A/N: Hey everyone! Thanks for waiting and thanks for the reviews! I know there is a lot of speculation on Chiro being a robot monkey, but you will see why the Timepieces of Moirai changed him into one.

Also note Nova is going to seem a little cranky in this chapter, but that's just cause she is dealing with a certain orange asshole. So trust me, she will lighten up later!

So anyways, enjoy chapter 5!


Chapter 5

Discovered then Fleeing

Young Mandarin stood in the super robot's main control room. He eyed the monitor like it was the devil himself. The orange leader stood in a hunched over position with his tail up, his onyx eyes homing red pupils narrowed. "This can't be right…" he growled, "I mean how?"

Otto came in, his black orbs looking up to the older monkey. "Mandarin…" he whispered, "Are you okay? You have been stressing a lot since we investigated that subway fire two or three days ago."

The eldest leader casted a gentle look to his youngest brother. "It is alright Otto, I am just… stuck on something… like how citizens thought we rescued them when we obviously didn't."

Shaking his head, he turned away from the computer. "Okay no time for speculation now, I will figure this out later. For now, gather everyone in the room, it's time for a little progress report."

Otto nodded with his big pearly white smile. Running out, he returned with every teammate following. They lined up in an orderly fashion line as their alpha male crossed their fronts. He marched like a drill sergeant as he eyed each member. His look landed on Antauri.

"Antauri… have you perfected your focus on the Monkey Mind Scream attack?"

The black simian nodded silently with his typical stoic look. "Yes Mandarin, I have been studying and applying the methods of meditation you have showed me a while ago. It has been a great help in interloping my concentration levels… so I do feel I have made progress with the attack."

"Good," he nodded before moving away to Gibson. "Big brain… you and Otto fix those buggy alarms yet?" he narrowed his eyes in hidden irritation that they are even having this talk to begin with.

Gibson winced, but Otto smiled, jumping to answer before the scientist could. "We sure did Mandarin! I even installed a state of the art radar! Now we can detect bad guys from all across the city on our own monitor!"

Mandarin's grouchy face cracked into a small smile, "Good good… glad that we will no longer be having this problem anymore." Then he turned away and locked eyes with the pilot, "And Sparky… report on your progress with the flight simulator."

Sprx, with hands tucked behind his head, smirked a sarcastic smile. "You bet I did Mandy… and ya know I would do a lot better if you'd JUST let me fly a solo patrol for once… give me some more practice with my own fist rocket, ya know what I mean?"

Mandarin shook his head, "No… you are not flying close to the city while you are still inexperienced. You are ONLY going to practice in the flight simulator till I say otherwise… Got it?"

The bright red monkey's fur bristled as he glared at the ground. "Fine…" he whispered, feeling like he was being robbed of some of his independence.

Then Mandarin locked eyes with Nova. His expression tightened as both the simians stared at each other. Nova's looked rivaled knives as she turned her shoulder to him, staring at him. The orange alpha male showed a small peak of his teeth to exert his assertiveness. But the nonverbal growl did nothing but boil the golden warrior's blood.

"Nova…"

"Mandarin…"

Both their voices were leveled with equal aggression. Mandarin crossed his arms, obviously angered by this challenging look. "You work on your anger…? For I do not want another room blown up because of your lack of self-control."

Nova's red/pink eyes snapped to a look of anger. "What, can't handle the fact you broke your spine when you were laughing at me?"

"Silence!" he snapped, shutting the rival female up. "No more in subornation! Next time you pull another stunt like that I will be forced to label you as a danger to the team and suspend you in defiantly! Is this understood?"

The team's strongest simian bristled her fur, trying everything in her power to control her climbing levels of rage. "Crystal clear sir…"

"Good," he growled and moved away from the threatening female.

Mandarin swore out of all the monkeys, Nova was a nuke waiting to explode. Everyone obeyed him without a second thought… except the gold female. He sighed, he didn't know why she had to be so hard to control. The other members were so meek and knew their place… yet Nova challenged his authority when she felt he was being cruel to them. He was never cruel! He just pushed them to train harder!

While he thought about this, Nova was also thinking rival thoughts. She was not going to submissively back down when their leader was being an asshole to their family. Sure he was calm sometimes, but majority of the time he bore little to no patience with them. He expected them to get all his lessons right the first time, but when they didn't he'd explode on them. This is why Nova was clashing with him so much… she felt obligated to protect them from their leader's condescending words.

"Alright team…" Mandarin spoke up, running his paw over a control panel. "We need to discuss what had happened two days ago- regarding a situation that led citizens to believe we saved them when we haven't even shown up on the scene yet…"

Otto raised his hand, cutting their leader off. "Oh oh maybe they're just so used us seeing us saving them that they might've imagined it was us saving them!"

