The team was now in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and were currently visiting a fair that was in the area by the history Museum as Ben stood by a throwing booth with a baseball in his hand and he had a look of absolute focus and concentration plastered all over his face as he glared at them.
"Bottom of the ninth," he said. "Bases loaded. Two outs, three balls. Tennyson winds up and..."
He shouted out and winded up his arm that held the ball in it and tossed it at the pyramid of Benjamin Franklin head statue and nailed them head-on, causing them to wobble a bit before settling right back in place, leaving the twins stunned at that as they gasped.
"No way! This game has got to be rigged! I totally nailed Ben Franklin!"
"Knock over the Ben Franklins, you win a prize. You knock over squat, you win squat," the stand clerk said to him.
"Bogus!" Jen shouted as she and Ben walked away. "You'd think that in the City of Brotherly Love, they wouldn't cheat at the carnival games."
They walked over to Max, Gwen, Becky and Allison (who was munching on the city's staple dish: the Philly cheesesteak sandwich).
"That's the way life is, you two," Max said. "You win some, you lose some. Now come on, you can't visit Philadelphia without seeing the Liberty Bell."
"You know, if I could go hero here, I could win every single one of these games," Ben said to Gwen and Becky.
"Sure," Gwen said. "Use the most powerful devices in the universe to cheat at whack-a-mole. It's not worth it, guys."
"I know," Jen said. "It just gets on your mind sometimes when the games are rigged."
As Max got some cotton candy from the concession stand, the twins walked off and then, suddenly, they heard a crash as a small flatbed truck drove by, crashing through the fair grounds with the Liberty Bell on a stand on the flatbed with two crooks holding it down.
"So not good!" Ben shouted.
Thankfully, Max took notice of this and tackled the kids out of the way of the truck's path as it drove chaotically through the streets as they glared after tehm.
"Thanks, Grandpa," Jen said with a groan.
"They're getting away with the Liberty Bell!"
"Not if XLR8 has anything to say about it!" Ben shouted as he readied the Omnitrix and slammed it down while the others shielded him from the light. Only problem... he didn't get the alien he wanted.
"Evidently, he doesn't!" Becky said.
"Oh man!" Grey Matter groaned.
The truck performed a U-Turn and crashed into a toy booth while the police squad cars started chasing after it.!Grey Matter then hopped onto the adjacent strength test booth and hopped onto the weight.
"Give me a lift!" he said as Allison walked over and grabbed the mallet before hefting it over her shoulder and shouting out with all of her might as she swung the mallet down onto the bell, which caused the weight to be slammed up before it rang the bell, sending Grey Matter flying towards the booths as the stand clerk saw her as she smiled and brushed a lock of her raven hair out of her face.
"I'll take the teddy bear," she said as the clerk handed her a large stuffed teddy bear which she brought up to her cheek and snuggled with it while the others looked at her awkwardly. "What? Just because I'm goth doesn't mean I'm not cheerful at times."
Grey Matter sailed through the air and landed on the truck before he took notice as the guards were completely unaware of his presence. He then crawled down to the underbelly of the truck and worked his way down into the inner workings of the truck's engine, dodging the working parts that would've sliced and diced him if they touched him.
He then crawled his way to the engine of the truck and loosed the steering wheel's mechanism and pulled some wires out of the engine.
Naturally, this caused the truck to start to careen out of control and start crashing before the truck finally crashed into a nearby street light, which caused the hood to pop open and Grey Matter went sailing out of it with a shout before he landed in a replica of the Liberty Bell filled with jelly beans.
He then smiled at the goodies that he was now swimming in and then licked one of the jelly beans.
"Now this is what I call a sweet landing!" he said as he looked at the crashed truck as the police squad cars surrounded it as the thieves came out with their hands up.
Grey Matter smiled at his handiwork and then he turned around to see the stand poster by him advertising a contest.
"Guess how many jelly beans and win a music pocket. Way too easy for the big guy with the mega brain! Let's see... the average size of a jelly bean is 1.3 centimeters. The size of the bell is approximately 6.5 inches in diameter. We're talking 6,532..." he then ate one of the jelly beans whole before correcting himself. "Make that 6,531 jelly beans."
As Ben stood by with his music pocket in it and listened to it with a smile as the girls surrounded him.
"Cool music pocket," Gwen said. "It looks awesome."
"How'd you get it?" Jen asked.
"Let's just say a little friend helped me make a lucky guess," Ben said.
"You used Grey Matter?!" Becky shouted. "Ben, that's cheating!'
"Well, I didn't see any 'No Aliens Allowed' signs. I think it's permissible."
"Hey, Ben, Jen!" Max said as he ushered the twins over as Jen sighed and walked over along with her brother. "Your hometown baseball team the Bellwood Cannons are in the finals of the Little League World Series! The finals are here in Philadelphia tomorrow."
"No way!" Ben said as he saw the news article. "I was supposed to be on that team!"
"Yeah, he was! He was almost qualified, but he had to drop out to go on this road trip," Jen said.
"What about you, Jen?" Allison asked.
"There's no girls' league in Bellwood and I'm not into sports anyway," Jen said.
"Grandpa, do you think we could go?" Ben asked.
"I don't see why not. It's a special treat for the two of you."
"Williamsport, PA, the birthplace of Little League baseball," Max said as the Rust Bucket drove down the path towards the Sports Complex. "That honored institution where dreams of greatness are first forged in young minds along with life lessons of fair play."
