Woot! Ch. 14 is finally up. Sorry it's taking me soooo long to update now but it is at the end of the school year and I'm kinda busy so try and hang in there and I'll update asap. Now on to the story 'cause I have nothing else to say!

Ch.14

I laid in my own self pity as my counterpart wistfully played with new found powers. I still felt dreadful pain while Empress took no notice. She was too busy juggling three black spheres she had created from her own energy.

She giggled to herself, "Oh what fun! Things are finally going quite well for me. I reclaimed my body and those pesky monkeys and their pet boy are down in the dungeon never to return again. The master will be very pleased with me."

I'm not sure if the Empress knew I could see the outside world, via the small movie screens scattered around me, or not. But than again, I wasn't going to tell her neither. After the guards had rolled the Hyper Force away, Empress entered my, her er…whatever…room. Having someone else besides you in you head can get really confusing. I rolled onto my back with a growling groan and buffed a few breaths in and out of my chest.

"How could I let this happen? Am I really that weak? Oh God, how could I be so stupid?" was all that crossed my mind.

I knew I was being too hard on my self but I couldn't help it and it was one of the few things I could still do. I stared into the black void and let my mind wonder. I was either still too weak to think of a way out of this stupid mess or I just plain didn't care. Hey if you just got beaten up by the Hyper Force your mind would be basically mush too, dude. But my self pity session cut short by a rhythmic booming sound that echoed from the big wooden doors. The sudden sound wave started Empress, causing her to jump in fright and drop her juggling balls; thus making them to disappear.

Empress cleared her throat and regain her composure before speaking. "Yes, come in."

I was surprised that my other half didn't suspect that who ever was on the other side of that ominous door wasn't an enraged member, or members, of the Monkey team just waiting to get their revenge. But as fate would have it, it wasn't. My mother was absently into the glom engulfed room.

I just now noticed that the roomed, at one point in time, seemed to be quite beautiful but now it looked it looked like it was redecorated by a wanna-be goth. With nothing but black, making it hard to tell where the floor stopped and where the wall began; and little spots of blood red spots on the bed where Empress was sitting. My mother continued to walk as if she was on auto pilot until she was a few feet away from me and got on one knee and bowed her head.

"Yes? What is it?" Empress sneered.

"Master, I just wanted to welcome you back. It seems that our plan to trick your weaker self to let down her guard to let you take control again worked," my mother said.

My blood went cold.

"Plan?"

"Hmm indeed, quite ingenious to say the least. If that is all you came to say then you can leave me now," Empress ordered.

Mother got up and walked silently out the door, closing it with a roaring bang.

"My own mother, she sold me out for….for you," I said but not believing it.

"She's not your mother, she's my slave."

I sat up, ignoring the pain my body was in, screaming for me to lay back down. I was overflowing with rage, wanting to fight my way out, to exact my revenge on this ugly piece of flesh! I would stand it no more!

"You can punch me around but no one, and I mean no one, treats my mom like that!" I screamed.

My speech was cut short as another figure opened the door, carefully and quietly shutting it behind them.

"Kapricia, what brings you here?" Empress asked, ignoring my out burst.

Kapricia walked in front of my monkey body but seemed more aware of the danger lingering in the room. She did not bow but avoided eye contacted and shuffled her feet with uneasiness. I watched intensively, wondering what she could be up to. By the way she was acting made me believe she wasn't under the evil monkey's control, or at least, I hoped.

"Hey Taylor," Kapricia began but was quickly cut off by Empress.

"Call me Empress from now on Kapricia. Taylor was the old me and this is the new me," Empress gloated.

"Um..ok? I was just wondering what you were going to do with Earth and the Hyper Force now that your all high and mighty."

"Silly Kapricia don't be so naive. I'm going to kill the so called heroes in the most painful way possible and then get Earth ready for our master, the Skeleton Worm; to be destroyed and be reborn in his likeness," Empress answered with a creepy giggle.

I swear! If anybody needed a good punch in the jaw, it was her.

Kapricia's eyes saddened as she turned her gazed from me to the floor. As if to say, "I'd hoped you wouldn't have said that."

"I gotta go Taylor," Kapricia said at last.

"I told you, call me Empress," the queen monkey repeated as my friend turned around.

"Bye Kapricia! Come visit me soon! Hanging out with ugly here is way less fun then hanging out with you and you randomness," I called out, not expecting her to hear me.

But I could have sworn she did because as she walked she turned her head making it possible for me to see her face. I didn't know what I saw in her face, a twinkle in Kapricia's eyes or maybe the scheming smile perhaps, but whatever it was, but whatever it was meant that she had something planed.

I usually didn't like people going out of their way to help me dig myself out of my own mess but in the predicament I was in, I needed all the help I could get. But I hated not being able to help or not knowing what was going to happen next.

"ARRRG! There has to be something I can do!" I grounded with frustration.

Observably I was feeling better if I could complain again. I began to think of all the ways that I could help my dear friend but the only things I could come up with was either somehow become magical or transfer my body to a different body thus allowing me to beat the living snot out of Empress. Then I sat there concentrating on a real solution but soon found out it was hopeless. Then I began to ponder what Kapricia could be possibly up to and how she could free me.

