Allie: Hola everyone! Welcome to the 3rd chapter! I'd thought for this one I'd try a mother/son theme.

Chiro: Mother/son?

Allie: That's right! And I bet you all know who the mom is! You guessed it! Our very own, Nova!

Chiro: Who's the son?

Allie: … You're kidding right? I mean… you can't be THAT clueless!

Chiro: …

Allie: Really? *Sigh* Lets just start the chapter.

"Great work today Chiro." Nova smiled brightly. "You've all ready passed level 33 and 34 within the hour."

"Thanks Nova," Chiro smiled. "But it's your training that's gotten me this far. I wouldn't be nearly as good without you."

"Awe don't be so modest." Nova grinned, rubbing the back of her head.

Chiro blushed slightly. "Well, I think I'm going to get some water, want some?"

"Yes please." Nova said with a casual grin.

Chiro nodded and started towards his orange tube.

Nova blinked her pink eyes at Chiro's back. He had all ready grown so big since he awakened them 3 years ago. The time had gone by so fast.

Nova had noticed something though. That in those 3 years, Nova had made a bond with Chiro. It wasn't a normal bond either. It was like a bond between an older sister and her little brother. Or a… Mother and her son.

Nova paused at the thought. She knew she had no right to even think about taking the place of Chiro's mother. But the thought never left her brain.

The site of Chiro always brought that mother instincts out of Nova.

Maybe Chiro felt that same? Nova was the only female role model in Chiro's life. So… maybe he thought of her as a mom as well. Or even an older sister.

Whichever word didn't matter to Nova much. She just wanted to be by Chiro's side. To watch him grow, be there for him when he makes mistakes, or comfort him if he's scared.

Chiro was family, the monkey teams little boy.

Though he isn't so little anymore, and could easily beat the monkey team in a contest based on height, he was still the youngest.

Though you had to question sometimes if Otto was the youngest or not, he did have his moments.

"Nova, I'm back." The young teen smiled as he returned from the kitchen with two water bottles in hand.
"Thank you Chiro." Nova smiled as she took the bottle.

The two drank their water in silence, neither knowing what to say.
"So…" Chiro paused, trying to think of a good topic to talk about. "Antauri told me Sprx got you mad this morning, what did he do?"

Nova narrowed her eyes at the memory.
"Sprx was bragging about his piloting skills again and told me I couldn't beat him cause I was a girl." Nova said quickly.

Chiro blinked in surprise. Sprx wasn't the brightest when it came to being nice. Even though he tried.

"I'm sure he didn't mean it. Sprx says stuff without thinking a lot." Chiro laughed nervously.

"Yeah, he should really learn when to grow up." Nova sighed, crossing her arms.

Chiro nodded, though he really had no room to talk.

Nova looked at the teen with a sigh. But tilted her head in confusion. Chiro had his right arm behind his back, hiding something from Nova's view.

"Hey Nova…" Chiro said nervously.

Nova turned her attention back to the young teen, confused at the sudden mood change.

"Um… I'm not sure if you know about Shugazooms holidays, but there's a special holiday today." Chiro announced.

"Oh really? What is it?" Nova asked, curious to what the young teen was getting at.

"Well…" Chiro pulled his right hand out from behind his back to reveal a white letter that was firmly in his grip. He lifted his hand towards Nova and gave her the letter.

Nova stared down at the white envelope in confusion.

On the front of the envelope was a cute little picture of a chibi Chiro and Nova holding hands. Chiro had always been the artist, but rarely showed any of his work with anyone.

Nova smiled softly at this.

Below written in neat yellow pen were the words.

"To Nova, From Chiro with love."

Sadly Nova didn't have the time to open the envelope and see what it contained, the alarm was all ready ringing loudly.

"Monkey team, a threat had been detected. Assemble!" Gibson voice rang from Chiro's communicator.

Nova and Chiro jumped to their feet, dashing for their tubes. Leaving the small forgotten envelope on Nova's seat.

