The sounds of glass shattering and equipment being destroyed can be heard across the cave as Spider Queen vented out her anger while her henchmen stood by the sidelines, wincing every time she destroyed something.
"I had the Monkey King's power! The city was mine! and I still lost!" She shouted, huffing.
"My Queen, you will have your revenge," Her attention is turned towards the mysterious girl, who smiled. "Now that we have the Trigram Furnace, it is time to take the next step towards your destiny."
A blue flame flickers in her hand, changing shape to reveal a small blue box. The Spider Queen scoffed, narrowing her eyes in suspicion. "And how is that supposed to help? Actually better question: What is that?"
"The first of six powerful items that we will need," The girl replied. "It must be retrieved from The Cloud."
"The Cloud?" Syntax shoved Huntsman and Goliath aside with his mechanical spider legs. "My Queen, allow me to break in and bring you this item." He smirked and crossed his arms.
"Oh really? and just how are you going to do that?" She asked.
Syntax cleared his throat rolling up his sleeve pulling up a green holograph. "The Cloud is a labyrinth of information. An unrivaled collection of knowledge. It is guarded by fearsome beings who cannot be overcome by brute strength, Or the ability to follow footprints in mud."
This earned him a glare from Huntsman, making him smirk. "However, it is connected to all the technology in the world. therefore I can exploit it." he grinned, pulling up a screen of apps.
"Has anyone heard the story of...The sleep bug?" he chuckled maniacally, the screen turning a reddish purple color.
Outside, The citizens of Megapolis looked at their phone notifications simultaneously the same goes for the TV screens.
"Sleep Bug?"
"Wow, cool."
"Woah, that's looks fun!"
At Pigsy's Noodles, Mei was laughing has Pigsy yelled at Tang again, "That's it! I'm cuttin' ya off until you cleared this tab!"
She then noticed her phone lit up. She grabbed her phone and looked at the screen.
"Sleep bug?"
"No, you can't leave!"
"Yeah, please don't leave me with her!"
Macaque groaned as Rumble and Savage clings to his legs, the shadow demon was too busy making sure they had everything, that way they'd be prepared for their trip.
"Peeeaches~" Macaque whined, looking over his shoulder at the golden furred monkey. "Can you please help me out here?"
"Can't here you, sugarplum. I'm packing." The Monkey King flies around the cave, packing a suitcase.
Macaque scowled, "Real helpful."
MK watched as her mentor flies around the cave, packing a suitcase. "And just why are you guys leaving again?" She asked shuffling nervously on his feet.
Wukong stopped mid-pack, glancing over to his husband. "It's okay, she needs to know."
The Monkey King sighed and walked over, "Sweetie, remember our battle with The Spider Queen?"
MK nodded, "Yeah..?"
"Well, let's just say she had some help. It was someone by the name of...The Lady Bone Demon." An angry snarl escaped Monkey King's lips.
MK gulped, felt a shiver run up her spine. "Really? W-Who is she then?"
"She's an evil demon I battled during my 'Journey to the West' days. She thinks she can reforge the world in her 'perfect image'..." Wukong mocked, air quoting his paws
"And the one responsible for kidnapping Bai-He." Macaque clenched his fists, seething in anger..
"What?" Rumble and Savage gasped. Wukong nodded as he continued.
"After that Tàng Sanzang sealed her away to think about her actions until she learned the error of her ways. But it seems she never did."
"Then...that was the strange power that DBK found, the whole point of that key and the reason of his behavior?" MK asked, rose a brow, when the two nodded. "But... I saw the canisters break, how did she?"
"She can't survive without a host to possess much like she did with DBK."
"That is why we're leaving," Macaque continued. "To find any information on her, and possibly a weapon that could defeat her."
"Father, take us with you." Savage pleaded, letting go on Macaque's leg, followed by his sister. "We can help you get Bai-He back!"
Macaque sighed, bending down to their level. "No, this will be too dangerous, even for the both of you. You're both staying here."
"But we can-"
"No!" He shouted, the two winced at the tone of his voice. He calmed down, letting out a small smile. "Besides, I have a have a task the two of you need to do." He said.
"What is it Father?" Rumble asked.
