Original - The 17th Realm (The Maniac Trilogy - Book 1)

2 - Droids Gone Mad

JAY'S POV

PIXAL didn't seem to care about the situation at all. She just stared at a butterfly which was sitting on a leaf. "Awh, you look so beautiful!" She smiled as her eyes widened.

"PIXAL?" I tried to get her attention so I walked up to her and waved at her face. "Hello?"

She froze.

Great.

A malfunction.

Just as I thought things couldn't get worse, she blinked and smiled at me before yelling, "Roller coasters go WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" She laughed.

I sighed, "Master, something's wrong with PIXAL."

"You don't say..." Sensei said, unamused.

"We have to find the others with HER tagging along going on about roller coasters and butterflies??" I complained.

Master Wu sighed. "Yes."

Okay. "So that's just great. We are stuck in the middle of a jungle, PIXAL has some malfunction that I don't know how to fix, the bounty is destroyed again and half of the team ain't here!"

This is going absolutely fantastically!

I started looking for something useful from the ruins of the ship but so far, I couldn't find anything. That was mostly because Pix was distracting me. A lot.

"OH MY GOSH THERE'S A BUTTERFLY!"
"DONKEYS GO MOO!"
"I'M AN AEROPLANE!"
"LOOK AT ME, I CAN FLY!" No, she didn't fly, obviously. She jumped and fell face first onto the ground.

"DID YOU SEE THAT? I CAN FLY!"

I was so frustrated with her that I actually threw something at her.

"HAHAHAHA! THAT TICKLED!"

First Spinjitzu Master... please help...

This is so annoying, I can't focus, and surprisingly, Master Wu couldn't focus either. He's like... the god of focus.

"FoCuS iS kEy", "YoU MuSt FoCuS tO aChIeVe WhAt YoU wAnT"

He actually covered his ears. It actually looked as if he was about to explode—

PIXAL started laughing again for absolutely no reason. "WEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!" 

I thought I was going to cut my ears off. In fact, I thought Sensei was going to cut HIS ears off! PIXAL kept repeating the most stupid things. I continued looking for stuff we might need and that's when something shiny caught my eye. "HAHA YES!" I shouted.

Master Wu uncovered his ears and ran over to me. "What did you find?"

"GUYS I FOUND A COMPASS!" I yelled excitedly, waving it around.

"YOU are looking VEEEEERRRRYYYYY saaaaaaaaad," PIXAL said in a really weird way. Almost as if she was drunk.

Can droids get drunk? From like, oil or whatever?
Can they even drink oil?
Can they drink at all? 

I mean, Zane has a digestive system and can eat and drink. He did drink motor oil in Kryptarium. But PIXAL?

Moving on...

PIXAL was digging through the ruins of the bounty for no reason and took out a map. "What does this do?" She started playing about with it.

"PIXAL, IT'S A MAP!" I snatched the map off her before she could do anything stupid with it. I folded it and put it in my pocket with the compass. We started heading South because we were North from the monastery when the bounty crashed.