Escape of the Monkey Team

Several hours ago...

The Super Robot was floating lifelessly in the recently emptied space around Hades. Deactivated, malfunctioning and inoperable. Only the backdrop of the devastated planet could be seen besides the Robot. All but one of the Monkey team were gone, captured by the strange machine that had boarded earlier. The green plated cybernetic primate who was disabled by a surge of electricity which also caused the destruction of the main drive systems, was lying on the ground.

Suddenly, a giant triangular shaped starship just seemed to jump rapidly into an area of space near the Super Robot. A few moments later, the titanic ship moved close to the Robot before finally activating a tractor beam. The magnetic pull of the beam attracted the Robot and fastened it to the holding clamp on the bottom hangar of the ship.

Eventually, after a short period of silence the clamp holding the Super Robot moved along the top of the bulkhead and into the nearest open hangar bay. The hangar bay was ray shielded so that none of the atmospheric gases held inside could escape. Men wearing stark white armour were waiting in the hangar along with a few more officers dressed in the seemingly appropriate grey tunic uniforms.

A man was talking into the loud speaker in the command station of the hangar, "We are securing the hangar bay now. 231 report to docking station command."

The Super Robot was gently placed down onto an elevation storage unit.

"Sergeant is your scanning crew ready?" An officer asked another man, this time in a slightly lighter grey uniform.

"Of course captain, we'll search the entire um... ship, for any uncategorized objects and report them," he answered.

"Very good sergeant, carry on. Lieutenant come with me," the captain said leaving with a few stormtroopers and another officer.

The group that was left along with some scanning equipment, started to search for an entrance on board the Super Robot and a few moments later, they finally decided to just jump up on top and enter the hole that had opened up during the fighting.

Meanwhile within the Super Robot, Otto was beginning to wake up and after a few moans he stood up.

"Where am I? I think I dropped my dime," he said confused. He took a look at the damaged reactor and scratched his head.

"Hey, where is the rest of the Monkey Team?" He then turned on his comm device.

"Chiro, are you there? Gibson, Nova? Anybody? Hmm, they must be out for lunch," he tried signalling, but only ended it in one of his unusual ways.

Just then, Otto heard the sound of chatter entering the room, so he quickly found a pile of debris to hide behind and dove for it.

"You here something?"

"Nah?" he answered.

"So anyways where was I, oh yeah...so then I caught her flirting with this guy from the stormtrooper corp in the mess hall," a grey uniformed man said to another whilst entering the room holding a heavy sensor device.

"Then what happened?" the other asked curiously.

"Well the next day, when I was passing deck 7 heading for the bridge, I saw her leaving the armoury, and I was wondering, what the hell is a comm officer doing in the armoury. So I walked up to her and asked her what she was up to, and you know what she says to me. She says 'it's over between us'."

"That's harsh. Why'd she do that to you sarge?"

"She said that I was too uptight."

"She said that? Damn."

"And you know what's worse is that the same guy she was seeing came and threatened me, in my own quarters. You know he was like, 'keep your hands off her' and 'she's mine now, you hear?' Alright put that down here and switch it on corporal."

The sergeant then placed the device down with a hint of frustration.

"Ah forget her, she's just a nerf herder," the corporal suggested.

"Yeah I suppose you're right."

"So what do we do now?" he asked forgetting the protocol for scanning equipment, as it was his recently assigned secondary duty.

"Just flick this switch right here and come back later."

"So... you wanna get a drink? I'm buying," he offered.

"Sure, hey why not, it'll be a while before the sensors finish their scan," he said before leaving the damaged compartment and heading out the way they came in.

Otto came out from his hiding spot and figured that it wouldn't be safe to stay inside the Super Robot.

"Whew that was close. Maybe I should try to find the rest of the team," he decided and swiftly moved out of the room.

"Don't worry Super Robot, I'll be back soon enough."

Meanwhile on the Imperial Victory 2 Frigate, Tambora (which is a minimally manned Imperial starship). The rest of the Monkey Team are starting to recover from the electrical pulse wave that had deactivated them in the first place.

"Ugh, what happened? Where are we?" Chiro asked standing up and rubbing his head from within the boundaries of a ray shielded prison cell.

"I believe we have been captured by the Skeleton King's forces, but the design of this room is much different than anything I've ever seen," Gibson analyzed,observing the area within a separate cell next to Chiro's.

"Well wherever we are, they could have at least had a better paint job done," Nova commented on the room's colour being grey and dull.

"Gibson, could you tell me what kind of shield this is?" Antauri asked pointing to the shield.

"I don't know."

"That's a first," Sparx intervened with a smart comment, Gibson folded his arms.

"Well whatever it is, it won't hold me," Chiro confidently said.

Chiro then yelled, "Chiro Spiro!" and fired a bolt of lightning into the shield covering his cell, but as before it had no effect.

"It's too strong," he concluded.

"Let me see what I can do," Antauri said beginning to phase and proceeding into the shield, but no result showed that made anybody happier.

"Well that went well, don't you think you could just try shutting the power down?" Sparx said impatiently.

