Author's Note: I own nothing. I want to go back to something we haven't seen for a bit.
35 News Coverage
Jen flicked through the channels on the TV. She was in her living room, Ethan was borrowing her shower again. He'd ended up staying the night at her house, they'd had four more bad alien horror movies to get through. Ethan found it very amusing that Jen tended to side with the crashed aliens trying to get off planet. Not the ones that were just making mischief for the sake of chaos. But she tended to side against the scientists in these movies almost exclusively.
"Most of them remind me of Animo." She'd said before he'd asked who Animo was and she spent the next hour explaining the adventures she'd gone through stopping the crazed ex vet. They'd fallen asleep in each other's arms again. Jen blinked as she saw something familiar flash on the channel and paused in her searching.
'Two months later the world is still reeling from the revelation that aliens exist!' Jen frowned at the presenter on screen. He had brown hair, graying on the sides, and glasses the scrolling text at the bottom of the screen proclaimed the show 'The Harangue Nation'. The screen by the news caster's head showed footage from the beginning of her fight with Vilgax, including the shift from Jetray to Big Chill. Jen frowned.
"I thought Grandpa said Cooper made sure this was scrambled!" She dove for her phone, thought better of it and pulled her necklace out of her shirt, punching up Cooper on her communicator instead.
A sharp ring interrupted the lecture on maintenance of the newly minted Proto-tool. The professor, a Galvan female, looked up at Cooper who blushed.
"Sorry." He checked his badge and grimaced. "I need to take this. Sorry professor." He stepped out into the hallway. "Jen? What's going on?"
"How much of my fight with Vilgax didn't get scrambled?" Cooper paused, not having expected that but he shook his head.
"It took some time to get into the frequency Psyphon was using to broadcast it. I think I cut it off Just as you turned into Humungousaur." Jen sighed in relief.
"Sorry about that Coop. I just ran across a news cast doing a piece about it." Cooper raised an eyebrow.
"Really? I thought most people wrote it off as a hoax or a publicity stunt." Jen shrugged.
"Apparently not William Harangue." She turned the volume on the TV up so Cooper could hear it over the communicator.
'Who is this mysterious shapeshifter! And why did this alien challenge her directly!? This is clearly some kind of alien grudge match that's chosen Earth as a boxing ring! Well I for one will not stand for it! This Jen Ten,' Jen winced, her hero name was just a little too close to her real name, 'is clearly a threat to society who should turn herself into the proper authorities for bringing her alien fight to our doorstep.'
"So yeah, that's going well." Cooper shook his head.
"Harangue isn't widely viewed though, he's local Bellwood isn't he?" Jen pulled up a search on the reporter on her phone.
"Yeah. Rich local Bellwood but still local."
"He'll probably get written off as a conspiracy nut. I wouldn't worry about it too much, no one saw your face. Listen I have to get back to class, my professor is gonna kill me." Jen swore.
"I'm so sorry! It did not even cross my mind that's what you'd be doing right now. Please feel free to use me as an excuse." Cooper laughed.
"I honestly might. You never told us you were famous!" Jen laughed.
"Well I'm not on Earth. Come on how famous can I be at the Academy? I've never even been." Cooper rolled his eyes at his communicator.
"Jen! There's an elective about you! Well you and Azmuth but there's a literal class, the history of the Omnitrix." Jen laughed.
"That's hilarious. And exceedingly embarrassing all at the same time. I wonder if they got all the drama right in the textbook. Oh good god there's a text book out there in the universe that has my family drama down in black and white. I need a copy!" Cooper laughed.
"I'll talk to Allen he's thinking of taking the class. I have to go. I'll talk to you later." Jen bid him goodbye still laughing. Cooper slipped back into the classroom and to the table where his partner was working on their Proto-tool. The professor floated over to them on her moveable platform.
"Is everything alright Cadet Daniels?" Cooper nodded.
"Yes sorry about that Professor Azax, my friend Jen needed tech support." Azax raised an eyebrow.
"Jen Ten?" Cooper nodded.
"Very well, I'll excuse it this time. Continue your work." She looked over the adjustments Rook, Cooper's partner had made and nodded.
"Very good Trainee Rook." The catlike alien smiled at the praise as Cooper looked over the adjustments.
"You made a new setting? What does it do?" Rook picked up the Proto-tool and it morphed in his hands into a bow. "Oh that is fantastic!"
"Thank you! On my home planet of Revonnah those trained in the old ways would sometimes go out hunting, usually for the larger birds that live on my planet in the more forested areas."
"And you used bows and arrows?" Cooper asked.
"Yes though generally the tips of the arrows are constructed from crystalized Amber Ogia which in such a form causes a minor explosion that ends the life of the bird quite humanely." Cooper nodded slightly.
"Neat, thought Amber Ogia was used as a fuel though?"
"Oh it is quite a versatile material." Cooper nodded and they went back to modifying the Proto-tool.
