It had been a long night for everyone.
In the early hours of the morning Otto and Antauri brought Chiro to the medical bay. Upon arrival, Otto quickly left to locate the science officer, whilst Antauri helped the boy to the bed.
Otto had run his small errand quickly. He found Gibson in his quarters, and once he had passed on the message, he was quick to head down the corridor towards his own room. He stopped briefly when he came across Sprx and Nova. He informed them of the recent happenings, before departing again to his quarters.
Soon after, Sprx and Nova also retired to their separate night quarters; leaving Antauri and Gibson to tackle the wayward boy in the medical bay.
It wasn't long before the blue primate appeared in the medical bay. Gibson was quick to start his work, as he could tell the boy was growing irritable already.
Chiro sighed drumming his fingers on the bed was doing little to pass the time; he wanted to sleep now, not be fussed upon. "How long is this going take? I'm not a lab rat you know" Chiro asked impatiently, keeping his eyes firmly fixed on the blue primate.
Gibson continued to work though he did grin; he adjusted the ice pack on the boy's ankle accordingly as he set the timer on his desk. "My apologies, you share similar traits"
Chiro glared at the blue primate, he was currently irked about everything that had just happened and now he had to deal with this!
"Are you done yet?" Chiro asked again, causing Antauri to look up from where he was hovering, his legs crossed in the lotus position, and arms folded.
"Patience Chiro, you're in the best possible hands with your injury, but treatment can take time" Antauri said now watching the pair in front of him.
"You don't have to treat me for anything; you can keep your resources. All I want is a place to keep a low profile and… OWW!" Chiro yelled retracting his leg, his now swollen and bruised ankle was not taking kindly to this practise. He looked from the primate he had been talking to, to the one, meddling with his foot.
"What was that for?" Chiro sulked.
"I wondered how much of a pain threshold you had" Gibson said as he left the boy on the table so he could get some fresh supplies.
Chiro watched him go with a glare, before going back to the black monkey. "I have a question and I want it answered" Chiro said slowly, as the mere response he got was a nod. Behind him Gibson had halted in his tracks too.
"Once Gibson has removed the ice and re-bandaged your foot and ankle, you should sleep Chiro. It's very late as it is, I promise I will answer any amount of questions you have in the morning" Antauri said as the boy sighed in response. Though he seemed to be accept the answer as he settled down in the bed.
Once Gibson had finished Chiro laid down, wrapping himself in the duvet that had been provided. With Gibson's work finished, he retired to his quarters, wishing a good night as he went. Chiro would stay here for tonight. This had been silently decided between the two primates. One night on the med bay's bed was not going to hurt him. But it would have to change soon though. One of them would have to put on a brave face and complete the job no one had wanted to do. Mandarin's old quarters had still not been entered, let alone cleared or cleaned. It was a task they had all voted to put off until they had exited stasis. But now the time had come, there were still no takers.
By 6:30 a.m. Gibson and Antauri were both up, and operational. Antauri, who had also spent the night in the medical bay to watch Chiro; greeted the other simian a good morning, as he finally descended to the ground. They decided to give Chiro a little longer before waking him, it was Nova they were both expecting to see up next, and true to form she appeared a few minutes later.
"Morning Gibson, Antauri" she gently greeted upon entering the medical bay. The golden coloured warrior carefully rubbed the sleep from her eyes, as she looked across to the sleeping boy lying in front of her.
"How is he doing?" she asked quietly, as Gibson simply read from his scanner.
"If my calculations are correct, his little escapade last night severed the ligaments that were damaged previously. He's simply worsened his existing injury" Gibson concluded as Nova nodded edging her way closer to his bed.
"Why was he not crippled though?" Nova asked as she looked to the two male primates.
"Otto told us last night, Chiro just kept going on and on, he wouldn't stop. Even when he gave you and Sprx the slip, surely he must have been in agony even then?" Nova said, the worry now clear on her face.
Gibson just looked to his scanner, as a response. He touched a few buttons at the side which altered the screen bringing up some more numbers on the black screen.
