Chapter Three:

Growing Trust?

It was early in the morning when Gibson went back to the spot where the monster was defeated the other day. Isis was happy since Gibson allowed her to company him on his investigation.

She stared at her surroundings, the place was still covered in purple goo, but the monster Otto described to her when he was telling her a bed time story was nowhere in sight.

"This place is gross, Gibson" Isis said, flying around, enjoying the cool breeze on the morning, it was a good way to ignore the goo.

"Yes, I know, just don't touch anything" Gibson said as he walked around.

"I won't" she said, smiling at him.

Gibson turned around and rolled his eyes, he finds it ironic how she's a wish-maker yet can't grant him one simple wish. He wishes that Isis wasn't so attach to him and for Bechill to return and take this little Clingy home.

Isis flew over to him and rested on his head. She yawned since she stayed up all night, just like the rest of them. It took an hour for Otto to get to her fall asleep only to wake up again by a strange dream she had. Then she stayed up with Gibson to watch over the other monkey, the one with the creepy eyes.

"So where's that monster Otto was telling me about" Isis asked

"That's what I like to know" Gibson said, looking around. (How can something so big just disappear like that?)

While Gibson was trying to figure it out, he took out a small tube to collect some samples of the goo.

"Do you think after we're done with this can we take a walk in the city" Isis asked. "Maybe get an ice cream"

"Not today, with our "old friend" returning yesterday, there's some business we need to finish"

The foul orange monkey creep her out just as much as the others, but she wanted to spent time with the blue monkey. "We don't have to be out long, just enough time to get an ice cream" she begged "please"

"First of all this situation is more important than ice cream and second, you're not allowed to have any sweets after that last incident"

She frowned, it wasn't her fault Antauri looked like a chocolate bar. She flew off of Gibson's head and landed on the ground and looked around. She walked around a bit, Gibson was too busy collecting samples to pay attention to her, and spotted a small black thing a foot away from where she was standing..

Gibson stood there, scratching his head. "Where could a giant spider go when it was dead" he asked himself.

"Gibson, look what I found" He heard Isis shouting from behind him. He scoffed and turned around "what is it now, Isis-" He screamed and fell backwards when Isis held up a dead spider right in front of his face.

"Is this the monster Otto was talking about" Isis asked, but realized the Gibson just sat there, pale and shaking. She laughed nervously "oh yeah, I forgot you're afraid of these things, sorry"

He sighed "Just put the disgusting thing in one of the sample tubes" Gibson said, holding up the tube.

Isis made the small dead spider disappear and reappearing in the tube and smiled "no harm done" she said.

Gibson sighed "Let's go home" then they took off to the Robot.

When they return, it was dead silence in the command center and everyone were keeping their distance from the orange monkey, who just float there, deep in meditation.

"He's been that way all night and day" Otto whispered to Gibson.

"I wondered why" Gibson said as he walked across the command center hearing the sounds of his footsteps, down the hall and over to his lab.

He took Isis off his head and place her on the floor "I'm going to be in my lab for a few hours so stay out here" he said

Isis nodded and when Gibson's lab door closed, she leaned against the wall and waited. The room around his lab was cold and empty, and everyone else was in the command center with that foul orange monkey.

She didn't know why she was using the word "foul" to describe that monkey, something about him didn't seem right, yet she was confused about why the others know him and won't tell her about him. She grew very uncomfortable last night when he kept staring at her, the look didn't help her fall back to sleep.

Lost in thought and rolling her little orb back and fourth for hours, she started to doze off til, eventually, she fell asleep.


"You don't know, have you not heard of the prophecy!"

"Prophecy?"

"Yes, you foolish thing, the prophecy, that will take place soon when your little heart is shattered by the one you truly care about"

Isis took a few steps back as the foul orange color disappears, laughing "and when that happens, I will come and get you"

A large blue sword flew straight to her head . . .

"Isis?"

Tainted, corrupted, shattered heart, foul color orange.

"Isis?"

