Somewhere the midwest...
The Rust Bucket had been overturned, not by the wind, but by you guessed it, one of Jack's alien adversaries. Come to think of it, one of his human foes could've been responsible for it too. But the cause of this attack was infact of alien origin. The attacker had put Arcee, June, and Raf into a state of partial consciousness. Jack however was in his petrosapien form, Diamondhead and was fighting the attacker, Vince, who apparently holds a grudge against Jack, despite the fact that Jack had nothing to do with causing Vince's current mutated appearance.
Diamondhead was thrown against one of the windmills. "You're one sorry sight, Rockhead." Vince 11 mocked.
Diamondhead got back up and started walking over to Vince. "That's Diamondhead, and speaking of sorry sights, have you looked in the mirror lately?" Jack retorted, referring to Vince's current form, which was a frankenstein like combination of Omnitrix aliens.
"Well, now that you mention it, I think it's payback time for turning me into a freak!"
"You were always a freak, Vince. It's just now the ugly is also on the outside.
"Diss me all you want. I'm still ten times better than you. I've got all your powers plus my own. I'm Vince 11!" Vince raised up his arm in triumph, then brought it down, firing several crystal shards at Diamondhead.
The crystal shards did no damage to Diamondhead. One of the shards was caught by Diamondhead right before it hit his chest. "Too bad each one of those is only a tenth as powerful as mine." Diamondhead then crushed the shard that he held in his hands. He then started walking towards Vince, who in retaliation, spat a stream of Stinkfly goo at Diamondhead's face. "Eww." Diamondhead was disgusted. "Miko's right." That sentence deep down injured Jack. "This stuff is gross." Vince charged at Diamondhead, he leaped onto the Petrosapien, grabbing onto him and flying up to the tops of the windmills. Diamondhead was then thrown into the center of the three blades, destroying it.
"Ha ha!" Vince laughed his handiwork. "Huh?" He saw that Diamondhead had grabbed the blades that he was thrown into and tossed them at the still flying Vince like they a frisbee. Vince was struck by the improvise shuriken and crashed, but got up in a few seconds. Vince and Diamondhead glared at each other and then charged. They were about to punch, but a red light had immobilized the two combatants.
They disappeared, leaving no trace.
Arcee, in her smaller robot form climbed out of the rust bucket. She was still uneasy in her movements. She looked around for Jack, but found neither him nor Vince. "Jack?"
Somewhere...
Diamondhead materialized in a pitch black area. He finished his punch when the red light that brought him here disappeared. A spotlight shined on him. "What happened? Where am I?"
The voice of what seemed to be an announcer spoke up. "Presenting our newest challenger from planet Earth."
The lights came on, revealing to Diamondhead that he was in some sort of arena. "Hold on, challenger?" Diamondhead failed to notice the murky green object approach him from behind as he looked around at the cheering crowd. The object was some kind of robot. When it got right behind Diamondhead, arms and legs unfolded from it, giving it a humanoid shape. "Easy now." Diamondhead nervously said as he backed up from the robot. "You look upset." Sword like blades formed at the ends of the robot's arms. The robot used them to attack Diamondhead. It brought its twin swords down, however, Diamondhead managed to get out of the way. It then tried to jab at the petrosapien, but Diamondhead caught the swords. Two more arms came out of the robot's shoulders. It then bent down and tried to cut Diamondhead's shoulder spikes using the secondary arms. It then brought its larger arms up and then brought them down, attempting to wound Jack's petrosapien form with a stronger blow, but once again, Diamondhead managed to get out of the way. The robot charged at Diamondhead, who rolled to the right to get out of the way. The robot got its swords stuck in the wall of the arena.
Little did Jack know, but he wasn't the only one fighting. Four others, one of which was Vicce was engaging the same robots.
Diamondhead swung his arm and fired several dozen crystal shards at the robot. His mechanized opponent blocked them. The robot was distracted, and Diamondhead ran up to the robot and used his blade arm to slice off one of the robot's swords. The robot then sliced at Diamondhead, and instead of dodging it, he blocked it. The blade managed to break through Diamondhead's skin. "Time to play can opener." Diamondhead formed his left arm into a blade and charged at the robot. He dodged one of the robot's strikes and got up close. He slice through the robot's legs, causing the automaton to collapse. The crowd cheered upon seeing the conclusion of the fight.
