Next Chapter...Man should stop updating in the middle of the night. I can't write good intro's there.

Antauri: Than just stop.

Not helping here.

Antauri: (smirks) Then let's end this quick so you can go to bed.

Yeah, SRMTHFG doesn't belong to me.

Antauri: She doesn't own Harry Potter either.

R&R

Antauri groaned when he came to and blinked when bright light hit him. Sitting up, he shivered when a cold wind blew around him. Glancing around, he gasped. He was in the Zone of Wasted Years. Looking down at himself, he muttered: "Or rather, my mind is here." That was true, because what he saw wasn't silver metal, but black fur. The black monkey stood up and glanced around. "Why would Chiro's sub-consciousness bring me here. I…"

He trailed off when he heard a voice and quickly dashed behind a rock. Peeking out, he gasped.

"…the little pests!" Valina stalked into his view, pulling something along with her.

Shocked Antauri realised that it was Chiro. The teen had great fear in his eyes and yowled: "What do you want from me?"

Valina laughed and stated: "From you? Nothing, however form a certain friend…or better, ex-friend of yours!"

"Huh?", asked Chiro confused while Antauri frowned. What would that she-witch want with him? The black monkey knew it was him, no one else was anywhere nearby.

"Well, let's make a quiz out of it. He is silver, has blue eyes and after everything you did to him he's still trying to safe you."

"Antauri?", gasped Chiro. Antauri frowned once more. He'd been right. "Why do you want him?"

Valina grinned and asked: "So you never realised why you had these pain-attacks in the last year?"

"Pain-Attacks?", mouthed Antauri.

"Why should I?", asked Chiro back.

Valina lowered her voice and answered silently: "Because, the Super Robot and, thought you didn't realise it, you, gave a little god-bye gift to him after you sent him away. A very special part that connected you and the robot with him."

The Power Primate, thought Antauri on an instant. After his rebirth, it had always connected him with Chiro and the Robot. Chiro looked still confused and Valina rolled her eyes, then sneered: "And you know, I arranged all of it from the begin with."

Antauri's eyes widened and he stared at the sorceress. It took all of his self-control, to not cry out "WHAT?"

"Indeed I did", answered Valina to Chiro's confused gaze. She pressed her nail against his forehead and asked: "Remember the time you got attacked in the alley? It was me. I influenced you to abound your greatest protector. HA! It was too easy. The silver monkey is still broken boy. After all you did, no wonder."

Antauri's claws leaped from their sheaths by instinct and his lips drew back in snarl. It was Valina's fault that he'd gone through hell?

"….I…I…I didn't…"

"You did terrible things to him boy…and you even liked it. Oh how easy you were to influence. You broke him again and again!"

#It was enough, Antauri couldn't hold back anymore. Swifter than ever, he leaped at Valina and pushed her away, growling at the she-witch. She stared and Antauri released his Monkey-Mind-Scream at her. She screamed and backed off, then hissed: "How can you be here?"

Antauri glared at her and snarled: "No matter what happened to me, I could never abound the team, Chiro neither. When I got informed that Chiro was missing, I tried to use the Power Primate to find him. Your clumsy attempt to shield him forced me here! I. heard. Everything!"

Valina, if it was even possible with her skin-colour, paled, then shot a black beam at him. The black monkey dodged and slashed his claws out at her. Valina screeched when he scratched her stomach and she backed off, then grinned and hissed: "Your attempts are futile. Except for his innermost self, the boy is still mine." She disappeared and the moment her present was gone for his sixth sense, Antauri calmed down and collapsed onto his knees in exhaustion.

"A-Antauri?"

His gaze went to Chiro, who was free from Valina's bonds now. He reached out for the former second in command. Antauri backed off instinctively. Too often had Chiro not just psychically hurt him, but he'd received physical harm as well.

Chiro looked shocked at the way he acted and that was when Antauri realised it. Why Valina had kidnapped the HyperForce leader. They both were in his most inner self, the only part of the teen, Valina couldn't control, and this part of him, had no clue how much pain he'd caused his former mentor. Though knowing this now, Antauri continued to back off when Chiro tried to close towards him. He couldn't help it. After the anger on Valina had worn off, his instincts took charge. All he registered was that this was the boy that had caused him enough pain to not care for his own life anymore.

"Antauri why are you running from me?"

Anger, strong and burning, burst through the black monkey and he snarled at the teen.

