Intertwine: Horizon 12.2

A SRMTHFG Fanfiction

After the exile of the dragon Emarelda from the neutral place of existence, the Hyperforce tries to return to normal. Now informed of his past, Chiro journeys to Earth to find the links to his past—only to find an old enemy and a new friend.

Part Three of the Horizon Trilogy

Prologue: Prelude of Light

"The Shones were led by the first Shadow Lord, Tnaz, millions of years ago. The Light beings and Warriors were led by the Emerald Shapeshifter—Emarelda."

"Long story short, they wiped out my people, so I eliminated their leader."

"Your people are not gone, Emarelda. Not in the real sense. They're locked away in mortal vessels. Fading away. Already lost for all we know. You are the last of the Light Spirits."

"Like I said, Emarelda: we used to be such good friends. I doubt we'll ever get back to that."

"…I don't hate you."

"And I still don't."

Silhouette started and shot awake, looking around her darkened room. She looked around, her orange eyes glowing—a sign that the power deep within her was 'turned on' and ready to be unleashed. She took a deep breath as the orange glow faded.

Though it only seemed to be a few minutes ago that she woke up, sunlight now streamed through the window to her room. She got out of bed reluctantly, putting a hand to her head to try to ease the pounding headache she had.

She stumbled half-mindedly into Gibson on her way to the main room. Silhouette stood there, rubbing her head and looking at her feet.

"Sorry Gibson…"

"It's quite alright…" Gibson leaned down to try to look the black monkey in the eye. "Are you alright? You've been rather quiet the past few days. You haven't talked to anyone since…" He trailed off as he stood straight up.

"I'm glad you're at least out of your room. I was just coming to get you. You have a visitor."

She looked up, her eyes paler than normal. "Visitor?"

Gibson stepped into the main room with Silhouette in tow. She rubbed her eyes at the light change, before arms wrapped tightly around her shoulders. She was caught off-guard and almost fell over.

"You've kept yourself locked up for a while; we were going to send a search party to find you," Sparx said as he hugged her gently. "Brainstrain here worked just as good, though."

Silhouette leaned into Sparx as he held on to her. "Who's the visitor?"

"That would be me," a weary voice said.

Silhouette turned to see none other than Shruikan in the middle of the main room. He approached her. His eyes, though naturally red, looked even redder than normal—bloodshot.

"What's wrong?" It had been almost six years since they last seen the old dragon; now, he looked even older than usual, as if all his years were finally catching up to him.

"The same thing that's wrong with you," Shruikan told her. "The sealing away of Emarelda had an effect I could have never predicted."

"What's that?"

Shruikan paused for a moment, as if trying to avoid answering. "Orre is dying."

Silhouette really did fall over this time, Sparx kneeling down to prevent her from doing a face-plant. "What? Why??"

"The Light Keystone is the heart of Orre, but Emarelda was the mind of the planet; she kept the whole thing running. Now, with her gone…there's no one to tell the Keystone what to do."

Silence.

"How will this affect the universe?" Antauri questioned, not realizing the direness of the situation at hand.

Shruikan looked at him with solemn eyes. "If the problem is not reversed…there won't be a universe to save."

"W-What do we have to do?" Chiro asked.

Shruikan turned to him. "The only thing you can do." He grimaced. "Find Emarelda and return her memories to her."

"No!" Silhouette yelled, startling everyone. "I won't do it. She'll go back to her old self and hurt us all again. Not again…"

"Silhouette, don't ignore the situation," Shruikan hissed, also startling everyone. "I have no other choice. I cannot interfere with the meddling of Light without the Shadow Keystone's power, which you have inside you. You, the Super Robot Monkey Team, are the only beings in the universe that can see Emarelda."

"See?" Otto asked. "You mean she's invisible?"

"The details of her arrest were not clear to you…" Shruikan groaned. "When she was sealed away, it was different from the fate of her people. Her memory was thus wiped. Not only that, but she was wiped from this plane of existence."

"Excuse me?" Gibson screeched, astonished.

"Emarelda does not exist on this plane. Her form, her mind, her spirit, her body, and her powers, exist outside of time and space—therefore she cannot harm anything, touch anything, or have any of her powers affect anything. It was the only way to prevent her from using them."

"Is that possible?" Gibson asked.

"If she were to come across you, and you were invisible…she would pass right through you. It's as if she doesn't exist, but she does. Her form would phase right through you, without her knowledge that someone was standing right in her path."

"Then how do you propose we restore her memory?" Quint asked.

"Simple. You reveal yourself to her when she is alone…" He looked to Silhouette. "And tell her your story. Tell her hers. Tell her a story." Shruikan shrugged, as if it were as simple as that. "You are the only beings I know of that can see Emarelda in her state of nothingness—the only people I know that know she exists at all."

Silence again.

"Aside from one person. The human she is bound to."

"Human?" Chiro echoed.

"Indeed."

Despite the long drawn explanations Shruikan gave them about Emarelda, he made no further effort to explain about the 'human'.

"And Chiro here also needs to reconnect with his home world; it's a double mission," Shruikan announced.

"Home world?"

"But he lives on Shuggazoom!"

"He was born here!"

"Double?"

"Explanation, please?"

"Go to Earth; the planet itself can provide better answers than I can," Shruikan said quietly. "But Chiro hails from Earth; that is why he is the Keeper of the Cybernetic Earth Cube…A.K.A the Earth Keystone."

Everyone squawked at this.

"Emarelda told you; I assume at the time you thought she was probably either kidding to alleviate the dire situation with Temhota, or lying to you to get you riled up," Silhouette said, finally speaking up. "It was neither. Sure, Emarelda jokes a lot, but never at a time as serious as that. And she NEVER lies. You may assumed she lied to us when she took me captive, but she never said she wasn't going to do anything huge after we came. She just avoided having to say it, because, to her, lying is the vilest thing a person can do. Her sense of guilt is huge when it comes to her lying."

She looked to Chiro. "Chiro is the rightful Keeper of the Earth Keystone; which is the ONLY reason he's the Chosen One of the Power Primate."

She turned to Shruikan. "How long do we have?"

"On an estimated time frame…seven weeks, at the most."

Silhouette sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose. She looked to the others.

"Let's go to Earth."

I LIED.

I decided to challenge myself and try to finish this story. Sorry for lying, but I changed my mind!

LOL

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