"Hear that, Ben? Fair play," Gwen said to Ben, who was listening to his music pocket and not paying attention to her.
"You know, I can let you listen to it if you're nicer to me," Ben said as Becky raised her eyebrow.
As the Rust Bucket drove up to the gates, they were stopped by security guards, who had metal detectors, German shepherds, firearms at their sides, all kinds of safe security you can think of.
"What's with all the security?" Allison asked.
"The President is a huge baseball fan," Max explained. "He likes to make an appearance to cheer the kids on."
"Ah," Jen said as she sat back and smiled.
As they got the all-clear to go ahead, they drove through the gate before a motorcycle pulled in behind them, carrying a young woman with a purple helmet on her head and raven black-hair and sunglasses on her head and a larger backpack on her back as she was stopped by the Secret Service before they scanned her and gave her the all-clear to go ahead as she spied the Rust Bucket up ahead.
"Okay, Tennysons," she said with a cheeky British accent to her voice. "I don't know why Queen Scarlett's missions to this dimension always seem to involve you getting involved in the mess, but it helps, I guess. But my assignment doesn't concern you. It concerns the President.
Later, they watched the Cannons, who were dressed in blue uniforms, practice on the diamond and smiled as Jen sighed.
"There's the Cannons!" Ben said as he watched them. "I'm going to go say hi."
He then ran in before he was tripped by two faces he hoped not to see all summer.
"Oh no," he said before looking up at the two bullies before him.
"You again!?" Jen shouted as she saw Cash and J.T. standing there. "What do I have to do? Get a restraining order on you two?!"
"Possibly," Cash said to her as she glared daggers at him as she helped her brother up. "Look, J.T. Jen still has to help her little brother."
"I'm only younger than her by three minutes!" Ben glared as Jen stepped up for him.
"I thought that you two would avoid us until school started, guys," Cash said.
"Sorry," Jen said to him. "My bro and I have been a little busy saving the world this summer instead, Cash."
"Oh, saving the world?!" Cash shouted.
"Yeah, these two are in their own world," J.T. said as Jen glared and her eye twitched before they briefly flashed pink before Ben stopped her by putting a hand on her shoulder.
"You can use your powers to prank these two punks later," Ben said. "But not when they're paying attention."
"Friends of yours?" Gwen asked as she, Becky and Allison looked.
"Hardly," Ben said to them. "Cash and J.T. are two of the biggest egomaniacs you'll ever meet."
"They constantly bully Ben worse than you ever did, Gwen," Jen said. "I'm the one who had to save him from them ever since we were in kindergarten."
"Luckily, they're not the only two guys from back home you'll see here, Jenny," said a familiar voice as Jen looked to see two girls standing beside the area and Jen gasped in glee before she squealed and ran over to her two gal pals from by her.
"However, these two are great friends of mine!" Jen said as she ran over and tackled Simone and Casey in a bear hug as they smiled and hugged her back as Casey chuckled.
"It's good to see you too, Jen," Casey said.
"Simone, Casey! What are you doing here?!" Jen asked.
"What you're doing here, Jen," Simone said as Jen released them. "We're just in town to see the game. It's the finals and our hometown is in it. I guess you had the same idea."
Jen smiled as she gestured her two friends over to the others with a huge smile on her face.
"Guys, these are me and Ben's cousins, Gwen and Becky. Oh, and this is Allison Levin. She's another really good friend that I made on the road and she just tagged along for the ride," Jen said as Allison shook the two girls hands.
"Nice to meet you," she said. "Charmed."
"You too," Simone said. "My name's Simone. Simone Nesmith."
"Nesmith?" Gwen asked when she piped up. "As in Carl Nesmith? Captain Nemesis himself?"
"Well, yeah," Simone said with a sigh. "He's my dad."
"Captain Nemesis is your father?" Allison asked as she sighed. "But that means that you're rich."
"Yeah," Simone said. "I try not to be snobbish about my family's wealth. I'm just trying to be an ordinary girl who just happens to have a lot of money."
"Not to be left out, but I'm Casey Animal," she said as she sighed. "You may have heard of my uncle, Aloysius James Animo."
A record scratching sound was heard and they all looked to her as she rubbed her arm.
"Dr. Animo is your uncle?" Ben asked, looking to her with a raised eyebrow.
"Don't worry, Ben. I'm actually against everything that he stood for as a scientist," she said. "I love animals and to see my own flesh and blood horrifically mutate them against their will was just sickening to me. He got what was coming to him thanks to those wonderful Omni Twins."
"I'm not going to judge you for your uncle's doings," Jen said as she smiled. "You're one of the best friend's I've ever had and your family's doings aren't going to change that."
"Thanks," Casey said to her as she looked to Allison. "So, this is your new friend, huh?"
Allison shook her head and nodded. "Watch yourself, girl. You know how we do it in New York."
"Ooh, New Yorker," Simone said to her with a smirk. "I like your kind."
"So, you got tickets?"
"Well," Simone said with a smile as she reached into her pockets and smiled. "You could say that. Being Carl Nesmith's daughter has its perks. I could, in theory rent out one of the stadium suites for you and your family. Plus me, Casey and Allison of course."
"Really?!" Jen and Gwen asked before they immediately grabbed Simone.
"Oh, Simone! You're the best friend ever! Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
"Choking... not breathing..." Simone said before Jen released her from her grasp with a smile.
"Sorry, force of habit," she said as Allison shrugged.
