Dawn of a New Era
Chapter 5: Boy Problems?
Jasmine's Point of View:
Done! I thought to myself when I had placed the finishing touches on my room. It took me almost all morning, but it was so worth it, plus I woke up at five which gave me extra time, even though the team was really frustrated with me for being up so early and doing stuff, all but Annabel and Gabriella who were already awake, but quietly working or doing something I don't know about.
My room was now lavender in color. It was a nice color and I now had my art supplies set up in the corner or my room, all but my sketch pad and pencil and pen bag that were placed on my bed. I had a desk across from my bed which had my laptop on in along with many notes for new stories and a printer, so I could print out my work and have someone who's good at editing to look at it, most likely Gabriella. I also had the new guitar in the corner of my room, placed on its stand. I haven't gotten the chance to play it yet, but soon I will. I learn to play when I was little, it was one of the few things I loved to do, but I never owned a guitar because my parents thought it was a waist of money.
I smiled at my work, and grabbed my sketch book and pencil bag, and ran out of my room toward the others, who were at last time I knew, in the command center. When I got in there, I already saw what always happens. Rose and Rover fighting again, Annabel meditating, Gabriella looking over the scans of the robot, and Olivia building something new to preoccupied her.
I sat myself down in one of the chairs in the command room and started to work on drawing the team in my book. I started with Rose and Rover, because who knows how long this fight might last. I looked at them carefully before I created a single frame of their fight in my head and started to draw that image. Rover had gotten his sister in the face with his fist, but at the same time, she had knocked him off his feet with her tail.
Next I did Olivia, because she was moving the second fastest after Rose and Rover. I drew her sitting atop of the round device she was working on with a laser and sparks were flying, a huge grin was on her face the whole time. I finished the picture before she was moving again and grabbing some more parts.
I put Gabriella and Annabel in the same picture because of how close they were to the computer; it was easy to draw them because of their lack of movement. Once I was done, I made sure my lines were strong with both positive and negative areas and then I moved onto color. I matched their colors to the best of my ability before I smiled in content with my work.
"You sure seam happy kid." Rover said. Apparently, he and his sister must have finally stopped their fight.
"Maybe I am." I responded. "I just finished a few sketches in my sketch pad, and in my point of view, they don't look half bad."
"Let's just hope their better then stick figures." He said, pulling the sketch pad out of my hands.
"Hey!" I yelled at him and his sister. "Give me that back!"
"Relax kid; we only want to see what you drew." He said, opening my sketch pad.
"Wow." Rose whispered. "Guys, come see these pictures Jazz made of us!" The rest of the team hurried over and all tried to peak at my sketch book.
"Whoa kid, this is definitely not stick figure." Rover complemented.
"You used the space quiet well." Gabriella said.
"It's almost an exact replica of us, but not." Annabel remarked.
"It's so pretty!" Olivia yelled. "You did really good Jazz, are you going to make more?"
"Yes Olivia, I'm going to be making plenty more, or places we see people we meet, and some more of you guys." I promised. It was then that we heard the alarm go off and I instantly feared my father was coming again. Gabriella ran up to the computer.
"Apparently we have received a distress beacon from a planet not far from here by the name of Swaton. A swamp like planet filed with miles of nothing but muddy water and many plants. On the few areas of dry land there is, small villages and towns were made." She said.
Olivia gasped. "This is our very first mission! Common, lets go!" She said running off to her station. The others all ran off to theirs as well, but I had no idea where to go or what to do, the team had only a little training with me, but only in the area of how to fight. Annabel noticed my worry and stayed behind with me.
"I know we haven't had the time to teach you how to do the things that we do everyday, but we will soon. For now, I leave you with some assistance, your hyper from like that of your father's, brings out the more powerful side of you. Change into your hyper form and we'll see you at your post in Torso Tank Driver 1." With that said, she was off. I guess that was all the advice I was going to get. I looked inside myself and tried to look for the power I was looking for, the more powerful side of me. It was then that I felt the power primate flying around me, and that's when I felt the change.
