Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go! Fan Fiction ❯ The Rising ❯ The Shuggazoom Massacre Story ( Chapter 3 )

Chapter Three: The Shuggazoom Massacre Story

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Bold Texts - Indicates Flashback Sequences

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The night was briefly windy and quiet, yet three possessed cybernetic monkeys were occupying the air via jetpacks.

 

Using cybernetic optic binoculars, Sprx was scanning the ground level for their recommended prey while the rest did the same.

 

During their search, they were picking up a lot of signals and were currently in route to that particular area.

 

However, Nova, with the gape hole still presence on her forehead, was somewhat growing a bit weak from the apparent blood loss. She needed a soul feast.

 

Looking down, she saw a lone teenage girl making her way back into her home.

 

With an evil grin masking her face, Nova descended down to that area while Sprx and Otto noticed and followed pursuit.

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Chiro was constantly sobbing softly while still in Jinmay's embrace.

 

Momentarily, Jinmay caught a glimpse of Chiro's back wound, but didn't question him on that issue. Instead, she kept her comfort to him.

 

Suddenly, a high-pitched terrified scream got them to immediately divert their attention in the area.

 

Quickly, they both ran to the right side of the alleyway to which they came in.

 

But they were both careful to take a slow reconnaissance peek towards the source of the scream to find, to their terror, the sight of Nova extracting a soul from an innocent teenage girl's body while Sprx and Otto watched.

 

As soon as she was done, Chiro squinted down his eyes for closer inspection to find, to his shock, that the gaping hole in her forehead was slowly healing.

 

Quickly, they retreated back in the alleyway, their backs braced against the sidewall while breathing softly to ease them into calmness.

 

Jinmay, with her look of terror intact, was in denial at what she witnessed.

 

"I didn't see that, Chiro." She said in a panic.

 

"Jinmay..." He started before she resumed.

 

"What's a gaping wound doing on Nova's forehead?"

 

"Jinmay..."

 

"Why was it healing and why was she ripping someone's soul from their body?"

 

"Jinmay, calm down."

 

Instantly, Jinmay shot a look of panic towards Chiro, who didn't return the look, and then grimace with anger upon his comment.

 

"Calm down? Did you--"

 

"I saw." He stated before reaching for his communicator.

 

Jinmay took notice and halted him from that attempt, while Chiro took a surprise reaction to that.

 

"What are you doing, Chiro?"

 

"I'm getting out of hyper mode."

 

Her confusion rose to the point of frustration.

 

"Look, Chiro, you're gonna have to explain this to me."

 

Briefly silence, Chiro gritted his teeth in slight anger.

 

"We don't have time. Right now, I need to get out of hyper mode. Then, after we find another hiding place, I promise I will explain everything to you."

 

Their issued gazes stayed locked onto each other. Eventually, Jinmay loosened the expression on her face with a convincing curt nod to Chiro, who nodded in return.

 

As Chiro braced his communicator, his armor vanished and he was back in his regular pajamas clothing, which caught Jinmay by surprise.

 

Chiro took note of this and shook his head.

 

"Don't ask. Let's go."

 

With Jinmay's right wrist in his grasp, they started their way to the opposite side of the alleyway.

 

They exited the alleyway and took cover no sooner as his possessed teammates, whom were on the other side of the alleyway, were in the air and on their search.

 

As soon as the coast was clear, Chiro and Jinmay made a run for it to find their recommended hiding spot.

 

"Chiro, this hiding spot -- Where do we find one?"

 

"Mr. Johan Eden."

 

"Joe? The guy you helped with the groceries?"

 

"Yeah. He says I'm welcome there anytime."

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Mister Johan Eden was a late 20s, possibly 27 years of age, dark-haired man who has a heart of gold and lots of moral. But despite his morals, he's a recent smoker, but he learns to put it away whenever the kids are around.

 

He's also strict around his home, which means no arguments around his home that could lead to verbal obscenity.

 

Wearing a white shirt, blue pants, and socks on his feet, he sat comfortably on his couch in between BT and Glenn, who's apparently spending the weekend with him.

 

As they watched the television in front of them, BT spoke.

 

"Say, is anything else on?"

 

Before Johan could answer, a knock came to his door.

 

As he got up from the couch, BT and Glenn snagged the remote and surfed through the channels.

 

As Johan answered the door, he smiled at the sight of Chiro and Jinmay at his doorstep, but missed the terrified expressions on their faces.

 

"Chiro, Jinmay, what a pleasure."

 

Instantly, Chiro, with Jinmay at his grasp, entered himself inside.

 

As he passed Johan, he halted and surveyed the place a bit.

 

Johan grew surprised by the early reaction before he closed his door behind their entrance and spoke with concern.

 

"You know, Chiro, a simple 'May I come in?' would be appropriate."

