Mandarin: Hello, everyone.

Antauri: Why are you still here? You're supposed to be evil.

Well… I kinda like the good Mandy. He's so cool and I wish the show had more of him than just when he was corrupted.

Gibson: oh, dear… it seems Antauri has competition for the place of 'favorite'…

Antauri: At least I have pairings. -smirk-

Now, Antauri, don't be mean to Mandy.

Mandarin: Thanks to Jasper Dragonfly for the review! You've given us so many good words; we don't mind you taking a request break.

Don't make it too long, tough! My reviewers always have better words than my stupid word generator!

Otto: And, pikurosonai00… AREN'T KITTIES JUST ADORABLE! :D You get your request! Yay!

Gibson: And Laurus Maximuss, thank you so much for your wonderful words of kindness.

Mandarin: And, EvilAntauri! I had to give you thanks, just because what you said was hilarious! XD Reza's brain is something very interesting, isn't it?

Antauri: … -mumbles- I usually get to do review responses…

Gibson: So, is Mandarin going to join us from now on?

Yep! He's just so cute as a good guy! I'm not fond of the mutated Mandarin, you know, the one whose body is seven times too big for the rest of him? But good, bandaged, and cloned Mandarin are all so cool!

Mandarin: Hug time!

And he doesn't hate hugs.

Antauri: …

Otto: Uh… Well, how about those words! Yeah, let's read!

Germ:

Otto shrieked, attracting the attention of everyone in the room.

"What's wrong?" Chiro asked.

The green simian shook his head and chuckled, "Sorry… uh… trying to upgrade some stuff."

He looked at a list he'd made of thing he'd written. The words on top read THINGS I WANNA BUILD TODAY and scratched "germ goggles" in excess… just too creepy looking.

Sorry:

Skeleton King was gone. Valeena was dead. Sakko had disappeared. The Skeleton King Droid was terminated. The Formless were formless once again.

So where did that leave Mandarin? The only one who had survived it all? Skeleton king had destroyed his body, sure, but he'd preserved his mind. He was still guilty of betraying his family, betraying his planet…

He sat on Ranger 7, staring into the void of space. He didn't try to hid himself or stay out of sight. He didn't care what might happen to him anymore.

"If I remember right, you had a fear of being completely alone."

He froze.

"And now that the Skeleton Witch is gone, it's back to being your number one fear."

Otto smiled and sat down next to Mandarin.

"I can't believe it's all over." He sighed and looked at Mandarin, "And you're the only one left from your side. Nice job."

"Why are you speaking to me?" Mandarin looked at the green monkey, "You should hate me. You should want to kill me."

"No way." Otto grinned, "I owe you."

"Owe me?"

Otro nodded and lay down, "If you hadn't turned SPRX evil… I wouldn't have remembered the pain from when you left us. I remembered who you used to be and how I'd promised to never leave the side of my family." He looked at Mandarin, "You're still my family. So… I owe you for reminding me of that."

Mandarin hugged his knees and looked back out into space, "You may forgive me, but you are the only one. I have done so much wrong…"

"I heard Antauri talking to Chiro after the Sun Riders were turned… he said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, so those corrupted by Skeleton King could never be corrupted completely. He doesn't have absolute power. Chiro saved the Sin Riders from Skeleton King… and I want to do the same with you."

"Really?"

Otto smiled, "Well, that, and no one else wants to go streaking through the city with me."

Mandarin paused and chuckled, "They won't trust me."

"Just say you're sorry and prove it. That's all they'll want."

"Otto?"

The green monkey smiled, "Yeah?"

"I'm sorry."

Positive:

"Positive thoughts, Nova…" The yellow monkey hissed at herself, grinding her teeth and clenching her fists.

"Otto…" SPRX growled lowly, "You've brought some crazy things onto the Super Robot, and we've accepted each one… but this…"

"Oh, come on, guys! He's got nothing left!"

"The last time Mandarin was here he tried to kill us all using our worst fears against us." Chiro glared.

"That was when Skeleton King was alive." Otto reminded them.

Gibson shook his head, "No. Get him off this Robot, get him off this planet, and get him out of this solar system."

Otto looked at Antauri, "Antauri…"

"No, Otto." Antauri shook his head.

"You were the one who said those taken over by Skeleton King could be saved. You encouraged Chiro to save the Sun Riders… so why can I do the same thing with Mandarin?'

"Because he's Mandarin." SPRX growled, "The Sun Riders betrayed us once! Mandarin has tried to kill us countless times!"