"Valina told you why", hissed the black monkey. "Maybe she has caused it, but the pain you caused me is hard to forget!" Chiro backed off, looking shock. Antauri continued his rant: "You managed what no one ever managed before, not Mandarin, not Skeleton King, not Xan. You managed to break me Chiro, to slowly cause me to lose my sanity, to lose everything I ever cared for. You ordered me away because I cared!"

Antauri breathed heavily now and a loud growl escaped his throat, though he rather did that, than attacking the teen with his claws again. Chiro stared at him in shock, then argued: "N-No, Antauri I would never…"

"But you did!", interrupted Antauri angrily. "You did, and you can't change that anymore. And not even when I finally got along with the live you threw me in, you had to come back! Dammit Chiro you almost killed me once!"

The teen sat on the ground by now, while Antauri floated over him. Chiro averted his eyes from the burning yellowish-green lenses of the black monkey, but he used his mental powers to force Chiro to face him.

"You lied about me, lied to me, tried to take away the few things that kept me from losing my sanity. At times I wondered if fate shouldn't have chosen someone else to be the chosen one." At this Chiro stared at him in shock. Antauri knew these words hurt the teen deeply, especially when they came from the one who encouraged him ever since he started to lead the team.

"But I…"

"I'm not done yet Chiro!"

"Why won't you let me say sorry!"

"Because I can't forgive", shouted Antauri back. His anger was disappearing, giving space for grief and sadness. Tears started to stream down Antauri's face. "I…can't forgive…because if I do…you will just hurt me again. Any-anywhere in your soul, except for here, Valina is in control. I…I just can't be hurt like that again. It rips me apart from the inside out."

Antauri collapsed the moment his feet finally touched the ground again and sobs shook the black monkey. "I-I-I just c-c-can't anymore Chiro…I…I want e-e-ever-everything to t-turn back to normal but…I…can't even dare to h-hope this…not after what happened." He shook his head and a sorrowful cry escaped him. He wanted to leave. He wanted to leave this place.

Though knowing Chiro would try to comfort him, he wanted no one else but Melody to be the one to do it. She'd been there for him ever since he'd landed on earth. But something kept him from it, something held him there, no matter how much he wished to leave. And he knew what it was. Chiro held him back, the teen refused to let him go.

"Ch-Chiro…let me go…please."

"No", answered the teen sternly. "Not until you tell me what happened."

"I already told you", whispered Antauri, but looked at the teen. "I told you what you did to me. That was the thing that I can tell you. I don't know what happened after you ordered me away."

He looked away again. He couldn't bear looking at the child he still loved so much, but also hated to the very core of his being.

"Antauri stop being like that!", exclaimed the teen. "That's nothing like you."

Again hot anger burst through him and he screamed: "How can you know how I am?" The teen stepped back, fear in his eyes. Antauri bared his fangs at the teen. "You don't know what I had to go through. How often I was plagued by Nightmares, how often did I torture myself by allowing my pain to go on…" He trailed off, then his voice lowered to almost nothing and continued: "Terrible things have to happen to change someone in the way I changed. Chiro…I'm not who you remember, not anymore."

Turning away from the teen, he took a deep breath and practically forced himself to calm down.

"Chiro…please let me finally go. I…I can't anymore. I will find you, for the team, I will help them to free you, but you have to let me go for that. Please?"

The bonds binding him to Chiro's sub-consciousness started to weaken, when they suddenly came back, stronger than ever before. A chocked sob escaped the black monkey. What now? Hadn't he suffered enough yet? A hand touched his and instinctively Antauri jerked away from it. No matter how sure he was that Chiro was sorry, he couldn't help it.

The teen stepped back, then whispered: "D-Did I really hurt you that much?"

Antauri glanced at the teen, then looked away again. New tears threatened to escape his eyes, when the bonds suddenly disappeared. Without another word, Antauri forced himself back to his body and with a gasp he opened his real eyes.

"He's awake!"

That was Mandarin's voice and the next moment Melody picked him up and pulled him into a hug. Like he'd done it so often now, he clung to her and started to cry into her coat. Everyone fell silent at this, thought those were different kinds of silence. Melody, Mandarin and Metal out of worry and bitter knowledge. Professor McGonagall and Professor Potter out of curiosity and confusion and the Monkey Team out of shock.

They'd seen him cry at his first confrontation with Chiro, but never like that.