On a dark stormy night, the group was parked near a hotel while Max lay down in bed trying to get some shut-eye while Allison was in the kitchen cooking dinner with her headphones in playing her music and Ben was playing his Sumo Slammer video game while Jen was on her cell phone with an increasingly giddy face and she got more and more excited as her call continued.
"What?" Jen asked. "No way! No way! Mom, that's awesome! Okay, alright. I'll see you in a month and a half. Ben and I love you too. Bye."
She then hung up the phone and instantly got up and squealed like the little girl she was while holding her hands to her chest and dancing a bit on the floor.
"Ben, you're never going to believe this!" she said as Ben briefly looked up from his video game as the others looked at her as she smiled.
"What? The next Sumo Slammer's game is getting released early?" he asked as Jen shook her head.
"No, bro. Mom's pregnant again!" Jen practically squealed in amazement.
"What?" Ben asked as he got up.
"You're going to be a big brother! I'm going to be a big sister!" Jen said with an amazed smile as she gripped her brother in a tight bracing hug and spun him around off his feet with a squeal of delight.
"Whoa, sis, that's great!" Ben said with a smile as Gwen and Becky smiled and hugged their cousins with a massive grip as Gwen wiped a tear from her eye.
"OMG! We're so happy for you two!" Gwen practically cried out as Allison walked over to her with a smile.
"Let's hope that your little brother or sister doesn't end up like mine did," she said wit ha hint of sadness in her voice while Jen smiled at her nad hugged her.
"It's okay," Jen said. "If you ask me, you tried to be a great sister. Kevin was just a bad brother. But if I know one thing about villains, it's that he will be back."
"Well, now that that's out of the way," Ben smiled as he went back to his video game and unpaused it and went back to it as Gwen groaned while Jen flipped through her spells.
"I'm so bored," Gwen said, looking to her cousin. "Even your dumb video game sounds good right now. I want to play."
"Me too," Jen said.
"Me three," Becky smiled.
"Sorry, I already have a partner," Ben said, attention squarely on the video game. "Run! And Ishiyama- slam! He's the coolest- kick! Sumo Slammer- jump! of all. So why would I want to play with you?"
"To prove that you're not afraid of getting your sumo butt kicked by a girl!" Gwen smiled as Jen and Becky stood by her sides.
"It's a four-player game, bro," Jen said. "There's room for all of us."
At that, Ben paused the game and handed three controllers to his sister and cousins and they smiled as they got their game faces on.
"You guys have at it," Allison said with a smile as she poured her pasta into the boiling water and put some cheese over a double boiler to start it melting.
Later on, the four were playing majorly as they grunted and groaned. Each had stylized their character avatars after themselves within the game.
Gwen had gotten the top score at 83,255,890 points, Jen had gotten 77,743,625 points and Becky got 41,477,872 points while Ben only had a measly 57,302 points.
"Oh yeah!" Gwen cheered. "Top score for the Gwen warrior!"
"Beginners luck for both of you. Though Jen is just as experienced as me in this."
"How many times have I played this game with you, Ben?" Jen asked, twirling her controller with her telekinesis.
"I don't know, like 30!"
"And how many times have you lost?"
"...I don't know, like 30!" Ben said. "But now just see how a real warrior handles this!"
Ben moved his joystick forward and moved his avatar forwards towards a chest, only for a giant purple warrior samurai to appear before him, knocking him back.
"Get his butt kicked by Kenko the Shapeshifter?" Becky asked with a smirk and a raised eyebrow.
"Careful, you only have two lives left," Gwen said.
Ben then grabbed Gwen's controller and caused her avatar to fall off the edge.
"Ben, no fair!" Gwen shouted.
"Careful, you only have one life left!" Ben mocked.
"Guys, please!" Max shouted. "I'm trying to grab some shut-eye here."
"Sorry, Grandpa," Becky said.
While they were distracted, Ben snuck off and slammed the Omnitrix core down, transforming into Upgrade. He then merged with the laptop and completely erased Gwen's score as she growled and shook the laptop.
"Ben Tennyson, you are such a cheater!" she said. "You'll get yours one of these days!"
"Sis, be careful!" Becky said.
"I'm not going to let you hurt my brother before he becomes an older sibling!" Jen said as they all reached for the laptop.
Suddenly, a flash of lightning struck the Rust Bucket, travelling up the outlet cord and shocking the girls and the laptop, who vanished in a flash, which instantly caught Allison's attention when she finished mixing the pasta with the cheese. She then got up and checked the laptop and her eyes widened.
"This is not good," she said as she checked the power and hooked up one of the controllers and put the headset on with a glare as she went to the customizer section of the game as she started it up and got her game face on. "Dinner's going to have to wait. Game time."
"Oh, finally. A little peace and quiet," Max groaned.
Upgrade stood in what looked like an abandoned Japanese village and looked to his side when he saw Gwen materialize in front of him. She was wearing blue samurai garb with a metal samurai headband and boots with a shoulder pad on her left shoulder with a glowing orange orb on it aside two dull black orbs.
