A Ghost in the Machinder
Flying in space, the Super Robot is in pursuit on Skeleton King Worm while the Hyper Force is gathered in the bridge.
"Setting course for data system." Chiro said, inputting the coordinates. "if the Skeleton King Worm is anywhere, it's got a be there."
Suddenly, the Super Robot's rocket booster is starting to slow down.
"Strange, the Super Robot is not responding." Gibson mumbled, pulling down the lever.
The Robot is veering off-course from its heading.
"It just put us on a new course." Nova exclaimed.
The Robot turns and flying on its new course in full speed.
"What's going on with the Super Robot?" Tyran asked.
"I don't know, let's check out the navigation system." Chiro said, "Maybe it's down."
They went into the central processor room and ran a diagnostic to see if the Robot is malfunction or not.
"It's not the computers." Otto said, "You're not gonna believe this, but the Super Robot is overriding our commands."
They looked at the Robot's neural data processor.
"You're saying it's…" Chiro begin as the Robot is flying in space. "…thinking for itself?"
"Perhaps there's more to the Robot that meets the eye." Antauri said.
"You gotta be kidding me, Antauri. I mean, it's a machine." Sparx said, "It's probably just broken."
"Agreed." Gibson said, "Technically speaking, machines can only appear to be alive."
"Appearance can be deceiving." Antauri said.
"What you see is what you get." Sparx retorted. "Machines cannot have a soul."
"A Robot that started to develop mind of its own? This is very strange." Tyran said.
As they pondered, the alarm is blaring as the Hyper Force rush back to the bridge.
"What is that?" Chiro gasped as the monitor shows a large unidentified flying air craft.
"I don't know but it's gearing for fire!" Otto pointed.
The large unknown space craft opened its maw and beamed the Robot.
"AAHHH!" They screamed as the Robot is being pulled into the space craft.
"It's got us in the tractor beam!" Sparx yelled.
(THEME SONG)
While exploring the outskirts of the city, I discovered an abandoned Super Robot. It was then my life was transformed by the mysterious Power Primate. The Robot Monkeys and a Cyborg were awakened and I, Chiro, became their leader. Our quest: save Shuggazoom City from the evils of the Skeleton King.
Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!
Fighting any evil, they're Shuggazoom's hope.
Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!
Defeating any foe!
Antauri!
Tyran!
Sparx!
Gibson!
Nova!
Otto!
Chiro!
Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!
If you need a hero, that's the name you should know!
Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!
Come on with us, let's go!
Chiro woke up as the rest of his team recover from the aftershock.
"Otto, stabilize the Robot." Chiro ordered.
"I think… this should do it." Otto groaned, stabilized the Robot's flying position.
"What is that thing, Gibson?" Nova asked.
The Super Robot is caught in the tractor beam and pulled into an aircraft that resembles a large space bug.
"Life signs are negative." Gibson reported as he scans the ship in thermal mode. "So I realized that it's some automated craft. It may believed us hostel."
"Us hostel? That thing looks like some kind of terminating death droid bent on blowing up the cosmos!" Sparx exclaimed.
"Don't jump to conclusions, Sparx." Antauri said. "Perhaps we should attempt to communicate."
"What do you want to do? Make friends with it."
Chiro pulls up the radio communicator.
"Attention, exploration craft, we are the Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force." He said, "We are not your enemy."
The monitor is garbled until it reveals a man's face on screen.
"Greetings, Hyper Force, I am VX 808 Modular Computer Tracking Probe from the Telus Star System." It said.
"Why do you have your tractor beam locked on to us?" Gibson asked.
"Because you're from the planet Shuggazoom, of course."
"What is that supposed to mean?" She asked.
"How did it know we're from Shuggazoom?" Tyran muttered.
The Robot is floated through the interior of the space craft.
"This is starting to freak me out." Sparx said.
"Whoa, pretty neat. I've never seen massive technology like this before." Otto said.
As they floated, they opened the porthole window to get a better view. They see what appears to be a storage or hanger, filled with collective space junks and broken rockets until they see something that looks familiar to them.
"Is that what I think it is?" Nova said, noticing the robot from before.
"It's Skeleton King droid, TV Monster." Chiro noted, "The probe must've picked it up along the way."
