Chapter 3 – Oh No, Here We Go Again.
After Sari pulls Ben out the rubble she turns to Gwen, and Kevin, "what just happened?"
"The Ultimatrix just registered your DNA," Kevin says standing up, rubbing his head, "wow that hurt."
"Is that bad?" Prime asks.
"Not really, it just means that a sample of your DNA is now inside the Ultimatrix, like it is for every alien species that Ben can turn into, it does mean however that Ben is probably going to lose the next couple of fights trying to work out how to use your abilities."
"OW MY HEAD," Ben yells returning to consciousness, he is still holding the Allspark shard thankfully, he looks around at the mess left by the fight, "what I miss?"
"Lugnut got away," Jazz says, "but you got the Allspark shard, and that's all that matters," as Jazz says this the Allspark shard is pulled from Ben's hand by an arrow.
"Haha, forsooth, I have pilfered yonder gem, mine king shalt reward me most handsomely," the Angry Archer says holding the Allspark shard.
"Angry Archer really, can this get any better," Sari says.
"You know this Robin Hood wannabe?" Ben asks.
"Yeah, this is the Angry Archer, a B list villain from Detroit; we've been putting him back behind bars for the last few years, but he keeps coming back," Optimus says.
"Hey Angry, are Nano-sec, Slo-mo, and Professor Princess here to?" Sari yells.
"Ney, knave, I fight for my King now," Angry Archer then fires a smoke arrow, and vanishes.
"He got away," Sari says, "and he took the shard, any ideas who this King is?"
Ben, Gwen, and Kevin look at each other, then huddle in conversation, "you don't think."
"Can't be."
"Maybe, why wouldn't they."
"But he's a petty crook."
"No, it has to be them."
"It's the Forever Knights, they're a band of crazy people who dress up as knights, and target aliens, and steal alien tech, they're all over the world, and they're a constant pest," Kevin says after they break up the group huddle, "we should go looking for their nearest castle."
"Which would be…" Sari cues Kevin.
"Out in the forest, this way," Kevin says running over to his car with Ben, and Gwen following him, which somehow had survived the whole fight. The Autobots transform, and Sari activates her skates, they all head off in the strangest convoy of all time, a muscle car, a sports car, a big rig lorry, and a robot on energy skates.
The Forever Knight's castle looks like it had just jumped out of a fairy tale, if only a little darker, complete with arrow slits, parapets, and towers, the building itself is about the size of the Autobot base in Detroit.
"This place is huge," Jazz says looking at it.
"We spend rather a lot of time here," Kevin says, "they are forever kidnapping aliens, or attacking us, so we attack in retaliation."
They walk up to the drawbridge, which is drawn up, unlike a medieval castle there is no moat.
"Who wants to knock?" Sari asks.
"I'll do it," Prime says pulling his axe out, and cuts the drawbridge in half, and half again, revealing a corridor large enough for Prime, and Jazz.
"Well in we go," Gwen says making a light leading the way, with Ben, and Kevin next, then Prime, followed by Jazz, with Sari on his shoulder, she has a blue orb hovering over her hand.
"INTRUDER ALERT, INTRUDER ALERT," a PA system blares, before Sari shoots the speakers.
"I hate those things she says hopping down from Jazz' shoulder as they surrounded by foot-soldiers, "six against, however many of you there are, that hardly seems fair, for you," as she says this Ben turns into a black, and yellow alien, about six feet tall, with pincer hands, and large spiked shoulders, the alien's head is made entirely of metal, and levitates over between his shoulder spikes.
"Lodestar," it says.
"A Biosovortian, this could be very easy after all," Prime says.
"Surrender, and your deaths will be fast, and painless," the lead knight yells at them.
"I may be a long way away from you, but my audio receptors are working fine, so you don't need to shout," Prime says.
Lodestar waves an arm over the Forever Knights, and then violently swings his arm at the wall, making all the foot soldiers hit the wall, where they fall to the floor, and collapse, unconscious.
"What just happened?" Sari asks.
"Biosovortians are magno-kinetic," Prime says, "they can manipulate magnetic fields, this allows them to move magnetic metals, and alloys, like the armour of those knights, they can also use it fly on planets with magnetic fields, and can quite literally pull themselves together if they are taken apart."
"That's cool," Sari says.
The group start walking down the corridor again until they reach a room which appears to be laboratory, the mad scientist kind, in the room are a single knight wearing red armour, with a yellow eye piece, and twin katanas strapped over his shoulders, the armour looks normal but when Lodestar waves his hand nothing happens.
"Didn't think that would work, these two are special. Gwen, Kevin you go with the Autobots, Sari, and I will deal with the Forever Ninja," as he says this several knights fill in, "and these knights," the Kevin nods, and the others leave down a side corridor.
Ben hits the hourglass symbol on his chest, and turns into a purple humanoid made of stone, with two pink crystals growing from each shoulder, as well as pink crystal hands, horn, and face.
"Chromastone," it says, blasting a rainbow coloured ray at two knights, who are blasted backwards into the wall.
