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Gidget smiled and looked up at the team as they started to walk towards the city. "You know guys we've really had kinda long day, and if it's all right with you, I think me and Geni will just stay here for the night." Otto's normally happy faced dropped into a look of pure, brokenhearted despair.
"You don't want to go with us to see the city?" he asked in a little voice, flaunting his biggest puppy dog eyes.
Gidget smiled sweetly. "Oh no, Otto I do, it's just..." she bit her lip briefly before continuing. "It's just Geni is so tired and if she doesn't go to sleep soon she will be cranky all day tomorrow." Gidget squeezed Geni close to her side as her sister gave a quick glare up at Gidget, and started to yawn. "If you guys could just show us where we can sleep…"
Otto sighed dejectedly. "Fine if you're not going then I don't want to go either, I just really wanted to go to introduce you guys to all our friends." Gidget looked sadly at Otto.
"No, no you guys go on." Gidget quickly countered while waving the team away. "I don't want to make you all miss out on the fun, me and Geni are literally just beat."
Chiro smiled as he spoke to the team while leading the girls back inside the Super Robot. "You know what guys, it's okay. I'll stay here too so Otto can have someone to talk to."
"We all will." Nova said while crossing her arms. "We don't all need to be out there celebrating when we haven't even done anything yet, this war is far from over." She looked back over her shoulder as she spoke to see if anyone would question her, but Sparx just shrugged and as everyone mumbled something about certainly not going by themselves. Chiro led the team back into the Super Robot after they said good-bye to their allies and then showed Gidget and Geni the way to the sleeping quarters.
"I'm really sorry that I made you guys miss out on all the fun," Gidget said as she picked up her sister and carried her through the Robot, "but Geni is really tired." As if on cue, Geni yawned again and snuggled into her sister's shoulder as they walked down the hall.
"It's o.k. Meteor," Sparx said "you've both had a big day. Besides you have to take care of the little Princess here." He gently laid his hand on Gidget's back and Nova felt a familiar pang of jealousy arise in her.
She just trying to get you guys out of the robot. Her mind whispered quietly, as she tried to mentally wave the voice away. She was just feeling jealous because Gidget was another female monkey and after years being the only girl for so long, it was weird suddenly having another around. Or she's bad news, don't trust her…the voice whispered again as Nova shook her head in defiance. But for some reason she still couldn't shake the feeling that not all was as it seemed with the new girls.
They arrived at the only spare room in the robot and opened the door, causing cobwebs to dislodged and float slowly to the ground. The room was completely bare except for the pipes jutting from the ceiling and a single sleep capsule in the room. The fine layer of dust that settled on everything told the observant that this room had not been used in a while.
"Sorry we only have one extra bed," Chiro said as he flipped on the light and tried clean up a bit. "We never expected to have extra monkeys over."
Gidget shook her head and smiled. "It's okay. Truth be told we really don't need two of those sleep tubie things. I hate small spaces, I'm a bit claustrophobic and if I had to sleep in that thing I would have heart attack." She nodded towards the capsule.
"Well what kind of sleeping quarters do you want then?" Gibson inquired as Gidget grinned widely and asked one question.
"Do you guys have any cargo net?"
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Jinmay volunteered to go get the net out of the cargo bay and Chiro piped up that he would go with her, he wanted to talk to her in private after all. Chiro felt like she was mad at him for something, but he really couldn't figure out why yet, though he did have a guess. After they had walked down the hall in silence for a few minutes, he attempted to break the ice.
"So what do you think Gidget wants with the net?" He asked to no avail, Jinmay simply kept on walking. Chiro sighed quickly before just trying the direct approach. "Is there something wrong?" He asked simply.
"You sure do have a lot of girl fans." Jinmay said with a quick look back at him before she started to walk faster. Chiro blinked a moment in surprise before jogging to catch up to her.
"Is that what you're mad about?" Chiro questioned her as he ran up beside his girlfriend. "Jinmay come on, trust me they don't mean a thing to-"
"I'm not worried about them meaning anything to you." She snapped with a sudden glare. "Why would you assume I thought they meant something more to you than allies?"
Chiro sighed as he ran his hands quickly through his hair. "Then I don't get why you are upset by them."
