San Francisco, again, for some reason...
Jack, June, Raf, and Arcee in her Sadie disguise were waiting in line outside gamestop on a very sunny day.
"Ugh!" June's mood was starting to get affected by the heat, causing him to get mad. "We've been in this line for" She looked at the Omnitrix, then looked at his phone when she remembered the Omnitrix didn't tell time. "two hours, and it hasn't budged an Inch."
"Small price to pay for Halo 2 Anniversary." Raf was smiling at a mile a minute. "I'd do anything to get this game, stand out in the heat for triple that."
"Wait, don't you already have that game?" Sadie, who was not sweating at all, asked. "I've seen you and Bumblebee play it a few times."
"Hello! This is the anniversary edition, the graphics are all much better." Raf defended. "Duh!"
"You know, hate to sound like Gwen, but there's a nice air-conditioned bookstore over there." June pointed across the street. "Maybe we could wait inside until this line thins out a bit. And also so that I don't either lose it or pass out." June, who despite living in a desert for years didn't take the heat of San Francisco as well. I blame the humidity.
"And lose my place? Not an option! You two go. I'll get my game and Jack can stay with me. We'll get my game and meet you guys back at the RV."
"Want us to pick up anything for you at the bookstore?" June said as she and Sadie walked across the street. "Yeah, something about modding." The two girls walked off.
Later...
June and Sadie exited the book store. "So think Jack's gone stir crazy in that line yet?" June chuckled at her son's expense, as she knew that Jack although patient had his limits.
"Aah!" People ran out of the Gamestop. Four Arms jumped out the door to the game store. The sirens of police cars were heard. One of the cars drove towards Four Arms and when the driver stepped on the brakes, he skidded and collided with the Tetramand's feet. Four Arms, who was not injured by the car, picked it up and after the two officers in it where out.
"Uh, why is Jack going berserk and tossing around police officers?" Sadie couldn't believe her eyes, seeing Jack attack innocent people.
"Good question." June too was shocked. She thought she raised Jack to be better than this.
"Aah!" The officers ran away from the attacking Four Arms.
More police cars drove up as a standoff between Four Arms and the SFPD began. Four Arms threw the car at the side of a building. He grabbed a dumpster and then a light post and tossed them at the police, the light post landing behind both the officers and June and Arcee/ Sadie, but the dumpster almost hit the two women, but Sadie pushed June out of the way, both of them avoiding the trash filled metal box.
"He must have snapped his cap." June peered from behind the truck that she and Sadie took cover behind.
"Must've seen their trade in policy."
"I still don't believe it." June said.
A few more police cars drove up. Four Arms grabbed a small green car and tossed it at the cops, causing them to swerve to avoid hitting it. One of the cars hit a fire hydrant, breaking the water spout and causing it to spray water up in the air.
A massive murky green armored military jeep drove up. Three men wearing back longsleeved shirts and grey pants and had what resembled night vision goggles with red lenses. A fourth guy also got out he lacked the night vision goggles. He had blond hair that was in an orderly buzzcut. He had a scar that was just left of his right eyebrow.
"Lieutenant Steel, special Alien containment team." He showed the officer a badge that had a picture of him next to it. "We'll take it from here." The police officers got out of there. "Concussion bazooka!" Two of the SACT troops brought out said weapon, which had two parts. One of the troops had what looked like a weapon you'd see come out of Team Fortress 2; it looked like a AAA battery turned into a bazooka. The other had a vest and backpack that looked like two nine volt batteries, one on both the front and back. On the back of the second 'battery', there was an AA battery on top of that nine volt battery. Connecting the ends of the batteries were copper colored cables.
"That doesn't look good." June voiced her worry.
Sadie ran up to Four Arms. "Jack, what are you doing?" Four Arms was about to drop the car he held onto Sadie. Lieutenant Steel nodded. His men unleashed a bolt of yellowish orange energy at Four Arms, which sent him back flying down the street into the window of a pizza restaurant. Four Arms leaped out of the restaurant holding the brick oven that the place used to cook its food. He tossed it at a truck that was parked beside the SACT's vehicle, causing an explosion. Four Arms leaped away.
"There must be a logical Explanation, right?" Sadie reasoned.
"Let's get back to the Rust Bucket to be sure."
