Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go! Fan Fiction ❯ The Rising ❯ Where It Happened ( Chapter 7 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Chapter Seven: Where It Happened

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(Super Robot - Inside)

As the light automatically dimmed on inside the Super Robot, Chiro, Nova, Jinmay, and the others entered inside from the foot cruiser.

However, as soon as they got inside of the main room, they, excluding Chiro, who appears in sorrow, halted upon the sight of Antauri lying face-first on the floor as Nova and Jinmay gasped in horror with both their hands over their mouth upon the sight.

"Oh, God, Antauri." Nova spoke.

As Chiro approached his fallen mentor, he kneeled to him and reached over to turn him around while Nova rushed by the black monkey's side.

When she caught a glimpse of his condition, her pink eyes widened another inch before she reached and slowly caressed her metallic hands on his left cheek.

"Oh, Antauri." Her broken voice spoke in a soft tone

Chiro remained silence as he slowly positioned his right hand behind Antauri's head while the other was positioned under his legs.

Afterwards, he slowly started to pick him up and stood to his feet while Nova slowly stood to her feet with her grief-stricken gaze to the motionless black monkey.

As Johan, BT, and Glenn watched, Jinmay made her way by Chiro's side with her sorrowful gaze to the black monkey before gazing the MT leader without saying a word on account of her knowing where his state of mind was at the moment.

Chiro's sorrowful eyes to his mentor remained unmoving at this point due to his thoughts.

He could still mentally hear his mentor's words to him.

'Chiro, RUN!'

He fought the anger and tears forcing its way into his being while sorrow and shame were masking his expression. Slowly, he closed his eyes and started walking while the others followed.

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(Hibernation Chamber - Inside)

Moments later, Antauri was placed properly inside his hibernation pod alongside the motionless Gibson while Chiro was positioned in front of the pods not once taking his eyes from them.

Jinmay and Johan positioned themselves at opposite sides of him while BT and Glenn, who are leaned up against the nearby wall, stood and watched the display.

Nova was absent from the room after emotionally taking in the sight and condition of two of her brothers.

Chiro didn't seem to notice due to the fact that he was droning his gaze to Antauri and Gibson.

But he was mostly droning his gaze to Antauri for the apparent reason. Once again, he fought back the tears and slowly shook his head in shame before Jinmay noticed.

"I shouldn't have left him." He said softly

"Chiro..." Jinmay started before he intervened.

"Goddamnit, I shouldn't have left him."

"Chiro...!"

Chiro eventually diverted his gaze to Jinmay while constantly fighting the guilty tears from escaping his eyes.

"From what you explained to us, he wanted to protect you from them." Jinmay spoke.

Instantly, to Jinmay's surprise, Chiro snickered bitterly.

"Protect me. Maybe that's the fucking problem!"

"Chiro..."

"No, Jinmay! We are a family and-and families protect each other! Yet, I-I let those...those motherfuckin' evil spirits do this to Antauri! And not just him, but Gibson too! And w-And where was I, huh?"

"Chiro..." Johan started before Chiro interrupted while Jinmay's face tensed with anger upon his despairing comments.

"Yeah, I'll tell you where I was. I...I was up against the wall by the goddamn foot cruiser scared out of my skin not doing shit to help my family. Yeah, some fuckin' hero I am!"

Suddenly, Jinmay issued a harsh left slap to Chiro's right cheek.

BT and Glenn cringed from the attack while Chiro grunted in pain from the impact.

Then, as she noticed Chiro freely relinquishing tears from his eyes in despair, Jinmay quickly grasped his face with both hands and forced him to face her, yet his eyes didn't follow suit.

"Look me in the eye, Chiro. Look at me!"

As Chiro slowly met her gaze with his teary eyes, he saw that she grew strongly anxious for him.

"Now you listen to me. You are a good friend and a good hero. Don't ever think oppositely about yourself like that. You hear me?"

Then, she quickly embraced him into a comforting hug as Chiro closed his eyes to let his tears fall.