Jen then materialized next to her wearing a pink ninja garb with a white belt, pink boots and gloves with her right one sporting the Omnitrix symbol with her hair in a high ponytail and a belt with two glowing orbs on the buckle and one black orb.
Finally, Becky appeared next to her sister wearing a red ninja suit with a red belt with a wolf buckle on it and a headband around her forehead. She also had on red boots and gloves with a shoulder pad on her right shoulder with two glowing orange orbs and one black one.
"What happened?" Upgrade asked as the girls looked themselves over.
"I think that lightning flash happened," Jen said.
"It must have zapped Upgrade and we wound up in the video game!" Gwen said.
"Well that's just great," Becky said, rolling her eyes.
"We're inside Sumo Slammer Smackdown? Cool!" Upgrade said before he collapsed and made an angel in the sand.
They then looked up and saw a giant machine appear in the skies above them.
"Not for long," Gwen said as she rolled up her sleeve to see her Charm Tattoos were still there and Jen ignited her hands in pink energy.
"Hey, we still have our powers!" Jen said.
The machine from above shot down several silver spheres downwards that slammed into the buildings around them before they unfurled and revealed robot sumo wrestlers with yellow and orange faces on them.
"Robo sumos?" Upgrade asked. "That's so Level One."
The robots dispersed apart and revealed what appeared to be the leader: a samurai garbed robot with two flags sticking out of its shoulders.
The samurai robot charged towards Upgrade and tackled him, only for Upgrade to merge with him and he charged the other robots, knocking them over before he crashed into the water tower and knocked it over, destroying the robots below it.
The girls then backed themselves up into a circle and glared as they shouted and broke apart to get to work.
Gwen's Fire Charm tattoo glowed and she posed her hands together and shot out a stream of fire from her hands that ignited some of the robots around them before she did a backflip over another one and did a right kick to it, knocking it back and backflipping onto it and her hand glowed with magic energy and blew it apart with her bare hands.
Jen then shot her hands outwards and blasted out several pink energy bolts before she levitated the destroyed pieces of robot to her with her telekinesis and sent them out towards the robots like bullets and she then shouted outwards and backflipped before her hands glowed and she gave out a chant.
"Kemo Char!"
The golden energy blasted towards the robot and blew it apart, leaving behind a smoking husk.
Becky turned towards another robot, but Upgrade merged with it and discharged his energy before separating from the robot and it fell over.
Becky then groaned and started with her fisticuffs and blew through the robots with her brute strength and she shouted out in effort and destroyed the last one by her with a swift kick to the face.
Upgrade then merged with the final robot and discharged his energy, destroying it.
"This isn't a challenge, it's a slaughterfest."
"Oh yeah, real impressive when you can control the whole game world as Upgrade," Gwen said.
"How about being fair to your competition, bro?" Jen asked, walking up.
"Jealous?"
Another robot charged the group, but Upgrade merged himself with it and opened a cannon from its back and blasted the rest of the robots, destroying them all and earning 500 points for each one he destroyed.
"Oh yeah! You just got Sumo Slammed! Ben's the best, forget the rest!"
"Yeah, well since you control everything in here, I would use Upgrade to get us out of here before-"
As Becky spoke, the all-too-familiar beeping began and the watch timed out in a flash of red light, leaving Ben in human form. He was wearing a brown samurai armor and a headband with his hair styled into a spiked side ponytail and two glowing orange orbs aside a black one appeared next to him. His Omnitrix was on a gauntlet on his left wrist.
"Uh-oh."
"You are such a dweeb, Ben!" Gwen shouted. "Now what are we going to do?"
"No problem," Ben said. "We'll just wait until the watch lets me go Upgrade again."
He then adjusted the Omnitrix, only to find no glow, no icons. Nothing.
"Okay, we got problems."
"What happened to all the hero icons?" Gwen asked.
"It's happened to my Omnitrix too," Jen said as she fiddled with her gauntlet.
"Well that's just typical," Becky said. "How long are we going to last in here without Upgrade?"
"Don't get your pants in a twist, Becky," Ben said. "I've played this game like a million times. Nothing can surprise me."
That was when a larger robot than the previous ones appeared from above and utterly squashed Ben.
"Ben, no!" Jen shouted as from the crater, a few gold coins came out before disappearing.
That was when Ben respawned next to them and a light went out from his chest. "I definitely don't want to do that again."
"Ben, you're down to your last life," Becky said.
"Something tells me that if any of us loses all of our lives, it'll be for keeps."
They then gasped when the giant Robo Sumo got onto its feet and looked at them.
"Run!" Jen shouted.
The two sets of twins ran for shelter as the Robo Sumo attempted to bring its fist down on them and they dodged, only for more grunt sumos to come out of the buildings as the four stood back to back.
