SRMTHFG Chapter 5

Chapter 5: The story about Mandarin
(Disclaimer! I own nothing of SRMTHFG!)

Chiro was continuing training drills with Antauri with his newly acquired armor.
“He’s improving at an incredible level,” said Gibson viewing his stats.
“Well he sure knows how to be optimistic,” said Sparx.
Chiro had on some strange orange gauntlets.
“Alright, try this one out for size!” he said.
The gauntlets unleashed a sword and shield.
Using them, he took out the formless soldiers in a flash.
The other monkeys were deeply alarmed at what he found.
“What?” asked Chiro.
“Chiro, those were Mandarin’s weapons,” said Nova.
“Wait… the sixth monkey?” asked Chiro.
“Yes,” said Gibson, “We don’t really talk about him much ever since that faithful day.”
“Well if Chiro is going to be part of our team now, we have no need to keep secrets from him,” said Antauri.
He showed Chiro visions of Mandarin.
“Mandarin was our original leader, the smartest, strongest and wisest of us all,” said Antauri, “He was given the same task as we were given; to protect the gem of imagination from the skeleton king.”
In the visions, Mandarin started attacking innocent people.
“Though he was too consumed by power and greed, and wanted to rule all of humanity with an iron fist, which we could not let happen,” said Antauri, “Acting quickly, we took the power coin from him, and his the gem deep within the planet.”
“Whoa,” said Jinmay.
“Whoa indeed,” said Gibson, “This monkey is bad news, which is why we have been training Chiro, because one day, the two of them will face off in battle.”
“I’m not afraid of him,” said Chiro, “If this coin chose me to protect Shugazoom city, then I’m ready.”
“That is why the coin chose you,” said Antauri, “Because you never give up on what you dream of.”
Otto was still working on that machine that will hopefully get back the armor for the other monkeys.
Smoke started to come out.
“Aw crap,” said Otto, “What did I do wrong?”
“You might wanna fix that part first,” said Jinmay.
She got out a wrench and started screwing some of the nuts in.
“Young lady please step away from the machine!” said Gibson.
“Relax, I know what I’m doing,” said Jinmay, “My mom was a mechanic when she was younger.”
The smoke stopped.
Gibson was surprised.
“My word,” said Gibson, “You’re a gifted mechanic!”
“Well I do take after mom,” said Jinmay as she smiled.
Later at school Chiro was taking out another comic book that he wrote.
“Its finally finished!” said Chiro, “My rough draft of Thunder-man meets the Sun Riders!”
He was walking to Class when BT and Glenny blocked his way.
“Where do you think you’re going?” asked BT.
“You’ve clearly forgotten what happened last time,” said Chiro, “Unless you want another ass kicking, then I suggest you move.”
He tried to head out but Glenny grabbed him and pushed him to a locker.
“Its time we paid you back for the bloody nose you gave BT!” he said.
“Get off of me!” said Chiro.
Jinmay saw them and intervened.
She threw her wrench at Glenny to get his attention.
“You leave Chiro alone!” said Jinmay, “What did he ever do to you?”
“You did not just do that,” said BT.
“Uh oh,” said Jinmay.
They both started hitting Jinmay and made her drop her art project.
“Maybe next time you’ll think twice before talking like that to someone who’s stronger than you,” said Glenny.
They left.
Chiro went to go and help her.
“Are you ok?” asked Chiro.
“Yeah, I guess so,” said Jinmay, “But I can’t say the same about my art project.”
“I’m really sorry,” said Chiro, “If I hadn’t gotten in that scrap you wouldn’t have had to save me.”
“It was worth it Chiro,” said Jinmay, “Besides I still owe you for that one time you saved my life.”
“Still, somebody ought to teach those bozos a lesson,” said Chiro.
“Yeah,” said Jinmay, “And we’re just the guys who can do it.”
They spent the next few days rewriting Chiro’s rough draft and decided to make BT and Glenny some of the bad guys in his story.
They sold some copies to their friends and BT and Glenny were made laughing stocks, and even the teachers enjoyed it.
BT looked at a copy.
“You are so dead Logan!” he shouted.
Chiro and Jinmay were at his house coming up with new ideas for comics.
