Here we are to chapter seven! I absolutely love the praise this story is getting, and it really brightens my mood as a writer, so here we go as we look at the reviews.
Shogun lord poke burst: The Omnitrix can scan the Megawatts but at this time Ben only has Access to 10 aliens, so he wouldn't be able to use that form yet.
adislt: you do have a point, so I may make it to where Altera interrogates Max sometime soon.
walteealex2001: glad you're loving the interactions between the main duo and they will be a great team in Alien Force.
CosFa40Guest: considering Altera is now part of Ben's world, we'll see what the future Ben and Gwen say.
Milo S Darek: thank you so much for liking my story! And you may have given me a really good idea!
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Chapter 7: Electric Tourism
Another summer day and the Tennysons and Altera were as usual driving along the road, of course Ben was being Ben and was making faces to a kid in a nearby car, including tongue flapping. Across from him Altera could only watch her boisterous friend be silly and shake her head with a smile on her face, though Ben's antics were downright stupid most of the time she found them endearing witnessing the innocence of youth.
"You know, I think it would be an improvement if your face was stuck like that." Gwen said.
The kid that Ben was poking fun at decided to eat his hamburger and stick his tongue out with the chunks on it.
"Ah man! The seafood special! Time to bust out the secret weapon."
Altera could only sigh as Ben activated the Omnitrix to turn into Stinkfly, who went up to the window.
The kid's burger chunks fell off his tongue and he proceeded to scream in fright. The father driving up front looked his way and also got scared making him speed up to get distance from the Rustbucket.
"Hahahahaha!"
"There is such a thing as taking a joke too far you know." Gwen chastised but Ben only laughed still.
Stinkfly then looked over and shot goop onto the seat Gwen was about to sit on, she was not amused at all.
"Impossible! Funny is funny!"
"Ben, get up here." Max called as the Rustbucket came to a stop making Stinkfly slide all the way foreword.
"Oh good, you're all ready to go. We've got trouble ahead."
Everyone looked over to see the road blocked off by a wreckage, two trucks had apparently crashed into each other and caught fire, what is worse was there was still a man inside.
"Help!"
"The doors stuck! He can't get out!"
"Help! Called the man once more as he pounded on the door with the flames drawing closer.
"If that propane he's hauling catches fire, that truck will become a rocket to the moon" Max warned.
"It's all you Ben." Altera said.
Stinkfly got into action as he approached the fire.
"Ah man, the fire is too intense, if only I was Heatblast. Wait, I have an idea."
"Everyone back up! Let the…bug, work." Max said to the crowed.
Ben would proceed to put the flames out with his goop, he then took his tail end and tore into the roof before prying it open to grab the man inside. He screamed in fear before being put down to the ground.
"Loogy saves lives."
"Ah! It's the monster that ate that kid!" Cried the boy from earlier.
"Whoa! Look at the time, got to fly."
They were mobile once again, Ben was just sitting playing his handheld game device when he got a tap to the shoulder and turned around.
"AAGH!" Ben screamed dropping his game in the process.
Behind him was Altera wearing a clown mask, she lifted it up to reveal a smirking face as she winked at him.
"Not cool Altera! You know I hate clowns."
"We'll maybe you shouldn't have taken your joke to far, especially with the watch." Altera mocked.
"You'll have a ball with it…Next exit." Gwen said as she read the signs.
"Come on Grandpa, at least give us a hint at what it is."
"Uh-uh no hints. I've been planning this stop all summer."
They eventually reached the destination and Max opened the door.
"Alright you three, close your eyes."
Doing so they stepped off the camper.
"Alright, open your eyes."
Upon opening them, they got a good look at a big sign.
"Welcome to Sparksville!"
The town looked empty and quiet, there was a motel with a big jackalope mounted on the roof, a diner with a big hotdog, an old gift shop, one of the stores looked like it had a giant fishbowl on it.
"Isn't this place great or what?" Max asked.
"Uh. I'll go with…or what." Ben said.
"Come on. What's more exciting then the worlds biggest fishbowl."
"Um, everything."
"As the mayor of Sparksville I'd like to welcome you seekers of wonder." Said a suited man who looked like he couldn't care less.
"I know you guys are excited to see it. I'll go check us in." Max said.
"Hey Ben?"
"What's up Altera?"
"No offense to your grandfather but this definitely is not that fun."
"You got that right." Ben responded and the two bumped fists.
The kids then found themselves in front of an attraction called the Jackalope. Curious Ben rung the bell.
"Tickets please." Said a familiar bored voice.
"I thought you were the mayor?"
The mayor took the tickets and spoke.
"He who wears the crown is burdened with many hats son."
"True statement." Altera said.
They then began to enter.
"Mind the signs." The man warned.
