Episode 3: School Rook

Deep and distanced district from Bellwood City; the area was filled with messy garbage, vandalism and destructive ruins. A couple of criminals and thieves have arrived and met up with a familiar gang, who were with the advanced weaponized futuristic truck-like.

"Alright, boys! Welcome to our shop!" Corvo greeted happily and wildly. He turned and pushed some buttons on it. The truck has its side opened and revealed couple of various and advanced weapons. He smirked, "And as promise, dude! Here are your Christmas Presents! So, come and get them!"

Criminals and thieves cheered wildly and happily. They all charged in and grabbed some couple of weapons and grenades. They awed and chatted in amazement and happily about seeing and having the weapons as we theirs.

"Hold the applause, everyone! I've got something awesome!" Corvo said wildly and happily. He revealed a black-dark blue colored armored giant missile launcher-like, "Say hello to my little friend - Hyper Missile Cannon! And she's the best!"

Everyone awed in amazement of what they saw and heard. They all chatted about the weapons. They all can't wait to try it.

"So, who wanna try it?" Corvo asked amusingly.

"How about none?" The confident voice in soft catlike tone exclaimed.

And just before anyone could ask, Corvo got punched and slammed to the walls. Criminals and thieves yelped and gasped in concern. They looked up and found Fasttrack worn the black suit with white chest pad and shoulder pad with green lines, has an Omnitrix Symbol on left side, and armed with claws and dark green arm-like blades.

"Not awesome and fast as XLR8," Fasttack said amusingly before smirked, "Still can get the job done when I'm strong!"

"Tennyson?! Here?!" Corvo asked in shock and anger.

The criminals and thieves shouted and exclaimed in anger and fear. Fasttrack pretended to look shock and confuse.

"Wow. Tough crowd," Fasttrack remarked amusingly. He then heard a gun clicking. He turned and found Corvo armed and aimed his Hyper Missile Launcher at him. He groaned, "Really? And you'd think a missile can hit me? I'm fast."

"Yeah. But can you outrun it, Tennyson?" Corvo asked amusingly as he taken an aim on Fasttrack, "Let's find out..."

POW! Corvo got his chest kicked off by Armorstrike, who jumped off from the top of building. She turned and looked at Fasttrack. He smiled and gave the 'good' thumbs up gesture.

Suddenly, they both heard the blasters and weapons clicking. Fasttrack and Armorstrikequickly formed back-to-back while armed and readied their weapons. They were facing the group of criminals and thieves armed and aimed their guns and blasters at them including Corvo armed with his Hyper Missile Launcher at them both.

Armorstrike sighed, "Seriously, Ben. Can't you follow a simple order to watch and stay put until the rest of the team arrive?"

"Hey, somebody gotta make sure those guys stay put especially the weapons," Fasttrack remarked amusingly before scoffed, "Come on, Jules. Admit it. I make the right call."

Armorstrike rolled her eyes beneath her masked helmet's visor, "Can't argue that one..." She turned and glared at her enemies from the right, "Looks like a lot of bad guys. You'd think we can handle them?"

Fasttrack smirked, "Let's find out."

Armorstrike smirked as well. Both her and Fasttrack charged out and engaged the bad guys. The bad guys fired their blasters at them both, who dodged and fought back. Fasttrack thrust his punches at them and struck both claws and arm-blades their weapons while running and dodging the bullets and blasts from them. Liker her boyfriend, Armorstrike dodged the attacks while punching and shooting back at them.

As both of them continued battling with the bad guys, Corvo and a group of snipers were aiming and readying to snipe them both from top building. However, they sans Corvo got their weapons struck and blasted to pieces by couple of crystallized shards. They got attacked and knocked out by both Tetrax and Rook, who used their Gatling Shards and Proto-Tool Blaster.

After taking out the bad guys, both Tetrax and Rook quickly climbed down and regrouped with their teammates. They continued attacking and beating most of bad guys.

Seeing his chance, Corvo quickly used and fired his Hyper Missile Launcher at the team. The team yelped as they quickly dodged the attack. Unfortunately, the missile was make a big turn and followed after them. The team found themselves trapped in the ally as they realized that they have nowhere to escape now.

Giving some thinking, Fasttrack gasped as he quickly hit his Omnitrix. He transformed into Echo-Echo, who multiplied himself and unleashed the barrage of sonic waves at the upcoming missile. Thsi divert and turned the missile around and hit Corvo's truck.

Corvo screamed, "Damn you, Tennyson! You're gonna be sorry for this! Fistrick will get you for this!"

And just before Echo-Echo could turn and attack his enemy, Corvo quickly used his jetpack and escaped the scene.

