Hallo! I bring thee this little one-shot based on everyone's favorite nindroid! I hope you all like it

ENJOY!

"Third times the charm..."

After all the years. All the research, the time, the criticism, the work.

After all the heartache...

This was it.

Julien closed the chest panel until it locked with an almost inaudible click. The air in his hidden shop was still, tense with his own anticipation and fear. Z.A.N.E was ready.

Zoetic

Assisting and

Neutralizing

Entity

He would protect and serve those who couldn't for themselves. He would be a beacon for a new, brighter age of technology and respect. He would revolutionize Ninjago...If he would turn on.

The weary professor licked his lips and adjusted his glasses, anxious for his creation to open his eyes. To speak for the first time. To live. He could hear the nearly silent whir of gears and cogs and other such mechanics starting to turn. The engineer held his breath.

Z.A.N.E's fingers twitched. The tiniest of movements sent Julien's heart soaring. Z.A.N.E's mouth slowly opened, and his chest gently rose with his first breath. His eyelids slid open to reveal pure icy blue eyes. His pupils dilated and contracted until he could see clearly. He blinked, and stared at Julien with an almost empty gaze.

"Hello."

Julien could barely contain a smile. "Hello...do you know who I am?"

Z.A.N.E answered with a slight nod, his lips twitching into a small frown.

"I am Julien. I created you." the estatic man kneeled in front of his greatest acheivement and licked his lips again, overcome with exitement. It coursed through his veins like liquid lightning.

"You...are my creator." Z.A.N.E stated, the words forming hesitantly in his mouth.

"Yes." Julien breathlessly answered, reaching out to gently touch his cheek. He looked so real...so innocent and childlike. Z.A.N.E was designed to look like a man, but with his wide eyes and slightly open lips, he looked more like a confused boy.

"You...are my..." he blinked, seemingly struggling to speak. For a moment, Julien panicked, a million thoughts of what could have gone wrong whirling in his head. "You are my father."

Julien was speechless. He had worked on Z.A.N.E's programming and databases longer than he worked on the actual mechanics of his body. Never, not once did he imagine that he would refer to him as a parental figure. He never thought that he would see him as something with emotional value, although he was designed to be exactly like a man. Julien never imagined, that a simple statement from a creation he had molded and dreamt up himself, something as innocent as this, would touch him so profoundly.

"Yes. I am your father."

Zane smiled, the gesture reaching his eyes, and illuminating something within him. "And I am your son, Zane." he said proudly, pointing to himself. He did not realize that it was a title, Julien marveled. He believes that it is a name.

"Yes, you are Zane." he answered, smiling back at the excited droid. Somehow, a title didn't seem to fit him. Z.A.N.E was for something cold, something mechanical. But as Julien helped him take his first steps, as he watched him discover the shop, as he would hold his hand and excitedly listen to every word Julien said and marvel at everything Julien showed him...

He seemed alive.

Z.A.N.E was not a robot, or a droid. He was a boy. A boy that would someday serve the world. As night fell on them, Julien showed Zane to his bed, where his sophisticated system would recharge on the natural human phenomenon sleep. None of that crossed Julien's mind though, as he tucked him in. He looked up at Julien with something in his eyes. It almost seemed like a human was staring up at him. A being with a soul.

"Goodnight, Zane." he whispered, softly kissing his forehead. And as Zane's eyes slid closed and his lips stilled in a content smile, Julien felt something well up in his chest.

Zane. His son.

He had a son.

So, how'd you like it? Thanks for all of your support you wonderful readers you! :D