(REWRITE) The 17th Realm, The Maniac Trilogy - Book 1

Chapter 2 - Droids Gone Mad

JAY'S POV

"Where's everyone else?"

I earned a shrug from Sensei, who was still focused on the scroll. Suddenly I heard someone yell, "Over here!"

I scanned the ruins of the Bounty and found PIXAL'S arm sticking out of the rubble. I rushed over and managed to throw some of the snapped planks to one side, making it easier to pull her out. "Are you okay?" I asked.

She glanced at her limbs and without saying a word, she looked into my eyes and gave me a thumbs up along with a wide toothy smile. This is weird, usually she'd say some really long words which sound like gibberish to me.

"Ooookay then..." I rubbed my eyes and while yawning I asked, "Uh, could you download our coordinates so that we can get outta here?"

I didn't get a response. "Pix?" I looked around and found her a few meters away, kneeling down by a huge leaf where a yellow butterfly sat.

She admired it with widened eyes and her lips rounded to a small 'o' shape. She turned to me and blinked innocently. "It's a butterfly!" She turned her head back to the insect. "It's really pwetty..."

I'm sorry, did a nindroid just mispronounce the word "pretty"?

"Uhh... Master Wu? Something's really wrong with PIXAL..."

PIXAL jumped up onto her feet, threw her arms up in the air and screamed, "ROLLER COASTERS GO WEEEEEEEEEE!"

"Yee—!" I responded sarcastically. "—eeah, she's gone bonkers."

"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 let out a frustrated sigh. "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! HOW MUCH MORE DO I HAVE TO SUFFER?!" I panicked.

This is going absolutely fantastically!

I took a deep breath and started looking for something useful from the ruins of the ship but so far, I couldn't find anything. That was mostly because Sensei was extremely unhelpful with that useless scroll. Not to mention that 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. Nothing too heavy, don't worry, I'm not that stupid.

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

If you ever want to lose sanity:
Step 1: give a nindroid a malfunction
Step 2: lock yourself away with the nindroid in question
Step 3: let's see how long it will take for you to break, because if Master Wu, the god of focus, is losing sanity this fast, you have no chance of survival.

PIXAL started giggling like a child 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 in triumph.