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[u]CHAPTER 5: TRUTH REVEALED[/u]
Joelle suddenly opened her eyes as the pillow she laid her head on muffled her scream. Breathing heavily from her nightmare, Joelle sat up feeling shaken all over her body. She glanced around the room seeing she was in a small, dark room that was filled with books and photographs, she then remembered that she was in Shadow’s hiding place. Just as she began to climb out of bed, she accidently knocked over a framed photograph. Once she picked it up, she saw it was a photo of Charm and Blizzard with their adoptive family, Serena and Alex, who looked slightly younger. Suddenly she remembered why she woke up from her nightmare. She had dreamt that Charm and blizzard get captured by the troopers took them on board one of their black ships and disappeared into the sky. But it was just a dream, and earth was so far away from Shugazoom city. But the dream felt so real, like she could sense the danger.
Just then, she heard some talking coming from outside of the room in the hallway. She recognised one of the voices as Shadow, but couldn’t make out who the other voices were. So she lifted herself from the mattress and walked quietly to the door that was opened with a small gap. She peeked through the gap with one eye to see who it was. A sudden flutter of joy filled Joelle’s heart as she saw a teenager with black spiky hair and blue eyes wearing a white and orange uniform. Joelle knew instantly who it was. “…Chiro”.
Chiro suddenly looked across the hallway as Joelle opened the door wide so that she could be seen. Joelle just couldn’t believe it was him; he had grown taller in the last few years. She could feel tears start the swell up in her eyes, “Chiro…I cant believe it’s actually you”. She ran over towards him as Chiro smiled and went down on one knee so they could both wrap their arms around each other to receive a warm hug.
Chiro smiled feeling all his pain and sadness disappear. “Joelle…its great to see you too. It’s been so long”. Joelle smiled as tears went down her cheeks, she looked at chiro to see he was also teary. “Heh, and I thought I was the only cry baby.” Chiro couldn’t help but laughed as he wiped Joelle’s tears away. “It’s hard to hold it in when you’re happy to see your friends again after a long time”. Joelle suddenly heard some footsteps coming down the way. She glanced over Chiro’s shoulder to see who it was.
Alex stopped just a meter away from them as he glanced ahead of him to see what was going on. He suddenly felt himself gasped as he spotted Chiro with Shadow and…”Joelle”.
Joelle smiled seeing Alex, her adoptive son; grown up into a young man…well, monkey. “Is that really my little Alex?” Alex couldn’t help but felt himself begin to crumble as tears began to fill his eyes. Joelle couldn’t help but laugh, “not you too”. She then went up to Alex and they both hugged each other warmly. “Mo…Joelle, I missed you so much,” Alex told her as tears rolled down his face. Joelle felt more tears come. “Me too…im so sorry I left you and the team”.
“Ah, will you cut it out with the whole warm hugs and cries, I feel like im ganna cry myself in a minute”, said shadow as she leaned against the wall watching them. Joelle laughed as she wiped her tears, “sorry shadow…its just...you know”. Shadow smirked, “yeah yeah, I know.”
“I’m glad that your finally awake”, Alex said happily. Joelle looked confused, “Finally? Wait, how long was I asleep for?” Shadow smirked, “a good seven hours jojo, your one heavy sleeper”. This shocked Joelle, “seven hours? Wait, how long have you been here exactly?”
Chiro smiled, “well, when Alex and I had finally arrived at Shadow’s secret hideout, she told us that you were sleeping and that it was best not to wake you up.” Joelle looked at shadow a bit annoyed, “Shadow…why didn’t you wake me up?” Shadow smirked as she crossed her arms, “Honey, even if I tried to wake you up, you’d never get out of sleepy land, like I said before, you’re a heavy sleeper.” Joelle tut as she rolled her eyes, “well what do you expect when you haven’t rested for over 24 hours?” Shadow laughed, “Try not sleeping for 3 days and nights”. Chiro decided to break the little rant up, “alright ladies, that’s enough cat fight. Now that we found Joelle, we can head back to shugazoom city where the rest of the team are waiting.
