Dawn of a New Era
Chapter 16: Battle Within the Citadel of Bone
Third Person's Point of View:
It was the middle of the night, everything was quiet. The 2nd Hyper Force were all asleep in their bed except their leader and their newest member, who sat in the observation room, watching the night sky for any trouble before bed.
"Do you see anything Cobi?" The leader asked her newest member. He sighed and looked out into the dark vacuum of space again, only to see nothing but the stars.
"No Jasmine. There's nothing out there." He said. He looked to face her. In his mind, she was an angle that had a worried look on her face. How badly did he want to hold her and ask her what was wrong, but he was positive that she had no feelings for him at all, they were just teammates and friends. He ignored the thought and looked at her in her bright blue eyes. "Jazz, we've been at this for the passed few hours now, what is it that your trying to find?"
She looked at the young man she had fought many battles with in the few months they have lived together in the Super Robot. His bright hazel eyes looked threw her entire being, sending chills up her spine. His black hair framed his face so well, but what she would do to get closer to him, to be in his arms, to be his. She wished she could run her fingers threw his hair, where she could grip it to bring him closer to her. But there was no chance of that. She saw that he was too perfect for her, and that she, the chosen one, was only fit to fulfill the unknown destiny of her's and live a life alone, with no one to love her.
"I don't know." She told him. "I have this bad feeling, the one that's telling you to run as fast as you can away form here. I think Annabel feels it too, but she's not saying anything because she doesn't want to worry the others or us. I feel it now and then, it's like a loud scream, and then the echoes of it dying off in the background, but it's a feeling inside of me. If that makes any sense."
"No, I understand what you mean, but why these late patrols? If nothing is coming at us, wouldn't it be better if only one was on watch and the rest sleep, and they all know what's going on?" He asked her.
"I guess," she sighed. "But I want the team to have their rest; I don't want them to worry about what we can't see yet. They already have enough to worry about with their families and my father after them."
"Then why did you ask me to stay up with you?"
"Because I trust you the most, even if I knew you only a short time." She said to him, walking up to him and having him face her. "I trust everyone with my life, so don't get me wrong, but if I had a choice, it would be you I would go to first." She hugged him, placing her face in the side of his neck. He felt his face get red and he tried to hide it and comfort her. His face got red, as did her's. She looked up at him while in his arms and the two of them closed their eyes and leaned forward.
Timing ruined the moment though; the robot shook violently as it was attacked by a dark ship. The girl and boy looked out into the vacuum of space and saw as the dark ship approached. Their eyes grew wide at the sight of it, a horror that they could never forget. The Skeleton Queen's ship, the Citadel of Bone.
"Hurry!" She shouted at Cobi. "Go get the others; I'll see what I can do to slow her down!" Cobi nodded and released the Hyper Force leader and ran off in the direction of the rooms that belong to the Hyper Force. In the mean time, the girl ran toward the control panel and placed up a defective shield around the robot. Though it had little effect from the Citadel of Bone crashing into the shield and breaking threw, then slamming into the robot. It rocked the robot so much, it threw the Hyper Force leader at the back wall, hitting her head hard, knocking her out.
The rest of the robot's inhabitants were of the same condition. All were knocked out from the force of the crash. The woman who stood atop of the Citadel of Bone, Skeleton Queen, smirked at the sight and used her power over her ship to capture the robot, bringing it within her Citadel. Vines made of ooze and bone reached within the ship when it was inside and pulled the five monkeys and their human leader out, throwing them into the torture chamber, where she would make the newest and greatest evil fighting force, into a evil force bent on destroying life and humanity.
Little did the evil undead woman know, she missed two people and small little animal on board who will come to the team's aid, that is, when they wake up.
Cobi's Point of View (A Few Hours Later):
There was a really bad pain the back of my head when I woke up. I sat up and tried to remember what just happened. It hit me hard and fast, causing my headache to worsen. Jazz was kidnapped along with the rest of the team. I ran out of the observation room and looked around the rooms to check and see who was still here.
I reached the bedrooms and checked them all, but there was no sign of anyone still here. Am I the only one left free?
"Cobi? Is that you?" I heard a voice call from behind me. I looked to the little space behind me that separated Rover's and my room, and there was my cousin, on her shoulders was Midnight, who didn't look happy that her mistress was gone.
