Chapter 36: Through the Aliens and Machines we carry on!

Disclaimer: I'm going to be using the lyrics for the song Through the Fire and Flames by Dragonforce in one part, so I'll just say that right now. I do not own Dragonforce, their songs, or anything affiliated to them in any way, shape, or form. I'm just a fan.

After seeing the baseball game, we went to a rock festival in Chicago. I knew it was going to be fun, but Ben and Gwen thought otherwise.

Kyle: "Come on guys! This place is cool!" I was break dancing to a song currently being played.

Gwen: "You're making yourself look like an idiot, Kyle."

Ben: "That's not cool."

Gwen: "I've seen and heard better bands than most of these dudes anyway."

Kyle: "Best I've heard in a while! I had practically NO good music between the time I met you, and Mom died."

Ben: "THAT would make sense."

Kyle: "And now, the grand finale!" The current song we listened to ended.

Kyle: "Kicka** song!"

Ben: "Yeah. Cool…"

Gwen: "Is this festival over yet?"

Max: "Nowhere near it. We have to keep searching around."

Kyle: "For what?"

Max: "Shag Carpeting. I want their autographs!"

Ben: "I take back what I said about this place being fun. It sucks. Eggs."

Gwen: "I can agree with you."

Kyle: "Wow guys. Such let downs today. Come on! Let loose! Live a little, eh?"

Gwen; "I'm only here because you are."

Ben: "I was forced."

Kyle; "Well, don't complain, and start dealing!" I started eating a hot dog I bought.

Out in the distance… There was a news van with a guy inside.

Guy: "So far, so good…"

Robotic voice: "Vance, I don't know if this is a good idea…"

Vance: "I'm sure you'll be fine. Besides… you've worked every other time."

Robot: "But…"

Vance: "Sam… cool it. You'll be perfectly fine!"

Sam: "You're telling me, Vance."

Vance: "And in 1… 2… 3! We're on the air!" Sam sighed.

Vance: "Vance Vetteroy reporting. Along with…"

Sam: "Sam, the robot."

Vance: "Our weather today will be rainy in Chicago, and it will start shortly. It will not be long, however, so don't worry!"

Sam: "No problems." His head was then launched into the sky.

Vance: "This'll get done quick." Sam started to release clouds into the sky, and they made rain clouds.

Kyle: "Hey! It's supposed to be sunny today!"

Ben: "What?!"

Max: "They're going to have to cancel the convention."

Ben: "Sumo Slammer convention, here I come!"

Kyle: "What?"

Ben: "Sumo Slammer convention. Wanted to go there." Suddenly, there was a freak accident. A blast of lightning hit Sam, and he suddenly turned himself into a giant rain cloud. He also started shooting lightning at us, in purple color.

Ben: "Scratch rain! That thundercloud is after us!"

Kyle: "Okay! Hero time!" I went Heatblast, and launched myself towards the cloud, dropping fire into it. It didn't budge, and shocked me down.

Gwen: "Okay. Even with the Omnitrix, how do you expect to fight the weather?"

Heatblast: "Well, you have a better idea?"

Gwen: "Not really, but I can't help you here."

Heatblast: "Direct approach, then!" I became Brickhouse, and flew towards the cloud, dodging its lightning bolts. When I got close, I shot it with my lightning blasts, but it shrugged dthem off after flailing around, then it blasted me. I quickly recovered, and charged straight at it, with glowing red hands, shooting red energy blasts into it. Most went straight through it, but I got one to hit it, stunning it. I then blasted a big red blast from my eyes straight into the colud. It was still floating, but stunned. I flew around it in a red tornado, spreading out the cloud formations, then grabbed the pod.

Brickhouse: "As I thought. Some kind of alien weather device. You're outta here, little guy!" I tossed it towards a building, but I heard a window break, then some cursing, and it hit a sidewalk.

Brickhouse: "Oops. Heh heh…" I flew back down, and changed back.

Kyle: "Well, that's out of the way now right?"

Max: "Now we can enjoy our convention in peace!" We heard more cheers.

Ben: "Oh man!"

Kyle: "Let's get this rolling again!" Max now was getting autographs from the band, Shag Carpeting, and we were sitting in different benches, eating snacks lying out for us.

