Annime: I'm BACK!

Chiro: Why can't you just stay gone?

Sprx: Annime doesn't own SRMTHFG or anything belonging to someone else. That means she doesn't own Mt. Dew!

Chapter 10

Chiro was bouncing a ball against the wall. A curtain emotion was running through him; some might not even call it an emotion:

Boredom

Chiro groaned as the ball bounced the wrong way and went to the other side of the room for the third time in ten minutes. His frustration bubbled.

He didn't have any training practice, yet the monkey team was doing something top secret in Gibson's lab. He wasn't even supposed to leave his room!

Chiro sat up and huffed. The teen didn't want to go and get the ball; he wanted to REALLY do something. Regret crept through him as he remembered how he had decided to stay in the robot instead of going out with some friends.

More than anything, curiosity flooded his mind, body, and movements. He was both their leader and their teammate. Why couldn't he know? The raven hair teen had to fight off the temptation to go and sneak a look because the team threatened to make him do training with Nova alone, where she wouldn't hold back. Chiro shivered at the thought. It didn't sound very fun, but wonder kept creeping into his stomach.

The teen sighed. He hoped that getting a drink wouldn't hurt as he stood up and walked quietly out of the room.

Gibson looked at the new blue prints for a time machine with satisfaction. They were crisp and new as they sat in his hands.

"Watch out!" Sprx's cry rang through the room. Neither Otto nor Gibson was able to react before Otto crashed into Gibson. Gibson and Otto plummeted to the ground together in surprise and rolled. Otto sat up and found that he was sitting on Gibson. Gibson growled until Otto got off of him. Otto smiled shyly as the blue simian sent him a glare, along with Sprx.

"Don't you know that both of you could have ruined the blue prints we have been working on for hours?" Gibson questioned the two as he held up the now scuffed paper. "If you two don't want to help then why don't you go and keep Chiro company?"

"No," Antauri objected before the two could answer. "We all need to work together if we are going to get this finished quickly. Chiro will be fine by himself."

Sprx looked at Antauri skeptically and said, "Antauri, do you here what you are saying? You're talking about the kid who can get bored in a blink of an eye, but gets entertained just as quickly. He has been alone in his room for a few hours now and we haven't heard a peep outta him. I think someone should at least check on him."

Antauri nodded. "Nova will do it."

Sprx groaned aloud while Nova smiled. The female walked out of the room and left the boy's to their work.

"Ok," Gibson spoke, smirking. "Let's start building this thing. Otto, I need you to get…"

Sprx tuned out the scientist as he listed the needed tools; some he wouldn't even know about. He just stared at the wall, unaware of the silver simian eyeing him.

"Sprx," Antauri said. Sprx's head shot towards the second in command. "I need you to go get us some lemonade."

Sprx smiled and nodded to Antauri, and then rushed out of the room so he didn't have to deal with Mr. Know-it-all. He started to walk slowly down the hall so that he didn't have to be for a little while.

Chiro opened the fridge and pulled out some Mt. Dew. He hoped this would help him wake up a bit so he could find something better to do in his room than throw a ball at the wall. He heard some footsteps coming to the kitchen Chiro nearly choked on the liquid that was still traveling down his throat and he ran to the other side of the kitchen to hide.

Sprx entered the room, humming a tone that Chiro recognized from off the radio. Chiro held the need to groan; that song was played WAY too much!

Next thing he knew, he heard Sprx himself groan.

"Why is that song stuck in my head?" Sprx complained aloud. Chiro laughed a little, and as Sprx heard it he was prepared for an attack. "Who's there?"

Chiro covered his mouth, cursing himself silently for being caught and tried to conceal his body behind the cabinet more efficiently.

Nova walked down the hall to Chiro's room with a broad smile on her face.

"Ha, ha, Sprx had to stay with Gibson," she giggled. Plainly she didn't know about the red simian's deputation into the kitchen. She stepped up to the teen's door and knocked. The yellow simian waited…and waited…and waited…and waited…

She knocked on the door again, but no one answered or came. Wondering what the young boy was up to, Nova opened the door to find that Chiro wasn't there. Curiosity spiked her as she closed the door. Understanding nothing bad must have happened to him, Nova wandered to the kitchen to try her luck at finding him.

Sprx turned on his magnets and pointed these weapons at the side of the room Chiro was hiding at.

"You better come out, or I'll shoot." Sprx kept skimming the room silently, and silence answered him back. He changed his magnets back to hands and shrugged. "Yep, I'm going insane."

"Everyone already knew that," Nova's voice spoke from nowhere, startling both Chiro and Sprx, but Chiro stayed silent.

"Hey, Nova," Sprx welcomed the female.

"Hey, Sprx; why aren't you in the lab with the others?"

"Antauri sent me to get some drinks. How's the kid doing?"

"I don't know. He wasn't in his room."

"What?"

Chiro grew a little nervous. He started to edge away and into the hallway the lay to his left so that he could escape.

"Well, he had to be around he somewhere," Sprx said. The red simian started to pour the lemonade into the glasses.

"Yea, I was hoping to find him here."

"Well-WOW!" shouted Sprx. This alarmed Chiro until he heard a splash.

Sprx had spilled the lemonade, and this would be a perfect time to get away.

Chiro crawled a little ways until he was in the hallway, stood up, and ran to his tube while Nova and Sprx cleaned up the lemonade.

After he reached his room he sighed in relief and gripped the bottle of Mt. Dew. He smiled as he finally realized that they already knew he left his room. No matter what, he was in trouble.

Antauri watched as Gibson and Otto started to place the parts of the time machine together. He just hoped it would be built in time before anything bad happened.

Annime: There you go!

Chiro: Please review!