Once the two got to the control room, they raced to the screen.
"Gibson, what's happening?" Chiro demanded.

"Formless, in several sections of the city." Gibson said, pulling up a map of the city. There were 3 blinking lights in different spots of the city.
"We have to split up." Sprx said.

"Right." Otto nodded in agreement.

Chiro nodded as well. "Sprx, Otto, you take the one on the South. Antauri, Gibson, you can handle the West. Nova and me will take the North." Chiro commanded.
"Roger Chiro." The monkeys nodded, heading towards their tubes.

Once they were all in their parts of the robot, they disengaged and headed towards their destinations.

"Any site of them Nova?" Chiro asked, glancing at his screen.

"Nope, but they're around here somewhere."

The two didn't have to wait long before several formless feel on top of their vehicles.
"Ah!" the two screamed in surprise, as they struggled to see where they were going. They both slammed on the breaks, sending the formless flying off.

"Take this!" Nova said, as she pressed the fire button and destroyed several formless.

"Nova!" Chiro yelled.
Nova gasped and turned her vehicle around to see that one of Chiro's wheels had been caught in a large hole. Chiro tried to break the torso tank free, but it was no use.

Chiro ended up jumping out of the torso tank and fighting the formless hands on.
"I'm coming Chiro." Nova said, firing several rocket.

Chiro smiled when Nova jumped out of her foot cruiser 1 and joined him.

"Let's do this." He grinned.

"Right." She nodded, transforming her hands into her larger hands. (That sounded weird)

"Boom Boom wake up!" Nova yelled, smashing her hands into the ground, making the ground crack.

"Chiro Spearo!" Chiro yelled, summoning a large lighting bolt and firing it at the formless.

It continued like that for long time. It seemed every time a formless went down, two more appeared.

Chiro and Nova were getting tired, they couldn't continue like this for much longer. Then… it happened.

"Nova! Look out!" Chiro yelled.

Chiro dove in front of Nova just as a formless was about to attack.
"CHIRO!" Nova's voice filled the air.

-The others-

Antauri, Sprx, Gibson, and Otto had finished their sections of the city with out problem. But it worried them when they couldn't get in touch with Nova or Chiro.

"Hurry monkey team." Gibson ordered, as they used their jet backs to fly towards the North section.
"Hey, relax brainiack. I'm sure they're bother fine." Sprx said, though he didn't sound very sure of himself.

The monkey team landed in the North section of the city and searched through several blocks for their missing team members.
"CHIRO!' Nova's horrified voice rang through the city.

"This way!" Otto yelled, leading the team towards the voice. As they team turned the corner, the monkey team's eyes widened in horror at the scene they were witnessing.

Nova was on her head knees, her eyes wide with horror as she stared in front of her.

Chiro had dove in front of Nova, blocking the attack… at least… from damaging Nova.

Chiro now stood, shacking violently as he stared at the formless, who was inches from his face. A large knife of black ooze was stabbing him straight through his right shoulder.

The formless pulled the knife out of Chiro's shoulder, causing the wound to widen even more. Chiro's face paled in pain as he fell to his knees.

"Nova… I'm… sorry." Chiro stuttered before he collapsed to the floor.

"CHIRO!" the monkey team screamed.

Anger filled the male monkeys eyes as they charged at the formless.

"MAGNO TINGLER BLAST!" Sprx yelled with such force, that it even shocked Nova.

Nova shook the thought out of her head as she rushed to Chiro.
"Chiro… Chiro!' Nova said, lifting the boy up, cradling his upper body in her arms.

Chiro's eyes opened half way. His skin was pale and cold.

"N-Nova." Chiro smiled weakly.

"Chiro… Y-Your gonna be okay," Nova stuttered, tears welling up in her pink eyes.

"N-Nova… I'm cold." Chiro whispered.