"I need the two of you to look after MK, help her protect the city and stop any sort of plans she might have." Macaque explained.
"Of course sir, we promise!" Savage nodded, a determined look on his face.
"We won't let you down!~" Rumble smiled, her tail wagging happily.
"I know you two won't," Macaque pulled the two clones in for a hug, "I promise, I'll bring back your sister." A silent nod was all he got in return, Eventually, they all said their goodbyes, Monkey King summoning his cloud.
"Remember, I'll check in on you soon, MK!"
"Okay!" MK nodded. "You'll be great, don't worry." He smiled, "Monkey kings out!" They vanished and within a second, A shockwave was left, nearly knocking MK and the twins over.
MK returned to the noodle shop, the streets were quiet when she entered the city and people were asleep on the floor, but MK didn't notice. MK parks the cart and barges into the shop.
"Hey Pig--what?" MK blinked in confusion at the sight before her, as Mei, Tang and Pigsy all lay asleep on the shop floor, phones in their hands. "Uhhh, guys?"
"Woah, Is it nap time or something? Savage asked, poking the sleeping Mei with his tail.
"I don't think so, Savage," Rumble hummed, scratching her hair. "Okay, everyone's asleep but how, it couldn't have been anything they ate." She questioned.
Then MK's phone started to vibrate again in her pocket, she pulled her phone out to see some sort of dancing neon green bug on her phone screen.
"Sleep Bug! Download it now on the nap store!"
Rumble looked at her phone in confusion. "What's that?" She asked. MK shrugged her shoulders, "Some kind of new game...I guess?"
'Strange, I thought I shut my phone off?' MK thought, looking at the game closely.
Rumble silently glanced between her phone and her sleeping friends. 'Wait a minute...' She gasped, her eyes widened in realization.
"MK! I think it's the app!" Rumble exclaimed. Savage looked at his sister in confusion. "Say what now?"
"It says "Sleep Bug" and everyone is asleep. That must be the answer!"
"So if this app is responsible for this, then there has to be some sort of source but...where is it coming from?" MK said placing a hand under her chin.
Ding!
She came to a realization "The cloud!" She said. "The what now?" The clones asked.
"No time to explain, let's go!" MK said running out the shop with R & S following behind, She swung her staff, slamming it onto the ground, making a motorcycle.
They all hopped on, "Here Comes Monkie Kids!" and with that, they speed off.
Slowing the cloud down as the temple came into view, a nervous expression made its way onto MK's face, they hopped off when they reached the temple.
"Woah, This is amazing!" Rumble said in awe, looking around. The teen noting how the tech-like clouds surrounding the building, seemed to glitch the teen pulls out her staff as they approach the two large doors.
"No guards...somethings is definitely not right. Stay close to me you two." MK said keeping her guard up.
Savage put his hand on the doors, leaning on it before slipping through them with a yelp.
"Savage!" MK and Rumble cried. Rumble quickly ran after him, MK followed behind stumbling, falling face first on the floor.
"Savage, you okay?" Rumble asked, She only got a groan from her brother in reply as got up.
"This is the worst day of my life." The shadow monkey huffed, his tail flickering. The three walked inside seeing a large library in front of them, red fabric laid over them with gold detailing. Two stairs stand on either side of the two, both admiring the place. As they walked around, MK sighed, scratching the back of her head. "How are we gonna find the game?"
A flash of red caught Savage's attention, turning to see a small red bug. "MK, look!"
MK looks over as the small bug flickers red, blowing a raspberry, turning green as it scurries away. "Ah-hah! red means bad! ah, sometimes it means good, ah, you what that's probably it. let's go!"
She blasted from the floor, jumping around the place. "Where are you, little bug?! I'm gonna find you!"
"This can't be real...all this damage is caused by that one tiny thing." Rumble said in disbelief.
"Well they do say Big power comes in Small package." Savage snorted, earning a tail whack from Rumble. "Ow!"
"Ha! Found you, bug! Thanks for making it easy for Us," MK grinned, pulling out her staff. "Time to set things right again!"
A strange scent of filled Savage's nose, his eyes widening, growling looking around, he got into a defensive stance. "Someone's here."
"Well, well, well." A voice made the three jump, whirling around to come face to face with one of Spider Queen's henchmen, Syntax. "If it isn't the Monkie Kid."
