OK, here's the next adventure with Ben and co. with the introduction of some other new faces and the return of some familiar ones. I hope you all enjoy it. As you know, I do not own Ben 10, I only own my own original creations with the species that I myself make, but others belong to their respective owners. Anyway, enjoy!
Making a Big Deal
(Bellwood, USA. Undertown. September 3rd, 15:03)
Undertown was at a rather peaceful day, as many people were doing their daily routines as a four-armed being was humming along, his appearance obscured by his metallic cart as he moved it along with a faint honk from it. He stopped as he took a breath and sighed. The creature in question was very humanoid in appearance compared to most aliens, with a thick red mustache and a thick head of shaggy red hair under a dark orange top hat with steam punk goggles wrapped around his neck, and wearing a red jacket with multiple pockets, black pants and orange boots. But the odd things about him was his thick nose, dark green skin and two pairs of arms with three-appendage hands with yellow gloves on each of them.
He then heard a ruckus, making the man look curiously as he saw a group of people near by as he smirked as he stopped and activated it, revealing several bottles of green liquid. "Ahem…Welcome, my dear friends! Come and be amazed by my newest product! From the alchemical genius of…" He noticed that everyone was just passing him by, making him get a flat look.
He then heard some commotion, making him raise an eyebrow as he moved his cart along to see the actions as he saw a crowd cheering as he smirked a bit as he got his phone out. "Plugg, get here my boy. Come to the corner of Jupiter drive and Nebula boulevard." He walked over and looked to see what the commotion was about.
In the arena, Ben was currently fighting an alien of some kind. Currently he was in the form of a slimy alien with a green color to it, glowing green eyes that are formed out of the slime near the head with small bits of matter inside of it to keep the more solid parts on the hands and head area. Floating over his head was a small, silver UFO-like device with the Omnitrix insignia on the front of it. "OK Kraab, lets try to do this easily, OK?" the slimy alien said in a very high-pitched voice, eyes narrowing.
In his hold was a tall, four-legged humanoid crab-like creature with dark brown and orange armor with a large crab-like pincer on right side and five-clawed hand on the other side with yellow eyes and a sideways mouth. "Heh, you haven't changed a bit, Tennyson. Still as predictable as ever."
"Yeah, who kicked your metal butt over and over again? Oh yeah, me." Said Goop with a cocky tone as Kraab grabbed him with his pincer.
"Yeah…sorry, but If I know anything about Polymorphs, you spin them enough…they fall apart." Then the pincer began to spin at a rapid rate, making him scream out in panic, unaware of a duo on a hover board that was coated in a familiar black slime before it went over one of them.
"Hey, back off metal head!" said a female voice as Julie ran forward as she and Tetrax tag teamed tackled into Kraab from behind, making him let go of Goop, making him groan a bit.
"Kraab, you're under arrest." Said Tetrax with a glare as Kraab groaned a bit, shaking his head as he glared.
"So…Tetrax Shard, long time, no see. Haven't seen you since you messed up Sixsix and my plan to get the Omnitrix for Vilgax. I guess now I can get your crystally butt into a chandelier…and maybe sell that Mechamorph mutt for a good profit." Kraab said with a glare, as Tetrax glared.
"I don't think so." Said Goop as he pressed the Omnitrix symbol on his UFO, turning into Shocksquatch as he growled. "SHOCKSQUATCH!" He roared with a beat of his chest, now his body sparking up a bit.
"Heh, a little insulation and you're furry butt will be useless." Kraab said as he pressed a few buttons as Julie''s armor shrank down onto Ship.
"Yeah…No. Ship, Sick'em!" said Julie as Ship growled and jumped forward, wrapping around Kraab and keeping im in palce for a moment, keeping his body from moving asi t got closer to his head.
"Ugh…Electro-Magnetic field, GO!" said Kraab said as his suit beeped, making Ship cry out in pain as he slinked off, as Julie went wide eyed.
"Ship!" said Julie as she got the slime into her arms as Tetrax glared as Kraab just laughed.
"Please, I got counter measures for most of the Omnitrix's aliens. You can't beat me!" said Kraab… as Shocksquatch grabbed a near by object and electrified it, making it glow with energy.
"Lets see if you got a counter measure against…THIS!" Shocksquatch screeched as he threw the car with an electrified pulse, making Kraab yell out as he got hit and electrocuted at once, knocking him on his back as he groaned a bit as he tried to get up, but got pinned down by several shards hitting his leg and pincer, trapping him in place.
"You're heading back to a cell, Kraab. This time, back on your own planet. You're cybernetics won't be so good on a planet made mostly of water." Tetrax said with a scowl as he gave a nod to Shocksquatch and Julie. "Thanks for helping me hunt Kraab down, kids. I'll take it from here." He said, picking up Kraab and encasing him with crystals.
"It's no problem, Tetrax." Ben said with a handwave as he gave him a smirk. "After all the stuff you've done for me in the past, it's the least I can do. Besides, we needed something to do with Rook on monitor duty"
"Heh, yeah. Well, I'll be taking him in for questioning." Tetrax said with a faint chuckle as he dragged Kraab away as Julie gave Ben a faintly amused look.
