Disclaimer: I do NOT own SRMTHFG at all! I only own my two oc's, Azalea and Ivan, which I created myself.


Chapter 6: The Death Arena

Over time the Skeleton King sent out giant Venus fly trap-like monsters to Shuggazoom city and they began implanting itself into the dirt below the city, until they got so big that the main source of the monster had to live deep in the waters below the city. They began terrorizing the citizens and those multiple overgrown Venus fly trap monsters were everywhere! The citizens started running for their lives. Some of them even got out of their hover cars and tried to get away from those things, but they just took handfuls of citizens and took them somewhere below the city. With the citizens of Shuggazoom in trouble, there was not only one but six robot monkeys and a boy that needed to take matters into their own hands.

"Monkey team! Mobilize!" Chiro exclaimed. They went up their individually colored pipes and every one of them went into their own cockpit of the Super Robot. They shouted out their battle cry and it was time for them to save the citizens of Shuggazoom…again.

They had the Super Robot pulverize any kind of those Venus fly trap monsters that got in their way. They were going to shoot missiles at them, but since they had handfuls of citizens in their mouths they couldn't risk injuring or hurting any of the people. They did their best to try and grab the Venus fly trap monsters, but they were pretty agile and escaped out of their grasp. Most of them burrowed in the ground through the way that they came and they never came back. The monkey team wondered what was going on and why they were taking the civilians. All they knew was that it couldn't be any good.

The team got out of the Super Robot and looked down into the holes that the monsters came out of and escaped through. They all wondered where all of these civilians were being taken to and tried to think of what to do next.

"It seems like those holes lead to the underground sewers of Shuggazoom," said Antauri.

"Then what are we waiting for?" said Nova. "Let's go down there and see what's going on."

"Wait," Gibson halted. "We shouldn't just go down there willy nilly, we don't know what's down there."

"Gibson's right," Antauri agreed. "It's best to think this through first and come up with a plan. We don't want to get ourselves captured from those things."

"But if we do get captured then they'll take us to where the other civilians are and be able to find them easier," Otto suggested.

"But at the same time we'll be in the clutches of the Skeleton King," said Chiro. "Either way each plan has its downfalls."

"There's no way that I want to be stuck in one of those thing's mouths," said Sparx. "That's just disgusting." Nova shivered from the thought of getting their saliva all over her.

It wasn't long until a boy that was probably a few years older than Chiro came running towards their way and from behind he was being pursued by one of those Venus fly trap monsters. The monster was catching up to him fast. Chiro and the others had to help him so they began fighting off the overgrown plant. Chiro thought that he could weaken it using his Chiro Spearo move, but when he threw it the spear of lightning missed. Gibson set his drills on a chemical that he knew would freeze the plant. He shot out a blue substance from his drills, but the monster dodged his attacks like it was nothing. The giant Venus fly trap then gobbled up Nova in its mouth and thought that it had her there for a second, but she used the Lady Tomahawk move and destroyed it from the inside out. From there Otto finished off the monster by using his hand saws and cut the head off of the plant. The head fell to the ground and moved around for a while before it stopped.

The six of them were convinced that the plant was now dead. Chiro said to the civilian that he was safe now, but he was still freaked out and wasn't convinced that he was safe.

"It's not destroyed yet," he said. "I saw someone did the same thing to one of those plants, but the head just regenerated its roots into the ground and grew back." The six members of the team were caught off guard by this and looked back at the spot where the Venus fly trap head was, but it was gone.

Before any of them could do anything else the monster came up from behind them and first took Sparx in its mouth. He had a hard time trying to get out of it and did his best to use his magnets and electricity to attack it, but it took him underground before anyone could try and release him.

"Sparx!" Chiro exclaimed. More of those plant monsters came out of the ground until they surrounded them. The civilian was its next victim and disappeared beneath the surface. "No!" From there Nova, Gibson, Antauri and Otto were taken by all of them until Chiro was the last one standing. He threw a spear at one out of the ten that were cornering him against a building, but his attempt failed. One of the monsters wrapped its main stem around his body and began squeezing him to weaken him. Chiro kicked, punched and did all of his best moves on it, but there were just too many of them, until he too was dragged underneath Shuggazoom city to an unknown area.

When Chiro regained his consciousness he slowly got up and rubbed the back of his head. He was in some kind of dark and damp prison cell with a mechanical bracer around his neck. He pulled and tugged at it, but whenever he did he got an electrical shock from it. Chiro also realized that he couldn't tap into his Power Primate anymore. He couldn't feel its power. He looked around outside of his cell and didn't see his monkey companions anywhere. All that he saw was a dim lit hallway.

It was a while before he heard footsteps coming towards him. When the person came into view he saw that it was Azalea. Of course, he didn't know her name yet, but he did recognize that it was the girl who sabotaged their Super Robot and assaulted them on numerous occasions. He knew that she was pretty evil before, but this time when he encountered her he felt like something was off about her attitude. He felt that it wasn't the same as he met her last time. The minute that Chiro saw her he felt fury boiling up inside of him.

