"Chiro: While exploring the outskirts of the city, I discovered an abandoned super robot. It was then my life was transformed by the mysterious Power Primate. The robot monkeys were awakened and I, Chiro, became their leader. Our quest: Save Shuggazoom City from the evils of the Skeleton King. Antauri, Sprx, Gibson, Nova, Otto, Jinmay, Chiro!"
"We need to figure out how to break the spell before doing anything rash…" Antauri stated.
The 4 of them snuck around the dungeon halls, sticking close to the walls, they passed a thick metal door.
"Wait, I smell something odd…" Nightshade stopped them.
"A human, but not Chiro…" Night continued.
"It could be prisoners!" Nova added.
"In that case we need to free them, Nightshade, I need you to spy on Valentine and see if you can find a way to break her hold on the team." Antauri instructed.
The purple feline nodded and ran off in search of Valentine. Antauri attempted to phase through the door, but was quickly zapped by it. He noticed more of those pinkish purple gems, like the ones that Nightshade had on her gloves, or the ones on his shackles from earlier.
"These gemstones, they block my phasing powers…Nova, you will have to melt the hinges." The silver simian stated, turning his attention to her.
"Wait! She's still tired, let me." Jinmay interrupted.
Jinmay used her eye lasers (oh god) to melt the door hinges, then she held it open for the monkeys to get through. She closed the door back, not wanting the formless to discover them. Behind the door were stairs leading down into darkness. Nova and Antauri activated the flashlights on their helmets and began their descent. At the bottom of the stairs was another door like the one before. Sounds of walking could be heard inside. Jinmay melted the hinges like before, but a little quieter. Jinmay opened the door a little and the 3 peeked inside; it was a lab of some kind, kennel cages lined one of the walls, equipment lined another. A woman walked in from another room inside, she had light purple skin and black hair, she wore a lab coat. She walked over to a stool and sat down, her back faced to them. Antauri nodded at the other two and they carefully walked in. As they walked closer to her, she spoke;
"Look! I told you already! They aren't ready yet!" The woman snapped around angrily in her seat!
Her angry expression quickly turned into a confused one.
"You...I've never seen any of you before…" She tilted her head, somewhat worried.
"Are you a priso…" Antauri was interrupted by the woman;
"Wait, you're the silver monkey!"
"How did you know that?" Antauri raised a brow in curiosity.
"I've studied your blueprints…wait? Are you three the Hyper Force!" She looked like she was on the verge of a smile.
"Yes, are you a prisoner?" Nova replied.
The woman nodded sadly.
"Then let's get you out of here!" Jinmay stated determinedly.
"You can guarantee our safety from Skeleton King?" The woman asked.
"Wait there are more of you down here?" Antauri became concerned. How many was Skeleton King keeping down here?
"Please tell me, can you guarantee their safety!"The woman continued.
"Nothing is ever guaranteed in life, but our job is to protect civilians at all costs, even at the cost of our own lives." Antauri stated, knowing that the number of prisoners could affect the outcome.
"Ok…follow me; I have to get my family…" The woman turned and headed for the door she came from earlier.
The three cautiously followed her into the other room. The room had multiple cloth covered cages, she walked over to one of them and took the cloth of it. The team's eyes widened at the creature inside; a cyborg monkey like them, about Citrus's age. It had light blue/grayish fur, bright blue eyes, and an unusual mane of white thick fur around the neck and chest.
"Who are they? What's happening?" The little monkey spoke with a quiver in its voice.
"Don't worry Tiberius, they are going to save us, were getting out of here." She unlocked the cage and he jumped into her arms.
She quickly walked to another cage and opened it.
"Come on out Shelly, were leaving" the woman instructed to another cage.
A cyborg monkey about Chiro's age stepped out, she had sea foam colored fur and blue eyes, her fur was strangely shiny and was covered is blue stripes.
The women opened up another cage, a low growl came from inside.
"I know you're still mad at me, but we need to leave." The woman stated calmly.
The cyborg monkey that jumped out of the cage was an older teen; he had gray fur and red eyes, and wings like a bat.
"Ok, we can leave now." The woman stated.
Antauri was curious about the monkeys, but there was no time to ask questions, they had to get them out of here without being spotted.
"Jinmay, you must get them out of here and take them back to the robot." Antauri instructed.
"Alight, I'll come back once their safe." She nodded.
"Wait…you need to destroy this lab, every last file of it." The woman stated intensely.
"We will do that after Jinmay has taken you to safety, the destruction will attract attention." Antauri stated.
"Ok, follow me, it will take some sneaking so try and stay quiet." Jinmay added.
The woman and the young monkeys followed Jinmay up the steps and out of sight. As they waited for Jinmay to give the go ahead, Antauri and Nova looked around the lab…he found something rather interesting; a flash drive labeled "Monkey C 1A" Antauri new that he was supposed to destroy everything in the lab, but something about the flash drive pecked at him. He wasn't sure what to do. "What if it's dangerous? Taking it could risk everybody's lives! But, it is just a flash drive, we could just destroy it once we see what's on it…but I shouldn't be foolish, ether, it might infect the robot with a virus…" He was about to put it back on the table where he found it, be he noticed that on the back of it, in tiny wrighting it read; "Alchemist."
The team would want to know what was on it; Antauri quickly stashed the flash drive in a compartment in his arm. Nova's communicator rang;
"Ok, we are outside; you can destroy the lab now." Jinmay said over the communicator.
"Antauri, it's probably best if you wait on the stairs until I'm done…" Nova stated as she activated her fists and headed to the center of the room.
Antauri quickly scurried out of the room. Nova raised her fist high in the air;
"FLAMING ANGEL TOMAHAWK!"
The moment her fist hit the ground it was like a bomb exploded inside. Fire spread through the lab, eating everything in its wake. In a few moments of crashing noises and flaming swirls, Nova walked out. Nova has the ability to make herself temporarily fire proof, which is why she isn't burned to a crisp. They heard the sound of feet running towards them, most likely the formless guards. Antauri grabbed Nova's hand and the two of them phased into a wall, waiting for the formless to pass. Using the power primate he could "see" formless running down the stairs, behind them was the shape of a monkey. The monkey spoke and surprised Antauri and Nova, it wasn't Mandarin as they had expected;
"Search the fortress for the scientist and the 3 monkeys, they couldn't have gotten far." The monkeys voice was crisp and deeper than Mandarin's, but still higher than Antauri's. It sounded slightly…mechanical, and somewhat unnatural.
Something about this strange monkey made Antauri freeze, he didn't know why. Nova nudged the second in command when she noticed he wasn't moving. He snapped out of his frozen state. The formless headed off in search of the missing scientist, and the strange monkey turned around and walked away. Antauri phased the two of them out of the wall and they quickly, but quietly ran up the steps in order to see who this new monkey was. Nova was unaware that it was a monkey, but she knew that she had never heard that voice before. Antauri managed to catch a glimpse of a silver tail around a corner, likely going to check on where Antauri and Nova were supposed to be. Antauri motioned to Nova for them to go the opposite direction, it would be best to catch up to Nightshade.
I hope that wasn't too short...it's been awhile since i posted due to school work...