(Author's Note: I know, I know, this took a while. I came down with a fever while I was writing this, and also had to help out someone with a coding project, too. But now it's finished, so hopefully you guys can forgive the lateness.)

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"LEMME TELL YOU SOMETHING, YOU CONSTANTLY COLLARLESS CALLIN' CANINES!" Hyu, as Rath, yelled at a nearby van full of barking dogs. "RATH HATES DOGS! BUT HE WOULDN'T HATE THEM NEARLY AS MUCH, IF THEY'D JUST SHADDUP!"

"Rath." Yunai, who was Hyu's twin sister, said as she kicked her way into the driver's seat, and was immediately attacked with a switchblade. "Would it kill you to focus on the mission at hand?!"

"This little girly's goin' down, to CHINATOWN!" The driver said, wearing a mask that resembled the face of a snake, attempting to cut Yunai's hand.

She dodged, before she punched him in the face, shattering the mask into dozens of small, tiny shards. "No thanks, the food there is TERRIBLE. Thanks for the thought, though."

"RATH DON'T CARE, BRO, NOT EVEN ENOUGH TO CARE!"

"That, quite literally, makes no sense." Besu, the third member of the team commented, cheekily, floating into scene on a DIY jetpack, and currently slicing a large hole into the back of the truck. "Are you trying to say 'Oh, I care so little, I don't even care that I don't care,' Or 'I don't care enough to create the necessary dopamine to care?' "

"AND NOBODY, QUITE LITERALLY, CARES ABOUT YOUR JARGON!" Rath shot back, before two small, mounted turrets popped out of the truck's top, and pointed themselves at him. "HA! TINY GUNS! THAT'S RICH! AND POINTLESS! AH-HA-HA-HA!"

As Rath was laughing, the turrets both fired large, glowing explosives into his face, and combusted, sending him flying off of the truck. Rath shot his tail out, and it wrapped around the door-handle of the truck, before he pulled himself back up effortlessly.

"Okay…" Rath said, glaring at the guns. "It's time for you guys to GET JAMMED!"

"Welp, this oughta be interesting." Besu said, flying into his newly made hole.

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"What are those two doing out there?" Yunai asked herself as she tried to get a feel for the truck. "How do you drive this thing?"

The man next to her was out cold, and holding a walkie-talkie that was receiving a message of an old woman screaming through it. Yunai looked at it, before she picked up the device, and held it next to her head. The woman was currently yelling about how back in her day, a simple truck hijacking wouldn't be enough to even rattle her. Yunai tried to get a word in, to no avail, before she yelped, as she had almost crashed the truck into the side of the building.

"MA'AM!" Yunai yelled, the adrenaline allowing her to cut into the monologue. "Uh… We seem to have a small-"

"Do not interrupt me ever again, you disposable goon!" The lady said, spitting. "I swear, you'll be lucky to be alive after this!"

"Uh… The Katachi League, ma'am." Yunai said, trying to sound manly. "They've stolen our cargo! I'm trying to-!"

Interrupting herself, Yunai smashed the walkie-talkie under her foot, and sighed in relief.

"Who knew trying to talk to your boss could be so STRESSFUL?" Yunai said, half-sympathetic. "I almost feel bad for these guys…"

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Meanwhile, Besu was currently infiltrating the truck, being careful to be quiet. He was surrounded by angry, barking dogs, all in cages. He picked one of the locks, and let out a small chihuahua, which immediately jumped at him, trying to bite his face. Besu held the dog, and put him back in the cage.

"These guys must be strays." Besu thought to himself, before he looked a couple meters to his left, and saw a box labeled 'Collars.' "Or not… I wonder if that Animo guy's behind this?"

Before he could think about this further, Rath fell through the ceiling, gnawing on a turret gun with his teeth, before he spat it out, and looked at Besu.

"What do you want?" Rath asked.

"Uh…"

"Hold on… I'm actually… Really tired, man." Rath tapped his Omnitrix symbol, and returned to Hyu. "Oh, hey, Besu! What's up?"

"You learn anything up there?" Besu said, cutting straight to the point.

"No, duh." Hyu sighed. "I black out as Rath. You know that."

"Whatever."

