Chapter 9: Parasitic Hand?

Today, we were fighting off a Techadon robot. They were, according to Kevin, mass-produced battle robots that were really strong, shot laser blasts, and were really hard to stop. Gwen just shot an energy ball at it, and it didn't stop it at all. It blasted lasers at us, which Ali absorbed with her shield. I was NRG, shooting back at it, and it only was taking them. It hit me across the face, and I slammed into a pile of boxes.

NRG: "Guys, I think we need to approach this in an entirely different way here!"

Humongousaur Kayla: "Really? How?"

NRG: "Not how we're doing it now!" I shot one more blast at it, and it only budged. Kevin and Ben charged at it, and clobbered it. It was sprawling back a few feet, then I transformed to Big Chill, and breathed down some ice to freeze it. It busted out, and Gwen built a force field around it.

Kevin: "This thing is REALLY hard to stop."

Big Chill: "I've seen that. Why were they manufactured again?"

Kevin: "For protection, but some ran loose."

Humongousaur Kayla: "Not for long!" She ran at the robot, Gwen brought her force field down, and she punched it, sending it flying through the room, landing in a pile of boxes. It got up, shooting more blasts. Kayla was hit, and fell on her back.

Ben: "Still not too good for us here, huh?"

Kevin: "Nope."

Big Chill: "Then maybe it's time to try someone new." I glowed red, and grew slightly taller, shaped into a blob shape, grew a tail, and my arms became tentacles. I was flattened into a puddle, then a mask grew over it, and it all got back up into the previous shape.

Kyle: "AQUOS!"

Gwen: "Water? Really?"

Aquos: "Aw, come on you guys! This'll work."

Ben: "Not seeing it from here!" He was shot at, and hiding behind a box for cover.

Humongousaur Kayla: "Maybe this brute force thing doesn't always work!"

Aquos: "Duh!"

Humongousaur Kayla: "I'll hold him down! You go in and deactivate it or whatever!"

Aquos: "I thought you were never gonna ask!" I got into a puddle shape, and jumped into the air. Kayla transformed to Lodestar, and shot out some magnetic pulses. The robot stopped in its tracks while I flew inside of it, and made the whole thing rust, and got out of it. It walked slowly towards me, and shot out its fist. I dodged the shot, and it clobbered Ali.

Lodestar Kayla: "Now what?"

Aquos: "Now, it's time for some nice, refreshing acid water!" I shot out a wave of water from my hand, and it started to melt the robot.

Lodestar Kayla: "Now, I wish to do the honors!" She became Cannonbolt, and rolled out at it, wrecking it. The explosion sent everyone flying outwards, while Ali was still holding the hand. Kayla rolled back out to us, and I was slithering out of the wreckage, rubbing my skull head.

Cannonbolt Kayla: "What? It worked right?"

Aquos: "You blew up the whole building! And I feel shaken up. Ouch."

Ben: "Now what? The robot's fried."

Ali: "Kevin, you may want this." She handed him the hand.

Kevin: "Huh. Dust this baby off and it'll be sell-able."

Gwen: "Well, now, I want a nice day off from the rest of this alien and robot fighting."

Aquos: "I agree…" I reverted to human like Kayla did, and we went to Mr. Smoothies.

Kyle: "That thing was annoying!"

Kayla: "'Til you went Aquos and melted the thing."

Ali: "I could barely do anything to that menace!"

Kevin: "Us too. Wow."

Ben: "Those robots are no good!" He started slurping up his smoothie.

Gwen: "Oh, you all don't know the half of it! It was immune to most of our attacks!"

Kyle: "Even Ultimate Swampfire couldn't melt that thing!"

Kevin: "Techadon robots. Never mess with one."

Ben: "I'm going to get some refills on the smoothies." He walked p, and got the refill, when Cash and JT ambushed him, and threw the smoothies on him.

Cash: "Gotcha Tennyson!" Everyone laughed, except us.

Kyle: "Oooh…" I flipped the Ultimatrix on, but Ali stopped me.

Kyle: "Ali…"

Ali: "Let him handle it for once, huh?"

Kyle: "Okay… but if he needs help…"

Ben: "Woo. You got me. Good one, Cash."

Cash: "Huh? What do you mean?"

Ben: "Yay. You had your laugh, man. Good for you." He proceeded to walk past him, but he got in the way again.

Ben: "And? What else could you want?"

Cash: "Well?"

Ben: "Well what?"

Cash: "Aren't you gonna cry about it to Kyle?"

Ben: "Please. He shouldn't waste his time on punks like you."

Ali: "Exactly."

Cash: "Hey, Kyle! Get over here and defend Tennyson!"

Kyle: "Ben?" I looked at him, wondering if HE wanted me to.

