So because I got such a favorable response on Ch. 1, here's a Christmas present Ch. 2. Now we meet my Ocs, this will be fun. (And also a bit cliched and silly with at least one mary sue but I'll get to that at the end.) Leave comments, they make me work faster!
Otto had only one thing on his mind as he flew towards the burning wreckage; save the people inside that crash. He could hear the screaming protests in his ear from his teammates, annoyed and focused on the rescue, he turned his communications device off.
One hundred feet from the crash site, the heat was almost unbearable and he soon was drenched in sweat. As he neared the mass of twisted metal that had once been a space craft, he saw how it was dented, blackened, and almost made unrecognizable to anything even resembling a small, oblong craft that looked hardly large enough to hold a full-grown human. As he approached the ship, he could see the protective glass of the windshield starting to melt from the intense heat of the fire, making it impossible to get even a glimpse of who might be inside the wreckage. He quickly flew around to the backside of the ship and searched for a door or opening, and not seeing one, he drew his arms back and readied his saws. He coughed and squinted through the black smoke, making sure he could predict the path of his saws before wiping the sweat out of his eyes and sending his weapons flying. They followed the path he had calculated without a hitch, and cut straight into the opening in the back. In a few strikes, a square-shaped hole appeared in the back and slowly fell backwards onto the ground, then he swiftly flew down towards the opening and gasped.
.::~::.
"Otto!" Nova yelled at her green teammate as he flew straight into the burning mass of metal that had just dropped out of the sky. "Otto wait! We don't know who's in there! This could be a trap or anything!" She started to unhook herself from her own seat as she heard Chiro barking orders for Otto to return and wait for everyone else uselessly into the headset. Surely Otto really didn't believe anything could have survived that crash, did he? It was amazing enough that the space ship was still somewhat intact, but it wouldn't be for long in that inferno. Please Otto, come back safely, she thought heavily to herself.
Dang it Otto! Sparx thought as he jumped off the controls of his fist rocket, Could you have picked a better time to notice that blip? He hit his dashboard with his fist in annoyance. Nova was just about to tell me she loved me and you completely screwed that up, friend. "Kid!" He suddenly barked at Chiro, "I'm gonna go out and drag Otto back here and help him if there is actually anyone in that wreckage alive."
"Can no one just listen to me and wait until we have assessed the situation to run off into a possible trap?" Chiro asked exasperated while rubbing his head before sighing and throwing his hands up in defeat. "Fine, go help Otto, Sparx."
"Wait I wanna go too!" Nova spoke out as she stood up herself. "If it is a trap they could use all the help they can get." Chiro sighed again nodded firmly.
"Alright then, Sparx and Nova will go help Otto, Gibson you go prepare the medical bay in case someone actually survived that mess and needs medical attention, get Jinmay to help you." He ordered quickly as Sparx and Nova flew from the robot and after Otto. As Otto had predicted, the interference had stopped once the ship has crashed and now Jinmay was desperately trying to find out what was going on while Antauri calmly explained the situation to her and gave her instructions to alert the troops to what had happened and to stand down. Chiro let out yet another frustrated sigh and held his head in-between his hands while rubbing his temples. I really hope Otto knows what he's doing out there.
.::~::.
Smoke poured out from the cockpit the second Otto cut open the hole, and a tiny creature appeared in the doorway coughing heavily. It was small, maybe just a little bit more than half the size of Otto, and it had two antennas coming out of the side of its head, and another one sprouting out on top. As the smoke cleared he saw that it also had a tail and… that it was a cyborg monkey. A small, brown monkey with a big red bow attached to its head and a pack slung on its back stepped up to the monkey-made hole coughing and rubbing its eyes. The moment it looked up saw him, a horrified look spread across its face and it stumbled back inside hastily. Otto stood there for a moment trying to process what he had just seen before pushing logic to the side and jumping into action.
"Hey there little-" he as he spoke and approached it, the little, brown monkey shrunk away from him, terrified. As he slowly crouched down and got closer, Otto noticed it had pink eyes, "...lil' sis, its okay, big bro Otto is here to save you." He gave her a big smile and opened his arms wide, trying to comfort her. She looked at him uneasily and then relaxed a bit at the mention of his name. She then started to jump around excitedly and yell, at least it looked like she was trying to yell, but no sound came out of her opened mouth. I wonder if she is mute. Otto thought tilting his head to the side as he looked where she was pointing and caught his breath in his throat.