"Well done, Mr. Tennyson. I have to say, you and your team has quite the effect on the community." A voice said as the two turned to see the four-armed green alien walk over, tipping his hat.
"…Who the heck are you?" Ben asked in confusion as Julie gave an equally confused look as the man just chuckled.
"Well, my good man and madam, I am Blarney T. Hokestar of the planet Philosophorum VII, at your service. As a proud member of the proud race of Transmunes, I would like to give you both a token of appreciation for your hard work." Hokestar explained as he got out a small bottle. "My patented Miracle Elixir!"
"…Wha?" asked Ben as he looked at Julie and Ship, who looked equally as confused as he was. Julie noticed the looks and gave him a flat look.
"Hey, I'm just as lost as you are, Ben." Julie admitted with a shrug as the two gave the man an odd look as he chuckled.
"Indeed, my dear children. I am here to give you a deal of a life time; if you may endorse my product, I'm sure you will find it vey impressive." Hokestar pressed on, as the two only gave each other flat looks.
"Yeah, not buying it." Julie said flatly as Hokestar chuckled as he pats the girl on the head, since he was about a foot taller than her and Ben.
"Yes, yes of course. I can understand that. How about I test it and you'll see for yourself." Hokestar said with a nod, as Julie and Ben gave each other a flat stare.
"How about you don't?" Julie asked as Ship just looked at the two curiously before looking at Hokestar.
"Alright, I need an able bodied volunteer…hmm…YOU my boy!" said Hokestar, pointing to someone who walked up.
"Uh, sure, why not." The figure said as he walked up, revealing himself to be a rather short but muscular alien, about to Ben's waist in height, with a thick scaled hyde with a reptilian-looking tail with spines coming up his back to his forehead, dark red reptilian eyes, three fingered clawed hands and two-toed feet, with a red vest with a yellow streak on it and a pair of dark brown muscle pants.
"Well now, here is a rather healthy young creature. What's your name, my boy?" Asked Hokestar as the alien looked at the crowd nervously as he shifted a bit, which made Ben raise an eyebrow when he noticed writing on his arm.
"I am Solid Plugg, sir. Just an average citizen." The alien said, as if sounding out the words as Ben just gave a quizzical look at this show. "Whom you have never met."
"Yes, yes, of course. So my good man, would you like to test my miracle elixir? IT can fix many a problem, my boy. Alchemy is all about equivalent exchange, as you know. And with this, it can bring something in exchange for it. Say…a full head of hair in exchange for the dry scales that is on that shiny scalp." Hokestar said, petting Plugg's head.
"OK, that has to be demeaning…" Julie said as Plugg looked at his other arm.
"Uh…sure, why not. I do not see the problem with that, Professor." He said, his eyes squinting a bit as he said this. Hokestar chuckled as he opened the vial as he cleared his throat.
"And now…I just put it on your scalp, and rub vigorously…" He said as his lower arms began to rub the moisture into his head as Plugg hummed a bit.
"Hey, that actually feels kinda nice, boss." He whispered as Hokestar chuckled at this as he backed up.
"And soon, the results." Hokestar said as suddenly the sound of rippling is heard as Ben, Julie and the crowd watched with shock as they saw green hair come out of his head, making the crowd whisper to themselves. "Volia! A full head of hair!" Suddenly flowers grew out of it, making several stare in shock "…with flowers, that aren't even in season. Hmm, interesting. Guess it must be a species thing."
"Well, uh…what a miracle! I was bald only moments ago and now, from here on, I am not…but uh, can I get some scissors or something? Ya know, get it down to a length I'll be OK with?" Plugg asked as Hokestar just chuckled.
"Of course. And if you want this amazing mixture, it's just 2 taydens a bottle." Hokestar said, as the audience looked interested now.
"I'll take one." Said a purple female creature with her hair up in a bun as a whale like alien came up and gave him four crystallized coins.
"I'll take two." Said the alien as Hokestar chuckled as he was selling several of them that were on him as he motioned them to his cart.
"Be sure to spend wisely." Hokestar said as he gave Ben a smirk under his facial hair. "Well, you see, business is booming quite well."
"Yeah…sorry, but not buying it still. As they say, there is one born every minute. Come on Julie, ship, lets head back to the base." Ben said, as Julie nods in agreement as Ship followed along…only for Hokestar to suddenly be by them, likely running over.
"Well, I do love a challenge of a hard sell. Come on along, I'll show you my stock to see if you have anything that you may want." He said, dragging the two by the arms with his lower arms, making the two yell out.
"How come whenever I'm with you, something weird happens?" Julie asked Ben in confusion as Ben just shrugs.
"Trust me, I'm still not sure myself." Ben said as they were brought over to a cart-like space ship, which looked like a steampunk jet more so than a spacecraft as he pressed a button as a cart opened up, revealing many different items.