In a dark room illuminated by red lights, a being with a head that resembled a UFO watched the fights. It looked upon a victorious Diamondhead. "This one has spirit." He said in a rather calm, yet unsettling tone.
He then looked at a screen showing Vince fighting the same robot that Jack did. "You want a piece of me?" Vince used his Diamondhead arm to block a strike from the robot. "I eat wimps like you for breakfast." He then hopped onto the robot and used Ripjaws' teeth and jaws to rip off the robot's yellow spherical head. Vince then kicked the robot to the wall and spat out the head. Despite the fact that Vince bit the robot's head off, it was still functional. "Oh, you want some more?" Vince let the robot get within a few feet of him before bolting to the other side of the robot and the grabbing onto it's left arm and ripping it off. The robot stumbled back. Vince sprinted at the robot and used the severed arm as a bladed weapon to slice the robot in half. He then tossed legs and lower torso at the upper torso and arms, which were trying to get back over to Vince by moving like a spider. He then tossed the arm that he used to cut the robot in half at the severed torso, causing it to explode. The robot was finally dead.
The mysterious being that one could assume was the one who ran this place observed a triumphant VInce. "Sadistic, cruel, merciless- True gladiator material."
He then looked back over to the screen with Diamondhead, who had the robot that he fought impaled on one of his arms. The robot futilely tried to hack at Diamondhead, but for all intents and purposes was lightly slapping the petrosapien.
The Omnitrix dial on Diamondhead's chest blinked red, and in a flash of red light, Diamondhead went back to being Jack. The robot would've crushed Jack, had he not gotten out of the way. The robot got up and moved insect style towards Jack, trying to slice at his feet.
The crowd had seen that the one that they were cheering turned out to be a human.
Jack, knowing he was beat, ran from the robot. "Did I mention that I didn't want to fight?" Jack asked the robot, but to no avail. He was running from the robot that seemed intent on ending him. The robot then tripped Jack up unintentionally, which was followed by Jack flying about five feet and landing near the arm that he had sliced off. The robot was about to crush Jack, but he managed to used to arm to impale the robot, offlining it.
"A human." The overseer said as it observed Jack. "Resourceful." He then saw the crowd cheering for Jack after seeing his victory. "And a crowd pleaser. I'll make a handsome profit from these two."
The walls around Jack lowered, putting Jack and Vince in the same area. "You." Jack glared at the bully turned Omnitrix mutant.
Vince stomped towards Jack. "What is up with sending me to this freaky place?" Vince tried to crush Jack with his Diamondhead arm, but Jack got out of the way.
"I had nothing to do with this." Jack said.
"Well, if you didn't, then who did?" Vince was about to punch Jack, but was stopped when the red light that brought them here shown from where they stood, teleporting them out of the arena and into a room made of dark grey metal.
"Okay. I definitely do not like that." Jack was approached by a robot that resembled a samurai in structure, only it seemed to be made out of the same material as the robots that Vilgax uses. It moved on an orange sphere. Vince too was approached by a robot that was identical in every respect.
The robots wielded orange bladed axes that had black handles. The robot that approached Jack pinned Jack to the ground with the handle of its axe and attached something to Jack's chest. It grey circle with three smaller dots around the outside of it.
"Hey, hands off." Vince said after the robot that approached him placed the same device on him. The robot then pressed a button on its wrist, sending a large bolt of electricity through him. "Ugh! Aah! ungh!" Vince groaned
Jack was issue the same type of pain as well, despite the fact that he did nothing to antagonize the robots. "Where are we?" Jack asked after the pain subsided. He then looked up and saw through a window, the Earth. "Sorry I asked." Jack knew this was bad. "We've got to find a way off this ship and back home."
"This is your home now." An alien that was encased with dull silver armor said. "Escape is impossible."
"We have all been taken from our native worlds and forced to fight for our lives for the entertainment of the galaxy." An armored green skinned alien with yellow spherical eyes said.
