Ch.2: Dreams of Torment
In a minute Sparks found himself being thrown into a holding cell with dark, black spikes to serve as bars. Looking around his little 'suite' as the Skeleton King called it the red monkey could see the torn remians of what only could have been flesh and bone.
Blood stained the dirt floor beneath Sparks feet and it only made him realize how much pain his mistake had truly caused for Shuggazoom. A shadow paused making Sparks look up to see who was standing outside his prison.
"Mandarin," mumbled Sparks to himself.
Once Mandarin had been the leader of the Hyperforce and the greatest fighter Sparks had ever come to know, but that all changed once power became to much of a obession that Mandarin leaped into the dark side. And to think Sparks had almost fallen down the same road.
The skeletal orange monkey peered at Sparks through the bars and grinned. "It wasn't very smart of you to come here on your own Sparks. Not one monkey or one city can stand up againist the Crystal Skull,"
"Oh really?" said Sparks using his sarcasm "well if he's so mighty why hasn't he conquered the universe by now? I just need to find away to extract those esesnces, and will be goodbye Skeleton King forever,"
"You don't really believe that you'll be able to defeat him by yourself" said Mandarin " he'd fry you into a crisp just like he did to Velina,"
"If that's what it takes" said Sparks "then I'll be glad to obligue,"
"Fool" said Mandarian " the Power Primate has made you weak while the Skeleton King's power has made you strong. Why must you condemn yourself to those who are beneath us?"
"Because" said Sparks "they're my friends,"
"Friends hold no meaning in our world Sparks" said Mandarian " and soon you'll have no meaning in it either,"
"We'll just see about that," thoughts Sparks as Mandarian trudged away with a confident stride. "We'll just see,"
Searching around his cell all Sparks managed to uncover were the remians of what could have only been human beings. Nova and the rest of the hyperforce would be disgusted at this, and naturally Sparks couldn't blame them.
None of the less he picked up a bone and started to pick the lock to his cell. After a few agonizing minutes the lock snapped open and the bars moved. Sparks was free!
"Now that's what I call a skeleton key," said Sparks dropping his lockpick as he stepped out of the cell and into the dreary interior of the Skeleton King's fortress. Within a few seconds Sparks began to explore around the dark palace.
"There must be something here I can use to get rid of Skeleton King" thought Sparks "but what?"
There were many doors, but one stood out above them all. Taller than all the others this door stood out like a mountian in a lightning storm. And like everything else in this castle this door had a negative charge meant to push people away instead of dragging them forward.
It may have worked on Sparks too if it hadn't been for his magnets. Without warning his metal hands turned into a pair of magnets and started dragging him towards the door. Sparks were flying like crazy the closer and closer they got.
Desperately Sparks tried to pull his magnets away from the door, but no matter how much resistance he undertook the door just kept pulling him in. When he was about five feet away the door suddenly sprang open.
What Sparks saw was an amber, torch-lit room with a big, stone black pedastal the shape of a bat with jaws wide. All the sparks flying from Spark's magnets were somehow attracted to the pedastal and the closer he got to it the more he knew that he had to get away from it.
But with his magnets out of his control would he ever escape from the pedastal's pull?
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Meanwhile, back in the Super Robot, everybody had gone to bed and seemed to be having a good sleep. All, that is, except for Nova. The poor, yellow monkey was twisting and turning sleeplessly in bed having a nightmare about Sparks.
"Sparks!" coughed Nova "Sparks!"
The room was filling up with smoke fast, and Sparks was nowhere to be seen. Chiro and the others were waiting in the Super Robot waiting to escape. Everywhere you looked all you could see were smoke and flames. Finally a body appeared out of those flames.
"Sparks," cried Nova and then gasped as she got a clearer look on the figure before her.
It was Sparks without a doubt, but he looked different. His magnets were out realeasing mutlitudes of energy and his face had the same twisted grin he had when possessed by the Fire of Hate.
Then Nova's eyes opened with recgonition and fear. Sparks looked that way because he was possessed by evil again, and before she open her mouth to scream, Sparks blasted her.
In the real world Nova woke up with a start about the nightmare she had just had. Looking for comfort for her fears the small yellow monkey went to check Sparks room. But when door to red monkey's room opened Nova let out a gasp, Sparks wasn't there.
