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Chapter 9: Azalea vs the King of Games!

That afternoon she and Chiro were at the arcade a few blocks down from the Super Robot and were having a blast at playing the games that were there. This was the first time that Azalea was at an actual arcade because on Earth in 2013, there was no need for that; not with all of the fancy and high tech gaming systems out there. Since the cartoon series was released in 2003-2004, it would only make sense that they put arcades in it.

The two of them had to be there for at least five hours because by the time that they ran out of change, the sun was starting to go down. In that amount of time Azalea beat the high scores to three RP-G's and five fighting games. Chiro grew wide eyed to see that a girl his age was this good at games. They fought against each other in one of the fighting games and out of all the times that they've played he only won once. Chiro felt like an amateur compared to her.

He looked over her shoulder to see her play a fighting game against an older teenager that challenged her. Azalea accepted his challenge and she beat him continually again and again, until he just gave up and called it quits. Chiro saw her high score so far and it exceeded the previous one that held the record in that arcade for so long. Azalea put in the nickname "Leah" and gazed upon her high score numbers like a trophy.

"You go Azalea," he said. "How do you get so good with playing these games? Some of these high scores have been here forever and you just conquered them like it was nothing."

"Where I come from the video games that we play are more advanced than these ones. I use a controller that had ten different buttons on it and the games were incredibly hard. Must be from all of those NES games that I used to play on the computer."

"Umm…I have no idea what these 'NES games' are, but you have certainly left your mark at this arcade." Azalea stood up from her seat and stood there, feeling proud. Being the only girl in the family sure helps her with skills such as those.

Then she remembered that Ivan was the one who helped her with those games. He was only nine, but taught her the secrets and skills at being a good gamer. Azalea's uplifting attitude soon turned into sorrow. She almost forgot that she had to find her brother. And here she was wasting her time on games while he was out there all alone somewhere in the vastness of space.

"Hey Azalea, what's wrong?" Chiro asked. She slowly shook her head and lightly smiled.

"No, it's nothing. Let's go back to the Super Robot."

Before they could exit out of the arcade, out by the front entrance of it the five robot monkeys were there, waiting for them. It appeared as if they just got there and they didn't look too pleased, especially Antauri and Gibson.

"There you two are!" Nova exclaimed. "We were looking everywhere for you guys!" Chiro embarrassingly scratched the back of his head.

"We didn't mean to be out for this long, we just sort of lost track of time." They focused their attention on Azalea to see what excuse she had to say.

"Yeah, I agree with him. I was too busy trying to beat everyone's high scores."

"But you and Chiro missed my best science lecture. Now I'll have to repeat it over for you two to hear."

"Okay I have to admit," Azalea said frankly. "Your science lectures are as boring as hell and make me want to shoot myself in the head." Gibson and the rest of the team was taken aback by her cold way of talking. She was the first one ever to say that to Gibson directly. He crossed his arms and turned away from her.

"Hmph, fine," he said. "Don't blame me if you regret not listening to the best science knowledge in Shuggazoom."

"Hey Azalea?" Chiro asked warily. "Isn't that going a bit too far?" She suddenly felt guilt coming over her and her harsh words she just spouted out like it was nothing.

"Eh, maybe?"

There was a long moment of silence.

"Okay," she admitted. "I'm sorry Gibson for saying that, but I wouldn't mind listening to them if you speak in English, thank you very much." The blue monkey was still ticked off at her, but his attitude lightened up a bit.

"Alright," he said grumpily. "I'll do my best."

"We should be getting back to the Super Robot," Antauri suggested. "It's getting dark. We can settle things after we go back to the Super Robot."

When everyone was in the main room of the Super Robot they were glad that Azalea hasn't tried anything on them yet. She didn't dismantle the robot, pull any tricks on them, didn't attack them or do anything of the sort. Ever since she was attacked by the Skeleton King and cut off from him she has been opening to them up more towards them than usual. What bothered them was that brain chip that she told them about before. It was sure helpful in some ways because she can effortlessly communicate to the robot monkeys and everything, but in that way she was still a slave to the Skeleton King. Anything could happen to her because of that, but Gibson said that he wouldn't be able to get it out without doing some damage to her brain. It was located in a part of her head that would be almost impossible to get out. With that being said they decided to leave it in for now.

