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Here's another heart stopping chapter to read (I hope not literally)! I hope that your enjoying this story so far. :) Once again if there's any mistakes in this story that you see please let me know!
Chapter 7: Captivity
The Skeleton King was sitting in his throne inside the Citadel of Bone with Azalea standing in front of him nearby the pit of ooze. He was pondering over how the last plan that they came up with failed. It was the perfect plan in every way to destroy the Hyper Force and the citizens of Shuggazoom. He was frustrated that once again another one of his plan's failed, just like they had before he brought Azalea here to work for him.
"My lord," she said. "It's alright, we'll have another chance with them." The Skeleton King pounded his fist into the arms of his throne.
"No!" he snapped. "I will not tolerate this! I've been trying to destroy that Hyper Force Team for far too long! What is it that they have that I don't?!" She flinched at his sudden outburst and then relaxed. She slightly bowed to him and continued,
"I promise you my lord that we will eventually get back at them. I think that the one thing that Hyper Force has is a strong compassion for one another; that's what gets them through the toughest of situations. But it could also be teamwork as well."
"Blasted! I have a strong objective too! And that's to destroy and conquer Shuggazoom!" Azalea went silent. She wasn't too sure what to say, knowing that no matter how strong evil is it is always overthrown by good in the end. He pointed his scepter at her. "You! You are the reason why that plan failed in the first place! Even though you were the one who came up with it in the end you betrayed me and told a formless to release Sparx and gave him the key to their bracers when he went off into the prison cells!"
"I would never do that!" Azalea yelled. "My loyalty is only to you!"
"LIES! I gave you one too many chances Azalea that you wouldn't fail me. You failed at each of those chances that I gave you. I'm not going to give you anymore. Therefore I'll exterminate both you and that precious brother of yours!" The Skeleton King blasted an ice beam from his staff at her, but she dodged it just in time and drew her sword. He slowly took away most of her powers of darkness, but was stopped by her slicing the blade of her sword into the hand he carried his staff with. The staff came out of his hands and landed on the floor. She took it and dumped it into the pit of ooze, having the staff slowly drown in the black ooze. "NO!" That gave Azalea enough time to go to the room where Ivan was held captive at and to try and get him out of there before the Skeleton King could get the chance to touch him.
When she slayed a few formless and tore down the locked door Ivan was a little surprised to see her. He asked what was going on, but she ignored the question, took him by the hand and rushed out of there towards the place to where the escape pods were.
By the time that she got there the Skeleton King already beat her to the place. He stood in the way of where the two escape pods were and was just as furious with her as ever. He regretted giving that rare Sword of Destruction to her because even though her Powers of Darkness were taken away he could never control the powers that lie within that sword. Ivan grew terrified at the Skeleton King and clutched onto her big sister's shirt, but faked a brave face for her.
"You're never going to get out of here alive," he said. "Traitor!" He shot another beam of malevolent darkness, but this time at her brother. She hastily pushed him out of the way and got hit in his place. She fell to the ground and the shot got her in the mid-section. Azalea felt that blow and there was a terrible wound in her chest. It was a deep and serious wound and blood poured out of the wound and onto the floor.
"Azalea!" Ivan cried. She struggled to get up and could hardly stand up on her own, but forced herself to or else both she and her brother would get killed.
"Ivan! Get away from here! Go into one of the escape pods and survive!" More formless were coming their way and fast. If they didn't escape soon then they'll mind as well be as good as dead. Ivan nodded his head and was going to go into one of the space pods, but the Skeleton King was blocking his way. Azalea took a hold of her sword again and went in at the Skeleton King to give Ivan a chance to get out of here and go to Shuggazoom.
When his sister was doing his best to distract the Skeleton King Ivan managed to slip into one of the space pods and closed the door, but wasn't too sure how to launch the stinking thing. Azalea dodged another one of the Skeleton King's beams coming from his staff, but it accidentally hit the launch buttons for the space pods. It launched the one that Ivan was in and he fly off into the void of space and that was the last time she saw him.
Now that her little brother escaped it was now time to make her dramatic exit out of this damn place as well. Azalea aimed her sword at him and did multiple slashing attacks at him, until he was backing up near his pit of ooze. This was her chance to push him into that pit of ooze so that she would have just enough time to get away. The Skeleton King knocked her over the head with his staff, but this didn't stop her. She ignored he pain and as hard as she could pushed him into the pit of ooze. He slowly sank down into it and had a hard time trying to get out of it. He shot out another beam at her from his staff one last time before he completely sank into the black muck. Azalea felt that one hit her right arm this time. Terribly injured she slaughtered most of the formless that came her way and stumbled over to the broken controls systems and tried to press down on the button for the last escape pod that they had.
