Oh, dear, I didn't receive a review until I'd uploaded the last chapter… So, this one goes out to you, EvilAntauri! 8D
Antauri: and that wonderful friend of yours. :)
SPRX: And a big internet hug to Jasper Dragonfly. We're glad you like our stories.
Otto: Oh, Jasper Dragonfly has two words! Yay!
Chiro: And thanks to Skaternova for your review!
Gibson: You must be ecstatic, Reza. One half of your words are requests.
Nova: Well, let's see what she does for these requests, why don't we?
Miserable:
Pairing warning! Oh, a new one! Antauri/Nova! Hm? What's this? Uh… Reza wants me to tell you that this is the first time she's writing it and wants to apologize if it sucks… Aw, it won't suck, Reza! I'm sure you'll do great! :D
Nova panted for air as the training simulation fell away.
"Can we go another round?" She asked.
"No, Nova, you'll wear yourself out." Antauri chuckled, "Did something happen?"
"Yeah, SPRX was born." She growled, "He's so annoying! That miserable, no-good, two-faced, son of a-"
"Breathe, Nova."
She took a deep breath and sighed, "I'm okay."
He smiled, "Perhaps you just need a day off. I could join you."
"Are you asking me on a date, Antauri?" Nova smiled.
"I believe I am." Blue eyes met pink and stayed there for a while.
She held out her hand, "Alright. I accept."
Sweetness:
Sugar is what gives everything its sweetness. If there's sugar, you're bound to find sweet. And if you have sweet, you have happy. Everyone likes sweets. Especially a group of five robot monkeys and a fourteen-year-old boy.
"What's that smell?" Gibson asked.
"I dunno…" Otto looked around.
"Where's Nova?" SPRX asked.
"Maybe that smell is what dead Nova smells like…" Chiro paused, "Dead Nova smells like…"
Antauri stood up, "Nova made cookies."
Said yellow simian walked in, a plate stacked high with sugar, chocolate chip, and caramel cookies in her arms. She grinned at the boys in the room, watching as their eyes followed her.
"Would someone like a cookie? I was in the mood to bake cookies, so I did."
"Well, seeing as you went through the trouble, it is only polite we indulge in your baked goods to show our gratitude." Gibson smiled.
She laughed, "Just eat the cookies."
"No argument here!" Antauri and Otto smiled.
Cursed:
Valeena growled, slamming her fist into a wall. She copied this multiple times over, until her knuckles bled. She lifted her hand up and tasted the blood.
"I can't believe him…" She growled, "I followed him without question, I risked my very existence to bring him back to life, and he sends me back to this pit!" She punched the wall again, feeling dirt and pebbles fall onto the open wounds there, "Cursed to watch over the dead and dying! Well, no longer… I will get out of here, and when I do, he will pay. I will destroy him, banish him to take my place as ruler over the deceased and take my place as Queen of the cosmos!"
She laughed as pitiful souls begged for her mercy, of which she did not give. She did, however kneel down and smile.
"Soon, there will be a soul amongst your ranks you have seen twice before. But this time, he will remain here."
Light:
For sixty years, the Robot Monkeys were left in complete darkness. For sixty years they slept, unable to open their eyes of think. Their minds were off, their consciousness was gone.
Then, completely suddenly, without warning, light attacked them. Their minds were awakened, and they could open their eyes.
Nova was the first to wake, immediately looking around. She saw a small boy, maybe twelve, standing at the front of the room, staring at his hands.
"Whoa… what'd I do?"
The plug in the back of her head disconnected and she stepped outside her small containment. She gathered all of her strength and moved her tail carefully. She tested every part of her body, making sure it still worked.
The boy hadn't moved or even attempted to turn around.
"Are you going to introduce yourself or just stand there?"
She paused, recognizing SPRX's voice. She quickly turned, smiling when she saw four different colored simians standing somewhere across from her.
The boy spun around, "What!"
Antauri stepped forward, "Hello. I am best known as Antauri. May I be informed of your name or an alias you wished to be addressed as?"
"Okay, I'm officially crazy, there are rainbow monkeys talking to me… this is great… oh, they'll love this back at the Foster Home… Chiro's gone crazy !"
"Rainbow? Oh, no. We are not rainbow, kid." SPRX scoffed, "I don't do rainbows."
"I do!" Otto smiled, "They're cool!"
Gibson crossed his arms, "I do not see the fascination your hold with the, Otto. They are merely refraction of the sun's rays off of water particles into the visible color spectrum."
Otto smiled, "I don't know what you just said…" He looked at the boy, "I'm Otto! What's your name?"
"Chiro…"
"Chiro." Otto smiled, "I like it!"
"My name is Mister Hal Gibson. Do not call me Mister, nor Hal, just Gibson. Please."
"I'm S-P-R-X-77. But you can call me SPRX."