"I'm upset because you didn't tell me about them." Jinmay snapped while turning around to face him.
"That's it?" Chiro asked in disbelief as Jinmay groaned loudly before turned around and walking away again.
"Is that it?" she echoed angrily while throwing her hands in the air. "Chiro, you have an entire army of women-"
"I wouldn't say 'entire army'-" Chiro interrupted, but that hardly fazed Jinmay while she was in full-blown rant stage.
"-out there who are willing to die for you-"
"They're doing to for the team-"
"- and all you can say is 'that's it?' Chiro do you have any idea how that makes me feel knowing that all these girl care that much for you?" Jinmay finally stopped walking away from him and turned to face him. They were both almost screaming now and Chiro finally noticed Jinmay had tears in the corners of her eyes. "Jeez," she sighed while rubbing her face with her hand, "do you even care how seeing all those girls throw themselves at you makes me feel-" Chiro stopped her mid sentence by sweeping her into his arms and planting a kiss firmly on her lips. After a few seconds of silence he stood backed and looked her directly in the eye.
"Hey now, if I knew that it would bother you this much I would have told you." He pulled her close and hugged her. "It's not that I was hiding them from you, it's just that they obviously didn't mean enough to me to tell you about them." Jinmay sniffed while gently shaking her head.
"No you told me about them," she stated while wiping the tears from her eyes. "You just never told me to what extent they idolized you. I mean come on, no girlfriend wants to hear about how their boyfriend is the 'savior' of all these other girls-"
"Hey," he spoke gently while interrupting her. "I mean it, they mean nothing to me. You save a girl once and they automatically want you to marry them, that's one of the disadvantages to being a superhero." He said with a shrug as Jinmay chuckled lightly. "Honestly I would done the same thing if they were men so that's hardly why I save people. I mean that's what heroes are supposed to do, defeat the corrupt bad guys, rescue damsels in distress, it's not my fault that this is just one of the many burdens of being one of the good guys."
"You honestly want me to believe you consider girls flocking to you a 'burden' of saving the universe?" Jinmay raised her eyebrows. "Nice try."
Chiro laughed loudly. "Okay, maybe it's not a complete disadvantage, but I mean that's how we met." He kissed her lightly on the forehead before bringing her closer to him. "But I am being completely, honestly serious when I say that you're the only girl for me."
Jinmay snorted and placed her head on his shoulder. "Goof-ball." She said softly while lingering in his embrace a moment longer. "All right, let's go get that net, everyone is probably wondering what's taking us so long." They smiled at each other before continuing to walk down the hallway, now hand-in-hand, to the cargo hold.
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Nova was pacing around her room mumbling to herself when she heard the knock on her door. After deciding not to join in the festivities, everyone had kinda gone their own ways, only Genesis, Gidget, Otto, and Antauri stayed in the room to wait for Chiro and Jinmay to return. Gibson said he had some tests to run before tomorrow, he was still trying to help Captain Shuggazoom regain consciousness since the poor guy hadn't woken up yet, and Sparx said he had wanted to practice his aim for tomorrow while Chiro and Jinmay went to get the net and hopeful talk, Nova thought to herself. Nova could tell Jinmay had wanted to talk with Chiro, probably about his girls' problems', as Jinmay put it. And speaking of people with relationship problems…
She collapsed on her bed and tried to sort out her own thoughts on Sparx. I mean jeez, just a few days ago she had told him she loved him.
I thought you said 'you only cared for him.' The voice who she was really starting to get tired of hearing spoke up, and yes she had said that but after Gidget came… Ugh! Why did everything come back to that new purple primate. Nova had previously had no intention of going away with Sparx after the war before she came, but now… now she was really considering it. And was it simply that she was just jealous of Gidget, or was there something else off about her? Nova didn't think she could trust Gidget for some reason, but she couldn't put her finger on why, something just felt wrong about her suddenly showing up.
Or maybe you really are just jealous of her, did you ever consider that? She is taking an awful lot of Sparx's attention away from you... Nova grabbed a pillow off her bed and slammed it against her face in frustration before jumping back up and pacing the room until the knock came.
"Come in." She called as she walked around the room. Sparx walked in and she felt her heart rate begin to pick up speed, though she couldn't figure out for the life of her why.