Beside the pilot's seat in a heap laid yet another monkey, a purple monkey at that and one about the same size as Otto. Otto guessed that it was actually a she because she looked kinda like Nova, but had a black instead of a white chest. He could also tell that she was hurt, and badly at that. The large spike on top of her head was badly damaged and missing most of the colored part at the very tip, Otto figured she had damaged it in the crash. He also kinda thought that she was really, really cute and if not for the growing, unbearable heat, he probably would have been content to stand there and look down at her, but she was hurt and that would be kinda creepy anyways and he needed to get her help now. He leaned down to pick her up when the small brown monkey suddenly grabbed his arm, and seemed to plead with him. Please don't hurt her, her large, round eyes begged.
Otto looked at her, slowly nodded and said with a smile, "Don't worry lil' sis, I'll keep her safe." This seemed to put the small monkey at ease and she nodded with approval and let her hand drop. Otto carefully gathered up the purple monkey in his arms, laying her head in the crook of one elbow and placing the back of her knees in the other. She grunted slightly as her head rolled against his chest, but stayed unconscious and unresponsive. He gently positioned her in the crook of just one of his arms and then opened his other arm to the smaller monkey.
"Come on little one, I have to get you out of here now too." He smiled at her reassuringly, and the small girl actually seemed on the edge of tears. She hurriedly stumbled into his arm as he hugged them both tightly and took off from the wreck seconds before the flames consumed the opening.
As Otto left the burning wreak behind him, he noticed that his red and yellow teammates were swiftly flying towards him, and that the little brown one had fainted, but that was no surprise. Frankly, he was amazed she stayed awake through that landing and boy, was he was glad she that she did. He was not sure he would have seen the purple one without her. Sparx and Nova caught up to him about half way back to the Robot and Nova immediately started to snap at him.
"Otto are you crazy!?" She yelled at him the moment he was in ear shot, "You had no idea who or what could have been in... that..." she trailed off as she finally noticed what the bundles Otto was carrying back from the ship were. "Holy scrap, are those more monkeys!?" Otto nodded tiredly.
"Yeah and I think the big one is hurt pretty badly, the brown one is just exhausted, she actually managed to stay awake during the crash and pointed the purple girl out to me."
"She managed to stay awake?" Sparx asked as he moved closer to take one of the girls from Otto, who handed the small brown one to him. "Geez she must be as tough as nails!" Nova just looked in shock between the two new monkeys and brought a hand up to her mouth. Finally she snapped out of her stupor and contacted the team back in the Robot.
"Um guys? Prepare the med lab for two patients." She spoke quickly as they swiftly flew back to the robot. "And you are not gonna believe what they are."
"I'm pretty sure nothing could surprise me at this point." Gibson remarked as he rushed around the lab, "What exactly are they and what is the initial damage assessment?"
"Well..." Nova trialed on as she kept taking looks behind her to confirm what she was seeing. "They are both unconscious but breathing, and they probably have slight smoke inhalation and probably concussions but as for what they are..." She shook her head, still in shock and confusion as to what she was about to say. "They are robotic monkeys."
.::~::.
Otto, Sparx and Nova flew into the Super Robot carrying the passengers and were quickly assaulted with questions.
"Who's more damaged?" Gibson asked as Chiro took the purple monkey from Otto, allowing the tired monkey to catch his breath.
"I think the purple one is," Otto said looking at the spike on her head, "and the little brown one was awake when I got there but passed out on the way back."
"It was awake?!" Antauri questioned as they took the injured monkeys to the med lab and laid them down on examination tables. "Did it tell you who they were or, or where they're from or why they came here?"
"She didn't say a word, and she passed out on the way to the Super Robot." Otto explained quickly while bringing a hand up to his head and rubbing the back of it. "I'm actually not sure she can talk at all to be honest." The computer beeped as it completed a scan of both girls.
"Interesting, their skeletal structure appears to be the same as ours." Gibson remarked while examining the computer terminal. He rubbed his chin a moment before quickly typing on the keyboard. "In fact the only difference I initially see is that the small brown one does not seem to have hollow arms like ours to hold any weapons, other than that they appear almost identical to us."
