Well you guys voted this version here! I hope you enjoy it - told you I could get it all done. Sure, it only shows three chapters in this one and my original had four - but that's b/c I merged that incredibly small chapter. I really hope all of you find this version better than the old!

Prologue: Sparks

Samuel was a cyber simian. He was an unusual one though. Most of the places white was supposed to be were black and his fur was an earthy shade of brown. His optical sensors were a light shade of tan. These light optical sensors had seen many things in his lifetime.

"Mr. Sammy!"

The brown simian looked down at his feet. A small little robot monkey with green fur on his face and torso with blue everywhere else including his chest fur was staring up at him with wide black eyes. He smiled a bit. "Yes, Kin?"

"Y'think the Alchemist will come back for us?" he asked.

How many times must an old monkey explain it? Kindynos was a terminated experiment. However, an associate of the Alchemist had taken his remains and rebuilt him. Then, he brought him to this place so he would be safe and so that no one would know he existed.

With a sigh, Samuel responded. "No."

"What about your friend—the one that made you?" he asked innocently.

That associate had been Samuel's creator. After he left the both of them on this rock of a planetoid, he had never returned. Perhaps the dark one had consumed him as well. Or he may have been killed even. He had been rather young though.

"I don't know, Kindynos," Samuel replied. For the millionth time, he noticed Kin's name. It was Greek for 'danger'. Just what did that mean about the small monkey? Was he dangerous? Did danger follow him? Or were his adversaries to beware of him?

"Sammy!"

The brown monkey turned once again just in the opposite direction. A black monkey (Kindynos's size) with lime green eyes, neon dark blue chest fur, and wings that were black and lime green was staring up at him curiously. "Yes, Gash?"

"Where's my big brother?" he asked.

"Thanatos went . . . out," Samuel replied.

"Went out where?" Gash continued.

Why did young simians ask so many questions? Samuel sighed, "I don't know."

"Can we look for him?" Gash, the perpetual bundle of questions, asked.

The brown monkey was about to reply when a black figure darting across the sky caught his eye. His expression turned dark, "I believe that's him right now."

"Yay!" Gash exclaimed jumping up and down. "I'll go get Shay!"

He scampered off towards a cave on top of the cliff they stood atop. Samuel looked down at Kindynos. "Perhaps you should go help him search for Shay."

Kindynos nodded and raced after his black, blue, and green companion.

Samuel turned his attention on the flying figure. It was a black winged monkey with red chestfur, blood red eyes, a red helmet, and black and red wings. Its mechanical fingers were silver and deadly sharp unlike most cyber-simians and his canine teethe were extraordinarily long. He carried two other figures. The incredibly small one was wrapped in a small bundle and the other was thrown over his shoulder.

The black and red monkey landed gracefully and set the two figures down. Samuel hurried up beside him and dropped beside the two figures. The earth-colored simian took note of the peculiar larger one—its eyes were as green as Antauri's had once been, fur as blue as Gibson's, tail as red as Sprx's, helmet as green as Otto's, and the point at the top of her helmet as yellow as Nova's as well as a golden strip down each arm, audio receptor, and tip of the tail. What a strange simian…

"Project X," explained the dark bat-like simian.

Kneeling beside the odd-looking simian, Samuel questioned, "What does that mean? Project X?"

"She was an experiment," Thanatos informed.

"She?" echoed Samuel.

He received a grave nod as a reply.

Samuel looked up at Thanatos and demanded, "What happened to them?"

Thanatos didn't reply and just grunted as he crossed his arms.

Samuel glared at him for a moment the looked down at the bundle. All that was visible was a face—golden fur and bubblegum pink eyes. The infant looked like it had only been alive for a month or so. And the face held a striking resemblance to someone he once knew…

"How on Shuggazoom . . . Thanatos, I demand that you answer me," Samuel said, "What happened to them?"

At that very moment, Gash tackled his taller brother to the ground, which in turn kept the demon-like monkey from answering.

"Nat!" Gash exclaimed. He blabbed out a bunch of questions a mile a minute. "Where've you been? What've you been doing? Are you staying? If you're not, can I come with you? Huh, can I? Can I? Can I?"

"You're staying with Samuel," the deep-voiced simian grumbled.

"What about you, Nat? Are you staying too? Are you? Huh, huh? Are you? Are you?" Gash asked repeatedly.

"No!" he barked gruffly. He pushed Gash off of him and stood up. "Now, good-bye."

Samuel stood and grabbed him by his silver arm. "Tell me where you found them, Thanatos. Tell me now."

"I don't have to answer to you," he said, jerking his arm out of Samuel's grip.

Samuel sighed, "Old friend, I'm begging you. Please tell me where you found them."

"They're outcasts like us," Thanatos replied with an angered look on his face. "Terminated experiments of the Alchemist—"

"She's kinda cute."

Samuel and Thanatos turned. Kindynos was on his knees and the small monkey that used to be wrapped in a bundle was sitting on the cloth. She had golden fur on her torso and face and everything else was red. She was in a crawling position and staring up at Kin with her wide pink eyes.

"What's her name?" he asked.

"Er. . ." Thanatos thought for a moment. "Spithobolo."

Kin looked at the black simian curiously, "Isn't that Greek forSparks?"

"Yes," he replied plainly and without emotion.

Samuel's eyes widened and he glared at Thanatos. "You didn't."

The black monkey remained silent. After a moment he said, "The other one is Gracelyn."

Kin looked back down at the gold and red monkey. "Little Spithy. That's kinda catchy! Hey, Spithy! My name's Kin. You can say Kin, right? C'mon, Kin."

The tiny simian put a hand on his blue chest fur. "Kinny."

"Eh, close enough," he shrugged with a smile.

Samuel had turned away from Thanatos to watch the two small simians interact, and now turned back. But the black simian was no where to be found. He sighed deeply then turned back to look at the mess of young simians around him.

Gash's robotic shoulders slumped, and he sniffled.

A small purple simian with teal green eyes walked up to him and patted him on the shoulder. "Aw, don't worry, Gash. He'll be back before you know it!"

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