The red knight draws its katanas, and charges Sari who ducks under the swift swings, Sari punches it in the stomach, only for the knight to ignore it, and swing at her again, his swing is interrupted by a knight being thrown into him by Ben. Sari takes the opportunity to punch it in both sides of the head, the knight once again ignores her blows, and starts swinging at her even faster than before, Sari is losing ground until she can grab the wrist of the knight, who swings the other katana at the techno-organic, who grabs the other wrist, the two wrestle for some time.
"You definitely aren't human," Sari mutters under her breath, and begins squeezing the wrists, but the metal barely budges, but Sari hears a fizzing, electrical sound coming from the knight, "a robot hmm." Sari activates her 'mojo' mode (still think that's a stupid name), and starts to shut down the robot knight, which starts thrashing trying to break free, but Sari manages to hold on, until the robot suddenly collapses.
"There we go, how are you doing Ben?" Sari says turning to Ben, and sees Ben on the floor surrounded by four knights, Chromastone, and the other knights are unconscious.
"Suvender or ve vill excoot your little friend fraulin," a knight with a German accent says.
Sari raises her hands above her head, and steps towards the knight, "I surrender." When two knights step forward to cuff her she throws orbs at the two standing over Ben, sending them back into a wall, the two nearer her try to jump on her, but she gets rid of them by punching one, and throwing the other at the wall.
"Ben, " she shakes Ben's shoulder.
"Five more minutes," Ben murmurs batting away her hand, before startling himself awake, "what happened?"
"I don't know, I was fighting tall, red, and robotic over there, gesturing at the robot knight, who was still frozen where she had fought it, "when I came back you were surrounded by Herr Flick*, and Dumb, Dumb, and Dumber," she points at the four knights, "I think I can get Sparky back online, and reprogram him."
"Ok, I'll take a look at the computers," Ben says as he boots up one of the computers.
Sari walks over to the knight, opens a control panel on its chest, and proceeds to press buttons, whilst Ben plays Pong online.
"Ben that's not very helpful," Sari says, "I got it," as she says this the knight stands up straight, as it's eyepiece lights up.
"Cool," Ben walks over, "you got the ninja online."
"Ninja follow us," Sari says as they walk down the corridor their friends had just gone.
They enter into a scene of sheer chaos, Prime was stuck to a wall by some kind of goo, with his axe on the opposite side of the room, Jazz is fighting a giant king Forever Knight, who is wearing the Allspark shard in a crown, whilst Gwen, and Kevin are fighting normal sized Forever Knights.
"Ninja, go fight those the Forever Knights," Sari says pointing at a clump of Forever Knights.
"Sari, do you want to help Jazz, or should I?"
"I'll help Jazz."
"Ok," Ben turns the dial, looking for Way Big, but instead finds a picture of himself, "what's this?"
"I think that's where the Ultimatrix scanned me," Sari says.
"Cool," Ben presses the dial, and stays the same, "how does this work?"
Sari gives him basic instructions on transforming, the skates, and how to use the orbs.
"I don't know if you got all my unactivated powers as well, so be careful, they're locked for me for a reason, they caused an overload when I activated too many of them at once."
"Well, that's good to know," Ben transforms to robot mode, which is like Sari's only shaped to fit him instead, and coloured in two-tone green rather than yellow, and cream.
"Cool," Ben says looking at his new form.
Sari runs over to Jazz, "need help."
"Would be appreciated," Jazz says narrowly dodging a sword swing, which he hits with his numb-chucks, "I'll distract him you get the shard."
"Right," Sari runs off to a ladder that leads to a catwalk over the King.
"Stop her," yells an English accented knight commanding the other knights, but he, and several other knights run over to the catwalk, but are stopped by techno-organic Ben, and the Forever Ninja turn-coat.
The knights as one draw their swords, and lunge at the two blocking their way. One stabs at Ben's head, he ducks grabs the knight by his stomach, and throws him at two of his comrades, two come at Ben, swinging at his legs, he jumps over the swords, and kicks the two of them in the face, the lead knight stabs at Ben, but is stopped by Forever Ninja, who had finished his group of knights.
"You traitorous turncoat," the knight spits at the Ninja.
"Don't blame the Ninja, he is just reprogrammed this way," Ben says knocking over the knight, they go over to help Gwen, and Kevin with the remaining knights.
By now Sari has reached a point on the catwalk directly over the Forever King, who almost reaches the catwalk, Sari jumps onto the King, careful to avoid the spikes of the crown, and clambers around to the shard, avoiding the hand of the robot as it tries to remove her. She reaches the shard, and begins to pull it off a she is knocked off by the robot, she lands on the floor, and gets up dusting herself off, "that hurt."
"Sari get Prime off the wall, I think we'll need his help," Jazz yells narrowly dodging a blow, Sari grabs Primes axe, and runs over to help him.
"Eww, What is this stuff?"
"Some kind of adhesive, I think your orbs should be able to get it off," Prime says.
"Right," Sari forms an orb, and throw it at the goo holding Prime, the orb melts a section of the goo, Sari keeps throwing the orbs until Prime falls off the wall, Sari hands Prime his axe, which he takes, and throws at the robot, knocking the Allspark shard from the crown, the robot collapses, and Jazz grabs the shard.
A/N Sorry the update took so long see my other story for my excuse. I think there will only be one more chapter, so please review, favourite, and follow.
*Hurrah for 'Allo 'Allo references
