Arsenal

Chapter 21-Tyson

Where Heroes Are Made

We quickly re boarded the Aldrin, the Professor had called me. Telling me about how the Plumbers hired him, I was happy for the intelligent crab.

I walked down the hall, Lana walked past me. She seemed very worried about something. "You okay?" I asked, half expecting her to brush me off.

"Oh they didn't tell you?" she said meekly as she turned to me.

I shook my head, "I have no idea where the next map piece is.." she said as she looked away.

"Oh come on, it's not that bad. I'm sure we'll pick up something about some random psycho going on a Black Fire empowered rampage."

She only glared at me "That's not the point, I need to show my usefulness to the group. Or else I'll just have to go back to Celtanus."

"Well don't you have any family to get back to?"

"No, I never did" she said coldly as she stormed off.

I sighed, deciding to try and avoid Lana for a while. The red alarm turned on like last time, figuring Vilgax must've sent off more of his robots to attack us. I managed to run to the cockpit where I found Paladin and Kayla. Paladin could be seen at the front, trying to fly the ship in all the chaos. Kayla seemed to be pressing buttons and focusing on a small screen, at first I thought she was playing a Video Game. But upon closer examination, I realized she was firing the lasers.

"Hell's goin on?!" I asked as I held on to a chair, struggling to maintain my balance.

"Meteor Shower! Rushed in too fast for the sensors to detect, the shields are taking a beating!" replied Paladin as he did his best to dodge the meteors.

I looked to see Lana opposite to Kayla, typing in a code into a keyboard. "I'm trying to hit the warp drive! But I can't put in the coordinates!"

"Don't worry about it! Just get us out of here yesterday!" cried out Kayla as she blew apart another meteorite with the ion cannons.

I looked down in shame, embarrassed that I wasn't able to do anything to help. "Tyson buckle up! Warp driving really isn't something you should standing for!" barked Paladin as I quickly jumped into a nearby seat, doing my best to buckle in quickly.

The warp drive came in, a white burst of light covered my eyes. I screamed almost feeling like my body was being spun in a tornado on steroids.

As it ceased, we flew out of a portal and sped downwards. I looked outside and saw the red planet we were headed towards. We entered the atmosphere, a large white tower came into view. "What's going on?!" I asked, since we flying towards the planet rather rapidly.

"This is Planet Ursoro! The Plumber's Main Academy should be here, problem is we're crashing right into it." Replied Kayla.

As I looked out I was a green mist moving towards the Academy, upon closer examination I saw they were giant green bugs. "Aw sick! Lepidopterran (Stinkfly's species) swarm!" cried out Lana.

I quickly unbuckled myself and moved towards the door. "Guys look do whatever you can to stop the ship from crashing!" I commanded as I opened the door.

"The hell are you going to do?!" asked Kayla as she looked towards me.

"Oh just a little bug zapping!" I replied as I jumped out of the door, began to fall right down towards the large swarm.

I looked down towards the aliens, they had large wings and four insect like legs. Each one of them seemed to have four pedunculated eyes, which were yellow and rather small. I closed my nose, almost about to faint from the smell. But I did my best to ignore it as I turned into Nimbus. I screeched and flapped my wings, black and blue feathers scattered around me.

I quickly called down a thick blizzard came down, many of the Lepidopterrans began to collapse to the ground, since their wings got wet from the snow.

"Attack the Zizzitripae! Keep on our main target!" cried out a Lepidopterran as the blizzard began to fade away.

A good amount of the Lepidopterrans flew towards me while the rest of their numbers advanced towards the school. I could only watched as they fired acid towards the metal walls and used their sharp tails to tear into the school's metal walls.

I did my best to avoid the flurry of acid the insectoid beings fired towards me. I quickly exhaled a powerful fog from my mouth. I quickly flew out of it, hearing my foes crash into each other and cry out in pain.

They all began to collapse the ground, I worried for them but since they all groaned and moved around after impact that informed me that I certainly took them down, but not out.

I quickly advanced towards the Academy wall, The Lepidopterrans had made a large gaping hole in the wall. They all landed on the wall and began crawling inside. I screeched as I released a powerful electric burst, it quickly hit all the disgusting invaders left on the wall. Causing them to collapse to the surface, I then quickly flew into the hole.

Once I did, I saw young aliens. Most of them seemed to be my age, they wore Plumber's uniforms. Except most of them were blue and less armor-like in nature. They along with normal adult Plumbers I was accustomed to used blasters to fend off their attackers.

I looked around and panicked, feeling very choked up in the corridor. I remembered what Paladin had found out about Nimbus, his species is naturally claustrophobic . Fortunately the Omnitrix timed out.

I sighed in relief, unaware that a Lepidopterran was about to try and slit my throat with it's clawed fingers. Fortunately a blue skinned girl quickly shot the beast, knocking it out. "Watch your back dude!" She said with a cheery laugh from behind some crates.

I quickly joined her, not wanting to need to be rescued again. I pressed the main button of my Omnitrix, prepared to transform once more. "Woah, nice Omnitrix man.." she said in awe as I dialed in Articguana.

Much to my surprise, I actually got the alien I wanted once more. The students and teachers did their best to fend off their attackers as I exhaled a powerful ice beam. In one foul swoop, all the winged intruders were frozen solid. "Polar Manzardrills are so awesome!" stated one of the students as they all ran towards me, looking at me in awe.

"Thank you!" "That was kickass!" "You rule!" were among a number of comments from the students.

I quickly turned back to normal, the students continued to crowd me. "Now now students! Give the boy some space!" Said a purple gorilla like man.

The students cleared a path for him "Now what's your name young man? I am Magister Kerjack" he asked as he looked down towards me.

"It's Tyson sir" I said meekly, someone intimidated.

"But I'm my super hero name's Arsenal.." I continued.

My last sentence sent the students into a craze again, they chanted "Arsenal!" over and over again.

"Settle down" said Kerjack plainly as they suddenly went silent.

"So you're Arsenal hmm? I heard about you on the news. Feel free to get some rest, consider yourself our guest!" He said as he and most of the students left.

The one remaining blue girl who recently saved my life. She had short white hair, she seemed rather skinny. She didn't give off the bossy tomboy aura Kayla did, or the serious attitude Lana had. She seemed rather jubilant. "So watch slinger, what brings ya here?" she asked as her grey eyes beamed.

"Me and my friends accidentally showed up, warp drive gone bad."

An announcement came from the loud speaker "Attention students! A Plumber ship has arrived to our lovely academy, you must treat our guests with the atmost respect!" said the speaker in a slightly French accent.

"Crap that must be my friends! Sorry gotta jet" I said as I prepared to dash off.

The girl quickly jumped on my back. "Dude just go XLR8 or maybe Fasttrack?" she suggested.

She was surprisingly light, I quickly dialed in XLR8 and sped off. Having no idea of the events that were to come.