Destined Encounters.

Narrator's POV.

It was a quiet day in the futuristic city planet known as Shuggarzoom. A young 12-year old girl was walking down the streets, looking around like she's lost something.

She stopped at a crossway and brushed a lock of her short, messy, ravenette hair under her ear, "Where did that boy go now?" She asked as her hazel, near green eyes scanned the area behind a pair of black-framed glasses.

"Hey! Ellie!" A voice called, getting the girl's attention.

The girl, Ellie, turned to see a 13-year old boy running toward her. His spiky black hair shined in the sun's rays. His sky blue eyes were wide with a secret waiting to be told. His skin was a light peach, compared to Ellie's snow white skin... Quite literally.

Ellie smiled, "Chiro! There you are. Where were you?"

"I was just wondering around the outskirts of the city." The boy, Chiro, answered, scratching the back of his head.

Ellie sighed, "You and your daydreams." Then added, "By the look in your eyes, you've found something you want to show me. Bad."

Chiro nodded, "Yeah. It's gonna blow your mind."

He grabbed Ellie's fingerless gloved hand and dragged her down the street he came from. Ellie was having trouble keeping up, but she was able to pick up the pace and was right on Chiro's tail. Chiro marched through the street and into a grassy park with a large group of cherry blossom trees.

Deeper in the park, covered by more trees, Chiro lead Ellie to a giant robot. The robot was around over 50 feet tall. Shiny metal behind patches of overgrowth and moss. And a face of an alien species. Ellie looked at the robot and her mouth opened in awe.

(A/N: I'm not very sure how tall the robot really is. This is just a rough estimate.)

"Whoa..." She gasped.

"Yeah. Pretty cool, right?" Chiro smiled, "I thought we can go inside and explore. It's gotta be big enough to live in. Could become your new home."

Ellie said nothing. Her hazel eyes seem to fade into a full green with black sclera (The white of the eyes). Whispers and sounds echoed around her. The robot looked like it was looking right at her.

Like it was talking to her in a telepathic connection.

Images flashed before her. Seven colors: Black, white, red, blue, orange, yellow and green. An ominous darkness. A shadowed figure with piercing maniacal red eyes. A dark laugh echoed.

"Ellie? Is something wrong?" Chiro asked, as if he couldn't hear the voices or see the images. He waved his hand over Ellie's face, "Eleanor? Heeellllooo!? You still in there?"

Ellie blinked back to reality, her eyes turning back to their normal hazel. She looked at Chiro, "I'm sorry. Did you say something, Chiro?"

Chiro lowered his hand and looked at his friend with concern, "You spaced out again. You don't do that unless there's trouble. What did you see?"

Ellie lowered her head, "I don't know. I only saw colors. Then shadows. Voices were whispering all at once. I... I couldn't make them out. Sounded like monkey chirping."

Then she felt a surge pulse through her. Ellie gasped and she looked at the robot again.

"Ellie, what is it?" Chiro asked.

"Something's calling out to me." She answered. She started walking toward the robot, "I can feel it inside the robot. Let's go."

Ellie walked towards the robot's right foot. The face of the foot opened like a garage door. Ellie entered without a second thought.

Chiro reached out, "Ellie! Wait! You don't know what's in there!" He sighed and quickly followed after her, "That girl never fails to keep being wierd."

He followed Ellie into the robot's foot. The door closed behind him and darkness filled the mechanic room. Chiro yelped in fright, as Ellie shook what sounded like a rattler, and revealed to be a flashlight. She aimed the flashlight at Chiro, then extended her hand to him.

Chiro took her hand and kept close to Ellie, as they journeyed further into the robot. They followed the room to an elevator and used it to enter a larger room. The room, like the first one, was dark, but it looked similar to a futuristic lounge. Or a command center. With seven elevator tubes at the back. Color coded like her vision: Black. Green. Orange. White. Blue. Yellow and Red.

Chiro smiled, "Wow. It's like it was built to be a home."

Ellie closed her eyes and listened. Another surge pulsed through her and the whispers were louder than they were outside. This surge was stronger than the last one.

Ellie opened her eyes, her eyes glowing green with black sclera again, walked toward the door and noticed a control panel with a hand scanner.

Chiro sighed, "Aw, man. It's locked with a hand scanner." Then smiled, "Looks like we have to go back."

Ellie didn't reply. Instead, she removed her glove from her delicate, snow white right hand with black nails and placed it over the scanner. The panel responded and the door opened. Chiro turned and noticed the door open.

"How did you do that?" He asked.