"So," Ben said, turning back to Cash and J.T. "How did you two je- I mean guys get on the team anyway?"
"Talent," Cash said. "100% pure talent."
"Oh, and four guys got chicken pox," J.T. said before Cash elbowed him in the arm, causing him to yelp out in pain.
"What?! That means I could've made the team too!" Ben said.
"Yeah, by default," Becky said to him with a shrug.
Suddenly, a baseball went sailing through the sky, which caused everybody to duck out of the way of the path as a member of the opposing team, the Squires, caught it perfectly.
They were wearing brown and black uniforms with a shield emblem with a K emblazoned on it.
"Came here for a preview for what we're going to do to you in the finals!?"
"The score in our last game was 28-3," one of the players said. "This one's not gonna be that close."
"Yeah, well I'd like to see that!" J.T. said before Cash elbowed him again.
Gwen then looked out and saw three of the Squires throwing the balls for practice in perfect unison and toss them parallel to three more players on the other side.
Unfortunately, the 9 kids were gathered in the path of the balls before they all hit the deck and leaped over the wire fence to get out of the path.
"Hey!" Gwen shouted. "Watch it!"
"Hello! In case you didn't notice, we're not wearing uniforms!" Jen shouted with crossed arms.
That was when they heard the sound of fingers snapping and who appeared to be the Squires' coach stepped out.
"Excellent drill," the coach said.
"Drill?!" Max asked as Simone and Casey stood by his side. "They almost took those kids' heads off!"
"Maybe next time they'll stay out of the way. Good luck, Cannons. You'll need it."
He then blew on his whistle as the Squires moved into a single-file line before marching off with the kids looking on with weird looks on their faces.
Cash then picked up a stray ball. "Oh yeah? Well you forgot something!"
He then tossed the ball towards one of the player's heads, only for him to catch it with the backhand without even looking back, leaving everyone stunned.
This act even caught the attention of the young woman on the motorcycle, who was now dressed in a purple and yellow dress with a high boot on her left leg and gloves as she carried her backpack over her hands as she glared after them. Her dress also concealed a purple cybernetic leg.
"Something's definitely off about them. And I will find out what."
The group gathered into one of the stadium's private suites that Simone's mother had rented out for her and her friends as they all gathered and looked at the TV with a smile as they spied the Secret Service gathered in the cameras as they nodded.
"All clear," one of the agents reported over his comm as he stepped in.
"If the Cannons don't win this game, the series is over. The Squires will be victorious," Max told them.
"Yeah, judging from how those squire kids were acting back there, I'm not too confident," Casey said.
"It's not over till it's over," Jen said with a smile as she munched on her popcorn and sat next to Allison as they watched the game from the suite's bleachers.
As they watched the Squires practice before game time, Ben noticed this as he sat next to Gwen and Becky as Gwen typed on her laptop set on the table.
"Something about those guys is off," Ben said.
"Why?" Becky asked.
"They're too... perfect," Ben said. "It just doesn't seem natural to me for anyone to be this good."
The Cannons walked out from the dugout and waved to the crowd as they took their positions as the first up to bat as Cash played it up for the crowd.
"We want a pitcher, not a belly-" Ben began to insult before Max pulled him back.
"Benjamin," he said with a glance.
"What? It's not like they can hear me from up here."
"He's got a point, Max," Allison said as they watched the game.
"Let's go Cannons!" Simone shouted as she and Casey waved their foam fingers and signs.
"Let's play ball!" the umpire said at the batting gate as he lowered his protective mask.
One of the Cannon players succesfully hit the ball towards the area, but one of the Squires ran towards it and leaped up above the nearby hedges and caught it at almost supernatural heights, leaving everyone stunned.
When Cash went up to bat, he did hit it, but the catcher then ran behind him and climbed the batting cage before he stuck out his hand and caught the ball before leaping back down without a scratch on him and he tossed the ball back to the pitcher before Cash had a chance to sprint off.
"You're out!" the umpire said as Cash walked away, embarrassed.
"Oh come on!" Jen shouted. "That had to have been an illegal move!"
The Cannons were at bat a few innings later and another player tossed the ball his way and the batter hit the ball so hard that he actually caused the bat to shatter into pieces and the ball smashed into one of the stadium's lights, causing an explosion before the pitcher looked down in shame and the batter ran around the bases.
When J.T. was up to bat the next time, the pitcher tossed the ball with such force that the ball actually caught fire and J.T. barely moved before the catcher caught the ball.
"You're out!"
"Oh man!" Ben groaned as he and his sister slumped down on the suite's couch. "We're getting destroyed out there!"
"But I thought you two hated J.T. and Cash?" Gwen asked as she, Simone and Casey looked on, concerned.
"We do, but we want them to suck, not the team!" Jen said as she sipped her cola.
"I agree," Simone said. "This game is impossible!"
Gwen typed in her laptop on the Little League database and gestured to her family and friends to crowd around her.
"Check this out guys. I've looked up the Squires and I came across some... questionable stats. The Squires' ERA is less than one. Slugging percentage 98.6% No team in history, not the majors, minors, college or little league has ever been this perfect."
"You're fronting me," Allison said.
"I wish I was," Gwen said.
The twins then looked at each other before nodding.
"Excuse us," Jen said. "We're going to go get some foam fingers."
They then quickly rushed out of the suite and Becky looked down to see their foam fingers already there as she sighed.
"Yeah, right, guys. We're not stupid," Becky said.