Later, at the Rust Bucket...
June and Sadie entered the domestic fortress. The saw Raf playing the campaign of his new Halo game. Jack was watching him.
"Are you demented?" Arcee shouted. She grabbed Jack and put him in a headlock. "Going alien just to get a Raf a remake of a ten year old video game?!
"What are you talking about?" Jack asked as Raf hit pause on the game.
"You going Four Arm freaky in front of that Gamestop!" Arcee shouted. That's what I'm talking about!"
"Now I'm sure he has a good explanation."
"Don't you, Jack?" June had high hopes that her son would confess.
"Yeah." Jack got out of Arcee's head lock. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Oh, sure." Arcee rolled her eyes.
June thought Jack was lying. "Just like Miko never puts empty milk bottles back in the refrigerator or you never leave the shower all gunked up, or Raf never, ever leave the toilet seat up in the middle of the night! You kids never do anything wrong, do you?"
"Sounds about right."
"Grrr!" June growled.
"Look, I don't know if some Encyclopedia or something fell On your head at the bookstore, But you have no evidence I did anything wrong." Jack defended. The only time I went alien in the past hour was when I turned into XLR8 to go to the base to get Raf Xbox 360."
"Oh, yeah?" Arcee grabbed the remote to the TV and changed the channel to a news station that reported on the attack by Four Arms.
"That's not me!"
"Oh, no?"
"I'm sure it's just some other Four armed alien going postal in front of a Gamestop."
"Arcee." June tried to restrain her.
"It's possible."
"Remember when Tetrax turned out to be a good guy?" Jack mentioned one of his earlier battles. "In fact, all the alien species in the Omnitrix live out in the galaxy somewhere."
"That's true." June admitted. Jack had a smile on his face. "Besides, Jack wouldn't be that irresponsible with his alien powers like that."
"June, please." Arcee was getting frustrated.
"All right." June conceded. "Maybe you have a point." Jack's smile turned into a frown.
"I won't stand for this!" Jack shouted. "If anyone's going to ruin my reputation except me.
Back at the Gamestop...
As the clean up crews started repairing the surrounding area, Jack began looking around for proof of his innocence. He picked up a brick and looked at it. June, Sadie, and Raf had followed him.
"Criminals always return to the scene of the crime." Arcee sneered.
"Will you give it a rest?" Jack said to his partner. "I am trying to solve a mystery here. And I thought that you were on my side?"
"Not when there's irrefutable evidence that shows that you're a criminal!" Sadie shouted.
"Now what do you expect to find that everyone else couldn't?" June scratched her head in confusion.
Jack heard some clanging in the alley. He looked and saw four arms peering out from behind one of the buildings, but Jack was the only one to see him. "There he is!" Jack shouted and ran after his alien form.
"Wait!" Said as Jack ran down the alley.
Jack ran down the alley, took a right turn at a T junction and saw Four Arms climb over a barricade. Jack got over it and tried to transform. "Come on, XLR8!" Jack transformed into Jackwolf. "The werewolf? Not what I would've gone for but I guess he'll do." Jackwolf had lost sight of the faux Four Arms, but he detected something else. Using the advanced sense of smell that a Loboan possessed, he detected Four Arm's scent.
Jackwolf climbed up the side of a building and made his way along the rooftops. Jumped over the tops of the buildings.
Back in the alley, June, Raf, and Sadie saw Jack turn into Jackwolf and climb up the building.
"He must be off to commit his next crime." Sadie said. She removed her ID mask and transformed into her alt mode. "Hop on." Arcee commanded. Raf and June got on. They drove out of the alley and after Jackwolf.
They followed Jackwolf down the streets until they reached a building that was built in the same architectural style as the field mueseam in Chicago.
"The mint!" Jack wolf said as he climbed down one of the buildings. He hid in an alleyway and waited for the Omnitrix to time out. Arcee's vehicle mode with her two passengers drove into the same alley that Jackwolf was in. June and Raf got off of Arcee as she transformed into her robot mode and placed her ID mask on, assuming her Sadie guise.
"So, here to steal the money right off the press?" Sadie asked.
"Arcee, I'm innocent! I didn't do anything wrong!" Jackwolf said.
"Sure, and Breakdown's being turned into a suit of robot armor."
