The three Plumbers sat hidden on a hilltop a mile from the DN Aliens Hatchery. From their viewpoint they could see more hatchlings being loaded onto trucks and to be shipped to all parts to steal human bodies. Their mood was serious since this mission was very important to decreasing the number of humans changed into DN Aliens. This particular and most unique hatchery was a big producer of the evil mutants.

"Alright," Ben glanced over at his team to give his speech on their plan of strategy "we'll sneak in through the loading docks to get inside, Kevin you'll lead us to the burner and then we'll set up the bomb there. The pipes flowing with the chemicals there will react strongly with the explosion from the bomb, which will be big enough to destroy this whole place. All we have to do is get in and out without alerting any one of those mutants standing guard." Ben looked at Gwen to give her specific objective in their mission. "Gwen you'll scout ahead of us and make sure anyone coming our way doesn't get too close to us." Gwen nodded. "Good, Kevin you and I our going to make sure the bomb doesn't go off before it's suppose to, and to help out Gwen if it gets a little dicey in there. That's all we have to do, now Kevin what were you saying we had to do before we go inside?"

Kevin responded with. "We need to see the burner go off before we head inside, and when it goes off this time it'll give us one hour before it goes off again. We'll need to see it to get a better idea of its location."

"How will know when it's going off?" Gwen asked.

"Oh trust me, you'll know." Kevin stated winking at her lightening the tense anticipation slightly.

Suddenly a low rumbling roar was coming from the heart of the facility. It grew steadily louder until the noise seemed too suppressed that it could no longer be contained within the building. Suddenly a tower of fire sprouted from the center of the building growing into its full monstrous roar that reached them and beyond.

Gwen almost screamed, if it hadn't been for Kevin placing a hand over her mouth before she could release her surprised terror.

"Do you want them to find us before we even get in the place?" He asked with his hand still covering her mouth and an arm around her shoulder.

Gwen pushed his hand away from her lips. "I doubt they would've been able to hear me over that noise. What do they need that thing for anyway?"

"They have to release the built up of energy and chemicals they use or else they'll be the ones to cause an explosion."

"Pay attention you two! The burner is almost out!" Ben snapped at them.

Kevin returned his attention back to building, but his arm remained wrapped around her. He scrutinized it quickly, but earned enough information to help them with the situation.

"It's in the center of the building so it will be hard to get around all the guards standing in our way. Not to mention all the ones that'll be keeping a close watch on the burner."

"How will we escape?" Ben asked.

"That's easy, Gwen can use her powers to get us out through the chimney of the burner, or you could fly yourself out if you want Ben."

Ben smiled glad to find that their plan could work out very well if they stayed undetected and got to their target within the next hour.

They knew the consequences of failing this mission, but they didn't expect that their failure tonight would lose them more than expected.

WWWWWWWWWW

As they crept through the loading dock, the spiral of flame had faded down and back into the heart of the building.

Passing by the aliens was easy in there, all were too busy loading up there little mutant pods that the young plumbers went by unnoticed. It took 10 minutes to pass through there.

As they traveled through the labyrinth of hallways and secret rooms there was more difficulty.

Gwen knocked out each alien that came there way, and Ben and Kevin guarded the bomb only fighting when one of the aliens got too close to it. No alarms had gone off yet, but soon or later the unconscious aliens would wake up and send the alert out. They spent 15 minutes doing this before an alarm went off.

Aliens swarmed around them, making protecting the bomb much more troublesome. They fended off enough to run away quickly enough to find a quiet place to hide so things could calm down enough for them to get back out there. 5 minutes it took to fend them off, and 10 minutes of hiding before continuing their mission.

As soon as they left their hiding spot, they realized they didn't know where they were in the building. This led to wrong turns, right turns, and then wrong turns again. Bickering wasted a good 7 minutes of the Plumbers precious time. In total they lost 17 minutes with this wandering, and then finally they were running dead on towards the burner.

