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[u] CHAPTER 3: MACHINES AND TIGERS[/u]
Joelle sat and watched Shadow as she was pouring a cup of some kind of strange green tea into a mug. “Here, this will prevent you from catching any disease or infections.” She gave the cut to Joelle. Before Joelle could take a sip, she smelled the tea, it smelled like nature. “Um…are you sure this is safe?” She couldn’t help but ask no wanting to end up being poisoned. Shadow just laughed and sat down on a cushion in front of her, “just drink it… its really safe, I promise you that”. Joelle just shrugged, “ok then”. So the took a sip, but once she did, she couldn’t help but nearly spit out the tea for it tasted absolute horrid, ten times worse that antauri’s veggie shakes. “Uh…what is this made out of?” Joelle asked in disgust while some of the green stuff dribbled down her lips. Shadow couldn’t help but giggled finding this entertaining. “It’s made out of some herbs and spice plants I farm. It’s really good for your blood pressure and keeps the heart pumping”. Joelle didn’t seem amused though. “Ugh…and I thought Antauri’s veggie shake was horrid enough”. She held her noise as she drank it down as much as she can, but once she was finished she began coughing from the hot spices stuck in her throat, it made her eyes water a little. Shadow gave her a cup of water. “Here, this should cool it down’. Joelle instantly took the glass and drank gulps of it down as she felt the fire in her throat slowly go out, once she was done she placed the cup down. “Thanks”. She managed to croak. Shadow smiled, “your welcome…well, I guess all we can do now is wait for the hyper force to come.”
Joelle looked down and then looked at shadow, “How comes you’re here on your own if the monkey team are in danger?” She asked her. Shadow suddenly went very quiet and looked down, having a look of guilt on her face. “Joelle…you have to understand…that da…this villain we’re facing is very powerful and hard to defeat”. She spoke quietly, as Joelle glared at her. “You didn’t answer my question”. Joelle replied since she really wanted to know why she was here hidden all alone. Shadow sighed and stood up turning her back on Joelle, heading over to a wall that had pictures of the team and her friends looking happy together. “When…you know who came into power…we…me and the hyper force came together into battle and tried to fight the troopers.” Joelle couldn’t help but looked oddly. “Trooper? You mean like those two hunters?” She asked. Shadow nodded and then looked at Joelle. “Yes…they are called troopers…. and there are hundreds of them…possibly thousands…. maybe even a million”. She spoke in a serious and frightening tone. Joelle couldn’t help but try to imagine all those troopers around shugazoom city, and thinking about it made her very concerned. Shadow then continued on, “So the team and I were battling the troopers…but then…you know who used one of his weapons on the monkey team…except for Chiro, Alex, Cherry and Leo. Luckily for them, they were out of the way on time.” Joelle continued to listen. “So…what happened to the team exactly?” She asked. Shadow sighed sadly, “they were shut down...and the troopers came and took them away. Chiro and the others tried to continue fighting…but then I got scared that I would be defeated by them…so without haste…I fled.” Joelle looked up at show shocked by this. “You fled?”
Shadow sighed sadly with a lot of guilt on her face. “I’m sorry Joelle…. I was just so frightened…seeing the monkey team loose…more and more troopers kept on coming…there was nothing I could have done…im a coward”. She stared down to the ground looking deeply ashamed. Joelle sighed and stood up, she walked over to shadow and hugged her in a warm cuddle. “Your not a cowards Shadow…you were just scared…even the greatest heroes are afraid. And I think if I were you, I would have done the same”. Shadow then looked at Joelle. “Really? But…running from battle?” Joelle nodded with a smile, “yes. I know it can seem like cowardness running from a battle…but then sometimes we have no other choice but to retreat when things are just too out of hand. And if you were captured by…you know who, I’d probably be wondering around this planet putting myself in huge danger…like running into those troopers back there”. Shadow couldn’t help but smiled suddenly feeling better and hugged Joelle. “Thank you jojo…you really are a true friend. But what if Chiro, Alex, Cherry and Leo are still angry with me for it? What if they hate me?” She asked worriedly. Joelle smiled. “Don’t worry Shadow, they can’t stay angry forever…and since you found me, I bet they’ll be very happy with you”. Shadow smiled feeling a lot better. Just then, Joelle remembered she had anther question. “So, how is chiro an the others? Are they ok?”
Shadow couldn’t help but sighed sadly again. “Well…I don’t hear much from them, especially Chiro. One time, Alex told me he looked like a broken person. He barely speaks to them…or eat or smile. He’s like a dead plant that’s lost its nourishment.” Shadow spoke in a sad tone as Joelle sighed. “This is defiantly not like Chiro at all…how long has this whole war thing gone on for?”
