Chapter 3: Experiencing Technical Difficulties
SPRNTEN heard the door to the training room slide open. He got into a fighting stance, his heart pounding in his chest. He knew something was coming out of that room, but it wasn't John…this thing was setting his sensors off again. The demon…
Suddenly, something black burst out of the room, running straight at him. SPRNTEN gave a small cry and twisted out of the thing's way. He did not want to get touched by the demon; risking his angelic power was out of his mind.
"SPRNTEN!!!!" a child's voice called. SPRNTEN spun around just in time to see Nightmare wave to him. The golden monkey's eyes went wide.
John…The monkey high tailed into the training room and saw John. He was lying on the floor unconscious, his eyes blank. Instinctively, he went over to the monkey and shook him.
"John, wake up man!" SPRNTEN said while shaking him. "C'mon! Nightmare's been taken! Get up!" The monkey didn't move. The golden monkey looked him over and saw no physical features that he had been knocked out. But, maybe the demon's aurora was too much for John to bear in a single standing.
Suddenly, John's arm shot out and grabbed SPRNTEN's throat. SPRNTEN was taken off guard and struggled in his fellow's grasp.
"Whoa John, buddy! It's me, SPRNTEN!!!" he cried out. He felt his wind pipe begin to shut. When John heard his voice, he released and looked at SPRNTEN, a look of apology on his face.
"Thought you were someone else, SPRNTEN," he said. SPRNTEN rubbed his neck affectionately.
"We have bigger problems to deal with," he told his friend, helping the blue and golden monkey up. "That demon has Nightmare."
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The demon skidded to a halt when it about entered the main room. It sensed life swarming in it; humans, monkeys, dragons…
It suddenly let out an unearthly growl. Dragons. It silently cursed at its stupidity when it realized the fact. No matter…it could take out the dragons before anyone knew what had hit them.
Nightmare wiggled in its grasp. The demon let out an odd "hurr," sound and stroked the monkey's fur. The pupiless eyes relaxed and she stopped her wiggling fit. The demon smiled inwardly and turned around just to be staring into the face of a very ticked off dragon. The demon reeled back and hissed. The dragon growled.
"You aren't going anywhere, demon, with that monkey," the white dragon snarled, her gray eyes narrowing and glowing platinum. The demon then realized who she was. This dragon was the daughter of Zanlyn, betrayer of her own demonic kind, killer of thousands. The demon narrowed its sea green eyes too.
It also was a slayer of its own kind.
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Zaintar now had a good look at what she was dealing with. This demon had the body of any robotic monkey on the team; black fur with a sea green belly, white feet and black legs, and same tail. Its head is what freaked Zaintar out the most. It was a metal head. It look somewhat identical to a dragon's head, with three gleaming white fangs jutting out of each sides of the chin and two other fangs poking out of the chin. The demon had no mouth, just the fangs. Her steel colored helmet had three horns sticking out of it, then curving downwards and making another spike at the back side bottom of its head gear. All and all, it had five spikes that acted like horns. Two slits were its nostril holes, venting out smoke that now puffed out. The sea green eyes glowed bright. A skull like design was around the front of its face, it was a lighter gray than the rest of its helmet.
Zaintar then saw the tail come into view. She then noticed something at the tip. She saw a small head appear with red slits and sharp black fangs. Two brown horns curled around at the sides of its head. It opened it mouth and let out a long growling noise. Zaintar turned her hands into claws and posed to attack. But the demon just stood there, its eyes fixed on her.
"I wish not to fight you, Zaintar the Killer," it said suddenly, taking Zaintar completely off guard. "But, if that's the only way to get my thoughts through to you, then so shall it be." The demon snapped its fingers and a scythe appeared by its right clawed hand. It had a gleaming black handle and three gleaming sick green gems. The blade was light steel with green stripes scoring it. Zaintar raised her claws and was about to attack, when she noticed that Nightmare was in its grasps. She was thinking critically now, trying to think of a way to get Nightmare out of its grasps and get rid of the demon too.
Finally, she lowered her blood red claws and turned them to their normal state. The demon still had a hold on its scythe and was still glaring at the dragon. Then it too lowered its weapon. Zaintar still kept her guard as the demon approached.