"Ta-da! These are various items I have bought or traded since arriving on Earth. If you have something of interest here, that is good. If you cannot find it here…it's likely nonexistent." Hokestar explained as they looked over the merchendise he was selling.
"This looks like a bargain market rack at the mall. Nothing really impressive." Julie said, looking it over as Ben noticed something and picked it up.
"Whoa, what is this?" Ben asked as he held up a very smoothed down Sumo Slammer, appearing to be in a meditative pose, but appeared to be more like a statue than a action figure. "I never saw any Sumo Slammer merchandise like this. What is it?"
"Ah yes, the 'Sumo Slammer Ishiyama; Medative Pose'. Not for play, but merely a statue for any avid collector, made by creators in Budakon. Fewer than 100 ever made of this type of pose and characterization." Hokestar said, looking the toy over. "…You like it? You can have it, free of charge."
"…Why so generous with something that likely costs a fortune for a collector?" asked Julie, giving him a raised eyebrow.
"Well, it's very durable so I do not have to worry about it being damaged unless you, say, threw it against a wall and then ran it over. But as for the real reason…it's not a bad idea to have a one-man super hero team, or say…his whole group as a spokesman, now would it my dear?" Hokestar said as he gave her a smile. "Especially when one as lovely as you are his companion, yes?"
Ben gave him a flat look at the compliment as Julie got flustered by the compliment as Ben says, "…I'll think about it. Come on, Julie. I'll take you to see that sports store they got down here."
Julie nods…but then got some taydens uot and handed them to Hokestar. "Mind if I have one o them? I think my grandma needs something like it."
"Of course. It'd be an honor to help your family in crisis, my dear." Hokestar said as he took the taydens and took out another bottle from his sleeve and gave it to her as Julie nods, waving.
"Ship-ship." Ship waved as Hokestar waved to them as they left as Plugg walked up, cutting some of the hair into a more manageable form and put it into a ponytail.
"How'd it go, boss? You get him?" asked Plugg as Hokestar just chuckled as he smiled a bit.
"Patience, my boy. All in due time." Hokestar reassured him as he watched the couple go off, hand in hand as Ship followed after them, hopping around. He looked at his ship cautiously before he whispered, "You made sure the containment orb is secure, yes? You know what could happen if it gets out…"
"Don't worry boss, I got it taken care of." Plugg reassured with a smirk as a blue feline stayed near by before frowning and zooming away.
(Later…)
(Undertown's main street. 15:35)
Julie gave a nod as she was setting up a device on her laptop as Ben got his Plumber badge out and got a holographic image up of Rook at the computers at Plumbers HQ. "Hey Rook." Ben said, as Rook noticed the two and waved.
"Oh, hello Ben, Julie. How did your mission with Tetrax go?" Rook asked as someone was mopping behind Rook.
"Good. How's Valrean doing?" Ben asked as Rook looked behind him. Standing behind him was someone who looked very much like ChamAlien in the background behind him, but wore a simple orange jumpsuit that exposed his white chest and was bare foot, but also had on black cuffs on his wrists and ankles, likely to keep him from using his powers too much.
"He is doing good. A model prisoner as always, and he is happy not being called '775' any longer, so that is good." Rook said with a nod. "Why are you on now? I would think you would spend time with Julie after it."
"Don't worry, we are. We just ran into someone…think you can look up a Professor Hokestar for us?" Ben asked as Julie got a device out and put a few drops of the miracle elixir inside of it.
"Hmm…alright." Rook said as he typed into the Extranet and showed the schematics of him to the Plumber Badge. "alright, this is what I have found. Blarney T. Hokestar, a flim-flam man from Philosophorum VII, a planet renown for it's skills in the art of Alchemy. He's not really much of a threat, he barely even makes a blip in the radar. Why?"
"We ran into him earlier. He was showing off some 'miracle elixir'. I'm using the Extranet to try and see what's in this stuff." Julie said as she got a beep from her laptop and nods as Ship looked curiously. "Found it. Lets see…weird…"
"what?" asked Ben as Julie looked over the ingredients and raised an eyebrow.
"I'm…not seeing any normal chemicals you'd find in medicine. All I'm getting is stuff like seeds from a space flower, the extract of a tree you can only find from Flors Verdance…wait, what's this?" Julie asked in confusion.
"What?" asked Ben as he looked at the computer and raised an eyebrow at the word on it. "Elricate? What the heck is that?"
"Hmm…according to this, it's a rare alchemic material that Hokestar's People use…but it's usually in the milk of a mammalian alien species of alien. Don't know what animal he's using though…especially with all these other chemicals in it." Julie said, pressing a button as it got uploaded to her badge. "I think we need to see an animal expert. An ALIEN one."
"Who do you have in mind?" asked Ben as Julie sighed as she pets Ship, picking him up as she put her stuff back into her backpack."
"Lets just say that you'll find him…rather odd. Come on, I think I know where he is." Julie said, motioning Ben along before they were stopped by a blue blur as Kath gave a cat-like grin. "Kath?"
"A Fasttrack?" Ben asked in surprise as the feline-like being gave Julie a smile.
