HEY I"M BACK! I'm so sorry for starting another story in between like 5, but I can't get this one out of my head. Please be patient with my other stories and I promise you will enjoy this one.
(I DO NOT OWN SUPER ROBOT MONKEY TEAM HYPERFORCE GO! )
It was another night in Shuggazoom City, months after the Hyperforce returned from space. The silver simian had a new telepathic lecture prepared for the 15 year leader. Chiro and Antauri sat in the latter's bedroom along with Sparx and Nova who were assisting them in the teenager's lesson. As the red and yellow monkeys sat up on their futons, Antauri exclaimed levitating over them, "I would like to thank you both for volunteering to help us in our lesson"
Chiro added on to his mentor's compliment, only sounding a little uncomfortable and nervous "Y-yeah, guys" he said playing with his fingers "I really appreciate it."
Nova gulped asked the silver primate a question for reassurance "and you're positive that he can do this?"
"Of course," the pacifist replied "that is, if you feel prepared to, my son" he said turning his head behind him to Chiro
"Let's do it." the boy announced punching his palms
"Alright then" Sparx said with a smile as he and Nova picked up their special tea cups "Bottoms up" he purposed a toast. With that, they both drank the substance within the cup, and the two of them quickly passed out on their futons, peacefully asleep.
"Hm" Antauri sighed as everything was going as it should "Come, Chiro. We have only one hour before the tranquilizing tea wears off." he commanded as he sat down beside Sparx's head. Chiro, however, merely responded with reluctant silence.
"I-I don't know, Antauri. I don't want to hurt them. I know you'll be with me, but me, in someone else's mind?" the raven haired boy explained his doubts as he sat next to his father figure
The wise monkey just smiled "You have nothing to fear, Chiro. Dream control with the right intentions is absolutely harmless. I promise we won't damage any important parts of their minds. Place trust in yourself as they have with you" he smiled at Chiro in encouragement. As Chiro smiled back in relief, the two placed both hands on the forehead of the sleeping red pilot and entered into his mind
(SPARX'S MIND)
Antauri beamed Chiro and himself straight into the void where all the mind's dreams and nightmares took place. Once they arrived, Chiro looked around to see that the void was endless and pitch black as he looked to his left to see the silver monkey floating near his shoulder.
"Welcome to the void of dreams, Chiro." he announced as the gazed upon their surroundings "This is where we shall be having our lessons for the evening." he explained.
The teenager looked again in almost all directions " Whoa. You know? I actually expected this place to-" the orange leader gasped when he saw the red monkey engulfed in a light pink and purple bubble and appeared to be unconscious. "SPARX!" Chiro shouted as he ran and placed a hand on the bubble in the deepest of concerns "Antauri, is he okay?!" he turned to the simian he considered his father.
"Worry not. This isn't Sparx, but merely his physiological counterpart. This is the version of Sparx that experiences the events of his dreams, while the real Sparx only remembers them. Because there's currently no sort of dream occurring, he is in a dormant state and he feels nothing, but he'll have no knowledge go our presence as we control his dreams" the wise primate explained
"Ohh!" said Chiro as he nodded in comprehension "I get it now. So he's out cold until he has a dream."
"Hm hm hm... That is where we come in." said the second in command as he flew higher above the boy. "Shall we begin?"
"Oh yeah, definitely" said the black haired boy standing back to give Antauri some space
"You remember what we're doing?" he wanted to insure he knew what to do
"You're gonna create a nightmare using dream control, and I have to create a better dream by myself. Got it" he said giving a thumbs up.
"Very good" Antauri nodded as he raised both arms in front of him and pressed his hands together in the form of a prayer. Then his eyes shot wide and he threw his arms straight in front of himself at the speed of sound. Both his eyes and hands were engulfed in strange green flames very reminiscent of the Power Primate. Suddenly, the bubble the hibernated the red monkey was set ablaze from the outside and destroyed. Resulting in Sparx grunting as he hit ground quite hard. Observing Sparx closing, Antauri quickly flicked one hand and five bright candles appeared where the smart aleck was laying down. Then, all of a sudden, as the silver raised that same hand and two fingers, a sudden voice could be heard from the void.
"Sparx?" both Chiro and Sparx knew that voice very well by this point,
"Nova?" the red pilot called out as he rose to his knees "Where are you? Why is it so dark in here?"