In the suite next to them, the woman in the purple and yellow dress glared as she looked out through her binoculars and pressed a comm link in her ear.
"Scarlett," she said. "Do I have permission to pursue?"
"Not yet," Scarlett said. "You may only go after the Squires when you have undeniable proof that they pose a threat, Caitlyn. And you know it."
"Yes, my Queen," she said before looking out at the Squires again.
As the Cannons went up to bat at the ninth inning, the pitcher tossed the ball and the camera went into slow motion and before the catcher could grab the ball, Ben as XLR8 came rushing by and moved the ball out of the way, causing the catcher to miss and the guy went around the bases, scoring a few runs for the Cannons.
The next batter came up to bat and readied himself.
The pitcher then showed renewed focus on his face and tossed the ball and the batter swung, causing a direct hit and the pitcher readied himself as Jen stood by the doorway and she showed her hand glowing pink.
The pitcher prepared himself to catch the ball before it was enveloped in a pink aura and it went flying into the crowd, where some fans caught it as Jen dusted her hands off at her handiwork.
"Wow!" Max said. "Did you see that home run?"
"Yeah," Gwen said. "That was amazing... a little too amazing."
She then reached into her pocket and grabbed her camera and started filming the game.
"I think it's time for a little instant replay."
Cash went up to bat as XLR8 zoomed by his sister as she winked at him.
"Ready to take one for the team, Cash?" she asked as she gave her brother a claw-bump and he rushed off to them.
The pitcher tossed the ball towards ash and XLR8 ran in and grabbed the ball and adjusted it so it went flying right into Cash's hip, causing him to yell out in pain and glare towards the pitcher.
"I'll get you!"
Jen giggled as XLR8 ran by him and she hugged him. "No pain, no gain! That's what you get for bullying my brother!"
They then witnessed J.T. go up to bat and Jen smiled as she nodded. "My turn."
Her eyes then glowed pink and as J.T. prepared to swing the bat, his shoe laces glowed pink and tied themselves together.
J.T. swung the bat, and his laces got in his way and he gasped and tripped as the ball went sailing into the catcher's glove.
"Okay, let's get serious now," Jen said as she glared and slammed her Omnitrix core down with a glare towards the Squires.
J.T. then adjusted himself and hit the ball this time and the ball went soaring out in an unsual pattern as it flew out of the field player's grasp as the camera showed Frostblight giggling as she flew with the ball in her hands as she dodged them.
She then tossed the ball towards her brother and XLR8 winked to her as the Cannons ran around the bases as the ball hit the wall of the field.
One of the Squires prepared to grab it, but it zoomed to the left and then right, out of the player's grasp.
When the player caught it again, he tossed it to the catcher, only for JT to run around.
"Safe!" the umpire shouted. "That's the ball game!"
Casey and Simone then shouted out with a cheer as they stood up as the game ended in a tie.
The Cannons ran out of the dugout to celebrate while the Squires looked on in awe as Max looked out.
"Hey, where are the twins? They would've loved this."
"I don't know," Becky said.
"Actually, I think I have a good idea," Allison said as the camera panned left to Caitlyn's suite as she looked out at the scowling Squires as they left.
"Orders, my Queen?"
"Follow them. And use your sniper carefully."
"I always am," she said as she turned and left the stadium.
Ben and Jen smiled and hugged each other at their handiwork with a smirk as they heard a throat clearing and they saw Allison walk by with a scoff and a glare.
"Ben, Jen," she said. "Don't think I don't know what you two did back there."
"Yeah, you got us," Ben said. "We did kind of use our powers to mess with the Squires. I hope you're not mad."
"Oh, I'm mad alright," Allison said before smiling. "Mad that you didn't tell me that you were going to do it! I would've done the same thing myself! You two are geniuses!"
"Really?" Jen asked.
"Sure," Allison said. "Those guys had it coming all season. You're amazing."
Jen smiled deeply before they heard Cash and J.T. approaching and they ducked.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Cash said. "Who rules? Let me tell ya! The Cashter! The Cash Man! Sir Cash-a-Lot!"
Suddenly, they found themselves surrounded by the Squires and they all glared at them.
"Come with us!"
"Out of my face, weirdo!" Cash shouted as Ben, Jen and Allison ducked for cover.
Cash prepared to whack him across the face with his aluminum bat before it was grabbed by another player, who bent it with only his bare hands, which caused J.T. to faint.
"You guys need to lay off those new energy drinks!" Cash shouted as he looked into the players' eyes and they started to glow with a golden light.
"Oh man!" Jen shouted as she and Ben fiddled with their watches. "Why is it that sometimes doing the right thing feels so wrong!?"
"I don't know, but we can't let them take those two... no matter how much we hate them," Ben said as Allison glared.
"I need to get dressed for work. I'll be right back with you," she said as she ran for the Rust Bucket.
"Hungry?" Cash said as he reeled his fist back to the unflinching team. "How about a knuckle sandwich!"
But went Cash went to punch the player in the face, he just caught it and punched Cash with his own fist, knocking him out.
The Squires then picked up the two unconscious players and Ben and Jen groaned.
"Let's go!" she said as they followed them.
Little did they know, Simone and Casey were also watching this exchange from their area in the park.
"Did the Squires just kidnap J.T. and Cash?" Simone asked.
"I think so..." Casey said. "Something's definitely going on here. But what is it?"
"I think we'll find out," Simone said as the camera transitioned to Caitlyn getting on her motorcycle and driving away, following the Squires as well.
