Trust me guys, this time, I'm not breaking the rules. I got rid of the rulebook.
The game was hanging out in a rock by the lake, all wearing either black or green swimming trunks with no shirts for Ben and Kevin and Jen, Gwen, Becky and Allison were all wearing pink, blue, red and black bikinis as they all hung out with a smile on their faces... except for Gwen, tattoos in plain view who was looking out depressed as Jen looked to her and sighed, laying a hand on her shoulder in sympathy
"I know. I miss him too," Jen said.
Kevin smiled and absorbed the stone from the rock with a smirk. "Let's settle this, Tennyson."
"Oh, my dear Kevin," Ben as Brainstorm said with a smile. "Your nigh gladiatorial bellicosity has once again outpaced your ratiocinative processes."
Brainstorm noticed Becky sitting quite a ways from him as she sharpened her weapons in the clearing, obviously keeping her distance.
"Rebecca?" Brainstorm asked. "Are you afraid of me or something?"
"She's not afraid of you, Ben," Gwen said, turning to her sister. "She's just allergic."
"It's true," Becky said with a shudder. "Something you didn't know about me: I'm severely allergic to shellfish of any kind. Including alien. The last time I survived an attack by a Cerebrocrustacean in the Null Void, I was broken out in hives for nearly three days. Trust me, I wished that he had killed me at that point."
"As you were," Allison smiled with a bow.
"I have no idea what you said but... CANNONBALL!"
Kevin leaped outwards from the rock and then did a cannonball into the lake, sending a torrent of water upwards as Brainstorm released the folds on his upper shell and revealed his brain that sent an electromagnetic pulse out that immediately evaporated the water coming at him.
Kevin surfaced as Brainstorm smirked at him.
"Oh, attempting to short me out, hmm? Before you could ever cause such an involuntary cognitive discharge, my intense electromagnetic storms would vaporize you. Twit."
He then sent a lightning blast outwards that blasted into Kevin, sending him flying back with a groan as Jen caught him in her telekinesis without even looking and set him down on the ground.
Brainstorm then crawled up to the rock, careful of his cousin as he smirked at the Osmosian.
"As a coder and at the risk of gilding the lily, I submit..."
That was when Ben transformed back to human and smiled.
"...that I wasn't even thinking that hard."
"Okay, okay. You got me that time," he said.
"Okay, boys," Becky said with a smile towards them, separating them. "We live and we learn, right sis?"
She looked over to see Gwen depressed as she looked out onto the lake with Jen by her side as she hiked her knees up to her chest.
"Gwen?"
She said nothing as Jen bowed her head in sympathy.
"They miss Grandpa," Ben realized.
"Well, so do we," Allison said. "Jen probably more than anyone."
"They were fine in the car," Kevin shrugged.
"It's all my fault," Ben said. "I suggested that we come here. I thought that bringing the two of them here would cheer them up."
"This was Grandpa Max's secret fishing rock guys," Gwen explained as Jen stood up.
"He used to come out here all the time when he wasn't travelling."
"Oh, yeah. I remember that now," Ben said.
"Away on Plumber business," Kevin said.
"The three of us didn't know back then," Gwen said. "When we were five, he brought me here and I caught a teeny tiny fish. He wanted me to release it. I had put up a big fuss. It was my fish, you know? Grandpa finally convinced me to come back when he was bigger."
Jen then sighed as she picked up a small flat rock and skipped it out over the lake with a sigh as Gwen stood up.
"I guess I never had an easy time letting go of anything. Especially not you, sis."
Becky then hugged her in sympathy with a sigh.
"It's okay. I understand, Gwen."
Ben then sensed something nearby and looked towards the tree to see an old woman in a blue cloak walk over and placed a pink and yellow flower down by a tree.
"For a secret hiding place, this sure gets a lot of visitors," Allison nodded as Kevin ran up.
"Hey, you in the cloak!"
The old woman shot her head towards them and saw the kids running towards her with a chuckle before she moved behind the tree and suddenly vanished in a bright violet light.
Jen and Gwen felt their brain suddenly pulse out at the sight as she vanished.
They all looked around the tree and found nothing and no one around it but the flower.
"That woman just disappeared," Ben realized.
"What do you think she was doing?" Becky asked as Jen walked up and traced her hand on the carving on the tree with a skeptical look on her face.
