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Chapter 2 - Meanwhile
As the cunning Rose and her new friends planned and prepared to attack Shuggazoom, the Hyper Force, unfortunately, remained oblivious. For them, life went on as usual.
Luckily, for the Hyper Force training was what was usual. The monkeys practiced using their special powers, against various types of training robots and obstacle courses. Ivy and Frus trained together. Ivy threw fireballs at Frus, who knocked them away with his sword. Later, Ivy began to use larger things.
One day, as he was training, Frus got an idea. He and Ivy were training outside, and she had used her telekinesis to hurl a fallen tree at him, thinking that he would try to slice through it with Gaia. Instead, Frus pointed the sword straight down, and stuck it in the ground. From around him, dirt and stone rose up and created a shield. However, as the log was deflected, the small island he had created and was standing on, collapsed. Apparently, he needed to practice drawing earth from a nearby area without making the terrain harder for him to fight on. Frus had also noticed that unlike with metal, he couldn't make a single stone simply change shape. If he wanted a particular shape, he would need a mass of rocks working as one entity.
Frus started to practice drawing dirt, shaping it, and making it collapse together into a harder, stone-like substance without changing shape. As he worked on his earth powers, Ivy went inside for a drink.
On her way back, beer in hand, she stopped to take look and see how the others were doing. Otto had apparently gone to his workshop, and Gibson was in his lab. Antuari was meditating while Chiro and Sprx monitored Nova as she grappled with a training robot.
Ivy continued on her way outside. Frus was making some pieces of stone swirl around in a spiral. Then, he tried to add something to it. He summoned some metal and had it fly up the center of spiral. However, there was a lot of concentration involved in this, and his spiral became unstable and the rocks flew off in all directions. Some banged off of trees and the side of the Super Robot, and others flew directly at Ivy. She used her telekinesis to catch some of them, but some others crashed into her. They were going very fast, and Ivy was knocked out. Frus ran over to Ivy and tried to wake her up. Gaia tried to help, too, and flew over to the nearest body of water. It ripped up a large amount of the lakebed and gallons of water came with it. You can guess what happened next. Gaia replaced the lakebed while Ivy sputtered and stood up.
"Ivy, are you okay?" asked Frus.
"Yes, I'm fine," she said, while creating some weak flames to dry the water.
"I'm so sorry," said Frus.
"It's all right, it was an accident. Just DON'T TRY THAT AGAIN WITHOUT TELLING ME!" she answered. Frus nodded, then he and Ivy went back inside. It hadn't been that long, but it felt like it.
If they had known what was in store for them, they would have continued training, and gotten as much time in as they could. Hopefully, they'll be ready anyway.