Ellie put her glove back on and entered the doorway, without uttering a word. Walking like she was possessed by something or she was guided by nothing else but the whispers in her head.

Chiro quickly followed after her, "Ellie! Wait up!"

Ellie and Chiro followed the cold and empty corridor to another room. This one welcomed the two pre-teens with a soft luminous glow. Ellie switched off her flashlight and let the luminous glow brighten. The room revealed to be a sort of science lab.

Everything was covered in dust and sand. A control panel stood in front of the pre-teens. Behind the panel were six tall tubes. They too were covered in dust, so we couldn't see what was inside them.

Ellie's eyes returned to their normal hazel color. Ellie fell to her knees.

Chiro ran to his friend's aid, "Ellie! You okay?"

Ellie looked at Chiro with confusion, "Ch-Chiro?"

Chiro sighed in relief, "You sound like yourself again."

"Where are we? What happened?" Ellie asked.

"Don't you remember? You lead us here." He answered, "Your eyes did that green glow-y trick again and..." He mimicked a zombie, "You walked into this place. Like you knew where you were going."

Ellie rubbed her head, "That explains the headache." Then she stood up and looked around, "What is this place?"

Chiro helped Ellie back to her feet and looked around, "Looks like something from one of your sci-fi movies or something like that." Then he walked forward and came across a large lever on the control console, "Hey, I wonder what this thing does?"

"Wait! Chiro, don't touch that!" Ellie cried, reaching to him.

Too late, Chiro put his hand of the lever and pushed it forward. The machine hummed in power. Ellie felt a much stronger surge pulse through her. A powerful green energy enveloped Chiro's body and the capsules glowed in response.

Ellie placed her hand on Chiro's shoulder and the energy enveloped her. The surge grew stronger within Ellie as her hands flashed back and forth from large ghost-like claws to her normal gloved hands. Suddenly an explosion errupted within the lab and threw Ellie and Chiro into the main room. Chiro and Ellie blacked out from the aftershock.

Ellie's POV.

*Dream*

Darkness. All around me. The scent of decay and dust. Voices and sounds of war whispering in my ear. I'm starting to feel warm. Very warm...

I open my eyes and I was surrounded with a ring of fire. The voices scream. Shuggarzoom City in ruins. A laugh silences the sounds and screams of war.

On the other side of the flames, I see a door. The flames clear my path to the door.

I walk toward it. Bound locked by chains and a rusty old lock. I don't want to open the door. But I have to.

A skeletal figure appears behind me, staring at me with maniacal red eyes of pure evil.

My body glows with a black energy flame with a deep green hue. My body is starting to burn.

It hurts! Make it stop! It hurts! IT HURTS!

*Dream End*

"Ellie? Ellie, wake up." A familiar voice spoke, followed with the feeling of being shaken.

I opened my eyes and sat up with a gasp. My vision was badly blurry. My head was pounding, like my brain was ready to explode out of my skull.

I rubbed my head, "Ow, my head. What hit me?"

I heard Chiro draw a blank. I blinked my eyes, my vision was getting worse. I rubbed my face from the dizziness and aching, then realized my glasses weren't on my face.

"Chiro? Have you seen my glasses?" I asked, "I think they fell off from the explosion."

"Here. Are these what you're looking for?" An unfamiliar voice asked.

I felt a pair of cold metalic hands put something over my face. I blinked and my vision cleared and became crisp. Someone put my glasses back on my face.

I smiled, "Thank you."

To my surprise, the person in front of me was not a person at all. But a small robot-like monkey with red and white fur. His eyes were black and his muzzle was white.

He wasn't alone. There were four more. A blue one with black eyes. A yellow one with pink eyes, I think it was meant to be female. A green one with black eyes. And a black one with green eyes.

For some reason, the monkeys look very familiar to me. Have I met these little guys before?

"Hey, miss? You okay?" The red one asked me. I recognized he was the one that put my glasses back where they belonged.

I nodded, "Yeah. I'm okay."

The monkeys looked at each other.

"You can understand our primate tongue too?" The yellow one asked in a female voice. Yup, I thought she might be.

"Ellie claims that she's always been able to talk to all sorts of monkeys." Chiro explained, "Monkeys. Apes. Lemurs. Baboons. Tamarins. Even marmosets."

I nodded my head. The red one smiled, "That's kinda cool."

I looked over to my best friend, "But how are you able to-"

Then I noticed his appearance has changed. He wore white face paint over the top half of his face, with orange streaks running from his eyes down his cheeks. Like tear streaks. His hair was messier and his bangs hung over his eyes and nose. His eyes were still the same.