There was a loud, clanking sound on the doors behind them, and the twins turned around to see the doors pulled clean off their hinges, only to disappear forever behind the truck. What pulled these hinges off was a humanoid cat, with blue-and-black fur, and purple eyes. This creature was clearly taking a light jog, but was still keeping up with the truck effortlessly.

"... Who-?" Besu began, before the creature leaped into the van, and grabbed his shoulders, before throwing him into the wall of the cargo bay.

"Name's Madeline." She said, a mischievous smirk on her face. "And I've been dying to meet you, Katachi League."

"Okay…" Hyu said, scratching the back of his helmet. "Well, now's not exactly a good time for autographs…"

Madeline walked up to him, before grabbing Hyu's neck, and lifting him into the air. "I'm not here for an autograph."

Hyu kicked at Madeline's face, hitting her square in the jaw, and she let him fall to the ground. Hyu rubbed his neck, groaning, before he sighed, and stood up.

"Okay, then. What ARE you here for, then?"

"Your shape-shifting watches, duh."

"Oh, not a chance!"Hyu said, activating his Splicatrix, and slamming the core down on the first alien he got.

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Hyu's left arm inflated at an extremely rapid rate, and the rest of his body followed suit, before his eye turned bright yellow, with red shells on the backs of his hands, legs, and his back as well. His mouth became extremely wide, and his teeth became pointed. The Omnitrix symbol was on his chest, and Hyu now began rolling as a red and black ball, before uncurling, and cracking his knuckles.

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"CANNONBOLT!" He yelled, and curled into a ball, before speeding at Madeline, and knocking her out of the truck.

"Impressive!" Madeline shouted at him, landing on her feet. "But I'm not here to fight, really."

"Too bad!" CannonBolt replied, tearing a Stop sign out of the ground, and throwing it at Madeline. "You want the Omnitrixes? Then you've gotta take the guys who use 'em!"

"Your simplistic worldview is REALLY pissing me off!" Madeline sighed, dodging the sign, and running at CannonBolt.

Madeline's speed caused her to shoot directly into CannonBolt's gut, who promptly pushed her back out, sending her flying a dozen feet.

"Simplistic doesn't mean wrong, dudette!" CannonBolt yelled, fist-pumping.

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Back on the truck, Yunai was still trying to stop the vehicle somehow, when Besu swung into the passenger's seat. He took one look at how she was driving, and shook his head.

"Have you NEVER driven a car in your life?" He asked, confounded.

"Oh, yeah!" Yunai said, still trying to figure out how to use a blinker. "They just handed out my honorary 10-year-old license a few years ago!"

"Move it, dude." Besu said, as they swapped seats. "I've got this."

"Finally… Huh?!" Yunai stuck her head out of the window, and saw CannonBolt and Madeline fighting. "Holy crap, I've gotta get in on that!"

"HEY!" Besu shouted, angrily turning the truck around. "Where do you think you're going?! I need you to feel inferior to me! YUNAI!"

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Yunai mutated her back into two large wings, and flew straight at Madeline, landing a swift kick directly on the side of her face. "Loser says 'OW!' "

"OW!" Madeline said, before looking up at Yunai, growling. "Now that's just rubbing salt on the wound…"

"You said it." Yunai shrugged.

"Whatever." Madeline said, dismissively. "You'd be a fool to consider this over… SMOKE BOMB!"

Madeline threw a smoke bomb into the ground, and disappeared in the ensuing cloud of smoke. Hyu and Yunai both coughed, as the dust cleared, and saw that she had disappeared. Hyu turned back to human, snapping his fingers in defeat, just as Besu came screeching to a halt, and hopping out of the truck.

"I think she got away." Yunai sighed.

"What WAS that thing?" Besu said, walking over to his siblings.

"Whatever it was, we can't let it distract us from the fact that we've got a job to do. Let's go." Hyu motioned back to the truck. "We're not doing anything until we've gotten those dogs out of their cages."

"Agreed." Yunai gave a thumbs-up.

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Later that night, the Triplets had returned to their rooms, now back in their respective human aliases, Todd, Matheo, and Kate. While the other twins were fast asleep, Todd was wide awake, still thinking about his encounter with Madeline.