Otto sighed and decided to say the one thing he hadn't wanted to, "So that's it, then. We're heroes to the citizens of Suggazoom, we're heroes to complete strangers, and we're heroes to a planet we didn't even bother contacting… and yet we can't be heroes to our brother." Otto straightened his stance and moved to stand beside Mandarin, who was rather embarrassed about the entire situation, "If you won't accept my brother, then I don't accept you."

"Otto-" SPRX paused when Antauri held up a hand.

"Take him to the training room, Otto." Antauri commanded and walked off.

Chiro followed Antauri, "What are you doing?"

"Otto is right. If we can trust people we don't know, why can't we trust our own brother? So I'm going to make him earn our trust once again." Antauri walked into Chiro's room and grabbed the repaired gloves and helmet there.

"You're giving him back his weapons?"

"I am." Antauri walked out of the room and went to the training room, where Otto and Mandarin stood. He tossed the gloves to Mandarin, who caught them.

"What is this for?" Mandarin asked, staring at the weapons in his hands.

"Otto." Antauri looked at him.

Otto squeaked under the pointed gaze and ran over. Antauri closed off the training section of the room, leaving the rest of the team to watch.

"What is this, Antauri?" mandarin had yet to put the gloves on.

"A test." He removed his silver helmet and put Mandarin's orange one on, "A very simple test. All you have to do is get your helmet back."

Mandarin looked from the gloves in his hands to Antauri, "This isn't that silly trick test where all I have to do is ask for it, is it, because if it is…"

"It is not."

"Alright." Mandarin tossed the gloves aside, "I don't need weapons."

Antauri glared and immediately went to attack. Mandarin dodged as best he could, hissing in pain as one of Antauri's ghost hands grazed his arm. His eyes shot to the gloves at the side of the room.

'Use them. You could win. You could get rid of Antauri, have your weapons and your helmet.' He growled and shook the thoughts away, making a dash for Antauri's helmet. He scooped it up in his hands and smirked.

"Rather careless of you to leave this lying around, Antauri. Doesn't this connect to your central nervous system?"

Antauri made a grab for the helmet, but Mandarin jumped up onto one of the podiums standing in the center of the room. Antauri followed quickly, eyes never leaving his helmet. Mandarin smirked and shoved the silver helmet into the ceiling, letting the pointed end pieces stab into the metal teher and stick. He jumped down to the ground and watched as Antauri tried to get his helmet.

"Antauri!" Mandarin called, "Look out!"

Antauri looked down to prepare for an attack, blinking when he felt mandarin's helmet slip off. Andarin caught it easily and slipped it on. Antauri pulled his helmet out of the ceiling and jumped down, fitting it on his head.

"My helmet was always slightly bigger than yours." Mandarin smiled.

Antauri smiled, "Perhaps I should have remembered that."

Otto ran into the room, grinning, "You passed! Yay!"

Ashore:

"What's that?" Gibson asked.

"You don't know?" Otto stared at the creature in his hands, "I found it washed ashore. I thought you could tell me what it is."

Gibson and otto stared at the creature, curious.

"Can I eat it?" Otto asked.

"Don't eat it, Otto."

"Okay…"

Renounce:

"Otto, you're an idiot." Gibson rolled his eyes.

"I renounce that!" Otto snapped back.

"The word is resent, Otto…" Gibson sighed and pushed the green monkey out of his lap, "I'm working."

Metal: request by EvilAntauri

"You know, Antauri, I'm glad you have your metal body." Gibson smiled, "It really reflects in the moonlight."

"I hate you and hope you all get eaten by a monster."

"It's really nice looking, too." Gibson chuckled, "It's beautiful, and scary at the same time."

"Then you'll want my help and I won't give it. I'll leave you to be digested."

Gibson chuckled, "Your threats aren't as scary when you're just a head."

Antauri glared up at Gibson, "I hope you BURN."

SPRX and Otto chased Antauri's headless body around town, laughing. They'd done as they said and put a pumpkin on his shoulders in place of his head and sent him riding through the city on a horse.

"I hope you all burn."

Malfunction: Request by EvilAntauri

Pairing! Whoo! Gibby and Antauri, d'aww.

"This stupid, no-good, son of a half-mongling SNARFBLADDER!" Otto shouted.

"What's with the profane sounding words?" Chiro asked.

"There's a bug in the system. Everything's going to be a bit nutty until I can fix it. No one's plugged in, are they?"

SPRX paused, "Uh… Gibson and Antauri are."

"WHAT! For Gibby it shouldn't be too bad, he'll just zap in and out of weird once in a while, but Antauri…"

"SWEET SUGGAZOOM, ANTAURI, PUT ME DOWN!"

Chiro, SPRX, Nova, and Otto ran up to the Super Robot's shoulder, where the shout had come from. Antauri held Gibson in his arms, bridal style, grinning with pride. He had Otto's cape wrapped around his neck and his eyes were dulled over.