"You and the monkey teams are like family to me too. So please, don't give up. Please!"

Chiro's eyes tightened to unleash the tears before he loosened his expression with his easing breath in a measure of calm.

"Okay." He softly spoke. "Okay."

Slowly releasing the embrace, they both issued gazes to each other as Chiro, who snorted up his tears, smiled while Jinmay returned the gesture.

"Thank you." He said softly

As Johan smiled and BT and Glenn grew silence during the entire display, Jinmay issued a curt nod in response as Chiro started briefly looking around the area.

Johan noticed.

"What?"

"Where's Nova?" He asked

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(Bathroom)

Nova was inside the bathroom staring down in the sink with both her metallic hands braced on the arms of it.

Momentarily, she was emotionally saddened and disturbed regarding the issue of Antauri and Gibson resting lifeless inside their hibernation pods. In results to that, she, moments ago, issued a hail of vomit inside the nearby toilet.

Once again, she had mentally convinced herself of her futile inabilities to regain control of her possessed body and save her spiritual brother. But Chiro's words back earlier told her otherwise.

Mentally brushing that issue from her mind, she got into thought on the early incident...where the horror started.

Slowly closing her eyes, she remembered Sprx grasping her around her neck. Then, she remembered what she has seen throughout the mirror before she was possessed.

But from that point on, despite the brief lack of memory, she knew. She knew that whatever was in possession of her was in possession of Sprx and Otto as well. Not to mention that it would be a matter of time before the evil spirit takes back control of her body.

Sighing deeply, she slowly sent her gaze to the mirror at her reflection only to gasp in startling fright at the sight in front of her.

In the mirror was her reflection, an emotionless reflection that could only mean one thing.

"You." She softly spoke with anticipation.

To her terror, the reflection issued a slow, devilish smirk on its face. Then, to Nova's terrifying recognition, the strange black symbol suddenly appeared embedded on her reflection's face.

Nova's expression remains intact as the reflection tilted its head slowly to the right side.

"Hello, Nova. Recognize me?" The reflection spoke in a different female tone.

Nova provided no response as the reflection chuckled evilly.

"I think you do on account of that repression you endured."

Then, the reflection tilted its head back up and resumed.

"You see, your friends may have binded me with that spell and that retched needle. But it's only a matter of time before I stronghold my way back in control."

Silence, with her fear in check, Nova, with a slow, issued glare, strongly grimaced with anger.

"If you think I'm gonna let you take over my body again, you can fuckin' think again. Because we'll stop you and this Rising."

The reflection issued an inward evil chuckle and replied while Nova slightly grinds her teeth in annoyance.

"I highly doubt that. Tell me something, Nova. How can you surely stop me without hurting yourself? If I were you, I'd think about that. Meantime, when I take repossession of your body, I'm going to live up to my word and snatch the life-force from that android bitch."

Upon those words, Nova's left eye twitched with boiling anger along with her harsh grinding teeth as she tightly gripped the arms of the sink.

The reflection slightly took note of it and issued an evil smirk on its face before deciding to apply more pressure to its threat.

"And then...your little chosen one...will experience death like anything you or anyone else could possibly imagine."

Growling with venomous anger, Nova instantly transformed her left metallic hand and threw the huge yellow fist directly into the mirror, shattering it in the process.

"FUCK YOU!!" She shouted, panting heavily

As the shards fell all over the sink and to the ground, Nova felt the fiery energy increased inside and around her body upon her rage as her eyes issued a glow of flaming red.

As she slowed her breathing, the surrounding fiery energy in her body dimmed down at the same time her fists deactivated.

As soon as she was calm, she fell to her knees, hung her head low, and closed her eyes in exhaustion before the bathroom door horizontally opened, and yet her position stayed the same.

In the doorframe was Chiro, who took note of the mirror damage and Nova's position before quickly approaching and kneeling down to her length in a fit of worries.