"'Max + Verdona?" she read. "Who's Verdona?"
Gwen then picked up the flower on the ground as she looked to Jen. "Let's find her and ask. The two of us should be able to track her with this flower."
Jen then took her hands with the flower in them and the two focused intensely, their eyes glowing pink before the flower just wilted in Gwen's grasp and she sighed.
"I really thought we had that move perfected."
"Huh," Ben said, looking down at the tons of flowers around the tree. "This clearly isn't the first time she's been here."
"So what now, guys?" Kevin asked.
"Yeah," his sister said. "We can't just wait for the woman to come back."
"Actually..." Jen said with a smirk to her brother.
The very next night, the group was waiting in Kevin's car as Allison stood on her bike with a glare towards the lake as Kevin yawned.
"This is crazy, guys. She didn't show yesterday. What makes you think she's going to show tonight?" Allison asked with a sigh.
"Humor us," Gwen said as she and Jen stood by in the seat, determined while Becky stood next ot her sister.
"Ugh," Kevin said as he heard a clicking sound and saw Ben was playing with the lock to the doors.
Kevin glared at Ben wordlessly, in a gesture for him to stop and Ben did so for a few seconds as Becky yawned and laid her head down on her cousin's lap as Jen pet her head with a sigh... right when Ben started playing with the lock again.
"Do I look like I'm kidding, Tennyson?!" Kevin glared as Ben immediately ceased.
"Guys," Gwen said with a sigh. "I have to go find a bathroom."
"There are lots of trees around," Kevin said only for his sister to walk over and slap him upside the head.
"Real mature, Kevin. We're girls!" she said with a glare.
"I'm gonna go too," Jen said as she and Gwen walked out of the car. "There was a gas station a few miles back."
"We'll drive you," Allison suggested. "You haven't perfected the teleportation spell yet."
"No, you guys are going to keep watch. W'ell be right back, I promise," Gwen said.
As the two mages walked off, Ben, Kevin, Becky and Allison sat bored in the car and on the bike again with a groan as Ben started playing with the lock again and Kevin groaned.
"Okay, that's it!" he threateningly grabbed Ben by his jacket before Becky looked out.
"Wait, guys! Look!"
They looked to see the woman from earlier walk towards the tree again and focus as the flower started glowing pink.
"Okay. It's on," Allison said as she fired up her bike, sending out a loud running noise as she peeled up to the tree, kicking up dirt and grass as she shouted out and pulled over in front of the woman threateningly as Ben, Kevin and Becky ran up as well.
"How do you know Max Tennyson?!" Ben asked as Becky removed her hood, revealing her to be a beautiful woman for her age with white hair and a smile on her face.
"Talk, now," she said as Allison vroomed on her bike, threatening to charge.
"What rotten kids. Go away."
She stuck out her hand, sending a large pink energy blast outwards, sending the boys and Becky flying as her cloak started flapping in an invisible breeze and she took off with Allison in hot pursuit on her bike with a shout.
"Get back here!" she roared over the engine. "We have questions!"
Ben glared outwards and adjusted his Omnitrix to transform into...
"Jetray!"
He took off after Allison as the woman flew over the lake, halting her progress as Kevin absorbed the metal from his car and Becky prepared her weapons with a glare.
"Oh, a chase! I haven't had a good chase in ages!"
She veered to the right as Jetray did the same with Becky aiming her arrow outwards towards the woman with a glare, focusing in tensely.
"Come on. Just hold still."
Jetray then flew above her and with a sonic boom, appeared in front of her. But the woman wasn't phased as she turned around towards the shore as Jetray blasted a neuro ray from his tail towards her, blasting her backwards as she smiled and giggled before her cloak was ripped by an arrow and she turned around into the armored Kevin's grasp as Allison walked by with a glare, getting her fisticuffs ready.
"Answers lady."
"We're not in the mood to play your games," Allison said seriously.
"Not until I put my toys away, sweetie."
That was when several pink energy tendrils came out from the ground around her, wrapping around Kevin and sending him crashing into his sister, sending them both sprawling into the lake with a groan of pain as they hit a rock.
"Ow."
She casually avoided all of Becky's jabs with her spear as she grew more and more angry.
"You can't avoid me forever, lady! The Huntress always gets her prey!"
Jetray zoomed in overhead and glared at her.
"Who are you?!"