Jen then enveloped her hands in pink energy as she blasted the robots away with her energy blasts and bolts as Gwen's Keystone Tattoo started glowing and she dodged out of the way and smashed through the robots with brute strength and a shout before kicking one away.
Becky then gave an elbow to one and ripped it apart with her brute strength before tossing the destroyed parts into the other robots, destroying them as she gave an absolutely savage look to her opponents.
Ben was knocked aside by one of the remaining robots before Jen came aside and gave an energy kick to it that destroyed it.
"There's too many of them!" Ben said as he and his sister looked around. "We've got to find a-"
They then looked upwards and saw a chest floating at the top of the village's watchtower.
"A Keni Trunk!" Jen said as she, her brother and their cousins all leaped upwards and touched the trunk and four coins came out: one with the symbol of the sword, one one with a spear, one with a fan and one with a piece of paper.
"Dibs on the Samurai Sumo Sword!" Ben said as he reached out for the sword coin and a sword materialized in his hand. He then jumped down and sliced through the robots like a hot knife through butter with sparks going everywhere.
Jen and Becky then claimed the fans and spear as they leaped down to their robots as Jen opened her fans and smiled as she gave a 'bring it on' gesture to the robots. They then charged towards her, only to be sliced to pieces by her fans as she smiled as Becky sliced through hers with her spear just like she does in the real world. She stuck the spear in the ground and used it as a pole to give a spinning kick to the robots, destroying them with a few kicks each as she got her spear out and joined the other two as they stood back to back.
Gwen took the last coin and a piece of paper materialized and she took it in her hand before giving out a mischievous smirk.
Ben, Jen and Becky stood in a circle, slicing robots open with their weapons before a giant throwing star boomerang sliced through the rest of the robots before flying back into Gwen's hand as she smirked and came down to their level.
She then leaped downwards as the giant Robo Sumo came up to them before a slice came through, destroying it and revealed Allison in the background, earning her a bonus 100,000 points.
"Whoa, Allison," Jen said as she looked at her friend with a smile.
She had on a black and grey short-sleeved samurai suit with a grey headband around her forehead and black armored boots and fingerless gauntlets. One of her gauntlet arms showed three orange glowing orbs as she smiled.
"How did you get in the game?" Becky asked.
"I didn't. I'm just playing it from the outside," Allison said. "I'm going to be with you guys every step of the way."
"How did you know how to do that?" Ben asked as Allison touched the ground, absorbed its material and sliced apart a few more robots with her blade arms and smiled as she dissolved her armor.
"I read the instructions," she said.
Ben then backflipped behind her and stabbed another robo sumo in the head, causing it to explode as he turned to look at the girls.
"This game came with instructions?"
Gwen gasped as they looked at the destroyed temple to see the white dojo still completely intact.
"The dojo," she realized. "We can use it to get to the next level."
"I knew that," Ben said, brushing his head.
The five heroes then got onto the dojo which started levitating in the air as the Robo Sumos on the bottom fell into the hole left behind. They looked around them at the beautiful graphics that the game held within it as they smiled and nodded as the dojo finally stopped at a series of floating mechanical platforms and a giant temple floating in the sky.
"Okay, Mr. Sumo Slammer Samurai," Becky said as she and the others bared their weapons. "What's the plan?"
They then looked out and gasped when they saw a bunch of Robo Sumos floating in the air around them with furnaces in their chests. The robots fired out several fireballs from their chests and the heroes dodged them all with a few flips and looked outwards.
"Keep moving and try to stay alive! Duh!" Ben said.
"I like that plan," Jen said as they all leaped off the platform and ran away, slicing apart robots with their weapons and dodging fireballs all the while.
Gwen tossed her star boomerang that destroyed 10 robots and earned her 2,000 points.
The twins then noticed a Keni Trunk at a platform below them. They then nodded as they leaped to the platform and Ben used his sword to open it. Concealed inside the trunk were a green and pink Omnitrix icon. One showing a Tetramand and one showing a Plantosapien.
"Hey, that looks like Four Arms and Blossom Rose," Jen said as they nodded to each other.
"I wonder if..." Ben said as he and Jen reached for the symbols and they absorbed into their Omnitrix gauntlets.
They then turned to the icons and slammed the cores down, transforming into Four Arms and Blossom Rose, dressed in new attire to further compliment the game's themes.
Four Arms was dressed like an Asian samurai complete with the headdress and a brown armored chestplate that separated at the sides to make room for his four arms along with armored boots and elbow pads.
Blossom Rose was dressed more like a geisha with her flower petal dress now sporting a more Asian theme and she now had long baggy sleeves that were made from pink petals and her flower bud was now formed into a more Asian bun shape.
"Oh yeah! Now that's what I'm talking about!" Four Arms said. "Four Arms of fun!"
"Back in business," Blossom Rose agreed with a smile and a nod as she and her brother turned to leap away.
