Chapter 7

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"We shall see that." Mandarin chuckled, leaping forward to attack the monkey team.

Sparx was the first target, Mandarin charged the red monkey, using his now repaired claw, disarmed his magnets without much trouble and knocked him out cold before he could respond.

"Lady Tomahawk!" Nova hit the ground, trying to throw Mandarin off balance. Mandarin used his claw to get on the ceiling and jumped on Nova, kicking her.

"Whirling Destructo Saws!" Cried Otto, launching his two saws, trying to cut Mandarin in half. Mandarin dodged the attack, got the hold of his chains, and pulled Otto, slamming him at the nearby wall.

Antauri and Gibson approached the evil monkey from bought sides, circling him.

"Laser Criss Cross!" Gibson aimed for Mandarin's head, distracting him, while Antauri leaped forward.

"Claw Disruptor!" Antauri cried, slashing the monkey's back, making him shriek from pain. But the dazed monkey soon recovered, and hit Antauri with his claw, knocking him to the ground.

"Antauri! Monkey Fu!" The green energy sent by Chiro hit Mandarin, throwing him at the ground. He quickly recovered, and launched a counter attack on the regrouping Hyperforce.

"Monkey Mind Scream!" Waves of dark energy hit the still standing monkey team members. Mandarin admired the view before him, the Hyperforce at his knees, completely at his mercy. Suddenly, he grabbed Chiro, and dragged him in front of the monkey team, placing his claw at the young leader's throat.

"This game has gone for long enough!" The ex-leader stated, getting ready to end Chiro's life, as the monkey team watched with horror, unable to do anything.

"I must agree with you." Came a synthetic voice from a loud speaker. Before Mandarin could react to it, a wall panel disconnected from its place, (Like the panels in the Portal series) and hit Mandarin with such speed and force, it threw him at the opposite wall, cracking its surface.

ARTEMIS didn't give Mandarin time to recover, knowing full well the monkey is more agile than the room he controlled. Grabbing the monkey with a robotic claw, the AI threw him at the ground once again.

The floor opened up under him, and smaller robotic arms grabbed him, pinning the evil monkey, not allowing him to escape. A small box attached to a robotic arm extended over Mandarin. A camera appeared from the box's side, examining the clone.

"This insect hacked the training room's mainframe? Do you know how long it took me to get past it?" The calm AI voice asked, not needing the answer. A needle extended from the box, piercing the trapped monkey through the neck. The clone shrieked from the pain.

"Hmmm. Interesting, you are not MDRN-2, or organic in general. Just a worthless and pathetic clone." Stated ARTEMIS, a black goo like substance could be seen in the container above the needle.

"What do you mean?" a recovered Chiro asked, not understanding why the AI thinks Mandarin is a clone. ARTEMIS extended the arm, showing the Hyperforce the container.

"I extracted this from the subject. If it was organic, surely we should have seen blood or some type of body fluid. But this is clearly a substance Skeleton King uses to create his ooze army... And the Chiro clones."

"But the ooze formless are weak, they dissolve from a simple punch. You just threw Mandarin, not even the strongest formless could resist such impact force." Nova stated, shocked by the information.

"Perhaps the Skeleton King improved the clone's design, making it more durable." The AI responded.

"You dishonorable glitched pathetic excuse for an AI! I will personally format you from the main hard drive once I get out of here! I'm the real Mandarin, who will destroy all of you!" The clone threatened.

"You are in so such position to threaten anybody. And since nobody believes me, maybe this will prove it." ARTEMIS said, as a monitor lowered from the ceiling, and a robotic arm disconnected the plate hiding the clone's data port. The AI attached the connector to the monkey's port from behind.

The clone once again screamed in pain, experiencing the AI's hacking attempts to get inside his systems. Soon, images began flashing on the monitor, images about the Hyperforce, Skeleton King, the Citadel of Bone, and other recognizable locations. Then, a video started playing.


"Chiro's genetic scan wasted! There will be no more clones!" The harsh and evil voice belonged to Skeleton King could be heard.

"If you will permit me one more chance my master, I promise..." Mandarin tried to make an excuse, but was interrupted by the dark lord.

"No more promises Mandarin, no more chances. You are being REPLACED!" Skeleton King stated.

Suddenly, the Mandarin clone stepped outside the shadows. The real Mandarin left dumbfounded.

"Take him away!" Skeleton King ordered two formless.

"No! NOOOOO!" Mandarin's screams could be heard as he was taken away.


The video ended, the monitor went back from where it came. The Hyperforce was speechless. Skeleton King disposed his most loyal servant, and since that day, they were fighting a clone.

"Genetic scan? When Mandarin tried to clone Chiro? But that was more than a year ago!" Sparx stated.

"We were fighting a clone for a year now, without even realizing it." Said Gibson.

"Where is the real Mandarin?" Antauri demanded from the clone.

"Hahaha… Where is he? Best case scenario, in a prison far away from everything. Worst case, probably dead." The clone replied, no emotion on his face.

"You have been next to the evil entity since it's reborn. You must have important information we could use against him."

"And who said I will talk to pathetic pests like you?" The clone asked, a smirk on his face.

"No need for talking, or your cooperation in general." The AI stated. The clone did not understand at first, but soon realized what ARTEMIS meant, horror appeared on his face.

ARTEMIS began hacking his systems once more, extracting every information the AI got its hands on. The pain was unbearable, the screams escaping the clones mouth was enough to feel it. The Hyperforce didn't know what to do. Should they interfere or let the AI finish the extraction. This was torture, and no one, not even an evil clone deserved that.

But before they could do anything, the screaming stopped. A few seconds later the plug disconnected from the back of the clone.

"I have extracted very interesting data from this clone, which we should discuss in the near future." ARTEMIS told the Hyperforce.

"And what do we do with him?" Otto asked, pointing at the clone, which was exhausted from the pain.

"A disarmed clone, with every information extracted. He holds no more value." The AI stated, preparing a needle with a strange glowing yellow liquid inside of it.

"And what will happen to him?" Chiro asked ARTEMIS.

"He will be disposed." A calm but cold reply came from the AI. With a quick move, ARTEMIS pierced the clone's neck with the needle, injecting the strange liquid. The clone didn't scream. It took a deep breath, and his eyes defocused, as if he was looking in the distance. A few seconds later, his whole body turned black, like a formless, and splattered all across the floor, while a purple like gas appeared, and fled through the ceiling.

"You killed the clone?!" A shocked Chiro asked, demanding an explanation from the AI.

"No, only living beings can be killed. He meant nothing. It was a clone, a substance controlled by Skeleton King's evil essence, nothing more, and nothing less."