Planetoid Q.

Chiro's POV.

It's been about a week since the underwater adventure and me conquring my fear of water. Right now, Antauri was training Ellie and I on understand the Power Primate better, under a virtual simulation. The simulation was a large black room with green squares opening and closing paths. Kinda like a maze mainframe.

"The Power Primate is the source of your hyper abilities." He told us, "Let it guide you through the maze."

I nodded and got a head-start by leaping across a few squares. I smiled, "Hey, I love mazes. I get in, I get out."

Ellie landed behind me. Then I asked Antauri, "Is this timed, or a race? Cuz you're gonna be amazed how fast I get to the end before Ellie does."

Antauri just floated toward a large wall. The block in front of him opened like a wall. He looked back at me and Ellie, "It is good to have an end to journey toward. But it is the journey that matters in the end."

Ellie nodded in understanding. I nodded and followed the path, "If you say so."

"Chiro, don't go down-" Ellie called, but I ended up running blindly into a wall, "That path..."

I landed on a panel and it revealed to be a trap door. I quickly grabbed the edge and started climbing up. Ellie grabbed my wrist and helped me up.

Antauri appeared above us, "Good, Chiro. I see you're approaching the problem from a new perspective."

Ellie helped me to my feet. I looked around and saw the paths were closing and opening in other directions.

I turned to Antauri, "This is a messed maze, Antauri. How do Ellie and I pick the right path?"

Antauri lowered his hands. I felt something strange and noticed a black orb with a green hue appear from my chest. Ellie had the same thing happening to her. The orbs flew toward Antauri and he grabbed them.

"Embrace the Power Primate. And you'll discover the right path is often the one you're already on." He told me and Ellie. The orbs floated out of his hands and floated upward into the blackness. Antauri followed after them, "Trust yourselves."

I chuckled, "That is so cheating!" Then I thought on what he said and closed my eyes, "Alright. Trust myself."

Ellie closed her eyes as well. I felt the strange feeling again, but this time it was empowering. The panel shook and started to move. I opened my eyes and smiled. The orb from my chest was visible.

Same thing was happening to Ellie. But Ellie's eyelids tighened and the orb from her chest vanished. The orb was replaced by a black flame with a green hue surrounding her. She clutched her head and was gritting her teeth. Like she was in pain.

"Ellie! What's wrong?" I asked, reaching out to my best friend.

The orb from my chest vanished the panel fell into the blackness below. The blackness faded to a dark purple. Like indigo.

"Antauri?" I called.

Then there was a laugh. Ellie fell to her knees with a scared look on her face. The flame was glowing brighter and her eyes were glowing the same green as before. Another black-out?

I looked around and noticed we were on a giant hand. I followed and saw it belonged to the Skeleton King.

"Skeleton King!" I growled.

The sun was behind him and it was being eclipsed by a dark shadow. The Skeleton King glared and attacked. Everything went black.

I awoke out of the simulation in a daze. I was back in the training room with Antauri and Ellie.

"End training maze simulation." The computer announced.

"I sensed something amiss with the Power Primate." Antauri noted, unplugging the cable from the back of his head.

I nodded, "Yeah, something big." I turned to Ellie, who looked like she was still in her black-out trance. "Ellie? You still in there?" I asked.

The visor lifted over her eyes and Ellie gasped. She opened her eyes and clutched her forehead. Her eyes were glowing the black-out green again, "I must do what I must do."

I walked over to her and put my hands over her shoulders, "Hey. Ellie, come on. Snap out of it."

Ellie grabbed my shirt and summoned her claws. She glared at me, ready to attack, "Nothing will stop me!"

"Eleanor! Enough!" Antauri shouted.

Ellie blinked and gasped. Her eyes returned to their normal hazel. She looked at me with confusion, "Chiro?"

She noticed what she was doing and quickly let go of me, withdrawing her claws, "Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. I was doing it again, wasn't I?"

I assured with a smile, "It's okay, Ellie. Things like that happen."

"What exactly happened, Ellie?" Antauri asked Ellie.