"I knew it!" Gwen shouted from inside the Rust Bucket as she, Becky, and Max were inside of the Rust Bucket and Gwen replayed the footage she recorded on her camera. "Guys, look. This is super, super, super slow motion."
She then showed her sister and grandfather the camera and showed the frame-by-frame recording showing the ball moving before XLR8 caught it and then later, showed another recording of the ball glowing in a pink aura.
"XLR8," Max realized. "And that's the same aura as Jen's powers. The twins should know better! You don't cheat in baseball! They'll be grounded for this."
"Um," Gwen said, "Grandpa, normally I would be doing backflips at the thought of Ben busted. But I think he and Jen had good reason for going hero."
"I agree," Becky said. "Something is seriously up with the Squires."
Max then looked over as Gwen typed in on her laptop.
"Speaking of which, I just found out more about the Squires online. When you cross-reference the Squires roster with the Baseball Hall of Fame database, it turns out that the Squires have the same names as a bunch of old time players. And there's no proof that these kids exist. No report cards, no medical records, no nothing."
That was when Allison walked inside the Rust Bucket and grabbed her super suit before ducking in the bathroom.
"I'll be right back," she said. "Me and the twins have some business to take care of."
"Business that requires Matter Girl?" Gwen asked as her friend stuck her head out of the bathroom door.
"Um... yeah," she said as she closed the door before she finished changing and ran out of the Rust Bucket.
Max then glanced out of the door and noticed the Squires coach was looking at the Secret Service agents talking with each other before he raised an eyebrow.
"Now, why would a coach be more interested in the Secret Service than his own team before a game?"
"I don't know," Becky said. "But something tells me we're about to find out, right?"
"Definitely," Gwen said as she crossed her arms.
Omni-Green, Omni-Pink and Matter Girl followed the Squires across the hills before following they stumbled upon a warehouse at the train yard and Omni-Pink gulped.
"Warehouse. That's never a good sign."
They then followed them by ducking past the nearby train cars before they walked inside the warehouse with J.T. and Cash in tow.
The door closed automatically and the Omni Twins and Matter Girl ducked inside the warehouse just before it shut on them.
"Hide," Matter Girl whispered as they then ducked behind a nearby generator.
Omni-Green then gulped motioned upwards and they saw robot spider creatures crawling on the ceiling as the Squires placed Cash and J.T. onto two slab tables and strapped them into metal shackles before activating two slabs opposite to them that had two robots with identical clothing.
"No way," Matter Girl said.
"They're robots," Omni-Green said.
"That's why they're so good," Omni-Pink said. "It makes perfect sense!"
The trio then heard the door sliding open again and they ducked inside of the grating next to the generator as the coach came in with a glare as Max, Lucky Girl and Huntress followed him, but they were too late as the door closed.
"Dang it!" Lucky Girl said, crossing her arms as she groaned. "How are we supposed to get in now?"
"I can help," said a voice as they looked to see Caitlyn get off her motorcycle and take off her sunglasses before she plopped a large purple and yellow-striped hat and she now sported a belt with two pistols and two automatic pouches filled with bullets as well as a rifle slung over her back.
"Let me guess," Lucky Girl said as she motioned to them. "You work for Scarlett?"
"Correct," Caitlyn said with a glare. "My name is Caitlyn. I'm the sheriff of the capital of Scarlett's Kingdom, Cinnibar City."
"Nice to meet you," Huntress said as Caitlyn motioned to the windows up above in the warehouse with a ladder underneath them.
"Hang on," Max said. "The twins and Allison are probably still in there. We don't want to blow their cover."
"Good point," Lucky Girl said. "Let's wait until a fight actually breaks out?"
"How will we know if we're still out here, though?" Huntress asked.
"We'll know," Lucky Girl told her sister. "It'll be obvious. It always is."
"I don't know how they took control in that last inning," the coach said from inside the area. "But we cannot risk it happening again. Scan them."
A laser scanner came out from the ceiling and J.T. stirred awake.
"Ugh," he said. "I just had the weirdest dream. We were kidnapped by the Squires."
"Huh?" Cash asked as he woke up, only to find himself face-to-face with the scanner.
The scanners then activated and a red light moved up the duo's faces as the Omni Twins and Matter Girl sneaked below and witnessed the area as two metal plates attached to the robot's faces and a blue liquid traveled down the tubes attached to the plates. The plates detached, revealing that the robots' faces now had the same colored-skin as Cash and J.T.
"This would be so cool if it weren't so... freaky," Omni-Green said.
"I know, right?" Matter Girl said. "I feel like we're in one of those weird horror movies."
The laser scanner finished working on the robots' faces, revealing that they were now identical to Cash and J.T. Finally, a robotic arm came by and gave the robot J.T. a pair of glasses.
"These players will be our insurance policy," the coach announced. "Dispose of the originals."
Cash and J.T. gasped as they saw the Squires undid their shackles.
"...and the spies while you're at it."
"Oh crap," Omni-Pink said as she and the others got out of the grating as the Squires tossed baseballs at them.
Matter Girl ducked as the balls blew holes in the wall behind them as she gulped.
"Hey!"
They then ducked again as Omni-Pink surrounded them in a forcefield as on the outside, they others gulped.
"Okay, now we can go in," Lucky Girl said as Caitlyn took out her gun and blasted the window above open before she, Lucky Girl and Huntress climbed up onto the ladder.