"My name's Nova!"
The boy sighed, "Well, I might as well have fun with the insanity while it lasts."
Nova paused. This boy… Chiro… he seemed different. She looked at the team, and back at him. He had a different light to him, as though he was illuminated by some foreign light source. She shook her head and smiled.
It was probably just how people were these days… right?
Inkblot:
"What do you see in this, Otto?" Gibson asked.
"Um…" Otto turned his head to the side, staring at the inkblot on the card, "A kitty wearing a tutu doing the Macarena."
Gibson paused, but wrote Otto's words down. He switched cards and looked up, "And now?"
Otto smiled, "I see Antauri laughing!"
Gibson shrugged, continuing with the test.
"This one?"
"Um… a chicken with four legs and three wings."
"Here?"
"That's definitely Skeleton King with a rooster hat."
"Um… alright… this one?"
Otto paused.
"Otto?" Gibson asked.
"Um… I see… I see the Super Robot standing on the Citadel of Bone with one foot wearing a chicken hat… and Slingshot is right over there eating a piece of candy… and that's Nova with a bag of tomatoes."
"Alright." Gibson stood, "This evaluation is over."
"How'd I do?"
"You're perfectly and absolutely insane." Gibson smiled, "I didn't expect anything else."
"Yay!" Otto grinned, "Do I get a prize?"
Gisbon chucked and handed the green monkey a lollipop, watching him run off in glee.
:
"Reza, get off the computer." Gibson chastised.
"Can't. Need to write. Must catch up on chapters. Must post stories."
Otto jumped up onto the desk, opening the blinds and letting the sunlight in. Reza yelped, covering her eyes in pain.
"Ow! It hurts! Close it, please!"
" is not so important that you end up being a hermit and stop interacting with real people." Chiro crossed his arms.
"I have no life outside. Out there I'm 'Reza, that stupid, energetic freak no one likes'. Online, I'm 'Reza, that stupid, energetic writer that at least some people like'. I'd rather stay where people like me."
Antauri shook his head, "You have friends, Reza. Call them, meet them somewhere. Do something that doesn't involve a computer. Or you could go downstairs and play with your little sister."
"Just do something." Nova smiled.
Reza paused, looking down at her hands, "I… I guess I could go for a bike ride around the neighborhood."
"That's a good girl." Antauri smiled, "Come on, get up… put your shoes on… there you go."
"Can I listen to my iPod while I ride?"
"Go on. And once you get back, you can continue writing." Gibson smiled.
Reza smiled, "Then I'll post them to and people will read them, and then I'll get lots of happy reviews!"
"Yep. That's right. Now, go…" SPRX smiled.
"Come with me." Reza grinned.
"Can't." Nova chuckled nervously, "Your dog seems to think we're food…"
Miserable- My first Antauri/Nova, how'd I do? A request from a friend of EvilAntauri's. Hope I didn't fail too badly!
Sweetness- Request from Jasper Dragonfly. Am I the only one that sees Antauri as the kind of person/monkey to have a sweet tooth that commands their very soul?
Cursed- Valeena plots to overthrow SK… Personally, I think she should do it. Look at all she did for him, and how does he repay her? He's a jerk to her for no reason. Now, being a jerk to mandarin I can understand, but Valeena never failed him. Oh, well. Just my opinion.
Light- Request from Jasper Dragonfly. I went with sixty, because I read somewhere that Captain Suggazoom was asleep for sixty years. There's only, maybe, a year and a half between when the Monkey Team was awakened and when they found Captain Suggazoom. Makes sense, right? Heh… Chiro woke up the Monkey Team, and Nova seems to notice a different light to him. What she's seeing is the Power Primate lurking within him.
Inkblot- Gotta love Otto.
- This is sadly true… I spend all of my free time writing these fics. The tan I developed during marching Band is gone and I'm now whiter than the ghost mask Antauri wore in Season of the Skull.
Antauri: and that's all for now, because now Reza has to go to sleep.
But, Antauri, it's only 00:30…
Gibson: Exactly, Go to bed, young lady. You need more sleep than you've been getting.
)8 But I wanna keep writing.
SPRX: You can do that tomorrow, once you're awake and refreshed.
Nova: Now, get up and go to bed.
Aw…
Otto: Or… you could, you know, sleep up here again. You said the couch isn't too uncomfortable. And we can't go downstairs…
Antauri: Will you sleep upstairs with us, Reza?
8D OKAY!
Nova: Well, good night everyone.
SPRX: Please review.
They make me happy.
Antauri: And get her to bed on time…
Otto: Flames make Reza depressed.
Gibson: thus rendering her emotionally compromised. Then her grades will lower and she'll be restricted from electronics.
Chiro: if that happens, she'll probably get bored with the concept of this and give up.
I'm sleepy now… night night, everyone…
