Me: Welcome to Chapter Twenty Two!

Chiro: Are you almost finished?

Me: I don't know.

Sprx: Come on Kid. We're going to be late.

Chiro: Coming Sprx. Aunna doesn't own SRMTHFG.

Me: Read and Review.

Chapter Twenty Two: Waiting

I struggled to free myself from the bonds Skeleton King had put me in but with no success. I knew I shouldn't have gone to the park by myself. Now I was captured and probably put the team in danger.

Skeleton King came in and I struggled harder. I wanted to be free and run from the Skeleton King. I wanted out of the Citadel of Bone. I wanted to be in my family's arms. I wanted a lot of things but I wouldn't be freed that easily.

"Why struggle boy?" Skeleton King asked. His bone finger lifted my face to his. "You could be king," he hissed. "Those humans in Shuggazoom couldn't care any less about you. And those monkeys you consider family wouldn't care if you died under my hand,"

"No!" I shouted. All of my memories came rushing back. When I had gotten pneumonia Gibson made sure I was clean and Sprx had took me to the hospital. When I had nearly died in the fans Antauri saved me. When Mandarin had me hostage Nova beat the crap out of him. Whenever I was sad Otto made me laugh by telling me a story or a really funny joke. They cared for me more then the universe.

"They don't care," he hissed. "They are not coming for you. I'm giving you a chance at life,"

"No!" I shouted. "You're lying to me! The people of Shuggazoom do care about me! When the Monkey Team had to go into space when I was a baby the people always volunteered to watch me! The Monkey Team cares about me more then you do you ugly bag of bones!"

"You got that right!" we heard someone shouted. I looked over and saw the Monkey Team. Sprx had spoken. Skeleton King punched me in the jaw and Sprx jumped up. "No one hurts my brother!" he shouted. "Gyro Roll!"

Sprx hit Skeleton King dead on and Antauri jumped up to my side. He took on look at the gooey chains that held me prisoner, growled, and cut them away. I shouted with joy and hugged Antauri. He hugged me back and stood protectively in front of me.

"Razor Chariot!" Otto yelled. He attacked Skeleton King but got hit straight in the head with a powerful blast of dark energy. All of the others attacked but Skeleton King knocked them down like flies.

I felt all the anger I had been bottling up for years threatening to break lose. "See boy," Skeleton King said. "You're monkeys are nothing but useless pieces of junk,"

I snapped.

"NO!" I shouted. "MONKEY MIND SCREAM!" I let out the horrible screech I had heard Antauri let loose many times before. Skeleton King shielded his face but was thrown across the room into the wall. I stopped screaming and let the Inner Primate take over. I ran up to Skeleton King and did something I thought I'd never do.

I broke his skull.

It was as strong as steel but it didn't stop me. I screamed and cracked the skull. Skeleton King screamed and I broke the skull to a million pieces. Skeleton King was no more.

I backed away as a wave of exhaustion washed over me. I fell to the floor and began to breath heavily. My legs, my arms, and my voice refused to obey me. I wanted to run to the monkeys and beg them to get up. But I couldn't and began to cry.

A few hours later…

My sensors came to life and I moaned. What had happened?

I heard sobs. Sad, painful sobs. Chiro's sobs. Why was Chiro sobbing? Had Sprx said something mean to him again? Had he hurt himself?

Then it hit me. Figuring out Skeleton King had Chiro, freeing him, being knocked unconscious by the undead king.

My eyes flew up and I jumped up from the spot where I had laid. In a corner was Skeleton King's body, his head completely shattered. There was a trail of blood that led to Chiro.

Chiro!

I ran over to him. He didn't notice me. I shook him lightly and he looked at me with red eyes. He blinked and stared at me like I was a dream. Then he realized this is real and screamed with joy. He hugged me and I felt something warm and sticky on my back.

I grabbed Chiro's arms and looked at his hands. They were shredded by the pieces of Skeleton King's skull. I gasped and quickly activated Gibson. He woke up, saw the blood and quickly went to work.

I activated the others and we huddled together. "We need to get to the Super Robot," Gibson said. "I don't have the right supplies here,"

We nodded and ran for the robot, Chiro falling behind so much I had to go back and carry him. The force he had used to destroy Skeleton King's must have weakened him badly.

We entered the Super Robot and Gibson got to work on Chiro's hands. I paced but stopped. Chiro had defeated the Skeleton King. What would we do now? What would happen to our family?

Gibson came out with a tired looking Chiro behind him. I quickly ran up to them and realized for the first time that he was an inch taller then me. He was growing up quickly. Too quickly for my tastes.

When he was tucked into bed I realized the answer to my question. We had another mission, raise Chiro to be a wonderful man.

Chiro was still a child. He needed love and affection to grow emotionally. We had done that since we had gotten him. But if we give him up he wouldn't be the same. He would feel betrayed. He would think Skeleton King was right.

We couldn't give up Chiro anyway. We loved him too much for that. He was our child and we would raise him to be our boy. Our little bundle of sunshine who could make Gibson and Sprx laugh by just saying girls had cooties. The little bundle of endless energy who could make Nova and Otto pass out in their chairs just after a little game of tag. The little scholar who wouldn't stop asking me questions about the power primate and other topics.

And I loved that little bundle more then all the universe.