"Aw man..." Echo-Echo said in annoyance as he got his doubles merged back together, "Almost had him!"

"We'll get him next time. We'll get Fistrick for good," Tetrax said firmly. He turned and glared at Echo-Echo, "As for you, what part of 'stay put', do you not understand?"

Echo-Echo sighed as he transformed back to Ben, "Aw, come on. Those guys would have gotten away with the weapons. Plus, we did destroy the truck for good."

"For now, maybe, Ben. And who knows how many more there will be," Rook said in concern.

"I'm sure we'll find them soon, Rook. So, you and I will investigate the area," Tetrax said firmly before turned to Ben and Julie, "You two, head back home and get some shut eyes. You've got school tomorrow."

Ben groaned, "Can't we stay here to help out? I could use Grey Matter to solve the problem."

"Nice try, Tennyson." Julie said in annoyance. Ship detached from her before formed into a mechanical bag-like. She pulled and dragged Ben away, "But you and I got math class to do, and we don't want you to get slack off again especially if you fail. That means no hero."

Ben groaned, "Aw man!"

Both Ben and Julie headed off to DX Mark 10 car, while leaving both Tetrax and Rook behind to investigate the area. While Tetrax was looking and inspecting the truck, Rook was distracted as he could not help but looked at his teammates leaving the scene especially tomorrow, they're having school to attend. He also wondered of why both Ben and Julie are still going to high school.

"I'm surprise that Ben and Julie are still attending school. I thought they graduated," Rook said in surprise.

"Oh, not yet, Rook. They've just become seniors for high school now," Tetrax answered calmly. Rook was about to ask. He interrupted, "For Gwen's case, she has passed almost all of the tests and exams especially the most difficult and complex kind in her early age. Therefore, she got graduated early and left for collage."

"I see..." Rook said in understanding while watching Ben 10's DX Mark 10 Car drove off. He turned and looked at Tetrax, "So, what is it like to be a high school human student?"

"Hard to tell. Could be same as our schools from our own home. So, it's not much different, Rookie."

"So, have you been to high school before? You must have done lots of accomplishment during your youth, Magister Shard."

"Nah... Studies always bored me to death especially history and agriculture. I got flunked out before my graduation. So, I became the bounty hunter." Tetrax sighed before turned and looked at Rook, "But because of my ignorance, selfishness and arrogance; I've destroyed my own home, and becoming the last Petrosapien in Milky Way Galaxy."

Rook frown and shown sympathetic looks, "I'm sorry to hear that, Magister Shard. I really do."

"Ah. Don't go feel sorry for me, rookie. I make some mistakes. I just gotta learn and not repeat it. That's what experience makes me today especially to Max, Ben, Gwen, Kevin and even Julie."

"I see..."

"But seriously, rookie. Why are you got so interested in school?"

"Pardon me, sir. I was just curious and intrigued to learn and understand more about humans, their culture, history especially an agriculture subject. It's my favorite subject. And also, I could get to know more about Ben and Julie. The only knowledge I know so far is that they're couples."

"Ah, I see. Get to know your own teammate. Well play, rookie." Tetrax said amusingly before giving some thoughts. He then smirked, "Well, I think I can arrange that for you."

"Really? How?" Rook asked in surprise.

Tetrax smiled confidently, "Leave it to me..."

However, unknown to two of them, Khyber and his hound were watching the event from the top of building. The hunter smirked amusingly and proudly as he turned and looked at his left gauntlet. With a flick of pushing buttons, he activated and revealed the screen of 15-years-old Ben and Julie went to the school.

"Yes... I agreed with you, old friend..." Khyber said amusingly while looking at the screen, "I should get to know my prey."

On the next day, Ben and Julie have arrived at the Bellwood High School via his DX Mark 10 Car, which was parked at the parking lot. They both got out from the vehicle. They headed straight to the school. As they both were walking and talking; they were passing by couple of students and classmates, who headed straight to the school.

"Aw man..." Ben yawned out loud, "So tired..."

"That's what you get for fighting thugs and sleeping very late, again," Julie remarked amusingly.

Ben was annoyed and replied dryly, "Very funny, Julie." He sighed, "But seriously, why do we need to go to school?"

"Come on, Ben. You know why we have to."

"I know. I know. Get some good grades for exams, even if it's boring math and science. I'm so not cool with them. But I seriously don't need to study, even go to college or getting a career."

"Maybe you don't. But I do. I've got a dream. And I wanna make it come true. I want to be the best tennis champion in Olympic Games."

