Wow, this is probably the fastest I've ever updated. And it is totally 8 PAGES LONG! An extra long installment for the end of the tale. Anyway, here's the concluding chapter of "Fixing what is Broken". I hope everybody likes it because I worked really hard at it. Oh, and don't forget to read all the stuff at the end, I need people's opinions on stuff. Anyway I know everybody's dying to read this next story so allow me to thank my reviewers!
Beastfire: Last to review last chapter, first to review this chapter! Beastfire, you're always a surprise. CONFETTI! I LOVE CONFETTI! Yeah, um… hope you enjoy this chapter!
4EverMonkeyFan: O-o My opinion? Honestly, it's up to you. I always get nervous instructing others, or even giving advice. I suppose I have this rabid fear that I'm going to give somebody bad advice. Well, I guess clarifying before expanding I suppose, but as I've said it's totally up to you. Glad you're in anticipation for my next chapter and I hope you like it!
Crystal Sapphire: Ah yes, therapy. Not that I've ever had any.
SPRX-77: Aw, stop lying you know you have!
RM4E: HAVE NOT! You must be having delusions about the shock therapy you had to go through after I HURT YOU WHEN YOU SCREWED UP THAT CERTAIN FIC I WAS TRYING TO WRITE THAT ONE TIME!
SPRX-77: Oh yeah. That time. Excuse me.
RM4E: Hope you like the new chapter!
Princess Moon Shadow: What did you think? Good? Bad? And, wow! You wrote 4 words more than last time! w00t! Anyway, hope this conclusion's good enough. Please R&R.
The Corpse Bride: I sent you a PM on invisionfree, did you get it? Is this updating soon enough? I'm glad you like it! (And that's okay with the good/goof thing, I make so many mistakes when I'm not really paying attention. You wouldn't believe some of the stuff that I've said. Ha ha.) Anyway, enjoy the new chapter!
Dreamstar: You like that? Me too, revealing thoughts lets you get really deep into the character. After all, how much can you truly know about a character until you know their thoughts, dreams, and aspirations? Anyway, I'm getting too deep for myself. Enjoy this new, extra long chapter!
Ari: About Chiro… aw you'll find out when you read the fic. I hope you're pleased by this newest addition! Ha ha. I was talking with my friends and one of them said that they liked living in the middle of nowhere, away from the cities and stuff. And there's actually a city in Michigan called Hell, Michigan. Well, not intending to sound the way I did I almost said that she should, well you can fill it in from there. It was so funny though. Anyway, enjoy!
LMann: he he, yeah, she kind of was. Well, I think she may have actually been more amazed or something. Aw, heck you can read her review for yourself if you want to. I hope you both enjoy this next chapter.
Gijinka Renamon: know! It's just not getting here soon enough. I'm hoping for the last week of July but it may not be until August or even (eep) September! It had better be here soon, that's all I can say.
DayDreamer9: Yeah, I don't know if Gibson's cut out to lead or not. All I know is he wouldn't take orders from Sparks in my opinion. Not without a fight. Well in this world it's fight or flight. Hope you like how I conclude my story. R&R!
Monkey Team LuvR: Did you like the pictures? I'm all for constructive criticism! And don't worry I promise I shall not kill Gibson. Hope you like this final chapter!
AnimeFanGirl11: Aw, thanks you're too kind. Is this soon enough? I didn't want you to agonize over what happens to Gibson considering what a large fan you are so here it is. Enjoy it, gosh! JK, hope you like this final chapter.
And now, on with the tale…
Chapter 4
Gibson walked out of the Super Robot and journeyed south, in the direction he had remembered Chiro going, as memory served. He felt terribly odd about leaving. It had never been in his nature to run from his problems, he preferred to face them using logic and intelligence. However, it seemed that logic and intelligence would do absolutely nothing in this situation.
He walked for hours and hours, to the point at which the city was but a speck in the distance, and then disappeared completely. He had neither thought nor said anything, and the scanner in his hand seemed his only companion. He continued to scan the desert in front of him.
A sandstorm kicked up and blew the small rocks into his eyes. He could barely see the screen that was less than a foot in front of his eyes. Suddenly, he heard a noise from his scanner. Was it a malfunction? No, there it was again. A life form other than his own was around him somewhere.
The "blip" wasn't very close to him, but he ran in the direction of it. He took off, mustering all of his strength. Unfortunately in the storm, he couldn't see what was directly in front of him.
His flat foot hit a rock and he stumbled over it. That wouldn't have been terrible, but he was now at the top of a hill. He fell down it, continually hitting his head and getting bent and bumped on the way down.
Finally, he settled at the bottom of the hill. He was on his back, feeling unable to move. He felt several dents all over his body, and particularly to his head. One of his eyes flickered, and then shut off.
Gibson moaned loudly, the scanner was still in his hand: he had lost the blip. Sand continued to blow into his one active eye.
"This," he said, "is rock bottom. My friends have betrayed me. My best friend has died, and my leader has been turned primate and run away. I'm dented and destroyed, and I can already feel systems shutting down."
