Sweat! I finally I got some time to type up yet another chapter for you guys. It might be a little long but it get you set up for the faunally. Well enjoy!

Ch.15

Antauri creped his head around the corner that lead down a long stretch of a hallway.

"The hallway is being heavily guarded," the second in command reported.

"At least 30 guards...no, 45," Gibson added as he popped his head underneath Antauri's.

"Was this part of your plan?" Sparx asked in annoyed tone.

Nova shoved her elbow firmly into the red monkey's stomach.

"We can take them out easy," Otto said.

"Yeah, and alert the rest of the castle that you've escape," Kapricia said.

"So what do you propose we do then?" asked Gibson.

"Give an order," Kapricia said with a clever smile.

The Hyper Force and I gave Kapricia an 'What the heck are you talking about girl?" look.

"Look, I know what I'm doing," she said. "Taylor, just yell out an order to get us down the hall unnoticed."

"Ok, what should I say?" I asked.

"I don't know say something," Kapricia said.

"But what?"

"Taylor." Kapricia was getting annoyed now.

"Some plan," I grumbled, "you don't even have the details."

"What did you say?" Kapricia asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Um...nothing...heh-eh."

"Yeah, you better say that, now give the order."

"Fine, you meanie head," I took a deep breath and yelled out my order. Luckily I come from a loud family or this would have hurt my voice badly. "Listen up you idiot jerks!" the guards froze, looking in bewilderment for the owner of the voice. "Stop doing that. Now listen carefully, if you lumber heads can, turn to the wall and walk up to it." I waited for the armor plated beasts to walk up to the walls of the halls. Hey! That rhymed! Anywho, I took another deep breath and bellowed, "Now stay there like that until I say so, or I'll...I'll...I'll...my fury onto thou!"

"That's got to be the worst threat I had ever heard," Sparx whispered.

"Shut-up," I hissed, "I can't do mean."

"I wonder if the Empress can't to nice," Otto said quietly.

"We can speculate that later Otto," Gibson said. "Let's hurry to the other side."

Gibson led us to the end of the hall. I was shocked that the guards didn't move an inch. Once we were safe around the corner I ordered the tin monkeys to resume their duty ad we went off. But as soon as we were out of earshot I gave life to conversation among the monkey themed group.

"Those must have been the most stupidest guards ever."

"Stupidest isn't a word Taylor," Kapricia corrected.

"Yes it is...and the mail comes on Sunday," I replied with a devilish smile.

"It does not!" Kapricia squealed.

The Hyper force quickly covered her mouth with their hands. "Shhh!" they hissed.

"Do you two want us to get caught?" Chiro asked.

Kapricia struggled free and out of the grasp of our heroes and said, "It's not my fault. She started it."

I giggled. "Sorry, I couldn't help it. Every time I say the mail comes on Sunday she totally flips out," I giggled again. "It's sssoooooo funny."

Kapricia whined, "No it's not."

"Yes it is," I replied.

"No, it's not."

"Yes-"

"Not this again," Chiro said, cutting me off. "Look, can we just get this over with?"

"Why the long face Chiro?" I asked.

"The longer we stand in one place, the sooner the so called Empress will find out that we'd escaped," Gibson answered.

"Awww, you guys worry too much," I said. "Trust me, you guys will win."

"And what makes you so confident?" Antauri asked.

"The good guys always win; it's a known fact" I answered.

"They do?" Otto asked.

"Yep," Kapricia said, answering for me.

"Do you have any evidence to prove this hypothesis?" Gibson inquired.

"Cartoons," I simply said.

"Cartoons?" Gibson said, not quite understanding.

"Cartoons," I confirmed with a nod.

"Technically you guys are cartoons and you do win all the time. So there's no reason you guys can't win this time," Kapricia explained.

Sparx shrugged. "Can't argue with that."

"We do win all the time," Otto added.

Nova beamed. "I like the way you two think."

But Chiro, Antauri and Gibson had a harder time believing us.

"Don't worry about it guys. Our logic only makes sense to us," Kapricia explained.

"Whatever, let's get moving team. We still have the element of surprise on our side and I don't want it going to waste," Chiro ordered.

"Hey! That rhymed," Kapricia pointed out, "surprise, side."

Everyone, including me, gave her a blank stair.

"What?" She asked.

"See? I'm not the only one who's random," I said with a smile.

Chiro just sighed. I got the feeling that things weren't going the way he wanted then to.

"Chiro, don't be so serious. You got to lighten up and laugh, even in situations like this. Right Kapricia?"

"Mm…what? Oh, I don't know. Why are you asking me?"

I sighed, "You just totally ruined the moment."

"Um..sorry?"

"Yeah, you should be."

"Can we go now?" Otto interrupted. "I'm getting bored."

"Sure, lead the way Kapricia," I said.

"Why me?" she asked.

I slapped my head with announce. "Because you're the only one who knows the way , stupid."

"It's your castle, you lead the way," Kapricia argued.

"I blacked out for three months!"

"SHHH!" the Hyper force hissed.

"Oh, sorry."

"Oh yean, huh?" Kapricia giggled. "I forgot. Come on, it's this way."

My friend ran down the halls with me flying by her side and the monkey Team right on her heels. Every now and then I would give out orders to the mentally challenged gorillas guards and we just walked by; making faces behind their backs. We finally stopped at a spiraling staircase that lead the way upwards.

