Dawn of a New Era

Chapter 14: Upgrades, Ups and Downs

Jasmine's Point of View:

Everyone was working as fast as they could, hurrying to make the robot move faster then it already could to get to our next destination. A place Cobi told us was called 'Traversée de Changeante', its translation was 'Passage of Changing'. What exactly was in this 'Passage of Changing'? Cobi hasn't told us what it's about, but I hope he does soon. The team is crazy with excitement. Rose and Rover even held off their daily fight to join us for this.

We were all gathered in the command center and waited penitently for Cobi to explain this 'Traversée de Changeante' to us. He soon walked into the command center, his new clothes looked nicely on him, a normal pair of low cut jeans and a sleeveless shirt. I felt myself stare a little, but the quickly looked away, afraid that he would be offended by this action.

"Morning everyone." He said, gathering everyone's attention from what they were doing. "Uh wow, didn't know you guys were that interested, anyway, what this Traversée de Changeante is, it's literally what it means, 'Passage of Changing'. It's a kind of magical portal that will send you anywhere you want to go, which is great for travel, but as a result, some animals and robots are changed in personality and form, however, if there is a blend, say robotic monkeys were to go in there, the impact would be more sever."

"How is it so sever? Does it hurt us?" Rose asked.

"Not from what I've heard, but the Traversée de Changeante apparently has you take on a similar shape to the one most powerful around you, which we know is Jasmine. You would change into a similar form as her, a more human version of a robotic simian." Cobi told us, surprising us all.

I was surprised to say the least when I heard this information. June seamed to be the same way, as for the girls of my team, besides June, they all seamed to excited for the fact, apparently they wanted to have this change as fast as possible, even Annabel seamed to be excited by this news and floated down to the others and shared a smile with them as Olivia hugged them all to death, especially Cobi. I looked over at the male robotic simian of my team, seeing his face will with no emotion, why did it make me feel like I should be worried?

June's Point of View:

The whole team seamed to be excited about this Traversée de Changeante thing. When my cousin told us all about it, the girls looked as if they were going to scream. Jasmine smiled at her team, happy that they were ok with this. I looked over at my cousin, and he seamed to be just as happy as Jazz was. I smirked as I thought to plan to get the two of them together. I could get Rose's help, she extremely sneaky when it comes to this kind of stuff. I looked at the last robot monkey of the team, the only male and the only one with no smile on his face, just… nothing, his face was emotionless.
And man, does it give me a bad feeling.

Annabel's Point of View:

Hearing of the Traversée de Changeante or Passage of Changing, it excited all of my team, as well as myself. We would be changed in to a more human version of ourselves. I knew that Rose would like it best, so that she could wear all the girly outfits that we bought Jasmine that she uses for the dirtiest work on the robot, which is usually when it involves lots of oil, gasoline, and dirt. And the others seamed happy to try a new form to learn how to use, to see how different we would become.

I did look at my third in command though, and I felt his anger threw the power primate, even if he did hide his anger behind a calm façade. How did this make him feel so angry?

Olivia's Point of View:

This is going to be so COOL! I can't wait to be a human-robot monkey! I mean, think about it! More room in my stomach for me to fill up with food every day, so Jazz might want to start cooking more, and I can reach higher places when I try to build things, so I might not have to climb as much anymore! It gets so tiring! And after I do it, my palms get all sore and I have to head down to Gabby's lab have her give me something for the pain in my hands, then I would get back to building and it would happen all over again! So this would really help me a lot, and maybe I can wear some of Jazz's clothes, 'cuz those look really cute on her!

I hugged all the others when I went to hug Rover, he look like he didn't want this to happen. Why? Why wouldn't he want such a cool thing to happen to him? I bet it would make him stronger!

Rose's Point of View:

Wow! When I thought about it, I was going to be able to wear the cute clothes that Jazz gets to wear, and I'll get the color she hates most of all, so that she'll have to look at it all day! I laughed in my head as I thought how much easier it would be to get clothes to wear if we did have this upgrade! I mean, has anyone realized that we monkeys might not like the fact that we can't really wear that much for clothing, being the size we are? If they haven't noticed by now, their worse then Olivia on her worse days.

I looked over at Jazz and out newest member, Cobi. I knew that there had to be some way to get them together, and I was going to do it! I looked over at June, who had the same look on her face. She looked over at them quickly and then back to me, giving me the silently asked question of 'help me get these two idiots together'! This is going to be the most fun I've had since my fights with Rove and Gab.

Speaking of family, I looked over at my brother. His face spoke instant kill joy and the thought 'why's he acting like that? The ungrateful son of the devil.' Which happens to be my mother, and I've proud to be the devil's daughter, but man, what is up with my brother?

