Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from SRMTHFG, they belong to Chiro Neili.
A/N: Antauri is quite different in this story, and as you read you'll see what I mean. One thing I have to say is I'm aware that this plot device has already been used; however, I can assure you this is my own idea when using it. My beta reader can verify and confirm this.
Chapter 1, The Demon Has Awoken
Antauri was in his usual state: peace, quiet, meditating, his eye's closed a sign that all was calm in his mind. Otto tip-toed into the room, "I know you're there, Otto," Antauri said, opening his left eye to see the other robot monkey frozen in his steps.
"Uh…"Otto began, "I came here…um…uh…for your help."
'Why would Otto need my assistance' Antauri wondered. 'He's probably still worried about Chiro.' That thought didn't last long, because Otto started flying toward him like an out of control Torpedo.
Plus, Otto had his chain-saws out. The buzzing of them seemed to echo in the room. Antauri's eyes snapped open and he leaped at just the right moment into the air. Antauri saw his brother zoom under him, a look of sudden shock on Otto's face as he headed for the wall. Soon after the crash, Antauri landed, he waited for the dust to clear before he said anything.
Otto spoke, weakness in his voice, "I wanted to talk about what happened to Chiro."
"His leg is fine we've done all we can to help him, there's nothing else we can do…" Antauri responded, grimly.
"Are you sure you're okay after those loose wires shocked you? There were a lot," Otto commented, pulling himself away from the HUGE dent he left in the wall.
Antauri had been covering the back of the team during the latest mission; he had gotten shocked from loose wires as the team returned to the super robot. Nobody had seen what happened; they just saw him afterwards and how he reacted to the incident. His eyes had a shocked expression and he was covered in a substance that made his black fur look darker. A few seconds later after the substance got on his fur, is seemed to soak into his body.
"Yes, I'm fine. I… I just have a lot on my mind right now," Antauri answered, folding his arms, and looking down at the floor.
"Oh, by the way, nice reaction time," Otto said with a grin, trying to cheer him up.
"Is that what it was?" Antauri said, sarcastically, hiding his anger. A strange feeling came over him, a mixture of hate, anger, regret, sorrow. That all that stirred into the most powerful feeling in that time: murder, and the urge to kill. "Please leave now, so I can think," Antauri said fighting the feeling.
After Otto left the room, the urge was gone. Antauri went back to meditating; once he closed his eye's the first thing his saw was his claws, about five times bigger then their usual size, blood dripping from them. He opened his eyes immediately.
"What's happening to me!" he asked himself. He held his head; he felt the feelings again.
A voice spoke inside of his head, 'Do not try to escape me, Antauri!' it boomed. 'I am your inner demon. I...will take your mind!' Antauri, now in mid-air, tried to fight the voice's power, but was useless. 'I will take your mind and your body will take me!' it said triumphantly. 'Take me…Take me in. I will cleanse all the problems…' And with that, Antauri was overwhelmed by the demon's power. 'And that problem… is you!' Antauri growled in mechanizing pain. The growl grew louder as Antauri transformed: his pupils formed into narrow slits of red demon-like eyes, meant for stalking in the depths of night and in the light of day, his claws appeared and grew in size and length. Now five times bigger then normal, they were now designed to cut, stab, and continuously attack. He felt his body grow to be more agile, as slick as a snake. Dark energy surged within him, claws growing larger every second; his teeth grew to heavy fangs meant for biting, and tearing. His toes became like hawk talons.
Antauri suddenly fell to the floor, back in his normal form, his eyes wide and blank. Knocked out from the evil force, his body shape flashed the evil side a few times, before Sprx ran into the room. He saw Antauri's body giving off little electric streaks, a sign he was hurt badly.
Sprx knelt down next to him, one hand on the floor, uncertain what had happened. "Oh, great! First the kid breaks his leg, now Antauri needs medical attention!" Sprx hung Antauri over his back, careful not to hurt him, and dashed for the main room.
