YAHOO! I'm back and no writer's block, well…maybe a little, but who doesn't? Thank you for all the awesome reviews, I'll put up a special thanks chapter when my story is finished. But, now let's get on with the present!! LET THE STORY CONTINUE!!!
Nova and I were circling the area we were assigned and didn't find squat! After about thirty more minutes of flying aimlessly, we decided to head back to the robot. But right when the rest of the team came into view, I heard the sound of rockets taking off. We looked back to see the huge robot similar to our robot chasing us.
" Oh, no! How, did we miss that?" Nova yelled while still airborne. She transformed her hands into giant fists and attempted to pound the robot. " LADY TOMAHAWK!!" She cried, but when her fist made contact with the steel of the robot, she barely left a dent…The robot smacked her away with such force, that not only could I not reach her, but she left a crater in the ground. I drew my sword, but the robot got electrocuted and I saw Antauri literally come out of the robots head. He levitated beside me.
" Are you okay?" He asked while returning to normal. I nodded smiling while keeping my sword out. Just when I had put it away, the robot came back up and knocked Antauri out cold. I dived after him so I could catch him, but I got knocked out as well. The last thing I remember seeing was a blue flash and two metallic arms plucking me from the sky and carry me at great speed.
WITH THE MONKEY TEAM
They had just saw the giant robot appear and attempt to take out Nova and Luna. Before anyone could react, Antauri flew up and just when Nova got knocked from the air and down to the ground, he phased through the robot and caused it to get electrocuted.
Then for some reason the robot came back to life and knocked Antauri and luna out cold. Antauri hit the ground, but a blue flash caught Luna and zoomed away with her to who knows where. The team ran to where their two companions fell and found Nova in a crater and Antauri tangled in a tree.
After getting the two to the Super Robot and into the infirmary, Antauri was the first to wake up. He shot up, but automatically winced and laid back down.
" W-where's Luna?" He asked hoarsely. The team looked at each other and pushed Gibson forward.
"Well…we don't know…She wasn't found." The blue simian explained. Antauri was speechless; he just stared wide-eyed at the ceiling lamp. Before anyone could speak up, an argument was heard from the main room.
"Atom! Cut it out, you shouldn't be doing that! Not to mention it's making me nauseous!" Toxics voice was frantic and scolding. Clarity was the first to run out of the room to see what her maniac siblings were up to. The team followed hoping nothing was blown up or melted. They found Atom rewinding and playing a clip from the fight. Clarity had her face buried in her palm and Toxic was fuming while they watched.
" Atom, what are you doing?" Otto asked walking over to his almost mini-me.
The six-year-old turned to him with a mischievous grin. " I'm watching the blue stripe save the gray dot!" He said in excitement. The team looked at the screen in confusion to see a glowing blue stripe zoom back and forth across the screen intercepting a falling gray speck.
" You don't think…" Nova began while pointing to the screen. Then everyone got what he meant. Slingshot was back, and he saved Luna from getting squashed from impact on the ground, or bleeding to death by how many sharp rocks and tree branches would have greeted her on the way down, or both…
Antauri was up and walking again as they searched for their friends in the forest. Gibson was leading with a tracker in hand locking on either Luna's genetic signature or Slingshots quasar energy reading. Most likely if they found one of them, they would find the other. An hour or so passed of walking when Gibson's tracker got a lock on not Luna or Slingshot, but Professor Maezono. It was hard to believe but true…the evil, and also gross, Professor must have found this planet to construct more of his corrupted creations. And Slingshot must have found him…
" Hold up! You haven't forgotten about Luna have you?" Clarity accused. Antauri was the first to react to this remark.
" We have not forgotten about her, but we must defeat Maezono." He said with his arms crossed. He said the first words a little to fast and a little on edge, and Chiro was the one who noticed this.
The team decided that they might get a better look if they flew, but Maezono's hideaway might be underground. So part of the team would search on foot and the other part would search by air. These were the teams: Sprx, Nova, Clarity, Atom, and Ruby by air, and Antauri, Chiro, Toxic, Gibson, and Otto by foot.
In the skys, Ruby was diving down every few minutes for some dinner, Sprx and Nova were fighting as usual and Clarity had to break them up. Atom was doing loopdy loops and zooming through clouds making them look like giant powdered doughnuts. That search was fruitless nonetheless, but at least Ruby got her lunch…
On the forest floor Antauri was far ahead just in case any more robots attacked. Chro was close behind as Gibson was looking at his scanner without even bothering to look up at the path ahead. Otto was chatting with Toxic in the back and they were having a good time making each other laugh.