"I was wondering what happen to it." Tyran said.
As they passed by TV Monster, its screen flashed as if it's becoming active or something.
In the other wide space room, they headed towards the green sphere with the man's face.
"Allow me to clarify why you are here. I am the last survivors of an advanced race of mechanical life." He introduced.
"You mean your people are machines?" Otto questioned.
"Correct, were machines, but no longer." The Probe said. "An undead entity from your world has destroyed our planet."
"Skeleton King." Antauri frowned, "We were tracking him down when you intercepted us."
"As I am now intercepting everything that comes from Shuggazoom… and neutralizing it."
The Hyper Force looked each other in shock as if the probe has mistaken them.
"But…" Chiro gasped. "We're after Skeleton King too!"
"Listen, this is all just a big misunderstanding." Tyran reasoned through the radio, "Why don't you just let us go and we'll find and destroy that Skeleton King Worm?"
"All organic life that is coming to contract with Skeleton King is corrupt! It must be…eliminated!"
The cable clamps shot from the wall and grabbed the Robot's arms, restraining its movement.
"Everyone to their posts, Hyper Force, Go!" Chiro declared.
The Hyper Force headed to their own cockpit and take control of the Robot.
"Full power, team. Let's get out of here!"
The Super Robot yanked out from their hold as more cable clamps pops out from the wall.
"Firing Eye Beams!" Antauri fired the Eye Beams at the clamps.
It now hovers to the Probe, but it sprung more cable clamps it launches at the Robot.
"Firing Torso Cannon!" Tyran shoots the clamps as they avoid from getting caught by them.
"Aim for the computer brain! Launching Mega-Missiles now!" Chiro said.
They pilot the Robot high up and launched the missiles at the Probe, but it intercepted them by firing its lasers.
"This probe thing is too powerful!" Nova said.
Before they said anything, the cable caught the Robot's limbs and restrain it from movement.
"It's got us!" Otto yelled, trying to break free from its hold. "Can't…break…free!"
The Probe is hacking through the Robot's system.
"It's hacking our controls!" Gibson said.
"Switch into vehicle mode, team!" Antauri said.
"No can do, that machine is overriding our system! We're toast!" Sparx said.
One of the claw cables roses up to the Super Robot's chest and drills it through.
"That probe is drilling the Robot's Hyper Armor!" Tyran noted.
"Great, what next?!"
The small cables is reaching through the hole it made.
"GAHH!" They yelped as they were yanked out from their cockpit.
The clamp cables is starting to pull the Super Robot apart.
"The Robot!" Otto yelled.
"No!" Chiro yelled.
The Probe took them as the Robot is taken to its hanger. The Hyper Force is taken to the giant microscope and trapped by the giant slide as the objective lens lowers down and scans them.
"What is this? What are you doing?" Chiro demanded.
"Discovering what you are, flesh entities." He scans the anatomy of the Hyper Force. "Robotic simians are interesting, but virtually useless. Much less the same flesh entity, you will all be disposed of."
He later scans Antauri's anatomy.
"Disposed of?" Nova questioned as the magnifying lens is pulled up.
The slide disappeared and the stage opens beneath them, dropping them down to the disposal chute.
"WHHHOOAAAA!" They screamed as they dropped, but Antauri was quickly snatched by a probe's claw.
"Monkey team! Tyran!" He yelled as he faced the probe's monitor.
"You, one called Antauri, are the exception. You are one-hundred percent machine. You may be of used to me." He said.
"ANTAURI!" Chiro screamed as they fall down.
They reached the disposal room full of broken technologies.
"Ugh, what's that smell?" Otto gagged.
"Where are we?" Chiro demanded.
"It appears to be some form of…" Gibson said, sniffing, "Waste disposal unit."
"Oh great, we're gonna get trashed?!" Nova exclaimed.
"Not trashed, recycled…" They see the Probe's monitor. "Into an organic fuel, but please remain calm. I will assimilate your more useful robotic parts"
"I got something you can assimilate, you freaky probe!" Sparx said, throw the junk at the monitor.
"Indeed, goodbye, flesh entities." He signs off, angering Sparx.
Otto tries cutting the wall, but no cutting marks.
