Chapter One: The Trouble Begins

It was a peaceful night in Shuggazoom city; the stars and moon were shining in the ink, black sky. Everyone was sleeping peacefully. Well almost everyone, anyway.

Skeleton King was planning on how best to strike the Hyper Force. "Hmm..." Skeleton King sat on his throne made entirely of bone, deep in thought. He had tried everything he could think of.

Hoards of formless, clones, the Sun Riders, sending a spy into the robot to get its weakness, then send robot girl to destroy it. Monsters that can combine, enslaving them, capturing the monkeys to force them into being his slaves, try to use Chiro's fear of water and clowns against him, Try to get Scrapaton to kidnap them, twice, evil gangster colon, send planetoid to annihilate them, infect Gibson and the robot with an evil virus, haunt Chiro and kill him in his dreams, freeze planet…

Wait! Back to the virus idea, infecting their precious leader with a virus that will kill him. Perfect. "Mandarin!" Skeleton King shouted.

Mandarin came rushing in, stumbling in his haste. He bowed. "Yes, my lord?"

"Send a bug to infect the boy with this virus." Skeleton King flipped his closed hand so the palm faced the ceiling. He opened his clawed hand. A tiny speck of what looked like dust floated above his palm.

The virus floated over to Mandarin, who carefully closed his hand over it. "Yes, as you wish my lord." Mandarin bowed. Skeleton King dismissed Mandarin with a wave of his clawed hand.

Once Mandarin left to carryout his orders Skeleton King began to laugh evilly. "No, one can stop me!" He stopped laughing abruptly to cough. Once he had finished coughing he began to chuckle evilly. "Boy, do I love me!"

A mosquito entered the Super Robot. It flew through the robot to a room where a boy with messy black hair slept. The mosquito was on a mission: distribute the virus it carried, into the boy.

The bug landed on the boy's neck. It's needle like nose pierced the boy's flesh and entered the blood stream. It barely had enough time to release the virus before the boy smacked it, killing it instantly.

Within a few minutes the virus began to take effect. The boy began to shake and sweat. His flesh became extremely pale. His cheeks began to flush. He whimpered in his sleep...

Antauri walked onto the main room and noticed the absence of their leader. "Has anyone seen Chiro?" he asked.

SPRX-77 also known as SPRX stopped humming and looked up from the polishing his magnets to answer the question "The, kids probably still asleep" He answered. Then went back to his work. He often called the magnets his "beauties." No one really understood why, but hey whatever.

"I'm going to check on him." The black monkey said. He turned and left the main room, heading for Chiro's room.

When he was close to the door he sensed that something wasn't right. Chiro's life energy signal was fading, and rather quickly. It caused the black monkey to panic, and become beyond worry.

He knocked, "Chiro can I come in?" No reply. Antauri opened the door and stepped inside. The lights were off so the room was dark. Antauri could hear labored breathing. "Chiro?" He still got no response.

He activated his night vision. Chiro was facing him it was obvious that the labored breathing was coming from him. Antauri walked over to Chiro's bed and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Chiro?" Antauri couldn't keep the worry out of his voice.

Chiro slowly opened his blue eyes. Antauri was startled to see pain, agony, and a great amount of suffering in the boy's eyes. "Antauri..." Chiro said weakly, his voice was hoarse.

Antauri removed his hand from Chiro's shoulder and placed it on his forehead. Chiro trembled as the metallic hand made contact with his forehead. Antauri's hand was quickly heated from the heat radiating from Chiro's forehead.

Antauri removed his hand from the boy's forehead. He began to lovingly stroke the hair on Chiro's head, his metal fingers running through the boy's hair. "Chiro, I'm going to go get Gibson. He knows more than I, when it comes to medicine." Antauri made a move to leave but Chiro's frightened voice stopped him.

"Don't leave me, Antauri...please..." Antauri felt a pang of sorrow at his heart and felt more protective of the boy. "I don't want to be all alone and in pain... not again..." Chiro whimpered.

Antauri began to stroke Chiro's hair again. "Alright, Chiro. I won't leave you here alone, I promise." He said soothingly.

Chiro relaxed a bit. "Thank you, Antauri... I'm in less pain when you are around..."

Antauri smiled slightly and Chiro smiled back weakly then closed his eyes. I have to do something! Antauri reached out with his mind and felt the conciseness of the other monkeys. He picked Gibson's. : Gibson, Chiro is ill. He needs medical attention now:

: Yes, understood I'll be there right away: Gibson's voice called back. There was a moment's silence. : What are his symptoms:

: Fever, weakness, labored breathing, and appears to be in agonizing pain.:

:Oh, my... Chiro appears to be very ill indeed... I'll be there shortly: