Alright, I have to admit, I've already got the words for this chapter (And Jasper Dragonfly's request from last chapter! I promise!), but I have to warn you… I'm a bit sketchy on some of them. Like the first one.
Well, I hope they're good enough… and if not, you can tell me you didn't like them and send me request words to get what you want. 8D
Antauri: You're just desperate for reviews.
Shhhhhhhhh! They don't have to know that!
SPRX: They know now.
Ah—crap. You're right… oh, well! I'm addicted to them! They're crack and I'm an addict! Feed my addiction, people, please. I beg of you. 8D
And a big thanks to those who keep the addict sustained for this chapter! Aprotny and pikurosonai00, I love you! Aprotny, I fulfilled your request before I even got it! I love Chiro/Jinmay, too! And pikurosonai, I had a lot of fun writing those! I'm so glad you liked them! Gibson/Otto is so cute! 8D
Alright, onto the actual stories.
Human:
Eh… we do have pairings, you know, the usual Chiro/Jinmay, SPRX/Nova, and Antauri/Gibson… but Reza wanted to give you something called a "Cliché warning"… whatever that means.
Chiro, Jinmay, and Valeena all flinched away as something went boom. The Monkey Team, Sakko, and Mandarin were all held closest to the explosion, and screaming was heard over everything going on. The trio all paused, waiting for someone to walk out.
"Uh… Monkey Team?" Chiro called, "Are you alright?"
A high-pitched shriek echoed off the walls and shook through all of them.
"Nova!" Jinmay yelled, running over to try and break her way through.
Valeena ran over to help her pry the door open.
"You're helping me?"
"Only because my minions are in here." Valeena hissed.
The door flew open and smoke billowed out. When it finally died down, everyone went silent.
"Holy crap…" Chiro mumbled, "This… whoa…"
Every single one of them were converted… into humans.
Otto stared at his hands for a while, before grinning, "Hey! Look at me! I look like Chiro and Jinmay!"
"We all do, you imbecile." Mandarin hissed.
Sakko paused, "Man… I'm still the shortest…"
Gibson immediately activated his drill, "Well… our weapons still work. And we still have our receptors and tails…"
"And long hair." SPRX grumbled, looking at his new neon red hair, "This feels so weird…"
"Antauri's hair is multicolored." Otto pointed out, "And shiny."
"Most likely due to my mechanical body…" Antauri paused, staring at Gibson's bright blue hair curiously. He reached over, slowly, and ran his hands through it.
"Hm?" Gibson turned, "Oh, you surprised me…"
"Your hair is pretty…"
SPRX smirked, "Hey, Nova?"
She paused, looking at her boyfriend, "Now that I'm human, can I file a restraining order?"
SPRX sulked in a corner at that comment, making Nova laugh.
"Uh… how do I do this?"
Jinmay looked at Chiro, "Hm?"
"The team? How can I possibly address them now? They're not a monkey team, they're a monkey/human/cyborg team…"
Mandarin looked at Chiro, "Let's just end this segment so we can go back to being simians…"
Sakko nodded, "I agree, this word was weird. Reza has a rather strange sense of imagination."
It's not my fault I'm doing this while I'm dead tired!
Trimester:
"Lightning Kick!"
Chiro smirked as the Formless exploded into blobs of black ooze.
"That's all of them." Gibson smiled, looking at his scanner, "Hm? I'm… I'm getting something strange here…"
Antauri and Otto walked over and looked at it.
"That's strange…" Otto mumbled.
"There's most likely a logical explanation." Gibson waved his hand.
"We should go see, just to make sure." Antauri told him.
Gibson led everyone to a small shop, closed, with the door wide open. They walked in warily, looking around.
"Hello?" Otto called, "Is anyone in here? You're safe now!"
"Monkey Team!" A woman's sobs were obvious as she came out from hiding from behind a counter.
"Ma'am, are you okay?" Chiro asked
She nodded, "Th-thank you…"
"The Formless have been defeated." He reassured her, "You don't have to hide."