The old woman only smiled slyly and her eyes glowed pink as Jetray prepared his neuro ray, only for it to glow pink and green and build up and up, becoming more unstable. He tried to strengthen his power with his eye beams, only for it to blow up, sending him sprawling into Kevin and Allison again and transformed back to normal, all of them groaning in pain.
"No way," Becky said, dropping her spear in shock.
The woman floated in front of the three defeated heroes.
"This little world would be so much better without trouble making imps like you four getting in the way."
"Oh yeah?" Allison asked with a glare. "Show us what you got, Grandma! We're not scared!"
She then prepared her most powerful blast of energy yet only for it to be negated by a forcefield. The woman looked shocked before she was hit by an extremely powerful energy blast from her back, sending her splashing into the lake as Jen stood on the rock with a glare on an energy platform, her eyes smoking with energy as she looked extremely pissed.
"No one... messes with... my brother! Or my friends!" she shouted as she blasted the woman back to shore with her own energy blasts as Gwen stood by and grabbed the others with her telekinesis and set them back onto the shore.
"Can't we leave you guys alone for three minutes? Really?"
"Whoa," the woman said in awe at Jen's raw power. No one had gotten the better of her like that for so long. "Do that again."
"You mean kick your butt? No problem," Jen said as she and Gwen fired every energy bolt they could muster at the old woman, only for her to barely block the blasts with a shield that started to crack the more and more blasts appeared.
"Incredible," she said as she floated over to Jen and felt her cheek. "I've only seen such raw power like this once before. Oh, and you're not so bad yourself."
"Gee. Thanks," Gwen said as she glared at her. "Now who do you think you are littering our grandpa's cove with your flowers?"
"Flowers that she makes out of energy," Kevin said.
Jen immediately ceased her anger and fell into a silence as she and Gwen had their jaws dropped open.
"Oh my God," she said, stunned.
"Did you two say that Max was your grandfather?" the woman asked, intrigued by the two young women.
"Uh-huh," Gwen nodded.
"Kiddos!" the woman said, hugging Jen and Gwen extremely tightly as they gasped.
"Choking... not breathing..." Jen gasped out.
"Um, he was our grandpa too," Ben said as he and Becky showed up.
"Really?" the woman asked. "Can you project energy like your sisters?"
"Actually," Becky said. "The red-haired one's my sister. The other one is my cousin and Ben's sister."
"And no," Ben said.
"Shame," the woman said before turning to the two mages. "Jennifer, Gwendolyn, I'm Verdona. We'll talk again soon."
Verdona was soon completely enveloped in pink energy before she vanished from sight, leaving everyone stunned in silence.
"Uh, guys..." Jen began, shocked at what had just happened. "I think we just met our grandmother."
"That's impossible," Becky began. "Grandpa always told us that she passed away long before we became heroes."
"I think that was just to keep the truth from us," Gwen said. "She's clearly alive and well. And from what I see..."
"She may not even be human," Allison finished, leaving everyone in awe.
Gwen and Becky walked towards their home with a sigh as Becky had her hands in her pockets and looked towards her sister with a sigh.
"Are you sure that this is what you wanna do?"
"I am," Gwen stated plainly. "I don't have the right to keep a secret from them any longer. Especially since I just met Grandma."
"I suppose so," Becky said as they sat down in Gwen's room with a sigh before she cupped her hands over her mouth and shouted out. "DADDY! Me and Gwen want to talk to you!"
The sisters' dad, Frank, walked up to the room and Gwen sighed and bowed her head.
"In your room, guys?" Frank asked as Gwen sighed. "I'm honored. When was the last time you ever let me or your mother in here? Or anyone besides your sister?"
Becky walked up to the door and closed it, locking it behind them.
"Dad," Gwen said to Frank as he walked in with Becky cringing in her room as he walked in and she locked the door. "Me and Becky have been keeping a big secret from you and Mom."
Becky nodded to her sister as she opened her closet to reveal her collection of various weapons and Gwen opened her drawer to reveal her spellbook and magic charms inside.
"Magic powers."
"So, you're what? Some kind of wizard in training?"
"Sorceress," Becky corrected. "We've been going out for the past five years to help Ben and Jen with their... work."
"Come on, girls. There's no such thing as magic."
"Actually," Gwen said as she grabbed her right sleeve. "That's where you're wrong."