"I still won't let you leave the Super Robot with Nightmare, demon," Zaintar said. The demon suddenly let out a hellish sound.
"You all think that I am evil, don't you?" it finally said. Zaintar noticed that the demonic voice that once was there suddenly vanished, reveling that the demon was in fact a girl. She continued, "Just because I am a demon…that doesn't mean anything!" Zaintar saw anger fill up the demon. Suddenly, Nightmare looked up at the demon with happy filled eyes.
"Sissy!" she cried in joy, wrapping her arms around the demon's neck. The demon embraced the hug and looked straight into Zaintar's eyes. Zaintar glared angrily.
"Then why did you break into the Super Robot, harm a good guy, then try and kidnapped a kid that we found?" Zaintar asked. She was trying to keep her anger in check. The demon growled again.
"You know how you guys found that odd energy?" she snapped. "You wanna know how the heck you were able to even get into the chamber without dying at the spot? I allowed that to happen so I could get her! I couldn't get her because an angel or something along those lines put her in the cocoon and angelic power surge through that room! I was the one that sealed to outer layer of the room! I was the one that opened it up and allowed that boy and his robotic friend to get in there! The only way that the crystal would need to be opened was when someone of high power tried to open it with his or her mind! I couldn't because of the angelic aurora that pulsed through that crystal!" By now the demon was raging mad. "And you think that I am kidnapping the one that I swore to protect since she was born?! Do you think that just because of some freak accident and the switching of your master from good to evil automatically makes me as bad as him?! Are you that thick skulled?!"
Zaintar stood there dumbfounded when the demon finished. She couldn't find the words to say to that. So, that explained it all then, eh? She knew someone else was behind the finding besides Gibson.
Suddenly, someone lunged at the demon. The demon reacted too late and the being hit dead on. Nightmare flew out of the demon's grasps and rolled away from her. The demon and other hit the floor and began to hiss, bite, hit, and claw each other.
"Thinking you would get away when you knocked me out, eh?" a familiar voice snarled. It was John, and he was ticked. SPRNTEN soon came into view and grabbed Nightmare. Nightmare suddenly began to struggle in the monkey's grasp. SPRNTEN ignored it and leapt to where Zaintar stood.
Fight between demon and monkey raged on. The two rolled and rolled, pale green blood mixing with red as the two mauled at each other. Finally, they flipped off each other and landed on all fours, both in a fighting stance. The demon had an open chest wound and her helmet was dented a little. John got the worse of the fight. Gashes scored his body, an antenna was bent, his arms were sliced in different areas, and a gash was underneath his eye. Both were breathing heavily.
The demon let out a hellish roar. Her tail revealed its head and it clicked its tongue in excitement. John let out a monkey shriek and charged. The demon as well; tail ready to shoot out. Soon, the two went at it again.
All the commotion brought everyone running out of the main room, excluding the Dragon and Death Team, who were back in the Super Dragon. They joined Zaintar and SPRNTEN, watching as John was slowly getting killed, and the demon slowly losing spiritual power. Rackifa covered her mouth in horror and began to cry. Chiro looked to Zaintar.
"Isn't there anyway you can split them up?" he shouted. Zaintar nodded.
"Yes, but it would risk hitting John!" she yelled back as the demon yet again roared. Nightmare was watching the battle go on. She began to wriggle and struggle in SPRNTEN's grasp.
"PHANTOM!!!" Nightmare cried out. The demon stopped suddenly and turned to Nightmare's voice. Her eyes went from mad to fear when she saw Nightmare struggling. John was lying too weak on the floor. That's when the monkeys went into action. Sprx went first.
"Magno Ball Beam Splitter!" Sprx called. The shots hit the demon, sending her flying into the wall. She recovered and brought back her scythe, charging at the red monkey.
"Death Dealer!" she snarled. She swung her scythe around. Suddenly, she struck the robot's floor with such a force it shook the entire Super Robot. Out of thin air, a black figure arose from the floor in front of Sprx. The pulling mass of black took form and turned into a large wolf like demon. It roared and charged Sprx, ramming him and sending him flying. While that demon dealt with Sprx, Otto jumped in front of everyone.