"To run here so quickly that we didn't notice her…" Antauri paused, "She must have been terribly frightened."
Gibson paused, "Ah, I understand now. These readings make sense now." He turned to the black monkey, "She's pregnant."
SPRX paused, "Say what?"
"She's going to have a baby, you dunce." Nova laughed, "It explains why she hid so fast."
"And why my scanners indicate two beings occupying the same space." Gibson nodded.
"What are they saying?" The woman asked Chiro.
Chiro smiled, "Gibson, the blue monkey, is explaining to SPRX, the red one, that your pregnancy is why his scanners showed two people in the exact same place."
She smiled, "Oh, that makes sense." She placed her hands on her swollen stomach, smiling, "Yep, I'm in my second trimester, and he's starting to beat up Mommy already."
Nova smiled and walked over, holding up her hand to the woman's stomach questioningly. The woman smiled back at her and took her hand, placing it on the underside of her stomach. Nova paused before letting a smile spread on her face. She looked at the woman, then back at her stomach.
"I'm going to protect you." She whispered, smiling.
Fiesta:
Another with Reza's three favorite pairings… none of which involve me… *huff* Oh, well. At least I get to be completely awesome in this one. The pairings are Chiro/Jinmay, SPRX/Nova and Antauri/Gibson.
"Come on, Antauri, don't be such a stick in the mud!" Nova laughed, "It's a fiesta!"
The silver monkey shook his head, "The city will not remain unprotected."
"Oh, come on." SPRX laughed, "Even the kid's enjoying himself, and you know he's become a workaholic recently."
Antauri nodded, "That's good. He deserves a break."
"We all do." Nova grabbed Antauri's hand, "Come on. Don't spend the entire night being paranoid. I'll have Otto rewire your system again."
The silver monkey froze, remembering when Otto and SPRX had pranked him by rewiring his entire system. He'd acted like a normal simian for an entirety of four days before Jinmay and Gibson were finally able to corner and fix him.
"Fine." He gave in, "Fifteen minutes."
"That's good enough." SPRX smiled, "Hey, I didn't tell you this, but Gibson's sitting all lonely over there and looks like he could use a dance."
Antauri paused, "Then he should find himself a girl to dance with."
"Go dance with him, Antauri." Nova gave him a playful shove.
"Speaking of dancing." SPRX took Nova's hand, "Care to join me?"
"You can dance? This I have to see."
Chiro smiled and handed Jinmay a drink.
"You look a lot better than you have recently, Chiro." She smiled.
"I'm more relaxed right now. I've been really stressed lately, but this party… it's fun. And I like being able to spend it with you."
She kissed his cheek, "When will we dance again?"
"When I can feel my feet again." He laughed, "You're a robot, so you don't get tired after an hour and a half of dancing, but I do. Can't we just sit together for a few minutes?"
"Whatever you want." She smiled and rested her head on his shoulder.
"Thank you."
"Oh, look, Antauri's actually participating."
Chiro blinked, "Really?" He found the silver monkey sitting next to Gibson, talking calmly.
"Do you want to dance, Hal?"
Gibson paused, "Me?"
"There is no one else here named Hal." Antauri smiled.
"O-of course not… it's an uncommon name. If you want to dance with me, then I will."
"That isn't what I asked." Antauri corrected, "I want to know if you want to dance with me."
Gibson paused, "Yes."
"Wonderful." He stood and helped the blue monkey to his feet, pulling him close and beginning to dance.
"I apologize in advance for if I step on you… I don't dance often, and when I do, I usually don't have a partner."
Antauri smiled, "Well, then, I forgive you in advance."
Gibson chuckled and closed his eyes, following Antauri's movements. Antauri moved his hand slightly to entwine his fingers with Gibson's smiling as he did so.
"They're sappier than a maple tree." SPRX chuckled.
"And you're cornier than a field of maize." Nova smiled, "But they're cute."
