It was a quiet evening after taking the Sun Rider motorcycles out for a joy ride.

"Hey, you guys ever think maybe there was another Robot Monkey?" Akito asked as he and the others relaxed as LJ wrote his adventure report.

"Uh, I dunno," Kimberly shrugged. "Why do you ask?"

"I'm just saying, there's six tubes when we go on a mission," Akito replied. "Unless Chiro was part of some prophecy, I feel like there was another monkey before we showed up."

"It's an interesting idea," LJ replied. "Perhaps something happened to them?"

"You think the monkeys would mind if we asked?" Akito asked.

"We'll ask eventually, but it is quite curious." Kimberly had to admit.

"We should probably investigate on our own," LJ said as he got up. "They might not wanna talk about it."

"Well, all right then if you think that's best." Kimberly replied.

"Let's go then." Akito nodded.

And so, off the kids went. They found the group watching footage of a previous battle against a massive eyeball beast.

"Are we doing an MST3K thing?" asked LJ. "If so, I should probably get my Tom Servo and Crow puppets."

"Well, if you would like that, it might be nice." Kimberly smiled.

"Who and who puppets?" Lynn then asked LJ.

"They're two robots from the Mystery Science Theater 3000 TV series," LJ explained. "They usually hang out with the human host and make snarky comments about the cheesy old movies they have to watch."

"Oh..." Lynn said. "Not sure what to make of that, but I'd probably do that with Francisco."

"A friend of yours?" Chrissy smirked.

Lynn looked bashful then. "Maybe?"

"Hey, guys, LJ's gonna have some fun with this viewing, is that okay?" Kimberly asked the Robot Monkeys.

"Oh, uh, I suppose that would be alright," Antauri replied, sounding a bit like a father figure. "As long as an argument doesn't break out."

"Hopefully not!" Akito replied as he brought two puppets into the room.

"That's got to be the ugliest porcupine I've ever seen." LJ said through Crow as the eyeball beast regrew its spikes and came towards the Super Robot.

"At this point, we appear to be doomed," Antauri said as he paused the video. "Would anyone like to explain how we came to this?"

"Narrative tension?" asked LJ through Tom Servo.

"My reflexes were too slow." said Nova.

"My aim was off." Otto added.

"My calculations were faulty." Gibson sulked.

Sparx was casually polishing his magnet hands. "My... Sentiments exactly. They all goofed up."

"There's still room for improvement though," Raul remarked. "My dad always says 'No pain, no gain'."

"Yeah, pretty solid point there." LJ nodded.

"Take this time to learn and improve," Raul smiled. "That's what past mistakes help us do and to grow as people."

"Wow, Raul, that's very grown-up coming from you." Kimberly commented.

"I'd like to think so." Raul nodded, feeling proud of himself.

"Hey, let's not forget how this came out," said Chiro, resuming the video. "LASERTRON FURY!" he called, activating the chest beam, which vaporized the eyeball beast into nothingness.

"I gotta admit, that was pretty cool." Lynn commented.

Chio then bowed proudly as Antauri shut the footage off.

"Ahem! Yes, but my intention, kids was to learn our weaknesses and thereby learn where we need improvement." Antauri informed the group.

"Another thing my dad says," Raul commented. "Though I'm pretty sure he had to learn that the hard way."

"I dunno," Chiro smiled. "As team leader, I'd say I was pretty good."

"Very well..." Antauri answered, then turned to the others. "For those of us who were not-so-good, I have an assignment: I want each of you to come up with one new battle move."

"That sounds like good enough homework." Raul commented.

"I believe you should each do something new as well for our next mission." Antauri advised.

"Can do, Antauri." Chrissy saluted.

And so, they left the Super Robot after that was done and taken care of.

"So you're really not gonna come up with a new move?" Otto asked Chiro.

"Hey, I've got enough moves and they're working just fine." Chiro reassured as he soon did some karate moves to demonstrate.

"...Yeah, that's... That's good, Chiro..." Akito grinned bashfully.

"Well, we could probably work out some new techniques," LJ replied. "Gotta keep Skeleton King and his cronies on their toes."

"I know I gotta work up my game," Raul nodded. "Even Turbo Tigre needs a recharge once in a while."

"Good idea." Akito agreed.

The rest of the team soon split up, leaving Chiro suddenly all alone.

As Chiro continued his practicing, he accidentally knocked open a secret panel in his room, which hid a monkey helmet and a gauntlet. "Nice... My own monkey hand!" he grinned as he put it on.

A beam of bright light then engulfed him and he was in his hero form.