Instead of his normal school uniform of a red and yellow sweater over a white collared shit, blue pants and black sneakers, Chiro wore an orange scarf around his neck. A white lab coat-like shirt with two buttons. Matching white pants. Orange gloves and black boots.

I rubbed my eyes and looked at my best friend again. No changes.

"Okay, I know I'm not hallucinating. Chiro, you're wearing white and orange." I noted.

Chiro chuckled, "You should talk. You've changed too."

I tilted my head, "What?"

Cautious and curious, I looked myself over. Chiro wasn't lying. My white collared shirt and black overalls have switched colors. And my overalls have gained a hood. My black and green striped scarf and fingerless gloves remained. My sandals have disappeared, leaving me barefoot. I could feel the cold surface of the floor under my feet. The only thing I couldn't see was my fave.

"Does my face look like yours?" I asked Chiro.

Chiro shook his head.

"Your facepaint is black with green triangles underneath your eyes." The blue monkey answered.

I sighed in relief, "Thank you, Mister..."

"Mr. Hal Gibson, at your service." The blue one introduced himself, "Or just Gibson will do. No 'Mr'. Or 'Hal'."

I nodded with a smile, "Pleasure making your accquaintance, Gibson." Then I introduced myself, "My name is Eleanor. But I go by Ellie, since it's easier to remember."

The black one, who has been the most quiet out of the group, raised a brow at me.

Chiro nodded, "Yeah. And I'm Chiro."

The red one smiled, "It's nice to meet you both. I'm SPRX-77. But you can call me Sparx."

The yellow one nodded, "Nova. Pleased to meet you."

The green one waved, "Hey there. Name's Otto."

"I go by the name Antauri. It is a pleasure to meet you both." The black one bowed.

Antauri. Nova. Gibson. Sparx. Otto... Where have I heard those names before?

"Now that the introduction is out of the way, we need to talk." Antauri spoke up, snapping me back into reality.

"What about?" Chiro asked.

Antauri turned to Chiro, "Chiro, when you woke us up, you felt something. Did you not?"

"You mean that green glow?" Chiro asked, then nodded, "Yeah. It was really painful. Like something was fused into me."

I nodded, "Yeah. And I remember something happening to me too." I looked at my hands, "My hands turned into ghost-like claws. And very powerful surges pulsed through me."

The monkeys looked at each other, then looked back at us.

"Well, the thing is before we were put in those pods, we've been lacking a leader." Gibson explained, "And it appears you two have made that choice for us."

Chiro's eyes widened, "What?! Ellie and me? Leaders?"

"Yeah." Otto nodded, "You see, we're not ordinary robot monkeys. We're protectors of the cosmos."

Sparx nodded in agreement, "Otto's right. We're known as the Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce."

"It is our duty to protect the galaxy against threats of evil, as well as keep the balance of peace and prosperity." Antauri added.

Chiro rubbed his chin, "So... You're like superheroes?"

Nova nodded, "Kinda like that. Yeah."

Chiro smiled, "Yeah. Count me in. I always wanted to be a superhero." Then he turned to me, "Ellie? You in?"

I drew a blank and looked at the monkeys. I folded my arms in thought.

If Chiro said I lead us into this robot under some sort of trance, there must be a reason. These black-outs have happened before. But, not to the point that I start walking into somewhere without considering the dangers.

All I remember from my black-outs is voices and a powerful presence telling me where to go.

And those claws...

"Well..." I started, "I guess someone needs to keep an eye on you, Chiro." I nodded with a smile, "Alright. I'm in." Then I shook my head, "But I'm not leadership material."

Otto and Nova cheered, while Gibson and Sparx smiled. Antauri's expression didn't change, but I could tell he was pleased with our answer. Chiro and I smiled back, then a yawn caught me by surprise.

"Sorry about that." I appologised, "I guess it must be getting late."

Antauri nodded, "Indeed. The hour is late."

Nova smiled, "Hey! Why don't you spend the night with us?"

"You sure?" I asked. Nova and Otto nodded like excited children. I scratched my cheek, "Well... In truth, I actually have no home to go to." I looked at Chiro, "Chiro? What do you think?"

Chiro shrugged his shoulders, "Good thing tomorrow is the weekend. I say why not?"

Again, Nova and Otto cheered. With that, the monkeys lead Chiro and I to two empty rooms and left us to sleep off what has happened today.

As I laid my head on the pillow, a small smile grew on my face. This is going to be fun. I can feel it.

(A/N: That's the first chapter done and dusted. Next chapter goes straight to the main storyline.

See you guys in the next chapter. ^_^)