Hello, everyone! I'm glad to see you all!
Gibson: Well, aren't you rather chipper?
SPRX: Who talks like you?
I'm so happy! I finally finished Vampire Monkey, and now I've started on Confessions of an Undead Simian! Yay!
Antauri: Good for you, Reza!
Nova: Alrighty, then! Thanks to Jasper Dragonfly, EvilAntauri, and pikurosonai00 for their reviews!
Otto: Yay, requests are fun! :D
Roses:
Oh, it's a pairing! Awww, SPRX and Nova… how cute.
SPRX smiled, looking at the bunch of yellow roses he'd gotten for Nova. They matched her color perfectly and were almost as beautiful as sh- no, he couldn't think like that anymore. He'd chosen yellow for a very specific reason.
He sighed and walked to Nova's room, knocking on the door.
"Nova?" he asked, "It's SPRX… I need to talk to you."
No answer.
"Huh… guess she's not there."
Otto walked by. He paused when he saw his brother and smirked, "Ooh, Sparky's flirtin' with Nova again. Sparky's gonna go to Medical Bay again."
SPRX sighed, "I'm not flirting with her anymore. See? Yellow roses mean friendship or something like that. This'll be the last thing I do slightly romantic. She's obviously uncomfortable with it and that's the last thing I want."
"Wow…" Otto paused, "That… that's really mature of you, SPRX… nice…"
"Have you seen her?" he asked.
"Yeah, I think she's in the training room or something."
"Thanks." SPRX repositioned the flowers in his hands and ran off to find the yellow monkey.
Like Otto had said, he found her in the training room, but just sitting on the floor, concentrated on something SPRX couldn't see.
"Nova?"
She jumped, "SPRX! I have to tell you something."
"There's something I want to give you."
Nova ran over to him, a light blush grazing her cheeks, "Y-yeah?"
He paused and held the roses out to her, "Here. These are for you… they… they mean friendship… and that I'm going to stop hitting on you and all that. I'm sorry if I made you uncomfortable…"
She hesitated, "S-SPRX…" She fidgeted carefully, "I don't want them."
"What?"
She smiled, pulling a single red rose from behind her back, "Instead, I want you to have this… because I feel the same way about you that you feel about me."
He paused, "Wh-what?"
She giggled, "I love you, SPRX."
SPRX's flowers fell to the floor, "Holy Suggazoom… you… please tell me this isn't a vicious prank."
She shook her head, "No, I'm serious."
He grinned, hugging her, "I love you, Nova! I love you so much!"
Puppies:
Oh, another pairing? What now? Oh, Gibby and… not Antauri? Gibby and me? :D YAY, OTTO LOVE!
"Puppies or kittens?"
Otto blinked, "What?"
Gibson stared at him, his face utterly serous, "Which is cuter? Puppies or kittens?"
Otto shook his head, "You can't ask me that. That's like asking you what you like more, science or medicine. You just can't make me choose."
"Darn." Gibson mumbled.
"Why?"
Gibson shook his head, "I wanted to get you something for your birthday, but I guess I'll have to settle for my fallback."
"What's the fallback?" Otto asked.
"If I told you, it wouldn't be a surprise, Otto."
"Pwease, Gibgib?"
Gibson hesitated, "Don't look at me like that…"
"Pwetty, pwetty pwease?"
"Not the eyes…" Gibson's defenses crashed, "Oh, fine!" he kissed the green monkey, "There! Now I'm going to have to find a new present for you!"
Otto blinked, "No you don't…" he grinned, "I'll just take more of that one, please."
Dust:
Oh, another pairing with me! Me and Mandarin!
"Otto!"
The green monkey spun around, shocked, "M-Mandarin?"
Mandarin grinned, "Otto, I'm so happy to see you!"
Otto clenched the photo in his hands, feeling the glass start to chip.
"You left me!" He shouted, "You promised you wouldn't, but you did! You almost killed us!"
