Disclaimer: As I've said for the past eleven chapters *rolls eyes*, I do NOT own SRMTHFG at all! I only own my oc's Azalea and Ivan that I've created myself.


Chapter 12: We're Lost! Part 2

"Who are you?" Ivan asked, emotionless. Azalea felt pierced when he asked that. How could he not recognize her or know of her? What happened to him while he was away all this time? She released her embrace and stared at him, shocked.

"Ivan, it's me, Azalea. Your sister." His blank expression turned into a mix of confusion and sadness. He searched through his memory, but couldn't find anything in his head about ever meeting her.

"So this is your brother?" Chiro asked.

"I suppose you two do look similar," said Antauri. She put a hand on Ivan's shoulder.

"Yes," Azalea began. "He's my little brother Ivan. You see elder, I've been looking for him for a long time. We've been separated when we were in a…dire situation."

"I see. I suppose I should give an explanation on what happened to him. You see, when Ivan first came here we found him and took him in, though some of our kind didn't like it I adopted him as my son. He was a very energetic and high spirited young human, but when he went out to the nearest lake to get some water, he accidentally slipped on a rock and fell unconscious. When he woke up he was never the same. He completely lost all of his memories. I tried to tell him about the place he came from, from what he told me, but he doesn't believe me. All that he knows his name and the experiences he's been through since he's been here."

"I see," said Azalea. "But…I was so glad to see him. I wanted him to see the look on his face when he could actually meet his superhero idols in person."

"Your brother knows of us?" Chiro asked.

"Oh, you mean I didn't tell you guys yet? He loved the monkey team and he really admired you a lot Chiro. He always used to say to me how he wanted to be like you someday." The boy blushed and scratched the back of his head.

"I never thought that I was that special or popular."

"Back to the situation team," Antauri began. "We need to figure out how to destroy these blood sucking Ephrodite insects." Gibson shivered at the thought of the giant overgrown insects.

"I never liked bugs. Their disgusting pre-maturely evolved creatures."

"So what's the best way to squash these bugs?" Nova asked. The elder stroked his beard.

"Well…they mostly follow instructions on attacking from their leader. You can usually tell because the top one has a shiny silver appearance and is slightly larger than the others."

"Ah, so we need to destroy their leader," Sparx said. The blue monkey yawned, bored.

"Well that's nothing new. I guess they're not too bright."

"The Ephrodites are more likely to come when we have Almcoite stones in our hands," Ivan said rather seriously. "If we manage to get some into our hands and put it out as bait we could ambush them with a few tricks up our sleeves. From there it will be best for a few of us to get up close and personal with the head Ephrodite." Azalea wasn't used to having her brother act so serious and mature before. She knew that if they were back on Earth he would've been probably about ten right now. Even so, that's quite a big difference from turning just a year older.

"Yes, your right Ivan," said the elder. "We'll do that then. I'll have Ivan fetch a few Almcoite stones while I get my people prepared for battle. In the meantime you seven can get yourselves set up. I'll tell you all the plan right now while we're doing that." Ivan made his way out and the elder explained to the team about what they were going to be exactly doing. The team thought that it was a good idea, so they finished making their preparations and hid in the village until the Ephrodites come out. When they do they're all going to ambush these creatures? They all hoped that this would work.

When all of the preparations were set Ivan placed what little Almcoite they managed to scrap up in the village and caves and placed it right on the outskirts of their town. They had all of the traps set up and everyone was equipped for battle. The fish people's elder supplied Azalea with a steel sword of their own since she didn't have anything to attack with. At times like these she wished that she had her Powers of Darkness and Sword of Destruction back in her possession again.

As for all of their positions the fish people warriors were out in plain sight, surrounding their village that they've sworn to protect while the Hyper Force Team was hidden within the walls of the village. They were told that when Ivan gave them the signal that they would do a surprise attack on the Ephrodite's when they weren't expecting it. Sparx, Nova and Otto were on one side of the village while Gibson, Antauri, Chiro and Azalea was on the other. They thought that it would be wise if they were a bit spread out more. They closely watched Ivan so that they can know when they can strike.

"Hey guys," Azalea whispered. "How exactly are we going to destroy the Ephrodite leader again?"

"When Ivan gives us the signal we're all going to come out and charge in until we get to the leader, which the elder said is usually far in the back, guarded by a horde of Ephrodites protecting him." She smirked.

"Ah, I see. I'm usually pretty good at that. Not too sure how effective I can be against giant vampire mosquitoes though, but I'll do my best."

It was a while before Azalea could see these Ephrodites that the elder and fish people talked about being enemies for so long now. She saw that they really did look like a monstrous version of a mosquito. They were about the size of a one story house and their legs were long and as thin as spaghetti, but had hair that covered them. Azalea stared into their fly compound eyes. Their proboscis were just as long as a long sword and were really thick. Hordes of them began coming flying in after the Almcoite that was laid out. They gathered around it and fought off the fish people using their proboscis to attack and stab them.

