Yes, I updated this episode. I got back from seeing the new Predator film today, which inspired me to add it as a new bounty hunter to this chapter.
Up in space in the Chimera Wrath (still in Earth's orbit), Vilgax, still recovering from his injuries, was observing five galactic bounty hunters on his screen in the training area on his ship. They were highlighted by five spotlights from above them.
The first wore purple armor with purple pads covering his central joints, an alien like belt, and four central lines on his helmet to provide outlines for his face. His name was Six-Six.
The second was a crab-like alien with goldish brown-colored armor, a sideways mouth, four scythe-like legs and a large, powerful pincer for a left hand. Within the pincer was a power blaster combined with a chemical sprayer. His name was Kraab.
The third was a 7 foot tall bipedal humanoid long, dreadlock-like appendages on its, their reptilian skin and a face with feature arthropod-like mandibles and no visible nose. It wore a uniform that featured a metal mask on with quills on its head and silver blades on its wrists and heavy armor. You may know this as a Yautja, nicknamed Predator by the general public.
The fourth was a humanoid wearing a suit of armor that consisted of a deep red suit of armor with a golden helmet and chestplate that had a pink visor which shielded her face from view. She had an energy cannon on her left arm that covered her hand. Her name was Maya Aran.
The fifth and final bounty hunter wore a shiny grey suit along with a black helmet with a small, teal triangle on it, shoulder pads and boots. There are glowing teal coloured lines in his helmet and shoulder pads. His went by the codename Hoverboard.
"Begin the audition," Vilgax said over the ship's intercom as they got started.
Six-Six flew out first with his jetpack as a bunch of Vilgax's drones came out from the portholes and surrounded him. A socket in his armor opened and he pulled out a blaster and fired it on the droids, destroying a few of them. They fired back at him and he ducked out of the way of their lasers and activated his rocket launcher from his wrist and fired on another of the droids. He then pulled out grenade from another socket in his armor and tossed it at a few of the droids and it detonated, destroying them.
Kraab jumped down from the platform and attacked the droids, grabbing one of them with his pincer and tossing them into the other. He then spotted another come from him and he crushed it with his pincer and sliced another with his right hand.
The Predator glared as he activated his arm blades and sliced through every single droid he came across as he ducked under their blasts before firing a missile from his gauntlet towards them and destroyed them with a glare as he snarled at his colleagues.
Maya glared as she fired her power beam that sent out multiple blasts and charged blasts at the droids, destroying every single one they hit before she used her grapple beam on one flying overhead that she used to backflip overhead onto it and fired a missile into one overhead as she glared at them.
Then, from up above the four bounty hunters came another droid similar to the one that attacked the campground. Hoverboard pulled out his hoverboard and flew towards the droid and it fired a laser at him that hit him. But when the smoke cleared, it was revealed that he was completely unharmed thanks to his armor. He then jumped and punched right through the droid, destroying it as his hoverboard followed him and he folded it up and put it away as Vilgax's projection came on the screen.
"Impressive," he said. "You are all hired. Your objective is to retrieve the Omnitrixes. The one who succeeds collects the reward. Do not disappoint me."
The five nodded in confirmation and then got into escape pods and they were jettisoned into the Earth's atmosphere, where they would meet their prey and destroy them.
Meanwhile somewhere in the desert, Max was setting up a training area with old cans and pipes as the twins stood on opposite sides and Jen was whistling patiently and tapping her foot as Max finished up.
"You two ready?"
The twins then smirked to themselves as the screen split and the two selected their forms and slammed the cores down.
Ben's watch slammed into his wrist and it became encased in green diamond before it covered his other arm and his head before it closed around his eye and it became fully golden. Four spike-like diamonds, the lower pair smaller than the upper pair, grew out of his back and his clothes morphed into a bodysuit, black on one side, white on the other. The watch symbol was on his upper left bicep as the transformation ended.
Chlorophyll-filled veins traveled up Jen's arm as the watch sank into her arm and she clutched her eyes closed before they opened, revealing a fully green color as her skin turned a lighter green then her eyes. Her clothes transformed into a plant-themed dress with white daisy-like ruffles with red in between the flaps and her shoes turned into grass-like flats. Her hair transformed into a budded flower on top of her head and pink flower cuffs appeared on her wrists and the watch appeared on the clasp of her dress skirt as she spread out her hands and a flurry of vines spread out as she ended the transformation.
"Oh yeah," Diamondhead said.
"We're ready," Blossom Rose said.
"Remember to think out there, you two," Max said. "Don't try to muscle it. Might isn't always right."
"I know," Diamondhead said as he turned his arms to their form where they shot out diamonds. "But it's always fun."