Nova held Chiro close, her eyes widened at the sight of the blood dripping from Chiro's shoulder. "G-GIBSON!" Nova yelled towards her blue brother, tears streaming down her face.

Gibson rushed to get over to Chiro, but it was difficult to get past the battle area.

"N-Nova…" the young teen whispered, getting the yellow monkeys attention.

"Yes Chiro?" Nova asked softly.
"T… Thank you… Nova… for… everything." Chiro's eyes started to close.

"No… No! Chiro! Oh please Chiro no! You have to stay awake!" Nova yelled.

"Nova… tell everyone… good-bye for me… and… that I… love… them." Chiro's eyes closed. Nova screamed in horror as Chiro's body fell limp, and the boys breathing stopped.
"GIBSON!" Nova screamed.

Gibson's eye widened and he sprinted for the two.
Gibson kneeled down next to the two and put his two fingers on Chiro's neck. His eyes widened.
"Get him to the robot! NOW!' Gibson ordered.

The monkey team had finished off the formless and quickly followed their blue brothers ordered.

-Back at the robot-

It had been an hour all ready. After the team had brought Chiro back and put the foot cruiser 1 and torso tank back on the robot, they took Chiro to the med bay.

Everyone except for Gibson was suppose to wait outside.

Antauri was meditating in front of the door, his eyes opening every 2 minutes to look at the door.

Otto was hugging a little green money doll that Chiro got him while ago while he stared at the door.

Sprx was passing back and forth, stopping every 5 minutes to stare at the door, then to Nova, then back to passing.

Nova was silent as she shacked back and forth. The image of Chiro's limp form was still in her mind.

Sprx stared at Nova again, but his attention was drawn to a small envelope that sat on Nova's round chair. Sprx walked up to it and picked it up.

He read the front and glanced at Nova.

"Hey Nova." Sprx said softly.

Nova slowly turned her head to the red monkey, really not in the mood for one of his stupid comments.

"What." She hissed.

"This is for you." Sprx said, handing her the note. Nova blinked in surprise and slowly took the envelope from Sprx's hands.

"Chiro… gave this to me before the attack." Nova whispered.

Nova slowly opened the small envelope and took out the yellow paper that was folded in side. She un-folded the paper and stared at the words that it held

Dear Nova,

Hi. I'm not sure if you've ever heard of this holiday, but its called Mothers day. It's a day for a kid to show their mom how much they love their moms. I've never known the love of a mom, and I was thinking, maybe the times I spend with you is what it is like. I understand if you don't feel the same and feel awkward reading this letter. But I just needed to get it out. The monkey team is my family, you're my family Nova. The only person who I could ever even think about calling, Mom. And I'm thankful for that. I truly am.

Thanks mom.

Love,

Chiro

Nova was bawling by the end of the letter. Sprx had to finish the letter for her since her eyes had blurred from her tears.

"Chiro…" she sobbed. Nova blinked when she felt something else in the letter.

She put her hand inside and pulled out a necklace with a silver locket at the end.

"Nova" was written on the front of the locket, and Chiro was written on the back.

Nova's fingers fumbled for the opened and she gasped at what was inside.

It was a picture of Nova and Chiro. Chiro was sleeping peacefully, with a happy smile as his head laid on Nova's lap, who was smiling caringly down at Chiro.

Nova cried. She cried for 1-hour straight, as Sprx hugged her and rubbed her back, trying to calm her down.

At the end of that hour, a familiar blue monkey appeared from the med bay. The monkey team rose to their feet, praying that what their brother said would not be bad news.

A small smiled appeared on Gibson's face.
"He's going to be fine." He announced. "He lost a lot of blood, but the wound was easy to close up. A couple days of rest, and he should be back to normal."

Nova smiled happily, tears of joy running down her face.

"Can we see him?' Otto asked, squeezing his stuff monkey close to his chest. Gibson nodded, and the monkey team entered the sick back to see Chiro, lying on the surgery table. His shoulder was bandaged up and his face had gained a little color.

