Cat got your drive?
Hey guys, here again with another chapter. This one started the day after I got the watch. We were, once again, in 7th period, with Mr. Monotone and he just finished his lesson.
"Alright class, today you're gonna get your partners for the Pair Science Fair. Heh that rhymed." He said, with no emotion at all. Everyone started to get up, but Mr. Matnek stopped us. "Wait, wait, wait, I know your all excited to get with your friend and start coming up with ideas," Yeah, sure.
"but this time I decided to take it upon myself to pick teams." Everyone groaned and sat back down. This really sucked for me. I always paired up with Aiden. We had a system. He would come up with the ideas and plan the whole thing and I'd do the physical work. I wasn't good at taking the lead when it came to science fairs.
If I got paired up with someone who couldn't come up with a single idea, I'd be screwed. I crossed my fingers. 'Please, please, please, please!' I thought as he went through all the names. Finally he got to mine.
"Kosta Blake," I tapped my foot. "you're with, Francis Stone." I widened my eyes.
'Nooo. Francis was the last person I want to be with!' I turned around and saw Francis, a red head with yellow streaks, who wore the dress shirt untucked and the blazer unbuttoned. When I turned around he gave me an evil smirk. I turned back around and sighed before banging my head on the desk.
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Me and Aiden were in the hallways in front of are lockers. Aiden was getting his stuff for home and I was banging the back of my head on my locker.
"I. Can't. Believe. My. Luck."
"I know dude, Francis Stone? The guy's been the 'school bully' since third grade."
"And now I'm gonna have to willingly do his work for him, aghh! Why me?"
"Well, you are the hero. Aren't you supposed to take the bullet for other people?" Aiden joked.
"Ha ha. You know, you can only joke because you have a good partner."
"Chrisly Chang, she's the second smartest person in class. We can bounce ideas off each other and come up with something cool. It'd be great to work with someone who can keep up on their own." I looked at him and he realized what he said.
"Uh, no offence." I raised an eyebrow.
"Right." Suddenly a girl, Asian, red and black hair and glasses, came up to us. Aiden smiled.
"Oh, hey Chrisly, we were just talking about you." Chrisly raised an eyebrow.
"Oh really?"
"Yeah, I was just telling Kosta about how it'll be great working with you." Chrisly smiled.
"That's great."
"Yeah, so I was wondering when you wanted to get together and come up with ideas." Chrisly shook her head.
"Look Aiden, you don't need to worry about the ideas, I'll take care of it. You can just heIp me make it." Aiden eyes widened.
"What? Why would I…" Chrisly sighed.
"Look Aiden, I know your smart, but your ideas are, a little weak." I had to raise an eyebrow.
"Weak? Last year, Aiden and I made nanites that could hack arcade games." Aiden was the one who thought of it and pretty much took charge for that project, and I just went where he told me. He worked insanely hard on that project so I didn't really get what was weak about it and I could tell Aiden had the same thought.
"What's weak about nanites that can hack? What did you even make last year?" He said, getting a little mad.
"I made a device that can make infinite amount of a certain food. Something way more beneficial to the human race then a game hacker bot." I put my hand under my chin.
"Infinite food… oh yeah the pea machine."
"Hah, I remember now, you made a machine that can only make peas." "Yeah, so?"
"Didn't you say it was supposed to make cake?" Chrisly blushed with embarrassed.
"Look, that's not the point. The point is I plan to win and I know the only way to do that is to use my ideas."
"Well maybe I think we have to use my ideas!"
"Then I guess we have to find out whose idea is better!" Chrisly said, before stomping her foot.
"I guess we do." And with that, Chrisly left, I shook my head.
"Wow, unneeded drama. You know there's an easy solution to your problem." Unfortunately Aiden already had his head in his notebook and was trying to think of good ideas for the science fair. I rolled my eyes and then remembered I was gonna tell him about my secret after school. I looked around before taking the notebook from Aiden.
"Hey!"
"Dude, come over my house. I have something really important to tell you."
"What, now?"
"Yeah now, and lets hurry before Mayta shows up."
"I don't get it, why are we keeping stuff from her?"
"You'll get it when I show you." So we hurried up, finished getting our stuff from our lockers and left.
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I know what you're thinking. Since I'm rich I probably strolled into my mansion and was greeted by my one hundred servants, right? Well that's not true. My parents may have a bunch of money, but we have a pretty reasonable house. It was still pretty nice looking, but it wasn't a mansion and no I didn't have any servants and neither did my two friends.
That's one of the reason why were such good friends, none of us like to throw our money around. Well to be honest, Mayta wasn't rich, she was able to get in was because her dad was the cities commissioner. So anyways, we walked into my house and threw our bags in the corner.
"Alright, were going in the basement."