Max pulled a lever and a bunch of cans went sailing from a catapult and Diamondhead shot a flurry of diamonds at them and they embedded themselves into the cans. He pulled another one and nother catapult send another set of cans from the other side as Blossom Rose spread her arms and fired a flurry of thorns from them as they flew into the cans and hit them.
Max then smiled and pulled a lever from above him as two targets dropped down and the twins fired their diamonds/thorns into it from opposite sides as they smirked to each other. The two then fired their diamonds and thorns and destroyed a bunch of targets tied to cacti and on a few boards on the top of the hill and Diamondhead turned his arms back to normal, they both blew off their fingers and walked off.
Gwen observed the twins training as she squirted sunscreen into her hand and started rubbing it in. "Show offs."
"Focus, guys," Max said. "Think."
"No worries, Grandpa," Diamondhead said as a few more cans came flying towards him and he fired some diamonds at them. But then a tire came flying towards him and hit him before he could dodge and he sent diamonds flying in all directions as Max ducked for cover.
Gwen screamed and ran from her seat and ducked under the table as the diamonds pierced her seat and the sunscreen bottle. When she peeked out, the sunscreen came down on her head and she groaned in disappointment.
Diamondhead looked out as he saw Blossom Rose impaled into a wall, the crystals piercing her dress to the frame and she groaned in disappointment as she glared at her brother and pulled out as the petals that made up her dress tore from the crystals keeping them in. She looked down and gasped at the state of her clothes and glared at Diamondhead. "You ruined my dress!"
Diamondhead chuckled nervously at that as he smirked. "Sorry, my bad."
Blossom Rose then shouted out as she tackled her brother to the ground and they brawled across the floor, surrounded in a dust cloud as their faces popped up anime-style as they continued fighting.
"You rockhead! You almost turned me into swiss cheese!" Gwen shouted as the Rust Bucket drove down the road.
"I said I was sorry! What else do you want?" Ben asked as he turned to his sister. "And you've never been obsessed over your fashion before. You've always been a bit of a tomboy."
"I think it's only when I'm Blossom Rose that I'm like that. Remember that certain alien forms affect our personalities in some way."
"And what we want from both of you is to take those things on your wrists more seriously," Max said. "You two need to think when you use them. Lately you two have been charging into battle without a plan. Even you, Jen, and you're the responsible one."
"We know, but come on!" Jen said. "You two have seen the action. We're the toughest twins in town."
"We've kicked so much alien butt our feet hurt!" Ben said as he put his feet up on the table before Gwen pushed them away.
"Yeah, but one of these days, you're gonna get your own butts kicked. And I hope I'm there to see it," Gwen said with a smile.
"But I thought you liked me," Jen said, a bit hurt.
"I do, but not when you get as cocky as your brother."
"Well you better keep dreaming," Ben said. "Because that day's not coming anytime soon."
Then, suddenly, the Rust Bucket's engine sputtered loudly and the RV screeched to a halt.
"That doesn't sound good," Max said.
Back at the training site, Hoverboard looked over the remains of where the Tennysons abandoned the site with Maya by his side as they examined it. He looked at a radar tracker and spotted the energy signature of the Omnitrixes.
"This is where the Omnitrixes were last activated," he said before walking off to examine closer, hoverboard in hand as the camera panned to see the other two bounty hunters on the cliff directly behind him.
S said something in his native alien tongue before activating his jetpack and flying off.
"You can say that again," Kraab said. "A rock pile like this is better off space dust."
Maya used the tracking device in her visor and looked down to see one of the cans that still had one of Diamondhead's shards stuck in it. But as she reached down to investigate, the Predator grabbed it with an extendable claw from his armor and aimed it's missile guantlet at her. Hoverboard grabbed the can and yanked it out of his grip as the hunter alien extended his arm blades and reached for its blaster.
"Don't even think about it, Yautja. I've dealt with your kind back home too."
Six-Six said something in his tongue that sounded like a threat.
"Whoa! Big talk from a gearhead," Kraab said.
"Get in our way again and I'll teach you how to say 'dismantle," Hoverboard said as Six-Six retracted his weapons, said a native comeback and flew off into the distance as the silver one put his blaster away and walked off.
Kraab spun his legs around like a drill and tunneled beneath the Earth's crust to search for the Tennysons.
The Predator glared and made a few clicks before it vanished using its cloaking technology.
As Maya walked away, he tripped on a rope that caused the targets from before to pop up. In response, she fired her power beam that destroyed the entire training site before Hoverboard put a hand on her shoulder.
"Watch it, Maya," he said. "We can't let those two know what our true mission is on this planet."
"You're right," she said. "We'll find the Omnitrixes and then we'll get them to where our
The Tennysons showed up at an abandoned town to look for repairs for the Rust Bucket as Ben sighed at them. It was completely deserted and the remains of the buildings and farms looked in really bad shape.