"Trash can's invulnerable. I can't cut through." He said.
"If only Antauri were here." Nova hoped.
"He didn't put much of the fight, he's probably pals with that Probe by now." Sparx exclaimed.
"No way, Sparx, it's Antauri we're talking about here." Chiro interjected, "He's our friend, remember? We've got to get out of here."
"But how do we get out of here, Chiro?" Tyran asked.
Before he says something, something came out of the wreckage and it was only a robot, who was also captured by the probe too.
"Oh, at last, I had some company." It said while the monkey team and Tyran was cautious about it. "I've been missing conversation."
"Uh, okay." Chiro said, "But we need to get out of here. You know the way?"
"Indeed I do, but you're not gonna like it." The robot pointed at double bladed shredder behind it.
The spin shredder is turning on, spinning around, rapidly before the robot is being sucked in as the Chiro, Tyran, and the monkey cringed and horrified while the robot was shredded to bits.
"I'm free! Free!" It shouted, even it was scrapped to pieces.
The shredded blade is sucking all the broken parts while moving. Gibson fires his Spin Shocker at the recycling shredder, but it ricocheted and almost hit Sparx.
"Watch it, Gibson!" He said.
"Sorry."
"Come on, you two." Nova called.
They moved up to the top of the junk pile with the others as the bladed fan is slowly, moving towards them.
Antauri is struggling to break free as he brought to the Probe.
"Let me go!" Antauri demanded.
"Struggle is futile, Antauri. Your phasing ability is nullified, your is power is deactivated." He said.
"Release my friends! Skeleton King is our enemy as well."
"Logic dictates you will say anything to keep your friends from destruction and I must destroy all organic life."
"Don't you see? By destroying life, you've become what you hate the most, Skeleton King!"
"Skeleton King?... System error… System error…!" It said as if it was glitched or bugged by something.
"You're infected by some kind of virus." Antauri realized, "Your system is being corrupted by TV Monster."
"Preposterous, TV monster has been deactivated. Observe." The Probe said, showing him the TV Monster.
"No, can't you see? It still lives!" Antauri reasoned as the screen is garbled with Skeleton King's head.
"Machines do not live. We are simple servants of our programming." Antauri was taken to the computer brain. "Unfortunately, your program is flaw."
He was taken inside the computer brain.
"What are you doing?" He demanded before he was being plugged in by connectors while yelling in pain.
"Assimilating you into my core central processing unit. Soon, your knowledge will be added to my own."
Antauri grunted and struggling to break free as the connectors is assimilating him.
Back in the recycling unit, the Hyper Force is running from the bladed fan until Gibson tripped over and Chiro comes back to get him.
"Otto, contact Antauri!" Chiro said.
"He's not responding!"
"Don't you get it? He's gone. He probably joined up with the probe!" Sparx exclaimed.
"We don't know that, Sparx." Tyran chided, "If I had to make a guess, I'd say this Probe might a loose wire on its logic circuitry."
"Way to state that obvious claim, tin man."
"Can't you two shut up or else we'll get recycled?" Nova scolded them.
"Wait, I'm getting a response." Otto said, getting a radio signal from his commlinks. "But it's not from Antauri. Jumping Gigawatts, it's from the Super Robot."
In the hanger, The Robot reattached its Foot Crushers, then its Fist Rockets, and finally, its Brain Scrambler as if the Robot has developed its mind of its own when it became online.
"Fascinating, the machine has revitalized itself." The Probe noted, looking at the holo-screen. "Its programming is advanced."
"Mark my words." Antauri smirked, "The Robot will stop you."
In the Hanger, the Super Robot stood up before the monitors lowered down around it.
"So, you have discovered a will. Interesting." The Probe sneered, "A will that soon be broken."
The monitors vanished as the Probe's drones is deployed and scurried to dispatched the Robot, shooting its head, making it fall down while Antauri watched it.
"You are terminated, Robot."
The Robot lays down, stunned and deployed its own flying drones. They spun around and begin shooting at them.
Back in the recycle disposal, Tyran, Nova, Otto, and Sparx, who bangs the wall.
"Yahoo!" Otto hollered as Chiro and Gibson caught up to them.