The thought came to him that it would be better to shut himself down, then to experience them all shut down gradually. His hand moved to the back of his head, where a plate had fallen off. He could feel that one large line which supplied power to his cranial computer. He grabbed hold of it, ready to pull it.
Suddenly, Gibson heard something he thought he never would again. It was Antauri's voice. "Gibson! What are you doing?"
Gibson let go of the wire instantly, and looked wildly around himself, "Antauri? Where are you?"
"What are you doing, Gibson?" It was stern and powerful.
That moment, Gibson realized that he was not hearing the voice through his ears, nor his com receptor. Antauri was speaking to him telepathically. "I, I was looking for Chiro."
"No, what were you just about to do?"
"I was going…I was going to cut off power."
"Why, my friend, why end your own life?"
"There's nothing left for me here. I'm going to shut down anyway."
"That's nonsense. There is nothing that you cannot fix, Gibson. I have a feeling that theirs is more to this desire than meets the eye."
"Antauri, I cannot operate without your guidance. You were my best friend!"
"The team needs you, Gibson, and if you did not exist, what would the team do?"
"I, I wasn't thinking about that."
"No." Antauri's voice grew stern, "You were too busy wallowing in your own self-pity. Wake up, Gibson! This world isn't about you! You need to be thinking of others, not only yourself. You need to help. That is why you are a member of the Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce."
"You're right Antauri. I have been thinking only of myself. But what can I do now? I am unable to move."
"Are you? Or do you just think you are?"
Gibson suddenly realized that he had his eyes closed the whole time he was talking with Antauri. He opened them, still only being able to see through one. But, with all of his strength, he got to his feet, and walked around. He was okay. "Antauri, I'm sorry."
"Do not apologize to me, my friend."
"Then thank you. But I have a question: your talking to me, is this possible because you are alive, or because you aren't?"
"You will know when the time is right."
"But, when will this time be?"
"Do not fret, Gibson. You will know sooner than you think."
As soon as he heard those words, he felt the presence absent. His thoughts were once again alone. But now, he had something to do. He looked back up the hill, and began to walk towards the city and towards his friends and the people who needed him.
SPRX-77, Nova, and Otto reentered the Super Robot. The sun was once again setting, marking the 24 hour anniversary of the final attack on Shuggazoom city. The three monkeys were talking excitedly about all the help they had done.
"And then this little girl came up to me and handed me some flowers! She said, 'thank you, so much monkey.' Then she hugged me! Oh, it was so adorable!" Nova said.
"Yeah, there've been a lot of people thanking me all day long, especially after we stopped that problem with the flamethrower!" SPRX-77 said, then glancing towards Otto.
Otto raised his hands to shoulder level and waved them, "hey, hey! It's not like I did that on purpose. I didn't know that there was a level called 'Super High'. I wanted to see what it was like! It's not like I made that beam melt on purpose!"
"But when you stood in as the temporary beam while I was fixing it, now that was hilarious!" noted Nova. The three monkeys then laughed hysterically at the memory of Otto as a temporary pole for the hours it took to make a new support beam.
Walking forward, SPRX-77 noticed a small note on the door to the science lab. He took it off and turned around to read it "Off to find Chiro? Gibson went off alone? Doesn't he know what it's like out there?"
"He's been gone hours!" Nova realized, "Think of what could have happened to him out there! Or what still could!"
SPRX-77 looked around the robot, "Otto, how fast will it take you to get this robot operational?"
Otto shrugged, "hard to say. At a minimum, with help, I'd say an hour, maybe 45 minutes."
"Then we'd better get moving."
Gibson had been walking for hours in the direction he had come. He was tired, but he could once again see Shuggazoom city towering only a couple dozen miles away. All energy had been exerted, but he knew that he had to make it back. But for the first time since he had left, he had the realization that he was actually out of energy. He had to make it as far as he possibly could, not as far as he thought he possibly could.
He kept going, until he couldn't take another step, and then fell flat on his stomach, with only enough power to lay there. Suddenly, he heard a sound that was music to his ears: the loud rockets of the Super Robot flying directly towards him. At that point, he knew everything was going to be okay.
The Super Robot hovered roughly through the sky. Since it had only been fixed minimally, it was still in pretty rough shape. The face plate was still missing from the Brain Scrambler, and the many dents still existed in the Torso tank. The engines weren't working at maximum and so every once in a while they experienced a sudden unexpected vertical drop, but would then return to normal.
"Aw, Gibson why'd you have to go and do something stupid like this?" asked SPRX-77 to himself. "Anybody see him?"
"Not yet," replied Otto. "I'm not even sure he's around here. There're a millionmulticolor dots on that radar, and as far as we know, they could all be wild animals I don't know what colors mean what, that was Gibson's job. Plus, it doesn't help that we're in the middle of a sandstorm."
"This is where we need you, Gibson! To find yourself."
"Huh?" asked Otto.
SPRX-77 sighed. "Just watch the ground."
Otto spun back around, "Okay, okay!"