"Lookin' good..." Chiro smiled as he looked in his mirror.

There was then a beeping sound heard that rang all around the Super Robot base.

"So, I was thinking if I reach out like this and squeeze my fist, I pull right back and I can snare someone like Wonder Woman's rope." Kimberly said before she demonstrated as a rainbow came from the palm of her hand in the string of a rainbow before it latched onto her and she pulled back, making Lynn grunt and come flying before hitting the middle of the floor.

"Cool." Akito said.

"Ugh! Watch it with those rainbows!" Lynn glared up at the girl in front of her.

"Sorry about that, Lynn." Kimberly smiled sheepishly.

"And I was thinking of something like this." LJ replied as he slammed his fists together, causing Goldfire and Maxima's pieces to merge with both of his fists, making them a pair of metallic gauntlets.

"That'd be great for a bashing," Chrissy commented. "I'm not sure what more I can do besides singing."

"You could try doing martial arts, so you could kick guys in the face like Black Canary," LJ suggested. "Knock 'em around, then use a hyper-concentrated screech like Echo-Echo from Ben 10 to make their ears bleed or heads explode... Or they pass out."

"Hmm... Yes..." Chrissy smirked a bit. "I guess that would work out."

"It would be a good look for you, Scream Queen." Lynn smirked back.

"Easy." Chrissy warned as that sounded like teasing.

"Relax, I'm just teasing," Lynn rolled her eyes. "You need to relax a little, Blondie."

"And how about you?" Raul asked. "You and the others got any new moves worked up?"

"I was hoping to do like a kick that Chiro did, like an extra strengthed soccer or football kick," Lynn suggested. "Put my home athletic skills to good use while kicking Skeleton King and villain butt during this visit."

"Well, whatever works," LJ replied. "We have some time before we're called in to demonstrate our new skills."

"So we may as well get to it." Akito nodded.

"Yeah!" The team beamed as they soon went to split up and practice their own skills.

"Looks like we all got homework this time." Lynn commented.

"It's worth it." Raul reassured her.

The Robot Monkeys practiced their own new moves while the visiting group did the same and Antauri waited for them as he decided to take that time to meditate and reflect on what happened recently. Eventually, they came to demonstrate their moves.

"Otto, please begin." Antauri told Otto.

Otto nodded, "Okay. I call this my Vertical Razor Chariot." He positioned his saws like wheels and drove off up the wall behind Antauri.

Antauri smiled. "Very inventive," he complimented, before he turned to Sparx. "Sparx, what do you have?"

Sparx smiled at snapped his fingers, "Just a little something I call..." Gibson fired a laser cannon at him. Sparx summoned his magnets, "Gyro Roll!" He started rolling and created an electromagnetic shield around himself. The shield deflected the laser and fired it back at the cannon, blowing out the nozzle.

"Excellent maneuver, Sparx." Antauri congratulated.

"What can I say? I'm a hard act to follow." Sparx replied reassuringly.

"I wouldn't be too sure about that," Akito replied. "And in 3, 2-"

"Stop it." Lynn complained.

"KNUCKLE DUSTER!" Nova called out as she lunged out for the Red Monkey.

Sparx then screamed and suddenly flinched only for Nova to not exactly touch him. He then sighed in relief before he suddenly got hit by a special feature in the knuckles and sent him flying into the wall.

"Part of its effectiveness is the surprise." Nova smirked proudly.

"That was cool!" Lynn beamed. "Can you teach me that?"

"Maybe." Nova chuckled.

"Good," Lynn smirked. "Maybe then I can get Akito to stop doing that '3-2-1-' thing."

Akito just glanced over with a small shrug.

"Gibson?" Antauri soon cued.

Gibson soon brought out his drills and colorful blasts shot from the tips, hitting the metal wall in front of him. However, the lights suddenly went out and they were all suddenly in the dark.

"Nice going, Gibson!" Lynn ranted.

The lights then suddenly came back on.

"Well... Way to make me shut up." Lynn then shrugged.

"I have dubbed them Fire Static Energy Amplification Darts." Gibson smiled proudly.

"Why not call it the Spin Shocker?" asked Otto.

"It's an attack, not a dance move..." Gibson retorted.

"And dancing is not fighting." Lynn added.

"You can use some dance moves as fighting moves," Akito suggested. "My twin sister does a mean ballet spin that can kick bad guys right in the face."

"Yeah, okay." Lynn shrugged at that.

"So, how about you, Antauri?" Kimberly soon asked the black monkey. "You got anything to wow us with?"

"I have been working on something." Antauri had to admit.