Ben: "Man!"

Kyle: "What?"

Ben: "I was hoping we would have to cancel and go to the Sumo Slammer convention!"

Kyle: "I've had enough of that for a while."

Gwen: "So have I."

Ben: "It's going to get BORING!"

Kyle: "Shut up, Tennyson! We're stuck here, with at least moderately good music playing, so live with it, sit down, and eat your f***ing hot dog!" Ben ate it up.

Back outside… Vance had found Sam lying on the sidewalk.

Vance: "Sam, you're okay?"

Sam: "Systems reactivated."

Vance: "Sam?"

Sam: "I feel better than ever, Vance. I assure you."

Vance: "That's good. Come on. We have to get you fixed up."

Sam: "Afirmative."

Kyle: "Geez, guys. This is getting to be so stupid!"

Gwen: "Get us out of here!"

Ben: "I can't live any longer!"

Kyle: "I won't!"

Ben: "Why not?!"

Kyle: "Because Max yelled at us enough already!"

Ben: "I don't see why you'd be leaving us here!"

Kyle: "Ben, Gwen. No. I won't. It'll just get us in even more trouble."

Gwen: "It's probably worth it."

Kyle: "The voice of reason wants to go to a Sumo Slammer convention?"

Gwen: "I'd rather suffer through that than this!"

Kyle: "I'd rather suffer through this than that!"

Ben: "At least let us stay there while you stay with Grandpa!"

Kyle: "N.O. No."

Gwen: "GRR! That's it!" Ben whispered something in her ear. She then smiled.

Kyle: "What is it?"

Gwen: "I challenge you to a fight!"

Kyle: "WHAT?!"

Gwen: "You heard me! Keystone vs. Omnitrix. Last one standing wins!"

Kyle: "Any alien is allowed?"

Gwen: "Any of them you have with you."

Kyle: "You're on!" Gwen materialized on her Lucky Girl outfit, then I transformed to Cannonbolt.

Cannonbolt: "Let's ROLL!" I rolled out at her, and she flipped over me. After she did, I went benmummy, and shot my fist at her, socking her in the face. My other fist went flying out, but she grabbed it, and pulled me in. I went going into her, and she punched me in the face, and I kicked her off at the same time. Gwen then picked up chairs with a spell, and threw them out. I went Heatblast, and blew up each one with a fireball. Gwen growled.

Heatblast: "Nyah nyah! *Blows raspberry*" She charged at me, getting prepared to punch me again, but I launched myself up into the air, then became Fourarms, and started falling down like a meteor.

Fourarms: "FOURARMS SMASH!" Gwen ran out of the way, then I landed, making a shockwave, making her trip. I transformed to Big Chill, and flew towards her. I breathed ice at her, but she moved out of the way, making me freeze the ground. I transformed to Benwolf, and charged at her, preparing to attack. Gwen flipped over me, then kicked my back. I spun around, then grabbed her leg, and tossed her, then went Wildvine, and shot my legs through the ground. They came up near where Gwen was flying, and she managed to land, then flip off. I threw grenades at her, but she dodged each one. Then I went Starfire, and started hurling starbolts at her. She got hit by each one, then fell to the ground. I then flew up to her to kick her, but she rolled out of the way, and tried to land a flying roundhouse kick. I blocked it, and she flipped off while I flew for her. We started punching and kicking each other, occasionally blocking between attacks. We both finally caught each other's punches.

Gwen; "I didn't think it would be this hard…"

Starfire: "Maybe if it was earlier, I'd actually stand less of a chance!"

Gwen: "No duh! We jumped away, then charged each other, getting into a grapple.

Starfire: "There's only one way to go! Ready?"

Gwen: "Bring it on!" We kept pushing into each other, not budging each other at all. I went Fourarms eventually, forcing her to start kneeling very quickly.

Fourarms: "You call this a fight?!" Gwen activated another spell, forcing a whole food stand to fly at me, making me fall back, and she kicked me, making me fly back further.

