Turning Your Back
Chapter 4: Plan it Out
Sprx's Point of View:
"Sprx, Gibson, Otto, are you guys at your first position?" Chiro called over the communicator. We were all in starting positions to search threw the Savage Lands for Nova and the girl, who we learned just a while ago was Princess Jasmine.
"We are at the location of our entrance to the Savage Lands Chiro, waiting upon your order for entry." Gibson said into his communicator.
"Good, enter the Savage Lands and check your areas, once done and if nothing found, head to the rendezvous point at the Alchemist's tower and search the outside perimeter. We'll meet you there when we're done. Chiro out." Following the kid's orders, we made out way into the Savage Lands.
The last time I remember being here was when we followed Chiro after he was turned into a monkey, he wanted to revive Antauri. Then we get captured by that witch Valina and Jinmay gets kidnapped from outside the Savage Lands when Antauri saves us. Then we save Jinmay and find out we have to go stop that Dark One Worm because we didn't kill it the last time and we thought we killed Valina when she fell off that ledge into the ooze but she came back until she was killed by the old Bag a Bones.
You can tell I wasn't exactly thrilled about coming back here.
But this wasn't about just some mission, this was about Nova. That girl took her from me, and I intend to get her back, no matter what.
Nova's Point of View:
The memory I had just seen, it was awful. How could that horrible man do that to this sweet girl? How could he take her from her friends and family, and then have the nerve to help others? My temper was losing its control over this factor. Just barely over my rage could I feel the flames erupt on my body.
"Calm down Nova." Jasmine told me, placing a hand on my shoulder. "I'm okay now, you saved me." I shook my head, slapping myself across the face to wake myself us.
"It's still not right." I shivered at what I had seen. "But now we both know what it is that's blocking you. Jasmine, he no longer has a hold over you. You're free and getting closer to home, to your friends and family. Don't let his words haunt you and prevent you from that. I mean, I helped you get out and you have a friend now that's willing to help you get home. I'll help you see them again." She nodded and slowly breathed in and out.
"Thanks Nova." I smiled at her.
"Now try to get a spark, that's all I want to see if you can handle for now." She nodded and concentrated on the palm of her hand, and soon enough a large blot of electricity erupted from her hand and danced around. She stood their stunned.
"I did it?" She asked surprised. I nodded and walked up right next to her, letting a small flame appear in the center of my hand. The two dangerous energies danced together in our palms and we both smiled. "Wow." The lightning bolt danced wildly and she closed her fist and I saw that bolt of energy race all over her body. She touched an empty bag that once upon a time had some of our food in it and was barbequed and gone in a second.
"At least this way with that power of yours you'll be able to keep the guys from touching you. Just turn down the voltage a bit so you don't kill them, okay?" Jasmine nodded and started to gather our things in a rush. "What's wrong Jazz?"
"Now that I'm in tune with my powers, I can feel large sums of energy off in the distance, coming in our direction. Their similar to ours, but are missing something. My guess is your friends are searching for us here and are getting close, and what I sense is the power primate."
"Then we'd better get going, shouldn't we?" It was a rhetorical question, one that she didn't answer as I hoped she wouldn't anyway. "Once your done packing, get on the ship, wait for me there, I have to see how far off they are." I raced off by her and climbed threw my once creators lab to the top of his tower.
Sprx's Point of View:
"Have you sighted anything yet kid?" I called threw the communicator. Otto, Gibson and I were waiting on the kid, Antauri and Jinmay and the rendezvous point outside of the Alchemist's old lab.
"Nothing here Sprx, you should have a visual of us in a minute. Chrio out." I closed off my communicator and looked out into the forest and saw the three of them coming closer to where we stood. Otto stood up from the spot that he had sat down in earlier on the ground and waved to them, only Jinmay would wave back.
"We didn't find Nova." Otto said sadly. Jinmay placed her hand on his shoulder.
"We'll find her Otto. Call me crazy but I have this weird feeling that Nova is really close, and we'll see her any minute." Jinmay said, speaking to all of us.
"You're not crazy Jinmay, your beliefs are in fact more true then false." Antauri said, his meditating silver body floating toward them. "I feel that she is near, be on your guard as we search the Alchemist's lab."
"Its most likely that Nova would have decided to stay there." Gibson said. "Besides this place, where would Nova take the girl to rest and recuperate while avoiding others? A place difficult to find and dangerous to get to. The lab fits perfectly."
