A/N: Hey everyone! Thanks for waiting, and sorry it took so long. I was busy. So won't bore you any longer, enjoy chapter 6!

Also note this! Mandarin may have the home field advantage but he is unaware of half the knowledge Chiro possess. Such as how the watches are ineffective if they are used against each other.


Chapter 6

Poisoned

Nova and Otto shot through the star lit sky. They had been racing around the city for the past four hours in search of the strange black robotic monkey. Otto was scared but Nova was angry, why? Well all this came crashing down on her so quickly… she just didn't expect to find their target on the first night they started searching. And little did she expect their target to actually be a robot monkey like themselves.

"Nova I'm worried!" Otto whined as he popped his head out of a nearby trashcan. "We've been searching everywhere! Maybe we should radio the team and tell them we spotted him!"

"No Otto…" Nova growled, using her gusto amount of strength to shove some heavy duty pipe lines out of the way. "If Mandarin hears we let him get away then I'll never hear the end of it. So we won't report till we find him…"

Otto frowned at the larger monkey's stubbornness. "Are you still mad at Mandarin because of the training room incident?"

She froze, a vein bursting in her eyes, causing them to go blood shot. "I don't want to talk about it," she hissed before marching past her brother.

In the distance, Mandarin watched the younger version of his teammates search around. He smirked, "My my how clueless my brother and sister are… even more so then their future selves. But that shall be fixed when I rid myself of the boy…" he whispered as he leaned against a building, invisible in the shadows.

The watch of yore ticked on his heavily armored chest. He was still stunned the boy now monkey survived his attacks, "I don't know where he is… but I know he won't hide from them forever…" he smirked as he stood up. "So time to lure the foolish boy out…"

Cocking his gun, he aimed it at a big cable connecting two taller buildings together. It roped itself high above the ground as Nova and Otto cluelessly walked right beneath it. Smirking darkly, Mandarin reached his free paw to his weapon and clicked the barrel sideways. The bullet hole folded out into a much larger diameter as a big scope jumped before his eye.

Taking aim, a medium sized rocket came flying out of the enlarged arm-weapon. Zipping through the air, a trail of smoke blazed out from its rear. Then spinning like a football, it collided into the building's side. The cracks crumbled the flimsy pillars as it collapsed from the heat.

The cables tied to the roof bowed under the loss of support. It snapped in half and came raining down to the ground.

Nova looked up just in time, "Otto move!" she yelled. She leaped towards her younger sibling and knocked him out of the way.

Both primates went skidding a good ten feet, narrowly avoiding being squished. They panted as they stared back to the wrecked spot, fire flickering in their eyes. They glanced at each other speechless, minds unable to understand what just happened.

"Well that was… strange…" Nova added as she grabbed Otto by the hand and hoisted him up. She used her tail to brush the ashes off herself and the mechanic before turning to the blaze.

Looking at the enflamed pile of wires and rubber, Otto looked back up to the building. "This does not feel like an accident… the way the wires are busted and the temperature of the flames speaks of some kind of chemical explosion…" he scratched his chin in thought.

Mandarin slinked closer, watching his siblings inspect his handing work. The Phase of Yore began to blink as the rogue monkey looked up. "Aha… the boy is close…" he grinned a platonic smile as he sank back into the darkness.

In the distance, Chiro had heard the blast and came rushing in. He stood on top of a nearby building. He sighed a breath of relief when he saw Nova and Otto alright. "Whatever happened… glad their okay…"

As Chiro was about to leave, a small ounce of movement caught his eye. Looking down, he raised an eyebrow when he spotted a red dot. The light came out from the street corner and found its mark on Nova. Then it danced up her back and laid to rest on her head.

Chiro stared at the dot, then his face paled over when he realized it was a marking laser. "No…" leaping from his perched spot, he flung himself towards the duo.

"Get down!"

Nova and Otto didn't have time to react when a black, white, and orange streaked blur knocked them both over. They didn't have time to respond when the sounds of a gun shot went off.

The former human boy gasped as he felt something sharp stab into his side. He wobbled to his feet as he instantly began to feel woozy. Snaking his arm around his waist, he snatched something cold and skinny stabbed into his ribs. Ripping it out, he spied a small canister with a big four inch needle exiting its tip. He stared at it for a second before his world darkened…

Dropping the small poisonous sedative, the jet black monkey began to stumble. His world went spinning as he grasped blindly for the watch on his neck. His body began to shake uncontrollably as he lost all color to his vision. He fell to his stomach, feeling his strength dropping by the second.