Shadow looked over at a calendar she had nailed to the wall. “It’s been about six months…and it hasn’t gotten any better”. This shocked Joelle. “SIX MONTHS?” Shadow quickly covered her mouth. “Shhh, keep it down, there are still troopers larking about trying to sniff us out”. Joelle moved her mouth away from shadow’s hand before she spoke, but quietly this time. “Six months? That long? Then why wasn’t I called sooner?” She asked shocked and slightly annoyed tone. Shadow just shrugged, “I don’t know…I only just found out a few days ago that chiro and the others were goanna bring you back to shugazoom city. But maybe its because they didn’t want to interfere with your life on…uh…what planet is it called again?” She asked with a question mark appearing above her head. Joelle couldn’t help but smiled. “Earth…have you been lacking your universe geography?” Shadow just rubbed the back of her head with a sweat coming down her face, “heh heh…you could say that”. But then she went back to her seriously look. “Well…the truth is…its been a while since I had any time studying the universe maps since I have been very busy trying to study you know who’s weapons that are used against us”.
“Oh…so have you found anything out that could help the team out yet?” Joelle asked curiously. Shadow gave a thoughtful look, “well…as a matter of fact...i have, actually, I can show you”. She smiled and took Joelle’s hand pulling her out of the small cozy like room. “Come on…you have to see this”. And so she lead Joelle down some stairs that seemed to be leading them further under ground until they reached what looked like a metal door with some kind of code lock on it. Once shadow typed in the code from the keyboard, the metal door opened itself up and the lights in the room switched on automatically so that it would reveal itself as what seemed to be a very large garage that was the size of ten football fields. Joelle was astonished seeing all the weapons shadow had hidden, including some battle machines like a robot body and tanks. “Wow…you have all this stuff hidden down here?” Joelle asked in amazement as she glanced around. It looked very much like one of the secret agent hide out places from secret agent movies. Shadow smiled as she lead Joelle over to the other side of the room, “Yep…some of these weapons I managed to swipe off of troopers whenever I run into them…or find their camp.” She replied. Joelle looked at shadow. “Is that why you were being chased by those troopers?” she asked. Shadow looked at joelle with a grin. “Yep…I thought it would be a good idea to examine the weapons that you know who and the troopers are using against us so that the team and I could find a way to build better weapons”.
“And has it worked yet?” She asked curiously, but shadow sighed. “Not really…but I have managed to use some scrap parts from some of the trooper’s war machines to create our own powerful battle machine.” Shadow smiled as she went over to a computer and pulled a switch that made a large circle in the ground open as the battle machine began to appear from the hole. Joelle couldn’t believe what she was seeing. “Oh my…”. Shadow smiled and stood next to Joelle, “May I present to you…flying hope”. The war machine was a large purple and white jet that looked much larger and longer then Joelle’s original jet, which unfortunally crashed in the great war with X and Skeleton King. On the side of the jet, it had the written words “Flying Hope” in silver writing on it. “Its…so beautiful”, was all Joelle could say about this magnificent jet. Shadow smiled and placed her arm over Joelle’s shoulder. “I thought you’d like it…purple is defiantly your colour.” Joelle then looked at shadow confused. “Wait…you mean…?” She asked as Shadow smiled and nodded. “Yep…she’s all yours…since your old one was now scraps of metal and that you seem to be the only best pilot on the team available.” Joelle couldn’t help but squeal like she was given a car for her birthday. “Oh my god…this is incredible, thank you so much”. She hugged Shadow who smiled and hugged her back. “I’m happy you like it, you don’t mind it being called flying hope do you? I just thought it was a nice name and I couldn’t come up with anything else”. Joelle smiled. “Its perfect…oh Shadow, thank you so much...your the greatest”. Shadow couldn’t help but blushed a little. “Aw…thanks jojo, so, how about I show you how to work some of the controls?” But Joelle grinned as she entered the jet, “Nah…I been flying jets before, this shouldn’t be so har….whoa”. Joelle was shocked to see that there were so many new buttons and switches; she didn’t know where to begin. Shadow giggled. “Here, let me help you “. She went inside with Joelle to teach her how to work her jet.
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Meanwhile…
Back at the hyper force’s secret hide out, Chiro and Alex were getting ready to activate the portal to where shadow was so that they could find Joelle and bring her back to Shugazoom city. Cherry sat on her seat looking rather sad; Alex noticed this and went up to her smiling warmly. “Don’t worry Cherry, we won’t be gone for long, and we’ll be back with Joelle, then we can end this war”.