Isis snapped her eyes wide open and felt a cold metal hand on her back. She looked up to see Otto with a friendly smile on his face. "Hey, did you have a nice nap"

Isis was confused, wasn't she just hit in the head by some pointy blue sword, or was it just another one of those crazy dreams she had. She looked at the green monkey, who was waiting for her answer and she smiled "how long was I asleep"

"Not very long, come on, we're going to the park" he said, picking her up and holding her in his arms.

"Why are we going to the park" She asked

"Mandarin said he was going out to get some fresh air and Chiro asked me and Gibson to keep an eye out on him while the others went out to patrol the city."

"So, we can get Gibson out of his lab" Isis asked and Otto nodded.

"Of course" Otto grinned, making Isis smile, she really like the green monkey.

Otto knocked on Gibson's lab door "Gibson, come on, we're going outside today"

"I'm quite busy, Otto, now go away" Gibson said from the inside.

Otto smiled at Isis and whispered "I wish Gibson would get out of his lab"

Next thing they knew, Gibson appeared just above them and fell to the floor. Otto grabbed Gibson's tail and started to drag him out of the room "you spent too much time in there, anyway" he said

Isis walked beside Gibson, who was giving her a sour look "Sorry Gibson, but I promise you, we'll have fun" Isis said, smiling. "We can play with the frisbee"

Mandarin couldn't stand being watch all the time, so he decided to get some fresh air. He left the robot and walked around the park area for a quiet place to meditate some more. This pain inside of him was unbearable and with his "team" staring at him and whispering things about him wasn't helping.

It was too bad he couldn't take a deep breath of the fresh air, since he didn't need any air, he just sighed and enjoyed the peacefulness of solitude.

"Hey Mandarin" Otto said when he suddenly appeared in front of the orange monkey.

Mandarin gasped and fell to the ground with a loud clang. He looked up at the smiling Otto then at Gibson that was lying on the ground with the little blue dragon. "Otto, how in the world did you appeared in front of me. I was a mile away from the Robot"

"Little Isis can teleport people from one place to another" Otto said, pointing down at Isis.

"Tell me again why I have to come" Gibson said, getting up from the floor.

"We're here to watch Mandarin while the others go on patrol duty" Otto said, with a smile.

"I can't even have some time for peace" Mandarin asked. "I can't believe you guys don't believe me when I said I'm not the evil monkey like I use to be"

"It will take more then a day to change our minds" Gibson said, then Isis tugged on his arm.

"Isn't this great, Gibson" Isis said, grabbing his metal hand and jumping up and down "now we can go to the park together, come on"

"Isis, I am very busy to play right now" Gibson said, but was completely ignored as he was dragged over to the park by the little dragon.

"Hey wait for me" Otto said, running off.

Mandarin just stood there for a minute then decided to continue his search for a nice quiet spot, but somewhere near the little dragon to see what other powers she might have. The power of teleport can be quite handy if you know what places to go..

Gibson sat down under a shaded tree and kept his eye out on Mandarin, who was sitting down under a tree right across from him. Mandarin stared back at Gibson, then closed his eyes and started meditating again. Gibson didn't question himself about why Mandarin was mediating so much, he was that way before Chiro replaced him on the team.

"Are you sure you don't want to play" Isis asked Gibson.

"I'm fine, catching Otto's saw disc isn't what I call fun" He said.

Isis frowned but quickly put on a smile "Ok Otto, throw the first disc" she shouted

"Ok" Otto said from a few feet away and activated one of his saws. He swung his saw, unleashing a thin green disc into the air and Isis flew up to catch it. This was one of her favorite games, a good way to have fun and increase her flying speed. She caught the disc with her teeth, not cutting herself like the first time, and flung it back to Otto.

Otto missed it and it crashed into the dirt leaving a small deep hole in the ground. "Ok, let's try two discs now"

"Otto, I don't think this is a good idea" Gibson said.

Gibson sighed as green discs started to fly everywhere with Isis and Otto chasing them.

"Gibson, watch out" Isis shouted.

Gibson looked up to see a fly disc heading toward him, he shrieked and shot it with a laser from one of his drills.

"Otto, keep your attacks under control" Gibson said.

