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The Rights Of A Nindroid

This is chapter six

(Previous chapter here)

Hmm... I wonder what’s going on here...

When Nya finally lets them go back for Kai, the red ninja is staring straight ahead, a hollow look on his face.

“Kai?” Jay questions, creeping closer. He’s aware of the others behind him taking care of the bail, but he doesn’t listen, only focusing on his boyfriend. “Are you okay?”

“Zane…” Kai breathes out, eyes glazed over. He seems so wrapped up in his thoughts that it looks like he hasn’t even noticed Jay.

“Hey Fire-Hazard, you okay?” If he gets any closer the cops will probably stop him, so he just waits for him to notice him.

Kai’s vision finally focuses. “It wasn’t me. I can’t tell him- he thinks it was me.” His words are strangled; he actually looks like he’s on the verge of tears.

Then that familiar rage seems to get to him, and his hands clench into fists. “I’m going to save him. I’m going to save him if it’s the last thing I do.”

“Thanks. We’ll take him now.” Lloyd speaks up from behind him.

Kai is still shaking with anger as they take him back to the ship, refusing to say another word until they get there.

Once they reach the bridge, he sucks in a deep breath before starting.

“They’re torturing him.”

There’s a brief pause as the rest of them process that.

“They’re what.” Nya’s voice is dangerously quiet in a way that Jay’s only heard a few times- and none of them ever ended well for whoever was on the receiving end.

“They’re torturing him. I- I don’t know what they did, but he kept saying my name, he- he thought it was me.” Kai sounds like he’s on the verge of a breakdown, smoke beginning to steam off of him.

“Wh- how is that even possible?!” Lloyd stares. “With all of his sensors? He could see through it in a heartbeat!”

“I don’t know how they did it, I just know that they did.” Kai seems like a mixture of furious and sad, like he doesn’t know whether to cry or set the nearest government building on fire.

Cole speaks up next. “How do you know? Did they show you? Do you know where they’re keeping him?” To anyone who didn’t know him, he would’ve sounded calm, but Jay can easily read the heavy emotions in his voice.

Kai shakes his head with a pained sigh. “It was a video. I couldn’t tell where it was taken.”

The horror of the situation begins to fully dawn on him then. “They’re torturing Zane because you tried to rescue him.” Jay breathes out, voice shaking. “The more we try to help him, the more he’ll think we’re hurting him.”

Another heavy silence takes over the room.

But then Cole speaks, his voice low and threatening. “We need to get him out of there.”

“But how? The more we try to save him, the more he’s going to get hurt!” Jay gets out, panic overtaking him.

“We’ll have to play by their rules.” Lloyd decides. “No more sneaking around or illegal things. We play this game their way… as difficult as it is.”

Kai grinds his teeth, and Nya grips the table tightly. Cole’s pained expression most likely lines up with the scared one that Jay has.

“I know it’s not ideal,” Lloyd sighs, “but we can’t risk him getting hurt any more than he already has. One way or another, we’re going to save him.”

Kai gives a determined nod, and there’s mumbles of agreement.

Still, Jay can’t help his nervousness at the whole situation. It’s possible that they’re just torturing him anyway and only sent the video as a deterrent.

Breathing out a puff of breath, Jay squeezes his eyes shut, trying to blot out his stressful thoughts.

They’ll get him back. They’ll bring him home…

No matter what it takes.

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After what feels like an eternity, Zane wakes up.

He’s not very quiet about it, but that might only be because Cryptor’s sensors have been jammed as high as they’ll go.

YOU OKAY?

He taps out the message slowly, giving the white ninja some time to process each letter.

CONFUSED

Cryptor shakes his head, a quiet sigh escaping him. It’s likely that they screwed with his sensors somehow- a hallucination-like thing based off of memories.

It he can remember when they did that to him, too. He can remember exactly what he had seen. Because they played it over and over, burning it permanently into his mind.

Though it’s not like he would’ve been able to forget even without the hallucinations… something like that isn’t easily forgotten.