Mandarin held his hands up, "Otto, wait, let me-"
Otto gripped the photo, slamming it over the orange simian's head, glass and dust flying everywhere.
"Ow!" Mandarin yelped, moving back, "Otto!"
The green monkey trembled as tears formed in his eyes, "I can't believe you. You expect to come back and I'll just accept you with open arms? I hate you!"
Mandarin grabbed Otto, pulling him into a hug, "I'm so sorry… for everything, I wish I could go back in time and erase it. I would do anything for you, Otto. I'm so sorry…"
Otto slowly lifted his hands, hugging Mandarin in return.
"I love you so much, Otto… I wish I could make this all better…"
Otto dropped the broken picture frame in his hand, tightening his grip on Mandarin. The frame fell to the ground, the corners breaking and the photo escaping it's wooden cage. The image captured was one of Otto and Mandarin, before Mandarin had become corrupt. Both of them were smiling, and they had made a heart by putting one of their hands together. At the bottom, in orange ink, Mandarin had written 'I will always stand beside you, even when I'm not there.'
On the back, in fresh green ink, were the words 'I love you more than anything.' written in sloppy, childish handwriting.
Glasses:
Ooooh, a Gibby and 'tauri one now! :D
Antauri wrapped his arms around Gibson from behind, smiling, "What cha readin'?"
Gibson smiled, "A book."
Antauri grinned, "Fascinating! What's the title of this book?"
Gibson groaned, shutting it, "Garbage, that's what it is. I hate it. I'm probably not going to finish."
"Why? What's wrong with it?"
"I'm more than half way through, and I have yet to get out of the introduction of the characters." Gibson sighed, "Oh, well. I tried."
Antauri chuckled, leaning forward to kiss Gibson's cheek. He paused and stared at the blue simian.
"What?" Gibson asked.
"You're wearing glasses."
Gibson chuckled, "Aren't you the observant one?"
Antauri grinned, "You look adorable."
The blue monkey blushed, "Th-thank you."
Antauri turned the chair Gibson sat in to look at him, "Do you need these to read?"
Gibson nodded.
Antauri slipped them off of Gibson's face and pulled them on. He jumped slightly, pulling them off quickly.
"Whoa…"
Gibson chuckled, "They're not that bad."
Antauri rubbed his eyes, "Not that bad? Hal, I almost went blind looking through them!"
Gibson leaned over, kissed Antauri's closed eyes and smiling, "Then promise me you will never try on Reza's glasses. They're a hell of a lot worse than mine.
Cold-hearted:
"Leave here."
"We don't want you."
"We have a new leader now."
"You might as well just die."
"No one wants you."
The Monkey Team stared at their former leader, ice filling their eyes.
Mandarin practically choked on their words, "No… please… I didn't mean-"
He stepped back as each of the weapons before his activated, all lifted simultaneously to be level with his head.
"Leave here."
"We don't want you."
"We have a new leader now."
"You might as well just die."
"No one wants you."
Mandarin turned and ran, darkness consuming him. The cold-hearted stares of his former family burned into his mind, refusing to free him.
His eyes shot awake to see Valeena staring down at him.
"You sleep too much." She told him, "Hurry, we're moving soon."
He nodded and sat up, trembling. She paused, kneeling down and putting a hand on his shoulder, "Are you ill?"
He shook his head, "Just… just realizing what the future holds for me."
"What's that?"
He hugged his knees, "Loneliness."
Splash:
Chiro walked outside, looking for Gibson. They'd finally defeated the Vreen… but he'd disappeared. He wasn't in the Super Robot, so where could he be?
The boy finally found the blue monkey sitting by the cherry blossom tree, staring at his feet.
"Gibson, are you okay?"
The blue monkey forced himself to smile at the boy, "Wh-why wouldn't I be?"
Chiro chuckled, "Because you at-,"
"Don't say it!" Gibson yelled, "Don't…" He groaned and slammed his head down, onto the ground, "I think I'm going to be sick."
