Chiro kept running, ignoring the pain. These monkeys were giving a good chase.
'What is with today? Chase Chiro day?' Chiro thought silently.
He ran towards the exit. The transport tubes were up ahead, he knew they led to the ground floor and out into the night. But this plan was abruptly halted, when a flash of red light went past him. The power made the metal orb like chair levitate as it was thrown in the pathway of the orange tube.
Chiro abruptly halted, twisting on his already damaged ankle, as he made a run for the unknown. He ran down a corridor that was in the corner of the main room. He was making pace; these monkeys were a lot cleverer than the cops, and a lot more dangerous. Chiro was not taking any chances.
He followed the corridor, there were doors each side. But he kept running until he reached the end of the corridor. He found more transport tubes at the end of the corridor. Taking a chance, he dove into the orange one. He hoped he would go down to the ground floor but was instead propelled upwards by the invisible force inside these tubes. Just as he left, he heard a door open up just down the corridor. That was close!
Nova, who had been sorting the training room out, heard the sound of running and the yelling outside. She ran quickly to the door before running head first, into Sprx. Sending both of them tumbling to the ground in a heap.
"You'd do anything to get close to me" Sprx said to Nova with a smirk, as she had landed right on top of him.
Nova growled as she leapt off of him, before using her tail to smack the red monkey's face for his comment, sending the red primate flying.
"Dream on Sprx, Gibson what are you two doing?" Nova asked unimpressed.
Sprx groaned, sitting up as he gently touched his tender cheek.
"We were merely trying to calm or catch the boy. He's awoke, gave us both the slip by hiding behind the door, and has been running all around the robot, he nearly got out until I stopped him" Sprx said interrupting Gibson, as he panted for breath.
"And he's quite fast too" Sprx added as he collapsed back onto the floor.
"I believe were both a bit out of shape at the moment" Gibson added as he too was catching breath, as he leaned on the wall.
Nova looked between the pair of monkeys in front of her, not sure on what to do until she heard another voice.
"Perhaps it is best for us to try talking to the boy rather than chasing and cornering him" Antauri said as he came into view in the corridor.
Antauri watched as the three other primates all turned their head to look at him.
"I can sense where he has gone, Nova would you care to join me, you have yet to meet him. Perhaps you can help with calming him down a little. Gibson, Sprx, please wait in the command centre for now, if we need your assistance I will contact you" Antauri said as Nova nodded.
"Sure Antauri" Nova said as the black and yellow primates headed to the transport tubes that led into the super robot's engine room.
Chiro was expecting another maze of corridors when he exited the transport tube, but instead he was confronted with large machines. It was like a mini power station lay out in front of him. Large vats were located all over the room. A series of bridges and pathways connected their vital access points. Monitors, keypads and control boxes also littered the place. Some were attached to the side of the vats, others were separate. Chiro's eyes widened, the place was dark. A couple of massive overhead lights lit the area off to the far right. He could also hear the whines of mechanical movement, gears were moving; machines were working. He would have to be very careful.
Cautiously Chiro took a few steps into the room, before slinking off behind the vats. He would have to hide just in case those two monkeys realised he was down here! He looked up to see the major pipework and ventilation shafts all over the ceiling and walls. There were elevated footbridges connecting these as well. This room in itself, was a three dimensional maze!
He was stunned. This place was massive, but he would have to negotiate this engine room and find a way back out of this giant rust bucket, tin can. He would also need to keep out of the way of those rabid, crazy, mechanical monkeys.
He sighed, this was going to be difficult in his state. His ankle was throbbing, his knee was creaking, and his open wounded hand stung from the close contact of the padding underneath the bandage.
He saw a control panel up ahead under a small pool of light. Without thinking he approached it. The wiring had been ripped out of the panel from underneath, as it lay messily across the floor. Buttons had been removed from the top of the panel too. He looked curiously, before hearing a voice making him jump out of his skin.
"Hi there, you must be the new guy! I'm Otto, I'm the mechanic and I fix thing um, well stuff! Though you probably guessed that because I'm fixing the panel that you're looking at" Otto greeted with a wide smile.
Chiro glanced to the enthusiastic mint green primate. He seemed genuine, unlike the blue and red monkeys that had chased him half way around this tin can.
"Yeah I kinda gathered that" Chiro said with a slight caution, though he couldn't help the small smile that spread across his lips.
"So are you on a tour down here? I'm surprised one of the others aren't with you. This place is massive you might get lost" Otto rambled as he seemed to be messing with all the wires though his eyes were on the boy.
Chiro gave a small laugh at that comment. This monkey was currently the best option he had for now. He wasn't chasing him, experimenting on him, or yelling. In fact, to Chiro, he sounded a bit clueless of the situation going on above.
"So what's your name?" Otto added as he suddenly stuffed the wires back into panel.
"Oh I'm Chiro, but yeah I guess you can say it's kind of a tour" Chiro replied snapping himself out of his trail of thoughts.
"If a little self-guided Chiro" Antauri said finally learning the boy's name, as he and Nova appeared out of the shadows from the main pathway that ran through the engine room, towards the two in the middle.