"Sparx just listen you... wait a minute, you might be on to something there. If you try triangulating your primary magnetic offensive manoeuvres and concentrate the fusion conduits of the forward destabilizers, then maybe you could launch a quantum reaction strike that would reverse the polarity of the main functioning switch and deactivate the shielding system," Gibson explained in a scientifically complicated manner.

"Huh?" Sparx asked extremely confused.

"Just aim at that switch and use your magnets to pull it down," Nova translated.

"Huh?"

Nova began to growl noticeably loud.

"Okay, okay. Heh heh heh."

Sparx replaced his hands with magnets and pointed them at the large bulkhead switch.

After a moment of zapping and buzzing sounds the switch finally flickered into the off position. The shields faded.

"You did it!" Nova yelled trying not to get too overexcited (secretly trying to hide her love for Sprx).

"Warning, master power switch has been deactivated," A voice sounded from the loudspeaker positioned atop a nearby blast door.

The ship swiftly dropped out of hyperspace.

On the bridge of the Tambora, Imperial Captain Stevast is in charge, but seems to be having trouble.

"What happened commander?" he asked Commander Yatokah, stationed in a seat to the right of him.

"We've lost all power to the main systems. The energy reactors, sensors, weapons and hyperdrive sytems are down."

"Go to emergency power Lieutenant."

"Yes sir," the officer responded.

"Commander, come with me immediately. I think I know what the problem is," he ordered. Yatokah, a few stormtroopers and several technicians followed Stevast out of the main control room and into the main power generator room.

The Captain looked around and saw that the prisoners had escaped. He raised his comm link.

"All security teams, be on the lookout for several small droids and a young boy that have escaped. They are armed and very dangerous," he yelled.

"I knew we should have stationed some guards out here, but no, you had to do it the standard way," the Commander complained.

"There's no time for this now commander, now report back to the bridge and take us back into hyperspace once the technicians are finished here. I will deal with this," he demanded.

"Yes, Captain Stevast," Yatokah acknowledged and then walked away heading back towards the bridge.

Antauri, Gibson, Chiro, Nova and Sparx are hiding behind a few odd boxes in what looked to them like a small hangar bay.

"I wonder what happened to Otto," Gibson said trying to remember what might have happened to the green plated monkey who was last heard from in the Super Robot.

"Well wherever he is, I'm sure he's doing alot better than we are. Oh wait, never mind," Sparx answered with a hint of humor in it. Nobody else noticed.

"Never mind that, let's just try to secure our own freedom from this vessel first," Antauri moved the topic back to the current situation.

"How do you know it's a spaceship? For all we know, we could be in a madman's hamster cage back on Suggazoom," Sparx said giving his references.

"Well, for one thing, there's a small transport over there..." Antauri explained.

"...And you can see the stars outside that viewport..." Gibson continued.

"...Plus there's a..."

"Alright I get it," Sparx gave up.

"Do you think you can pilot that thing Sparx?" Nova asked pointing at the Imperial Lamda Shuttle.

"Are you kidding? I can fly anything, even a pile of junk like that," he replied enthusiastically.

"Hey, look. Guards," Nova pointed towards the squad of white armoured stormtroopers that were moving into the hangar.

"We'd better be very quiet if were going to avoid being detected," Antauri explained.

Two stormtroopers were left behind by the squad to guard the transport.

"Do you know what's going on?" one of them asked the other.

"I think it's another drill. I hate drills," the other replied.

The Monkey Team quickly sneaked around them and ran up the boarding ramp.

"Hey, you seen that new TC-16?" he asked with another question.

"Yeah I heard some of the guys on the Death Star talking about it, I heard it's, quite the sight to see," he answered.

Sparx then quickly jumped out and pulled a face at them, then Nova's arm pulled him back onboard.

"Hey what was that?" the stormtrooper asked and then they both turned around to face the shuttle.

"Let's check it out."

The stormtroopers walked towards the shuttle, but before they could board, the boarding ramp closed.

"What the... Wait hold on," the stormtrooper raised his comm link, "Command station, did you clear a shuttle to depart from the hangar bay?"

"What?" the man on the bridge came back.

"Oh never mind, just blast it!" the other stormtrooper yelled to the other.

"Are you sure?" the other enquired, but instead of anwering it, just decided to aim his blaster and fire at the shuttle which was powering up it's engines.

Sparx was sitting in the left seat trying to steer the ship into a position where it could exit the hangar.

"Are you sure you know how to fly this thing Sparx?" Nova asked curiously sitting in the co-pilot's seat.

"Um, sure. It's just like Fist Rocket 3, um... sort of," he replied nervously looking at the controls.

Antauri and Chiro were getting into the gunnery stations.

Gibson was hanging around in the back of the shuttle... too busy being fascinated by the Imperial technology.

"Amazing, a new hyperdrive propulsion system designed to travel through a form of interstellar dimensional space," he said to himself with love hearts in his eyes.

"Those guys don't look too happy that we're stealing their ship," Nova said pointing outside the cockpit viewscreen. A large squad of stormtroopers plus a few officers were firing their blasters at the spacecraft as it was beginning to rise from the platform it was very well placed on.

"Don't worry, we'll handle it. You set Antauri?" Chiro asked pressing a few buttons to activate the weapon systems.

