Chapter Seven:

The Attack

Gibson kept his eyes away from Otto's sour face expression as he tried to figure out how to repair his lab AGAIN piece by piece . . . by piece. The others went into the command center to see if they can track down the little clingy.

The blue monkey felt the air thickening thanks to Otto's stare "Will you stop staring at me like that Otto, it's quite annoying." He said.

"Aren't you going to go find her" Otto asked.

"No, I have to fix up the thing she destroyed" Gibson said, growling in frustration, he just repaired his lab a month ago after Isis had that little "magic malfunction" the first time they met.

"Can you forget about your lab for one second, it's raining out there and she's all alone" Otto snapped.

Gibson raised an eyebrow from Otto's sudden outburst. The green monkey was angry, very angry "Couldn't you tell that she was hurt, that she was scared, but no, all you cared about was your lab. Didn't you see her shake and cry when you yelled at her or let her tell you what happened, NO, all cared about is your lab"

"Well, if you cared about her so much then why don't you look for her in the pouring rain" Gibson yelled.

"I do care about her, a lot, and I find it hard to believe that she cares about you from all the times you ignored her." Otto said "I would look for her but I think she would rather see you since I wasn't the one yelling at her for no reason"

"Oh,

stop yelling Otto" Gibson said, removing a large piece of metal that was leaning against the wall "sooner or later, Isis will return and things will go back to nor-" he stopped when he saw a hole in the wall that looked like an escape hatch.

"Fine, I'll go find her then" Otto said, storming out of the wreck room.

"Wait, Otto, come back" Gibson shouted.

"What" Otto asked.

"Was there ever an escape hatch in my Lab" Gibson asked.

Otto scratch his head from the odd question "No, why do you ask"

Gibson looked closely at the hole and noticed that it was made by dissolving the metal away but how can that be since Isis couldn't do that and the rest of the team was out on patrol duty Gibson thought then it hit him.

"Otto . . . where's Mandarin" Gibson asked.

"Uh . . . gees, I haven't seen him in awhile, why" he asked.

Gibson started to panic "quick, we need to tell the other that-"

Once again Gibson was interrupted when the lights went out and everything with pitch black.

"What's going on" Otto asked.

Suddenly there were loud explosions, followed by screams of terror then the whole robot started to shake violently. Gibson couldn't see a thing and fell to the floor from the sudden earthquake. He felt Otto falling on top of him with a clang. Otto kept repeating "what's going on" as loud as he can since there were a lot of noise, screaming and cries. The sound of metal twisting filled the air followed by another loud explosions that came right inside the robot.

The whole robot started to wobble "Otto, grab onto something, quick" he shouted.

"I can't, I can't see where I am" Otto shouted.

Gibson suddenly felt like he was floating in the air then suddenly a large heavy object hit him in the back and he crash against something solid. There was another explosion, more floating til finally the two monkeys slammed so hard to the ground they left imprints in the metal with others things falling on top of them then all with quiet.

Gibson believes his entire system shut down for a minute from the sudden event when his eyes started flickering and felt himself rebooting. He activated his flashlight from the top of his head and looked around "Otto, Otto, where are you" he shouted.

Twisted metal and already broken lab equipment was everywhere and Gibson noticed something wrong with the room.

(Am I standing on the wall) He thought, but that couldn't be possible unless the Robot fell down

He'll ask questions later he needed to find Otto as well check to see if the rest of the team was alright. "Otto, where are you, say something"

"What do you want me to say" he heard a voice coming from the other side of the room.

Gibson quickly activated his jet pack and flew just a few feet above the junk and found Otto trying to untangle himself from bent metal. He grabs Otto's hand and helps him out of the junk.

Otto turned on his flashlight and looked up at Gibson "That was weird, can we do that again" he said.

Gibson rolled his eyes "come on, we got to check on the others" Gibson said.

They flew to the door only to realize that the door on the floor. "Uh Gibson isn't the door supposed to be upwards" Otto asked.