Chiro paused, "Gibson… did you… you took your hands off? Why?"
"I don't know… I felt like it." The blue simian mumbled, "I feel buggy."
Chiro lifted up one of the drills, looking at the many options inside. He smirked and looked at Gibson.
"Hey, Gibson… maybe you just need to wash the buggy-ness off of you."
Gibson sighed, "That's probably a good idea, Chiro…"
SPLASH!
"Let me help you with that!" Chiro laughed.
Gibson jumped, trying to get out of the boy's range.
"Two can play at that game!" Gibson smirked, grabbing his other drill and reattaching it. He switched to water and shot at his leader, grinning, "Eat dihydrogen oxide, Chiro!"
Chiro yelped as the stream of water hit him in the face. He laughed and ran off, hiding by the Super Robot's foot. He waited patiently for any indication of where Gibson was…
"Look up!"
Chiro immediately aimed the drill up, shooting at the blue monkey. Gibson laughed, shooting right back.
Antauri and Nova watched this battle from the safety of the common room, letting the pair appear on the viewscreen.
"I'll put some towels out for them in a few minutes." Nova said, sipping her hot chocolate.
Antauri chuckled, "At least Gibson isn't moping anymore."
Observatory:
Hehehe… Chiro's got a girlfriend! Chiro and Jinmay, sittin' in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!
"Chiro?"
He turned to Jinmay, "hey."
She looked around the large observatory he sat in, "What is this place?"
"Isn't it cool? Otto and Gibson found it. Come here, look at this."
He led her over to the giant telescope in the room, having her look through She hesitated, but looked.
"Wow!"
Galaxies and stars became visible. Swirling masses of planets and asteroids. Colors she'd never seen before were seen, morphing into each other, or standing out against the mass of black space.
"Chiro, that's… that's beautiful."
He smiled, "I thought you'd like it."
She looked away from the telescope and to him, "Of course I like it. It's beautiful."
He smiled, taking her hand and kissing her cheek, "I'm glad."
Table Tennis:
"Hi-yah!"
Antauri's eyes widened and he tried to get the ball hit to him with the paddle. He jumped back to swing at it, missing by oh-so-little. He hung his head in defeat as the small white ball bounced off the floor and behind him.
Otto's hands shot in the air, "Woo-hoo! I am the Table Tennis Champion!"
SPRX clapped for his brother slowly, "You must be so proud of yourself." He rolled his eyes, "As if Table Tennis is that exciting."
Antauri grabbed the small ball from the floor, "Rematch."
Otto smiled, "You're on."
Invulnerability:
"This fortress is completely invulnerable!" SPRX bragged, "Nothing can get past it!"
"I'm impressed, SPRX." Gibson sighed, "I didn't think you could do it."
Nova chuckled, "Nice job, Sparky."
"Don't call me Sparky." SPRX quickly told her.
"Hey, what're we doing?" Otto asked, jumping over the wall of the fortress SPRX had built.
SPRX glared at his brother.
Antauri phased through the wall and looked at SPRX, "Your impenetrable fortress has been penetrated."
"Shut up, Antauri."
Doing:
"Otto, what are you doing?"
The green monkey shooed Gibson away, focusing in whatever was in his hands. Gibson sighed and walked off. He crossed his arms.
"The one time I don't have anything to do, and everyone else is busy." Gibson headed for the common room, crashing into his chair, "Antauri's with Nova and Chiro in the training room, SPRX is repairing the Fist Rocket, and Otto is working on his… thing…"
Thingy jumped up into Gibson's lap, grinning. Gibson hesitated, but pet the creature.
"I suppose it's just us, Thingy."
The creature paused, wiggling out from under Gibson's hand and bouncing off.
"Now it's just me… again…"
"Hey, Gibson."
He looked at Jinmay, "Hello."
"What're you doing?"
Gibson sighed, "Nothing. Everyone is doing something except for me."
"I'm not doing anything." She smiled, "Would you like to go out or something? We never have before."