"First, whatever you gotta show me, will probably be ten times better if I have chips." And with that, Aiden helped himself to my pantry. I rolled my eyes and went downstairs. The basement was pretty much mine. I had my games here, my computer, TV, ect. down here. After a few minutes, Aiden, with his blazer off, came down with a bowl of chips.
"Alright, what do you want to show me?" he asked as he sat on the couch in front of the TV. I went in front of him and took off my blazer and rolled up my sleeves, revealing the omnitrix. I gulped.
'Here goes.' I swiped my hand in front of the screen and a holo-wheel popped up. Aiden raised an eyebrow and leaned in closer. I then chose XLR8 since he was the alien in the newspaper. The screen slid into the watch and a button popped up. I pressed down on it and a yellow flash came out of nowhere.
When it was gone, I was XLR8. Aiden's mouth, full of chips, hung open and his eyes widened.
"Well?" I asked. Aiden shook his head, trying to think straight again.
"Y-you're, I-I-I. Wait, wait, wait. You're…"
"Alienate? Yeah, I am."
"Alright. How?" I told him everything I saw. The secret lab, my uncle talking to this scientist, talking about how this watch had the potential to change Thawn industries. I also told him about me changing into all those aliens and the fact that I named some of them last night.
"Wait, you named them? Dude, there not pets."
"I know, but it makes it easier if there named, I have to call them something. Plus naming them is pretty fun." Aiden nodded.
"Okay, so you're a hero now. What should you do?" I scratched the back of my helmet, before hitting the omnitrix and turning back into me. I sat down on the couch and sighed.
"I don't know. What do you right after you become a hero?"
"Well, I guess you should go on patrol. Hey maybe you can get the cat burglar that's been all over the place."
I thought about it and smirked.
"Mark my territory? I like it.
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It was about ten o'clock at night. The city was quieting down as people were going home from work or whatever. Anyways, a mother and her boy, who was holding a newly bought toy, were crossing the street. The mother held her kid's hand while at the same time talked on the phone. When they got to the middle of the street, the kid accidently dropped his toy.
The kid widened his eyes. He tried to get his mom's attention, but she was engrossed in her conversation and couldn't hear a word the boy was saying. When they crossed the street, she saw something behind the display window of a chocolate shop. She walked over to the window to check it out, meanwhile the kid was able to escape his mom's grasp and ran into the street to get the toy.
"Hey, Jeffrey, do you want some chocolate?" She asked, turning to where her kid was supposed to be. When she didn't see him, she panicked. "Jeffery?! Jeff…" She gasped as she saw her son in the middle of the, luckily not busy, street, picking up his new toy. "Jeffery! Jeffery!" Jeffery turned and smiled.
"It's okay mom, I got it."
"Jeffery, get back here!" People turned to see what was going on. The mother took one step into the street, and that was when a car, stolen by a group of criminals, came from around the corner and drove towards Jeffery. The mother gasped as the car was about to hit her son.
The car drove past where the kid was and the mother's tears started to show themselves as she believed her kid was just run over by a random car.
"Ahem, is this guy yours?" The mother jumped and turned around to see an alien completely covered in light and dark blue fur. He had pure green eyes and an omnitrix on his chest. This alien was me aka Fasttrack aka Alienate. I smiled as I handed the women her child. She cried as she held her child close.
"Oh thank you! Thank you!"
"No problem, just get home safe alright." I looked at the kid.
"And you, stay outta traffic." I ruffled his hair and he laughed.
"Alright. Thanks Alienate." The citizens that witnessed the whole thing cheered and clapped and I gave them a bow. Suddenly police cars came from the same corner the criminals and sped past us.
"Oh right, criminals." I ran, passing three out of the four police cars. I slowed down so I could run next to the front one and told him to put down his window.
"I got this guys, I suggest you stay back."
"Alienate, this is not your job. I'm going to have to ask you to stand down and let the professionals handle this."
"I gave the 'professionals' a chance and a kid almost got ran over. I'm taking over." I ran past the front car and went for the bank robbers. I'll admit, I was kinda harsh, but if these guys could just trust me I wouldn't have to act like that. When I got close to the car, I jumped on it and slapped the omnitrix, turning into a sort of blue furred alien, which was a sort of spider monkey, which was funny enough what I called it.
The criminals inside of the car looked at me with shock and I just waved at them. I smashed the window with my fist so they could hear me better.
"Sorry guys, but I'm gonna have to use the emergency brakes on you." A web came out of my tail and attached itself onto a building. I did the same thing for the opposite side and wrapped the two webs around my right hand. I then jumped backwards, off of the car and made one more web string, this time connecting to the car.