"I hope it isn't true and that either you and I are seeing things or the Robot fell down" Gibson said.

"But that's impossible, the Robot can't just FALL down" Otto said.

"Well, I don't know Otto, let's just find the others" Gibson shouted, "god, you and Isis give me the biggest headaches, I swear"

They manage to fly over to the command center which was just as damage but not as dark as the other room. The giant screen had a large crack going across with the power flickering off and on.

"Chiro!" Gibson called out.

"Nova! Sprx!" Otto shouted while getting a little nervous from not getting a respond "Antauri!"

"Where is everybody" Gibson asked.

"You don't think they're-" Otto didn't want to ask.

"Don't be such a fool, Otto" Gibson said, "Maybe they're outside, I'll check the computer"

Gibson literally had to tilt his body horizontally to use the computer's keyboard. He types in a few codes and the power came back on the screen. "There, that should do it, now to type in the code for tracking people down."

"Gibson" Otto said, with a little shocked in his voice "Is that Shuaggzoom on the computer screen"

"Of course it is, why did you ask" Gibson asked, only to see a look of horror on the green monkey's face then slowly turned his eyes toward the scream. His eyes widened from what he saw.

The city was in ruins, buildings were damage or simply collapsed, there was fire everywhere and they sky was black with a blood red mixture. While they were looking at the screen, they didn't see four pairs of red eyes staring at them.

"What the heck happened" Gibson asked, shivering.

"Where are all the people" Otto asked.

A black figure suddenly walked into the screen that turned out to be a person after a closer view. The two monkeys smile a little knowing that there were survivors out there only to jumped with the survivor turned to face the screen with blood red eyes and fangs.

"Zombie" Otto shouted, clingy onto Gibson.

"Otto, get off of me" he said, pushing Otto away from him. "There are no such things as Zombies"

"Then how do you explain that" Otto asked.

"Look, let's just go outside and if there's any people out there"

"They're zombies!" Otto said.

"THEY ARE NOT ZOMBIES" Gibson snapped.

"Sorry" Otto said.

After escaping the nearest hatch, they realized that the Robot did in fact fell down on its side and was in complete ruins like the city. Parts of it were charred while other parts had large pieces blown off. Otto stared at his lovable foot cruiser with depression when there was nothing left of it. Gibson was a little luckier since when the Robot fell it landed on Sprx's Fist rocker, smashing it into little pieces.

"How can the whole city be destroyed so fast" Otto asked, tearing up a little from the lost of his city and foot cruiser.

"That's easy when you can wish it"

They looked up to see Mandarin floating in the air while holding Isis in his arm like a doll. His eyes were a bright dark purple and his fangs were showing in his wide evil grin. Isis's eyes were the same as she just hangs there from Mandarin's arm with a blank look and her mouth slightly ajar.

"Oh no, Isis, you didn't" Otto asked.

"You might as well be talking to air, she is nothing more then a mindless puppet" Mandarin said, shaking Isis roughly but she just hangs there.

"The poor thing, all alone, crying her little shatter heart out til I took over her mind" he laughed, holding Isis in front of him "look at that sad face, her little tiny heart crushed because of your little spat. And to think, all she was trying to do is protect your lab from me destroying it" He said, mockingly

Gibson's eyes widened (I knew it, he was the one who made that hole and that purple color in his eyes are the same like the goo from that spider)

It was all coming to together and Gibson felt like an idiot and a fool and that's telling him something since he always claim his intelligence are way off the charts. He stared at Isis's dark purple eyes, she seems to be staring at him but slowly lower her head away.

"Don't feel so bad Gibson, even though this is all your fault, I was kind enough to grant Isis little request of not to hurt the ones she loves. Why do you think you and that moron is still alive and well"

"You mean, the others are . . . dead" Otto asked, panicking.

"No, but in the situation you two are in, you wish they were" Mandarin laughed.