When the green light disappeared after going around me a few times, I saw the changes instantly; my shorts were now long, black jean pants and thick black boots. I also had on orange scarf around my neck and a black spaghetti strap shirt on. I had orange gloves on my hands that had round metal pieces on the knuckles and didn't cover past the knuckles where I could see my fingers outside of my gloves.
"Hurry it up kid!" Rover called over the intercom. "We gotta go!"
"Sorry Rover, I'm coming." I ran toward the orange tube in the back of the room and landed safely in the seat of the Torso Tank.
"Let's go guys!" I called. "Hyper Force Go!" We flew off then to the planet of Swaton, and the distress call apparently came from the most populated town, Manna. As we flew down to land, I noticed that the place was dark, really dark, and there were very few people for the most populated town on the planet. We landed in the center of the town and the people looked up at the Super Robot in surprise. The team and I exited the robot and the town's people crowded around.
"Citizens, do not be alarmed." Annabel said. "We come to you in peace; we received a distress signal from here and came to see who sent it and what you need help with. Which one of you sent the signal?"
"I sent it." An old voice said. The crowd moved away so that a woman that looked to be in her late eighties came up before us. "My name is Martha. Welcome to our town. I called for you because we need your help desperately." She motioned to everything around her. "As you can see, there are not many people here, the reason is because of a young man who has been kidnapping them and taking them back out into the swamp. He's reasons are unknown, but he must be stopped before the whole town is gone."
"Does anyone know what happened to anyone one here after they are taken?" I asked.
Martha shook her head. "No, none of the people have been seen after they are taken."
"Don't worry, we'll find this guy and stop this abducting once and for all." Olivia said. I smiled at her, but then when I looked back up at the town's people, some were smirking, others had no emotion on there face what so ever, including that woman Martha, call me a critique, but I think that something is amiss here. It gave me this horrible feeling in my heart that wouldn't go away. Annabel looked up at me, feeling my worry
"We will wait for you here." Martha said. "We hope to see you soon, our saviors." We then took our leave and slowly headed out of the town, knowing that it was best to not take the robot as to find this guy easier.
"Jasmine, you seamed extremely worried when we left the town, is something bothering you?" Annabel asked.
"Yeah, when we left town, I saw everyone there smirking or their face held no emotion, and it's not the fact that it bothers me, but that it makes me rethink this task. What if it's the other way around? Like the guy is helping the real people of the town and these people are evil and just want him out of the way." I explained as we waded our way threw the mud.
"I think you've been reading too many books kid." Rover said.
"Rover!" Annabel sternly yelled at him. He flinched at her voice and turned away from her and Annabel turned back to me. "Jasmine, you have a right to suspect that, because I feel it too, that those people's words might have not been the most truthful, but we must find those people first and find out what's going on, and we must find that young man Martha was speaking of."
"It might have helped if she had given a description of him to us before we left, that way we could tell him apart from the other boys and young men that need help." Gabriella said.
Annabel sighed. "We have no choice then to split up and attempt to find him, we'll split into teams of three. Gabriella and I will search to the north. Rover and Rose, you two will search toward the west. And Jasmine, you and Olivia shall search toward the east."
"What about the south?" Olivia asked.
"That's where the town is." Rover answered her.
"Oh, sorry." Olivia said sadly. The whole team, including myself, growled at Rover.
"You can be such an ass at times!" Rose yelled at him. I got down next to Olivia.
"Cheer up Liv, you did nothing wrong. Just remember this; there is no wrong question, only the question that is not asked."
"What's that supposed to mean?" She asked.
"It means it's better to ask the question and get an answer then not ask the question and not get the answer so you don't know." I said.
"Thanks Jazz." She said. I nodded to her and stood up.
"Let's get going team; it won't be long before sunset and it won't be as easy to find them in the dark." The team then split up in their respective groups of two and headed off in that direction. Olivia and I ended up in the wetter of all other areas.
"Ewe! It's really mucky here. Why do we have to look here again?" She said.
I smiled at her. "Because that's where Annabel told us to. And we do as she says, because she's really smart."