Ellie looked at her hands, "The Skeleton King attacked. Next thing I knew, I was flying across space. I was approaching something. A large planet. It looked like-"

I waved my hand, "It was just a simulation, Ellie. It wasn't real."

"But it felt real, Chiro." She told me, putting her glasses back over her eyes, "I think the Power Primate might be warning us about something."

Just then, Gibson arrived. "We have a problem." He told us.


Ellie's POV.

Everyone gathered and the Central Computer, in the Command Center, showed something large approaching Shuggarzoom.

"Long ranged scanners have picked up a massive object on collision course with Shuggarzoom City." Gibson explained in a grim tone.

I quietly narrowed my eyes. I don't get it. In my back-out, I saw myself heading for Shuggarzoom? That can't be a mere coincidence.

The shadow of the planetoid overshadowed the entire city. We all took our chairs to discuss what to do about this situation.

Gibson spoke up, "Monkey Team, the fate of the city is in our hands." He started typing on the console of the central computer, "According to my calculations, our only hope is a graviton disruptor." He pointed to the diagram of the Super Robot holding a device and yellow waves moving the planetoid away from Shuggarzoom, "A device with enough power to knock the incoming planetoid off collision course."

Gibson cleared his thoat loudly to get Otto's attention, who was busy building something in his seat.

Once it was quiet again, Gibson resumed, "Unfortunately, there's no time to build such a fantastically complicated device as-" The noise started again and Gibson was cut off. Annoyed, he shouted, "Otto! What are you doing!?"

Otto finished his work, lifted his welding goggles and turned his chair to reveal a laser-like device. He screwed on the last piece, which was a blue focusing orb.

"Finishing my graviton disruptor." Otto simply answered.

Gibson growled in frustration and started banging his head against the the console of the central computer. I covered my mouth to supress a laugh.

"Come on, Blue. You can't take everything for granted." I spoke up.

Gibson stopped banging his head against the console and looked at me.

Then Chiro called, "Monkeys mobilize!"

With that, Chiro and I entered our Hypermode and we entered the elevator tubes to our stations.

"Body-Sync Simulator 7. Go!"

"Foot Crusher Cruiser 6. Go!"

"Foot Crusher Cruiser 5. Go!"

"Fist Rocket 4. Go!"

"Fist Rocket 3. Go!"

"Brain Scrambler Pilot 2. Go!"

"Torso Tank Driver 1. Go!"

The Super Robot purred in power. Ready to fight for Shuggarzoom City, "Prepare to disengage."

The Foot Cruiser Rockets responded, ready to take us into the air.

"Super!"

"Robot!"

"Monkey!"

"Team!"

"Hyper!"

"Force!"

"Go!"

The Super Robot activated its thrusters and we took off to space, ready to intercept the planetoid.

"So, Chiro. How'd did it go in the maze?" Sparx asked Chiro.

"Don't ask." Chiro answered, "Besides, who needs the Power Primate, when you've got Super Robot Mega Boost?"

Chiro activated the Mega Boost and the Super Robot picked up speed. The sudden force jolted through me like a strong force of wind.

I regained my composure and spoke up, "Careful with the boost, Chiro. Next time, warn me."

"Sorry, Ellie." Chiro apologised.

"Approaching the planetoid." Antauri told us.

Chiro shut down the boost, "Mega Boosters off. Should be coming into view."

I switched my visor on and looked through the Super Robot's eyes. Suddenly we were hit by something.

"What was that?!" Chiro asked.

I tried to look, but more objects hit us. I barely had time to react.

"Ice asteroids!" Antauri identified."

"I'm on it!" Sparx spoke up, "Route all power to the Fist Rockets!"

"You got it, Sparx!" I answered, as I put my arms in front of me in an 'X'.

The Chiro shouted, "Wait, wait! We need a plan!"

"No time." Sparx replied, "I've got an idea! Just go with it, Kid." Then told Gibson, "Gibson, give me and energy shield!"

"I'm way ahead of you." Gibson replied.

A blue energy shield appeared on Sparx's arm and it deflected the ice asteroids. A really big one charged toward us. We braced for impact and let the asteroid take us with its course.

