesting this pairing! Stay tuned!