Zane:

Within the shadow bubble, Zane stood sitting on the ground while looking down, and leaning against a shadow wall. He was put back together, but his memories were suppressed, as he stood silently sitting down, trying to figure out where he was and who he was. He lifted his head and looked around, and then he heard a voice say,

"Hello Zane. It's nice to see that your awake."

Zane looked up and saw a shadowy form of a man wearing a black hood with red eyes, and a smirk on his face.

"Are you alright my friend?" Shadow Darkness asked, while crossing his arms.

"Friend? We are friends?" Zane asked, although he felt something was odd about the shadowy man before him.

"Yes we are. You are Zane, and my name is Shadow Darkness. I've been looking for you to bring you back home. I'm glad that I finally found you," Shadow Darkness said, as he floated closer to Zane and extended his hand towards him.

"Come. Follow me. Let me bring you home," Shadow Darkness said with a small smile.

Zane looked at Shadow Darkness' hand, and then he looked at his own, as he reached up to take his hand.

'Shadow Darkness... He's my friend? I feel like I know him... but... I sense that something isn't right... but what else can I do? No one else is here to help me but him,' Zane thought, and then he grabbed Shadow Darkness' hand.

Shadow Darkness smiled a little more darkly, and then he helped lift Zane off the ground.

"So Zane, do you agree to follow me and let me give you some of my powers? Then you won't get lost again," Shadow Darkness asked, as he released Zane's hand, but he offered his other hand that was enhanced with shadow power.

Zane took a moment to look at Shadow Darkness' hand, and then he slowly extended his hand towards his.

'I can sense a dark power radiating from his hand... but there's no where else that I can go... at least not that I remember,' Zane thought as he was about to accept Shadow Darkness' proposal.

-Ring, Ring-

Zane froze when he heard a ringing from his left arm, and Shadow Darkness looked at him with one eyebrow raised. Zane pulled his arm back as he began to examine it to see why it was ringing, which was indeed unnatural to him now. Then Zane placed his other hand on his arm and lifted it up to find a mechanical compartment of switches and buttons that were inside of his forearm. His eyes widened in shock to see that his arm was fully mechanical, and then he noticed a button that was blinking, which made him press it to see what it was.

"Zane. Zane! Are you there? Can you hear me?" A voice spoke from Zane's arm, as Zane took a step back, as if he was trying to step away from his own arm.

"W-Who is this? Who are you?" Zane asked with confusion and some fear in his voice.

"Zane? It's me your father. Can you hear me okay?" Dr. Julien said, as Zane gasped.

"F-Father... I have... a father," Zane said as his mind went into a euphoric state of shock.

"No, Zane, don't listen! He's a sham! He'll only deceive you," Shadow Darkness said quickly, but Dr. Julien heard his voice.

"Is... Is that Darkness? Get away from my son you evil fiend!" Dr. Julien said to Shadow Darkness.

"Evil?" Zane asked, as his mind snapped back into reality.

"NO! Don't listen to him Zane! He's the reason why you were here alone! He abandoned you!" Shadow Darkness said.

"That's not true! Zane, he's lying! He must have messed with your memory switch in your chest frame!" Dr. Julien said quickly.

Zane looked down at himself, as he reached over and opened up his chest to see his inner mechanical network, which made him jump back in surprise.

"I-I... what am I?!" Zane said with some panic in his voice.

"Useless metal," Shadow Darkness said with venom in his voice, as Zane looked at him in shock.

"How dare you say that to my son! He is not at all 'useless!'" Dr. Julien said with fatherly anger in his voice.

Then Zane looked down and noticed that the memory switch in his chest compartment was singed and broken.

'My memory switch has been destroyed... Then... I can't get my memories back?' Zane thought in sadness.

"Forget you then! If you won't follow me, then rust AWAY!" Shadow Darkness shouted, and then he waved his hand quickly before Zane, as a dark wind current slashed him away.

Zane went flying back pretty far, as he landed flat on his back while his chest compartment closed on him.

"Zane! Are you alright?!" Dr. Julien called out to Zane in worry.