But before they could do anything, a giant sumo warrior leaped down in front of them, wearing long black shorts and shoulder pads with the left one sporting three glowing orbs representing his lives and he wore no shoes. Every ounce of his body was pulsing with pure muscle. He also had a short mustache and a short black ponytail.
"Ishiyama," Four Arms realized as he looked at the star of the Sumo Slammer franchise.
"How do you know my name, strange creature?" Ishiyama asked.
"I'm your biggest fan!" Four Arms exclaimed as Blossom Rose only rolled her eyes at her brother's ridiculous fanboying over a video game character. "I know all yours stats! You weigh 527 pounds, you have a 7 Strength Rating, 9 Intelligence, 8 Agility!"
"Enough!" Ishiyama interrupted. "Are you or are you not a shapeshifter?"
"...I guess you could say that," Four Arms said.
"Then you can only be my archenemy Kenko!" Ishiyama shouted as Blossom Rose instantly panicked.
"Oh crap," she whimpered.
"Sumo Slam!" Ishiyama shouted as he brought his foot down onto the platform, breaking it as Blossom Rose instantly shot her vines out of her fingers and wrapped around another one as the platform broke away under Four Arms.
"Ben!"
"No, wait!" Four Arms shotued as he fell below only to land safely (or not so safely depending on your point of view) on another platform below only for Ishiyama to jump down after him, launching him back upwards. "I don't want to fight you!"
"You cannot trick me, Kenko! I will not rest until you are defeated as is my sworn task!"
Four Arms then started his descent and landed on a Robo Sumo that fired a fireball downwards, which Ishiyama dodged as he leaped to another platform as Blossom Rose shot vines from her fingers down to her brother, which he grabbed and then used to swing the platform opposite Ishiyama's with Blossom Rose following him.
"But I'm not Kenko! I'm Ben, I'm a good guy!" Four Arms protested.
"Forgive me if I do not believe you," Ishiyama said.
He then leaped onto the twins' platform and created a shockwave by stomping on it, only for Four Arms to redirect it with a strong clap, causing Ishiyama to slide to the edge of the platform.
"It's true! I own every Sumo Slammer's comic book, doubles of every trading card, I even eat your cruddy cereal!"
"Ben," Blossom Rose said from behind clenched teeth. "He doesn't know what you're talking about. He doesn't know the outside world exists."
"I shall not be confused by your double talk!" Ishiyama protested.
He then leaped upwards and smashed a platform above them to pieces as Blossom Rose looked on as the rocks started falling.
"This is not good," she said shaking her head and the rocks started raining down on them.
Gwen, Becky and Allison looked down from there as they gasped.
"Four Arms?" Gwen asked.
"Blossom Rose?" Allison asked.
The looked behind them to see the robo sumos fly up behind them and they gasped and started avoiding the inevitable fire balls that rained down on them.
"Let's worry about them later," Becky said as she bore her spear and the girls shouted out as they leaped outwards as Becky slammed her spear into a robot and pole-vaulted into the other ones, knocking a hole in them with her brute strength as she backflipped onto another one and slammed it down like a volleyball.
Gwen and Allison dodged the fireballs that were sent down as Gwen's Keystone tattoo started glowing again and she destroyed all of the robots away with a single punch each as Allison sliced a few downwards with her axe and blade arms as she gave out a cry of effort with each hit.
Outside the game in the Rust Bucket, Allison sat in the booth seat playing the game and ate her mac and cheese as she gained a look of absolute focus on her face as she glared and mashed the buttons down with absolutely no mercy on her face.
From down below, Ishiyama gazed on the fight with wonder as Four Arms and Blossom Rose crawled out from the rubble that the platform left.
"Who are these magnificent warriors?" he asked.
"Our cousins and good friend," Blossom Rose explained.
The girls leaped downwards and stood in front of the twins.
"Back off punk," Becky said. "They're with us."
"So you are indeed related to these creatures?" Ishiyama asked.
"I'm afraid so," Gwen said. "I'm Gwen."
"Becky."
"And I'm Allison."
"I am Ishiyama. You three fight like champion warriors."
They then looked outwards to see more robo sumos flying towards them as Four Arms scoffed. "That's nothing."
"Wait till you see this," Blossom Rose said as she focused her energy. Her flower bud bloomed open and she unleashed a massive solar beam from it that singed most of the warriors to a crisp.
"I'll show you a real champion!" Four Arms said as he leaped forwards onto one of the remaining robo sumos and used his brute strength to knock it into the other robots like a game of bumper boats. "Yee-haw! Ride 'em cowboy!"
Unfortunately, that was when the Omnitrixes timed out and left Ben hanging on for dear life from the robot.
"You know, I probably should've seen that coming."
"Hold on, Ben!" Gwen shouted as her Levitation Charm tattoo glowed and she flew forwards towards the robots and she leaped and front-flipped forwards onto them before she was parallel to her cousin.
"I have got to read those instructions!" Ben said.