"You aren't gonna leave here alive, demon!" he shouted, launching up, saws at ready. The demon launched up and well. The two were trying to hit each other with their weapons, but they kept blocking. Finally, the demon turned her scythe around and hit Otto in the stomach with the butt of her scythe. That sent him flying downwards hard into the floor. The demon landed, and suddenly winced. The team noticed that her wound on her chest was slowing eating up her energy and the pain she felt was unbearable. Nova ran at her.
"Boom Boom wake-up!" the yellow monkey called. Her fist came thundering down onto the demon. But, the demon vanished in a wisp of smoke as the fists touched her head. The team looked around.
"Is it gone?" SPRNTEN asked. He was soon given the answer when the demon appeared behind Nova.
"Blood Pay!" the demon said. Her leg lashed out and kicked Nova in the back. Then her tail head grabbed Nova's arm while the monkey was in air and flinged her into Otto when he finally recovered. The two tumbled and rolled into a wall, their eyes crossed and dazed. Gibson joined the fray and shot electric darts at the demon. She was slow but dodged them with ease. Then, smoothly, she stepped on one foot and then launched at the blue monkey. Her hands began to glow black and purple.
"Try this on for size, scientist!" she shouted, shooting out a ball of dark energy at the monkey. It hit Gibson in the gut and sent him flying into Sprx, who was running away from the demon wolf. Antauri watched this move happen. All the moves that this demon did were like it was dancing, even though it was a bit sluggish. It sent chills through him as he watched. Chiro jumped into the air.
"Lightning Ki…Ahh!!" he was stopped in mid-sentence as a dark ball enveloped him. He began seeing horrible things; his team members dying in front of him, him too weak to help, and Skeleton King finally winning ShuggaZoom. He screamed as these images swirled around him.
It won't happen! It will never happen! He screamed inwardly. The field finally disappeared and Chiro dropped to the floor, still seeing those images in his head.
Antauri looked from Chiro to the demon. He was thinking in hast. The demon had to have a weakness…but what…
The demon wincing again showed him its weakness. That demon was strong…but being stubborn and not surrendering while it had the chance was slowly crippling it. Antauri then launched his attack…right at her open chest. He charged at the demon, claws extended in front of him. The demon braced as the silver monkey rammed into it. He flew a bit backwards, but was at it again. The two went on like this for a while.
"PHANTOM!! DON'T HURT PHANTOM!!" Nightmare's screams suddenly stopped the demon. It turned to SPRNTEN, who had a light ball ready to launch. Antauri took the chance and took the demon off guard, ghosting his claw through the demon's chest cavity. It roared in pain and tried to get the claw out, but Antauri held it there. Suddenly, the demon's eyes went gray and it slumped. Antauri took his claw out and the demon fell to the floor.
The demon wolf that was chasing Sprx vanished into a black wisp. Sprx stopped running and walked to Antauri, who was standing beside the demon's limp body. Zaintar, SPRNTEN, and the rest of the team did the same and surrounded the body. Nightmare began to cry and glared angrily at Antauri.
"You killed her!" she screamed, her pupiless eyes teaming with tears. She got out of SPRNTEN's grasp and kneeled besides the demon. She grabbed the clawed hand and tugged it.
"C'mon Phanny, you don't have to play anymore," Nightmare told it, trying to wake it up. "I wanna go home now and you can take me back. I promise I won't be bad. Phanny?" She began to sob. Antauri looked to each team member, then Zaintar, who was staring down at the demon.
"She isn't dead," the dragon said. The monkeys and boy, excluding Nightmare, turned and looked at her. She looked from demon to John, who was unconscious yet again. "Get him into med bay ASAP. He needs medical attention. As for the demon…" she looked back to her. "She needs to go to med bay too, but I'll make a special holding cell for her till she can be trusted." The team nodded and went to do there thing. Nightmare had sadly followed Otto to the main room, glancing back at the demon before she vanished from sight. Zaintar sighed and knelt beside the demon.
"I sure do hope you have a good explanation about this one, Phantom," she told the unconscious demon. "Cause you're going to have to tell yourself to the whole labyrinth of heroes and heroines that are on the team. If you're lucky, they'll allow you in." Picking up the demon, she walked to med bay, not noticing a pair of red eyes following her as she did.
