Is This Real? Or Is It A Lie?

Antauri and Chiro explored the whole robot except for the rooms. Antauri didn't want to invade on his teammate's personal space, so he led Chiro to his own room. Stopping in front of the door, Chiro felt his heart beat faster.

"And this is your room." The door opened to reveal Chiro's room. Antauri entered as Chiro hesitated. It was as if a blanket of darkness and hatred infiltrated the room. He looked at Antauri to see if he felt anything wrong as well. But seeing that Antauri was giving him a strange look, he entered his so-called-room. Looking around, he saw posters of the Sun Riders everywhere and a TV in front of a bed. He gazed around to see everything he liked when he was a kid there. Even some of his old action figures were displayed on one of the dressers. 'Maybe there is some truth behind this all.' Chiro said to himself as he began to trust Antauri.

As he looked around some more, he saw a corner of his room that made him uneasy. When he tried to find out why, fear struck him as he felt a pain shoot through his back and then another in his heart. The pain overwhelmed the child as blackness began to envelope his mind and he fell to the ground.

Antauri heard the thud and quickly turned to see Chiro on the floor. "Chiro!" Antauri yelled and ran over to the half unconscious child. Chiro was shaking all over as he held his heart.

"What's wrong?"

"My body, it hurts all over! – I'm scared Antauri!" Chiro stated as he fell unconscious. Antauri was in shock. Of everything he would expect his leader to say, he thought Chiro would never say that. It frightened him because whatever was wrong with Chiro frightened the child so much he admitted it; and since Antauri knows Chiro better, he knew that Chiro would never admit being frightened. He caressed the boys' hair before he immediately turned on his communicator.

"Antauri to Gibson, do you read me?"

"Yes, is everything alright?"

"No. Chiro just fell unconscious in his room."

"Alright. Get him to the sick bay at once. I'll meet you there."

"Antauri out."

He activated his jet pact and lifted Chiro up. Sprx, Nova, and Otto appeared at the door to see their zoned out leader.

"Sprx, can you give me a hand?"

"No problem!" He said as he activated his jet pack and helped Antauri carry Chiro to the Sick Bay. Nova and Otto exchanged worried glances before following them. They arrived at the sick bay in less then one minute with Gibson waiting there.

"Place him on the bed." Gibson said as he began to boot up the system.

Antauri and Sprx carefully set Chiro on the bench as Gibson immediately began to scan his body. When the results came back, Gibson sighed in relief.

"He seems fine. However, the deep scratches he received could be the cause of this."

"We should let Chiro rest. – I'll stay here and watch him."

"Are you sure Antauri? You stayed up all night last time!"

"Thanks for your concern Nova, but I'm fine. Besides, I think I can help Chiro using the power primate."

"Okay," Nova said with concern as she started to her room. Otto saw Nova was still very worried, so he chased after her with hopes of making her feel better. Sprx and Gibson left in hesitation as the doors to the Sick Bay closed.

Antauri got in the meditating position and tried to reach Chiro's conscious.

After trying for about an hour, he figured his sole was too confused to even recognize Antauri's presence.

Antauri pulled up a chair next to the boy and began stroking his hair. Closing his eyes, his thoughts wondered. 'Why must you go through all this? No one should have to face as many dangers as you have to. – I guess it's your burden.' Antauri opened his eyes once more and looked at Chiro. 'Whatever you have to face Chiro, we won't let you do it alone.'

Antauri became weary within the next two hours. He looked at the clock that read 3:45 am and glanced back at Chiro. Antauri knew he couldn't stay awake after not getting any sleep for two days; so he leaned back in the chair and fell into a light but peaceful sleep.

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The sun rose above the mountains as the light shinned on a certain orange monkey on a tall building. He smirked as he saw the Super Robot didn't stir with his presence.

"So my brother's are having difficulties with the scanners. – My revenge will be easier and more agonizing on them," Mandarin laughed as turned away and began planning his revenge.

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Antauri stirred in his sleep as he felt a familiar presence close by. He wasn't sure who it was, but it was fairly close.

Waking up from his dream, he looked around to see Sam and Miranda looking at the computers with great interest.

"Chiro didn't wake up while you were sleeping." Miranda said.

"On my planet, we don't have all this high tech equipment. – But I guess it's better that way because the countries would use it to gain dominance over the other countries."

Antauri hopped out of the seat and walked up to Sam's side.

"You want to go back, don't you?"

Sam looked down sadly. "More than you can imagine. – My friend is dearly troubled by a new menace we are facing. Well, new to me, old to everyone else."

Antauri smiled at her. "Those who care about others always succeed in their ambitions. It's because of those they want to help that make you keep working on what you want the most. – Once Chiro remembers who we are, we'll help you get back to your planet."

Sam looked up with a smile on her face. "Thanks Antauri, I don't know how we can ever repay you."

"You've already did. It was us that need to repay you; not you having to repay us."

She nodded in understanding before smiling at Miranda.

'What happened?' Chiro asked himself as he opened his watery sky blue eyes. The pain had subsided, but it still lingered in different areas of his body. Trying to sit up, he saw Antauri turn and run towards him.

"You shouldn't get up yet. You're still injured with those scratches on your back. They never fully healed from the last battle."

Chiro opened his eyes wide at the comment. His thoughts were coming at him so fast that it gave him a splitting head ack. If he got injured like this during their last battle, imagine what future enemies could do! They could easily kill him or torture him and make him suffer for things he doesn't even remember doing! Chiro couldn't take it any longer. His mind was bombarded with all these stories and events that he didn't even know if they were real or not. Grasping his head in pain, he sat up and closed his eyes.

"Chiro, everything will be alright. Just calm down and get some more rest."

"Get some rest?! How can I get some rest while I don't even know who I am! Nor do I know who my real family is!" Chiro said as he saw images of a house on fire. There was a woman holding a small child in her hands while she ran along side with a man. They weren't very clear, but he could tell he knew them from somewhere. The vision faded out as he felt himself fall back down on the Sick Bay bed.

Antauri caressed his hair while trying to calm the child down with calming words. Chiro's eyes began to water up before he fell asleep once more.

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I don't think this chapter was very well written because I was typing it at 11:45 at night. Hope you enjoyed! =)