By my cross arms and legs, my slightly tilted head to my left and my eyes tightly shut, I some how reminded my self of Winnie the Pooh; when he sat on a log thinking of a way to get his delicious honey.

Jingle…

"What was that?" I paused to listen. "Nothing I guess."

…Jingle rattle rattle…

"What is that? Chains?" I said, thinking out loud, my eyes still closed.

The sound intensified.

……JINGLE JINGLE RATTLE JINGLE RATTLE……

"I'm not going to open my eyes 'cause as soon as I do the stupid noise is gonna stop. Just like all the other tomes."

But the sound didn't stop…

……RATTLE RATTLE JINGLE RATTLE JINGLE JINGLE…

I sighed, "Fine, I'll look but if it stops I'm going to be so mad at my self."

Luckily for my sanity the sound continued once I pealed my eyelids open, instead I behold an odd sight.

I seemed to be hovering over the SRMTHFG who were chained to a gray brick wall. The scenery was your typical dungeon: gray brick walls, odd smells cold and dump with moss growing in the cracks, hardly enough light to see your own nose and various chains attached to the walls, floor and ceiling. Nova trusted herself forward in an effort to break the chain that bound her. She failed but didn't give up as she tried over and over again.

"Nova, save your strength," Antauri said at last.

"Yeah, you're going to need it when we face Empress again," Chiro added.

"Why should we even bother?" Sparx cut in. "We should've left when we has the chance. Who know how many planets the worn has destroyed sense we got here. Lets face it, we can't waste anymore time here. Besides, this planet was doomed even before we even got here."

"The odds do look quite bleak," Gibson said. "I calculate lees than 6.73 chance of us succeeding in dispatching the evil countess and the girl surviving the assault."

"So are we giving up?" Otto asked melancholy.

"I don't know the meaning of the word," Nova growled, "Look you guys weren't there, you didn't see the look in her eyes. Taylor needs our help."

"Poor Taylor, I bet she's really lonely," Otto thought out loud. "Having a creepy bad guy living in your head can't be fun."

"Otto, I would love to live in your world, just for a second," Sparx said sarcastically.

Otto gave Sparx a confused look, obviously not getting his joke.

"Are we going to do something or are we just going to talk all day?" Nova snapped.

"Calm down Nova," Antauri said. "Chiro what shall we do?"

"How 'bout listening to me for once?" called out an unknown voice.

Kapricia walked out of the gloom and into the dim light in front of the Hyper Force.

"I told you guys your plan wouldn't work. Taylor can take on five seven-year-old boys by herself, who know how strong Empress is." Kapricia said.

"And what do you think we should do?" Chiro asked.

"Get rid of Empress, duh! And I got just the plan to do it, but I need your guy's help. I can get you free and sneak you into my part of the castle; Empress never visits me there for some reason. You'll be safe to recover and my guards won't even touch you. But there's just one thing…." Kapricia explained.

"I don't like the sound of that," Chiro said.

"What's that?" Otto asked Kapricia.

"My part of the castle is on the other side and the way is filled with Empress's guards," Kapricia answered.

Sparx rolled his eyes. "Great, more good new."

"Time to get some pay back," Nova said.

"Yaaa-hoooo!" Otto cheered.

"Hmm, intriguing," Gibson mumbled to himself.

"So are you guys up for it?" My friend asked Chiro.

Chiro look at Antauri for guidance, the silver monkey simply nodded.

"Right, let's get moving," Chiro said, confidence shining off his face.

As Kapricia began releasing them, I felt a law grumbling sound emerged from my stomach. I looked down at my middle part, wonder what the heck it was doing.

"UUURRRRRP!"

A long, deep, disgusting burp exited my mouth and bounced off the walls. The small group beneath me froze and after a long award pause they all looked up at me with blank faces.

"What do you say, Taylor?" Kapricia said in a motherly tone.

"Umm… excuse me?" I answered with a nervous laugh.

Kapricia nodded her head as if she just won an argument.

"Whoa, how did you get so sparkly?" Otto asked.

"Sparkly?"

I looked at my hands and realized that they were indeed sparkly but not only that. They were transparent too!

"Ugh…. I don't….know?" I said, looking at the rest of my body to see if it was the same as my hands.

"What are you doing here?" Chiro asked, "We thought you'd given up to the Empress."

"Well you would give up too if you got beaten up by a super hero team." I said. "Anywho, I'm not sure how I got here. As soon as my good buddy here left my evil self's room, I sat down thinking of a way to help or at least know what was going on."

"Was that after or before you said good-bye to me?" my good buddy asked.

"You heard me?" I was kinda surprised.

"Yeah that's how I knew you were still alive and came here to get the SRMTHFG," she added. "Of course, I'm not sure if the Empress knew that your voice came out of her mouth. Anyways, let's get down to business. Get down here so I can tell you my plan."

I obeyed Kapricia and floated down to ground level as the Monkey Team huddled close the my monkey friend as she began to whisper.

Few! All done, I'm afraid that this is going to be it until after my finals are over but I might be able to squeeze one more in if things aren't too hectic. Hay, while you're waiting we don't you read some of my poems and leave some reviews. They're not really based on the show but on personal experience. I'm also going to take them down in the near future 'cause I don't like them that much. So read now, you won't be sorry! Well until next time!