"Oh yeah, I forgot." She grinned. I laughed with her before I went around a large rock and Olivia went around the other side. And that's where it went wrong.
I felt something hit me hard in the back of the head, and I was only able to quickly yelp before I fell, and before I fell into blackness, I heard Olivia scream my name. Then nothing.
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When I felt myself coming to, I could only feel the throbbing pain in the back of my head. Opening my eyes, all I saw above me was rock. I sat up and let my eyes adjust to the surroundings, and I tried to rub the sore part of my head, when I felt a pull from around my wrists. I looked down at my hands and saw them bound together with chains.
I looked away from my hands and saw many women, children, and some older men huddled around in the back of the cave, watching me closely.
"Are you the people that have been taken from town by the young man?" I asked them.
"No," An old woman said. "We've been here, protected by him and the other men that are willing to give their lives to protect us. Who told you otherwise?"
"A woman named Martha from back in the town, she sent out a distress call to us, which we received, my team and I." The old woman shook her head.
"I am Martha child. You and your team have been mistaken. The one you saw was a clone of some kind of dark energy that wants to take over the planet, we are the few that got away from them, and that young man you were talking about, was our greatest warrior. With him out of the way, we would surly be found and killed, like the rest of our people had. The signal was from us, the young man only let us have it for an hour so we could try to signal for help, but those things found the signal and came extremely close to finding us and we had to shut it off as you came here."
I couldn't help but feel sorry and happy, sorry for these people and happy that I was right in finding that those towns people were evil, or at least, not so right.
"Let me help you." I said to her. "My team and I can get ride of those people in town once and for all."
"None of us have the say though to get you free." She told me. "Only the one protecting us does, he has the keys, and here he comes now." I looked away from her to see the men piling in with food over their shoulders. None of them had a set of keys, except for the smallest of them all, just a tad taller then me, his hair was messy and dirty from the all the dirt in it, but his eyes stood out, they were piercing hazel that just about knocked me over.
"Cobi." Martha called to him. "A word." He nodded and placed down the bag of food on his shoulders and walked toward her. So his name was Cobi? It's a nice name, and honestly, he's kinda cute, even with the dirt.
"Hey girly, stop looking at the guy, he's got no time for you." A man said.
"Yeah, look over here instead where there are a lot of willing men to look at." Another said. I growled at them and they stepped back from me.
"Dude! This chick is a beast! We should kill it while we got the chance!" I felt my teeth grinding together as they treated me as if I was an animal.
"You will not touch her." The young man, Cobi said in a calming voice. "It will only scare and aggravate her more. If we ever want to get threw to her, you have to leave her alone."
"But Cobi, she just so animal like. Look at her!"
"I am looking at her, and she just looks like a girl to me, one who can understand exactly what you are saying and if given the chance, will hurt you because of how angry she feels, and I won't stop her, because she has a right to after what you have said." Cobi said to them.
"Whatever man, we'll just grab her and we'll be fine."
"Don't say I didn't warn you." Cobi told them before turning back to Martha, listen to her.
"Alright guys lets get her." The men surrounded me and I couldn't help but think how stupid they were, they were so going down. The man behind me took the first leap and then the rest followed suit. I shook my head before I jumped off the ground and over their heads toward Martha and Cobi, then I stood next to them.
"How? How did she get over there?" One of them said.
"She not what she appears to be." Cobi said, smiling at me. I felt my heart skip a beat and I smiled back at him. "Would you like me to take off those hand cuffs?" He asked me.
"I would like that a lot, thank you." He smiled and ignored the protests behind him of the stubborn men and freed my hands.
"Your welcome, miss. My name is Cobi, at your service." He said, bowing to me, and making me blush redder then Rose's fur.
"You don't have to bow, and my name is Jasmine." I said, trying my best not to lose it.
"I have to disagree there; it's always polite to bow to any kind of woman, but even more to a beautiful woman." I blushed even redder, if that was possible. "Martha told me that you and your team were willing to help us in defeating those evil spirits that took over the planet. Are you?" I shook myself from my daze and nodded.
"Yes, but I need my team too, they're the group of five robotic monkeys, each a different color, I was with the green one before one of your men knocked me out."