"It sounded like she had some kinda big plan…" Todd sighed, turning over in his bed.

Todd activated his Splicatrix, and punched in a few codes, but he was hardly having any luck. Still, he'd done a couple of calculations, and found that there were only a million-ish possible combinations, with 9 characters, and 7-character code length. Assuming he stayed persistent, he could easily finish it, until he accidentally moved a digit too high, and it jumped from 9… To 10.

"What the?" Todd asked, sitting straight up in his bed, until he remembered. "Oh, yeah. Each character is just a single alien. That means instead of 1-9, it's… 0 to however many aliens I have… Oh, 17… Ugh."

In annoyance, Todd tried a few more codes, now with double-digits involved, but still, no luck.

"Geez! How many aliens does this thing have-?!"

The door to Todd's room was thrown open, and a tired, annoyed Kate glared at him. "Todd."

Todd pretended to be asleep. It didn't work.

"Todd, I'm serious, if you keep yelling, I'm gonna kill you. It's 10:00, go to bed, NOW."

"... Gonna kill ya..." Todd mimicked. "Yeah, right."

Todd was suddenly grabbed by his ankles, thrown in the air, before being body-slammed back down on his bed, causing a nearby glass of water to spill all over him.

"I'm too tired for this crap." Kate yawned, closing the door.

"Oh, great." Todd sighed, looking at his night-shirt. "Now I'm cold."

He groaned, before realizing there was an 18th slot in his roster. Todd reset the Splicatrix to default mode, and scrolled through the ring, and yes, there was now a hologram of Madeline's species, a male version, with the Omnitrix symbol on it's chest.

"Huh." Todd said, grinning like an idiot. "I've got a new alien!... And Matheo doesn't! Time to never let him live this down."

Both Kate and Matheo kicked Todd's door open.

"TODD!" Matheo yelled. "It's 10 PM!"

"Yeah, for the 2nd time, now!"

"Seriously?" Matheo asked, surprised.

"Yeah, seriously!"

"Well, I'll be."

"Guys, I can explain, I got a new alien, and-!"

"NEW ALIEN?!" Matheo checked his Optitrix, before frowning. "Hey, what the-?! Why didn't I get one?!"

"Just lucky, I guess." Todd said, smirking.

"Okay, now I'm gonna kill him… Tomorrow. Todd, go to bed."

"Fine." Todd said, as his siblings closed the door. "But not before I take this new guy for a test-drive… I've even got a name. CatClaw!"

Todd grinned, and Activated the Splicatrix, swiftly selecting CatClaw, and opening the window. Todd climbed out onto the roof of the house, closing the window behind himself quietly. Next, Todd jumped off the roof, slamming down the OmniCore, exploding in a bright flash of blue light.

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Blue fur wrapped itself around Todd's hand, and claws grew out of each fingernail. The fur then covered the rest of Todd's body, with two large, black, furry protrusions around his eyes, resembling a mask, of sorts. He spun around in a circle.

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"CATCLAW!" He said quickly.

CatClaw landed on a single tip-toed foot, and front flipped into a full on sprint, vaulting directly over the fence in front of him. CatClaw ran through the road nearby, and used his claws, and pure speed, in order to climb up, and over, a nearby 8-wheeled semi-truck.

"Awesome!" He yelled, grabbing onto the overhang of a stoplight, swinging around it vertically, and leaping onto a skyscraper, and zooming up the side of it. CatClaw laughed, gleefully. He'd never been so agile in any of his forms before. Up above him, there was a window-washing platform. CatClaw narrowed his eyes, and charged directly through it, causing the platform to explode into a million pieces.

"Huh." He said to himself. "Wonder why there was a platform nobody was-?"

"HELP!" A voice screamed from below CatClaw yelled.

CatClaw skidded to a stop, scratching the glass underneath him, and looked down to see a man, in light construction gear, hanging onto one of the cables that were supposed to support the window-washing platform. CatClaw ran back down the building, grabbing the man, and carrying him down to the front of the building. CatClaw safely dropped the man once they'd arrived at the entry-level.

"Thank you." The man said, before looking at the color of the Omnitrix symbol, which was blue. "Uh… Hyu, right?"