Cherry looked up at Alex before she hugged him tightly. “I wish we didn’t have to be separated…what if you don’t come back? What will happen if the troopers find us? If this goes wrong…”. But Alex stopped her by placing a finger over her lips. “Everything will be fine cherry…as long as we have each other and Joelle to count on, nothing can go wrong. Soon this war will end and we can all be a happy family again”. Cherry smiled at Alex as he removed his finger, “I’m sorry…. I guess I’ve just been too worried about everything lately…its turning me into a control freak”. She looked down shamefully. Alex smiled and placed his hands on her face so that she could look into Alex’s eyes. “Your not a control freak Cherry…your just like your mother, very protective, honorable and have a strong personality…and I love you for that”. He spoke in a sweet warm voice that made Cherry’s heart melt. They both stared at each other as they could imagine themselves standing on a nice warm summer beach, with the splashes of the sea spraying into the sky as she sun shined, making it look a lot like magic. But it did not last. “Alex, its time”. Chiro called over to Alex, and so the love fantasy disappeared from their minds. Before Alex walked over to Chiro, Cherry took his arm to stop him. “Wait…one last thing”. She then kissed his cheek which made Alex blush red in the cheeks instantly. “This is for luck”. Cherry smiled and let Alex go as he walked over to where chiro was, still blushing. Chiro sighed seeing the two lovers having to be separated, but knew that they had a mission to complete. Chiro glanced down at Alex and nodded. “Its time”.
Alex nodded back and pressed a few buttons on the device he was holding. The portal then suddenly appeared in front of them as the both put on their hooded robes. Leo watched with a smile. “Good luck you two…don’t come back after midnight or you’ll turn into pumpkin”. He waved at them like a little kid. Cherry just placed the palm of her hand over her face with an embarrassed look. “Brothers”. She muttered. Alex smiled and looked at Chiro, hoping he’ll smile as well, but instead just glanced at the two monkeys. “Remember, if anything unexpected happens, contact us and get out here as fast as you can”. Cherry and Leo nodded not saying anything since they were feeling a little disappointed in not seeing Chiro smile. So both Chiro and Alex nodded at each other before they stepped into the portal where they disappeared along with the portal. Cherry sighed as she looked down sadly while Leo glanced over at her. “Its so sad to see uncle Chiro not smiling anymore…its like he’s already dead”. Leo placed a hand on his sister’s shoulder. “Yeah…its not like him at all…but hey….at least you’ll be seeing auntie Joelle again”. He gave a cheerful smile. Cherry couldn’t help but smiled as well. “Yeah…it’s been a few years…tell me, what does she look like?” Leo went quiet as he thought about it. “Well…she wasn’t like the way we saw her as little kids, she looked very different from the photos”. Cherry looked at Leo oddly. “Really? In what way?” She asked. Leo tried to think of a way to describe her. “Um…well…. she isn’t exactly a monkey…but a human like Chiro with no hair on her body but on her head, and she’s taller them us”. This suddenly shocked cherry. “Oh no…but if she’s human then she doesn’t have any weapons to stop dark nuva…we’re finished”. Cherry began to panic, but then Leo tried to calm her down. “Sis, don’t worry about it…I think she’s herself now after what happened in the portal”. Cherry looked confused. “Huh?” Leo smiled. “During our ride through the portal, Joelle began to glow and change shape, and she explained to me that’s how she changed into her monkey form…. before I accidently let go of her”. He blushed in embarrassment as cherry sighed. “Well…let’s just hope Chiro and Alex find Joelle in time…or we’re doomed.”
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Meanwhile…
Somewhere in the middle of the large jungle place, the portal opened and Chiro and Alex stepped out of the portal before it closed. The pair then looked around, since it was already nighttime, they could barely see where they were going as they wondered through the thick jungle. “Alex, which way is the device pointing too now?” Chiro asked with his hood still over his head. Alex glanced at the device that was suppose to tell them where Joelle was. “According to the directions, we are not too far, we should be there in less then an hour”. But suddenly, a growl was heard coming from the bushes nearby. The two members glanced around back-to-back, ready to fight off anything that comes out at them. But then it all went very quiet. Too quiet.
“Chiro…I think we should get…”. But before he could finish, with a sudden lash out of nowhere, a large creature jumped into Alex pinning him to the ground as it growled and roared like a hunting animal could do. Chiro glanced to see that that whatever had Alex pinned on the ground looked very similar to a tiger, except it was bigger, had longer front teeth and instead of having orange and black fur, it was silvery fur with blue stripes. Alex was holding onto the creature’s head trying to prevent the creature from eating him as it kept snapping its teeth trying to reach the fresh meat. Chiro wasted no time and began to fight back. “CHIRO SPEARO”. He threw a lightning bolt at the tiger like creature that felt the burning shock of the lightning attack and jumped off Alex backing away, but still growled and stayed nearby as Alex quickly got up and activated his ghost claws. “Wha…what is that creature?” he couldn’t help but ask as his voice was slightly shaken from the surprise attack. Chiro kept an eye on the hungry creature ready for any other surprise attacks. “I’m not sure…but what ever it is, it seems to think we are its dinner”. He replied.
