Earth, Tennessee. Friday: 22: 19 hours.
The bright blue glow of the computer screen lit up her features. She wasn't amazingly beautiful, but she was certainly not ugly. She was…normal.
She ran a hand through her frizzy brownish red hair and sighed. Her green eyes had a thin circle of blue around them. She rubbed them, careful not to pop out her contacts.
She wore a simple shirt, long sleeved, black and white with a hood. Her jean were dark, almost black and they almost covered her dark green converses.
Ren hummed lightly to herself as she typed on her computer. If she hurried she would be able to put a new chapter up before she went to bed.
She held her arms above her head and stretched. She brought her arms back down and placed them on the back of her neck. Glancing out the window, she thought of the next twist she was going to put into her SRMTHFG! fanfic.
She smiled slightly as she reached down and grabbed her mug of coffee. She heard a low grumbling noise, but ignored. It was probably just the AC acting up again. It grew louder and louder, Maybe it was a plane?
There was a loud boom as something crashed into to ground outside her house. The vibrations shook everything in her room and almost knocked several things off her shelves.
She gasped and jumped to her window to see what that noise could have been. She gasped when she looked outside and saw the Super Robot standing in her field.
She turned around and grabbed her jacket before running down the stairs and outside, and was blasted with a wave of cold air.
She cursed herself for not grabbing her heavy coat before she ran out the door. Of coarse, the first time it really snows in East Tennessee in the last ten years, she decides to go crazy and start seeing things and then run out into the freezing cold. Snow crunched under her feet as she ran up a short hill and crested it. She looked over and saw… nothing.
Milky-way Galaxy, somewhere on the dark side of the moon.
"What do you mean we can't go back to Shugazoom?!" Chiro asked angrily.
"You heard Brain-Strain, Kid," Sparx said while lounging in his bubble seat. "We can't go anywhere till we repair the Super Robot, and we just don't have the supplies with us to-"
"Well why don't we go get some?" Chiro asked again. "We just saved that planet from the Dark One Worm, they should be excited to give us parts!"
"Chiro," Antauri said calmly, "That is a primitive planet, they probably don't even understand what just happened, let alone have the supplies we need to repair the robot."
"In other words," Gibson said glumly, "We're stranded."
Chiro sighed and rubbed his face furiously.
"Chiro, please calm down." Antauri said, attempting to calm his student. "There is nothing we can do about it, it's out of our hands."
"I know," Chiro said, "I know, it's just Jinmay sounded so frantic when she sent that message that I want to get back and help her as soon as we can."
"I know you're worried about her," Nova said as she came over and laid a hand on Chiro's arm. "I am too, but all we can do is wait for Otto to tell us what he can do. I'm sure he will have to Robot working in no time."
"There is no way I can get this done any time soon." Otto announced as he came down his tube. Chiro groaned and collapsed in his own chair.
"What's the damage report?" Chiro asked, not really wanting to hear the answer.
"The Worm really messed up the Super Robot," Otto said as he whipped oil off of his face. "Not to mention the Super Robot punched a hole in it's own chest. There's no way we can fly through space with a gapping hole in our ship."
"Can you fix it?" Nova asked.
Otto shook his head, "Not without more supplies. If we don't get more soon, we're gonna be stuck here a long time."
"That is the exact opposite of what we wanted to hear, buddy." Sparx said while getting up and walking over to the computer monitor.
"Oh do you want me to take it back and try again?" Otto asked completely serious.
"No Otto," Gibson said exasperated. He followed Sparx to the computer and idly typed on it.
"Now what?" Chiro asked distressed, "How can we save Jinmay now?"
"Calm down," Nova said, "I'm sure we'll find a way to get through this." She turned to Otto and smiled.
"Okay, what do we need to get off this hunk of rock?"
"Scrap metal is the first thing we need." Otto answered. "If we get that, everything else will be easy to get."
"Okay, I'm sure we can find some of that on the blue and green planet down there." Nova said as she pointed to a picture labeled Earth.
"Nova," Antauri said, "we can not simply go down there and get materials. We need to keep interference with underdeveloped races down, or have you forgotten what the Dark One Worm did to the worlds it touched?"
"No," Nova said sadly, "But we just can't hangout here in space till we all rust! We have to at least try to leave!"
"Nova, there is nothing we can do until we find materials that can handle the pressure of space." Gibson tried to explain. "There is just nothing-"
Nova clinched her fist and took an offensive stance against the team.
