The Omnitrix Ordeal
Inside the top of a mountain, evil plans were being plotted, revenge was being prepared, and a crazy mad scientist was yelling at Auric Romanov for not holding up his end of the deal. "You fool!" yelled Dr. Aloysius Animo, "you had a whole pack of alien test subjects, but lost them to that Tennyson boy!" "The Tennyson boy wasn't alone on that operation," said Romanov, "I've told you he's had help from Matthew Lynch and his crew." "Never mind that!" said Dr. Animo. "I don't want excuses from you. You can kiss you payment goodbye!" With that, Animo hit the off button on the communicator and Romanov's face disappeared.
"It's so hard to find good help these days," said Animo as he walked through his secret lab. "But I suppose it's not a complete lost. At least I know the Tennysons are somewhere around here. I've been itching to have another look at that watch since my files were erased." He looked at several caged animals and said, "That means sending out one of you to get that boy. Let's see now. No, won't work, done that before. Aha!" He stopped at a cage holding a star-nosed mole. "This should do it," he said as he reached in and grabbed the mole. He placed it in the middle of the floor and adjusted the colander-helmet on his head. "Those fools will never know what hit them," and he fired his mutation beam at the star-nosed mole. The mole grew to monstrous size and grew a second pair of forelegs. The tiny eyes were raised up on eyestalks and turned red. And then the tentacles at the end of its nose grew four feet long and grew suction cups on them. "Go find that Tennyson brat and bring him to me," said Animo. The mutant mole roared and tunnelled down into the ground.
Meanwhile, there was a lot of activity down where the Rustbucket was parked. It turns out that another Virus Clone had made it to Earth. This one was of Experiment 621, Chopsuey. This particular Virus Clone seems to be a lot more aggressive to experiments than humans. This is unlucky seeing that along with skilful fighting skills; the original Chopsuey was designed to dice up anything that stood in his path with his claws, fangs, and solidifying Mohawk.
Viral Chopsuey was found terrorizing a local farmer's market. Only as Diamondhead did Ben feel safe enough to tackle the maniacal clone, which is what he did the first time he attacked him. Viral Chopsuey picked up Diamondhead and tossed him onto a display stand of tomatoes. "Aw man," said Diamondhead as he wiped the red juice from his crystalline skin, "it had to be tomatoes." About that time, Stitch had tackled the Viral Clone from behind and was trying to hold him down. "Don't worry," said Diamondhead as he turned his hands into crystal spikes, "I got him." Viral Chopsuey saw this and elbowed Stitch in the gut with his lower arms and threw him backward. Diamondhead fired, but Viral Chopsuey jumped and Stitch narrowly avoided getting speared with Petrosapien shards. "Sorry," said Diamondhead. Then Viral Chopsuey shoved a watermelon on Diamondhead's head and headed off.
His progress was blocked by PlasMorph, who was holding a pitchfork in his hands. "You'll have to get past me," said the blob. Viral Chopsuey nonchalantly swiped at Morph with his claws. "Is that all you've got?" said Morph but then his pitchfork fell into several pieces, "'cause that's really good." Then Morph himself collapsed into a jigsaw puzzle, "Oh blitznak." Viral Chopsuey was too busy laughing to see Stitch throw a squash at his head. The blow knocked the Viral Clone to the ground and several green crystals grew up from the ground to pin him down. "That should do the trick," said Diamondhead as the Omnitrix timed out. "Now how do we get him back to the Rustbucket?" asked Ben. Stitch dug up the ground around Viral Chopsuey and placed the captive Viral Clone in a watering can that was then sealed up with Diamondhead crystals. As the two of them left with their prize, the several still-healing pieces of Morph followed after them.
Later at a diner, the experiments and the Tennysons were having sundaes to celebrate their victory. Fortunately, this was one of those diners were people don't give second looks and don't ask questions. "You should be proud of your victory," said Stitch, whose words were translated by Chip, "the original Chopsuey was a really hard experiment to catch. Apparently, he didn't take too kindly to Jumba making more experiments after him."