"Hey Julie, haven't seen you in awhile. Been busy?" asked the feline humanoid as Julie just nods, petting Ship.
"Yeah, Tennis, school work, training, that sort of thing really." Julie explained as Kath nods as Julie shook her head. "Look, I'm looking for Pax. Is he around?"
"Yeah. Jumba, Gant and Minta are going after new members while Pax and I are on an assignment. I tracked down a rare animal under that professor's employ. I told Pax and he should be able to meet us there. Come on." She said as the two were suddenly sped off.
"Friend. Of yours!?" Ben asked in a forced fashion from the forces as the three were now in an alley near Hokestar's ship, where a familiar Flourana was.
"Oh, hey Julie. How's your son doing?" Asked Pax with a friendly grin, showing off his crocked teeth, as Ben went flabbergasted.
"Wai-Son-wha!?" Ben asked in a panicked tone as Julie just gave him a flat look and points to Ship, whom waved at him. Ben looked between Pax and then at Julie as he realized what she had meant earlier with him being 'odd'. "OOOH…uh…yeah…Ship is doing good, uh…Pax, was it?"
"That's right. Kath and I are tracking down a rare creature that was here…and it turns out that Hokestar is milking it for that so-called 'Miracle Elixir.'" Pax said as Julie and Ben just rolled their eyes as they walked to the ship as the two activists looked in shock.
Ben knocked as he says, "Hey Professor, you home?" He waited for a moment as he shrugs, "Well, looks like no one's inside."
"Sorry Pax, but we'll have to come back later." Julie said as the two walked on but Pax stretched his limbs to stop them. "…I forgot how stubborn you were."
"Hey you two, we can't leave the creature in there. We have to save it, now." Pax said with a faint growl in his tone, but that was mainl his species as he didn't look angry, more concerned.
"…UGH…fine. But you better be right, because I'm in hot water with Grandpa for accidentally smashing Baumann's car." Ben said as he slammed down on the Omnitrix, turning into a familiar blue ape.
"SPIDERMONKEY!" He said as he went oer and reached into a window in the ship with his tail, his tongue out…before he nods and unlocks the door. Pax smirked at this as he went over, but Spidermonkey stops him. "We're not supposed to be in here. So don't touch ANYTHING."
"Don't we need a warrant for this?" Julie asked as Kath rolled her eyes as she went inside.
"No warrants nessisary for the right thing." Kath countered as she went inside with Pax, as Julie just gave a flat look.
"But for the LEGAL Thing, it is…" said Spidermonkey flatly as he follows. "OK, I broke and entered into things in the past, but that was because I notice something weird, not because some crazy salad and cat said so…"
The group looked around the inside of the ship. It looked like a laboratory of sorts with various test tubes, stones of sorts, metals that appeared to have been changed and various knick-knacks and books, even some pickled items on shelves.
"What did I tell you? This is a place of horrors." Pax said with a growl as Ship sniffed around curiously.
"Hmm, it's more of a creepy place, but I guess it could be worse." Julie admitted as she turned on the lights. "That's better."
"OK, so where is this creature you're so worried about?" Spidermonkey asked as he accidentally tripped on something and pressed a button, making him screech out as the floor opened up as Ben turned back to normal.
"Uh…nevermind. Found it." Ben said as the device came out under an odd-looking milking device. The creature appeared to be in a large energy-based hamster ball.
"Behold, the Screegit. It's one of the rarest creatures in the whole universe, only about a thousand left in the entire wild of it's home world." Pax explained as Julie and Ben both looked into the orb as it woke up, giving a cute-sounding yawn as it got up.
The creature was about the size of a capybara, it appeared to be a large hamster-like creature with spines on it's back with faint holes on the tips, six pawed arms and a large mouth that had a smile on it's face and black beady eyes.
"Aww~! How cute!" said Julie in a faint cooing tone as she looked at the creature as she and Ben looked at it.
"Yeah, who's a cute wittle guy, huh? You are, yes you are." He said as the creature gave it a happy squeak, enjoying the attention as Ship beeped at it, wanting to see it with a curious look as Julie helped it up, as Ship gave a beep as the creature squeaked back, making Ship beep happily at that.
"Don't talk down to him, that's not cool." Said Pax as Kath looked over the computers with a frown as Ben and Julie recomposed themselves.
"Sorry…OK, if it is rare, I'll get the Plumbers here to have a look at this." Julie said, getting her badge out as Ben looked at the energy orb.
"Why is it in that thing anyway?" Ben asked in confusion as Pax pressed a button, as the machine whirled to life.
"That." Pax said in a calm tone as the machine latched on, creating a suction that caused the spines to come to the tip and get into the hoses, as it gave a relieved sigh as the machine began to put the liquid through a processing machine that whirled as it filled a near by bottle drop by drop until stopping.
"…OK, that was gross." Said Ben with a cringe at the machine as Pax nods as he took the machine off.
"Agreed. This is disgusting that he'd do this to an innocent creature. We must free this creature, now." Pax said as he looked ready, but the sound of a shot gun cocking stopped him as the four turned.