Ishiyama then leaped forwards and tackled Ben's robot, causing him to start to free fall from the sky before Jen cracked her knuckles and thrust her hands forward and a solid wave of energy came out of them and wrapped around Ben and Gwen before she retracted the energy and set them on the ground as she smiled at them. Ishiyama landed in front of them and then reduced down to his normal size as they all sighed.
"Way to be a showboat, cuz," Becky scoffed.
"I don't want you to die before your little brother or sister is born, dude," Allison said, crossing her arms.
"You have great skills," Ishiyama said.
"Thanks," Ben said. "Coming from you that's-"
"Not you, jester, Warrior Gwen."
"Thanks," Gwen said before turning to Ben. "What are you waiting for doofus? Go Upgrade and zap us out of here."
"I can't," Ben said. "Only the Four Arms icon was in that Ikeni Trunk. The Upgrade icon could be anywhere in this entire game on any of the other levels."
"Not just anywhere," Allison said as she reached into her pouch and pulled out a map. "Looks like it's on Level 13 in the Arena."
"Level 13?" Jen said.
"Are you kidding me?!" Becky said. "There's no way that we'll survive all that way!"
"Unless..." Jen said with a smile before turning to Ishiyama. "Do you know any cheat codes that can get us there quicker?"
"A sumo never cheats," Ishiyama said. "However, I do know a shortcut. But the journey will be treacherous."
"I guess we don't have a choice," Gwen said before looking to her cousin with a glare.
Later, the group walked down the hallways of the temple they saw outside in the platform level.
"Where do you come from, Warrior Gwen?" Ishiyama asked.
"It's kind of hard to explain," Gwen said as Becky sighed.
"You wouldn't understand if we told you."
Ben and Jen then noticed a few urns in a hidden room as Ben gasped.
"Whoa," he said.
"I haven't seen this part of the game before," Jen said.
They then walked to catch up with the others, not noticing a blue clawed hand and a pair of demonic-looking yellow eyes glaring after them.
When they tried to catch up, however, Jen accidentally stepped on a wrong tile that sunk into the ground, causing the walls in front of them to start to close as they gasp.
"Oh no!" Gwen shouted as Ishiyama suddenly increased to his Super Sumo form and ran to the doors and held them open with his immense strength, which allowed the others to run through underneath him before he leaped forwards and transformed back to normal and the doors slammed shut behind him.
"Game?" Ishiyama asked. "This is no game. The fate of the entire sumo world hangs in the balance."
"I know, I know," Ben said. "I read the back of the box?"
"The back of the box?"
Ben nodded before Jen groaned and Gwen, Becky and Allison shoved him backwards to talk in private.
"Don't you get it, Ben?" Gwen asked.
"What?" Ben asked.
"Ishiyama doesn't know that he's a program in a game," Becky explained. "This is all real to him."
"I never thought of it that way," Ben said before looking upwards and saw something that delighted him.
"An Ikeni Trunk!" he said as he leaped forwards and Ishiyama vaulted him upwards and he opened the trunk and a picture with a bow opened upwards and fell into Becky's hand as a bow and a quiver of arrows appeared slung opposite to her spear on her back.
"Thanks for the sumo bow," Becky smiled.
Jen then opened a door by them and a pink light shown on her.
"Who needs it?" she asked as she saw a load of Omnitrix coins in front of her. "I just hit the Omnitrix jackpot!"
"Careful!" Ishiyama said. "It could be a trap!"
Jen swiped her hand on one of the coins as a red laser came out and blasted into Ishiyama, obliterating him before he regenerated and one of the glowing orange orbs on his shoulder pad died out.
"What have I done?!" she cried outwards. "I'm sorry. I didn't know any better!"
"It matters not," Ishiyama said. "My life is nothing in the quest to stop Kenko."
Jen sighed outwards as she put her hands in her pockets as they walked off.
"I feel like such an idiot," she said with a sigh.
"You'll be okay," Allison said, putting her hand on her friend's shoulder. "It's not over till it's over."
The group walked into a chamber and stood before a giant bronze statue before them as Ishiyama nodded.
"The Chamber of the Kappa will grant you access to the level of your choosing. But only if you solve their riddle."
"The key names your weapon,
But only by sight.
When uttered as 'vow',
A gesture polite."
"What do you think it means?" Becky asked as she crossed her arms and looked to the others.
"I don't know," Ben said.
That was when a green and pink light shined near them and they looked outwards to see two familiar icons and they smiled.
"But I do know what that means. Good old Cannonbolt will impress Ishiyama."
"Not if Water Lily does first," Jen said.
But before as they went forwards to the icons, a giant blue serpent appeared in front of them and wrapped his body around Gwen, Becky, Allison and Ishiyama.
"Let them go, Kenko!" Ben shouted.
"Tell me about this Upgrade icon or I'll destroy your friends!"
"Tell him nothing!" Ishiyama said.
"He's right, Ben!" Becky shouted.