 

Then, to his shock, he noticed the three scratch wounds on his back.

 

"My God. What--"

 

Instantly, Chiro turned to face him and spoke.

 

"Look, Joe, I'm sorry to burst in on you, but do you have a hiding spot?"

 

Johan nodded.

 

"Yes. But you're hurt. Don't you think--?"

 

"It'll heal." Chiro interrupted. "Wh-Where is it?"

 

"There's a trapdoor under the stairs."

 

Chiro nodded as he and Jinmay, with Johan following, went into the living room.

 

Then, Chiro halted when he saw, to his surprise, BT and Glenn in the living room.

 

BT and Glenn instantly took note of him with surprise due to his pajamas and disinterest of his presence.

 

"Nice pajamas, monkey boy." BT jestered.

 

"Screw you." Chiro retorted, yet BT ignored the insult.

 

"What are you doing here, anyway?"

 

"Shouldn't I ask you that question?" Chiro countered

 

Before an argument could issue, Johan broke in between them.

 

"Hey, Hey! I have a rule to my house and you know it." He addressed both parties. "Either abide by them or leave. Your choice."

 

Both were silence in response as Johan nodded.

 

"Okay." He said, and then diverted his attention to Chiro. "The trapdoor's under the stairs, but I'm curious about why you need it."

 

Grimacing a bit in frustration, Chiro calmed himself and decided to explain. He owed Jinmay that promise.

 

"Alright. Let's go sit down and I can explain everything."

 

Johan and Jinmay nodded in agreement as they approached and sat on the couch while Chiro explained from top to bottom on what transpired in the Super Robot and so on.

 

Throughout the elaboration, he fought the oncoming tears from filling his eyes when he came upon the issue of telling them about what happened with Antauri and Gibson.

 

As soon as he was done, the surrounding party was in shocking silence of the revelation.

 

Jinmay was mostly shocked at the revelation regarding Antauri and Gibson, but at the same time, she was in sorrow from the resulted condition.

 

"And that's what happened." Chiro replied with his head hung in sadness. "And there wasn't a thing I could've done about it."

 

Long silence issued before Jinmay placed a soft reassuring hand on his right shoulder. Yet, Chiro's head hung low without meeting her gaze.

 

"Chiro, it's gonna be alright. We're gonna find a way to--"

 

"No, No, Jin-Jinmay, you're not listening." He said before finally meeting her gaze. "These spirits are not gonna come out of them willingly. With Sprx, Otto, and Nova as their vessels, they'll go after almost every person here in Shuggazoom until they find me."

 

"Why do they want you?" Jinmay asked

 

Before Chiro could speak, Johan intervened after thoughtful silence.

 

"Throughout your explanation…" He started, which got Chiro and Jinmay's attention. "…did you say that your possessed team mates were extracting souls from bodies?"

 

Chiro nodded.

 

"Yeah, why?"

 

Upon that answer, Johan grew in terrified silence as Chiro, Jinmay, and the others noticed.

 

"Joe, what's wrong?" Chiro asked

 

"Maim, Torment, Death." He muttered to himself.

 

Chiro, Jinmay, BT and Glenn took earshot of this and grew confused by the indication before Johan finally sent his slow stare to the MT leader and spoke.

 

"I think I know what possessed your team mates. Follow me."

 

As Johan stood up from the couch, the rest has followed before approaching towards the trapdoor.

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(Attic)

 

The hiding spot through the trapdoor was a secondary attic used in case the first was overcrowded with many of Johan's belongings. Most of the times, he entered the place in case of emergencies like earthquakes, or floods.

 

But what he instantly discovered upon Chiro's explanation on the recent events became more of an emergency than those two combined.

 

Johan switched the overhead lights on in the room while Chiro and the others surveyed the place.

 

It was partially clean, yet dusty. Many leftover appliances were scattered throughout the room, but some were momentarily re-arranged in the recommended order.

 

Far across was a medium-sized window that keeps view of the ground area on Shuggazoom. In the middle was a rectangular table with four chairs; two chairs occupying both sides of the table.

 

Johan instructed them to take their seats while he grabbed another chair in the room and positioned it in the front of the table. Taking his seat between the two groups, he scooted the chair up, interlaced his together onto the table and grew in silence with his head lowered a bit while his visitors watched on.

 

Taking a deep breath, Johan looked up to the four teens and spoke.

 

"Have any of you read the papers on the reduction of crime lately throughout east Shuggazoom?"

 

The teens shook their heads in response as Johan resumed.

 

"Well, no one, especially the elders, dared to tell their kids or grandkids about it in fear of reliving the event. But it seems to me that our silences to that incident are in vain at the moment, so I'll tell you."

 

He cleared his throat a bit and carefully started the story.

