C.H.I.M.P.S.: Robotix 101
Story and characters © 10-1-2016 by Joshua J. Weremonkey
In this episode, the secret agents battle Raven as he forces a robot maker to make killer robots for his quest for world domination.
Characters in this episode:
Connor Jackson, secret agent/sk8r
Jude Coles, secret agent/sk8r
Joey Leake, secret agent
Lucas Edward Wilder, secret agent, scientist
Dr. Edward Wilder, scientist, dad of Lucas
Nathan Winters, secret agent, genius
Ben Sawyer, secret agent, singer
Joel Hunter, secret agent, truck stop trick
Zaylan "Robot" Madden, drummer, genius, scientist, robot maker
Raven, madman/super villain wears his signature Raven bird mask
Lexis Iranda, dumbass sidekick
The cool, gentle flow from a waterfall streamed down over Connor Jackson. It flowed over his short, soft black hair. It trickled down his smooth, tanned chest, slowly circling around his belly button then dripped onto his barefeet. Connor started to feel as if he was now one with the waterfall. Connor heard a loud hum which was getting closer and closer. He stepped out from under the waterfall and looked up to the sky. There was a large aircraft flying overhead. Suddenly out of the plane came several hundred, shiny, metallic robots with human faces floating in the sky then disappearing. Connor felt a hard slap on his bare back. He spun around to see his boyfriend Jude Coles smiling broadly.
"Haha Jude.“ Connor stepped out from the comfort of the waterfall into the blazing sun and said, “Wow this sun is wicked hot.”
Jude replied, “So are you my love.”
"Aww you are so sweet Jude. You are totally hot too my love. Could you rub some sun block on me?”
Connor was mesmerized as Jude squeezed some sun block between his fingers to prepare it. Jude began rubbing it into Connor’s bare back. He enjoyed the feeling of Jude’s small, smooth hands gliding all over his skin. Connor rolled onto his back to allow Jude to apply some lotion to his chest.
"That feels soo amazing Jude.“
Connor then sat up, put his hand on the back of Jude’s soft, black hair and started kissing him as rays of sunlight danced off their loving embrace.
***
"Beep! Beep!” fourteen year old secret agent Connor’s smart watch blared out, awakening him from his dream.
"Damn it! Just when I was having a sweet ass dream too!“ Connor cussed as he glared down at his smart watch.
The screen flashed the usual “FOR YOUR EYES ONLY” Connor positioned his eye over the screen to authorize. The message that appeared was “Meet me at location 369 before school, over and out Agent November Whiskey.” The screen flashed again and displayed the words “SECURE DELETE”. Connor quickly deleted the secret message and laid back down.
Connor’s mom yelled out, “Jude is here Connor. Hurry up or you will be late for school!”
"Okay mom.“
Connor jumped out of bed and turned on one of his favorite songs “I Built A Friend” by Alec Benjamin. He threw his boxer shorts on the floor and made a bee line to grab a quick shower. When he ran back into his room to get dressed, his boyfriend Jude was sitting on his bed waiting patiently.
"Jude! My Mom didn’t have you wait downstairs? I’m not even dressed yet.”
“You act like I never seen ya like this before Connor.” Jude laughed, “C'mon get your hot, little secret agent bum dressed. We gotta go meet Nathan at school. It’s urgent!”
“I know. I know.”
Connor got dressed like Superman in a phone booth. He and Jude flew out the front door, hopped on their skateboards and broke all the town’s speed laws but managed to get to school on time.
“About time you guys got here!” Nathan Winters scowled.
“Sorry Nathan. My bad. Do you have info on what Raven is up too?” Connor asked.
“Connor you know some things already but Jude you need to be briefed on this too. Zaylan “Robot” Madden is this kid who creates killer robots. He has built a whole army of them. Last night, I discovered by monitoring Raven’s communications, that he had wired Zaylan cash up front to acquire them. The thing is Zaylan double-crossed Raven by not delivering functional robots. This was on purpose of course. We did not want Raven to use real killer robots for his evil purposes. Raven will most certainly seek revenge on Zaylan when he discovers the robots are defective. We don’t want Zaylan getting killed. He is a good kid, smart evil genius kid but good hearted one. So we must help him. We will meet at headquarters at one eight zero zero hour.“
"Okay Nathan. We all better get to class before we end up in detention. That would def put a damper on us stopping Raven later.”
***
Meanwhile Raven was inspecting his new army of robots that Zaylan had sent him. He soon found out that the robots were defective. Raven was furious that Zaylan had double-crossed him.
Raven yelled, “Lexis, get in here!”
Lexis rushed in and asked, “What is it Raven?”
“That little punk Zaylan gave us an army of defective robots. I knew we shouldn’t have trusted that little twerp. I want you to get a functioning robot micro chip from Zaylan, Nathan or Connor. Do whatever it takes! Got it?”