"I-It's alright... father. But my memory switch in my chest has been destroyed. I am eighty-five percent sure that Shadow Darkness must have done this so that I wouldn't reclaim my memories," Zane said sadly while keeping his arm near his mouth.

"Oh no," Dr. Julien said sadly.

Then Zane heard growling, as he sat up and saw shadow lizarians coming for him as well as the clawed hands from before, but since he doesn't remember anything from before, they're a new site to him. Zane stood up on his feet quickly, as he back away from the lizarians, only to stop and turn around to see that he was surrounded.

"It's over Zane! There's no where to run, and no where to hide! NO ONE is going to save you! You can't even save yourself! Your all alone, and it's over!" Shadow Darkness said, as he stood floating just above the Shadow Lizarians with his arms crossed.

Zane looked around in panic, as he couldn't think of a way to defend himself or get away.

"I... I can't escape, or even fight," Zane said, as the Shadow Lizarians came closer.

Then one of the claws grabbed Zane's left leg and held it down, as another claw grabbed his right arm and held it in place.

"I'm... I'm alone," Zane said, as he dropped his head in certain defeat.

"You are never alone Zane," Dr. Julien said.

"Father," Zane said, and he looked towards his arm, as two more shadow claws grabbed his other leg and hand.

"Zane, you have friends. Great friends who are willing to stand by your side no matter what to do what's right. Friends who are willing to fight and protect one another, as you would do for them. You even found a remarkable lady, who cares about you so much, as you do for her," Dr. Julien said.

"R-Really? I have such great friends, and even a significant other?" Zane asked, as a smile slowly came to his face, even though the Shadow Lizarians surrounded him.

"Yes Zane, you do. Your a Nindroid with numerous talents that even I didn't program into you, and you have great friends that have stuck by your side for a long time, as well as new ones who are the same way, especially her," Dr. Julien said proudly.

As the Shadow Lizarians readied themselves to pounce, Zane asked, "What is her name?"

Then Dr. Julien replied, "Her name is Auria."

"Auria~" Zane whispered her name as he smiled, wholeheartedly.

Then he looked towards his arm, as his eyes widened when he noticed that there were switches similar to the ones that were in his chest compartment.

'Could one of these switches...' Zane thought, but then his thoughts were cut off when one of the Shadow Lizarians howled, which made the others leap forward.

Zane quickly pulled his regular arm towards the one that had the switches and flipped one of them. The Shadow Lizarians pounced on Zane and stood in a pile on top of him. Shadow Darkness arrogantly snickered, and turned to float away.

"You really were useless metal," Shadow Darkness said.

"THAT'S WHAT YOU THINK!" A voice yelled out from the pile of Shadow Lizarians.

Shadow Darkness immediately turned around with his eyes widened, as he saw a light blue glow from underneath the Shadow Lizarian pile. Then an eruption of ice and frost burst up from underneath the Shadow Lizarians, which sent them flying up and scattering away in the air. Shadow Darkness arched an eyebrow, but then his expression turned into surprise when he saw the White ninja standing where the pile was, unharmed, with glowing white eyes and a fierce expression on his face. He was about to transform into his Full Potential, but he had something to say first.

"Darkness!" Zane called out while looking at Shadow Darkness and continued,

"You took advantage of my robotic form by exploiting my functions and lying to me! You've been trying to get into my mind this whole time, and I suspect that your pulling the same maneuver with the others!"

Zane pointed towards Shadow Darkness and said, "Well not anymore! They are NOT your pawns, and I am NOT a pawn of yours either! You won't take my memories away again! NO ONE WILL!"

Zane opened his arm compartment, since it closed when he used his power, and he grabbed the memory switch and ripped it out.

"No one will take advantage of my memories like you did! Never again!" Zane said, as he transformed into his Full Potential.

"You just wait you metal freak! Darkness is not through yet!" Shadow Darkness yelled out.

"But you are," Zane said in a lower tone, as he unleashed a whirlwind of ice that spread out beyond where he was with a mighty force.

"NOOOOoooooo!" Shadow Darkness yelled out as he was swept in the whirlwind and disappeared, as well as the shadow mist that surrounded Zane.