"That's me, bro." CatClaw said, flexing his arm.

"Oh, man. Henry's never gonna believe this. You're his favorite, you know!"

"Henry's… Your kid?"

"That's what they tell me." The man laughed at his own joke. "I'm Rodney, by the way."

"Well, nice to meetcha." CatClaw said.

"Wait... No autograph?" Rodney asked, confused.

"Uh, sure… Oh, sorry about your window-thingy."

"Aw, no problem. I'm sure you had a good reason, being a superhero, and all." Rodney pulled out a blurry picture of Hyu vaulting over a car, as well as a blue pen. "Take your time."

CatClaw nodded, somewhat uncomfortably, and signed the picture, before handing it back to him.

"There you go, and, for real, sorry about this whole thing." CatClaw waved goodbye, before vanishing into the distance.

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Todd, now a human again, climbed back into his room, before the lights turned on, causing Todd to yelp as he fell face-first into the carpet. He looked up to see both of his siblings looking at him, annoyed.

"Guys!" Todd said, startled. "I didn't know you were up, at…"

Todd looked to the alarm clock on his dresser, which was currently set at 10:25 PM.

"... This time." He smiled sheepishly.

"Seriously, dude, what the heck?" Matheo asked, getting up in Todd's face.

"Back off, bro." Todd sighed, pushing him back. "I wasn't trying to-"

"Oh, we know what you trying to do!" Kate said, piercingly. "You were trying to take down Madeline, without us!"

"Yeah, I was!" Todd said, before he realized he had no clue what they were talking about.

"I knew it!" Matheo said, putting combing his scalp with his hands. "You traitor! You're trying to go solo!"

"Well, wait, guys, I don't-"

"Oh, it's not like THAT?" Matheo said.

"No!"

"... Wait a sec." Kate said, narrowing her eyes. "Do you have a CRUSH on her, bro?"

There was an uncomfortable silence in the air.

"Wha-?" Todd tried to ask.

"Of course!" Matheo shook his head. "Todd always gets hot and bothered around a girl who likes to fight!"

"Do not!" Todd yelled, and jumped at Matheo, as Kate pushed the twins away from each other. "You take that back!"

"Make me!" Matheo stuck his tongue out at Todd.

"Todd, she's a criminal, you know. And isn't she after your Splicatrix, anyways?"

"I don't KNOW!" Todd insisted. "I haven't seen her since the whole truck thing!"

"Yeah, right." Matheo said, impatient. "Madeline's on the news, and you just so happen to disappear at the exact same time. Sure."

"That wasn't Madeline on the news, you dorks!" Todd held out his Splicatrix, and set it to CatClaw's DNA sample. "It was ME."

"Wait, what?!" Matheo grabbed Todd by his shirt. "You tryna tell me you've got 18 aliens to my 16?!"

"Oh, don't get all weird." Todd said, shoving Matheo off of him. "You're a genius, right?"

"Well, yeah, but-"

"Enough, you two." Kate said. "It's way too late for this crap. You can talk about it in the morning, yeah?" She yawned, and walked out of the room.

"Seriously?" Matheo whined, as she left. "That's so not fair."

"So, just go type in a couple codes, and you're golden, bro."

"But you've got it easy, because of the touch screen, and-"

"Then, you figure it out, dude." Todd said, pushing Matheo out of his room, and closing the door. "Good night."

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The next day, Todd was sitting in science class, looking blankly out the window, when his friend, Casey, tapped his shoulder. As Todd looked at him, Casey pointed at his phone, which was showing a video of an alien robbing a gas station in seconds, before replaying the video in slow motion, revealing the culprit was one of CatClaw's species.

"... Madeline." Todd said, quietly.

"Who?" Casey asked, confused.

"Oh." Todd said, not missing a beat. "Madeline's one of Kate's friends. She used to shop at that place all the time."

Todd had gotten awfully good at lying about this stuff. He'd had plenty of experience, though Matheo, oddly enough, seemed to nearly leak the identities of the Katachi league every chance he'd get. Kate was alright, quite a feat, what with her dozen-or-so number of friends.

"Uh, by the way…" Casey said, lowering his voice.