Lexis replied, “Got it Master.”
***
After school, Connor and Jude hopped on their skateboards and rushed over to C.H.I.M.P.S. (Chaos Halting Intelligent Mutant Protection Squad) headquarters to meet with Nathan and the rest of the secret agents. When they walked in Ben Sawyer was on the couch with Joel Hunter snuggled up next to him running his fingers through Ben’s long, soft hair that flowed down from his black hat.
Connor smiled at them, “Hey, guys, what’s up?”
“Umm well, we got to the meeting a little early. So while we were waiting, Ben offered to teach me how to play a song on his guitar.”
“Well Ben’s guitar is on the other side of the couch Joel.”
Joel and Ben’s faces turned beet red while Jude laughed along with Connor.
Almost an hour had passed and still no sign of Nathan or the other agents at the meeting. This was not like Nathan at all. He was always early. His fellow agents began to worry so they set out in search of their friends. They all went to Connor’s house to pick up some new GPS equipment they needed.
When Connor got home he saw that the door was open. He called out, “Mom?”
He walked into the kitchen and there he saw Nathan on the floor. Connor and his friends were shocked to see their friend, their leader looking lifeless on the floor. Connor began to get very scared when Nathan did not respond. Connor shook Nathan and asked, “Nathan? Are you okay?” Nathan remained still. Connor felt for Nathan’s pulse could not feel it. Connor’s heart sunk. His eyes began to water. He said, “No this can’t be. This can’t be happening. No! No!”
Lexis barged in the door, which Connor had left slightly open. Lexis saw the agents standing over the lifeless Nathan.
Lexis looked at Nathan and laughed, “Wow, that’s gotta suck.”
“Lexis you prick! What are you doing here girl?”
“Did you get my private message Connor?”
Connor looked at his cell and read the message from Lexis. It said, “Shut your mouth punk and let me talk or your little boyfriend Jude will be laying dead on the floor next to Nathan.” Upon reading this Connor complied.
“Well as I’m sure you are aware, Raven has you all under constant surveillance. Well we saw the whole ordeal of what happened here. So I decided to do a little digging on this Zaylan kid. And what I found out was pretty surprising. See he used to work with Nathan. But they had some argument I guess. Oh, Judicorn buddy, bet you did not know that your boyfriend Connor was also working with Zaylan. He even built one of the robots that killed Nathan.”
Jude’s mouth dropped wide open in disbelief. Joel and Ben looked at Connor with suspicion also.
“Guys don’t believe a thing Lexis is saying!”
Staring menacingly at Jude, Lexis yelled, “Shut up Connor! You like Zaylan. You like him a lot Connor. I regret having to show you this Jude. This is the surveillance footage I took of your so called boyfriend Connor.”
Lexis played the video as Jude, Joel and Ben watched. The video clearly showed Connor working with Nathan and Zaylan on the killer robots. It also showed Connor kissing Zaylan.
“Wait guys, this is not the way it looks. Please believe me!”
Tears of heartbreak flowed down Jude’s face as he bolted out of the house. Joel and Ben shook their heads in disgust at Connor and followed Jude.
“I can’t believe you did that Lexis! You know that was a robot designed to look like Zaylan that I kissed. I was feeding it by mouth with a nanobots capsule to stop it from functioning before Raven got to it.”
"Now, now Connor remember for your little boyfriend’s sake, it is better for him to have a broken heart than a dead one. Okay, here’s the thing Connor, Raven wants the Zaylan look-alike robot. So if we all work together your little boyfriend just might not have a terrible accident.”
“Work with you? I don’t think so Lexis. We’ve tried that before remember? How do I know you didn’t do this to Nathan?”
“You don’t. But Connor I’m warning you now. Give me the micro chip to make the robot work. Don’t be a fool.”
“Here is your stupid chip Lexis. I’ve had enough of you girl. Now get out of my house before I hurt you. I need to be alone right now.”
“Okay but don’t say I didn’t warn you about Jude. I’m dead serious. That micro chip better work.”
***
Lexis left Connor alone. Connor walked around the quiet, empty house. He didn’t know what to feel. Nathan his friend and mentor was gone. Connor couldn’t even cry. He was in a state of shock. He walked around the house aimlessly. He ended up in the living room where he noticed something behind the couch. He looked closer. It was an arm. Connor went behind the couch and saw Nathan there unconscious. Nathan was even more confused than before. This was not the same body he had seen dead in the kitchen. Connor took Nathan to his room and laid him on the bed. Connor shook Nathan to see if he could make him conscious again. Nathan eventually woke up.
Connor said, “Oh Nathan I’m so glad you’re alive! What happened?”
“I-I don’t remember. I was with Zaylan. We had a fight. I stormed off to your house to tell you. When I got here I guess Zaylan’s punch…I don’t know.”