It took a while before the machine said,
"Three minutes before launch." She hastily got into the space pod and tightly sealed the entrance of it. She saw the Skeleton King slowly arising from the pit of ooze and looked at the clock. It was now less than two minutes before she would launch into space to Shuggazoom city.
"Damn it!" Azalea exclaimed. "I'm never going to get out of here before the Skeleton King recovers from that plunge or when more formless arrive." The only reason why Ivan launched so soon was because the machine for his got broken because of the scepter's blast. Whenever those controls for the machines break they immediately launch if someone's in it. Unfortunately she couldn't do that for her's.
It was now less than a minute before launch and the Skeleton King was almost out of the gooey black pit. All that he had to do now was to free both of his legs and he would be able to turn off the launch systems to her pod and it'll be all over for her. It also didn't help that more formless were coming up fast to the throne room. Azalea was terrified at all of this and thought that she would never make it out of here alive. Her eyes were glued to the timer that was on the inside of her pod, only a few more seconds to go.
Luckily for her by the time that the Skeleton King freed himself and his formless could reach the system to the space pods Azalea managed to get away from the Citadel of Bone once and for all. Her next stop was going to be Shuggazoom city, but in her condition and with the injuries that she had she won't be able to fight off the Hyper Force Team if she encounters them again. They'll most likely capture her in the vulnerable state she's in. At least she knew that Ivan was alright, but from the accident that happened with the Skeleton King she had no idea where he was launched to. Once she gets better that was going to be Azalea's next plan.
To find her brother within their galaxy.
At the Super Robot the Hyper Force Team was once again doing their daily training in their training room. The robot monkeys were all helping Chiro with his training once again so that he could be a better leader, just starting a month ago. The boy was once again able to take down four of the robot monkeys with his moves and this time was prepared for Antauri. This time he won't get beaten by him like he did last time. Chiro dodged a few of his moves and counter attacked with his Monkey Fu move, but like before Antauri once again overpowered Chiro. The boy fell back on the ground and got up and rubbed his head.
"What was the reason this time Antauri?" Chiro asked, a little annoyed.
"You simply need more experience." The boy sweat dropped and thought that he was never going to be on equal grounding with Antauri, being the more "experienced" out of the group.
The alarms in the Super Robot went off and the machine said that an unidentified objecting is approaching. They went to the main controls room in the robot and saw on the big screen that another space pod, the same one like before was coming into their planet's gravitational field. Antauri began feeling Azalea's spiteful energy again, but this time he could sense that it was very faint and flickering on and off like a candle.
"Do you sense anything Antauri?" Chiro asked.
"Yes, I sense the same dark power coming from it as before, but it's weak this time."
"Do you think that it could be that Azalea girl that we encountered last time?" Nova asked.
"Yes, it is," said Antauri. "But something seems off this time."
"How?" Sparx asked.
"It's hard to describe, but…it just is. We should all be on our guard team."
"This is our chance!" Chiro exclaimed. "Let's capture her so that we can get some answers. Monkey team, mobilize!"
When the space pod crashed to the ground once again she knew that she needed to get out of the vicinity fast, knowing that just like before the Hyper Force Team would know of her presence and try capturing her. Even though Azalea knew this it's not like she could fight them off or run away like she did before. She had terrible injuries all over her and had one serious wound in her mid-section. She knew that this time she would be finished off for sure, but would do her best to fight back even if she fails.
Azalea stumbled out of the space pod and did her best not to open her injuries too much. Every step that she took sent pain surging through her body. She took her sword with her and faced in the direction where Shuggazoom city was. She could see the huge city faintly in the distance and also caught a glimpse of the Super Robot flying towards her and it was coming up fast. Azalea gritted her teeth together.
"Stupid Hyper Force Team," she muttered under her breath. "I can't let them see me in this pitiful state. I don't need any sympathy from people like them!" She groaned again, feeling the wound in her mid-section, more blood pouring from her. She felt her knees shaking and that she couldn't go on much longer, vision getting blurry. Azalea turned away from the Super Robot and weakly dashed in the opposite direction from where they were coming from.
As she was running away from them she turned her head real quick to see that the five robot monkeys and their leader were getting out of the robot and coming in at her. They were catching up to her and she knew that in less than a few seconds she would most likely get captured by them. Azalea would run faster, but the energy was draining from her real quick and her wounds didn't help either. Gibson shot out some kind of chemical from his drills at her, but she dodged out of the way just in time, keeping her going just a little bit longer.
