Part 4:

The green monkey turned around and saw that Chiro was in trouble. The hand tightened his grip on Chiro and dragged him out. Otto ran back and looked out the hole in the wall. It was one of the promotion robots from the opening of one of the shopping centers. A group of panicking engineers was trying to get the malfunctioning robot under control. Concerned for Chiro's safety, he summoned his circular saws and attacked the robot, freeing the teen from its grip. The robot short-circuited and fell. Otto cut Chiro from the robot's hand and helped him up.

"We're so sorry! The robot was off, we swear! Someone tampered with its programming!" One of the engineers said.

"Aw man! It's just like the opera house again," Chiro hissed, "Just when I was starting to unwind!"

"Let me take a look at it, "Otto offered, "We might be able to figure out what happened."

"Here," another engineer offered, giving Otto a computer disc, "This is a copy of the software from the promotion robot. The one in the robot itself is similar to ours but it can't be ours."

"We'll send these to our other computer expert."

"Once again, I'm sorry."

"It's all right. I'm fine, really." Chiro told them.

The pathway to the hot springs was immediately sealed off for repairs as Chiro and Otto went back to their room, (after Otto realized he left his helmet behind and got it) watching out for any other threats. Once back on the 15th floor. Otto went to work, looking at the discs and making a copy for Gibson to analyze as Chiro went about establishing connections with the communication tower to contact Antauri.

It was quiet in the room, not counting Chiro changing clothes. When he returned wearing a t-shirt and jeans. He sat beside Otto.

"Otto…you saved me."

Otto faced the teen, "I'd do anything for you, Chiro. You…mean a lot to me."

"…Otto." Chiro was surprised by Otto's admission.

"About the kiss…It just slipped. When I looked in your eyes-I mean, when I right in front of you-I mean, Please don't hate me!" Otto managed to say.

"Hate you?" Chiro gasped, "Otto, I love you. Why did you think I kissed you back?"

It was Otto's turn to be stunned. "B-But I thought you liked girls?"

"I thought I did, but after thinking about the break-up and everything today, I realized that I think I've always loved you. I just never thought about it until recently, when you went out of your way to cheer me up and make me feel better."

Otto's eyes sparkled, giving Chiro a big hug. Chiro hugged back rubbing his fur.

"I love you too." The green monkey smiled, nuzzling the teen, "So…does this mean we're like, boyfriends or something now?"

"If you want us to be, Otto."

Otto offered a smirk before kissing him again. He wrapped his tail affectionately around Chiro.

Chiro kissed him back before the communicator went off. It was Antauri. Otto pouted as Chiro broke off their kiss.

"This is Chiro reporting."

"I am merely checking in with you and Otto. You haven't reported back to us in three hours--"

"ANTAURI MISSES YOU!" Sprx yelled in the background.

"Quiet, Sprx!" Antauri told him.

"Aww that's sweet, Antauri. Otto and I are currently investigating a malfunctioning mecha."

"Another malfunction?"

"We think it's another attempted sabotage. We'll keep you posted if anything else comes up. In the morning, we'll be heading back to the robot. Let's hope that the robot was just a freak occurrence."

"Well, please remember to check in with us. Antauri, out."

Chiro smiled, nuzzling Otto, "How long will you be analyzing the software?"

"Actually, I'm done."

"Is anything you want to do tomorrow before heading back home?"

Otto smiled cutely before answering, "There's something I wanna show ya."

Chiro leaned forward on the chair he was in and watched Otto work, "Whoever copied this program is really good at it; they look the same."

"Yep, but there's the difference here: the firewalls are from two different programs."

"Meaning, we got two different companies."

"The one on the left side of the screen is Bio-Tech, the company that originally made the promotion robots. The one on the right is the programming that made the robot grab you. What's really weird is, the robot was programmed only scare off very specific targets…us included."

"What do we do, Otto?"

"The only thing we can do is just try to find the other defunct robots and stop them from trying to shut Zoom City down. That'll be no problem once we get home and get Gibby's tracker. Then we gotta figure out the other company trying to ruin Bio-Tech."

Chiro nodded and yawned, "Yeah…but we can't do anything without some sleep first. I'll leave the tower operating just in case there's another attack. Let's head to bed."