"Madeline's got a boyfriend." Todd said, hoping that was true.

"Shit." Casey sighed.

Todd laughed, uncomfortably. He tapped his fingers on the desk, thoughts of Madeline completely filling his brain, before he raised his hand, as calmly as he could manage. The substitute teacher, Mr. Cramb, nodded at him, before looking at his clipboard.

"Yes, er…" He squinted at it. "Stan, Tim… Ah, Todd?"

"Can I go to the bathroom, please?" Todd asked, feigning the need to relieve himself.

"Can you?" The teacher asked, trying not to burst out into laughter.

"... Er…" Todd scratched his head. "If you'd allow me to? I mean, can I just leave without asking, or-?"

"For god's sake, you're supposed to say 'May I,' kid."

"Oh." Todd tried to pretend he was surprised. "What a concept. Is that a 'yes?' "

"Fine."

Todd exited the class, and ran out of the schoolhouse, activating his Splicatrix, and desperately trying not to turn it to CatClaw. He turned it to CatClaw anyways, and slammed down the core as soon as it popped up, causing himself to explode in a large flash of blue light.

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Todd's arms became stringy, and green, before inflating to extremely muscular proportions. Todd's legs folded into his crotch, and 3 lanky vines replaced them. Todd's body became slim, and inhuman, riddled with dozens of muscles. Finally, his face became a single, large eye, with 2 horns sticking out on either side, and an Omnitrix symbol on his lower chest.

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"OverRoot…?" He said, disappointed. "Well, great. How am I supposed to find Madeline now?"

"Is that your plan?" OverRoot heard a sly voice ask from the roof of the school.

"Madeline?!" OverRoot gasped.

"That's right." She landed in front of him, crossing her arms. "Surprised to see me?"

"Well, yeah." OverRoot said. "I didn't think you'd be following me."

"Don't flatter yourself, kid." Madeline laughed. "I'm not following you for any other reason than to dispose of you."

"Oh, really?" OverRoot asked, before reaching to the side, and tearing a lampost out of the sidewalk, and swinging it at Madeline, who jumped into the air, landing a kick on OverRoot's head.

"Really!" She yelled, unsheathing 4 large, jagged claws from her hand, and scratching OverRoot across his chest.

"Argh…!" Yellow liquid began to drip from OverRoot's chest.

"Oh, don't be a drama queen. That wound's only skin-deep."

"The real wound is the fact that you'd actually hurt me." OverRoot shot back, dazed slightly.

"Aw." Madeline grabbed the lampost, and threw it into OverRoot, knocking him into the grass. "How sweet. That oughta make this easy."

OverRoot shot out several vines, grabbing Madeline by her chest, and throwing her through the school's window. "Don't count on it…"

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Matheo was sitting in the direct middle of his classroom, with each classmate of his each ignoring him. The teacher, Mrs. Glace, was looking at him, with a slight sadness in her face. She walked over to his desk, and saw him sketching blueprints for some new invention. She tapped her fingers on his desk.

"Hey, Matheo." She said, smiling.

"Let me guess, I'm in trouble for not doing the project, right?"

"There… There's no project, Matheo. This is a free period."

"Oh." Matheo said, nodding. "Cool."

"Look, I know that you've had a tough time with your… Parents, and I've been cutting you some slack for that, but you need to learn to start working with others."

"I could never work with these Neanderthals." Matheo sighed.

"Now, now, that's not nice at all."

"Actually, the Neanderthals were possibly more attractive, and by effect, more social, than the humans of the time. I mean it as a jealous compliment, ma'am."

Mrs. Glace stared at him. "Er… Well, I wouldn't know anything about that. I'm an art teacher, not a history teacher."

"Yeah, I feel that." Matheo chuckled. "Sometimes, my siblings think that I can just whip them up a time machine, just because I'm smart. But in reality, I'm more of a… Rocket science guy, than a Quantum Physics guy."

"Well, no matter what scientific field you specialize in, you need to learn to make some friends, young man."

"Miss, I have friends."

"Maybe." Glace smirked. "But I mean real friends. At this school. I think you'd get a kick outta it."

"Doubt it." Matheo shook his head. "Can you leave now?"

"Okay." Glace sighed, turning to help out another student.