"Looks like nobody's home," Ben said.
"Not for a while," Gwen said. "My Intellimap program says this is Slatterville. Incorporated in 1857 after the discovery of silver. It went bust in the late 50's when the mine ran out."
"It's a virtual ghost town," Jen said as a tumbleweed passed by.
"Why does everything that comes out of your mouth sound like a book report?" Ben asked Gwen.
Max was under the hood of the Rust Bucket and sighed. "Aha! I think I found the problem." He then pulled out the fuel line that was pierced with one of Diamondhead's shards. "Leaky fuel line."
"Lucky shot?" Ben chuckled as Gwen sighed.
"I should be able to patch it up."
"Sorry Grandpa," Ben said with a sigh as Jen came up and started dialing her watch.
"I think I can help with that. Maybe Four Arms. No, wait- Frostblight," she suggested.
"I think that you two have done enough already," Max said. "I'll handle this."
"Alright. I guess we'll check this place out," Ben said as they started walking off as Jen laid her shoulder on her brother.
Max and Gwen looked after them, worried. Max turned to Gwen.
"Maybe you should go-"
"Make sure they don't find a way to blow everything up? I'm on it." Gwen said as she followed them.
The twins walked into Slatterville's mine and admired the old craftsmanship of what was in it.
"Man, talk about old school," Ben said. "Look at all this junk."
"Ben! Jen!" Gwen called as the two shot up and looked out of the mine and saw Gwen looking around.
Ben then smirked and activated the watch as Jen got a worried look on her face.
"Don't even think about it, bro," Jen said.
"Oh, I'm thinking about it," Ben said as he slammed the core down in a flash of green light as his sister just face-palmed and shook her head.
Meanwhile, Six-Six and the Predator detected the surge of energy on the radar on their gauntlets and then started advancing towards Slatterville.
Gwen walked into the mines with a suspicious look as she called out to them.
"Calling all dweebs!" she called out as she stared. "Guys?"
That was when a dark presence came out and phased through her as she saw a dark shadowy silhouette that started reforming into the power into its default shape as Ben smirked at her.
"What's the matter, Gwen?" he asked in a faint whispering voice. "You look like you've seen a ghost... freak!" He then started laughing to himself.
Ben's ghost alien form, Ghostfreak, is a phantom/ghost-like alien with a gaseous appearance and claw like hands. He has grey skin with black lines running all over him. The watch symbol peeked out of his skin on his lower left chest and he has a purple eye.
"Get over yourself, doofus. You don't scare me," Gwen said.
"I told him it was wrong," Jen said as she was leaning against a crate with a sigh as they then felt a tremor in the ground as she gasped. "You don't suppose there's some mine workers still working here?"
Then, they saw a faint shape tunneling towards them as Ghostfreak grabbed the girls and flew them away as Kraab came from out of the ground and revealed his head to them as the Tennysons looked very surprised by his appearance.
"Okay, him, I'm scared of," Gwen said, shaking.
"No problem. I'll handle this guy," Ghostfreak said as he flew over and glanced around, his eye traveling all across the tears in his skin as he glanced the crab over. "Man, you put the 'ugh' in ugly."
"Hand over the Omnitrixes and I promise that you won't sufffer... much," Kraab ordered as he clutched his pincer open and shut.
"Dream on, shell-boy," Ghostfreak said as his eye traveled to the back of his skin and looked at the girls. "What's he talking about."
"Duh! Why else would an alien lifeform track us down, bro?!" Jen shouted.
"He wants the watches, Einstein!" Gwen agreed.
"You don't have to get snotty about it, Ms. Know-It-All," he then glanced back at the crab.
"Sorry, crabby. But we've kind of... bonded with the watches," Jen said.
"Not for long," Kraab said.
"You have no idea who you're messing with," Ghostfreak said as Jen dialed the watch in and slammed down the core transforming into Needle Mouse with a glare as she drew her right paw back at the ready.
"Funny," Kraab said. "I was just about to tell you the same thing."
Suddenly, the Predator burst through the doors and snarled and glared at the three as he aimed his blades.
"Okay," Ghostfreak said. "Do you know this one? "Now you see me, now you don't." That was when he turned invisible, leaving behind a very freaked-out looking Gwen and a Needle Mouse who was standing her guard.
Needle Mouse ran in and tossed her quills at the Predator, which he swatted aside with his blades and fired his blasters at her, which she spun away from using her spin dash move before she slammed into him and sent him sprawling on the floor before he stabilized himself with his blades and glared.
Gwen chuckled nervously and ran away as Needle Mouse curled up into a ball and spin-dashed into him as she banged around the crates like a pinball and kept slamming into Kraab, causing some damage from her quills as she then unfurled and landed on top of a crate as she smiled.
