Fandom: Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!
Title: Victory Pose
Rating: K
Notes: Antauri always wins the battle, and even Gibson can get frustrated.
Prompt: Fanfic100 #15: Blue
It was the longest Gibson had ever seen Antauri take thinking about his next move. While the silver monkey was patient, he was also a very wise strategist, and knew the difference between using time the wasting it.
Then Antauri smiled, and shivers went up Gibson's spine. It wasn't that Antauri didn't ever smile during a match, but the manner this time seemed a touch more mischievous; almost a smirk.
Clunk.
Gibson blinked at the sound, and looked back at the table between them, realizing that the white king, Antauri's king, had fallen over. The holographic set shot down any theories of a precise draft hitting the piece.
"...I... I won?"
"That seems to be the case," Antauri replied, his smile returning to a more peaceful one.
"...Really?"
"Yes, unless I am mistaken."
Gibson stood and quickly ran his eyes over the board, calculating the situation. Checkmate, no matter what way he looked at it.
"You are sure you did not simplify your strategy for my sake?"
"I'm quite sure I gave it my all," Antauri said, looking more and more amused with each incredulous remark from his opponent.
"...Oh."
Everything seemed to freeze for a moment, except Gibson's eyes, which ran over the board again several times.
"FANTASTIC!"
Gibson jumped into the air with reckless abandon and almost punched the ceiling, and the table fell over and the chess set shut down. Antauri calmly caught the projector in his hands, still smiling.
"I have finally defeated you! I knew my intellect could not compromise in any test of logic! I--"
"Uh... Gibson?"
Looking beyond Antauri, he could see a very disturbed Sprx, who just happened to be walking by Antauri's room when Gibson had unleashed his enthusiasm.
"...Ah," Gibson cleared his breath and extended a hand to Antauri, which Antauri accepted and shook, "yes, well, wonderful match Antauri. Thank you."
"Anytime," Antauri replied before going to put the projector away.
Gibson could hear Sprx laughing all the way down the hallway and paled, giving it one day before everybody in the robot had heard about his childish behavior.