Hey! I'm back! Sorry, Brave Kid, for not updating in so long, I hope this chapter will be good. Here goes.
-LizzyLucky
Argit1 looked at Max like he was crazy.
"What?! What do you mean, 'three days?!' I can't wait three days!" He said.
"I meant exactly what I said. If you want to get home, you have three days" Max said.
"Oh, come on!"
"Hey, come on, dude, it's not that bad! We'll just look around and drive to the nearest beach! Then we'll find the shell! It can't be that hard!" Ben said. It really didn't sound that hard. But what if someone took the shell to add to a collection or something? Max did say that it would be bright and glowing vibrant colors of all sorts. It would be pretty attractive to anyone else.
Argit1 looked at Ben reluctantly. The ruins did look pretty cool. What if something valuable was left in them? "Alright, you're right. Let's go!" He said excitedly, bolting for the wreckage.
Imediately, both Argits were digging around looking for anything along the lines of treausre. Ben was looking for anything interesting or gooey to show Gwen. Speaking of Gwen, she had little interest in the mess of bricks and took a rest on the grass to read a book. Again. Grandpa was inspecting anything that looked remotely like it didn't belong in the area. He hadn't much luck.
"Ugh, there's nothing here!" Ben said, bored.
"Nothing at all!" Argit2 added.
"I'm soo bored!" Ben kept complaining.
Suddenly, the whole place started to shake.
"Earthquake!" Gwen shrieked.
Out from under the remains of the old castle popped a large robot.
The machine swung its arm down at Ben and Argit2, missing them by inches.
"Now this is more like it!" Ben said, lifting his writs and switching it to his favorite alien transformation, Fourarms.
"Time to go hero!" He shouted. "Fourarms!"
Fourarms raced out to the robot as fast as he could and hit it with all his might.
Nothing.
Not. A. Scratch.
"Ow!" He shouted, holding his right fists like he had punched the hardest thing in the world. Which, at this moment, was probably true.
This time, Argit2 decided to give it a try. He ran up to the machine and kicked it with his back leg. When that didn't work, he arched over and shot out the poisoned quills on his back. Nothing.
Gwen and Max ran in, now fully aware of the situation.
"Are you okay?" Gwen asked Ben and Argit2.
"I'm fine." Ben said.
"All good." Argit2 said.
The four watched the robot and prepared their weapons, watching for any sudden movements. It didn't appear to be doing anything. That one hit at Ben and Argit2 seemed to be it. Now it stood motionless like it had run out of battery.
"What is it, Grandpa?" Gwen asked.
Before Max could answer, the robot made what sounded like a loud roar and swung its arms forward again, this time hitting Ben.
"Ahh!" Ben shouted, flying back into a tree.
"Ben! Hold on!" Max said, taking aim at the robot with a large gun. He shot and managed to get a good sized dent in the robot, but nothing more.
"That was the only shot I had!" He said.
"My turn!" Gwen shouted. She had, apparently, kept her lucky charm and put it on like a necklace. Pulling out her spell book, she uttered some words and made a tornado that imprisoned the robot.
Again, the machine stood still. Suddenly, he took a step forward and walked through Gwen's creation as though it didn't exist, towards the direction of the city they had all just been in.
"Oh no!" Ben said.
"Oh no is right!" Argit2 said.
Argit1 stood there the entire time, watching dumbfounded.
"I thought we got rid of that thing years ago…" He muttered to himself.
"You say something?" Max said, quickly turning to Argit1.
"Huh? Oh, uh, yeah." He said, thinking about what he had said.
"Well, what is it?" Max asked.
"Back where I came from, that thing was already destroyed by…" He paused, then pointed to Ben. "You."
"What? I couldn't even get a scratch in that thing!" Ben exclaimed.
"You defeated him with… uh, what was his name… Oh yeah, that goop guy. Goop." Argit2 said.
"Goop? Who's that alien?" Ben asked.
Argit1 facepalmed and realized that Ben probably didn't have that transformation at 10 years old.
"Okay, okay, we'll think of something else."He said.
After about 10 minutes, the 5 had gotten back into the Rust Bucket and started to drive towards the machine while Argit1 described how Ben had defeated it in the other dimension.
(I am actually thinking of one of the episodes, but I can't remember what it was called or the name of the robot. Ben turned into goop and kinda took it down from the inside. Then...uh, Cash, right? He got the remainder of the robot, the hand, which fit like a glove and began to rebuild itself around him… Anyway, yeah. Just thought I'd let you know.)
"Wow! So you said I was like, 15?" Ben asked.
"Yeah. I mean, I'm 15. We were always pretty close to the same age, so yeah." Argit1 said.
"You know, now that I think about it, Upgrade kinda sounds a little like this Goop you've been talking about. Plus, if it's a machine, Upgrade could probably take it down pretty easily." Gwen analyzed.
"Hey, yeah, you're right!" Ben said.
"Good idea!" Argit2 exclaimed.
Argit1 looked out the window worried. It was dark outside now and the clock read 11 at night. Tomorrow was the second to last day he had to spend here. What if he doesn't find the shell? What if he has to stay here forever?
"You guys should probably get some rest. We'll be at it all night! This robot is going fast, and it looks like it'll be quite a while before he even reaches the city." Max said.
Man, by the looks of it, this guy'd be hard to defeat. They'd have to defeat it tomorrow, then they'd have to drive through the night and find that shell before it disappeared the next day! Time was tough!
Hey! I'm sorry it's so short! I have a lot of other stories I'm working on, including two other story requests I got, so I'm pretty busy and need to get on to those. Hope you like it so far! Tell me how I'm doin, Brave Kid. And anyone else, too!
-LizzyLucky