Gabriella's Point of View:

It seamed almost as if I was in dream. This portal would bring about new powers for us to test; new bodies to master and live with, it excited me, but I was a little worried. Would we have to relearn everything all over again when this was done? I looked over at my lover and sighed when I knew that was the master thing on his mind. I walked over to him and placed my hand on his arm. He looked up at me with his emotionless face, but I could see past it, I could see the worry in him. Rover didn't like the change of himself, and it seamed to be one of his few fears, besides losing me.

Rover's Point of View:

How can all the others think that this a good thing? How can they all just throw away the possibility that something might go wrong and ignore it with the joy of wearing clothes?

I felt my lover place her hand on my arm, I looked up at her. My face was hard and not readable, but Gabriella could see right threw me. I knew she could see my worry behind my mask of no emotion. She saw the fear I felt. Everyone gave me worried glances when they saw my face, all but my sister of course who gave me a 'what the hell' look. I turned back to Gab and grabbed her hand, leading her away from the command center.

Cobi's Point of View:

I had saw Rove's face before he left with Gabriella, and it hurt to think my close guy friend seamed upset by this, maybe I shouldn't have said anything. I sat down in the seat behind me and sighed.

"Don't blame yourself Cobi." Jasmine told me. I looked up at her and sighed again looking down at my feet, if I had just kept my mouth shut, this never would have happened.

"You can not change the past Cobi, what's done is done." Annabel told me. "We can only look forward to the future."

"Yeah Cobi." My cousin said to me. "Rover doesn't mind change so much as it's not him that has to do the changing. He's worried that something might go wrong, and its one of his greatest fears. Gab'll help him now; let's just focus on getting to the Traversée de Changeante." I nodded and helped Rose se the coordinates to the Traversée de Changeante and then left to get some sleep. How do the others do this and not get tired is a mystery to me.

Jasmine's Point of View:

Cobi had left to take a nap a while back, and Rover and Gab were still not back from wherever Rover took Gabriella off to. So it was just me and most of my girls in the command center. When I felt Midnight's paws on my shoulders, I looked to see her face, calm and waiting. I think she can sense the Traversée de Changeante, which is why she came out of her nap to stay with up to make sure we were safe.

Too soon though, we were faced with a large portal, many colors swirled in its rings and edges. We all watched in awe. I looked at the rest of it from the side camera; it looked as if this portal went on forever. It looked to have no end; this would defiantly keep Dad off my track for a long time.

Suddenly though, I felt Midnight hiss at the screen, she extended her claws and lashed out at the air in front of her, in a fury of anger. It couldn't have been the portal, Midnight didn't show any signs of aggression then, so why would she now?

We all looked out in front of us and saw a glimpse of a ship that was flying toward us. When we looked closer at the ship, I noticed that it was very familiar, orange in color, and looking bad to the bone. It was Mandarin and Mandy's ship, now I know the cause of Midnight's behavior. We had little time as their ship came flying toward us.

"Rose, find your brother and Gabriella! Olivia, find Cobi! Annabel, June you two are with me, Annabel take the scrambler and June take the cruiser 5! I'll take cruiser 6! We'll hold off their ship 'til we get everyone together so we can face them head on! Hyper Force, Go!" Annabel headed off into her tube, and June and I headed into Olivia and Rover's. We separated ourselves from the robot and flew off toward Mandarin and Mandy's ship that was racing toward us.

"Jasmine, Mandarin is sending in a transmission, should we accept of decline?" Annabel asked.

"He's probably just going to gloat at me how he's going to kill us, even though we 'escaped' him before. Let it threw, it's probably nothing we haven't heard before." Annabel's link with me ended and it was soon replaced by the face of Mandy on the command center of the ship. "What do you and your father want Mandy? We haven't caused you any problems." I told her.

"You'd be wasting your time heading threw that portal; the things people say about it aren't true. Father went threw it a few days ago, but nothing happened to him." Mandy growled.

"Have you ever considered the fact that maybe you can't change because you don't have a human with you to have a different form to change too?" I told her, thinking of how much of an idiot she is, and how much of an idiot her father must be. "Because without one, there is no one to change into, or morph near toward."

"I'd slit my own throat faster then let a human on my father's ship!" She yelled back at me.

"Mandy, what is that racket all about up there?" I heard Mandarin say in the background. He walked up the screen and grinned. "Ah, the Second Hyper Force. I was wondering when we'd run into you again. My dear girl, what have you done to anger my daughter?"

"Who said I was going to tell you anything?" I snapped at him. "I mean, you are the one who wants to change his form, am I right?" Mandarin scowled at this, I snickered at him.