" I finally got a lock! Professor Maezono is…that's strange…my tracker says he's right here!" Gibson said shocked.
"Maybe he's invisible!" Toxic and Otto said in unison. Gibson gave them both an annoyed look. That was just what he needed…two Ottos to interrupt him. The rest of the team (and bird) landed close by and walked over, Atom bouncing like a frog.
Then the ground soon started to shake and crack, the thick jungle trees collapsed. Chunks of earth caved into what seemed like an endless hole as the team struggled to get to safety, but their attempts were in vain seeing as how they fell into the gaping crater in the ground with no time to react. They fell into the unknown darkness but Toxic got an idea.
She shot out a small blade from her wrist and drove it into the hard stone. The heated specks of stone from the friction of metal against rock flew into her face, but she continued to slow nonetheless. Clarity looked up and caught on to what her sister was up to. She shot one of her ribbons out of her palm and Toxic caught it. Clarity then shot another ribbon down into the hole and wrapped it around Chiro's leg, since Chiro was the farthest down.
"Grab on to the closest person to you!" Clarity hollered. Chiro frantically looked around and grabbed Otto's foot, he passed on the instructions until Antauri was the last one who was holding onto Gibson's wrist.
The team climbed up each other and Atom was having a hard time, he had managed to get to Toxic, but that was a far as he could get. The ledge was too far up for him to jump and the rock was too flat to climb up. Then at the worst of times, the blade protruding from Toxics wrist has had too much strain and shattered. Without thinking, Toxic threw up her little brother to the ledge, and he managed to hang on long enough for Chiro to help him up. Unfortunately, Toxic fell because of the momentum of throwing Atom up forced her away from the wall and she got knocked out to make it worse.
"TOXIC!!" Otto shouted, attempting to dive in after her, but Gibson held him back.
"Otto cut it out! We don't know if she's gone or not, so just stay calm!" Sprx said from behind as Gibson let the green monkey out of his grip. Otto slid to the ground and had to be lifted up by Clarity and Atom. The Monkey Team decided to climb down to see where the hole led to, if anywhere…
MY POV
I woke to a painful headache and a blanket covering my torso and legs, but not my feet. I didn't want to open my eyes because I was too cozy to…(AWR: Haha! I think we all know how THAT feels!) After what felt ten or so minutes, I felt a cool hand on my forehead that lingered for a few seconds and then lifted. I opened one eye a crack to see the same blue robot that almost crushed me leaning over me.
The robot noticed that I was awake and spoke, " Hey, are you okay?" He asked. I opened both my eyes fully and slowly sat up, but only to fall back down clutching my shoulder. " Yeah, you dislocated your shoulder I fixed it, but you be able to use that arm for a while." He said a bit embarrassed.
I tried to get up again, but with my other arm and this time I prevailed. The robot gave me a sling to keep my arm in place. As he started to type on a computer, thoughts whirled around in my head. Like, why was he being so kind to me? Was he a fluke in a line of killing robots? Who created him? Where was he created? Was he hunting someone or was he the prey? So many questions, so little ways to ask them! This is what's bad about being a mute…no one can hear any questions you need to ask. I decided to look at my surroundings. Apparently I was either in a hollowed out tree, a cave, or abandoned lab. Judging by the computer and metal sound my shoes mad, I was gonna go with abandoned lab.
After being bored out of my head for about an hour, the robot finally said something. " Are you at all related to someone named Aggie Takeuchi?" He asked. I thought for a few seconds and realized that was my mother's maiden name. I slowly nodded my head and looked at him strangely. How the heck did he know my mother? For the record, I was very suspicious of this guy…er…robot.
He noticed I was glaring daggers at him and put up his hands in defense. " Hey! You don't need to start hating me right off the bat! I'm an old friend of your mom's. So go jumping to any conclusions." He paused as I softened my gaze. " I'm the Prometheus Five, but some just call me Slingshot." He said with an outstretched hand. I accepted the gesture and shook it with a welcoming smile. I showed him my necklace so he could know my name and we were officially acquainted.
DONE!!! Ehehe…y'all probably thought that there was gonna be more huh? NOPE!! MWAHAHAHA!!
Toxic: I can't believe you made me dead…
Me: You aren't dead! You'll be back in the next chapter!!!
Toxic: GOODIE!!
Me: Pwease press the purdy button!
PEACE OUT DUDES!!!