He paused. She was right. In all the time he'd known her, he'd never spent personal time to get to know her. He smiled.
"Alright. What would you like to do?"
"There's a bookstore opening at the shopping center. We could head there, and then do some shopping."
He smiled, "You like bookstores?"
"I love them. Especially the ones with little Starbucks or something off to the side for you to read in."
Gibson grinned, "I love that!"
She smiled, "What sort of books do you like?"
"Fiction books?"
"Yep."
He crossed his arms, "It's a tough choice, but I would have to choose science fiction… the second would be fantasy."
Her smile spread, "You like fantasy? That's my favorite!"
"Then let's go." Gibson grinned.
PE:
"This is the worst idea we've ever had." Gibson told the Team.
Chiro shrugged, "I tried warning you, but you didn't listen to me."
"Don't complain." Nova chastised, "We want to get to know our new leader better, don't we? And now that we're known to the City, we can follow him in his daily life."
Chiro groaned, "Why? Why me? Why not BT or Glenny? They deserve this pain. Why me?"
"Who are you talking to?" Antauri asked.
"Whoever the hell got me into this." Chiro sighed, "Well, fine, if you guys are going to follow me in school, then I'll have to warn you about PE."
"PE?" Otto asked.
Chiro sighed, "You'll see."
He opened the doors of the gym and was immediately pegged in the face with a dodge ball.
"Hey, look, monkey boy brought his monkeys!" BT laughed.
"Oh, they're so cute!"
"Haha! Look at 'em!"
Gibson's fingers twitched, "I suddenly wish they could understand us…"
"Calm yourself, Gibson."
"Whoa!" Otto grinned, "Look at that!"
"Otto, wait!" Chiro yelled as the green monkey ran off, picking up a basketball.
"What is it?" He asked, looking around. He watched a few people run around with their own ball, observing everything they did. He slowly copied their motions, bouncing the ball, "Whoa! That's so cool!"
Chiro groaned, walking over to the coach and handing him a note, "Uh… I know this is weird, Sir… but the Team is permitted to follow me around from now on in school."
The coach read the note and rolled his eyes, "Whatever. Just go to your little corner and do whatever it is you do. I have more important people to deal with."
"Thank you." Chiro pulled his bag on tighter and walked over to the bleachers, setting his bag down at the far end and looking at the Monkey Team.
"You guys play if you want… I usually just stay here."
Gibson jumped up to sit next to Chiro, "I'll sit with you."
SPRX and Otto were already out on the courtyard, learning basketball by observing the other kids in the class.
"So, the goal is to get it in the net." SPRX observed, "Simple enough."
Otto looked from the ball in his hands, to the net. He shot the ball, easily getting it in the hoop.
"Kinda boring." Otto said.
SPRX grabbed the ball, "Yeah, I guess you're right."
"Look, the monkeys know how to play the game."
"Yo, Christmas monkeys!"
Otto and SPRX paused. They looked at Chiro, who pointed behind them.
"Hey, do you understand us?"
SPRX and Otto turned around, both of them nodding.
"Wanna learn the game?"
Nova and Antauri stared at the group of kids playing Wall Ball…
"What are they doing?" Antauri asked.
"It looks like they're just bouncing it off the wall." Nova answered.
They watched carefully, trying to grasp the concept of the game.
"Oh. I guess they're trying to see how far back they can get." Nova told the black simian.
Antauri blinked as the group all laughed, heading forward, closer to the wall, "And it can only bounce once."
"Hey, Chiro!" One of the girls playing called.
"Huh?" Chiro blinked, walking over, "Yeah?'
"What are your monkey's names?"
He paused, "Oh. The black one is Antauri, the yellow one is Nova, the red is SPRX, the green one is Otto, and him over there, that's Gibson."
She paused, "So, is there a girl member?"
"Yeah, Nova."
The girl grinned, "Wonderful! Thanks, Chiro!"
