Wisps: Recollection (Ninjago X Reader)

8. Blackout

Muscles tendons tensed at the thuds the Nindroids made as they marched on the floorboards you were hiding under with Pixel and Zane. Specks of light filtered through the cracks in the flooring. Breathing froze in your throat as a thump shook the floor above you, shaking dust onto your mask. Planks creaked as the weight of the robots shifted. Waiting in that hole in the ground, metal pressed against your body increased the feeling of suffocation. Vibrations thrum from the rumbling engine and you peeked at the fractures in the weathered wood. You jumped out, the coast is clear. Joints popped as you straighten your back. You helped Pixel out of the cramped compartment with Zane.

"We better get that fixed up." You gestured to his exposed circuits and wires barely covered by a panel held together with a hinge. His face is no better, the panel is gone, exposing his light bulb for an eye and the metal encircling it. "Though preferably Pixel."

"I will do my best." Pixel's welding tool popped out of her arm while Zane eased himself onto a crate. She started welding the hinge on his chest with the utmost care.

"I'll leave you to it." You winked.

'They look pretty close after just meeting each other, I guess birds of a feather do flock together.'

You strolled to another compartment, meeting up with Kai and almost bumping into Jay.

"Watch where - Oh it's you."

"Sorry, I'm not the android sent by cyberlife."

"Are you being sarcastic?" Jay's notched eyebrow ticked down.

"Nope, I'm being totally serious."

"Huh, they really have upgraded androids." Kai pursed his lips. "The voice is... uniquely robotic."

'It's the voice changer dummy.'

"Android? That's a new one."

"You're not an android?"

"You figured that one out fast Kai."

"So you're like us."

"No mortal, I am a deity, bow down before me."

Jay pinched the bridge of his nose.

"If this is what we have as help, I don't think you'll be much of it."

"I would think you'd want an extra useful person around when an entire fleet of nindroids are going to plow your asses."

"Only your elemental powers are useful - which you control like a toddler!"

"I told you to move, idiot."

"Idiot? How was I supposed to know - Why are you even here?"

"...That's classified."

"Is that why you are still wearing that mask?" Kai's nail clinked the alloy before you flinched away. He pointed at his pulled-down bandana. "Y'know you could take it off right?"

"Yeah, why are you still wearing that?"

"It's a prototype from Mr. Borg." Jay faltered in his steps and halted, his switch was flipped. 

"A prototype? I didn't know - What does it do? Mr. Borg has a lot of inventions with a range of-"

"It isn't anything special." You shut down Jay before he can ramble you to death with something Borg already lectured you about whenever he made a new invention. It was interesting when it wasn't a day-long documentary. "Welllll, I'll get going."

"We're going the same way." Jay pointed to the door in front of you, trailing behind you.

"...I guess we are." You stretched the back of your head sheepishly and opened the door to an interesting sight. "Um?"