Ninjago Angst Week Day 2: Lost
@ninjago-angst-week hereās my entry for day 2!
This takes place during season 3 episode 8
Trigger warning: mentions of death
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To exist in the middle of empty space is to not exist at all.
Zane cannot say he wakes, for he now exists in a plane in which consciousness is meaningless.
Heās dead, he knows that much. Heād sacrificed himself to save his friends (and he hopes to the First Spinjitzu Master that it worked, he doesnāt know what heād do if he failed).
Something about the world is different than heād imagined it to be. Especially since discovering that he was a nindroid, heād imagined death time after time after time.
This is not how he thought death would be.
There is an infinite body of snow branched out around him. The sky is grey and muggy, but snowflakes do not fall.
He runs his fingers through the powdery snow. The world around him is silent, peaceful.
He would do it again in a heartbeat, this he knows.
He hopes the others donāt spend too much time mourning him. He wants them to move on, to continue making the world a safe place, even without him.
Perhaps this is a blessing. For the past few years, heās questioned if he even has the ability to move into the departed realm.
But heās dead, and thereās nowhere else this could be.
Unless...
He digs his fingers just a little deeper into the snow, feeling around.
Finally, he finds the ground. It buzzes under his fingertips, and while itās mostly solid, it almost flows like a stream.
He should have realized that heād been preserved in the Digiverse.
Heās so, so relieved. He can come back, he can see his friends again. Everything is going to be okay. However, the question burns his mind, more scalding than before.
He is a nindroid. When he truly dies, what will become of him?