But before he could begin, Chiro walked into the room. "Okay. You guys wanna play Show-and-Tell? I've got something." he replied, as he activated his new gauntlet which generated its own shield.

The monkeys were mortified by this.

Chiro lowered the shield. "What?" he asked.

"It's Mandarin's shield." Nova answered in a fearful tone.

The kids looked at one another.

"Sixth monkey, what'd I tell you?" asked Akito.

"Zip it!" Lynn retorted.

"What's a Mandarin?" asked Chiro.

"Not what... Who," replied Antauri. "Children... There was a sixth monkey."

"Just like Black Adam!" LJ exclaimed.

"Sixth monkey?" Chiro asked.

"Perhaps now's the time to just show you." Antauri advised as he put his hands together.

"Well, this should be interesting." Akito commented.

Antauri soon had some sort of energy ball in his hands and duplicated it to put it into the kids' foreheads.

"Whoa! What's that?!" Raul yelped.

"Mandarin was the first of the Super Robot Monkeys created," Antauri began to explain as the story played before the kids' eyes like it was a moving comic book. "By far the smartest, wisest, and strongest, he was our leader. Though our mission was to protect Shuggazoom, Mandarin felt he was above serving as guardian. He wanted to rule. This, we could not let happen."

"Twisted." Chrissy commented.

"Indeed," replied Antauri. "As a last resort, we exiled him to an offworld prison."

"Just like Black Adam!" LJ exclaimed. "The wizard Shazam gave him superpowers to help his fellow egyptian slaves, but he got greedy and decided, 'hey, I could rule the world!', so the wizard banished him to a distant star until he could find another champion to defeat him! Dude, Chiro is the Billy Batson in this situation!"

"Huh? Oh, thanks, LJ," Chiro chuckled. "That's a great way to look at it."

"So there was a sixth monkey..." Akito remarked.

Antauri nodded and then suddenly, an alarm sounded just as the backstory ended.

"WARNING! UNIDENTIFIED HOSTILE CRAFT APPROACHING." A computer voice informed.

The windows to the outside soon showed an incoming craft.

"Too bad that's not a flying donut." Raul said.

"Why?" Lynn scoffed.

"Because that'd be a lot better than possible enemies wanting to kill us." Raul replied.

Lynn just rolled her eyes at that. Everyone then looked at each other as they wondered what to expect as they felt a bit wary and stood their ground for whatever or whoever could be after them this time.

"Looks like the Prodigal Son has returned." Chrissy commented.

Rings were soon tossed out from the sky as the people down below screamed and ran for their lives. Chiro's bullies ducked down in time before they got hit by a couple of rings that soon flew overhead and in front of them. However, the rings spotted them and flew right at the two and latched on around their necks like collars. A satellite soon came out from atop of the donut-shaped ship and a radar sounded as the bullies tried to break free from the collars.

Other people got caught in the collars and soon moved and walked like zombie slaves. "Must serve Mandarin..." they then droned while walking along against their will.

"ACTIVATE THE SUPER-ROBOT!" Chiro declared, and the group rushed to their stations quickly as possible, going up the tubes and whatnot.

"Foot Crusher Cruiser 6, Go!"

"Foot Crusher Cruiser 5, Go!"

"Fist Rocket 4, Go!"

"Fist Rocket 3, Go!"

"Brain Scrambler Pilot 2, Go!"

"Torso Tank Driver 1, Go!"

"Prepare to disengage!"

"Super! Robot! Monkey! Team! Hyper! Force! GO!"

"All right, sixth monkey, get ready to meet Lynn Loud!" Lynn glared as they took off.

"It's the hostile outlaw observation prison." Gibson remarked.

"Translation, please?" Chrissy asked.

"Also known as The Hoop: home to only one prisoner." Gibson explained.

"It's him, isn't it?" Chiro commented softly.

"It has to be." Akito added.

"Shields up. Charge the Lazertron. Prepare for battle." Antauri told the others.

The Super Robot flew upward, grabbed the H.O.O.P., and threw it out of the city, joining it shortly after.

"LASERTRON FURY!" Chiro exclaimed as he pressed the button and fired a chest beam at the H.O.O.P.; however, it simply turned sideways, letting the blast pass right through it.

"Well, it is a giant hoop," LJ shrugged. "So that makes sense."

A new blaster came out from the side and it began to shoot back at the Super Robot which would be a much easier target than vice versa. The hands and feet of the Super Robot soon broke off in an instant.

"Well... That sucks." Raul commented.

