Please don't kill me.

Seriously. Don't. You'll make me dead. And that'll make me sad. Very, very sad.

Crimson Tears

Chapter IV

Chiro was in the kitchen, forced by Otto, who couldn't reach the top shelf for cookies. Forutnately for Chiro, Otto's jetpack's gears were filled with some weird goop that Otto called "Silly Putty". Chiro still didn't know what that was. Otto's arms were covered in butter, so he didn't climb up. So, Chiro suspected that Otto did this on purpose just to get on his nerves. He was not going to lower his level of intelligence to believe that Otto missed the toast in his buttering attempts. But Chiro, being the nice person he was, still got Otto the cookies. But instead of Otto eating the whole darn box, he only got one. Chiro was the one who ate all of the nineteen other chocolate chip cookies.

"Chirooo, why'd you eat all the cookies?" Otto complained.

"Because the last time you got hyper, you disconnected Brain Scrambler Pilot 2 and sent it hurdling towards Shuggazoom! You're lucky Gibson caught it before it hit the city!"

"But he gave me an extremely long, boring lecture!"

"Excuse me?" Otto spun around to see the blue monkey behind him. His arms neatly folded across his chest, wearing an annoyed look on his face as his left foot tapped the ground. Otto became nervous.

"Oh, uh, hiya Gibson...?" Otto finished his sentence of with a cheesy smile, although his eyes told everything.

"An extremely long and boring lecture? Well I'm sorry you had to go through that after you ate all of my plutonium samples!" Chiro just stared weirdly at the green monkey.

"I still got gas from that..." This time, Chiro and Gibson looked oddly at the other monkey, who was sheepishly smiling. Then an odd smell leered across the room.

"Otto!"

"That wasn't me this time!"

"We believe you Otto."

"Lies!"

"No, we're serious!" Otto looked at the two. Gibson and Chiro had their pupils shrunken at the thing behind Otto. Otto gulped. He turned around to face...

Sprx's cooking. And Sprx, who had suddenly came into the room with a chef's hat on and opened the oven. Unfortunately, he had forgotten his potholder, gloves, mittens, anything on his hands. He touched the hot metal pan with that...substance in it. He got burned.

"OOOOOWWWWW!" He started hopping accross the kitchen, holding his wrist and blowing it in a futile attempt to cool it off. Otto, Gibson, and Chiro just stared at him. Nova just happened to stroll into the room. She approached Sprx and casually punched in him the face, if that was possible.

"That's for yesterday, Sparky!" Nova's casual look turned into one of fury as she threatened the monkey with a black eye (no pun intended) on the floor. Then she wiffed the scent that hovered in the room and abruptly rushed off. Chiro, Gibson, and Otto were revived again from the depths of ignorance, only to smell the scent of doom and run out of the room, leaving poor Sprx in their dust.

Sprx was alone on the hard, cold kitchen floor. He groaned. Nova's punches hurt like heck. Sprx saw something in the corner of his eye. A shadow? No wait, legs... Antauri?

"Thank goodness you're here, say, can you get me off the floor? Pretty please?" Sprx heard a metal transformation he had so often heard in battle. Sprx's eyes widened. What was going on!

"...Antauri?" There was suddenly an abrupt pain in his stomach. All he could see now was black.

(.o0O0o.)

Jin May froze. It just had to be him. She never got over how her innocent pet monkey turned into an enemy. They had been the best of friends, until she found out that he had deceived her in a plot for the conquest of Shuggazoom. Along was the one she somewhat liked. He was made of metal, and he was nice. Sure, he tried to take over Shuggazoom once and tried to destroy the monkeys twice but hey, she was sure he was only way too involved in the concept of being a collector of, everything. Jin May stirred a little bit, causing a small rock to bounce at her slight movement. The small sound seemed to last forever as it echoed across the cavern walls.

"What was that?" The small monkey exclaimed. Scrapperton got out his scanner, which he so copied from Dragon Ball Z. He picked up waves of energy from behind a nearby wall. The tin man pointed at Jin May's direction. Sakko nodded and walked over to where Jin May was...

Jin May held her breath. This was it. If only she could disappear Stupid pebble... That's when something in Jin May clicked. Literally. Jin May's eyes widened in suprise as Sakko stopped in front of her and looked around. He sighed.

"Scrapperton, you idiot! Nothing was there!" a large vein poked out of the monkey's head

"Why I never! Something was indeed there! This scanner is flawless!" Scrapperton put his hands on his hips and glared down at the tiny monkey. They had a glaring contest until something broke them up...

Scrapperton and Sakko received the chills when a cold, boney hand gripped each of their shoulders. They gulped and looked up and the glaring crimson eyes looking down at them.

"We have a new guest. I'm sure you'll make him feel more comfortable..." Jin May's eyes widened as Scrapperton and Sakko smirked and rushed off to find the formless with the fresh meat. The Skeleton King glanced at Jin May's hiding place, as if sensing her presence before walking off. When he left, Jin May sighed in relief.

But why didn't Sakko see me?

Jin May looked down at her hands. Well, at least she tried, but she couldn't see them! Jin May gasped before they faded back into her vision once more.

"There must be more to this body than I thought...!" Jin May looked at her hands one more time before running off in search of an exit.

But who did they capture?