The Intro Process

Beastfire: Hello, peoples! Chapter 4 has arrived! As for that little uprising last time… (glares at Ivy and Frus, who are now both caged and have multiple injuries) that has thankfully been quelled.

The Hyperforce still hadn't found much of anything in their search. Several hours had been wasted. They kept looking.

Now, as this was going on, Frus was honing his metalworking skills by making iron puzzles while Ivy was just off on her own, walking around and thinking. 'Maybe,' she reasoned. 'I can get in touch with the team telepathically, and let them know where the Super Robot is. Oh, crap, I'm thinking too much.' As she thought, she heard a rustling sound nearby. She whipped around and didn't see anything. When she turned back around, she found herself face to face with a pretty large snake.

"Hello, fresh meat," the snake hissed with a devilish grin.

Ivy got ready to attack, but there was one thing preventing her from hurling a fireball at the snake. If she did so, she'd start a huge fire and, well, that would, in turn, form a lynch mob and things would get worse. Yes, the alcohol withdrawal caused her to waste too much time thinking. Also, because of the correlation between the withdrawal and her fear of snakes, she couldn't concentrate well enough with her other powers. The snake began to coil around her, and she screamed.

The scream rang throughout a good part of the woods. As Frus was just about finished with the puzzle that he was working on, the sound of it reached his ears. He figured that it might have been Ivy, dropped the puzzle (which he was doing mentally) and ran for the source.

Chiro and the team also heard the scream from their location.

"Did you guys hear that?" Chiro asked.

"Yes," Antauri answered.

"I can guess what it is," said Otto.

All of the monkeys and Chiro looked at each other, then said one word in unison…

"Ivy."

They also followed the sound.

Ivy was still freaking out about the snake that was trying to off her. As it was just about to bite her and inject some venom, a voice was heard.

"Hey, Naithair! Leave her alone!"

It was Frus. And he didn't look very happy with Naithair. He summoned some steel and formed it into a sword. He came at the snake, ready to slice. Naithair noticed the sharp blade and, having a severe fear of sharp objects, dropped Ivy and slithered off. Frus caught Ivy on her way to the ground, as she couldn't concentrate enough to bring herself up on her own flight ability. Just as he caught her, the Monkey Team arrived, panting and exhausted, as they had a longer distance to run. Frus and Ivy looked over to them.

"Hey, guys!" Ivy said.

"Hello, Ivy," began Antauri. "Might we ask who your friend here is?"

Ivy and Frus noticed that he was still holding her and he quickly put her down.

"I'm Frus," he introduced. "I take it you're friends of Ivy's?"

"Yes," answered Gibson. "In a manner of speaking, she is, although she has managed to become a big pain."

Ivy smirked at this comment. She knew it to be undeniably true, but she was proud of her title as "Royal Pain in the Tail". Then Nova saw something.

"Hey, Chiro! I found the Super Robot!"

Chiro and the rest of the Monkey Team ran over to where Nova was. Frus and Ivy followed.

"So THAT'S what that was!" Frus exclaimed. "I'd been wondering for a while! Ivy, why didn't you ever tell me?"

"You never asked," she responded. "You were too busy asking every other possible question in the universe."

"Oh, right."

Otto went inside and looked around.

"Wow. It's a wreck in here!" said Otto.

He emerged from the robot.

"It'll take a while to fix it."

"Need some help with the metal?" Frus offered.

"Sure!" exclaimed Otto. "Who do you know that can help?"

"I can help. I've got this ability to summon and control metal."

"Really? YIPPEE!"

Otto began to dance around happily. Chiro walked over to Frus.

"I'm Chiro," he told him.

The other monkeys, except for Otto, introduced themselves in the long process of introductions.

"And that's Otto," explained Nova.

"How'd you guys find me, anyway?" Ivy asked.

"Well, God, Ivy! You scream loud enough to wake the dead!"

"Oh."

So, the explanation of what happened right after the crash came next, and Sprx leaned in next to Frus.

"I guess you're Ivy's boyfriend now," he teased.

Frus could feel his face turning incredibly crimson and he surrounded himself with a stainless steel shell.

"Stop! You're embarrassing me!" he said from inside.

Soon, he had to let the shield down so he could get a little more air.

"Geez, it was getting kind of hard to breathe in there," he told himself.

There's another chapter out of the way. Next time, they all begin to fix the Super Robot and get some info on Skeleton King.

Frus: WAIT! Would that be fix as in "repair" or the other one?

Ivy: Repair.

Frus: (relieved) Good.

Beastfire: Heehee…and I think Frus does like Ivy!

Frus: ARE YOU JUST OUT TO HUMILIATE ME?

Beastfire: Don't worry…I'm out to humiliate EVERYONE! (laughs evilly and chokes on her own saliva) Oh, crap…little help?

Ivy: (mockingly) But we can't. We're in lockdown, remember?

Frus: Please review!

Beastfire: (now able to breathe) Hey, I was gonna say that!