"There it is!" Kevin yelled. "We've got to hurry; we only have about 3 minutes left!"

15 aliens at that exact moment jumped out in front of them blocking the entire hallway.

The 1 alien in front stepped up closer to them. "Surrender now foolish humans, and our leader we give you a quick death for your pointless attempt at destroying us!" He ordered.

For a response Ben transformed into Echo-Echo and was breathing in to give out a good loud wail, but one of the mutants blasted him with his gun before the terrible screaming agony good begin. Gwen ran forward blasting the alien weapons straight out of their claws. Kevin continued to hold the bomb, wishing he could have a chance to hit something too.

Gwen rushed forward blasting away every alien to clear a pathway for Kevin and the bomb. As she neared the edge of the burner the aliens blocking her way suddenly jumped out of the way screeching something in their own language.

The 1 alien that kept his gun understood what the message meant. He shot her onto the burner.

Gwen landed hard onto the burner. The sneak attack left her in a daze before she realized what had happened.

"Gwen!" Kevin yelled bringing her out of her temporary daze. "Catch!" Throwing the bomb to her now that she was on the target, she used powers to reach out and catch it, but was stopped when the force shield around the burner deflected her beam of energy and the bomb away from her.

3 minutes it took for her to get through the swarm.

Kevin's face paled, not because a bomb was now beeping threateningly a few feet away from him, but because Gwen was now trapped in a machine that could melt a person's flesh off.

"Gwen! Get out of there now!" He ordered, grabbing Ben's small unconscious form and running as far away as he could before the bomb exploded, blinding their forms from Gwen's sight.

"Ben! Kevin!'' Gwen yelled worried about what happened to them.

She didn't realize that she had to escape at once until the ground beneath began to glow a light orange under the grate she stood on. Steps of purple energy formed to help guide herself out, but the roar of the flames was building fast behind her. She could see the starry night above her, but Gwen still felt the heat of the fire at her back.

WWWWWWWW

Kevin and Ben were blasted through the air from the force of the explosion. It landed them at the end of hall way up against the wall. Ben remained unconscious, while Kevin felt bruises preparing to sprout over his skin and a definitely broken arm. He got up slowly sore from the landing. Kevin grabbed Ben with his good arm and throwing him over that good shoulder ignoring the pain he felt in his other arm. He ran back towards the way they came hoping the loading docks would be scarce of aliens now that they caused a major scene in the center of the building.

Ben began to stir, and he transformed back into his normal body. The weight change caused Kevin to fall down dropping Ben in the process. Ben groaned pushing himself off the ground and examining his surroundings.

"Where are we?"

"Somewhere in this freaking building is where we are!" Kevin replied harshly.

"Jeesh, what happened to you?" Ben asked now looking at Kevin.

"We got blown up, without even blowing up the whole building! Now quick asking stupid questions and let's get out of here without getting caught." Kevin said getting up quickly despite the pain he felt even as he pulled up Ben along with him.

The two found their way back to the loading dock which was scarce of the aliens as Kevin hoped. They ran back up to the hill that they three of them had stood on before, but now only the two of them stood on it.

Ben noticed the absence. "Where's Gwen?"

"She has to escape through the chimney of the burner."

Ben then noticed that noise around them was the same sound that happened before the bursts from the chimney. "Is she still in there?!" Ben asked panicked.

Kevin was looking at the badges glowing locators. "Yeah, but she's almost out don't worry." He said hiding his internal panic.

"Worry?! Kevin it's getting louder she has to get out soon."

"I know." Kevin closed his eyes and said a silent prayer.

It was growing louder and louder that Kevin almost didn't hear Ben yell that he saw her. He eyes flashed open immediately.

Gwen's head popped out, and then the rest of her appeared as she stepped out the large chimney onto her steps she produced, but the fire was coming to its full roar.

It came bursting out of the chimney, shattering her purple platform, it swallowed hold of her feet causing her to scream out but not be heard, and then all of her was soon engulfed in the flame.