Authors Notes: I had to split this chapter into two pieces because it looked like it was going to be incredibly long. I'm on vacation so I'll have to find as much time as I can to finish the last part up. Enjoy!

Unwanted Path

Chapter 20

Hope

Zareth sat on the sidewalk his legs crossed. A small blanket placed over his shoulders. He had just gotten off the phone with Lloyd and the Bounty was inbound. Now that everything was over and Dr. Spencer was in police custody Danny should be safe. Well that is if they keep her in prison for a long time. Apparently their was an outstanding warrant on her for human trafficking. She had live humans sent to her so she could do horrible experiments on her. No wonder Midnight wanted to leave. She seen all that and was probably afraid she was next.

Midnight leaned on a light pole her eyes kept opening and closing on their own. She looked around and down at her hands if someone addressed her. She never looked anyone in the eyes. A police officer said it was a sign of trauma. Zareth sat back against the wall and closed his own eyes. When he opened them again he saw a huge ship hovering over the lot and a teenager clad in black stood over him.

"Zareth... " It was Cole. Zareth looked behind him and their stood the blue ninja Jay.

"Come on buddy lets get you inside." Cole said helping Zareth up. Putting his arm over his shoulder to help keep weight off the injured leg. Zareth turned and looked at Midnight.

"Come on pari...we getting the hell outta dodge." Zareth said.

"Pari?" Midnight asked.

"Yeah...like the color. Pariwinkle." Zareth said and chuckled. "Don't like it?" Midnight giggled.

'How about Midnight Pariwinkle!' Danny said and giggled having felt the others scoff and giggle.

"Midnight Pariwinkle." Zareth nodded and kept walking.

"So your Dannys sister huh? Is that older or younger?"

"We were activated the same day."

"Twins! Cool." Jay proclaimed. Within Zareths head he felt Danny grow slightly jealous and downcase.

"I'm the ugly twin." She grumbled.

'Not true.' Dareth barked at Danny. 'Your beautiful.' Dareth said. Zareth felt that Danny didn't believe him, but didn't say anything to Dareth. Which means if Zareth knew so did Dareth. They both wished they could hug her.

"Danny listen to me, you've got a charm about you that no one is able to contend with. Your small, bright, you can do so much with that hair if you'd let me, and wow your feet are tiny. I just want to…" Zareth stopped himself when he noticed Cole and Jay were looking at him. He kind of grew red in the cheeks.

"Don't let us stop you. Keep going." Jay said with a short laugh. "We're used to Zane talking to himself like that."

"Yeah he had Pixal in his head for a year or so." Cole said and nodded. Zareth found himself grateful to them for not poking fun at him when Danny felt down.

'You forget one minor detail Zareth. I've got no body to look pretty with anymore.' She said with a sad sigh. Zareth knew he had to get to Borg industries soon or he may lose her subconscious. It was unstable. It felt like it was sand in someones hand. It just kept sifting through the fingers.

"Come on Dannygirl. Don't fall apart now. You know I love you." Zareth said. Their was that soft twing of fascination after using that nickname. She loved the way he said it, or the sound of him saying it. Zareth wasn't to sure which it was, but it made him smile.

On board the Bounty the ninja waited to see Zareth. They had thought he was on vacation. He hopped up onto a box and sat there for a little while sa Nya looked at his leg, palm, and chest. He was thankful for her soft hands because they felt like they had recieved a lot of abuse from being felt around under the skin. To Zareths amazement Danny could feel everything that Nya did to him and cringed right along with him.

"Hows Danny holding up?" Nya asked. Danny and Nya had met on several occasions for girltime mostly that meant that Nya, Danny, Skylar, and Pixal would all go do something girly together. He wasn't to sure what that stuff was but they always came back smiling so it didn't really bother him to much.

"She's feeling everything that I'm doing." Nyas eyes grew wide for a moment in disbelief.

"Really?" She said and wound the bandage around the stitched skin on his palm. "Now theirs not much else I can do for your chest. I can glue it, but thats it. You'll have to heal that on your own. What did she use to cut that open with? Its titanium." Nya said Zareth shook his head.