Vince was pissed and lashed out at Jack, pinning him against the wall of the ship that they were now a prisoner of. "This is all your fault Darby!"
"How the hell can this be my fault?" Jack spat at Vince.
Vince turned his Diamondhead arm into a blade and held it in a manner that had it poised to strike. "I don't know. It just is." A quick jolt of electricity was sent through Vince and Jack, causing Vince to drop Jack.
A buzzer went off. "Meal time." A light blue salamander like alien said.
On a conveyor belt that folded out from the wall, trays that had mounds of purple goop rolled out. The alien prisoners started eating this, as did Vince, but Jack, being a human, found it disgusting, and tried to politely refuse whatever this stuff was. "Thanks, but no thanks. I had purple slop for lunch."
"You should eat before Technorg demands his offering." The salamander alien told Jack. On a side note, he sounds like he's clinically depressed.
"Who's Technorg?" Vince asked.
The sound of heavy stomping was heard. It was getting closer and closer to the prisoners.
When Technorg, a massive orange skinned alien as tall as Vilgax entered to room, all of the prisoners, minus Jack and Vince kneeled. "The reigning champion. You would be wise to show respect." The green alien said.
Jack didn't want to cause any trouble, so he kneeled like the others did, however, Vince did no such thing.
Technorg took the trays of purple goop one by one and ate all that was left on it, however, Vince used his tail to pick up the tray by Jack and toss it at Technorg.
"Wow." Vince put the blame on Jack. "Major disrespect. You gonna take that from him?" He pointed at the sole human in the room.
Technorg grabbed Jack and held him about a foot from his face. "Look." Jack nervously said. "I don't want to" Steam came out of one of the vents on Technorg's left shoulder. Jack coughed when what he hoped was steam hit his face. Technorg then slid him down the conveyer belt, causing the remaining trays to be knocked over.
"Ha ha ha!" Vince laughed at Jack's misery.
"Okay." Jack got back up. "That's it." He activated the Omnitrix and selected Four Arms. "You want to fight? Try picking on someone your own size!" Jack slammed the Omnitrix down and assumed his Tetramand form.
Four Arms delivered an uppercut to Technorg, sending the orange skinned alien back.
"This human is full of surprises." The overseer said as it watched to footage of Four Arms battling Technorg. "Bring them to me." The red light that teleports things appeared under Four Arms and VInce, bringing the two of them as well as two shogun robots to the room that the overseeing being was operating in.
The robots pinned Four Arms and Vince to the floor. "Hey!" Vince grunted.
The one in charge spoke. "I am Slix Vigma." He said. "This is the megacruiser. Everything on this ship belongs to me, including you."
"I don't belong to nobody, Slix, you sor-." Vince was shocked by the device on his chest.
"I speak. You listen." Slix explained. "These eyes see everything on this ship, and these hands control everything on this ship, and I have decided that your relationship will make you an entertaining team in the arena.
"Team?" Four Arms thought that this was a dumb idea.
The robots attached shackles to Four Arms and VInce, connecting the two with a blue energy chain.
"No! I'm not going around tied to this loser." Vince complained.
"You took the words right out of my mouth, freakazoid." Four Arms responded. they were both then shocked.
"Your fates are now linked." Silx explained. "If one of you should happen to expire, the shackles will ensure The other does, as well. Now, your next opponent awaits."
Vince and Four Arms were teleported out of the room and into the arena.
The two chained together enemies saw the one that they were fighting. It was Technorg. "There's only room for one Champion here." Technorg explained to his two opponents."Me." Technorg lunged at the two. Four Arms and Vince tried to run in opposite directions, but their shackles prevented that, and allowed Technorg to easily tackle them. Technorg proclaimed victory over the two, much to the approval of the cheering spectators.
"Nice move, moron." Vince insulted.
"Give it a rest, Vince. This is both our problem."
Technorg's shadow appeared above the two.
"Huh?" Vince was caught off guard by this. Technorg grabbed the energy chain and spun the two around and tossed them into a wall. Things were looking bad. To make matters worse, the Omnitrix decided that this was a good time to time out seconds after Four Arms and Vince landed.