Fourarms: "Ugh… Let's see how you do with this!" I went XLR8, and zoomed aup at her. She put her arms in front of her face, but I zoomed behind her, and started barraging her back with punches. She started moving like she had seizures, then I tail whipped her down. I jumped up, then went Humongousaur, preparing to body slam her. She rolled out of the way, when I landed, blowing her into a food stand.

Gwen: "Ouch… *Gasp*" She saw me charging towards her. She charged at he, then jumped, and landed a flying side kick. I flew back a bit, then grew to 30 feet tall, and started slamming the ground. She kept flipping away from my attacks. I went Diamondhead, and called up a diamond fist from the ground, hitting her before she was about to land. She recovered, then used a spell on herself, making herself fly at me. I set myself up to intercept t the attack with Starfire, which I did. We then started exchanging punches and kicks again. We then both jumped away from each other. She flipped over a few, then got hit by one, but recovered quickly, and charged in, then hit me. I went Goop, then shot a paint ball into her face, then got her inside of me.

Gwen: "EW!!!!"

Goop: "Get ready! This is going to be fun!" I started to bounce like Cannonbolt allover the area, then shot Gwen into the ground.

Gwen: "Ooh… Uhh…" She fell to the ground.

Goop: "Um… Okay?"

Ben: "Um… Gwen, you awake?" Gwen stayed on the ground, seemingly unconscious.

Goop: "Um… yeah. I guess I win. Grossed her out to badly."

Ben: "Oh man!" We put her back into a chair, and we heard snoring, along with some random sentences. She woke up a few seconds later.

Ben: "Sorry Gwen. Got your butt handed to ya."

Gwen; "No way!"

Kyle: "Sorry, Gwen. We're stuck here." I had more of a sad look than a triumphant one.

Gwen: "You don't look to happy, Kyle."

Kyle: "Just didn't feel like a satisfying victory. I guess, because you fainted after getting ingested by Goop."

Gwen: "Girls and goop don't mix well together. Ugh…" She materialized her costume off.

Gwen: "I hope for a day, then that that won't happen. It'll be a much better fight, then."

Kyle: "Be looking forward to it."

Gwen: "I will to, Kyle." We high fived.

Back with Vance…

Vance: "Sam, you should be all fixed up now."

Sam: "As I should. Now, are you ready for my next time?"

Vance: "Yes. Back on the air. Let's do this!" The camera guy set them up again, like before.

Vance: "This is Vance Vetteroy and Sam back on the air! With Sam, who is all fixed up."

Sam: "And ready for more weather!"

Vance: "So, we are ready to go, with a windy day now. Ready, Sam?"

Sam: "Of course, Vance." He launched his head into the sky again.

Vance: "Hopefully this goes without a hitch now." Sam started making wind, but it turned into a tornado, breezing through the convention.

Kyle: "Storm cloud attack, now this!?"

Ben: "Hero time again!"

Kyle: "Okay, Brickhouse! Get ready for more action!" I glowed, but became a metal guy instead.

Kyle: "Who the… you're not Brickhouse!"

Ben: "You're some THING!"

Gwen: "Well, think he has the power to help out?"

Kyle; "Maybe." I sprouted wings, then took off for the tornado. Some cannons sprouted out of my back, then, I shot lasers at the tornado. They didn't seem to do much to the tornado, but I kept coming at it, hoping to cause more damage with each shot. One got him to stop, but I then came up with what I hoped was a better plan. I decided to charge up my lasers, then I flew up to the top, and shot my blasts down straight through the top, then continued to punch it, which I did, then spun it in the opposite direction, as fast as I could. The tornado spun into itself, then it stopped altogether. I shot a laser into the machine again, then hurled it into the ground.

Kyle: "Good riddance." I flew back, and examined myself more.

Kyle: "Mechanical, like Upgrade. I need to keep testing this one out."

Ben: "Who's this guy?"

Kyle: "Um… I don't know right now."

Max: "My scanner is going off on you. High levels of nanotechnology."

Kyle: "Nanomech it is, then." I reverted to normal.

Ben: "I'm getting hungry. Get me another hot dog." I went XLR8, and zoomed off to the hot dog stand, and a guy grabbed my tail.

XLR8; "Whoa buddy! What's the issue?"

