Midnight Madness
I don't own Digimon or Ben 10
"Five hundred stores, seventy two restaurants, forty eight movie screens, and indoor roller-coaster," Gwen said as she read a brochure as she, Ben, Daisuke and Max were leaving a giant mega store and were walking to the RV.
"We could spend the whole summer here, this mall has everything!" Ben exclaimed before the group heard a burglar alarm go off and two people ran out of the store with three security guards behind them.
"Halt, in the name of mall security," one said.
"Including their own police force," Max said.
"Looks like they could use a hand," Daisuke said cracking her knuckles. "A hero's work is never done," she said before she ran off and was enveloped in a green light and turned into Wildmutt and chased after the two robbers, she saw them jump off a lamp post and into a parking lot complex and she followed after them and tackled them to the ground before Wildmutt turned into Four Arms.
"Alright, hands up," she told them before she noticed the two robbers were actually elderly people who jumped up and both of them jumped off two pillars and kicked Four Arms in the face making her stumble in shock. "Since when do old people act like ninja?" she asked herself confused, the old lady jumped at her and she caught her leg and threw her away before she rebounded off a pillar and jumped at Four Arms and hit her in the gut and the old man punched Four Arms and then kicked her sending her to the ground and the old man jumped on her chest and kicked her in the face before she threw him back but the man landed and breathed out slowly. "Something is screwy here," Four Arms said before she heard the mall's security arrive and point their guns at her.
"Hands up, all four of them," a guard told her and Four Arms raised her arms before she jumped over the cops and ran off and they followed her, Four Arms made it to the bottom of the complex when the Rust Bucket pulled up and she jumped in and the cops followed. "They must be trying to escape in that RV, cut them off," and one of the vehicles chasing the RV veered off and drove down the embankment to block the road as the RV drove towards the police, the RV swerved wildly and smashed into a lamp post, the security ran into the RV where they only saw, Max, Ben, Gwen, Daisuke and Veemon who was acting as a stuffed toy.
"Can we help you officer?" Daisuke asked him. The next day, Daisuke, Ben, Gwen and Veemon who was wearing his disguise were walking through the mall.
"Nice going last night Daisuke, not only did the robbers get away. But because they thought you were inside, they played demolition derby with the Rust Bucket," Gwen scolded Daisuke who was drinking a soda.
"It wasn't my fault that two old people somehow acted like they were forty years younger," Daisuke replied. "Besides the mall is gonna pay for the repairs, and we get to spend a few more days here while Max waits for the parts to arrive," she added.
'You're right. Nice job Four Arms," Ben told her.
"Hey guys, check this out," Veemon said standing in front of a sign. "The Amazing Sublimino. Master of Hypnosis last day," he read off the sign.
"Let's check it out," Gwen said running off with Veemon.
"And to think we almost missed him," Ben said and Daisuke nodded as they followed Gwen and Veemon towards a small stage.
"Ladies and gentlemen. Presenting….Sublimino the Master of Hypnosis," a voice said as a cloud of smoke appeared and a small man the same size as Veemon walked out coughing before he nearly tipped over his feet. The man had blond hair and a scar of his right eye and wore black sunglasses as he walked towards the microphone.
"I am about to take you on a journey to that mysterious realm known as the mind," Sublimino said and no one reacted. "First I shall need some volunteers," he said.
"Oh give me a break," Ben groaned.
"This is just a sham," Daisuke said.
"Then why don't you prove it?" Gwen asked her and she sighed before she walked onto the stage beside two more volunteers.
"Now clear your minds, focus only on this pocket watch as it swings back and forth," Sublimino said taking out a pocket watch and he started to swing it back and forth. "Your eyelids are getting heavy, you are falling into a deep sleep," he said but Daisuke and the other two volunteers were unaffected and Sublimino took out another pocket watch but this time it sent out a wave towards the volunteers and Daisuke's eyes glazed over before she and the other two volunteers fell asleep.
"Oh, major blackmail material," Gwen said taking out her new video camera before Ben grabbed it.
"Don't even think about it," he told her and Gwen nodded.
"Now. You are in my power, when you open your eyes you will all become new born babies," Sublimino said and Daisuke and the other volunteers opened their eyes before they started to cry and Daisuke sucked on her thumb and Ben, Gwen, Veemon and the audience laughed.