She looked to her sister, uncertainly, before she nodded. Gwen then winced as she rolled her sleeve up to reveal her tattoos of the Charms of Bezel on her arm. Frank stumbled back as Gwen sighed.
"Are you ready for what I'm about to show you?"
Frank nodded nervously as Gwen focused and her Telekinesis charm glowed and she focused as the drawer closed up and Becky nodded.
"That's a pretty big secret. When did you get those?" Frank asked, gently holding his daughter's inked arm.
"About five years ago," Gwen said. "It just kind of happened one night. I had this vivid dream where this young man gave me these tattoos of these magic charms I had previously encountered. But it was more than a dream. When I woke up and looked myself in the mirror, the tattoos were just kind of there."
"Show him your energy powers," Becky said as Gwen enveloped her hands in pink energy before diminishing them before she and her sister stood up and activated their watches, changing into their hero outfits for a split second before they changed back. "We're a part of the Omni-Team. I'm Huntress, Daddy."
"And I'm Lucky Girl. We met Grandma Verdona today," Gwen sighed. "Jen has these energy powers and the ability to use magic too."
Frank sighed, looking at the family pictures. "Your Uncle Carl and I were afraid this day might come for any of our kids. But you and your cousins never showed any signs of having powers. Your mother and I thought we were in the clear. Rebecca, do you have powers?"
"No, Daddy," Becky sighed. "I'm just really good with weapons of all shapes and sizes."
"So magic runs in the family?" Gwen asked. "I knew it!"
"Honey, it's not that simple," Frank sighed. "Yes, it's undeniable that you and your cousin Jen can use magic, but magic itself isn't the source of your powers. The truth is... your grandma's an alien."
Becky gasped and put a hand to her mouth as Gwen sat down on her bed and took her father's hand.
"Okay, I'm overloaded with questions right now but first... guys! I know you're out there!"
Indeed, Ben, Jen, Kevin and Allison were hiding outside of Gwen's window with a gulp.
"You can come on in."
They all crawled in through the window with a sigh as Ben looked to his uncle with a smile.
"Hey, Uncle Frank," he said.
"Ben, Jen," Frank said as Jen walked up and hugged him with a sigh.
"How do you do sir?" Kevin asked. "Kevin Levin. This is my big sister Allison."
"Charmed," Allison smiled
"Who's this, Gwen? Your boyfriend?"
"What?! Absolutely not!" Kevin shouted.
"Daddy, no!" Gwen shouted over each other.
"So, let me get this straight," Jen said with a sigh as she generated her energy in her hands. "Our grandmother, who we never knew, wants something from the two of us and we don't know what it is."
"Sounds about right," Becky said.
"And on top of that, she's not even human?" Gwen asked.
"Called it," Kevin smiled as Jen sighed and sat on the bed, running her fingers through her hair.
"I don't believe it," she said with an exasperated sigh. "You guys were right. We're not completely human."
"Then let's ask her," Frank said. "Your cousins and friends aren't the only ones who like to sneak around, eavesdropping on people. Isn't that right, Mom?!"
A violet light appeared in the room and Verdona appeared with a smile towards her family.
"You and your brother always could tell when I was watching, son," Verdona smiled. "I thought that maybe either of you had the spark. But no such luck."
"Grandma," Ben said as she nodded to him.
"Yeah. We need to talk," Jen said.
"Indeed," Verdona agreed. "You guys want to talk? Let's talk."
She then snapped her fingers and teleported everyone out of the room and into the living room.
Gwen and Becky's mother, Lily was in the room as she dusted off a vase with a smile before her mother-in-law teleported everyone in and knocked the vase over, breaking it.
"Verdona," Lily said with a snide glare. "What a surprise."
Verdona smiled and stuck her hand out, levitating the shards of ceramic off the floor and back into the position of the vase, fixing it instantly.
"Whoa," Gwen said as she and Jen stared in awe.
Verdona removed the hood from her cloak and smiled as she looked towards her. "I don't suppose that your son has the spark either, Lily?"
"No," she said. "Ken's never emitted any of your power and neither has Becky."
"Tea dear? And something sweet for the kids as well?"
Lily only nodded to her and walked off with a sigh to the kitchen as Ken walked in as well from his room and looked down to his family and the old woman in the room who smiled to him as he looked confused.
"...Is there something you're not telling me, Dad?"
