Beastfire: Hello! This would have been up a lot sooner, but we only have a dial-up connection to the internet at my house and our phone's been on the fritz, so we had to have someone check out the problem. This has been going on since yesterday and I had to post the last chapter at someone else's house. I wasn't able to check my e-mail.
Chapter 3- The Help
It had been a day since the diagnosis, and Frus was experiencing some pain in his abdomen. Not only that, but Ivy's gut had bloated in that 24 hour period. That was when a ship was heard landing outside. The half-Ethyal looked outside to see six figures emerging from the ship. The one that appeared to be the leader wore an official looking uniform, had blondish hair and blue eyes, and exuded authority. Next was a woman with wavy shoulder length blonde hair with blue eyes. Her outfit was not quite so official, though. She was followed by a tall strong man with dark skin and long black dreadlocks. He wore a chain mail muscle shirt and carried a large firearm.
The next one to emerge was female and, though you couldn't tell by looking at her, an android. She had chin length blue-black hair and wore an official looking uniform as well, only black, sleeveless, and showing some cleavage. After her came a girl with goldish colored skin and long reddish brown hair. The final one was a guy, probably in his late twenties to early thirties, with blondish hair in spikes, blue eyes, and a data port (or, as I like to call it, a little metal connection doohickey) on his neck. He had on baggy orange cargo pants, a white t-shirt with a short sleeved blue Hawaiian-like shirt layered on top, and a toolbelt.
Frus watched them all in confusion mixed with curiosity. Gibson came out to greet them and instantly went to the leader.
"It's so nice to finally talk to a fellow genius," he said with some excitement.
The man he was speaking to laughed, as did the rest of the crew. Gibson didn't know what was so funny to them.
"But aren't you 'frikngeniuszalazney' online?" he asked.
"No," the man replied. "I'm Captain Dylan Hunt of the Andromeda Ascendant. You're looking for my ship's engineer; Seamus Zalazney Harper;"
He pointed to the one with the toolbelt, who waved in a cocky sort of way. Gibson was aghast when he noticed the rest of the Monkey Team, as well as Frus, all gathered near the scene, laughing at him.
"Well, Gibson," said Frus between laughs, "so much for you being a genius!"
He immediately shut up when he saw the blue monkey glaring daggers at him.
"I'm Beka Valentine," the blonde woman interjected to change the subject.
The one with the dreadlocks was next and he said, "I am Tyr Anasazi, out of Victoria by Barbarossa."
Otto was confused, to say the least.
"Tyr on a salad?"
"Tyr ANASAZI!"
"Tyr on a saucy? What's a saucy?"
"THAT'S TYR ANASAZI!"
"Tyr on a saucy salad?"
"NO! THAT'S TYR ON A SALAD- I MEAN ANASAZI!"
"I'm Andromeda," said the android, "the ship's avatar."
Sprx didn't say anything vocally, for his salivary glands were speaking for him. Nova watched this, rolled her eyes, and smacked him in the back of the head.
The next one to introduce themselves was the girl with the reddish brown hair.
"I'm Trance Gemini," she said.
Luckily, Gibson had all of the monkeys wear translators, so nobody was confused. Chiro stepped up.
"I'm Chiro, the leader of the Monkey Team."
The other members introduced themselves.
"I am Antauri, second in command."
"Name's S.P.R.X.-77, but you can call me Sprx." He looked at Andromeda (a.k.a. Rommie). "And you can call me anytime you want, at this number," he said lustfully, handing her a card, "if you ever need…heheh."
Rommie rolled her eyes as Sprx proceeded to waggle his eyebrows up and down.
"My name is Mister Hal Gibson. Do not call me 'Mister' or 'Hal', just 'Gibson'. Please."
"Hey. I'm Otto."
"Nova."
"And that over there," said Gibson, " is the reason I have contacted you. His name is Frus."
Frus waved to them and then walked over. He looked up at Captain Hunt.
"Now, there's someone I'd like for all of you to meet."
The crew exchanged glances and followed his lead. He brought them all into Med Bay and over to a tank of water. In it, they saw a pregnant meerkat. Ivy looked at Frus questioningly, as if to ask who was there with him.
"How are you feeling today, Ivy?" he asked.
"Really hungry," she replied. "Got any Chinese food?"
"Uh, no…sorry…fresh out."
"Fine. How about some…CHUNKY MONKEY ICE CREAM!"
"Perhaps you should lay off the junk food," said Tyr. "It appears to be making you fat, inhibiting survival."
Ivy was already angry with him.
"I'm not fat, ya moron! I'M (bleep)IN' PREGNANT!"
Tyr glared and approached the tank.
"Do NOT take that tone of voice with me, kludge!"
"What in the name of Linkin Park is a kludge?"
"One who is non-Nietzchean, therefore; inferior!"
"Hey, who ya callin' inferior, jerk?"
They continued to argue back and forth. The two only stopped when Gibson and Chiro carried the tank into Ivy's room and left it in there. When they came back, they asked Otto to look after the pregnant mutant…in case she needed anything (since she couldn't bring the room's remote into the tank and using her powers would also use energy) and he complied. Frus wished that it was him watching over her, though, since she was bearing HIS child.
"Who was that?" asked Harper.
"That's Ivy," the half-Ethyal replied. "She, as well as the child she's bearing, would just so happen to be why it's so important to get these Magog out of me…and FAST!"
"You mean you are fathering that rat's brood?" asked Tyr in his usual 'I'm-better-than-you-because-I'm-a-Nietzchean' tone.
Frus could feel his blood begin to boil.
"Don't you DARE talk to her in that way! She's not a rat!"
Then, without warning, his gut began to hurt badly. He doubled over in pain and fell to the floor. Harper took out some sort of inhaler and had Frus take in some of the medicine. The pain began to subside and he got back up.
"Thank you," he said. "What is that, anyway?"
"That? Oh, that's what…ah…Rev Bem gave me when I was infested," replied Harper.
Meanwhile, Mandarin and Bloodstone were meeting with a tall woman that had long black hair going half-way down her back, green eyes, and an eyepatch over one of those eyes. Also there was a tall, very muscular man with black hair and blue eyes, and with two even bigger/stronger guys on either side. The last one was a large snake.
"You may all be wondering why I brought you here," Mandarin began.
The others looked at him in agreement.
"Well, the way I look at it, all of you would like revenge on someone."
Everyone nodded.
"This someone's name is Ivy, is it not?"
"Her screaming damaged my hearing!" the snake yelled.
"She used her mind to beat me up!" Bloodstone shouted.
"She killed me!" the woman screamed.
She received many strange looks.
"I got better!"
"She refused to join the family business," the final one, the man, said…tone creepily even.
"And she almost neutered me," Mandarin completed. "Yes, I have brought all of you; Naithair, Bloodstone, Lorena Spellieran, even Tony Sangretti together for one purpose: revenge on one Ivy Stoppable."
Beastfire: There's chappie 3! Next time, see what they try to get the Magog out of Frus.
Ivy: So, most of my enemies have formed a club, is that it?
Beastfire: I think they'd like to club you.
Frus: So, that's the father you had that ruined your life?
Ivy: Yeah, he is. How he found me, I don't know, but he's goin DOWN!
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