Vince was pissed that he had to work with Jack in his human state, which was useless in a fight against a foe like Technorg.
"Oh great. Now I'm stuck with a piece of dead weight, but not for long." Vince picked up Jack with his Diamondhead arm and held Jack up. and was about to crush him, but a jolt of electricity made Vince drop Jack.
"Hey dumbass, remember the whole 'your fates are now linked' speech? It was only, like, two minutes ago." Jack said to a collapsed Vince after he landed on the ground.
Technorg was diving from up above the two and was going to use his mace arm to crush them. Some part of that attack was explosive, but regardless, the blast sent Jack and Vince flying.
Vince landed first, and Jack, who would've been critically injured if he landed on the ground, but he landed on Vince's head. Vince got up and ran, dragging Jack along with him.
Jack yelled and groaned as he was dragged, the ordeal causing his rear a lot of pain.
When Vince stopped running, which gave Jack a chance to get up, he laughed. "Oh, gee, I'm sorry. Did that hurt?" He said, sarcastically mocking Jack.
Jack saw an approaching Technorg and thought up a plan. He grabbed part of the chain that connected him to Vince and ran towards Technorg, using it to trip him, causing the champion to fall on Vince.
"Ow!" Vince groan from underneath a collapse Technorg. He saw Jack just standing their with a smirk on his face. "Hey, you did that on purpose!"
"Duh." Jack said in a Miko like fashion.
The crowd was booing, which Technorg found insulting. "Boos? No one boos Technorg. Technorg is champion!" Technorg proclaimed.
"Let's get some distance between us and him while he's distracted." Jack whispered to Vince. He thought Vince would've listened to reason so he ran off, but he didn't get far when the chain pulled the two back together. "Uh!" Jack groaned as he hit the ground.
"You're not the boss of me, pus bag." Vince didn't take kindly to taking orders.
"Hey, if we're gonna stay alive, we have to work together." Jack told Vince, but he wouldn't listen to reason.
"Why would I want to work with you? You're useless, even with that dumb watch." Vince actually brought up a good point. The Omnitrix is as much a liability as it is an asset. "I can take care of this prick myself." Vince got up and spat a stream of goo at Technorg, then fired crystal shards, which did nothing to hurt him, if anything, it annoyed him.
Technorg roared in frustration and went after Vince, who continued to shoot crystals at him.
"You were saying?" Jack said. Vince snarled and started shooting fire at Technorg with his Heatblast arm. That attack failed to hurt Technorg either. However, when a bit of fire bounced off of Technorg and landed on a puddle of goo, causing it to explode, Jack got an idea. "that's it!" Jack proclaimed.
"What do you mean by it? Stop playing the pronoun game with me!" Vince complained.
"Mix Stinkfly goo with Heatblast fireballs." Jack explained.
"What for?"
"Just do it. Trust me." Jack said.
VInce spat a stream of goo at Technorg then blast a beam of fire at him, causing an explosion that knocked the orange titian back.
The crowd was cheering after seeing Jack and Vince topple Technorg.
"Cool." Vince thought that what Jack suggested wasn't such a bad idea.
"If you use your powers in combinations, they make up for not being as strong as my alien forms." Jack explained. Okay, Jack go on Vince's back and held onto his shoulders. "for example, XLR8's speed plus Four Arms' strength plus Diamondhead invulnerability, equals-" Jack let Vince put the pieces together.
"One mean punch." Vince ran at Technorg, who only got up a few seconds ago. He and Technorg collided. Vince turned to face Technorg, who at first seemed to be okay, but seconds later, his mace are fell off. His mouth hung wide open when he saw Vince bolt towards him.
Technorg was knocked out. The crowd then cheered for the victors.
"Presenting our new champion." The announcer, who may have been Slix using a voice filter, said.
"Oh, yeah." Vince gloated. "That's right. Who's bad?"
Jack rolled his eyes and said to Vince what he had been wanting to for years. "You are so pathetic."