"We can't let him loose in the real world!" Gwen agreed.
Allison shook her head and facepalmed with her free hand. "Thanks, Gwen. I knew we could count on you."
"The real world?" Kenko asked. "Yet another domain I will rule with an iron fist."
"Not if we have anything to say about it," Jen said.
"But we're going to show you some real Sumo Slamming..." Ben said as he and Jen ran to the icons and slammed their fists down on them, transforming into Cannonbolt and Water Lily.
"...Cannonbolt style!" the Arburian Pelarota announced
"With Water Lily style combined!" the Fernovian piped up.
Cannonbolt had his bottom half wrapped with sumo-style garbs while Water Lily was in a similar style to Blossom Rose's samurai garb, but in more of a regal kimono style and a short ponytail made of leaves.
Cannonbolt leaped upwards while rolling into a ball and bounced off the walls and slammed into Kenko while Water Lily blasted him with her water jets and blasted her away.
Kenko slithered away and Ishiyama grabbed the rest of the girls and leaped away before Becky sliced into Kenko's side with her spear and he glared at her with a growl and flames licked at the sides of his mouth.
Becky just gave a deadpan stare and shook her head.
"I hate my life."
Kenko then blasted her with the flames, obliteraitng her again before she regenerated back where she stood, now down to her last life.
"Okay, now we're in trouble."
Kenko glared and slithered away from them.
"I'll leave you to my henchmen while I find that Upgrade icon."
As soon as he left the room, some shadows started creeping out from all the sides of the walls of the dojo and the group locked together in a circle as a ton of shadow ninja warriors started crawling out from the shadows all around them as Water Lily crossed her arms and Gwen prepared her throwing star and Allison prepared her swords with a glare.
"Warrior Becky," Ishiyama said to her. "Your Sumo Bow!"
Becky nodded and pulled her arrows out of her quiver and fired a ton of them at the warriors, destroying them with one shot each and she pulled out her spear and started using it like a bow staff and stabbing them each with it and gained a look of absolute fury on her face as she snarled at the group.
Ishiyama went into his Super Sumo form and leaped up, smashing a ton of warriors with his bare fists, earning 1,000 points.
Water Lily shouted out as she sliced through the warriors with her high-pressured streams and glared at them with a shout of effort.
"Nice one, sis!" he said.
As a larger samurai warrior walked into the room and Ishiyama engaged with it, Allison gained an uncomfortable look on her face as she sighed. "Sorry, guys. I really have to use the bathroom."
That was when the entire room suddenly came to a halt as they looked to see a pause icon floating in the air.
Outside, Allison rushed to the bathroom as quickly as her legs could carry her and slammed the door shut.
After she did so, Max stirred awake and looked around for his grandchildren and their friend.
"Ben? Jen? Gwen?" he asked. "Becky? Allison?"
He then looked downwards to see the game still paused and he groaned.
"How many times have I told you guys to shut this thing off when you're done playing with it?"
"I can't move!" Gwen said as she looked at the pause icon.
"Oh no!" Becky exclaimed. "What if Grandpa turns the game off when Allison's still in the bathroom?"
"He'll delete us along with the game!" Jen said.
"Granpda, no!"
"Don't shut us off!" the kids protested.
Max heard this and stumbled back a bit at his grandchildren's voices.
"Guys? Is that you!"
"Wait! Wait!" Allison said, rushing out of the bathroom and quickly replenished her snacks and looked to Max.
"Please tell me I'm on one of those hidden camera shows," Max said.
"It'll be better explained if you put this on," Allison said as she handed the headset to Max and he sat down opposite from her.
*Five minutes later*
"And now we need to get to the Upgrade icon on Level 13 so we can get out of the game," Water Lily finished.
"There must be some way I can help you guys," Max said. "Maybe if I push this...
"No!" the kids protested as Allison took her contorller again and put on the headset.
"Don't touch anything. Just leave it to the game pros," Allison said. "...And Ben."
"Hilarious," Cannonbolt said.
"Let's get it on!" Becky said as Allison hit resume and the fight began again and everyone began fighting the warriors again with all of their best attacks with no stop in sight.
As Max saw Allison's intense gaze as she munched down on the tortilla chips in front of her, his eyes strayed to the instruction booklet by the console.
"Sumo Slammer Smackdown," he read before he started reading the instructions.
Allison sliced through all of her warriors with her swords while Water Lily did the same with her water jets with no stop. Becky used her arrows to destroy her warriors and Gwen sliced through them with her throwing star.
Ishiyama flipped upwards and collided with the larger samurai's attack. Fortunately, he overpowered him and sent him through the floor before flipping back upwards and dusting his hands off.
Water Lily smirked before she saw Cannonbolt coming towards her as she gained a shocked look on her face.
"Oh sh-"
Cannonbolt struck her by accident, sending her tumbling into Ishiyama and they both were sent tumbling down the hole before they instantly regenerated back in the temple as Water Lily glared daggers at her brother as her and Ishiyama's life count was reduced to one.
