It seemed that nothing could ever go as planned. Outer space is very vast and holds mysteries beyond our own comprehensions. There are even thoughts that are beyond our realm of understanding. With all the things unknown maybe it is better for things to go unplanned; just to let fate take its course as a few monkeys and a boy are about to learn when they go on a simple test flight.
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The super robot was flying out of control. All systems were shutting down, not even the lights were working properly. It was chaos in the control rooms. Electric sparks were flying everywhere and the monkey team was hopelessly trying to get systems back online.
"Gibson, you go with Sprx to the fist rockets and try to maintain altitude! Otto, go to the engine room and try to keep the robot from overheating! Antauri, Nova, and I will go to the main controls! Let's go monkey team!" Chiro yelled out, panic in his voice.
Everything was a blur as they went to try to fix the unknown problem. They couldn't lose power in the middle of space with no planets nearby. They had been in bad situations before but that still didn't mean that the team liked to be in them. Gibson and Sprx were having trouble controlling the fist rockets when the robot gave a hard jerk.
"Gibson, Sprx; what's our state?" Chiro yelled into his communicator.
"Severely uncontrollable! I estimate we'll lose total control in fifteen minutes or so!" Gibson answered, trying and failing to keep calm.
"Is it just me, or does Brain Pain always tell us what we don't want to hear? I mean-"
"Sprx, this is no time for joking around. Otto, how are things in the engine room?" Antauri interrupted hastily.
There was no reply to his question however. The only thing that got picked up was static. It was at this time that the robot violently pulled to the left and the lights went off. Nova and Antauri turned on their night vision to see.
"All systems are off!" Nova called out from the darkness.
"Gibson, Sprx, Otto come to the main controls!" But all Chiro got was silence.
It might have been a few minutes or a few hours before Chiro, Nova, and Antauri heard a noise. Time follows different rules in the dark silence. The noise was a slow scraping echo bouncing off the silent walls followed by a loud bang and the sound of tearing metal.
"BOOM BOOM WAKE UP!" Nova suddenly attacked as she saw a shadow out of the corner of her eyes.
"Owch! Is punching things your answer to everything?!"
"Sprx?" Nova asked the shadow as it was coming into view.
"Yeah! That really hurt you know. The elevators weren't working so me and Gibson had to tear down the tubes!" Sprx explained.
"Gibson and I is the correct term Sprx." Gibson said matter of factually.
"Is everyone here?" Chiro asked.
"We still haven't heard form Otto, Chiro. All I got was static." Antauri, the usually calm monkey, sounded slightly worried.
"I'm going to look for him!" Gibson said quickly.
It was at that point that the backup lights came on. Otto walked into the room looking slightly dazed. Gibson rushed over to him to check if he was alright instinctively as a doctor. Otto had a small trickle of blood coming from under his helmet and his optical orb was cracked.
"Otto, what happened?!"
"It's not that bad, just didn't look where I was going that's all. Ran right into the light controllers. I wasn't able to do much else but bring the backup lights on." Otto sighed heavily.
"Alright team. We're going to have to see if we can send out a distress signal with what little power we have. Let's-" Chiro was interrupted by the super robot crashing into something.
"Egad, I thought that there were no planets in this part of the solar system!" Gibson exclaimed, puzzled by the sudden crash.
"Yeah, Brainiac. You also said that it was a good condition to take a test flight today with the new rocket boosters. Now, how's that working out for us?"
"Shut it Sparky. We are in no position to fight! We happened upon a planet, let's see if there is some one here who can help us!"
"I agree with Gibson. It is critical that we fix the robot as soon as possible. Gibson, you stay behind with Otto and fix him up."
"Aw, but Antauri, I'm not that hurt. Besides, what if they have better doctors here?" Otto complained. Gibson gave a small humph of annoyance at Otto indicating that there were better doctors than him.
Antauri sighed along with Chiro as he indicated for Otto to come along. Otto smiled and went along with the rest of the team. It took a good amount of time to get out of the damaged robot. They finally found an opening on the side of the robot. Once they were all out they noticed something odd.
"Hey guys, look! We don't need to fix the robot, there's another one here!"
"Otto that's ridicu-my dear he's right."
The entire team looked up in astonishment. In front of them stood an exact replica of the super robot. It was at this point that they also saw hundreds of people surrounding them. Each one of them was staring in fear. Children were hiding behind their mothers and fathers. They wore strange clothes; all black, brown, red, and white.
"It's the Midnight Lord and his Copies! Quickly, get the leader!" A man cried out in panic.
"What? Listen we don't want any trouble. Our robot crashed and we-"
"Hold your tongue sperm of nothing! What right do you have to speak? How dare you try to escape your imprisonment!" The same man called out.
Chiro was confused, along with the rest of the team.
"Listen, just give us a few supplies to fix our robot and we'll be out of your way."
The crowd suddenly split. A cloaked figure walked past the people silently.
"Leo, I told you no more pranks! Not every visitor is the Midnight Lord! And you know as well as I do that the Copies are all dead! What makes you thi…oh my. This…this is not good."
The monkey team stared at the man in front of them for he was not a man at all. He was a monkey. A robotic monkey. With green fur.
"Hello. My name is Otto. I think we both have a lot to explain."