"Hold it right there, you intruders!" said Hokestar, aiming a blaster at the group with a scowl, walking forward. "Now, allow me to ask you to slowly step away from my Scree-GAH!" He said as he tripped, making the gun fire out as Ship went over Julie and Ben to protect them from the blast
"Ugh…" said Ben after the light went down...only to yell out in shock as Ship went off of the two only to see most of the top half of Pax got destroyed. "WHAT Did you do!?"
"Egad! I-I didn't mean it, I swear!" said Hokestar, looking completely flabbergasted only to see Pax regrow himself, making the plant-like alien groan aloud at this.
"OK…ow." That was the only thing said by Pax, as Hokestar cleared his throat as he put the gun down.
"Look, my boy, I am VERY sorry for that act of minor mayhem…but I may want to ask why you lot are here." Hokestar asked, crossing his four arms at this as Julie cleared her throat.
"Ahem…Ben and I are here because I was curious about the elixir's chemical make up and we found out that animal-based ingredients were in it. We went looking for Pax and now here we are." Julie explained as Ben nods, as Hokestar raised an eyebrow.
"Uh…who is Pax?" Asked Hokestar in confusion as Pax's eye narrowed at that.
"That would be me, jailer. I'm Pax, and this is my associate Kath. And we're here to free the Screegit from it's life of torment." Pax growled as Hokestar did a double take.
"Torment? My boy, do I appear to be an animal abuser in any way? I am giving it a kindness by keeping it safe here." Hokestar as Kath gave him a flat look.
"How stupid do we look?" Kath growled as Hokestar gave her a flat look as Julie and Ben looked at each other at this.
"You want it on a scale from 1 to 10?" Hokestar asked flatly as Ben looked the device over.
"Hey, uh…Pax? This Screegit thing doesn't look all that unhappy, it looks more like it's a pet than a prisoner." Ben said as Pax rolled his eye.
"What's the difference? It's not like with Julie with Ship as a son. So what would you do with him?" asked Pax as Hokestar rolled his eyes.
"The Screegit is a 'she'. It is mammalian, thus it makes milk you sap-brained miscreant. And they create milk regularly and it is rather unsettling for them if they do not get relief. And I keep her here as a way to keep her safe, and us as well." Hokestar said as Pax and Kath glared at him.
"Uh, well I think we could-" Before Ben could finish, Kath growled at Hokestar.
"What gives you the right to lock her up then?" Kath growled as Hokestar glared back at this as he crossed his arms.
"It's not up to you, you no good ne'er-do-wells!" Hokestar said as Ben gave an annoyed look as Julie watched with concern as Ship groaned a bit.
"OK, you know what, ignore this." Ben then pressed a button, taking the energy globe from the stand. "Until we get the full story, the Screegit is coming with us to Plumber HQ. Come on, Julie."
"NO!" Pax said as both he and Hokestar grabbed at it, making the three yell out as they began to pull on it. "The creature belongs to herself, so let her go free!"
"Do not be foolish, give the Screegit to me so we don't cause any wanton harm." Hokestar said as Plugg came in with some bags, making Julie do a double take.
"Wait…you work for Hokestar?" Asked Julie in surprise as Plugg saw her and the group as he gave a nervous chuckle when he noticed her badge was in her hand.
"Well, uh…yeah. Yeah I do. I swear, I'm on da straight an' narrow now, Miss Plumber." Plugg said as he gave a growl at the two fighting against his boss. "Though I do not take kindly to da boss getting picked on." He said as he walked over and grabbed Pax by one of his tentacles and tugged hard, making him yell out as he was forced off of them as Ben got dropped a bit.
Kath growled as she ran towards Plugg, revealing razor-sharp claws as she slashed at Plugg, who just chuckled a bit as Ben rubbed his head. "OK…time to end this." He said as he slammed down on the Omnitrix, causing his body to become clearer as his body became Jellyfish-like in appearance with a blue body with white lightning bolt-based markings on it's body with white and black wrist bands on it's four tentacle-like arms and two legs and the Omnitrix symbol on it's chest with a necklace-like thing holding it up. "AMPFIBIAN!" AmpFibian powered up his tentacles and shot forward with them, grabbing the four others and zapped them, making the other four yell out as they groaned a bit, making Pax, Kath and Hokestar fall with a groan…but Plugg just chuckled a bit.
"Tickles." Plugg said with a grin as AmpFibian growled at this. He stretched out his tentacles and swung Plugg around the room, making him grunt before Plugg took a good hold. "My turn, punk." He then swung the boneless alien around with ease, making him yell out…until a mechanical arm grabbed the tentacles as Julie glared in her armor.
"Back off, rockhead." Julie said, tugging the tentacles towards her, making Plugg yell out in shock as Julie sent out punch his way, making him go near the milking machine. AmpFibian smirked at this as he stretched out a third tentacle towards it and put it on 'max', making Plugg look up as the suction became strong enough to grab him.