"June!" I yelled, running to her. "I thought you were all taken." My cousin buried her face in my chest and cried like she had when we were younger.
"The others were." She whispered to me. "I watched them being pulled out by vines made of that horrible black ooze. We were the only ones left." She clenched her fists in my shirt. "I can't imagine what that horrible woman is doing to them at this moment. What if she kills them?"
"Not if June, when." I told her. She looked up at me surprised. "This woman has been after them since the beginning and she only has two things she wants to do with them."
"What are they Cobi?" She asked, scared to know the answer.
"The first option is to turn them to her side, but we know the light in them to too powerful for that. So she'll then go with her second option, killing them, slowly and painfully." June gasped and Midnight growled on her shoulders.
"So what do we do Cobi?" She asked me, fear was deeply strung into her voice, like a young child that had lost its best friend. I pulled her away from my chest and whipped away her tears.
"We're going to save them." I told her fiercely to her face. "Skeleton Queen either thinks we're dead or doesn't know about us yet. This can work to our advantage. We can sneak around this ship until we find the others, free them and get out of here. From what it looks like, it seams that the robot is fine, just needs a good power boost, which you, I and Jazz can take care of when we're getting out of here."
"Okay." She said. "Lead the way Cobi."
"Not me," I told her. She looked at me, confused by my words.
"What do you mean, I'm not going first." She said firmly.
I laughed. "Not us, Midnight." I told her. "Midnight can track the sent of the others with her advance sense of smell. Can you do it girl?" Midnight dropped off June's shoulders and sniffed around on the ground. She walked out to the entrance of the robot with us closely on her heels.
Once we got outside the robot, words were hard to think of to describe this place. The place was made of pure onyx black ooze, and you felt like you were being watched every minute. There was no sound, no life; it brings a new meaning to 'dead silent'.
Midnight's tail soon picked up and she dashed off into the darkness of the ship, little light to follow. We had no choice; we followed after in the dim lighting.
"Cobi, can't we turn on a light or something? It's hard to see, and we'll lose track of Midnight before long in this lighting because of her fur color." June asked me, worried.
"We can't do that June." I told her. "And keep your voice down incase anyone is near by, like those foot soldiers of the Skeleton Queen's, the formless. Anyway, its to dangerous to make a light to follow Midnight, sure it would help us follow after her better, but do you want to alert the whole ship that we're here, be captured and have to watch our friends in agonizing pain as their turned evil or killed?" June shook her head and looked at the floor sadly, tears slipped from her eyes.
"I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking." She said.
"It's alright June, I know you mean well for us." I told her. "But right now we have to focus on finding the others, not about the lighting of the ship. Alright?"
"Yeah Cobi." She said, finally smiling. "But you better hurry up with your pace; Midnight is really far up ahead." I looked a head of us and Midnight was out of sight, well almost, we saw the end of her tail swinging back and forth in front of us.
"Damn, your right. Pick up the pace June, or we'll be left in Midnight's dust. I guess a cat can have a lot of energy when sleeping all day and eating a lot." She giggled and I couldn't help but chuckle as we ran threw the tunnel after Midnight, who would hopefully lead us to Jazz and the others. I hope that you all are safe.
Jasmine's Point of View:
My vision was hazy when I woke up. I tried to move my arm to rube my eyes, but I couldn't move them. I pulled against them with the little strength I had, but I was held back. I heard laughter in the background. It was a woman's laugh, one that I had never heard before. It was dark, that much I could tell, the room and her laughter was that way.
"So you finally wake my dear chosen one." The voice said. I tried to open my eyes, but I was faced with only the two color of black and red. "Open you eyes my dear girl; you're not dead…yet." I opened them wider. Without my hands to help run them to adjust to the darkness surrounding me, I had to blink many times to get my vision to come partly to me. Soon though, the picture became clear and I saw the queen of death standing in front of me.
"You." I growled at her. She laughed her dark laugh and lifted her hand to crease my check, I turned from her, she ignored my behavior and still had the nerve to stroke my check.
"Don't be so bitter my dear sweet girl." She said. "After all, soon we'll be working together to plunge this world into the darkest despair."
"Not on you're after life." I snapped at her. She raised an eyebrow at me, pulling up my chin in her hand so I would look at her face.
