Chapter Two:

Evil No More

Isis doesn't like being alone after the story Otto told her about the Robot being alive, she always felt like she's being watch. It creeps her out all the time, but never shows it in front of the others. She stood there, a small blue dot when she is compared to the giant Robot, waiting for the team to come back after saving the town.

"What do you think I should do, Robot" she asked out loud.

Silence.

She sighed when she didn't get an answer, she saw Chiro talking to it a few times and by the way he talks it sounded like the Robot was responding to him. She laid down on the cold metal floor, waiting and wishing she was with the team and fighting off monsters.

Suddenly, the giant computer in the command center started beeping and Isis looked to see what it was.

"Unidentified ship landing" The computer said.

Isis flew over to the computer as the screen zoom inon a ship that landed near the woods. Her bright blue eyes widened when she saw an orange monkey walking out, then in a spit second, the orange monkey was gone.

(Did one of the monkeys dyed their fur a different color) Isis thought, but decided to ignore it.


Gibson's blue color fur faded when he saw what he as well as the rest of the team was up against.

A Giant Black spider stared at the Chiro and the monkey team with his hundreds of glowing purple eyes. Thick purple drool dripped from the spider's mouth that was filled with crooked fangs.

"Why did it have to be a spider" Gibson sighed

The Spider roared and made its first attack by swinging one of his arms toward the team.

"Look out" Shouted Chiro as they all fly off in different directions. They activated their weapons and began to attack.

"Magnet Tingler Blast" Sprx shouted and shot the Spider in the head. The spider roared and shot a purple beam at him.

"Sprx, look out" Nova shouted, and pushed him down before the beam could hit him. They crash to the ground and Sprx smiled, but before he could say anything to Nova, she took off again to help the others.

Chiro jumped onto the spider's back, "thunder punch" he shouted and punched the spider causing it to scream in pain and rammed his back into a building. Chiro jumped off before he could be crush and landed on the street.

Antauri and Otto flew toward the spider with their weapons in front of them and cut the spider's flesh. Purple ooze dripped down the monster side causing it to shoot out another purple beam. It hit Otto and Antauri head on, making them fly right through a building.

"Antauri! Otto!" Chiro shouted.

Gibson took a deep breath and pointed one of his drills at the giant monster. "Spin Shocker" he shouted

It struck the monster's eyes and was about to attack Gibson when Nova and Sprx counter attack. The monster fired another beam at Sprx and Nova, but they dodge it and the beam exploded in the back ground.

"Chiro Spearo" Chiro shouted and throw his lightning spear at the Monster.

The monster cried in pain and spat out thick purple goo at Chiro. His eyes widen as he was hit with the goo and fell to the ground.

"Chiro, are you alright" Gibson asked

"I'm stuck" Chiro said as he struggled to get out of the goo.

(Disgusting) Gibson thought as he tried to help Chiro out of the goo.

Antauri flew down to them as the other three monkeys continue to battle the monster.

"Can you find a weak spot on him, Gibson" The sliver monkey asked

"Not for now, it seems even after we inflicted damage on it, it shows no signs of slowing down"

Otto slice through on of the Spider's legs causing more purple ooze to pour before he was struck and slammed into the ground.

Sprx and Nova flew down to the others as well as Otto. "This isn't working, does anyone have a plan" Sprx asked

With one hard yank Gibson pulled Chiro out of the goo and Chiro stood up. "If we combine our attack powers, then maybe we can finish it off in one blow"

The monkeys nodded and aimed their weapons at the monster, who was charging toward them.

"Monkey fu"

"Monkey mind scream"

"Spin Shocker"

"Sting Ray"

"Scritch Scratch Doomthrower"

"Magnet Tingler Blast"

All their powers combined into one big ball of energy and struck the monster head on. A bright light blinded the team for a second then all went quiet. When they opened their eyes, the area around them was covered in smoke and purple goo.

Chiro fell to his knees and smiled "nicely done, team" he said

The team smiled at one another til they were all hit with another ball of thick purple goo. They flew back and smashed into a tree, trapped in the goo.

"Don't tell me, we missed it, it was a head on attack" Nova said, as she and the others struggled to get out of the goo.

"We did hit it, but I don't think it was strong enough" Sprx said.

"Monkey team, look" Antauri said

They look to see the monster, crawling out of the smoke, badly injured with missing legs and flesh. It struggled over to the team, ignoring the pain and the goo pouring out of its deep wounds.

"Something's wrong here" Antauri said

"I'll say, by the way it looks, that thing should've died" Sprx said

"What do we do now" Otto asked

The monster started charging up for one last attack, making its body turned bright purple.

"Get out of this goo before we're all doom" Chiro shouted.

The team struggled to get out of the goo, kicking, hitting and pushing each other and arguing with one another. The beam grew bigger and the monster aimed it at them.

"Great, being killed by a spider, I have no luck whatsoever." Gibson said.

Suddenly, something orange swoosh down, there was a bright blue slash then the orange thing disappeared into the trees. The monster stood still then a large gash burst open on its chest. The orange thing flew down again, too fast for the Team to see who it was, and slash the monster again. The spider fell to the floor, but it was still struggling to fight as it continues to crawl over to the Team.