The two monkeys started to heat moans and turned around to see Chiro standing a few meters behind him with his back slump over and head hanging. Soon Sprx, Nova and Antauri join him with the same look in their eyes.

"Chiro" Otto called out. "Nova . . . Sprx . . . Antauri?"

Chiro quickly raised his head revealing blood red eyes and the fangs in his grin. "What did you do to them" Gibson shouted.

"The same thing I did to everybody in this city, they are under my control and their first order of business is to destroy you two"

"Destroy" Chiro hissed, while the others laughed and activated their weapons.

"Now if you excuse me, My puppet and I have planets to take over not to mention Planet Orb" he said

"Isn't that Isis's home planet" Otto asked Gibson who nodded.

"If one little orb can do all this damage just think when I steal every single one from the planet" Mandarin laughed. "Isis, listen up you mindless little puppet I wish to go the nearest planet to take over" He said.

Her orb started to glow "bye for now, my brothers" Mandarin said and they both disappeared.

"Come back with Isis" Otto shouted in the air "come back!"

He sighed and noticed Chiro as well as the survivors were making their way toward Gibson and him. "Gibson, I think we need to go, now" Otto said.

Gibson just sat there on his knees in a complete daze. "It's really is all my fault" he said.

"This is no time to shut down on me, Gibson" Otto shouted and struggled to get him on his feet.

A green light appeared and Otto turned to see Chiro powering up for his Monkey Fu attack with the rest grinning and powering up their attacks as well. Otto looked down to see more and more people walking over and trying to climb up the robot. It started to rain again.


Meanwhile on Planet Orb . . .

"Hey Bechill, guess what"

The ten-year-old girl shook out of her daydream and stared at her friend. "What is it, Telen" She asked.

"I made my orb stronger, I can teleport anywhere I want to go even to planets" He said.

Telen was the same age like Bechill who wore a long dark red coat with blue pants and had short spiky brown hair with red highlights in it. He wore a small dark red orb around his neck like Bechill but his power was the power of teleportation

"That's great Telen" Bechill said then frowns a bit then look at the grass again. They were in the park area where some of the kids her age were playing around with their powers.

"What's a matter, I get excited when you told me about mastering your ice powers. Can I at least get a "cool"' he asked.

"Sorry, I'm just not myself today"

Telen rolled his eyes "since when are you not, you've been this way ever since you had to "get rid of" your pet" he said.

Bechill shook her head, not even her best friend knows the real true about Isis's disappearance. She had to keep this secret or else they would probably go after her again for that prophecy thing.

"I just miss her that's all" she said.

"Oh, well I know what will cheer you up, let's go find our friends and play tricks on your brother" Telen asked.

"That would be nice" Bechill said.

They started walking out of the park when the sky started turning black with the sound of thunder filling the air.

"What's going on" Bechill asked.

"Probably someone with the orb of thunder" Telen said, "isn't that your brother's power"

"No, his is lightning" Bechill said.

There was a gust a wind followed by another sound of thunder that was so loud that everybody stops what they were doing and looked up at the sky.

Everyone around them was asking the same question "what's going on"

Suddenly the ground started to shake to the point large cracks started to form and spread. Bechill suddenly heard a woman's scream near by. She turned around to see the woman's orb around her neck flying in the air as if it was being sucked away from her. With great force her chain broke and she fell to the ground with her orb flying away. "My Orb!" the woman cried.

"Everybody, run" someone called out.

Bechill was grabbed by the arm by her friend and was force to run back to the village. The ground continues to shake but not enough to cause them to fall. As they were heading to the village more and more orbs were taken away and she realized that the orbs were heading toward the castle. Houses started to collapse, people were screaming and running away from the danger while others cried when their orbs were taken away.

"We need to find my family" Be chill shouted.

"It's too crowded, I don't even know where we are" Telen shouted.

They were being pushed and shoved by the people running around.