Then, suddenly, Madeline was sent flying through the classroom window, landing in the middle of the room, with an angry look on her face.

"It's Hyu!" One of the kids in the back said, pointing at Madeline. "He's even clumsy and uncoordinated!"

"He's gonna destroy the school!" A girl shouted, sprinting to the door. "We gotta get out of here! I'm too young to die!"

"Guys." Matheo said, trying to sound clueless. "This can't be Hyu, because he don't got none of that… circle… thing. On his chest."

"You mockin' me?" A kid with baggy, torn jeans, a stained checkered-shirt, and a backwards red cap asked, glaring at Matheo.

"N-no!" Matheo threw his hands up. "Why, I'd never even dream of such a thing!"

"H-he's got a point." A mexican kid in an orange shirt said, timidly. "Doesn't he usually have, like, a chest badge, or something?"

"Yeah!" Matheo nodded.

"Kind of like that one on your wrist, Matheo." A girl with overalls said, pointing at him.

"W-well, this is just a customization thing!" Matheo said, sweating. "The Omni-Triplets are just a big deal overseas!"

"No, they're not." Mrs. Glace said, her arms crossed. "I'd know. I surf foreign items on Ebay all day, every day. Even at work."

"Okay, maybe you shouldn't say that…" Matheo laughed, nervously.

Madeline's eyes opened. She hissed, loudly, and jumped onto the roof of the classroom, before the ceiling tiles she was latched on to broke into pieces, and she yelped in pain. As this was happening, a large, green hand grabbed onto the windowsill, and OverRoot climbed through the window, before awkwardly gulping, and waving at everyone in the classroom.

"Hey!" A girl yelled, excitedly jumping up and down. "It's Hyu! The REAL one!"

The class, sans Matheo, gathered around OverRoot, and began excitedly asking questions. Matheo groaned, and shoved his way through the crowd, and stared Hyu dead in the eyes. The chatter slowly stopped around them.

"Hey, Hyu. The Blue one." Matheo growled. "Where's Besu?"

Everyone looked at him.

"Uh…" OverRoot chuckled nervously. "He's, uh… Probably at his job at the library, taking care of his wonderful family, namely his wife… Marla."

"Marla?" Matheo asked in surprise.

"Well, yeah." OverRoot shrugged. "I think Besu would really be into a girl named Marla."

"But all women are physically the same, so the name has about as much weight as…I dunno, eye color."

"Well, I don't KNOW." OverRoot said, scratching his head. "Why are we even talking about Besu's wife, anyway?"

"Yeah, loser." A kid with a buzzcut said, shoving Matheo aside.

"I have a question." Madeline said, angrily getting up. "What does it take to get you to see just what's wrong with you?"

"Wha-?" Was all OverRoot could say, before she tackled him through the window.

Matheo wordlessly sprinted out of the classroom. As he did, the class stared at him running off, and looked at one another.

"Okay, NOW I think he's Besu." A boy with an oversized hoodie muttered.

()

"Madeline!" OverRoot yelled, as he managed to pull himself out of the dirt. "Quit this whole fighting me thing!"

"Not happening!" Madeline said through gritted teeth. "Not even close."

She tore a large, novelty rock out of the ground, and threw it at OverRoot, who gulped before touching the middle of his Omnitrix symbol, exploding in a flash of blue light.

()

OverRoot's Head grew three fins on it's top, and sides. His legs became short, and stubby, and 3 green dots appeared in his chest.

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"OVERCLONE!" He yelled, instantly multiplying himself into 7, each of which grabbed the rock out of the air, before crushing it into fractions of itself.

"What the-?!" Madeline asked in shock. "He can do that?"

"Okay team." The first OverClone said. "Let's pelt this cat."

The OverClones unraveled their arms into dozens of arms, each picking up rocks, and throwing them at Madeline, who effortlessly dodged all of them. She laughed, before roundhouse kicking an OverClone in the face. The other OverClones shot vines at her, wrapping her up, and lifting her off the ground.

"This is OVER, Madeline!" One of the OverClones shouted at her.

"Hardly!" She replied, cutting open the vines, and flipping out of them.