"That's good for you." Ben smiled before patted Julie's back, "You're always best at tennis. Nobody can beat you, not even me and my alien powers could do. You'd never lose one single game."

Julie giggled a bit, "True. But I'm not perfect either because I've lose some matches before. But seriously, Ben, don't you have a dream, talents or career, other than being a hero. Like a soccer player. You were good at it."

"Well, not really the best, Julie," Ben admitted, "But yeah, I do have some other talents I'm good at - comic book artist or video game champion."

"See? You do have some talents."

"I know. But I loved being a hero more than those three talents I've got. Nothing is gonna change that."

Julie sighed, "True. Can't say a girl try to reason her boyfriend about the career."

"I know," Ben said happily before giving a kiss on Julie's lips, "But I'd prefer that we stick to our 'current' career like us stick as the couples and heroes?"

Julie giggled a bit, "Okay. I can do that. At least, we're together now."

Ben nodded, "Yeah. We are. Too bad for Rook that he's not joining us in class."

Julie scoffed a bit, "I'm pretty sure we'd be surprise to find out that Rook is gonna be our classmate."

"Yeah. Like that's gonna happen," Ben said amusingly.

Ben and Julie entered the Bellwood High School. But unknown to them, Khyber was watching and spying the event from distance. He turned and patted his hound, who growled and snarled a bit. The hunter smirked darkly and amusingly as he can't wait to study and observe his prey.

Ben and Julie went to the class, just in time as the school bell rang. They and their classmates quickly take their seats as the teacher has arrived and entered the class.

"Alright, class, settle down. So, let's get down to business. Today, we're gonna have a new classmate joining us," Steven said calmly and firmly. He turned and looked at the door. He cleared his throat, "You can come in, Mr. Blonko."

"Blonko?!" Ben and Julie asked in surprise.

The classmates including Ben and Julie looked at the entrance, where 'Blonko' entered the scene. He revealed himself to be a Chinese boy with black combed gentle hair, black marks on his brown eyes and two black long stripes on each cheeks' end worn navy T-Shirt with three white stripes on its end, small golden dragon symbol on left side of chest and white sleeves, and long black pants, and a pair of red shoes.

Ben and Julie yelped and blushed in red as they were in shock and surprise of what they were looking at. They couldn't believe in their own eyes as well. Blonko looked exactly like Rook! But is he really a human or alien in disguise especially if it's their friend.

"Introduce yourself, Mr. Blonko," Steven said calmly.

'Blonko' bowed humbly before introduced himself, "My name is Rook Blonko. It is an honor to meet you all. I am honored to be in your class."

The classmate chatted and muttered in surprise. While the girls were infuriated and blushed of looking at Blonko, the boys were annoyed and jealous of him. Ben and Julie groaned in annoyance as they have suspected on him correctly. Blonko is really Rook.

"Alright, Mr. Rook. Take your seat near to Tennyson," Steven said firmly, "We're gonna start our math class."

'Blonko' nodded happily, "Yes, teacher..."

'Blonko' headed off and took his seat, which was close to Ben. While Steven was teaching his students about math equation, Ben and Julie stared and looked oddly at Blonko.

"Greetings, team. Are you surprise and happy to see me joining your class," Rook asked amusingly.

Julie giggled uneasily, "Well, it is surprise, right Ben?"

"I... I... I... Uh... I..." Ben stuttered in shock and confusion, "I... I..."

"Is he alright?" Rook asked curiously.

Julie sighed, "He'll be fine. And besides, I think three of us need to talk during our break."

"Mostly about me joining the school?" Rook asked.

"No kidding! I mean what the heck were you doing here, Rook?!" Ben asked angrily in loud tone, surprising the class to turned to him. He yelped before blushed in red. He lowered himself down while muttered, "Sorry!"

"Is he alright?" Rook asked curiously.

Julie shrugged, "Yes, he's fine. He just got himself embarrassed. He hates it a lot."

"Not cool, Julie!" Ben exclaimed in anger and annoyance.

"Not cool at all, Rook!"

After the math class has ended, the trio were on top of Bellwood High School's rooftop for their conversation about their teammate's coming to high school. Ben shouted angrily at Rook while Julie remained quiet and calm.

"Did I do something wrong?" Rook asked in confusion.

"Well duh! What were you thinking?!" Ben asked angrily, "You know it's not a good idea for you to go out in the public especially going to my school."

"If you're worried about what happen to me since 'The Purge', then you shouldn't," Rook said calmly and firmly. He removed his ID Mask and revealed his true form, "Why else do you think I wear his form for? And also, Magister Tennyson helped me fill up my 'human' background details and information. So, none of the humans will be suspecting of me."