"Organics, your machine are resisting me." The monitor was lowered so that they can see what was happening. "Perhaps you should witness its defeat."
They see the Robot is walking as the drones is shooting at the Probe's drones.
"I didn't even know the Super Robot had those things." Otto noted.
"Me neither." Chiro agreed.
"You're not the only one." Tyran said.
The two drones were hit and the Robot shot its Finger Missiles at the remaining drones. The Super Robot looked up to see something is opening.
"It is not over yet, machine."
When it opens, it reveals to be a giant tall red robot that towers the Super Robot. It shot the laser beam, destroying all the Robot's drones. As it makes it way, The Robot shoot its flamethrower at the giant robot, but it had no effect against it. The Robot jumped towards it, but the giant robot pounded it down.
"Can you not understand, Robot?"
The Robot was knocked away when the giant red robot swings its arm around.
"Organic life was but an evolutionary step." The giant red robot approaches the Robot and burns it with flamethrower. "Only mechanic's existence matters."
Antauri grunted while the connectors is assimilating him as he watches the Robot is down.
"Observe." The Probe showed him his friends is about to be recycled. "Your companions will soon be nothing more than fuel and scrap meat!"
His optics is glowing as he was about to be finished.
Chiro and his team is backed against the wall as the bladed shredder is coming closer.
"End of the line, team." Chiro said, anxiously.
"There is no need to fight for the survival." The Probe is showing the Robot is defeated. "Your robot vessel is finished!"
"Oh no!" Chiro gasped in shock.
"And your mechanical companion is soon to be assimilated!"
The Probe switches the screen, showing Antauri is being assimilated.
"Antauri!"
"I'm sorry, team. AAUURRGHH!" He screamed while electrocuted.
"Leave him alone!" Sparx yelled.
"Let him go, you two-bit A.I. glitch freak!" Tyran yelled, clenching his fist.
"Soon he will be part of me as will you all!"
The team watches their friend as he is about to be absorb into the Probe and there was nothing they can't do to help Antauri.
Seeing as there's only one option left, Chiro unleashed his inner primate power and try holding off the bladed shredder as he could.
The Robot is getting the beaten from the giant red robot. The Robot refuses to give in before it deploys its big gun on its back and extended its cannon barrel towards the giant red robot's head. The Super Robot charges its full blast and fires it, destroying the head.
"What!? How is this possible?!" The probe said, shocked as the Robot retracted its big gun.
The Robot flew towards the giant red robot and caught its arm when it falls before tearing it out and throwing it away. The Super Robot plunged its hand at the robot's chest and took out that looks like a heart and crushes it, making the giant red robot fall down.
The monitor lowers down to the Robot.
"If you are not a machine, the only logical conclusion is… Impossible!" The probe exclaimed before the Robot punches the monitor.
"Can't…hold on…!" Chiro grunted as he holds back the bladed shredder until gives out.
"Whoa!" Tyran catches him.
"Chiro!" Otto said.
They looked at the bladed fan as they are getting close.
"Gibson, I want to take back all the mean things I've said about you. Well, most of them." Sparx said before turning to Nova. "And Nova… Nova?"
"Yeah, Sparx?" She said.
"I…I just have to say…I…" He stammered.
Before he says anything to Nova, the spin fan has suddenly stopped moving.
"It stopped?" Tyran said.
They heard a loud crash and looked up to see a Super Robot has come to rescue them.
"Am I glad to see you?" Chiro beamed.
The Robot held out its hand before Sparx flies away.
"Sparx!" Nova yelled.
"I'll get him!" Tyran said, took off after Sparx.
Inside the probe's brain, Antauri is put in suspension state as his helmet is removed.
"There must be a way to defeat your Super Robot. The secret must reside in your mechanical brain." The Probe lowers its injection needle and inserting into Antauri's brain. "And I will remove that secret!"
Suddenly, Sparx rushes through the probe's brain to save Antauri.
"Let him go!" Sparx yelled, blast his Magna-Tingler Blast, freeing Antauri, who was awakened.
"Interloper!" The Probe snapped and launched rockets at Sparx, stunning him.
Antauri switches to ghost mode to rescue Sparx as the rocket is aiming towards him until they were intercepted.