"It's been a while, Mom," Frank said as the group sat around the kitchen table and sighed as Ken and Ben took a few cookies and Verdona poured the tea into the cups with her telekinesis.
"It certainly has, dear. In human time," she said before turning to Jen and Gwen. "Sweeties, your grandmother is an Anodite. And so are you two."
"What's an Anodite?" Jen asked.
"Anodites are a race of free spirits with powers that humans can barely comprehend," Verdona explained. "Now, our kind don't often meddle in the affairs of common folk. But I fell deeply in love with Max Tennyson."
'You're not the only one," Ben muttered under his breath, remembering Xylene.
"Yeah, but if that's the case, why did you ditch him?" Allison asked, earning a jab from Becky.
"I didn't. It's just that after Carl and Frank were grown and out of the house, I needed to reconnect with my Anodite heritage on the planet Anodyne. And Max was busy saving the universe with the Plumbers."
"Wait, what?" Jen asked. "He told us that you didn't know that."
"Yes, he didn't want me to worry," Verdona smiled. "But we Anodites are smarter than we look. Sweet man, he was. We had many good years together, but we grew apart overtime. We never did get married. Even a fellow loaded with as much mana as Max is still just a physical being."
"What's mana?" Ken asked.
Verdona then shot out her finger and caused a roll of tape to appear over her oldest grandson's mouth.
"Your grandfather's fate was big news. It even reached my planet. So I came back here to remember the good times. But who knew that there was not one, but two budding Anodites among you? Jennifer, Gwendolyn, you'll be amazed at the things you can do when you're older. Let me teach you two to master life energy. That is what mana is."
Her eyes glowed pink again and the tape disappeared from Ken's mouth and he sighed.
"Oh," Ken said, shrinking back.
"The two of us do want to learn," Gwen said, standing up with Jen.
"Where do we start, Grandma?" Jen asked.
"On Anodyne. Stop living this humdrum life. Come home with me and join the real party."
"Wait, what?" Jen asked as she and Gwen stepped back. "Leave? Uh, this is all so... wow. This is too huge."
"Mom, Dad? What do I do?" Gwen asked.
"I don't know," Frank said as Becky and Ken looked silently from the couch. "It's an opportunity I never had."
"We always hoped that all three of you would only take after my side of the family," Lily said, giving her mother-in-law the stinkeye. "But it seems only your sister and brother had that luck."
"We want you to be happy," Ken said with a nod. "We're not going to stand in your way. Either of you."
Kevin and Allison looked unsure along with Ben and Becky as they turned away.
"You won't?" Jen asked.
"Then it's settled. Come on, kiddos," Verdona said... just as Jen and Gwen turned away and ran upstairs together just as Ben and Becky turned to follow them.
"Let us," Ben said to his grandmother, aunt and uncle. "Jen and I shared the womb together. I'm closer than anyone could be to her."
"Same with me and Gwen," Becky said as they ran upstairs.
"Oh, those two are such serious girls."
Lily glared angrily at Verdona.
Jen and Gwen sat on the roof with a sigh as Jen brushed her Omnitrix.
Kevin and Allison were the first to arrive from the attic as Kevin jabbed Gwen's shoulder.
"You would go on the roof, girl. Some of us can't fly, you know."
"Be supportive, Kevin," Becky said as she sat next to her sister and Ben and Allison sat next to Jen.
"This is not how we wanted our day to go, guys," Gwen said as she brushed her tattooed arm.
"Still, it must be pretty cool to learn about your powers, right?" Ben asked. "Grandma could teach you two to do all that stuff she could do."
"You know we'd be gone for a long time, right, bro?" Jen asked. "You know that the Earth is counting on us. All of us."
"Maybe forever," Kevin sighed, looking up at the stars. "Probably long after we're all gone."
"I've always felt like I was an outsider," Gwen said. "Like I was in the wrong place. But then, I think that that's what high school is all about."
"The four of us are going to miss you two if you go," Ben said.
"Really?" Jen asked.
"Yeah, but we've been recruiting more and more Plumber kids and heroes to our cause. We would still have a pretty powerful team even without you two," Becky said.
"Oh," Gwen said as Jen turned to her cousin.
