Well, it took me a while, but I finally got over my writers block after last, last Sunday's episode. But, with softball ending this week, I promise I'll update more. Well, probably will, but finals start the week after next and I have two killer projects due next week. One in 9 Honors English, and the other in Algebra II. I hate Algebra. Oh well. Anyway, I got over my writers block and wrote this fifth chapter. Thanks to all of you who reviewed the last one, and here's a personal thanks to y'all!

w00t! Ten reviewers! I feel so special! That's a new record! Keep um' coming y'all!

Beastfire: Ivy…just…aw, forget it. Thanks for reviewing, glad you like.

Twister91: Eww, math and English. They should die. Now. And never come back. Oh well, I guess without English I couldn't write my fanfiction (darn it, maybe school does apply to the real world.) Thanks for reviewing!

Ari: Yeah, I don't know what's up with that, for some reason it wouldn't let me type the letter "f" I'll try to fix it when I upload this chapter. Glad my fic can make you laugh. What's Point Fest? I went to a Winter Fest thing a few months ago with a bunch of Christian bands and stuff, but I doubt that's related to what you're doing. Whatever. Thanks for reviewing, enjoy the next chapter!

PrincessMoonShadow: Short, and sweet. Thanks for the review! Glad you love it!

AnimeFanGirl11: Ah, such a loyal reviewer. Anyway, my original plan was to have each monkey have his own personal moment with Chiro, but I couldn't seem to fit Sparx's in. Oh well, it may still happen. You never know in the world of make believe. Sorry it took so long to update.

A Fan of Romance: Oops, I wasn't supposed to tell anybody? But I already got it tattooed across my back and wrote it in sharpee all over my desk in English. Guess it's time to get the cleaner out. And the tattoo? Well, let's not go there. Jk. XD

Crystal Sapphire: Ha ha, very funny. Lylas! Enjoy the new chapter! (P.S. You know the writers? Ooh, can you put in a good word for me? (Or like, give them my script?) Ha ha, just kidding, but that is cool.)

DayDreamer9: No! I beg to differ! Gibson is nice a lot. :-P But thanks for the review! Dang, it's like you read my mind. Well, not exactly. You'll just have to see what happens.

RavenTheInvincible: Ha ha, yes I got your review (and boy was it helpful and encouraging) now here's the new chapter!

4EverMonkeyFan: Glad you liked the last chapter, hope you like this one too. I have noted several places that show how Nova really cares about Chiro, but let's not go there. Glad you like! R&R again, please!

Now, on with the show (well, not technically a show but...)


Chapter 5

Gibson and Otto walked around the woods gathering what scrap wood they could find.

"So she's all, 'I'm being loud, not impulsive!' and I'm all 'Right. Of course you're not.' I mean, she's so quick to start yelling at me, and she says she's not impulsive!" ranted Otto.

"Assureadly," responded Gibson, "I had some of the same problems with Sparks. Sometimes he just doesn't know what he is saying."

The two monkeys trudged on through the dense forest. It was night and they hadn't intended on going far. They were just to head back in to camp when something happened.

"Hey, look at this stick!" Otto said picking up something with the appearance of a limp stick, "maybe it's a vine or something."

Then Gibson heard the "stick" hiss. "Otto!" Gibson yelled, taking a step backwards, "that's not a stick, it's a snake!"

"What?" asked Otto. He picked it up and saw the snake opening its wide mouth. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Otto yelled, throwing his sticks up in the air and running in the direction opposite the campsite as fast as he could.

Gibson walked closer and examined the snake. "Otto. This is a Trojan Sea Snake. It's not poisonous," Gibson shouted in the direction Otto had run. "Well, I think I'll just put you back in the shrubbery where you belong."

Gibson picked the snake up with both hands, intending to place him in the tall brush next to him. The snake however, had other ideas. The mouth opened up, revealing four large, metal teeth. They clamped down upon Gibson's arm, sending off a large electric charge. He felt his arm go numb, followed by the rest of his body. As he slipped into unconsciousness he was able to muster enough strength to let out a large, blood curdling monkey scream (A/N: not a Monkey Mind Scream by the way.)


Nova and SPRX-77 walked back to where he and Otto had found the berries. They, too, fumed about the arguments they had been involved in.

"Rude? When have I ever been rude? I think about other people! How dare he accuse me, ME, of being selfish! That monkey. It's a good thing Antauri stopped us, otherwise I really would have given Gibson a piece of my mind," SPRX-77 said, disgusted.

"I am not impulsive. Well, not a lot. No! Not at all! I can control myself. Though I can name quite a few times Otto has been impulsive. The lug. Sometimes he's just so nerve-wracking. Grrrrrr…" Nova said, paying no attention to SPRX-77 whatsoever.

"Well, here we are!" SPRX-77 said, stopping at a large bush. "This is where we got those berries."

Nova grabbed the pale and set it down between she and SPRX-77. Then she began to pull them off of the vine.

SPRX-77 bent down to follow suit. "You know, in the peace and quiet, under the light of the full moon, it's kinda romantic. And you're looking good tonight."

"Oh, Sparks, grow up," Nova replied, not impressed.

"Oops, is that your foot I keep bumping?"

"Sparks, cut it out!" Nova snapped, annoyed.

SPRX-77 leaned closer towards Nova, "Come on Nova, you know you can't resist me." He then let out an annoying "growl".

Nova sized him up for a second, for he still hadn't removed his face from near hers. Then she picked up one foot and kicked him in the ribs. He fell to the ground with an "oof".