"What was that" Chiro asked

"I don't know, but the spider is still coming after us" Nova shouted.

The orange thing flew up in the air, unleashing its bright blue sword and flew down toward the spider and stabbed in right in its head. Unknowing to the team, the sword was adsorbing the tainted energy out of the monster, killing it instantly.

"No, it can't be" Chiro stuttered as he stared at the orange monkey that was staring right back.

Mandarin stood there on the monster's corpse as he removed his sword from the monster's head and rested it on his shoulder. "Hello, once again, my brothers" he said, grinning.

The team stood still as Mandarin walked over to them and swung his sword at them. The team closed their eyes then felt them crashing on top of one another and opened their eyes to realized the goo disappeared. No time to question why Mandarin did that, the Team brought out their weapons and Chiro had his hands together ready to attack.

"What are you doing here, Mandarin" Chiro asked

Mandarin just stood there and deactivated his sword. "It's not what you think, I'm not here to cause any harm"

"That's a load of crap" Sprx said

"Why should we believe anything that comes out of your mouth" Nova asked

"If I was really here to destroy you, I would've let that monster do the job for me" Mandarin said.

The Team just growled and continued to aim their weapons at the orange monkey. "Fine, go ahead and destroy me, I just save your lives and this is the thanks I get" Mandarin and just stood there, waiting, but knew very well that Antauri wouldn't let anyone be destroyed unless it self-defense or stopping them from hurting others.

"Wait" Antauri said making Mandarin smile from the inside, he knew Antauri was too weak to kill. "If you're not here to attack then why are you here" The sliver-monkey asked

"True, the last time we saw you, you were swallowed up by the worm" Gibson said

"And how come you look just like us now" Otto asked.

"If you must know, yes, I was swallowed up by the worm, the world went dark for me til one day I find myself waking up with another chance of life" Mandarin said "I don't know how I was able to come back to life, but I'd return for one thing. "

"And what is that" Chiro asked

Mandarin felt like he was going to vomit, but for order for his plan to work he had to make them believe he was no longer evil. "Forgiveness"

Everyone stared at the orange monkey. (Fools, they took the bait)


"Tell me again, why we haven't destroy him yet" Sprx whispered to Chiro and Antauri as they all returned to the robot.

"He hasn't done anything to hurt other people or us, Sprx" Chiro said.

"So, we're just going to forgive him just like that, even after all he did in the past" Nova whispered.

"It's best not to dwell on the past Nova, but that doesn't mean I trust him on his words" Antauri said

"If you don't trust him then why are we bringing him back to the robot" Sprx asked

Antauri looked back at Mandarin, who was standing a few meters away and staring at the surrounding, and huddled back with the team. "Something about him is not right, how did he survived and returned in the condition he's in" Antarui said.

"I agree, something about him, besides the change of his appearance, is different, but I can't put my finger on it" Gibson said

"So what do we do with him" Otto asked.

Gibson opened the door that led into the robot "With night coming I have a suggestion-"

He couldn't finish when he was tackled by Isis and crashed to the floor. Mandarin looked away from what he was looking at and stared at the small little dragon that was hugging Gibson. (Who the hell is that) he thought.

"Gibson, I was so worry about you, are you ok" Isis asked, hugging him tight as Gibson sat up with a sour look on his face but Isis didn't noticed.

"I was fine about a minute ago, Isis" The blue monkey said, holding her in his left arm and getting up from the floor.

Otto chuckled as he and the other went inside, followed by Mandarin. The orange monkey stayed quiet as he continued looking at the little blue dragon, who was happy to see Gibson home.

"It's good to the see the Robot hasn't change, I do miss see it" Mandarin said, looking around.

Isis stared at Mandarin and felt a cold chill running down her spine "Gibson"

"What?" Gibson asked

"That monkey, I saw him a few hours ago, when he was exiting his ship" Isis whispered.

Gibson looked over at Mandarin, who was just walking around and looking at things and looked at Isis. "Don't worry about him, you just let us take care of him"

"There's something about him that makes me uneasy, his color, is so foul" She said

"And I told you not to worry about it" He said, handing her to Otto. "Why don't you go play with Otto while the others and I sort out this mess"

Isis frowned "Come on Isis, it's time for your bath anyway" Otto said, walking off to his green tube with Isis was still frowning.

Mandarin just sat there in the middle of the command center, getting a little annoyed with all the whispering and staring, as if they never saw him before. They were talking about what to do about him for hours till night fall.

Sprx yawned "Can we think of something faster, I'm tired" He said

"There's no way I'm sleeping knowing he's here" Nova said.

"Want me to keep you company in your room, Nova" Sprx asked smirking.

As Nova punched Sprx out of the circle, Gibson spoke "I supposed each of us can watch him during the night"

"That doesn't seem too hard, we'll take turns ever few hours" Chiro said.

"So who takes the first watch" Sprx asked.


An hour later . . .