"Flying against these things isn't doing us any good. Sometimes, you just gotta go with the flow." Sparx explained. Then called, "Foot Cruisers!"

"Roger, Sparx." Nova answered.

"Gotcha." Otto replied. The Foot Cruiser Rockets allowed us to drift with the asteroids. Otto smiled, "Yahoo. Just like merging into the fast lane."

And we were able to get out of the field without a scratch. Chiro sighed in relief and smiled, "Nice call, Sparx."

Sparx smiled, "Nice? Heh. I deserve a medal. Maybe something gold. You know, with those little wings."

"We're not done yet, Sparx." I spoke up.

The Super Robot was very close to the planetoid. And the planetoid was much bigger than we anticipated.

"Suddenly our Super Robot doesn't seem so super." Nova noted.

I narrowed my eyes at the planetoid. Something felt... Different about it. It was warm. Like it was breathing. Like it was...

Alive...

"Deploying anti-plantetory measures." Antauri spoke up, activating Otto's graviton disruptor from the torso, "We're in position, Chiro."

Chiro nodded and turned to Otto, "Otto, charge the graviton disruptor."

"Here goes nothing!" Otto shouted, then everything around me went numb.

"Uh... Otto... I can't move..." I started.

Gibson facepalmed, "Well, that certainly was nothing. Now try pushing the right button!"

Otto sheepishly chuckled, "Oops. Thanks, Gibson."

Everything powered up and the disruptor fired yellow pulse waves at the planetoid. Cracks were appearing on the planetoid's surface. It felt irritated.

"Something's happening." Chiro noticed.

The planetoid shot rocks at us as a sign of retaliation.

"Brace for impact!" Antauri shouted.

A large rock hit the chest of the Super Robot and the force blew us back a bit. However it also destoryed the disruptor. Sorry, Otto.

Then the planetoid started doing something we thought was impossible. It was terraforming into what looked like a face.

"Something tells me this is no ordinary planet." Chiro noted.

The planetoid terroformed a Jack-o-Lantern-esque face and looked at us, "I am Q."

"It talks?!" Otto exclaimed.

"That's a scientific impossibility!" Gibson gasped.

"No. An intelligent lifeform." Antauri concluded.

Chiro nodded, "Yeah. And if it talks, it's gonna listen."

"Be polite, Chiro. We don't know what this lifeform's like." I warned him.

Chiro activated the speaker system and spoke, "Planetoid Q. You are on a collision course with an inhabited world."

"I must do what I must do..." Q answered.

I narrowed my eyes at the planetoid lifeform. I remember during my black-out, I was feeling something forcing me to move toward Shuggarzoom. Like I had no other choice. Does that have anything to do with Q's actions?

"CHANGE DIRECTION! I REPEAT, CHANGE DIRECTION NOW!" Chiro shouted.

"Well done, Chiro. That was very polite." I praised in a sarcastic deadpan tone.

"I'm getting movement." Gibson spoke up, "I think it's trying to respond."

"GET OUT OF MY PATH!" Q shouted back.

Its eyes errupted into flames and fired powerful lasers at us. I screamed in pain and my body went cold and numb. Oh no...

"We've lost power! We're going down!" Antauri alerted.

The Super Robot started hurtling toward Q's mouth.

"Come on!" Chiro cried, "If we don't get some power, we're gonna be lunch!"

The Super Robot powered up again and I could feel its functionality again. I sighed in releif.

"Okay. Let's get outta here." Chiro told everyone.

The Super Robot flew away from Q's mouth, then Antauri noticed something, "Wait. I've detected a propulsion system deep within the planetoid."

"Oh, of course." Gibson gasped, "This is how Q is propelling itself towards Shuggarzoom City!"

"Then let's go something about it!" Nova encouraged, then she shouted, "Firing Foot Thruster 2!"

The Super Robot started charging toward Q's mouth.

"Nova? Shouldn't we be flying away from this thing's mouth?" Chiro asked.

"Listen to your feelings." Nova answered, "Mine say we need to let it eat us."

"Then we'll be able to find the propulsion system and shut it down." I concluded with a smile. "Otto, we need some speed!"

