Chapter 3: Introducing
The five robot monkeys and one human boy stared at the girl and her five robot monkeys. "Um, It's nice to see you guys are alright, but shouldn't we be going?" the white monkey spoke softly.
"Oh right!" Jin-May answered. "We can introduce ourselves at the Super Robot. Everyone follow me!" The original five monkeys glanced over to Chiro, who nodded. The six followed the newcomers who had started to fly away, once they saw they were coming. A short flight later found the group of twelve inside the Super Robot. Gibson and Sparks were placed in the healing tanks, to repair their more serious injuries. Nova, Otto, Antauri, and Chiro met Jin-May's team in the main room after getting their wounds looked at. They found Jim-May talking quietly to the gold and white monkeys, while the tan one was leaning on a wall looking around quietly, and the indigo and platinum monkeys were looking around in awe.
"So Jin-May, who are your new friends?" Chiro asked as he walked in, rubbing his newly bandaged upper arms. The girl smiled at her boyfriend and stood up.
"I'll let them do that themselves," She responded. "Team! Introduce yourselves!"
"Hi, I'm Azure, the communications specialist!" The gold monkey shouted out cheerfully. "I'm glad to meet you!"
"I'm Zephyr, infiltration and information gather," the indigo monkey said breezily. "Does this place have a self destruct button?" The Monkey Team blinked at this question.
"Don't answer this ditz. She's mostly harmless. I'm Alison, Second-in-command, nice to meet you," answered the platinum monkey before anyone could respond.
"Greetings, I'm... Lamina...Medic and Chief Mechanic... um I hope to be able to help you," the white monkey said shyly.
"Name's Cobalt, remember it," said the tan monkey glaring at them.
"Um, what's his damage?" Chiro whispered to Jin-May.
"Our weapon specialist was like that when he woke up," She answered as Cobalt went back to staring at nothing.
Chiro nodded then said "Well, let me introduce my team."
"You don't have to, I already did," Jin-May cut in softly.
"Oh..." Chiro mummbled.
"So what do you mean by 'Woke up'?" Nova asked after the pause, eyeing Zephyr as she circled her curiously.
"Woke up. Let me explain what I found and it will answer all of your questions," Jin-May answered. "It started when I received a transmission..."
The large blast doors opened to reveal a room that was more than just disarrayed. At first glance it was hard to tell just what the room was used for, but scanning it, it seemed to be some time of laboratory. There were spilled and broken chemical equipment, broken computers, shattered lab tables, and other less identifiable things. The room was very large, and was shaped much like an airplane hanger. Walking towards the back of the room, she noted a large empty square shaft to her left. She didn't give it much thought, because the large computer at the back of the room took up her attention. As she approached, she glanced over toward the six metal circles on the floor. They were spaced evenly on both sides of the computer, three on each side. Stopping in front of the giant super computer, she scanned it to see how to access it. But before Jin-May could do anything, it cut on. Displayed on the monitor was a woman. She was wearing a gold robe with white edging on the cuffs and a white stripe on the hood, along with a white belt. She has sliver hair, but only her bangs were showing. She also had deep green eyes. The mystery woman was standing with both hands inside of the sleeves of her robe.
"Hello Jin-May. I see you finally found this place. I don't know if you have found the chosen one yet, but the second project is finally finished. You don't need to use that body anymore," The woman said.
"Anymore? What do you mean? And how do I know you?" The pink haired android asked in confusion. "Did you know me before I lost my memory?"
The screen flickered as the computer processed her questions. "Oh dear... this will be a bit of a problem. Memory loss you say?" She asked. Jin-May nodded slowly in response. "Well, I'll see what I can do. Please place your hand on the glowing panel." As she spoke a second next to a keyboard opened reveal a glowing pink heart shaped panel. Cautiously the android girl touched it.
'This could be a key to my past!' She thought as the whole control board lit up. Pink light shot up her arm and covered her body before she could react. Suddenly she was falling through a black void. "What's going on?" She screamed in fear.