"It's you again," he scowled. "Who are you and what did you do to my friends?!"

"Oh, I forgot. This is the first time that I got the chance to talk to you Chiro. My names Azalea and it's my job to see you and your little monkey's captured and killed. For now their doing alright. I'll be taking you to them very soon, so I wouldn't worry about them."

"Why are you doing this Azalea?" he questioned. "Are you working for the Skeleton King?!"

"Of course I do. If I didn't then I wouldn't bother trying to take over Shuggazoom city in the first place. So yeah, nice to meet you too Chiro." Her tone had a ring of sarcasm to it. Azalea giggled and began opening his cell door. "Just to let you know if you do anything rash, even if it's just trying to get in touch with your Power Primate, that bracer around your neck will shock you. If you haven't learned already." With no choice, but to follow her orders and tell him where to go she escorted him down the hallway and into an open room.

When Azalea opened the door it was brighter in there then it was in the hallways, so it took some time for Chiro's eyes to adjust before seeing what was going on. Off towards the side was the five robot monkeys in good condition and in the middle of the spacious vicinity was what looked like a boxing ring. Up in the bleachers were most of the civilians that were captured. They were all shackled in chains and were forced to see what would happen next. From atop of the room off towards the right was where the Skeleton King was, but it's not like he was there in person. He was using TV monster to spectate what was going on. The TV monster was sitting in a throne like chair, almost reminding Chiro of some sort of sadistic version of the Olympic Games. Formless were crawling everywhere to make sure that nobody could escape. Even with all six of them there was no way that they could fight all of them. Azalea pushed Chiro over to where his monkey companions were.

"Go over there and wait. Now that you're here we'll get the entertainment going real soon." With that she walked away and went up to where TV monster was up on the very top of the bleachers, getting a great view of what was going on.

"Chiro!" the monkey's exclaimed. They were all happy to see one another.

"Guys, are you alright?" he asked.

"We're fine Chiro," Antauri replied. "But it seems like Azalea and the Skeleton King have some sort of sadistic game in store for us."

"Do any of you know a way out of here?" Chiro asked. The monkeys shook their head.

"All that we know is that we're located below sea level," Gibson answered. "If we could call the Super Robot through you and the Power Primate we could but…"

"We can't get a hold of it through these bracers on our necks," Sparx finished. Chiro nodded his head.

"Yeah, I've realized. Looks like we'll have to play along until we can figure out a way out of here while freeing the civilians as well."

"Citizens of Shuggazoom!" the Skeleton King began. His voice boomed throughout the room. "I would now like to declare the beginning of the fight between the Hyper Force Team! I will pick which two would go into the Death Arena and as the title explains have them fight to the death! And if they don't then I'll release the walls that they've put down here and flood the entire place until everyone drowns!" Chiro and the monkey team grew wide eyed. They had a lot of problems with the Skeleton King in the past, but they usually succeeded every time because the Skeleton King was never good at coming up with the proper plans. Now ever since Azalea came into the picture his schemes have grown more vile and deadly. Could Azalea be behind all of these plans against them? "Now!" the Skeleton King said. "Who shall be the first one up?" He and Azalea eyed each one of the monkeys and the boy.

"I think that Chiro should go up against Antauri," Azalea suggested.

"Yes, that's an excellent idea. Chiro and Antauri! Make your way into the Death Arena!" The two of them stared at each other for a little bit, trying to read one another's facial expressions to know what to do now, but they were both clueless. They slowly made their way inside of the ring and faced each other.

"Now there are no rules except for staying within the arena!" the Skeleton King announced. "The one who kills the other first wins! Ready? Go!" Right after he said that there was utter silence. Antauri and Chiro stood still in their places and didn't move a muscle. They didn't want to fight one another, but if they didn't then the Skeleton King and Azalea would flood the entire place with everyone in it. They couldn't use the Power Primate because of their bracers that they had around their necks and they couldn't find one way out of here. They were out of options. The citizens that were in the bleachers looked sad and worried that they had to kill their closest friends and companions.

Before Azalea could pull the flood lever that was right next to her Antauri was the first to make a move and hastily used his Claw Disrupter move on him. Chiro sloppily dodged it, taken off guard by his assault and countered with a Thunder Punch. He maneuvered away from the move, seeing it coming from a mile away and followed with a Ghost Claw move. Chiro tried to back away from it, but he didn't realize before that his back was already to the ropes surrounding the arena. The claws caught Chiro's arm and wounded it a bit, cutting into his long sleeved shirt. The cut bled a little, but it was nothing serious. They stopped and paused for a second and he knew that Antauri was doing this so that they could buy some time, but still trying to make it look as real as possible. Chiro nodded his head sternly and understood. They continued to brawl and fight against one another while the rest of the monkey team grew worried about them.

