A/N: I missed the first day back at school! Whoa...

Disclaimer: The monkeys aren't mine. sniff cough...

Casualties

Gibson had never been bungee jumping before. And after this, he was likely to never want to.

He was getting rather bored. Getting your foot caught in a noose, getting flung up into the air by a rope tied to one of the big old tree's branches, and being screamed and squealed at by fangirls for two hours, then for a further half an hour gently swinging upside down by your foot, which has been chafed horrendously by that accursed rope, is NOT very fun.

Curse those fangirls. They strung up that noose, trapped him, appeared from behind the surrounding greenery, then fought over the books he had borrowed, which he had dropped onto the grass. Some of them wanted to gather some of his DNA, some skin cells, a strand of fur if they were lucky, in an attempt to clone him for their own fangirly enjoyment. Another bunch just wanted to know what books he read. The remaining were left with the task of screaming deliriously at the blue monkey.

Quite annoying.

Gibson had nearly fainted with relief when he had spotted Otto. But...ah... They had encountered a problem. Otto was now unconscious, and Gibson was no better off.

He had to pray that a mob of Sprx fangirls didn't show up anytime soon. When Sprx rounded the corner and spotted Otto lying motionless on the kerb, the red monkey rushed straight towards his comrades, and noticed the unusual sight of Gibson hanging upside down from the branch of a tree.

"Let me guess..."

The blue monkey nodded.

Sprx sighed. He moved Otto up against the tree trunk, and set to the task of trying to get Gibson down. Preferably without causing him any head injury.

After a lot of hacking at the rope with any old thing Sprx could find, Gibson fell to the ground.

"Ouch, but at least I'm free. Those awful awful little girls..."

"Hey, I'm not the one with the saws."

"Speaking of which, how is he?"

Sprx turned to their green friend. "I'll reboot him." After two tries, Sprx frowned. "That's weird..."

"What?"

"He's not coming back to us..."

Gibson elbowed his way closer. "Let me try." After the same result, which is to say, nothing, Gibson and Sprx exchanged anxious looks with each other.

"Something very strange is happening here Sprx..."

"No kidding."

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When two monkeys ran into the Super Robot carrying a third between them, Chiro knew something was wrong. He had had a sudden realiseation that the Super Robot's communication signals were a lot stronger than his and the monkeys', and rushed straight back to the Super Robot to alert Gibson that they were out looking for him, and that he should do something to grab their attention.

Barely started, Gibson returned, along with Sprx. And they were both carrying Otto.

"Something's wrong with Otto!" Sprx panted. "He got mobbed, then he fainted."

"He's not rebooting!!!" Gibson yelled.

"The fangirls got to him too?!"

"Gibson and Otto."

"We can't explain now, Otto's in need of our attention." Gibson said firmly. "He simply isn't responding to the reboots we're giving him."

They all crowded around Otto on the floor.

"It's like he's in a coma or something..." Chiro said in wonder.

Antauri and Nova crashed in right about then. They too, were carrying a fallen friend.

"Jinmay!" Chiro yelled in shock.

"We found her in the street." Nova explained. "Unconscious and injured." she added sadly.

"We assume your fangirls attacked her." Antauri said.

Whatever they had done, it was pretty bad. A gaping hole was in Jinmay's leg, exposing the inner workings and circuitry. Her eyes were blank.

Chiro held his head in his hands. "What's our status?" he asked weakly.

"Otto is in a coma-like state, I have a slight dent in my helmet," Gibson said nervously. "And Jinmay is badly injured. Otto would be mending her..."

Chiro clenched his fist and scowled. "Then this...means...war!"

Dun dada dun! Still too short for my liking though...