"Yeah," said Morph, "we showed that clone whose boss." Ben looked at Morph and said, "'We?'" "I helped too you know," said Morph. "Mostly by distracting him," said Stitch. "But I help out lots of times." "By turning into another experiment and distracting them," said Draco. "Hey!" said Morph, "I can turn into other things besides experiments!" And to prove his point, Morph turned into first Lilo and then Ben. "How'd you get my DNA?" asked Ben. "I've been inside the Omnitrix long enough to collect some," replied Morph. "The point is that in your natural form, you're pretty useless," said Ben. Morph was about to make a very angry retort but instead grabbed the capture container Viral Chopsuey was in and stormed off. The others gave Ben harsh looks. "What it's true," he said. "Look who's calling the kettle black," said Gwen.
Morph was so mad; he didn't bother taking his Ben form. "Useless as you really are, who does he think he's kidding," growled Morph as he kicked a rock. "I may not be as strong or fast or smart as the other experiments but I'm no weakling. Dose he have any idea how hard it is to run the Omnitrix? Of course not and he doesn't give any credit for my help either." Viral Chopsuey smirked and said something in experiment-tongue. "Oh shut up!" yelled Morph and he kicked at a larger rock and ended up stubbing his toe.
Suddenly the ground shook very hard. Morph looked at Viral Chopsuey and asked, "Did you do that?" The Virus Clone shook his head and the ground shook even harder. Suddenly something burst out the ground causing Morph to fall backwards. He looked up to see Animo's mutant mole towering over him. Morph only had enough time to scream before the mole grabbed him in his tentacles and drag him back into the tunnel.
The others were leaving the diner at about that time. "You didn't have to say that to Morph," said Draco. "What? It's true," said Ben. "Maybe, but you didn't have to put it so nastily. You really hurt his feelings." "He'll recover, like he recovers from anything else you can throw at him." "Ben," said Max, "haven't you ever heard the saying 'the pen is mightier than the sword'?" "That's lame," said Ben, "how can you get beaten by a pen?" "He means words can cause more pain than wounds," said Chip.
Suddenly they heard a scream and they headed towards the area the scream came from. When they arrived, all they found was a freshly-dug molehill. The size of a BMW. "Either a new geyser's sprung up," said Max, "or something big is burrowing around here." "There's one way to find out," said Draco and he kicked Chip into the hole. "Since he's not being boiled alive, it's not a geyser," said Draco. "Are you two always like this?" asked Gwen. "Sometimes, but we never use guns or sharp objects." Chip's arm popped out of the hole holding several long black hairs. "I found this at the bottom," said Chip as he climbed out, "A short scan reveals it to be hair from a Condylura cristataI. Commonly known as the star-nosed mole. But there's been some altering in the DNA." "Looks like the work of Dr. Animo," said Ben. "Animo? That mad scientist guy who mutates animals into monsters and is interested in alien DNA?" asked Lilo. "And now he's got Morph and a Viral Clone," said Max, "Heaven know's what can come of this."
Meanwhile, the mutant mole had reappeared in Animo's lair. "Excellent my pet," said Animo as the mole held the captive 'Ben' in front of Animo, "you have done very well to bring this snot-nosed brat and his watch to me." "Hey I'm not snot-nosed!" said 'Ben' "I blew my nose three days ago!" "Place him in the containment sphere," said Animo, pointing to a glass-like ball. As the mutant lowered 'Ben' into it, Animo said, "Don't bother turning into any of those aliens, this containment sphere is designed to cancel out any molecular transformations." As soon as the lid was closed, the sphere zapped 'Ben' with red energy and turned him back into Morph. "What?!" cried Animo, "you're not Tennyson! You're not even one of his aliens!" He smacked the mole mutant and said, "You fool! You didn't bring that watch!" Then continual zapping drew Animo's attention to the sphere. Morph was trying to turn into different experiments to escape, but kept getting zap before he was halfway through. Animo's orange eyes glittered as he said, "but it may be the next best thing."