“So I had this idea for myself,” said Jinmay, “I was thinking that I could have a kind of titanium coating armor and can fly and shot repulsor beams.”
“That can be arranged,” said Chiro, “You really have some good ideas in your head.”
“Thanks Chiro,” said Jinmay.
“Chiro,” called Howard.
“Yea?” asked Chiro.
“Come downstairs, I need to talk to you right now!” he said.
He came downstairs.
“Have you been bullying people at school?” he asked.
“What?” asked Chiro, “No way!”
“Well then would you care to explain why this young man came over with his parents to talk to us?” asked Howard.
BT was with his mom and dad with fake tears.
Howard had one of Chiro’s comic books in his hand.
“BT says you wrote some rude things about him in his comic books,” said Howard, “I know you were raised better than that!”
“But he was…” said Chiro.
“I don’t wanna hear it!” Howard snapped, “You apologize to him right NOW!”
“I’m sorry,” said Chiro.
“If I see one more comic book saying rude things about this young man, it is over for you mister!” said Howard, “Do you understand?”
“Yes sir,” said Chiro.
BT left while taunting Chiro.
“And that’s not all I saw in this comic book,” said Howard flipping through pages.
“You read my comic?!” asked Chiro.
“And wasn’t I surprised when I read what I read!” he shouted, “WHAT BUSINESS DO YOU HAVE PUTTING THIS STUFF IN YOUR COMICS?!”
Chiro looked down at the ground.
“Don’t look at the ground, look at me!!” he said, “Who put this in that comic book?!”
Chiro was about to speak but Jinmay covered for him.
“I wrote it,” said Jinmay, “He told me about it and I put it on there.”
“Jinmay why the hell would you go and do that?!” asked Howard, “I let you in my house, you’re over here playing with Chiro, and then you wanna take our dirty laundry and expose it to the world?!”
“I didn’t think…” said Jinmay.
“GET THE HELL OUTTA MY HOUSE!!!!” shouted Howard as he chased her out.
He shut the door and turned to Chiro.
“I’m only going to say this once so listen up young man,” said Howard, “You are not friends with Jinmay Sunban. I will not allow her in this house, and I will not allow you to spend anymore time with her writing these silly comic books!”
“You don’t know Jinmay!” said Chiro, “Who are you to judge who I’m friends with?”
“I am your father, and you will show me some respect,” said Howard, “And you’re supposed to be studying how to be a scientist like me!”
“Its not who I wanna be!” said Chiro.
“Who cares?” asked Howard, “It’s a family legacy.”
“I don’t care about the family legacy,” said Chiro.
“Well you’re about to care,” said Howard, “Leslie, from now after school, you bring Chiro straight to the lab so I can show him the ropes.”
“Howard you..” said Leslie.
“Chiro, you’re gonna learn to be a scientist,” said Howard, “Whether you like it or not.”
“No I’m not!” said Chiro, “I wanna be a comic book writer and not be forced to hide that talent from my friends.”
“That ‘talent’ humiliated a classmate!” said Howard.
“Well he deserved it!” said Chiro, “You can’t just force me to be somebody I’m not!”
“What you say BOY?!” he shouted as he smacked Chiro.
“Howard!!” yelled Leslie.
Chiro looked back with tears in his eyes.
“You go to your room,” said Howard.
Chiro walked up to his room.
“I wish you weren’t my father,” said Chiro.
“What did you just say to me?!” asked Howard.
“I said I wish you weren’t my father!!” said Chiro.
He slammed the door.
Later that day Chiro was looking out the window.
Leslie came in with some bags.
“Come on Chiro,” she said, “You’re going over to Jinmay’s place for a couple of days.”
“How long?” asked Chiro.
“For as long as you need to,” said Leslie, “Your father was wrong to say such rude things about your little friend.”
They quietly packed some things and Leslie drove Chiro over to Jinmay’s.
He rang the doorbell and Jinmay hugged him.
“This must be Chiro,” said Jinmay’s father.
“Um… yes sir,” said Chiro.
“I’m Andy, and this is my wife Mei-Ling,” he said.
“Its an honor to meet you young man,” said Mei-Ling.
“Your mom told us everything,” said Jinmay.
As they went inside to talk, Mandarin was watching