Authors Notes: On vacation and mother in law doesn't have wifi. I've had to write this without so theirs probably going to be bad mistakes...wordpad sucks.

Unwanted Path

Chapter 17

Who am I?

The bike went faster and faster as it zoomed down the road. Ahead of him was the unmarked black car with Danny within. He knew his bike was easily the faster of the two, and apparently they did too, they kept slamming on their brakes and going down another way. They stopped at a red light and he was able to stop right next to the car and kick the back window where he saw that Danny was laying on the back seat. Her eyes were partly opened. They had drugged her.

'Zane what do we do?'

'Not much now Dareth, we just have to keep trying to get to her.' Zareth turned the bike once again down a side road and slammed on his brakes, it was to late though he went through a walled area. The car was stopped ahead of him. 4 stood next to the car smiling. The fence moved back into place just behind him. Zareth stopped his bike just short of the car but he continued to stay on it. He wasn't to sure what was going to happen, but their was one thing he knew.

"I do apologize for deceiving you Zareth, but it was the only way for you to meet our mistress." He bowed to him and opened the door. Zareth climbed off his bike and ran over to look into the back seat of the car. Zareth felt a huge weight push him into the car and close the door. He looked around and then back down at Danny. Zareth put his hand on her forehead and sighed with relief.

"Danny can you hear me?" Zareth asked. Dannys voice seemed incredibly low.

"Mmmhum…" She said. Zareth took her hand in his, and squeezed it softly to show her he was near. Pink gas began to come from the vents into the car. Zareth covered his face with the top part of his jacket. He looked around and then leaned over to Danny who made a whimpering sound. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a handkerchief and put it over her nose and mouth. He looked around to see that a few androids were outside the car waiting. He coughed feeling the effects of the gas. Then he saw the strangest thing, he turned to look at Danny and then look back up at the woman standing just short of the door. His eyes grew wide for their was a woman that looked identically to Danny. He felt so heavy. He turned and looked down at Danny whose fingers were loosening around his hand.

"I won't let them hurt you...I swear Danny baby." He leaned down and kissed her forehead. He rested his head on her chest before his mind gave out. They lay on the backseat, Zareths legs partially hanging off and the other half was over Dannys. He tried to protect her from them. Even though in her mind he knew that this wouldn't protect her at all.

"Look at that, isn't it sweet?" She said and motioned for the car. The androids opened the back seat and pulled Zareth off Danny.

"Keep that thing safe. It maybe the only way to appease him." The woman who looked like Danny said.

Danny was thrown over 4s shoulder. He followed the others into the building. It was a huge warehouse looking building. But the inside looked just like a hospital. The androids took Zareth into another room and lay him down on a table strapping down his legs, knees, neck, midsection, and wrists. Danny chained to the ceiling. Her feet barely touched the ground. They were left there in the darkened room to wake up on their own.

Close to a day later Zareth woke up to hearing Danny yelling his name. He tried to sit up, but he found himself strapped down. He couldn't see Danny, but he could hear her from where he was.

"Zareth!" She called out again, she wasn't aware he was awake, she couldn't see him.

"Danny...I'm...I'm good. Are you injured? Did they hurt you?"

"No no I'm alright, I'm just chained to the ceiling and it hurts." Zareth pulled at the restraints again. He looked around the room for anything that could possibly be used to free them. He jumped when he realized that they weren't the only ones in the room. The woman that looked like Danny stood by the door. Her hands were behind her back and she wore a lab coat. Once she realized that she was spotted she began to speak.

"Fascinating isn't she?" She asked pushing a button on the wall. It turned the bed Zareth was in sideways so he could see Danny. He hands were red in color from being hung like that. Dannys eyes locked onto the woman and they grew wider then a plate.

"Wh….What?" She whispered. The woman walked over and grabbed Dannys face and gave her a fake smile.