"Hey, beautiful." He smirked while leaning against the wall and simultaneously causing her face to redden with anger. She hated when he called her stuff like that.
"What do you want Sparx?" She snapped while sitting down on her bed. "I'm tired and unless you have something important you wanna say, get out."
"Actually, I do." he said, pushing himself off the wall. Nova gulped thinking he was gonna bring up leaving again, but his next question caught her off guard. "What do you think of Gidget?"
Nova sighed and laid back down on her bed, looking up at the ceiling. "I don't know, to be completely honest, but I kinfa feel like something might off about her." Yeah, that and I practically hate her guts and she hasn't been here for a day yet.
"Oh," Sparx said while slowly nodding. "I guess you could say it that way." Nova leaned up on her elbows and looked at him.
"What would you say about her?" She asked while arching her eyebrows.
"Well I don't know, I guess I really just think she's pretty similar to Otto is all." Sparx replied with a shrug while Nova sat up again and looked at Sparx interestingly.
"Really? Where did you get that from?" Nova couldn't see the similarities at all, except that the two of them seemed to have their own sort of language and an obsessive love for food.
"Oh Gibson's noticed it too, I talked to him before I came to you." Sparx explained while taking a step closer to her. "We both think it's actually kinda frightening how similar they are."
Nova just shrugged while laying back down and looking at the ceiling "Well I personally don't see it at all."
"How can you not? They're both mechanics who have a similar thinking process, they're both kinda odd if not straight out crazy, they are kinda spacey, and they both get pretty dang excited about the weirdest stuff. They're creepy similar." Sparx twiddled his fingers for emphasis as Nova thought about it a little more. Okay so maybe Sparx and Gibson were on to something and they were really similar, except for the fact that Nova loved Otto and hated Gidget.
"Yeah, I still don't really see it." Nova sat up and stretched her arms above her head. "What does this have to do with anything?"
"I don't know." Sparx said while looking down at his feet. "Just wanted to see if you noticed it, I guess." They sat in silence for a few awkward seconds before Sparx spoke again. "Nova…" He focused intently on his feet as Nova swore his cheeks actually grew even pinker.
"Yeah Sparx?" She took a deep breath, this was the conversation she had been waiting for, so why wasn't she excited?
"You know that thing I asked you about right before Gidget crashed here?" He finally looked her in the eyes and she was sure he was blushing now.
"Yeah. What about it?" She could feel her heart beating faster as she leaned forward slightly.
"I just wanted to let you know that it was a joke."
Nova stared blankly at Sparx as he twiddled his fingers in front of his chest, waiting a response. "...What?" she finally managed to get out.
"It was a joke, I was kidding around." Sparx replied as he started to crack a grin. "Got you good, huh?"
Nova blinked a few times processing what he had just said. She was gonna kill him.
"Sparx you stuck-up, idiotic, piece of scrap metal!" She screeched at him as she jumped off her bed and stomped towards him, her fists already transformed. Sparx did one of his devilish smiles while winking.
"Why? Come on what's wrong Babe, you didn't really think I was being serious, did you?" He backed out of the room and Nova stood just inside to the threshold, glaring. "Yeah the Kid dared me to do something crazy before the battle and that's what I decided to do. "Sure got you, huh?" He smiled nervously while cringing, he fully expected her to knock him through the wall for this. She looked like she was going to explode, he had done stuff like this before, but never to this extent, never something this...cruel. She started to say something, but then just slammed the door in his face without a word instead. Well, she slammed it about as much as you could slam an automatic door. Nova let out one anguished scream of anger before punching her door with fist, denting it significantly. She pulled her fist back to hit again, but just flexed her hand a few times instead before transforming her weapons back to their normal form. She grabbed her head while leaning against the door before sliding down to the ground and bringing her knees up to her chest, but she didn't cry, she refused to cry. I hate him I hate him I hate him! She screamed at herself. But I won't waste my tears on him.