"Yes, you should go get them then, I'll come with you. Men! Stay here with the others." Cobi said. I smiled as the men stood stunned and the two of us walked threw the many tunnels Cobi had to protect his group and he led me out to the night sky. From there, I could see a long way out into the swampy area and the dimming lights of my team's rocket packs.
"You guys!" I yelled. "I'm back here!" They didn't seam to hear me and kept flying off in the other direction. "Cobi, do you have my communicator?"
"Yes, we didn't know whether we could trust you at first or not so we had to be cautious." He said, handing it back to me.
"Annabel, Gabriella, Olivia, Rover, Rose! Can you guys here me, come in!" I called, starting up the communicator.
"Jazz, is that you?" Gabriella asked.
"Yeah it's me you guys. Turn around and fly back, I can see you from here. I'll explain the situation when you get here." I saw the rocket pack in the distance halt before turning around and flying back in this direction. I happily ran toward my team when they landed in front of the two of us.
"Its good to see you guys." I said when they came up.
"We could say the same thing about you kid." Rover said. "You disappeared on us, you should have seen Olivia freak out after you were gone."
"I couldn't find you anywhere, I was worried that…" She couldn't even finish her sentence. I hurried over to her and brought her into my arms.
"Its ok Liv, I'm here now aren't I?" She nodded but still cried as I held her.
"I'm sorry for taking your leader from you." Cobi said. "We knew she wasn't from the town, but we couldn't take any chances, which our group being caught."
"We understand, and we forgive you. Now what is our situation?" Annabel said.
"We have a group of people hidden deep in the caves that have been copied in the town by evil spirits and any person caught is killed. These few people were protected by this guy right here, his name is Cobi, and was the guy that the evil spirits in town wanted us to get rid of." I explained.
"So what does someone suggest we do with this information?" Gabriella asked.
"I have a suggestion if anyone would like to listen," Cobi said.
"What do you suggest?" I asked.
"The whole town wants me gone so that they can find the rest of the people without trouble from me, but if they think that I've been captured, they'll bring out their true colors and then I can break the bounds on me and we can fight them, besides there's not that many from what the men and I have seen in town," he said.
"You sure you can handle this?" I asked.
He smiled at me. "I know I can. One would wonder how I fended off those spirits for so long if not."
"Alright. I just hope this works." I said sadly. He noticed my sadness while I bound his hands and used one of them to have me look up at him.
"There's nothing to fear," he said. I looked at my feet.
"I don't want to say good-bye." I whispered.
"What do you mean by that?"
"I don't want this to be the last time I see you." He then placed his finger over my lips and silenced me.
"Then don't, I assure you Jasmine that this will not be the last time you will see me. After this battle is over, I will have to leave for now and see the galaxies, but we'll meet again one day. And I will look forward to that day indeed." He leaned his forehead on my own and I stood their shocked, even after he moved away from me and got in front of the team. I sadly rubbed away my tears on my sleeves and headed up with the team. I ran up with the team and stood in the middle of them, but in front of Cobi.
The team led us back to the town, looking back at me every now and then and watched as tears still slipped down the side of my face. Coming faster then I could wipe then away. Upon reaching the town, all the towns people came out, which was very few, and watched Cobi walked into their town in chains.
"You brought him here?" The evil spirit Martha asked us.
"Yes, you said you wanted him stopped." I said, being careful of my words.
"Yes, thank you. Now we can deal with him. You may leave now." We took our cue to make it look like we left and hid behind some of the buildings and watched as the town's people crowded around him.
"Now then, young Cobi," The evil spirits said. "Where is it that you're holding all the rest of your little group?"
"Why would I tell you now?" You'll never find them." He said smugly. The evil spirit disguised as Martha then hunched over in pain and transformed into a dark purple spiral like creature with red eyes and large claws and a long tail. It approached Cobi as he smirked at it.
"You insolent fool! Die!" It screamed and threw its claw down at him. I almost blew our cover and tried to jump out of place, but Annabel, fully knowing how I felt and what I wanted to do, had the team hold me down.