"Just listen to me! I tracked that phony me's scent. The trail ends here." Jackwolf explained as the Omnitrix dial on his chest blinked red and turned him back into Jack. "We got to go stop whoever's doing this!" Jack ran into the mint's main entrance, the others ran after him.
Soon...
June, Raf, and Sadie were in one of the large open rooms of the mint that handled the final steps of making coins were.
"Are you sure he came in here?" June asked. There was an explosion.
They ran around a row of money presses to see Heatblast threatening two of the guards. He shot a fireball at the cat walks that were above the guards, causing them to fall in front of them.
"Okay, I was willing to give him one, but two of Jack's aliens terrorizing San Francisco? You're right can't be a coincidence, Sadie."
"I'm stopping this right now!" Sadie ran at Heatblast. "Yo, hothead!" Heatblast turned to face Sadie. "Back off on the fireworks before somebody gets really hurt! Now, if you take responsibility for all the wacko stuff you've been doing lately, I'm sure we can help you.
Jack ran between June and Raf and Sadie. "Sadie!" Jack shouted.
"Don't talk to me felon!" Sadie shouted. "Can't you see I got to deal with-" Sadie glanced behind her and and saw Jack. Sadie realized that the Pyronite that was attacking wasn't Jack. "If that's Jack," June pointed at Jack. "Then who are you?"
"Me? I'm a hottie." The Pyronite said with a voice that the main four would recognize. "Can't you tell?" He charged up a fireball. The guards ran out of the room. Faux Heatblast fired a stream of flame at Sadie.
Jack, as Diamondhead jumped in front of Sadie to shield her. "Now do you believe me?" Diamondhead asked the Autobot in disguise that he shielded. When Heatblast finished firing at him, he flung a few shards of crystal at Heatblast. "You and mom get everyone else out of here!" June and the others ran from the two aliens. Diamondhead took a few steps back and shot some more crystal shards at Heatblast, who in retaliation, shot a fireball, which Diamondhead ducked to avoid hitting. "I don't know who you are, but you're giving aliens a bad name."
"So why don't you cry about It," Heatblast mocked. "or are you gonna go run and tell on me to your mommy? Or that Arcee, who's both your bike and your motorcycle?"
Heatblast fired a fireball at one of the vats, causing it to drop the coins that it held onto Diamondhead. "Unh!"
"Hey! It's raining money!" The fake Heatblast spun around in place.
"Who are you?" Diamondhead asked.
"You still haven't figured it out? Maybe this will help." Heatblast's head turned into that of Stinkfly, followed by Diamondhead and Upgrade, before stopping at a red headed human that Diamondhead recognized.
"Vince?! I don't get it. I thought you were drained of all my powers back in Mobil.
"That's what you get for thinking, Jacky. Turns out, I absorbed enough of that weird watch energy so I could turn into any of those aliens inside if I just concentrated hard enough." As Vince explained, Diamondhead stood up and got out of the pile of coins that had knocked him over. "Only problem is, I can only stay human for a short time. You made me into this freak!"
"Like this is my fault? Whose idea was it to drain out all the powers of the watch?Yours, not mine."
"I don't care because now It's payback time, partner." Vince had an evil smile on his face. "Everything 50/50. I do the crime, and you'll do the time."
"You'll never get away with this." Diamondhead was furious at Vince.
"Wrong! You'll never get away with this. I'm not me." He pointed at Diamondhead. "I'm you, remember?"
A window was destroyed by SACT entering the mint. Vince shot a fireball at Diamondhead's back, knocking him down.
"Ha!" Vince laughed at Jack's misery. "Keep the change. You can use it to pay your bail." Vince morphed into Stinkfly, who lack the Omnitrix dial that was on his face. "Gotta fly." Stinkfly took off, breaking the windows in the process.
The SACT troops surrounded Diamondhead. They had their weapons aimed at him.
"Sorry, rockhead." Lieutenant Steel Approached. "No unauthorized withdrawals on my watch.
"But you don't get it." Diamondhead pleaded. "The bad alien just got away." He pointed to the broken window. "I'm the good alien."
"Yeah. Sure you are just like those alien heroes all over the news nowadays." He held his hand up and his men readied to fire at Diamondhead. "No sale. To me, you're just a walking Chandelier.
