To be honest, I had no idea when Nova would learn to do spinjitzu. So I'm just gonna have her get it in this chapter.
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*The ninja watches as Zane breaks his breath-holding record.*
"Ten minutes! He just broke his own record. The guy's inhuman!" said Kai while Zane is down on the ocean floor. He pets a fish before resurfacing. The ninja cheered for him.
"Amazing!" said Cole.
"We're not worthy." Jay exclaimed.
"I broke the record?" Zane asked.
"You destroyed it!" said Kai.
"Okay, okay. Is anyone thinking what I'm thinking? We've been training for so long, I don't think we can get any better. Just think about all we've accomplished." said Jay.
Nova was sitting to the side ignoring the ninja, her mind was more fixed on some of her fingers on her right hand was changing, and she didn't like it.
"What is going on with me? First the whole thing with my gaming abilities, I have small fangs at the corners of my mouth, I can teleport through shadows, I get easily tired from hardly using much of my elemental powers....and now this..... I don't like this one bit." She thought to herself.
"Why was I sent here? I thought being in my favorite show would be fun...but I just wanna go home.... I even miss that stupid Ronin." Nova thought, hugging her legs as she felt like crying.
Nova was so focused on her own troubling thoughts, that she didn't pay attention when the ninja went on to dropping Wu off at the top of a mountain.
*Later, with the ninja in a random village, Nya hangs up a missing Fangblade poster.*
"Oh, this is silly." said Zane.
"You have any better ideas?" questioned Cole.
"Hey, maybe Sensei is gonna go get the Samurai for help." said Jay.
"The Samurai? I'm sure she's-I mean, he's busy looking for the Fangblades as well." said Kai, a little nervous trying to act normal.
"Uh, is everything all right?" Cole asked, looking at Kai.
"Yeah, yeah. Why wouldn't it be?" said Kai, still nervous.
"One hundred percent. We're not hiding anything." said Nya also in a nervous tone.
"I think I know now how Lloyd is such a bad actor. These two can't even act normal when sharing a secret." Nova thought with a small smile while carrying some flyers.
Zane senses the falcon's presence and drops the flyers.
"Hey, weirdo. You're making a mess of my store front. Yoo-hoo! You got a problem?" said a random man, annoyed as Zane dropped the rest of the signs and walks away. "Maybe I should teach you a lesson on manners."
"I'm sorry, sir. Sometimes our friend is in another world." said Kai.
"He's littering all over the place." The man said.
"We'll pick it up. So sorry." said Cole as he and the others began picking up the dropped flyers.
"Zane, what's the deal?" asked Jay until Zane showed them the Falcon. "Ah! It's the Falcon! Oh, my gosh! Every time we follow it, it leads us to good fortune."
"Head back to the Bounty and wait till you hear from us." said Kai to his sister and Nova.
"But where are you going?" Nya asked.
"No way, I'm coming with you guys, whatever you like it or not." said Nova.
"We're gonna follow the bird. Who knows, it could lead us to the first Fangblade." Kai told his sister before letting out a sigh to what Nova said, and just let her join them in following the bird. Since they all knew, she was gonna follow no matter what. "I guess good fortune is really far away."
*The ninja and Nova are climbing a mountain when Jay stops on a branch.*
"Keep going. I'll... I'll catch up later." said Jay while panting.
*The others go on, though it isn't long before Cole stops.*
"I'm good. Just...just taking a breather. Uh, I'll meet up with you shortly." said Cole as he was now also panting.
Kai kept following as he was panting. "Good thing...we're in...peak...physical...condition. Gosh, that bird just keeps going. *pants* Hey, what do you make of this?"
"Talk....for *pants* yourself." said Nova, panting heavily but still kept going.
Zane sees a sign that reads of a warning to visitors of "I am not familiar with a Treehorn."
"It's probably just some wild squirrels, heh. Well, don't lose him. I'll wait for the other guys to catch up." said Kai while Nova and Zane continues on.
"Where are we going, my mysterious friend?" Zane questioned until the falcon falls from the sky and twitches, with sparks coming out of it. "You're a...a robot?" He puts the Falcon next to a tree and sees the Juggernaut.
"Damn, that's a big boy!" said Nova, now seeing how big it actually was in real size.
"Intruder! Intruder! Prepare to be terminated!" said the Juggernaut.
"Fuck." said Nova.
"Ninja, go!" said Zane before making a ramp out of snow.
"Intruder! Intruder! Prepare to be terminated!" repeated the Juggernaut.
Nova quickly ran towards it, trying to use her decay powers.
Zane disabled the Juggernaut and sees the same symbol on the Falcon. "The same symbol. Where have you brought me, my Falcon friend?"
He spots another symbol on a tree and opens it, revealing the hidden workshop. "So, this is your home, my mysterious friend." Zane uses a blueprint to fix the bird while Nova takes a look around. "You brought me here, but why?" He pulls out another blueprint from under the Falcon's. "No! It can't be! No! NOOOOOO!!!!!!"
Nova runs over to Zane and sees the blueprint of him. "Wow." She looked surprised since she already knew, but she had to act like she didn't.