"Nova, are you alright?" He asked

Nova grew unresponsive as Chiro grasped her left shoulder, which got her attention.

"What happened here?"

Silence.

"I saw her." She spoke softly

Silence, Chiro slowly sent his gaze to the broken mirror. Then, as he diverted his gaze from the mirror in clear thought, he came upon a shocking conclusion before meeting his anxious gaze to Nova.

"Nova...is this where it happened?" He asked

She nodded slightly in response before diverting her gaze forward from his line of sight while Chiro kept his worried gaze to the yellow monkey.

"She's gonna take over my body soon, Chiro. She said she was going to take Jinmay's soul and--"

She halted, as tears seemed to force its way from her eyes before she closed them tightly and resumed.

"--and she said that she was going to kill you."

Quickly, Chiro grasped Nova into a comforting embrace as she started softly sobbing onto his chest.

"It's alright, Nova." He said softly. "It's okay. She's not there anymore."

As Nova sniffed up the remainder of her tears, Chiro gingerly released the embrace and, with his hands on both her shoulders, looked into the yellow monkey's pink tear-dried eyes.

Then, he suddenly took note of the unconvincing expression on her face which almost gave him an idea of what she was going say next, but grew quiet before she spoke.

"Chiro..." She started while Chiro listened. "...I want you to go to Johan and get me the needle. Please, I need it. I-I want to keep her down."

Instantly, Chiro eyes widened in surprise upon this indication.

Her addiction was speaking upon strong fearful emotion providing him the knowledge of what was the cause of it.

He shook his head and spoke.

"No, Nova, you don't need it now."

Nova's tears streamed from her eyes at a fast pace.

"Yes, I do need it, Chiro! If I don't, she'll take over and hurt you and I don't want that to happen. G-Go and bring me the goddamn needle!!" She bellowed in wailing anger on her final statement.

Instantly, Chiro shook her to a halt.

"Nov-Nova, stop!" He shouted, then calmed himself and resumed. "Don't you see what this spirit is doing? She knows that you were using that stuff to keep her down and she's using the addiction against you so you can overdose."

Silence, Nova took time to ease her body a bit before coming into anticipation.

"Oh, my God. I--" She spoke softly

Before she could speak any further, Chiro intervened which got her attention.

"Listen to me, Nova. You are not a junkie, okay? You are not gonna let her do this to you. We can get through this. You hear me? We will find a way to get her out of you, you understand?"

She softly nodded, but despite the comfort, she grew unconvinced by the attempted efforts.

"But...what if there is no extraction spell?"

Chiro grew in hesitant silence before he answered.

"...Then I would have to kill you. I just hope it won't come to that."

In hesitant silence, Nova nodded in agreement.

"Me too."

They both issued comforting hugs to each other before they both got up, started out the bathroom and transverse back to the hibernation chamber.

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(Outside)

The residents, including the drug-addicts in the east Shuggazoom area were in a wave of terror upon witnessing the sight of two robot monkeys laying claim to four souls in the middle of the streets. Momentarily, they made a run for it not wanting to stick around to the scenery.

Sprx and Otto, whose wounds have recently healed upon the soul feast, took note of this, but didn't give chase. They both had bigger fish to fry at the moment.

That fish was the MT leader and his powerful essence. But they now had two things on their minds.

One was Chiro and the other was their comrade that's in possession of Nova.

While in silence thought, Sprx issued a chilling smirk before inserting a single cigarette, which he has relinquished from a victimized policeman, into his mouth and used his metallic tail as a lighter to firmly light it up while Otto constantly surveyed the entire area.

It would appear that their preys have improven themselves as of late. But it would only be a matter of time before they, along with everyone else in Shuggazoom, will become victims.

As Sprx slowly took the cigarette from his mouth with his left hand, he blew out a hail of smoke into the atmosphere while Otto, who resumed his constant observation, paid it no heed.

As the two possessed monkeys started to make their leave with the four motionless policeman in their wake, they halted and, with a sudden frown masking their faces, slowly gazed to the left side towards a briefly darkened alleyway.