"Whoa!" said Plugg in shock as he trie to move as AmpFibian picked up the Screegit as he and Julie went outside. "Hey! You two get back here, I'm not done with you two!"
"Sorry, but we gotta go. An investigation has to be brought in on this." Julie said as Ship got off of her and went into his full Space ship form, opening up for Ben and Julie, Screegit in hand…unaware of a crack in the device from the battle.
Hokestar groaned as he got up but went wide eyed as he saw them leave. "Wait! You do not know what you are doing! Bring it back, now! Before it is too late!"
"No, no! Free the creature! Let it roam!" Pax said as he and Kath went after them, as Hokestar scowled as he freed Plugg.
"Plugg…we must stop them, before this planet is in peril." Hokestar said in concern. Plugg nods as the two ran out.
(Later…)
(Downtown Bellwood. 16:02)
Ship flew towards the city from underground to head towards Plumber HQ. "Hey Rook, we're heading in." AmpFibian said, the phone on Ship on as the Screegit groaned a bit, curling up into a ball. "We got this creature known as a Screegit and we're taking it to Plumber HQ."
"Wait, you have a Screegit…on EARTH!?" Rook asked in a panic, as Julie shrugs at this as the orb began to suddenly get heavier on AmpFibian's part, making him yell out in surprise as something leaked out of it.
"Yeah, we got it from Hokestar and Pax. We're bringing it until we can figure out how to-" Julie stopped mid-speak when Ship suddenly screeched in pain from something hitting him. "What's wrong, Ship?"
"Uh…Julie…this thing is leaking something…" AmpFibian said as the jar broke, making the creature groan a bit as it continued to grow as some green slime came out of it's mouth, making Ship yell out as it stung, the liquid releasing smoke as Ship suddenly shifted into a smaller size, making Julie scream out as AmpFibian grabbed her and Ship before they fell as he landed on a near by roof with the two as the Screegit hit the ground.
"Ugh…what happened?" Julie asked as she got her badge out, looking ahead with shock as they saw the Screegit suddenly growing into the size of a large truck, roaring out as it's teeth enlongated and grew out a pair of long, arm-like extentions from it's back with the spikes suddenly growing out, leaking the same green liquid that it's releasing from it's mouth, roaring out.
"A Screegit isn't just a rare animal, it's very dangerous in the wrong environment. I'm heading out with some Plumbers. I'll also alert the authorities." Rook said as Ben nods, taking Julie and Ship to the ground as Pax and Kath ran up.
"What happened to the Screegit? Wehre is it?" asked Kath as she noticed the creature. "What the?"
"You tel us what happened; it went from cute to psycho in 6 seconds after it grew. And it somehow got acid spit." Julie said, petting Ship who groaned a bit from the pain that he got from it.
"How did that happen? A Screegit only gets like that in a nitrogen-filled enivornment, but creatures from earth breath oxygen." Pax said, now confused as he scratched his head…only for both Ben and Julie to glare at him with annoyance.
"There's Nitrogen in the Earth's atmosphere too, you idiot!" Said Ben in annoyance as Pax gave a glare.
"Then how come no one told me!?" Pax asked in anger as the Screegit continued to grow, as Julie looked nervously.
"Uh, guys?" Julie began, trying to motion them to the growing threat, but they didn't look at her as they continued to glare.
"You never asked! It's not like it's just something you bring up in a conversation. 'Hi, I'm Ben. Nice to meet you, how's your atmosphere? We got nitrogen in our's, what about you?'"
"…in hindsight, that was kinda dumb to not look into." Kath said with a nod as Julie sighed as she pulled Ben and showed him the Screegit, as he nods.
"OK Jules, you and these two knuckleheads go do crowd control. And when Rook arrives, get him to help me with the Screegit. I'll try to slow it down." Ben said, slamming down on the Omnitrix. His body shifted, turning into a collection of light gray bandages that took a humanoid shape with green energy glowing out of it's body and eyes, with a black and gold headdress-like head with long black braces around his arms and legs with a black and gold cloth wrapped around his waist, and a black necklace-like brace around his neck with the Omnitrix symbol in the middle.
"UNDERWRAPS!" He called out in a faintly haunting voice, as he looked himself over. "Wow, it's been years since I've been this guy. But I should be able to tie him up. You guys go." Julie nods as Ship went into his ship form again as she went inside and motions Pax inside.
"You're coming with me so you don't cause trouble." Julie said as Pax nods as Ship took off as Kath sped ahead to get civilians out of the way.
"Ok, time to put you on a leash." Said Underwraps as he stretched his wrappings out and grabbed ahold of the creature's leg. "Gotcha-Whoa!" He said as was pulled haead, making him yell out in pain with each step the creature took.
Ahead, a middle-aged man was with a camera crew, adjusting his suit a bit. The man had a pair of dark rimmed glasses over gray eyes, brown hair with graying on the side, a black suit over a white shirt and tie, a pair of slacks and dress shoes. "This is Will Harangue, live in Downtown Bellwood, where yet another rampage has started."
