Ep 4: Riding the Storm out
Intro:
A green glowing, steel pod was flying through space, hurtling towards earth as it crashes, making a huge green flash.
The camera zooms out from the glowing symbol on the Ultimatrix as Dan looks up close at it.
He then activates it while smirking at the camera, raising his hand high and slapping it down on the core.
The background turns all green as Dan morphed into Humungousaur, who pumps his fists while slamming his tail on the ground with a smirk.
A white number appears on the left side, starting at 1.
"Dan 10!"
2: Heatblast ignites 2 fire balls in his hands.
"Dan 10."
3: XLR8 zooms into the right.
4: Diamondhead swaps his right arm across as it turns into a blade.
"DAN 10!"
5: Cannonbolt uncurls and poses.
"Dan 10!"
"Dan 10."
6: Upgrade stretches out of his puddle form.
7: Grey Matter hops off the 7 and lands into a crouch, giving a thumbs up and a smile.
"DAN 10!"
8: Water Hazard slides in on his water blasts and raises his fists up.
"Dan 10."
9: Snare-Oh extends his 4 back tendrils to act as spider legs, carrying him into action.
10: Big Chill phases through the number and floats briefly before zooming near the camera.
"DAN 10!"
Big Chill's head turns back into Dan's as it rotates.
The camera zooms out to reveal Max and Kate by his side.
Dan gave a low-five as his Grandfather as Kate crosses her arm and shakes her head playfully with a smile.
The 2 then ran off-screen, making Dan run towards the camera with a look determination.
He then froze as the series logo appeared above along with his alien, 5 on each side.
Pikes Park Campground was full of campers, fishing, hiking, talking to each other, bird watching and playing catch, enjoying the wonders of nature. Everything is super peaceful and quiet, the perfect campgrounds.
But just then, 3 mysterious businessmen approached the camp sites. 1 is tall and lanky, another is short, and the last one is tall and bulky. They all had different color ties and carry 3 briefcases. "Despite our ability to repress our emotions, I admit. I grow impatient." The man then grabs a Frisbee that was thrown at him as a girl calls out at him. "Thanks, mister! Want to play?" The shady man responded by throwing the Frisbee far away. "You know, you couldn't said no!" The girl walks off in frustration.
"I am as impatient as well! That is if I felt anything, which I do not. I am a Weatherhead after all." The short one told his partners as the lanky one response. "the logical response is to begin the mission earlier the expected. Clear the area of all wildlife."
The men then pushed their jacket buttons, causing them to transform as they body morphed into metal while keeping the suit design, their new robot bodies have white and grey on their legs and hands as they take off their sunglasses, making their eyes turns all orange.
At another part of the campgrounds, far from other campers for identity reasons, Dan and Kate were working together setting up a red tent. "There, all done!" "You know, I could get used to this camping thing." Dan said to his sister as they looks at the finished tent. "Hey Grandpa! We're done with the Tent!" Kate calls out to Max, who is busy setting up the campfire.
"That's nice, kiddos! Say, what don't you help me out and get more firewood?" "Sure thing! By the way, how long does it take for you to start a fire?" Kate questions her elder as both siblings walks up to him while Max rubs 2 sticks together with smoke coming off them. "My record is 3 hours!" "Well, mine is 3 secs!"
FLASH Were Dan stood is now Heatblast with a smirk. Kate deadpans as she tells her brother. "You know, using Heatblast doesn't count as starting a fire." "It does if you want your Marshmallows, this year!" Just as Heatblast was about to touch the soft treats on the stick he is holding, the symbol beeped and times him out. "OH, man! The gauntlet keeps frizzing out! It's been losing it's charge, super quick lately."
"I'll bet that Grandpa will start a fire before your watch recharges. He has something called P-A-T-I-E-N-C-." "SNORE! This is modern times, oh sister of mine! Technology has solved the 'Patience Problem'! Besides, the thing probably needs fresh batteries. Which is a perfect moment to try out my new 'Camper's Buddy' that I bought with the wrestling prize money!" Dan exclaims as he pulls out a red Swiss army toolkit from his jacket pocket. He then activates the drill function and brought it the gauntlet.
