Chapter 5
"Ow!! My head hurts!" Alex complained once she regained consciousness and realized that she wasn't outside anymore.
She was lying on what seemed to be a medical bed in a medical room filled with weird gadgets and unusual medical equipment. When she turned to her right, she saw her unconscious friend Raven lying on another bed.
"Hey Rae wake up!" she whispered while shaking Raven up.
"Wh...wha...what happened?" Raven asked once she woke up and slowly sat up on the medical bed.
"I don't know but we must have been unconscious when we were brought here," Alex said while sitting up. "Though I definitely remember seeing this place before, in our vision."
"Please don't tell me that our vision might come true because I don't want that to happen!" Raven said nervously.
"Well we could be in a different hospital but in a room that looks the same as the one we saw but for now, we better just stay calm and not panic," Alex said. "Anyway, it's not like that a monkey is gonna walk right through that door."
Just then, Otto came into the room looking for something and realized that Raven and Alex were awake. They stared at one another for about a few seconds. Then Raven and Alex did what they thought was natural, especially since there was green monkey in the room that looked exactly like the one in their vision, they screamed.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" they screamed.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" Otto screamed.
"AAAHHH...Hey hold on a minute, why is this monkey screaming at us!?" Raven asked after they all stopped screaming.
"Well maybe it's because we scared him a bit," Alex suggested.
"No actually I was just screaming because you guys were screaming," Otto explained which shocked the girls. "By the way, I'm Otto!"
The girls stared at each other before looking at the monkey. "Say what?" Raven asked who couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"Oh yeah, I forgot to give you each a translator," Otto said while going to a drawer and rummaging through it.
"Why do we need translators?" Alex asked.
"Well so you can...What!? You can understand what I'm saying!?" Otto asked while turning around facing them and looking shocked.
"Well duh! It's not like we don't understand your language, and besides we understand most languages," Raven explained while acting as if it was obvious.
"Wow, so you understand what I'm saying?" Otto asked while staring at them in awe.
"Well yeah, it's not like we understand animal talk because if you were speaking monkey, then we would have definitely not understood you," Alex said.
"But I am speaking monkey," Otto explained, looking slightly confused.
"WHAT!!? But then how can we understand you unless...," she started saying until realization hit her. Since Alex and the others are part-animals, they could understand what other animals are saying without having to use a translator.
Just then, Chiro and the other robot monkeys came running into the room looking worried.
"Otto are you alright, we heard you screaming!" Chiro said.
"Yeah I was just screaming because they were screaming," Otto explained.
"Whose they?" Sprx asked until he realized that Raven and Alex were both awake but speechless.
"Ah I see that they are both awake, did you give them both a translator Otto?" Gibson asked.
"I didn't have to, they could already understand me," he explained to them.
"What!!" the others screamed.
"But that is scientifically impossible!" Gibson said. "Not to mention highly unheard of since no human can ever understand us!"
"But they were just talking to me a minute ago before you guys came, isn't that right?" Otto asked Raven who was still speechless.
They were not speaking to them at first but then they thought it was best to say something.
"Say what?" Raven asked who was still in shock.
"I don't think they could understand us," Nova said.
"What should we say to them?" Alex asked Raven in Latin.
"I don't know but as long as we speak in Latin they won't even know what we're saying," Raven replied to Alex in Latin.
"Actually, I think they're just trying to ignore us," Sprx said while Raven and Alex were still talking to each other in Latin.
"Gibson, any idea what they're saying?" Chiro asked.
"No, but I have heard that language before, though I thought it was a dead language since it's more than 2,000 years old," explained Gibson. "Plus it's one of planet earth's languages called 'Latin'".
"What! That dead language! I thought they were just talking gibberish!" Sprx said.
"You think everything's gibberish," Nova said to Sprx.
"But then how do you guys know this language?" Chiro asked.
"Many years ago, when Mandarin was still in the team, two twin girls much older than you came to Shuggazoom from Earth by accident and helped us stop Skeleton King from taking over Shuggazoom. Sadly, they both died in the process. The reason we know this language is because the two girls understood several languages including Latin," Antauri explained, confusing Chiro a lot.
When Alex heard that, she became slightly curious. " What were names of those girls?" she asked before realizing what she did and quickly covered her mouth. "Oh snap!"
"Well I guess you were right Otto, they do understand us," Gibson said to Otto before talking to Chiro. "Why don't you talk to them first, I think they're still shocked in seeing us."
Chiro nodded in reply and walked up to Alex who was getting slightly suspicious. He then smiled and extended out his hand. "Hi, my name's Chiro."
Oh snap, that was our vision part, Alex thought, looking warily at Raven who was also looking at her with nervous glances. Well I better do something or else he'll think I'm just playing dumb for which I'm definitely not playing with them!