Sparx turned around and went to his room closing the door quietly behind him. He threw his hands up in frustration and grabbed his own head while yelling You idiot! You idiot! Why the heck did you do that for?! Idiot! over and over to himself. He finally sat down and leaned his back up against the wall while pulling his knees up close to his chest and just sat there with his arms wrapped around him. He did this every time, Why was he so afraid to start a relationship with her? It wasn't because of Gidget, was it? No she was cute, and she was obviously a natural behind the wheel even if she didn't want to admit to, but he didn't love her, definitely nowhere near how much he loved Nova.
You do this every time, you selfish jerk. He thought hatefully to himself. You'll be lucky if she ever speaks to you again!
"Good." He suddenly whispered out loud. "I would just end up hurting her again if we got into a relationship anyways. I'm helping her in the long run." He made a fist and punched the ground in anger once while cursing himself out in his head. "She'll thank me one day for this, even if I end up hating myself for the rest of my life, at least she'll be happy."
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Chiro and Jinmay walked into room just as Otto was telling an enthralled Gidget and Geni, "And then this huge tentacle monster with ginormous teeth started to attack us..." Chiro and Jinmay exchanged a glance before looking to Antauri for an explanation.
"Bedtime stories." Antauri explained from the spot where he was leaning against the wall. Gidget was sitting on the edge of Geni's bed, Geni had the cover pulled up to her neck, both were watching Otto with big eyes.
Otto turned around and smiled. "Hey Chiro, hey Jinmay! you guys got the net?" They held it up between the two of them.
Gidget lightly touched Otto's arm. "What happened next?" She blushed quickly before adding, "G-Geni really wants to know."
Otto smiled at her. "I'll tell you the rest tomorrow."
"What exactly are you planning to do with this?" Chiro asked while handing the net to Gidget. She just smiled in return before scanning the ceiling for a second and spotting what she wanted. She jumped onto a pipe and tied her side up while tossing the other end down to Otto.
"Care to give a lady a hand with the other side?" She asked with a grin while securing her own side.
"Sure." Otto said as he jumped up on another pipe and made sure to tie the other end up tightly. They both jumped off after they were done to survey their work.
"There," Gidget said dusting off her hands and throwing them up like a show girl displaying a new car. "I call it; The Insta-bed!"
"That doesn't look very comfortable." Chiro stated while looking at it from the underside.
"Oh it is!" Gidget explained while jumping up on it and relaxing. "It's like sleeping on a cloud, and I don't feel confided at all." Chiro just nodded, while he got where she was coming from, he would still prefer his good old bed any day. "Well if you guys don't mind, I got to put Genesis to bed." Gidget said while sitting back up and jumping off the hammock. She then looked down nervously while playing with her tail. "She likes it when I sing her to sleep." She blushed profusely.
Otto tilted his head to the side, "We can't listen?" He asked genuinely.
Gidget turned an even darker shade of red, and shook her head furiously, "No way. I'm not even that good of a singer."
"Come on team," Antauri said while leading the team out the door, "Let us leave Gidget and Genesis to get some well deserved rest, as we should do ourselves. If you should need anything else, do not hesitate to ask, Gidget."
The team said their goodbyes and lingered behind just long enough to hear Gidget start to singing softly. It wasn't bad, not the best voice they had ever heard, but not bad.
"I'm still bummed out that Gidget didn't want to go to the city with us." Otto said sadly while kicking at the floor. "There was so much I wanted to show her, like Hover-burgers and milk shakes and stuff."
"It's okay Otto," Chiro said patting his back gently and leading him down the hall, "How about we play some video games till we want to go to sleep tonight." Otto perked up at that prospect and smiled widely.
"Okay! Let's play a racing game!" He cheered as he and Chiro ran towards the main room, Jinmay and Antauri lagged behind for a moment.
"Do you not wish to join them?" He asked Jinmay as she shook her head and response.
" No, I think I'm gonna talk with Nova for a little bit before heading home." Antauri nodded in reply as she walked towards Nova's room. "Good night, Antauri."
"Good night, Jinmay." He called after her as she turned the corner heading to Nova's room. Antauri lingered in the hall way a moment longer before turning around and walking back towards Gidget's room. He settled on standing just to the left of the doorway, waiting patiently for her to walk out like he suspected she would. She emerged a few minutes later with her head down, not even noticing Antauri standing beside the doorway. She rubbed her face with her hands as he spoke. "You do not look that tired if you were to question me." She shot her head up, finally seeing him and managing to smile weakly.