Shadow smiled, “good thing I had the equipment to fix your portal travel device.” Joelle looked at Chiro and Alex, “it was broken?” Chiro couldn’t help but rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment, “well…we kinda ran face to face with a beast and…I kinda landed on it when the tiger tried to crush me.” “But don’t worry, we’re not hurt or anything”. Alex quickly reassured her. Joelle sighed in relief, “well, that’s good news, I cant wait to get back to Shugazoom City and see the rest of my friends again.” But just then, there was a silent mood between Shadow, Chiro and Alex as they all the excitement died down. Joelle suddenly remembered that it was under attack by a dark master. “Oh…yeah…sorry, I kinda forgot. But who is this evil guy?”
Chiro placed his hand on her shoulder, “We’ll tell you when we get back to Shugazoom.” Shadow sighed sadly knowing that now was going to be goodbye for her and her friend. Joelle noticed this and looked at shadow, “Shadow…why don’t you come with us? We could use all the help we need”. Shadow smiled at Joelle, thinking it was so sweet for her to ask, “that would be great, but I think its best I stayed here, in case…anything happens. And besides, this is my home, I can’t just abandon it while those troopers run a mock, terrorising all the creatures that live here.” Joelle felt sad about Shadow not wanting to come, but put on a smile, “I understand, but if you need our help, then call us, ok?”
Shadow smiled and saluted, “you can count on me mame, and don’t worry about your new jet, when the time is right, It’ll be all ready and set for you”. Joelle gave her friend a big hug, “thank you for everything you’ve done, I wouldn’t have been alive or be with my friends if it wasn’t for you.” Chiro smile and patted Shadow on the back, “yeah, thank you Shadow, we really owe you a lot”. Shadow smiled abs blushed a little, “aw, stop it, you’re making me feel embarrassed”.
Alex held the device and clocked on a couple of buttons making a small portal open. “Its time”. Joelle nodded and stood next to Alex who was on her left, while chiro stood on her right, so she was in the middle. They all held hands as they got ready to enter the portal. Joelle gave one final glance at Shadow as she gave a “Good luck” comment. Joelle smiled as the three of them entered the portal. Once they entered, the portal disappeared. Leaving Shadow on her own once again, only that this time, she felt a sign of hope of defeating dark nuva.
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Meanwhile…
Back on Planet Earth, the troopers were closing in on the island known as
Birth certificates. The captain walked past the trooper holding his whip behind his back. “Have you found the information yet?”, he spoke in an impatient way. The trooper was about to answer no since he couldn’t find it, but just then, the results showed up. “Yes sir…here it is”. The captain glanced over the trooper’s shoulder as he read the descriptions of the birth certificate. “Hm…78 rose stock .rd, lane Woodstock…good work trooper, now take us there and have the troopers ready.”
But just as the ship began to cross the British boarders, the radar began to pick up some signals of three flying objects heading towards them, setting off the alarm. “Sir, it seems we are being challenged by the military force”, the trooper explained as he showed an image of the three military jets that were preparing to fire. The captain smiled, showing no fear at all. “So they want to play eh? All right, lets show them how the big boys do it. Get ready to fire the laser cannons”. The pilot pressed a few buttons as two large guns, appeared from both sides of the ship, which was aimed at the jets. “Lock on target sir”, the pilot spoke as he has his hand ready to press the red button.
The three jets that were flying just meters behind them, began to fire their missiles towards the ship. “We have locked and fired on target”, one of the pilots spoke. The missiles rached towards the ship, expecting to explode on impact.
The captain watched on the screen, as the jets were getting dangerously closer and closer. The trooper was beginning to worry that if they don’t hit now, they could be destroyed, “Sir?” “Wait”, the captain warned him as the radar showed the missiles getting closer and closer by the second. “NOW”, the captain told the trooper who quickly pressed down on the button, making the laser cannons fire immediately towards the missiles, making them explode on impact.
