Ch.3: The Birth of the Skull
With each straining breath Sparks knew he was being dragged closer and closer to his doom. The open bat's jaws seemed ready to shallow Sparks whole if he got to close.
Wrapping his tail around a protuding stalagmite Sparks was able to prevent himself from being dragged any further. Bolts of electricity flew from his magnets and into the bat's open mouth. It took all of Sparks strentgh to keep his tail gripped around the stalagmite.
Finally the bat's jaws slammed shut and Sparks magnets changed back into his normal robotic hands. The sound of snoring filled the air and Sparks realized that the pedastal was sleeping.
Figuring he was safe for the moment Sparks slowly looked around the room and saw loads upon loads of writing covering up almost every wall.
"To bad Gibson's not here" thought Sparks "he'd have a blast trying to translate all this,"
Tip-toeing so he wouldn't accidently wake the pedastal Sparks started to work on trying to dechiper just what story these walls had to tell him. Things went a lot quicker thanks to Gibson's dechiper program.
He insisted they all have one just in case one member of the team ran into a strange set of symbols and had to translate their meaning in order to get to a safe zone. Sparks thought it was a piece of junk at first, but not now.
The heirogylphs were now transformed into English that made it way more easier to read.
"I got to thank Gibson for building this gizmo when I go back," said Sparks and carefully he began to read.
"Back in the dark ages the universe was ruled by anger, hate, and fear. All expressed through the abilities of one ruler; the Skeleton King. All feared his great power and even tried to run from it, but no one could ever escape."
"Those who defied the Skeleton King and his power were turned into a black oily substance and became the power source for the Skeleton King's ship; the Citadel of Bone. This ooze was also used to create terrible monsters to take over over many worlds."
"The Citadel of Bone itself was said to have a mind of it's own. Anything that dared to infiltrate it's walls were sucked in by their own anger and became trapped forever,"
"If the Skeleton King's body were ever destroyed a Crystal Skull had been formed as a sort of escape from the total darkness. Once the Crystal Skull's three esences are combined they form a heart. This heart has proven to be the Crystal Skull's weakness, but it's effect when destroyed is nothing to be desired,"
Before Sparks could read more the chamber doors swung open revealing the entrant as the Skeleton King himself. Manadarin appeared by his master's side and smiled evilly at Sparks.
"To bad you had to discover this chamber Sparks" said the Skeleton King "now I have to destroy you,"
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Back at the Super Robot Nova was screaming for everbody to wake up. The little yellow monkey was shivering in plain fright once the other members of the Monkey Team entered the control room.
"Nova" said Chiro " what's wrong?"
"I went to check on Sparks this morning" said Nova " and he was gone!"
"Maybe he's somewhere else in the Robot," said Otto.
"I looked everywhere" Nova pratically yelled " he's gone!"
"But where could he go?" said Gibson.
Nobody spoke and that's what led them to stare at Antauri. The silver monkey was looking out over the vast wasteland the Skeleton King had created during the time his dark empire rose. The dark castle standing above everything in the land.
"Skeleton King,"
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Sparks didn't know what was going on once he woke up chained to a wall in the Skeleton King's dark fortress. What had happened in that chamber only seconds before? Manadarin, that explianed.
The former leader of the Monkey Team had attacked Sparks and left the red monkey unconious. But it didn't make any sense to Sparks as to why he was still alive. Didn't the Skeleton King want him to be destroyed or did he have something more sinister in mind?
Feeling woozy Sparks slowly began to feel himself slinking back into a state of unconious, with visions of his death to follow.