"Yeah about that," Nova said crossly while setting her fists on her hips. "I thought we were the only cybernetic monkeys running around, Qhere the heck did these guys come from?"
"Well obviously we were wrong, because How else would you explain these two right here?" Gibson replied while shrugging and helping Otto attach computer arms into the ports on the back of the girl's heads. The computer blipped again and Gibson turned around to look over the results. "Oh, well according to these initial scans, the brown one is perfectly fine, except for being a little dehydrated and a bit famished along with normal exhaustion, probably from that landing. The purple one has a couple of loose circuits though, however that seems to be an easy fix that the computer can handle itself."
"So what does all this mean?" Chiro asked frustrated. "If they are just like you guys, does that mean the Alchemist made them too?"
"I don't know." Gibson sighed simply while putting one hand on his chin. "This is some mystery."
As everyone chatted, the brown monkey began to awaken. Everyone crowded around her as they noticed her opening her eyes and once again she did one of her silent screams. She almost fell off the examining table as she scrambled back away from the team, catching herself at the last second, before hastily backing away into a corner, terrified
"Hey now, don't worry it's ok now we're not going to hurt you." Chiro said soothingly as he walking slowly towards her with his hands outstretched. Her panicked eyes darted around the room frantically searching and finally landing on the door. She looked back at the approaching team again before blinking once and vanishing, everyone jumped back in surprise and started searching the room.
"Where did she go?" Sparx asked as the small girl suddenly reappeared behind them all and made a run for the door.
"Hey, wait!" Nova yelled at her, "We just want to talk!" but the small monkey had already ran to the other side of the room and was about to reach for the door when it opened unexpectedly and Jinmay walked in
"Hey guys what the heck's going on around here? What was in that ship-" She asked confused as the small monkey ran head first into her. "Oh! Well hello..." Jinmay said looking down in shock as girl pushed herself back from Jinmay and scurried to hide in another corner.
"Everyone stop!" Otto yelled as the small girl sank down against the wall, chest heaving quickly as her frantic eyes finally settled on Otto. He slowly walked towards her with open arms. "Hey lil' sis, it's ok. Your big brother Otto is here, don't be scared anymore." She lifted her head and locked eyes with Otto before she leaped into his arms and buried her face in his chest. "There, there it's ok." Otto reassured her as he patted her back. "We're just here to help you, no one wants to hurt you. I won't let them, promise." She slowly lifted her head up and looked at the rest of the team over his shoulder cautiously.
"I know they look scary," Otto whispered to her, "but I promise they won't hurt you, we're all here to help you." Her eyes swept over the team as she slowly detached herself from Otto before finally looking over to the table were the purple monkey laid. She loudly gasped and ran to the table, seeming to forget that moments ago she was terrified of the team.
"She will be fine." Gibson said softly as he slowly walked closer to the table. "The computer's just fixing a few of her circuits and will repair her fully. She should be awake soon." The small brown monkey eyed Gibson suspiciously and then looked at Otto for confirmation.
"Yes, he's telling the truth." Otto nodded to her as he walked closer and put a hand on her shoulder for assurance. "Gibson is really smart, and knows his stuff, he'll make her all better."
Nova crouched down till she was eye level with the little girl, causing the tiny monkey to hide behind Otto. "It's okay, I don't bite." She said with a smile. "Can you tell us your name?" The little monkey bit her lip and looked up to Otto.
He nodded at her before facing the rest of the team. "See? I don't think she can actually talk at all." The monkey nodded quickly at this, indicating that this was indeed the case.
Nova looked at her again while placing a hand on her own cheek. "Well is there any other way you can communicate with us?"
"What is she suppose to do, use charades?" Sparx asked with a smirk and leaning against the wall, but the brown monkey nodded vigorously at this and actually managed to smile. She reached round into the bag on her back and came back with a pad of paper and a pencil. She quickly flipped until she found a clean page and wrote a simple word: Genesis.
"Genesis," Chiro read upside down. "Is that your name?"
"No, she actually goes by Geni." a sudden voice behind them answered. They all turned to see that the purple monkey had finally woken up and was sitting on the table, watching them all with calm amusement. "Can you guys tell me where we are?"
.::~::.