The pilots in the three Jets saw the explosion, but couldn’t see if they had hit the ship or not, so they waited for the smoke to clear. Once the smoke was cleared, the pilots were shocked to see the black jet was left unharmed without a single scratch. “Impossible”, one of them sounded completely shocked, while the other two didn’t know what the say, seeing that their weapons were useless.
The captain smiled and looked down at the trooper, “now it is our turn, fire”, he ordered the trooper. The trooper pressed the button again, making the laser cannons fire towards the jets. The pilots were gobsmacked and didn’t have time to react, leaving them completely at the mercy of the laser cannons. It only took one hit of each jet to cause a massive explosion in the sky, sending the pieces of jet everywhere into the ocean of the English Channel.
The captain smiled, pleased with the result, “Good work men, now without anymore interference, onwards to the address”. The pilot flew the jet across the city of London where there were many tall buildings and people. This astonished most of the troopers. England is known as an island, yet it holds some of large cities that are ten times bigger then shugazoom city itself. The captain gave a thoughtful glance at the large city. “Hm…perhaps this world would be the perfect place to strike next”, he commented to himself.
It only took about five minutes until they finally came to the street they have been searching for. It seemed like a nice peaceful street, with many different houses in their different forms, as they were all lined up properly in their perfect positions. The pilot landed the outside of the house, in the middle of the street, blocking both sides of the road, not letting any vehicles come past. The troopers wasted no time as they rushed out of the jet and headed towards the house that the address had told them where their person would be. They jumped over the walls of the outside of the driveway and ran up to the front door. The troopers didn’t both knocking or ringing the doorbell; they used their strength to knock down the door, setting the house alarm to go off. But the troopers ignored it as they began to search around the house, going into every room, cupboard, drawer, any hiding place they could find. But in the end, it seemed that the house was completely empty. The captain was frustrated over this; all this way to find that the person they were looking for was gone. He looked at one of the troopers, “Are you sure this is the right address?” He asked angrily. The trooper looked at the paper again, feeling slightly afraid if he got it wrong. “Yes sir…this is the address”. The captain glanced around at the troopers. “Keep looking, I want her found”. He shouted as he knocked over a framed picture of a father with three little girls enjoying the day on the beach. Just then, one of the trooper came down the stairs holding a piece of paper in his hand, “sir…I found this”.
The captain quickly snatched the paper and read trough it carefully. After a minute of reading it, he gripped the piece of paper with anger as she glanced at the troopers, “It seems that our enemies have managed to reach her first, this whole trip has been a huge waste of time. Come, we will return to our empire and give Dark Nuva the news, though he will not be pleased….at least we can offer him two more slaves”.
The troopers left the house in its messy state and headed aboard the ship again as some of the people gathered round to see what all the commotion was about as some of the people who were in the cars, beeped and yelled at them, complaining about them blocking the road. But the troopers paid no attention and in just a few minutes, the ship began to lift itself off the ground before disappearing into the sky for the last time.
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Meanwhile…
Back in Shugazoom city, in their secret lair, Cherry kept phasing back and forth across the room, waiting for anything from Chiro or Alex. Leo was monertering the outside of their hide out, making sure there weren’t any troopers about. But he couldn’t concentrate with his sister phasing back and forth every second behind him, it was really beginning to irritate him. He turned his chair around to look at her, “Will you just calm down already, it’s only been half a day, they’ll be back any moment”.