Ben: "If you really want to, I won't stop you." I looked at Ali.

Ali: "Well, if he says so."

Kyle: "Okay." I walked up to Cash.

Cash: "Aren't you gonna go Rath on me?"

Kyle: "Nope. Rath has had his fun with you a LONG time ago." I got into a Karate stance.

Cash: "You're going to use your 'Karate' moves on me?"

Kyle; "Going alien on you is SO not worth it anymore."

Cash: "What?" He punched at me, but I caught his punch, and trapped his arm behind him at lightning speed.

Cash: "JT!" JT rushed in, but Ali stopped him in his tracks.

Ali: "How cowardly. Two-on-one is the only way you can fight him fairly?"

JT: "According to Cash, yes."

Cash: "JT! Shut your fucking mouth up for once!"

JT: "But…"

Cash: "AGH! Let go!"

Kyle: "And why should I, Cashy?"

Cash: "It hurts!"

Kyle: "Hmph. Even beating you up in human form isn't all that fun anymore."

Cash: "Huh?"

Kyle: "You're the weak one. You just need the attention of everyone to feel good, don't you?"

Cash: "I-I… NO!"

Kyle: "I rest my case." I kicked him to the ground, then jammed my foot into his back. Ali threw JT into the wall, smiling as she did so.

Cash: "What?"

Kyle: "I REST my CASE!" I jammed my foot into his back even more.

Cash: "NO!"

Ali: "That's enough Kyle."

Kyle: "Not JUST yet."

Cash: "Huh?"

Kyle: "Let me tell you something, Cash. All of us here grew up. Your jokes are old. You're making yourself seem like an absolute idiot, and you have no life."

Ben: "And, I can't believe I used to be afraid of you. You are such a has-been."

Kyle: "Seconded."

Ali: "Motion carried." She snickered to herself. So did some other people.

Cash: "Are you quite done?"

Kyle: "Almost, Cash. My belief was that Rath beating sense into you would show you how victims of your bullying felt, and that you would stop, being thrown into their shoes. I can see that I was wrong from the get-go. You not only haven't stopped, especially since I sent you to the hospital at least 10 times, and dealt with screaming from your mother 10 times, maybe even more, you would stop, and grow up like everybody else here. I can see that you refuse to do so, despite my efforts. You are the most stubborn bastard I've ever met. It's time to give it up! See the light! All that junk! You're not 11 anymore Cash! You're 15! Get a grip on reality! The world's left you behind, and no one has ANY love for you anymore. Grow the fuck up." I got my foot off of him, and he stepped up, staring me down. I stared him down just as much. I heard a few people muttering amongst themselves, and Cash tried to punch me, but I blocked his punch, then punched him in the gut, jammed my foot on his, then gave him an uppercut, knocking him down again. I jammed my foot onto his ribs this time.

Kyle: "Face it, Cash. You're old news."

Ali: "I think he understands…"

Kyle: "No. He still wants to tussle. I can see it in his eyes."

Ben: "Kyle, let him go."

Kyle: "As you wish." I got my foot off of him, then he immediately jumped up to attack me, but Ben punched him to the ground this time. Everyone gasped.

Ben: "It's over, Cash."

Cash: "Tennyson…"

Ben: "BEN Tennyson. Get out. Before I change my mind and let Kyle squash you like the insect you are." Even Kevin and Gwen gasped this time. I couldn't help but smile for him. Ali gasped.

Ben (turning around): "Especially you, JT!" JT walked up to Cash, and they both got up.

Ben: "What are you waiting for? An invitation? Go before I change my mind!" They walked off. Cash turned around and pointed at me, about to say something, but I already was giving him the 'death stare' of a lifetime. He ran. JT followed along with him.

Gwen: "Wow. Ben."

Kevin: "When did YOU get a backbone like that?"

Ben: "About 2 years ago." He walked to where we were sitting, angry as I ever saw him.

Kyle: "I'm proud, Ben. Very proud."

Ben; "Thanks. It was nothing."

Kayla: "I like you even more, Benji."

Ben: "Whatever." I nodded. Everyone else just stayed quiet for the rest of the time we were there.

With Cash and JT…

Cash: "What happened to Tennyson?"

JT: "I don't know. He grew a spine these past years."

Cash: "I'm taking that spine down. He is going to be afraid of me again. One day."

JT: "You always say that. It leads to getting messed up in the end. He'll go alien and send you to the hospital for the 20th time."

Cash: "You keep count?"

JT: "Yep. Always have, Cash."

Cash: "He's always been capable of killing us. Why hasn't he?"

JT: "He's a hero. Heroes don't generally kill people."

Cash: "No. We just aren't… worth it!"