Raf ran up and vouched for Jack. "He's telling the truth, officer. There was another alien, who-
"I don't try them, kid. I just catch them. We'll let the boys at area 51 figure out who's naughty and Who's nice. Chicago, Tallahassee, Barstow; you and your outer space pals have been keeping me real busy, but you're not getting away with it this time."
"This time?" Diamondhead turned his fingers into sharp blades. He flung three crystal shards at the guns of the soldiers that were behind him. Diamondhead ran into the cloud of smoke and hid among the money making machines.
"Get that thing!" Steel ordered. Hit tops went after Diamondhead. Two soldiers that were up on the catwalk fired at Diamondhead. They high fived just before the alien that they were pursuing had fired a crystal shard between them. He fired more shards, which caused the catwalk to fall over. Diamondhead was shot at by two soldiers who along with Steel were running at him. Diamondhead made a barrier when he touched his hand to the ground and used that as an opportunity to put some distance between him and the SACT. As Diamondhead got to the top, the Omnitrix started to time out.
"Uh." Diamondhead started to panic. He jumped off of the catwalk and landed on one of the printing money machines. The Omnitrix timed out right before he was found by one of the SACT troops. "Unh." Jack faked cowered. "Don't hurt me. Oh, is that monster gone?" Jack stood up and turned around. He had a devious smile on his face.
A few minutes later...
"Thank goodness you found him!" June came up and hugged Jack. "We were so worried! He's always wandering away. I'm thinking of getting a Leash.
"Hmm. Nice watch." Steel noticed the Omnitrix on Jack's wrist. "Never seen anything like it.
"Yeah. It's from, uh, Japan!" Jack lied to the man who probably looks like he could stare down Megatron. "My friend who's an exchange student gave it to me." That however was only half a lie.
"No sign of the alien, sir." One of the SACT troops said. "It's like that thing Disappeared into thin air."
"And I don't suppose you four know anything about this alien?" He asked.
"No." June lied. She was a former member of the plumbers, she didn't have to listen to this guy, but she was just being polite so that she didn't get herself and the group that she traveled with in trouble. "If we did, we'd tell you."
"Yeah, of course you would." June and the others exited without causing a scene. "Keep an eye on them. They know more than they're saying."
Back in the Rust Bucket...
The Rust Bucket was parked on one of San Francisco's well known hilly sections of and the others were speaking with Optimus and Fowler via a video chat that was being projected on a white bedsheet by using Jack's cell phone and a projector. A second camera was hooked up so that Fowler and Optimus could see them.
"So what you're saying is that it was Vince at both the Gamestop and the mint?" Optimus asked.
"Yeah, they were both setups." Jack responded.
"Now that would explain a lot." Fowler said. "I don't mind telling you, but from what I've heard, that kid's rowboat is missing a couple of paddles. But that still doesn't explain why that anti-alien SWAT team guy think all aliens are bad."
Raf, after finding something on the internet spoke up. "Looks like it's from personal experience."
"Please elaborate Rafael." Optimus requested.
"Check this out." He showed those in the Rust Bucket and Optimus and Fowler the files that he found. "Your friend has been busy, and Not just here in San Francisco." He showed them an article the had Ripjaws holding a bag of money with his jaw extended. "Look. Wildmutt terrorizing Tallahassee, ripjaws in Chicago, Ghostfreak in Barstow."
"I'm gonna get blamed for all that stuff, and I didn't do any of it!" Jack was furious. "He has Ghostfreak but without the downsides."
"Yes, from Arcee's report, she said that your Ectonurite transformation Ghostfreak escaped from the Omnitrix, leaving you at only nine until a few days later when you scanned the DNA of a creature called a 'Yenaldooshi', followed by you regaining Cannonbolt."
"Optimus, Vince mentioned Arcee, not by her alias of Sadie, but by her real name." When Jack said that, Optimus' optics went wide with concern. "And the thing is, I never used Arcee's real name around Vince."
"Someone else must have told Vince about Arcee's identity. The question is who was the one to reveal that secret?"
"Maybe it was MECH." Fowler suggested.
"Can anybody say, 'ironic'? If that's true, MECH probably got something out of this. Probably alien DNA from Vince. Funny, their leader was destroyed by the Omnitrix so they want a creature created by it to gain an advantage." Miko, who walked into view of the camera that was at the base, said.