"When I looked into his blood levels last night, there were high amounts of adrenaline. This would decrease his ability to feel pain from his ankle. It's a counter reactor to stress" Gibson said.
"However I do believe the power primate could have also played a role, due to the fact he should have felt fatigue a lot earlier than he eventually did. I believe the mix of both was the cause. Though I would like to run some more tests next time, it could prove both interesting and useful" Gibson said with a grin.
"In due course, bombarding him with tests in which he would be the subject for, will demoralise him, and will not accelerate his cooperation. If anything, I believe it will encourage him to act up" Antauri intervened, as he received approval from both primates.
Nova eventually made her way over to the boy after listening to the conversation. She gently placed a hand across his forehead in order to remove the bangs that had fallen over his eyes. It was this action that eventually woke the boy.
Chiro blinked wearily, he had felt the cool metal gently glide through his hair. He blinked again as he focused, realising the culprit for his disturbance was the yellow primate. He yawned softly. "What time is it?"
"Nearly seven in the morning sleepy head, maybe you should think about waking up soon" Nova joked as she just received a grunt from the tired child. "Come on it's not that early Chiro"
Chiro meanwhile let out another moan. He was certainly proving he was not a morning person; he reopened his eyes again, lying on his side he was virtually inches away from the yellow simian.
"You can't stay in bed all day Chiro, what time do you usually get up in the morning?" Nova inquired as she watched the boy close his eyes again. He was going to be difficult, this she could tell, and if it had been Sprx she would have threatened to pulverize him by now.
"Leave me alone, for your information - normally twelve or one, now can I just sleep in peace?"
"Twelve or one!" this voice exclaimed in shock. This belonged to the team's scientist. "Great scot you can't be serious young man, we asked about waking in the morning, not the afternoon"
Chiro grumbled in response, if he just ignored them, maybe the monkeys would go away and he could go back to sleep. Wrong!
The blue monkey with the strong accent went on… and on…. and on. The yellow monkey tried shaking the boy and when this all failed; the black monkey resulted to telekinetically stealing the duvet.
This was the final straw. Chiro bolted awake, sitting up straight away, the yellow monkey skittered backwards to fall in line with the blue monkey. He was growling.
"Chiro this is for your own good, once you fall into a better routine of earlier nights you will find you'll have earlier mornings. We are simply looking out for you" the black primate voiced as he floated closer to the boy, attempting to smooth the situation out and lessen the blow.
"You can answer my question then, why are you so intent on helping me?" Chiro seethed crossing his arms.
Antauri stayed still looking back at the boy calmly; even Gibson and Nova looked to Antauri at that question. They all knew the true answer, but how would it be explained or when. Only Antauri could formulate the answer to this question!
"Our intention is simple, we were made to help Shugazoom City, protect it. We were originally it's guardians before we had to go into an unforeseen stasis. You awoke us from stasis yesterday, and from just a brief encounter with the city, I can see there's been drastic change.
"Is this the long version or the short one" a certain messy black haired teen asked rolling his eyes.
Antauri looked to the boy before coughing as he regained the attention again. "Shugazoom has changed significantly, especially its people. Shugazoom as we remember it, was never as technologically advanced and it's people were very humble towards their environment, each other and us" Antauri said carefully.
"So what's changed" the boy asked absentmindedly drumming his fingers, he was convinced this black monkey was avoiding the question now.
"There seems to be higher amounts of crime, high levels of disrespect, a lack of manners and no control. Especially when it comes to the younger generation, as an ambassador for this category, you show, yourself, a good example of how things have changed for the worse" the blue simian interrupted.
Chiro looked up at this "Here we go again" he shook his head, trying not to laugh. He found their concern amusing and he was going to play on it. "Changed for the worst? So what's this got to do with me" Chiro asked trying not to smirk.
"It means that if we are ever to help Shuggazoom again, we have to start at the pit, rock bottom, and if that means dealing with off the rail kids, like you, then so be it" the cocky red pilot answered as he walked into the room, making his presence known.