Darkness Returns

Chapter 18: A Reflex

This fic is now longer then its predecessor.

Darkness Returns

Chapter 18

A Reflex

Jay watched Zane as he stood up. He watched the woman once again pull another piece of glass from the child's arm. The tink noise it made as it hit the metal pan bothered him. Zane walked around to the other side of the table and looked over at his daughter.

"I see you've formed a bond with her. I wasn't aware droids could do that. Its good to know." She ran a cloth over the skin that now seemed to no longer have glass along it. She picked up a can and sprayed it. It bubbled and hissed and the child recoiled from the pain. She didn't seem to wake up.

"If you are...her mother. Then she..." Zane's fingers closed around his daughters hand. "It would make our adoption papers void."

"Those adoption papers are moot all together as she isn't human." She looked up at Zane. "Just like those marriage papers to that man you married. You aren't human, and you are a man." Ouch that hurt. Zane loved Cole and even though their marriage wasn't legal because of this fact they performed the ceremony anyways. Cole wanted to see himself married to Zane and he felt that way as well. Borg did all he could to attempt to get rights for droids. But since they didn't even have birth parents the suit was thrown out.

"Be that as it may, Coles name is on the adoption papers as well."

"Plus Echo's too. Since he's in mine and Nya's partnership we're her godparents." Jay motioned to Echo.

"Do all of you look alike?" She asked, wrapping up Kairi's arm.

"No, a friend of mine looks nothing like us. She looks...prettier." Zane told them. Jay chuckled.

"I don't care."

"You have distanced yourself from your creations...and no longer feel a connection to them." Echo asked her. It was something he himself have feared his father had done with him. Which was why Dr. Julien left him on the island. He felt Jay's hand in his, as he had voiced this to them privately. They had known each other for some time. It was the time piece on his chest that saved his memory from the Djinns magic. He remembered Jay and Nya from back then. How they came back for him but he had been gone.

"Distancing from my creations? Nonsense. They are just clones. Not my children, not family. Make no mistake, once I leave this hell hole I take nothing but the clothes on my back. I bare no child here." She told them as she leaned over and roughly grabbed Kairi's head. She gasped and woke up.

"Do not touch her." Zane reached out shoving the woman away from Kairi. The woman glared at him.

"Do not tell me what to do droid. You are not my boss." She held up black stick and held it up to him. Zane couldn't help but stand to attention and walk back toward the seat and sit down. She pointed it at Echo and watched as Echo placed his hands around Jay's throat and began to squeeze. Jay instantly found his passage close off. Echo lifted him effortlessly from the floor and held him there.

"So...droids can cry." Adel walked into the room and looked at the droid. "A tasteful death...by the hands of your lover. It will do you some good to know in your final moments that a 'Nya Walker' just checked into a hospital in Ninjago City...she's in labor."

"Please stop...please let us go." Echo pleaded, he was trying so hard to override the code.

The lights turned off, and red lighting replaced it with an alarm blaring. A voice over the speaker.

"I will give you 1 hour to let the ninja and their families go." Zane couldn't help but feel safer now that he heard that voice.

"Cole..."

But Echo didn't put Jay down. Jay's eyes began to roll.

"Let him go." Zane didn't care about himself, he still couldn't move.

No one noticed the small girl standing up on the steel table, but they did notice when she jumped off grabbing the black remote and hit Adel across the face. The woman stumbled and fell, Kairi knocked Vacara into Adel. Kairi sat down on both women, surprised that it actually worked. The remote was on the ground in two pieces from the force of the hit. Kairi's small hand felt very numb as well.

"Come on..." Zane picked her up in his arms. Kairi looked around at Jay who was coughing being held up by Echo who was rubbing his back whispering that it wasn't him, he promised. Kairi knew her friend, this was going to eat him up for a little while.