"We lets get started shall we?" The woman laughed. She walked toward the middle of the room I was in and placed her hand in the center of what looked to be black ooze falling form the ceiling, like a black waterfall. She placed her hand into it and it became a bright purple that ran along the wall, until it hit something above me, my head? I don't know, but all in knew was that when that purple light came behind my head, it was the worse kind of pain I ever felt. I screamed from it. I don't know what happened, but when I was hurt by this dark power, I felt the power primate even as I felt my body in flames and all I felt was my body shredding into pieces. The power primate raced threw my body and shot back threw the ooze and hit the woman head on, knocking her into the back wall.
The pain stopped and I was given a chance to breathe. I looked up and saw that Skeleton Queen had been blow along to the other side of the room. She growled and her eyes glowed a deeper red then before, she stiffly walked up to me and grabbed at my chin forcefully. "You child will be my servant until the end of time, or be dead until the end of time!" She screeched at me. I spat at her face and she slapped me, hard. I glared at the woman. The power primate was strong in me, I glowed a bright green in color that protected me when she tried to unleash that evil dark power on me again.
I just hope I can keep this up long enough until I can find a way out of here or the others help me out. I thought.
Cobi's Point of View:
We continued to follow Midnight threw the Citadel of Bone until we can to large upward tunnel where there were many holes in the walls. Who knew which way went where? Midnight started running up the bone mad ramp and we followed after her the best we could in the dim light. In the faint distance we could hear the screams of the team. It forced us to run faster.
We stopped when we reached a room close to the top of the spiral and looked inside, there we saw Mandy torturing the team. The orange monkey was armed with gloves like her father once had years ago that the team told us about. We closed in and hid while we waited to see what was going on. June had to hold Midnight in her arms to keep her from running into their un prepared.
"So my cousins, you finally are captured by my mistress. How does it feel to be the one to suffer?" She asked them angrily, but yet there was a smirk on her face.
"We couldn't let you father kill any more innocent lives." Annabel told her. "Nor can we let you."
"We'll break free and kick you ass!" Rose shouted.
"What makes you think that?" Mandy asked. "There is no one that will come to your rescue."
"That's where your wrong psycho." Rover said. "We got friends everywhere, soon as they find us, you as good as gone like your father."
Mandy smirked slightly at this as well as looking pissed off by his remark. She walked up to him and grabbed his face. "You do know Rover; you're not a bad looking monkey. I think that when you're all brainwashed, I'll ask my mistress to let me keep you, and she can do whatever she wants with the others."
"You'll do no such thing, and keep your ugly hands off him!" Gabriella yelled at her. Mandy stepped back form rover, releasing his face and walked over to Gabriella, she slapped her across the face and they looked at each other with blood red eyes.
"Did you enjoy the bug I placed on you Gabby? I sure did, it was fun messing with your head. It was too bad though that this wonderful man over there almost died, and then I wouldn't have been able to have fun with him." Gabriella pulled against her restraints to lash out at Mandy, but was pulled back into the web that was holding her back; web restrained her hands, feet and tail. The others were all the same way, and it was most likely that Jasmine was probably in the same position as they were.
"You're not going to get away with this Mandy." Olivia said.
"Really Olivia? And who's going to stop me?" She then shot her hand in the waterfall of ooze to send the blinding pain into the team. It was all that the three of us could take, Midnight rushed in first, growing into her larger form and sent her fangs into Mandy's waist, throwing her across the room. Midnight kept Mandy busy while we freed the others.
"More humans?" Mandy screamed. "How many more are there that I have to worry about killing?" Midnight slashed her claws at her, silencing her and forcing her to focus on her fight or end up with her father in hell without accomplishing his death wish.
"Thank you Cobi." Annabel said.
"Cobi, how did you escape?" Rover asked.
"We didn't have to, no one knew about the three of us, so we were left in the robot and we had Midnight follow the scent and then we found you." I told them. "We still haven't found Jazz yet though. We have to go find her and fast, who knows how much time we have left?" It was then that we all felt the ship below us begin to shake. It knocked most of us over, and Mandy used this moment to escape. She was clearly out numbered and out matched with seven people and a cat she would have to face. She bolted from the room when Midnight was thrown off her. She dove into the ooze and floated up toward the top of the ship.
"Should we go after her?" Rose asked.
"No, we gotta find Jazz, and then get off of this place; it feels like its going to crumble any minute." June said sternly to them.
