Me: Do you know why I called the last chapter 'Aw Man'? Cuz' Mandarin came back!! I hate that creepy little monkey!! Let's get on with this thing...

Chiro: I-

Me: DON'T START!!

Mandarin leaped from the rubble lying on the floor, and flashed a horid smirking smile. Sprx stood next Nova, with an angered look on his face and activated magnets. Tashi seemed hesitant, like he was scared as he laid along the debree. Nova gave a surprised look at him.

"Tashi!" she yelled. "Get up! We have to fight this creep!"

"I- I- I can't, Nova." he sounded like he's admitting something.

"W-what? What are you talking about?" Nova asked, sounding questionable. (I'd be too.)

Mandarin began to laugh a dreaded, evil laugh, and started to walk around Nova's cluttered room, as if he was expecting to find something. Nova's expression turned red hot.

"What are you doing?!" she yelled, actually wanting him to leap and attack. "We're over here, nut-brain!"

"My dearest Nova..." Mandarin said flatly while picking up a picture of her and Sprx with a broken frame. "You and little Sparky changed so much since my last encounter."

"What changed?" Sprx said, pointing his magnet. "We still hate you, and you still hate us. NOTHING changed."

Mandarin snarled a bit. "I guess the usual hasn't changed so much. What you said is true, but I noticed something wrong this time..." he ran his finger along his chin and gave a creepy smile. "I noticed that you and Nova aren't... well, you know."

"Why you-" Sprx was about to pounce when Nova held him back.

"How do you know about that?" she asked, getting sort of scared. "What did you hear?"

"Me?" Mandarin tried to sound inoccent. "Well, I've heard nothing. I only heard that you and Sparky couldn't see eye to eye anymore, you came here to clear your mind, and met my apprentice here..." he slowly pointed to Tashi.

Nova's eyes began to swell with pain. "T-Tashi? Wha- what is he talking about?"

Tashi looked ashamed and hurt. "I'm sorry Nova. I-I had no choice... You wouldn't believe this, but he saved my life."

Sprx anger grew. "What are you talking about? Mandarin would never save anyone!"

Mandarin looked smug. "Sprx, I'm hurt! You just weren't there. Back on a distant planet I traveled to, I stumbled across a labratory with a little baby monkey about to be horribly tested on..."

Nova glared at Tashi, whose eyes were full of dread.

Mandarin continued, "I knew I'd face you two brats again-"

Sprx's eyes began to flare. "BRATS?!"

Mandarin grew aggrivated. "AS I WAS SAYING, I knew I'd face you two again, so I developed a plan. I knew you two wouldn't stay together forever-"

Nova clenched her fists and Sprx's magnets began to spark.

Mandarin smiled. "I also knew that Novie here would grow a fit, come here, and train until her childish ways were clean once again."

Sprx got madder, if that was even possible. "I'd skip to the point if I were you..." his magnets began to spark electricity even more.

Mandarin placed the picture down and started around the rubled room again. "If I saved that little monkey they were testing on, I knew he'd owe his life to me. I trained him for this day... the day my apprentice, Tashi, would kill you both. And with you two out of the way, the rest of the team wouldn't stand a chance..."

As much as Nova denied it, she had to admit it was a good plan. But she knew it wouldn't last for long.

"You're monkey meat, Mandarin!!"

She lunged in for a hard punch, but Tashi deflected the attack and spun her around his shoulder to throw her across the room and into the wall. She weakly stood, still angry. Tashi ran towards her with two blades appearing into his hands. He tried to slash her across the face, but she grabbed his arm and punched him in his face, which made him slide backwards.

Sprx ran in and yelled, "Back off, spy boy!! MAGNET TINGLER BLAST!!"

Tashi twirled around in his cape, making him disappear, and left Mandarin in the blast's way. The blast hit Mandarin in the gut, flying him backwards into the rubble he entered in. Quickly, he rose up and gave a twisted smile.

"I have no need to waste my time on you gutter-snipes..." he said, slowly making his way towards Nova. "But Nova is a sort of different matter..."

He began to brush the back of his hand against her cheek, but she couldn't move. Tashi and Sprx grew furious and both pounced to Mandain. The orange deformed monkey grabbed Nova by the waist, and flew into the air with a jet-pack. Tashi and Sprx hit their heads against the other and stared up to Nova.

"NOVA!" they screamed with pain and anger seeping to the floor.

Mandarin blasted a hole in the roof with a laser, and looked back at Tashi and Sprx. "If you two care so much about your little Nova, you'd risk everything to save her! Even the life of the last one standing..." He jetted out of the room, leaving silence between Tashi and Sprx.

DUN DUN DUN!!