"Since when have we taken 'no' as an answer?!" She asked angrily. "Did you guys get soft while I was out in that wormhole?!"
"Nova,-" Chiro said quietly, but was stopped by a quick flick of her wrist.
"If you want to sit here and watch our asses rust, go ahead and be my guest!" She snapped. "I'm going to my room to try and to think of a plan." She stormed off towards her room.
"It's a sad day when I have more balls than you five combined!" She yelled as she got in her tube and slid up to her room.
"What is her problem?" Sparx asked.
"Yeah, why did she get so mad?" Otto asked confused.
Antauri sighed, "No one has asked her what happed in the worm hole have they?" Everyone shook their head.
"Well I suspect that has something to do with her sudden out burst, one of use needs to go talk to her, and considering she is mad at me…" Antauri said.
"Oh no, I'm not going any where near her." Chiro said quickly, "No way!"
"I have no desire to be torn apart limb by limb." Gibson said simply. "That leaves either Sparx or-"
"Not it!" Otto screamed suddenly.
Everyone looked as Sparx.
"Oh no, you don't honestly think I can make her feel better, Do you?" Sparx asked concerned. "She has used me as a personal punching bag more times than any of you guys, there is no way I can comfort her!"
"She is quite pleased with you now." Gibson pointed out, "And as far as I can tell, you are the only one she is not furious at."
"What about the Kid?" Sparx asked frantically.
"We don't want to send him to his death bed yet!" Otto said, "We still need him. You're expendable." The team nodded in agreement.
"Aw, great!" Sparx said as the trudged to Nova's tube. "Get my will ready!" He called backwards as he ascended to his impending doom.
Sparx walked up to Nova's door and knocked slightly. He got no answer, he thought of walking away right then.
"Nova?" He called lightly, "Are you in there?" There was a pause, he turned around to leave. He would tell the team she was asleep-
"What do you want Sparx?" Her sour voice floated through the door.
"Just checking on you." he said simply. "Can I come in?" He got no response for several seconds.
"Fine," Nova said exasperated. Sparx put on a smile and walked in as the door opened up.
"What do you want?" Nova asked as she practiced her punches on a sandbag.
"Just seeing if you're okay." Sparx said as he slowly made his way to her side of the room. "You seemed a little angry down in the control room."
Nova didn't look at him but instead punched the bag hard enough to almost shake it off its hook.
"It just makes me so mad that everyone is just wants to give up." She said as she punched harder. Sparx took care to stay a couple of feet back.
"I mean really," She pulled her arm back and punched again, "when did every one get so, so…" She punched as hard as she could and the hook gave out. The bag flew a couple of feet back and slammed against the wall.
"Frustrated." She finished while collapsing on a small day-bed. She laid an arm over her eyes and took deep breaths.
Sparx walked over to the bed and sat on the floor. He leaned back against it and sighed.
"Your guess is as good as mine." He said simply. Nova propped herself up with her arm.
"You agree with me?" she asked slightly confused.
"Yeah," he answered truthfully. "I mean, I know we can't just go down there and stomp around, but if we just took a couple of supplies, how would they know?"
Nova stared seriously at him with a slight smile on her face.
"Oh yeah, Antauri's going to love that idea." She laid back down on her back and looked at the ceiling. She started to chuckle.
"Do you have a better idea?" Sparx asked as he turned around. He put his chin in his hand and used his elbow to prop himself up on the bed.
"Because if you do, I would love to hear it." A faint smiled touched his lips.
Nova turned on her side and propped her own head up with her arm.
"No," She said while laughing a little.
"Oh come on," Sparx said, teasing. "you have to have gained some great knowledge from the worm hole." Nova's smile faded quickly and she turned back over on her back.
"I wouldn't say that." Nova said simply. Sparx leaned a little bit closer.
"What happened in there Novs?" Sparx asked concerned.
Nova turned on her side, her back facing Sparx.
"I don't want to talk about." She whispered.
"Nova," Sparx said as he placed his hand lightly on her shoulder. "Are you okay? If you don't want to talk about it, that's fine, but if you need to get something off your chest…" Even though she couldn't see him, he still spread his arms out.
She sighed and sat up.
"It's a long story so you might as well sit down." She scooted over. Sparx sat down beside of her and got ready to listen.
Nova could feel her footing slipping out from under her. Sparx was being pulled back too. The rest of the team was getting farther and farther away. Sparx was able to grab the flag pole with his tail and reached for Nova. She grabbed his hand and held on tightly.