 

"About three decades ago, a friend of mine, who was a detective here at East Shuggazoom P.D., was probing a series of hideous massacres that has been spreading throughout the town's population. At first, he was unsuccessful, but then he found out that whoever these people were, they were committing murders in ritualistic fashion known to God. He then found out that they were identified as Travis Numen, Arabella Carter, and Wesley Gore. But they called themselves by what they do."

 

"...What?" Jinmay hesitantly asked

 

"'Maim, Torment, and Death.'"

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Upon saying those words, an entire event unfolds into a flashback thirty years in the making.

 

Distorted images were seen.

 

Throughout every image, three individuals were seen. Each one committing gruesome acts of heinous, bloody slayings of unimaginable horror whether it's by use of strong silver wires cutting against the throat, a sharp pointy dagger harshly plunged into the sternum chest, or dismemberment of its body parts or insides.

 

Either way, the victims' screams of sheer terror indicates the pain, suffering, or the harsh lost of their bloods during their untimely demise at the hands of these killers.

 

One, who's name was Wesley Gore, was a mid-30s dark brown-haired man with greenish eyes with the only attire of clothing that he was wearing was dark robes, his pale face embedded in strange tattoos.

 

Another was Arabella 'AKA Bella' Carter, an early 30s woman with long dark hair going halfway down her shoulder and sapphire blue eyes. She also wore the dark robe identical to Wesley Gore and also bore the strange tattoos on her face.

 

And lastly was the leader of the vicious trio, Travis Numen, a late 30s man with dark red spiked hair and blood amber eyes. His robe was darker than the first two and his face was also embedded with strange markings to their faces.

 

"Until that very day, they became three of the most decorated serial killers on this planet. The Massacre Trio."

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Chiro and the others were in dead shock upon the entire revelation, yet they stayed quiet for Johan to resume.

 

"Then, a couple of days later, the police finally caught them total extreme prejudice. They were courted, due to their huge record of gruesome killings, and sentenced to death at stake."

 

The expressions on the faces of the teens stayed intact from the story before Chiro spoke.

 

"Please tell me that's not what I think it means."

 

Johan nodded in response.

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In the middle of the East Shuggazoom Graveyard, three medium-sized, plus-shaped crosses were embedded to the ground where the police positioned the three killers at the middle.

 

Their hands were tied separately at the opposite sides on the crosses while their feet were tied together at the bottom. Dome-shaped haycocks were separately underneath them as three masked muscular executioners took their positions at the sides with torches on their hands.

 

The three killers didn't bother to struggle. Instead, they looked on towards the thousands of Shuggazoomians who were witnessing their executions.

 

Then, as the executioners each lit the haycocks on fire, the three killers issued chilling evil smirks on their faces while the flames, that are engulfing the haycocks, risen up to their bodies along with the haze of smoke entering the inside of their nostrils.

 

Then, to the citizens' unawareness, the three killers appeared to be moving their lips, as if they were to say something, but no voice came out.

 

It was almost like a silent whisper.

 

"They were burned at the stake like witches on crosses. But before their death, they muttered some kind of ritualistic spell to the town folks, yet none could hear them. And then, they said something else."
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"What did they say?" Jinmay asked

 

Silence a bit, Johan spoke.

 

"They said, 'Beware the Rising.'"

 

Silence.

 

"After that, they were gone and cremated. Their ashes encased together in a single urn."

 

The teens were in silence from the story, especially BT and Glenn, who desperately tried to hold back their nausea. Yet Chiro couldn't contain his rising anger upon a sudden anticipation.

 

"You...Y-You mean to tell me that...Sprx, Nova, and Otto are possessed by a trio of serial killers?"

 

"Chiro..." Jinmay stated to calm him before Johan, who ignored the question, intervened

 

"Let me ask you something, Chiro. When you saw them, what were they doing?"

 

Chiro slowly diverted his gaze forward to reach his thoughts, trying to get any recollection of what transpired in the Super Robot.

 

In an instant, the memory was coming back to him. He remembered what Sprx was doing before he extracted his spiritual mentor's essence.

 

Then, he heard his mentor's scream.

 

'Chiro, RUN!!'

 

Mentally, he felt terrified and ashamed for leaving his mentor to be victimized like that. And have fear overcome him in the process. But he had to remind himself that even with his powers, the attempt was utterly useless. Therefore, he had no choice in the matter.

 

Breathing softly, he cringed his eyes shut, trying to remove the thought from his head before speaking.

 

"Uh...He-He was muttering something. I couldn't hear him, but after he did it, he reached down to Antauri and--"

 

He stopped himself, not wanting to reminisce on that tragic incident.

 

Johan has gotten the idea before speaking.

 

"It looks to me like your friends are possessed by these killers. And whatever spell they'd muttered thirty years ago gave them the ability to extract souls from their victims. But what's puzzling me is how could something like this occur? How could these killers come in possession of your teams?"