"I never did like shellfish," she said to herself.
The Preadator recovered and glanced around as his thermal visors on his helmet shifted to his infrared vision as he glanced around to search for Ghostfreak's heat signature in order to detect him as Ghostfreak popped up behind him and attempted to phase through him before Kraab popped up behind him, surprising him.
"You're as arrogant as you are dimwitted," Kraab stated before he turned his body around again and fired a strange goo at Ghostfreak, deactivating his invisibility. He then glanced around as he tried to turn invisible again, which didn't work as he looked around in a panic.
"What happened?"
"Your protoplasm is now solidified," the crab explained. "making it easier to do this!" He then punched Ghostfreak right in the face (or would have if he had a discernible face), sending him flying into the crates behind him and he put his hands on the floor, dazed.
Meanwhile, Needle Mouse snuck from the Predator with a glare as she readied some of her quills to fire at him. She then fired them at him as he reached around and grabbed them with his hands and crushed them as she then shouted out and tried to spin-dash into him before he grabbed Ghostfreak by the tail and swung him around at her, sending the both of them flying into the wall as Needle Mouse was stuck by her quills into it as she then gave out an annoyed "hmph" and crossed her arms.
"Who the heck is this guy?" Ghostfreak asked.
"Remember when I said I wanted to be there when you got your butt kicked?" Gwen asked. "I take it way back."
The pair of bounty hunters then started to walk towards them as Ghostfreak and Gwen grabbed Needle Mouse by the arms and pulled back as hard as they could before she popped out of the wall.
"You two are the superheroes! Do something!" Gwen shouted as the two got up and started to engage the pair of hunters.
"You two had better keep your claws to yourself, punk!" Needle Mouse shouted as she dodged out of the way of his swipes at her.
"You two are getting really annoying!" Kraab shouted as he fired a beam at Ghostfreak and the Predator fired a missile at Needle Mouse that managed to score a direct hit and he was sent flying.
"You have no idea," Ghostfreak grunted as he stood up and the crab stalked towards him as he struggled to get up.
The Predator gave out a few clicks in his native language.
"I couldn't have said it better myself, my friend," Kraab said. "Hardly worth the hunt."
Gwen looked and saw that the pair had walked right onto a lift and the lever was right by Ghostfreak.
"Hey, Ben! Give him a lift!" Gwen shouted as he looked at the lever and then pulled it as the lift rose up towards the ceiling of the mine and crushed the pair bounty hunter right on top of it as Needle Mouse then tossed a quill at the lever box and destroyed it as the Omnitrixes timed out and they transformed back in a flash of red and purple light.
"You okay, bro?" Jen asked as Ben rubbed his head, still covered in the goo.
"Oh, man. That was even weirder than when I normally go Ghostfreak," Ben said as they looked at the crushed crab and saw his legs twitching.
"Come on. Let's get out of here before Crab Cake wakes up," Gwen said as they both ran out of the mine.
Unbeknownst to them, Hoverboard and Maya were watching them leave and Hoverboard's visor gave out a shine in the light as they turned away.
The kids ran to their grandfather at the Rust Bucket.
"What happened?" Max asked them.
"You know, the usual," Gwen stated. "Some giant crustacean and a reptilian alien with dreadlocks burst out of the ground and attacked us."
"It said it wanted the Omnitrixes," said Jen as she showed hers.
"Oh, so we're calling them that now?" Ben asked as Jen sighed.
"If that's what they're called, then yes. We're calling them the Omnitrixes," she stated plainly.
"Just let me go Four Arms and I'll send him right to Portland," Ben said as he started dialing in his Omnitrix before Max laid a hand on his shoulder.
"No time," he said. "Repairs are done. We're out of here."
"But Grandpa," Ben began before his sister nudged him in the shoulder.
"He's right. The Omnitrixes need to charge, bro. We'd better leave this place behind," Jen said as they got in and started driving away as Gwen looked out of the window.
"No sign of crab guy, yet," she said.
"Well, he'd better not show up if he knows what's good for him," Ben said, showing his Omnitrix as they all felt a thud on the roof and a chainsaw like blade sawed its way through the roof of the Rust Bucket as they all gasped.
"I think we just picked up a hitchhiker!" she shouted as Six-Six snarled at them as he pulled away the roof.
"Who's that?!" Gwen shouted.
"I don't know! They're the ones hunting us!" Ben shouted as Max slammed the brake and Six-Six was sent flying off of the RV and onto the ground.
Six-Six stood on the ground dazed before Max advanced and ran him over with the Rust Bucket. But suddenly, the RV stopped in the middle of the road. Max then looked out of the car and saw that Six-Six had slashed the tires.
