I don't have much to say here…oh, right! This is going to be a longish chapter so I have a good reason why it took a long time to get up. Also, Atom FINALLY get's to show off his powers! ON WITH THE SHOW!!!
I was sitting with Slingshot just staring at the ground deep in thought as he inspected my arm. He finished, but I hadn't noticed for there was too much on my mind to be thinking about my arm…There was so much that I didn't understand but somehow I needed to…I don't know of that was just me being nosy or actually needing to know…
"Hey, Luna…are you feeling okay?" Slingshot asked sitting next to me. I nodded my head with a smile, but I guessed he didn't buy it…I'm a terrible laiar… "You know… your gandmother was a very sweet girl. Of coarse I only met her when she was little." He stated. I looked interested and my ears perked up slightly and I sat up straight to hear better (AWR: Hey, it works.).
"Yeah…when I was activated Takeuchi had his neice visiting, but Maezono didn't like that one bit…" He paused for a few seconds. " When she first arrived the two were in a fight about if they should have let her stay or not. Professor Takeuchi won of coarse, but Maezono wouldn't let the fact that a seven-year-old was running around go." To me that just sounded weird…"Then when I was finally activated and that's when I met her. She looked a lot like you, only blue eyes and not silver" He said and I put my hand behind my head. No one EVER told me I looked ANYTHING like anyone in my family. He continued on about how they spoke and that it was my mom who told Takeuchi about what Maezono was planning. "Hehe…for a little girl, your grandmother was already a hero." He said jokingly. I smiled at that.
The abandoned lab began to shake violently and I had to use my good arm to keep from falling. We ran outside to see that same huge robot that attacked us earlier. But we were ready…I was about to take flight but Slingshot held me back.
"WAIT! You can't fight that thing, you're in no condition to! Besides it's over a hundred times your size!" He said. If I could tell him, he wouldn't believe how many times I've heard that from Antauri. I smirked at him and took off anyway. He soon caught up to me and I gave him a wink, good thing I can adapt!
MONKEY TEAM POV!!
The team had just reached the bottom of the hole, but nothing was there. No lab, no door…no Toxic. It was dark, deep, and the only light that was visible was from those light things that are in their helmets…
"Is there any way out of this?" Chiro asked irritably.
Otto and Gibson were digging through the dark dirt wall in an attempt of escape, Nova was pacing back and forth trying to think of an idea, Antauri was looking at the ground deep in thought, and Clarity was facing a wall and looked like she challenged it to a staring contest for she was staring at it so intensely. She closed her voilet eyes and a smirk played on her muzzle and she lifted her hand up to it.
"Clarity….?" Atom asked walking up to his sister. She looked down at him for a second as if to confirm that it was her little brother speaking. It was, only his little eyes were filled with worried tears. She rarely saw him cry, so this was a sign that there was even less hope of finding their lost family member. Atom had a way of just knowing that there was something wrong, and it was most powerful with his sisters.
"Yes, Atom? What's wrong?" The aqua colored monkey said while kneeling next to the younger member of the Hyper Force.
"There's something wrong…I…I can't tell if she's okay or not…I don't want her to go away! Not like you did!" He said leaping on his sister for comfort.
Clarity patted his back to calm the small monkey down. "It's alright, Atom…none of us are going anywhere." She said soothingly. He calmed down a little and wiped the tears from his eyes.
" Clarity, what was he talking about?" Gibson asked. Clarity tensed for a split second then recovered and turned to the rest of the team and smiled.
"Oh, nothing! Come on, I just think I found a way out of here." She said with a cheesy grin. But, she really did find the way out.
"And what might that be?" Nova questioned. Clarity only backed up so she was resting her foot on the wall.
"Obviously you didn't notice how easy it was to dig through the dirt." Clarity paused for a moment, "If it were completely dry, it would have been much, much harder to penetrate."
"Yeah, so? There's a lot of mud down here, what's the big deal?" Chiro asked with a little irritation. Patience was definitely not his strength a the moment.
"Well, what mixes with dirt to make mud?" Clarity qiuzzed. Otto was first to answer.
"Water, everyone knows that." He said.
"Yup." Clarity stated and with that she charged to the opposite wall and when she made impact, she simply dissappeared into the earth.
The whole team began to panic. Was she mad? Who in their right mind would charge head-first into a mud wall? Questions like this roused in their heads for a few seconds more when out of the blue, the ground shook again and it seemed that they were about to get devoured by a grouesome monster. They tried to escape with their jet packs, but they had somehow been disabled. The team scrambled to grab onto the rock face, but the mud was too slipery and they fell into the cold hole that led deeper into the earth.
Down the massive vent, wind yanking them to the left into a separate shaft, then they fell to what would seem like teir end. The whole lot landed with thuds and clanks ringing out harshly. They pushed themselves up off the cold ground and looked around still dazed slightly.
"Oi…What hit us?" Sparks groaned while clutching his head. None knew the answer to that. Footsteps were heard and a figure emerged from the shadows. It was Toxic.
Atom was overjoyed, and he immediately pounced on his older sister. "TOXIC! I can't believe you're here! Clarity dissapeared and we still can't find Luna and, and, and….huh?" He stopped talking and leapt off the purple and green monkey.