He motiosn behind himself as the Screegit roared as Underwraps tried to hold onto it, as the mummy-like alien noticed them. "Ah great, Harangue is here…" he groaned as he tried to steady himself as he stretched upwards to try and tie the creature up, wrapping his body around the creature.
"AS you can see, the menace known as 'Ben Tennyson' is trying to let that monsterous beast attack the city, all the while pretending to be some hero by controlling it's movements with that…mummy creature. Clearly with some sort of mystical force that is unknown to us humans." Will said as the mummy glared at him from on top of the creature.
"Hey, I'm trying to BIND the thing! I'm not trying to-" A ripping sound is heard as Underwraps looked down as he says, "…is it just me or is this thing getting bigger?" The creature roared out as it grew to the size of a medium building, causing Underwrap to fall on the ground with a groan, his headdress and neckline still in one piece as he groaned from the various wrappings around him.
A scream is heard as Will saw this as he says, "As you can see, Ben Tennyson is continuing his rein of terror to the people of Bell-WHOA!" before he could finish, Rook had come in and swung him out of the way of the creature as he yells, "PUT ME DOWN, ALIEN!"
"I apologize, but you are in a unsafe environment, Mister Harangue." Rook said as Underwraps reformed his body, rolling his eyes a bit as Kath ran by to get the camera man out of the way of the Screegit.
"Oh sure, he gets to show off while I get torn literally to pieces." Underwraps said as he rubbed his head. "OK, not the best alien choice for this mission…better get something that can slow it down though." He slammed on his chest as his body shifted from wrapping into a dark green bark-like form over a black mass with a red and yellow flame pattern on his face with green oval-shaped eyes and thick five-fingered hands and root-like feet.
"SWAMPFIRE!" Said Ben as he looked himself over. "…OK, that's weird…I don't remember Swampfire looking like this." He shrugged it off as he ran ahead as he sent out some fireballs at the Screegit, making it roar out in annoyance at this as she stomped on him, but he rolled out of the way. The Screegit spat out a glob of acid, which Swampfire countered with a fire blast of his own.
"Ben, look out!" said Rook as the large arm swatted at him, making Swampfire grunt as Rook came down and helped him up.
"Thanks partner. Julie is around here…somewhere with that Pax guy. And I told that Fasttrack girl to get the civilians out of here." Swampfire said as Rook nods as he frowned at the Screegit, as Ben turned back to normal after that last hit.
"We need to go after it, it is increasing in mass getting and with the increased length of those extra limbs, much quicker." Said Rook as Ben nods as he slammed down on his Omnitrix again, turning into Wildmutt. Rook nods as he got on top as he says, "Let us ride!" Wildmutt roared as he ran ahead, sniffing around for the Screegit.
Meanwhile, Julie was flying around as she asks Pax, "Did you get everyone?" Pax gave a thumbs up with a group of confused civilians as Ship flew down and landed and opened up. Julie then got up as she says, "OK, everyone make their way to the underground Subway system. It'd be the smartest place to be right now." The crowd followed the instructions as they ran ahead, heading underground.
Pax then heard a crash as he and Julie looked outside and saw the Screegit walked by, having smashed some tracks. "Ah man, the Screegit broke the tracks." Pax said as the sound of train is heard.
"Oh you have got to be kidding…" Julie groaned as she saw a bullet train near by as she saw Wildmutt and Rook come in as she ran over with Ship and Pax. "Guys! The Screegit did that."
Wildmutt nods as he slammed down on the collar as he turned into a small, dark red creature with black splotches on his body and very large ears and nose, giving him a devilish form with a black aviator jacket with a white line on the sleeve, a pair of black pants and white boots with a pair of goggles over his green eyes and a thick tuff of white hair on his head, with the Omnitrix symbol on his belt. "…Jury Rigg? Really? Yeah, this would be useful if I had more time!"
He slammed it as he turned into XLR8, but now with a reversed colored jumpsuit than before as he gave a grunt. "XLR8…OK, better but I can't get everyone out at once, Omnitrix." He slammed again, this time turning into a small insect-like machine with a green glow around him with a small Omnitrix symbol on his chest.
"Nanomech?…OK, NOT funny Omnitrix!" He said in clear frustration as he turned into Bloxx with a grunt.
"BLOXX! Finally, something I can use!" He said quickly as he stretched his body out with his arms and legs clamped to the ground as ne morphed his back into tracks.
"This is gonna hurt, huh?" Julie asked Rook, who just nods as they both cringe as Ship covered his eyes as Bloxx gave out a scream of pain as the train rushed by, as he came down to the groun with a groan.
"I'm gonna need to see a chiropractor after this…" Bloxx groaned, cracking his back a bit as he heard a scooter as he saw Hokestar and Plugg arrive.
"Oh, good show my lad! You're a Segmantesapien! Just what we need to keep the creature contained." Said Hokestar as Bloxx looked confused.
"How? When I went Underwraps, it didn't do anything. I just got sashed apart." Bloxx said as Rook rubbed his chin.