I grabbed that one with my left hand and pulled. With my strength, and the fact that that car was pretty much anchored to the buildings, I was able to stop the car abruptly. I turned into Diamondhead and trapped the car in a diamond prison.
"There you go, all the diamonds you could ever want." The criminals got out of the car and looked at the diamond with both excitement and anger. I heard sirens and took this as my cue to leave. I transformed into Jetray and flew off.
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I landed on a rooftop and transformed back. I took a deep breath as I looked at my city during the night. I nodded.
"I could get used to this." I then suddenly remembered something.
"Shit, I forgot about the project. Sigh, if I don't at least have an idea, I'll never get it done by Monday, and if that happens, Francis will probably kill me."
I was about to head home, when I saw something in the distance, hopping from one building to another. I raised an eyebrow.
"Okay? I thought I was the only roof jumper around here." I transformed into Jetray and flew towards the jumping figure.
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Ms. Rooftop stopped and looked at the city. The mysterious girl looked my age and had white hair. She wore a black leather suit with white fur on her arms and collar. She also wore a black domino mask that only showed her green eyes. Finally attached to her thigh was a knife pouch and around her waist was he black utility belt.
She pulled something out and looked at it.
"A little late to be jumping around, don't you think?" The mystery girl narrowed her eyes before quickly pulling out her knife and pointing it at me. I raised my hands and she smiled.
"A little late to be stalking a random girl, don't you think?"
"But you're not a random girl, are you? Black leather cat costume? Either you're the infamous cat burglar, or I'm gonna have to pay twenty bucks if I wanna keep talking to you." The girl smiled.
"Well, you're smarter than you look." She looked at my Jetray form. "Which for you, is a good thing." I looked at myself and frowned.
"Give me a second." I transformed into Fasttrack. "Here, this forms a little more, conversational. Now, who are you?"
"The name's Black Cat and you're that new guy on the block, Alienate?"
"That's right, Alienate, hero, and the guy who wants to know what you're up to."
"What, can't a girl get some fresh air?"
"Sure, what you can't do is get yourself a pick me up at the nearest jewelry store."
"Well you don't have to worry about that. I've been a good kitty." She said with a purr. I blushed slightly and backed up a little.
"Ahem, right. Uh, forgive me if I don't believe you." I suddenly heard choppers behind me and turned around. Off in the distance and coming in fast were three chopper with turrets on the bottom. "Are they with you?" I asked as the turrets turned towards them.
"Shit." They started shooting at us and I quickly slapped my omnitrix and transformed into this Lego like alien. "Bloxx!" "I turned into a dome and covered Black Cat. The bullets had no effect on Bloxx because of my Lego form, giving me time to talk to "Kitty". "Who are they?"
"Just a few friends who want to say hi." I felt more bullets on my back and raised an eyebrow.
"Ok, old acquaintances, that I might have stolen from."
"You said you didn't steal anything!"
"There obviously not from a jewelry store." I sighed and shifted my face so it could be on the outside part of the dome. I shot three Lego pillars at the helicopters and smashed off their turrets.
"Hah, bullseye." I got out of my dome form and stood next to Cat. Two of the three helicopters started to descend, while the one still in the air turned on their speakers.
"Alright Cat, this is the last time were gonna tell you, give us the flash drive and we'll consider not killing you."
"And this is the last time I tell you, if you don't pay the return fee, I can't do that." The one speaking growled.
"Fine, kill her and her freak boyfriend and get that drive!"
"Boyfriend?" I asked. By then the helicopters landed on the rooftop and a bunch of thugs in grey skull masks came out of both helicopters. They all pulled out either guns, bats, or brass knuckles. Finally a giant dude came out with a sledge hammer strapped to his back. "Oh great, more friends." I said, while turning my hands into hammers.
"Well if there's more friends, I guess we should get out more toys." Black Cat pressed a finger on both of her wrists and cat gauntlets covered Cat's hands. The gauntlets were black with white streaks had metal, slightly long, nails.
"Don't kill."
"Relax, I won't." We both launched at them and the thugs started shooting. The bullets didn't affect me, and I made sure to block any bullets that Cat couldn't dodge. Three guys came up to me and fired at, but like all the rest, it did nothing. After a few seconds they realized it too and threw their guns at me.
"Alright, that was just unnecessary." My hammers turned back into hands and I backhanded two of them away and punched the last one in the face.
"Hey Alienate. The guns are really cutting into my fun." I smirked.
"Well I can change that." I transformed into an alien that was black and yellow with a metal floating head and pincers instead of hands. "Lodestar!" I floated up and raised my now glowing pincers. The guns started to leave the gang's hands and float up towards me. They circled me until I put my hands together above my head.
The guns all clumped together above my head making a giant ball. I looked at a group of thugs and mimicked a bowler's movements when they would roll the bowling ball at pins. The ball rolled at the criminals, knocking them all down.
