A Heart Forged In Ice And Fire

Chapter Two

In a burst of white light, Nikki appeared on the floor of a room. The teenager kept her eyes scrunched up in mild pain as she adjusted to her new surroundings. As far as she could tell she still had her backpack on and she had no broken bones or anything. Nikki slowly sat up and put her hand to her head as she opened her emerald orbs and took in her surroundings.

'What..the royal fuck happened? Where in the fuck's name am I?' Nikki could assume that whatever that light was that had hit her had teleported her to here...wherever here was. She was in some sort of … storage unit she supposed it was. It wasn't very big or at least that how it seemed to her seeing as it was lined floor to ceiling with boxes.

The teenage girl whirled her head over to the automatic doors as she quickly stood up. She could hear the sounds of people, or what she assumed to be people, talking on the other side. Nikki's eyes widened as she glanced around before deciding that there wasn't enough time to climb into the vents and so she hid behind one of the many stacks of boxes. She exhaled slowly and tucked a strand of her short dark-brown hair as the door opened. What entered the room surprised her. There were 5 robotic monkeys and one boy. It wasn't the monkeys that surprised her since she had assumed that she must have been on an alien ship of some sort. It was the boy..

"It's him.." She breathed. Even though he had grown up some, as she must have, it was still him. It was the boy from her dream. Kiro or something like it was his name.

The silver monkey's eyes darted over to her hiding spot. "You can come out now. We know you're in here."

Nikki's heart raced against her chest as she stood up proper, straightened her maroon gloves and stepped out from her hiding spot. There was no need to hide if they knew that she was there. Besides, she had questions that needed answers.

"Antauri, I sincerely doubt that there's anyone - " The red monkey was attempting to talk to the silver one when Nikki interrupted their conversation with a clearing of her throat.

"Um..hi. I'm Nicolette." The emerald-eyed teenager put an awkward smile upon her face as she stepped forward out of the shadows of the boxes.

The boy's blue eyes widened as he took in the girl who stood before him and his team. It couldn't be.. He hadn't seen her in so many years and yet here she was. She had somehow gotten onto the Super Robot and he didn't exactly care how at the moment. All he cared about was that she was really there. "Nikki? Is that really you?"

"And you're.. Kiro.. right?" Nikki fidgeted slightly with her gloves. This was getting kind of awkward.

"It's Chiro actually. I haven't seen you since we were 9! How've you been? Where did you go?" Nikki held up a hand and Chiro stopped his incessant questions.

"Look, I don't exactly remember you. All I remember is what I have seen in my dreams and that's it. That being said, I'm fine. As far as I know I haven't gone anywhere seeing that for as long as I can remember I've lived on Earth. Now it's my turn for the questions. Where am I? How exactly did I get here? And where are you from Mister Question All?"

Chiro's eyes turned sad. "I thought you would remember me. You're my big sister..by five minutes." He reached out and grabbed Nikki's hand. He concentrated and willed some of his power primate energy to form a mental bond with Nikki. What happened was that they both seemed to glow green for a moment before being knocked off their feet.

"CHIRO!" The monkey team surrounded Chiro and helped him into a sitting up position.

"Okay then, brother Dearest. Just what the fuck was that supposed to be?" Nikki snarked at Chiro as she stood up. That's the second time that she got hurt today. If Fate keeps on doing that then somebody's going to be getting really pissed off soon.

"It doesn't matter what it was supposed to be. Did it work?" Chiro retorted back at her as he stood up.

"Yeah..Thanks for giving me a major migraine though. I really needed that to finish off this lousy ass day." The teenage girl responded in kind as she pinched the bridge of her nose. Now she knew who he was and his relationship with her prior to her disappearance. "Just don't headbutt me. That's all I ask."

"Why would he headbutt you?" The green monkey with black eyes cocked his head at the emerald-eyed girl.

"...Nothing. Just me being stupid is all. Although it makes me wonder why I didn't remember you being my brother before, Mister Hero."

Chiro shrugged his shoulders. "You got me. Let's head to the kitchen. We have a lot of catching up to do."

Nikki laughed. "Now isn't that the understatement of the century, bro."

The monkeys blinked.

"Okay. Anybody else here confused by what that was." Sprx quickly turned to his brothers for some sort of answer. Clearly this so-called 'sister' of Chiro's was up to no good. I mean how often does his sister show up after they defeat the Dark One Worm!

"Clearly, Sparky, Chiro has just reunited with his sister." Gibson really didn't see anything wrong with what had happened. The Fates had deigned Chiro with a gift for helping them get rid of the Dark One Worm. That gift had just so happened to end up being his twin sister... The only real difference between them as far as he could tell was the obvious gender difference and that she had green eyes whereas Chiro had blue ones.

"How many times do I have to tell you not to call me that." Sprx deadpanned. Seriously though! How many times do they have to go through this? No one calls him Sparky! NO ONE!

"Give it a rest, Sprx. Chiro has his sister back. How is that so confusing?" Nova put in her two cents. Chiro had his sister back and he helped her somehow regain her memories of him by using the power primate. How he had done that was still a mystery to her but hey it's as they say. If there's a will then there's a way. Nova supposed that he must have willed that to happen and so it happened.

"There's something off about her."

Nova rolled her eyes. "Here we go with Sprx's conspiracy theories again.

"What do you think Antauri?" Otto turned his attention to the silver monkey. There couldn't be anything seriously wrong with the girl... Could there?

"She has a great power within her that has yet to be unveiled. For now, we just keep a close eye on her and hope for the best."