Wow I finally got off my backside to continue this.
Midnight: Thank the lord!
Here it is.
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Broken Dreams
The soft soil shifted as my feet crashed against it. The trees rustled with the raging wind, my tail curled round my waist in what could be described as a petite fashion. Conversation was slow between us, he walks silently yet that's what makes him…him.
"We've been walking like forever!" I complain.
"So what am I supposed to do?" He grunts.
"Sing." He gives me kind of 'are you mad?' look.
"Come on, you did before" I whine.
"Yes but that was a long time ago" he says lifelessly.
"Please…." I beg.
I look into his deep magenta red eyes they are filled with his emotions. Anger, sadness, hate.
"Fine" he begins. I knew he would pick this song. It just suits him down to the ground. It's almost like his theme tune or something.
"I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But its home to me and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the Blvd. of broken dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...
My shadows the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there would find me
Till then I'll walk alone
Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah
Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah
I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line of the edge
And where I walk alone
Read between the lines of what's
up and everything's all right
Check my vital signs to know I'm still alive
And I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...
My shadows the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there would find me
Till then I'll walk alone
Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh
Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh
I walk this empty street
On the Blvd. of broken dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk a..
My shadows the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there would find me
Till then I'll walk alone"
Every note is on key, except for a few which were shaky from lack of practice.
"Hmm….how did I know you were going to sing that song?" I asked in a sing-song voice. A tiny smile spread across his muzzle. I wished he smiled like he used to, big and goofily. It was what I call an 'Otto' grin. But ever since the thing with the Alchemist and Mandarin…well he's never been the same.
"I missed you." I looked over to him. His red eyes staring only in front of him.
"I missed you to, when you were exiled I felt like I'd lost my best friend."
"And Sparky was there to comfort you." He said bitterly.
"Sprx." I corrected "Yes he was. He helped me when no one else would. It was all stinking Mandarin's fault. I mean he exiled you for saying what you believed in."
The wind had calmed down somewhat so I uncurled my tail.
"But you don't know the full story do you?" he asks.
"Middie, of course I know." He looked kinda peeved at his nick name being mentioned.
"But the thing with Mandarin, there is more to it." He says coldly.
"Tell me. You've kept this to yourself for to long. You need to talk to someone."
"Fine, but you might want to sit down, it's a long complicated story….hey aren't we supposed to be in a hurry?" I shot him a confused look.
"You know the 'I'm going to go save my boyfriend' thing…any of this ringing a bell?"
Oh snap! I forgot about Sprx. Curse my stupid memory banks.
"Wait your trying to change the subject aren't you?" I smile at him.
"You can tell me while we walk." I pull his arm to get him to move faster through the wood.
"Very well." He finally started.
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The Alchemist worked silently through the night. What was he making? The seventh monkey. The team were working hand in hand perfect. But he wanted another. Not for fighting. Just for company. Lately the nights were damp and cold as the time of his mutation neared. He walked over to his desk, which held notes on the Power Primate process.
Leaving behind on his work bench a black robot monkey. It had a navy blue stripe from the tip of its nose running down to the tip of its tail. Its magenta red eyes were dull, without the backlight they looked hopelessly lifeless. Its black claws were out ready for the attack.
The door to the work room opened and in walked a yellow monkey.
"Nova, dearest why are you awake at such an early hour?" the Alchemist asked still flicking through his notes.
"I came down to keep you company." She said. Her eyes were heavy and tired. He chuckled.
"Soon you will be able to get a decent nights sleep without worrying about me." He told her.
"How come?" she asked, curiosity flashed through her eyes, eyes which could display so much emotion in a single heartbeat.
"I am making a seventh monkey" he motioned towards the table on which the lifeless monkey laid. She walked towards it.
"A seventh monkey? Will it be a fighter, like the rest of us?" she blurted out.
"No he will be for company. My assistant if you will."
"Then what are they for?" she nodded towards the claws at the end of its arms.
"They are merely for defence."
"Oh…What is its name?"
"His name" the Alchemist corrected.
"Ok what's hisname" she asked.
"I'm not sure as of this minute. Maybe you could help?" she looked down at the monkey.
"As long as it's nothing like Antauri. Do you know how long it took for me to be able to say that right?" She stressed.
"Fine, no ancient names."
"It needs to be something up-to-date!" she joked.
"What about……Midnight!" she asked
"Midnight" he raised a brow.