The drill starts spinning away at the sliver rim of the dial for a bit before it starts sparking green. Suddenly, the symbol flashed between green and red as it shifts through a few alien icons. It then starts sparking green lightning as the core starts popping up and down as it makes strange sounds for a bit before it stopped.
Dan stares at the gauntlet with a panicked expression as his sister was shocked. "What was that!?" "Uh… what was what?" Dan quickly said as he stuffs his hands into his pants pockets to hide the broken device. "The watch! I could've sworn that is was sparking green electricity for a sec."
"Yes!" Both kids turns their attention to their grandfather as he cheers at the lighted fire. "New record! 2 hours and 25 minutes! HA!" Just then, a gust of wind blew the fire out, making Max drops his arms in disappointment. "I'm still counting that."
BOOM CRACKLE Just then, the sky suddenly turns cloudy and grey as lighting flashed through the air, making thunder boom through the area as the winds blows. A group of scared campers starts running past the family in panic, making them look in surprise at the sudden change in weather. "I wonder if this thing has an umbrella?" Dan questions as he looks at his 'Camper's Buddy' while Kate looks at something in the direction the campers are fleeing from. "I have the feeling this is not a regular storm."
The Weatherheads, now in the form of robots that have a white and grey color scheme on their arms and legs and still have their suits on the chest with skulls for heads that has orange eyes, were rampaging and causing destruction while scaring away all the campers.
The leader thrusts out his palm, making a huge gust of wind blow away a few tents as he told his partners. "Phase 1 is in effect." "I would be please if I felt anything, which I don't." The short one responded back as he sends a pillar of water surging forward. "First, the mammals of this park will learn to fear us." The lanky one said as she sent out a bolt lighting that cut down a tree. "And soon after, the entire universe will tremble at the mere motion of The Weatherheads!"
Dan and Kate were hiding behind a log as they look at the robots. "The Weatherheads, huh? I wonder how much time it would take to beat these clowns?" Dan questions with a smirk as he pushes the bottom black square, making the core pop up with a beep. He then looks at his sister, who then caught on what he is saying. "Oh, you're serious! Okay, ready…. Go!" She said as she activates the timer on her phone. But just Dan was bringing his hand down, the Humungousaur icon shifted to Grey Matter's while being all static.
FLASH "3… 4…. Dan! Why did you turned into some weird alien combo platter?!" Kate said in surprise at her brother's transformation. It looks like Humungousaur, except he was now 6-feet tall and less muscular. He had Grey Matter's head, gills, sharp teeth and eyes while having Humungousaur's chin and noise placement. His skin is a darker grey on the outside with a lighter shade on the inside. He also has Humungousaur's sash, with the symbol on it, and gloves while having Grey matter's bottom part of his jumpsuit, white belt and feet with some muscle.
"GAH! This is weird! I look like a fusion of my strongest and smartest aliens. The Gauntlet must still be on the frizz. No matter! I'm still strong enough to beat these guys!" Humungo-Matter Exclaims in a Gray Matter voice, only a bit rougher, as he starts heading towards the Weatherheads.
The Weatherheads were still terrorizing the campers when suddenly…. "Hey Weather-duds! Did any of you forecast a 2-arm beatdown today?" Humungo-Matter taunts the Weatherheads, who responded back in confusion. "No?" "No." "Well, you're about to get-" ZAP "GGAAHHH!" Humungo-Matter was sent flying back to where he had been by a powerful lightning bolt as Kate keeps counting "29… 30… 31." "Stop counting and start helping!" Humungo-Matter yells at his sister, making her stop the timer and starts helping him up. "The arrival of the interloper alter a few vectors in our plan." "This is what personal feeling would be panicking." "Instead, we will implement phase 2, ahead of schedule." The Lead Weatherhead said as he looks at his briefcase that is blinking.
