Ok yes this is a shorter chapter than the others...but I thought you may need to take a break from such long ass chapters. As for this chapter in particular things get a little...interesting. Please enjoy.


Antauri and Chiro were scouting the city the day after their outing, looking to see if any of the brainwashed monkeys were around. So far nothing, but their hopes were still high.

Chiro looked at the lab entrance and shivered at the sight of it. Just seeing that horrid place made his skin crawl.

"You don't think they happen to be down there right? I mean just looking around?" He suggested to Antauri.

"We would have to take the entire team down in order to do that Chiro. We wouldn't want to run into the robots again by ourselves." Antauri advised.

Chiro nodded slightly and looked down.

"I just have this weird feeling that...that one of them is down there. I don't know why I just do." He said softly.

Antauri looked over at the entrance and stared at it for a while. As if searching for answers.

"I sense it too Chiro, however we will need a plan if we try to investigate." He said.

Chiro silently agreed, they can't just storm down there and search.

"One things for certain, the children can never know it's location. They must never go down there." Antauri said seriously.

"Oh of course." Chiro agreed.

However he couldn't help but feel a bit apprehensive for some reason.


Chiro and Antauri returned to the robot where some of the kids in the command center playing around. Penny noticed them and rushed up to the two.

"Hi! Didja find my brothers and sisters today?" She asked, bouncing a bit.

Chiro shook his head and smiled sadly.

"Penny we told you they were at the castle across the bridge. We tried to find them in the city but no."

Penny sighed heavily and leaned her whole body forward. She knew she had brothers and sisters from the conversations she overheard, but why were they living with Skeleton King? He's mean and nasty!

"Man you'd think they'd be in the city at least looking around? Did you find them on your night patrols Otto?" Nova asked, scratching her head.

Otto shook his head as he stopped tinkering.

"No...I wish I did." He answered sadly.

Angela raised a bracelet up.

"Penny your bracelet is ready!" She called.

"Kay!" Penny called back before looking at a worried Gibson.

"We have to keep the look out in case a few of them do. If Skeleton King ships them all out into the city at once they have to be stopped!" Gibson wheezed.

"Gibson calm down. They're still over at Skeleton king's fortress, the city is still safe." Antauri said.

Penny frowned.

"Safe from what? What does Skeleton King want them to do?" Penny asked nervously.

Chiro and Antauri froze up and looked at each other.

"Penny, Skeleton King wants them to do something...very bad. It would be something that...we just can't let them do those bad things and help them before anyone got hurt." Chiro explained as Angela looked off to the side and frowned.

Penny noticed her sister's change in mood and looked back at them.

"Well what bad things do they want to do?" She asked, curiosity taking over.

Chiro patted her head.

"It's nothing you need to worry about, now I'm going to look at the scanners." He said, not wanting Penny to know.

Antauri nodded and went to his room for meditation. Penny frowned and tapped her foot. There's something they're not telling her, she wants to know what's going on! Then Kuzon hopped up.

"Wait is that event thing still going on at the bunker?" He asked Gibson.

"It should, why?" He asked.

Kuzon got to his knees and clasped his hands together.

"Please let me go! I heard there's gonna be a lot of paintings and artworks down there and I wanna see them!" He begged, making Gibson chuckle.

"I said I'll talk to the team about it, but you have to be on your best behavior."

"I will! I swear I will!" Kuzon said, placing a hand on his chest.

Penny smiled and went over to them.

"Can I go too Gibby? I wanna see some pretty drawings too."

Angela looked over at them.

"Is it okay if I go too? I got nothing else to do this evening." She said with a small shrug.

Gibson looked between the three and sighed.

"I will talk to the others, but you need to keep an eye out on your sister." He said to Angela.

Angela nodded.

"Sure no problem." She said.

Penny bounced in place with a huge grin. This was gonna be so fun!


The team agreed for Gibson to take the three kids with him as they went out of the robot and through the streets. They passed by the lab entrance as Angela

"Is Aurora gonna be there too?" Penny asked.