"Yeah. Because his fur is midnight black."
He scanned his eyes over the black monkey before speaking again.
"I like it; it shows what he's about."
"So when will you be finished?" she asked.
"Well all I need to do now is transfer the Power Primate into him."
"Cool can I watch?" she asked, excitement glowing in her eyes.
"You can do more than watch my dear. You can help!" he said motioning towards a leaver.
"Pull it and the transformation will be complete."
She walked over to the leaver and gently wrapped her hand around it. She felt his hand cover hers.
"Come, well start his systems together."
They both pulled down on the leaver. A green light flooded his black body. His eyes lit up and movement filled his body.
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The Alchemist mumbled quietly to himself. The team – minus his assistant – were training. His desk was filled sky high with notes. A black cat lied silently by his feet. Instead of normal yellow eyes which all cats possessed this cats eyes were magenta red.
"Come Midnight I have something I need to tell you and the team together." The cat moved allowing the Alchemist to move his feet. Why could Midnight change into a cat? The alchemist had once confessed to Nova that he wasn't entirely sure. Something to do with screwed up DNA.
They walked side by side to the training room. As the training room door got closer and closer Midnight and the Alchemist could hear Mandarin's shouts and Sprx's trash talk. Midnight allowed his body frame to grow bigger until he was in his robot monkey form.
The Alchemist entered the password on the keypad beside the door.
SRMTHFG
Were the letters he typed. The door slid open and he and Midnight had to swerve to the right to make sure they didn't get hit with a rather large collection of electric energy.
"Oops. My bad. Didn't know you were there." Sprx admitted shamefully.
The Alchemist righted himself.
"Indeed."
"So it would seem." Midnight and the Alchemist answered.
"I would like you all to meet me in the command room in five minutes." The Alchemist said before leaving. Midnight watched him leave 'he's been acting so strangely lately, I wonder what's up?' Midnight thought.
"Hey blue boy, do you know what this is about?" Mandarin asked bitterly. Although he would never admit it he was somewhat jealous of Midnight. Mandarin hated the fact that he was second best in the Alchemist's eyes. 'Topped by a meaningless assistant!' Mandarin had once said.
Midnight shook his head symbolizing he didn't know.
The team filled from the training room into the command room. They each took a seat in their colour corresponding chair. Except Midnight who sat on the floor. He spent most of his time in the lab with the Alchemist he didn't really socialize with the team.
The Alchemist turned to face them.
"I have some bad news. You see I will be leaving you…"
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Nova stormed from the training room. She felt hot yet tired. She went to the only place she could relax. In search of the only person she could talk to with trust.
The air's breeze was cool yet refreshing. She walked out further onto the robot's shoulders. Sure enough he was sitting there. A glass of what looked to be water in his hands. She sat beside him, legs hanging off the side of the robot.
"Oh Midnight, it was all my fault." She steamed. Her thoughts were interrupted by the crash and bangs of Sprx and Otto fixing the savaged training room.
"He was trying to help me 'you need to learn how to brave even the harshest climates' he had said. But yet all I could think of was him smirking there behind me. I don't know why, I just got really hot. Blew the walls off the training room." Stopped to breath.
"I know and as a member of the team absolutely cannot condemn it. But as a friend I say right on. That orange freak deserved it." He comforted.
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"You are nothing more than an assistant. You are not needed here!" Mandarin yelled.
"But I am part of the team always have been, always will be!" Midnight shouted back.
"Please you guys can't you just get along?" Nova asked.
"No!" both Mandarin and Midnight hollered.
"Your just jealous cuz you were always second best in the Alchemists eyes. Isn't being leader of this team enough for you anymore!" Midnight shouted.
"You liar! I would I be jealous of a Monkey who can change into a cat, doesn't have a clue how to fight and has no friends!" Mandarin shouted back.
"Mandarin! What's with you!" Nova shouted.
"Shush!" he said before pushing her into the wall causing her to faint.
"That's it I'm finishing this now! I'm exiling you from this team! What you do with the rest of your pathetic life is up to you. I will wipe all memories of you from the team's memory banks!"
All Midnight could do was stare.
"After that Kokume took me in and looked after me." Midnight finished.
"But why you still remembered me I'm not to sure."
"And that's when you turned so cold." I said. Walking silently by his side.
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Hurrah! It's done! My longest ever chapter! It took me about two hours to write. So you people better review!