They all got out and saw that they had no way to get away from Six-Six as Max spied a mine shaft with a cart leading into it. "In there!"
They Tennysons ran away from them as Six was about to follow. But then, suddenly, Kraab then came burrowing up to him and popped out of the ground with a flourish as Six-Six looked on in shock. "Remember me?" He then tackled him to the ground.
Ben, Jen, Gwen and Max then ran into the mine to get away from the bounty hunters before hiding behind a wall. Ben then sneaked a peek behind the wall and saw they weren't being followed. "*sigh* The coast is clear."
Then, the Predator burst up from out of the ground, surprising the family.
"Don't you get tired of being wrong all the time?!" Gwen shouted.
"Yes. Yes I do," Ben said as Predator approached them.
He gave out a few clicks from its mandibles and glared at htem.
"I have no idea what you said, but you'll never get the Omnitrixes!" Jen shouted.
Max then picked up a large piece of rock and tossed it at the Predator, which he easily sliced in half with his arm blades.
"Run!" Gwen shouted as they all ran away from him down the tunnels of the mine as Ben and Jen fiddled with their still-recharging Omnitrixes.
"Come on! Do something! Even Grey Matter would be good right now!" Ben shouted.
They then gave a sharp turn as Kraab joined the Predator in the hunt and then crashed into the wall beside them before continuing chasing them
The gang continued running until they reached a dead end with a chasm directly beneath them as Gwen shouted.
"Great. We're trapped," Jen said.
"Now what?" Gwen asked.
Max then looked around and saw a mine cart on one of the railings with a lever next to it. "We take a ride."
They then ran to the mine cart as Kraab and the Predator continued his pursuit of them. The kids then got into the cart as Max pulled the lever causing it to start to move before he jumped for it and barely managed to grab the cart before the kids pulled him in as the cart went to the other side as they watched Kraab and the Predator leaving as Jen stuck out his tongue at him.
"What a pathetic excuse for prey!" Kraab said as the Predator prepared to cut the wire to send them all to their doom before he was hit by a laser blast and Six-Six resumed his assault on them by sending several blasts at the mine cart as the group gasped from the impact.
"He's coming in hot!" Gwen said as the twins fiddled with their Omnitrixes.
"We need a plan," Max said as the Omnitrixes activated and Ben smiled.
"Yes! Who needs a plan when you've got the watch?" Ben said as he and Jen got up.
"We'll take it from here," Jen said as they both slammed down the cores.
"No, guys! That's just what it wants!" Max warned as Ben and Jen transformed into Diamondhead and Firefly respectively.
They then jumped out of the cart and tackled Six-Six and Diamondhead transformed his arm into a blade and Firefly flapped her wings rapidly and they fell into the chasm.
"Ben! Jen!" Max shouted as Diamondhead rode on Six-Six's jetpack and Firefly uesd her wings to fly through the air as they struggled with the alien before they crashed into a wall and fell onto one of the stands on the mine as the cart went into the tunnels without the twins on it.
"Guys, come on!" Gwen shouted as the twins stood up.
"We'll catch up," Firefly said.
"First we'll put some dents in this walking soda machine," Diamondhead said as he activated his blade arms before the pair were grabbed by Kraab's pincer and thrown into the wall behind them.
'We really should've seen that coming," Firefly said before they got up and attacked the three bounty hunters with all their might before they were eventually defeated and tossed into the wall as she stood up dazed. "That was rather uncouth."
Six-Six then approached them before being stopped by the crab.
"Back off! That reward's mine."
The Predator gave out a few clicks in its native language.
"Well you don't have to get personal!"
Then, a grenade appeared in the area before releasing a bunch of smoke which briefly knocked the two bounty hunters out. The twins looked up and saw Maya and Hoverboard holding a grenade launcher in his hands before Diamondhead groaned.
"Three was bad enough."
Hoverboard flew towards them with his hoverboard with Maya riding on it next to him and he grabbed the pair of them by their backs and flew them out of the mine and back into town before throwing them to the ground as Firefly stood up with a glare.
"That's no way to treat a lady," Firefly groaned.
"6 billion sentient beings on this planet and the Omnitrixes end up in the hands of two foolhardy youths." Hoverboard scoffed.
"Foolhardy? I'll have you know that I am the most proper lady that you will ever lay eyes on."
"No. The Pyrolampus Queen is the most proper lady you'll ever lay eyes on. In your default form you're definitely foolhardy," Maya said.
"I hate to rain on your parade, but like we told your two buddies, these things don't come off. Believe me, we've tried," Diamondhead said.
"Of course they don't. Their power utilizes alien DNA, which binds to the host's own genetic structure. They can't simply be removed like taking off a hat," Hoverboard said, crossing his arms.