The boy blushed as she hugged him. The girl walked over to the pair of monkeys.
"So, you're Antauri and Nova, right?"
They nodded.
"Want to play with us?"
Nova smiled, nodding.
"You understand how to play, right?'
Antauri nodded this time.
"Great!"
Chiro chuckled, "Don't you want to play, Gibson?'
"I would rather not."
The pair watched SPRX and Otto play their game, laughing each time they scored a basket against one another.
Apparently, though, someone on SPRX's team didn't seem to like their affinity for the game and decided to treat Otto like he would Chiro… with violence. The green monkey hadn't hit the ground before Chiro was over there, punching the guy in the face.
"Back off my Monkey Team," Chiro growled, "or I swear, I will show you what real pain is."
"My nose! You broke my damn nose!"
"You'll live. You okay, Otto?" Chiro asked.
Otto got up, "That wasn't nice… and you didn't have to break his nose, Chiro."
SPRX put a hand on his brother's shoulder, "Hey… your helmet's got a bump."
Otto paused, removing the helmet and looking at it, "Aw, man, I just polished this, too."
SPRX paused, running a hand through Otto's fur, surprised when his fingers came back red.
"SPRX?" Otto asked, "What's wrong?"
"You're bleeding."
Gibson ran over, pulling some bandage tape from his helmet and wrapping Otto up, "How did I know someone was going to get hurt?" He sighed, "Maybe because Chiro always comes back with a bruise or two. HI said this was a bad idea, but no one listens to the genius, no."
Chiro sighed, "You guys go home. I'll see you after school… hey, Antauri! Nova!"
The monkeys looked at him.
"I've got detention again!"
Antauri's jaw dropped, "Are you kidding me? We're right here, Chiro! Can't you behave yourself?"
Chiro grinned, "No."
Roses- Request from Jasper Dragonfly. D'awww… I love these two. They're so cute.
Puppies- Request from Jasper Dragonfly. (I used pikurosonai's nickname for Gibson. XD It's cute!) An impossible question… puppies or kittens… at least for Otto. I don't like cats, and they don't like me… XP
Dust- Request from Jasper Dragonfly. Continued from Shelf in chapter 26. Man, I wrote the part where Otto says 'You expect to come back and I'll just accept you with open arms?' and my mind shot to Journey's song, Open Arms… XD
Glasses- Request from Jasper Dragonfly. REZA'S ALMOST BLIND IN ONE EYE! 8D And the other isn't that good, either.
Cold-hearted- Request from EvilAntauri. I'm sorry, I like Valeena and Mandarin in their I-hate-you-but-I-still-want-to-be-your-friend… ness… poor Mandy… Yes, the Hyper Force saying those things and threatening him was a dream. They didn't actually threaten to kill Mandarin.
Splash- Request from pikurosonai00. XD Dihydrogen oxide was a big joke in my Chemistry class. It's pretty much the term for H2O, but H2O is one of the rarities that don't use that way to describe it. It's just called water. I freaked out someone by telling them I'd swallowed dihydrogen oxide. XD
Observatory- Just some Chiro/Jinmay fluff…
Table Tennis- LOL, Antauri's getting competitive.
Invulnerability- Poor SPRX. XD
Doing- We never see Gibson and Jinmay hanging out. So I put that to a stop. Aww, book nerds.
PE- I saw this, and wanted to write about Otto and SPRX playing basketball… then I wanted Chiro to punch someone in the face. 83 I love this.
Antauri: How come you always manage to get into trouble, Chiro?
Chiro: Because I'm a defensive person and if I feel threatened I fight back?
Gibson: -sigh- kids these days…
Nova: Nice punch, Chiro!
Chiro: Thank you!
Otto: Well, please review, everyone! You can leave word, pairing, and idea requests!
SPRX: Don't flame, though, otherwise we'll lock you in a room with Valeena for a week!
Jinmay: And please check out Vampire Monkey and Confessions of an Undead Simian!
