Arsenal

Chapter 11-Kayla

A Map Piece Detector

After Tyson left, I quickly returned to Paladin's aid. As I entered his room, I saw him lying on the hospital bed. His forehead was wrapped in bandages, I looked down and saw the bumps and bruises that littered his body. But I quickly returned to his face, not wanting him to get the wrong idea.

"Hey kiddo" He said warmly as I walked up to him.

I was glad to see he was okay, we quickly began talking. He told me more about his adventures as a Plumber. We were both blissfully unaware of whatever Tyson was getting himself into. I decided to turn on the TV.

As I flicked through the channels, I saw a news broadcast.

"Breaking News, a mysterious boy has arrived to our humble planet. We only know he's an Omnitrix wielder known as Arsenal. He quickly turned into a Gourmand and defeated 3 mercenaries. They are known as Sixsix, Sevenseven and Eighteight. " explained an Athenian news reporter.

I was white hot mad, needless to say this was Tyson's doing. Who the hell did he think he was?! I told him to keep it low, frankly I don't care that he had to fight Eighteight and her stupid brothers. I knew the local authorities could've handled them.

Paladin could easily see my rage. "Kayla, calm down…" he said, as the door suddenly flew open.

It was one of the human nurses, she looked like she'd just seen a ghost. "A Varan Beast just broke loose! We have to get out!" she exclaimed as she entered the room, trying to help Paladin out of his bed.

"No it's fine, worry about the other patients." He protested, the nurse only nodded as she dashed out.

I looked at Paladin, I wanted to go handle the situation. But what if he got hurt? "Go be a hero, I'll be fine" He reassured me.

I quickly exited the room, I heard screaming and frantic yells of patients. My ears were pounded with the sound of laser blasters and finally, I heard a deadly screech.

An aura of fear clouded my mind as I looked towards the Omnitrix, hoping I'd pick the right alien as I scrolled through the menu. As I made my decision and began to transform, I felt my body from into bandages.

A headdress formed around my head as I looked down towards my waist, seeing a belt with an Omnitrix symbol on it. If you couldn't guess, I had transformed into Snare-oh again.

Before I knew it, a massive beast charged towards me. At first I thought it was some kind of dinosaur, but as I looked closer. It looked like a giant komodo dragon, it's skin was a dark green. I could tell it's scales were very durable, since laser fire only seemed to make it angry.

It yelled loudly, as it tried to take an incredible bite out of me. I tried to move, but my left arm went clear off. Apparently Snare-oh wasn't a very tasty alien, since the Varan Beast spit out my arm. I was almost shocked that I wasn't overcome with pain, but I guess Snare-oh's species didn't really feel pain. My arm quickly grew back, like it was never torn off in the first place.

I commanded bandages from my finger tips to quickly wrap around it's mouth, it fit like a muzzle. The beast obviously tried to break free, but it was all in vain. I was so proud of myself, I didn't notice it raising it's tail. A steaming green liquid fired out of it, as it hit my bandages they began to melt.

It tried firing more acid blasts towards me, but I was surprisingly nimble enough to avoid them. I looked around, hoping I could find something to subdue this beast. I honestly wish I had picked a different alien, but I didn't have time to pick someone else. As I looked up, I noticed a canister left on the ground. As I stressed my eyes, I saw it read "Anesthetic Gas".

I stretched my bandages towards it, I quickly grabbed the canister and hurled it towards the beast's gaping maw. It had to be hungry, because the Varan beast quickly chewed it. But before it could spit it out, it's eyes fluttered shut.

As it fell asleep in front of me, Plumbers quickly worked to contain the beast. As I walked past it, I felt a powerful gust fly next to me.

I turned around, seeing the source to be none other than Tyson transformed as XLR8. He was holding some Athenian girl, as Tyson's visor retracted. I realized the Athenian girl was holding the map piece. "Tyson!" I exclaimed as I used my bandaged to rip the map piece out of her hand.

"First off, what do you think you're doing making such a scene?! The plumbers could've handled those guys! And I told you to leave the map piece in the ship!" I yelled as Tyson began to give me some excuse.

He told me how the girl tried to steal the map piece and then about how they both had weird dreams that involved the map pieces and Xoragan's tomb. "Are you crazy?! She still can't be trusted, even if she went and gave you some bullshit lie!" I yelled from the top of my lungs.

Before I could yell at him more, civilians showed up. Asking for autographs and such, "Ugh! Go get Paladin, I'll get the map piece and your little friend back to the ship." I demanded.

As I wrapped my bandages around the girl "Your ship's pretty damaged." She told me with a plain face.

I wanted to slap her, but with the paparazzi swarming. I didn't have time for that, so I opened a window and jumped out. I used my bandages to swing around the town. I honestly felt like a mummified Spider-Man as I did so.

As I turned to the girl, she began yelled numbers. Her eyes glowing white, "Huh?!" I said as I looked towards her with concern.

She took the map piece which I had carefully tied to my body, she yelled more numbers. Until I realized these were space coordinates. "The-The next map piece I know where it is…" she said weakly, before passing out in my arms.