A few moments later, Dr. Animo was studying some cells from Morph he had extracted. "Remarkable," said Animo, "whomever created you must have been a genius." "Yes, he does like to be called that," said Morph. "With a single thought, you can become one of hundreds of creatures." "It's about time someone started respecting me," said Morph. "Just imagine what kind of creatures I can create from this." Morph's smile vanished as he said, "Excuse me?" "With this alien, I can mutate all life on earth and create a whole new era," said Dr. Animo. "Okay, I was starting to like you but you just spent it. I'm outta here," said Morph and promptly got shocked. "You're not going anywhere," said Animo, "you're going to give my Transmodulator the perfect energy source." "I bet this has me put in a bubble," muttered Morph.
"Hmm, a cube, that's a new one for me," said Morph. "Now, what to choose," said Animo as he perused his collection of animals. He stopped in front of a cage holding a horned lizard and said, "This will do." He picked it up and put it in front of the Transmodulator Telescope he built in the Everglades. "Prepare to become the first of a new species," said Animo and he activated the ray. Green energy was zapped out of Morph, sent down the barrel of the telescope, and bombarded the horned lizard. "It's good to be able to make such great changes." Then a small noise attracted his attention and Animo looked down to see the captive Viral Chopsuey still in his pod. "Oh, another test subject, I've always wanted to try my mutant ray on an alien speciman." He rotated the Transmodulator Telescope and pointed it at Chopsuey. "Smile for the birdy," said Animo as he activated the beam.
Meanwhile, Matt and Chris, who have been recovering from last time, had been alerted to Morph being 'mole-napped' and were all around the giant molehill. "We could go in and follow the tunnel," said Kala. "Normal mole tunnels don't last very long," said Chip, "I'm not going to be in this one when it collapses." "Why don't we trying using the tracker chip in Morph," said Matt, "that's how we found him last time he was kidnapped." "That time we had a high-tech radar system at our disposal," said Draco, "unless the mutant comes out of that tunnel, I'm not setting foot inside it."
And at about that moment, a mutant did come out of the hole, but it wasn't the star-nosed mole mutant. It looked like a giant horned lizard, except purple with a spade-shaped tail and upturned teeth sticking out of his mouth. "Does that lizard look like it's been cross-bred with someone we know?" asked Lilo. The lizard slammed its tail on the ground, causing the ground to shake and made everyone fall down. "Oh, yeah, Richter." The Richter-lizard roared and slammed its tail again. "Looks like Animo managed to harness Morph's DNA to his mutation ray," said Ben. "Ya think?" said Gwen. "Keep it off the ground," said Chip, "it can make earthquakes if its tail can't hit the ground." Stitch and 627 leapt at the Richter-lizard, but it squirted a stream of red liquid from the corners of its eyes into their faces. Immediately the two of them started making all sorts of disgusted sounds. "Horned lizards squirt blood out their eyes to make predators not eat them," explained Max, "it's supposed to be very effective on canine predators."
Kala, however, had a different idea. She quickly went off to grab some rope and headed straight towards the Richter-lizard's back end. The mutant lizard slammed its tail at Kala, but she jumped and landed on its back. She quickly tied the rope around its neck and then threw a loop of rope around the end of its tail. She jumped off and then made a cheeky gesture at the lizard. The Richter-lizard turned around and tried to splat her, but ended up flipping itself onto is back. Quickly, Kala used more rope to tie up the lizard's legs and immobilize it. "Wow," said Matt, "that was almost too easy to be fun." Then there was bellowing inside the molehill. "I don't this will be though."
Then a different kind of mutant came out of the tunnel. It didn't look like a hybrid, but was obviously alien in origin. In fact, the six spikes on his back, the four spikes on his head in the shape of a mohawk, and the green fur looked awfully familiar. "Is that V-Chopsuey?" asked Stitch. "Not anymore," said Chopsuey as it swatted the experiments away with one of his four arms, "Animo's made me better than any of you. Better than any experiment or viral clone. Better than anyone!" "He is definetly Chopsuey's clone," said Lilo, "he's got an inferiority complex as big as his." Viral Chopsuey was about to take another swipe, when it felt some blasts from behind his back. He looked back to see Matt with a plasma sphere in his hand. "Is that the best you can do?" said the twice-mutated clone and fired a beam of pure energy at Matt, blowing him, and anyone else beside him, several feet back. V-Chopsuey then picked up the tied-up Richter-lizard and jumped back into the tunnel. "I'd like to stay and fight," he said, "but Animo's got bigger plans." Then he slammed the Richter-lizard's tail on the tunnel wall and caused the molehill to collapse.