The tiger like animal began to circle round them as both Chiro and Alex kept a close eye on it. Not a moment later the wild animal lashed out again, this time, towards Chiro, but Chiro was ready and leaped out of the way in time. The creature landed on it feet and quickly turned around ready to pounce again. Chiro was beginning to get a little annoyed about this, their world was in big danger and they don’t have much time till they are needed to get back to Shugazoom city. So as the tiger went to pounce at Chiro again, Chiro did not both to leap out of the way or move, instead he clutched his fist and got ready for an attack, waiting for the creature to get close enough, then with one swing “THUNDER PUNCH”, he punched the tiger like creature in the face, sending it into a tree before falling and hitting the ground. Alex watched not sure whether to feel sorry for the creature or be triumphant about it. The creature let out a low growl in pain as is struggled to get up. Then with one last look, the creature decided it would be best to take off, so Chiro and Alex watched as the creature stumbled away until it disappeared into the jungle.
Chiro was breathing hard from his encounter with the wild animal while he looked at Alex. “Alex…the device”. Alex nodded and looked down at the ground to suddenly see in his biggest horror, the device had been smashed broken. “Oh no…the device…its…. smashed.” Hearing this, Chiro suddenly ran over and looked at the broken device in horror like he was a dead body. “No…. this can't be…how did this happen?” He asked Alex in a frightful and serious tone. Alex glanced at chiro with a disappointed glance. “It must have smashed onto the ground when that creature jumped me…chiro, im so sorry”.
Chiro just sighed and stood quietly trying to think of what to do now. Without the device, they wouldn’t be able to find Joelle, and even if they did, they now couldn’t get themselves back home to Shugazoom city. Is this the end already? Have they lost the plot?
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[u]CHAPTER 4: DARK SECRETS[/u]
Tap…tap…tap…tap…the sound of his footsteps made as he quietly walked down the long, dark tunnel–like hallway. His breathing was heavy yet he couldn’t feel any warm breath touch his lips. He scraped his hands against the stone cold brick walls, causing a clank sound as the metal hit the stones, but none of his nerves responded t o the touch. He was neither hot or cold; in fact, he couldn’t feel anything at all. He gazed ahead and saw a dark part of the tunnel hallway. Since one of the light bulbs appeared to have gone out, it looked more like a dark gap, which is exactly how he felt inside. As he continued his journey down the hallway, he suddenly heard a that sounded familiar, “Uncle Tri!” the voice which sounded like a little girl’s, screamed at him as he turned around to see a little red monkey with soft pink eyes running after him with an eager look on her face. He didn’t know how to react; he just stood there and froze. “What is this? A trick?” he asked himself as he was trying to figure out what this possibly illusion was. “…. Cherry”, the word came out from his mouth as he felt a strange feeling inside, which began to make feel a sudden cold sweat overcome his body. He lifted his hands onto his head as if he was in sudden shock of pain, which wasn’t new to him. “Agh…no….not again”. He suddenly began to see more illusions. The next image he saw was himself standing in a room with white walls that were stained in blood and the little red monkey looking straight at him with a frightful glance, making him feel somewhat guilty, which was strange since he normally never felt guilt about anything or anyone. “NO! STOP IT!”. He gritted his teeth while holding his heads on his head, falling to is knees. He could feel one part of himself fighting another part, which was mentally painful. It was when a Sudden knock on the door, the pain has ceased. Dark nuva gasped as he jerked his body up from his lying position. He glanced around his whereabouts to see that he was lying on his bedchamber. He gasped a couple of times trying to figure out what was going on until he heard another knock. He glanced at the door. “Who dares to awaken me at this time of night!” He spoke in his high and dangerous voice as a cover up to his stress.
The door opened and trooper came in and went on one knee in a bowing position. “My lord…it seems that two of the remaining hyper force members have somehow infiltrated our security system and made their way to the planet Feliombria.” Dark nuva quickly got out of bed and walked over to the trooper and glanced down at him with his dangerous glance. “What?! But that is impossible, there is no way they could have stand any chance of escaping this planet…hm, this could only means one thing, they must be using some kind of travel portal machine”. He spoke in a very thoughtful tone while placing his hand on chin. “Those primates are becoming more trouble then I anticipated. They could still become a huge fret to my plan, even though I have captured took control of most of the team members.” He went quiet for a moment, until the trooper who was still in his kneeling position interrupted his thinking. “My lord, that is not all, we have been tracking down the latest portal activities, and the latest one appears to have been from a far away planet known as “Earth”.