"Sounds good to me." Otto answered, "Firing Foot Thruster 1!"

The Super Robot picked up some speed and flew into Q's mouth.

"I don't know." Chiro noted with an uncertain tone.

Inside the mouth, the planetoid had rows of rocky teeth. "I've got one word: Floss." Sparx joked.

Q closed its mouth. Guess we have to ride it through. Inside were creatures of all shapes and sizes. Knowing biology, these creatures were either types of cells or parasites of the good kind.

"This place is disgusting!" Sparx complained.

"Then you should feel right at home, Sparx." Nova replied.

"We'd better hurry." Gibson spoke up, "Planetoid Q is closing on Shuggarzoom City!"

"Stay calm." Antauri replied, "We're on course for the propulsion system."

I activated the speaker system and called out to Q, "Q! I know you can hear me. Why are you trying to destroy our home?" I asked.

"I do what I do." Q answered.

Chiro shook his head, "Not good enough. So we're gonna do what we do: Stop you!"

"I must do what I must do!" Q repeated.

"What does that mean?" Chiro asked.

"Sounds like something bad." Otto answered.

I closed my eyes in thought. But the sound of rushing liquid caught my attention. The Super Robot got washed up and fell into another part of the planetoid. I put the visor over my eyes and switched on the lights.

A fish-like creature appeared in front of the Robot's face. I took a step back in startle, as the Robot did and the fish just swam past it.

There were other creatures, but they seemed undisturbed by the Super Robot's presense. Suddenly we were getting a strong feeling of being pulled by the current of the liquid.

"Status report." Chiro instructed.

"Danger! .6 degrees ahead!" Antauri alerted.

I looked and saw we were getting pulled towards a flower-like trap. Like a stomach filter...

"Oh no! We don't want any part of that thing." Chiro grimaced, then shouted, "Reverse power!"

The Super Robot deployed its Reverse Thrusters to get away from the trap, but the current wasn't letting us leave.

"Current's too strong!" Antauri shouted.

"It's pulling us in!" Chiro cried.

Then Gibson got an idea, "Then go with the flow!" He instructed, "I say full speed toward that chopping thing!"

I smiled, "You got it, Gibson."

With a little manuvering, I was able to turn the Reverse Thrusters and flew the Super Robot toward the trap. We entered through it before it closed again.

The Robot rose to the surface and Chiro smiled, "We made it! You know, I'm almost starting to believe in this... Uh..." Then he asked, "What is it again?"

"Call it instinct." Gibson answered, "It's also hard science." He cleared his throat and continued, "The accelerating body is far more difficult to stop than the inert one."

Sparx shrugged his shoulders, "You know what else is difficult to stop? Gibson's mouth."

Then Antauri spoke up, "I've got a lock on the propulsion system. We're back on course."

Chiro nodded, "Right then. Full speed ahead."

We exit the main tube and entered a place that was covered in slime. The slime was occupied with strange things that looked like cells with closed eyes.

"I don't like this, Team." Chiro commented.

"We'd better step lively. We're running out of time!" Gibson alerted us.

"Thanks, Gibson. No pressure." I noted, trying to stay optimistic.

The Super Robot continued to march through the slime. At the corner of my eye, I could have sworn the eyes around us opened and looked at us.

"Uhh, guys? You get the feeling we're being watched?" Nova asked.

Then all of the eyes opened and looked straight at us. The Monkeys, Chiro and I screamed in startle as the cells started crawling around the Super Robot.

"Those slimy creatures have us trapped!" Gibson gasped.

"Not a prob." Chiro spoke up, "We'll electrify the Robot and shock them off."

"Or we could use their sliminess to help us squeeze out." Otto suggested.

Chiro nodded with a smile, "Yeah. I think you're on to something, Otto. I'm with ya."

The Super Robot jumped out of the slime and slide down the path. We made it to another part of Q's inside, however the Super Robot was covered in the eye-cells. The Super Robot span its torso clean.

Sparx cheered, "That was fun!"

"Speak for yourself." Gibson retorted.

"Not a solution I would have offered, Otto." Antauri told Otto, "But inspired all the same."