What followed was a montage of various pictures, for example a photo where Ben and Altera stuck their faces through cut out holes on a farm couple stand up, the trio checking out a planetarium, Ben enjoying a hotdog, during that one Gwen wanted to spray her cousin with mustard and ketchup but Altera had her own thing in mind and kissed Ben on the cheek just after he bit into it, the result was a red faced Ben dropping his food and a piece of hotdog falling out of his mouth while Gwen laughed in the background. Overall it seemed they were able to have a good time.
Soon they were at a barn looking building with a sign that says It's Here with the Mayor.
"Through these doors lies the weirdest, wildest thing to ever come to Sparksville."
The door opened and the trio walked in. Glowing signs with instructions lighting up around them.
"Please tell me this is it because I can't stand it anymore…do not touch it." Ben read.
"Do not photograph it." Gwen followed.
"Do not use batteries or electrical equipment near it." Altera finished.
The building lit up to show a sign saying this is it, and it lifted up to reveal a giant ball of rubber bands.
"This is it?"
"It's a big ball of rubber bands."
"And who knows what secrets lie within." The mayor said ominously.
"Stay as long as you like. Mind the signs." And with that he left.
"These guys are full of IT! We've been punked!"
"It is pretty lame." Gwen agreed.
"Hey Altera…Altera?"
Altera was looking at the giant rubber band ball quite curiously.
"Don't tell me you actually find this interesting." Gwen said.
"It's not that, it's very faint from the rubber not being conductive but I am feeling some wild electrical streams coming from inside."
"Wait, so there might be something inside that thing?" Ben asked.
Altera simply shrugged.
Ben then gained a look on his face.
"Ben, I think we should really head the mayors warning." Altera said.
But Ben had already ran behind the ball and activated the Omnitrix, Four-arms then lifted the ball up.
"One good prank, deserves another."
"Damnit Ben…Let's do it." Altera said with a smirk on her face.
"Now your speaking my language Altera! How about the worlds biggest booger."
That got a laugh out of both girls. Ben proceeded to toss it around.
"Careful dweeb you'll drop it!" Gwen warned.
"Not a chance, I can carry this thing with three arms tied behind my…"
Suddenly the rubber ball fell out of his hands and bounced off through the roof destroying a food cart outside as it continued its momentum.
"The one time my own boredom gets the better of my judgement!" Altera said.
The ball bounced off the big chicken heading straight for them and Four-arms went up to catch it only to be sent hurtling back on impact into a building as the ball bounced off and hit the big pyramid of cards. The three kids only looked on at the result of Ben's actions.
WHAP!
"Ow! What was that for."
"For inadvertently turning us into criminals!"
"Don't get your shorts in a twist, I'll just put everything back the way it was."
It was not to be as the Omnitrix began to power down.
"Ok, maybe, a little problem." Ben said as he put his hand on the ball, Altera noticed red sparks resonating on it from the watch.
"What are we gonna tell Grandpa!"
"Nothing, we just play dumb."
"Ben, this is something we can't just shut away, we have to face the consequences."
"And here I thought you were starting to be less prude."
Altera smacked him on the head for that remark.
They entered a sideways door and saw everything was sideways.
"Hey! There you are. Isn't this place a riot?"
"Why, what'd you see? We don't know anything!" Gwen panicked while Altera rolled her eyes.
Meanwhile the rubber band ball sparked with electricity and shot towards the telephone poll and traveled on the wires before flying off and circled the Jackalope, it then busted through the sign and revealed itself to be a yellow and black battery looking humanoid with the positive and negative symbols on it.
"Ahahahaha!"
The kids were somehow sleeping on the sideways part of the room.
"What the heck happened here?" Said Max.
"He knows everything. We are so busted." Gwen said as Ben fell out.
"We may as well just come clean, no point in making things worse." Altera said.
"Sometimes it's hard to believe your actually a kid, never admit anything unless you absolutely have to. Got it?"
"Ben!" Altera shouted.
"Benjamin, Gwendolyn, Altera. Get out here."
"Gwendolyn? We're doomed."
Max looked on at the sheer destruction as the kids came up.
"Whoa. What happened?"
"I don't know, looks like a tornado tore through here overnight."
"Good…I mean yeah. It was just one of those freaky nature things, right guys?"
"Every moment is digging the grave deeper." Altera muttered.
"I think I know who's responsible for these juvenile acts." Said the approaching mayor.
"Juvenile acts huh? Well if-"
"I'm not talking about these youngsters."
"You're not?" Everyone said at once and Max looked at the kids suspiciously.
"Yeah well if they didn't do it, who did?"
The spark of electricity was heard as the little battery looking creature began to play around by constantly appearing around the kids making goofy faces, it then blew a raspberry at Altera and tried pulling up her shirt over her head. Ben actually blushed at the slight exposure even if was just her stomach.