Dark nuva suddenly stopped, and glanced at the trooper as he suddenly began to form an evil smile, “ah…now I see what those primates are playing at…” He went quiet for a moment, but suddenly the smile disappeared, “No…they couldn’t…” he then shot a glance at the trooper, “I want you to send out as many search parties as you possibly can, I want those primates found and bought here alive, GO NOW, and make sure nobody stops you…of it will be you who will pay.” He ordered the trooper who immediately stood up from his kneeling position and ran out of the room. Dark nuva walked over to his computer and began to type in something on the keyboard. “So…you primates think you can fool me into not knowing of your plan? Well you are about to be surprised”. He began to laugh evilly as the image of the screen showed an image of a purple and light blue monkey with green eyes and a star on her forehead.
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Chiro and Alex were wondering through the traitorous jungles of Feliombria, which was filled with thick fog that smelled like wild herbs and spices that would make their noses runny. Chiro sniffed, “this jungle goes on forever, we will never find Joelle at this rate”. He muttered as he tried to hit a bug that was bothering him. Alex, who followed close behind chiro couldn’t help but sighed, he knew that Chiro was in one of his moods, he wanted to say something like “don’t worry, we’ll find her” or “we just need to keep out hopes up”, but then all it would do is make his leader sadder since it would remind him of his old team mates. After searching for an hour, Chiro couldn’t contain his anger anymore as he placed his fist into a ball shape and swung at a tree, SMASH went to tree as it was cracked in half and crashed down onto the ground as the other half, that was implanted in the ground, stood up looking like a stump. Chiro then sat on the wet grass, not caring if he got his pants wet or covered in grass stains, “im so stupid…what was I thinking trying to get help from the outside of Shugazoom when all its going to do is tare the team more apart.” He spoke with anger and a hint of sadness in his voice. Alex walked up to Chiro and stood in front of his so that they were face-to-face, “Chiro…you cant just give up on yourself, we need you, and even if it means splitting the team up more, we have to try and keep our heads up if we want to save Shugazoom and the universe.”
The teenager looked at Alex with sadness on his face as a tear began to roll down his cheek, “I’m sorry Alex…its just….my friends are counting on me to save them and the universe, but its just so hard and painful…not having your friend by you to help you”. Chiro suddenly began to cry more tears down his cheeks, which was a big surprise to Alex since he had never seen him cry before, it made him feel scared inside. Alex placed both metal hands on Chiro’s warm cheeks as he glared right into chiro’s blue teary eyes, “Your friends are still with you chiro, and they still believe in you, like I do, and so does cherry and Leo. We all believe in you, which is why we are counting on you to find our friend, build an army and defeat dark nuva once and for all. You just have to keep your faith going.” He placed his hand on chiro’s chest where his heart was with a warm, calm smile. Chiro couldn’t help but see the image of Antauri in his face, everything about Alex reminded him of Antauri, his closest friend. Chiro wrapped his arms around Alex as Alex felt his face against Chiro’s warm chest. Chiro held Alex in a warm hugging position, “Your right Alex…I do need to keep having faith in myself….im sorry for the way I been treating you and the team. Will you give me another chance to make it right?” Chiro sniffed as tears ran down his face and one landed on Alex’s nose. Alex looked at chiro and smiled, “Of course I will, and so will the rest of the team.” Chiro smiled and wiped his tears away and sniffed a few times before standing up. “Alright Alex, we don’t have very much time, so lets get going, we got a friend to find”. Alex smiled feeling a lot happier now that Chiro was in a much better mood, “I am with you all that way”.
So Chiro and Alex continued their search to find their lost friend in hopes to save their home from dark nuva.
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Joelle yawned tiredly as she rubbed one of her tired eyes. Shadow couldn’t help but smiled, “when was the last time you took a nap?” Joelle then tried to remember, how long has it been since she left home? About 16 hours? She didn’t know and just shrugged. Shadow smiled and took joelle’s hand, “come on, you can sleep in my bed…I wonder what’s taking the monkey team so long.” Joelle suddenly glanced at shadow, “they’re coming here? Really?” she asked with such excitement in her voice. Shadow smiled and nodded, “yep, but they seem to be taking longer then I expected, anyway, in the meantime you can have a nice nap”. Joelle wanted to say that she wasn’t tired, but her yawn betrayed her. She really was tired, she hadn’t slept for over 24 hours, “well…I guess I could rest my eyes for a little while”. Shadow couldn’t help but laugh a little, which she hadn’t done for a long time; she couldn’t help but gave Joelle a warm hug, which surprised Joelle. “Shadow…are you ok?” Shadow couldn’t help but felt a tear come through her eye, she then let go of Joelle, “im sorry…its just its been a while since I felt any happiness and…seeing you has made me feel myself again…and I want to thank you for it”. Joelle couldn’t help but felt teary as she hugged shadow, she began to cry some tears, “oh shadow, please don’t apologize for anything…im the one who should say sorry…I should have never left you and the rest of my friends. But I guess I just felt that I wasn’t needed anymore. But now I know what I will always be needed. Please forgive me for leaving you”, she sobbed as tears came dripping down her face and onto shadow’s shoulder. Shadow looked at Joelle and began to wipe joelle’s tears off her face, “cos I forgive you, you’ve already made it up by making me smile again”.