*The ninja finally caught up to Zane and Nova and entered the tree.*
"Zane? Nova?" Kai called.
"Wow, would you look at this place? Zane, Nova, what's wrong?" Jay asked, looking over at the two.
Nova turned her head and looked over at the ninja as she patted Zane's back.
"Are you hurt?" Kai asked worriedly.
"You okay?" Cole asked before Zane let out a sigh, and looks at the blueprint again. "Hey, what..." Then the rest of the ninja screams when he opens his chest to reveal a control panel.
"You're a robot?!" shouted Kai, surprised.
"All this time, and I never knew." said Zane.
"I did." Nova thought to herself.
"Uh, guess this explains why you're always acting so weird. Right? Hehe." said Jay trying to lighten the mood.
"The reason I never had a sense of humor was because my funny switch wasn't on." Zane turns it on. "Hello, my baby. Hello, my honey. Hello, my ragtime gal. Send me a kiss by wire." Jay and Nova laughs while Zane turns the funny switch off and sighs.
"While it is a sad discovery for Zane, I have to agree with Jay that is funny." Nova thought, still giggling.
"Uh, it just makes you more special. You're still the same, Zane. Just more, uh, gears." said Cole trying to cheer him up.
"No matter what you're made of, you're still our brother." said Kai.
"Really?" said Zane.
"Yes really, you are still our brother no matter what or who you are, Zane." said Nova with a big smile.
"In fact, I bet it even makes you an even better ninja." said Cole.
"Yeah, and how cool is it that I can honestly say "My brother is a Nindroid."? " said Jay while Nova joined in saying the last part.
"A Nindroid?" questioned Zane.
"Now come on. Pythor is still out there looking for the first Fangblade, and we need you." said Cole.
"You'll have to go on without me. I just don't feel right." said Zane before the others besides Nova leave the workshop.
Nova walked over and gave Zane a hug. "You will always be our brother, no matter what, Zane." She said, smiling at him. "And just between us, you are my favorite." She whispered as she giggled, earning a small smile from him before she went to join the others.
"We just have to give him time. I don't know how I would feel if I was told I was a robot." Kai told the others.
"You mean a Nindroid." said Jay.
"Nindroid." said Nova as she fist bumps Jay.
"Yeah. Whatever." said Kai.
"How the heck do we get out of this place?" asked Cole until they heard a sound. "What's that?"
"Cute tiny birds?" guessed Jay.
"If that is birds, then I'm a mouse." said Nova.
Cole looked around until he saw something moving. "Did you see that?"
"I don't see anything." said Jay.
"I just saw it too. Treehorns!" shouted Kai and Nova.
"Intruder. Intruder." said the Juggernaut, twitching.
"Oh, great. I think that thing was supposed to protect this place. Guys, it's up to us." said Kai as the ninja went to try and attack them. But Kai ends up getting kicked in the face by a treehorn's leg. "Ninja, g-ugh. Ow!"
Nova narrowed her eyes, summoning her dual blades, and ran towards one of the treehorns.
She is able to knock some of them off their feet, but one of them got a good kick at her as she was thrown back and hit a tree. "Okay...that hurt." She groans, slowly getting up.
"There's just too many of them." said Cole as the treehorns quickly overpower them.
"Hey, guys. Wait up!" shouted Zane until he saw them being attacked by Treehorns. "Leave my friends alone! Ninja, go!"
"What's gotten into Zane?" asked Cole slowly getting up.
"I don't know, but I like it." said Kai, also getting up as the ninja regrouped.
Nova slowly joined them with a small smile on her face.
"Ninja, go!" shouted the ninja as they started doing spinjitzu, Nova smiled as she finally got it to work as her spinjitzu was a mix of purple and a little bit of black and soon the Treehorns started backing away.
"Are they regrouping?" Jay asked until a much bigger treehorn showed up. "Who's that?"
"Their queen." Zane answered before running towards it. "You will not hurt my friends! There is nothing that will hold me back! I know who I am!" He starts to turn light blue.
"What's happening to him? Was he programmed to do that?" Kai was surprised watching this while looking at the others.
"I've never seen a robot do that." said Jay.
"You mean Nindroid." said Nova, looking at him.
"Yeah, whatever." Jay said.
"Zane's unlocked his True Potential" said Cole.
Zane then freezes the queen and falls. "What happened?"
"That was awesome!" said Jay.
"Amazing!" cheered Nova.
"You should've seen yourself." said Kai.
"Heh, I've never seen anything like it." said Cole.
"This must be what Sensei meant by unlocking our hearts. I remember now. I remember everything. I remember my father and how he cared for me. I remember where I came from. And I feel stronger for knowing." said Zane.
"I'm so jealous. His powers are so cool." said Cole.
"We have our very own Nindroid." said Jay as we all cheered.
"Watch out, Pythor. We're coming to get you." said Zane.
Nova gave a small smile before looking at her right hand, only to see the blackness had grown a little so now all of her fingers/claws on her hand were black, and were slowly growing towards her palm.
"I'm really starting to have a feeling this is only gonna get worse.... I might have to find myself a glove before anyone sees it." She thought with a worried look on her face.