Ch.1 Day Off

It was a beautiful evening in Shuggazoom, quiet, peaceful even. No evil had struck that day, leaving the Hyperforce in peace. Of course, Gibson was in his lab, experimenting, Nova was in her room, being secretive about playing with stuffed animals, Sprx was playing video games with Chiro, Otto was doing maintenance on the Super Robot, and Antauri was meditating. Wait a sec; go back to what Gibson was doing. No explanation on what he was experimenting on. Well…

"Gibson?" Chiro asked, taking a break from the game. "What exactly are you working on?"

"Chiro, gather the team. I have something to show them…." Gibson sternly asked Chiro. Chiro scurried off, returning with the team.

"What is it Gibson?" Sprx asked, slightly annoyed.

"Watch, and learn." Gibson slightly tipped one test tube into the other, then….

Boom. Crash. Bang. Oh snap….

A puff of smoke formed in the air. Silence was once more. Then Gibson's shriek of

"OH NO!" The smoke cleared, revealing four multicolored baby robot monkeys crawling about on the floor.

"That's not good…." Chiro said quietly, looking around. Nova and Otto looked up from the floor and stared at Gibson and Chiro for a moment. Then they both burst into tears.

"Now what? This is your fault!" Chiro screamed at Gibson. Gibson stood, motionless for a moment.

"It is my fault, I admit, but we cannot just leave them like this! You try to calm Nova and Otto, I will take Sprx and Antauri into Sick Bay to see what went wrong with my experiment." Gibson then disappeared down the hall, leaving Chiro with two, bawling, baby monkeys.

"Shh, shhh. Don't cry….Uhhh…" Chiro glanced around, hoping to see something to calm the two. "How am I supposed to do this? I'm only 13! I don't know anything about child care! Especially about MONKEY care!" Chiro mumbled to himself. As Nova and Otto started screaming even louder, He quickly picked them up and walked to Sick Bay where Gibson was.

"GIBSON!" He screeched, entering the Sick Bay as the crying started to annoy him. "What do I do with these?"

"Well, let me see one….." Chiro Handed Otto to Gibson.

"This, this machine will tell us exactly what is wrong with him. It was partially his invention in the first place." Gibson held Otto to the machine. Soon it read "Organism is hungry" on the screen.

"Chiro, you take him into the kitchen and get him something…yogurt for an infant." Gibson took Nova and handed Chiro Otto, keeping an eye on Antauri and Sprx at the same time. He held Nova to the machine and it read "Organism is feeling in pain" on the screen.

"Well, that's not good….." Gibson cradled Nova and observed her, hoping to find the source of the pain. Nova yelped at a crash and held her small head with her tiny hands.

"Head ache….." Gibson whispered. Nova screamed again as Gibson exited. Then he re-entered and grabbed Sprx and Antauri.

"Chiro." He said as he entered the kitchen. "Nova here has a head ache…infants can have Tylenol, please hand me that purple container from the cabinet." Chiro did so, Gibson gave Nova the medicine, and all was fine….until Nova promptly vomited.

"What's wrong now?" Chiro said, seeing Gibson covered in spit-up as Otto sucked on his finger.

"Well, It seems that Nova has an allergic reaction to this medicine…..that, or it's just regular baby-spit up."

"They do that regularly?" Chiro asked, stunned.

"Yes, they are infants. They vomit regularly. Haven't you learned this?" Chiro still stood stunned, as Nova started to cough. Then the two realized that they only had two baby monkeys.

"Where's Antauri and Sprx?" Chiro screamed, causing Nova to cry again, and frightening Otto. He and Gibson hurried to set Nova and Otto onto the floor, Nova still coughing and Otto starting to babble.

"Sprx? Antauri?" The two older ones called as they wandered through the hallway. Then, they heard a crash. Then a yelp. Then a scream. Then a small Antauri crawled to the door, standing at the entrance and taking his (second) first steps, running toward Chiro. Sprx wasn't far behind, slowly stumbling on two feet through the door. Now, I'm sure you're all wondering, what Broke? Well, you'll find out later! Now shhh! XP

The group heard a shrill shriek fro the other room. Gibson and Chiro grabbed Sprx and Antauri and ran to where it was heard. Otto was sprawled out in the floor with Nova….Nova was no where in sight.

"She couldn't have gone far, she can only crawl." Said Chiro to himself. He wandered the hall for 20 minutes, until he finally came to Nova, asleep, on the floor, sucking her thumb, and hugging a small pink piece of cloth.

"Aww….." Chiro thought to himself, picking up Nova in one arm, Antauri still in the other. H wandered back to the kitchen with the others and glanced at the clock.

"Wow. 11:30 at night all ready….let's get to bed…."