Her hand slipped, she was getting thrown backwards and Sparx grabbed her boot. Maybe they would get out of this after all- her foot was slipping, she could feel it. She tired to tell Sparx but it was too late. She was flying off into the worm now.
Sparx was yelling something at her but she couldn't hear him. She was in to much pain to. It felt like she was being torn apart. It hurt so much, all she wanted to do was scream!
Then it stopped.
She opened her eyes and saw she was laying on her back. She slowly sat up and noticed no pain at all. She was sitting in a white sea of nothing.
"Hello Nova." A calm voice said. Nova turned and round and gasped, the most beautiful lady she had ever seen was standing there.
"Nova! Sparx!" Chiro's nervous voice came through the intercom, "We need you to come to the command center immediately."
"That doesn't sound good." Nova said as she stood up. "Come on let's go."
"What about the story?" Sparx asked, he was completely entranced in it.
Nova looked at him and smiled.
"I'll finish it tonight." And with that they both headed towards the main room.
"What's up?" Sparx asked as they walked in.
Chiro turned around and looked at them nervously.
"Is worse than we thought." he said simply, "We're going to have to make repairs sooner than we thought."
"How soon?" Nova asked. Everyone noticed that she was much calmer than before and they all gave Sparx thumbs up when Nova wasn't looking.
"Now." Otto said as he prepared the robot for travel.
"What about not affecting the natives?" Nova asked.
"Oh," Otto said, "I made a cloaking device that should make the robot invisible and then we can look for supplies secretly. Like spies." he whispered.
Everyone one looked at Otto dumfounded.
"Are you serous?" Sparx said, he was just starting to get mad.
"You couldn't have said something sooner?" Nova said angrily.
"Um," Otto said scratching the back of his head and smiling, "I forgot?"
"Otto you Buffoon!!" Gibson yelled, "Do you know how much time we could have saved if you had said something earlier?"
"Um, a lot?" He asked. Everyone just sighed and shook their heads.
"Let's just go down there and get the supplies." Chiro said finally.
The team was sitting in their chairs, waiting for the trip to the strange planet the computer had identified as Earth.
"Is everyone ready, is the robot on auto-pilot?" Chiro asked.
"Yep." Sparx answered.
"Is the cloaking device working, Otto?"
"Yes sir."
"Have we picked a flight path yet?"
"Yes, we have found what appears to be a small rural town that might have the steel we need to repair the robot, then we can move on." Gibson answered.
"Good, let's go down there, get the supplies and get back to Shugazoom." Nova said cheekily. She was in a much better mood that before but she was still a little sour.
"Alright, let's Blast Off!" Chiro yelled as the Super Robot took of from the surface of the moon.
They were entering Earth's atmosphere in a matter of minutes.
"This might get a little bumpy here, folks." Sparx warned as their home began to shake and rock.
"Hold tight team." Chiro said as he gripped his chair.
Otto's cloaking device worked wonderfully, even the fire that trailed behind them was invisible.
"All right, prepare for the landing guys." Sparx said as the super robot landed hard enough to shake them all to the bone.
"Are we all right?" Chiro asked cautiously.
Gibson did a quick systems read.
"Everything is in working order." He answered. "Wait a minute…"
"What is wrong?" Antauri asked.
"This shows that Otto's invisibility device stopped working for approximately 39 seconds before kicking back on."
"Is that a problem?" Chiro asked, "What are the chances that any one would see us out here in the middle of nowhere in that 39 seconds. It's the middle of the night."
"About 1:10,983,478,309.9" Gibson answered. "I think we're safe."
Ren pulled her jacket closer around her and walked slowly towards the place that she thought she had seen a giant robot. She sighed and cursed herself again.
"No more coffee for you." She said out loud.
She looked up and started to turn around, then stopped. She looked slowly down and saw where to snow was depressed about 6 inches.
"I'm not seeing this…" She whispered to herself as she slowly walked towards it.
"No no nononononon…" She said as she stuck her hand out and touch cold metal.
What's this you ask?
Well let's just say it's an experiment.
I know it got a little Oocness in the middle, but I wanted it that way.
This is suppose to be making fun of the whole "fangirl meets the monkey team" thing that seems to be infesting this place.
Trust me this is suppose to be a comedy, if you write a fangirl story, that's fine with me. I just can't resist the temptation to write this.
Go ahead and try to guess who Ren is, I bet you never will ;)