He heard a cold chuckle lick his metal ears. His fur crawled as he painfully shut one eye, "M-mandarin…" he snarled.

The purple armored monkey came around the corner, his muggy smirk taunting him. "Oh foolish boy you are so easy to draw out… but I will admit, the fact you haven't died from my constant attacks yet have astounded me. But this time I will make sure you don't survive this…"

When he reached a hand out to grab the blue relic of the future, Chiro clung to it harder. He snarled as he propped himself up with his one weakening arm. "W-what did you… do to me?" his voice was cracking, which made the boy's heart swell with worry.

Mandarin growled in frustration but retracted his claws. "You are so durable, I knew brute force wouldn't be enough to kill you. So instead… I shot you with this…" he held up the needle that laid by his feet. "Fourteen ounces of metallic poison… enough to kill ten full grown adults as it pumps through your organs."

Chiro smirked at him, this look making the orange rogue monkey raise an eyebrow in question.

"Nice try Mandarin… b-but I am cybernetic now… t-this won't harm me…"

"Oh ignorance is such a bliss foolish boy… but in the next hour, this injection will have burned your heart out to nothing but a pile of burnt flesh…"

Chiro's heart stopped as he could feel a strong burning sensation pierce the inside of his shell. Electricity sparked around his arms and head as he curled up into a pitiful ball. Panic escalated as he clung to the clock of morrow.

Then two shadows hovered over him. Nova and Otto rushed over to the downed monkey, their eyes wide. Otto noticed the seizure like symptoms and glanced to Nova, "We have to help him!"

Nova was still at a loss of what happened. One moment they were nearly crushed, then they both get roughly shoved aside and heard a loud gunshot shortly after. "I have no idea what happened but we have no time… let's get him to sickbay!"

Kneeling down, they grabbed the taller monkeys' metal arms and hauled him up. Chiro was losing himself, falling so far into darkness he couldn't voice his mind. All he could do was see the ground leaving his feet as four pairs of arms towed him through the weightless air.

Mandarin smirked as he watched his siblings carry the weakening boy hero away. "Well not exactly what I planned, but it won't matter… for in a matter of hours, the damn child will be done for…" he cackled as he leaned against the wall.

"Just because you became a robot monkey does not mean you are equal to me… child…"

~Super Robot: 3:30 AM~

The walls of the super robot were quiet from the late night hours. The remaining Hyperforce members slept soundly in their private quarters.

Seconds later the robot's entrance slid open as three shadows came rushing in. Nova carried the strange monkey on her back as Otto raced ahead. The green mechanic punched in a few codes as the main room's doors slid open. "Hurry!" he shrieked as his sister flew past him.

His weak groans didn't go unnoticed as worry flooded the pink and black eyes watching him. Otto punched on the lights as Nova fled to Gibson's lab.

"Get Gibson!" the gold warrior ordered as she quickly laid the taller male monkey onto the table.

As Otto ran to the fetch the team, Nova desperately tried to slow his bleeding. His four day old wounds made her flinch when she undid his bandages.

Then everything changed when Mandarin came in, "What the hell is going on-" He paused when he saw the gold warrior in the company of a creature that looked strikingly similar to them. Arching his eyebrow, he stepped back, "What the hell happened!?"

Soon the rest of the team rushed in, their expressions mirroring Mandarin's own shocked gaze. "What in the…" Sprx started.

Gibson noticed the wounds and rushed in. Grabbing a vaccine shot, he rushed to the stranger's side. "He's been poisoned!" he warned everyone, "I don't know if it's contagious or not so everyone stay at least an arm's length away!"

As the dark blue colored doctor worked, Mandarin and the team faced Nova and Otto. "What happened!?" he growled, "Where did you find him? Tell me."

"W-we don't know…" Otto rushed to answer. "We ran into him thinking he was Antauri, then he fled and we found him like this after we almost got crushed by some burning building cables."

Young Mandarin arched his eyebrow and wrinkled his white snout. "You should've radioed me before bringing him back to the robot… what if he is hostile!?"

Nova snapped him a surprise look, throwing the leader off guard with the intensity of her stare. "If he was hostile he wouldn't have ran away in fear when he saw us. He would've engaged us, plus he begged us not to attack."

Glancing at his appearance, Mandarin scowled in disgust. "Well whatever he is… he looks like a damn stray. He is filthy and covered in nasty infected cuts…"

Gibson examined the wounds after analyzing his body. "Well these wounds appear to be a few days old, they are badly infected…" he looked at the paper his scanner was spitting out to him. "According to my analysis there are particles of some vitamins in his systems… so whatever happened he obviously tried to doctor himself."