Everyone stopped and looked at the newly awaken purple monkey as she unhooked the charger from her head and stared back at everyone else. After a minute of silence she finally said: "Great, we're with a whole bunch of other mutes, just like you Geni." Genesis sprang into the purple monkey;s arms as she jumped off the table. Still no one could manage to say anything and finally she just sighed. "Alright, I guess it's rude to not introduce yourself first so, I'm Gidget and this is Genesis, or Geni. Now can we know where the heck we are?" This finally broke the team's silence and everyone began talking and bombarding them with questions all at once.
"Where are you from?"
"Who made you?"
"Are you the only ones?"
The purple monkey just glared at them and slowly they stopped asking questions. "You know it's still rude to not introduce yourself." She explained simply while crossing her arms. Otto realized what she wanted and smiled as extended his hand towards her.
"Hi, I'm Otto and I'm the team's mechanic." He explained quickly as she returned the smile and shook his hand vigorously.
"Nice to meet you Otto." She with a grin. "I have more than a passing interest in mechanics myself, I'm sure we're gonna be quick friends, as it looks like you already are with Geni." Otto noticed that Gidget's eyes were actually lilac with black pupils and seemed happy and ready to learn.
Ok, so maybe she didn't look just like Nova, Otto thought to himself. And maybe that's a good thing. She smiled down at Geni before continuing.
"She doesn't usually take so kindly to strangers, you must be pretty special." She smiled back up at Otto and he blushed.
"Yeah, Otto is pretty cool like that." Sparx said stepping forward and slinging an arm around Otto's shoulders. "I'm Sparx by the way, and I'm the best monkey pilot in the universe, since it seems we're telling titles now."
"Great," Gidget said. "maybe I can take lessons from you some time, I don't think I quite got the handle on that whole landing thing yet." She nodded over her shoulder towards where she thought her crashed ship was.
Gibson set a hand on his chest. "Mr. Hal Gibson, it's a pleasure." The girls smiled at the formality of the introduction. "And where exactly were you coming from before you crashed your ship?" Gidget began to answer and then stopped, she looked down at her feel like she was trying to remember something before slowly shaking her head.
"I don't know." She said simply while biting her lip.
"You don't know?" Nova echoed disbelieving. Everyone looked at her and waited silently until she felt her face turn red and she quickly added, "I'm Nova by the way." before turning away embarrassed.
"Nice to meet you, and yeah I can't remember." Gidget repeated. "I remember traveling through space to get wherever here is, but before that I don't remember anything."
Chiro stepped forward. "Hi I'm Chiro, the leader of this team. What exactly do you mean by you don't remember anything?"
"I mean remember who I am and who Geni is and general stuff about us, but I don't know where we were before we left there." She sighed while hugging Geni closer to her. "All I know is that we had to get away from where ever we left." She shuttered and then continued in a small voice, "It was a bad place." Chiro glanced quickly at Antauri and then looked back at Gidget. Antauri gave a small nod to indicate he understood what Chiro wanted him to do, to get inside her mind and see if she was telling the truth. He closed his eyes and concentrated as Chiro tried to distract her. He was asking how she found Shuggazoom when she suddenly turned and glared at Antauri.
"It's rude to try and read someone's mind without you introducing yourself first," she closed her eyes for a second and concentrated. "Antauri." Antauri stepped back and looked at her in shock.
"You're telepathic too." he gasped as she quickly nodded.
"Yep, that's probably something you should try and find out before you go and read someone's mind." She snapped a little annoyed before calming down as Geni tugged at her side and gave Gidget her own glare. "I'm sorry." She quickly apologized, "I guess there really isn't any set etiquette when it comes to mind walking, I didn't mean to snap, I'm just kinda spent I suppose. We were traveling for a long time before we tried to land on your planet to get help. That was when I realized while I had been flying the ship fine before, I didn't actually know how to land it."
"Wait, wait wait." Sparx said while waving his hands in front of his face. " Can we back up for a second? You read minds and she can turn invisible?" He asked while pointing to each of them while Gidget looked down at Geni,
"You already showed them? Aw there goes that surprise, and it's actually more teleporting than turning invisible but..."
"She can teleport?!" Everyone confirmed in unison.
"Yup," Gidget said casually with a shrug. "You can't?"