"Now, you are chickens in a barnyard," Sublimino said and Daisuke and the other volunteers started to cluck like chickens.
"Why is Daisuke acting like a chicken?" Max asked walking up to the others.
"That guy on stage hypnotised her and the other two on stage," Ben explained.
"You are a ballerina," Sublimino told one of the volunteers. "You are a ferocious grizzly bear," he told the second one and both volunteers started acting like a ballerina and a grizzly bear. "And you…" he said to Daisuke. "Are an alien," he said and Daisuke went to activate the Omnitrix.
"Jokes over!" Max said and Veemon ran towards Daisuke and tackled her behind the curtains.
"You are ruining my performance," Sublimino told him.
"Sorry, my friend needed to go to the little aliens room," Veemon said and Sublimino went back to the stage and Veemon sighed in relief as he held up a hypnotised Greymatter in his hand.
"Take me to your leader. Your wish is my command," she said and Veemon gulped. Later that night Daisuke was in the RV watching what had happened and she was blushing in embarrassment.
"Oh man, this is so humiliating," she said.
"Good thing Veemon grabbed you before anyone saw you go alien," Ben told her as the video continued.
"How're we gonna snap her out of it?" Veemon asked on the video.
"Maybe, change back to human," Ben said and Greymatter was enveloped in a green light and she turned back into Daisuke who shook her head.
"Huh? What just happened?" she asked before the video turned off.
"So, me turning back to human snapped me out of it?" Daisuke asked as Max walked into the RV.
"Alright you lot, bed time," he told them and everyone went to bed. The next day everyone was walking through the mall when Max saw Daisuke looked exhausted. "Hey Daisuke, are you okay?" he asked her.
"Yeah…just a little tired is all," she answered with a yawn. They all walked up to a ride that was wrecked.
"What happened?" Ben asked.
"Someone stole the motor to the sea dragon ride, probably a prank by some punk kids," a security guard answered.
"What do you think of this?" another guard asked holding up a Diamondhead shard and Daisuke's eyes widened as everyone looked at her as the two guards walked away.
"I didn't do it. I swear," Daisuke told the others who looked at her skeptically. "Hey, I'm not the only alien in the galaxy," she said. That night as the clock struck midnight a wave emanated from the clock tower and Daisuke sat up in the RV and jumped off her bed which woke the others and they saw her turn into Upgrade and leave the RV before she jumped and merged with a lamp post and then she appeared on the roof of the mall.
"She must be sleepwalking," Max said. A helicopter then appeared and shined its spotlight down on Upgrade.
"Halt! In the name of mall security!" the pilot told Upgrade who ran towards the clock tower and climbed up to the roof of it, a helicopter flew towards her and she punched it sending it flying.
"Daisuke! Wake up! You're sleepwalking!" Ben shouted to her from the ground below.
"It's no use Ben. She can't hear you. She probably has no idea what she is doing," Max told his grandson as police cars pulled up. "I better get up there," Max said running off, one helicopter then fired at Upgrade and she back flipped before running towards the helicopter and she jumped onto it and merged with it turning it into a advanced helicopter that took out the lights on the other helicopters and on the cars below, Upgrade then jumped onto the clock face and merged with it and pulled the clock face out of the tower.
"Time sure flies when you go alien," Gwen said as Upgrade flew off towards a warehouse and she landed and the door to the warehouse opened and Sublimino walked out and Upgrade jumped in front of him.
"Who are you? What happened to the girl who looked like a walking chandelier?" he asked. "Oh well, as long as you do as I say, I don't care. Now get out of here before the cops come," he ordered and Upgrade merged with a bulldozer and drove off. The next morning Daisuke woke up and rubbed her eyes.
"What a weird dream," she said before she saw she was inside the scoop of the bulldozer outside the RV. "Oh no," she said.
"Despite last night's bizarre attack and other burglaries the mall representative had this to say," a news reporter of the TV said.
"This was an isolated incident. The mall is open for business, shopper safety is our number one priority," the representative said.
"So…." Daisuke said yawning. "Why would I steal stuff like a roller-coaster motor and a big clock?" Daisuke asked.
"Well, sleepwalkers are in a hyper dream state. Nothing makes sense in a dream," Max explained.
