Chapter 11: Thoughts Before Death?

I touched your face, it was stone cold. I put one hand on your back, I felt it rise and fall. You were still alive…..just.

I was to busy caring for you to notice the pile of rubble which you secured him underneath shaking. A green light filled the room. The top rocks began to fall from the pile and a hand with long pointy fingers emerged from the pile.

"You can't still be alive!" I shouted. How could he, yet there he was standing there very much alive. I stand in front of Nova; she's hurt enough as it is.

"But I am Sprx, I am alive. Did you really think her pathetic attack could hurt me?"

The Skeleton King was beaming, that grin it just wound me up so much. He was enjoying me seeing Nova get hurt. I don't know what happened but my anger just sort of exploded. I got out my magnets and begun to attack him mercilessly.

I could only just open my eyes. I saw Sprx, he was attacking the SK. He needs help and i'm going to help him! I struggled to get up. My legs were wobbly from the pressure.

The Skeleton King noticed my attempt to get up. Then he fired at me. I couldn't move, fright was gripping me, the light got closer and closer.

They say before you die you see flashbacks of your life, that you can hear what was said in your life. I could, Sprx's voice flashed through my mind.

Two saves in one day? It must be love!

It spits acid. Story of my life.

... You might hurt the one you love!

No, no Monkey Team member is ever alone.

Gibson, I want to take back all the mean things I've ever said about you. Well, most of them. And Nova? Nova? I, I just have to say, I –

Geez, does a monkey have to be killed around here for some attention?

I thought of everything he's ever said that made me smile, laugh or even think that I want to hit him.

I thought about the others, how Otto was annoyingly clumsy, but we loved him anyway. And Antauri, who always helped me through troubled times. Gibson, who is just annoying, but we wouldn't get anywhere with out him. And Chiro who had come further than any of us expected. And finally him. The one I love so dearly, who I would never say those three magic words to. Oh Sprx if you only knew how I felt.

I closed my eyes. I waited for death to enclose me, to carry me away. I would finally be away from the pain and suffering. But I don't want to leave, I want to be with my oddball family.

That's all we are, a group of misfits brought together by fate. And we are almost like family to each other.

But I can't leave. We are all Chiro has in his life, like us he has no proper family. So I guess you could say we are his family. I know what it's like to lose family, it's painful. I don't want to hurt any of the guys.

They say when you know your going to die that time goes really slowly, hardly moving. They also say you don't think straight.

I couldn't think, my brain was filled with what if questions.

What if you where stronger, would you have moved?

What if you didn't love Sprx, would you still be dying?

What if you never see your family again?

What if you die?

I am meant to be a warrior, strong and afraid of nothing. But inside I was screaming, crying because I'm so scared. I would never see another day.

Never see the birds as they fluttered through the sky, never see the wonderful planets we travel to. Never run through the rain, never feel the sunshine on my fur and robotics. Never enjoy Spring bringing new life to the world. Never spend another day with my crazy team mates.

My precious family. They are all I have in this world and I failed them. I'm going to leave them. Silent tears fall from my eyes.

But then you do it. And I wish with all my might that I could stop you from doing it. You push me. Sprx comedian/pilot of the team saved me.

I felt my side crash to the floor. It didn't take long to put two and two together.

The Skeleton King, happy with the death vanished into the darkness of his citadel.

I crawled over to you, a maroon mixture flooded my knees. It was oil and blood. If ever I needed the others this was it. My tears fell into the maroon mixture, I took your hand. It was stone cold.

The tides had turned. It was true I didn't want to die but I would kill myself if it meant seeing you again. I looked at your chest. It was rising and falling but only just. The citadel began to shake, I didn't care, and at least I would still be with you. As the citadel shook more violently I hugged your body.

You always pulled through, you always came out on top. But now you are leaving me, slipping from my fingers.

I hear a loud crash but I still grip onto you, I don't care if the whole citadel is falling apart, I just want to be with you.

I don't look back at the thing behind me, if I had done my grief would have been replaced with hope.

I didn't sop hugging his body until I felt a hand on my shoulder. I gasp and look up. Antauri? It Antauri! I look back, there in all its glory, except for a few dents, is the Super Robot.

I can't keep back the tears and I practically throw myself at Antauri. I hug him and sob into his soft black fur.

Through my teary eyes I see Gibson and Otto carrying him back to the Robot. Antauri and Chiro take me shakily back to the SR.

Geez that was dark. Please don't send reviews like 'OMG! How could you that was so sick!' if you don't like could you just say I don't like it. Sprx isn't dead either.

Anyway on a happier note the next chapter is the last, and I plan to have it up for valentines day so keep an eye out!