Julie nodded in agreement, "Rook has the point. But I'm with Ben for one thing. Why did you come here for?"

"To learn and gain some knowledge about the humans and their customs especially their history, culture and agriculture." Rook answered proudly before putting the ID Mask. He turned back to Human Form and continued, "And also, I wish to get to know more about you two if I want to be a good team player. After all, this is team building, righ?."

Ben grunted in annoyance while Julie smiled in amazement about Rook's choice of coming to the school.

"He does make another point. If we're the team, we'd better get to know more of each other especially building our trust and teamwork," Julie said calmly, "You're gonna need lots of help, Ben."

Ben sighed, "Fine. Do what you want. Just don't embarrass me. I mean it."

Rook nodded, "Okay, Ben dude."

Julie crossed her arms while glaring at Ben, "Ben, that was rude."

"Hey. I was just telling him. And it's not rude too," Ben defended himself, "Anyway, we should get going. We don't want to be late for science class." He grunted in annoyance, "I mean seriously... Why does it always have to be boring class like them?!"

"Quit complaining and get moving," Julie said in annoyance.

Ben and his friends quickly entered the rooftop's building as they climbed down the stairs and headed back to their class.

Unknown to them, Khyber landed on the ground due to his hound has turned into a giant skeletal demonic bat-like with four wings, scorpion's tail-like and giant pincer claws-like. He made high-pitched whistle, making the monstrous predator turned back to Anubian Baskurr. The hunter smirked while looking at the door.

"Time to study my preys..."

Using his spaceship, Tetrax traveled across the sky above the Bellwood Town as he was tracking down on Fistrick and his gang. He wasn't alone. He has his partner with him - Gluto. But so far, they have found nothing that could help and lead him to the gangster's base.

While looking through various screens and typing keyboards, Gluto found 'errors' across them. He grumbled and complained angrily.

"I know! I know! I know! I don't like goose chasing more than you do." Tetrax said in annoyance before sighed, "But the big problem is that we have no clue where Fistrick and his gang are hiding. And one thing I hate the most is being a detective."

Gluto groaned while rolled his eyes in annoyance, "Tell me about it..."

"Still... There must be something we can do to find Fistrick," Tetrax said in annoyance and concern. He then turned and looked at the screen, where he found another thug to Fistrick - Hoodlum. He hummed, "He will do. Gluto, think you can handle it?"

Gluto chuckled amusingly, "I thought you'd never ask."

Gluto pressed some buttons, which make the spaceship into invisibility mode. They landed their ship on one of top buildings. Both him and Tetrax climbed down. They headed towards the corner of the building, where below them is the alley. They spotted Hoodlum was entering the area. Pertosapien Magister turned and looked at his partner, whom he gave a nod. Gluto chuckled amusingly.

On the alley, Hoodlum continued walking down on the path while talking to the phone. Suddenly, something grabbed and pulled him to top, making him scream in fear. Upon reaching to the top, Gluto was holding Hoodlum upside down. Tetrax glared at the thug.

"We can do it an easy way or hard way," Tetrax said firmly, "You choice."

Hoodlum gulped and whimpered fearfully as he has no idea what he can do now. Should he answer to Tetrax or faced his boss's wrath? What to do now?!

Ben and his team spent almost half a day at the school. They have been through some classes such as art class, sports class, English Class and invention class. While Julie and Rook were very focused and serious on the lessons and studies, Ben was bored yet struggled to pay attention to class since some subjects have proven difficult for him to handle. And each time he faced some struggled and hard studies, Ben tried to use Alien Powers to solve it but stopped by his teammates as they're making sure he doesn't cheat or escape it.

Rook became more intriguing and fascinating with the school's lessons and subjects. He even questioned his teachers about the subjects especially if it involved of history, customs and agriculture. He also often helped his classmates for solving and dealing with their problems.

Many girls infuriated and flirted with him while some of boys befriend and teamed up with him for sports and fun. However, others were annoyed and irritated by Rook's questionable and curiosity since they hated studies and nerd a lot. Nevertheless, Rook adapted and felt good to be in school especially getting know more about Ben and Julie.

Khyber and his hound remained hidden. They both carefully and firmly observed and learned more about Ben and his team, their strength and weakness. And also hoping that they have the chance to defeat and taken down Ben for trophies, without interference.

"I've seen enough..." Khyber said calmly, "Now to test the prey, his mate and comrade. Let's

Tetrax's Spaceship has arrived at the abandoned warehouse at the docks. They both have their ship entered the invisibility before landed on the ground. They then emerged out from it. They then began stealthy hiding and passing from one box to another while knocking unconsciously on some thugs as they all approaching to the warehouse, where it was heavily guarded by two armored guards.