SPRX paused, "Where's Otto?"
Nova looked around, "Hey, you're right, I haven't seen him at all. But that could be because you refuse to let me look anywhere but at you."
"I like it when you look at me. It makes me feel special."
"You are special, SPRX. Special ed."
"WHOO!"
"Oh, no…" The pair groaned in unison.
Otto ran over, jumping on SPRX, "!"
The green monkey darted off, talking Gibson, "GIBBY!"
"Good gracious! Otto, release me!"
Antauri refused to pout. So what, Gibson was about to kiss him? It didn't matter that much… he didn't need to pout…
"I LOVES YOOOOU GIBBY!"
Antauri lifted Otto up, "Otto…"
The green simian grinned excitedly, "Yeah!"
"Either go back to the Super Robot and go to sleep, or go bother someone else."
"!"
"Then go bother someone else."
"Okay! CHIRO!"
Otto ran off. Antauri sighed and looked back at Gibson.
"He sure is a rambunctious little primate, isn't he?" Gibson asked.
"Indeed." Antauri had to paused when he heard what sounded like a giggle, "What's so funny?"
"Oh, nothing." Gibson smiled, rocking onto his heels.
"It was something, otherwise you wouldn't have laughed."
Gibson chuckled, "Well… you looked… cute, standing there, jealous of Otto and pouting."
"I did not pout."
"You tried not to, and failed." Gibson pushed a kiss to Antauri's cheek, "Is that better?"
Antauri smiled, "Much."
Poniard:
Antauri's eyes widened when he saw the small dagger in Valeena's clenched fist. She was laughing as Chiro ran to attack her, obviously preparing to end their leader swiftly to prevent any mistakes.
The silver monkey quickly ran to catch up to the boy, pushing him out of the way of the poniard, taking the attack for himself.
"Antauri!" Gibson shouted in horror.
Valeena laughed as the Monkey Team stared in horror at Antauri's fallen form… she had been meaning to kill Chiro quickly, a swift slash across the neck was extremely difficult to fix, and impossible with the limited resources in this wasteland. It would have killed him easily. But Antauri's neck was much thinner than the human boys…
His entire head was off. Sparks snapped, small wires danced, and his blue eyes were dull.
"Murderer!" Otto shouted, activating his saws.
Valeena lifted Antauri's head, smirking, "This would make a great sacrifice to the Skeleton King…"
"Boo."
The witch shrieked in horror and ran off.
Antauri groaned in pain as his head was dropped to the ground, "Ow!"
"Antauri!" Nova yelled.
"You're not dead!" SPRX grinned.
Antauri smiled, "I'm one hundred percent machine. You would have to completely destroy my circuits to kill me… can… can someone help me? This feels very, very uncomfortable."
Gibson walked over and picked up Antauri's head.
"Maybe we could mount him." Otto offered, "Like those hunter dudes do."
"We could get him a plaque and everything!" SPRX smiled.
"We could put him right above his transport tube." Nova grinned.
Chiro nodded, "Yeah! Then, just invite people over and scare the mess out of them!"
Antauri stared in horror, "You… you wouldn't! Hal, you're the smartest one on our team! You know this is a bad idea, right!"
Gibson smiled, "We could put his body on a mechanical horse, put a pumpkin on it, and send it through the city as the headless Horseman!"
"Gibson!" Antauri shouted, "You wouldn't possibly… I don't want to be mounted like some sort of prize!"
Comatose:
Hey! It seems like it's my turn for a pairing! And, the winner of the Otto pairing of the day is…. ME AND GIBBY! YAY!
Antauri and SPRX stood in the door of the medical bay aboard the Super Robot.
"Gibson sure seems worried." SPRX mumbled.
"Indeed. It seems his emotions are driving him to work harder… thus pushing himself to his own limits."
SPRX chuckled, "And it's just one injury. It's not like Otto's gone comatose."