"Remember when me and Ben were trying to decide whether to use our powers and become the Omni-Twins again, you told us it was our choice," Jen said. "And Azmuth told us that the Omnitrixes are meant to work in tandem with each other. If I leave, I could potentially be dooming the human race to extinction."
"So?"
"I think I'm staying," Jen said. "I can't stop you from doing this, Gwen. But Earth is where I belong. This is my home and it will always be that. I can't abandon it in its time of need. And I'm sure as hell not going to let some alien bloodline dictate who I am."
Becky then turned to Gwen and sighed. "I'll miss you most of all if you go, Gwen. But who knows? Maybe you owe it to yourself to try turning into a cosmic mana master."
"Maybe," Gwen said.
"Girls, this opportunity comes along once in a lifetime," Ben asked.
"What about you, Kevin?" Jen asked. "Do you feel the same way as Ben and Becky?"
"No. Why would you girls even think about it? I want you girls around. This whole thing is lame."
Gwen smiled and then gave Kevin a kiss on the cheek before she and Jen walked off the roof with mana platforms to the ground.
"Lame! Lame! Lame!"
"Shut up, bro," Allison said, jabbing her brother's shoulder. "I think you've convinced them."
"Earth is our home, Gwen," Jen said to her cousin. "But Ben's right. This is such a great opportunity."
"Hmm..." Gwen said with a thought. "I think I have an idea. I love my family and I want to master my powers as well. If I leave here, we get one... but if we can convince Grandma to stay, we could get both."
"Let's do it," Gwen said as they entered the house.
A neon-colored disco ball appeared in the air above Verdona, Frank, Lily and Ken as Verdona danced to familiar music.
"Shag Carpeting," Verdona said. "They were Max's favorite. Why do the most backwards creatures make the best music?"
"Don't you ever complain about my band choices again," Lily whispered to her husband.
"Cheer up, Junior. You didn't have the spark. There was nothing I could teach you."
"You taught me a lot, Mom," Frank said. "You and Dad both. You taught Carl a lot too."
"You know what I mean, kid. I came back when the grandkids were born just in case your babies had the spark. But Ken and Becky had nothing to it. Carl's boy, same thing. But his girl was just oozing with the spark and I could tell it from the day she was born."
"Carl and Sandra had another kid five years ago, you know," Lily said to her. "You could check on her."
"Then I shall in a few days. After I take the girls back home with me."
"Mom, if you can give Jen and Gwen an opportunity we can't, then we're not going to stand in your way. Carl and Sandra will say the same thing."
"Thanks so much for the offer, Grandma," Gwen said as she walked down. "But I think that Jen and I can settle for just being gifted humans."
"We want to stay here with our friends and family," Jen said. "Besides, as you can tell, I'm one of the Omni-Twins. The universe needs the Omnitrixes more than they need another Anodite."
Verdona got a shocked look on her face and she snapped her fingers, causing the music to stop and the disco ball to vanish.
"But you two don't even know what you are. Kiddo, we belong on Anodyne among our kind. Allow me to show you two."
Verdona's entire body let out a violet light and everyone shielded their eyes and saw her skin and cloak fall to the ground, revealing her true form underneath.
Her form was more witch-like with wild pink energy hair, pointed ears glowing pink eyes, and light lavender skin. She is also dressed in a black dress with the area around her feet being a dark lavender along with the belt around her waist. She also has a purple shroud over her shoulders with a black collar and a pink gem on her chest.
"See?" she said, her voice sounding much younger. "Just a disguise. This is what it means to be an Anodite."
"Oh man," Ben whispered as he turned to Jen. "I would flip if I had those powers."
"We'll talk about it soon," Jen whispered back.
"So that's why she always looked so good," Lily said as Verdona shot over to her with surprising speed.
"Mature Anodites are beings of pure energy. We draw life from the mana around us. It makes sense that we are immortal unless killed."
"You gotta admit, that's pretty cool," Becky whispered to Gwen and Jen.
"The pair of you are too young to make up your own minds. Let me help you girls. I'll destroy your physical bodies and free the Anodites inside! It'll be fun. And you'll be able to think. Much more clearly..."
"What?!" Jen shouted. "No way!"
"Destroy?!" Ben and Becky asked in unison.
"Their bodies?!" Kevin and Allison shouted.
"Destroy our bodies?!" Gwen shouted. "You're not serious, Grandma!"
"How do you two know that you'll like something if you don't try it?"