Gluto yelped and muttered in fear, making Tetrax annoyed to glow a bit of red. He was about to lose his cool before took a deep breath to calm himself down.

"Don't worry, Gluto. I've got the plan." Tetrax explained calmly and firmly. He then explained to his partner about it. Gluto awed in amazement. He smirked, "You know what to do, partner."

Gluto saluted. He emerged out from his suit. He slithered and charged straight at two armored guards, where he tripped them by his tentacles. He then make blew raspberry and made some funny faces at them before he escaped. Two of them were annoyed and angered as they gave chase to him. He led them straight to the maze of crates, where Gluto quickly hid behind one of them.

As two armored guards were looking around of their surroundings, Tetrax came out from his hiding of loader. He threw couple of technological balls-like. They rolled right at the guards. They sparkled and unleashed some powerful electrical shocks on their armors. Both of them fell to the ground hard. Two thugs groaned and grunted in pain as they came out from their armors. And before they could react, Tetrax jumped and slammed his punches on them to unconscious.

Tetrax cleared his throat, attracting Gluto's attention to come out from his hiding. The Petrosapien smirked and gave a thumbs up to his partner, he chuckled happily to hear it. They both quickly headed off to the warehouse. Using the security cards, they moved accessed and opened it. They quickly entered it.

Tetrax and Gluto quickly and stealthily hid while passing from one shipping crates to another. And at the same time, they also were avoiding contact or attacking the thugs, unless they were being spotted. But so far nothing until they came across to the factory, where couple of workers and thugs were working and building advanced and strong weapons especially if it's aliens'. And also, their enemies were putting into some crates for shipping.

Suddenly, Tetrax and Gluto heard some shouts and screams of anger. They looked on the left, where the office was located on the top. A familiar ringleader emerged out from it as he was glaring at the factory workers and thugs.

"Work faster, you morons! We don't have time for this!" Fistrick ordered angrily, "Tennysons and Plumbers will be here soon! And trust me on this! We're not gonna go to jail especially me! Get it done now, man!"

Fistrick's workers and thugs nodded firmly as they did their best to get their job done. Tetrax and Gluto looked worry as they knew they haven't much got time. They quickly put signal to their allies to send reinforcement. Hoping the reinforcement to come, they have to slow and shut down the factory, giving the Plumbers time to come and delayed their enemies from escaping.

Gluto slithered to the factory machines, where he managed to shut it down one-by-one. Tetrax did his best to knocked unconscious on the thugs as many as he can while freeing some innocent and reluctant workers to leave the factory.

As duo were working on their progress, Fistrick noticed something fishy on his factory. He decided to check on it until he came across to the last five roll of factory machine, where he found Tetrax and Gluto were doing their job.

"Tennyson! Nice to see you here," Fistrick said darkly and angrily before whistled, "Nice beard too, Tennyson."

Tetrax scoffed before armed with fists, "Thanks. But I'm not Ben 10. I'm Magister Tetrax Shard. And trust me, this Diamondhead is someone you don't wanna mess with!" He groaned a bit, "I can't believe I sounded like Ben!"

"You sure do," Gluto joked and laughed.

Tetrax groaned, "Not funny..."

Fistrick snarled, "I don't care who you are. But no one mess with my factory! Get them!"

Fistrick's thugs screamed in anger as they all charged in anger at Tetrax and Gluto. Tetrax punched and kicked his enemies off one-by-one while using his crystallized abilities to deflect the blasts and disabled the weapons. Gluto also helped his partner, using his stretching ability to punch his enemies while dodging the attacks as well.

While his thugs were dealing with intruders, Fistrick headed back to his office, where he armed and got in gears with new powerful armors and weapons that helped him to fight them off.

After the morning classes, Ben and his team were taking a break and having their lunch and Smoothie Drinks at the cafeteria. Ben was having his cheeseburger and chili fries. Julie was having her sushi set. And Rook was eating apple, salads and cherries. Three of them were chatting their conversation.

Ben noticed Rook's choice of food, "So, Rook, you really like eating greens?"

"Greens? I do not understand of why I'm eating greens when it's just a name of color," Rook asked in confusion.

Ben facepalmed by Rook's question while Julie giggled a bit. Rook was confused and uncertain of his team's expression.

Julie explained, "He means eating vegetables and fruits. That's what 'greens' means for expression here in America."

"Oh... I see. I understand now. Yes, I do like greens," Rook admitted happily, "They're quite nutritious and healthy. They help and keep me fit for both training and mission. I'd never like some 'junk food'. They're not suitable for my diet. After all, I've gotta be prepared."