JT: "How are we going to be?"

Cash: "Levin."

JT: "What about him?"

Cash: "If we can mess up Kevin Levin's car, considering how tough he is, and that Ben and Kyle are friends of his, we'll have to be worth it, then!"

JT: "Okay… that's just asking for trouble. Kyle will DESTROY us if he finds out we wrecked Kevin's car!"

Cash: "Then we'll make sure he doesn't see us doing it."

JT: "But…"

Cash; "Just trust me!"

JT: "Okay." They left where they were hanging out, and found Kevin's car outside a Burger shack. Inside, Kevin was doing his straw-nose trick, and everyone except Ben and Ali were laughing.

Cash: "Let's go." They pushed the car, and kept pushing it until it ran down the street, and hit the ground below. They ran down after it, and found the robot hand, all un-rusted.

Cash: "A hand?"

JT: "Let's get it!" They grabbed it, and ran off into the night. We ran outside, noticing Kevin's car was gone.

Kyle: "Kevin…"

Kevin: "I know, goddammit!" He ran ahead, and we continued after him, until we headed to the bottom of a ditch, finding his car.

Kayla: "Who did this?"

Gwen: "I'll find it." She scanned the car, and sighed.

Gwen: "Cash and JT."

Kevin: "Those no-good sons of bitches! I'll tear them limb from limb!"

Kyle: "Kevin, that's what they want you to do. They WANT you to get angry."

Kevin: "DUDE! They totaled my car!" Kayla went Fourarms, and pulled it out of the ground.

Fourarms Kayla: "Not really. I can fix it in a jiff."

Kyle: "Maybe I should do it. You haul it, and I'll fix it."

Fourarms Kayla: "Okay…" I glowed red.

Kyle: "UPGRADE!" I melded with the car, and we walked up, carrying it as I fixed it. Kayla set it back down after a while. I got off the car.

Upgrade: "Good as new, Kev. Try her out." He got in, and started it up. It worked again.

Kevin: "Got it. I'll track those bastards down, and give them a piece of my mind! Nobody messes with Kevin Levin's car!"

Ali: "Kevin! Anger! Chill out!"

Kevin: "Those little bastards will get what's coming to them!" He took off, at full throttle.

Kyle: "Should we go after him?"

Ben: "Nah. It's just Cash and JT. Kevin can handle them."

Gwen: "Yeah. Of course." We all had to go home without Kevin's car… Ugh that's annoying.

Kevin's POV…

THOSE LITTLE BASTARDS! No one messes with Kevin Levin and lives to tell the tale! Okay... that's a HUGE understatement. I found them at an old mannequin factory. I got out, absorbed my car armor, and walked in. They seriously have no security. I walked through, until I saw the moonlight shining on somebody. He turned around.

Cash: "Kevin Levin. Nice of you to… drop by, I suppose."

Kevin: "Oh, you have no idea how much trouble you're in, dirtbag!"

Cash: "really?" He fully got up, and I noticed his right arm was turned entirely into a robot arm. The hand looked vaguely familiar…

Kevin: "You wreck my car, AND you steal tech from me! Ooh ho ho… you have picked the WRONG day to piss me off!" I charged at him, and he shot out a laser beam at me. I ducked under, then gave him an uppercut to the face. He flew upwards, landing in the ceiling, then hitting the ground. I was about to clobber him again, but he slapped me off rather easily. AGH! He shot lasers again, and he made the ceiling fall on me. He picked me up with his robot arm, then hurled me into another wall. I slammed the ground, trying to make him trip, and he did. I got him across the face, then his gut, and kept showing him what for, until he hit me again, and shot lasers, point-blank by the way, into my FACE! OUCH! He slammed me into the ground a second time, then punched my face. My face armor was already coming off.

Kevin: "Ohh…"

Cash: "With this new arm, I am invincible! If I can beat you, I can beat anybody!"

Kevin: "Don't count on it." He stared at me.

Kevin: "Just 'cause you can beat me doesn't mean you can beat Kyle. He's much more powerful than you and I put together, so you know…"

Cash: "SHUT UP!" He smacked me again, then it all went black…

Kyle's POV

Kevin never came back. Even I was worried about the poor guy.

Gwen: "It ends here."

Ali: "And his car is right here."

Kayla: "Interesting."

Kyle: "Come on. Something happened to Kevin." We walked in, then found his un-armored hand sticking out of a pile of rubble.

Gwen: "KEVIN!" She immediately started throwing rocks out of the pile, and we were helping her.

Kevin: "Oh… my head… Gwen!"

Gwen: "Kevin!"

Kyle: "Did Cash really do all this to you?"

Kevin: "Yeah. He had the hand from that robot on him. It's taking over his body."