Diamondhead tried to sneak up on Hoverboard with a punch but Maya caught him in the act and fire a missile at the diamond warrior and Firefly flew up and caught him.
"Are you ever not going to fall for that?" she sighed as she set him down on the ground.
"Your choice of warriors is based solely on brute strength without regard for any strategy. Do you ever pause to consider your actions at all?" Maya asked
"Hey! We've kicked more than our fair share of alien butt," Diamondhead said.
"Yes. Such as your recent success in the mine shaft with the bounty hunters," Hoverboard pointed out.
"You have us there, good sir. Well played indeed," Firefly complimented. Diamondhead then proceeded to try to punch Maya again as Firefly tried to point it out to him as she watched the hunter dodge and avoid him as she shook her head. "Why bother? He never listens."
"You two were moments away from losing your lives. And the Omnitrixes. Victory should have been swift and easy," Maya said as she threw Diamondhead into the mine carts as Firefly ran up to him and crossed her arms. "The Omnitrixes are not just some toys for your amusement. They are the two most powerful weapons in the galaxy. The keys to an epic battle between good and evil."
"Oh, and which category do you twofall into?" Firefly asked as she helped her twin to his feet
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe we just saved your lives," Maya said.
"You're the good guys?" Firefly asked.
"Our mission is to retrieve the Omnitrixes at all costs. Since they are attached to you two, we will bring you back as well for their removal," Hoverboard explained.
"Oh no. We're not going anywhere," Diamondhead said.
"It's not your choice, little one," Maya said.
"It is now," Firefly said as she lit her hands up in flame and tackled Hoverboard in a flash, knocking his hoverboard away as she punched him in the face with flaming punches before he grabbed her fists and tossed her away as she groaned in pain as Diamondhead tried to do the same to Maya but was met with identical results.
"It's astonishing how little you know of this aliens' strengths or weaknesses. You've barely scratched the surface of it's potential."
"Oh, and what makes you such an expert?"
Hoverboard then opened his helmet to reveal a face identical to Diamondhead's. It was the same alien species.
Firefly got up and noticed the hunter's face. "Never would have seen that coming."
"You're me," Diamondhead said.
"Wrong. I am a noble warrior, Tetrax Shard. You, on the other hand, are an impulsive annoyance," the hunter said as the Omnitrixes timed out and the twins turned back to normal and he picked them up.
"Hey! Let us down!" Jen said.
"I guess we're two of a kind," Maya said to Jen as she removed her own helmet, revealing herself to be a young woman with brunette hair tied in a two pigtails as she glared at them.
"You're human?"
"Earth isn't the only place where humans live," Maya explained. "My name is Maya Aran. You could say that Tetrax and I are partners in this business. We find the hunt, we split the prize together. Now we have a mission that requires you."
Tetrax looked for the hoverboard and heard Kraab's mechanical footsteps approaching as he showed up with his hoverboard in hand.
"Looking for this? You're not getting off this planet with the Omnitrix. And just to be sure..." he gestured to his right where the Six-Six and the Predator came in and revealed they had captured Gwen and Max as they struggled in his grip.
"Hands off!" Max shouted.
"Let me go!" Gwen shouted as the twins looked on in shock.
"See, the three of us have decided to work together and split the reward and you two... in half," Kraab said as he clamped his pincer twice to make a point."
"Give me my hoverboard!" Tetrax shouted.
"You want it? Go get it," Kraab then tossed the hoverboard to his right at a rock resting nearby them. "But you'll have to get past us to do it."
Six-Six and the Predator then pulled out their weapons using one of his extra arms and started firing energy bolts at the four of them when Tetrax turned around, the bolts deflecting off of his indestrucible crystal body before he and his partner ran off with the twins and into an abandoned convenience store (ironically, convenient was the word that could be used to describe its presence.)"
The crab continued to fire on them when the Predator gave a few clicks to him in his native language
"Shut your gasket, snake head. I know what I'm doing."
"What are we waiting for?" Ben asked before Tetrax grabbed them by their collars.
"Don't be foolish. Keeping the Omnitrixes secured is the only priority here," Maya said to them.
"Not to us," Jen said. "That's our family out there."
"You two cannot save them. You would soon be overpowered and captured. Luckily for you two, I have a spare hoverboard that we can use to leave the planet while we still can," Tetrax told them.
"We have to get it now," he said.
"But," the twins began before Tetrax set them down and started to pull something out of his pack before he was swatted aside by the Predator and Six-Six.
"Hey, get your claws off my partner, bub!" Maya shouted, aiming her blaster at them as she and them got to different corners and engaged in a shooting match.
That was when Ben, out of the corner of his eye saw the hoverboard in the distance as he turned to his sister.