 

Chiro's face cringed in anger upon an answer before speaking.

 

"Skeleton King."

 

All eyes went to Chiro as Jinmay instantly grew surprise by the response.

 

"What? That's impossible. He couldn't--"

 

"I fucking know he couldn't leave!" He suddenly shouted in anger, and then sighed in calmness. "I know he can't leave. He's connected to that place."

 

Johan would've halted him from the verbal obscenity on his first speech, but came to realize the reason for his state of anger.

 

Serial killers possessed his three cybernetic friends while his other two cybernetic mentors were stripped of their essence and became lifeless.

 

Adding to the fact that the MT leader sat there in fear knowing that his effort to help was somewhat a vain attempt while the evil spirits feast onto his spiritual mentor. It was a definite reason for him to be angry.

 

Confusion masked Jinmay's face before she spoke.

 

"Then how--"

 

"Mandarin." He stated which caught her by surprise.

 

"Mandarin?"

 

Chiro nodded, and then Jinmay looked over to Johan.

 

"Could you excuse us for a moment, please?"

 

Johan nodded as Chiro and Jinmay got up from their seats and walked about several inches away until they were alone underneath the entrance of the door.

 

"What does Mandarin have to do with this?" She asked in a whisper

 

"Think about it, Jinmay. That little traitor had it in for our teams as a personal vendetta. He-He even tried to make me his fucking apprentice to turn against my own team. I was damn near lucky to have fooled him."

 

"Yeah, but what if he's not the one responsible? It could be any--"

 

"Look, Scrapperton wouldn't have the bolts for this unless it has something to do with collecting valuable items for souvenirs. And for someone as small as Sakko, I highly doubt his involvement."

 

"How come?"

 

"Rituals, not his style."

 

Hesitant a bit in thought, Jinmay spoke.

 

"Yeah, maybe you're right. But what if you're wrong about Mandarin's involvement?"

 

Silence, Chiro sighed deeply and spoke.

 

"I don't know. Look, there's a lot of 'what ifs' we could go through later on."

 

Both stood in silence for a while as Jinmay, who had a brief sudden look of intimidation in her eyes, slowly lowered her gaze to the ground.

 

Chiro took note of it with concern.

 

"Hey, w-what's wrong?"

 

"Chiro, I'm scared. I know it's uncommon, but that's how I feel right now." She said softly

 

Chiro, with the expression intact, braced both his hands on Jinmay's shoulders before she resumed.

 

"I mean, with everything that's happening, I'm-I'm not--"

 

"Jinmay, Jinmay, calm down. Everything's going to be all right. Okay?"

 

Jinmay managed to look into Chiro's brief, teary eyes and smiling face before they both issued a comforting hug to each other.

 

Johan took note of it and smiled upon the sight.

 

After they were done, they approached back to the table and sat in their seats.

 

"Listen, we got to get out of here. It won't be long before they find us."

 

"How could they find us?" Glenn asked

 

"My communicator. When I'm in hyper mode, they could locate me in a faster pace, but when normal, it could slow 'em down for a while. And I mean for a while. That means even if it slows them down, they'll still be able to find us."

 

"Whoa, let me see if I got this straight." BT started. "That communicator of yours is some kind of tracker?"

 

Chiro sighed deeply and nodded.

 

"Yeah, this is why we need to leave before they find this place."

 

Grimacing in anger, BT spoke.

 

"No, you go. They're your goddamn rabid monkeys!"

 

"BT!" Johan lectured.

 

Silence, Chiro felt his anger boil upon the comment as his strong glare was to BT. His three monkey teams were possessed by serial killers and he had the nerves to imply them as rabid monkeys.

 

"Can I have a minute alone with him, please?" He asked, firmly to Johan.

 

Johan nodded as he, Glenn, and Jinmay walked several feet away.

 

As soon as their distance was up far, Chiro instantly grasped the red-haired boy by the fabric of his shirt and forced him up against the wall.

 

The reaction took everyone by surprise, including BT, who struggled from his grasp to no avail.

 

"Get the hell off of me."

 

"Listen to me, shithead. In case you didn't catch that story, serial killers possess three of my teammates. And right fucking now, this house is the one thing standing between them and us. Now as much as I would love to throw you out there for them to rip your scrawny-ass apart, especially after that 'rabid monkeys' comment, your death is not gonna be on my conscience, do you understand me?"

 

Silence, briefly terrified, and panting a bit, BT nodded.

 

"Yeah, yeah, understood."

 

"We're going?”

 

BT nodded.

 

"We're going."

 

Chiro roughly relinquished his grasp on BT before he walked up to Johan, who grew surprised by the display.

 

"Was that necessary?"

 

Chiro nodded.

 

"Yeah. Is everybody ready?"

 

Everyone issued a curt nod in response.

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