"I asked her and she said she'll try to be there on schedule." He said.

Penny smiled, she loved Aurora six. She was so cool.

They turned a corner as they arrived to the the bunker, which was surrounded by many people.

"What time does it start again?" Angela asked.

"In about fifteen minutes."

Kuzon smiled and looked at the sign, advertising the event.

"It's so amazing that with the war still going on people still have time to do this stuff." He said.

"It helps when Skeleton King hasn't had any activity in the past few months either. Still we have to keep on our guard." Gibson pointed out.

Kuzon nodded before hearing a lot of commotion. The crowd's attention was on a green robot monkey with red eyes, holding a bag of what seemed to be machine parts. Her eyes widened at the crowd.

"Shit." She muttered before beginning to run off.

Gibson quickly ran after her.

"Wait! Stop!" He called out.

Penny narrowed her eyes before realizing.

"Trixie!" She squealed before running after her.

"Penny wait!" Kuzon yelled, going after her.

Violet talked about Trixie a bit, so seeing her here was so cool! Angela stared at Trixie for a long time.

Trixie's hand turned into a cannon and began firing at Gibson.

"I've been compromised I repeat I've been compromised!" She said into her communicator before blasting off.

Gibson was about to fly after her when a sudden blast nearly hit him. Trixie flew up next to a pink robot monkey, who began scolding her for lack of stealth. She turned to the other monkeys and glared at them before they flew off. Gibson stared up at the two, feeling defeated.

Kuzon rushed up to him and hugged him from the side.

"Gibson are you okay?" He asked worriedly.

Gibson frowned but exhaled through his nose, calming himself down.

"Yes I'm fine."

Kuzon looked up at the sky.

"So was that our sisters?" He asked, figuring the pink monkey was Artemis.

Gibson sighed.

"Yes."

The three were silent before Penny asked, "Do we have to go home now?"

Gibson shook his head.

"No I'll call the team to trace them, come on it's about to open." He said as they went back to the bunker.

Angela looked back up at the sky, hoping to see even a glimpse of them.


The event turned out to both take place up above and in the bunker itself. Penny walked with Gibson looked at all of the artwork as Kuzon stayed at one piece of artwork for several minutes before going to the next one.

Angela meanwhile, sat at the food table, just thinking about what happened and the labs location. She needed to see it for herself, she needed to. Angela read where the lab's location was, and it was nearby. Angela closed her eyes, frowning. She has to see it. Angela then got up and began to walk upstairs. Penny looked at her before telling Gibson she's gonna see Angela.

"Ange! Where ya going? The party's right here." She said.

Angela almost looked startled at her but settled.

"Just walking around..."

Penny narrowed her eyes. Her voice sounded off, almost like...

"Wait what are you planning?" She asked, smirking.

Angela began to sweat.

"What do you mean?"

"You're up to something. I wanna see what."

Angela looked around, she really didn't want Penny to tell anyone what she wanted to do but...

"Are you gonna see what Trixie was doing with all of that stuff?" Penny asked.,

Angela stiffened but nodded, going with it.

"Er yeah."

Penny smiled a bit before frowning, thinking of Chiro and her's conversation earlier.

"Nobody's telling me what they want to do. I want to know so maybe I could help, not fight but maybe help them get better. I wanna know." She said.

Angela then got an idea. If the team wasn't gonna tell her at least in a way she'd understand then Angela will.

"I bet I know." She said with a sneeky smirk.

Penny looked up.

"Huh?"

Angela leaned down to her.

"How about we go and I'll explain what they want to do." She offered.

Penny smiled hugely before Gibson came over.

"Angela you know the oil paintings over there may interest you." He said, motioning towards one side of the room.

Angela had to think of a plan and quick.

"Uh Gibson is it okay if Penny and I took a... walk?" She asked.

Gibson raised an eyebrow.

"Where to?" He asked.

Angela held back the nervous tone that would come out of her voice.

"J-just a-around and we'll be right back." She nervously answered.