"Strike!" I said pumping my fists, I mean claw. I landed and more of them surrounded me. If I could, I would have smirked. "I guess Cat's right. More friends," I slammed the omnitrix and turned into a blond teenage boy with a tail. I wore a jeans and an opened loose collared shirt showing my six pack. I also had red wrist bracers and a yellow belt with the omnitrix symbol.
I pulled out my weapon, which was a staff/gun. I twirled it around, before getting into a fighting stance.
", the more toys." Meanwhile with Cat, the thugs that had guns resorted to their fists. They swung at Cat, but she dodged them expertly.
"C'mon boys, don't you know it's bad to bore a lady."
"How's this for boring!" One yelled as he ran at Cat with a pipe. He swung down and Black Cat caught it in between her hands. She pulled it out of his hands and hit him in the knee. She then spun kicked him in the face knocking him out. Two more ran towards her. One was faster than the other and reached her sooner.
He threw a punch that Cat dodged, then tried a kick, that she caught. Cat then spun the criminal around by the foot before throwing him at the incoming thug. Back with me, I was still taking on my fair share of thugs with my staff. Three came up to me and I flipped over them and landed behind them before I used my staff to trip the three, making them land on their backs.
"If all of you are this easy, I should be done with you guys by…" I was suddenly pushed on the floor by the bug guy. I tried to get up, but the guy put a foot on my chest, holding me down.
"You've had your fun, but now it's time to kill the freak."
"You wanna see a real freak?" I slapped the omnitrix, transforming into, "Ghostfreak!" I went through the floor, confusing the big guy, who scratched his head. Before he could ask any questions, I launched through the rooftop punching him right in the face. He went flying back. He landed on his back, but got up, looking even madder.
I transformed again.
"Fourarms!" We ran at each other. When we got close I punched him in the jaw, then using my bottom fists, I jabbed him twice in the gut, before backhanding him away. He caught himself and took out his sledgehammer. He launched at me and swung. I dodged his swings, backing up each time I did it, and after a few swings met the hammer with one of my fist, making a shockwave that knocked out a few lackeys.
He swung again, this time hitting me across the face. Luckily, thanks to my tough skin, it was no better than a punch in the face. I stumbled back, and before I had the chance to fix myself, got hit in the chest by the hammer. I landed on my back and looked up to see my big friend heading my way. I raised my fists and slammed them on the rooftop, creating crack lines that went completely around big guy.
He looked around him and before he could say "uh-oh" the ground fell in on him and he hit the floor beneath us hard, knocking him out. I got up and walked over to the hole. I looked at him and smiled.
"That's a quick way to get down, but I think I'll stick with the stairs." I looked up and saw that everyone else was down. I looked at Cat and saw her stretching.
"Took you long enough big guy."
"I was dealing with the beefed up dude, I think that deserves some credit. Now, do you mind telling me who these guys are?" I turned back into Fasttrack and ran in front of her with my arms crossed. She sighed.
"Fine, these guys are, part of Black Mask." I widened my eyes
"Black Mask? You mean big shot Gotham, Black Mask?"
"Is there another one?"
"What's he doing in Bellwood?"
"Well, he himself isn't here, but a section of his gang is." I was shocked.
"Wait, how long has he been here? How come no one's noticed?" Cat raised an eyebrow.
"For almost a year now and it makes sense that you didn't notice, before yesterday you were just a civilian. There's plenty of things that happen that civilians don't notice, it's kind of like were in a completely different world. A world that normal people don't see unless it's attacking them on their doorstep." I crossed my arms.
"And I guess it's, us, heroes' job to make sure it stays that way." "Your job. I'm just a thief." I shook my head.
"Right, whatever. So back with Black Mask. Why's he after you, what'd you steal? Gold, diamonds? Golden diamonds?" Cat took out a flash drive from her belt and showed it to me.
"Diamonds and gold aren't the only thing that's valuable. This flash drive holds dirt on Black mask that he'd rather not let loose. Give this to the right guy, and I could have enough money to buy me a.."
"A new litter box?" Cat rolled her eyes and smiled.
"A diamond encrusted litter box."
"Well if a part of Black Mask's gang is in this city, I want to get rid of them. I wouldn't mind some help." Cat scoffed.
"I told you, I'm a thief, why would I want get into even deeper mess?"
"Because, if you don't they'll just keep going after you until you die. If you help me, we can get rid of Black Mask's influence and you'll be safe here in Bellwood." 'In a nice comfy cell.'
"And how will you make sure Mask stays away from Bellwood?" I looked at her seriously.