"Antauri, please! Put me back on my feet!" Gibson shouted, "I would not enjoy falling at this moment!"

"I would never dream of dropping you, maiden!" Antauri beamed.

SPRX paused, "Did he just call Gibson a maiden?"

Otto groaned, "Great. The bug is in him. Gibby'll malfunction, but Antauri will probably flicker through every single person in any part of the computer."

"Huh… I guess my comics are first." Chiro chuckled, "I wonder who he thinks the villain is."

"Please don't be us, please don't be us…" SPRX mumbled.

"Scared, Sparky?" Nova chuckled.

"I'm very happy not have a Claw Disruptor go through me, thank you! Please let him think something really insane… like a tree."

"ANTAAAAAAURIIIIIIIII!" Gibson shrieked as the silver monkey jumped off the Super Robot's arm, his jet pack activating and flying them through the air, "Put me down, put me down, PUT ME DOWN!"

Gibson yelped as his drills activated and shot beams in every which direction.

Otto turned, "I'll try to debug the system. You make sure they don't get hurt!"

"Oh, this is fun." SPRX laughed.

Wicked: Request by pikurosonai00

Aww! This one is me and Mr. Hal Gibson!

Otto had a tendency to sing while he worked. It didn't bother anyone, and it helped him work, so no one paid attention. Every once in a while they'd hear Otto singing and just sing along for a while before continuing with their day.

It was this particular day that Otto's verses caught Gibson's ear.

"Kiss Me too fiercely
Hold me too tight
I need help believing
You're with me tonight
My wildest dreamings
Could not forsee
Lying beside you
With you wanting me."

Gibson paused and entered the room that the green simian occupied. Since when did Otto know the songs in Wicked?

"And just for this moment
As long as you're mine
I've lost all resistance
And crossed some border line
And if it turns out
It's over too fast
I'll make every last moment last
As long as you're mine." Otto smiled in his verses, not realizing Gibson was there.

The blue monkey bent over to sing with him, taking Fiyero's part easily, "Maybe I'm brainless
Maybe I'm wise
But you've got me seeing
Through different eyes
Somehow I've fallen
Under your spell
And somehow I'm feeling
It's up that I fell."

Otto grinned at Gibson and stopped what he was doing, instead wrapping his arms around the blue monkey's neck lovingly.

"Every moment
As long as you're mine
I'll wake up my body
And make up for lost time!"

Gibson smiled at Otto, kissing him carefully before continuing the lyrics, "Say there's no future
For us as a pair…"

Otto grinned and nuzzled Gibson, loving the feel of his soft fur.

"And though I may know
I don't care
Just for this moment
As long as you're mine
Come be how you want to
And see how bright we shine
Borrow the moonlight
Until it is through
And know I'll be here holding you
As long as you're mine."

Germ- LOL… kinda makes me think of Invader Zim.

Sorry- I'm so loving Mandarin! 8D He's so awesome if you get past the Skeleton King corruption. But, if it wasn't for Skeleton King, wouldn't pretty much everyone be completely awesome? Otto quoted Antauri from the previous chapter in Sun Riders.

Positive- Continued from the previous one. I just wanted a big Antauri-Mandarin scene.

Ashore- XD

Renounce- Everyone gets words wrong every once in a while. XD Poor Otto.

Metal: Request from EvilAntauri. Continuation of Poniard from Ch. 15 They said they would do it, and they did. Just not the head mounting bit. That might come later, though. XD

Malfunction: Request from EvilAntauri. This one is definitely going to be continued. ANTAURI'S GONE NUTTY!

Wicked: Request from pikurosonai. I loved watching Wicked in London, so I was listening to some of the songs when I got this request. My brain snapped the pair together, and here it is!

Mandarin: I like it!

Aw, thanks, Mandy!

Antauri: … Reza?

Hm? What's wrong, Antauri?

Antauri: … Can I have a hug?

SPRX: !

Gibson: Oh my goodness!

Nova: We're in an alternate dimension, aren't we?

Antauri: No… I just want a hug.

Really, Antauri? 8D I'M SO HAPPY! HUG TIME! –hugs Antauri- I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU! YOU'RE SO AWESOME! This is the best day ever!

Otto: Antauri got jealous… hehe…

Jealous? Jealous of what?

Gibson: He probably thought that Mandarin was going to take his place as your favorite character.

Antauri, is that right?

Antauri: Hug.

8D HOW CUTE! I love you, too, Antauri! You'll always be my favorite!

Nova: Aww… well, that's it for this chapter. Please review.

SPRX: Wow, Antauri's actually smiling while hugging Reza…