Okay, here's the next episode! It didn't take me very long, but there sure are a lot of daily uploads on this site, and I like to be at the top for at least a day or an hour or something. Anyway, here's the next chapter for you to enjoy. And to encourage you to leave a review, I shall personally thank all of you kind people who reviewed chapter two! (Ooh, that rhymes!) Anyway, here's thanks to y'all!

Beastfire: Ha ha, yes I have a friend on the bus who gets rather annoyed when I talk about the show. I remember when I was telling her the Sparks/Nova stuff, she's just like "What are you talking about? A love affair between two robots?" And I'm just like, "Oh forget it." Anyway, glad you liked the chapter and thanks for reviewing!

Twister 91: Yes, Otto is okay. He may get a few bumps or bruises, but I promise nothing serious will ever happen to Otto (he'll never die. I'd never do that to a main character I promise.) Glad you like! Thanks for reviewing and please do so again.

AnimeFanGirl11: Sorry to see you gave up on your other fic, I liked it. As for your next one I can't wait to see it! You should post it soon, everybody on the site loves your fics. I don't know how you do it, but the readers love it! Glad you like mine though, please review again (well, after you read please) and thanks for the review!

Crystal Sapphire: Well, I wrote it in public, but she actually read it over my shoulder, and I'm not sure she wanted to read any more of it. As for being brave, idk, I just thought I was making better use of my time. Oh well. Thanks for reviewing, hope you like this chapter too!

4EverRobotMonkeyFan: Glad you like it. I've planned for this fic to have more action then fluff in it, but you never know, some may come out. Sorry to disappoint you but for this story I wanted a lot of action! Thanks for reviewing and make sure you do so again (and tell your friends! Review now and get a free imaginary French silk pie for the first ten to review and mention this message! Don't delay, review this fic today! Offer not valid in countries which start with the letter X.)

A Fan of Romance: You were brief and to the point, so I shall be too! Thanks! Review again!

DayDreamer9: Yeah, I think it's pretty clear that Gibson and Antauri are good friends, and I like to use that when I can. They seem more mature than the others (well, some of the time). Well, thanks for reviewing and I hope you'll do so again.

Ari: Cool! A new reviewer (for my fics at least). (Unless you are a prior reviewer who is just now revealing her real name.) In answer to your question, that was supposed to be blood, but I guess when I uploaded the text it deleted that word. I hate it when it doesn't upload properly. It's quite annoying. Anyway, please continue to review so I feel special and thanks for your comment!

There we go. Now, the moment we've all been waiting for!


Chapter 3

Chiro lay in the middle of the room, still unconscious. The rain had stopped, and the sun was starting to rise. Gibson and Antauri stood on either side of the bandaged Chiro. They didn't say anything, just looked at the boy.

Nova slightly opened the tent flap, "Knock, knock! Can I come in?"

"Yes," replied Gibson, "come ahead."

Nova stepped in and stood next to Gibson. "Well…, how is he?" she asked.

"Not good," Gibson said in response, "I can't be exactly sure without my equipment, but he has lost quite a bit of blood."

"Oh, Chiro," Nova began, but her voice trailed off. She too just stood in the awkward silence for a while. "So, what can we do?" she finally asked.

"For now, just hope for the best. Let Chiro's human anatomy do what it can."

Gibson and Nova left the tent, leaving Antauri there with Chiro. Antauri put his right hand on Chiro's head and shut his eyes. Green energy slowly traveled from Antauri to Chiro. He stood doing this for a few seconds, and then stepped back.

"Okay Chiro. I've done what I can. The rest is up to you. You must fight what you can. I cannot fight your battles for you. I can help, Chiro, but you must make the victory in the end. Let the power primate protect you, but you are the one who must control it."

Antauri then left the tent to join Nova and Gibson.


"Otto, it's not that hard!" SPRX-77 said, looking annoyed at Otto, who was currently trying looking into the water beneath them.

They sat in a wooden boat that Otto had made, in the middle of a small lake. SPRX-77 had widdled a couple of fishing poles and they were now trying to catch, well, fish.

"Come on Sparks. Why bother putting the worm on the hook? Can't we just eat the worm?"

"Otto! One: gross! Two: you know just as well as I do that the kid can't eat worms. He needs nutrition right now. You heard Gibson."

"Yeah. But still, how do we even know that the fish around here are eatable?"

"You mean edible? Gibson'll check them out when we get back. And the sooner we catch the fish, the sooner we can return to camp, so let's get going!"

"Okay, okay, yeesh. No need to get snippy," Otto returned to his fishing pole, attaching a squiggling worm to the end of it and dropping it into the water. SPRX-77 did the same, sighing out loud at Otto.

"Hmm…," Otto began to wonder, "I think I may have one of these in my tools already." He set his pole down next to him, and pulled his hands into his arms, flipping through various things he could take out. He had a wrench, a blowtorch, a screwdriver, a pocketknife, and he finally found a fishing pole. "I bet mine works better!" Otto grumbled as he attached a worm to the end of his pole and threw it into the water.

SPRX-77 simply rolled his eyes without responding and reeled in a fish that he had caught. Otto didn't take notice, so SPRX-77 put it in the bucket of water, re-baited and cast again.

Suddenly, Otto jumped to his feet. "I think I caught one! And it's a big one!" Otto began to jump up and down in joy of actually catching a fish.