Chiro, still watching from the sidelines, widened his eyes in confusion. 'Wait. He can't see?' he thought to himself. With somewhat discomfort, he looked at his mentor who expressed a face of unmistakable seriousness. The silver simian crushed his fingers into his right palm, forced his hand down like a judge. This caused the red primate to fall to his chest
"Oof!" Sparx thumped as he hit his chin against the ground. He began to lose his breath in fear as tried in vain to even find his ankles in the pitch black void.
Suddenly, the voice of his comrade could be heard again. "Sparx! Sparx, help me!" except now the yellow primate's tone was louder and more afraid. Of what was unknown. All Sparx knew was that his teammate was in danger, and he had to keep trying to escape from his own danger in order to save, but he couldn't. His forehead was sweating a storm of bullets from anxiety. Why couldn't he see? What was pulling at his ankles? Just then, Antauri began a new trick; he reached his arms out and grabbed on to an invisible rope mime style. He pulled the imaginary rope towards his chest, as the frightened pilot was being pulled further into darkness, either way, he was blind as a bat.
With the purest form of panic in his breathing, he dug his metal hands into the floor in a failed attempt to stop the chains from pulling him further away from Nova's terrified voice "(grunt) Hey, let me go! Nova?! NOVA, HELP ME, PLEASE! SOMEBODY HELP ME!"
A mortified Chiro had now had enough of witnessing his older brother figure in such relentless peril. He rushed to his mentor and pressured him to desist with this nightmare, "Antauri!" he pulled on his leg "He's had enough!"
The silver monkey was startled by the boy's impulse but calmly looked down at him and replied "I know" as he stopped controlling the nightmare "Now it's your turn. You have to create a positive outcome for this dream based on the scenario I've displayed thus far" he instructed as he gestured towards a still screaming Sparx.
"Um, o-okay," Chiro said with a gulp "but you made it look so easy"
For support, the blue eyed robot placed a hand on Chiro. "You'll do fine, my son. It's just like a simple puppet show." he explained. "All you need is contraction, creativity, and an understanding of the dreamer."
With a deep, soothing inhale, the black haired teen nodded and stepped forward. At first, he was distracted by the red monkey's terrified screams and calls for help, but he quickly shook it off as he listened to Antauri's dictations through the process.
"Now, direct your mental energy to course throughout your entire body. Feel the power of control flow within your veins. Your imagination shall be your puppet, this void shall be your stage, your fingers are the strings, and you, Chiro, are the puppet master." Antauri's instructions took complete hold of the boy. Chiro stood up completely straight, closed his baby blue eyes, exhaled through his nose, and held his hands in the form of meditation. After a moment, he opened his eyes to unveil very feint green flames that died as quickly as they came. With more force than necessary, he pushed one hand forward and flicked his fingers. Suddenly, an unknown figure appeared and destroyed the chains, stopping, Sparx in his tracks.
With several rapid pants, the red simian sat up by his elbows. "What (pant) what happened?"
"Sparx?" the strange figure that Sparx still couldn't see was Nova "Are you okay?" she asked with a caring tone as she sat him up by his knees.
"Nova!" he gasped with joy as he pulled her into a hug. "What's going on? Why is it so dark?" he questioned with a voice of anxiety. Despite the fact that the yellow monkey was presumably alright, his lack vision and lack of answers chilled him to the terror
In the background, Chiro gulped to himself. As the silver primate informed him, he must be cautious with what he thinks because anything that pops into his head will appear in Sparx's Dream. The boy brought one fist forward and flicked his gloved fingers out, commanding the illusion of Nova to respond
"Sparx... there're candles all over the place" she told him with a low voice of concern
The red monkey paused and his hands began to shake as he put two and two together "Wait" he said through heavy hyperventilation "Ar-are you saying I'm b-blind!" he exclaimed "No..No! I can't be! I-"
As the black haired leader pushed both arms forward, Nova grabbed his wrists and made him face her direction "Sparx" she said sternly "Listen to me, I can help you, but you have to listen to me. Can you feel when you close your eye? Can you feel yourself blink?"