"Yes. Now fire as soon as your weapons come online," he answered compensating with the stormtroopers movements outside.

Then on the outside of the shuttle, two blaster turrets appeared from a few small hatches and started firing at the white armoured men.

Some of them dropped to the ground, but the remaining ones continued to volley the ship with more blast bolts.

"Damnit!" the Captain yelled pulling out his comm link yet again. "Commander, get some gunners to the primary blaster towers immediately. I think we're gonna need them."

"One of those engines are malfunctioning. Otto I need you to... Oh yeah. Never mind, I think I can handle this," Sparx said clearly remembering why Otto was a necessity to the team.

Once the shuttle was fully airborne, Sparx wasted no time in hovering the shuttle straight out of the pressurisation shield of the hangar bay and flying it out away from the small frigate.

Back on the bridge, the captain was on the long range comms, "Admiral, this is an emergency. We require immediate assistance in a situation here."

Gibson walked into the cockpit of the shuttle and set himself up in the sensor station, but before he could give a tactical analysis of the area, a sudden eruption of heavy blaster fire could be heard behind them.

"Gibson, get that hyperdrive working and get us out of here," Chiro ordered to the blue monkey.

The shuttle shook with turbulence, even as Sparx adjusted their course.

Eventually, the shuttle came out of the firing range of the Tambora and moved away heading towards a nebula cloud.

"Gibson, hurry up and get those coordinates set already," Sparx sat impatiently waiting for Gibson to figure out how to work the navi computer.

"Well, at least that's over," Nova sighed in relief.

"I wouldn't say that," Antauri countered watching a large triangular shaped Imperial Star Destroyer come out of Hyperspace just ahead of them.

"What!? That one's even bigger than the last one!" Sparx yelled reflexing the shuttle to turn in a different direction.

"Alright, the coordinates are set, jump now," Gibson called out.

"Here we go!"

Sparx pushed down on the lever that he figured would be the hyperdrive. The shuttle emitted a strange powering down/coughing sound coming from the engines.

"No we don't," Nova added.

"Quick Gibson, go check the engines and try to fix them."

"But I don't know how to repair them. This is different technology we're dealing with here. Only Otto would know how to..."

"Otto's not here. You're a big nerd, you can figure out how to fix them," he grumbled at Gibson.

"Nerd? Why you no good piece of worthless..."

"Alright, rap it up guys. Come on Gibson, I'll help you out. Let's go," Nova interrupted knowing what was about to happen as it was a common factor aboard the Super Robot.

Antauri and Chiro glared at Sparx.

"What are you staring at?" he questioned looking back.

"Sparx watch out!" Chiro yelled to Sparx who seemed distracted.

"Huh? Ohh scrap metal!" he yelled taking evasive manoeuvres. Outside the viewscreen was a small group of Tie fighters trying to attack the shuttle.

A small dogfight was carried out for a while between Chiro and Antauri against any fighters that crossed their firing zone. Gibson and Nova then finally returned from supposedly repairing the damaged engine.

"The engine has been restored to full power. It's now or never," Gibson explained sitting back in the sensor station seat.

"Took you long enough! Alright, here we go," Sparx complied by moving the hyperdrive thrusters forward.

The Tie fighters closed in behind them preparing to destroy the shuttle.

"We have you now!" the squadron leader claimed inside the lead fighter.

Suddenly a large powering up sound filled the shuttle. The stars in the foreground zoomed past them creating lines of light and eventually a swirling blue alternate space could be viewed ahead of them.

They had finally escaped.

Back on the starship Tambora, Captain Stevast was sitting in his seat looking disappointed and slightly anxious. He knew what was going to happen now.

"Sir, we're receiving a transmission from the Starship Executor. Shall I patch it through?" a crewman informed.

Stevast hesitated for a few moments. Finally he gave his answer, "Do it."

The crewman pressed a few buttons. A holographic man appeared; Lord Vader.

"Captain Stevast. Are you ready to escort the detainees to my location?"

"The... prisoners have escaped my Lord, Th... They have escaped in an Imperial shuttle... I've... um, got a routing signal, just give me a few minutes and...."

Vader held his hand out and it seemed to be squeazing the air and as he did, Stevast threw his hands on his throat and grasped at the force that was beginning to suffocate him.

"I have no time for excuses Captain. Commander Yakotah."

"Yes my lord," he replied trying not to get distracted by the strange noises that Stevast was attempting to make.

"I want you to deploy any ships under your command to send out probe droids to scan the surrounding systems for any signs of them. You are in command now Captain Yakotah."

"Thank you my lord. I shall," he acknowledged turning to face Stevast's lifeless body falling to the ground.

The hologram faded and Yakotah signalled to one of the crewmembers to remove Stevast's body from the room.

Alright, not such a great chapter either, but still worth a shot. Actually that was a really long chapter too, I probably should have shortened it down a bit or made it into two seperate chapters, oh well. I'm still brushing up on my SRMTHG knowledge as well, so bare with me okay. I'll try to continue writing some more later. Don't stop reading, this migh get interesting. I know though, I should have marked this as an X - over.

Review it if you want.