"But what if it was the 'cons? They would want a way of using the Omnitrix's power against the 'bots."
"Regardless of the source of Vince's knowledge about us, you should make it your main priority to take Vince down by any means necessary." Optimus stated.
"Prime, I thought you were against harming humans." Fowler interjected.
"Under normal circumstances, that would be the case. But Vince has the potential to become a threat greater than that of the Decepticons."
Optimus was about to end the transmission, but Miko stopped him. "Jack, before I go, what'd I miss?"
"Well, for starters, Ghostfreak broke out, he tried to possess me, then we killed him, then I almost got turned into a werewolf, Raf now has a crush on this girl named Kai,"
"Who wanted to keep Jack in his werewolf form as a pet."
"Yeah. Wait, what? Moving on, and besides that, I re unlocked cannonbolt and got a new form that I call Jackwolf."
"You are calling your newest form Jackwolf? You should work on a better name." Optimus commented.
"Or maybe I will. With Bulkhead's help, him and I could come up with some names."
"Okay, you do that." The transmission ended.
The screaming of people was heard as a green black and white cable car sped down the hill. Those in the Rust Bucket looked out the window to see the panicking people.
"Vince!" Jack headed to the door to the Rust Bucket.
"The boy must have gone Upgrade to hijack that cable Car."
"Anything he can upgrade, I can upgrade better." Jack attempted to turn into Upgrade, but he got Wildmutt.
"Wildmutt? Nice choice, fido." Sadie laughed a bit.
Wildmutt growled and exited the Rust Bucket. SACT troops saw this.
"Mobile one, a wild dog alien just emerged from the RV. Now both are heading down California street." One of the troops said over his communicator.
"Maintain visuals. I'm on my way." Steel said over the comms.
On the cable car, the driver tried to pull the emergency brake as the passengers panicked.
"Now, why are you doing that?" Vince asked the driver through a circle that was smooshed to look like pac man. Tentacles came and broke off the emergency brake. "We're just starting to have fun!"
Wildmutt was jumping on the roofs of cars as he chased after the outta control cable car. Wildmutt jumped off one of the cars and grabbed one of the cords and used it to fling himself onto the top of the vehicle that Vince was possessing.
When Wildmutt landed on the roof of the car, Vince spoke to Jack through the same way the did with the driver. "Sorry, Jack. No pets allowed!" Spikes erupted from the roof of the RV, forcing Wildmutt off of the top of the cable car. He hung off the side and was almost caught hit by a truck that was heading down the hill.
June was using the Rust Bucket's boost mode and was heading down after the cable car. Raf was having flashbacks to the experience that he endured when he found out about June's past. Sadie was looking directly ahead, unable to comprehend what was going on. June had a look of great satisfaction on her face,
"You know, times like this, learning how to drive by using my dad's old race car really comes in handy."
Back in the cable car, Wildmutt had made it inside. He was scaring the passengers, well, more like he was raising the general amount of fear.
A mass of black tar with a green circle rose out from the wall of the interior of the cable car. "Peek-a-boo!" Vince said with more than a hint of cynicism in his voice. Wildmutt turned to face what resembled Upgrade's head and growled at it. A fist came up from beneath Wildmutt and knocked him against the side of the cable car. "Heel boy, heel!" Vince used one of the benches to knockout Wildmutt. "That's a good little hero." Vince stopped controlling the cable car. He stood on top of it as Upgrade. "Huh. Let's see. The brakes are out, the hero's trapped, and everyone's about to go for a dip in the bay. My work's done." Vince morphed into Stinkfly and flew off.
Wildmutt had gotten himself out from under the bench and went to the back of the cable car. He saw that the Rust Bucket was right behind the runaway trolley. June stuck her head out of the window and shouted: "Jack, attach the line to the bottom of the RV."
Wildmutt took hold of the cable with his jaw and leaped out of the cable car and clung onto the front of the Rust Bucket. He bent down and hooked the cable onto one the sturdier places on the chassis and hoped for the best. He raised his head and nodded to his mom. June stepped on the brakes, trying to bring the Rust Bucket to a stop, but that wasn't working. June pressed a blue button that sent a grappling hook into the building.
That provided the necessary bracing, as the cable car stopped after the front eight inches went off a dock. Wildmutt breathed a sigh of relief.