Kate was carrying her brother to the Rust Bucket as rains starts pouring down. "Kids, I've been monitoring reports from the ranger station and- What in blazes?!" Max said in surprise at seeing the strange combo from of his Grandson as he was standing in the RV. He then puts his hands on his hip and scolds at his Grandson. "Nathan Tennyson! What did you do to the Gauntlet!?" "Uhh… nothing?" BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP FLASH "Okay! I kind of tried to fix the charge problem, but I caused a new one instead." Dan admits to his disappointed Grandfather. Just then, the Ultimatrix starts sparking more electricity while making it's dial rise up and down. "I might not know much, but I think it's in some sort of reboot mode. Better not use it until it's done fixing itself. Who knows what could happen if you use it now?" Max said to his Grandson.
"But who's going to stop those weather weirdos?" "Not 'Humungo-Matter' that's for sure." Kate said in a snarky tone while Dan crosses his arms and glares at her in annoyance. "We can still help get the other campers to safety! I think I know a sheltered way out. Come one!" Max said as he hops out of the RustBucket and starts running with his grandkids behind him.
All of the campers were huddled in a tent when… FWEET They turn to see Dan on top of a big hollowed log, blowing in a whistle attached to his 'Camper's Buddy'. "Love this thing." Dan commits on the tool and then yells out. "Hey, everyone! Over here!" "This tunnel will leave you off the campground!" Kate said as she was pointing at the entrance while her grandfather was inside with a flashlight. "Just follow our Grandpa!" The campers then rushed past and starts following Max to safety. Dan then hops off the log, next to his sister as she points in the distance. "Dan, look! What the heck is that thing?" She question as they both see what looks like a tall tower rising with a red blinking and beeping light on top. "Uhh… Red blinking light or some crazy villain's weather making machine."
The Weatherheads were looking at the tall machine that is coming from their briefcases. that are placed in a triangular pattern with poles sticking out the open mouths. "Soon, it will head our summons and our true mission will begin." "HAHAHAHA!" The others looks at the short one that was laughing. "This is the laugh I would laugh, if I was experience excitement, which of course, I do not." "Hey, Tin cans! Go jump off a cliff!" Dan yells out as he and his sister arrived on the scene.
"Hopping off a mountain structure will not further our stated objectives." "And we do not have the time." "Do not worry, Weatherheads. This cosmic cyclone will sort out these mammals." The leaders said to the others as they all open their ties to revel a hidden button, each the same color of their neck wears. They all pushed them, making the panels on the tower turn. A cluster of lighting bolts shot out of the light and into the sky, making a cyclone descend around the structure.
"WHOA! Didn't see that plot twister!" Dan puns in wide eyed shock as his hair and jacket flaps in the winds as the same thing happens to his sister and her hair and earrings. "You did not just say that." "Said it. Let's see how tough these guys are against Diamondhead!" Dan was about to slap down on the Gauntlet when his sister stops him. "How about no. You herd what Grandpa Max said." "Yeah! He doesn't know much!"
Just then, A giant pillar of water was closing in on them. But at the last second, the Rustbucket drives and stops in front the pillar, making dissipated on contact. The kids looks in relief at seeing the Grandfather. "All the campers are clear! Let's 'blow' this place and regroup!" "You did not say-" "He said it! Come on!" The siblings then hops in the RV and closes the door, making it sped out of the tornado and onto a road, driving fast to get away.
As Max drove the RV, he then noticed something in the rearview mirror. "Hold on to your guacamole, kids!" He said as he looks at the gaining tornado. He then floors the gas pedal, picking up speed and also sending the kids tumbling into the back. Dan then sat up and was about to dial the watch when his sister stops him. "Dan! Wait!" "Hey!" "Let the Gauntlet reboot! Be patient or you're going to turn into another freaky fusion!"
The Weatherheads were standing on top of a hill and raises there arms up simultaneously, commanding a cyclone to chase after the Rustbucket.
The tornado caught up to the fleeing RV, sweeping it up in it's powerful winds. "KIDS! Hang on to something!" Max yells out while the kids screams out from inside the spinning RV as they were tossed and tumbled. "Still… Oof! Think I should be… Ow! Patient!" "Maybe we were a little too impatient about your impatience!" Dan smiles, realizing that he's now allowed to use the watch. "All right! It's…" Just as he slaps down on the gauntlet, it starts emulating lighting as it makes beeping noises. " …hero time?" Dan said in worriment before he got in engulfed in a flash of green light.