"Wow. You're way too strict and serious, you know that?" Ben asked in amusement, "You've gotta lighten up and chill."

"Lighten up? Chill?"

"Dude, you need to relax and stop worrying about little things. That's what you need to do."

"Hmm... I see... But still, one never knows when the strike happens, we should at least be alert of it and ready for the attack."

"On the school? Not likely..." Julie protested.

"Well, it happens five times before. I know it because I've done and seen it before," Ben said amusingly. But he frowned a bit as he recalled his 'first meeting' with Julie when he was 12 at the elementary school. He sighed, "But we can handle it. Nothing to worry about."

"Is he always confident?" Rook asked in concern.

Julie sighed, "He is especially having an ego in him." Ben exclaimed in anger, 'Hey'. She giggled a bit, "Come on, Ben. That's the truth."

"Yeah, truth can be sucked," Ben joked a bit.

"So, how do you feel to be in school, Rook?" Julie asked curiously.

Rook smiled, "I am fine. I enjoyed learning and studying these subjects especially it's an agriculture and karate. They're the best subject I ever learned."

"I'm pretty sure they do," Julie agreed happily. She then noticed some girls giggled and blushed in red as they were looking at Rook. She hummed amusingly, "Wow. Lots of girls really like you. You know that, Rook?"

Rook looked uneasy and worried as he blushed, "I was hoping that I wouldn't get this kind of attention again."

"What? Back home, you were that popular?" Ben asked amusingly. Rook nodded firmly. He laughed a bit, "Yeah. This is gotta be a joke. A real joke, you know that?"

Rook looked confuse and uncertain, "I don't joke, Ben."

"That was sarcasm, Rook." Julie explained. Rook nodded understandingly. She continued, "You're really something. First, you were just farmer to become a Plumber. Then, you studied and adapted well to some studies especially humans' customs. And now, we found out that you were popular back at home. What else you do from your home, other than farming?"

Rook smiled, "I'm glad you asked. You'd be surprise that-?!"

SCREAM! ROAR! Ben and his team yelped in surprise and concern. They turned and found Cash and JT were running and entering the cafeteria. They headed straight to the team now. Ben's former bullies looked worry and scared like something spooked them. Ben wasn't surprise but annoyed that the bullies did something stupid again like broadcasting the world about them being the mastermind behind their heroic action.

"Ben, we need your help! Seriously!" JT begged in fear.

Cash nodded fearfully, "Yeah, man! We're in shit now!"

Ben sighed in annoyance, "Let me guess. You did something stupid like pranks or broadcast about you being heroes again?"

"What?! No! We're not joking!" JT exclaimed in concern and worried.

"Yeah! Man! We're under attacked!" Cash insisted in agreement.

"And who would that be?" Julie asked in annoyance.

A large, segmented purple and gray body and a red head resembling that of a Tyrannosaurus with a horn on her forehead, has four legs and six small arms with two clawed fingers on them rammed through the walls. It roared out loudly and wildly. It scared almost all the classmates and students. They all quickly get up and escaped the scene at once.

"See?! We weren't kidding!" Cash exclaimed in fear.

JT nodded, "Yeah! Do your stuff now, Tennyson! We're out of here now!"

Cash and JT quickly escaped at once. Ben and his team got themselves armed and readied to fight. Rook removed his ID Mask. Ship merged with Julie as they both combined and turned into Armorstrike. Ben turned into Cannonbolt.

"Alright, let's roll!" Cannonbolt shouted "Get ready to slam dunk, Tyrannopede!"

Cannonbilt roared wildly as he formed himself in rolling ball-like. He charged and rammed straight at the Tyrannopede hard before bounced and knocked him down from several corners and walls, joined by Julie and Rook, who fired their blasters at it. Despite their effort to fight it, Tyrannopede shown no sign of being defeated or weakened by the attacks. It went rampage and berserk as it attacked them.

Using his spyglass scope, Khyber watched the event from soccer field. He hummed amusingly and impressively like he actually enjoy the fight like a hunter game he's watching.

"Now, let us see if you have what it takes to take down the mightiest predator, Tennyson..."

Tetrax and Gluto have managed to overcome and defeat all of Fistrick's thugs. Both of them panted heavily while calming down themselves from the fight. Suddenly, they heard a heavy yet strong footstep stomping hard. They looked up and found something shocking and worried.

Fistrick worn strong and heavy armor while armed with flying jet boosters, weaponized armored powerful blaster on left hand, right hand has the giant claw-like, armed turret on left while missile launcher on right shoulder, and has a boots-like jet booster. He aimed his weapons at Tetrax and Gluto.