"Grandma Verdona, they said 'no,'" Ben said with a glare as he activated his Omni-Suit and Allison and Becky activated their superhero outfits and Kevin glared.
"Another dance, kids? Okay. But just this once," Verdona said, activating mana spheres around her fists as the others glared as she blasted them out of the wall, creating a massive hole in it as they landed out on the garden.
Jen and Gwen ran out towards the rest of the team as Verdona floated out with a smirk and a giggle.
"Now this is what I call a party!"
She blasted out a mana beam from her hands that created a crater in the ground as the two Anodite hybrids created a forcefield to protect their friends as Lucky Girl blasted out two disks of mana that Verdona swatted away with her mana tendril hair and Omni-Pink adjusted her Omnitrix and slammed the core down to transform into...
"Rockette!" she shouted before she twirled her guitar and sent out a sound wave that blasted Verdona back as she stood up and glared.
"Ooh, a Zepplian. Those aliens know how to party," she said as she glared outwards.
"Nice try, Grandmother," Rockette said in her cheeky British accent, typical of most rock stars. "But we won't get fooled again!"
Gwen stood up and glared as she created two mana disks and started floating on a mana platform.
"Gwen, get back!" Matter Girl shouted.
"Hit the road, Ally!" Gwen glared.
"Huh?" Matter Girl asked as Huntress nodded to the road. "Oh!"
She and Kevin absorbed the stone from the pathway and started tossing rocks at Verdona, causing her to groan outwards as Omni-Green glared and slammed the core down transforming into:
"Spidermonkey!" he hooted. Spidermonkey had four arms, two pairs of green eyes, two legs, three fingers on each hand and three toes on each foot, blue fur over a dark blue center, and a tail with two stripes near the tip. Spidermonkey wore the Omnitrix symbol on his chest.
Gwen created a shield of mana in front of her that Verdona struggled to break through with her hair tendrils and she smirked as Huntress flew in and gave her a drop kick to the ground before she pulled out her spear with a glare.
"Sorry, granny. But I'm not letting you take my sister away!" she shouted as Verdona created her own staff of mana and the two clashed with each other as Verdona smirked and tripped Huntress up with her hair as she smiled.
"Too bad you didn't have the spark, Rebecca. You truly have the gut instinct of a true warrior."
She then flew over as Rockette blasted away with a flaming skull blast from her guitar that hit her full force as she shouted out and flew towards her as Spidermonkey shot out some webbing from his tail and blasted out at his sister, pulling her away from the crazy energy alien.
"Check it out! Hands-free!"
Verdona groaned outwards from the onslaught of rocks as Matter Girl ran in with her hammer hands and shouted out just as Verdona wrapped her prehensile hair around her entire body and tossed her into her brother with a groan.
"Why, Grandma!" Rockette said as said Anodite turned her head to see the twins with Gwen as Spidermonkey created a web net that Rockette pulled back with a large mana ball inside of it. "What big trouble you have!"
He then let loose the ball that hit Verdona hard and caused her to fly backwards into the crater as Frank, Lily and Ken looked on helpless at the fight going on in their yard.
She braced herself with a groan as Gwen fired mana bolts at her and Rockette fired away blasts from the neck of her guitar, blasting her away with a shout.
Becky ran up and kicked up, blasting her away with a high kick and punch to the face, sending her flying back as Gwen ran in and kicked her upwards.
"She's weakening!" she shouted to the others while she flew up, only to be blasted back as Verdona shot upwards and blasted towards Gwen with a shout only for Spidermonkey to punch her in the face and Rockette to swat her away with her guitar.
Spidermonkey then shouted out and tied Verdona up with his webbing from his tail as he smiled. "Spidermonkey's got it covered. Ooh-aah!"
Kevin ran up with a large boulder that he was about to bring down... only for Verdona to give a sad frowny face to him as he looked towards the others.
"Dudes, I don't know if I can pound your grandmother."
"That's okay," Rockette smirked as Spidermonkey smiled.
"We're just teaching her to mind her mana," he chittered.
"Good one, Ben," Verdona chuckled.
Seriously, that sounds like something that Luan would say," Matter Girl said just before they shot towards Verdona and she shot up out of the webbing and shot her hands and tendrils out as everybody noticed a pink mist flowing from the grass and plants around them and into Verdona as Rockette looked away.
"Whoa."
