Genie

Three of these monkeys were inspired directly by existing members of the Hyperforce in order to guarantee qualified results: Edelweiss, the calm and collected second in command, took visual cues from the Yellow Monkey and traits from the Black Monkey. Aquamarine, the nervous yet calculated scientific chief-in-command, was almost entirely taken from the Blue Monkey’s appearance and smarts, but did not contain an ounce of his confidence. Rocky, the boisterous, stubborn fighter, was very clearly inspired by the Red Monkey’s instinctual nature, but amplified by a thousandfold.

The fourth monkey and leader of the team, Scorpion, was one of the scientists’ special projects. Enhanced with the DNA of a Formless monster at birth, he took on a slightly different appearance from that of the other simians. He was significantly taller and bore no hand-weapons, instead bearing razor-sharp titanium claws. To make up for this, he wielded an extendable scythe-like tail, and was to be more agile and swift than his counterparts.

The Doomwatch Project was a rousing success. None of the monkeys had any complications in their cybernetic transformations, they took to fighting quite easily, and best of all: they were already adored by neighboring cities and planets.

Further into the project, a fifth monkey was introduced to the team; it was explained that he had been created in a different facility, and was to be transferred in. The newest monkey, known as Gigabyte, bonded with the team quickly. The other monkeys loved him for his enthusiasm and hyperactivity, and no one questioned why he had been introduced into the team so late.

Scorpion, however, knew better.

In reality, the monkey known as G1G4-BYTE was not a cybernetic monkey at all. He was the lab’s secret successful attempt at creating a silver monkey; an entirely robotic creation previously only documented in the logs of the Alchemist.

Due to his special nature, Scorpion was allowed to know the truth about the silver monkey, and witnessed most of his creation. He, unlike the other team members, knew that there was no “other facility”, and any memories G1G4-BYTE contained of such were falsely implanted for security reasons. The robot was forbidden from knowing the truth about himself, because pray tell, what would happen if he found out?

Because of this, Scorpion was secretly tasked with being a lookout for G1G4-BYTE, making sure that nothing would happen that might signal him of his true nature.

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Around half a year after the integration of Gigabyte into the team, disaster struck. The ship they all resided on was attacked by the forces of the Skeleton King. It was completely ravaged, and the three original monkeys, having been in sleep stasis, were stolen away during the battle. Scorpion, tasked to protect the silver monkey no matter the cost, fled with him to the back of the ship. The entire hull was torn in two by a force so strong, it sent all the remaining pieces hurling into space. The tail of the ship was sent careening across the stars…

…before crash landing on an unidentified jungle planet very far away.

Now, Scorpion and Gigabyte must learn to tap into their primate instincts in order to survive in uncharted territory. Will Scorpion be able to keep Gigabyte’s secret much longer? And if he can’t…how will Gigabyte take the news?

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