“Zaylan. I knew he had to be behind this.”
“He asked if I could help him make a killer robot to kill Raven. That was not our original plan. We only wanted to gather info on Raven’s operation. So I didn’t want to help him anymore. But I guess he just couldn’t handle it.”
“But what about the dead body in the kitchen? It looked just like you.”
“I dunno.”
“Are you going to be okay?”
“Yeah I think so.”
“Okay good. I’m gonna go find Zaylan. I’m gonna find out what happened here.”
Connor got on his skateboard and went in search of Zaylan.
***
Meanwhile, Raven had installed the working micro chip Lexis had gotten into the Zaylan look-alike killer robot. It was now ready for attack. Raven and Lexis decided that it would start by destroying the city of Orlando, Florida. They wished nothing more than to get back at Connor by destroying his hometown. The robot stepped into the light. It looked identical to Zaylan complete with floppy, blond hair. Raven had created a bomb that could cause a big enough explosion to wipe out most of the city. It was loaded aboard an aircraft. The killer robot got into the aircraft took flight into the air. It zoomed high up into the sky.
Raven was monitoring and controlling the killer robots actions. Raven knew what he was planning to do with it. Something horribly evil as usual. Raven then contacted his sinister sidekick Lexis.
Lexis, “Yo Rave what is it?”
“The robot is about to launch a bomb on the city. We must help it succeed. Make sure Connor does not stop the robot from bombing the city. Got it?”
“Got it chief.”
***
Connor had found Zaylan in his home studio banging away loudly on his drumset. Zaylan looked up and saw Connor at the door waving trying to get his attention. So Zaylan stopped and got up to go talk with Connor.
Connor said, “What did you do to Nathan?”
“Oh yeah about that. I’m sorry. It’s just that you seemed to be unhappy with my new plan to make a robot to destroy Raven so I thought if Nathan could do it you’d be off the hook. But apparently Nathan couldn’t handle blood on his hands either. We had a fight and he stormed off to your house to tell you. As I suspected but it was worth a shot.“
“You know after our original plan to have robots gather intel on Raven’s operation failed neither Nathan or me were going to agree to kill Raven. Always remember, we are the good guys. We never stoop to their level.”
"Okay, I was just so pissed off. I thought we finally got ‘em.“
"So why was there a dead body on the floor of my kitchen?”
“That wasn’t a dead body. That was just one of my robots that looked like Nathan.”
“I see. Why did you leave it at my house?”
“Well after Nathan and I fought, I followed him to your house. I brought my Nathan look-alike robot along to show him. He freaked out when he saw it. When he ran to hide in back of your couch. He smashed his head hard into the robot and passed out. The robot staggered out to the kitchen made a clank and fell flat on your kitchen floor. Then you guys showed up. I got scared and ran. Since then I have been playing my drums trying to blow off some steam.”
"What a mess. Anyway, we gotta stop Raven. He got a chip to make a killer robot work and plans to destroy the city with it and a bomb.”
"How the hell did he get a chip?“
"Long story. Right now we must stop Raven’s killer robot.”
Zaylan grabbed Connor and sat him on his dirt bike. Zaylan then jumped on, kicked the starter and rocketed to where the bomb was going to be dropped.
***
When they got there Zaylan could see the killer robot’s aircraft up in the sky. Zaylan yelled, “Gir we need you!”
Gir, one of Zaylan’s good robots, came flying to them.
Zaylan said, “Okay Connor do your stuff. You gotta stop the bomb.”
“The bomb is dropping right now?”
Just then the killer robot released the bomb and it came hurling down to Earth. Zaylan pointed up and said, “Yup. Right now.”
Connor gasped at the size of the bomb. It was immense. “Oh crap I have to stop that?!”
“Come on Connor you can do it. You’ve got Gir to help.”
“Yeah well to be honest I’m not quite sure how to work with these robots yet. I will sorta wing it.”
“Then wing it Boss! That bomb ain’t slowing down any time soon.”
Zaylan held Connor’s hand and looked him deep in the eyes. He said, “You can do this Connor. I know you can. If not well…” Zaylan leaned over and kissed Connor on the lips. Connor was shocked but enjoyed the kiss. “That’s a hell of a lot better than when you kissed the robot version of me eh?” Connor just smiled. Zaylan’s kiss gave Connor an extra boost to help him stop the bomb. Gir linked up to its micro chip forming a suit of armor around Connor. He was now ready for battle.
Armored Connor got on Gir’s hover skateboard and flew up towards the incoming bomb, which was hurtling toward Earth at a rapid speed.
From their lair, Raven and Lexis were looking on also. Lexis said, “Oh man there’s no way Connor can stop that bomb. It’s huge!”
Raven said, “You better hope he doesn’t Lexis!”