"Bro, I hope you're ready because this is gonna hurt you more than it hurts me," Fistrick said confidently and fiercely, "And trust me on this, I am not gonna be sorry for this. So, get ready for slam!"

Tetrax scoffed as he armed with shards-like swords, "Well, get ready for slice! And trust me, you're not the first lowlife I have to deal with!"

Firtrick smirked, "So, let's rumble!"

Fistrick fired his blasters and shoulder weaponry at Tetrax and Gluto. Petrosapien quickly summoned the crystals to form a powerful shield to protect and deflect the attacks for the moment. The slime alien-like emerged from his hidden area. He charged and struck right at Fistrick, who quickly have his armor electrocuted his enemy to shock before knocked it aside. Tetrax groaned in anger as he screamed before charged and attacked Fistrick, who blocked and used chainsaw to fight back for few rounds.

Both Fistrick and Tetrax continued their brawl by punching, kicking and swinging their weapons at each other for few rounds. Despite the effort Tetrax has put up with, he was unable to take down Fistrick due to his armor was strong and thick for him to breach and slam a punch on him. At the same time, Tetrax received some injuries and cracks on his head and shoulder, inflicted by Fistrick himself.

"Oh, look at yourself, bro. You got yourself bruised. Ready to give up now?" Fistrick asked amusingly.

Tetrax scoffed before spitted some crystals out, "I've dealt with tougher guys than you are. You're just a coward, who needs machine to do your dirty work."

"If you think that taunting is gonna work on me, think again. I won't fall for it."

"Well, too bad, that means you really are a coward!"

"Why you..." Fistrick said in anger and annoyance before armed and readied his weapons, "I'm gonna make you eat those words. And trust me, you're gonna regret it!"

Fistrick screamed in anger as he fired his blasters at Tetrax, who dodged the blasts or used his crystallized shields to block and deflect the attack back at him while trying to thrust and struck his fists and bladed shards at his enemy for few times.

And no matter how hard and fierce Tetrax has tried, he wasn't able to dent on Fistrick's armor or injured him. The criminal quickly slammed his three times of punches before fired his weapons at Petrosapien, who was thrown and landed on the crates hard. Tetrax groaned in pain as he struggled to get up until Fistrick stomped his feet on the latter to the ground hard. The criminal before aimed at his blaster at the Petrosapien's face.

"Game over, bro. I win," Fistrick smirked amusingly.

Tetrax smirked, "Really? And you'd think I've been taking a serious fight?"

Fistrick was confused before gasped in realization. He looked at his armor as he found some slimy goop entering and flooding it. He screamed in fear and worried as he quickly ejected himself out from it. As he just landed, Tetrax stood before him. He yelped in fear as he quickly punch at Petrosapien, who doesn't feel the pain but he does.

Fistrick screamed in pain while shook his hand off for the moment. Tetrax then swung his punches at Fistrick hard before the criminal fell to the ground hard as he got knocked out.

"What took you so long?" Tetrax asked. Gluto complained about him merging his pieces back to one. He interrupted of not wanting to hear it, "Okay! I get it! I get the point. Stop repeating it. Seriously..." He sighed, "Just hope Ben doesn't have bad day..."

Cannonbolt yelped as he was thrown straight to the walls hard. Tyrannopede approached as he was about to take a bite but blasted off by Julie and Rook. The predator alien swung his tail at them to the walls. However, the distraction gave Cannonbolt to hit his Omnitrix and turned into Fasttrack.

Fasttrack quickly escaped while punching and injuring Tyrannopede, who remained immune to the attacks. The monster swung his tail at him. As he was rolling down, Fatstrack turned into Heatblast, who unleashed a powerful flamethrower at Tyrannopede, which withdraw back slowly for the moment. Julie and Rook recovered as they quickly joined their friend while firing back their weapons at the monster.

As Heatblast and his team continued firing back at Tyrannopede, the latter quickly snorted as it fired its web to trap them on the ground hard. As they struggled to escape, it took a large bite on them. Luckily, Heatblast turned into Four Arms, who worn the sleeveless white jumpsuit with black stripes on middle and black pants, held the jaws up while allowing his teammates to escape. But not before Julie and Rook thrown the grenades into alienated predator's mouth. Four Arms quickly escaped before grenades detonated it.

Though it worked and smokes emerged from its mouth, Tyrannopede snarled and growled at Four Arms and his friends. They all armed and readied to fight.

"This isn't good. Got any bright ideas?" Four Arms asked in concern.

