Skybound: Charlie's Story

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Okay, I'm back with another chapter! I am happy to report that my Mandalorian fanfic is complete, meaning that I will be updating this story on the regular!

Updates will after every Bad Batch update, going every other.

Enough of me. On with the show!!

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Charlie did her best not to trip as she walked through the halls of Kryptarium with the other Ninja. Walk was an overstatement. Rather, the Master of Darkness shuffled since her ankles were bound with chains as well as her wrists. On either side of them were cells with angry prisoners, rattled against the bars.

Jay whimpered nervously, tripping over his bound feet.

"Don't look scared, look mean!" Cole told him as he helped him up. "You gotta look hard in a place like this."

"Meat, fresh meat." The prisoners cried angrily.

Their resentment made Charlie uneasy. But what unsettled her more was the fact she couldn't feel it. The prisoners began to chant their cry, as if demanding to be let free to attack the Ninja.

"Don't mind them," the warden leading them away said. "They all get a little grouchy when they don't get their meat."

Just then, a woman dressed in lunch attire came running down the hall with a food cart. She handed out meat to the prisoners. Charlie released a breath she hadn't realized she was holding.

Jay chuckled nervously as they shuffled along faster, eager to get out of there. Lloyd grunted in struggle as he tried to get his chains off.

"Kryptarium Prison," Zane said thoughtfully. "we've been here before, but as guests, never inmates."

Lloyd growled, the cuffs digging into his patchy skin.

"You can try, but those shackles are made of Vengestone." The warden said. "Pretty good for shutting down your powers, and makin' sure you don't ghost out of here." His last words were directed at Cole.

The Master of Earth took that as a challenge. "Oh, yeah? But how good are they against my super strength?" He grunted as he struggled to break them off, but the chains didn't even move. "Just wait, almost got them." He tried one more time before giving up.

"They aren't gonna break." Charlie told him. She was still a little upset that Cole had left her and Jay to fend for themselves. Logically, she knew that her lover was trying to do the right thing, but it still hurt that he left her like that.

As they walked through the prisoner, a skeleton recognized them. He broke off his arm and swung it at them through the bars.

"We're shuffling, we're shuffling." Cole said nervously as they moved as fast as they could with their chained ankles.

They came to a door and the warden stopped in front of it. "Since you're celebrities, I took the liberty of taking you out of the general population..."

Kai smirked. "Ha! Who doesn't love special treatment."

The warden opened the door. "...and placing you in the super mean and dangerous population."

Charlie's eyes widened as she looked on at the inner of the holdings. This was the part of the prison she was most familiar with. The large, round room was lined floor to ceiling with cells, all filled with angry prisoners the Ninja had put in there. In the center was a single watchtower, overlooking the prisoners with hawk-eyed guards.

"You're real special, all right." Nya said with a pointed look at her brother.

"It's non problem, Warden." Lloyd said as they were led to a higher level. "We'll do our time until all of this is straightened out. Like I said before, we were framed."