Connor reached the bomb and used the hover skateboard to hit it. He swung the board and pushed against the falling bomb. The force of the bomb coming down was intense but Connor kept pushing with all his strength. Zaylan watched as Connor attempted to push the bomb away. Connor was finally able to reverse the direction of the bomb and it was hurled back towards the killer robot’s aircraft. It saw the bomb coming back toward the aircraft made a beep that sounded like it was saying uh oh. The bomb hit the aircraft and it exploded. The killer robot however ejected away from the explosion in its escape pod. Neither Connor or Zaylan saw this as the explosion of the bomb lit up the sky so bright.
Connor was wiped out by the amount of strength it took to stop the bomb. He fell back down from the sky. Zaylan caught Connor as he fell. Zaylan held Connor in his arms. He said, “Awe my brave Con is all tuckered out. I better get him home.”
Zaylan hopped on his dirt bike with Connor and drove back to headquarters.
***
Raven screamed at Lexis, “Go get that robot now. Get inside it and go destroy all the agents. NOW!”
Lexis jumped at his masters orders. She got on a helicopter and flew to the killer robot that had barely escaped being destroyed. When she got there, she linked herself up inside the killer robot’s shell. Lexis thought to herself, “This is the last time Connor Jackson secret agent will make a fool out of me. He is dead meat!”
***
When Connor and Zaylan walked into C.H.I.M.P.S. headquarters, Nathan and Jude were there waiting along with most of the agents, Joel, Ben, Joey Leake, and Lucas Wilder. Jake Walker and Jimmy Wolfe were the only agents not there.
Joel said, “Jake and Jimmy are probably out monkeying around somewhere. It’s October so maybe weremonkeying around haha.”
Jude glared at Connor and said, “I see you are with your new boyfriend Zaylan now.”
"Jude it’s not like that.“ Connor explained.
"Yeah Jude, I’m not trying to cut in on your man.” Zaylan added as he tapped his drumsticks on the wall.
Suddenly, the Zaylan look-alike killer robot crashed through the wall of Connor’s house. It roared towards the agents.
"Didn’t know you had an evil twin Zaylan.“ Joey Leake observed.
The robot began to whir and the Zaylan skin covering over its chest and legs ripped open revealing the moving mechanical parts inside. Steam billowed out. It stomped towards Joey and Lucas smashing giant footprints into the floor. Upon witnessing this, Joey promptly pissed himself then threw himself into the arms of his boyfriend Lucas and closed his eyes tight.
Connor quickly grabbed a nanobot capsule from his pocket and slipped it between his lips. He bravely ran up to the robot, pressed his lips to the robots and spit the capsule inside its mouth. The nanobots quickly did their destructive work on the robot’s innards. The robot clanked and ground to a halt falling on the floor with a loud thud. Raven’s sinister sidekick Lexis rolled out from inside of the robot groaning in agony. She had shrapnel from the destroyed robot sticking out from the center of her chest. She looked up at Connor, opened her mouth to say something as her eyes went still. A swarm of black smoke rose out of her mouth and disappeared. Lexis was destroyed along with the robot. Connor felt a bit sorry for Lexis but she did bring this on herself.
Suddenly, what was left of the robot burst into flames. The fire was about to spread through the agents headquarters. Lucas bravely stood up and breathed in a bunch of air. With his powerful lungs, he began to blow the fire out. Joey stood next to him and peed into the fire. The powerful duo of Lucas and Joey quickly extinguished the flames. The other agents stood and applauded them.
Connor looked back over at Jude and began to explain what had happened, "In that video Lexis showed you, it appeared as if I had kissed Zaylan because the robot was designed to look like Zaylan. The only way I could get the capsule inside the robot without the nanobots inside shorting out was by mouth. Nathan, Zaylan and me were on a secret mission to gain Raven’s trust by making these killer robots for him. We had no intention of supplying him functioning killer robots. Once on the inside, we were going to gather secrets about Raven’s operation. Then we could better bring him to justice. Unfortunately it didn’t work out as planned.”
Jude ran over and threw his arms around Connor kissing him. Connor glanced over at Zaylan giving him a look to keep quiet about their real kiss later. Zaylan knowingly nodded.
Jude said, “I’m so sorry Connor. I should have never doubted you. Please forgive me.”
“It’s okay. I can understand how it all may had looked. Of course I forgive you.”
The rest of the agents smiled as they watched. Nathan said, “Awwww, gotta love happy endings.”
***
As Connor drifted off to sleep that night, he thought about what he had done. He had just saved the city from blowing up. He felt pretty proud of himself. Although the unexpected kiss from Zaylan had him feeling not so proud of himself. He decided it best to keep this to himself. After all Zaylan was the one who did the kissing. Connor knew his love for Jude was strong and true.
“Now let me see if I can get back to that hot dream I was having before all this started.” Conner thought to himself as he drifted off to sleep.