The Super Robot then slammed down without literal legs to stand on and the group then evacuated out the chest door. A mummified Robot Monkey soon came out, floating in front of Chiro and his new friends before the gauze came off to reveal his true self.

"Mandarin, I presume?" Akito greeted.

"You presume correctly," Mandarin replied before looking at Chiro. "Why, you're just a boy!"

"And you're just a monkey gone bad... Real bad," LJ replied. "You don't scare us."

"I don't intend to!" snapped Mandarin. "I intend to get rid of you all!" His energy sword formed in his hand, and as he swung it down, LJ caught it by the blade, barehanded.

Chrissy and Kimberly flinched, though LJ stood bravely.

"Nice one, cousin." Akito said to LJ.

"You blocked my sword... With your HAND?!" Mandarin asked. "How is this possible?! You're only a human... Somewhat. Ah. Unless you're learning the Power Primate."

"Learning? I know it!" Chiro answered as he stepped forward.

"Then you should recognize this move..." Mandarin told him, then shouted. "Monkey Mind Scream!" And he unleashed a wave of energy that knocked Chiro out.

"CHIRO!" The group panicked.

"And now for you pests." Mandarin grinned darkly at the rest of the group.

"Mandarin!" Antauri called sharply as he came to the scene with the rest of the Robot Monkeys. "Let the kids go; your fight is with us."

"No, my fight with you ends now." Mandarin retorted.

"You hurt Chiro, but we won't let you hurt the Robot Monkeys." Kimberly glared at him.

"Very adorable, but otherwise futile," Mandarin remarked as he fired out the same disks from earlier, latching around the Monkeys' throats, before an energy bubble trapped them.

"How have I dreamt of this moment..." Mandarin smiled. "Countless fantasies played out in the black sleep of stasis...always the same: the absolute annihilation of the Monkey Team!"

"And I suppose you intend to kill us?" asked LJ.

"You shall be next!" Mandarin grinned as he threw disks at them next.

Akito made a shield block the disks and Mandarin looked ready to shoot some more until a new sound was heard.

"Sadly our reunion will have to wait... I have a city to conquer..." Mandarin grinned darkly before shooting more disks. "Now take THIS!"

"You can't do that to us!" Lynn glared. "We won't give into your power, you sicko!"

"You have no choice," replied Mandarin. "I have plans for you, little bottom-feeders... As well as someone for you to meet." He pressed a button on his wrist, and the collars zapped the group, knocking them out.

"AAAUGH!" The group yelped and they suddenly fell beside Chiro.

Mandarin chuckled darkly at the fallen kids before he soon went to carry out his plans as the hypnotic radar continued.

Chiro's bullies were soon walking around like zombie slaves before stopping.

"Where's the Monkey Team when you need 'em?" Glenny groaned as he stood with BT.

"Master Mandarin hears all..." BT added.

The two then suddenly fell to the floor with their hands together in begging positions.

"Please forgive us, Mandarin." BT and Glenny begged together.

Aboard the H.O.O.P., Chiro and the others woke up as Mandarin looked down at them.

"Where are my monkeys...?" Chiro grunted.

The screen switched to show a certain devious villain. "No. The proper question is where are my monkeys?" he asked.

"I don't see your name on 'em..." LJ cracked his neck as he got the others up.

"En route to your ship." Mandarin answered.

"Why aren't the children with them?" Skeleton King asked.

"Our arrangement was only for the Monkeys," Mandarin responded. "I have plans for the children."

"I don't like the way he said that." Kimberly said warily.

"Whatever his plans are, he'll have to answer to me." Lynn glared.

The Skeleton King then signed off as downtown Shuggazoom City was shown. The kids were soon levitated and brought over beside Mandarin.

"The citizens of Shuggazoom cower and tremble at our presence," Mandarin grinned darkly. "We have the Power Primate. We are meant for a greater purpose."

The kids glared back at him, especially Chiro.

"You are angry, but you know I speak the truth," Mandarin continued. "Why be their servant when you can rule them all?"

"Chiro is no servant!" Chrissy glared.

"All you are is a bully who's drunk on power." LJ added.

"Rule over Shuggarzoom?" Chiro asked.

"Or would you rather the Skeleton King did?" Mandarin asked.

Now this was something Chiro had to contemplate. The Robot Monkeys were soon locked away just as Mandarin wanted and hoped for, though they weren't knocked out just yet.

"I'm worried for Chiro and his friends," Antauri soon said to the others. "They have weaknesses Mandarin can and will exploit."

"But those kids are special!" Otto remarked.

"Their developmental progress has exceeded our expectations." Gibson added.

"Plus each of them has a good heart." Nova agreed.