Kayla: "Where's he heading now?"

Kevin: "Out for Kyle and Ben. He still holds that grudge."

Kyle: "Kayla, bring Ben back to his house and protect him. Ali, go with her, as well. Gwen, stay with Kevin until he can move on his own."

Kayla: "What will you do?"

Kyle: "Cash is out for blood, well, I'll show him blood."

Ali: "But…"

Kyle: "He might not have been worth it before, but he is now." I transformed to Big Chill.

Gwen: "Kyle, be careful!"

Big Chill: "Careful is my middle name." I phased through the walls, going after him. I found some fire at the Mr. Smoothies. I flew over there, and saw a robot thing shooting everywhere, screaming.

Big Chill: "Yep. Cash is there alright. It's time to go hero." I went Armodrillo, and slammed right on him, hurling him towards a truck. He landed in it. His face came out.

Cash: "Kyle. There you are."

Armodrillo: "Cash, just when I thought you couldn't sink any lower."

Cash: "I will have my revenge!" He shot out a laser beam. I went AmpFibian, letting it phase through me.

AmpFibian: "Cash, give up!" I shot a stream of electricity at him. He took it, and fell to the ground, panting. I then transformed to Ironheart, and shot missiles at him. They exploded on him, then he ran out of the smoke. I smiled, and we collided. I judo-flipped him behind me, and shot out more missiles. They exploded on him again, and he shot more lasers at me. They bounced off of my armor.

Ironheart: "Was that supposed to hurt?"

Cash: "Stop toying with me!" He charged, and I went Garchomp.

Garchomp: "Alright, but you ain't gonna like it!" Before he got to me, I tail-whipped him away, and he landed in the Mr. Smoothies restaurant, breaking the wall. I grew to 30 feet tall, then walked up to him, and slammed my foot on him.

Garchomp: "Just like yesterday, huh?" I smiled, but clearly saw he was pissed.

Cash: "AGH!" He punched my toe, then I got off of him. He hurled a car at me, which I breathed fire on, making it melt before it hit me.

Cash: "STOP TOYING WITH ME!" I nodded, then slapped my symbol, growing even more back spikes, growing to 60 feet tall, missile pods growing out my head, and my arm blades turning into real katana swords. My claws grew even larger.

Garchomp: "ULTIMATE GARCHOMP!" He stared at me, then shot his laser barrages at me. I was unfazed, and shot down my own missile attacks, with an energy beam from my mouth down at him. He dodged the beam, but got hit by each missile. He hit the ground, and got up, more angry. I noticed the wreckage my beam did though.

Ultimate Garchomp: "Ugh… I'd better shrink down to size." I slapped my symbol, and became Chroamstone.

Cash: "What are you doing?"

Chromastone: "I'm taking another route for this fight." I slapped my symbol, growing wings, a tail, and claws.

Chromastone: "ULTIMATE CHROMASTONE!"

Cash: "You still can't beat me, Kyle! This armor makes me indestructible!"

Ultimate Chromastone: "Maybe against Ultimate, but not Giga!" I slapped my symbol a second time, making my wings larger, cannons grew out my arms, my feet grew bigger, I got two eyes this time, and finally, a spike ball grew at the end of my tail.

Ultimate Chromastone: "Giga Chromastone…"

Cash: "You… I will defeat you!" He charged at me at full speed. I charged as well. When we collided, however, I blasted him off of me immediately. I shot two energy balls, and they made his armor short circuit. I then started slicing away at the armor with my claws, and head-butted him. I turned my hand into a Diamondhead blade, then started pinning him down with crystal shards.

Cash: "No! I will not…"

Giga Chromastone: "Shut up, Cash. This is for your own good." I transformed to Upgrade next, and merged with his armor, forcing it off, getting it to move by itself. I jumped off of it.

Upgrade: "Nowhere to run now, armor-face." The robot shot at me, but I let the lasers go through me. I went Goop, then slapped my symbol, transforming to Ultimate Goop.

Ultimate Goop: "Nowhere for you to go, nowhere to run, and everything around you will be acidic!" I shot acid all around him, and other forms of me attacked it from all sides. It was melting.

Ultimate Goop: "But, there's always the finisher!" I slapped my symbol again, growing two more tails, a mouth, bat wings, and my UFO got inside my body.

Ultimate Goop: "GIGA GOOP!" I formed into an acidic cannonball, and rolled into the robot. It melted even faster, just turning into a pile of mercury-like liquid. I re-gathered all of my goop and Goop forms, then reverted to human.

Kyle: "there. All better, Cash."

Cash: "thanks. I think." He walked off, staring into the sky. I shrugged, wondering what to make of it. Oh well. Cash hopefully learned his lesson this time.

The End.