They all looked with wide eyes as Otto asked "Can you?"
"No," she replied with a bit of a mischievous grin, "I was just trying to see what kind of powers you guys had, I basically just told you just about everything I know about us, but we know hardly know anything about you at all. How about we start with you guys telling me why us being cybernetic monkeys is so special."
Gibson stepped forward at this and cleared his throat. "Please allow me to explain this one." The team let out a collective groan but he just cleared his throat dramatically again and sent them a quick silencing glare before continuing. "You see frankly, until you fell unto our laps we assumed we were the only robotic monkeys in the universe."
"Just you five?" Gidget asked skeptically.
"Well, us and one other." Nova explained quickly. "But he doesn't really count any more."
"Why not?" Gidget asked confused as she looked around the room.
"It's a long story, and trust me you're going to be beat just listening to Gibson ramble." Nova stated as Gibson gave her a brief look but continued.
"Yes, so with the addition of you and your..." He prompted Gidget to finish it.
"Sister." She completed simply which Gibson nodded in agreement with.
"So with the addition of you and your sister then that brings out total numbers up to seven. That is, unless you happen know about anymore cyborg monkeys?" He asked while giving Gidget time to respond.
"I-" She started to reply then stopped again and looked intently down at the ground. Antauri thought she looked like she almost remembered something… until she just shook her head and look straight at Gibson. "No, I don't think we know any more." She answered quickly while Geni clutched Gidget's leg more tightly.
"Alright then assuming that there really were only seven monkeys made," Sparx said matter-of-factually. "Why are we just now meeting you two?"
"Like I said I don't know any more about us than you do, so I don't have a clue." Gidget answered earnestly.
"Well surely, there must be something-" Nova started to say just as Gidget's stomach growled loudly and interrupted her.
"Sorry," she said blushing and looking embarrassed, "I haven't had any thing to eat in a few days. You guys wouldn't happen to have something we could..."
"Oh of course!" Jinmay exclaimed suddenly speaking for the first time in several minutes, "Let me go fix you two something, and by the way, I'm Jinmay." As she turned to leave the room, Antauri made the suggestion that they could all go and sit down in the Command Center while allowing Otto to lead the way and explain different things about their lives.
"You see, we live on the planet Shugazoom, in Shugazoom City inside the Super Robot." Otto happily rambled on as they entered the Command Center.
"That's a lot of S's." Gidget remarked as she looked around the expansive room. "What exactly is a 'super robot'?" Gidget asked genuinely intrigued.
"You're standing inside of him." Otto said with a smile. Gidget and Genesis looked around at the walls and ceilings with a small amount of wonder.
"Oh cool, Did you build it?" Gidget asked excitability as she turned to face Otto.
"Naw I didn't, but we've had him since the beginning, but I do help maintain him." Otto said with a certain amount of pride.
"That's so cool!" Gidget exclaimed while clutching her hands to her chest. "I like to work on different inventions and stuff occasionally."
"You're an engineer too?" Sparx asked as they all settled down near the bubble shaped chairs.
"Well kinda." Gidget explained as she sat down on the floor. "I'm pretty good with machines, I like seeing how they work and I can fix them pretty well and stuff but I'm not really an expert, I'm kinda better at more software focused things than hardware, though I like both. And I love taking things apart and putting them back." She explained while bringing her tail in front of her and keeping her hands occupied by fiddling with it. "Well actually I really just like taking them apart." she said with a sly smile. She continued looking around the room in wonder before snapping her attention back to the team and asking, "Hey, do you guys have any powers like me and Genesis?"
"I'm also clairvoyant, or to put it in simpler terms, I have the ability to communicate through minds." Antauri said while placing a hand on his chest, "But you already know this. I'm also a proficient practitioner of telekinesis." He explained as Jinmay re-entered the room carrying a tray stacked with sandwiches.
"Sorry for the wait.," she said setting down the tray on the floor. "This is all I could make on such short notice."
"I'm sure it will be one of the best meal I've ever had." Gidget said smiling up at Jinmay and grabbing one off the top of the pile. She quickly ate it, then another, and finally then another. "Sorry for my rudeness," She apologized as she wiped the crumbs from her mouth. "But I haven't really ate anything in a while, truth be told, I can't actually remember the last time I ate something." her face reddened a bit as she looked over at Genesis happily eating her own sandwich and she leaned over to ruffle the bow on her head. Her sister playfully glared at her as she straightened out her bow and Gidget continued. "Besides, these are the best sandwiches I ever remember eating."