"You're just like your father, my hairless monkey. It was too bad her never came to my side, maybe you will."

I snorted at him. "In your dreams, you rabid monkey."

"Don't talk to my father like that!" Mandy cried, firing lasers at the cruiser. She was able to get me off guard and hit me, sending me into the Traversée de Changeante. I couldn't help but feel the need to scream as I flew into the colorful vortex. My whole team I saw flew in after me without a second guess. Once we were together, the robot was combined into one piece again, but the vortex was too powerful to get back out of it, the way we came.

The ship shook as we raced threw the Traversée de Changeante. It wasn't long though that we saw the team glow a bright white color. I pulled out five blankets that I had grabbed from behind our chairs and placed them over each monkey, well I should say over four, I had Cobi place the last blanket over Rover because of the guy/girl thing, rather not have to deal with anything embarrassing like that.

As soon as it started though, it stopped, we got threw the Traversée de Changeante. I looked around to see if anything had been broken and noticed that my team had grown in size, they were almost as tall as I was, Rover was the closest in height, being taller then June, but shorter then Cobi and me. All the others now that this sliver, metallic body, no other color, but that was shown in their more human like forms. The color of their old armor was the color of their hair and a single colored ring on the end of each monkey's tail. The girls' hair were all different, Annabel's was strait and came down to her shoulders in length, but looked thin, it was the deepest black like her fur once was, her eyes were still a deep blue. Olivia had short, bouncy, thick curls of a pine green, and her eyes were just as deep blue as Annabel's. Gabriella had long curly, blue hair that went passed her shoulders; her eyes were still whiter then the ice and snow. Rose, man was her hair different! She had curls like Olivia and Gabriella, but her hair was in the middle, at the shoulders, just like Annabel, but hers was a bright red in color with the ends of her hair and her bangs were a hot pink, as were the color of her eyes. Rover, he had the shortest hair of them all, it being as short as Cobi's, but a bright golden yellow in color, his eyes were just as onyx like as Annabel's hair.

"Is everyone alight?" I asked.

"I think so." Olivia said. She rubbed her head in pain, until she felt her hair on her head and she screamed, running toward the mirror that we had moved up here. "Oh my god! I have hair, and no fur!" She screamed, running her hands over her face, no noticing her metallic skin too, she was so into it, she let go of the blanket covering her. I raced toward her and kept the blanket over her so that she wouldn't let it drop.

"Olivia, you can't just let the blanket drop now that you're body has changed." I told her. She nodded and held the blanket over her shoulders that covered her and she looked back into the mirror, I wouldn't blame her. Her communicators on the side of her head were now reduced in size to a mire silver bulb, like that was on the end of her communicator before the change. The team had also grow… parts that needed to be covered, they now had something to hide, as they use to not. All of the team looked like her, except for the few differences like color, hair style and eyes.

"So we're changed now?" Rover asked sadly. He looked over his hand that wasn't gripping the blanket on his shoulders. He changed it into his large fist and tried to move around, seeing how his reflexes were. He tried some of his normal punches, letting them slice the air. He saw that his reflexes were quicker then before, and just as strong, if not stronger. He grinned. "This might not be as bad as I thought." Gabriella smiled at this, running to him and kissing his cheek. This was the closest action we have seen of them getting closer to kiss each other. We still had not seen it, but they were still most likely just getting used to being together still. Rover blushed redder then Rose's hair and smiled back at her. Still no kiss, but the team and I could help but grin at each other, fully knowing what was going to happen sooner or later.

It was then that the robot shook as we were fired at. We turned as the alarm went off and watched as Mandy and Mandarin's ship flew closer to ours, weapons exposed to our robot and us.

"Hyper Force, Go!" I called, my team ran to their stations and we prepared to face Mandy and Mandarin in space battle.

Witch's Note:

Whoa, it's been to long since I really got to type, I've been so busy with homework and studying, and trust me, its not easy, especially foreign language. I hate it, and my teacher, but I can't do much about, but once the year is over and I pass her class, hopefully with a good grade, I'll be good for collage in a few years. Anyway…

So sorry for the wait people! I just had to vent back there! But how was this chapter, I always wanted to do this when I magic vortex messes with the team, what do you think of it, love it, or hate it? Reviewing is the only way I'll know!

Question of the Chapter (Besides the one in the paragraph above): How long do you think it will take for Gabriella and Rover to kiss (knowing how long it took them to know that they liked each other)? And how long do you think it will be before Jazz and Cobi realize they have feelings for each other?

Answer to the Question: My answer is… there isn't one! Didn't see that coming did, ya? If I tell you the answer to the question, it would ruin the story! And that's no fun for anyone!

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