Cherry stopped phasing and glanced at Leo looking slightly sad, “im sorry Leo…I just can’t help it. What if they never make it back, what if something bad happens? What if….”, She couldn’t say anymore as Leo got up from his chair and walked over to her, he gently touched her hands looking at her. “Sis, you need to calm down, your stressing yourself out,” he told her calmly while looking into her eyes. Cherry sighed and looked down sadly, “your right…im sorry Leo, its just that…”, she looked at Leo with tears in her eyes, “…frightened Leo. Im scared that more of us will be separated and we will never see each other again. That’s why im always concerned when any one of us leaves this place.” Leo couldn’t help but put a sad face on as he pulled Cherry into a warm family hug. “I know how you feel Cher, it’s hard, I know, but we can’t let our fears stress us out. We have to keep being strong and fight this fear, and the dark nuva”. Cherry looked and Leo and couldn’t help but smiled, “thanks Leo, I really needed that”. Leo smiled, “anytime sis. Maybe you should get some rest, you haven’t slept for like...uh…” He tried to remember. Cherry couldn’t help but laughed, “Leo…that last time I slept was just 10 hours ago.” Leo suddenly felt embarrassed as he rubbed the back of his head. “Ah….right…but maybe you should take a break. You work too hard”. Cherry gave a huff as she crossed her arms, “hey, you don’t have to go all soft on me, besides, what else is there to do in this place?” Leo tried to think, but there wasn’t anything else to do, there wasn’t any games, or books or TV. It was pretty dull to be living in a small, cramped place with only monitors to watch and weapons to make.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, the portal appeared in the middle of the room. Cherry and Leo watched and hoped that it would be their friends, they were expecting. After a minute, three figures came flying out of the portal and landed on the ground, piled up on top of each other. Chiro was on the ground with Alex sat on top of him with Joelle on top of Alex.
“Ugh, not the landing I was expecting”, Chiro grumbled as Cherry and Leo suddenly gazed at them. Leo smiled, “well, at least you didn’t land on top of some cranky old lady”. Joelle couldn’t help but laugh at that as she climbed off Alex and Chiro. Suddenly, the next thing she knew, she was being smuffered by Cherry who couldn’t stop crying, “Jojo, I cant believe its you, it’s been so long, I missed you so much, please don’t leave us again”, she sobbed hugging Joelle who was being covered in cherry’s tears. “Aw, im sorry you missed me, I promise you that I will never leave you again”. Cherry looked at Joelle in the eyes, “Really? What about your collage?” she asked. Joelle smiled and shook her head, “Well…lets just say that coming back here has made me realise that the true place im really needed is here. As for collage, well…it was great being home and trying to work a normal life, but I always felt something was missing from me.”
“Really? What was it?” Cherry asked curiously. Joelle smiled and looked around the room at Chiro, Leo, Alex and back to Cherry, “It was all of you…my friends…I wanna say that im really sorry I left you all, I just thought that since Skeleton king was gone, I was no longer needed and I wanted to try Collage out, but all it did was make me miserable and…I felt so lonely without any of you. I hope you can forgive” She looked down shamefully. Leo smiled and went up to her, he placed his hand on her shoulder, “Of course we forgive you…everyone deserves a second chance, right?” Joelle smiled and hugged Leo, “thanks Leo”.
Just then, Joelle turned her attention to the monitors what showed the images of shugazoom City that made her gasp. The city was in complete ruins, like the apocalypse had fallen upon the world. All the buildings have smashed windows, the roads have large cracks, all the trees were leafless and there wasn’t a sight of any life at all. All she could see were more of these troopers walking about, holding their large guns. “What happened?” the question just popped out of her mouth as she glanced at the monitors. Every looked down sadly with sad sighs.
Chiro waked over to her and placed his hand on her shoulder, “I think you should sit down before I explain.” He pointed to a chair. Joelle went over and sat down on the chair. She knew inside that whatever Chiro was going to tell her was going to be bad news. Everyone went quiet, there was a silent member before Chiro finally spoke, “His name is Dark Nuva…but he was once a monkey we all knew…as Tri-101.”
Joelle gasped silently. How could this evil master be Tri-101? Tri-101 would never betray his friends. It couldn’t be him, it was impossible. “But…how’s that impossible?”
Chiro looked down sadly, “it all started not long after you left. Tri-101 began to stop visiting or make any contact with us. And when either of us tried to call him, he wouldn’t answer. The team began to get a little worried, so Antauri decided to go and pay him a visit. I wanted to come with, but antauri convinced me not to follow him like last time and that it wasn’t going to be anything like what happened with his masters. I knew that he had a point, so I let him go, wishing now I hadn’t”, he clutched his fists together looking slightly angry with himself. Joelle suddenly felt very worried about this, “what happened?” She asked, eager to know the next part. It took Chiro a moment to continue, “He…disappeared”.