Jinmay smiled and sat down beside Chiro. "I'm glad to know that, but exactly how many sandwiches do you remember eating?" Gidget glanced up at the ceiling as she counted on her fingers.
"Three." She finally said as everyone had a good laugh. When they had finally stopped, Gidget asked. "So no one else has any powers?"
"Well," Chiro said stretching out his arms and placing them behind his head. "We all can use the Power Primate, but that's really it for our non-physical attacks. Hey, I actually bet you could to."
Gidget looked at Geni confused before turning to the rest of the team. "What's a 'Power Primate'?"
"I consider it the force inside us from which we have gained our ability to reason and think." Gibson answered for himself. "Basically, I think it is what we get our intelligence from."
"No," Nova said while shaking her head. "It's definitively what gives us our strength."
"Well if you ask me, it's our personalities." Sparx added.
"I guess you could say we really don't know that much about it." Chiro said simply.
"And it can be interpreted many different ways by many different people." Antauri added while looking over the team. "It leads us all down our own path, if you will." Antauri conclude. Gidget nodded slowly before finally responding.
"I don't get it." She said with a head shake and a look over at Genesis to see if she was getting any of this, but the small monkey seemed to be writing a response at this point or taking notes in her notebook, which Gidget couldn't blame her for, this was a lot to take in.
Otto finally spoke up while smiling broadly. "Okay, okay I can explain this one." He leaned forward and looked Gidget directly in the eye. "You know when you have that craving for your favorite food, and you know there is just one way you absolutely love it but that there is also no way you are going to get it anytime soon?" Everyone stared at Otto dumbfounded. What in the world was he talking about? But he happily ignored the confused looks and kept smiling. "But suddenly, someone shows up and just happens to have it and they give it to you. And you see, you really like this person and it just makes you feel so great that they let you have it because they care about you too, that you actually give it back to them because you know they love it just as much as you do? That's what the Power Primate is."
The entire team looked at Otto confused and amazed, that made no sense at all! Gibson smacked his own head with is palm in astonishment. Surely Otto couldn't have even understood a thing that he just said, let alone Gidget. That explanation made no sense! And even more incredibly, Gidget was nodding her head along with him.
"Oh," Gidget said simply, "that's what you guys are talkin' about. Why didn't you just start off by saying that?"
Gibson brought both his hands up to his head this time. She actually understood that? That babbling of incoherent nonsense, she actually understood what the Power Primate was from that? And to top it off, Genesis was sitting there scribbling away at her notebook like this was a completely normal conversation. Oh great, we got another unintelligible buffoon to deal with, thought Gibson miserably.
Genesis handed her notebook to Gidget after she was done writing and indicated that she needed to read it out loud. "Geni says that the best way to describe things to me is through food metaphors, I seem to understand those the best." Gidget explained after reading over the note. "My mind just works better when it is put it in delicious terms."
"We'll try to remember that." Chiro said giving an odd look the rest of the team.
"So then if that is this Power Primate thing, what are your physical attacks you were talking about?" Gidget asked looking around at the team. Nova stood up with a smile and stepped forward, now this was her time to shine.
"Let me, as the battle coordinator for the team handle this one." She grinning devilishly. "Let me show you how us who are not inclined to mysterious magic powers from the great beyond handle things around here." She held out her arms and her hands transformed into her giant fists-of-fury. She smiled while flexing a bit before showing off some of her moves. "Lady Tomahawk!" she yelled bringing her fist down on the floor of the room. Everyone scrambled to gather their balance as shock-waves shook the room, but Sparx was first on his feet with a wicked grin of his own.
"Oh, yeah?" Sparx said while transforming his own hands. "Let me shock ya with my moves." He chuckled at his own joke while Nova groaned loudly and rolled her eyes at the obvious and terrible pun.
"Magna-Tingler Blast!" Spars yelled as Electric orbs shot out of his weapons and across the room.