"Um... yes" the red monkey replied reluctantly
"Okay. I want you to close your eyes, and don't open them until I tell you to, okay?" she dictated, much to Sparx's confusion
"But what good is that-"
"Please you'll be alright, but I need you to trust me. I'm right here." Nova calmly told him with such a loving, tender voice that the paranoid pilot knew he was safe to comply. He closed his blind eyes as tight as he could and kneeled down in silence.
Still in control of the dream, the teenage leader held up two and swiped them forward as if he was using an iPod. Nova copied this motion as she ran those same fingers across Sparx's eyes, apparently dusting off some sort of white mist that was the culprit for Sparx's blindness.
Watching from close behind his student, Antauri gave himself a grin, nodded, and whispered under his breath, "Very, very good"
Chiro almost jumped with excitement over his performance as Nova said to the red smart aleck, "Okay, open your eyes"
With a smile, Sparx opened his eyes, but was greeted to a strange shock. Nova had grown orange and silver butterfly wings with plums on each center "Whoa!" he gasped and jumped back. Chiro's eyes shot open and bit his lip, not knowing what what he did wrong. Meanwhile, Antauri gasped and covered his mouth, but stayed still, wanted to let Chiro figure this out for himself
"Nova!" Sparx exclaimed with a baffled voice, pointing at the yellow female "Y-you have-"
"What?" she obviously shrugged her shoulders when the wings caught her eyes "Oh, these?" she giggled "Yeah, I can't always control when these ladies pop up. It happens" this was quite peculiar. Why was Nova acting like this was so normal? Suddenly a new surprise revealed it elf; the pink eyed fighter grew two ears, on her left was a brown and neon blue striped cat ear, and to her right was a big tie dye elephant ear with the colors shifting around like they were in a lava lamp.
Chiro stepped back in panic now realizing he'd completely lost control of the dream, but all Antauri could do was cover his mouth and chuckle under his breath. As bizarre as these images were, this scenario was just extremely amusing based on personal experience.
Back to Sparx, all he do was stare in disbelief since he had no idea how to react "I-I uhh.." was all
"What'sssss the matter, Sssssparkkkyy?" she questioned rattling her snake like tongue and stretched out her arm. This mutant that used to be Nova restricted the horrified simian and pulled him into a dip. She caressed his face with hands which had turned into a rabbit's paw that had long, beige painted nails "Don't like what you sssssseeeeee?" she taunted with a voice of sick delight
"Hey!" Sparx woke up from his trance and struggled in vain to break free from her furry arms "Let me go! SOMEONE HELP ME!"
As Sparx continued to cry for help, the young leader's face began to glow red as he covered his ears praying this would stop itself. The silver, still levitating above him, took a minute to fight off his laughter. When he succeeded, he placed a hand on his son's shoulder, and the boy looked up to a smiling face
"Per-(snicker) perhaps we should take our leave" the wise simian struggled to say with a straight face.
"Please" the black haired boy begged in utter embarrassment. With a quick nod, the silver monkey held his arms out straight and the two telepaths were beamed back into reality.
(REALITY)
Both the team's leaders gasped as their minds returned to reality. Almost immediately, Antauri lost to his urges and let out several light chuckles, which Chiro found rather offensive
"Antauri!" he shouted in anger, stood up and crossed his arms, facing the wall.
The silver simian tried to pull himself together to apologize to his leader. "He he he Chiro" he finally stopped chuckling "it's alright. You did splendid for your first attempt at dream control" he complimented with a grin
"Splendid?!" Chiro turned back around to ensure that he heard that right. "You were in there with me?! That was humiliating! I turned that dream into an LSD trip!" he yelled kneeling back down in frustration.
"Chiro, listen to me" Antauri requested as he pulled the blue eyed leader up by his chin to make eye contact. "Nothing that occurred was abnormal in terms of dream control, especially for a beginner. I promise you this has happened at least once to all telepaths attempting to do this."
The boy widened his eyes in surprise "Really?" the silver smiled and nodded "Weirder than that?" he asked pointing to the red simian who was still asleep.
The wise monkey chuckled and rubbed Chiro's head, messing up his hair "If you thought that was bad, you should've seen my first attempt at dream control" then, the robot frowned, turned his head and mumbled under his breath "so many poodles, not enough seashells"
Chiro barely heard that and rose an eyebrow in confusion "What?"
"Um, w-why don't we just move on to Nova? There's one more lesson you must learn immediately with this new power." he said moving next to the resting yellow primate.