"By my calculations," Gabriella said. "The Citadel is breaking down because its life force is being crushed, most likely in a fight."
"What are you talking about Gab?" Olivia asked.
"What I mean is that the life force that is connected to the ship is dying, that life force is Skeleton Queen. If she's dying, we only have one guess as to what's going on." She explained.
"Jazz is fighting the Skeleton Queen." I stated.
Jasmine's Point of View (a few moments earlier):
The power primate was shielding me as the woman tried to brainwash me with her dark powers. It was hard to keep up with her with all the power she was throwing at me, but I hung in there, to live to see my team alive again, I wasn't going to lose to her or else Rover and Rose would pound the shit out of me.
It was then that I heard screams echo from down the hallway. It was my team, it distracted me from my powers and the dark power broke threw and hit me full on. It hurt so much, but even under all this pain I was worried about my team, I heard their screams, I have to find them and save them, but first I have to dead with ding bat here. I forced the power primate to go to her again and hit her, forcing her back again, but when she was down for that moment, I didn't stop to catch my breath, I forced my powers at my hands and feet, breaking threw my restraints. I then dropped to the ground to catch my breath even if it was only one shot one, I needed it.
Dark power was then shot at me in the form of a purple stream of light with black specks in it. I dodged it, rolling on the ground, and then racing to my feet. Once I was on them, I used the time I had trained with June, using the speed she taught me to race upon Skeleton Queen. When I got up to her, I forced my 'Monkey Fu' on her, forcing her into the room behind her. The whole ship shook at breaking the wall, and when the smoke cleared, I saw Skeleton Queen slowly rise to her feet. Either I hit her really hard or something else is going on. The last time I attacked her, she got right back up on her feet. I thought. This time though, she went threw the wall… that's it!
The queen of death rose and tried to attack me again, but I dodged her attack, using my 'Lightning Kick' I punched the floor, making a large hole in it. As I predicted, the ship shook violently at my act and the queen was forced onto her hands and knees.
"You're connected to this place." I stated to her, she glared at me. "And if I hurt it, I hurt you just as much. That's why you're so powerful; you take no physical damage unless the ship is harmed." She growled at me and tried to attack once again, but I easily dodged this attack and the ceiling with my 'Thunder Punch' and broke it open. The vacuum of space then started to pull the air out and I looked threw the hole in the ceiling to see that we were approaching an asteroid belt.
"You brat!" She screamed. I smirked at her behavior and turned around.
"Looks like I can't stay much longer, since the air will soon be gone form this place, so I better grab the team and go, but thanks for such a wonderful time. I'll see you again in the after life!" I called to her as I ran out. I heard Skelton Queen scream as I ran off, and I couldn't help but laugh. It was then that my body collapsed without my command. Damn, I must have really worn myself out this time, plus that woman didn't help at all when attacking me with that dark power. I think she might have taken off a few years of my life! I though as I lay on the ground. There was no way for me to escape or find the others.
"Jasmine! Jasmine!" I heard voices from down the hall. I was just able to sure my head an inch to see figures running toward me.
"Oh my god, what happened to her?" I heard someone say.
"We have to get her back to the robot to find out. Let's go Hyper Force." I felt my body be lifted into someone's arms and rushed away from where I was. I wasn't able to notice the voices because of my state.
"Who's there?" I asked, just barely above a whisper. My holder held me closer and whispered in my ear.
"Don't worry Jazz; we'll get you back to the robot." The voice said. I was barely able to make it out, was it Cobi? "We'll get you outta here and get you back on your feet. You did great by the way. I wish I could have seen how you'd taken that horrible woman down." It was him; I could tell just by the way he spoke.
Maybe I can take a nap now, that actually sounds really nice. It was then that I slipped off into the darkness of my own mind, where my dreams come alive.
Witch's Note:
Anyone expecting this for the next chapter? I bet not, but I thought it was time to bring a personal introduction with Skeleton Queen. She's got a really short temper don't she? It was really fun writing this chapter, what did you think of Jazz and Cobi at the beginning? Was it cute; it was one of those 'almost' moments! I bet that was a killer, it was for me just as much you guys, but I can't them rush this now can I?
Question of the Chapter: What is one of your favorite movies? And it has to be before the 21st century!
My Answer to the Question: Mine is the Hogan's Heroes, those guys were awesome! I love all the main characters! I still watch it now and then when I'm making dinner.
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