Once Joelle and Shadow had calmed down, shadow lead Joelle to Shadow’s room, which didn’t have a proper bed inside, but had an old mattress with a pillow and a cotton blanket. Surrounding her bed were piles of books and framed photographs of her friends which Joelle recognized, She sighed as she looked at the old photographs, and then spotted one that was a photo of herself with Shadow and the hyper force. “It isn’t much, but it’s still cozy”, shadow told Joelle as she tried to move some of the books off the bed and into another pile. Some of the books were classic stories like “Treasure Island”, “black beauty” and “Alice in Wonderland”. Joelle was astonished by how many there were, “did you really all these books?” Shadow went quiet for moments as she places the books in a big pile, “yep…I been doing a lot of reading in my spare time”. Joelle couldn’t believe what she was hearing, Shadow wasn’t usually a big fan of books, and yet now she’s suddenly a bookworm. “Seriously?”
Shadow glanced at Joelle and crossed her arms, “lets just say since all the trouble started, I have been hunting for some…inspiration and so I began to read some books in hopes of finding some helpful advices for this war.” Joelle sat on the comfy, soft mattress, “so did you find any helpful inspiration?” Shadow went quiet as she gave a thoughtful look, “Well…yes and no…there are some parts in the stories that sound inspirational, but aren’t really helpful enough, but reading the stories also made me feel like im not stuck in this scary world anymore, that I was someplace safe. So I began to read more and more, I guess that makes me a total bookworm now”. Joelle laughed, “I was just thinking the same thing, but there’s nothing to be ashamed about, reading is way better them movies, in movies, they take out most of the details.” “Yep, I noticed that as well, it spoils the stories really”. She looked down sadly as Joelle nodded in agreement. Just then another yawn hit Joelle, reminding her that she was tired. Shadow looked up and smiled, “anyway….you better get some rest, I’ll watch the monitors for them”. She turned the lights down a little in the room as Joelle wrapped the blanket around her, “you got monitors?” Shadow nodded, “yep, its just to keep an eye incase the monkey team shows up, and it also warns me of more of those troopers”. Joelle laid her head onto the soft pillow, but before she could go to sleep, she wanted to know one more thing, “But why are the troopers here? And why are they after you?” Shadow sighed, and went over towards Joelle and went over to Joelle looking sad, “Well…I cant really tell you who their leader is, yet, but I can tell you that he wants anyone associated with the monkey team to be captured and brought to him alive.” Joelle was shocked by this, it made her more worried now, “But what happens to them if they’re captured?” She asked eagerly, but shadow looked down sadly and shook her head, “I don’t know…all I know is that their taken to the leader, I wouldn’t want to imagine what will happen to them. Anyway, enough questions, go to sleep, I’ll be in the monitor room if you need anything”. Joelle gave a little smile, “yes mother”, she joked as shadow gave her a little nudge, “ha ha, very funny…but seriously, you need your rest.” Joelle nodded as she laid her head back on the pillow again and yawned, “night night”, she told shadow before closing her eyes as shadow left the room. As Joelle’s mind began to slowly drift off into sleep, she didn’t wonder what’s happened to the team and if their still alive. Will she be able to save them and stop whoever this master was?
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Shadow quietly walked down the hallway that had wires hanging from the ceiling and some old light bulbs flashing. The hide out she lived in was not in the great condition since it was difficult to find some tools since the troopers were running about everywhere, which was dangerous for Shadow to leave the planet to get some new tools and equipment from a space gas station. She walked into the monitor room where there were about fifty TV’s that were moniting different parts of the jungle. She sat on her armchair as she watched them carefully. As she did, she began to wonder if the team was really coming to find Joelle. Maybe something bad has happened to them. What if they have been caught and all hope of saving shugazoom city was lost. No...it couldn’t be over, they couldn’t loose. But when she glanced at the clock, she couldn’t help but was now feeling extremely worried and sure that something had gone wrong. Where were they? Why hadn’t they come yet?
But it was until she spotted something on one if the monitors that made all her worries disappear. On the TV image, she saw a young man wearing a white and orange uniform and walking beside him with a black monkey with different colored eyes. Shadow instantly leaped from the chair and pressed a button….
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Chiro and Alex were beginning to wonder if they were taking the right path to shadow’s hide out. They had been searching around for hours. “Perhaps I should contact the team and ask Leo to come with another tracking device”. Alex tried to suggest, but chiro sighed and shook his head, “it will take too long, and time isn’t something we have at the moment”.
“WELL IT’S ABOUT TIME YOU GUYS GOT HERE”.