A hologram of Slix Vigma appeared, allowing Jack and Vince to see what he looked like. He had eyes that were the same color as Diamondhead's body, grey metal limbs, and wore a dark red and orange robe. "Now, finish him off." The hologram said.
Being bloodthirsty, Vince approached a downed Technorg. "Gladly."
"Vince, no!" Jack hopped off of Vince's back when he got close to Technorg. Jack grabbed the chain and yanked it, causing Vince to draw his attention away from Technorg.
"That's it." Vince had enough of this. "It's go time, again." Vince reached down to his ankle and grabbed the energy chain and tossed it along with Jack in his direction. Vince loomed over Jack and was about to deliver a killing blow, but both he and Jack were shocked, causing both great pain.
A large hologram of Slix appeared in the arena. "Mercy? What a novel concept." Prepare for galactic hyperjump. I need to recruit some new blood worthy of our champions."
Later...
Vince and Jack entered the room where their first encounter with Technorg happened. As soon as they entered, the prisoners kneeled before Jack and Vince.
Vince liked the treatment and made no attempt at hiding his enjoyment. "Nice to finally get a little respect around here."
They came to Technorg, who they failed to notice until now. "Thanks for letting him live, dipshit." Vince insulted Jack.
Technorg kneeled in front of Jack. "You bested the best, then spared my life." He held out a tray of the purple goo in front of Jack. "Now you are my master."
Vince decided to take credit for Jack's choice. "Actually, it was all my idea." He took the tray and dumped the purple substance into his mouth and swallowed it.
"I don't want to be your master. I just want to get back to Earth." Jack said.
Technorg looked over his shoulder at the guards and then back at Jack. "Even if you could break free of your collar and escape, the ship will soon be traveling to another galaxy."
Jack didn't like the sound of that. If he didn't do something, he would probably never see the Earth, his friends, or family ever again. "There must be some way to get to the guards' collar controls."
"We have all tried. None of us are powerful enough to overtake them." Technorg explained.
Jack thought that over. He came up with an idea. Jack's frown turned into a grin. "Maybe not alone, but if we all work together..."
Later...
Jack sat against a wall, his face hidden by his knees. He looked up winked. 'Time to put the plan into action.' He thought to himself.
Technorg saw Jack's wink and used his knee to tap a worm like alien with a water filled helmet. It used its tail to then tap Vince's shoulder.
Vince groaned. "I can't take it anymore!" Vince roared. "I got to get off of this ship now." Vince shot a fireball at the wall, and then crystal shards at the guards.
Technorg stood up and pointed at Vince. "Stop him! He's out of control!" He and several others piled onto Vince. The guards activated the shock collars, which worked, but then suddenly ceased to function.
"The shock collars. They're disabled." The bug eyed alien was in disbelief.
One of the robot samurai approached the green alien. Grey Matter walked out of the guard's shoulder, holding two wires, one in each hand. "All it takes is a short circuit and a little Grey Matter." The Galvan joked.
"Eh, get over yourself, short stuff." VInce didn't find that particularly impressive. "A monkey could have done what you did."
"Oh, then why didn't you?" Grey Matter retorted
One of the remaining guards tried to activate the collars but was punched by Technorg.
"Freedom!" He proclaimed.
"Come on." Grey Matter said as the prisoners started attacking the guards. He and Vince then left.
"Just when I'm starting to have some fun." Vince disappointingly said. He and Grey Matter, who was using a hijacked guard, made their way out of the prisoner chamber, and headed towards the center spire.
Later, Slix Vigma's chamber...
Vince opened a door that seemed to be inspired by Japanese styles. The room was bare, apart from a black U shape.
"The controls to the escape pods should be somewhere." Grey Matter hopped off of the robot, causing it to fall over. He and Vince ran into the room. That Slix guy said he controls everything on this ship from here."
"Actually, that's not quite accurate." Six green holographic screens with Slix on them appeared. "What I said was these hands control everything on this ship, including them," About a dozen or so Samurai robots surrounded Grey Matter and Vince. "and unlike you, they have no problem finishing off their opponents." Grey Matter panicked when he saw the blades of the robots' axes. "Like I told you, these eyes see everything, and so will everybody else. "But your demise will not be the opening act. Theirs will."