"No, I guess I don't." She said with a shrug. "What can I do for you Antauri? I was just gonna go to the restroom real quick, but if you wanna scan my brain to see if you can gather anymore information about me and Genesis, be my guest" She smiled, trying to make it a joke but Antauri solemnly shook his head.
"No I will not be attempting to read anyone else's minds for a while, with or without their permission." Gidget's smile dropped as he spoke. "How about instead, you tell me why you really didn't want to go to the city."
She clinched her fist and turned her head down. "I think you already know that, even without reading my mind. You seem very observant, Antauri."
Antauri shook his head, "I could not read it even if I wished, your mind is like a maze, at every turn another mental mind block appears, making it impossible to navigate." He took a more authoritative stance while crossing his arms in front of his chest. "The emotions you display are just as vague and confusing as your memories. While I can tell there is another motive to your hesitation, I do not know what that motive is."
Gidget stared intently at the floor before speaking. "Sometimes you have to keep you mind completely blocked off just to make your private thoughts yours."
"Who are you trying to keep out?" Antauri asked while taking a small step closer to her.
Gidget shook her head, "I don't know, but every time I try to think of them…" she shivered, grabbing her arms and absent-mindedly rubbing them. "I can't even think of them. My mind's wall keeps pushing me back from discovering things I want to know. Or at least I think I want to know them, maybe it's doing me a favor by keeping me out."
"Is it?" he raised an eyebrow while looking Gidget directly in the face. "Is keeping yourself from remembering your past saving you or are you simply delaying the inevitable?"
"The inevitable what?" Gidget suddenly snapped before backing down meekly. "Sorry."
"You are forgiven." he said simply. "And you are delaying something that you cannot stop, Gidget."
"Which is?" She asked with more control this time.
"Your past." Antauri asked while locking eyes with her. "You cannot out run it forever, Gidget, especially if it is chasing after you. For the safety of my team, my family, I have to know if you are dragging more demons into this war." He spoke seriously not harshly, but what he said next cut her like a knife. "And if not for their sakes then your own and your sister's."
"Are you questioning my motives?" Gidget snapped back while inching closer, "Or my ability to take care of my sister?" She locked eyes with Antauri, standing her ground, but Antauri just stood there with his arms crossed, not saying anything. "Because I promise you, I am not intentionally trying to cause harm to your family, just as I am not trying to harm my own. As for my past, if it is as horrible as I think it is by the indication of thepure amount of effort I have obviously put in to forget about it, then maybe I have every right to want to get as far away from it as I can and continue to try to put as much distance between me and Geni and that...place."
She was at a loss for words to describe it, so she simply let out an exasperated sigh while pacing around. "And trust me, the moment we can find away off this planet, me and Geni will be out of your hair." She glanced at Antauri's smooth metal skin. "No, pun intended. I have no intention of helping you fight this war, I have my own family to think about and you do too. If you are really worried about anything that might be following us, then I suggest you help us leave as quickly as possible, then we can both get back to fighting our own demons without having to worry about anymore showing up."
Gidget finally stopped long enough to catch her breath after her harsh rant. She sighed again, this time more sad than upset, and rubbed a hand over her face and her broken spike. Finally she looked back up at the silver simian standing silently still and looking back at her, she wrapped her arms around her chest. "You don't believe me? You don't think I'm telling the truth,?" she questioned him while taking a few steps closer. "Or do you simply not trust me?" Again, nothing from the silent simian. Gidget just shook her head and uttered something that was not quite a laugh, it sounded much to cruel and shaky to be a laugh. "Go ahead, I don't care. I know the other girl, Nova right? I know she doesn't like or trust me either. Obviously people around here have enough faith in you to not worrying about hiding their thoughts."
Antauri finally adjusted himself and looked at Gidget. "They do not hide their thoughts from me because they do not need to. And I don't know what I think about you yet Gidget, but I do know now why you did not want to see the citizens of Shuggazoom. You are afraid, for her." He nodded towards the room holding the sleeping Genesis.