Shaking his head, Cryptor draws himself back to reality. He can’t afford to get stuck in those thoughts again.

IT WAS FAKE

There’s a long pause from the other side before Zane is rapidly tapping back a response.

WHAT?

Cryptor breathes out slowly, trying to keep himself calm even with the memories bombarding it him.

IT WAS FAKE

Even with the repeated words, there’s an even longer pause, and Cryptor grimaces some- maybe he’s been through a lot, but Zane has literally self destructed. Whatever he saw-

IT WAS AN ILLUSION?

Despite Zane not being able to see him, Cryptor nods as he taps back his response.

ELECTRICITY CAN TRICK YOUR SENSORS

There’s another weighty pause, and he impatiently waits for Zane to reply. Who knows when they’ll be taken back again- they don’t have time for this kind of hesitation.

THANK YOU

Confusion takes over him, and he frowns as he tries to understand the meaning behind the message.

WHAT?

Zane’s response comes immediately, and the words send an odd feeling through him.

YOU HELPED ME

Well… he did, actually. He could’ve left Zane to stew in his misery, he could’ve never started talking to him in the first place.

He tries to tell himself that it’s just so he can betray him later, so that it he can tell the officials about any escape plans he comes up with.

But he knows that that’s not true. There’s something else, something holding him back.

Unfortunately, he knows exactly what that something is.

‘Cryptor had rolled his eyes as he crossed his arms. “Stop treating me like I’m made of glass.” He had snapped.

“I’m only trying to help you.” The other shook his head, his expression being a wordless plea for Cryptor to allow him to assist.

Help. The word had made Cryptor feel somewhat uncomfortable. Why would someone help him? He hadn’t done anything to deserve that.

“Yeah.” He had finally got out. “Okay.”

The other’s jovialness had been contagious, and Cryptor hadn’t been able to resist his good mood.

He had come to the conclusion that maybe working with others wasn’t as bad as he thought it would be.’

Shaking his head, Cryptor pulls himself back into the present. After a few moments of hesitation, he taps out a response.

DONT GET USED TO IT

He idly shifts in his uncomfortable position- these lockers are far too small, being barely large enough to fit him- or Zane. Any smaller and they couldn’t even squeeze in.

MY TEAM WILL RESCUE US

Cryptor scoffs, rolling his eyes. Yeah, right. Zane they’ll rescue. Cryptor? Not a chance.

THEY WONT EVEN BE ABLE TO FIGURE OUT WHERE WE ARE

Maybe it’s mean to insult them like that, to dash Zane’s hopes- but he’s too tired to play nice.

I TRUST THEM

With a sigh, Cryptor closes his eyes. At least Zane actually has people looking for him. If anyone cared about Cryptor, they’d have found him by now.

He had thought he had made a friend for a while. But it seems that he managed to push away even him.

WE SHOULD STILL PLAN OUR OWN ESCAPE

Cryptor sucks in a deep breath at Zane’s message. Grinding his teeth, he taps out a reply.

NO WE SHOULDNT

Even without being able to see Zane, he knows that the other is very confused by his insistence against the matter.

And if the officials hadn’t done what they did, Cryptor would be all for making a plan.

But after that… he can’t even bring himself to consider it.

He can still hear what was spoken, can still see the torn metal and ripped out gears. Every waking moment, the memory sits in the back of his mind.

WHY NOT?

Cryptor grinds his teeth. He can’t make himself talk about it. Not when it he can barely even think about it.

DONT ASK

And that’s the end of it. Closing his eyes, Cryptor attempts to go into his sleep mode.

I CAN HANDLE PAIN

Eyes flying back open, Cryptor taps out a furious response.

NOT THIS KIND

After a few moments pause, Zane replies yet again.

YOU UNDERESTIM

Cryptor decides to cut him off here, to stop him before it’s too late.

GO TO SLEEP

Closing his eyes, Cryptor ignores the next messages and activates his sleep mode.

With the memories Zane had dredged up, it’ll be a miracle if he doesn’t have any nightmares.

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