Gibson cleared his throat and stood up while transforming his weapons. "Spin Shocker!" He yelled as electric-like darts shot out of his drills and hitting the wall on the far side of the room. "Humph." He grunted satisfied while blowing the smoke off the end of his drill dramatically. "And that is just one of my many different types of ammunition." He stated with pride. "You might even find some of my other ammunition to be quite...cool." Gibson snickered at his own joke while everyone else rolled their eyes but Gidget and Geni just exchanged a confused glance.
Antauri stood up next, indicating he wanted to showcase his powers now by transforming his hands into his claw transformers. He closed his eyes and turned an odd purple color before phasing through the floor. Genesis and Gidget blinked in surprise and searched the room, expecting him to pop-out at any time.
"Where did he go?" Gidget finally asked as he reappeared above them and silently descended behind the two girls.
"More to us than meets the eye, isn't there?" he said with a slight grin on his face as both girls whirled around to face him.
Otto jumped up and down excitedly yelling, "I wanna go next!" before running to the opposite side of the room away from everyone else and readying himself. He stood with his head down and eyes closed until he suddenly looked up and transformed his hands into his energy saws. He stood his ground, readying himself before shouting, "Scritch Scratch Doom!" and bringing his hands all the way behind his head and finishing with a triumphant "THROWER!" as he let his saws fly. They sailed through the air in perfect crossing arcs, and then coming back to his hands perfectly.
Everyone's mouths practically dropped, never had Otto put so much spirit into his attacks, and he had out-shined everyone. Gidget clapped excitability while Genesis stood slightly behind her warily eying Otto's sharp blades but clapping non-the-less.
"Otto that was Amazing!" Gidget yelled happily, "I wish could do something that cool!"
"Don't you have transformers?" Otto asked tilting his head cutely. "Gibson said that when he scanned you, your arms were hallow like ours to make room for weapons." Gidget shrugged her shoulders but maintained a big smile on her face.
"That would be so cool if I did!" She yelled happily while jumping up and down. "Let me try and see if I can do anything like that." She ran a little distance away from everyone else and readied herself as she held her arms straight out in front of her. After concentrating for a moment, she managed to morph them into large gun barrels. "Too cool!" she cheered while jumping up and down. "I'm gonna call them...Giga Gun Blasters!" She yelled happily while hopping from foot to foot.
"Whoa," Sparx said awestruck. "She's packin' heat." He hooked his thumb over his shoulder as he looked back at the rest of the team as everyone made their way over to her to inspect her guns.
"Giga Gun Blaster?" Gibson asked skeptically, shaking his head. "That's one of the most ridcul-"
"Coolest names I've ever heard!" Otto interrupted excitedly. "I wish I had thought of a cool name like that."
"Thanks," Gidget said blushing a bit and pulling her arms behind her back while transforming them back into her hands. "I don't know if they were called that originally, but it seemed to fit with everyone else's weapons."
Gibson shook his head again at the name but said nothing more on the subject of names. "Well then," He said "I suppose you really are one of the Alchemist's robot monkeys."
"Who?" Gidget asked confused yet again and looking down at Genesis. "I don't think I know that name."
"It's the name of the man who created us." Nova said sadly, "He's... not with us anymore." Gidget nodded and guessed that was the only thing that needed to be said on the subject. Everyone grew silent for a minute before Chiro broke the growing awkwardness.
"Well, I guess we should go talk to the rest of our allies and um-" how was he going to explain this? "Introduce them to you two I guess." He shrugged.
"Okay," Gidget said as they followed the team outside. "Do you think we could get more sandwiches before we go though?"
Alright we come to the end of Ch. 2! Now you know Gidget and Genesis. Are they hiding something or are they really as clueless as they seem? I'm not gonna tell you now! You have to keep reading to find out! Tell me what you think of them, I wanna know. Sorry if Otto's description of Gidget seems stupid or sappy, I just wanted to get the point across. (By bashing you all over the head of it repeatedly, though I did try and fix this up a bit so the romantic undertones were actually, you know undertones? I mean it's still pretty obvious that they like each other from the beginning, but it's not like true wube at first sight now.)
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(So yeah this chapter took a while to fix cause it was really kinda terrible. Genesis was like a picture perfect mary sue (and still kinda is) and I felt like I was trying to beat you guys over the head with the couples I support. I mean it got worse in the next few chapters but I tried to fix it so hopefully its a bit more subtle than it previously was.)