"Oh sweetheart...you do realize you are a robot don't you? A creation made by me to capture Zareth...and you have haven't you?" The woman kissed Dannys cheek. Danny just hung there her eyes unseeing, her mouth hung open in disbelief. "Whats worse is...Zareth knew for a few weeks now. He could have told you." She said and walked toward the door again. "I'll be back in a few moments. Sit tight." She gave the most evil chuckle Zareth ever heard on a woman...all that and she sounded just like Danny.

"You knew…?" Danny asked looking down at him. Zareth closed his eyes and sighed.

"Yeah…" Zareth felt the dread worm its way into his gut. The despair was almost enough to split himself into thei other two parts. He took a labored breath and closed his eyes. He knew what was coming, and he had prepared for it for some time now.

"Why Zareth! Why Dareth!" She screamed, tears were streaming down her face.

"Because we didn't care." He had to fight back his own tears. "We didn't care that you were a robot." He hardly ever called himself a we. But she also referred to Dareth as well.

"You didn't care about me?" She asked. "Then why did you keep coming back you could have just let them take me!"

"No...we didn't care that you were a robot. We loved you the way you were, we loved you so much that it didn't matter what you were made of. It actually felt...nice...to not be alone." Zareth admitted. Danny looked at Zareth for a few more moments before she tried to pull the chains from her hand.

"You aren't alone Zareth you never were. You had woman hanging off your arm at that night club. Why do I matter?" Danny demanded Zareth sook his head and tried to shrug.

"Because that was just it. They were just some woman...and you were my Danny girl."

"Dannygirl…" Danny giggled.

"Yeah...my Danny girl." Zareth looked at her. "You know Zane thought he was human for a long while too. He can relate."

"So can I talk to him about it when this is all over?" She was shaking. She was unsure of everything, and Zareth could see the attention she was giving her hands. For someone who was an android she sure was prefectly human acting. He sighed and closed his eyes.

"Zareth are you alright?" Danny asked. Zareth looked around at her and shook his head.

"The guy said they wanted me...when I thought it was all about you." He told her. "I'm sorry." He looked at her. "I got you into this."

"Zareth you goober." She giggled and kicked her leg up and got his finger. He grimaced before chuckling.

"Okay that hurt." He said. "But I know what that implies." He said and jumped when he heard the door open again. It slammed against the wall and two androids walked into the room. He saw one pushing a large tray into the room. Number 4 came skipping into the room and walked over to Danny.

"Hey there sister. I hear mom finally told you who you were." He said and took her chin in his hands. "Its great isn't it? You thought you were alone."

"You show a great way to show you sister you love her by trying to kill her a few hundred times...isn't it?" She asked and rolled her eyes. "YOu really care don't you?" Danny said and pushed him away using her feet. "Go bother someone else."

"Thats my Dannygirl." Zareth smiled at her. Danny blushed trying to hide it but she wasn't able to cover her face so she stood up.

"Oh go bother someone else huh? How about we go bother your boyfriend huh?" 4 asked and walked over to Zareth.

"We did some interesting xrays...their are a few things I don't understand so I guess we're going to check those out first." The woman reached out grabbing Zareths brand new shirt and tore it from his body.

"Hey! Danny gave that to me for Christmas!" He yelled.

"My name is Virginia Spencer. You can call me Dr. Spencer." She told them.

"You own my a new shirt lady...and I'll take it out of your ass." Zareth glared at the woman. He was angry now. He watched as Spencer washed her hands in something yellow before walking over to him.

"Hey...what are you doing? Don't touch me." He said and cringed when she pressed hard on his abdomen. She wasn't even trying not to bruise him, she pressed as hard as she pleased. Her nails even dug in and she wrote a few things down on her piece of paper and then went back to doing it again in a different spot.

"You Zareth are a perfect combination of both human and nindroid. I have a huge fascination for android or nindroids. Its a...passion of mine. I wanted to meet you so I could see just what you were, how you worked, and to better understand you." She turned to look at Danny. "No he will not survive the operations. Eventually my curiosity will be satisfied...but more then likely he'll die."