Later, at night...
The Rust Bucket pulled into a parking lot that had a dumpster near by. Jack was hiding behind said dumpster, waiting for to be picked up. When the Rust Bucket came to a stop, June, Raf, and Sadie came out of it.
"Not bad for an alien with no thumbs." Raf joked.
"Freeze!" Steel shouted. The group was surrounded by SACT soldiers who appeared out of nowhere. "One move and you're all swiss cheese." He gave them options. "You have two choices, tell me what you had to with these aliens, or get measured for your prison uniforms." Jack looked at the Omnitrix, seeing how it was still in the red. "It has something to do with this watch, doesn't it?" Steel grabbed Jack's left wrist. "Is it some kind of signal to call the aliens?"
"Sir, we're getting reports of a crystal alien rampaging on the Golden Gate." One of the SACT troops said. "It looks like it could bring Down the whole bridge if it Isn't stopped."
Steel got out his radio. "Falcon one, pick up at my 20. We're not done." A helicopter flew over and let down a cable that Steel attached to his belt. He was lifted up into the helicopter, which headed to the bridge.
"Those guys don't stand a chance against Vince. I have to stop him!"
At the Golden Gate bridge...
Vince, as Diamondhead was on top of one of the bridge's supports. He fired a couple of crystal shards at the cables, cutting them and causing them to fall onto some of the cars, but the people had gotten out of their vehicles because as I think we all know, it proper edicate to leave your vehicle when the Golden Gate Bridge is under attack. Vince fired a couple more crystal shards at a truck, causing it to explode. Vince heard and saw the approaching helicopter. When the copter was over the support pillar, Vince fired several shards of crystal at it after Steel started to get out of it.
"Oh, yeah!" Vince said as he admired his work. The SACT officer however managed to cut the rope that attached him to the helicopter. He landed on the support a few meters from Vince. "Lieutenant Steel, so nice to see you again." Steel did what most would consider suicide, charging right at Diamondhead.
On the street below, the Rust Bucket pulled up. The group exited the RV.
"Uhh." Jack groaned as he saw Vince atop the bridge. "Just one more thing I'm gonna get blamed for."
Steel was being beaten pretty hard. He had a black eye, a bloody lip and numerous other injuries. Vince approached him. He turned Diamondhead's left hand into a blade and grabbed Steel with the other. He was about to jam to blade right through Steel, but he heard someone speak up.
"Let him go, Vince." Four Arms interrupted. Four Arms stood at the other side of the platform. "This is about you and me."
"Sounds good to me." Vince tossed Steel onto one of the cables that kept the bridge supported. Steel almost fell into the bay, but he managed to get a grip on the cable and then climb up. "Still trying to be a goody two-shoes, Jack?" Vince approached Four Arms. "Let me guess. You just want to help me? Ha ha ha!"
"You had plenty of chances to get help, but you always messed it up. This time, you're getting what you deserve."
"Aw. Does this mean that we're not best buddies anymore?" Vince fired crystal shards at Four Arms, who jumped to avoid them.
Four Arms landed in front of Vince and grabbed hold of him and punched him back, causing Vince's Petrosapien body to scrape against the bridge.
"You risked all those Innocent lives just to get even with me?"
"Nobody's innocent!" Vince got up and ran at Four Arms. They just haven't had the chance to make fun of me yet."
Back on the ground, June, Sadie, and Raf saw two of the SACT troops readying the Concusion Bazooka.
"You can't do this." June pleaded. "He's trying to help!"
The troops took aim at Four Arms and Vince. "Targets locked on, sir." The one wearing the backpack said through his communicator. "Permission to fire?"
"Fire on my command only." Lieutenant Steel said through his communicator. "Repeat-on my command only."
"We got to blow those alien freaks back into outer space." The one carrying the backpack said after he hung up.
"You really want to a disobey a direct order from steel?"