"You guys! Look up there!" Otto shouted, we all turned to look upward at where he was point at, which happened to be the top of the tower. We saw the top of the tower move, as in something feel off it and I was instantly staring into those pink eyes. We had found her. Her eyes were terrified when she saw us and she bolted down into the Alchemist's lab once more.
"Hurry team! After her!" The kid yelled and we raced for the lab.
Nova's Point of View:
I ran as fast as I could threw the top of the tower until there was the large open space that led down to the bottom floor. I jumped and passed by the floor that Antauri had been revived on and then fell to the floor where I was created along with the others and Mandarin. I hit the top of the ship and jumped inside. Jasmine was there waiting for me. She stood out of my way as I turned on the ship and it started rise off of the ground. I looked threw the window in front of me and saw the team burst threw the door with their weapons at the ready. I blasted the ship forward and the team jumped out of the way as to not be hit. I raced the ship in an upward dive out of the atmosphere and then slowed the ship slightly to calm my heart rate from how hard it was pounding.
"Nova, look out!" Jasmine yelled and I looked forward to see the Lediture coming at us. I took a sharp turn to race around it and the alarm went off at how close we were to the ship. We got around it and raced off into the distance, and to put some distance between us, I set the hyper drive to get us a good distance away without using us all our fuel. Once we could no longer see the Lediture, the team or Shuggazoom, I let out a sigh of relief.
"That was too close." I breathed harshly. "If I have to keep doing stunts like that, I'll turn into another Sprx!"
"We may still have to deal with that on the way Nova. You can't really expect that things like what you just preformed will not come up again in the future." Jasmine told me, catching her own breath, taking her seat next to me.
"I know." I told her. "It's just hard to deal with some factors, my team is now fighting against me, I'm trying to get you back home on my own, I have to train you all by myself in more ways then one. Its finally starting to way down on my, that and I think I'm just a tad bit tired from all the running and piloting."
"Why don't you take a nap them?" She asked me. "I can drive for a while. I've seen you do it and I had a lot of practice when I was little before I was taken."
"Okay, but I want to make sure you can handle this ship before I hit the sack. Try flying a little bit and if you're okay, then I'll lie down." I got up from my seat and handed the controls to Jasmine. She easily took over the ship and flew it smoothly threw the dark void of space.
"I think I got it." She told me.
"Alright then, I'll take nap and I'll see you in a bit. Wake me up in a few hours to take over if I'm not up and I'll take over."
"Shall do, night Nova." She waved to me before she turned back to the controls and I walked into the small bedroom in the ship. Crawling into the bed, a sigh escaped me and my eyes slowly closed. Sleep then slowly over took my tired body.
Sprx Point of View:
We'd lost her again. How could she keep getting away? I though Brain Strain told us that she was really low on energy and would be out for weeks, yet here we are after only hours, chasing after her and some girl she freed.
"Lets get back to the robot team, we can still catch them!" Chrio called. We all followed after him and had only made it out of the Savage Lands before we were contacted by Lediture.
"I'm sorry Hyper Force." He said as his voice came threw our communicator. "Your friend and Princess Jasmine made it past our defenses and jumped into hyper drive, I have not way to track them. I'm so sorry."
"It's not your fault Mr. Lediture. If you could spare us some time, we'd like to talk to you in person about this situation." The kid told him. "Things need to be dealt with quickly before Nova and this princess get very far away."
"I understand Mr. Neil, I'll meet with you at your robot as soon as I can, and I'll try to be down in Shuggazoom in twenty minutes."
"Understood Mr. Lediture, we'll see you there." The kid broke off taking to Lediture and turned to face us. "Let's get going team; we have to prepare to head off into space again."
"Are we going to be out there as long as we did when we had to destroy the Dark One Worm?" Otto asked.
"Maybe Otto, maybe not. We don't know yet." Jinmay told him, walking beside him on our way back to the robot.
"How do you think the girl got into Nova's head?" I asked quietly. The team's walk slowed and they turned back to look at me as I hung my head.
"I don't know Sprx," Antauri said. "But know this, we will get her back. No Hyper Force member is ever alone." I looked up to face him. He his face reflected the partial pain I felt inside me at this very moment. He and the others knew of my feelings for Nova, it was only her that was clueless to them, or she ignored them. But I just couldn't stand this, that this girl forced her away.