SPRX-77 turned around and clenched his fist. "You'd better show up Gibson. I'm not about to lose another member of this team!" he said quietly.
But Nova heard him. She came up behind him. "You…" she turned her head a little to the side, "you miss him don't you? You're actually worried about him."
Sighing, SPRX-77 turned around to meet her gaze. "Look," he started, "we may not get off on the best terms, but deep down, he's my friend and I'd never want to lose him."
"Ah, Sparks ya big lug!"
"Just, don't tell him I said that."
Nova smiled at this and so did SPRX-77. They then heard Otto speak up.
"Wait," he said, "either there's a giant blue bug in the desert, or I see him!"
Nova and SPRX-77 ran to the front screens. There lay Gibson flat on his stomach in the sand. "We've gotta go help him!" yelled Nova. They landed the robot next to Gibson and they all ran out of the Robot towards him. SPRX-77 was leading the way.
Once he reached Gibson, he knelt down beside Gibson and flipped him over to his back. Gibson looked at SPRX-77, "I knew you'd come." He said in a quiet, weak voice.
"Shhhh, it's going to be okay Gibson, just relax," SPRX-77 said, in a pacifying tone.
"Sparks, I'm sorry about all of this. I shouldn't have left. I know that now."
"Hey, I was acting like a jerk too. Truce?" he asked.
"Truce," the two monkeys then shook hands in agreement. This apparently took up all of Gibson's remaining energy. His other eye flickered off and the sound of the main system shutting down was heard.
SPRX-77 gasped, "Gibson? Gibson!" He jumped to his feet, "Nova! Get the door! Otto, help me get 'im inside!"
They did as they were told and Gibson was taken inside the Robot.
"I told you that you were going to be okay, and you are going to be okay, Gibson. I promise."
When Gibson next awoke, he was laying on a hard bed in the main room of the Super Robot. He could feel the dents reversed and his systems rebooted. He opened his eyes.At first all he saw was a blob of color, a green Blob of color. He rubbed his eyes and it came into focus. It was Otto!
Otto turned his head, "HE'S AWAKE!" he yelled.
Gibson covered his ears, "and deaf."
"Oops, sorry Gibson," replied Otto.
SPRX-77 and Nova came into the room.
"You okay?" Nova asked.
"Actually, I feel perfectly fine."
"Look Sparks," started Gibson.
"No," SPRX-77 interrupted, "let me."
Gibson smiled.
"Listen Big Brain, we've been talking and… well I'm sorry for how I've treated you and…well, we all think you should be the team leader. And-"
"No Sparks," Gibson replied, "There's no need for you to react this way just because I went off and did something stupid. I've been thinking and talking to some people,"
"Who?" asked Nova.
"I'll tell you later. Anyway, I'm the one who's been acting poorly. I never should have reacted the way I had. And so, Sparks, I'm willing to acknowledge you as our team leader."
"Aw," said SPRX-77 gently knocking Gibson's head with his hand, "Gibson you big softy."
"Ugg, keep this sentimental stuff up and I'm going to need a bucket," commented Nova.
Otto spoke up, "Yeah, it's time to fix this giant tin can called the Super Robot and get it into running condition again."
"Right," said SPRX-77, "let's start by fixing the Brain Scrambler. In honor of him."
The team agreed, and headed up to the outside of the Brain Scrambler. Otto and Gibson were repairing, SPRX-77 was supervising, and Nova was assisting.
Otto dropped his screwdriver, and it hit Gibson below.
"Ow!" Gibson rubbed his head.
"Oops. Hey, Nova? Can you grab that for me?"
"Yeah, yeah I've got it." Nova climbed down from her position and grabbed the screwdriver. But as she looked up, she saw something on the horizon. It looked like a dot, a black dot. "Hey!" she said, "what's that?"
The team came down to her level. Gibson turned on his magnifier goggles and looked towards it. He gasped and took a small step backwards. Then he smiled.
Running towards the citywas a Black monkey wearing tattered white clothes and an orange scarf. And Gibson repeated to himself, "sooner than you think."
The End
Well, that's where I end. I know, I know, but I'm leaving the whole explanation of what happened to Chiro and Antauri up to the real writers (as much as I would like to be one.) But I thought I wrapped it up rather nicely. So, I hope you all liked this little transition and MY GOSH THE THIRD SEASON HAD BETTER START SOON OR I'M GOING TO DIE OF AGONY! Anyway, please review and I appreciate all of my reviewers!
My next fic is strictly humor as a little pick-me-up from this one. I'm hoping for it to be very funny, but we'll see. Here's a preview:
Gibson's gone off planet for a science convention. But the robot fuel's almost gone and the Super Robot will be horribly off balance without Fist Rocket 4! What's the best plan to get them to the moon, without Gibson? And what does that have to do with the price of tea in China? Er… no that's not it. Oh! And what does that have to do with the Skeleton King's latest plan? Find out in my next fanfiction!
BTW, which chapter titles are better, the ones which rhyme or the ones where I use quotes from the show?
Thanks!
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