Done with beating up her punching bag, Nova came out of her room, seeing Sprx in the hallway. Running up to him, she asked, "Hey Sp… what happened to Antauri?"
"I don't know, I saw him in his room and he looked like he'd been hit by a truck. All I know is that he needs help, and fast!" Sprx responded, his voice sounding urgent.
Nova and Sprx slid into the entrance of the main room, "Gibson! Otto! Antauri needs help! Now!" Nova screeched.
"What happened?" Otto asked, "I saw him earlier, and he was fine. Well no, he was acting a bit weird, not like himself."
"How!" Sprx asked, his and Otto's faces against each other, "How was he acting weird! How! We need all the information we can get to help him, look at him! He's giving off sparks for cryin' out loud!"
Gibson yanked Sprx away from Otto; he had to hold on tight to Sprx's wrists, for he was trying to escape from the grip.
"Sprx! Stop!" Nova yelled, "Seeing Antauri like this is driving you crazy! Please, stop," Nova said, sounding scared of Sprx's actions.
Seeing the tears in her eyes, Sprx stopped his effort to get free, Gibson let go, and gave him a look that said, 'Look wait you did, you made Nova cry!'
Otto got up, still shaken from when Sprx got up in his face. They shared glances, and Sprx got a weird, uncomfortable feeling, like Otto was saying, 'Why! I thought we were friends!' Otto gave Sprx a stare that gave him a chill.
"All we can do is bring Antauri to the medical room and try to heal him and find out what the problem is," Gibson said, looking concerned about how every one was reacting to this. Sprx gave him a look as if saying, 'Thanks, friend…'
Sprx followed Gibson to the medical room, Antauri's eyes still blank.
"Gibson! Sprx! How ya' doing?" Chiro said still embarrassed that the monkeys saw him with a cast on his leg, "Whoa, what happened to Antauri?"
"I don't know exactly, but we need to help him," Sprx said looking at Chiro, grimly.
"He's badly damaged, deeply dented, possible system crash. There's not much we can do, but try to recover his system if that's what it is. That should at least save his life," Gibson reported with his eyes scanning Antauri as Sprx lie him on the bed next to Chiro. "We should leave him to rest a while."
The monkeys left the room, "I'll keep an eye on him, monkeys," Chiro said.
"Thanks kid!" Sprx said, as he walked out.
Hours later…
Chiro was in a deep sleep, dreaming of what would happen after his leg healed. He didn't hear what was happening to Antauri, his demon was taking over again. His pupils grew to slits, the rest of his eyes becoming blood red; his claws grew five times their normal size; his teeth grew to heavy fangs; his toes became like hawk talons; his body grew to be stronger and quicker.
"I'm free to roam once again! Damn, this feels good!" Antauri yelled as he got up, this new dark side taking over. He spotted the door and a huge smirk spread across his face. He jumped off the bed onto the wall, digging his claws into it, and ran out the door. "Good place for me to wreck," Dark Antauri muttered, looking around, still smirking.
The rest of the monkeys were in the main room, Nova spotted of what looked like Antauri on the wall looking around, smirking evilly. "Uh, guys!" she yelled pointing at Dark Antauri, jumping out of her chair.
"Oh, crap! They spotted me!" Dark Antauri growled, jumping to the ground.
"I knew it! Something happened to Antauri!" Otto said, happy that he was right. It didn't last, however, as he was hurled to the other side of the room by Dark Antauri who had flipped in mid-air and kicked Otto in the face.
"Who else wants some?" Dark Antauri asked in a sinister voice, raising his fist, his claws were permanently out in demon form. "How 'bout the little girl?" He laughed manically.
"Oh, boy. He's in for it!" Sprx said, surprised Antauri had said that.
"Little girl?" Nova yelled outraged, "I'll show you little!" Nova charged at Dark Antauri, as he smirked.
"Nice try, runt!" Dark Antauri said as he leaped just in time for Nova to miss him. Her pupils shrunk as he flipped right over her, the two of them face to face, Dark Antauri still smirking. He landed right behind her and kicked her to where Otto lie except Nova's face dug right into the wall.
"I hate to do this bud, but I gotta do it!" Sprx said as he was ready to attack Dark Antauri, "MAGNA TINGLER BLAST!"
Dark Antauri leaped onto the ceiling just before Sprx hit him, he noticed Gibson ready to attack.
"Fool! I know how to dodge your attacks! But you never learned how to dodge mine," Dark Antauri called out, his smirk becoming an evil grin. "Does this sound familiar," He said, detaching himself from the ceiling, "MONKEY MIND SCREAM!"
Gibson was soon over taken by the shriek. "You were always talking too much," Dark Antauri chuckled, landing from the fall.
"MONKEY FU!"
Dark Antauri heard a yell from the medical room; he turned around to see a stream of blinding green light heading toward him. It was too late he couldn't react to jump out of the way. He was hit by the blow and flew backwards landing on his belly and chin. "Ow…that actually hurt, I'd expect Antauri to dodge that but I guess I have to do everything now." Dark Antauri said, rubbing his cheek from the blast while getting up.
"You mean, you're not the Antauri that we know!" Nova asked, stunned and confused. She had gotten out of the wall while Chiro attacked.
"Hell, no. I'm not the Antauri you know. But I am Antauri's inner demon." He laughed, making a fist as he finished.
"Then where's our Antauri!" Nova screamed a growl in her voice.
"Oh, him? He's gone," Dark Antauri replied, giving Nova an evil glare.
"What have you done with him!" she yelled, taking a step toward Dark Antauri.
"Do you really wanna know?" Dark Antauri asked, sounding more evil then ever. "Then find out later!" Dark Antauri jumped onto the wall and crawled to the hallway. There he ran up to one of the walls many control boxes. He leaped and dug his claws into the wall right outside of the box; the same with his toes. He detached one of his claws and ripped off the door of the wiring. He smirked again; he readied his fangs, and then took a bite of the wiring, sparks filling his mouth. He continued until all the wires were gone, then he took them out of his mouth and held them in his hands.
Sprx ran out into the hallway, noticing what Dark Antauri was doing. "Hey, he's messing with the wiring!"
"You're gonna wish you never said that!" Dark Antauri yelled, angry. He jumped off the wall and dashed toward Sprx. "Time to get sparked, Sparky!"
"Oh, great! Nova called me that, now you? Who's next?" Sprx yelled but was cut off by Dark Antauri shocking him with the loose wires.
"Well," Dark Antauri said, "That takes care of all of them, except the 'little one'. Ha! Like she's a threat? I'll save her for later." Dark Antauri leaped onto a wall yet again, made a hole in it and climbed out of the super robot.
Nova ran into the hall and saw Sprx damaged, she carried him to his quarters and lie him down on the sleep capsule. And went back to the main room and did the same with Gibson and Otto. Otto had a gash on his cheek. Gibson had a cut on his knee and Sprx had two cuts on his face, a gash on the back of his head and he kept on giving off little sparks.
"Looks like it's just me, and you now, Chiro," Nova said, alone in the medical room with him. She was sitting on the edge of the bed Chiro was in, her legs over the side.
"Dark Antauri didn't even try to hurt us. Why?" He asked, lying in the bed over the covers. His right leg and chest were wrapped in bandages, he had his shirt off and his right pant leg rolled up.
"I don't know, but there must have been a reason. All he did was slam me into a wall. I thought he would do more than just that weak little act. And he called me 'little girl'," Nova said, staring at the ceiling of the medical room. "Chiro, don't ever let him use me against you and the guys, okay?" She said, firmly.
"Okay, Nova," Chiro said staring at her, the back of her head was toward him.
"Now be sure of that, no matter what he does," Nova said even more firmly, this time her fist clenched.
I hope you enjoyed it. Until next chapter. Reviews are welcome but no flames please.