Two of the OverClones had managed to lift a car off the ground, and they threw it at her. Madeline landed on the flying car's hood, scratching at it's inside with her claws, before kicking off of it sending a now flaming car flying at the OverClones, who each gasped with fear. They each merged back into one, and tried to outrun the explosion, only for Yunai to jump in front of the explosion, grabbing OverClone, and tumbling into the grass with him.

"Yunai!" OverClone said, happily.

"Hey." Yunai coughed. "What's up."

"Hey, Cat Lady!" Besu yelled from behind the twins, dialing an alien. "Pick on somebody your own size!"

"I'm not picking on you guys!" Madeline protested. "Quit making me the bad guy!"

"Whatever!" Besu yelled, slamming down the Optitrix core, and becoming consumed by a bright red light.

()

Besu's Optitrix sank into his arm, which became coated in a flesh-metal hybrid. His hands became two halves of a baseball bat, and the top half of his head forced into a baseball cap. Finally, 6 holes replace Besu's face, and an Omnitrix symbol popped itself out of his right shoulder.

()

"FACEBALL!" He yelled, and shot out 6 baseballs at Madeline, who grabbed a tree out of the ground, and used it to deflect each of them, before throwing it into Besu. "AIIEE!" He yelled.

"That's it, Mad Maddie." Yunai said, cracking her knuckles, and mutating her right and left arms into FlyGuy's and HeatBlast's, respectively. "Get ready for a chemical combustion!"

Yunai shot out a large stream of stinking goo, covering Maddie, before shooting out a stream of fire, causing Maddie to become consumed in an explosion.

"Whoa!" OverClone said, walking over to the scene. "Think you went a little overboard, sis?"

Madeline jumped through the explosion, holding a jagged metal pipe, yelling incessantly.

"No, not really!" Yunai shouted, mutating both her arms into HeatBlast's, and shooting a large explosion at Madeline.

Madeline dived through the explosion, and shouted, throwing the pipe directly into FaceBall's head.

OverClone shouted out, as he multiplied himself into several forms, and each jumped at her, grabbing onto her, and holding her down.

"GET OFFA ME!" Madeline yelled, struggling, before Yunai created a large explosion in the air, as FaceBall shot 6, flaming balls through it, exploding into Madeline, knocking her out.

The OverClones dropped Madeline to the ground, and high-fived each other, before morphing back into one.

"That takes care of that." Hyu said, smiling, as he transformed back to a human.

"Yep." Yunai agreed. "And hopefully, nobody ever brings up the whole 'Hyu being a criminal' thing, ever again."

"Actually-" FaceBall began, before Hyu interrupted him.

"Yep." Hyu said, as the three of them walked into the sunset. "I sure am glad this is all over, chums."

()

Later that night, Todd and Kate were sitting on the living room couch, watching reruns of 'Friends,' when Matheo climbed down the attic ladder, and yelled at them.

"Hey guys!" He yelled. "I found something pretty interesting!"

Todd and Kate both looked at each other, and shrugged. They followed him into the attic, and saw his entire workbench covered with pictures of someone who seemed to resemble the Ben Tennyson they had met, but far more adolescent.

"Is this about… Ben?" Kate asked, pointing at a photo of him.

"Yes… The one from our dimension." Matheo confirmed. "He disappeared off the face of the Earth, about 5-7 years ago."

"What happened to him?" Todd asked, noting the similarities between their Omnitrixes.

"I was able to tap into several of his phone conversations, and apparently, his most recent one depicted a conversation between him and his friends, planning out some sort of 'intergalactic roadtrip.' "

"Ye… What?" Kate asked.

"Alien activity cover-up, Something called 'The Rooters,' and, speaking of things dropping off the face of the Earth, apparently the removal of all information pertaining to a place called 'BellWood.' " He turned to Kate and Todd. "I don't know about you, but I think we've got a mystery on our hands, gang."

"We're… not your gang, dude." Kate rolled her eyes.

"It felt right, okay?" Matheo shook his head. "I'll get on that."

"In the meantime, since we've stumbled upon a state-wide conspiracy, here, we need to train, a lot." Todd nodded "We've got no clue what we're in for."

"Well, then, let's get to it, bros." Kate said, grinning.