"Ok, this is where we split up," Kapricia said. "Chiro, you and the others go up the stairs. It leads to my part of the castle. I've already ordered my guards to leave you alone and to get you anything you need. But of anything goes wrong, you're on your own."

"What about you?" Chiro asked.

"Taylor and I will go get the antidote that will turn everyone back to normal."

"Antidote?" Gibson questioned. "There is no antidote, I checked myself. I examined Taylor's DNA, the effects are permanent."

"I think Taylor got an extra dose than everyone else," Kapricia said.

"Then how did you get a cure?" Otto asked.

"By ascendant. I was working on a way to increase the Empress's power, my evil self, that is. I needed to test it some one so I swallowed it. Next thing I knew I was back to my old self."

"Highly improbable," Gibson huffed.

"Don't be like that Gibson," Kapricia pleated. "You are the reason I love science in the first place. My formula isn't quite right and I your help to finish it."

"Well I," Gibson beamed, "Well then, I will await your call fellow scientist. Shall we go?"

Gibson was the first to disappear up the staircase. The rest of the team flowed but Sprax stayed behind.

"Is Gibson really your reason for liking science so much?" The red monkey asked.

"No, I just didn't want him to be mad at me. He's my favorite monkey," Kapricia answered with a shrug.

Sparx laughed. "Well, good luck you two."

"We don't need luck, it's all skill baby and we got plenty to spare," I chimed.

Sparx shook his head and joined his friends up stairs.

"Ok, lead the way," I said.

We raced down yet another hall (I swear, there was no end to them!) putting some distance between us and the staircase. We soon stopped as a humongous, dark green and purple, metal looking door. I looked back to see if anyone was spying on us but I saw no one and I could barely see the bottom step which the Hyper Force climbed up just a little while ago. Kapricia then pushed a hidden button on the wall, next to the door and out popped a mini computer; well the keyboard and screen at least. Kapricia quickly typed something in the computer swung back into the wall.

"What did you just do?" I asked.

"Typed in my password." Kapricia answered flat-out .

"Why the heck do you have a password?

"So the scary stalkers with cannons don't came in and mess everything up."

"Yeah, like there's so many of them just waiting to get in," I said sarcastically.

"Exactly," Kapricia said with a giggle.

Even though I rolled my eyes, I couldn't help giggling too.

The door that hopefully held the salvation for not only for me but Earth, opened without a sound and blinded me for a second with unexpected brightness. When I opened my eyes I was no longer by Kapricia's side, nor in her lab. I was once again surrounded by movie screens and darkness.

"AAHHH! YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! This is so unfair and frustrating!" I yelled. "How the heck did I get back in my inner heart?"

"Because I brought you back," the Empress's voice echoed. "Did you really think you could escape, you insentient fool? I bet you gut free all by your little self," she let out an annoying laugh. "Idiot! I let you out! I had this planed from the beginning."

I listened to the bodiless voice closely, the tone…the way she said it. I couldn't put my finger on it when……ding! I got it. I smirked, the tables were turned now.

"You're bluffing," I said with the up most confidence.

"What?"

"You heard me! You're lying. I bet you didn't even notice I was gone until just a few seconds ago. Then I bet again that you freaked out, desperately looking for me and you didn't even know how to get me back."

There was no answer, which just made me want to gloat even more. But before I could utter a word a blur of reds and oranges swirled before me and totally ruining my victory dance. That is so just my luck. The out of the fire of colors burst out a girl. I took a closer look…a girl who looked exactly like me! The nerve of her!

"Hey you jerk, you stole my look!" I yelled as I pointed a finger at her.

"We're the same person idiot," my clone growled.

"Whatever Empress. Just 'cause I have more imagination than you doesn't mean you have to make up lame excuses." I stuck out my tongue.

We stood there saying nothing; there wasn't anything to say really. But it gave me the chance to observe my clone's attire.

She wore a sleeveless black shirt that showed a lot of cleavage and did nothing at all to cover her midriff. She also wore the shortest miniskirt ever; it basically looked like a strip of denim wrapped around her hips and only covered two inches of it. But on close inspection, Empress seemed to be at least three years older than me. Her golden brown hair was longer than mine too. It reached down to her knees and was tied up in two lose pigtails.

I then looked at my own outfit to compare it with my clone's but realized I was wearing something I didn't change into. I was also wearing a sleeveless shirt, but it was white that hardly let any cleavage and only displayed about 2 inches of my tummy. I also had on white long pants that flared out at the bottom. As for my hair, it was let free, covering most of my back. We both didn't have shoes on, which I thought was kinda odd, but hey whatever. I was trapped in my spiral heart after all, any thing could happen.

I grew tense and swallowed hard.

"This is it…..I'll win….I have to win."

"Shall we begin?"

We trusted ourselves simultaneously, roaring at the top of your lungs, ready to lock each other in battle.

'This is it….the final battle. The battle for my life."

Alright! Next chapter is sure to be a pleaser and I hope you guys like this chapter. I'm off from school for the summer but I might take awhile to get Ch.16 up. I want to make sure it's reeeeaaalllly good. Only the best for my fans. Hope you can wait until then!