A/N: As far as favorite characters go, Antauri is right behind Chiro, and besides that he had a very interesting part in the episode, so I had a lot more to write about!
Three: Antauri's afraid of losing control of his new body.
Antauri wakes from his nightmare.
It's been one week since Mandarin used Valina's powers to take control of his metal body and then force him to attack his beloved Team.
It had been utterly terrifying, having dominance be wrenched away.
His body had gone haywire, nearly making him split Sprx's head open and almost being too slow to save Chiro, Otto, and Gibson from the Robot's automatic defenses.
And then, the worst act of all had come into play:
Mandarin had shown himself.
He'd transformed Chiro into a defenseless child.
Antauri had been further influenced by Valina's witchcraft to kill the boy.
It was in this instant that the silver monkey had come to know true fear.
This was the embodiment of both of his worst nightmares:
Losing Chiro and losing charge.
To attack the child—his precious student, his Chosen One, his son-all while knowing that Chiro in turn saw him as his Father…
It was absolutely wretched.
Otto and Gibson had gone with the boy to protect him as well as was possible, but it had killed Antauri ever more to fight his dear younger brothers.
And then there had been the run-in with Sprx and Nova.
The poor girl had completely lost her spirit, and her steadfast soldier was blind as ever.
They had been so happy to see him, and Antauri had both cried silent tears and fought all the harder to warn them.
If he hadn't succeeded in that one second… He shudders to think what would have happened.
When they'd shut him down by working together, he'd been so proud, so relieved.
Undoubtedly, losing control of his metallic body and suffering the loss of his darling child, his dearly-loved family, have always been Antauri's worst fears.
But as he runs his hands over his elemental body, uses telepathy to turn on his bedroom light, and looks at the group picture of the Team on his wall, he smiles.
As long as he can keep control and preserve his family, as long as he is able to help them defeat Valina and Mandarin and win this fight once and for all, he knows he'll be all right.
A/N: Antauri and Chiro's relationship is my absolute favorite in the series, so I often sneak little points of it in all of my stories. But when it's a chapter centered around either one of them...look out! lol.
Thanks for reading, as always!