Everyone blinked at Otto before Gibson cleared his throat. "Illogical… the man specifically pointed to Antauri, so obviously he saw something that he confused us with."

Antauri nodded to his younger brother's theory. "Agreed, the man told me that he swore I was the one who saved them. Saying he saw a black monkey break the subway's window and escorting everyone out."

Mandarin slammed his fist on the wall, "I am getting frustrated with this! None of us were there, so that guy saw something!" He threw his look at the team's scientist. "Did you get any answers from the DNA test yet Gibson?"

The blue simian sighed as he walked to his lab; returning with a glass beaker and some paper. "According to my analysis from the blood we collected on the streets… it is indeed simian blood; but it belongs to none of us."

Their eyes popped open in alarm. Antauri stepped forward, eyeing the sheet of paper. "Did you discover anything else that could probably give us some more answers?"

Gibson rubbed his head, "Unfortunately no… the only thing I could gather from the blood results was whatever was in the subway was indeed a monkey- same breed as us… a Shuggazoomian bred monkey. But that is all I could gather."

Mandarin shook his head, rubbing his forehead in frustration. "Well great… so the only answer we can safely conclude is there is another monkey running around Shuggazoom doing our job? Nonsense!" he yelled at the monkeys, "Whatever is going on I want this little rat caught! Got it?"

Everyone nodded, except Nova, who just did her everyday glare. Mandarin ignored this look for now and faced the controllers. "So I have a new assignment for everyone… we are going to head to the city and search for this cretin! We are to work around our daily schedules… so we are going to break off into pairs of two and take double shifts… we are to search during our patrols for danger… understand?"

Everyone nodded as Mandarin smirked, "Good… for now, let us begin… Nova!" he summoned her forward. "Since you are still on probation for your misbehaving threats… you and Otto will be first on patrolling for tonight… so have fun!"

Nova snarled as she walked out without another word. She could hear the metal clanks of the smaller male monkey following close behind. "Nova!" the mechanic hollered, "Wait up!"

She ignored her brother as she shoved her way through the robot's foot hatch. "What Otto?" she asked scornfully. Her dark shaded fur revealing her immense rise of stress levels.

The innocent monkey shrunk back in submission as he looked down, "'Why are you so hard with Mandarin…? I mean he is just trying to help us… can't you please trust him a little more?"

She stared at Otto, she had no reason to be mean with him. But he wouldn't understand the reasons behind her clashing with their leader.

"I will try," that's the only answer she could muster for the moment. She turned away as she led Otto out into the cooling late October air.

~With Chiro, 10:30 P.M.~

Chiro smiled in thanks as he took the bag from the cashier. The much taller woman had to lean over the counter to hand the blue eyed simian his purchase. "Here you go Hyperforce, my thanks for you saving my husband and daughter in from the fire yesterday!"

Chiro smiled as he nodded. He was going to pay, but the pharmacy worker insisted on giving him free medicine. He walked in just hours ago, weary from losing blood; so this kind woman was more than happy to fix him up. She applied a cream to the wound after applying a nice tight bandage over it.

Part of his body was fully metal as well as some of his insides. Which meant his body must've been different from the other monkeys, seeing is how the only organic parts on them were their eyes and brains. So Chiro retaining some of his body organs told him he was indeed very different.

Chiro nodded his thanks to her before he left the drug store. He would've spoken to her, but he didn't know wither or not she would understand him. He didn't need to risk anything so he kept moving. Once he had taken a few pain pills, he knew he was going to be okay.

As he limped, he leaned against the crutch that was strapped to his arm. The lady also said he couldn't be walking around so much. But since he HAD to, she gave him something to support him.

Chiro carried the paper bag in his arms as he limped through the streets. It was dark and lightly raining with a few low rumbles of thunder. The moon barely peaked through the skies, granting him only little light down the wet barren street.

He could hear the Phase of Morrow ticking quietly against his warm chest. Though it was ticking, Chiro felt as though it was counting down the time he had left. To live or no longer exist was the real question that he would have to wait and see. But for now he just focused on making himself better.

He looked at the leather bandage wrapped tightly around him. At least this was better than nothing.

He winced when a hover car flew past him. The speed it was going scraped the sidewalk and flung water all over him.

The black simian gasped as he shielded the paper bag containing his medicines. He grunted when he smeared the dirty road water off his face. "Aw man… great now I am at risk of getting a cold!" he sneezed as he whiped his nose.

Just when Chiro swore his luck was getting worse, something brushed past him. Looking in alarm, a voice reached out to him.