The Squires tossed wooden bats at our heroes as they gulped and Matter Girl sliced them apart with her blade hands after absorbing the metal from the wall.
"No way," J.T. said. "Was that Matter Girl?"
"Here? Not possible," Cash said.
The Omni-Twins and Matter Girl avoided the bats as they slammed next to them before they heard the sound of shattering glass and Lucky Girl, Huntress and Caitlyn shouted out as Caitlyn fired her guns, nailing each Squire in the head as their hologram programs dissipated, revealing their robotic shells.
"They're robots!" Huntress realized.
"Alright! The calvary has arrived!" Omni-Pink shouted as the Omnitrixes recharged and she and her brother smiled.
"Let's do it!" Omni-Green said as they slammed the cores down.
Omni-Green's Omnitrix sank 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 green and black bodysuit with the Omnitrix symbol on his belt. He then struck a pose as the transformation ended.
Omni-Pink Omnitrix sank into her wrist as chlorophyll-filled veins grew up her arm and spread to her face, which turned chalky white as she clutched her eyes shut and they turned a full pink with energy and black lines grew out, marking her face like a mask. Her hair grew out into several leaf-like extensions with a few yellow stigmas growing from the top. Her clothes morphed into a pink long-sleeved uniform with green segments on the front and shoulders and white petals on the bottom, forming a skirt and pink shoes on her feet with root-like extensions coming from the soles with the Omnitrix symbol on her chest.
The Squires swarmed around them as a burst of green crystals came forth from the ground and then from behind a slash of water came out, slicing some of the robots apart. The crystals then burst outwards, impaling some of the robots as Diamondhead and Water Lily stood in the center of it.
Then, from behind them, Matter Girl leaped out and morphed her hands into mallets before she smashed a few robots around as Caitlyn loaded her guns and fired several bullets into the robots, blasting them apart as she shouted out.
Lucky Girl then glared as she levitated some scrap metal with her telekinesis and shot it at the robots with a shout before some tried to ambush her with baseball bats.
"Kemo Char!"
With those two words, she burst a golden light from her hands that fried the robots in her path before Huntress swung in and smashed them with her spear before she backflipped and stabbed another in the chest with the blade strapped to her belt.
"Whoa!" J.T. said. "It's those superheroes from the news!"
"The L-Crew?" Cash asked.
"No, the ones from Universal Studios! Although, I don't know who the woman with the guns is."
A Squire tried to rush Diamondhead with a bat, but it broke against his extremely hard skin and he engaged with the other robots, slicing them off with his blade hands as the robot Cash and J.T. tried to get the jump on him, but he instantly grabbed them and smashed their heads in with a sly smirk.
"Is it just me, or did that guy smile when he smashed our robots together?"
As the heroes all glared at the coach, he only smirked at them.
"Support units only!"
"Oh crap!" Matter Girl shouted as they looked above to see the robot droids crawling on the ceiling drop down on them.
Diamondhead, Water Lily, Lucky Girl, Huntress and Caitlyn all tried to blast them down with crystals, water blasts, spell blasts, arrows and bullets, but there were just too many of them as they quickly dropped down on them and overwhelmed them.
Matter Girl morphed her hands into blades and she tried slicing them down, succeeding in mowing down a few of them before she was tackled onto the ground by one and Water Lily quickly blasted it off of her.
"There's just too many of them!" Huntress shouted as she twirled a robot droid around and tossed it into the area using only her spear.
Soon, Max crawled in through a broken window and looked to see the two bullies still strapped into the slabs.
"Guys, help me get those kids out!" he shouted.
Lucky Girl and Huntress looked to each other and nodded as they ran over and unstrapped the two from their shackles as the battle continued to rage on behind them.
Out of the corner of Lucky Girl's eye, she saw the blue glow of a computer and she investigated to see a picture of the President's face as well as a strand of DNA swirling around.
She gasped immediately once she saw the image before her. "The President!"
The coach immediately glared in her direction once she discovered their plan.
"Team, move out!" he ordered as they all ran away as the doors opened and Max glared after them.
"The Squires are getting away!" he shouted.
"It's over," the coach said as he pressed a button on the controls and the door started closing.
"Uh-oh," Huntress said as she looked up to see electricity discharging from the generator behind them.
"Guys!" Max said as the rest of the group all gathered around them as Caitlyn unleashed her bullets on the approaching droids as the twins and Matter Girl got into battle poses.
"We can take them!" Water Lily said.
"They're not our problem, Water Lily. That is."
Max pointed to the generator that was clearly about to explode.
"We've got to get out of here!" Matter Girl shouted as they all ran towards the door and tried to pound it open futilely as Caitlyn gasped.
"It's no use!" she shouted.
They then saw the massive amounts of droids approach and she immediately glared them down before Caitlyn and Lucky Girl fired their bullets/spell blasts at them before they were all suddenly lassoed by Diamondhead who then tossed them into the large door, smashing it down and they shouted out before running away.
"Go!" Water Lily shouted as she and her brother continued to slice the droids up.
"What about you two?!" Huntress asked.
"We'll catch up! We can't let these things get to you!"
"We trust you," Matter Girl shouted as she ran away from the warehouse.
Diamondhead and Water Lily nodded as they shouted out and sliced a huge ton of droids away with their powers, not showing any signs of slowing down or stopping as they eventually looked towards the generator, which exploded with them as Diamondhead encased himself and his sister in a crystal shield as the explosion surged outwards, sending the guys on the outside flying in the grass as they glared at the destruction of the warehouse.