"Be patient Jasmine, he'll be ok." She whispered to me.
"Sorry you creep, but today is not my day to die." Cobi said; the bounds on his hands broke and he jumped into the air and looked before him and there appeared a green sword, one of a green light, like that of the power primate. He dropped from the sky and sliced the evil spirit in half.
"NO!" It screamed before it died and vanished into thin air. The rest of the town then charged into attack him. I finally pulled away from the team and ran toward those creatures and attacked with all my might, hitting and kicking in everyway I knew. It wasn't long after that, the team finally decided to join the battle as we fought these things off. They were tough to beat on our own, but when we worked together, they were easier to kill. Soon only a few were left and that was when we heard the cheers of the towns people that had been in hiding, holding tools and weapons and charging at the few that were left. With fear stricken on the faces of the evil spirits, they ran. The town's people ran after them with their weapons and started to pull them apart, fulfilling the revenge of the others that had been killed. I looked away from the spirits that were killed and saw the sun rise, and it was a beautiful site, one that I will cherish forever, the beauty of the sun.
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The battle was over now. The few spirits left had been finished off and the town was happily celebrating their victory over the spirits that kept them from the town and took over the town. The town had convinced both Cobi and the team and I to stay for at least the party they wanted to hold for us for helping them. They brought out most of all of their food and made huge feast for us. We ate and laughed as we referred to the town's battle that only occurred a few hours ago.
To be honest, the only reason why I wanted to be here during the feast was because Cobi was here, and the team thought we should go. Cobi was only wiling to stay because the people of the town had all but begged him to stay to thank all of us for saving the town and planet.
We were all now sitting around a large bon fire in the middle of the town square, burning the items of the evil spirits and cooking food and roasting some desserts. The team was enjoying the music and dance to it, but what surprised me the most was that I got to see Gabriella and Rover slow dancing together, now that was a weird combo, but then again, so was Rover's parents Sprx and Nova. Cobi asked me to dance a few times with himself, and it honestly was one of the best nights of my life.
As the night went on, the people began to head back into their homes and the crowds began to die down. When the crowd died down to a certain point, Cobi go up from his spot next to the team and I, and he headed out to the small ship that the kind people of this town gave him. I got up from my place and ran after him. The team looked to want to come after me, but Annabel held them back, giving me space to deal with this. I smiled back at her and ran after Cobi.
"So you're leaving now?" I asked. He turned around, surprised I followed.
"I was hoping to leave so that I wouldn't have to say good-bye." He replied back to me sadly.
"Then don't." I smiled. I walked up to him and placed my finger on his lips as he had once done to me. "Just say, 'until next time'."
He smiled. "Then until next time, Jasmine." He said to me. He turned away from me and headed toward his ship and started it up, looking back at me threw the window one more time, he waved and took off. I waved back as he took off and after he had left my line of sight.
"I see you resolved your matters with him." Annabel said, coming up behind me with the rest of the team.
"Yeah I did." I said to her, smiling before looking smugly at her, "And I got some good pictures."
"What kind of pictures?" Rose asked, running to my side with Olivia.
"Ones you're going to want to use to blackmail your brother and Gabriella." I replied.
"Let me see them!" She said, trying to rip away my sketch away for my hands.
"Slow down Rose, I'll show you them later. Right now, let's get back to the robot team. I think its time we get moving, if we stay too long our parents might find us." The team and I then hurried onto the robot again, complementing ourselves on our first mission, and hurried to place the robot on auto-pilot and get to bed. The team said their good-nights and all headed off to bed, myself included, but not before I opened my note book and looked at the picture of Cobi I drew of him when he sat next to the bon fire. The light reflecting off his face.
I couldn't wait to see him again.
Witch's Note:
Geez now who do these two remind you off? (Hint-'Parents') But back to what really matters, what did you guys think of this one, I'm sure it was interesting for their first mission, right? Review!
Question of the Chapter: What is your favorite kind of music?
My answer to the Question: I love almost all types of music! But there are a few pieces that I might not like here or there, or just sound stupid to me.
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