A voice suddenly shouted out of nowhere making chiro and Alex jump. They both glanced around to see if there was anyone nearby, but they couldn’t see anyone, which confused them. The voice giggled at them.
“ABOVE YOU”.
Chiro and Alex glanced up and spotted a small camera with a speaker that was hidden in a large hole in the tree. “Shadow? Is that you?” asked Chiro as he glanced at the camera.
“COURSE IT’S ME, WHO ARE YOU EXPECTING, THE FAIRY GOD MOTHER? ANYWAY, WHAT TOOK YOU GUYS SO LONG, ME AND JOELLE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOREVER FOR YOU GUYS TO TURN UP”.
Alex couldn’t help but rubbed the back of his head, “well…we ended up running into a dangerous beast and…our tracker got destroyed during the short battle”. He showed the broken tracker to the camera. The voice sighed,
“YOU TWO ARE HOPELESS…IT’S A GOOD THING YOUR NOT TOO FAR, JUST KEEP GOING STRAIGHT UNTIL YOU REACH A FUNNY LOOKING TREE WITH A BOTTLE ATTATCHED TOO IT.”
Chiro and Alex smiled now that they knew that they were getting close. “Well, see you both there”. Chiro gave a little wave to the camera before he and Alex followed the tail towards Shadow’s secret hideout.
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Meanwhile….
Somewhere far away from Shugazoom city on a blue and green planet known as EARTH, there was a small island, which had a small house by the beach.
Sitting on the beach was a young teenager, about the age of 15 with curly, blonde hair and different colored eyes; the left was green while the right was brown. Sitting next to him was a young monkey who has light blue fur with slightly dark blue eyes to match. The young monkey sighed, “Alex, im so bored, can’t we do something fun like go swimming?” The boy turned to the young monkey with a slightly serious look, “you know what happens when you get soaked in the freezing cold ocean”. The little monkey gave a huff and crossed her arms not looking too happy, “its not my fault I get ill easily”. She muttered. Alex laughed and squirted her with a water gun, which surprised her. “Heh heh, looks like I got you again Bliz”, he laughed holding the little squirt gun he had kept in his pocket. Blizzard gave a grin as she began to chase him across the beach. “Oh yeah…well wait until I get you, im ganna….huh?” She suddenly stopped as she noticed something in the sky.
Alex then stopped running as well and glanced up to see a dark figure coming through the sky, but because it was very far away, they couldn’t see it very well. “It’s probably just another plane”, spoke Alex, as he had to cover the top of his forehead with his hand since the sunshine into his face. But Blizzard kept looking up; she felt something wasn’t right about this plane. “I don’t know…something is wrong”.
Inside the house, the sky monitor alarm went off as a blonde, green-eyed woman ran towards the computer to see what was setting the alarm off. After typing on the keyboard, the screen showed a satellite image of a strange black ship that had the red initials’ of D.N. printed onto the ship’s tail. “I never seen a ship like this before…and it appears to be heading right towards us”. Just then, a purply pink monkey with light pink eyes came into the room to see what the alarm was about. “Serena, what’s going on?” she asked the woman. Serena began typing some more on the keyboard, “im not sure charm, but I have a feeling they are here to cause come trouble. But I will try to communicate with them in hopes they are not a fret.” She picked up a microphone and began to speak into it, “This is Serena from Lugutia Island speaking here, you are heading towards us in a trespassing position, please identify yourselves”. She then waited for a response from the strange ship, but nothing happened, so she tried again. “Serena from Lugutia Island, you are illegally making a position to land here, please indentify yourself or I will have to take some action”. But there still wasn’t any response and the ship was getting closer, she was beginning to have a very bad feeling about this. She glanced at Charm, “Charm, activate the emergency island shield.”
Meanwhile, outside of the island, the black ship headed towards the island. One of the troopers was listening to the radio where he heard a woman trying to contact him. He looked up at the captain trooper. “Sir, she has given out a fret warning, should be have our weapons ready?” The captain just smiled as he glared out of the window seeing the island. “Don’t worry about the fret trooper, I have studied this planet’s weapon industry. They are far from being a fret to us. If they do attack, then we will block their attacks and make the landing. Once we land, I want everyone on the island captures and bought forward to me, that’s an order, understand?” The troopers nodded, “yes sir”.
Suddenly, the ship’s alarm went off. “Sir, they have activated some kind of island shield,” spoke the pilot. But the captain didn’t seem worried at all, “well then…we better shut it down, send out the shield virus.” The pilot nodded and pressed a button that fired six small objects that were in a shape of a ball.
Serena and Charm watched from the monitors. “What are those things?” asked charm as the six objects suddenly began to stick onto the shield like glue balls. Serena didn’t way anything as they watched and waited to see what would happen.
The pilot on the ship pressed a red button that activated the small object, sending out a strange jolt of electricity making the shield frizzle.