"DOWNLOADING, JM PERSONALY FILES, MEMORY MATRIX, AND MOTOR FUNCTIONS. JM PERSONALY CHECK: OK. MOTOR FUNCTION CHECK: OK. MEMORY MATRIX FILES, MISSING, SOME CORRUPTED, RESTORING... SOME FILES CANNOT BE RESTORED AS THIS TIME: OK. REINSTALLATION, COMPLETE." A monotone voice boomed in response to the girl's question. Suddenly, sensation rushed back and Jin-May found herself standing in the lab, which was now fixed and brand-new. She was standing next to the square shaft, which she now saw was a cargo elevator now that it was up. Standing in front of her were two people. The gold cloaked woman from before, and a man who had one red and one blue eye, a black beard, and he was wearing a black robe, with a red belt around the middle, a red stripe on the back of the hood and red along the end of the sleeves. The blacked robed man had a very pale face.
"So alchemist Rain, I see you have the lab set up the way you want. Do you need anymore help from me?" The man asked as he looked around the area.
"No, I'm fine Master Alchemist. I have all of you data and records; I should be able to finish the second project just a year after you finish yours. And then the universe will be doubly safe," the woman now know as Rain laughed.
"And who is the girl," the Master Alchemist asked now looking directly at Jin-May.
Before she could thing of response, a perfect mirror image stepped forward from where she was standing, almost like she split into two. "I'm Jin-May, Miss Rain's assistant," her double answered curtsying.
"Nice to meet you, I'm sure you'll be a great help," the man answered. "Well, I'm very busy, so I'll need to leave now. I'll check up on you later." And with that the two women, one younger and one older, watched the man leave.
"Come Jin-May, we have work to do as well," Rain said as she walked back toward the master computer.
"Yes, Miss Rain!" the girl answered jogging behind her.
"Please call me Kay," She suggested to the girl as five clear glass cylinders rose from the circles on the ground. She glanced over and saw a slightly uncomfortable expression on her face. "Or if you like, Miss Kay will do." This got Jin-May to smile. The present Jin-May, who realized this was a memory, stood in thought as the two got to work. And work they did, building five robot monkeys, one at a time.
Over the course of what look like months, the duo ironed out all of the bugs of the weapon systems, armor, and fighting styles of the second team. The Jin-May from the present watched all of this in awe. The images were hauntingly familiar. 'This is my past? This is what I don't remember?' She thought as the phantoms danced. Suddenly the montage of information gained a new level of significance.
"Miss Kay? A question. What is the power primate we're working with? I mean what does this strange energy have to do with protecting the universe?" The past Jin-May asked as she entered data into a computer.
"I'm glad you asked little one. The power primate is the energy of life, the energy of existence. With it, our new guardians will be able to protect the universe from the darkness that threatens it," Rain responded as she worked on Lamina's rocket pack.
Past Jin-May nodded then asked, "But why are we only building five cyborgs?"
"Well, the Master is building six as the main team, to defend the universe in the near future. These five will join up with the chosen one when he or she comes. Then both teams will be able to stop the darkness from consuming us all," She answered. "That's also why we are building so much stasis equipment." Present Jin-May suddenly felt uneasy. "Can you hand me that plasma cell? I need it to finish this?" The Alchemist asked.
"Sure, one moment!" the past Jin-May responded cheerfully. Standing up, she walked over toward a cabinet on the wall. After entering a password, the girl was able to open it, revealing several plasma pack cells. The volatile magnetic batteries were stored in recharge outlets and locked in a shockproof case to avoid ruptures. Picking one cylinder shaped cell at random, she lifted it out of its outlet after checking to see if it was stable and charged. "We just got these yesterday, and I want to test them out," the pink haired girl said as she carefully closed the door and carefully walked toward Alchemist Rain. The older woman looked up from her work, and noticed the status light for the cell change from green to red.