In the arena...
The footage of Grey Matter, Vince, and Slix was broadcast on several screens in the arena. The escaped prisoners were standing in the center. The floors receded, revealing what was underneath, a pit of aliens that resembled Wildmutt, but had legs like insects instead of paws. The prisoners found themselves on a circular platform surrounded by death.
Back with Vince and Grey Matter...
Grey Matter barely knew these people, heck, Technorg tried to kill him and Vince, but he knew that they were forced to do so. And they deserved to escape.
"If we're going down..." Grey Matter got angry.
"We're going down fighting!" Vince pounded his fist together. Vince and Grey Matter charged at the robots.
One of the robots fired a yellow beam of energy at Vince, but he managed to dodge it. Vince then punched the robot's head in, offlining it.
Another one tried to swing at Vince, but it missed and gave up the element of surprise. Vince proceeded to grab that robot and smash it against another one. A fourth battle bot tried to stab Vince, but the Omnitrix mutant grabbed the axe with his Diamondhead arm and melted through the samurai bot. He threw the axe like a spear at another robot, pinning it and another to a wall. Three more robots were firing at Vince and Jack. Vince tossed Grey Matter onto one of the robots. The Galvan got to work immediately and made some modifications, giving him control of this robot. Grey Matter used the robot that he controlled to blast the other two robots. He then exited that robot, but not before pulling a few wires that made the commandeered robot self destruct.
"Nice teamwork." Grey Matter said sincerely.
"If you try to hug me, you're gonna get slugged." Vince said in response.
Before Grey Matter could respond, the Omnitrix beeped, and Jack was in place of his Galvan form. A door opened and several samurai robot entered the room. Vince grabbed Jack by the back of his jacket and placed him on his shoulders. They ran out a door and came to a balcony. They saw the ex prisoners at the edge of the circular platform, arms restrained.
Technorg however used his immense strength to rip apart his bonds and tried to attack the guards, but was subdued quickly.
He was forced to the edge of the platform but wasn't pushed off. He was pressed against an invisible barrier.
"What is the meaning of this?" Technorg questioned why his death was being delayed.
A hologram of Slix Vigma appeared. It spoke: "These creatures are not what are going to end these fools, they are merely food for the true beast."
A loud grumbling was heard. In the pit with all the Vulpimancer like aliens, a doorway appeared. Out of it walked a large creature, at least as tall as Optimus. It was a reptile that stood on two digitigrade saurian legs, but that's where it's similarities to dinosaurs ended. It had two arms that had hands with five one meter long claws on each hand. Its arms were functional, as demonstrated when it reached down and grabbed one of the fleeing Vulpimancer like aliens and bit it in half. Atop its body was ahead full of teeth that could rival most species in the galaxy. Top it off with two long, slightly curved horns, and you have one of the deadliest creatures ever known. Some may call this creature a demon, but they would be wrong. But monster is just as bad as any demon. It was a creature known by one simply name. If one didn't already know, this creature is a Deathclaw.
The force field disappeared, and the Deathclaw picked up the scent of prey.
Technorg fell into the Deathclaw's pit but did not get within reach of the reptilian horror. He caught the edge of the platform.
The Deathclaw's predatory mind formulated a plan to get up to the platform. The moved its massive form underneath the platform and used its razor sharp talons to climb up.
Technorg pulled himself back to the platform, but that would be only a brief delay in the path to his imminent death.
As the Deathclaw made its way towards the prisoners, Slix Vigma watched on, unaware that Jack and Vince were falling towards him. They landed on him, catching the all seeing eyebot off guard.
Vince held Slix over his head. "What do you think of this?"
"Ease up." Jack cautioned. "We still need him to release the Escape pods."
"I am done listening to you." Vince tossed Slix into the arena, landing him at were the Deathclaw was about to pere up from where it was climbing.
Slix got up and saw that nothing was going to according to his plan. "This is not part of the show. I command you to stop... stop... stoo... st...op." Slix began to spark, as did the robots. However, the Deathclaw was unfazed.