"I'll make sure." She looked at me, trying to find anyway to say no, but she couldn't and sighed
"Alright fine. We'll meet up here tomorrow, same time. I don't know the location of their base yet, but after I study this drive a little more, I should find something." I smiled.
"Thanks Black Cat."
"Don't thank me yet. I might be leading you to your grave rookie." With that that she jumped off of the building. I went over to edge, but couldn't find a trace of her. I sighed and looked through the thugs' pockets, looking for a phone to call the police. Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The next day me and Aiden were walking down the hallway of school. Aiden was completely focused on a notepad he was writing in, while I told him about last night, while keeping my voice down to make sure no one hears me.
"I didn't think I'd meet her anytime soon, let alone the first day of patrol. She said to meet her tomorrow to help take out Black Mask's gang. I can't believe I'm taking out a gang, and it's Black Mask. Hey, maybe I'll meet Batman after all." I turned around and saw Aiden completely engrossed in his notepad, which kinda annoyed me.
"Dude, did you hear a word I said."
"Uh, yeah. You met Black Mask, took down Black Cat and today you're gonna take out a part of Batman's gang." Aiden said, still looking down at what he was writing. I deadpanned before snatching the notepad out of his hand.
"Hey!"
"What are you doing?" I looked at what was on the notepad. "Cat shit turned into power? Robot pterodactyls/ translator? Dancing robot hotdog?"
"I wrote that last one before dinner."
"Are these some of your ideas for the fair, or do we need to have a talk?"
"They're for the fair dumbass." He said, snatching the notepad back. "I have blueprints for some of them and I really think they'll work and I'm sure they'll beat whatever Chrisly made." I rolled my eyes.
"I'm telling you, this is really stupid. You should both just make a project together." We got to our lockers, opened them, and started sorting through to get what we needed.
"Hey, I was the first to say that, but she said no. So don't act like this is my fault."
"Yeah cause you were just fighting for the piece option weren't you." Aiden just shook his head.
"Whatever."
"Hello Aiden." We both turned around and saw none other than Chrisly looking back at us.
"Well, what are the odds? We were just talking about you."
"Again. If I didn't know any better I'd say your either talking shit about me behind my back or you both liked me."
"Heh heh, neither Chrisly. I was just suggesting that maybe you two should just come up with an idea together after all."
"I don't know…"
"Look, Aiden is the smartest person I know, no offense, and I personally think the experiment from last year was pretty cool, and he has all these other ideas that look even cooler. I know you both have… creative differences, but just imagine it. Your brain," I put my hand on Chrisly's head.
"And Aiden's," I put my hand on Aiden's. "Working together to come up with one awesome mind blowing invention. You two mad scientists can't pass that up." She moved her head away from my hand and thought about it. "Here, look at some of the ideas he already came up with." I showed her the notepad and she looked over it and after reading through a few widened her eyes.
"These actually sound pretty cool." Aiden was surprised, while I just smirked and crossed my arms.
"Uh well, I have blueprints for some of them, if you want to check them out." She looked at Aiden for a second and smiled.
"Sure. We can look at them in the library before homeroom."
"Sounds like a plan." Aiden said with a smile. They both walked away and I shook my head.
"Told them, simple." I closed my locker, but before I could leave, Francis and two of his friends surrounded me. I looked at them, surprised.
"So Koster, did you start our project yet?"
"Uh, well not yet, but…" Franklen grabbed me by the shirt and pinned me to the locker.
"Whaddya mean 'not yet'? Kosta, if I fail this because of you…"
"You know it'd go a lot quicker if you helped." I snapped. Franklin looked surprised for a second before smirking and looking at his pals.
"You hear this guy?" They just smirked and shook their heads.
"Yeah I didn't either. Cause if I did, I'd have to pound his face into his own locker. Listen. You're gonna do the project, were both gonna get an A, and that's that. Anything else and it won't be good for either you or me. Well, it'll be worse for you. Got it?"
"Francis, don't you have anything better to do, than mess with people?" Everyone turned around to see Mayta standing with her hands on her hips. Francis let go of my and went over to Mayta. He leaned on the Lockers and smirked.
"Hey Mayta, did you come all the way over here for me?"
"Actually, I came for Kosta." She went over to me and looped her arm around mine, making me blush.
"Why do hang with a loser, when you can be with me?"
"Maybe because this 'loser' won't make me feel like Albert Einstein in comparison." Francis and his friends were completely confused, while I just smirked. Mayta pulled me away, her arm still around mine. When we were far enough she looked at me.
"How come you always find a way to run into trouble?"
"What, I never run into trouble" I said, instantly remembering the other day.
"Hmm. So, what happened this time?" I sighed.
"It's a long story."
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When night came I went back to the rooftop I met Cat and sat at the edge as Fasttrack, someone I decided to use as a way of talking with people. I was deep in thought on what I should do about the science fair. I had no idea what I was gonna do for it and I had to still make the project and a board explaining it.