Julie activated her greenish glowing katanas-like, "Nope. I got none."

"Hitting him Hephaestan Neuro Grip," Rook suggested, which confuse Four Arms and Julie. He sighed, "It means we need to paralyze him! That's the only way to defeat him. I need you all to distract him as long as you can."

"Like we have the choice," Four Arms complained.

Julie sighed, "Just distract him as long as we don't get ourselves eaten!"

Julie yelped as Tyrannopede caught her in its jaws. She screamed as she struggled to hold the jaws up tight. Four Arms groaned in anger as he quickly turned into Wildmutt, which roared wildly and madly. He charged and rammed at the alienated predator's legs, tripping it down to the ground while freeing Julie, who quickly fired her Super Cannon Blaster at its face. Wildmutt wen wild and rampage to injure and wound the monster. This angered and annoyed Tyrannopede to get up as it gave chased and attacked both Julie and Wildmutt. Both of them yelped as they make a quick run.

As Tyrannopede got distracted for chasing and attacking his preys, Rook quickly used his Proto-Tool Grappling Gun to get up high. He hovered over and landed on Tyrannopede's back. While readying his fighting position, he hummed firmly as he was concentrating and focusing his powers to his hands as they glowed brightly. He screamed wildly as he launched a powerful punch on Tyrannopede's between the hard outer sections of shoulder. This caused the monster roared in pain before falling to the ground.

Wildmutt and Julie stopped at once before turned and looked at Rook, who climbed down from Tyrannopede's shoulders.

Wildmutt muttered and barked happily. Julie smiled, "Nice going, Rook. What was move did you make? I doubt it's from our martial arts."

"True. That's Revonnah Kai! And the move I used is Stone Cutter! A very powerful move that could do a very serious damages to opponent and even a large creature like Tyrannopede. That is awesome, right?" Rook asked proudly.

Julie and Wildmutt nodded happily. Rook smiled happily and proudly that his teammates approve of him and his abilities.

Khyber has seen everything. He gave a loud whistle, which attached the attention of Wildmutt and Tyrannopede. While Wildmutt whined painfully, Julie and Rook came and checked on him. Tyrannopede made a wild roar as it quickly made its escape to the school's front lawn, where Khyber jumped on its back. Both the hunter and his hound made their escape.

"Until next time..." Khyber said calmly, "Worthy preys to hunt down. I will have them all as my new trophies, not just Tennyson now..."

Back at he cafeteria, Wildmutt quickly transformed back to Ben, who grunted in pain while rubbed his head calmly. Julie and Rook helped Ben up.

"You okay?" Julie asked in concern. Ben nodded firmly. While Ship emerged out from her, she asked, "What was that? It's like you heard a high-pitched dog whistle."

Ben groaned, "It did. Whatever it was, it's the reason why Tyrannopede escape."

"Just like other predators we encounter?" Rook asked.

Ben nodded in confirmation, "Yeah. I bet Crabdozer and Buglizard are working for that Tyrannopede's owner. Whoever it is, he must be good at taming and training them to fight me off. And he's not gonna stop until he gets me."

"A hunter, no doubt. Like any hunter, he's hunting a prey. That means us." Julie concluded suspiciously, "But whatever his objective is, we have to find and stop him."

Rook nodded in agreement. He turned back and found some students returned to cafeteria. They were all in shock and surprise. He sighed, "I guess this is my last day of school."

Instead of shouting and booing in anger at Rook, the students and even Cash and JT cheered wildly and happily. The girls were infuriating and flirting to Rook while the boys cheered wildly and called his name. This surprised Team Ben a lot.

"Or maybe this is the beginning of your school days, Rook," Ben said amusingly, "Welcome to the school, Rook."

Julie nodded in agreement, "Yup. You earn it, partner."

Rook smiled and bowed, "I am honored. Thank you for accepting me..."

END...

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Main Casts:
Johnny Yong Bosch: Ben Tennyson
Kelly Hu: Julie Yamamoto/Armorstrike, Ship
Dave Fennoy: Tetrax Shard
Bumper Robinson: Rook Blonko, Corvo
David Kaye: Khyber

Minor Casts:
Charlie Schlatter: Fasttrack, Thugs
Dee Bradley Baker: Gluto, Wildmutt, Echo-Echo, Thugs
Richard McGonagle: Four Arms
Eriz Bauza: Fistrick, Thugs
Matt Levin: Cash Murray
Scott Menville: JT, Thugs

Cameo:
Steven Blum: Steven

Author's Note:
This episode is inspired by Shadow DJ's Ben 10: Guardians Season 1 Episode 3 - Big Dog on Campus.