The leader needed reassurance "So it's alright if something insane happens?"
"Of course" the second in command replied "There's nothing more than harmless dreams. Now come along," he gestured for his young pupil to come forward "Nova won't be asleep for much longer"
With that, the boy nodded in agreement, sat next to Antauri and they entered Nova's sleeping mind together.
(NOVA'S MIND)
The place they showed up to was no different from Sparx's mind. Right down to finding the bubble gum eyed monkey lying dormant in a pink cocoon like bubble.
"Same as before?" Chiro gulped staring at his engulfed teammate.
"Yes." the mentor confirmed as he pulled a small, fury red orb from behind his back "Let's waste no time with this." he announced as he threw the orb against the ground with utter force. This resulted in a bright light engulfing the darkness surrounding them. It was so blinding that the raven haired teen had to cover his eyes with his lower arm. Once he removed them, he found himself back at the Super Robot training room where Nova was standing in a room with a strange orange primate watching her from a two way mirror.
Chiro gasped when he suddenly realized who that monkey was "Mandarin?" he turned and asked the silver levitating in lotus form behind him. All the pacifist to reply was nod in conformation, and pointed ahead, implying that the student needed to pay attention.
Finally the nightmare began "Are you ready, dear Nova?" a much younger Mandarin asked from an intercom
Nova sighed and replied with a moan, "Let's just get this over with." she complained. With a grin, the former Monkey Team leader turned a nozzle, decreasing the temperature in training room. It took no time for the Yellow monkey to start shivering and hugging her chest to get warm.
In the background, the metal monkey lightly grabbed his son's shoulder and commanded "Alright, I want you to attempt to control the nightmare from here. Just remember how you did it in Sparx's mind."
"Do I have to?" he whined implying that he didn't want to think about the outlandish image he unintentionally created in Sparx's dream.
"Yes." the mentor replied sternly "Just take your time, and see what you can do." with that, the boy stepped closer to a shuttering Nova who was getting increasingly colder. After folder his hands meditation style, his eyes glew with an even weaker flame then before. He thrust his arms forward, attempting to blow away the cold air, except nothing happened. The dream was still playing as Nova told it long ago. When Chiro tried again, he actually felt a chain like force pull his arm back, almost as if he wasn't allowed to change the dream.
"Antauri, what's going on? I can't do anything." the boy grunted as he regained.
"Hm hm hm hm... You wouldn't be able to." the blue eyed simian mysteriously replied
"What do you mean?" the young hero tiled his head in confusion. Before Antauri held out both his arms once again, sending Chiro and himself back into the waking world.
(REALITY)
Now back in reality, Chiro grabbed his head due to the sudden rush, and the silver monkey quickly eyed the two sleeping volunteers, knowing they wouldn't be asleep for much longer. "Alright, Chiro, Sparx and Nova shall be awakening shortly. Any final questions for today?" he asked looking the teenager in the eye
"Um, yeah" he answered scratching his head "How come I couldn't change anything in Nova's nightmare?"
"Let's answer question that with question; what were two differences between the two dreams?"
Chiro lifted an eyebrow and looked into his lap as he pondered his father's question. "...Um.. you controlled Sparx's dream by hand, and you created Nova's with a smoke bomb thing." he thought out loud slowly as the thoughts came to him.
"Mmm hmm." the robot nodded, indicating that his pupil was on the right path.
"And as for the dreams themselves,..." he paused to put the pieces together in his mind "You made up Sparx's dream, but I remember Nova describe that training session before."
"Exactly," Antauri confirmed "certain dreams like Nova's are referred to as 'memory dreams'." he explained "These are dreams that reflect specifically on events from the past, such as a traumatic event. Thus, even the greatest masters of dream control are not able to alter them. They shall proceed as the dreamer remembers them and no mortal can change that." he finished the lesson. Just then, the sleeping primates began to shift in their sleep as they began to woke up. While Nova's eyes were still fluttering, the red monkey quickly sat up and stretched his shoulders out.