I sighed, closed my eyes and laid on my back. I opened my eyes and saw that I was in between Cat's legs looking up at her…
"Shit!" I scrambled up, blushing.
"C-cat I din-didn't see you co-show up." Cat smiled slyly.
"Well I wouldn't be a good Cat burglar if you did right?" I sighed.
"I guess not." I said smiling sadly. Cat raised an eyebrow.
"What's up with you?"
"Nothing I just… it's just something."
"If it's about looking at my…" I waved my hands franticly.
"No no, nothing that has to do with that! It's something completely different."
"Oh, okay." I looked at Cat.
'I can't believe I'm gonna ask this.' "Uh, Cat, before we leave, can I ask you something?"
"Sure fuzzy." She felt my soft furry chest, making me blush again. I quickly go behind her.
"Right." She turned around, happy that she's able to make me uncomfortable. "So, let's say someone is forcing you to do something for him or her, and if you don't, it can end pretty badly for you. What would you do?" Cat thought about it.
"Will this person kill you?"
"Uh, well probably won't kill me."
"Well then do what they say."
"Huh?" I looked at her confused. That was it, do what they say? I could get better advice from a cereal box. "Just do what they say?"
"I never said that. Do what they said, but make their life hell while doing it so they can never ask you again. Nothing's free in this world, remind them that." I thought about it.
"Ok, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks, Cat."
"No problem. Now, why don't you turn into something that flies and we can get started. I found the base and it's pretty far."
"Sure." I transformed into Jetray, and let her get on my back.
"All aboard. Next stop, kick ass action." I flew up and shot towards the direction Cat told me to.
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We flew to Bellwood Hills, where most of the kids from my school live. After a couple minutes Cat and I found the giant goon infested mansion we were looking for. Guards with gray masks were scattered all over the large front lawn with guns and bats at the ready. There were three guarding the door, and two guys with snipers on the balcony in front of the house.
"I handle the top, you handle the bottom?" I asked.
"Great minds think alike." I flew Cat in close to the door, and when I was close enough, swung her at a guard on the bottom step of the mansion's stairs. She kicked him in the head, knocking him out, and landed on her feet. The guards around her stared at her in shock. "You know, it's rude to stare."
She took out something that was similar to a batarang, but the difference was that it had a cat face in the middle of it, it was gray, and it was thinner. She threw it at a group of guards, and it exploded. When the smoke cleared, the guards were covered in green slime that quickly hardened, trapping them all together.
That snapped the guards out of their shock and they charged. Cat took out two batons from her belt and charged as well. Back on top I landed on the balcony.
"Those are some pretty big guns." I said, pointing at the guns. I transformed into XLR8 and quickly grabbed the guns from their hands and disassembled them. "I'm gonna have to take these until you're a little older." They all growled and charged at me and I just smirked, before transforming again into Spidermonkey.
"Ah ah ah, no complaining." One swung his fist at me and I ducked. He threw three more swings that I easily dodged. After the third swing I grabbed him by the arm and threw him over my shoulder. He went past the railing and almost hit the ground, but was saved by me attaching a web to his back.
I put my end of the web on the railing, and turned around, only to get punched in the face by another goon. I growled and spun kicked him in the face.
"Now that's just playing dirty." I kicked him in the stomach, sending him stumbling back a little. Finally I ran to him, jumped and kicked him in the chest. I back flipped off of his chest, adding an extra push that made his head land on a part of the balcony railing, on the other side of the balcony, knocking him out.
The last one charged and I jumped out of the way and onto the wall. I then spit a web line onto his head, held the other end of it in my hand, and jumped off of the balcony. I swung down and back, ending up under the balcony, crouching upside-down. The force pulled the guard's head into railing, knocking him out.
I looked down and saw Cat holding her own with her baton. A guard went up to her and she bashed him in the knee with her weapon, forcing him to crouch. She then hit him across the face, knocking him out. Another one ran at her from behind. Black Cat saw this from the corner of her eye and back flipped over the grunt.
He quickly turned around, something she was hoping for. Cat jumped into the air and took down the guy with a knee to the face. I could see more guards coming and we were running out of time. I landed on the ground and ran to Cat, taking out any guards in the way. When I got to her, we were back to back.
"We need to get in there."
"Any ideas? Cause these guys aren't going to just roll out the red carpet." I thought about and finally came up with something.
"Go, I'll handle it." She nodded and started to run up the stairs. I slammed my hand into the omnitrix and transformed into a sorta humanoid vine alien with red spikes on my shoulders and green on my arms. My head was read and yellow and shaped like a flame. Finally, my omnitrix was on my chest.