"As once did Mandarian." Antauri reminded.

"Don't worry; those kids are nothing like Mandarin." Sparx reassured.

Gibson and Antauri nodded.

In battle armor, Chiro threw a few punches and kicks at Mandarin, who dodged each of them. Then Chiro used a spinning punch move to catch him off-guard.

"The Sweeping Fists move," Mandarin smiled. "You learned that from Nova. And she learned it from me." He caught Chiro's hand and reversed the rotation, causing Chiro to fall on his back.

"Damn, he's good!" Raul remarked.

"I guess Antauri was right about the lesson for the day," Lynn commented. "We'd have to use special new moves."

"Surely we could use that to our advantage." Kimberly added.

"Yeah." Akito nodded.

"Perhaps you'd like to take Chiro's place?" Mandarin grinned at them.

"Oh, bring it, you jerk monkey!" Chrissy snapped. "You'll learn not to mess with Christine Dazzle!"

"Yeah!" LJ added. "ICHI-MAN-KEN!" he whooped as he launched into a flurry of punches, but Mandarin blocked them.

"Simple child's play!" The evil orange Robot Monkey cackled, crushing LJ's fist in his grasp. "Perfect for a simple-minded brat!"

LJ winced, but refused to cry out in pain.

"LJ!" Kimberly cried out before she made a rainbow whip and went to throw it at Mandarin.

"Pfft! What's this, girly nonsense?" Mandarin scoffed. "Perhaps you'd like to be next!"

"Hey! Let go!" Kimberly cried.

Mandarin grinned as he soon pulled on the whip which brought Kimberly right over to him like something out of Mortal Kombat and he soon smacked her into the wall, making the others wince for her.

"Nobody does that to my friend!" Chrissy glared, as she unleashed her sonic screech.

"A pale imitation!" Mandarin retorted, electrocuting her again with the collar. "Don't bother trying to stop me, I've already won."

"Man... He's really good..." Lynn groaned. "I don't know the meaning of the word 'quit', but I might have to learn."

"You best quit while you're ahead if you know what's good for you," Mandarin grinned fiendishly. "My siblings have taught you well, yes, but I could teach you more."

Just then, the Skeleton King reported in again. "Mandarin! Send the children to me."

"The Monkeys will soon be yours as Shuggazoom is mine, as we agreed," Mandarin answered, then glanced at the group. "The children belong here at my side."

"As what? Reflections of yourself?" Skeleton King asked. "You insolent fool."

"A fool who captured the Robot Monkeys?" Mandarin asked, removing his gauntlet and setting it on the chair. "A fool who took control of the city? You underestimate me!"

"You underestimate them." Skeleton King replied, as Mandarin turned to see that LJ had taken his gauntlet.

"You made a lot of mistakes," LJ remarked. "But your first was messing with me and my friends." He summoned Goldfire, who emptied a hail of bullets into the control panel, destroying it.

"What's this now?" Mandarin glared.

"You mess with me, you mess with my Bots too!" LJ glared back. "No more hand-holding for YOU!" He raised his gauntlet sword up and brought it down on Mandarin's wrists.

While Mandarin was left to writhe in pain, LJ hustled the others out of his lair.

"Those were some moves, LJ," Lynn commented. "I'm really impressed."

LJ blushed. "Thanks, Lynnsanity," he replied. "From one LJ to another, let's get the hell outta here and find the good monkeys!"

"Oh, yeah," Lynn grinned. "Let's do it to it, boys."

And so the group commandeered one of Mandarin's spaceships and took off, blasting through the pod bay doors as they flew off to find the monkeys. Luckily, they spotted the ship that was headed for the Skeleton King's Citadel of Bone, and managed to get aboard.

"All right, guys, we're on his tail," Lynn said. "No funny business now."

"Just Robot Monkey business." Kimberly added.

And so, they took off and flew through a tunnel and soon came out in the end as Chrissy pushed the buttons to make them speed up. Mandarin growled as he saw this through his monitor and he did not want or intend for this to happen.

"The children will return with their monkeys," Skeleton King informed Mandarin. "And with my help, you shall be ready for them."

Mandarin glared as he got to his feet. "I do not need your charity," he remarked, taking out a separate glove and putting it on.

"Then a gift... Five gifts." Skeleton King replied as his staff glowed, and five Formless manifested, each in the colors of the Monkey Team.

Mandarin grinned at the sight before he turned around to the Skeleton King. "I accept." he then said.