Antauri sighed and walked in, grabbing one of the folded medical blankets and draping it over Gibson, who'd fallen asleep at his console. He Looked at Otto, who was obviously dreaming of being a cat…
"They're so different." SPRX chuckled, "It's kinda endearing."
Antauri smiled, "Very."
"Come on, let's let them get some sleep." SPRX turned to leave, "Gibson would hate to think he'd been caught sleeping on the job."
Fireflies:
Pairing warning! Woot woot! :D This is SPRX and Nova. Ooooh, Sparky and Nova, sitting in a tree!
"Nova, please let me take off the blindfold. You know I'm afraid of being blind. This is kinda freaking me out here."
"Just calm down, SPRX, I won't let anything hurt you." Nova squeezed his hand reassuringly, "I just wanted to repay you."
"Repay me? For what? If you mean that spider that was in your room, I swear, it wasn't me!"
"No, not about that." She chuckled, "We're almost there."
SPRX closed his eyes when he felt the blindfold coming off, opening them slowly to adjust to the light around him.
"Nova…"
She smiled, "Do you like it?"
He grinned, "Wow! Look at all the fireflies!"
"Want to chase them?"
He nodded, "This is so cool, Nova! Thank you!"
She kissed him lightly, smiling, "Anything for you."
Human- I fail. Well, I warned you that I wasn't sure about the first one. I agree with Mandarin for once. Let's just completely ignore the fact that this segment existed. I don't like it at all. Well… I like Antauri running his hands through Gibson's hair and the idea of Sakko walking around, obviously male, in a belly shirt, skirt, with long pink hair held up by a bow. That just seems adorable to me. 8D
Trimester- I wanted to do something cute.
Fiesta- Hyper Otto… something I've wanted to do for a long time. I can guarantee more of him. 8D And stick in the mud Antauri is fun… and pouty Antauri…
Antauri: I'm not a stick in the mud… and I don't pout.
You're pouting right now! 8D
Poniard- This was fun. I hope I get the right word to continue this, because you know I would. I scared you all there for a minute didn't I? I would never kill Antauri. Torture? Yes. Kill? No. 8D
Comatose- Otto was in Sickbay for some reason or another, and Gibson goes panicky in trying to fix him. So much so that he wears himself out and falls asleep. Antauri and SPRX find him asleep at one of the consoles in Sickbay.
Fireflies- Request from Jasper Dragonfly. I made it a continuation of Butterflies from Chapter 8. Nova repays SPRX for surprising her with the butterflies and takes him to go see the fireflies. Fluff, anyone? 8D
Since I'm back in skool, I promised myself that I would be able to juggle this and my homework and still update at least once a week. So, now, I have a system. 8D My math teacher assigns the homework in pieces… so I do one piece, then write one story and bottom review. Then another section, and another story/review. 8D Then, at the very end, my homework is done, and I still got to write during it! But I can't close my book, otherwise I'll think I'm done…
The good news: I finished my homework before I even got to Poniard. 8D I feel proud. This is the earliest I've gotten this much work done…
Antauri: That's actually rather smart, Reza. I applaud your enthusiasm for balancing personal life and schoo-
Don't say that! You can only say that word correctly in a fic… I hate that word with a passion.
Antauri: Um… alright. I applaud you for your enthusiasm in balancing your personal life and skool work.
That's better.
Otto: Heh… it's funny, because Antauri got yelled at this time instead of Gibson.
Gibson: Not so fun, is it?
Antauri: I just know to be wary of her temper because she keeps a knife in her nightstand drawer.
Gibson: 0.o
SPRX: Um… I would advise not to write in your book…
Nag nag nag. Jeez, you're almost as bad as Gibson. It's my book (for the semester) I can do what I want. Besides, I'm not ruining it.
SPRX: Don't jump on my case…
Don't bug me while I'm doing homework. I'm irritable when I do homework.
Otto: We can tell.
Nova: Reviews save lives!
Chiro: Ours…
Antauri: Flames erase the monkey team from the entire universe for all of eternity.