Authors Notes: Well this is it. I'll start my third and final part in a few days. I have it mostly planned out. You'll love it :D It'll be my best villain of all :D

Frozen Timepiece

Chapter 30

Lost and Found

It was the first time in days that Zane woke up in an area where he actually felt safe. Also the first time he had ever woke up in the arms of someone he loved. He turned his head to look at Pixal who was being spooned him. She was plugged into a external charger. Even though she recreated herself with his specks she still needed to recharge because of the power cells she had. They were still the old power cells from the Samurai X unit that Nya used to fly around in.

He kissed her forehead. She slowly began to power back up. She looked up at him tiredly.

"Hi…" She whispered. Zane smiled down at her and chuckled.

"Hi." He whispered back kissing her nose.

"Oh guh...get a room." Ronin grumbled rolling over in his cot. Cole laughed from his bunk used to waking up just as early as his brother.

"Oh let them have this Ronin. Don't forget they haven't been able to hug like this since you kidnapped them and took them to Chens island!" Cole spat and slowly sat up rubbing his eyes and stretching.

"Hope the others are alright."

"I was unable to locate Echo. His servers must be offline." Pixal said looking around at Zane. "I am sorry." Zane shook his head and pulled her to him He was half a head taller then Echo, and a full head taller then Pixal. That made Pixal taller then Kate by a quarter of a head.

"We'll find them."

"I saw them run toward the sea shelf." Ronin said crossing his arms honestly wishing he knew where some coffee was at that moment. He was used to waking and sleeping as he pleased.

"You don't suppose they…?" Cole asked and looked at Zane surprised. Zane shook his head and sighed. He wasn't to sure about anything. His heart did a backflip when he realized what that meant. He stood up and looked around. "We need to get the Bounty back." He told Pixal. She smiled playfully and put her helmet back on.

"I know."

Kate slowly opened her eyes. She felt something on her thigh. She honestly thought it was a spider. She panicked and brushed it off with a yelp. Their was a playful giggle. She looked up to see Echo sitting cross legged with a cat tail in his hand. He wagged the plant this way and that so he could show her. She shook her head and put her head back down.

"We need to get back to walking toward the Bounty. Hopefully the others have infiltrated it and we can go home. Those wounds will not take much more murder from the environment." Echo said pointing to her wounds. She looked at her hand where one of the needles had gone in, plus all the scraps she had along it from their climb up the shelf.

"I would love a bath...a long...long vacation." She closed her eyes again.

"Honeymoon…" Echo said and smiled. "I don't really know a lot of places. Is there a place you'd like to visit?" He asked. Kate opened her eyes rubbing the sleep from them.

"I...well I'm not totally sure. I have a few atlases back in my office we could always look into that." She said and turned over and she crawled forward and looked at Echo for a moment. He gasped at the look. He saw it on her every so often normally right before she just pounced him wanting to cuddle. Normally resulting in them going back to sleep because she just didn't want to start work yet.

"Kate no...we need to get going." He stood up. She snatched the cat tail and popped his butt.

"Thats what you get for waking me up so rudely." She giggled and threw the cat tail into the bushes. Echo stuck his tongue out at her.

"I wish these trees had coconuts, or bananas in them." Echo realized she hadn't eaten in a full day now.

"Yes I could use a good oiling. My joints are going to start to grinding and squeaking."

"You mean like you used to when we first met?" She asked. He smiled and nodded. For some reason when she talked about his old body it amused him with how much she could remember. It had only been a week. He noticed her frown when she ran her fingers over her head. Her hair had been cut up to her shoulders. It was so much shorter then she had ever had it.

"Your beautiful Kate." He said taking her hand away from her hair.

"You can't play with it when its like this." She winched when Echo ran his fingers through it and smiled.

"No...thats not true." he smiled at her. An explosion shook the ground just behind them. He jumped and pulled Kate to him. His other arm lifeless at his side still.

"Come on." He yelled and took her hand.

"This should smoke them out." Sanza said to Raya who today was wearing green eyeshadow. He watched the tree line and smiled. He was missing teeth probably from the concrete falling from the ceiling. Jay hoped it was from that time Echo kicked him on the way by. He watched from the tree above Sanza.

"This guys an idiot." He whispered to no one in general.

"Yeah but what do you expect from some guy that can throw around ten million to get a girl." Kai said from the branch above. Luckily the tree was dense and no one could really see through it.

"Throw more." He told the guy in the car behind him. He threw something into the tube. The mortar shot into the sky and landed not to far away causing the ground to shake as it exploded. Smoke enveloped the area causing the ninja to start coughing.

Samurai X's tank skidded to a stop just under the Bounty. Its cannons which were manned by Ronin. His whoop of excitement echoed through the jungle. Each one of the vans exploded one by one. He looked around at Cole who had the other cannons on the other side. Zane was on the top he grabbed the anchor line and began to climb up the chain.

"Be careful Tincan!" Cole yelled to him. Zane waved down to him. Once inside he slowly walked along the ship looking around him.

"I do not see anyone in the control room Zane."

"Keep your eyes open I don't want to be surprised." He told her and ran up the stairs into the command center. He pushed the button for the anchor.

