Sorry it took forever for the update! Okay thanks to Mewtwo, Gaara girl forever, Blackrose342, Victoria, 4Evermonkeyfan. Lovelinelivelong639, and Mewfew for the reviews!! Yes Antauri was a bit ooc in that chapter but whatever. Clockwork is almost complete just a few more chapters. Please don't be angry with me when I finish the story. There will be another story (Or 2) to finish this off. Other than that please ENJOY!!

CH 12

Jin-may and Otto had finally caught up with Chiro, Gibson, and Sprx and were now running through the forest.

"Are you positive they're here?" Jin-may, Sprx, and Gibson all nodded. The blue monkey looked down at his tracker. "I'm still not getting a reading from the two maybe a complete scan of the area would be suffice."

Chiro nodded and stopped near a extremely large tree. The others stopped as well and Gibson began his search. Otto ran towards the tree and climbed up it to one of the highest branches. Sprx decided to look around the area while Jin-may, Sprx, and Chiro all watched Gibson's tracker waiting for anything to appear.

"If this goes as planned, we will be able to locate them in about 5 minutes as long as they are moving." Again they all nodded.

Antauri was the first to awaken of the two. As he looked around his surroundings he saw her head resting upon his lap. He moved his left arm towards her and began stroking her head gently.

Her pink eyes fluttered open and she glanced at the silver monkey. She smiled remembering what happened only moments ago. "Good afternoon" he said with a smile. Nova sat up and looked towards the makeshift door.

"Antauri do you think that we're safe here?" Antauri looked from her towards the opening. "I believe we need to find a safer place to rest. Even though it seems we are safe for now I sense that we may be in greater danger then before." Nova nodded in understanding and began to get up only to be pulled back down by Antauri.

"Antau-" her lips were once again claimed by his. He pulled away rather quickly a small blush covering his face. "We should go.."

She nodded and began to remove the branches, rocks, and leaves from the doorway. A second pair of hands began to help her. She began to smile but a pain shot through her side which caused her to double over in pain.

Blue eyes widened in shock as he looked at his pained companion "Nova!!" He grabbed her arm with his left hand and pulled her to him. She began to pull away from him "I'm f-fine Antauri" He didn't believe her for a second.

"Nova how bad is it?" "It's just a scratch. Come on." She said while forcing herself to continue. "Nova" He said sternly "You mustn't force yourself"

She continued without looking at him "Antauri your hurt worse than I, your right arm is messed up, plus you can't walk properly, there's a thing out there after us, and on top of all that a mad man trying to kill us!!" "It'll be alright!"

"How do you know that Antauri? How do you know we'll be fine??" She turned away from him and faced the makeshift door. Tears threatened to flow from her eyes.

Antauri sighed this was bound to happen. Sooner or later it would get to her. And sooner or later it would get to him. Antauri pondered his words for a few moments before continuing. "We will not die here"

His hands found there way to both sides of her face. "How do you.." "I promise you Nova, We will not die here." He pulled her close again and sealed the promise with another kiss. Nova relaxed under his touch and began to return the kiss. 'Aww how touching'

They both shot apart and looked before them. Their latest foe was sitting on it's hind legs, it's head resting upon it's fist. 'You know you can't keep that promise Antauri'

Nova jumped out of the tree base and activated her fist. Antauri used the side of the tree base to force himself up and stand beside Nova. He activated his claws and braced himself for attack.

(I have finally decided to name their foe! (not that it's gonna matter) well his name is Meves(Me-vays)) Meves grinned at the two monkeys. This would be to easy they were in no shape to fight. A small chuckle escaped his lips. 'Do you really think that you can defeat me in those conditions?'

Blue and pink narrowed. "Even if we can not we woln't simply give up!" Nova nodded. Meves placed two fingers to his forehead and quickly flipped them up to where two fingers were pointing at them. 'Come then' The battle began.

'BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!' The noise alerted the 5 remaining hyper force members. "Gibson?" "Just one moment Chiro"

Chiro bit his bottom lip and clenched his hand into a fist. Seeing this Jin-may walked over to him and gently took his hand. Chiro looked at her and she gave a soft smile that said 'It'll be fine'. She squeezed his hand gently in reassurance. Both pair of eyes traveled to the blue monkey waiting for an answer they were praying for.

A small smile appeared on the blue monkeys face. Otto and Sprx were on his left side while Jin-may and Chiro were on the right. Gibson turned to them "I have a location but..."

They all waited with great anticipation of what was to be spoken from the blue one's mouth. "There are three moving targets"

No one said a word for a moment. "Then they're in trouble?" The green one looked to the blue one. "Quite possibly. Chiro should we-" the young protector was already gone. He kept running through the thick brush looking, searching for them. "Come On!" Sprx shouted before running after the young boy, the others on his heels.

The battle between the two monkeys and Meves continued with Nova being thrown into another tree and Antauri getting back up and yet again attacking.

He managed a scratch to the side of Meves but it wasn't enough to make a difference.

Meves was fighting on a completely different level than before and if the monkeys even wanted to think of defeating him they would have to take their fighting levels up a couple of notches to destroy him.

"Monkey Mind Scream!!" the blast hit Meves and sent him into a tree. Not that it mattered much. He only got back up, brushed himself off and used his speed and the palm of his hand to send Antauri through two trees.

Nova stood up slowly from her spot on the ground her fist were damaged and she was defenseless against Meves. Even though she knew she would go down she wouldn't go down without a fight.

She stood her ground, eyes narrowed waiting for the attack. Meves grinned and pulled out one of his favorite weapons a kunai. He began running directly at her kunai ready to pierce her flesh and end her life. Antauri lay on the ground eyes glued to the scene before him. "NOVA!!!!!!"