"But we have to, I have to see if they are all right"

A bright purple glow blinded the village then all went quiet. Everyone stared at the castle and spotted something small and orange standing on the highest toward with bright purple eyes. Bechill's eyes widened when she realized the orange thing was a robot monkey that had something blue in his arm.

"People of this puny planet, I have came here for one thing and one thing only" The orange monkey shouted then grins "Your powers"

Another gust a wind blew and soon every orb was being pulled in. Chains were broken but people tried desperately to hold on to their orbs. Bechill held onto hers with all her life, without her orb she'll be weak.

"Now, now, people, lets not make this harder then it is" The orange monkey said "Isis, I wish all the orbs belong to me!"

Bechill fell to her knees with her orb press against her stomach. She felt like she was punch in the stomach from hearing that name. "Isis!"

The shocked cause her to lose her focus and soon she was lifted in the air by her orb. Her sliver chain snapped and her orb was taken away and flew to the orange monkey. Her blue orb was of many collecting where the monkey stood, floating above his head. Her bright blue colors started to fade as well as her strength. Soon many people started falling to their knees as their colors faded.

"Bechill, are you alright" Telen called out.

She started to shiver, even through she has ice powers she never felt so cold in her life. She looked at Telen and noticed he still has his orb grasp in his arms. "Telen, I need you to teleport me to a ship, Now"

Without question, Telen teleports them to a ship. When they made it, Bechill fell to her knees from the weakness. "I need to get to Shuggazoom"

"Shugga-what"

"It's a long story, but I need to get to a planet call Shuggazoom, it will take a week to get there by ship, you need to teleport the ship there"

"I can't do that, I've never done that before"

"You have to it's the only way to fix this" Bechill begged.

Telen was suddenly pulled by his orb but he held onto it. "Alright, I'll try" he said.

They ran into the ship and shut the hatch. "I have a bad feeling Shuggazoom is in danger like our planet."

Telen quickly focuses and gathers up all his power he could, making his orb glow a dark red color, then in a flash, they disappeared.


Otto literally grabbed the daze Gibson and flew into the sky with his jet pack, barely missing the monkey fu attack by the possessed Chiro. He flew as fast as he can but with Gibson acting like dead weight, it wasn't very fast. It didn't take long when Otto was stuck by Sprx's magnetic powers nearly causing him to drop Gibson.

"Gibson, snapped out of it, and help me" Otto shouted at his daze friend.

He was kicked roughly in the back causing the green monkey to fly right through a damage building. He crashed into a couple of things before making a rough landing. He turned around to see a pair of red eyes staring at him with purple claws

"Antauri, you have to fight it" Otto shouted.

Antauri growled and charges toward him. Otto grabbed Gibson before he was slashed in the stomach and fell out of a broken window.

"Gibson!" Otto shouted, but Gibson was still in a daze.

Before he could activate his jet pack again, he was hit in the face by Nova's fist. Otto slammed into the rubble and struggled to get up. The gash on his stomach started to bleed and Gibson just laid there in self-pity. Nova, Sprx and Antauri landed near them with a wide grin on their faces. Otto started to shake, he didn't know what to do, he couldn't use his weapons to hurt his friends, it wasn't in him. His friends started gathering up for the final blow.

"Well, it was nice knowing you, Gibson"

Gibson muttered something to himself as Otto closed his eyes and prepared for the pain. Suddenly felt someone grabbing him and Gibson, and he quickly opened his eyes to see a boy in red before disappearing in thin air. When they appear, he was dropped to the floor with Gibson in a place he never saw before.

"Otto, are you ok"

He turned around to see a rather sick looking Bechill staring at him with worried eyes. "Bechill, you're back" he said before passing out from his wound.

"Telen, get us out of here" Bechill asked.

Telen nodded and flew the ship out into space . . .


Chapter Eight: Isis's Past: While recovering, Bechill talks about Isis's past and how she is involve with the prophecy.