Jack got another idea. "Wait a minute. Of course." Before Jack could speak up, Vince grabbed him and jumped from the balcony into the arena. "Uh! Vince, wait." Vince went over to pick up Slix and toss him at the Deathclaw, but there was a flash of green light, and when Vince looked at Slix, he had the same color scheme and texture that a machine possessed by Upgrade did.
"What? Vince placed the Upgrade possessed Slix down. "How did you?"
"I said wait." Jack removed Slix's robe to show that Slix was in fact a hover bot. "This guy doesn't just operate the control console, he is the control console, and now control everything on this ship." The Deathclaw roared. "Except for that."
"Well, goody goody for you. So long as I'm not tied up to your ugly butt anymore." Vince removed the chain that had connected him to Jack.
"Now," A floating platform that resembled a flat top pyramind flew towards Upgrade and Vince. Upgrade hovered up to it. "time deal with the Deathclaw."
"Deathclaw? What's a Deathclaw? That's a lamer name than any of your ali- ah!" Vince was grabbed by the Deathclaw and was moved towards the reptilian monster's mouth, but Vince broke off one of the Deathclaw's fingers and used it to stab the hand that held him.
The Deathclaw roared in pain, but only breathly. Its wound healed and the severed finger grew back in seconds.
"That would be a Deathclaw." Upgrade said. "That might be a problem." He saw that the Deathclaw could recover from whatever was thrown at it, from blows to its shins from Technorg's mace arm, to damage caused by Vince's mixing of alien powers, nothing could stop it. "Come on." Upgrade caused several guns to pop up. He aimed them at the Deathclaw and fired them. They were hurting it, but the Deathclaw was still too strong. It moved from one gun to the next and ripped them out with it's claws, until once again, it could focus on the small beings attacking it.
"I got it!" Upgrade proclaimed. "If we can't beat it, make it someone else's problem." The red teleporting light shown under the Deathclaw. Seconds later, it disappeared, dropping the prisoner that it was about to consume. "Phew. Panic over."
"Where'd you send it?" Vince asked.
"Away."
Kaon...
The teleportation beam appeared in the capital city of the decepticons, along with the Deathclaw. When the red light disappeared, the Deathclaw looked around at the metal structures and wondered what happened. It was shot by a red laser bolt, which didn't ever wound the creature. The Deathclaw turned to see an Insecticon in its robot mode. The Deathclaw charged at the Insecticon, grabbed it and ripped it appart.
Back on the Mega Crusier...
"Initiating intergalactic hyperjump launch." An electronic voice said.
"Okay, time to panic again." Upgrade said as he tried to fix the problem.
"What did you do Darby?!" Vince spat.
"Whoa, hold up, I didn't do that, and I can't override it." Upgrade tried typing in codes to try to stop it.
The material that Upgrade was composed of began to come off of Slix's form. "You don't have as much control over me as you thought." Slix said as he ripped the nanobot goo off of him. Technorg grabbed the severed heads of one of the robot guards and tossed it at Slix, allowing Upgrade to resume controlling him.
The platform that Upgrade was on hovered down. He got off of it and hovered over to the others.
"We must get to the escape pods before we blast off to the next galaxy." Technorg said.
Upgrade pressed a button, teleporting him and the others to a room with many doors in it. Vince was already there and was trying to punch his way through.
Instead of laugh, Upgrade said: "Need a hand or six?" Four tentacles came out of his body and made their way to a terminal that made all the pod doors open. "All of you, take the escape pods back to your home planets." Upgrade told the various aliens. They launched the pods and left this god forsaken place. Technorg, Upgrade, and Vince were the only ones not to leave. "You too." Upgrade told Technorg, who just stood in front of the open door.
"No. My life belongs to you." The orange alien explained.
"And I'm giving it back." Upgrade pushed Technorg into the pod, and closed the door. "Go now."
The Omnitrix dial beeped. Upgrade detached himself from Slix before he reverted back to being Jack.
"Oh, man." Jack panicked. "Not yet."
Slix grabbed Jack with his metal claws. "You little human meat bag." Slix had been angered. "Nobody controls Six Vigma. Nobody."