Penny looked between the two. Why was she lying?

Gibson stared at Angela and thought on it.

"Okay...but stay around the proximity and stay to where the allies are on guard." He said.

"Okay, c'mon." Angela said before the two went up and out of the bunker.

Gibson had a really bad feeling about this so he turned on his communicator.

"Chiro? Keep an eye on Angela and Penny. Angela's up to something."

Angela was a terrible liar.


Angela searched for the lab opening until she came across the alleyway. Penny shivered.

"I don't like alleys Ange, meanies are always hiding in them." She said.

"Don't worry there's no one here." Angela assured her sister as she opened the hatch.

Penny nervously looked inside.

"Are you sure about this? It's creepy and dark down there."

Angela looked back at her sister and gave her a comforting look.

"Don't worry, anyone that's down there is already shut off. We'll be fine." She said as she took Penny's hand.

The two went down the staircase and into the kitchen.

Penny looked around as Angela smiled.

"Here we are! Welcome to the lab! What do you think?" She asked Penny.

Penny hesitated a bit. She found this whole place to be creepy and weird to her and she didn't get why. Maybe it was the fact it was too dark to her liking.

"Uh it's nice." She said.

Angela looked around, awed by the interior. So this was the place, where she was born.

"Yeah kinda homey to be honest. Come on let's look around." She said, taking Penny's hand.

Meanwhile Chiro was on their trail until they got to the labs.

"What is she doing?!" He exclaimed as Angela opened the hatch door.

"More importantly why is she bringing Penny down there? Don't they know that place is dangerous?!" Nova exclaimed.

Violet shook her head.

"I don't think Penny does but I have no idea what Angela's thinking right now." She said.

Maurice watched Angela and glared. What the hell is going through her head right now?

Mandarin wearily watched the two. Sure the robots were shut off right now but that doesn't mean the security feature may let out a silent alarm.

"We need to get them out of there. I'll get her." Maurice said before turning..

The others turned to him in shock.

"Wait a second you can't! That place is just as dangerous to you as it is for them. Let us handle it." Chiro said.

Maurice looked back at them.

"Chiro I'm getting the feeling that she's not thinking clearly right now. Why I have no clue, but she'll listen to me if I get her." He said as Violet went over to him.

"I'm going too. I know that place better than you so we won't get lost." She said.

"Violet not you too!" Sprx whined.

Nova turned to Mandarin. He's their mother, maybe they'll listen to him. Maurice maybe not so much but maybe it could be enough to at least knock some sense into him.

"Mandarin please say something to them." She said.

Otto frowned a bit but looked at Mandarin. Mandarin was awfully silent for a while as Violet eagerly waited and Maurice just stared. Mandarin then sighed and looked towards the two.

"Get them out of there as quickly as you can. There's a silent alarm that might be triggered if you're there too long I'm not sure. Avoid the brainwashing section like the plague that it is and don't touch anything else. Keep your communicators on so we can hear what's going on." He told them, causing Sprx to throw his hands in the air and most of the other's mouths to drop.

Violet nodded and smiled.

"Got it, come on!" She said as Maurice and Violet rushed out.

"No stop! Mandarin!" Chiro huffed turning towards him.

"What was that?!" He demanded.

Mandarin didn't look at him.

"Maurice is right. Angela's mindset is very off at the moment but she may listen to them. Besides the last time you were down there the robots were about to kill you. If they are unable to get her and Penny out then you'll have to go get them and be quick about it." He explained.

Jinmay couldn't help but nod.

"I agree, she's been so quiet lately and been kept up in her room, talking about reading something. Someone needs to talk to her."

The others looked down. That was true, in the past few days she's been less social and has been acting off. So really this was just coming to a head.

"You don't think...you don't think she may go with Skeleton King right?" Otto asked fearfully.

Antauri clutched his shoulder and gave him a serious look.

"We won't let that happen."


Uh oh, what does Angela have planned? Find out in the next chapter. Thanks for reading!