Echo looked on at the man standing in front of him. Sanza had an electric rod in one hand and a button in the other. He smiled at the nindroid, Kate had been shoved behind Echo.

"Your father made a mistake giving you a human mind. He even gave you faked emotions."

"He never gave us emotions." Echo said and shrugged his good shoulder. "We developed them on our own. Through human interaction. We learned to love because of him."

"Bullshit!" He yelled and ran forward pointing the rod at Echo as if it were a javelin. Echo used his good arm to just shove it out of the way. Sanza wasn't to good at fighting at all. Actually he was pretty clumsy.

"You see this button?" He held it up and wiggled it a little. "Their are explosives lining this part of the jungle. I had it rigged to go. I can't be arrested android. I'd rather die." He yelled hearing sirens. Someone must have gotten to the Bounty. He smiled showing his missing teeth.

"Hum...Echo did you do that?" Kate giggled. Echo stood up tall and smiled showing his own teeth to Sanza.

"Did my foot taste good?" He asked him. Sanza touched his jaw.

"You did that!" He yelled.

"I did promise to mess up that perfect smile." Echo said Sanza growled and pushed the button. Echo gasped and clung to Kate.

"Brother...where are you?" He whispered. The ground began to shake. He grabbed Kates hand and began to run back toward the compound. Their had to be a road there right? He could hear Kate panting beside him. She was never one for running.

"Come on Kate...just a little more." He called behind him. The ground sook again. Echo took a slight look behind him. The ground was disappearing before his eyes.

"Faster!" He yelled Kate could hear the panic in his voice.

"Echo!" Pixals tank broke through the treeline just ahead of them. Ronin had the back hatch wide open. He held his hand out to Echo. Echo pulled Kate ahead of him and into Ronins arms.

"Come on you too." He yelled after the bronzed nindroid.

"Echo come on!" Kate yelled holding out her hands for him too. To Echo...they looked nothing alike.

Kates heart stopped. Echo tripped and tumbled being overtaken by the dust cloud. They couldn't see anything.

"No!" Kates scream was the one thing Echo could hear. He could feel the ground shaking and jumping under his side. His audios kept ringing. His head hurt from the fall. He slowly stood up and looked around.

"Echo!" He turned hearing Kates voice drifting away. She was panicking. He gasped when he was quite literally lifted from the ground.

"Hey there bud." Echo looked up to see the Ninja hanging onto an anchor. He had been lifted up by both Jay and Kai.

"Kate!" He called after they came into view. Kate was in Cole and Ronins arms. Her face was lined with tears. Even though he was safe she kept reaching for him.

"Don't worry Zanes great as a pilot." Pixal yelled behind her. The Bounty descended the anchor just short of Sanzas property.

"Do you think he survived?" Ronin asked Cole. Cole shook his head and crossed his arms.

"If he did...I hope he runs...I have a strange idea that Echo could be pretty sinister with revenge if he wanted to be." Cole said watching Kate run into Echos waiting arms.

"Come on...we need to get them to Borg industries.

Borg looked at Echo, and Zane then saw Pixal. His eyes grew wider then dinner plates.

"How?" He looked amazed for a moment and then pointed to the other two. "But then you two look like hell? Kate my dear what happened to you!" He asked finally seeing her. She had been hiding behind Echo because she wasn't exactly in a good set of clothing yet. Still wearing mostly a blanket.

"We were...um...kidnapped, experimented on, and…" Kate swallowed suddenly the weight of everything that happened started to become apparent to her. Her bottom lip quivered and she just went quiet. Echo turned and put his good arm around her.

"We're alright now." He whispered

"Alright...how about you all head up to my apartment and I'll get your new bodies started. Its going to take a few days. I'm sure it'll be a little more comfortable then your accommodations anyways. Pixal you remember the way yes?"

"Of course." She said an motioned to an elevator. She opened a secret panel along the side of the elevator and pushed a button. It went all the way up to the very top. Within was a wide loft apartment. Kate limped into the room and snagged an apple from a bowl and walked over to the window. She turned and looked at the others. Each one looking around Borgs apartment.

"I actually figured he never left the building. He was pretty reclusive." Jay said and giggled looking at the fairly large tv on one wall.

"This way. There's a guest room" She opened the door and paused and looked at the others who didn't seem to move.

"I don't think one room is going to be big enough." Lloyd said looking at his ninja. All of which were incredibly injured, hungry, tired, and dirty.

Pixal smiled and nodded.

"Of course Master Lloyd."

Borg got back to his apartment early in the morning. He opened his door and looked within to see a large pile of blankets and pillows in the middle of his living room. The couch had been pushed against the wall.

"You remind me of kittens." Borg chuckled to himself. He reached out to touch Zane. His arms were protectively around Pixal who has her own hand in Kates to show the girl she wasn't alone. Echo was on Kates other side once again outside of the covers but still holding her. The others seemed to climb in around them.

"It would be a shame to wake them up now." He whispered and looked around at the kitchen. It had been used but cleaned back up. He dreaded looking at the bathroom since everyone seemed to have used it.

"I think I'll get on that paperwork in the morning." He smiled to himself. He had been fighting for equal marriage for his androids for some time now. Perhaps soon...perhaps very soon...things will change for the better.