Before Slix could do anything to Jack, he was stabbed through the chest by Vince.
"Vince? You saved my life?" Jack couldn't believe what Vince did.
"Sure. Why do you think I wasted all my time helping all these other losers? I just wanted the
pleasure of ending you myself." Vince glared at Jack with murderous intent.
Jack turned and tried to run, but Vince spat a glob of goo at him, sticking him to the wall.
"Your lapdog Technorg isn't here to help you this time. Neither is that ro-bitch Arcee." Vince said as he approached Jack, who got his arms to break through the goo. Jack tried to activate the Omnitrix in a panic. "Oh, and thanks for the tips on combining my powers." Vince formed his Diamondhead arm into a blade.
"Come on." Jack begged. "Please work, just this once."
"Don't bother trying to dial In another alien." VInce held his blade in front of Jack's face, allowing the human teen to see his reflection in its diamond-like surface. I know all your powers, inside and out."
The Omnitrix turned green and the tower popped up as Vince raised his blade and prepared to kill Jack. Jack slammed the Omnitrix on the wall, turning him into Cannonbolt.
The was a cloud of smoke and then a clink was heard. When the smoke cleared, Vince saw that his blade had hit the armor of an alien he didn't recognize.
"Oh, yeah? I don't think you've been Introduced to Cannonbolt." Cannonbolt rolled up and broke through the good that restrained him. He rolled over to the other side of the escape pod room and bounced off of it. Vince tried to blast the rolling alien with a fireball, but missed. Cannonbolt rolled under Vince, tripping him up. Cannonbolt then bounced off the various walls, attempting the hit Vince, but the Omnitrix mutant ducked.
Vince tried punching Cannonbolt. "Hold still, creep!" He yelled after several misses and no hits.
"New game." Cannonbolt said. "It's called dodgeball." Cannonbolt came flying at Vince, striking him in the face and knocking him down. He bounded off the wall and hit Vince again, and again, until Vince was tossed into the wall opposite of the one that Cannonbolt bounced off of. Cannonbolt however, had gotten himself tossed into one of the pods.
"Come on. Come on." Cannonbolt said as he tried to find the launch button while Vince tried to open up the door by ripping it open.
Vince's eyes became wide like saucers when a four fingered orange hand grabbed his head and pulled him away from the pod door.
The pod door opened and Cannonbolt saw who saved him. "Technorg, I thought you escaped."
"I told you, my life belongs to you."
"Looks like we're even." Cannonbolt said as the doors closed.
"Indeed." Technorg pressed the launch button on the control panel, sending the pod towards the nearest inhabited planet. Technorg them turned his attentions to Vince. "So I'm a lapdog, am I?"
The ship then left the galaxy, going to god knows where.
Back on Earth...
The pod that Jack was in landed gently on the road not far from the Rust Bucket. When the door open, Jack rolled out.
"Jack, are you alright?" June asked as she turned to see her son. She, Arcee, and Raf ran out of the field that they were looking through and saw Jack. "We were looking all over for you."
"Where've you been?" Arcee asked. "You've been gone for about eight hours."
"Long story. You guys?" Jack asked.
"We'll live." June replied.
"But what happened to Vince?" Asked Raf.
"Well..." Jack said with a mischievous smile on his face. "Let's just say he found somebody new to play with." Jack reffered to Technorg who most likely beating Vince five ways from friday. "Jack then walked over to the field and laid down on the grass. "You know what I want? A day with nobody either trying to take over the world or trying to kill me."
MECH base...
"Well, it took us three and a half weeks, but we finally recovered from that Hakaider incident." One of the scientists said.
"But was it really wise to upload the data about Hakaider into the subject's onboard memory?" Another scientist asked.
"Where else should I have put it? It's not like it'll be accessed by anyone."
"Yeah, what's the worst that can happen?"
"But still, when do we bring our leader back to the proper land of the living?"
"Tomorrow night."
Chapter end
A.N. Yes, I made the monster a Deathclaw, and yes, it may seem like it went out like a punk, but it's still alive. I'll explain what it is in a future chapter.