Author's Note: I own nothing. This episode is going to be vastly different as well, since Jen can't take the Omnitrix off at all. Should be fun.
40 Prime
School started off without a hitch. She and Ethan only had two classes together but she and Julie had a few. All was well, since the incident with the Technodon gauntlet Cash and JT had been avoiding her and she didn't really mind. She had her lunch on her own though, both Julie and Ethan in other classes. It gave her time to study up on Charmcaster's old magic book.
"What are you reading?" Jen rolled her eyes as she looked up at JT, who as always was followed closely by Cash.
"Nothing much." JT elbowed Cash who rolled his eyes and sat down across from Jen. JT smiled and sat down next to him. Jen frowned.
"Can I help you?" JT shrugged and elbowed Cash again. The darker haired by rubbed his side and turned to Jen.
"I'm sorry." Jen raised an eyebrow. Cash seemed to have said all he wanted to say though. JT frowned and shook his head.
"He wanted to apologize." JT looked around, as if making sure no one was listening to them. "We saw the coverage that went through of the fight with that squid guy. Scary stuff. You won though right?" Jen stared.
"How'd you know it was me?" Cash rolled his eyes.
"Of course it was you. Same dorky symbol on all the aliens, same green eyes. And Jen Ten really?" Jen rolled her eyes.
"I only had ten originally. It wasn't supposed to be a play on my name. And yes I won. I usually do." Cash looked her up and down.
"So all these years you've just been letting us win?" She knew what he meant, when the teasing had gotten physical a few years back. They'd never beaten her up too badly but she'd gone home with a few black eyes mostly because she kept sticking up for other kids. Jen shrugged.
"Only since we were eleven or so. Besides I don't use it for that. Look no one else can find out." Cash nodded.
"Yeah I get that. No one's gonna find out from us. But… Thanks. For you know saving the world." Jen grinned and nodded, biting into her sandwich. The rest of the lunch period, then the school day, went quite smoothly. So when Ethan grabbed her hand on the way out of the building and leaned down to whisper in her ear she was hoping it wouldn't be a big alien thing.
"Kevin texted, Technodon robot just outside of town." Jen nodded, a smile pulling at her lips. Life was going back to business as usual.
Or at least that was her hope. It wasn't as though fighting these things was unusual. Ethan had his plasma cannon, Jen was pulling the casing apart magnetically as Lodestar so he could get some really good shots in. At least that was until the Omnitrix beeped plaintively and green lights flashed. Then she was back to herself and had to dodge as the Technodon fired at her. She tried to transform into Humungousaur, the Omnitrix beeped again.
'That function is unavailable, Omnitrix must return to Primus.'
"What the hell is Primus!" Jen demanded as she tried to scroll through her aliens only to find that they were all currently unavailable. She trusted the others to take care of the robot, she'd damaged it extensively as Lodestar. She was right that they were taking care of it as Ethan stepped over to her.
"What's going on?" He asked as she twiddled with the dial on her Watch. Jen shook her head.
"I have no idea."
'Omnitrix must return to Primus.' The Watch said again. Ethan frowned.
"Who's Primus?" Jen shook her head as a bright light bulged from the Omnitrix. She barely had time to cry out to Kevin and Gwen who were blowing apart and smashing the last of the robot. They raced over to her as the green light engulfed her and Ethan, a teleporter according to Kevin. It was much too controlled to be another malfunction. It swallowed all four of them leaving behind a crater in their place.
Their landing was not everything they were hoping for, at least for three of them. Kevin landed on top of Ethan and Gwen atop the two boys. They all grunted in pain, the surface they'd landed on wasn't exactly soft by any measure.
"AH! Metal elbow in my back!" Kevin scrambled to get off of Ethan and pulled him to his feet as he heard a much softer thump. Jen peaked down at them from the dense and soft looking foliage of a brightly colored tree.
"Everybody ok?" She asked from her spot in the tree. Gwen snorted.
"At least one of us had a soft landing." The redhead joked and reached out to pluck her cousin free from the leaves when the brunettes face went questioning then vanished into the leaved with a surprised squeak. Gwen cried out in surprise as her cousin reappeared in the clutches of what looked like a gigantic silver wasp. "Ethan get ready to catch her!" Gwen threw a solid disk at the wasp and it flew through the things wings. Though the large insect didn't cry out in pain it did release its cargo as it fell. Ethan lunged forward and was smacked solidly in the face by a branch as it moved to catch Jen. He stumbled back as she scrambled free from the leaves and frowned.
"What the actual hell. Are you ok?" He nodded. The hit hadn't been bad enough to do much more than make him sore. His nose was intact, a fact Jen affirmed as she ran her fingers over his face. It was then that he noticed she was missing a shoe, and her sock. He frowned at her bare foot. She glanced down at what he was looking at. "Yeah, that wasp thing grabbed me by the foot." Gwen frowned.
"Are you just not wearing socks?" Jen glared at her cousin.
"I didn't have any clean ones ok! Can we focus on what's really important?" She demanded as she pulled off her other shoe. Kevin raised an eyebrow. "Better to run with no shoes than with one shoe. Easier anyway. Now any ideas where we are?"
'The Omnitrix has returned to Primus.' The voice of the Omnitrix answered as a path opened to their left away from a large sweeping river that was so multicolored and fast moving it was impossible to pin down a single color. Jen stared down the path.
"I guess we go that way." With no other ideas they set off, all keeping their eyes open for more of the large metallic wasps.
