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Chapter 4: Attack
Kelly was watching with glee. The hovering device was floating around through the air, and the blobby green goo that was currently Jen's body was floating through the air behind it. "Wow, Jen, you're really good at controlling that thing."
Jen stopped and allowed her body to reform. "Yeah, this is actually pretty simple compared to the wings. It feels more like I control the thingy than my body." She stretched her arm out and swirled it around, making a stringy shape in the air. "Ha, this is awesome!"
A crash suddenly rang out from the other side of the school. Kelly and Jen turned their heads in that direction and then looked at each other. Kelly ran around the corner and headed to the other end of the building. Jen caused the device to pull her up into the air and over the building, to avoid being noticed if anyone were around. On the other side, they saw large a metal object had crashed into the school grounds. Jen landed next to Kelly. "What is that thing?"
"I don't know," Kelly said.
A part of the object popped open, obviously a door. Then a mechanical creature stepped out of it. It was roughly 10 feet tall, seemed to have tank-like treads attached to its legs, and had four large, metal arms. It spun its head around, scanning the area over. Then it noticed Jen and began moving towards her. "Run!!" Kelly screamed. She and Jen turned and took off running in the direction they had just come. The machine folded its legs into the treads and began rolling after them at a very high speed.
"It's coming after us!" Kelly yelled. One of the machine's arms extended and slammed down just beside the girls, causing them to scream.
Matt splashed water on his face. He had decided that he would keep his questions and thoughts out of his head for now and try to figure things out at a later time. Right now, he had to get back to his friends. Just then, he heard a loud crash and screaming. He rushed out the door and to the school's entrance. Upon getting outside, he saw a large machine with an arm extended on the ground. And in front of the machine were Jen and Kelly, running from the massive metal monster. He ran out to the machine and started shouting.
"Hey! Down here! You wanna pick a fight? Fight me! Leave them alone! They haven't done anything!" The machine retracted its arm and turned its head to analyze this new subject.
Jen stopped and turned around. She saw Matt drawing the giant machine's attention. "Matt!!" she screamed, "Get away from it! Run!"
"Jen! Wrap yourself around its arms! It needs them to fight! If you can pull them off, it won't be able to do anything!"
Matt's plan sounded like a good idea. "Kelly, get somewhere safe. I'll take care of this thing."
"Be careful," Kelly had a concerned look, but did as she was told anyway.
Jen pulled herself through the air back toward the hulking machine. She moved to one of its arms and wrapped herself around it. She pulled the device away from the machine and eventually, her body followed, still constricting around the arm. The arm slowly tore free from the body of the machine, exposing wires and dripping fluid.
"Alright! I got one down." Jen moved on to the next and did the same. Now the machine had noticed her again.
"Hey! I'm not done with you yet! Don't pay attention to her!" Matt desperately tried to make the machine ignore Jen, but it wasn't going to lose sight of its primary target again. It swung out and sliced through Jen's body. Kelly screamed from her place around the wall at the back of the school. Matt stared in horror as the green goo spilled all over the ground.
The device hovered over the puddle and pulled it back up into the air again. After swirling around a bit, Jen reformed herself. "Oogh... that was not very fun," she muttered to herself. Matt breathed a sigh of relief. "Okay," she said angrily, "now I'm mad!" Jen lifted herself up and flew into the opening one of the arms left in the machine's side. She manipulated the device on the outside of its body to drag her throughout the thing's insides. She split herself up between both remaining arms and forced her body to expand. The arms began to spark and then suddenly burst into hundreds of pieces. Jen reformed next to Matt and watched the machine. It realized that it had lost and turned to retreat back to the ship it came from. However, the damage inflicted to it was causing it problems. It slowed its movement until finally stopping in its tracks.
A noise came from the front of the school again, and the ship rose up into the air and moved to over the disabled machine. A beam of light shot out from an opening on the bottom and the various parts of the machine were pulled aboard. After everything was gathered up, the ship rose higher into the air and zoomed away into the sky. Kelly ran to meet up with the others just as it left.
"Well, there goes that," Matt commented. Jen's body flashed again and she reverted back to her normal form. "It must have been drawn to that alien form you turned into and-..." Jen and Kelly were staring at him with suspicious looks.
"Alien? What makes you say I was an alien?" Jen asked, a little angry that her friend was obviously hiding something. "And how did you know so much about that machine? Or how I could fight it? You weren't with us when I was learning how to move around." Matt looked at the two girls. He knew he had to figure out a way to explain what he'd said.
"Sir, our assault and recovery drone has ceased functioning. It appears to have taken heavy damage."
"This new wielder of the Omnitrix appears to have some skill. Or some help. We must acquire further information on this human if we are to successfully retrieve our prize. We cannot fail. I must possess the Omnitrix for myself."