"Annoying."
The electric creature tapped Ben's shoulder and he looked at it before it flashed to the other side and blew another raspberry.
"What is that?"
"Megawatt." The mayor said.
"Mega what?"
"Exactly, normally wrapped up tight inside of it. At least until last night. Some say it might be a ball of lightning come alive, others think it's static cling run amok. Tough to say."
"It could be an alien." Altera said.
"Alien? Now that's just plain kooky talk."
"And everything you said doesn't?" Altera responded pointing out the irony.
Megawatt hit a vending machine and went inside.
"What's it doing?" Ben asked.
"It eats electricity, the more it eats, the more powerful it gets."
The machine began firing drink cans from it launching straight at the group who save for the mayor braced themselves.
"It's also got a dangerous sense of humor."
The group ran for the back of a flipped over truck.
"You let that thing inside a rubber band ball this whole time? Isn't that dangerous?" Max asked.
"Not so long as people minded the signs." The mayor said looking at the trio.
"Ok we admit it! It was us." Ben blabbed.
"So much for not saying anything."
"We'll talk about this later you three, but for now, how do we catch this thing Mr. Mayor?"
"What do you mean we? You let it out, you catch it." The mayor said as he stuck some hay in his mouth.
The machine was the last thing sent flying and exploded on impact.
"Maybe we could lure it out with some batteries?" Gwen suggested.
"I remember seeing the Omnitrix emitting sparks when Ben touched the ball, the electricity must have woken it up." Altera said.
Megawatt was following the group from the telephone wires, it then snuck into Altera's clothes and in a literal flash strung her up floating as it had her in a wedgie.
"KYAAA!!"
"Altera! Oh you went to far!"
Ben dialed the Omnitrix and transformed into Upgrade though he wanted a different alien.
"Why go Upgrade?"
"It's complicated."
"Watch wouldn't let you turn into what you want?"
"Shut up!"
Megawatt dropped Altera and flashed up the giant ketchup bottle popping it's lid and making it burst and the lid hit the giant chicken head making it fall as a tourist ran out of the way screaming.
"Hehehehe!"
Megawatt looked over to see Upgrade rolling the rubber band ball.
"Ok twinkle toes, time to go back home."
Some of the rubber bands shot forward but they hit random targets and civilians began to run.
"Hey doofus! Whose side are you on!"
"Is it just me? Or is there a lot of excitement today?" The mayor said bored as he ate popcorn while a kid sat next to him concerned.
Megawatt was right behind Upgrade and laughing it's ass off when it dodged a slash from the plasma blade of a very pissed off Altera. She swung widely at it seeing nothing but blood for the little stunt it pulled literally and figuratively. Megawatt just kept laughing.
Upgrade was mad and began to charge up.
"Altera move!"
A green beam shot from his eye as Altera did so and almost struck a shocked Megawatt.
"Woah that's new. Not so funny now huh?"
Megawatt only continued to laugh as it zipped around Ben when he tried to grab at it. It zoomed all the way from the town hall and back and rushed Upgrade who tried every attempt to grab it, when he did he was struck by an electric shock.
"Ok, not touch the electrical guy while your made of living metal."
"How are we going to ground that electric devil?"
"That's it! Grandpa you're a genius!" Gwen said.
"Why thank you, why?"
Upgrade who was retreating turned around and had an idea.
"That's it! I'm pulling the plug on this guys pranks!"
He took a sewer lid and tossed it at Megawatt bisecting it. Just as it seemed to work, the two halves became to separate Megawatts. Both looked at each other and began to laugh.
"Ok…probably not the best idea."
The Omnitrix powered down revert to human. The Megawatt saw it and started shooting electricity at him. The horn of a truck sounded and came in with a large thermometer on the flatbed. It stopped and Ben climbed in to see Max Gwen and Altera inside.
"Grandpa! What are you doing?"
"Giving these sparklers a science lesson they won't forget."
The truck started moving as the Megawatts began the chase.
"Hey Megaweirds come and get us!"
Gwen moved the lever and the flatbed tilted upwards allowing the thermometer to fall out and stab into the ground. The Megawatts ended up hitting it and absorbed into the metal going into the ground.
"What did you guys do?"
"We used the big thermometer as a lightning rod." Altera said.
"Who needs alien superheroes when you have good old fashion brain power." Gwen bragged.
"Of course the ground is just one big conductor." Said the mayor.
"Great, that means the Megawatts are zipping around underground till they find a way back to the surface." Altera grunted.
All of the phone equipment began to spark and ring all around them.
"They're in the underground phone lines." Max said.
Multiple Megawatts went around destroying everything, as the group and some townsfolk look on.
"Well, now they done it this time." Said a women.
Ben had a sly look on his face.
"Don't say anything." Gwen said annoyed.