The computer inside the house began to go berserk as the system was getting out of control making the keyboard buzz and frizzle. “What’s happening?” Ask charm getting scared as Serena was trying to stop whatever was making the computer go completely mad, “`Im not sure, they seemed to have inserted some kind of virus that is destroying this system.” Serena and Charm had to step away from the computer before it made a tiny explosion filling the room was smoke; they had to get out of the room.
Outside, Blizzard and Alex watched as the shield had completely broken down and disappear, making it free for the black ship to enter the premises. “I don’t like the look of this at all…I think we better run”; said Blizzard who was now feeling scared. “
“ALEX….BLIZZARD”, Serena called them as she and Charm rushed over towards as the ship began to land nearby. Serena held her son in her arms, “mom, what’s going on? Who are they?” Asked Alex as Blizzard hugged her mother looking scared. Serena looked at her son with a very worried look on her face, “I don’t know son, but you and blizzard must get out of here now”. But Alex didn’t want to leave his mother behind, “No, im staying with you, I cant take them out”. Serena wanted to tell him again, but now it was too late, the ship doors opened as the troopers began to run out of the ship holding their guns, heading towards them. Neither Serena, charm, Alex or Blizzard moved as the number of troopers surrounded them, pointing their guns at them. Among the troopers, the captain broke into the circle and headed straight over towards them with a sinister look on his face. “Well well, what do we have here?” he glanced down at charm who gave a low warning growl as blizzard kept hold of her, too scared to let go. This amused the captain very much as he smirked, “looks like dark nuva will have a couple more slaves to join his empire”.
Serena instantly stood in front of Charm and Blizzard, but then Alex stood in front of her. This made the captain laugh, “Now this is just amusing, the little lad wants to be a man”. Some of the troopers laughed with the captain, but Alex didn’t find it funny at all as he glared right at him. Just then, Serena gently shoved Alex out of the way as she went to face the captain, “who are you? And why have you infiltrated this island?” she asked in a very serious way. The captain smile glancing at her, then without warning, SLAP, went his hand right across her cheek sending her to the ground. Charm growled loudly at this as she got ready to pounce on the captain, but then one of the troopers fired a warning shot, making Blizzard shriek with fright. Alex wished that he had his sword with him, but it was inside the house that was meters away, so he couldn’t do anything to help. The captain glared down at Serena who was holding her cheek where he has slapped her, “I am the one who will be asking the questions, and if my question’s are not answered, then there will be consequences. Understood?” Serena, Alex, Charm and Blizzard said nothing since they didn’t want to cause any trouble and end up getting shot. The captain smiled, “Good…now, let me start from the beginning. I am looking for someone by the name of “Joelle”, and here is a picture of her”. He showed the image of Joelle to them. Charm and Blizzard gasped since they knew who Joelle was and didn’t want to betray her since she was a good friend of theirs. “What do you want with her?” spoke Charm who couldn’t help but ask, wanting to know why her friend was involved with these dangerous men. The captain walked over to Charm and kicked her in the stomach which went her lying on her side, herself in pain. “LEAVE MY MOMMY ALONE”. Shouted Blizzard who gritted her teeth. The captain was now getting annoyed by this and grabbed Blizzard by the scruff of the neck, lifting her off the ground. Blizzard hated being picked up like this and struggled to get free, “Let me go”. She cried out kicking her legs about, but the Captain paid no attention towards her. He glanced at the other three and held the picture up again. “If you want to stay alive, then tell me, where can I find this monkey?” he asked seriously. Charm glanced up in as her stomach felt soar, she could see the scared look on Blizzard’s face which made her angry inside, but felt sad since she would have to save her by putting her friend in danger. “If I tell you…then will you let us go?” Charm asked. The captain glared at her, “that is possible, but you must tell me first, unless you want your friends to die”. Charm couldn’t help but felt tears swell up in her eyes, feeling that she was trapped with no way out, she sighed in defeat as a few tears dropped onto the sand, “She lives on an island called England, in a city called London”. The captain’s sinister smile came back on as he dropped Blizzard on the ground who ran into her mother’s arms. Charm was relieved that her daughter was fine and that whoever these horrible people are will go away and leave them in peace once and for all. But little did she know, she was wrong.
The captain looked at the troopers and nodded. “Take care of these two, so that we may continue our mission and head back the our empire.” Before anyone has the chance to do anything, the troopers swarmed in and grabbed Charm and Blizzard pulling them apart as they screamed and tried to fight against them. “NO” Alex yelled as he tried to stop the troopers, but a suddenly blow to the head knocked Alex down on the ground, leaving him in an unconscious state. Serena watched helplessly as Charm and Blizzard were being taken on board of the black ship that quickly took off from the island and disappeared into the sky.
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To continue, please go to SRMTHFG: Joelle's return part 3
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