Cosmix

Chapter 4-Casey

A Good Doctor

After me and Mordecai defeated the worm, most of the Fusion Beasts were gone. The case was mostly similar throughout the world. But unfortunately, the Beasts had managed to take over a few locations. These areas are known as Infected Zones.

After what happened, we had a funeral for Skips. The Plumbers had converted the Park into a base to fend off attackers. Everyone but Me and Mordecai decided to stay and help out.

It was more Mordecai's idea for the two of us to go our own way. Destroying any of those horrid monsters that crossed our path. Me with the freaky symbiote named Cosmix and Mordecai with the Fists of Justice.

And now we were a few weeks into the invasion. Muscle Man had given us his car, fortunately the Plumbers managed to upgrade it for us. So we didn't have to go around driving a pile of junk.

Apparently the Plumbers are very generous dudes, they upgraded my PDA for me too. It was constantly updated with Plumber Intel, it had information on different species of Fusion Beasts (Like Bodybuilders and such.) When and where they were attacking and the location of every known Infected Zone.

Pretty glad they gave me this

A song played on the radio, it was "Move Along by All American Rejects."

I couldn't help but sing along as I drove, taking a few moments that Mordecai was sulking as he sat next to the window. I looked over towards him and sighed before lowering down the volume on the radio. "Dude come on, you can't keep beating yourself about what happened to Skips." I told him, sounding sincere.

"You don't get it dude, I've already seen a good friend die. It hurts too much to see it happen again." He replied.

Mordecai had been broken up about Skips, I think it's because he already lost this dude named Rigby. Before we left, I managed to get Muscle Man to tell me about him.

He said Rigby was Mordecai's best friend since High School, that must've been hard for him. I felt sorry for my bud, I was mad there was nothing I could seem to do to make him feel better.

But anyway, me and Mordo were pretty much superheroes now. It was alright I guess, but honestly it seemed stressful. Knowing that the lives of so many people rested on your shoulders. Sure the backup, sweet ride and my PDA all made it easier. But I'm still pretty nervous about all this.

Before we knew it, the car came to an abrupt stop and my ears were pounded with the sound of metal ripping. On the hood, I could see green blobs with large jaws and red eyes like before. My PDA said they were called Fusion Spawns.

I fought many of them and frankly I never thought much of them, but I heard stories of large swarms of them eating battle tanks and ships. Cosmix was always in the back of my head, fortunately he didn't bother me too much which I appreciated. But whenever I had to do any fighting, I couldn't get him to shut up. "Time to work Casey…" he told me.

"I know I know!" I replied as I tried to open the door, but was shocked to see the Spawns devour the car door and attempt to do the same to my hand.

Mordecai had already summoned the Fists of Justice, easily punching a large hole into the roof. He grabbed me by the back collar of my coat and jumped away to safety.

As we both soared 17 feet in the sky, we saw an incredible green mass reduce Muscle Man's car to nonexistence. I didn't even plan to do it, but Cosmix's symbiotic essence covered my body and I shot out two powerful plasma beams.

As the beam generated a small explosion, I realize the strange alien being had just took over my body. Sometimes when he saw fit, he'd "Take control" and force my body to perform violent actions. I thanked the fact his actions were justified or at least most of the time.

I can't tell you how many times I punched Mordecai in the chest and barked "Man up!" without even knowing what happened.

We both landed on the ground without much harm, the only reminder of our previous dilemma was a large scorch mark burned into the ground.

We felt a powerful tremor radiate from the ground. Mordecai began to panic and I grimaced as a giant green worm with an enormous pair of jaws shot out of the ground. My blue feathered friend fell back, all the courage draining from his body all at once. I couldn't blame him, with Skips' death still fresh in mind.

"Weakling…" muttered Cosmix, making me curse the fact we shared the same head.

I didn't have time to argue with him. As I looked up towards the beast that was known as an Earthquake worm, I was somewhat confused. A green man with long white hair seemed to be riding the worm.

As I observed him, he had a glass dome over his brain. He seemed about in his early 60's. I think I've seen him on the news before, but I couldn't remember his name. "I am Dr. Aloysius James Animo! The Greatest Mind in the World!" he declared.

I remembered him now, Dr. Animo a nemesis of Ben 10. The 17 year old dude who's been turning into super powered aliens since he was 10. Apparently he's been kicking Animo's butt that long as well.

"Hmmmm Dexter, Batman, Azmuth, Mandark, Lex Luthor… Guess what they all have in common, Being smarter than you…" I told him promptly.

"Silence you foolish upstart! I have used my powers to control a number of these Fusion Beasts! But now I am after a new quarry!" he retorted.

"Just get to the point…"

He pulled out a strange scanner and observed me through it."Well since it is far too much trouble to pursue Tennyson since he was close with the Plumbers and the accursed Justice League! I found out about you!"

"The symbiotic being present in your body is unlike anything I've ever seen before! I want it!" he barked as a large number of giant centipedes rose out of the ground.

"Crap Gigantopedes…" I muttered as they all attacked me.