Wazzup my favourite people? Okay, enough talk already, let's go straight to Chapter 4.

Chapter 4

The Hallucation

Nova woke up to the sound of the alarm going off. She didn't know how long she'd been out for. She didn't even know how she'd ended up falling asleep. The yellow monkey sat up and found herself back in the med bay. Sparx was no longer there. Instead there was a small black monkey-sized box . . .

"No . . ." she whispered. "He can't be . . ."

The sound of the alarm brought Nova back to reality. Reluctantly, she leapt off the med table and ran into the command room where the rest of the team where getting ready to mobilize. Only Gibson was taking Sparx's tube instead and Antauri was taking Nova's . . .

"Wait! I'll come too," shouted Nova.

They all looked surprised to see her up and active.

"Nova, don't think you're going anywhere! You're not in the condition to fight!" ordered Chiro.

"Oh, just because my boyfriend's gone . . ." she took a deep breath before finishing "it doesn't mean I'm not able for this! If this is the reason he's gone then . . ." Nova paused again. "Just . . . I can do this, alright?"

"No you can't. Chiro's right," said Antauri. "Your mind is not in the state for the fight at this moment. You need your rest."

She was getting frustrated now. "So you expect me to just sit here and cry? Is that it?"

There was a very awkward silence.

"WELL?!" Nova demanded.

They all hesitated. Finally Antauri spoke.

"Nova, the attacker is Mandarin. And I'm afraid he's the cause for all of your misery. He said that he wanted to fight you . . . and only you. We are unsure of the reason but agreed not to let you fight him alone or until you were ready."
She just stood there, not knowing what to say. In fact she looked as if she were going to faint.

"Nova, are you alright?" Gibson asked her.

She snapped out of it. "Yeah I'm fine! Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go beat up Mandarin already!"

The rest of the team didn't know what to do. Otto shouted out "Yeah let's do that!" but the look on everybody's face shut him up.

"Nova, are you SURE you can handle it?" asked Chiro.

She seemed unsure herself but was keen not to show it. "Yeah. Lets kick some monkey butt." She waited until the rest of the team had shot up their tubes before whispering "For Sparx."

"Well well well if it isn't the Hyperforce," Mandarin chuckled when they arrived. He and an army of Formless were attacking the city and chasing away dozens of citizens. "I've been expecting you." His evil eyes sparkled when he saw Nova standing there ready to fight. 'Perfect,' he thought to himself.

"There's something different about you," grinned the evil monkey. "I wonder what it could be . . ."

The team said nothing and Nova was breathing hard . . .

"Ah, yes! There's some one missing, isn't there?"

She could feel the anger boiling up inside her and felt the tears coming. "Don't even think about it," she warned Mandarin.

"But dearest Nova, I couldn't help feeling curious," he sneered. "Oh NOW I know what's wrong. It's the red monkey. He's gone!"

"Don't you dare say anything about Sparx or I'll flatten you!" Nova tried to sound threatning but she could feel the tears streaming down her cheeks and quickly wiped them away, hoping that her enemy hadn't seen them.

But he did.

Mandarin laughed and yelled out "ATTACK!" to the Formless.

"Hyperforce GO!" Chiro shouted and the team started fighting Formless. All except Nova who had her sights all set on Mandarin. She had her giant fists out ready to strike . . . and suddenly Mandarin wasn't there anymore. Instead it was . . . Sparx.

What was she meant to do? Skeleton King had done that trick on her before and she fell for it. And it had hurt.

"No," she told herself. "I'm not falling for it. KNUCKLE DUSTER!" the yellow monkey shrieked and slammed her fist into his face and sent him flying backwards.

All of a sudden she was no longer in the middle of Shuggazoom City but in some sort of dark world (pretty much like that area in my "Doomholes of Fear" story but black instead of white). Mandarin- or Sparx was there too and he was clutching his face where she had punched him. And he was groaning in pain. That voice . . . it sounded an awful lot like Sparx.

Was it really him? And did Nova really hurt him that back? He was giving an evil look.

"Why did you do that?" he grunted finally.

Her head was spinning and she didn't know what to do. "I- Sparx? I thought you were-"

But Sparx had leapt on top of her and started punching her face with full force. He didn't touch her with his magnets. The punching was more painfull.

"SPARX WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" screamed Nova but he ignored her and grabbed her arms and started pulling. He was tearing her circitury apart. Just like last time . . .

"Sparx, why are doing this?" she coughed. "How could you . . ."

There were strong arms wrapping around her and somebody grabbed Sparx's tail and swung him away from Nova. She blinked and suddenly she was back in Shuggazoom. Antauri and Otto were holding onto her and Chiro was still swinging Mandarin around before finally letting go and the monkey went flying into a wall. He slammed into the wall and scampered away along with the remaining Formless.

"Nova, are you okay?" Chiro ran over to her.

She then realised how sore and fragile she was and that she was shivering. She was too shocked to answer. There was only one word she could say.

"Sparx . . ."

DAMN YOU MANDARIN! YOU KILLED SPARX AND LEFT NOVA HEARTBROKEN! YOU B******!
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