Meanwhile, in the deep vacuums of space, LJ and the others took off, passing by another ship which contained a green alien boy, a small robot friend, and a redheaded girl in a spacesuit before they ended up where they needed to go. The Robot Monkeys looked defeated until they saw that the door burst open and out came Chiro and the gang.

"Anybody see some monkeys about yay big?" Lynn smirked before Chiro pushed the button to release the Robot Monkeys from their restraints.

"Way to go, kids!" Sparx grinned.

"We knew we could count on you!" Nova beamed.

"Of course, when Nova says 'we knew', she that by calculating the probabilities of a rescue, due to your training, statistically we could assume that-" Gibson rambled.

Fortunately, Otto cut him off. "We could count on you!"

Antauri walked up to the group. "Children, I had my doubts. And-"

"And we'd rather hang out with you guys than Mandarin." Chiro interrupted.

"It was all learn, learn, learn with that guy." Raul nodded.

Antauri smiled back, "Perhaps the time has come for us to do the teaching."

"I'd say that's a right ripper idea," LJ nodded. "Time to show him what Earth kids can do!"

They soon got into their new ride and took off again through space, passing by the other ship again.

"I feel like I've seen one of those kids in a dream of mine..." The redheaded girl said to her alien and robot friends.

Meanwhile, Mandarin was shown and he then grinned at something he had seen. "Skeleton King's prediction comes to be... The children return with their Monkeys as well..."

The detector continued to track as Chiro and his friends were coming closer and closer.

"Sparx is at the helm... Arriving any moment now..." Mandarin grinned as he leaned in, about to taste the sweetness and deliciousness of the nectar of victory until he saw something disappointing. "What is he doing?! I didn't teach him that..."

The kids soon came in for a landing, startling the evil Robot Monkey a bit.

"Mandarin the Robot Monkey, it's all over!" Akito called out.

Mandarin stepped back in surprise, then regained his composure and shouted, "Hyper Formless appear!"

Suddenly, his five color-coded Formless rose up behind him.

"'Hyper-Formless'?" asked Nova. "That is SO messed-up..."

"Well, we're gonna mess HIM up!" LJ declared. "Hyper... Hyper... Hyper... HYPERFORCE, GO...!"

"Is it me or is everything echoing?" Raul asked.

"It's probably nothing." Lynn shrugged.

Raul shrugged back before twirling his belt buckle and soon growled once he became Turbo Tigre and soon jumped in after the Robot Monkeys. The Robot Monkeys tried to fight their Formeless Counterparts, but it proved to be a lot more difficult than they or anyone would anticipate.

"...Well, that's a bummer." Lynn scoffed.

"Wait a minute!" LJ exclaimed. "Gang, I think it's time to bust out your new moves!"

"Yeah?" The group asked.

"Yeah! Remember what Antauri told us!" LJ smiled. "I know you can all do it!"

"He's right... That lesson was important..." Chrissy replied before smirking in determination. "Let's go spank us a bad monkey."

"That sounds nasty for some reason." Turbo Tigre commented.

"And maybe we can stop using that joke already!" LJ replied. "It was funny the first time, now it's getting obnoxious."

The group then lunged out at Mandarin.

"Are you really going to try again after what happened?" Mandarin asked. "You are persistent, I must admit."

"Persistence is a key factor, but determination will make us strong and you weak," Chrissy retorted. "I was always told to never give up!"

"Neither was I," Turbo Tigre glowered. "Especially when it comes to our new pals The Robot Monkeys."

"Anhd unfortunately, that doesn't include you." Akito added as his eyes turned a dark shade of red.

"Vertical Razor Chariot!" Otto rode his saws onto a nearby wall and cut the wall in a square shape to fall on top of the green Formless.

Sparx grabbed the red Formless with his magnets and started rolling into a ball. He used the speed and threw the Formless into a nearby wall. "Gyro Roll!"

Nova took off into the air and summoned her gauntlets. "Knuckle Duster!" she called, surprise-attacking the yellow Formless and using her other hand to spin the big creep into a ball of goop.

Gibson jumped away from the blue Formless and summoned his cyber drills. "Bio-Static Energy Amplifi-"

"Gibson!" Otto shouted, cutting him off.

Gibson sighed. "Very well... Spin Shocker!" he called, shooting the blue energy at the Formless which exploded upon impact.

Antauri leaped into the air and summoned his claws. "Mega Monkey Paw!" he called, spin-diving into the dark-gray Formless and it fell apart.

Chiro's new friends eventually had their own Formless after them.

"You made some of us too?!" Lynn complained.

"I thought it would make things interesting." Mandarin replied.

"That's stupid," Kimberly complained. "All right, guys, let's show THEM our new moves too!"