Then Antauri walked in, taking the reins of the conversation; which was something he rarely did. "Regardless of his condition… what is another robot monkey doing here?" he frowned, taking on his normal deadpan look. "This is most disturbing, I sense something off… can you wake him up? Maybe he can give us a little insight-"

"No." Mandarin cut off the second in command, "I don't care what he is… I don't want to risk our safety. He might be dangerous, I want him contained and vaccinated away from the others till he is one hundred percent virus free. Then we'll interrogate him…"

Antauri could tell by the coldness of his leader's voice that this new monkey was in for some harsh treatment. He sighed, knowing better then to speak against his superior… but he felt this was a good enough circumstance to defy this personal rule. At least just this once.

"Mandarin…" the wise black simian spoke out slowly. "I understand we are risking a bunch by keeping him here… but judging from his appearance, there is no mistake that this was the monkey the citizens reported seeing when he saved them from the subway fire. So 'interrogating' him in a violent or intimidating matter might not be the wisest thing to do…"

Gibson nodded, "Agreed. Plus even if he is dangerous, these wounds are bad enough to stabilize him without the aid of sedations… in theory he is not going anywhere on his own free will, at least not for a while."

Mandarin grunted when he felt all eyes on him. Mentally weighing the pros and cons of the situation, he reached a conclusion. "Fine, he will stay but only until we get some answer. Till then I want him contained, I don't want him wandering the robot freely… then we'll decide what to do with him."

Sighing, a small sense of relief washed through Antauri. Satisfied that their alpha was being a tad bit more reasonable then reverting to his usual sense of violence. "I am sure we will not regret this Mandarin…" he spoke calmly.

"For now, get this thing into a containment grid… who knows what diseases he is carrying."

Nodding, Gibson pressed a nearby button. The lab's metal arms slid out, grasping the taller monkey in its grip. It hauled the young blue eyed simian over to a tube. The glass container slid open with a loud hiss when the robot monkey was placed in its center. A plug in snapped into the back of his head while liquids soon swallowed him up.

Once his oxygen mask was firmly in place, the blue scientist looked at the rest of the team. "I don't know when he will wake up… or if he'll wake up… my scanners found heavy doses of fatal toxins that could kill large mammals in a matter of hours pumping into his system. I am sending some anti-venom into his system that'll hopefully drown out the poison… but for now all we can do is wait…"

Sprx eyed the monkey that now floated lifelessly in the tank. "You know, I can see why he could be mistaken for Antauri…" he smirked as he glanced over to the green eyed simian. "Hehe he almost looks kin to you!" he motioned to the odd facial coloring mapping across the darker simian's face.

Unfazed by the attempted humor, Antauri turned his focus back to the strange sight. "This is still very perplexing… I didn't know there were other robot monkeys."

Nova stared at the deep electric blue eyes, "Maybe he might be able to tell us where we come from?"

Gibson shrugged, "Well all this will have to wait… for now, just to ensure precautions…" He pulled a lever. Watching as two sets of black chains leaped out and cuffed the taller monkey's arms. "I do not like doing this, but these binds will ensure he stays in the tank."

Mandarin cleared his throat, gaining everyone's attention. "Enough gawking… let this thing sleep, if he does not wake up by tomorrow then we'll wake him up forcefully. For now everyone is forbidden to enter the lab except me and Gibson… so dismissed."

Everyone left the lab without a second thought. Nova paused as she couldn't help but glance back to the lifeless blue eyes behind the clear glass. Though her expression seemed angrily stern, a small déjà vu feeling itched at her brain. Something about those ghostly blue eyes didn't feel right…

But shortly after dismissing the thought, she turned and joined her male companions in the robot's main control room.

Once the lab was empty, the phase of morrow slipped free of Chiro's orange scarf. It started to tick quietly as his eyes started to twitch.


A/N: Ok well at least Chiro was able to get inside the team now. Mandarin wanted to take the watch from Chiro, so he baited him by pretending to assassinate Otto and Nova. Now remember people Mandarin is not going to harm the monkeys, he wants to brainwash them, not kill them. His ONLY target he aims to kill is Chiro; but now that the team has taken Chiro in- things are about to get real tense now.

So stay tuned for chapter 7! At least now Chiro won't have to worry about fighting Mandarin every second now that he is with the team. So he'll be a harder target to hit now.

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