"Whoo." he exclaimed as he turned to face the two telepaths "(yawn) That wasn't so bad. Through let me tell you, Kid, that was some wild ride." he chuckled
Just like before, the black haired boy began to blush once again and apologized rapidly "Sparx, I am so sorry about that. It just got so out of control and-"
"Kid, Kid, relax." the pilot stopped him while not sounding upset. "Trust me, after Antauri's first try at dream control, I don't scare easy in my sleep" suddenly, the red monkey turned his head and mumbled under his breath "just a few more seashells, man. just a few more." he growled
That, once again didn't, escape the ear of their young leader. Just as Nova sat up with a yawn, the curious hero questioned the two boys once again "Okay, am I ever gonna know about that thing with the-"
"Nova!" the red monkey announced with an exaggerated smile as he used the yellow female's presence to avoid a question nobody wanted to answer. "How was your little dream adventure?" he asked with fake enthusiasm. However, the girl almost paid no heed to anything around her. She had a blank stare that was filled with distraught.
"Nova," Antauri spoke up with minor concern in his voice, "Are you alright?" he asked approaching her slowly
This caught Nova's attention as she quickly turned her head, giving the silver monkey quite the infuriated glare. "Are you nuts?"
The three boys were a bit put off by her sudden outburst "Nova, what's wrong?" asked Chiro who kept his distance
Nova didn't respond to her leader, she just approached her second in commend in rage "Jeez, Antauri, of all the bad memories, you had to use that one!? Now?!" she shouted with anger and somewhat distraught.
"Wait, what dream is she talking about?" asked Sparx. Suddenly, the silver monkey lightly gasped when realized what a foolish mistake he'd made using that particular dream at this particular time. "Nova, I-I'm so sorry." he shuttered with guilt. He reached for her shoulder, but she pulled back with a light growl, avoiding his grip "I.. I was just so focused on Chiro's lesson that-"
"That you couldn't even remember that tomorrow is-" she began to rant, but her eyes shot open when the young boy and red simian caught her eyes. Chiro and Sparx just looked at her in concern, but the red pilot just glared at Antauri and Nova, indicating that she needed to be quite. Then, the bubble gum eyed primate bit her bottom lip in frustration, hid her eyes in her hands, and ran out of the bedroom into her own
The wise simian exhaled in guilt as the red monkey stepped up behind him and spoke in a less upset voice "That better have been a pretty good to use the dream I think you used." was all he said before he rushed after Nova to console her. Chiro just sat there in shock. Even with a mistake, how could anyone on the team ever talk to Antauri of all people?
"What the heck was that about?" the teen asked in disbelief
The robot sighed and spoke with a tone of sadness and remorse "It's... nothing that concerns you, Chiro." he said avoiding eye contact.
This caused the boy to stand up and sit back down next where Antauri was still sitting and staring at the door. "Are you sure? Because this kind of arguing has been going on for a week now." he pointed out.
The silver simian sighed and stood up, still refusing to give his pupil eye contact. He stopped at his bedroom door, laid one hand on the wall, turned one eye and replied "This will all be over soon enough. That's all I can say." with that, the mentor left on that note, most likely to make amends with Nova. The black haired leader paused for a moment. After taking a moment to gather his thoughts, he decided to ask the three monkeys what the heck was going on. When he ran out of Antauri's bedroom, he bumped into a certain monkey just walking through the halls. While Chiro stayed standing, Otto was knocked to the floor and landed on his side.
"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry, Otto." he apologized to his teammate and stood him up, but found that Otto stood up with very wobbly steps. The green primate spoke in a meek, barely hoarse tone
"It's fine, Chiro." he replied "I wasn't looking where I was going." he said with a cough.
The leader decided to ask the younger mechanic if he knew anything about the tension that was suddenly rising lately "Hey, Otto, things have been kind of tense around here lately. Do you know what's going on between everyone?"
Otto didn't answer for a moment because he was just giving a dead stare into his hands, much to Chiro's confusion. "It's nothing, Buddy." he so clearly lied through his teeth, and Chiro wasn't buying it, but allowed the green monkey to continue "Listen, I just need to go sleep right now. I've got a headache." he said walking right passed Chiro with steps displaying that he could barely stand.
Are... you okay, Otto?" the boy asked tilting his head as the silly monkey walked into his room. However, Otto didn't reply and his door just closed without a sound. Chiro was now alone in the hallway. He stood there watching Otto's bedroom door in suspicion. Something was going on within his team, and tomorrow, he would have to get to the bottom of it.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Okay, very strange start. Please leave an honest review and maybe a guess on where you think this is going to go. It's good to be back, Happy Halloween