"Okay, here's the plan. You fake your surrender to the crab while I go and get the hoverboard. Then at the last minute, I'll fly in and grab you," he whispered.
"You don't even know how to fly that thing," Jen whispered.
"It's probably just like riding a bike. Anyone can do it with practice."
"Practice takes time, which is something that we don't have," Jen whispered before they turned to see Tetrax and the Predator brawling in a cloud of dust before Jen sighed. "Okay, we'll do it your way for once."
"That's my sister," Ben said as Jen sighed up.
She then ran out of the convenience store, being sure to kick up plenty of the desert's sand to give Ben some cover and got in front of the crab, who had taken Gwen and Max while the purple alien was fighting Tetrax, and glared at him.
"What are you gonna do? You don't have the charge on that thing, little girl," Kraab said as she then put her hands up into the air and got on her knees as she started to cry.
"I surrender! Do what you want with me! Just please don't hurt my family!" she begged as she turned to Ben, who was in a racing stance as she then winked to him as he started running for it, using the dust cloud Jen kicked up for cover as he ran for the hoverboard which was resting by a rock as he then picked it up.
"Nice try. But for us to get the reward, we need both of the Omnitrixes. Now where's your brother?"
"Right here!" Ben shouted as Jen smirked and stuck her hand up as Ben flew in on the hoverboard without much control and Ben picked her up and swung her onto the back of it as they both wobbled from the sudden shift in weight. "Nice one, huh?"
"I knew those acting classes last year would pay off somehow," Jen said as they then saw Tetrax and the Predator crash out of the store as they struggled on the ground before he shot some crystals at Kraab who stumbled back from the sudden blows and dropped Gwen and Max in the process as they fell on the ground before he took out his spare hoverboard and flew to avoid the blasts from the purple alien while Ben and Jen crashed into the same store as they fell dazed as they looked at their respective Omnitrixes, which were still recharging.
Maya glared as she rolled up into her ball form and laid some bombs all around the area as Tetrax tossed the Predator into one of them, detonating the bomb and blowing him sky-high.
"Oh come on!" Ben said as they glared. "Recharge, already!"
Meanwhile, Max and Gwen ducked under a mine cart as Tetrax jumped off his hoverboard and landed square on Six-Six causing a massive dust cloud and forming a crater as Kraab stumbled back from the force of the impact.
Then, the two started brawling as Tetrax's enhanced strength allowed his punch to blow Six-Six back a few feet before he activated his gauntlet and fired a rocket from it, which Tetrax then blocked using a diamond shield.
Kraab tried to surprise him from behind, but Maya beat him to the punch. She grabbed his pincer and tossed him into Six-Six. The Predator started advancing on her from behind, which she sensed and fired a missile over her shoulder, which blew him back into the bombs again.
While all this was happening, the twins were watching from the convenience store with a concerned look on their faces before they saw that the Omnitrixes were ready to be used as they smiled at each other.
"Hero time?" Jen asked.
"You know it," Ben said.
Kraab then noticed them as they gasped and ducked for cover in a flash as he went after them before they activated the Omnitrixes.
Ben was about to transform into Four Arms before he remembered what Max and Tetrax said earlier.
"Remember to think out there, you two. Don't try to muscle it. Might isn't always right."
"Your choice of aliens is based solely on brute strength without any regard for strategy. Do you ever pause to consider your actions at all."
Ben realized that they were right. He's been muscling it out all day and every time he's gotten his butt handed to him. Maybe now was a good time as any to consider coming up with a strategy.
"Hey, sis?" Ben asked as Jen looked to him. "I think we should think our choices through."
"That is the best (and possibly only) idea you've ever had," Jen stated before Ben glared at her as she put her hands up and chuckled. "I'm kidding. Let's do it."
The two then chose two different forms from the ones they were going for.
Kraab then noticed the flash of green and pink from behind the table as he then invisibly smirked. "There you are." He then smashed the table... only to find nothing behind it.
Up in the rafters, Frost Blight and Grey Matter had just hopped up onto one of the beams as they turned to each other and split up, Frost Blight flying out the hole that Tetrax and Six-Six made in the wall while Grey Matter leaped onto Kraab as he started to scramble to get him off.
"Get off of me, you tiny little Galvan pest!" he shouted before Grey Matter leaped down to his neck and reached into an opening.
"There should be a nerve cruster in here somewhere," he said as they scrambled out of the door. Grey Matter finally pulled the cables loose before Kraab started thrashing, no longer in control of his actions before his head spun and he finally shut down, crashing to the floor and Grey Matter jumped off his shoulder before running for his sister. "One down."
Frost Blight was flying towards the still struggling Tetrax and Six-Six before she glared at him as he tried to spot an opening in the hunter's armor as she glared.