Dan's right arm turns into Humungousaur's, but has Cannonbolt's armor pads and black markings on his shoulder and forearm. His torso also became the Vaxasaurian before grayish-brown, ragged bandages covered the chest area as the symbol appeared below on his stomach. His left arm then became a muscular arm that is made out of pale green crystals with a sort of translucent texture [Insane-Mane's second reboot Diamondhead body color and arm style.] and then gained a Heatblast look to it as well. His legs then became XLR8's as he also sprouted his tail as well. He then gained an extra set of arms as well. His bottom left one became Water Hazard's as His right became a black, humanoid, blob like one. It has green circuit patterns and 'fingernails'. The bottom of the arm has white clothing that stops halfway under the fore arm, leaving the rest of it black. There is also a green rectangle patch on the palm with thin lines connected to small squares on the ends of it's fingers. [Again, Insane-Mane's second reboot Upgrade. But with OS white clothing instead of sliver, it doesn't cover the hands and has green instead of black inside of said hands as well.]His eyes also turns into Grey Matter's while his head stays human as well as his neck, while white fur forms around it. His last addition is the appearance of four, large bat-like wings on his back that are that are blue with patches on the back of them that looks like ice chunks, outlined in black. There is also a black line that runs on the edge of the outer margin on the back of each wing.
Max and Kate stars in jaw dropped shock at the strange hybrid. "What? Something in my nose? Not that I really care." Dan commits, not noticing his new strange form that is also Humungousaur height. "Umm… how do I put this gently? Bro, you turned into a chimera of all your aliens." Kate said as the Grandparent turns his overhead mirror, so Dan can look at himself. "GAHH! I'm some sort of freaky, Frankenstein version of my aliens!" "Hey, your words! Not mine." Dan then gained an upset look at his sister's commit and starts heading towards the door. "I'm leaving right now!"
Dan was sent tumbling and turning again, just as he got out of the door. He then uses his wings to positioned himself right, just as the Weatherheads uses the wind to fly up to his level, facing him. "Okay, you walking rust bots! Here's a weather report for you: Pain with a 100% chance of fists!" Dan yells out, getting ready to fight them. "His… pfft ….form. ha-ha…" "Ha-ha-ha… Can't not… keep." "Emotions… in check!" The Weatherheads then starts laughing and pointing at Dan, making fun of his form and ticking him off.
"Don't laugh at me!" He then charges at them with his fists pointing at them. But the Weatherheads doges as the left one commits. "Emotions…. Funny, but trouble." Dan tumbles for a bit before straightening. He then fires a bunch of Kate shards from his left arm at the robots. But they mere lifted there legs up to dodge them. Dan then decide to fire Water Hazard's arm at them, but they just dodge again, only for the lanky one to fire more lighting at him, sending flying back further as he screams out.
He eventually stops rolling only to realized that he is the eye of the storm. He looks up and gasps at seeing the very stars themselves. "Whoa!" The Camera briefly pans from earth to show the storm itself, viewable from space. "The Storm goes up into space?! This what they meant when they said, 'Cosmic Cyclone'!"
"As amusing as this had been, Earthling! You had witness too much!" Which we're not angry about, because The Weatherheads DO NOT experience angry!" "We will end you now!" "End me? I'm just getting started!" Dan responded back to the Weatherheads as they all aim their palms at him. "What's your deal with emotions, anyway?!" "Emotions are ineffective and weak!" "We cannot tolerate insurgency and they are unpredictable!" The short and lanky ones answers back respectively.
"They are, aren't they?" Just then, Dan got an idea on how to beat the Weatherheads. "Just like the weather. Okay, Tin cans! Do your worst! Bet you didn't predicated that response!" The Weatherheads were confused at first, but then decide to shrug and just go with it. "Very well, then!" The lanky one fires a lighting bolt. Dan quickly morphed his left arm into a shield and reflected it back. "Ineffective?!"