LJ and his gang soon took on their own Formless with their own newly learned moves while the Robot Monkeys handled theirs.

"Remember your training." Akito advised LJ as they took their turns.

"Yeah, yeah," LJ replied. "Just remember you're the second-in-command, but for one, Mandarin, you can only program in what you know about the Hyperforce. But you don't know anything about us!"

And one-by-one, the Formless were taken down, one-by-one.

"NO! IMPOSSIBLE!" Mandarin glared. "That was supposed to confound you!"

"Apparently you didn't try hard enough!" Lynn smirked.

"And now you're gonna get yours!" Chiro glared. "Ready, guys?"

"Ready, Chiro!" The rest of the group replied.

Chiro and LJ soon began to fight Mandarin head-on as he readied his blade.

"Give up, Mandarin," LJ remarked. "You're outnumbered!"

"Am I?" replied Mandarin as he sent out a signal with his ears, that shut off the Robot Monkeys.

"What'd you do to 'em?" demanded Chiro.

"A little backdoor planted in the Robot Monkey Operating System long ago." Mandarin answered, floating toward Otto. "The big shutdown, I'm afraid." He kicked Otto over.

Chiro cupped his hands, drew them back along with LJ, before thrusting them outwards. "MONKEY FU!/KA-ME-HA-ME-HA!"

The resulting dual blasts sent Mandarin hurtling outside, where he, LJ and Chiro landed atop the mind-controlling satellite.

"This is your last chance, boys," Mandarin declared. "Look at them down there; you are better than ANY human!"

"No, not better," LJ replied. "Just the same."

"Except for one thing," Chiro added. "We've got five robot monkeys and some awesome best friends backing us up."

"Mothertrucker." Lynn added to sound intense and hardcore.

The Robot Monkeys soon flew back over, much to Mandarin's surprise.

"We've reprogrammed that backdoor a long time ago," Antauri smiled. "All you did was reboot our systems."

"And now we'll step back and allow the Robot Monkeys to deliver the one last final blow." Chrissy decided as she stood beside LJ's left side while Kimberly took his right side.

The Hyperforce pummeled Mandarin with each of their attacks, knocking him back.

"MONKEY MIND-SCREAM!" Antauri exclaimed, unleashing an energy wave that knocked Mandarin down.

"You're going back to sleep, bandage brains." LJ remarked.

"One day, you'll find out how much more you are," Mandarin vowed. "But for now..." He used his energy gauntlet to slice the panel LJ and Chiro were standing on and the boys both fell like rocks.

While the others were busy saving their friends, Mandarin hopped into an escape ship, and took off into space.

"I almost feel sad for that guy." Chrissy commented.

"At least he's gone," Lynn replied. "I just hope we never have to see him again."

"You defeated him, boys." Antauri told LJ and Chiro.

"We all defeated him." Chiro clarified proudly.

The mind-control collars broke off, and everyone cheered as the day had been saved, yet again.

"That was a lot easier than I thought it would be." Akito commented.

"Totally," Lynn nodded. "It didn't look so bad once we got started."

"Maybe this job is just getting easier." Kimberly guessed.

"For our sakes, I sure hope so," LJ replied. "Because we're in it to win it."

Chrissy and Kimberly then kissed both of his cheeks to surprise him. LJ giggled giddily as he blushed at that, while Lynn gave him a playful noogie.

And so, ended another mission with the Robot Monkeys as they retired for the evening after the people of Shuggazoom City cheered for them.

"Well, we better get some rest," Akito suggested. "Who knows when the next mission will be?"

"That's for sure." Raul agreed.

"There is a call for one of you," Antauri said as he came into the break room. "A very large human family on the line?"

"Oh, neat!" Lynn grinned as she dashed off. "That's me, guys!"

"Well, I kinda hope they aren't missing her too much." Raul commented to the others.

"Yeah," LJ replied. "Knowing them, they'll never believe what crazy adventures she's been through recently."

"Can't be crazier than this L-Squad/Force or whatever it is about these 10 brothers and one sister being superheroes going on missions after the genius brother injected them with a serum to give them all different superpowers." Kimberly commented as she showed a group photo of a group of siblings which looked like Lynn's family, but the opposite sex.

"How does that work?" Chrissy asked. "Did he inject them all with certain doses or did the serum just give them all random superpowers?"

"I'm not sure, but it mentions how they have cousins out of town and the older one is a ninja." Kimberly replied.

"Well, stranger things have happened," Akito said as he did some push-ups in the background. "Like, take me and the Loonatics for example."