Rock guy; "We were supposed to be on 10 minutes ago, man! Where were ou?"

XLR8: "Getting a hot dog! Let go!"

Rock guy: "You can get one later. We need to play our gig now!"

XLR8: "Ugh. Fine!" There really wasn't a point to be reasoning with him without hitting him, so, I didn't. There were three other dudes I was playing with, including the one who dragged me over. He was the other two were on some guitars. One was bass, I'm assuming, and I was put on drums.

XLR8: "Cool! I like drums!"

Rock guy: "Yeah, whatever, man."

XLR8: "Let's get ready to rock out!!"

Rock guy: 'I know man!" He turned to the crowd.

Rock guy: "Are you ready to rock!?" the crowd cheered.

Gwen: "Kyle better rock this place out!"

Ben: "He will alright."

Rock guy: "1, 2, a 1 2 3!" he started singing, they played the guitars, and I started banging on the drums with my super speed, but after a while, all of the drums fell down, and we were booed off the stage. I reverted to normal immediately after I escaped.

Gwen: "What was that?!"

Kyle: "I thought super speed would make the drums sound better. Guess I was wrong."

Ben: "Now can I get my hot dog?"

Kyle; "Okay." I walked up, and paid, then got Ben his hot dog.

Ben: "Thank you."

Kyle: "You and your hot dogs…"

Ben: "it's the only thing I enjoy here!"

Max: "Really?"

Ben; "I'd rather brush Cash's teeth with my tongue than stay here, but we can't go."

Max: "Really? Because, if you get Kyle to go XLR8, then get you to your Sumo Slammer convention, Gwen and I wouldn't have realized you left."

Kyle: "Until later. Ben would have to call Gwen's cell phone, then both him and I would get in trouble."

Max: "Yeah."

Ben: "And that's exactly why I won't!"

Max: "I'm happy for you, Ben."

Ben: "Really?"

Max: "realizing you would get caught either out of maturity, or just wanting to stay out of trouble."

Gwen: "And actually using your brain. Or whatever is there."

Ben: "Wow. Thanks."

Kyle: "Ah, the family moments. How I love them."

Max; "How about we all see the last performance together?"

Ben: "Okay."

Max: "It's Shag Carpeting!"

Kyle: "Cool!"

Gwen: "What a way to finish, huh?"

Ben: "Got it…" We were going down to listen, when, somewhere else…

Vance: "Sam, you're fixed up again, but I need you to cooperate with me."

Sam: "I don't need to Vance. I have achieved sentience. I am beyond you now."

Vance: "Sam, just go with me here!"

Sam: "No. I do not need to. I have my plans set." He launched himself up again,a nd started conjuring up wind and thunderstorms, only making himself a large monster this time.

Vance: "No!"

Kyle: "What the heck?!"

Ben: "A large weather beast! Now what?"

Gwen: "Kyle! We'll get everyone out f here! You take the big one!"

Kyle: "Okay! It's hero time!" I glowed, then became Way Big.

Way Big: "OKAY BIG GUY! TIME TO BRING YOU DOWN A NOTCH!" I ran towards him, and punched him in the face. He struck me with a tentacle, knocking me down, then he shocked me. I got up, punching his gut, then kicked him, and slammed my fists onto his head. He then retaliated by shocking me again, then whacked me across the face. I fell to the ground again.

Way Big: "MAN… THIS IS QUITE A … PROBLEM…" I got up again.

Sam: "Resistance is useless, organic life form!"

Way Big: "NO IT'S NOT! YOU'RE GOING DOWN!" I tried to attack again, but failed.

Sam: "Now, for my plan to come to action! The Arena and Wrigley Field will both be destroyed!"

Max: "No!"

Gwen: "Wait! The noise it's making… Sounds like music! Kyle!"

Ben: "What about it?" Gwen grabbed two guitars lying around.

Way Big: "WHAT'RE YOU THINKING, GWEN?"

Gwen: "The noise it's making sounds like a song! We need you to play music, loud enough to take it down!"

Way Big: "OKAY…" I went Jetray.

Jetray: "But I don't see how this works!"

Gwen: "Just play the song!"

Jetray: "Oh, I get it!" I flew up to the top of the monster, then landed, and turned into Fourarms, setting up the guitars.

