Hey Everyone! Wow it's been awhile, so lets get this chapter on the way, first, thank you dragonqueenc for beta reading this, second, some editing was done to the last chapter, so I hope that makes it a bit easier to read, and third, to Miss Hal Gibson, I apologize greatly for the misspell, I hope you won't be upset if I blame automatic spell check as an excuse :D and finally, I do not own Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go, I only wish I did.
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Chapter Six
It was nine o'clock in the morning, but the forest looked as dark as night. The trees towered above the group that slowly made its way into the forest, the branches of said trees overlapping the treetops, making it impossible to see the sky, the branches spiraled down until the lowest branches leaves would sometimes hit the two human members of the group in the faces as they walked. A fact that the monkeys took great amusement in as they walked listening to the occasional "Ow!" that came from Chiro and Allegra in timed intervals. Of course this was the only thing anyone could take humor in, after all, there was a monster on the loose, eleven girls missing, and of course, Otto's "fairy tale" that kept everyone searching for an evil queen and a lost kingdom.
"We're here." Allegra's voice was quiet and amazingly calm as they entered a large clearing full of weeds but amazingly, no saplings of trees which should have littered the area. However, unlike the sunlit area which covered the outside world, a musky veil covered the clearing. In the center of the clearing there sat a huge black form that rose into the sky. A tower; And all around the tower were thirteen crypts.
"It's so quiet here." Nova whispered looking around the clearing with a mixture of horror and curiosity.
"News flash, it was quiet throughout that whole forest!" Sprx frowned, his face betraying the fact that his nerves were on edge. "Not even a rustle of leaves or the sound of wings in the air." He muttered to himself, he was always unnerved by complete silence; it made him think of more depressing things. Past battles, Mandarin's betrayal, teammates near death experiences, his own near death experiences, and most of all, all the times he almost lost a certain yellow furred female. He hated those times when his thoughts and memory's took control, he loved noise and action much more, and they distracted him from all of those past horrors.
Nova looked at Sprx sadly. His face showed emotions left and right as thoughts raced across his mind. Quietly so no one would notice, she walked over and taking his hand in hers, gave it a squeeze to jolt him back to the present. Right away he looked over at her but already she was walking back to the rest of the team, he didn't notice however the warm smile on her face as he himself walked to join the group.
"So this is the queen's tower? Like in the story? I wonder what's inside! Oh and look at the crypts!" Otto's voice rose in volume as his excitement at seeing the fairy tale face to face in reality.
"Amazing…" Gibson's voice was quiet, as he stared in awe at the tower.
Against his will, Sprx snickered. Chiro and Otto quickly joined in as did Nova. Allegra looked over in confusion at the laughing party and then at Gibson who was not amused in the slightest. "What's so funny?"
Chiro smiled "Gibson is a nonbeliever of magic. And he was just as against as the fairy tale being real."
"So to see him almost speechless is pretty rare, and funny." Sprx cut in as Gibson folded his arms in annoyance. Allegra smiled before shaking her head and giggling.
"I don't see how this is going to help us with our current problem." Gibson huffed. Antauri cracked a small smile before nodding his support to Gibson's comment. The rest of the group one last grin ,and in Sprx's case one last chuckle, before calming down and returning their minds to the issue at hand. "I think we should investigate the crypts and tower."
"Aye aye sir" Sprx quipped before walking up to one of the crypts and looking at it closely. "There's no door! Are you sure it's not just a regular boulder?"
"I'm not sure about anything; all I know is that there are thirteen of these things and one tower, also with no door. Just a window" Allegra said as she stared at the tower in apprehension.
"You okay?" Chiro asked stepping up to her. She nodded but didn't take her eyes off the tower.
"I wonder if the queen is really up there?"
"One way to find out" Otto said jumping high, activating his jetpack.
"Otto be careful." Antauri said looking around the area. Something was wrong. Something had changed or moved, either way something was wrong.
"I am!" Otto chirped as he flew to the window. As he looked inside, action decided to show its face. All at once, three things happened, Otto screamed in terror, the monkey team turned as they heard the forest erupting in noise, and the most terrifying of all, a familiar dark shape wearing a familiar brown tunic ran out from a part of the forest, leapt into the air, and tackled Otto, knocking him into the ground.
Right away everyone launched into action. Allegra ran behind a crypt both to hide and to get out of the way, Chiro tackled the monster, sending him flying a few feet away, Sprx and Gibson stepped in by Chiro to keep the monster busy as Antauri and Nova helped Otto off the ground and onto his feet. He held his head dizzily before shaking off the injury and the three joined the battle.
Hissing the creature glared at each member in turn before launching into the air and jumping at the nearest foe, which happened to be Antauri. Tackling him, the beast began slashing at him, trying to land a fatal blow. Suddenly the beast screeched in pain as a giant yellow fist slammed into his back knocking him off. This time instead of letting him fly back he arched his back, digging his claws into the ground and launched himself into the air and screamed loudly. Everyone stopped and covered the ears in pain, and the creature landed swiftly. Grinning his horrible grin he quickly gave a swift kick or hit to each Monkey Team member, knocking them onto the ground still covering their ears in pain. Finally after he was sure the team was immobile he turned towards one of the crypts. The same crypt where Allegra was hiding with her hands over her ears. As he neared she ground her teeth together and forced herself to run into the forest, her hands still protecting her ears as the creature gave chase.
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Antauri groaned and concentrating took his hands off his head and stood up before running over to Chiro and pulling him to his feet making sure he was okay. After seeing that he was, they both began getting the rest of the team to their feet.
"Where did that thing go?" Sprx asked grimacing in pain.
"Not sure, I didn't see anything, none of us did." Chiro rubbed his ears in pain, looking around him.
"He's fast, he could be anywhere by no-" Nova's voice cut off as she looked around her in horror. "Where's Allegra?" The team stopped and looked at her before looking around them.
"Allegra...? Allegra!" Otto called out as he and the others began searching the area. Nothing...
"Maybe she ran back too the city?" Sprx suggested, and just like that, they began running back too Queen's Tower.
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Layla was waiting at the entrance to the forest. The whole city had heard the screams of the battle, but one scream had stood out from the rest. A single scream set apart almost minutes from the battle and one that only she would recognize.
The Hyperforce ran out of the forest breathless, quickly they looked around before their eyes settled on Layla. Her eyes filled with tears as she saw one member of the group missing. She looked at the team and shook her head.
"She's gone." Her voice was a mere whisper. "I heard the scream. She's gone." She sank to her knees and stared at the ground.
"Allegra."
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This chapter may not be the longest, but it was my favorite to write, maybe because to me, this was one of my first plans of the story and it took longer then I thought to get to this part writing wise. Then again, this story is now officially my longest I've ever wrote. And it still has four or five more chapters to go!
Thanks too all the new reviewers I've gotten with the last chapter, I'm glad to have some new viewers!
Tell me if their where any mistakes, and I'll be sure to change them, and of course read and review!