After this, the whole group decided to split up into groups to find Animo's lair using tracker devices that are locked onto Morph's homing chip. As Ben, Matt, and Stitch went off in one direction, Stitch asked, "So why aren't we all going as one group?" "We need to find Animo's lair fast, and we're going to do that by covering more ground." "But what's the rush?" "If Animo can use Morph's power to mutate animals into experiments and experiments into super-mutants, who knows what else he could do?" Matt shook the tracker and said, "If only we were higher up, I could get better reception on this thing." Ben twisted the dial on the Omnitrix and said, "One alien elevation coming right up," and slammed the face down.
At Animo's lair, Dr. Animo was doing the traditional, if a bit cliché, mad scientist's laugh. "My tests were a bigger success than I could have imagined," said the insane doctor, "this blob is even better than that watch, nevertheless, I wouldn't mind having that too." "Hey Quackenstein!" yelled Morph from his prison, "when are you letting me out of here?" "Depends," said Animo, "what day is today?" "Tuesday," answered Morph. Animo counted on his fingers, "Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, NEVER!"
Suddenly there was an explosion near the front door. "It sounds like we've got unwanted guests," said Animo. A few seconds later, Matt and Stitch came in riding on Stinkfly. "Science project's over, Dr. Animo," said Matt. Animo smiled and said, "Aw, Ben Tennyson, just who I was thinking about. And as my favorite alien too, how thoughtful. It will be so splendid to use that watch's DNA for a bit experimenting, like on your friends." "Experiment this!" cried Stitch and he leaped down from the ceiling at Animo. He was interupted by a tentacle from the muzzle of the mole mutant. "Put him down," growled the mutated Chopsuey clone, "he's mine." The mole mutant flung Stitch at V-Chopsuey who smacked him into a wall. As Stinkfly kept the mutant mole and the Richter-lizard busy, Matt landed in front of Animo and said, "Let Morph go." "You wouldn't hit an old man, would you?" said Animo. "You're no man," said Matt. "You're right. I'm far superior." Then he put on his oversized gauntlets and fired a blast at Matt that sent him into the opposite wall. "And Lilo said Chopsuey had an inferiority complex," he muttered.
Suddenly the mutant mole appeared in front of Matt and opened its fang-filled mouth to swallow him whole. Then a ball of red energy appeared out of nowhere and sent the mole flying. Matt looked in the direction the energy blast came from, groaned, and said, "Speaking of which, here's the King of Inferiority Complexes himself." NegaMorph was standing in the dooryway to Animo's lair with his right arm still extended. "Alright, Lynch," he growled pointing his hand-mouth at Matt, "hand over V-621." Matt shrugged and said, "Take him if you can." NegaMorph looked confused for a second before Stinkfly appeared overhead and covered him from head to foot in thick mucus. "Nice going Ben," said Matt before the Richter-lizard attacked him. Matt fought but the lizard managed to rip his shirt. "Aw man, that was one of my good shirts," said Matt before going into hybrid form and slamming the Richter-lizard on the ground with more force than one of Richter's earthquake slams.
Suddenly Matt heard the sound of a machine warming up and looked up to see the Transmodulator-telescope's barrel right in front of him. "Welcome to my world," said Animo before hitting Matt full-on with his mutant ray. However, when the green light faded away, Matt was exactly the same way he was before. "Hmm, since your current form seems to neither terrestial or extraterrestial, you aren't affected either way. Oh well," Animo pointed the machine at the mucus-shell NegaMorph was in, "I'm sure I'll get a more impressive result from him." Not wanting to find out what the ray would do to NegaMorph, Matt fired a plamsa sphere at the part where Morph was being contained in. The plasma attack bounced off harmlessly. "It'll take a more powerful blast to break that container," said Animo. Fortunately, Stitch, who was still fighting the mutant Viral Chopsuey, heard what Animo said and jumped onto the Transmodulator-telescope's barrel and said a very naughty phrase in his native language. Viral Chopsuey roared and threw an energy blast at Stitch, who moved out of the way, and hit Morph's container, shattering it.