Isis pushed Gibson down, literally slamming his face into the dirt and smack another green disc with her tail before flying into the air again. Gibson lifted his face out of the dirt, spat out some grass and groan in self-pity.

"Otto, I think you released too many discs" Isis shouted, trying very hard to dodge each of the discs.

"Oops, my bad" Otto said, laughing and dodging at the same time.

Green discs flew everywhere, slicing trees in half and making holes in the ground. Gibson sighed in frustration and started shooting them with the laser from his drills. "This is just what I need, babysitting" Gibson said.

A disc flew just above Mandarin and sliced the tree in half, but without moving from his spot, he caught the fallen tree with his mind and flung it a few feet away. Isis stood there, stunned "that was weird" she said.

"Look at this place" Gibson said. The whole park was damage and covered in holes and fallen trees. "This is what happens when you don't learn self-control"

Isis frowned "sorry Gibson" she said.

Mandarin cracked one eye open and stared at the little dragon, she was sure attach to Gibson of all monkeys. He also wanted to know why she was always carrying around that little blue ball with her tail wrapped around it.

"Don't have to be so mean, Gibson, just wish for the park to be undamaged" Otto said.

(Wish) Mandarin asked, as he opened both of his eyes to see what's going on.

"Not all problems should be solved just by wishing them away" Gibson said

"It would be faster and you can get back to your experiments quicker" Otto said

"Isis, I wish the park was back to normal" Gibson said

Mandarin watched as the little ball in the dragon's tail started to glow, there was a flash of blinding blue light and when it faded, he was stunned to see the park was just the way it was when he came here.

"Good as new" Isis said "my wishing power seems to be getting better because I don't feel that tire afterwards"

Gibson rolled his eyes and sat down in the shade again. "Good, but there will be no more of disc frisbee for today"

"Aw, Gibson, you're such a party pooper" Otto said.

"What just happened here" Mandarin asked, walking over to Otto.

"What do you mean?"

"The park, it was damage, but it just turned back to normal" He said

"Oh, that's one of Isis's powers" Otto said

"Which is?"

"Wish-making" Otto said

"Wishes, she can grant wishes" Mandarin asked

"Yeah, she can grant any wish you want, big or small" Otto said "she can control it better, but she's only grant wishes for Gibson and me"

"Why is that" Mandarin asked

"She only trusts us" Otto said.

Mandarin stared at the dragon again, who was just sitting next to Gibson and looking at him with such fondness. Ideas started growing in the orange monkey's robotic brain.


It was the evening when they return home from the park, where everyone was waiting. Otto enters first with Isis in his arms, followed by an exhausted Gibson.

"Hey Gibson, any troubles with Mandarin" Antauri asked

"Oddly enough, no, all he did at the park was mediate" Gibson said

"Nothing out of the ordinary" Chiro asked

Gibson shook his head "nothing"

"Yeah, it was weird, he wasn't mean like he used to be" Otto said "like he's really trying to change"

"You make it sound like we should trust him" Gibson said

"Well, he hasn't done any wrong yet" Otto said.

The others just stared at him, making him nervous "oh, look at the time, I need to put Isis to bed" Otto said, taking off.

As Otto took Isis up to the rooms, Mandarin walked in, took a quick glace over at monkeys and Chiro then walked away.

"Just like I said nothing out of the ordinary" Gibson said

"Antauri, what do you think" Chiro asked

"Right now, I'm not sure what to do with Mandarin, we can't do anything since he hasn't harm the team or anyone else" he said

"But I still don't trust him, something just doesn't seem right" Chiro said

"I agree with Chiro" Gibson said.

"Well once Sprx and Nova get back from their patrol duty, we'll think of something" Antauri said.

Mandarin walked down a hallway, thinking about what Otto told him. (She can grant wishes, big or small)

(She can grant wishes) Mandarin thought. (With that power, there's no telling what I can do)

(she can control it better, but she only grant wishes for Gibson and me)

(She can be quite useful for my plan and all I have to do is get rid of that closeness she has with that blue monkey) He thought as he entered a room.

He grins...


Chapter Four: Brainwashing: They hate you, they all hate you and you know it.