"It looked like a knife with a heated tip. I think she melted it." Zareth said and watched as Nya used medical glue to glue the pieces of titanium back together. Finally she stepped back and marveled at her world.

"You suppose I can pass off as a mummy for Halloween?" He asked. Nya giggled and swatted him. Actually it hurt, Zareth rubbed his shoulder. The girl could hit, weather she was joking about it or not.

"So how did this happen?" Lloyd asked. Zareth sighed knowing this would happen. Zareths mouth closed, he was normally the life of the party, but all he really wanted to do was shower, eat, and go to sleep. Lloyd leaned forward and put his hand on his shoulder.

"I know you need to rest Zareth, but I'm asking this now while its fresh on your mind." Lloyd said. Zareth could understand that, but it didn't stop him from sighing hard.

"Danny and I had gone on vacation...we were in a dance hall and I went up on stage and when turned she was being pulled away by one of those damned androids. I gave cha...oh my bike." Zareth said standing up and looking around. When he did that his mind swam and he faultered. Both Lloyd and Cole caught him. His eyes rolled, fluttered, and he was out like a light.

Zareth woke up to the sound of what sounded like a child having a temper tantrum. He slowly got out of bed, it turned out to be Zanes. He walked down the hallway slowly since his mind still felt groggy. He looked into the TV room to see Cole and a young child.

"No you can't stick that in the electric socket." He said holding a boy that looked thin enough to go into the electric socket.

"But I wanna!" He yelled. Cole rolled his eyes and put the toy into a box and put the child into a corner.

"You can stay there till you stop crying." He told the child whose cries just got louder as he stood there. Snot running down his nose. Cole then noticed Zareth.

"Sorry Zareth, Little Wu just doesn't seem to want to listen today."

"Poor kid." Zareth winked

"Kai and Nya are making breakfast. You can head that way if you want." Cole said and sat down to continue to watch Wu.

"Little Wu?" Zareth felt Danny start to wake up. She panicked for a second not sure where she was. The action caused Zareth to back paddled into the wall and hold his head and fall to his knees.

"Its okay Danny...p...please. I...I can't." It made him feel physically ill. When Danny realized what she was doing to Zareth she stopped everything and backed up into an imaginary corner in his mind. The only thing Zareth could feel now was guilt. He felt a hand on his back. He looked up to see Pixal standing there.

"Are you alright Zareth?" She asked. Zareth felt Zanes pump box flutter at seeing her again.

'You both are just so adorable together.' Danny giggled and gasped realizing Zareth cringed again.

"Zareth your nose is bleeding. Are you functioning within safe parameters?" She asked and put her hand on his forehead.

"I...I'm fine I just...with three of us in here…" He suddenly realized that he was in one of Zanes night shirts. His other shirt was gone...it was Dannys Christmas present to him, and it was gone.

'Its okay we can find another.' Danny offered.

Pixal helped Zareth into the kitchen and then retrieved him a paper towel for his bloody nose.

"Morning Zareth." Kai said putting eggs down on the table. Nya brought over pancakes, and syrup. The table already had biscuits, orange juice, and sausage.

"So...I gotta ask. Now that your fused with Danny does that mean you took on a few of her features too?" Kai asked.

"Her temper apparently." Zareth said and saw Kai straighten up. He had been subject to Dannys temper already. She didn't seem to get angry at Zareth all to much, but she was a short fuse with a lot of other people, with certain subjects. It was the only way he could explain his sudden temper tantrum yesterday with those androids. He even flipped off a camera. Zareth put his head in his hands. He felt sick to his stomach again.

"You okay?" Nya asked.

"Yeah, just a bit sick. I'll be fine after something to eat I think."

"With all three of your minds working the way they are, you'll have a bit of an imbalance You didn't feel it yesterday because you were concentrating on something else." Pixal said.

Lloyd walked into the kitchen followed by Cole, and Jay. Little Wu was on Coles shoulders, his tears of a moment ago forgotten. Children always seemed to bounce back like that.