"Okay, Jen. Stay positive," she told herself. "You're three inches tall right now. You only see on the upside."
The Six-Six then got Tetrax into a headlock before activating his jetpack and flying upwards and bodyslammed Tetrax into the ground. Unknowingly to him, Frostblight had flown in through an opening in his neck and making her way to the workings of his systems.
On the outside, Six-Six spotted Grey Matter and glared before activating his rockets before Max tackled him.
"Ben, run!" Max shouted before the alien tossed him off him and activated a saw.
Grey Matter gasped when he saw this and ran towards his grandfather in an attempt to save his life.
Frost Blight also saw this as she then grit her teeth in anger.
"Not on my watch, mother..."
"No!" Gwen shouted as Six-Six was about to kill Max before Grey Matter jumped on top of him.
"Guess who?" he said as Six-Six scrambled.
Tetrax then recovered as he saw Grey Matter on Six-Six's head.
"I told you to stay out of this," he said as Grey matter smirked.
"What can I say? I'm a troublemaker," he said as he noticed the circuits in Six-Six's armor. "I wonder what would happen if I did this?" He then snapped a few cables and the alien's jetpack activated as they flew off. On the way, the out of control alien then crashed into the town's water tower.
Inside of his armor, Frost Blight started cackling like a witch as she then rubbed her hands and stuck them out as she then let out a massive gust of icy cold air from her mouth, hands and wings as the circuitry around her started freezing over as the lights in his armor started going out and he started falling to the ground with Grey Matter on him. She then punched her way out of the now brittle metal as she then flew out of the armor and grabbed Ben and started carrying him to the ground as she beat her wings.
"You know, I was doing just fine without you," Grey Matter said.
"You're welcome," Frost Blight said as they made their way back to their family, Tetrax and Maya with a simle.
The Predator glared and charged forward with a glare as he aimed his missiles at them with a glare before Maya noticed him with a sigh and a missile at him, sending him crashing into Kraab and knocking him out.
Six-Six then crashed on the ground right next to them.
The twins then noticed the now loose water tower starting to fall as Grey Matter started doing the math in his head at the trajectory of where it would fall as he then started chuckling to himself as the tower's shadow was cast on the three bounty hunters.
"I hate this planet," Kraab said as the tower fell on them, broke and the water started gushing out.
"Only one way to beat the desert heat, huh?" Grey Matter said.
"Pretty smart... for a human," Tetrax admitted.
Maya then cleared her throat as she stood next to him with a glare.
"Sorry."
Tetrax then activated a device that sent a cube that looked like the Tesseract that grew in size to encase the three bounty hunters, then shrunk down, imprisoning them as the Omnitrixes timed out. He then pocketed the cube with the hunters inside it.
"I'll return as soon as I'm able," he promised.
"And I'll be there too. You'll see us again," Maya agreed.
"What about these?" Jen asked, showing her Omnitrix.
"They're in good hands until then," Tetrax reassured as he then went into the store and grabbed his hoverboard before handing it to Ben. "I think you're going to need practice with this. And as for you," he pointed to Jen as he then pulled out his spare board and pressed a few buttons on it before the green color changed into pink as he handed it to her. "Take it. These may be of some use in the meantime."
"Sweet!" Jen said as she cuddled the board with her cheek as Ben smiled at her.
"Score!" Ben said.
"Consider them a gift," Maya said.
"Hold on, Tetrax," Ben said, suddenly. "You said that you needed this to get off the planet."
"Selected disinformation."
"I'm sorry?" Jen asked.
"He lied," Gwen explained.
Tetrax then activated his helmet as Maya walked up next to him and used a device that teleported him away in a flash of red light.
"How come you two get all the cool alien stuff?" Gwen asked the twins as they smirked at her.
"Fits our style," Ben said as Jen smirked.
"I've got something for you too," Gwen said as she took out her suntan lotion and dumped it all over her cousin's head as he shouted out.
"Hey! What was that for?!" Ben shouted.
"Wouldn't want that big head of your's to get sunburned," Gwen laughed as she walked away.
Jen was then laughing at that as Ben glared at her. "What? It was funny." Jen said as she activated her new hoverboard, got on it and smiled to her brother. "Race you to the Rust Bucket!"
"You're on!" Ben said as he got on his and the two zoomed off to the RV.
In orbit, on the Chimera Wrath, a robot watched on a monitor as Tetrax and Maya zoomed away in a flash of red light as it turned to its master.
"*Sigh* Betrayed," Vilgax said.
"Sensors indicate the Omnitrixes are not with the mercenaries," the robot said.
"It appears the creatures who possess the Omnitrixes are as clever as they are fierce," Vilgax said. "But I shall not be denied."