"This is messed up" Sprx said. When he lost in the draw straws game, he sat there in the dark command center, staring at Mandarin, who was just floating there, meditating like Antauri would.

The only source of light was the flashlight on top of his head as he kept a close eye on the orange monkey. Sprx looked at the clock (9:00, damn it's going to be a long night) he thought.

His turn ends at 11:00 and the minutes were passing like hours to him. He just sat there, looking at his old leader from a long time ago, mediating, not caring if he's being watch. The only excitement that happened during his turn was when Otto came down, yawning while holding Isis in his arms.

"She got hungry" Otto said, walking past Sprx and Mandarin and over to the kitchen.

"Isn't that Gibson's job" Sprx asked

"I couldn't wake him up" Isis said, as her little tummy growled. She hasn't eaten anything since breakfast.

Otto yawned again as he walked by them again with a warm cup of milk in one hand and Isis in the other. "Night" he said, shooting up in his tube.

11:00 pm

Nova took the next turn watching Mandarin, and just like before Mandarin just floated there, mediating. She just sat there, far away from him, and tried to think of something else. Mandarin gave her the creeps, but she wasn't alone on her turn.

"I thought your shift was over, Sprx" Mandarin asked, without moving or opening his eyes.

Sprx growled. "There's no way I'm leaving Nova alone with you" he said

Nova looked away and smiled a little, but try not to let herself get out of character. "I can take care of myself, Sprx" she said

Mandarin growled, can't they just leave him alone and leave him in peace. Deep down, he was meditating to keep his body stable. The powers he'd gotten from the worm were painful, as if his body was going to be torn into two if he didn't concentrate really hard to them under control. He just prayed that Nova's shift ended quickly before they start bickering.

2:00 a.m.

A vein popped in Mandarin's head as he tried very hard to ignore Otto looking at him up close and slightly tapping his head.

"How come you don't look like an old monkey anymore" Otto asked. "Where did you get your new armor?"

"Otto, stop asking me questions and let me meditate" Mandarin asked

"Okie dokie" Otto said, walking away and sitting on the floor.

"So, how long have you been alive, because we could've sworn you were eaten" Otto asked, but didn't get a respond from the orange monkey.

Otto felt the air growing thicker and ignored the tension as well.

Otto started rocking himself, Isis was asleep and it was too late to make something, so he was bored and tired. He was really bored and really tired.

3:30 a.m

Antauri and Chrio took over after Chiro came down to find Otto sleeping, but Mandarin was still mediating, while grinding his teeth to ignore the pain he was feeling deep inside. Despite the pain of his power getting use to his new body, he wanted more, more power he can ever dreamt of. The thing is, how can he do that, he just have to wait til something comes up.

"So what's with the new look, Antaruri" Mandarin asked

Chiro growled but Antauri stayed calmed and didn't say anything.

"I guess, conversations are out of the question with you two then" Mandarin said. "But let me just say Antauri, you and I aren't so different since I'm fully robotic as well"

"He sacrificed himself to make sure your master was destoryed" Chiro shouted. His voice echo throughout the dark command center.

"I wouldn't know since I was eaten before that happened" Mandarin said, calmly.

"Why are you here, what is your reason of showing up" Chiro asked "it's hard to believe that you of all people would change"

"Chiro, calm down, we don't want to wake the others" Antauri said

Mandarin said nothing, making Chiro feel uneasy "Can you sense anything wrong with him, Antauri" Chiro whispered as quietly as he can.

Antauri sense a power hidden deep in Mandarin, a power that was unstable but no sign of tainted evil in him. Either Mandarin had really change from bad to good or he's hiding his true self deep inside. But he also knew that Mandarin can sense something is up, just like he can. "I'll tell you later" Antauri said.

4:30 a.m

Isis woke up from a bad dream, so Gibson told Chiro and Antauri that he'll watch Mandarin for the rest of the night. Mandarin cracked one of his eyes open and stared at Gibson, who was walking back from the kitchen with another cup of milk and holding something wrapped in a blanket in his arms.

Gibson yawned and sat down "here drink up, a warm glass of milk will help you go back to sleep" he said

Isis yawned and started drinking some milk til it was gone and cuddled close to her favorite monkey. "Thank you, Gibson" she said, trying to relax in his arms.

"Since when did you become a father Gibson, it doesn't even look like you beside the color" Mandarin asked, turning around and stared at the blue monkey while floating is air.

Gibson didn't say anything, but was rather annoyed about what Mandarin said. "So what's the little thing's name" he asked

"I'm Isis" Isis said "and I've been living here with Gibson and the others for a month now"

"It's a temporary thing" Gibson said, quickly. "Am I'm just taking care of her til her owner comes back"

(Like I care about that) Mandarin said, as he stared at the little dragon. He can sense an enormous power inside her but can't figure out what it is.

Isis stared in the dark and looked around till her eyes caught Mandarin staring at her. Those orange pupils in his black eyes made her shivered when she realizes those eyes were so similar to the ones she saw in her dream . . .

The birth of orange just met the wish-maker of blue


Chapter Three: Growing Trust: A few of the monkeys are starting to trust Mandarin again.