Joelle stood up, “what do you mean disappeared?” she asked worriedly, but before Chiro could answer, Alex stepped in. “What he means is, Antauri never returned, or called us to let us know when he’ll return. In the end, we all decided to search for him. A week went by and there were no sign of Antauri. No one knew where he was of where he was last seen. We began to get desperate, until we received an emergency message, only it wasn’t from Antauri, but it was from one of Tri-101’s apprentices.”
Suddenly, Cherry began to talk in the conversation, “He was trying to warn us that something terrible has happened to Tri-101, that had chosen to work with an evil known as “Savage”.” Joelle couldn’t help but looked confused, she never heard of this “Savage” before. “Who is this Savage?” she asked. This time it was Leo who began to talk, “Savage is like the son of the one you call “Satan”. Joelle couldn’t believe this; they couldn’t be talking about the Devil, could they? It was impossible. Or wasn’t it? “Wait…so your telling me that this Savage is like the son of the Devil, the evil ruler of fiery Hell?”
Everyone nodded. Just then, Alex made a little cough continuing the story, “Savage had somehow manage to convince Tri-101 that with his trust, the universe would turn out to be a more peaceful environment. unfortunately this came with a very big price that would cost him dearly”. Suddenly, the tone of Alex’s voice began to change low as he continued, “….his mind, soul and body”.
Joelle couldn’t help but gasped at this in shock. Why would Tri-101 give himself up to the hands of the devil’s son? The question sounded very insane to her, her head began to hurt. But then she remembers the part where antauri disappeared and wanted to know what happened to him. “So what happened to antauri? Did he get found in the end?” Leo sighed, “Yeah…he did…only it was him who found us. You see, the message we received didn’t fully explain what happened to Tri-101, it only got to the part where Tri-101 had been meeting Savage”. Before Joelle could ask, Cherry spoke quietly, “…it was cut off…just at the moment Antauri arrived”.
The whole room went very quiet as the mood seemed to have grown darker and colder, Joelle could feel herself shiver. “Then…what happened?”
Everyone went quiet for a moment looking very sad about the tragic events that happened not too long ago….
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6 months earlier...
“What wrong with the radio?” Leo asked as Otto was trying to figure out why the speaker was suddenly making static sounds rather then hear the person’s voice. Otto looked confused, “Hm, there isn’t anything wrong with our radio…it must be a lost signal, or the other radio is destroyed.”
Everyone went quiet, when suddenly, they heard something crash against the super robot’s entrance, like someone or something was trying to break in. the team immediately ran to where the noise was coming from, with their weapons already activated just to be prepared. “What do you think it is?” nova asked first. Sparks glared at the door that had already large dents in it, “I’m not sure…but whatever it is, it’s not getting a warm welcome from any of….”.
Suddenly, the doors were crushed opened and landed flat on the ground, making the floor wobble a little due to the heavy weight. The team all stood still in their fighting positions. “Team…get ready to…. huh?”
Suddenly, once the smoke was cleared, there stood Antauri, only there was something different about him, not that Chiro couldn’t care less since he was just happy to see his friend was ok. “Antauri…your ok. Where have you been, I thought you were….” But before chiro could continue, Antauri suddenly took out his claws as he also began to form into his spider like form from when he was controlled by the curse of Valina’s amulet. Everyone gasped, suddenly realising what was going on, but couldn’t understand why. Nova stepped forward a little, not too close, “Antauri…. what’s happened to...ah” she suddenly ducked down as Antauri threw one of his claw spears at Nova, which missed her and hit the wall, making a small hole in it.
