Chapter 14

"Are we there yet?" Kevin was growing inpatient. Gwen could die any minute right now.

"This device keeps telling us to go west, but I can't see anything from here," said Ben, using the device he borrowed from Max.

"We've been circling this place for hours," groaned Doyle. "Maybe Gwen isn't here at all."

"I keep feeling that she's nearby, but I don't know how," said Sarah.

"I agree with her. We're in a warehouse district now. Villains like to make warehouses their lair," said Zak.

"That hypothesis has no proof," Drew retorted.

"That's what TV shows always says…"

Ben's phone suddenly rang. He received a voice message. "It's from Gwen!"

"Open it!"

He did. It was Gwen's voice. "Maybe a little. But I'm gonna' die right? And at least before I die, you won't mind telling me what your plans are? If you tell me or not, I'm dying too. You might as well tell me so that I wouldn't get baffled of why I die when I get to heaven, right?"

Then another girl's voice. "Fine then, since you're gonna' die soon. Animo built a beam ray that will shoot straight towards the satellite that green lizard built. The satellite will reflect the ray to other satellites in the world and then the whole world will turn into half-alien-half-cryptid mutants. Animo did a lot of experiments on the people they kidnapped. And he finally found a solution. The beam worked as plan. We'll fire the beam at next full moon."

"Next full moon means... tomorrow?"

"YES. TOMORROW. And I will avenge on Zak Saturday and his family who trapped me in that stinking parallel world!" Zak Monday's voice.

"Ok. Thanks for the info... I can die now..."

"Beam? Great…" muttered Doyle.

"Gwen says she's gonna' die! Can't we pick up the pace?" yelled Kevin.

"If Gwen was able to send this message, that means she's alive. For now," said Doc.

"I don't think we have much options right now, don't we?" said Sarah.

"We'll just have to check each warehouse manually, starting with the big ones. We need to be fast," said Ben.

"Did I mention that the ship just newly installed an X-ray beam?" Doc added.

"Dad, activate it! Now!" Zak ordered.

Doc pushed a red button. A beam appeared below the ship and scanned the warehouses. Nothing was peculiar until they spotted a huge warehouse with people inside. One of them looked exactly like Gwen hanging from the ceiling.

"Gwen!"

"Let's go—" suddenly the ship was struck by an unknown force. The screen showed a gang of weird-looking monsters spitting fireballs at the ship.

"Finally, some butt kicking," Doyle took his guns. "Jurassic, Zak, Drew, Komodo, let's go."

"Hold the ship till get back, Doc," said Drew.

"Ok. I'll drop you guys at the roof," Ben, Kevin, Sarah and Fisk landed on the roof of another warehouse far apart from the villains' lair.

"He should have landed us at that warehouse, not this one," Kevin grumbled. "There're so many of them. Gwen could have died when we reached there!"

"Be optimistic! We still have the mana-tracking device!" Sarah chided.

Ben used the device. He got high readings of mana from the south, but it was getting weaker and weaker. "Something's not right. The mana is weakening. Is the device broken?"

Suddenly they heard a piercing scream. "GWEN!" Kevin absorbed matter from the ground. "Boost me, gorilla!" Fisk immediately hammerthrew him to the source of the scream. He punched a hole on the wall and landed inside of the warehouse. Gwen was in there but a beam was pointed at her. And it was absorbing her soul out of her.

"LEAVE HER ALONE!" Kevin threw a boulder at the beam but Charmcaster flung it away with her magic.

"It's too late now! Her power is ours!"

"Not in a million years!" Ben yelled. He was in the form of Swampfire. Sarah cast a shield to protect Gwen from the beam. Fisk hammerthrew Kevin at the beam again and this time he destroyed it. He quickly released Gwen from her restrains. She was weak, but she still could talk.

"Thanks, Kevin… for coming…" she wanted to take a sleep and cast the nightmare away.

"Shush, don't talk…"

Ben threw fireballs at Charmcaster but she kept dodging. She flew around him, throwing blasts but Sarah protected him with her shield. Van Rook suddenly appeared behind Kevin with a gun pointed at his back.

"Don't move, kid, or else you're toast—" suddenly Van Rook was pushed away by a monster which was sent flying through a wall.

"Sorry, we're kinda' late," Zak jumped in to the battlefield. "My powers also work on the half-aliens-half-cryptids."

"Less talking more butt-kicking!" Doyle threw a grenade at Charmcaster but she threw it back at him. Ben threw a fireball at her and finally he got her.

Suddenly, Fisk roared angrily at Sarah. His eyes grew in a green light. "Fisk?" She couldn't dodge when he threw her at a wall.

"Sarah!" Ben was distracted and Charmcaster threw a blast at him, knocking him unconscious.

"Fisk! Calm down!" Drew called. But he kept on rampaging and charged at her.

"MONDAY!" yelled Zak. "Show yourself, coward!"

Zak M. stepped out from the shadows. "Did I make mama's boy mad?"

"Your fight is with me! Leave Fisk alone!"

"I will, until all of you are dead!" Zak M. ordered Fisk to attack Drew but Sarah caged him in a force field.

"I can't hold him for long!"

"Yo, bad hair taste!" yelled Doyle at Zak M. "Try this one for size!" he threw a grenade at him. It exploded and he was sent hurling at Van Rook who was just getting up on his feet. Fisk was released from Zak M.'s control.

"FINALLY!" yelled Amino. "THE BEAM IS READY. IT IS CHARGED! NOW WE CAN TURN THE WORLD INTO OURS!"

"Not a chance!" Sarah lifted a boulder to throw at Amino but she was knocked away by a monster. Zak rushed to her but he was surrounded by the monsters. Doyle, Komodo, Zon and Drew had no way to run either. Fisk was too weak to fight back. Kevin and Gwen were too surrounded. Doc was still no where to seen and Ben was still unconscious.

"Let's see who's the one whining now!" Charmcaster grinned.

"Amino," said Komodo M. who was watching the battle scene. "Why don't we let our friends witness the greatness of our domination plan? Let them suffer as they watch their family and friends transforming into creatures one by one."

"Evil… I like it!" Van Rook agreed.

"You leave everyone else out of this!" yelled Sarah.

"Not a chance, girl. Activate the beam. I can't wait for tomorrow night."

What will happen to our gang? Where's Doc? Will Ben and Zak save the day? Sorry for taking this story for so long. I'll finish it ASAP after my mid-year exam.

I was thinking of writing another story about Ben and Zak crossover just like this one, with slightly added of Rex from Generator Rex. Please give any ideas if you have some. Thanks for reading and please review! ~~~whiteraven95