Cash and J.T. groaned as Huntress stood up and rubbed her head.
"Green? Pink?" she asked as a single droid came by and Huntress was about to destroy it, only for Simone to beat her to the punch by smashing it in with a baseball bat and she glared outwards.
"Take that! Leave us alone!"
"Simone?" Cash asked as Casey walked up and crossed her arms.
"We saw what happened," she said. "We grew curious and decided to spy on the Squires."
"You're not alone," said Omni-Green as he and his sister walked out of the flames. "Diamondhead's shield protected us from the explosion."
"That's the least of our troubles," Lucky Girl said. "The Squires had a copy of the President's face on their computer."
"Oh man," Max realized. "If they could swap Cash and J.T. out with robots, they could do the same with the President."
"They're going to kidnap the real President at the game and use him to infiltrate the White House," Matter Girl realized.
"We have to stop them," Caitlyn resolved. "I can snipe the robots down from the radio tower, but how can you guys get onto the field to stop them?"
"Well," Cash said to the team behind him and his partner. "Thanks for your help and all, but we have a game to play."
The heroes all smiled to each other and Max smirked outwards to them.
"Not so fast," he said to them as Omni-Pink looked to Simone and Casey and winked to them and they giggled in glee at her idea.
"It's game time and the favored Squires have taken the field!" the announcer said over the loudspeaker as the Squires tossed the ball to each other for practice.
"Nine innings and our plan shall be complete," the coach smiled as he looked to a Squire behind him, who immediately changed shape with its robotic skeleton and reformed into a replica of the President's suit before a fleshy compound filled its face in to form the President's face.
Omni-Pink glared as she hid in the area behind the entrance to the field and glared at the coach and fake president. On the side behind her, Caitlyn geared up her rifle as she took a deep breath.
"These robots are about to meet the long gun of the law," Caitlyn said with a sigh as Omni-Pink looked at her robotic leg.
"Are you a-"
"No, I'm not a robot," Caitlyn said. "I lost my leg in a huge battle for Cinnibar. Our chief mechanic Bismuth made me this robotic leg as a replacement."
"Cool," Omni-Pink said as they watched the Cannons come onto the field and Ben was dressed in Cash's uniform and number 10 on the back and he chuckled and then shot his sister a wink and she winked back.
In the Rust Bucket, Lucky Girl, Huntress, Matter Girl and Max got ready as Lucky Girl pocketed her spellbook and showed off her tattoos, Matter Girl strapped her materials in her utility belt and Huntress equipped her weapons.
Max pressed a button and the cupholders separated to show his ray gun as he smiled at the three heroines in the back and they moved out, leaving the four kids in the RV.
"Hey!" Cash shouted... standing in his underwear. "What about us?!"
"First, get some new underwear," Lucky Girl glared.
"Second, don't go anywhere," Huntress said.
"Simone, Casey, can we trust you two to watch him?"
"You can count on us," Simone said as she stood in the passenger seat.
"We won't leave the car," Casey said with a smile as she closed the door and the heroes ran off.
As they approached the stadium, the game was just already underway.
"First up to bat, Cash Murray!" the announcer called as Omni-Pink and Caitlyn looked to each other as Caitlyn fingered her rifle and sighed due to nerves.
"Ready?" Omni-Pink asked.
"Born ready," Caitlyn whispered.
Ben walked up to bat and saw the crowd cheering before him and he just couldn't help but smile.
"Okay," he said. "I guess hero time can wait for just one pitch."
The pitcher then glared at Ben and then spat to the side and then tossed the ball super fast. Ben then tried to swing, but immediately missed and fell on his butt.
"Strike one!" the umpire called as the catcher tossed the ball back to the pitcher.
"Or two," he said.
"Come on, Ben," Omni-Pink said to him as she balled her hand into a fist. "You can do this. I know you can."
The pitcher then glared with his glowing eyes and tossed the ball again, prompting Ben to swing... and miss again.
"Strike two!"
"What's he waiting for?" Matter Girl asked as she and the others walked in.
"My guess is a fast ball, low and away," Max smirked as Huntress sighed.
"I hope so," she said.
Ben gripped the bat hard as Omni-Pink nibbled on her lips as the pitcher tossed the ball. He shouted out as hard as he could as the bat suddenly collided with the ball, sending it flying.
"No way!" Lucky Girl shouted.
Ben stood there stunned and then immediately ran off around the bases and the crowd went wild as the Squires aimed hard for the ball as Ben ran as fast as he could
When one of the Squires caught the ball, they tossed it to second base just as Ben crossed the base.
"Come on Ben," Huntress said. "You've got this."
Ben then dove as the ball was tossed to the third baseman and he shouted out as a dust cloud kicked up and he immediately slammed the Omnitrix core down, transforming into Four Arms.
"You're-"
"Safe, right?" Four Arms asked and the umpire nodded.
"It's showtime," Omni-Pink said as she slammed the Omnitrix core down, turning into Blitzwolfer and she and Caitlyn ran out onto the field as Four Arms grabbed the pitcher, who immediately did a flip kick to Four Arms' face before transforming into its true robot form and grew claws on its arms and four spindly claw legs and the crowd gasped out in awe as they heard a howling from nearby as Jen approached and she immediately mauled it with her sharp claws and teeth as Caitlyn cocked her rifle and the rest of the Squires transformed into robots as well as the three stood back-to-back.