At the point, everyone prepared to fight back. Sparks was first to carry out to attack, “MAGNA-TANGLER BLAST”, his magnets sent out electric steams that hit Antauri, but it didn’t seem to effect him. Sparks suddenly felt a sweat in the back of his head as Antauri made his attack on Sparks, he suddenly placed two if his claw spears together, forming an X shape, which he threw at sparks. Sparks quickly leaped out of the way as the X hit the ground causing an explosion. Nova was on her feet again, this time, she rushed over to Antauri with her fists in attack mode, “Lady Tomohaaaagh”, Antauri didn’t both to move out of the way, instead, he grabbed her arm and spun her around about several times before letting her go, sending her flying into the wall. Otto and Gibson gasped, but then looked at each other and nodded as they both went to attack at the same time, “Double monkey attack”. Gibson tried to fire one of his electric lasers at Antauri while Otto used fired his saws trying to hit Antauri, but neither of the attacks had any effects on him what so ever. Antauri’s extra spider like legs suddenly changed into gun like weapons that the team had never seen before. “That’s new”, Otto said as he glanced at the guns curiously. Gibson knew what was coming and pushed Otto down on the ground as Antauri began to fire the guns at them, showing no sign of emotion.
Chiro couldn’t believe what was happening, his best friend and closest alley fighting against the team. Suddenly Antauri began to fire his guns towards Chiro who had to leap out of the way in time. He then glanced at Antauri and noticed that his white pupils were not there in his blue eyes. It could only mean one thing, “Antauri...your mind is being controlled, you gotta snap out of it”, Chiro tried to tell Antauri. But Antauri just stared at Chiro like he didn’t recognize him. But who was controlling him, was all Chiro could think about at the moment.
Antauri pointed his guns at Chiro, ready to fire again, when suddenly, from behind, Leo leaped out towards Antauri with his two fists already out. They were big fists like his mother’s; only they had red outlining and had spikes on the knuckles. “THORN THRUST”, he yelled as he suddenly punched Antauri in his stomach, making the metal spikes enter Antauri’s metal body like a thorn piercing someone’s skin. Antauri gritted his teeth as he tried to push Leo off, but the spikes that were inside his body made it impossible for him to budge. Then without any warning, Cherry came out from behind Antauri with her electric claws out, “Hold him still Leo so I can shut down his system”.
Leo nodded as Antauri was doing everything he can to get free from Leo’s grip, but Leo wasn’t going to give him the chance of escape. Cherry lifted her claws up into the air as she let an electric surge run through them, “STATIC SHOCK”, she the placed her claws on top of Antauri’s helmet, which sent a sudden shock all the way down Antauri’s body, even Leo could feel the shock as he gritted his teeth. Cherry suddenly looked at Leo noticing this, “Leo…let go of him”, she shouted at him. Leo tried to move his spiked fists from Antauri’s shocking body, but they wouldn’t budge, he suddenly realized that he was stuck. “I….i can’t….my fists are stuck….AGH”.
Cherry gasped as she watched in horror, seeing her little brother take in the full blow of her electric attack. “LEO” she cried out not wanting him to hurt himself, but she couldn’t do anything, if she let go of Antauri, the battle would start all over again, but if she continued this with Leo, then he would end up severely hurt, or even killed. Leo tried to hold in the pain he was feeling, he could feel his skin under his fur was burning and the circuits on his arms began to buzz, he thought his arms were going to fall off at any moment.
Suddenly, a blue claw came out from behind him and grabbed his arms. Leo looked to see it was Alex who was trying to help pull Leo’s fists out of Antauri’s body. “Ah…it hurts”, Leo cried out in pain, he didn’t know how long he could take much more of this. Alex could see the suffering in his friend’s eyes and pulled harder, “Don’t worry…im going to get you out of this”, he assured him. Leo could suddenly feel the spikes in Antauri’s body loosen up as they both pulled harder. Cherry watched them both, hoping and preying they would manage to get her brother free in time.
Then with one last attempt, both Leo and Alex pulled at their hardest which finally helped to get Leo free from Antauri’s body. Once Leo and Alex stumbled back away from Antauri, who was yelling out in pain, his body had finally taken on enough of the electrical surge, making him shut down completely, collapsing on the ground as smoke was seen coming out of his arms.
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CHAPTER 6: DARK NUVA'S RISING...comming soon. Sorry i had to split this up into three parts, but there is only a cirtain number of words that can be used on each topic, so...yeah, sorry about that.
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