"Antauri?" came a deep male voice, "What are you doing out here? I thought Mandarin said only me and Nova were doing a patrol tonight."

Chiro's fur bristled against his back as he recognized Otto's voice. His back was to the green mechanic, which was probably why he was confusing him with Antauri.

Then he heard more metal feet clanking against the side walk. A raspier female voice spoke up, "Antauri?"

Chiro's stomach dropped a thousand fathoms. He didn't need to turn around to know they were staring at him. He stood further in the dark, which is probably why they didn't see him too well. If he turned around, he KNEW they would figure out he was not Antauri…

When he didn't respond, he could feel the heat of their bodies' inch closer. He froze, his brain running rampant through his now mechanical mind. What should he do? Did he run? No then his wound would split open. But he couldn't face them yet! He didn't even have a plan!

Then he tensed when he felt a hand touch his back. Judging by the strong fingers roughly poking him, he knew it was Nova's grip. "Antauri why are you wearing a scarf?" She asked baffled, "And what's up with that bandage…? Come on say something, this is not funny…"

Then it happened… when he felt the hand turn him around. There hot pink eyes locked with sky blue eyes. He watched as both their expressions went from concern to shock. He was not sure how he was looking… he just felt blank right now. He needed to do something fast!

"Who… are you!?" Otto yelled in alarm.

"You're not Antauri!" Nova added shortly after.

He tried to talk, but his voice was caught in his breath. He raised his hand while still holding the bag. His eyes wide as he shook. Fear evident.

The green and gold pair drew their weapons, but their gazes told him they were not intending to attack. He gripped his wounded side as he backed up, "Wait wait!" he finally managed to spit out. "Please don't attack me!"

Nova raised an eyebrow, obviously not expecting to hear his voice. "Who are you?"

He gripped his cane, "I… i…" he looked at his reflection in a nearby pond. Wincing when he saw his white muzzle scrunching in fear.

Suddenly Otto opened his eyes, "Wait a minute… are you the one that saved those people from the subway?"

"Yea…" Nova added, scratching her chin with her tail. "Mandarin sent us to find you…"

Now all went downhill when that name left the female's lips. Startled beyond belief, Chiro leaped back. "Lightning Kick!" his leg exploded into sparks as he slammed into a nearby light pole.

The broken pole landed in front of the pair, sparking as it released a stream of white smoke. Nova gasped at the sudden motion, "What the!?" When she leaped over the pole, she saw no one on the other side. "Damn it we lost him!" she cursed as she snapped her head back to face Otto. "Where did he go!?"

Otto grabbed his head, "I don't know but we got to find him! He looked hurt and sick!"

Nova dropped her angry gaze, "What? Otto forget about that, he just tried to attack us!"

He shook his head, "No he didn't! If he wanted to take us down why didn't he just directly use that weird… electric kick attack?" The mechanic sheathed his saws. "But did you see him? He was limping and had a bandage on… he was hurt! We need to help him!"

Sighing, Nova turned around. "Fine whatever… just find him before Mandarin checks in. I am in NO mood to deal with him right now."

Both monkeys leaped into the air in a beam of gold and green. They flew into the stormy night sky, scattering through the city.

Chiro laid under a car a few meters away. His heart was racing as his wound throbbed. Gasping, he quickly fished out a pill bottle and took a few of the dissolvent drugs. He shook as he laid his head down, letting the cold damp concrete sooth his agony.

"Why did I do that?" he asked himself out loud. Now they'll think he tried to attack them, but he didn't… he just panicked when hearing Mandarin's name! But now they know what he looks like, and worse they know he is wounded and vulnerable.

Now it was only a matter of time before they found him. Chiro squeezed his arm as he started coughing roughly. He needed a plan and fast… for knowing the stubbornness of his own team, he knows he will be found quickly.

He rubbed his burning forehead as cold sweat dripped from his helmet. He laid on his stomach as he held his head. At least he managed to fix his optic…

His power primate flickered weakly around him as he listened to the light rain beat against the car covering him. At least he was safe… for now anyways. He breathed heavily as he struggled to keep his eyes open. His half metal heart steamed in his metal ribs as more sweat raced down his pitch black helmet. His eyes eventually black out, hearing nothing more then the rain washing over him.


A/N: Uh oh Chiro was discovered! Now looks like hiding won't do him anymore good! Nova and Otto now can report they saw a blue eyed robot monkey walking around the streets- so he can't hide or run anymore.

But now things are getting worse, he is getting sick! But what do ya expect? He's been sleeping out in the rain and dirt for like… nearly 3 days now AND with an infected wound he got treated a little late.

Stay tune for next chapter! Things are gonna be picking up!

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