"Swampfire!" I summoned a fireball in both of my hands. "Who's ready for a barbecue?" The guards were worried for a second, but one brave soul fired at me, making the fireballs dissipate and made me land on the ground. All of the thugs smirked and some even laughed, it made me wanna a laugh.
So I did. I laughed as I got up, making all the others stop and stare at me with extreme amounts of shock.
I looked at them "That, was a funny joke. Mind if I tell one?" They all shot wildly at me, doing nothing but making holes that quickly patched themselves together.
I created the two fireballs again and threw them on the ground near the thugs, created streams of fire and distracting the guards. I looked back up and saw Cat already up the stairs. She seemed to be taking care of the three guards there. I heard yelling and turned to my left see someone with a spiked bat running towards me.
"Oh no, not a spiked bat. Whatever shall I do?" I asked sarcastically and with a monotone voice. I extended my left arm, launching it at the idiot. It slammed into him and forced him into a nearby tree, knocking him out. My arm went back to normal and I continued to create more fire streams. After a few more seconds I looked back and saw that Cat was done cleaning up. I bowed.
"Thanks for the fun guys, but I gotta go. You can keep the fire." I extended my legs towards Cat, and when I got to her, I had the rest of me follow me. "Alright, that fire won't hold them for long. So you wanna knock or…" The door suddenly blew opened. "You planted explosives. That works too."
We ran in, but I stopped when I heard something. I looked out and saw goons running towards the entrance hole, looking kinda pissed, and a little seared. "Sorry guys, but you're not on the guest list." I threw some seeds on the ground, and in less than a second giant thick vines spouted up and covered the hole.
I gave them a mocked salute and followed Cat.
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We battled through goons until we went around the corner and saw two guys guarding a big and fancy set of double doors. They looked shock to see us, but they quickly got over it and shot at us. I pushed Cat out of the way and took the bullets. I then extended my vine arms and socked both of them in the face.
We got to the door and looked at each other.
"Ready Captain Planet?" I ignored the nickname and nodded.
'This is it. Were gonna end it here.' I enlarged my fist and punched opened the door. We walked into a big office. In it were two white sofas, with a glass table in between the, There was also a board meeting table in the corner of the room. A fire place was on the side and finally in the middle were two white chairs in front of a white desk and luxury chair.
On the desk was a woman wearing a gold skull mask with the same design as all the other goons. With her were two big thugs in suits and them two, just like everyone else, had masks on.
"I think we stumbled into the VIP room." Cat said with a smirk.
"I do too. I hope they don't mind if we stay awhile." The woman just laughed. She looked at Cat.
"Black Cat." She shook her head. "You just saved me the trouble of hunting you like the rabid feline you are. You have something important to us. Do you mind giving it back?" Cat shrugged.
"Sure, we could sit down discuss numbers. They'll be pretty high thou, considering how desperate you are to get this for your shitty boss." The woman just tilted her head
"Oh, but I have a coupon. Kill one, get what you want free." She looked at me. "Or I guess it'd be two in this case. Who are you again?"
"The names Alienate."
"Right." She said with a snotty attitude. "Well, I think we've talked enough, now it's time to collect." She snapped her fingers and the two guards ran towards us. One tackled Cat and pushed her out of the room. The other one backhanded me into the glass table, shattering it. "Be careful with the furniture you idiot." The woman said.
"Sorry boss." He said with a gruff British accent. There was a green flash, forcing them to cover their eyes. When it faded the guard went over to where I landed only to see nothing. I tapped him on the shoulder and he turned around to see a giant blue moth with arms and legs. The omnitrix symbol was on my chest. I smiled.
"Big Chill." I whispered before punching him in the face, sending into the wall. He groggily got out of the wall, as I walked over to him. When I was close he woozily threw a punch. I caught it and shook my head.
"You don't look so good. Take a second to cool down." I blew an extreme amount of cold air at him, freezing everything except the arm he used to try and punch me and his head.
"F-f-fucken hell!"
"Don't worry, you should get used to it soon… I think." I turned over to where the woman was, only to see she was gone. "Oh, don't tell me I lost her." I walked over the desk and peeked over it. "Hello, are you hiding under there?" Suddenly I felt a metal whip entangle my neck. I tried to pull it off, but it only tightened as the woman was behind me, pulling on the weapon. "Sh-shit!"
"Heh heh heh, you're a new hero, so I guess I can give you a lesson, not that it'll do you much good now. Never keep your eyes off the boss." She pressed a button on the handle and the whip began to shock me.
"Aghhh!" I could feel myself passing out and I know if I did, the omnitrix would automatically turn me back to normal. I couldn't let that happened. I concentrated and soon phased through the whip's grasp. I turned tangible again and took deep breaths, while using the desk as support.