"Oops, my bad," Cannonbolt said.
"Nice going Benji," Allison glared. "Now Jen's down to her last life and so is Ishiyama!"
"They'll be okay as long as they stay focused," Becky said as she sheathed her weapon.
"We still must answer the Kappa's riddle if we are to continue our quest," Ishiyama reminded them.
"Hmm," Gwen said. "The key names your weapon, but only by sight. When uttered as 'vow', a gesture polite."
"Names my weapon?" Becky said before she gasped. "That's it! My weapon is a bow, but when uttered as 'vow', it becomes 'bow.'"
Becky then bowed before the Kappa statue with a smile.
That was when everyone looked up to see the statue tilt forwards and water came out of its head, soaking Becky from head to toe as she groaned before an orange light consumed her and she majorly increased in size, her weight sagging down as she groaned in embarrassment.
Cannonbolt couldn't help himself and he started laughing uncontrollably at the sight before him as he walked up to Becky.
"Whoa! Looks like you've been hitting the old sumo feedbag!"
Water Lily smacked him upside the head, but only ended up hurting her hand and she rubbed it slightly in pain.
"Says the original fathead," Becky glared as she then leaped up and stomped the ground, causing the Kappa statue to slit down the middle and part to reveal...
"The dojo!" Allison said as the six heroes all ran forwards onto the dojo.
"Take us to Level 13," Gwen ordered, which caused the dojo to rise up into outer space.
"Oh sure," Cannonbolt groaned. "When I bust something, it's all silent stares. But when my cousin busts something, she's a hero!"
The Sumo power up wore off as Becky was reduced to her original size and the dojo rose up before settling into place in their destination...
"The Arena of Sumo Warriors!" Ishiyama announced.
They heard a rumbling behind them and looked to see one of the golden lion statues marking the corner come to life and walk towards them.
"And the site of your final defeat, Ishiyama!"
"Bring it on, Kenko!" Cannonbolt shouted as he curled up into a ball and dashed towards the evil shapeshifter... only for the Omnitrix to time out and send him crashing into the giant statue.
Ben groaned as he hit the floor and looked down at his Omnitrix with a glare.
"You know, for a watch, you have a lousy sense of timing," he said before he jumped away from Kenko as he brought his paw down on him.
Ben glared as he unsheathed his sword before the others converged around him.
"Ben, we'll handle Kenko," Gwen said.
"You need to find the Upgrade icon," Becky agreed.
"No way! I need to prove to Ishiyama that I'm a hero too.
"You will!" Allison said. "But first you have to start thinking like a hero instead of trying to impress a computer program."
"*sigh* Okay," Ben said as he ran off.
"I'll help you, bro!" Jen said as she followed her brother to search as the other four looked on as Allison prepared her swords. They then all shouted out as Ishiyama jumped up and Becky leaped onto his back and fired her arrows at him with a shout of effort before Kenko spun around and deflected all of the arrows before crashing into Ishiyama and she and Becky slammed into the opposite end of the arena.
Gwen and Allison looked up as Kenko stood up, revealing his true form: a large cyborg samurai in purple armor and a blue face. He glared at the heroes as Allison shouted out as she charged towards him and the camera cut away as she clashed her swords towards him.
The twins made it up towards the top level towards some crates and they started breaking them open with their sword and fans as they looked for the Upgrade icon.
"No, no, no, no..." Ben said.
Allison crashed into the wall behind her as Kenko transformed into a pterodactyl and started flying after the group as Becky fired her arrows at her before he swooped in to attack her.
Becky gasped and ducked under him but his talons swiped down and broke her bow in two. She glared after him and Gwen took out he throwing star and tossed it at him and sliced a few feathers off of his wing, causing him to crash down to the ground as the star came around again, but this time Kenko was ready.
He transformed into his dragon form and fired a massive plume of blue flames from his mouth and burnt the star to a crisp.
"This is not good," Becky said as Kenko loomed over them.
Ishiyama and Allison came in and slammed against the dragon, but he retaliated and sent them slamming against the ground before the four heroes were wrapped up in his tail and they shouted out in pain.
"I expected more with the great Ishiyama," Kenko scoffed.
"It is not over so long as one of us still stands," Ishiyama said.
"No, no, no," Ben said as he continued destroying the boxes. He then saw the icon out of the corner of his eye and smiled. "Yes!"
As he was about to activate the icon, Kenko saw him and smoke poured out of his nostrils.
He blasted Ben before Jen tackled him out of danger as Kenko glared and looked down on them in his samurai form.
"Your power is now mine, boy!" Kenko shouted as Ben looked at his sword and immediately tossed it at Kenko, catching him by surprise and it suck his ponytail into the wall.
"Ben, now!" Jen shouted.
Ben immediately obliged and slammed his Omnitrix down on the icon and it immediately showed up on hi s Omnitrix.
