Annime: I have a hypothesis. Let's test it!

Chiro: You didn't make a Christmas one- shot.

Annime: …

Hyper Force

They were a team- a team of five monkeys and one human. But it wasn't ALWAYS like that…

The team never talked about it, but there was a time Chiro actually quit the team. It was a little while after they had defeated the worm and before they had arrived back on Shuggazoom. He had left and hadn't come back for days at a time.

Of course the monkeys were hurt and obviously confused. He had left only a note, explaining his belief of a future split up that he wanted to get over with. It made just as much sense to them as Sprx giving up flying: no sense at all.

Once they had found him, they figured out why he was gone. The boy had found an old…'friend' that he had to deal with. He had just finished when they got there, and he was acting strangely. The boy was damaged pretty badly and he was avoiding having a conversation with them about why he left or who it was he had just fought with. It took them a little while just to get him onto the Super Robot so he could get patched up.

It had taken them a week to find him, and it wasn't for lack of trying. They had stopped on a lot of planets. There were new planets they were introduced to along the way, but 99% were ones they had already visited. They were very friendly and sympathetic towards the monkey team.

But that was the thing- they were called the "Monkey Team." Not the "Hyper Force."

It pointed out to the monkeys all the other times they were called just the "Monkey Team." Yeah, it made since because they were a team of monkeys, but every time they were called this it was either by Chiro or someone else when Chiro wasn't included one way or another in the group.

Throughout the week in which they searched they felt a missing link in the Super Robot. They weren't the Hyper Force. They felt an ache in their chest and it only served to drive them to find their leader faster.

When they were patching Chiro up, he had gone delusional with a fever. He would break out into laugher for no reason and then just start crying. At one point it had taken Antauri three hours to coax Chiro out from hiding in his closet.

"You hate me!" Chiro had scream at them. "I know you hate me!"

The team had babied him. They babied him like the child they saw him as every day. Antauri and, sometimes Nova, would hold him when he cried. The silver simian would also handle the mood swings. Otto would try to play with him with things he had dug out of the teen's closet. Sprx would make him any soup he wanted and join Otto with the games. Gibson would give him medicine whenever he could and would even make him herbal tea to help him sleep. They all talk to him like he was a baby too.

"Antauwi," Chiro once slurred. He was ACTING like a child, not that anyone minded. He wasn't in his right mind anyway. "Do you not want me to leave again?"

"Why would you leave again?" Antauri spoke gently and softly, hiding his fear.

"If you were angry."

"Why would I be angry, sweetheart?"

"Because I left the first time."

Antauri looked into Chiro's blue eyes that were wide in delusional curiosity. The boy was lying in his bed, curled up in the covers.

"I could never be angry at you, baby," Antauri soothed the teen as he petting his hand through the boys hair. The actions always did wonders to calm the boy down and sometimes it put him to sleep. "We want you to stay here with all of our hearts."

"I want to stay too," Chiro admitted with a yawn. Antauri kiss the boy on the temple.

"Then stay," Antauri said simply. "This is your home."

Chiro smiled as he fell asleep.

They were the Hyper Force again.

Annime: I love baby Chiro.

Chiro: XP