The woman looked at her whip and snarled. The whip was now frozen and unusable. I glared at her.
"You like sparks so much, then check this out." I transformed again, this time as a black and green skinned alien. From the bottom I had feet with two front toes. Arms with gold battery bolts on them. I had four fingers that had things similar to plugs on the tips of them. I also had a tail with a plug on the tip.
I had one yellow eye and two antennas, both also with plugs on the tip.
"Feedback!"
"Morph into whatever thing you want, you're not getting out of here alive either way!" She slid another whip handle out of her sleeve and pressed another button. Another metal whip slithered out of the handle and she cracked it. I fired electricity out of my fingertips. She dodged all of them with impressive reflexes. I blinked.
"Well, wasn't expecting that." She charged and swung her whip at me. I dodged it and she continued to try and hit me. "You know, ah, you're not a bad fighter, whoa, for someone in heels." I kicked her in the stomach, sending her flying back. She got up, looking absolutely pissed. She growled and turned on the whip.
Electricity surged through it. She wrapped the whip around my arm and the electricity surged through me.
"Arghhh!" I fell on my knees and looked down. She smirked and walked up to me.
"Game over hero." She swung her fist at me and I caught it, something she wasn't expecting. I looked up at her and grinned.
"One of my abilities is electricity absorption. That means, no electrical attacks can hurt me. Can I say the same for you?" electricity surged from me to her. The attack, didn't kill her, but it was strong enough to send her flying into a wall. I unwrapped the whip and threw it on the floor, just in time for me to see a giant man heading my way.
I ducked and he went flying into the desk, breaking it. I turned my head to where he came from and saw Cat dusting herself off. She walked over to me.
"Well, that was fun. If you need me, I'm going to look around for anything valuable." She began to walk away and I turned back into Swampfire. I extended my arm and grabbed Cat.
"Cat." She looked at me and sighed.
"Fine, I won't take anything." I just continued to stare at her. "What?"
"The drive. You need to give that to me, or I don't know, Batman." Cat laughed.
"Sorry, but I think I lost his number somewhere. Besides, I doubt he's the paying type." She said.
"Well, I'm not asking for a price, I'm asking for the drive. This is your last chance Cat. If you give me the drive, you can walk free." Cat just continued to smile.
"Nice try Rookie, but I think I'll just take my freedom and my drive. Cat's gotta eat." She took out a small black ball and threw it on the floor. A flash of light came out of it, and I was forced to cover my eyes. I felt my grip on Cat was gone and something was put on my chest.
When I opened my eyes, she was gone and there was a sticky note on my chest. I took it off and looked at it.
"It's been fun. Till next time" It read, with a Cat's face drawn on it. I sighed and walked over to the broken desk. I picked up the phone that was next to the unconcise thug and called the police.
"Yeah police, I'd like to report a gang."
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Monday came and it was time for the science fair. Three judges, one including the principle, a thirty year old man, with fading hair, and the other Mr. Matnek. The last one I didn't know. They walked around as kids did last minute checks or chatted with friends near their project. Me and Francis just stood there.
Me watching Mayta talking with friends and Francis on his phone. When it was our turn I smirked. I've been waiting for this all weekend.
"And this is?" The principle asked.
"A model Volcano." The third judge rolled her eyes.
"How original." She said sarcastically. My smirk didn't go away, I was too excited for what was going to happen.
"You can't beat the classic. Plus we found a way to make the 'lava' go up to 6ft. the judges raised an eyebrow. "Well, then go on." I nodded. "Francis catch." I threw him a button, which he caught. He looked at me confused. "Remember, when you press that button, it'll go off." He understood and nodded.
He pressed the button, but nothing happened. He pressed it three more times, but nothing. He frowned at me.
"It doesn't work." He said with a deadly tone. I looked confused.
"Huh, that's weird. Francis, look inside the volcano, and check if anything fell in."
"Don't tell me what to…" Francis turned and saw the look of inpatients on the judge's faces and growled. "Fine." His face went over the volcano to look, but he couldn't find anything. "I can't find anything."
"Keep looking." I said as I grabbed the working remote in my pocket. I pressed the button and hot sauce shot out of it and went all over Francis' face.
"Ahh! MY EYES!" He screamed. He got out of the way and the hot sauce shot up to eight feet. I smiled.
'Oops' I thought as Francis ran around, knocking over a few projects along the way. The principle and the third judge quickly ran after him. Mr. Matnek quickly wrote B+ on a paper and handed it to me, before running after them. I sighed.
"So worth it." Aiden came over to me.
"What did you do?"
"I just listened to some feline advice." Aiden still looked confused and I laughed. "I'll tell you about it later." I put my arm around his neck and we both walked over to his project.