I just want you back here Nova, even if you don't love me, its better then you not here at all.
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Arriving back at the Super Robot, we came face to face with James Lediture, he stood really talk, but he didn't look like the type who knew how to fight.
"Sprx, a word." Antauri asked me. I nodded and followed him while the kid, Jinmay, Gibson and Otto took Lediture into the command center. Antauri led me into our bed chambers and stopped by mine. "I think its best if you rest Sprx, I know how much Nova leaving has affected you, so please rest. We will start looking for her again in the morning, once we have gathered all the supplies we need." I didn't dare question Antauri's orders. It ended badly if I did. I silently moved by him into my room and made my way to my bed. I thought I'd be up forever, thinking about Nova and all, but I fell fast asleep in a few minutes.
Asleep:
I opened my eyes to some kind of dark misting area around me. Black fog floated all around me and where ever I was. Through the black fog, I saw the outline of a figure, and where ever they were, it was bright. I ran toward it, and there I raced into the center of the darkness, where there was light. But the figure in the center of this light was what surprised me the most. There stood the one I loved. Nova.
"Nova?" I questioned. "How can you be here, where even is here?" She turned to face me, with just as a surprised face as my own. "Awe man! I have to be dreaming!"
"Sprx, wait please!" She cried. Her voice forced me to look up at her. "We are sleeping and I don't know how we got here, but we need to talk."
"Really?" Sarcasm rolled off my tongue. "How about we start about you being mind controlled by that princess."
"I'm not mind controlled by her, your mind controlled by Lediture!" She cried, tears slipped from her eyes. "She was kidnapped by him for her power of the elemental power primate when she was very young, taken from her friends and family."
"No way, she was taken for medical reasons over her sanity and wants to take over her planet and kill others!"
She shook her head and backed away from me. "I can't believe how much he's twisted you already Sprx. I thought you would have been stronger, believed in me longer." She backed away into her own darkness behind her. "I don't want to be here with you if you're no longer the Sprx I cared about." She turned on her heels and left the lightened area to the foggy darkness behind her.
"Nova! Don't go please!" I saw her stop as only her tail still showed threw the dark fog. "I'll listen to your side of the story, just please don't leave me, I can't lose you again." I didn't see her move toward me as my eyes shed the warm, salty liquid from my eyes.
"Sprx." I looked up and saw her face right in front of mine. Her soft smile gave my burning heart hope. "Your not alone, and neither and I. I'll free you from his control when I can, and we'll see each other again. If not in the real world, then here, in our minds, where no one can see us or control that." She turned around hastily and then looked back at me. "I have to go now Sprx, Jasmine must be getting tired by now and will want to sleep for a while, I'll see you again, the next time we both close our eyes and the darkness takes us to this dream land together." She then turned on her tail on left. I wished she would come back, or at least speak again. But the whole in my heart was no longer there, it was filled for the most part.
And I would be waiting for her to come back, even it takes years, we will both do what we can in our power, to set free who ever is really mind controlled.
Nova's Point of View:
I woke up with slight droplets of sweat rolling down my face. Seeing Sprx in that dream, I knew we had then somehow been connected. The dark haze around us in that world of dreams was the doubt or myself and the mind control of Sprx, and the light area where we had talked had been the hope that clung the two of us together in this dark and saddening time.
I rose from my bed and headed out into the pilot room, where Jasmine was still at the wheel, tiredly looking out at the open space a head for any trouble. I placed my hand on her shoulder and she jumped.
"Your tired Jasmine, get some rest." I told her. "I'll drive for a while." She nodded and I took her place into the pilot's seat when she went into the bed room I was just in and closed the door. I turned to face the many controls in front of me and I sighed at how it reminded me of Sprx, because of his love to fly.
I'll see you soon Sprx, once I need to dream again, I know you'll be there waiting for me.
Witch's Note:
Thank God their finally off Shuggazoom! Worried they wouldn't get off soon right? Well they made it, and now when Nova and Sprx fall asleep, they see each other! Isn't that great! It sure feels it! Took me a while to write this chapter since I had a hard sticking with one POV. I hope you guys think goodly of this chapter!
Question of the Chapter: Why do you think Sprx and Nova can see each other in their dreams?
My Answer to the Question: I honesty don't want to tell you so that you guys can guess, so please guess away!
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