Chapter 2

"Mr. Hal Gibson!" Antauri shouted. "Listen to me! Your mind is not your own!"

"No way!" Sprx said to himself. "How? How did this happen?"

"Oh, but I know exactly what I'm doing, Antauri." Gibson hissed. "And there is nothing you weak pathetic primates can do to stop me!" Then Gibson fired another shot at the second in command.

"Hurry Gibson! Retrieve the soul of evil!" Valina shouted to the newest member of her side. Gibson's grin grew even wider and scarier as he flew off to retrieve the last essence.

"Stop him team!" Chiro shouted. "At all costs!"

The monkeys flew off and tried to find their now evil brother. "Um… when I got hit earlier, I forgot a lot of things, Can someone tell me what the heck is going on?" Sprx asked the team.

"How can you forget this?" Nova shouted, "When we went to get the Ice Crystal of Vengeance, Gibson grabbed it and turned evil. Then he badly hurt you when you tried to grab the fire of hate! Now he's going to help them resurrect Skeleton King unless we find a way to stop him!"

"It's like when he got infected by the Thingy Virus…" Otto said, "ONLY WORSE!"

So this is why I never turned evil. Gibson already did, but we'll get him back! The team got me back in the end! We can stop him! There is still a chance!

Sprx caught a glimpse of a blue monkey. "There! I think I see him!" the team landed, only to be stuck in a battle against evil demons that were hideous beyond description! They could shoot their eyeballs out like bombs and they had long scythe like legs. Nova and Otto fought off two of them, while Sprx and Antauri battled another. Antauri used his claws and sliced one up, while Sprx used his magnets to fight another, zapping it with electricity that defeated it for good. Otto already chopped up a monster with his saws, and Nova beat one by punching and crumbling the cliff underneath it with her fists.

The team looked around. There was no sign of Gibson, until they heard a shout from above.

"Spin shocker!" the entire team was blasted with a jolt of painful electricity, making their circuits overflow and shut down. Sprx did his best to avoid it.

"Gibson!" he shouted, "We can help you! Please stop! You don't know what you're doing!"

"Oh no, Sprx. I don't need any help at all. I know what I must do! Now I'm going after the soul of evil, so I must bid you farewell!"

Sprx quickly pulled out a special tool for resetting the monkeys, and grabbed the closest teammate, hoping he could revive them before it was too late. Then he blacked out.

He woke up to find himself still in the Netherworld. Otto woke him up and rebooted his system. "There you go! Thank you for getting me up. Now we have to get the others and stop Gibson!"

Once Antauri and Nova were ready, they all went over to stop Gibson. They found the blue monkey at a strange pillar holding the Soul of Evil.

"The power! It runs through my blood. This amazing feeling! This thrill! This rush!" Gibson said to himself.

"Drop the essence brain strain!" Sprx yelled and got his magnets out! Gibson put the essence down and got his drills ready.

"How are you still conscious!" Gibson growled.

"Maybe you aren't as smart as you thought!" Sprx yelled. Gibson jumped forward and thrust his drill. Sprx blocked the attack and used his magnets to electrify the blue simian, which avoided the attack and hit Sprx. The wounds on his body began to sting. Antauri and Nova went to fight Gibson, but the blue monkey was too fast in his new form, and struck them both. Otto hesitated, but then he launched a saw that hit his evil brother. Gibson then shot a laser at the ground, and the floor began to fall from beneath the Hyperforce.

The team quickly used their jet packs to avoid falling off of the ledge as Gibson snatched the Soul of Evil and ran back to Valina.

"We gotta stop him!" Sprx yelled.

"Hurry team!" Antauri shouted.

By the time the team caught up with Gibson, the blue monkey, Valina, and Mandarin had gotten away. They noticed Chiro lying motionless on the ground. The team picked him up and followed the others through the portal back home.

"Oh no! It can't be!" Jinmay exclaimed when she saw the team carry the teenager and lower him to the ground.

"It was the netherworld." Otto said. "It drained his life away."

"Chiro is…" Nova looked away, scared for her friend and leader. Suddenly Chiro began to move. He was returning back to normal.

"Kid, are you alright?" Sprx asked.

"I'm fine. Did you get the essence?" Chiro asked.

"I'm afraid not. They got away again." Antauri answered.

"We have to stop them, before they can resurrect Skeleton King!" Chiro shouted.

The team returned to the robot. Sprx examined the bandages on his body.

"I can't believe it." He said to himself. "How did he give in?"

"I found out where Valina went!" Otto shouted to the team. "They returned to the pit of doom!"

"That's where Skeleton King was destroyed!" Nova said.

"Then that's where they're going to resurrect him!" Chiro replied. The team got out of the robot and ran over to the pit. There was Valina, Mandarin, and Gibson in front of a long table. They already had the three essences in place. All they needed to do was place the Skull of the Skeleton King. Quickly Chiro launched a Chiro Spearo at the skull, and it dropped out of Valina's hands. She screamed as it fell to the ground.

"None of you are walking away from this!" The teen yelled.

"I'd like to see you TRY to stop us!" Gibson hissed.

Chiro and Jinmay went to battle Valina, Antauri and Otto went after Gibson, and Sprx teamed up with Nova.

Sprx and Nova were doing a pretty good job working together.

"Double Monkey Attack!" The red and yellow monkey took Mandarin out with one powerful move. Antauri and Otto weren't doing as well.

"Gibson," Otto said, "I don't want to hurt you! Please snap out of it!"

"That's too bad. SPIN SHOCKER!" The blue monkey shot a white beam at the green one. Otto cried out in pain as he fell to the ground.

"Phase and Daze!" Antauri went to stop Gibson, but the blue monkey jumped and fired another shot at Antauri.

Chiro and Jinmay grabbed the skull and nearly beat Valina, but the witch's attacks were very powerful, so it was very hard to block her powers.

"Thunder punch!" Chiro slammed his fist into the evil enemy and Jinmay used her heart beam. Valina collapsed and shrieked at the two, and then Chiro picked up the skull, ready to destroy it for good, until he was shot to the ground by Gibson.

"Gibson, no! Snap out of it!" Jinmay yelled. But there was no stopping him. The blue simian fired a spin shocker at the robot girl, causing her to fall to the ground.

Sprx and Nova were the last heroes standing now.