Hello! This story takes place right after my first story "The Final Moment". If you haven't read it already, please do! And review, I'd appreciate it! Anyway...I hope you enjoy this new story!

"Sparks, give it back!" Nova giggled.

The Super Robot was rocketing through the galaxy, on course back to Shuggazoom. The monkey team had just left Galaxia after saving Nova from a mind-controlled Offay. Along the way, Sparks and Nova had revealed their feelings for each other, and were now inseparable.

"Aw, c'mon, Nova," Sparks chuckled, "aren't you gonna pummel me for it?"

They were laughing and playing as Sparks held Nova's stuffed animal just out of her reach.

"You're too cute to pummel!" Nova laughed. She and Sparks continued teasing each other, while their teammates looked on from a distance.

"Wouldn't Nova be mad at Sparks for taking her stuff?" Otto wondered out loud. "Nothing makes sense anymore..."

"It seems their new-found relationship has come with a mutual respect and light-hearted attitude," Gibson concluded. "Though, I can't help but be slightly disgusted by it..."

"At least they're getting along now," Chiro said. "I think this'll benefit the team in the long run."

Antauri wasn't so sure. "As long as they are not distracted from their duties. I fear a romantic relationship between two team members could lead to disaster."

Just then, an alarm went off. WARNING! UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT APPROACHING!

"Speaking of disaster," Gibson said to himself as he raced to the controls. He opened the windshield to reveal a large, dark red ship zooming in close to the Super Robot.

Sparks and Nova ran up to join the others. "What is that thing?" Nova said.

"Just for once, can't it be a supply ship passing through?" Sparks whined. "I'm exhausted."

Gibson looked closer at the ship and spotted a familiar blue and white symbol. "What luck!" he said, rather surprised. "It is an intergalactic supply ship! No need to worry."

The ship then accelerated and rammed into the Super Robot, knocking everyone off their feet and into the wall.

"Unless it tries to kill us," Sparks said sarcastically.

"I know we're all tired, but we've got a bad guy to squash," Chiro said. "Monkeys, mobilize!"

The team got into their battle positions. Antauri suddenly got a strange feeling.

"What's wrong, Antauri?" Chiro asked.

"I sense an enemy far too familiar to us," he said.

"Who?"

"Who else?" a voice replied before letting out an evil cackle.

Gibson peered into the ship with his binocular eyes and spotted their former brother. "Mandarin!"

Inside the ship, a few lackeys manned the controls while Mandarin himself stood in control. He looked pretty beaten up, but that certainly wouldn't stop him. "You cannot win this time, monkey team!" he proclaimed. "My new and improved battleship will destroy you once and for all!"

"He must've hijacked the supply ship," Chiro thought out loud.

"What's he gonna call it, the Supreme Destructor 2?" Nova joked.

Otto chuckled at that. "Good one, Nova."

Sparks smiled. "That's my girl."

"Oh, very humorous, Nova," Mandarin said sinisterly, "I'll have to remember that when you are all serving me!"

"Didn't work last time, won't work this time," Chiro shot back. "Let's take him down!"

The team let out a full-force attack. But every missle they fired was met with a strong fire ball that melted each one. Some of them hit the Super Robot's armor and pierced it.

"Ow!" Chiro screamed as one hit him. "Otto, how's the armor holding up?"

"Not too good," Otto responded. "Those fire balls are burning through our weapons!"

"Chiro, I fear that if we don't retreat, the Super Robot may be further damaged and become beyond repairable," Antauri told him.

"What are we supposed to do? Fly back to Shuggazoom? He'll follow us and destroy it!"

Just then, a larger fire ball hit the Brain Scrambler 2 and knocked Antauri out into open space.

"Antauri!" Chiro screamed. As he floated in space, the silver monkey tried to fire up his rocket pack, but it was greatly damaged.

"Team, my rocket pack has been destroyed," Antauri said over his com receptors.

"Sparks, grab him!" Chrio ordered.

Sparks pulled the switch to extend the Fist Rocket 3's fingers. But before he could reach Antauri, Mandarin fired a blue beam, which trapped him inside, drained his energy, and knocked him unconscious.

With the Super Robot damaged, the Hyperforce could only watch in horror as their friend was pulled him into the evil monkey's ship, unsure of his fate.

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