"But most sleepwalkers don't have a watch full of alien heroes at their control," Gwen said and Daisuke's head slumped.
"She's right. We're going to need to keep you awake and away from people until we can stop your midnight strolls," Max said and Daisuke closed her eyes and started to sleep before Ben threw a cup of water in her face waking her up.
"Hey!" she shouted at him.
"Just doing my job," Ben replied. This continued on as Daisuke kept falling asleep and Ben kept waking her up, first by holding her nose, the putting ice cubes down her back and when Daisuke fell on her bed, Ben pulled the bed sheets out and she hit the floor.
"You're enjoying this aren't you?" she asked him before Ben blew an air horn in her face.
"A little bit yeah," he answered her and Daisuke frowned at him. Soon it was near midnight and everyone was struggling to stay awake, but soon everyone was asleep.
"Awaken my slaves, awake and serve your master Sublimino," Sublimino who was standing in the clock tower said before his pocket watch sent out wave and Daisuke woke up and she turned into Heatblast.
"Turn down the heat, I'm cooking over here," Ben said as the door to the RV slammed shut. "Daisuke!" Ben shouted and everyone woke up and ran outside just in time to see Heatblast shoot off towards the hardware store at the mall. Inside the hardware store, Heatblast was melting metal chains and made a hole in the wall and the two old people from before rode a forklift out through the hole and the forklift had a long line of molten metal behind it.
"Daisuke!" Veemon shouted to Heatblast. "You have got to snap out of it," he told his partner who threw a fireball at him but Max pulled him out of the way and they hid behind a counter.
"You're under some kind of hypnotic spell," Gwen told her as some SWAT officers dropped through the ceiling.
"You four get away from that thing," an officer told them pulling the four of them away from Heatblast as smoke grenades were thrown at Heatblast who started to shoot fire everywhere and a SWAT officer propane tanks nearby.
"Everyone out. Move!" he shouted and everyone ran out of the hardware store just before the tanks blew up destroying half of the store. The next morning the representative was in front of the store.
"This was an isolated incident. The mall is open for business, shopper safety is our number one priority," he said to a news crew. Back in the RV everyone was looking at the video of Sublimino.
"So, this guy plants post hypnotic suggestions into his volunteers turning them into his army of thieves," Max said.
"But Daisuke turning back to normal snaps Daisuke out of the trance," Ben said as he saw Daisuke was asleep and he blew the air horn again waking her up.
"But why have me steal all that weird stuff?" she asked.
"I don't know. But Sublimino does, we need to find him and fast," Max said. Later that day Max was talking to the representative.
"This was an isolated incident. The mall is open for business, shopper safety is our number one priority," he told Max.
"You said that already. But I am saying your shoppers are in danger," Max told him.
"This was an isolated incident. The mall is open for business, shopper safety is our number one priority," he repeated.
"Okay, this is getting us nowhere," Max said before he left the room and Sublimino walked out.
"Excellent, all the preparations are complete. It's show time!" Sublimino exclaimed walking out of the back room. Max walked along and he saw Daisuke asleep sitting on a bench and Veemon was beside her.
"Hey Daisuke, wake up. Where's Ben and Gwen?" he asked her shaking her and she whined.
"Mom, I don't want to go to school," she said as Ben and Gwen walked up to them.
"I have the perfect solution to your sleepwalking problems," Gwen said taking out a pair of handcuffs. "If you can't touch the Omnitrix you can't go alien," she told Daisuke handcuffing her hands behind her back.
"You do know I have the Master Control and I can go alien just by thinking right?" Daisuke asked her.
"She's got you there Gwen," Ben told her as a giant clock descended from the ceiling.
"Greetings mall rats. I am Sublimino master of hypnosis, you are all about to take a journey into that mysterious realm known as the mind. No need to volunteer, now all of you will obey me. Forever!" Sublimino said as his face appeared on every screen in the mall and everyone looked at the giant clock as it swung back and forth. "Your eyelids are getting heavy, you are falling into a deep sleep,"
"A giant hypno watch? That will never work," Daisuke said as wave emanated from the watch. "Okay, maybe it will," she said before running off followed by Ben, Veemon, Max and Gwen. "Don't look at the clock, don't look at the clock," she said before jumping behind a wall and the wave passed her by and she was unaffected. However she heard snoring and she looked back to see Ben, Max, Gwen and Veemon were asleep as was the rest of the mall. "Oh nuts," she said running to Gwen and trying to find the key to the handcuffs. "Gwen, where is the key?" she asked the snoring Gwen.