"Gotta follow your hunches. Sometimes they're all you got." Otto explained, then asked, "Right, Chiro?" There was no reply, but the alarm was going off, "Chiro?"

"Monkey Team, hall breach!" Chiro alarmed.

The Monkeys and I left our stations to the lounge. Inside, Chiro was covered in the eye-cells. He even had two over his own eyes.

Sparx chuckled, "Hey. That's a good look for ya, Kid."

The eyes looked at him, then opened again to reveal they were mouths too. The Monkeys screamed and stepped back in startle.

"They're biting me! And it hurts! A lot!" Chiro screamed and he ran around in a blind panic.

"Hang on, Chiro!" Nova shouted, as she summoned her guantlets and attacked the cells, "Boom Boom Wake Up!"

Each of us summoned our weapons and attacked the other cells that were inside the Robot and aiming to attack us, "Magna-Tingler Blast!" "Faze and Daze!" "Whirling Destructo Saws!" "Spectre Claw!"

"Monkey Fu!" Chiro shouted as he released a blast of green energy.

The remaining eye-cells fell to the ground and Gibson plugged his tail into an outlet.

He summoned his drills, "Cyber-Back Drill Sucker!"

With his drills, Gibson vacuumed the cells through his arms and out of his tail, through the outlet.

"That's one way to get Gibson to vacuum." Sparx joked with a laugh.

Nova watched with a digusted look, "Ugh... That is just wrong."

With that, I returned to my station and resumed the search for the propulsion system.

"For being so small, you are unquestionably bold..." Q noted.

"We're very close to the propulsion system." Antauri notified.

"Hear that, Q? We will stop you!" Chiro told Q via the speaker system.

"Q cannot be stopped!" Q argued.

"Uh, Kid. Try not to provoke the planetoid." Sparx told Chiro.

Too late. An eye-looking hole approached the Super Robot. I tried to turn the other way, but the hole arrived and we fell into the eye.

The webbings of the eye caught the Super Robot and trapped us in place. We couldn't move.

"We're trapped, Team." Antauri alerted.

"It's worse than that." Chiro added.

He was right. Q was very close to entering the stratosphere of Shuggarzoom City.

"Your efforts are futile... Watch now, as I do what I do: Eliminate your world!" Q told us.

"We're soon past the point of now return." Gibson told us grimly, "When the chances to stop out home from being vaporized drop to zero."

"So close..." Antauri muttered, then shouted, "Q's propulsion system must be destroyed."

"But we're stuck!" Sparx argued.

"Not all of us." I spoke up, "But I have to ask, do you guys trust me?"

"We trust you, Ellie." Antauri answered, "But-"

"Back in the maze, you said to embrace the Power Primate." I cut him off, "Well, I'm letting it guide me. I know where the propulsion system is."

The Super Robot activated my armor, "Body-Sync Armor, prepare to disengage."

My station, which was the orb on top of the antennae, began to open as the Monkeys and Chiro shouted,

"Super!"

"Robot!"

"Monkey!"

"Team!"

"Hyper!"

"Force!"

"Go!" My station opened the cables detached.

I used my jet rockets to escape out of the eye and followed the multi-colored tunnel to Q's brain.

The gravity shifted and I landed at my destination. I turned and saw the propulsion system. It was a very big machine, with a very familiar design.

"There you are." I muttered as I made my way to the machine.

I reached for the lever, but nerve-tendrils grabbed me and lifted me into the air. I felt one hit the back of my neck and I blacked out.

I opened my eyes to find myself in a large white room. I picked myself back to my feet and looked around, "Where am I?"

A golem-like creature appeared in front of me, "At the end of your journey, one called Ellie." It told me, "Your doom is inevitable."

The golem must be Q. It aimed a punch at me, but I jumped out of the way.

"I'm not here to fight you, Q. I'm here to stop you from destroying my home." I told him.

"You won't stop Q!" Q shouted, as he fired his lasers at me.

I jumped out of the way again, "You're trying to destroy Shuggarzoom City. My home. The Monkeys' home. Chiro's home. Everyone has a reason. What's your's?"