"What's wrong, Atom?" Chiro asked. They've been looking Toxic and she's here, right infront of them…wait, no fight? And why didn't she talk to them or anything? Something was not right…
Atom just stood there in confusion and slight anger. He looked around and looked back at Toxic, his anger rising.
"What did you do with Clarity?" He demanded. The rest of the team was shocked. Why would Atom accuse Toxic of doing something to harm their sister?
"What are you talking about Atom?" Gibson asked.
Atom quickly turned around with angry tears, "That's not Toxic!" He exclaimed.
What? How could this not be Toxic? Same stripes, same color, same eyes, same everything. But…there was something different…her eyes…they seemed lifeless and blank…
"Clever boy. Of coarse, I didn't expect less from the third sibling." A sinister and cold voice called out into the lab. It was none other than the evil, gross, evil doctor…Professor Maezono. His weird containment thing that held the disenbodied brain rised up from the a panel in the flooring.
"ALRIGHT!! WHERE'S MY SISTER!!" Atom yelled in a rage. When he and his sisters were separated, Atom had the worst temper you could imagine.
Antauri grabbed the eight-year-old's shoulder, holding him back. "Atom, no. We have fought Maezono before, he will tell nothing but lies to you." He explained. Atom settled down, but was still very peeved.
"What did you do to her?" Chiro cammanded. Maezono laughed again, which was getting very annoying…
"I simply tapped into the computer in her brain and took control of her body and mind. Fastinating, no? Of coarse, her sister is much more difficult to break. I fear her hard-headedness was her own downfall." He said. Atom was about to lunge at him, but Toxic grabbed his foot, causing him to crash to the ground.
Atom had a chance too look around and saw there were melted parts of machinery, a gaping hole in the wall, icicles that were melting were pinned in the walls in multiple places, and in one spot was a pool of a thick red liquid. His eyes widened at the condition of the lab.
"Yes, yes…these two put up quite the struggle, for a moment even I thought that Clarity would prevail, but the purest of streams is the most easily tainted." Maezono spoke again, faking a sympathetic tone.
Atom had to clench his teeth as hard as he could and balled his fists to keep from pouncing on the Professor. He kicked his ankle from Toxic's grasp and began to walk to the rest of the team, but is anger was too much for him to contain and turned back around, flying at the brain with a green glowing ball of energy in his hand. Toxic immediately intercepted him and knocked the energy out of his hand and it was thrown to the side, exploding as soon it made contact with a suface.
The team stood in awe as the smoke cleared. Atom's ability was to create bombs on command. Gibson recalled when Clarity was crying earlier that day, she was worried that Atom would do something terrible like before but it was never clear to him what. But now he understood…Atom…bomb…atom bombs. Somehow, Atom had managed to create a nuclear explosion that could have destroyed the cosmos. Gibson kept his mouth shut, not wanting to worry the others.
Atom landed and Toxic followed, but they were a few yards apart. They stared eachother down, both of their green eyes locked on the other. The only reason the silence was broken was from the crackling and buzzing of the snapped wires. Toxic lunged at Atom with a wrist blade at the ready, but Atom, being smaller than both of his sisters, easily dodged. Instead, Toxic stabbed another machine and a gaping hole soon melted into exsistance in a smoking river of liquid metal. Atom got another bomb at the ready and hurled it at Toxic, but she jumped out of the way, creating another explosion. She hovered above Atom as he lunged another ball of green energy, but this one hit the ceiling and caused an explosion again, but leading to the outside. Atom flew out the hole and into the sky with Toxic following. The team followed, but ran into Slingshot and Luna who were fighting a giant robot…but were losing.
My POV
Slingshot and I were not doing well…this robot was simply too much. We would attack with some of out best moves, but it would immediately catch on and counter them. I hovered there panting barely being able to stay in the air, and Slingshot was trying to figure out how to beat this thing. Then out of the blue I was knocked down into the dirt creating a crater in the earth. I didn't want to get up, I was too tired, so I just stayed hoping for some kind of miracle. I closed my eyes for a moment and just thought about what might happen.
One turnout was that Slingshot would somehow come through and win against the giant scrap-heap, and then there was the option of him being defeated and the team defeating Maezono….but then there was the slim chance of none of us prevailling and Maezono taking over the universe. I tried to keep that thought from my mind, but it would always come back as I lied in the crater. Why was it that when there was a worst possible outcome, it would always stick in your head until the real end passed? I asked myself that question for a while until I saw Toxic and Atom land close by, but no Clarity. I hoisted myself up to look, but Toxic seemed to be coming at Atom at full force, with every intention to…kill him.
I sat there gaping, not able to take my eyes off of the sight. It seemed impossible to look away for I couldn't look away…why? My entire body shook in fear for both of my friends, just hoping that everything would be okay. I shook my head over and over again, wishing this were all a bad dream, but the scene was still there. I had the urge to get up and intercept the fight, but my legs refused to move.
CLIFFHANGER!! HAHA! This story is just FILLED with suspense, no? Well, now you guys know what Atom does. Again, I apologize it took so long, I've been suffering from writers block for this story.
