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Chapter 15: Scared

Jinmay continually pumped his chest desperately with the palms of her hands, like they do for CPR. She went back and forth from giving him air from mouth to mouth and pressing down on his chest where his heart was. She did this repeatedly, tears streaming down her face when she didn't notice any movement or life from him, but she continued the CPR persistently. She wasn't going to give up on Chiro. After all, without him Shuggazoom would be in the hands of the Skeleton King and she wasn't going to let that happen anytime soon, if ever.

A few minutes later Ivan and Gibson finally managed to get themselves out of the hideout that Azalea locked them in before she began once again working for the Skeleton King. They went over to where Jinmay and Chiro was and was going to greet the two of them when they both noticed that something was wrong. The robot girl wouldn't stop the tears rolling down her face and took a break and held Chiro's hand. She was glad to see that she wasn't the only one there and that maybe Gibson and Ivan could help Chiro get better.

"Jinmay," Gibson began. "What's going on?"

"Chiro's not breathing." Both the blue monkey and Ivan were startled to hear this and began feeling just as scared and petrified upon hearing the news as Jinmay. She hugged him tightly and said,

"Gibson, Ivan, you need to help him or else he really is going to die if he isn't already!" Ivan couldn't muster up the courage to say anything and lowered his head at Chiro who was on the ground, lifeless. The color from his face was fading quickly.

"Alright," the blue monkey said. "Ivan, help bring Chiro inside with Jinmay and I'll get the healing chambers for him as soon as possible."

A few minutes later when they all did their jobs ASAP since Chiro's life was at stake they had him hooked up to the life support devices in the healing chambers. He was on one of the operation tables with a pillow underneath his head. All of his clothing, except for his white uniform pants were taken off of him and Gibson had patches with wires attached to them across his torso to help monitor his condition. Chiro also had a breathing mask on and at this point the CPR that Jinmay did on him helped him out greatly and was beginning to breath, but it was shallow. His heartrate was slow, but steady and the three of them did all that they could to make sure that their leader was still alive. Now all they had to do was to wait until he got better.

"So, how is he doing?" Ivan asked

"Well…he's starting to breath now and his heartbeat is going at a decent pace. If he starts improving like this then once he gets better we can go and help out the others that have been captured by Mandarin. Is that what happened Jinmay?"

"Yes. I would like to save the other robot monkeys as fast as possible, but first we need to help Chiro."

"I just hope that they'll be alright in the meantime," Ivan added. "What about you Jinmay? You could use some fixing up too." He realized that Jinmay's mechanical body also took quite a beating from what Mandarin did to her when she was fighting with him. It was too bad that they didn't have Otto with them. He was always really good at making devices and fixing up machines. While they were waiting for their leader to recover Gibson made his best attempt at fixing up Jinmay to his best of abilities.

A few hours later in the healing chambers Chiro began coming back to them. He gradually stirred awake, but he was only half conscious. Every muscle in his body ached with soreness, but surprisingly he didn't feel too much pain except in his mid-section. It was probably from the pain killers that Gibson gave him. All around his torso and head were white bandages that were wrapped around him. Gibson, Ivan and Jinmay were more than happy and relieved at the same time that he was making a pretty good recovery. The robot girl embraced him in a big hug once they noticed that he was awake.

"Jinmay," Chiro said, taken off guard. He looked around the room and only saw that the blue monkey, the robot girl and Ivan was in sight. She squeezed him tighter in his arms.

"Chiro! We were so worried about you! How are you feeling?"

"Better…I guess. What happened to everyone?"

"I'm afraid they were taken by Mandarin and Azalea," Gibson answered sadly. "They did so right after Azalea attacked you and had the Super Robot fall down on you."

"I can't believe that my sister has done something this awful."

"It's not her fault," said Gibson. "Azalea did tell us when she locked us all up in the hide out that the brain chip that the Skeleton King put in her head helps bring out her other side, who wants to work for him and destroy the monkey team."

"I don't care if she's being controlled by another person!" Jinmay exclaimed. "I still won't be able to forgive her for what she's done. She almost really did kill Chiro that time."

"I agree," said Chiro, struggling to sit up. "Azalea broke the promise with me about not doing anything to us ever again. Even if she does go back to normal once all of this is over, I'm not too sure if we should even trust her anymore. I know that it might not be her fault for this happening, but if the Skeleton King can bring out her other personality using that brain chip, then I think it's safe to say that we should put her in prison."

"But Chiro!" Ivan protested. "The person that attacked you wasn't the Azalea that you knew." The boy looked down sadly.

"I know, but…what else are we supposed to do?"

"We can't get the brain chip out of her since we won't be able to without damaging her brain in the process," said Gibson. "I'm afraid that she's stuck with it."

"Then it's settled," said Chiro. "Once we save the team, annihilate the Skeleton King and his Citadel of Bone then we'll deal with Azalea. I don't want her hurting anyone else or my friends. Gibson, how long do you think it'll take for me to recover?"

"At the pace that you're healing? I'd say half a day."

"Until then we're going to save the monkey team." Chiro thought back on all of the good times that he and Azalea had together. Playing video games, teasing one another and especially being training partners. It penetrated him deeply to know that those times might be gone forever once this is all over, but he didn't want her to injure any of his friends and loved ones. That would just hurt the two of them more than it would need to be. Azalea was always a warmhearted person, though she never expressed herself as such, but it was true. Even though he was Chiro, the brave leader of the group he now knew why he wanted to keep her restrained so badly.

He was scared of her.


Er, yeah, I know its not very long and not much went on in it, but I promise that the next chapter will be more interesting. This story's coming along (slowly).