A/N: The Super Robot has always intrigued me, ever since it came alive in "Ghost in the Machinder" and especially after seeing "Prototype." It kicked butt and was so human-like...! Loved it! Thus, I had to write a chapter about it! (And I know Slingshot addressed the Super Robot as 'he' in "Prototype," but I used 'it' to make it easier to distinguish between characters. XD)

Seven: The Super Robot's afraid of losing Chiro.

The Super Robot's internal sensory circuits give a jolt in the night.

It's been one week since Mandarin used Valina's powers to pit its resolve against its soul.

The machine had always felt indebted to Chiro.

The child was the Chosen One they'd all been waiting for, the one to wake it from its long sleep, the one to send the warming electric currents through its machinery at long last.

The boy had reunited it with its beloved Monkey Team, the friends it had missed since that dark day when all had been shut down.

And as Chiro was integrated into the Team, the Super Robot, though not able to express it, grew to love the child all the more.

The fourteen-year-old was kind, protective, loving, strong—everything the machine had ever dreamed the prophesied Chosen One to be and so much more.

And that was why, on that terrible night when the King of All Evil's loyal servant had infiltrated its system and brought its precious Team's greatest fears to life…it hadn't been able to do a thing to help them.

The Super Robot had tried to defend itself and its family against Mandarin, but the cunning trickster had taken hold of Chiro and threatened his life.

The boy—and surely the monkeys as well, yet there was something about Chiro—was everything to it.

The machine had had no choice but to back down.

It couldn't hurt that beautiful child….

The monkeys, it knew, were relieved and agreed with its decision.

They, too, would sooner die themselves than live knowing their stubbornness was what had caused the death of one so dearly loved by all who knew him.

But as it reshuffles its computer-brain, makes sure all of its security-defense systems are online and fully-operational, and looks in on each of its Team members, it smiles.

As long as it can uphold the light that is Chiro and the Monkey Team, as long as it is able to help them defeat Valina and Mandarin and win this fight once and for all, it knows it'll be all right.

A/N: Thanks for reading, as always! (Do you guys want the chapter that ties everything together after I finish Mandarin?)