"I remember," LJ replied. "...Maybe Felicity and her friends will come visiting, like she did with you."

"If she isn't too busy." Akito reassured.

"Is she still at that new school of hers?" Kimberly asked.

"As far as I know," LJ replied. "After all, she made her best friends there and good friends of Mom's helped get her into that school."

"It'll be nice to see them if they do happen to show up." Chrissy commented.

"Indeed," LJ agreed. "Now for the time being, we can kick back and relax until the next adventure."

The others nodded and decided to do that. Chrissy bundled herself up and watched an old video from Canterlot High School which was the battle of the bands.

"Wow, LJ's mom hasn't aged a day since high school." Kimberly commented.

"Yeah, it's pretty crazy," Chrissy agreed. "Neither have Adagio, Aria, and Sonata."

"Eh, you get used to it," LJ replied. "I just don't ask about it."

"She still looks pretty," Kimberly smiled. "I hope I look pretty when I'm all grown up."

"I was born beautiful." Chrissy grinned.

"True," LJ replied. "But you two both look beautiful, no matter what. And Lynn? ...She's beautiful in her own Amazonian way; she just needs time to let it out."

Said sports fanatic was still talking to her siblings on the phone.

"Give it to us straight, Lynn," said Lori. "That LJ kid actually likes you, doesn't he?"

"I dunno," Lynn replied. "He only said that picking on someone just makes them look like a jerk."

"Gee, does that sound familiar?" Lincoln narrowed his eyes.

"Oh, you hush," Lola rolled her eyes before smirking. "Ronnie-Anne clearly likes you."

"I gotta say, dude, sometimes compared to the rest of us, you're pretty bad to the bone," Luna said to Lynn. "You can take that as an insult or compliment, but your competitive side is not fun to deal with."

"Eh, I'll try to work on that, but it's pretty awesome with what I'm doing here," Lynn shrugged. "It's a lot cooler than it sounded when I was invited to come along."

"Well, alright; glad to know you're okay," Lincoln replied. "Catch up with you later." And the comlink shut off.

"Yeah, they miss me, I can tell." Lynn chuckled.

LJ soon held out his tablet and decided to try to video call his older sister who lived far away these days. Eventually, an answer was shown with a big black sphere shown.

"WAH!" LJ yelped until it was shown to be Felicity's eye until she backed up bashfully to show her face. "Oh, it's just you, Felicity."

"Hello, there," Felicity smiled. "I thought we were due for a video call."

"Yeah, I figured I should check up on you," LJ replied. "See if you're all gettin' bored without me around, or if you'll visit."

Felicity giggled. "I do miss you a lot, very much," she then nodded. "I have a big Exam Week coming up."

"Oh." LJ frowned at first.

"But after I get my big tests done, I'll see what I can do about visiting," Felicity continued with a smile. "I'll talk to you before it's time to go to bed, I can tell you've missed me."

"Yeah," LJ nodded. "It's cool having my friends here, but I'm a little homesick. I miss you, and Zo, and the puppy-kittens, and Mom and Dad."

"I miss you guys too," Felicity smiled before she moved the camera over to her bed in the room. "Especially since I live in my school," she then moved it back over to her face. "I'll be sure to come by whenever my exams are done. I gotta study my butt off for this."

"Well, hopefully you do good on your test," LJ replied. "Rooting for ya."

"Thank you ever so much, LJ," Felicity smiled as she began to get up and leave the room briefly. "This test means a lot to me. You can try to call tomorrow, but just a warning, I might be in the library with Mal, Evie, Jay, and Carlos. Hey, Audrey."

Audrey stuttered and shivered as she walked by, looking a bit wide-eyed and jolted.

"This test is getting to a lot of us." Felicity then told LJ as she passed by the Daughter of Sleeping Beauty.

"I had a feeling," LJ replied. "See you around." And he hung up, before going to look outside.

Chrissy and Kimberly watched LJ go.

"I feel like we should do something nice for him." Kimberly said.

"Don't we always?" Chrissy smirked.

"Well, sure," Kimberly rolled her eyes with a small smirk back before she looked serious. "But maybe something beyond that."

"Hmm..." The two girls stopped to think as they continued to take their break until their next misadventure with The Robot Monkeys.

LJ laid on the surface of the Super Robot's shoulder as he gazed up at the night sky in silent contemplation.

"He gonna be okay?" Chiro asked.

"Yeah, just give him some privacy." Raul replied.

"We'll check on him later." Akito decided.

Everyone else then decided to hang out and do their own thing while LJ would hang out on his own for a moment or two. And so, things continued on quietly.