"Stay away from my friends!" Tyran scowled as he blast his blue optic Sonar Laser at the rockets. "Consider your system crashed, Probe!"
He blast his Sonar Laser at the central brain system, making it short-circuited.
"System crashed imminent! System crashed imminent! There is no escape!"
"Let's go, Tyran!" Antauri said.
"Right!" He followed the silver monkey.
"System crashed imminent! System crashed imminent! System crashed imminent!"
The rockets was launched after them. But they were blocked by a Super Robot.
"Hold on to me!" Antauri said, grabbing hold on the cyborg.
"Wait, what?" He said.
The silver monkey phased through the Super Robot's hyper armor with unconscious Sparx and Tyran in tow and to the bridge.
"Would you give me some heads up when you do that?" Tyran groaned.
"Noted." Antauri groaned before limping towards the others. "The Probe…is finished."
He fainted but Otto caught in time.
"Don't worry, Antauri. I got you." Otto assured as Chiro and Gibson gives each other a thumbs up.
As they recovered, the harness on the Probe is beginning to unlatched.
"Look, the brain is ejecting!" Nova said as the Probe takes off to space.
"Uh-oh, that thing activate the self-destruct. Four second to detonation!" Otto said as the probe's ship is blaring.
"I'm getting us out of here!" Chiro said, piloting the Robot out.
The Robot is blasting off to exit as the interior of the ship is exploding.
"It's gaining on us!" Nova said as the explosives is catching up on them.
"System shutdown emanate! We're overheated!" Gibson said.
The Robot is boosting its rocket boosters to fast as it made it out before the ship imploded and blown up until the debris hit the Robot.
"AUGH!" They yelped from the impact.
The Robot readjusted its flight position and fly away from the wreckage.
As they return to their original course, The Hyper Force check the diagnostics on the Robot's status.
"Well, I've checked it top to bottom and the Super Robot doesn't have any protective programming." Otto said, "And it wasn't a malfunction either."
"I have to agree with you, Otto." Gibson agreed, putting the circuit disk back on. "The Super Robot never flew off course, it simply knew that we were going in the wrong direction."
"What?" Nova said, looking at Otto. "How is that possible?"
"Maybe Antauri was right." Chiro said, "Maybe this Super Robot really is more than just a machine."
"Life, even mechanical life, is always full of surprises." Antauri said.
"Okay, I'm gonna go for broke and be the first to admitted; you were wrong, Gibson." He told him.
"I was wrong? But it was you who said-" Gibson protested, but Sparx covered his mouth.
"Machines could have a soul. I know I did and yep, you were wrong, yep."
"And it's okay to be wrong, Sparx?" Antauri questioned.
"Once in the while." He said.
"I want to know more about this Super Robot. I mean, how does it think? What makes it alive? Does it know who created?" Chiro said, beaming with questions.
"These are all valid question, Chiro and in the end, doesn't ask you the same question, about yourself?" Antauri said as the monkey team smiled.
"You will find out one day, Chiro." Tyran said. "One day."
Chiro nodded before looking out in space, hopefully one day, he'll know the Super Robot's origin.
Meanwhile, the Probe somehow survive but was injured from Tyran's Sonar Laser.
"Only mechanical exist…" It garbled.
The probe used its clamp cables to grab the parts from his ships as it was trying to repair itself.
"Only mechanical exist… Organic life… Only mechanical existence matters… "
The Probe grabbed Skeleton King's TV monster and hurls it to his brain.
"By flesh rationalization…"
The Probe plug itself to the TV monster, assimilating. Without warning, TV monster seems to have others ideas as if it was trying to absorb the Probe's power as his brain is glowing brightly.
"AAARRRUUUGHH!" The Probe screamed as he is exploded.
"New program activated. Trajectory locked." The Probe's program is changed to Skeleton King's program. "Mission objective…"
The TV Monster has modified and upgrade to new and improved version of it as it is armed with pair of antennae, white armor, weaponized gauntlets, hyper-speed rocket boosters, and brandishing itself with red skull insignia on its screen.
"Hunt down and destroy the Hyper Force."
With the new version of Skeleton King's TV Monster, it is now programmed to hunt down and destroy Chiro and his team.