"Oh, go crawl under a rock and die!" Nova said, seriously annoyed by SPRX-77. she then turned back to face the bushes and pick berries again.

SPRX-77 picked himself up, dusted himself off, and rejected, said, "Oh, fine. I'll go collect some alone from that bush waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over there." He walked to another bush out of Nova's line of sight, "I think I'm making headway," he spoke to himself.

"Yeah, like that'll ever happen," SPRX-77 heard a familiar voice say. But he couldn't place the voice. He spun around to the direction of the speech, but all he saw was a large log swinging from ropes, heading directly for his head.

He tried to duck, but couldn't do so in time.


Nova shook her head at SPRX-77's directness. She like him as a friend, but she didn't like it when he pushed the envelope.

Suddenly, she heard SPRX-77 let out a short "Ah" and then she heard his metal bodyhit the ground.

"Very funny, Sparks, but I'm not going to believe you really crawled under a rock and died."

No response.

"Come on Sparks! I'm not going to believe it!"

Still no response.

"Find. Give me the silent treatment, I don't care."

Nothing.

"Okay, fine. I'm sorry I told you that."

Nova still didn't want to fall for SPRX-77's trap, but her curiosity got the best of her. She went to where SPRX-77 had been. She was horrified by what she saw: a large log suspended horizontally from a tree, held by two ropes, the imprint of SPRX-77 in the grass below, and signs of him being dragged off through the tall grass.

"Sparks!" she cried in alarm. She followed the tracks of where SPRX-77 had been carried to the edge of a field where the tracks disappeared.

She called his name several times again, and then she sat down. She was perplexed. "This'd better not be a prank!" She yelled nowhere in particular.

Then she heard another noise she didn't expect to hear.


After realizing that the snake was most definitely not chasing him, Otto turned around and started walking back the way he came. He quickly got lost, but it was then that he heard a sound he had only heard once in a blue moon: the loud monkey cry of Gibson. It turned him in the right direction and he ran on all fours to get to the source of the noise.

He returned to the spot where he and Gibson had been. He recognized it by all of the sticks concentrated in a pile. Then he saw it: a small grass fire in an area of compressed grass.

"Wha-?" he wondered as he stamped out the fire. "Maybe he was playing around with some circuitry, and he shorted something out, and went back to camp to fix it."

So, he called Gibson's name as loud as he could.

After waiting a couple of minutes, he heard a rustling in the bushes. Not knowing what it was, he activated his saws and waited for the creature (whatever it was) to emerge.

"Hey!" said Nova, walking through the bushes and into the clearing, confronting Otto and his saws, "Calm down Otto! I know you're mad at me but you don't have to attack me because of it!"

"Well excuse me for being protective," Otto said, retracting his saws, "How'd you know where I was, anyway?"

"I heard you calling Gibson's name. What's the deal?"

"I dunno. He's missin'. Where's Sparks?"

"Same as you. He's gone."

"Weird," Otto said, drawing out the vowels.

It was then that they both heard a rustleing in the bush. Nova instantly activated her golden pink-lined fists.

"Not impulsive, huh?" Otto asked under his breath.

"You have something to say to me? 'Cuz if you do, you'd better say it to my face!"

Meanwhile, a third party joined their little gathering.


Antauri stood alone near the campfire. He shook his head, unable to understand how quick everyone's' tempers had become today. He sighed and sat down on a log as he tended to the fire.

After making sure the flame was too large for a gust of wind to extinguish, he shut his eyes and meditated on the Power Primate.

He thought if he could strengthen the Power Primate around then, perhaps Chiro would be able to heal himself more quickly.

He found thoughtlessness difficult, however, as stray thoughts flew about his head of his friends.

Then he felt it. Something terrible. Horrifying. Then he hear a scream ring through the forest. Without a second thought, Antauri jumped up and ran into the forest, knowing that his dear friend Gibson, was in dire peril.


The rustleing ended as Antauri ran into the clearing. Upon seeing Nova and Otto fighting (again) he sighed deeply. "I should have known," he reacted.

"Well, he started it!" Nova accused, pointing at Otto.

"Nu-uh! She did!" Otto retaliated, responding in equal fashion towards Nova.

"You two! Listen to yourselves for just a second." Antauri began. "You're acting like children. I would think you would have learned by now that arguments do not solve anything. Only when we get along can we make progress. Now. I heard Gibson scream. What happened?"

"Well..." started Otto.

"I'll tell him!" Nova interrupted. "Ya see, Sparks and I were out picking berries by the stream. Naturally, he was hitting on me, so I told him to get lost. Before I know it, I heard him yell. I went to see what had happened, and he was gone! I heard him cry out, but he was nowhere to be found!"

"Yeah," said Otto, "almost the same thing happened with Gibson. 'Cept when I got back here, there was a little electrical fire on the ground right there." Otto pointed to the spot where he had found the imprint of Gibson on the ground.

Antauri stared at the ground where the fire had been. "Odd. Very odd. Well, no doubt, something is definitely up," Antauri concluded, "let's try to piece together what we know so far."


A dark enemy neared Antauri's tent. Its target lay inside the tent. The trap had been cleverly set, and now it was time for the plan to take full effect. The enemy opened the tent flap, and walked nearer to the sleeping teenager that lay there.


Well, you on pins and needles yet? Next episode, I reveal who the enemy is! Take a guess, take a stab! If anyone can guess it right, they get a free pat on the back! Yay! Anyway, get ready for another new chapter, coming soon to a computer near you.

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