So she slowly but absentmindedly shook his hand but still looked a bit shocked to seeing them. "Uh...H-hi I'm Alexandrea and this is my friend Raven," Alex started saying while shaking his hand for a few seconds before letting go of his hand. "But I prefer to be called Alex."
"And you can call me Rae if you want to," Raven said to Chiro before looking towards the robot monkeys. "And you guys are...?"
"I'm Nova," Nova said.
"I'm Otto but you guys already know that," Otto said.
"Name's Sprx-77, but you can call me Sparks," Sprx said in a flirting accent.
"Or Sparky," Nova said, making the two girls giggle.
"Hey don't call me that! You know I hate that name!" Sprx shouted, looking rather annoyed.
"Yeah whatever Sparky," Nova said just to annoy him a bit more.
"Grrrrr!!!" Sprx growled.
"Anyway, I am Mr. Hal Gibson. Do not call me mister or Hal just Gibson please," Gibson said, who sounded like one of those posh English guys they see in movies to the girls.
"And I am best known as Antauri, second in command of the hyperforce," Antauri said, who sounded like a wise man to them.
"The what?" Alex asked looking slightly confused.
"We are the 'Hyperforce' and I'm the leader of the team, you and your friends sent a distress signal to us," Chiro explained.
"What! You've got to be kidding me!" Alex exclaimed since she couldn't believe what she was hearing. "You're just a kid!"
"Hey I'm fourteen years old!" Chiro said looking annoyed.
"But you're still just a kid leading a bunch of colored monkeys!" Raven said, looking shocked.
"You mean 'cybernetic' monkeys," Gibson corrected them.
"Yeah whatever, anyway just to avoid that subject for a moment, do you know where the others are?" Raven asked, noticing that the others weren't here with them.
"Don't worry, they're in another room, alive but unconscious," Gibson explained.
"Okay..., but what about the animals?" Raven asked looking anxious.
"Yeah, including my cat," Alex asked.
"They're alive but there all are all in a cage because we weren't so sure if they were tamed or not," he then explained. "As for the cat, she's unconscious but in the same room as your friends."
"Well that's a relief," Alex said in relief until she realized what he had just said. "Did you say that they were all in a cage together?"
"Yes that is correct," Gibson said.
"Oh boy, you shouldn't have put them all in one cage," Raven said.
"Why, will they kill each other or start doing a wrestling match?" Sprx asked while joking at the same time.
"No, but if their in a cage together and we're not there, they will...," Alex started saying until they heard a loud crash and then an explosion somewhere which made the floor rumble a bit. "...Do that..."
"What just happened?" Otto asked.
"They've just escaped from their cages, but that's scientifically impossible!" Gibson said while looking at his tracking device. He couldn't understand how they could get out of the cage, especially ones that were built to keep strong creatures in.
"Well it's possible for magical animals, especially those that work as a team," Raven said, looking slightly grim. "Where are they now?"
"Two of them went into the training room; two more have gone into the control room and three of them went into the kitchen," Antauri said while looking at the tracking device that Gibson was looking at still.
"Why would they go into the kitchen when you guys aren't there?" Nova asked looking confused.
"They probably just want to snack in there," Sprx said while joking at the same time which Nova responded by hitting him on the head.
"Well we better go and get them before they do any damage and make a mess," Gibson said.
"You're right, let's get them," Chiro said.
"We better go with you guys as well," Alex said.
"You don't have to, we've dealt with worse things before and beside you've just woken up," Chiro said.
"You mean you've dealt with a skilled panther, a war-horse, two intelligent wolves, a strong phoenix, a teasing but expert-fighting falcon and a gigantic snake all together?" Raven sarcastically asked with an 'I-don't-think-so' look.
"Uhh...well...umm...," Chiro stated saying but he was lost for words.
"We didn't think so, and besides, you won't be able to catch them without us because they know us and won't hurt us," Alex said while getting off of the med bed. "So what do yah say?"
"Alright I guess you guys can help us since they're yours but as long as you go with one of us," Chiro said.
"Whatever kid," Alex said.
"Hey my name's not kid, it's Chiro," he said looking irritated.
"Yeah whatever," she then said while stretching herself a bit. "Well I don't know about you guys but I gonna go to the training room to see if Midnight's there."
"While I go to the command center to see if Palo is there," Raven said while getting off of the med bed and stretching herself up.
"Chiro and I will escort you to the training room," Antauri said to Alex.
"While I take you to the command center," said Nova to Raven.
"Well I'll go to the other medical room to check on your friends with Otto here to assist me," Gibson said.
"Which leaves me with sorting the animals in the kitchen," Sprx said with a gloomy face, making the two girls laugh. "Aww man!"
"Oh by the way, if you do happen to see the animals, I suggest you keep very still," Alex warned.
"Why?" Sprx asked.
"Trust me, you don't wanna know," Raven said which left the others looking a bit nervous (except for Antauri).
Once that was settled, they all went up in teams (except for Sprx) and went off in different directions.