Azalea cringed with disgust as one of the fish people got skewered like a kebab with one of the Ephrodite's proboscis. His blood oozed out of him and more Ephrodites gathered around him and in less than a few seconds and sucked up the blood from his body clean. The giant mosquito shook the fish person's body off of its long proboscis and continued to fight off their enemies. Of course she saw a few of the fish warriors defeat quite a few Ephrodites, but noticed that the fish people were beginning to lose to them once again. She looked in the direction where Ivan was and she watched him fight for a little bit. He did surprisingly well with the sword and was helping out the fish people's fight against their enemies. He cut down them down better than any of the others could. It came to her that he might fight just as well as herself.

Azalea peaked over the horizon and could see the leader of the Ephrodite race in the very back, far away from where the fish people were. He was just like the elder described. Much bigger than the rest of his kind and his body and proboscis was a silver color, unlike the others. He was guarded by quite a few Ephrodites. Azalea wondered how they could get all the way over there to the leader without getting killed from the others along the way. She shivered at the thought of ending up like those other fish people that she saw die by their hands or proboscis in this case.

Chiro could sense her distress and put a hand on her shoulder and reassured her with a smile.

"We can do this Azalea, just follow our lead." She grinned back at him and put her hand on the hilt of her sheathed sword. She nodded.

"Yeah, I know we can."

It wasn't long before Ivan gave the team the signal to attack. At this point this was where most of the Ephrodites were gathering around the Almcoite. The fish people did their best to fight them off and away from it, but one of them took it in their legs and flew away with it before they could get the chance to get it back.

The team came out of their hiding places and rushed in after the Ephrodites. Chiro and the monkeys used their moves to put the beating on those overgrown insects. They did well in dodging their proboscis attacks and at this rate went faster in killing them off then when the fish people were fighting them off by themselves. They were a bit startled at the assaults they did on their enemies. They've never seen anything like it before since their planet wasn't well developed in technology yet.

Chiro backed Azalea up while he allowed her to go ahead of him to face the Ephrodite leader. She maneuvered away from the other Ephrodite's attacks and weaved in through their long lanky legs until she finally arrived at their leader. Azalea was overwhelmed by its size, which she was before, but wasn't too sure if she could do this on her own. Chiro and the monkeys were still further behind her since she outraced them, but still.

The Ephrodite leader was immediately alerted that she was there in front of him so he furiously stabbed his proboscis at her. She was taken off guard and tripped over her feet and crashed to the ground. That was a close call for Azalea. She barely missed his assault by an inch. The giant mosquito in the meantime tried to stab her too hard and since he missed its proboscis got deeply stuck in the ground. When this happened it came to Azalea how they could defeat these deadly insects. She finally targeted its weakness.

Before the leader could get its proboscis out of the ground she used that time to cut some of its legs off. She cut off three of them before the mosquito let out a loud shriek. It was calling some of his warriors because once he did that more of them from the village came flying over to him.

Azalea didn't think that she could make it at this rate, but surprisingly she did because Chiro, the monkey team and Ivan fought them off for her. They all did their absolute best to give her some time to finish slaying the leader, but they couldn't keep it up for long.

"Azalea!" Chiro exclaimed. "Hurry! Defeat the leader!"

Without a second thought she went over to its body and was still trying to get its proboscis that was stuck in the ground. Its body was on the ground since she cut off a few of its legs so that she could reach it easier. Azalea rose up her sword and swiftly cut its head off and then stabbed its body a few times before the Ephrodite leader stopped struggling. Its battered body then laid motionless on the ground.

When the other Ephrodites saw that their leader was dead, they stopped in their tracks and they all looked at one another. It appeared as if they were communicating to each other with their legs and body motions. They stared back at the fish people who were still trying to kill them and they ended up deciding to fly away from them. Azalea lowered her sword when she saw them all retreat and she had mixed feelings.

"What was that all about?" she asked. Ivan sheathed his sword at his side and replied,

"Now that they don't have a leader telling them what to do none of them know what to do anymore." The monkey team gathered around and they all put their weapons away, now that it was over. Ivan turned to Azalea and slightly bowed to her. "Thank you for slaying the leader for us. Thank you everyone. If it wasn't for you seven then we would've lost this battle as well."

"So is your war over now?" Otto asked.

"It appears so. I'll have my father negotiate with them to see if we can make a treaty with them so that they can bring our Almcoite stones and mines back. If it all goes well then we'll give you all as much as you'd like as our token of appreciation."

"Thank you Ivan," said Chiro. Ivan turned toward the village to see that the fish people were pulling back and going inside of the village. Some of the wounded were being carried on handmade stretchers.

"We should go back now," he suggested.

At around the end of the day the elder had Azalea and the team go back inside of their meeting tent. They all took a seat on the wooden benches, across from him in front of the burning fire pit and began announcing to them what happened so far.

"Well, I talked to one of the Ephrodites and they said that they agreed to make the treaty with us. They all gladly gave to us our Almcoite back and our mines. They also said that they would leave us alone from now on. As promised I'll give you all as much Almcoite as you want."