She felt her reign of tormenting Shuggazoom city drawing to an end when she heard Chiro shout out,
"Chiro Spearo!" She felt the lightning spear piece into her back and she collapsed forward onto the ground. She couldn't go on any further and was exhausted. Azalea struggled to catch her breath and tried getting up, but she just fell right back on the ground again. The monkey team surrounded her and knew that this was going to be the end of her working for the Skeleton King. Azalea made one last attempt to draw her sword, but Antauri knocked it out of her hand with his claws before she could use it. Now that the team was right next to her they noticed how badly injured she was and had dried blood on her everywhere, like she's been in some kind of big fight. Even in her awful condition Azalea continued to struggle to her feet, but her efforts were futile.
After a few seconds she stopped and just laid there on the ground with her enemies looking down on her. She took in big deep breathes, making an attempt to stay conscious. She could hear them all talking about her, but couldn't understand what they were saying since she was so out of it, barley conscious. Azalea felt some sort of handcuffs clasping over her wrists and that was the last thing she knew before she blacked out.
It was days before she regained her consciousness. Her head never felt so foggy before and had a difficult time trying to think straight. She was lying down on what felt like a hard operation table and her hands and feet were restrained down on it by handcuffs that she's never seen before. The handcuffs were of cords that radiated neon green light. Azalea found them more fascinating than anything. She turned her head to the handcuff that was restraining her left hand and tugged on it a little; it had some give to it and stretched like a bungee cord, but didn't snap.
She then surveyed the room she was in and it looked similar to the healing chambers that the Skeleton King had at the Citadel of Bone. Medical machinery everywhere in sight and some other high tech computers and machines that she knew nothing about. The room was a decent size, but it wasn't too big. Surprisingly her wounds felt much better than they did before, but wondered where the five monkeys and their leader was.
It wasn't long before Gibson came in and saw that she was awake, or at least starting to. He went to one of the machines to calculate her current condition. He saw that she was astoundingly improving at a fast rate already. When they first captured her she was on the brink of death. Since the monkeys knew that nobody but Chiro could understand them without some kind of translation device he talked to himself a little. Of course Azalea could understand what he was saying, but was in so much of a brain fog that she couldn't process his words correctly.
Gibson let their leader know that Azalea was awake and so Chiro and the other monkeys came in, letting him do most of the talking since, supposedly nobody else could understand the monkeys. He had a serious look on his face and she didn't blame him. For all the times that she's caused them trouble, ruined their Super Robot, kidnap the team and the civilians and even stole Otto's box of tools. She knew from growing up with her dad that nobody messes with a man or in this case a monkey's tools. Azalea paid careful attention when Chiro began talking, his tone stern.
"Azalea, before I start interrogating you I would like to ask how your feeling. When we were capturing you we knew that you were close to…well…"
"Death," she finished broadly. "If you're going to say something just go on and say it. I'm not the only one with questions here. There's quite a few things I need to ask you about. Just who came up with that super long title for you guys? You know, the Super Robot…whatever team?"
"You mean Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go?" Otto answered. Azalea pretended not to understand him because, even though she hardly watched the show she knew that nobody but Chiro could understand them without some kind of device, but she knew what he said. It was probably from the brain chip that the Skeleton King implanted in her brain, doing the translating for her, but didn't want any of them to know yet. Chiro repeated to her what he said and her eyes widened, speechless at the long catchphrase.
"Whoa, that's a mouthful. I doubt I'll remember it." Azalea's blunt and casual way of talking to them was like she was getting to know them for the first time, and in a way that was true. Chiro and the others never met someone that was like that before, so they were taken off guard there for a second. "I'm guessing I'm in that flying Super Robot that I see you guys use a lot. It's pretty cool if I do say so myself, but I have one more question before you guys start doing the questioning."
"What is it?"
"How long am I going to stay here?"
"Let's just say you'll be here a while," Chiro replied. It was at that moment she couldn't believe that she'll have to waste her time here, while her nine year old brother was out there somewhere in an unknown galaxy with who knows what out there; all alone. Azalea needed to get out of there as fast as possible, but couldn't, even if she wanted to. She was still badly injured, with her wounds that still need much healing to do and they weren't going to let her go anytime soon, being enemies and all. On top of that she didn't want to tell them that because she didn't want any sympathy or help from them at all. She simply refused to. Azalea sighed.
"Fine, begin your questions and let's just get this over with."
Oh yeah, from here on out I'm gonna love Azalea's blunt way of talking towards the team. I have a feeling its going to be really fun writing this. Reviews are welcome. :D