"A Thep Khufan isn't as thick as your Bloxx form, maybe the nitrogen in the air seeped through the bandages because of the biofibers that make up his form? Segementisapiens are more akin to Earth coral; a lot thicker and more air tight." Rook said as Julie and Ship nod at this.
"Indeed. You put the creature into an air tight shell and I can use this Filter-Vac to take away the Nitrogen. Thus allowing it to be contained." Hokestar said as Bloxx nods.
"OK, lets do this." Bloxx said as Pax gave a faint growl at him as Bloxx rolled his eyes. "What do you want?"
"Just make sure to not hurt it, OK?" Pax said as Bloxx just gave a nod as he looked at the others.
"Try to block off the streets, we'll need it to be in one place." Bloxx said as he went on ahead as the others nod. The Screegit, now getting larger, roared out as Bloxx went infront of it and turned into a large wall. "Hey Queen Drollie, that's far enough." The creature only spat acid at him, making him yell out in pain.
"ooh…that has to hurt…" Julie said with a cringe as Ship was flying down one of the segments of the road while Plugg got cars into another as the police blockades another part of the street with Rook in his human form, but still wearing his uniform.
"This is Will Harange, once again live at the scene." Will said on top of a roof top that overlooked this situation. "The creature has grown to an unmeasurable size and now the police is trying diligently to try and stop Ben Tennyson's newest rein of terror."
Rook heard this on his Plumber Badge as he asks, "Does he blame many things on Ben even when its not his fault?" Bloxx broke open a fire hydrant as he groaned a bit after washing off the acid.
"Ow…" He said with a groan as he glared at the Screegit as he jumped up, climbing up the spines on it's back, avoiding the leaking milk-like acid coming out of it as he went onto the head. He then stretched out his body and became a large dome-shaped form over the creature as he says, "Professor, now!"
"on my way, my boy!" sai Hokestar, now in the disguise of a human with dark tanned skin, thick auburn hair and mustache and wearing his usual attire as he slammed into the large creature as Pax and Kath stayed hidden, as they didn't have any ID masks.
"hurry up!" said Bloxx as he felt the creature starting to grow, but Hokestar pressed a button as the nitrogin got expelled out of the air in there as Bloxx felt it shirnk down. "professor?"
Hokestar panted a bit as he says, "Well…that should do it." He said, getting a device out. "You are free to let it go while we still got it." Bloxx nods as he shrunk down back to his usual size as the Screegit was back to a smaller size as the orb went over it ot keep it from growing again. "There you go, girl."
"So…it looks like it's a happy ending, as far as we can tell." Ben said as Pax noticed some Plumbers near him and Kath.
"Sorry Pax, but you DID make me and Ben break into Hokestar's house, so I think you got some explaining." Julie pointed out as Pax grumbled a bit as he and Kath went with the Plumbers that had arrived as Ben nods.
"So…whatn ow?" asked Plugg, looking at the Screegit with concern. "Everyone knows what the elixir was made form, boss."
"Indeed they do, Plugg my boy. I guess she can't stay with us any longer. Too bad, the girl was growing on me. " said Hokestar, petting the orb as the Screegit was now asleep. He looked at Ben's group and says, "I do believe that, as the one who was responsible for it's care, that I should take whatever punishment you can give me."
"Nah, it was my fault the thing got loose. Maybe we can put it in a nice animal sanctuary? It IS Rare, so I doubt we can just leave it in the wild for some poachers to get." Ben pointed out as Rook looked impressed.
"Wow that is…a rather kind and mature gesture, Ben. I am impressed." Rook said, crossing his arms with a smirk.
"What can I say, I do own up when I goofed up." Ben said as Julie gave him a faint smirk at this, as he says, "OK…sometimes I don't, but I am trying my best."
"Yes you are." Said Julie as she ruffled his hair a bit in a teasing sort of way. She looked at Hokestar and Plugg as she says, "And don't worry, once we got the transfer, you'll be allowed to visit her. You DID take care of her, after all." Hokestar and Plugg gave a nod at this, appreciating the offer as they headed off as Rook looked at them.
"Hmm…the methods the professor has makes sense on why he does what he does; he is intelligent, but is rather scatterbrained with potential consequences…but Pax is someone I do not get." Rook said, rubbing his chin at this.
"He means well, trust me. He helped me and the cadets out on Terradino." Julie reassured, as Ben watched Pax and Kath go with the other Plumbers.
"But that could make him more dangerous…after all, trouble can happen with the best of intentions…I speak from experience there." Ben said sheepishly, as the group nods at this.
However, a good few feet away from the battle, Khyber had watched it all go out as he nods. "Hmm…interesting. He has a soft side to him…that could be a weakness I can exploit." He grinned faintly at this as he chuckled a bit.
End of Episode 10
WOW this took awhile to make. Sorry for the wait on this, everyone. I am gonna work on osme of my other stories as well, but I just wanted to get this out of the way while I had the ideas flowing. I hope you enjoyed it and please Read, Review and Suggest away! (A/N: Also, yes I know that the mummy alien is named 'Snare-Oh', but I changed the name. I did it with Rocks, I can do it here)