"No Otto, don't jump in the-"

But he was too late. The entire canoe tipped, sending the two monkeys and their fishing gear into the water. "I tried to tell you, but noooooo…" SPRX-77 began, but quickly noticed the look of panic on Otto's face.

"It's too strong! Aaaa!" Otto yelled, but only for a second because he was pulled under water by a mighty force.

"Otto!" SPRX-77 yelled, and then dived down to save the green monkey. SPRX-77 couldn't see much, but he could tell that this was more than a little lake. He couldn't see the bottom of it. And Otto was being pulled straight down.

SPRX-77 noticed that Otto had been smart enough to put on his rebreather as he had done the same. He didn't have to worry about that factor, however Otto was being pulled down perhaps faster than he could swim. He turned on his rocket pack trying to gain on whatever it was that was pulling him down.

As he got closer, he saw what it was that was pulling Otto down: a gigantic fish had grabbed the bait on the other end and gotten the hook caught in its mouth. It was crying out in pain and retreating to its home at the depths of the lake.

Otto was trailing behind it, trying to get steady the saw in his other hand so he could cut through the twine, but with the rushing water, he couldn't get his hands together for enough time to cut through.

SPRX-77 got closer to Otto. "Hold still!" SPRX-77 instructed, getting Otto's attention as they were speeding through the liquid, "I'm going to try to stun that fish. If he stops for just a second, you cut yourself free! Got it?"

"Got it," Otto replied.

SPRX-77 aimed himself directly at the creature, "Electro-Vibra Force!" he yelled, but quickly found that electricity and water don't go very well together. The monkeys were fine under water with their metal shells, but exposing bare electricity to the water caused a shock to go pulsing through SPRX-77's body. He passed out, falling deeper and deeper into the bottomless pit.

"Sparks!" yelled Otto, watching. He knew he had to save his friend. "Who's saving who now, huh Sparks?" He finally had enough motivation to concentrate and cut through the twine with his left buzz saw.

He swam down with his jet pack on and grabbed SPRX-77. He started to carry him to the surface, breathing heavily. That had been quite a work out.

Unfortunately, the relief didn't last long. The large fish had noticed the tension on the hook was gone, and turned around to see what had caused it. He saw Otto carrying SPRX-77 to the surface, and decided that whatever they were, they looked a lot more appetizing than the worm he had eaten.

It swam directly towards them and opened its large mouth, ready to bring it down upon them.


Nova walked back into Antauri's tent. Antauri and Gibson stood outside trying to figure out how much power they could get from resources that they had found around the site that may power the Super Robot. Gibson suggested they dig to find minerals underground, but Antauri suggested that this may draw more attention than they wanted, not to mention upset the wildlife.

Nova sat down next to Chiro on the ground. His breathing was pretty shallow, but he was alive.

"Chiro. You'd better get well again. I don't know what I'd do if you didn't." Nova sighed loudly and shifted her weight. "You've always been like a little brother to me. You've always been kind, loyal, helpful. Always like the little brother I never had." Nova began to tear, but she held back, "So you fight this thing Chiro! Don't let it take you. We're going to get you back to Shuggazoom. We…we wouldn't have superhero team without you. So tough it out Chiro. This is an obstacle you can overcome. Just fight it Chiro. Fight it for me." (A/N: wow, my brother's playing the perfect music for this scene. Nova: Would you shut up? You're ruining the dramatic momentum! Me: Nova, how did you get here? Nova presses button that ends the A/N Me: Hey-)

Nova took a deep breath, re-exposing her regular, tough composure, and walked out to where Gibson and Antauri were standing.

"But if we simply expose the land briefly and drill to the center, perhaps we can find some worthwhile resource!" Gibson was saying as Nova walked out.

"Yes, but if we hit a weak point in the land, we could send an entire square mile caving in on itself," Antauri corrected.

"Perhaps, but is it not worth the risk? We must get Chiro home and the Super Robot working again. This is a life or death situation here!"

"I'm perfectly aware of this, Gibson, but that doesn't demand that we be impulsive," Antauri said, beginning to raise his voice slightly. "If you're insinuating that I don't care about Chiro then you're soundly mistaken."

"Of course not, but that doesn't mean that-"

"Ahem!" Nova spoke up from where she stood, watching. "Come on you guys, take a chill pill, both of you. We'll figure something out, but fighting about it certainly won't solve a thing."

"Of course you're right Nova," Antauri agreed, "I apologize for being so hostile Gibson."

"Forgiven. But I, too, must apologize.

"And the feeling of forgiveness is mutual."

The two monkeys smiled at each other. They had both been uncomfortable with the tone they were setting.

"Say," Nova wondered, "where are Sparks and Otto? They should have been back hours ago!"

"A good question to be certain," Gibson agreed, "though I'm sure they're alright. I mean, they can handle anything right? They're probably just relaxing out there in the middle of the water and lost track of time!"

Little did they know of the trouble that was besetting their friends at that very instant.


A/N: Emotions run high in the team, but who can keep the peace? And what has happened to SPRX-77 and Otto? Can they find a way to get off of the planet with Chiro still alive?

You'll have to stay tuned (or put this on your favorites list or whatever the equivalent is to "staying tuned") to find out what happens next.

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