Author Notes: This chapter is meant to act as sort of an interlude more than anything, so please forgive the shortness. Thanks again to Art my beta, and all my reviewers. As always, R&R with details please.

Warnings: Language

Chapter 13
Transition

TIME: 8 Hours Later, 12:00 UTC-4
LOCATION: 12°N, 58°W 36,870 ft above Sea Level

Sprx shifted about as he tried to find a comfortable position. Of course, the inside of a small wooden box has very few available positions that one could consider comfortable.

Yes, they had somehow been able to sneak aboard a cargo plane currently headed for Denver without being caught. Either we were lucky as hell or the security at that airport sucks!

Of course thinking about airports brought him back to that topic which he had been trying to avoid like the plague.

Saada, Sprx sighed as he remembered the conversation they had. Now she's probably worrying and blaming herself.

He supposed growing up as the only child with parents in an orphanage left her with severe guilt issues.

I just hope she's okay.

Sprx was unaware that his teammates were thinking the exact same thing, only in Otto's case it was 'they' in place of 'her'.

Antauri was probably the most worried; he knew that Hyun Jae was slightly… unpredictable and he had no idea which course of action she would take. However, he didn't even imagine that Hyun Jae would do what was actually occurring on the other side of the globe.

-~-~-~-~-~-~-

TIME: 01:00, UTC+9
LOCATION: Narita International Airport, Narita, Japan

Hyun Jae drowsily slouched in her seat. Her hard, uncomfortable, very not first class seat, as she bitterly reminded apparently all the first class seats were reserved, and only a coach seat was open on such short notice.

Of course, it was only now that she was taking notice. For most of the flight she was trying not to have a mental breakdown. That sort of thing tended to happen when you go flying only a few months after your parents die in a horrific plane crash!

Hyun Jae shook her head, Snap out of it! You're not even in the air anymore!

The last fact resounded bitterly in Hyun Jae mind.

The plane had been scheduled for a stop in Narita to refuel, but now this half-hour stop was quickly turning into a three hour long torture session.

I am really starting to think that you're not worth it Antauri! Hyun Jae sighed, Just relax, not too long from now you'll be in New Zealand and one step closer to rescuing Antauri from that weird kid.

Ironically, Hyun Jae wasn't the only one out on a misguided attempt to rescue a member of the monkey team.

-~-~-~-~-~-~-

LOCATION: Crab Nebula, approx. 6,500 light years from earth

I'm coming Chiro.

Jinmay shifted in her seat trying to remain focused on the task at hand.

After about a month of no contact from Chiro or any other monkey team member the pink haired android had begun to seriously worry. She was accustomed to long stretches of time when she didn't see Chiro, but he always sent a message assuring his safety at least once a week.

Now while she wasn't supposed to leave the planet while the monkey team was gone unless it was an emergency, a) there hadn't been an attack on the planet since the team had left two months ago, and b) she was pretty sure this counted as an emergency!

So about one week ago she had activated the emergency tracker beacon she had placed on Chiro.

What? Okay, so that sounded slightly paranoid, but c'mon her boyfriend was a super hero who regularly was captured for crying out loud! Even Otto agreed when he helped designed the thing!

There was only one problem with the tracker. It only worked for about an hour after activated.

Jinmay was thus both surprised and very relieved to find that the tracker remained stationary the entire time active. (Well, relatively stationary, due to the immense proportions with which the tracker had to work with, the smallest difference it could measure from this distance was somewhere in the billions of miles.)

What shocked her even further was where Chiro was; on the other side of the galaxy! Chiro, for some reason, was in a little explored, minor arm of the galaxy all the way on the opposite side of the galactic core. Great.

So Jinmay took the most sensible course of action.

She got the fastest spaceship she could find (being the guardian of Shuggazoom meant a very large discount), and then set a course for the destination that was several thousands of light years away.

Thank Shuggazoom for the warp drive.

From the looks of things, Chiro was located in a not too peculiar solar system. The computer said it was a single star, G2V, with several orbiting objects of various sizes.

It was one of these in particular that drew her attention. The third one from the star seemed to support life. Now she was coming into range of the planet and would soon begin her descent into the atmosphere.

I'm almo - CRASH

Jinmay's train of thought was cut off as something slammed into her ship at a high speed, sending it reeling.

What was that?! An asteroid!

No, Jinmay had in fact just destroyed the Optus D2 satellite, responsible for most satellite TV throughout Oceania. Not that she had any time to appreciate that as her ship hurdled down towards the planet.