The monkey team surrounded the table, worry in all of their eyes.

The monkey team stayed with Chiro, for almost the rest of the night.

"I think we should get to rest Monkey team." Antauri announced.

"But-" Otto was about to protest when Gibson said.

"Antauri's right Otto, we too need our rest."

Otto sighed. "Okay." Otto took one last look at Chiro, then down at his monkey. Otto quickly rushed to Chiro's side and placed the stuffed animal in Chiro's arms.

"There, now he can have a nice happy dream." Otto nodded with confidence before he exited the room. Sprx stared at Chiro and frowned.
"Get better soon Kid," Sprx said, rustling Chiro's hair before he too left.

Gibson looked at Nova and Antauri. "Is it safe to assume that you two will be staying here?"

Antauri and Nova nodded.

Gibson smiled and nodded as well, before he left the med bay.

Antauri turned back to Chiro, and began to run his fingers through his hair.

Nova held onto Chiro's hand as she followed what Antauri was doing.

Chiro smiled softly in his sleep.

"Dad… Mom." He murmured.

Antauri and Nova blinked in surprise, but soon smiled at their "son"

-The next day-

Chiro felt stiff, his body was sore and his throat was dry. He slowly opened his eyes and looked around. His vision was blurry so he couldn't see very well. Only a blob of Yellow and Silver.

Chiro's vision cleared and eye blinked.

Nova and Antauri were fast asleep next Chiro.

Chiro was lost for words as he stared at the two, but almost cried when he saw the silver locket around Nova's neck.

He smiled happily, but winced in pain. Oh yeah… his shoulder.

Chiro looked at Nova.

It was worth it.

"Chiro!" a voice gasped. Chiro looked at his left to see a smiling Antauri.
"An…" Chiro coughed, his voice felt scratchy and dry.

Antauri reached across the table and grabbed a cup of water.
"Here."

Chiro took the cup with a smile and slowly began to drink it.
"Better?"

Chiro nodded. Antauri's voice woke up the sleeping Nova and she cried with joy.
"Your okay!' she exclaimed, wrapping her arms around the boys neck and hugging him.

Chiro blushed, and slowly hugged back.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Chiro smiled, he blinked at the green stuffed toy in his hands and smiled. "Otto."

"Don't ever scare me like that again!" Nova scolded, snapping Chiro out of his daze.

"S-Sorry." He whispered softly. Nova's eyes softened and she hugged Chiro again.

"I thought I lost you." She whispered in his ear. "I couldn't…. I couldn't live with out my little boy."

Chiro's eyes widened and tears formed in his eyes.
"I-I'm not… little." Chiro stuttered, trying to force the tears back.

Antauri smiled and hugged Chiro as well.
"Chiro, if you ever do that again, I will tickle you till you need to go to the hospital." Antauri threatened playfully as he rustled his "son's" hair.

Chiro blushed and slowly nodded. "I'll keep that in mind…Dad."

"You better." Nova whispered.

"Sorry I made you worry like that… thanks for staying by me though… mom." Chiro smiled happily at the word.

"Chiro!" a familiar green robot cheered as he came bounding into the room. He cheered when he saw the three hugging and ran to join them.
"Glad to have ya back kid." Sprx said, folding his arms.

"Yes, indeed." Gibson smiled.

"Come here you two." Nova said, motioning for the blue and red monkey to join the hug.

"Please, scientist do not-" Gibson paused when he saw the happy tears in Chiro's eyes.

Gibson and Sprx looked at each other, then back at 4.

They sighed in defeat, and joined along in the family hug.

Chiro: …I almost died…

Allie: Yup ^_^

Chiro: I almost died! How could you do that to me!

Allie: Hey, hey, hey. The key word, is "Almost"

Chiro: … I hate you

Allie: I know you do, but hey. You got a big family moment there at the end.

Chiro: *Blushes* Y-Yeah.

Allie: Awe how cute ^_^

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