"So am I too assume that your the one responsible for the virus." MK said gently pushing the twins behind her.
"Hmm, well you're certainly not as dumb as you look sweet thing~" Syntax smirked.
MK shivered in disgust, creeped out. 'Why am I always getting hit on by the creepy guys' She thought.
"Ew, I'm nineteen you creep!" MK shouted, flailing her arms around.
"Is that so? Maybe I'll give you a call in the near future~" He flirted. His eyes turns wandered down to Rumble and Savage. "My, what fascinating little creatures. Shame that I didn't bring my tools with me, I'd love to open them up, and see just what kind of powers they have." Syntax said smiling sinisterly making the twins shiver in fear.
"Don't you even THINK about touching them!" MK growled, gripping her staff, that her knuckles were turning white. "Tell me how to get the city back to normal!"
Syntax laughed mockingly. "Please, you don't have the mental dexterity to debug my game, You're just a motherboard with a decent GPU and no central processing unit."
Rumble gave the Spider Demon a flat look, "Says the neanie who didn't use the CRLT-ALT-DELETE on himself when he was born."
"Oh snap!" Savage grinned, high five his sister.
The hybrid blinked in surprise, not exactly expecting such a response, before gritting his teeth in anger, "Why You little--!"
"And look at that on his face, it looks like he drew it on himself," Savage mocked, as he cut off the spider's angered response.
Irritated, but knowing it was time to go, Syntax gave a huff, "As much as I'd love to swap insults all day, I must be going~"
The purple skinned hybrid pressed a few things on his keypad, before using his mechanical spider legs to climb out of reach of the bunch, "I have other things to attend to and you all are about to be eviscerated by the ancient guardians of knowledge. So I guess we're both pretty busy. okay, bye!" And with that, he was gone.
"Hey! Get back here!"
Behind them stood a pair of giants, both were dressed in golden armor and wielding spears, with one blue and one red, "Only those marked in the Great Ledger of Knowledge and Time shall be deemed worth to enter this temple of wisdom, and live!"
"Aw crap!" MK said grabbing the cubs and jumping out of the way right before the two spears slam to the ground where they stood.
The guardians were close behind them, their weapons raised above their heads and slamming them on the ground, causing it to crack.
Their wild ride came to a stop, when MK slammed into the blue guardian's palm, and was sent flying. Whilst the red guardian managed to grab Rumble by the collar, holding her like a scared kitten. The little monkey whimpered in fear, as the guardians walked up to stand before her brother, the blue one raising its spear to stab the male monkey.
"Eek!" Savage trembled in fear. "You are not on the Ledger! You are not worthy!" The Guardians spoke in unison.
Frantically thinking for a way out, MK decided to take a risk and shouted out, "Wait, Can I sign up then?!"
The spears stopped what they were doing, pulled their spears back. "Of course!~" The red giant cheerfully exclaimed.
"Knowledge is for everyone!~" The blue one finished.
MK, the twins sighed in relief, not even bothering to protest when the guardians picked them up, "Let's get you signed up!"
After signing up, they thanking the guardians, Everyone finally had woken up from the Sleep Bug virus. "That's quite the story MK," Pigsy said, placing a bowl of noodles down in front of the shadow siblings, they both cheered as they both ate up. "I'm just glad you're all okay."
"Yeah, me too," MK agreed, eating a bowl too. "Although I couldn't have done it by myself. Rumble and Savage helped too." She chuckled, giving him head scratches, making them purr.
Mei cooed, pulled both of them in a hug. "Awww~ they're just so cute!"
"My Queen..."
Spider Queen turns to see that syntax has returned, a grin on his lips, holding the box in his hands. Spider Queen grinned as the girl approaches the hybrid, pulling out the skeleton key. The key began to change shape and inserted itself into the box.
The box began to glow, a blue shockwave erupting, blowing the spider demons away. Spider Queen held her ground, looking up in surprise and confusion.
"What...is this?" she asked in shock. What stood before them was an image of a large spider-like mech.
"A guide. A pathway to greatness. with this, you will build your revenge one piece at a time, five more items of power must be collected and then, we shall forge your destiny."