"All arise and obey me, every minute of every day," Sublimino said as Max, Gwen, Ben and Veemon along with the rest of the mall woke up. "Now, bring me all the riches in this place," commanded Sublimino and everyone walked off and Gwen took the bag that had the key inside it.
"Gwen! Wait, come back!" Daisuke shouted as everyone started to steal everything. Gwen smashed open a slot machine and the money poured out, Max pushed a trolley that had a jar of money on top of it, Veemon and Ben stole jewellery and Daisuke ran off trying to find something to free herself from the handcuffs before she realised something. "I am so stupid," she said before she turned into Four Arms and broke free of the handcuffs.
"You may control every last human, but…." She said before turning into Wildvine.
"What about a plant?" she asked walking off before she walked off and shot her arm up to an upper level and she ascended before going up another level.
"You there plant guy. Stop obey me. I command you!" Sublimino said but Wildvine ignored him and continued on. "Stop that plant," Sublimino said as Wildvine jumped up to a balcony where she saw a car driving towards her and she jumped on top of the car as it drove along and headed towards a toy store window.
"Emergency brake!" Wildvine said urgently as she reached into the car and pulled the emergency brake and was sent flying into the shop window, she held her head as she saw another car with Ben at the wheel and she jumped into the air and hung from the ceiling with her hand. "Hey, how come Ben gets to drive?" she asked jealous before she saw the car crash into the railing and teetered on the edge before it fell. "Ben!" she shouted shooting off and her legs wrapped around the railing before she went under the car and grabbed the other side and the car slowly fell to the ground and she let go as Ben exited the car. Wildvine then grabbed onto a lift that took her up and she then jumped into the window of the security room and glared at Sublimino. "The show is over,"
"Trim that hedge," Sublimino ordered and the two old people from before plus the two volunteers from the show came into view carrying chainsaws and they ran at Wildvine who jumped into the air and held onto the ceiling as the pods on her back dropped down and released a knockout gas rendering the four of them unconscious. Wildvine dropped down and Sublimino ran off but Wildvine caught his legs and held him over the clock, Sublimino then managed to bite down on Wildvine's vines and she yelped and let Sublimino go and he fell and grabbed hold of the clock, Wildvine then jumped down after him and she grabbed hold onto the minute hand and turned back to Daisuke and glared at Sublimino. "You! I am going to put you into a trance you will never wake up from," he told her but Daisuke jumped onto the second hand of the clock and grabbed the watch from Sublimino and sent a wave throughout the mall.
"Everyone wake up! You're all free!" Daisuke shouted and everyone in the mall broke out of their trance.
"No! No, no! This can't be!" Sublimino shouted.
"Now who is the baby?" Daisuke asked him as Sublimino fell onto a bouncy castle and tried to run away.
"V-HEADBUTT!" Veemon shouted head-butting Sublimino and knocked him out. "Your time has run out," he told him.
"Nice work Daisuke!" Ben shouted to her. "Dai?" he asked as he saw Daisuke was sleeping peacefully. Soon the RV was repaired and was driving along a country road.
"Your eyelids are feeling heavy, you are falling into a deep sleep," Daisuke said holding up Sublimino's watch in front of Ben and Gwen.
"Daisuke, what are you doing back there?" Max asked her.
"Nothing," she answered before turning back to Ben and Gwen. "You are now completely under my power," she said as Ben and Gwen's heads slumped.
"Yes, master. Your wish is our command," Both of them said.
"Whoa, cool, it worked!" Daisuke said happily. "Now, Ben get me some ice cream," she said.
"Yes, master," Ben answered as he walked over to the freezer and he pulled out a bucket of ice cream and he walked over to Daisuke.
"Now, give it to me," she commanded.
"Yes, master," he said and he put the tub of ice cream on her head.
"Hey!" she shouted.
"Psyche! You want anything else master?" Ben asked as he and Gwen laughed and Daisuke frowned before she licked the ice cream off her face with her tongue.
"Yum, vanilla with chocolate chip," she said making her friends and herself laugh.
The end of the chapter
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