A/N: Yeah, I know, progress is slow here...
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The Increasing Weirdness
"HE SPEAKS!"
"We expected that, didn't we?"
"I didn't."
"Well we didn't expect him to be alive at all."
"Okay then, we are now in a new state of weirdness. We're young, cute, and completely freaked out! What do we do?!"
"Drink cola until we throw up!"
"Not dramatic enough."
The black monkey yawned. It had taken an extraordinary amount of strength to wait in the city long enough for them to return. This wasn't as progressive as he would have liked. He crawled over to the child, the only one not speaking, and the only one he recognised, and prodded him in the chest with a finger. The boy looked at the monkey, slightly curious, but did nothing to stop him.
The midnight primate poked Chiro again.
Chiro arched an eyebrow nervously. He hoped that he could endure it.
Darnit, that poking and the prodding with the hairy fingers was getting annoying. And slightly painful. Ow, dammit, that's going to be a bruise.
Poke. Prod. Fingers fluttering on Chiro's leg. Palm laid on his chest. Then his forehead. A frustrated monkey screech in his face. Monkey stare in the eyes.
Chiro leaned backwards a little. Antauri's little eyes are scary. Really scary. "What are you doing?" the boy said at last. After nothing but silence, "Come on, aren't you gonna say something? You talked before!"
The monkey just stared.
Chiro shrugged. "Fine, have it your way."
Sprx spoke up. "Okay, we should probably come up with a name for the fella. Too confusing otherwise."
"And I shall run some physical tests on him." Gibson said. "Just for curiosity's sake."
"We haven't figured out what to actually do with him yet." Nova pointed out.
The ebony monkey screeched at Chiro again, then turned his head and noticed the silver version of himself. Something connected to something else in his brain, and the monkey devoid of metal body parts scrambled over to the fully robotic one. The two stared at each other for a few moments, then the black monkey reached up an arm and slapped his silver counterpart.
Antauri's mouth formed a surprised 'o'. His black self slapped him again. Then he punched.
The monkey screamed and leapt onto the silver newcomer to the team. He had not seen him before. He did not recognise him. He did not belong!
The enraged primate got into a frenzy. He batted and clawed at Antauri with his hands, he spat and bit. He was angry.
Antauri looked up at the black monkey in confusion. He tried to fling him off his chest, but no such luck. What was all this on about?!
The two 'Antauri's grappled on the floor, and the black monkey's screams echoed around the Super Robot.
Yes yes, really short again but basically my life's getting pretty squished. Only four billion years until the sun blows up you know.