Pairing: Mandarin/Jinmay (Blame MonkeyMindScream)

We can be so much more... TOGETHER." Maybe, but Jinmay still hated this.

The Cave Scenario

Few things are worse and more cliché than being stuck in a cave with a person of the opposite gender.

Usually, the only thing that makes up for how cliché this is, is how easy it is to set up a scenario filled with fluff and relationship development.

Therefore, everything good about the "stuck in a cave" plot goes out the window if the character of the opposite gender you are stuck with is one of your greatest foes.

This meant that Jinmay was having a really bad day.

Or, was it even day anymore? Her body clock was saying night, but she had gotten caught in this cave during the daytime, so whether it had gotten dark outside or not was beyond her. Either way, she was incredibly tired. Visions of her bed and a nice soft blanket danced before her eyes, but even sleeping on the ground wasn't a possibility. You don't go to bed when a crazed orange monkey who may want to kill you in traveling on your shoulder.

Seriously, Mandarin teaming up with anybody, even for survival, seemed incredibly odd. Yet, here he was. He had just randomly jumped onto her. "We could be so much more together" was his first line, which was creepy to say the least, but you don't argue with guys like Mandarin when your powers have been shorted out in an earlier fight and you'll take any help to get back home.

Speaking of creepy, Mandarin in general was creepy. Jinmay could have sworn that he hadn't been quite this creepy any other time she had run into him. Mandarin had never been so... clingy either. To anybody. He wasn't just resting on her shoulder; he was practically embracing it, and she could hear his breath in her ear.

"Okay, that's it. Walk behind me."

No reply. Jinmay raised an eyebrow, then turned towards the orange monkey. She realized his face was slightly red, and he had a giddy little smile on his face. "...Could he?" It took a few seconds for the emotion he was expression to sink into Jinmay's central processor, but the moment it did, she screamed and shook her arm violently to throw him off. He simply landed on his feet and continued to smile at her.

"Ahhhhh! Oh noes! My Mary Sue energy has caused Mandarin to go completely OOC and fall in love with me! I was worried this day would come! Oh, cruel fate! Why here? Why now? Why him? Of all times for this to happen! Whyyyyyyy?1one!"

Suddenly, all fatigue left Jinmay's body and she ran off like a bullet. Of course, in plots like this, nothing can stop the power of love, so there Mandarin was at every turn. Jinmay simply kept running and screaming. With the author tired of this plotline and not seeing any other way to finish the story, Jinmay found the exit to the cave and ran like you have never seen a robot girl run before.

She didn't go home, but rather to the Super Robot. She used the pass-code the Hyperforce had given her and ran inside, up the tube, and into the command room, where the others were all huddled watching a movie. The paused and turned back to Jinmay.

"Oh, Jinmay!" Chiro said with a smile. "Where have you been? Want to wa-"

"Don't ask what happened!"

"What are you-"

"I want to forget as quickly as possible!"

"Forget wha-"

"Just shut up and let Gibson do a memory wipe of the past 24 hours on me!"

"Why would you wa-"

"Now! Please! The mental images are burning my processor! Ack! Another image! It's FLUFFY! No! Don't kiss me! That's not right! AHHHHHHHHH!"

The lights of her optics shut off and she fell unconscious to the floor, twitching. The members of the Hyperforce looked at one another, then back at Jinmay, then at one another again before Chiro stood up and began walking over to his girlfriend. "Uh, Gibson, let's go do what Jinmay said. The rest of you... um... don't wait up for us. Go back to watching the movie."

"Aw..." Gibson commented. "But I don't want to miss the movie. It's got science in it!"

"Gibson!"

"Er, right. My apologies."

As soon as Gibson, Chiro, and Jinmay were out of earshot, Sprx got the other's attention. "I always knew Chiro would end up with one of the crazy ones. Well, at least her mental insanity makes her less of a Mary Sue."

The others nodded in agreement.