"No matter," said Dr. Animo, "I have enough reserve power to take care of the rest of you." Matt was about to respond when NegaMorph's arm burst out of his mucus prison and grabbed Matt around the throat. Matt was yanked back to NegaMorph while the Shadow Clone removed the rest of himself from his prison. "You know," said Matt, who was gagging a bit from the tight grip, "you're a lot like Morph when it comes to determination." "I'm nothing like him!" yelled NegaMorph, "I'm his complete opposite!" "Then this shouldn't hurt," said Stinkfly as he flew down and dug his stinger into NegaMorph's back. NegaMorph yelped and dropped Matt. As Stinkfly hauled NegaMorph up into the air, Morph seemed to get an idea and quickly yelled out alien language to Stinkfly. "Huh?" asked Stinkfly. Morph pointed at the part on the Transmodulator where his container was and mimiced dropping something. "I sure hope you know what you're doing," said Stinkfly as he flew up high. Dr. Animo aimed at him and said, "Now to start a new era in evolution." Stinkfly threw NegaMorph at the part where Morph's container was. He landed there just as Animo was activating the machine.
The affect was unexpected to say the least. NegaMorph's negative molecular energy was sucked from his body and combined with the charging mutation ray. Since the ray was charged with positive molecular energy, the two caused a collosal counter-reaction. The first part that happened was a wave of red molecular energy came out of the Transmodulator and spread throughout the lair. The only affects it had were demutating Animo's mutants and releasing the locks on the cages holding the animals. It also made the Omnitrix powerdown instantly and turn Stinkfly back into Ben. Ben would have been hurt by the fall if Morph hadn't moved to have Ben land on top of him. But then the stampede of animals escaping out the door wasn't that comfortable either. Before Dr. Animo could get away, Matt went behind him and handcuffed him. "Time to put you in a cage," he said.
Suddenly the Transmodulator-telescope started rattling violently and sparks of electricity came out of it. "You fools!" cried Animo, "you pushed it into the critical level." "Which means we got to get out of here," said Ben. "Where's Viral Chopsuey?" asked Stitch. "Over here," said a familiar voice. Stitch looked and saw NegaMorph holding Viral Chopsuey by the neck. "Thanks for demutating this guy," said NegaMorph, "he'll be much easier to assimilate now." Before Stitch could make any moves, NegaMorph jumped inside his shadow, dragging Viral Chopsuey with him, and sped away. "Choota," muttered Stitch.
"We'll never be able to escape the explosion," said Matt. "Then we have to do something about the Transmodulator," said Stitch. "We can't fix it," said Ben. "But we can tone it down," said Morph and he transformed into Shrink. His antennas glowed bright pink before zapping the Transmodulator with a pink ray. The machine continued to emit sparks and smoke as it grew smaller and smaller. By the time it was about to blow, it was the size of a pocket telescope. So when it did explode, the explosion was a minute fraction of what it could have been. As Morph turned back to his original form, Ben said, "I guess I owe you an apology." "Save it till we're back at the Rustbucket," said Morph, "but first let's send this whackjob to the asylum where he belongs."
Sometime after that, everyone was back in the Rustbucket. "So, we lost the Virus Clone, but we beat Animo," said Gwen. "And I learned that respect isn't what it's cracked up to be and the respect you should accept is for as you are as a person," said Morph. "I still don't get that pen beats sword saying," said Ben. "We thought you'd say something like that," said Draco, "so that's why we had it arranged for Morph to hit you with that giant pen till the lesson sticks in your head." Ben looked behind him to see Morph holding an enormous ballpoint pen saying the alien equivilant of 'It's payback time!' As the others watched Morph whack Ben over the head, Chip said, "You know, that's taking it a bit too literally." "Yeah, but we should let him have his fun," said Draco.
There's another chapter. Sorry it took me so long. My brother's developed an annoying habit of watching TV movies around the time I normally work on fanfictions. This probably won't be as good as the other ones, but I promise the next chapter will be much better. Keep an eye out for it and please review.