Gidget tensed up for a second and then relaxed while looking away and hiding her face from view. "Like I said, this isn't my war. I don't own you anything, apparently I did you guys a huge favor without even realizing it. I have to protect her, I'm all she has and I don't want to fight in this war for you. Not when it means she could lose me, or worse."
Antauri nodded like he expected all this. "I do not know your true intentions, I do not know where you are from, why you are running, or who could be chasing you, but I can tell this much: " He walked towards Gidget and placed his hand on her shoulder gently and realized how badly she was shaking.
"I can tell you have a good heart, Gidget, you and Genesis both, and if you saw our people, if you saw what we are fighting for, you would want to fight too." She started to shake even harder as Antauri gently turned her to face him, her tears spilling down her cheeks. "I know you fear for your own safety and that of your sister's and I understand, because I fear it too. Not just for you or my team, but for all of Shuggazoom, all the universe." Gidget gently shook her head.
"I'm sorry but I can't let anything happen to her, and I can't let anything happen to me because of her. Who would take care of her if I was gone?" Gidget looked up into Antauri's eyes with sorrow in her own. He slowly shook his head in response.
"I will not say that no one is asking you to fight, because that would not be the truth, that is exactly what we are asking of you. But I promise that if you really wish to leave, to not get involved any more than you have, no one will make you fight in our war." In a surprising act of compassion, he gently placed his hand under Gidget's chin and tilted her head up to look at him. "But it is not because we simply want you to fight, that we have invited you to stay here, nor why I questioned you on who might be chasing you.
"We were being truthful when we said we know of no other robot monkeys in the universe, and if you are truly one of our creator's then you are family to us. If you wished, you and Genesis would be allowed to stay here with us, to join us in protecting the universe and ensuring the prevalence of Good in the world. In addition to that," He paused to allow Gidget to wipe the tears from her eyes. "Do you honestly believe we would simply abandon Genesis if something were to happened to you?" Gidget tried to shake her head, but she was shivering to hard."I am not forcing you to make your decision now, you may have all the time you need to decide what you want to do next, but I do need to know that if you wish to stay here, with us, if there could be others that arrive for you and Genesis."
Gidget violently shook her head. "I really don't know if there is, honestly there could be I suppose, but I really don't know." She sighed again before breaking out into a fit of violent shivering again. "I'm just scared…" She spoke in a tiny voice. "I saw your allies, they're not all from Shuggazoom, and anyone you have to get that many people to help you defeat, has to be bad news. I'm afraid I'm about to get into a fight that we can't win, and I don't want Genesis anywhere near here when you are defeated. I'm sorry if I doubt in your power, but I've yet to see you guys in action."
"It's completely natural to be scared," Antauri said reasonably, "Like I said, we will not make you fight if you do not want to, but there is no way for us to let you leave during this war, we simply do not have the resources available now. If you wish to leave when we are able to provide you with a way to escape, or if we are able to fix your craft, you are more than welcome to leave the moment that became available to you." He turned away from Gidget and started to walk back towards his room.
"But we could use every able hand we have to defeat him. The chances are slim but the Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go live on small probabilities. And we tend to survive on them, at the very least you can wait until the morning to give me your final decision if you have made it then, however I would suggest at least 'seeing us in action' as you put it before making your final decision. I would not run away from a chance to have a safe home just yet, if I had to make the choice." He finished what he had to say, and gave a short bow before turning the corner to go to his room. Leaving Gidget to stand there by herself to think.
OOH... we're learning more and more about Gidget and Genesis everyday! Do you guys like how I'm presenting the characters? I'm trying my best not to have any Mary-Sues in my story, am I doing good? (No, no I was not, even trying to fix it now there is no way to get around how ridiculously powerful Genesis is and she still has yet another power to be revealed. I guess it's okay cause she's really not suppose to be a main character in this book but bluh. I suppose that comes from her never really having a point in the story when I first though of this about 7 years ago, and having to make up her personality as I wrote this. Needless to say she was a pretty poorly developed character when I started, but I'm trying to make her better the second time around, hope I'm succeeding.)
Tell me what you think. I need to know! At least take my poll to tell me what you think about Gidget. (Except har-har, it's been closed for two years now so just say it in the reviews I suppose.)
Well kiddies, I'm going to bed, nighty-night!