The bolt knocks back the short one as the leader then moves forward and fries a gust of wind at the amalgam, who quickly dodges and starts charging at the Weatherhead. "Weak?! Unpredictable!" Dan stops between the 2 remaining Weatherheads and taunts the leader. "HA! You 'mist' me!" The leader responded with a confused look at his pun. "You know, mist? Like fog? It's weather humor!" The growls and fires at Dan, but he quickly turns intangible, letting the blast hit the lanky one instead.
"Gust-o! Focus!" The short one calls out as he recovered. "You focus Hail-o!" Gust-o yells out as he points back. "Sounds like you guys are getting kind of emotional after all! Huh?" Dan then notices the tower on the ground, realizing a way to defeat the Weatherheads for good. "I told the council that you were too moody to handle this assignment!" "Moddy?! Me?! You're the one that's all like: 'Initiate phase 2' Earlier, Shock-o! Like a baby!" Just then, Dan sped by them, gaining their attentions as they see heading towards the tower.
Dan taunts out as he flaps towards the beacon like he was swimming. "Gee, it would be really stink if some annoying, logical robots tries to end my right now! Before I had a chance to touch this shiny, red, beacon!" He was able to grab onto the ball tip as the Weatherheads yells back ,all ticked off. "Annoying!?" "We are not annoying!" "You are Annoying!" Shock-o said as he points at the kid hero. "I can't hear anything you're saying! But it sounded annoying!"
The Weatherheads growls in rage as they unleashed a water blast with wind and lighting mixed with, hoping to get rid of the earth child that is getting on their last nerves. Dan quickly leaps towards the ground at the last second, making the beam hit the tower as the Weatherheads gasp while Dan laughs.
The tower release a huge wave of red light and then fires a beam upward, missing the Weatherheads as they look up in surprise. Dan holds his hands in front of him as he was on the ground with his wings folded up into a cloak, trying to block out the bright light. The vortex then turns red. "OOPPPSSS! DIDN'T SEE THAT ONE COMING!" "I AM RE-GRATING EVERY SECOND OF MY EXISTENCE!" Hail-o and Shock-o called out respectively as Gust-o yells out. "I WOULD SAY I LOVE YOU GUYS! IF I HAD EMOTIONS WHICH I DO NOT!" The vortex then stops glowing red and starts sucking things up into a small hole like a vacuum. "WE WILL MEET AGAIN ONE DAY, HUMAN!" "YOU HAD NOT HEARD THE LAST OF THE WEATHERHEADS!" "WE WILL COME BACK TO YOUR PLANET SOMEDAY!" Was the Last the Weatherheads said before the disappeared into the hole.
Dan screams as he tries to stay on the grounds and holds onto the towers as he started to get pulled in as well. The tower is then lifted up and starts flying into the hole, making Dan scramble as he tries to get away. Just as he was about to get pulled in, the tower want in first and the winds along with the hole disappeared, leaving a clear sky and a suspended Dan. He then starts falling while screaming. "WINGS! WINGS! WINGS!"
As the Rustbucket is suspended between treetops, Kate and Max groans as they got up off the floor while the Grandpa crushes somethings off him. "hu… I guess the storm has passed." THUD They were surprised by the sound of something landing on the roof. Dan was panting as he uses his arms to support him from falling on his chest, lucky enough to use his wings slow to a safe landing. "DAN!" Max calls from an opened window as his Grandson gives a thumbs up from his right arm. BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP The symbol finally times out, turning Dan back in a flash of green light.
Later, The Rust bucket was back on the road and driving at a fast and steady pace. "I'm very impressed, kiddo! Tricking them into using their own powers to destroy their own machine!" "And I'm impressed that you aren't messing with the watch and instead reading a comic! For a sec, I thought we had to put a cone over." Kate commits at her brother, who sitting in the back of the RV while reading a Justice League animated series comic.
"Very funny, sis! I got bigger thing on my mind right now." Dan then looks out the back window and up into the sky in thought as the camera pans away and zooms out to planet Earth. "Bigger things? That's everything!" "What's on your mind, Dan?" "Those Weatherheads. Their storm went all they way up to space, like they wanted someone to see it! There were up to something big. Which got me thinking: What if the real storm was still coming to Earth?"