Fourarms: "Time for some music! Straight from my world!" I started up an epic tune… and started to sing the song.

Fourarms: "On a cold winter morning, in the time before the light… In flames of death's eternal reign, we ride towards the fight! When the darkness is falling down, and the times are tough alright… The sound of evil laughter falls around the world tonight! (Guitar playing) Fighting hard fighting on for the steel, through the wastelands evermore… The scattered souls will feel the hell, bodies wasted on the shores! On the blackest plains in hell's domain we watch them as they go, in fire and pain and once again we know… So now we fly ever free, we're free before the thunderstorm, on towards the wilderness our quest carries on! Far beyond the sundown, far beyond the moonlight, deep inside our hearts and all our souls! So far away, we wait for the day… for the light source so wasted and gone… We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days, Through the Fire and Flames we carry on!!!" I continued playing the song, and the monster was now flailing around, covering its head on both sides.

Gwen: "I don't know what Kyle's playing, but its working!"

Max: "And it sounds great!"

Ben: "He's really ripping on those guitars!"

Vance: "Go get him, alien man!" I continued the song again.

Fourarms: "As the red day is dawning, and lightning crack s the sky… They raise their hands to the heavens above as we send them to their lies! Running back through the mid-morning light there's a burning in my heart! We're banished from a time in a fallen land to a life beyond the stars! In our darkest dreams we do believe our destiny this time, and endlessly we'll all be free tonight! On the wings of a dream, so far beyond reality, all alone in desperation now the time has gone! Lost inside you'll never find, lost within my own mind, day after day this misery must g on! So far way, we wait for the day, for the life source so wasted and gone, we feel the pain of a life time lost in a thousand days, Through the Fire and Flames we carry on!" I then went Echo Echo. Multiplied into 10, two of us each holding a guitar, and the other six around the head.

Echos 1-4: "Now!" We played for a tiny bit, with the other Echos screaming down every few notes. Then…

Echos 1-10: "Whoa-oh-oh! Whoa-oh-oh! Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oooooooooooh! Everybody now!"

Echos with everyone else: "WHOA-OH-OH! WHOA-OH-OH! WHOA-OH-OH-OH-OOOOOOOOOOOOOH!"

Echos 1-4: "1, 2, 3, epic guitar solo go!" We played the epic guitar solo, and the other six of us screamed with each new loud note init.

Sam; "STOP, you're giving me a headache!!!!"

Max: "Go, Echos, go!"

Ben: "Sock it to him, guys!"

Vance: "Yes! Yes!"

Gwen: "Bring on the conclusion!"

Echos 1-10: "Now here we stand with their blood on our hands… We fought so hard now can we understand… I'll break the seal of this curse if I possibly can… for freedom of every man!" We merged back into one, then went Fourarms, catching the guitars.

Fourarms: "So far away, we wait for the day… For the life source so wasted and gone! We feel the pain… Of a lifetime lost in a thousand days…" I then slammed a guitar on its head, then became normal, playing on the last guitar.

Kyle: "Through the Fire and Flames we carry on!!!!" I then continued through the song, playing it until the end, defeating Sam for good, and I surfed down his fading body, until it all disappeared for good, and Sam's head was on the ground, cracked.

Kyle: "Now to finish you… for good!" I slammed the guitar into his head, making him explode.

Kyle: "Good riddance."

Vance: "Thank you."

Kyle; "Yeah. It's nothing."

Vance; "I guess there's nothing wrong with being just another handsome face on TV, huh?"

Kyle; "Nope. There really isn't."

Gwen: "Oh kyle! You rock so hard!"

Kyle: "I know. It's my favorite song!"

Ben: "Who does it?"

Kyle: "Um… hard to say exactly."

Max: "It doesn't matter. Shag Carpeting's back on now!" Their show continued, and it was a satisfying conclusion to the Rock Festival.

Kyle: "And it's done."

Gwen: "Kyle, good job today."

Kyle: "Aw, ain't no thing, yo!"

Ben: "Let's hit the road! PLEASE?!"

Max: "We had to go anyway. Come on."

The end.

Hope it was cool.