"Jin-May! THROW IT INTO THE SHAFT!" She yelled in sudden fright. The pink haired girl froze for a second startled, and as her hands loosened for a moment, the Alchemist used her magic to pull it out of her grip and toss it over into the elevator shaft. A blink later there was a world-shattering boom as it exploded. Both past and present Jin-May screamed in fright. Everything went white for a moment, and then faded back in, as present Jin-May saw herself floating in a stasis tube, badly injured. The lab was somewhat repaired, but looked a lot like it did when it was found. The gold robed women didn't look to be in the best of shape either, with dirty, bloodstained and torn robes. The women "Last Log: It's been about a week since that accident that wasn't an accident. Someone sabotaged the plasma cells we got from the main guild. I don't know who it was, so I moved the location of the lab to this nebula. I found not all of the cells were tempered with so I was able to finish everything I needed to do manually for this project. However, I am now weak, and my assistant is in worse shape. I have set the computer to repair and upgrade her with nanotech cells to help defend herself along with the other five. Her mind will be temporarily uploaded into an android shell, so she can investigate the sabotage and find the chosen one, while her body heals. It was my wish to find the chosen one with her, but it's not to be. Azure, Zephyr, Alison, Cobalt, Lamina, I'm sorry I won't be there for you. I... don't know... where I wen...t wrong..." She said. Then Alchemist Kay Rain, died. Jin-May watched horrified but before she could respond to that last speech, there was a queer doubling sensation, then blackness.
'What happened? Why do I feel like I am floating in water?" Jin-May asked herself. Opening her green eyes, she noticed she was floating in an aqua colored stasis tube, like the one in her memory. She found herself looking down at her old pure android body. 'So the computer transferred my mind back here? My memory is back up to when I left this station, but I still can't remember anything after that till, I woke up in Shuggazoom City with Sako. I still have a gap between now and when Skelton King found me.' She paused for a moment then thought 'Well now, how do I get out of this tank?' But as that thought ran though her head, a soft whir was heard as the tank slowly drained, depositing her on the now grated floor. The glass also softly lowered into the ground, leaving the naked young girl standing on one of the metal circles in the stuffy and broken down lab. "Ok, now what? I guess I should borrow my own dress." She said to herself, removing the cloth garment. 'Well, if I am to get out of here, then I need to wake up the robot monkeys here. With this body I don't know if I can just fly out though hard vacuum,' She thought as she tried to access the main computer. After about thirty minutes of prodding at the controls, she found that for the most part they were unresponsive. Frustrated she was about to yell at the computer when a relay seemed to click in her head. With a jolt of clarity she found herself mentally interfacing with the computer. 'There nanomachines in my blood now, I guess the give me new powers. I wonder what else I can do...' With but a thought she turned on the main lights, raised the five other stasis tubes surrounding the computers, and brought the second lab up to full power.
"...And then I used the remaining fuel in the lab to fly it back to the city, placing it in orbit. On the way back, I woke up these five, and we found we could do a few things with our new abilities, but didn't get to test everything we could do before we got here. And as you know, when we arrived we found you in a fight. So that's the whole story."
"Well, I'm glad you showed up when you did!" Chiro exclaimed. "We were in serious trouble."
As Cobalt opened his mouth to comment, a familiar voice beat him to it. "Well, I don't know, I think we could have come up with something," Sparks said as he and Gibson walked back into the room. They had just finished being repaired as Jin-May was finishing her story and decided to join the others. After a quick intro of the newcomers, Cobalt finished his statement.
"As I was going to say before I was interrupted, I think we don't need these weaklings," The tan monkey stated coolly.
"Just one moment, sure today wasn't our finest hour, but I don't see what gives you the right to dismiss us just like that, rookie!" Nova spat back.
"Ha, you want to see what right I have, girly? Do you have some sort of training center in this trash heap of a robot?" Cobalt asked.
"Cobalt, don't start anything!" Alison cut in warningly. The platinum monkey placed herself in front of her comrade. "We're guests here, don't forget."
"Don't stop him. If you got something to prove, we have a place to prove it," Nova said as she stomped over. "Follow me." Alison looked upset and Cobalt sneered as all twelve people left for the training room.
To the Reviewers:
Beastfire: Updateting now. Sorry about the delay, but this one was longer then I thought, so much so that I split it in half.
Kiozona.pop: Acually, she has a vertion of the Power Primate as well, but how she uses it is going to be diffrent from Chiro, Antauri, or the Veri Mystics.
Blossom268703: Thank you for the complement!
DayDreamer9: ReallY? Acually now that I think of it, my discription of the new team was done at the end of a long typeing session. I guess I could have gone into more detal, but I wanted to introduce them better in this chapter.
Animefangirl11: If you like this fight, wait to you see the final one. It's going to be... well it will have to be just read.
4Evermonkeyfan: Jin-may is the leader for now, but if she stays that way or not has to be detemined.