Q charged toward me, but I leaped over his back. "My planet is not like you. What has Shuggarzoom ever done to you?" I asked.

"I do not know your planet. He says I must destroy it." Q answered.

"He?" I reapeated.

A dark shadow grew from behind Q and revealed to me with a familiar laugh.

"Skeleton King!" I growled, "We should've known it was you!"

"Who else, little girl?" Skeleton King asked, then explained while Q continued to fight me, "Before me, Q randomly bounced around the galaxy. I provided the propulsion system. The power to control its destiny."

Q was able to hit me with his lasers and punched me to the ground.

Skeleton King laughed, "Now, Q hurdles to destroy Shuggarzoom City. I have chosen its first path."

"Path?" I repeated, then an idea hit me, "Of course!"

I closed my eyes and focused my thoughts to my instincts.

Power Primate, can you hear me? I don't want to fight you back anymore.

I need your help to aid this planetoid break from the Skeleton King's control.

Can you help me?

You only had to ask, my child.

I felt a powerful surge pulse through me and the room transformed to a mainframe-like room from before. I opened my eyes and glared at the Skeleton King. I trust myself.

"What is this?!" Skeleton King exclaimed, looking around. Then he looked at me and ordered Q, "The girl! Finish her!"

Q charged at me and fired his lasers. I lifted me hand and a square reacted as a shield. It deflected to attack back at him.

"You didn't choose this path, Q. Skeleton King did." I told him, then asked, "What would you choose?"

"Choose?" Q asked me, "I thought choice was a dream."

"Don't listen to the girl!" Skeleton King shouted.

I raised my hand and the squares of him mouth fell, "Shut up..."

Q looked at me with a sad look, "How do I know what to choose?"

"Look within. Trust yourself." I answered.

I transfered some of the Power Primate's influence of freedom to Q. His eyes faded from red to blue.

"Fool! Your path has been chosen!" Skeleton King shouted at Q.

Q turned to him, "I choose a different path!" He fired his lasered at Skeleton King and Skeleton King was no more.

I smiled at the planetoid. With that, I returned to reality. The nerve-tendrils let go of me. Then I heard monkey chirping coming from behind me, "Over there! I see her!"

I turned and saw the Monkeys and Chiro arriving. They were unharmed.

"Hey, Kid!" Sparx greeted, as I removed my helmet.

"Hey, Team." I greeted back.

"Ellie, you okay?" Antauri asked.

I nodded, "Never been better, Antauri. I'm no longer fighting the Power Primate back."

He nodded with a smile.

Sparx looked at the propulsion system, then explained, "Q. He lead us here. Now he wants this thing destroyed!"

I shook my head, "It's no good. The system is hardwired to his brain. Destroying this with perminantly damage him."

"That's not the worse of it." Gibson spoke up, holding his scanner, "Q is moving too fast to stop. There's nothing we can do."

Chiro smiled, "Yes, there is."

The Monkey's, Chiro and I returned to the Super Robot and flew toward the back of Q. We went over Chiro's idea and Gibson thinks it should work. With the aid of the Mega Boosters, the Super Robot pushed Q to a faster velocity.

"If we significantly increase Q's velocity, we'll reach where we're supposed to be sooner than where we're supposed to be later." Gibson summarised.

"We speed up enough, we won't hit Shuggarzoom!" Chiro smiled.

Gibson scoffed, "That's exactly what I said!"

"Hyperforce!" "Go!"

We pushed faster and Q was able to miss Shuggarzoom. The citizens cheered of our victory.


*A Little Later, Back in Space...*

"I would ask a thing of you. If it be possible, I would choose to be one of you." Q asked us.

The Monkeys and Chiro looked at each other in confusion.

I smiled, "That's a very good choice, Q"

With that, Q terraformed his entire form into a head of a Super Robot Monkey. With the red glow of his inner energy turned blue. Everyone smiled,

"Super!"

"Robot!"

"Monkey!"

"Team!"

"Hyper!"

"Force!"

"Go!"

Q turned and traveled across the stars.

A new friend made, a new scheme defeated.

I'd say we had a pretty good day.