"I'm just glad I'm not the one who screwed up this time."
The Megawatts all huddled at the giant hotdog and let out a collective sound that broke the glass holding large tooth picks.
"Everybody move!" Max said as he rushed people out of the way.
The mayor simply sat on a lawn chair as the picks fell around him not caring and still eating popcorn.
"There goes the world's largest toothpicks, oh the humanity."
"Those little creep's ideas of good clean fun, is gonna have us all pushing up daisies."
"Don't just stand there doofus, dial up some help!"
"Duh like I haven't been trying."
The Megawatts began to gather as what looked like the leader was telling them something before they scatter.
"Uh where'd they go?"
"Something tells me I'm not gonna like what happens next." Altera said.
Explosions started going off as the planetarium exhibit was walking out and sparking under the control of the Megawatts. It proceeded to walk off.
"Well, there's something you don't see everyday, they brought that planetarium to life." Said a woman.
"Come on, we'll head it off at the…oh my."
The Rustbucket was completely taken apart, and their was spray paint on the side the said U am Lame.
"U am Lame? That is so weak."
"Not to mention the grammar and spelling."
"That's just sad."
"I reckon they're heading to the hydroelectric dam to power up, then they take out the next town and so on and so on. Yup, they think it's funny. Yup Megawatt's got a huge twisted sense of humor." The Mayor said.
Altera looked up at the giant fishbowl and Gwen noticed it too.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?"
"Simple, we beat those punks at their own game. Right Ben?"
Ben only smile as he held out a fully charged Omnitrix.
At the dam, the walking planetarium was punching into the dam wall, they were the hit with a stream of fire making it back up. It looks up to see Heatblast at the top.
"This is your only warning. Knock off the funny business or I'll fry your twinkling butts."
The planetarium sent a huge punch into the wall cracking it as a burst of water shot out, the rumbling almost made Heatblast fall as he ran down the wall, till he launched off it to avoid the water bellow by flying on a stream of fire.
"Hahaha. Better seal that up fast."
The planetarium was closing in on the turbines to absorb the energy when Heatblast flew up on another column of fire, he still doesn't have the hang of it yet and crashed into a wall. The planetarium then went up to punch the Pyronite when its arm got chopped off courtesy of Altera and her plasma blade.
"Hey Megaweird! Looks like you're all wet!" Gwen said as she fired a hose of water at it. It tried to stomp on her but she got out of there.
"What's the matter? Can't take a joke?" Heatblast said as he threw a big fireball at the planetarium knocking it down, the Megawatts coming out in force.
"You really got burned with that one, you should just quit while you're behind."
The angry Megawatts charged at him only to miss and hit a cloud of smoke.
"Missed me doofus!"
They looked and saw Heatblast who was next to a tarp that covered something he taunted them with blowing kisses.
They charged again as he went under the tarp.
"Ben did it! They took the bait."
Removing the tarp the fishbowl was revealed with all the Megawatts inside trying to get out, heat blast finished the job by shooting fire over the top and completely sealing the glass.
The Megawatts looked on from their sealed glass prison as they saw Altera come up looking at them.
"Nah-nah!" She then blew a raspberry of her own.
"Nice touch with the fish bowl. With non conductive glass sealed up tight, sparky and his friends ain't going anywhere."
"Once again, science saves the day." Gwen said as Ben went back into human form again.
"With a little help from science fiction." Ben said.
The town was in the midst of rebuilding.
"You folks done right by us." The mayor said.
"I hope this wasn't a huge setback for Sparksville."
"No more like a huge step forward. What with our newest attraction soon we'll be raking them in.
The mayor then removed the tarp.
"World's biggest lightbulb, it will be a humdinger. So long as people mind the signs." He said looking specifically at Ben.
The Megawatts were seen inside trying desperately to be free.
"In case of emergency, do not brake glass." Ben read on the sign.
"I think I'm all pranked out for awhile."
"There is a time and place for practical jokes Ben."
Ben simply looked at his grandpa with tired expression then he noticed Altera snickering behind him.
He opened the door only for a bucket of water to land on his head.
"But funny is funny, especially when it's not on you." Altera said.
"You know, I'm starting to like this new side of you Altera. But know this, this means war."
"Have at thee, Benjamin."
The group laughed as they set off for another place, and another wacky adventure. Before they went though the Omnitrix began to beep.
"New alien DNA acquired, Nosedeenian."
"Oh does that mean I get to turn into this guy!"
Ben tried but it seems this form was locked.
"Ah man." Ben said as Altera patted his back, little did Ben know that while she was consoling him she put a kick me sign on his back.
AN: and that's that for chapter 7! OOH looks like Altera and Ben are gonna have a prank war, ain't that just adorable.
Next chapter: Number 11
Bye!