"Thank you elder," said Chiro. "Now we'll be able to get back home."

"We'll never forget what you all have done for us. We'll leave you the Almcoite at your giant machine. Good luck and take care young ones."

"Wait!" Azalea said. "What about Ivan? He's my brother and we've all been looking for him for a while now. I know you adopted him as your son and everything, but…" Before she could say anything the elder replied,

"I know that you are telling the truth. You two do look very similar and seem to be relatives. You can take him if you'd like, but I've known him for so long now I'll miss the boy. Not only that, but I don't think that you can make him leave this place even if you want to. Ever since he's lost his memories I don't think he'll believe you."

"We'll figure out something," said Sparx.

"I don't think that he's completely lost his memories," said Gibson. "If you'd say that he slipped on a rock and lost his memories, then I think there's a high possibility that if he does it again then he could get them back." Azalea cocked her head to the side and thought about it.

"You mean like how it goes in the movies?"

"Uh, yeah, something similar to that. No guarantee that it'll work one hundred percent, but I'd say less than forty percent."

"Then we'll take that forty percent chance," said Antauri. "I'd say we could give it a shot, even if it might…hurt him."

They all went to the location where they last left their Super Robot at and when they did they saw that Ivan was there with a few other fish people. They just finished bringing in the Almcoite stones that they needed in order to get their teleportation device working again. Azalea thought that they brought in too much of it. The stones were stacked up really high, but she figured that they could just take what they needed. The monkeys helped bring some of it inside the Super Robot until they got more than enough of it.

Afterwards some of the fish people left until it was only the team and Ivan. Azalea once again tried to convince him that he should really come along with them since she's his sister and they've been looking for him for a long time now. He didn't believe her or any of the team when they tried to persuade him. At the same time Azalea didn't blame him. If she lost all of her memories then she wouldn't want go with some strangers either, but she absolutely refused to have her and the team come all the way out here to find him and not be able to take him with them. Now that they couldn't convince him they thought that it was time to go to plan b.

Ivan began walking away and purposely Azalea tripped him and he collapsed head first on the largest Almcoite stone that he brought for them. The moment on impact Ivan fell unconscious and he laid there motionless on the ground. Azalea felt bad for doing that to him, but if it was going to get his memories back then she would gladly help him out with that. Chiro helped her carry him inside of the Super Robot so that Gibson could bandage up his head wound right away. With that they all waved their goodbyes to the fish people's elder and they flew away in their Super Robot off of their planet and back into space.

It was a while before Gibson and Otto finished fixing up their teleportation machine that they built, but eventually they fixed it up by placing the Almcoite stones in the correct places and for once it began working properly. It was their fault for building that machine in the first place, getting them all lost in another galaxy and having everyone worked up there for a second, but at the same time Azalea thought that maybe it wasn't so bad after all. Without them accidentally sending them to another galaxy then they probably would've never found Ivan. He would've forever been lost in space. This situation kind of reminded her of the old Lost in Space TV show that her parents used to watch on early Sunday mornings.

By the time that Ivan woke up, after a few hours, they were already in Shuggazoom. The team was glad that they made it back to their home planet, at last. Gibson told Azalea of her brother's condition and said that he'll be alright. She just gave him a small concussion is all. She felt worse than she did before about intentionally injuring Ivan. At least he was alright.

When Gibson was going to make himself some coffee using the coffee maker that they had, he opened the cupboard to where he usually placed the package of whole bean dark roast coffee at. When he looked he couldn't find it anywhere in sight. He thought that maybe Azalea misplaced it or something so he checked the other cupboards too, but still couldn't find any. He also realized that somehow the package of sugar that they had before going on their little adventure of theirs mysteriously disappeared too. The blue monkey immediately knew who could do something like this. He called Azalea and she went into the room and asked,

"What's up?"

"Do you know where the whole bean coffee is? Last time I remembered I just bought some. The sugar is also gone." She thought back to the time where while after they landed on the planet after that little incident they had her stay in the Super Robot. She remembered drinking all of their coffee and taking every last drop of sugar. She resisted the urge to smile and replied,

"Umm…I don't know. I could've sworn that I remember last time Chiro drinking some." Gibson narrowed his eyes.

"But Chiro doesn't drink coffee." Shit! At times like these Azalea wished that she would've watched the show with Ivan when they were on Earth. Looks like she couldn't get away with blaming it on someone else this time. She looked at the clock and said urgently,

"Uh, yeah, I remembered that I should be somewhere right about now. TTYL (talk to you later) Gibson!" With that she rushed out of the room.

"AZALEA!" she heard Gibson shout. This taught Azalea a very important lesson. Don't mess with Gibson and his coffee time. She also remembered not to mess with Otto's tools. Who else is she gonna mess with next time? The blue monkey thought about what she just said and asked himself, "What does 'TTYL' mean?"


Lol, love that ending. XD I should do a chapter sometime where Azalea could teach Gibson texting language. That would be interesting now wouldn't it? I could be persuaded to stick a chapter like that in this story. Or as a one shot. :/