"Time to go, Mr. President," a Secret Service agent said and they walked off into the bleachers as the robots looked to the President, their target acquired.
"Crap!" he shouted.
Four Arms grabbed three bats and handled three balls.
"Batters up!" he called before hitting the ball into the robots as Caitlyn unloaded her guns at them and dodged their energy blasts as she ducked behind the shed and clipped her guns.
"I do not aim with my hand," she said. "She who aims with her hand has forgotten the face of her father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand. She who shoots with her hand has forgotten the face of her father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun. She who kills with her gun has forgotten the face of her father. I kill with my heart."
She then shouted out as she fired her guns into the heads of the robots with one shot each and they exploded immediately.
Jenwolf then ran in and fired her sonic howl out, which blew the robots away from her as she looked up to the President.
Secret Service agents surrounded him on all sides and a robot appeared and they were instantly shocked unconscious, leaving the President vulnerable.
Suddenly, Matter Girl came in and smashed the robot with her mallet hands and Lucky Girl blasted them away, flanked by Huntress and max came in and blasted the final one away with his blaster.
"Mr. President, come with us," Huntress said as she stabbed a robot with her spear and kicked him away and they ran inside.
They eventually came into the storage room with a giant bat, ball and glove inside.
"We'll be safe in here," Matter Girl said. "I can sense these things."
That was when they saw a figure step out of the shadows to reveal the Squires coach.
"I don't think so," he said.
"You couldn't sense water in the ocean," Lucky Girl said, giving Matter Girl the stink eye as the coach zoomed in with lightning quick speed, knocking them to the ground and he tossed the girls into a cage and wrapped Max up in the giant glove. He now had the President cornered.
"Soon, we will control the White House."
He snapped his fingers and the replica President walked in with a sly smile.
The fake president smirked as he walked around the president only to hear a rumbling sound as the Omni Twins and Caitlyn burst through and glared.
"Not while we're in the house!" Blitzwolfer said as Four Arms looked to the ground to see that he had just crushed what appeared to be the President.
"Oh, man," he said. "Please tell me that was the fake President."
That was when the robot's hologram faded, revealing it's true form.
"*Phew* That's a relief," Caitlyn said as she cocked her rifle and they saw a few robots walk in and they glared.
Four Arms glared and lifted up the giant bat and swatted the robots down with it as Caitlyn blasted them with her guns and Blitzwolfer used her sonic howl to blow them away.
"That's all of them!" Blitzwolfer said before she was suddenly blasted backwards by a blue beam and she groaned in pain.
"Think again," the coach said, revealing two cannons from his shoulders. His hologram form faded to reveal a more powerful robot that fired energy beams from its cannons and its chest that Caitlyn avoided and she ducked behind the ball, only for it to be blaste dapart.
Four Arms lifted up the bat only for it to be blasted apart as well. He then picked up the remains of the ball and glared.
"Welcome to the seventh inning stretch!"
He then tossed the ball like a discus and it smashed right into the robot, causing it to spark outwards before exploding.
Huntress opened the door as she, Lucky Girl and Matter Girl walked out of the cage and freed Max as the Omnitrixes timed out, revealing Jen and Ben again.
"Where'd the Omni Twins go?" Four Arms asked. "I wanted to thank them for their bravery."
Ben began to speak up until Max silenced him.
"I'll give them the message, sir."
They looked to see the burnt husk of the robot fall over.
"Grandpa," Ben whined, only for his grandfather to deny him.
The President walked over to investigate the robot, only for it to wake up again and reveal a cannon from it's mouth.
"We will not be stopped," it said.
"Okay, now that's cheating!" Jen said as Caitlyn walked up and her robotic leg suddenly shifted its form into an energy cannon and she brought it up to the robot's head and fired, blowing it into pieces and she looked to the other as her leg suddenly shifted back.
"Yooooooou're OUT!" Lucky Girl smiled as they all looked at her awkwardly. "What? Even I couldn't resist."
"Mission accomplished," Caitlyn said as she dusted herself off and pocketed her guns. "Wish I could say but I have business to take care of back home. Ta."
She then nodded with a flourish and left through the hole as the others smiled after her.
"Scarlett's soldiers always were the most ruthless in the multiverse," Jen smiled as they watched Caitlyn leave through a portal.
"The details of the attack are a matter of national security," the President said as he presented Cash and J.T. to the press who were recording. "But I'm proud to present the young boy who saved my life."
"Aw man," Ben said as he saw Jen hug goodbye to Simone and Casey before she joined the others back in the car. "They so do not deserve that!"
"Just like someone I know didn't deserve that music pocket," Max smirked.
"Speaking of which, where is my-"
He then looked to see Becky jamming out with the music pocket with a smirk and Ben groaned.
"What can I say, Ben? Cheaters never prosper... but sometimes their cousins do."
"Okay, you got me," Ben said. "I don't want to be a cheater." He then looked at his Omnitrix and smiled. "But..."
"Oh, I know some things about courage," Cash said on the podium before he and J.T. were suddenly whisked off and were dangling from the flagpoles of the stadium. "Not again!"
"...That doesn't mean I'm not a sore loser!" XLR8 smirked.
Inside the storage department, a metal boot stomped down on the remains of the coach robot and the camera panned up to reveal Enoch, who only glared in disgust.
"The entire operation was a failure. By the crest of the Forever Knights, the Tennysons will pay with their very lives."
Next time on Ben and Jen 10:
Heroes Unite!