Azalea took a seat in one of the pod chairs that was in the room. She knew that there were still more questions that she needed to answer to them. Chiro first asked,

"So what happened between you and the Skeleton King?" She explained to them what happened to her and how she and Ivan got separated by accident. She also told them about the fight between her and the Skeleton King and how she tried saving her brother from him.

When she was finished talking Chiro and the monkeys now understood her situation. What they got so far was that she came from a planet called Earth, got teleported by the Skeleton King to his Citadel of Bone, forced her to work for him and having Ivan's life in his hands, and then failing miserably at trying to kill Chiro and the team.

"Yeah, that makes sense," said Chiro. "So you don't know where your brother is?" She nodded her head.

"Yeah, I don't know where I accidentally sent him in the galaxy, but he's out there somewhere. Ivan's only nine, he can't survive another planets harsh conditions by himself."

"We understand that you want to find your brother," said Antauri. "We're going to start a search for him right away and hope that we can find his life signal on another planet. But he could be in another galaxy for all we know."

"It won't be easy," said Gibson. "But we will find him no matter what." Azalea sadly smiled and nodded.

"Yeah, and thank you guys for all your help."

"No problem," Sparx reassured. "For now you can try resting easy and we'll deal with this."

"Okay," said Azalea. "Thank you once again and I'll be off to bed, goodnight." She waved to them and them all said goodnight to her. After that she went into her bedroom and tried going to sleep.

The following day it was early afternoon and she was helping around the Super Robot. Nova asked her if she could run up to the local fast food place and buy something for them for lunch. Azalea said that she would be glad to so the yellow monkey gave her some money and with that she was off!

After buying a few bag full of hover burgers, drinks and side dishes she was walking down the sidewalks of Shuggazoom city. Azalea was glad that she finally didn't have to work for the Skeleton King anymore and that she now had friends and a place to stay. She thought that maybe she should've had someone to come along with her since her hands were full and it was hard for one person to carry all that stuff.

"Nope," she said sarcastically. "I'm still a slave." She continued to take in the sights of the city and thought that this place was pretty interesting. Much more than the common building on Earth where she used to live.

Before Azalea could go to the Super Robot she was stopped by an older teenager that didn't look familiar at all whatsoever. There were three of them, one of them she beat multiple times at the arcade yesterday. She had a feeling that she got on their bad side for being too good of a "gamer" and now she's going to get the shit for it. They dressed in all black leather jackets and black shirts, along with black pants that had chains on them, like they were some kind of bad-ass biker dudes. He blocked her path and wouldn't let her through. She got annoyed at him and asked what he wanted. The one in the middle replied,

"Don't you know who I am little girl?"

"No. Now get the hell outta my way!"

"I've heard from one of my pals that you've beaten almost all of my high scores within the arcade. What makes you think that you can do that and get away with it?"

"What are you talking about?" Azalea asked. "It's just a game. Don't gotta take it so personally."

"Yes, I suppose I don't, but allow me to introduce myself. You may call me Blake, but I'm mostly known as 'The King of Games'!"

There was a small moment of silence.

"Umm…good for you…I guess," said Azalea, sweat-dropping. In the back of her mind she thought that this sounded way too much like the Yu-Gi-Oh season 0 show she used to watch back on Earth, except she wished she could fight Yugi instead of this biker jerk.

"Listen little girl, around here whoever beats, even just one of my high scores in that arcade, you know what happens to them? They were never heard from again! There can only be one King of Games and that's me! Since you've beaten four of my high scores yesterday, we have something special in store for you." Two of Blake's cronies that were there with him got out brass knuckles from their pockets and put them on their fists. Azalea dropped the drinks and food. The drinks crashed and spilled all over the cement. She backed away from the approaching thugs and put out the palm of her hand towards them. When she tried using her Powers of Darkness only a small weak amount came out of her palm and fell to the ground. It then came to her that since she didn't work for the Skeleton King anymore that he weakened her powers greatly. She couldn't use her Sword of Destruction either because the Hyper Force Team locked it away securely inside the Super Robot somewhere. She had to think fast.

Damn it! she thought to herself. Stupid Hyper Force Team, locking away my sword.

Suddenly a good idea came to her that might help her out of this pinch. The only way to get out of a situation where a guy has an ego is to boost it with words.

"Stop! This is no way for the mighty King of Games to get revenge on someone." Blake stopped his friends and asked,

"What do you mean?"

