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Warning: Be advised, this fic contains romantic male/male pairing. There is also some occurrences of out-of-characterness.

AN: To KnucklesRedFury207.2 and MiniMaloMyotismon10

Vacation

She gently placed the red velvet jewelry case on the table, right between the basket of bread rolls and the napkin dispenser.

"I'm sorry, Chiro." She said softly, her green eyes downcast.

The young man looked at her, then at the jewelry case. He knew held the promise ring he gave her a year ago.

"…This is it? This is the end of 'us'?" He asked her.

Jinmay nodded, "Yeah. I still love you, Chiro, but I need some space. We both need space."

She took out some money from her small chain purse, "…I'll keep in touch. Thanks for lunch. Here, this should cover my half."

The pink-haired android placed the money on the table and stood up.

"Wait! Can we work it out?" Chiro begged her.

"There's nothing to work out, hon." She told him, leaving the restaurant. As he watched her go, he realized that he wasn't running after her. She made it pretty clear that their romantic relationship was over months before that afternoon. So he sat there, wallowing in despair, looking at the box.

It took about six months for Chiro to adjust to being out of a relationship. During his 'recovery' period, he came to some truths he had to face. He did still love her, but it wasn't the instant head-over-heels he had when he met her. Jinmay had grown distant and he had to admit to himself that he had a little bit of a wandering eye.

The monkeys were polite enough not to pry, though they were worried about him; Otto especially. The green monkey considered Chiro his best friend in the whole world, and to see the 16-year-old depressed and wanting to be alone daily made the poor monkey worry. However, Otto did spend some of his time thinking up ways to cheer Chiro up, despite his siblings telling him 'it's a human thing' and that 'he just needs time'. Well that the perfectly fine and everything, he reasoned, but after six months, it was time for Chiro to come out of his shell and live his life again. Hell, Jinmay certainly didn't stop living hers.

When he heard about Zoom City being re-opened to the public after 50 years of being shut-down, he persuaded outside help (Clayton Carrington) into helping him secure city passes for the recently-finished tourist attraction. All that was left was for the green monkey to persuade the teen into coming with him.

One night at the dinner table, Chiro quietly ate the vegan casserole Antauri made for dinner. Otto stood up on his chair and put his plan into action.

"Hey, Chiro! Spring Break's coming up, ain't it?"

" 'Ain't' is not a proper word, Otto." Gibson told him.

"If it's in the dictionary, it's a word. You lost the bet; let it go already, Gibby."

Chiro chuckled softly at the banter before answering him, "Yeah, it starts on Friday. What's up?"

"I got two exclusive city passes to Zoom City."

Everyone else dropped whatever utensil they were using, Chiro included.

"I'm serious! I got two city passes and I want you to come with me this weekend! "Otto smiled.

"Lucky bastard." Sprx gasped.

"How did YOU get two city passes, Otto?" Nova asked him, raising her brow, "Every rich person in the city's been dying to get first dibs on those."

"Let's just say there's somebody that we know that knows the owner of one of the hotels there." Otto said, looking rather proud.

"You persuaded Mr. Carrington to purchase those passes for you, didn't you?" Gibson deadpanned.

"Pretty much. What do ya say, Chiro?"

"Well…I don't know, Otto."

"Aw, come on! Please?"

"Otto--" Antauri began with a serious tone.

Otto knew what Antauri was going to say. He was prepared for it.

"I know, 'Tauri. We need to be on the lookout, even during times of peace." Otto began, facing the elder monkey, "Zoom City's opening weekend's gonna be one of the biggest things to hit Shuggazoom in years. With all kinds of people coming in, including the ones from other planets, there's no telling what might happen over there. I even heard that there are a lot of rival companies in Shuggazoom that'll do anything to cause trouble for Zoom City's sponsors. Remember the opera house fight a couple months back?"

The others remembered quite that fight vividly; robot actors and performers at the Shuggazoom Opera House malfunctioned opening night and attacked the audience and the stage hands. The robots put up one hell of a fight even after the Hyperforce intervened. When the robots were finally brought under control, the Hyperforce discovered that a rival company wanted to ruin the opera house, simply because the establishment didn't choose the other company's robot actors.

"That's actually a good point to consider, Otto."

"Chiro and I can check out Zoom City and watch for anything funny. We can still patrol and make sure that nothing goes down like it did in the opera house. It's not like we're leaving Shuggazoom; we'll be in the city."

"…Well, the decision is yours, Chiro." Antauri told him.

Chiro looked at the doe-eyed face of the green monkey and the concerned/envious faces of Nova, Sprx, Gibson and Antauri. He made his decision.