Four Arms punched Vince across the face twice, then twice against the chest. He then picked up Vince and slammed him against his knee, which didn't harm the faux Petrosapien. Four Arms was about to pound Vince's face in with his fists, but Vince turned into Heatblast and shot a stream of flame at Four Arms. Four Arms tried to body slam Vince, but he jumped out of the way. When Vince landed, Four Arms slammed down, causing the metal panel to flop around. VInce turned into Stinkfly when he was tossed off of the bridge. He flew at Four Arms, knocking him over. As Vince came in for another Strike he turned human and flew into Four Arm's chest. Vince was knocked over and onto the red metal. Four Arms approached the now human Vince and was about to punch him. Vince thought that Jack was going to kill him, but was surprised when Four Arm's fist hit next to his head.
"Huh?" Vince was confused as Four Arms turned and walked away. "Get back here and fight, Darby!" Vince shouted. "I'm not through with you yet."
Four Arms turned to face Vince. "But I'm through with you. You're not worth it. You never were."
Vince was furious. He mutated into a being that had Four Arms' body shape, amount of arms, two eyes on the left side, legs, and torso, an upper left arm that was like Heatblast, Stinkfly's wings, a section of his back that was styled after Upgrade, a upper right arm that was like Diamondhead, Ghostfreak's eye track, Grey Matter's right eye, two lower arms that resembled Wildmutt's arms and nose, Ripjaws' lure, teeth, and gill, and XLR8's tail. However, vince still had his red hair.
Four Arms looked at Vince's monstrous form and was shocked. "What the?"
Vince saw that he was a monster and tried concentrating. "I-I can't change back!" Vince was steamed. "I'm stuck like this!" Look at what you've done!"
"Oh, man! Is there anything I'm not going to get blamed for today?" Vince charged at Four Arms when he was nearly there, he used the Stinkfly wings to get more momentum and made the blow stronger. Vince had Four Arms against side of the support tower. He punched Four Arms, but Vince's blows were all blocked. However, Vince punched Four Arms into the tower, then reached in and grabbed him by the front of the clothes that Four Arms wore. He tossed Four Arms to the other side of the bridge, where he would've fallen off if he hadn't held onto the edge. Vince stepped on his foot and applied a great deal of pressure. "Agh!" Four Arms grunted in pain.
"You'll never beat me because you're one of the good guys, and good guys never have the guts to finish guys like me." Vince taunted.
"But I do." Steel said. "Fire!" He ordered. The Concussion Bazooka was fired at Vince.
"Unh!" Vince grunted as he was sent over the side of the tower and was sent crashing into the bay, he was yelling all the way down.
Four Arms managed to climb back up. He saw that Steel was starting to fall. He jumped onto the cable and helped him up. "Are you still looking for me?"
"Second target locked on." One of the SACT troops said over the comms. "Permission to fire?"
"We got our alien." Steel responded. "Stand down." Four Arms jumped down the cable. Steel however needed a lift. "Well, what are you waiting for, a pretty please? Get me down off of here."
Shortly...
Sadie, Jack, Raf, and June were in the Rust Bucket as it drove away from the bridge.
"Not even Vince could have survived that blast and that fall, right?" Sadie asked, wanting to know if Vince was dead. He'd been the first human she'd wanted to kill.
"You're asking the wrong guy." Jack responded. "I thought he was gone for good the last time."
June stepped on the brakes when she saw lieutenant Steel and a few SACT troop in the way. Steel walked over. Without being asked to, June rolled down the window that was adjacent to the seat that Jack was in.
"Now why is it that you people are always around when aliens show up?" When Jack heard this, he covered up the Omnitrix.
"Really? Is that a fact?" June said in a way to throw off Steel. "We hadn't noticed."
"Yeah, maybe it is just a coincidence." Steel responded. "Maybe we'll cross paths some time." He took a few steps back. "Drive carefully. Lots of wierd stuff out there."
"Yeah. You're telling us." Jack said as the Rust Bucket drove off.
Nemesis...
On the Decepticon warship, the faceless Decepticon spymaster Soundwave was looking over the news footage of Four Arms' fight against Vince. On his visor, an image of Vince's now mutated form was moved next to a picture of Arcee in her robot mode. He was compiling something. And this didn't seem good. He already had Jack's equal, a Decepticon that looked like Arcee but was very dark purple and orange. This was all part of something called project negative.
Something's going on. But, as the Storyteller says, 'That is a story for another day.'
Chapter end.
Next time: Gwen's back, and so is Hex.
PS This is not the chapter I said I would upload in by the tenth of November. This and the next one are ones that I'm uploading to get them out of the way.