"I'm saying that if you really are the King of Games like you say you are, then you'll have to face me directly in a game in order to keep that title! It'll be more of a professional way of settling things. If I win then you let me go and never bring any harm or trouble to me again. If I lose then you can keep the title and do whatever you want with me." Blake grinned at this and thought that it really was a good idea after all.

"Okay, you're on, but on one condition. I'll chose the game that we're going to play."

"Fine, but it better not involve in harming anyone."

"No, it won't." He smirked and somehow Azalea had a bad feeling about this. His two cronies backed down and stood off towards the side to spectate. The two of them stood there facing each other on either side of the sidewalk. Blake got out a coin from his pocket and handed Azalea a BB gun, while one of the other teenagers put up a target on the side of a brick building. He also held a BB gun in his h and. He began explaining the game.

"This is how it's going to go. It's real simple. All you gotta do is to hit the bull's eye of the target twenty feet away, each get one shot. Who ever's shot is closest to the bull's eye wins."

"Simple enough," said Azalea.

"I'll go first." Blake carefully counted out twenty feet away from the target and aimed carefully. It looked like he held a gun before from his stance and position. With Azalea on the other had she's never wielded a gun before in her life. She hoped that she could win this game. Her life depends on winning.

She heard the BB gun going off and it hit directly on the left side of the bull's eye. It didn't exactly hit the middle, but it was really close. Azalea gulped and wasn't too sure if she could top that with just one shot. Blake was already celebrating and hi fiving his two buddies towards the side.

"You're up little girl. The winner will be decided with your next shot." Azalea, trying to stand strong slowly walked up to the exact place where Blake stood last at and tried holding up the gun like she saw her opponent do. She wasn't too sure if she was holding it right, but carefully aimed and took her time trying to get the best shot possible. Azalea could feel a bead of sweat dripping from the side of her head and stood there for what felt like a minute straight, while her hands began shaking. She felt the pressure of being perfect on the first one because one shot is all she's going to get. Azalea ignored the snickers and insults of the three teenagers and once she aimed the best she could, she pulled the trigger back.

BAM!

The BB gun went off and she closed her eyes at first. She paused there for a second and opened one eye and then the other. She was shocked to see that she hit the target in the exact same place as Blake did. Azalea looked at the three teenagers and saw that Blake's mouth was hung open for a while, speechless. In the end it was just a tie. Nobody won. Nobody lost.

"N-No way!" he yelled. "No way! I'm supposed to be the King of Games!" He furiously pointed at Azalea. "I should've known better then to let you talk me into playing 'fair' against one another! I don't care if it's a tie or not. You're going down!" The three of them got out their brass knuckles again and this time they were going to attack her for real. Azalea couldn't figure out what to say to defend herself this time. If she didn't do something then she would get beaten into a bloody pulp. She side stepped their wild punches that they threw around and dodged the rest of their assaults and ran away towards where the Super Robot was, with them chasing her at her heels.

Azalea was almost at the Super Robot, when she accidentally tripped and smashed into the ground, head first. She staggered to her feet and before she could recover Blake punched her in her abdomen. She heaved over and gasped for air. Azalea was prepared to feel another blow.

Before any of the teenagers could do anymore harm to her she heard a familiar sounding voice. From behind her Chiro and the monkey team were on their way over to kick those guy's asses! Azalea grinned and heard the monkeys shout out the name of their moves before attacking them. The teenagers hesitated to assault them any further and dodged some of their attacks, but for the most part they were totally outnumbered.

"You'll pay for this!" Blake shouted. Before him and his two other friends dashed away from them until they were out of sight. Chiro and the monkey team went over to Azalea and asked if she was alright.

"Yeah, I'm fine," she answered. "Really."

"What did you do to get on those guys' bad side?" Otto asked.

"For some reason they didn't like it that I beat this Blake guy's high scores. I wouldn't worry about it too much. Sorry I didn't bring back the lunch I bought for all of us."

"Forget about that," Chiro said. "Your safe and that's all that matters." In a way Azalea really didn't like it how they helped her out like that. Two times already. She felt much indebted to them and one of these days she'll have to pay them all back. Big time. For now she wants to focus on finding her brother as soon as possible, but ever since she's been here with the Hyper Force Team there was one thing about them that she didn't understand.

Why are they helping out somebody who once tried killing them?