Kenko got himself out of the wall and was about to bring the sword down on the twins when Ishiyama swooped in and slammed him against the wall.
He walked out and smiled at the kids before a shocked look came on his face and he looked down to see a sword coming straight through his gut. He then instantly vanished in a white light, his last life lost.
"Ishiyama!" Becky shouted.
"No!" Allison said.
"Your great samurai hero isn't here to protect you anymore," Kenko said, bringing the sword up and prepared to bring it down on the heroes before a green light shined out and they looked to see Upgrade by them.
"I can take care of myself, and you, all alone," Upgrade said. "Now we play by my rules, Kenko!"
"Go for it, bro!" Jen said with a smile as Upgrade leaped towards Kenko and the two engaged in a morphing fight and fired blasts of fire and green energy towards them before Upgrade seemingly finished him off with mace hands.
"Come out, come out wherever you are!" Upgrade said as the smoke cleared and they crossed their arms.
"Quit fooling around and get us out of here before you time out again!" Becky shouted.
"I'm right here, doofus!" Upgrade told the girls before a familiar face looked by them.
"You wouldn't leave without saying goodbye, would you?"
"Ishiyama?" Allison asked.
"But I thought you were-" Gwen began.
"It would take more than Kenko to finish off my last life. I just wanted to say that I was wrong, young one," he touched Upgrade's shoulder. "I only wish I could visit your world and fight alongside such a normal hero."
"Whoa, really?" Upgrade asked before a green light appeared and a new sumo with green hair appeared behind Ishiyama.
"Sorry, 'Ishi,'" he said. "Your travel plans just got cancelled."
"Grandpa?" Jen asked in shock as Max slammed into Ishiyama, sending him back down into the arena.
"I guess he must have plugged himself in while I was distracted," Allison said.
"Grandpa, what are you doing?" Upgrade asked. "He's a good guy!"
"Oh no, he isn't!" Max said.
He then leaped up to the the announcer's chamber and removed the a tile from the roof, revealing an Ikeni Trunk. He then opened it and revealed a token with a picture of a salt shaker on it. He then poured the salt onto Ishiyama, dispelling his disguise and revealing Kenko, who then turned and glared.
"Kenko!" Jen shouted.
"You were trying to trick me into taking you to the real world!" Upgrade realized.
"Let's get out of here before he succeeds!" Becky said.
"A true Sumo Slammer never retreats. I'm going to defeat him honorably."
He then leaped outwards towards Kenko, who turned into a shadow and grabbed Jen as she struggled in his grasp.
"Fortunately, I am not bound by such honor," Kenko said.
The dojo sunk down into the space below and Jen gasped out.
"Ben! Help me!"
Upgrade leaped down after Kenko and hit the dojo and glared at the evil samurai.
"Destroy me and your sister suffers the same fate!"
"I don't think so!" Upgrade said. "This game's over!"
He then shot himself outwards and right into Kenko's fist and immediately merged with his armor as Jen wormed her way out of his grasp as his armor blew apart and left Kenko standing there in his true form: a midget.
Kenko glared and started punching Upgrade in the leg and then kicked him only for his boot to come flying up off his foot and nailed him in the head, knocking him out.
"Go ahead and say it," Upgrade said to his sister.
"You're the better Sumo Slammer Samurai, bro," Jen said with a smile.
Upgrade then lifted his hand up and created a 1UP power up. "Actually, sis. I want to hear it from him."
He tossed the power up away as the dojo entered the arena again and Ishiayama regenerated again as they smiled.
"So, now who do you think is the best Sumo Warrior?" Upgrade asked.
"Him," Ishiyama said, pointing to Max, which prompted everyone to look at him.
"Grandpa/Max!" they all shouted.
"Only a true Sumo Slammer would know to use the cleansing power of Sumo Salt to reveal Kenko's deception."
"It was easy," Max said, shrugging off the compliment. "I just read the instructions."
"Read the instructions," everyone sighed as Upgarde's Omnitrix started timing down again.
"Uh-oh! No time for goodbyes!" Becky shouted as Upgrade grabbed her, Gwen and Jen and teleported them out of the game.
Outside, Allison and Max looked as Upgrade shot out of the console's screen and appeared on the ground in front of them as Upgrade timed out.
"Could you cut it a little closer next time?" Gwen asked.
Ben and Jen scrolled through their Omnitrixes to see that they had all of their hero icons back.
"Hopefully, won't be a next time," Ben said with a sigh.
"Thank goodness," Allison said as she got up and started stretching out her joints. "I was getting tired just sitting there."
Max looked out the window and saw the sun shining through the clouds.
"Well, looks like it finally stopped raining. How about you kids get some fresh air?"
"I could use a little real world right about now," Becky smiled.
"Me too, I'm a little tired of video games," Jen said as they all ran outside.
"I thought they'd never leave," Max said as he went back to the game and gained a look of focus on his face.
Next time on Ben and Jen 10:
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