As Azalea was watching the forced fight between Chiro and Antauri she began coming to her own senses again. It occurred to her that maybe killing these people was the biggest mistake of her life. She stood there next to TV monster, who had the Skeleton King watching through it and wondered what she should do next. Azalea thought that in a way Chiro reminded her of her brother Ivan. They were both kind hearted, serious at times, but were strong nevertheless. As much as she hated the show, now that she's actually in it she thought that, like she cared about her brother there would be quite a few people that would be devastated if that Chiro kid was killed. She would be too if Ivan was murdered by the Skeleton King. She finally came out of her anger and vengeful mindset that she was in and hoped that it wasn't too late to make things right again.

As Azalea was walking away the Skeleton King stopped her and asked,

"Azalea, where do you think you're going? The fight's still not finished yet."

"It's alright," she replied. "There's something I need to check on first." With that the Skeleton King allowed her to go and didn't think that she would betray him ever since stuffing her into that cell for over a week.

During Chiro and Antuari's fight it was dragging on for a while now. The two of them were completely exhausted and didn't think that they could go on much longer. Chiro was covered in sweat and they both knew that they needed to figure out something fast or else their all going to perish, along with the Shuggazoom citizen's lives in their hands.

It wasn't long until the other monkey's that were off to the side of the Death Arena realized that one other monkey was missing. They surveyed the area and they couldn't find him anywhere in sight.

"Hey guys," Nova brought up. "Has anyone seen Sparx?" Now mentioning the subject it occurred to the others as well.

"Hmm…I don't know," Gibson replied. "Very strange. I wonder where he could've gotten to."

"Maybe he went for a bathroom break," Otto guessed.

A few minutes later, just when they thought that all hope was gone, Sparx came into the vicinity of the arena. Chiro and Antauri immediately stopped their battle and turned to see the red monkey near the doorway of the prison chambers. They saw that he didn't have the bracer on his neck and he was now free to use his powers however he pleases. Sparx drew some unnecessary attention to himself by shouting at the top of his lungs,

"Skeleton King! Prepare to be mincemeat!" The Skeleton King grew furious when he saw this and ordered his formless to go after him. There was so many formless in the area that there was no way that one lone monkey could destroy them all. He used his Magna Ball Beam Splitter move to shoot jolts of electricity like a machine gun at random. It destroyed quite a few of the formless that were coming towards him, but there were still too many for him to handle by himself.

As he finished doing that move the lever that was nearby TV monster got hit with one of his shocks of electricity and it wrecked the entire place. Very gradually the water began filling up the place.

"No!" the Skeleton King exclaimed. "The lever! And where's Azalea when I need her?!" The TV monster left the area and since he couldn't find her made the decision to ditch her, since she knew where the escape passage was.

He attacked his way through the crowds of formless, trying not to get re-captured himself. Once he got to his friends he first freed Otto, Nova and Gibson that were standing at the side of the Death Arena by using a key that he got from somewhere…or someone. Chiro and Antauri jumped over the ropes of the arena and went over to Sparx so that he could free them as well.

"Are you guys alright?" he asked.

"Yeah, we're fine," Gibson answered. "But where were you?"

"I was out for a 'luxury stroll'," he replied arrogantly. "But I can tell you later, right now if we don't get all of these citizen's free and out of here then we're all going to be going to the fishes."

"But how can we?" Chiro asked. "We don't have the Super Robot with us and even if we did it wouldn't have enough room to cram in all of those people."

"Then let's make haste," Antauri ordered. "We don't have much time left." With that being said as fast as they could the six of them cut the chains off of all of the citizens in the room, which was one bleacher full of them and quickly tried getting them out of the room, but didn't know where the exit to this place was.

"There's a hidden set of stairs inside the prison chambers," a civilian said.

"How did you know?" Chiro asked.

"This girl that goes by the name of Azalea told me." He was taken aback for a second and thought that it was weird how she was purposely capturing them and then helping them out. He passed over the thought when he saw that the water was rising past his knees.

"Never mind that Chiro," said Antauri. "Let's get going." So all of the civilians followed them to the prison cells and all the way up the stairs until they made it to the sewers. From there they got out of them and the six of them helped the people of Shuggazoom up to solid ground.

Afterwards the people cheered for them and gave a big hooray and even clapped for them. Chiro blushed and awkwardly scratched the back of his head. They all stood in front of the Super Robot while they were getting all of this attention from the civilians for saving them.

"Aw, it was nothing," he said with a big grin.

"That reminds me," Nova said. "What happened to all of those fly trap monsters?"

"Since the main source of it was located underground the Skeleton King didn't do his research," said Gibson. "Those types of plant monsters drowned when Sparx accidentally shocked that lever and buried the entire place with water. They won't be coming back anytime soon."

"That's good to hear," Chiro replied. "The city is safe once again."

Out of the corner of his eye he saw Azalea, dressed in a violet shirt with black pants and combat boots was hidden in one of the building alleyways nearby. She assertively stood there straight and tall with her arms crossed. Her emerald green eyes pierced through them for a few seconds until she turned around and disappeared within the dark corners of the city. He would've went after her, but somehow Chiro thought that she was the real reason why they were still standing here in the first place.