Glacier Frost: A Glaciershipping Fanfiction

2: Breaking Down

Jay was nervous, so very nervous. Being the main mechanic of the group, it was his job to get Zane back online while the others treated Cole. But, he had never worked on anything as important or as complicated as a full on Nindroid.

What if he couldn't do it? What if he screwed up? What if he just made things worse? He had to push all of his negative thoughts aside for the better future of his friend.

He gently, with some help from Kai and Nya, laid Zane on a table. Kai and Nya then left to go treat Cole for his hypothermia. He slowly and might I add awkwardly pulled off Zane's torn gi to expose his control panel door and check for injuries. He pushed passed the obvious awkwardness of the situation and checked his arms, back, chest, and legs for any easily fixable injuries like chipped paint or crooked metal.

His chest seemed to be hit the worst. His control panel door was twisted in an unnatural way. There were multiple wire exposing gashes along his sides. He tried to do this as gently as possible. He knew despite being passed out hard, Dr. Julian had built Zane with an internal nervous system. Jay didn't want to hurt him or have him be hurting too bad later, even though he knew he would anyway.

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He slowly lifted Zane's arms and gently turned them around, only to get a hard lump in his throat. On the underside of Zane's arms were rows upon rows of deep cuts. In some places only paint was scratched, and in others Zane's arms were cut through to the wiring. He shivered, and gently rolled Zane onto his stomach only to see even more of the same markings on his back.

He hoped those were from the fall. He didn't want to believe they came from somewhere else. He COULDN'T believe they came from somewhere else. They were too meticulously placed. Too similar in size and length. He knew that they weren't from the Serpentine or Garmadon either. They wouldn't care to place them so perfectly.

He knew those marks well. He bore them too. His weren't new. They were pretty old. He couldn't tell with Zane's though. It was metal after all.  He hoped they weren't. He didn't want to believe it. He COULDN'T believe it. He never knew his friend was so hurt. He didn't know he had been suffering all of this time. He wondered... If Cole hadn't unknowingly caught Zane that one night as he looked over Ninjago City from the railing... He didn't want to know what may have happened.

He felt like crying. His friend could have died. His friend was trying to kill himself. The kind, selfless, Nindroid who cared so deeply of his friends thought nothing of himself. He somehow couldn't think of how that would effect the world, his friendships, and Cole.

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Jay had known for a while that Zane was hopelessly in love with Cole. Jay knew Cole was in love with Nya. Nya was his, and he hated when Cole secretly flirted with her when he didn't think Jay could hear him. Jay had been trying to show Cole how much Zane loved him, but he knew that Cole was way to stupid to get it.

Even then, he didn't even know if Cole was bi or something else. Knowing the Master of Earth, he was probably straight. Jay didn't want to crush Zane's heart, so he kept quiet.

He made a mental note to discuss it with the others later and with Zane himself.

He flipped Zane onto his back again and opened his control panel. After a quick check, he noticed there were only a few unhooked wires and his chest was a little water logged. He dried the inside of his chest, and clipped the wires back into place. After checking his power source, he concluded it would only take a few days or so for him to wake up again.

Jay then got started on his other task of adding some new plating over large rips from the rocks and mixed up some matching skin colored paint to cover the exposed metal. He didn't repair the marks on his arms. He would do that at a different time. He didn't want Zane to know he'd seen them when he woke up. After he was finished, he dressed Zane in a clean gi and called for Jay and Nya.

"Did everything go well?" Nya asked, putting a hand on Jay's shoulder.

He tensed up by the sudden contact.

"Y-YEAH! Everything was perfect Haha! Not like there's anything totally serious I learned on accident!" Jay said, very unconvincingly.

Nya and Kai just shrugged it off as Jay being Jay and helped him move Zane into his bed. Jay went back into his room and slept the most anxiously he ever had.