There, exiting from the shadows was the scarred orange monkey Mandarin who appears pleased with the results as of late.

As he halted about a quarter of an inch from their position, he spoke while Sprx carelessly tossed the cigarette butt away.

"You have done well thus far. But it appears that you have lost one of your own in the process. I trust that you will take it upon yourself to salvage this ordeal."

Silence, Sprx and Otto issued evil smirks in response while Mandarin returned the gesture.

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(Hibernation Chamber - Inside)

Chiro, who momentarily changed from his pajamas to a light blue shirt, gray pants, and tennis shoes, and Nova made it back to the hibernation chamber and related to the others on what transpired in the bathroom.

After he was done, everyone managed to take this into account, then got on discussion with the issues at hand.

Taking into thought of what they already knew; the group got on the issue of how to keep track of time in the events of Nova being repossessed again.

Chiro remedied that issue by acquiring a stopwatch. And seeing that the group has lost an amount of time while briefly taking refuge inside a storage room, the MT leader assumingly issued the timer to be two hours and ten minutes out.

But that was just an assumption. There was no telling when the repossession would take place so they would have to keep themselves alerted at all times.

For now, Johan, Jinmay, BT, and Glenn were standing next to the nearby wall watching Chiro and Nova, whose positioned in front of the two pods, drone their sorrowful eyes on their two fallen comrades as the minutes ticked away.

Momentarily, Johan questioned Chiro on how he was able to see the evil spirits inside his teammates from the start. But the MT leader appears clueless on that issue himself.

Afterwards, Johan grew silence with the others while Chiro and Nova resumed their sorrowful gazes to their befallen teammates.

"We're gonna have to leave here. Because knowing them..." Nova stated before abruptly being interrupted.

"Knowing them..." He started without taking his eyes from his two mentors. "...they'll come for you."

Then, as his gaze slowly switches to strong determination, he turned to face Nova, who took note of it.

"But I won't let them. Not without a fight."

Nova's sorrowful gaze switch to one of worries upon her leader's comment as if she knew what was going on in his very mind at this moment.

Chiro took note of it before she spoke.

"Chiro, you can't."

"Nova, they claimed two of our teammates. During that process, I sat there and watched them claim Antauri because of the fact that my powers were useless against them."

Silence, he strongly grimace with anger and resumed.

"And then, I ran. But you know what? I'm tired of running."

Silence upon that comment, Nova switched her worried gaze with a hint of determination and nodded in agreement before diverting her gaze to the pods.

Chiro followed suit before speaking.

"Because I'm gonna free you from that spirit, Nova. I'm gonna free Sprx and Otto. And then, I'm gonna tear that talisman to pieces to render back everyone's essence. Antauri and Gibson, if you could hear me, that includes you too. That's a promise."

Finally, Chiro and Nova slowly caressed their hands on the glass of the pods that encased the blue and black monkey before they slowly stood up.

For a while, they looked down at their lifeless bodies before they turned their attentions to the others, who grew in stunned silence from the display.

"Are you guys ready for this?" Chiro asked

Slowly, Johan and Jinmay grew a determined expression on their faces before issuing a curt nod in response.

Then, Chiro sent his attention to BT and Glenn, who hid their looks of fright with determination upon his stare.

Chiro took note of it and spoke.

"I know you two don't want to come. And I don't expect you to after what you guys have experienced last time. So..."

"I'm in." Glenn intervened which caught BT by surprise while the others stared in silence.

Glenn took note of it, then diverted his gaze to Chiro and spoke.

"Hell, you saved our lives once, monkey boy. We owe you that much."

"We do?" BT asked

Glenn glanced to BT and nodded in response.

BT took this into clear thought before slightly shrugging his shoulders.

"What the hell. I'm in, too."

Both Chiro and Nova issued smiles to their faces.

"Alright. Let's move."

Everyone nodded in response before exiting the hibernation chamber.

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