Beastfire: Thanks. Sorry about that, I forget things a lot. Luckily, I was thinking more about the emotions and the breathing when I wrote that. Enjoy the chapter!
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Chapter 11
Skeleton King mentally called out to his Citadel, and was happy to see it break through the clouds only moments later. He walked/stomped inside and went towards his throne room. He passed no formless, and saw only TV Monster waiting for him. He would have to make more formless and collect his minions from wherever they had gone to escape.
As the Citadel of Bone lifted off from Shuggazoom, Skeleton King sat on his throne, looking upon his staff, sensing the amount of power that it had absorbed. "At least it wasn't a total loss," he muttered. TV Monster silently looked over at him, almost to ask what had happened, but them returned to its normal silent vigil, knowing its place.
The team watched the Citadel of Bone escape the gravity of the planet and head off into space. They knew that they were allowing the evil Skeleton King to slip through their fingers when they had had him as their prisoner not very long ago. But wounds needed time to heal, and our heroes needed rest.
Carefully, Otto and Gibson carried Chiro, Antuari, Sprx, and Nova inside and placed them each on beds and began to tend to their injuries. At the triplets' request, they had allowed them to take care of the rest of their family. They did a good job of getting Frus inside, and Ivy and Kyrie followed them slowly, still pretty weak after draining themselves to heal Frus. However, they, along with the triplets, sat next to Frus' bed, waiting for something, anything to happen. He seemed stable, but he had been cut in half, who knew what affects that would happen. The whole time, Kyrie was hanging onto Ivy; it seemed that she had returned to normal.
A little later, a knock was heard at the door to the Super Robot. Gibson answered and saw a girl with black hair and green eyes. He recognized her and let her in.
"Hello Miss Ruby, how are you?" greeted Gibson politely.
"Hello, Gibson. I just came for a visit, but I didn't expect anything like this to be going on. What happened out there?" replied Ruby. The monkeys had succeeded in preventing damage to the city proper, probably because all their enemy had wanted to do was fight them, and they hadn't lost. However, the landscape directly outside of the Super Robot looked like several small bombs had been set off.
"We were attacked a little while ago, by a nameless monster of great and terrible power. Most of the team is either too hurt or too tired to fight," answered Gibson.
"Is there anything that I can do to help?" asked Ruby. Gibson nodded, certain that he would have a job for her, and if not now then soon enough.
Meanwhile, in the Citadel of Bone, TV Monster was working on making a new batch of formless. This was actually the second batch since the Skeleton King had returned. All of the computers had been fully restored, memory intact, and the Skeleton King knew that his minions had escaped. The loyal formless had been blown apart, but Sakko, Mandarin, and such others had run away. The first group of new formless were hunting them down.
The Skeleton King himself was studying the energy trapped in his staff. Except for the fact that it was extremely powerful, all of his tests had come back inconclusive. As he mused, he came across a thought. He carried his staff out of the laboratory and into his library. Flipping through a few tomes, he found the group he was looking for. They were ancient books of magic; a lot of what was stated inside was useless now, the power source having long dried up, whatever planet it had been on in the first place. Something told him that he would find something relevant now.
Skeleton King spent hours studying. Who would care, and who would bother him, as the only ones walking the halls of his Citadel were his emotionless creations. After who knows how long, he came across the information he needed. His insane laughter echoed through the hallways as if they were totally empty.
Please review. I'm stopping here because I wanted to get a new chapter up tonight but I need to go to bed. I have homework and cleaning, not to mention that I need to read through the help and agreement stuff for joining and submitting to Deviantart.