"She's drawing mana from the millions of living things around her!" Gwen realized.
"The grass!" Huntress said.
"The trees!" Kevin shouted.
Verdona smirked down at the Omni-Team as they glared at her.
"I'm really enjoying this!"
She shot her hair tendrils outwards towards Kevin and pounded him into the ground with his own boulder while she manipulated the vines and tree branches around Allison's limbs, tying her up in plants.
"I should get out more often."
She then shot her hair towards the webbing, tying Spidermonkey in his own trap as she looked towards Gwen adn Rockette as she watched her Omnitri time out and she looked at her granddaughters as Becky aimed her bow at her.
"If you want these two, you'll have to go through me."
"That won't be a problem," she said as she shot a mana straightjacket at the wild girl, trapping her in its grip as she squirmed on the ground and she looked towards Gwen and Jen as they stepped back in fear. "No need for a tantrum, sweeties. It'll all be over in a second."
Gwen and Jen blasted out a mana charged ball towards her and she blocked it with a shield as they avoided and Jen prepared her energy blades and blasted towards her with a shout before she only wrapped them up in her hair with a smile.
"One day, you two will learn to create new bodies. Any kind you want..."
"Enough!" Jen shouted as her eyes glowed pink and she gave out a battle cry and a mana surge that caused her to morph into her Anodite form, which now had a more pronounced chest with a dark pink shirt with white outline that revealed her naval, pink shorts with a small pink transparent skirt, short pink gloves and small white boots with a heel.
"Whoa," Allison gasped as Jen shot forwards and gave a blow to her grandmother's chest that sent her skittering back towards the white picket fence with a smile.
"You can already transform, Jennifer. Impressive. I haven't been hit like that in 200 years. Not bad for a youngling," Verdona smirked, wiping her lip.
"Haven't done it in five years," Jen admitted. "Grandma, please. We thought it over and we do want to train with you."
"We do?" Gwen asked as her cousin shot her a death glare, causing her to zip her lip.
"You do?"
"But we also want to live our lives," Jen said to her grandmother Verdona floated back as Gwen joined her. "I have a great boyfriend and amazing friends and family that love me."
"We like fighting monsters and saving the world," Gwen said as Verdona looked down to them with a smile.
"Anodites help tons of people all across the universe. You two can use your new powers however you want after you've mastered them in 60 to 70 years give or take."
"It's more than that, Grandma," Jen said, taking Verdona's hands. "I like music and cheerleading and movies and just being a girl."
"And I like swimming and school and breaking boards with my hands and running and feeling tired afterwards and... kissing boys."
"I mean, come on, Grandma," Jen said. "Remember all those good times you had with Grandpa?"
"Oh, but I was just a kid having my fun. Trust me, kiddos. Grown up parties are so much better."
"We'll find that out eventually," Jen said. "And we would like to see Anodyne one day. But we love our lives here on Earth."
"Grandma Verdona, just admit it. You miss them and you miss your ex-boyfriend too. I mean, it's why you're here."
"Max should've been like us, sweethearts. He had a spark all his own. He was a lot like your Osmosian friends... Curtis and Alejandra."
"Kevin and Allison," Kevin groaned.
"Energy beings talking here."
"No, you're the energy being. We're just part energy beings, but we're still human too," Jen said.
"Maybe I've forgotten what's that's like," Verdona admitted, wrapping them up in her hair and floating them up in the sky. "Still, what I'm offering you two is so much better. Think of the amazing powers you'll have. The things you could do."
"Like we said, we do want to train with you, Grandma. But we want to live our lives down here too. That's why we're making a proposition with you," Gwen said.
"You're making a proposition with me?"
"Yes," Jen said as she took her grandma's hands. "Stay."
"What?" Verdona asked, confused.
"Did I stutter? We want you to stay here on Earth with us. That way, you can train us to use our powers to their full potential, while we get to live our lives too," Jen reasoned as Verdona floated down.
"Humans are interesting creatures to be around," Verdona said as she smiled and hugged her granddaughters as they hugged her back. "I guess I don't have any reason to go back to Anodyne for anything other than my roots. Very well, you two have won me over."
She snapped her fingers, fixing the damage around the entire area as she smiled.
"How did you do that?" Gwen asked, shocked as Jen powered down.
"You'll find out in about 2 years. Maybe sooner," Verdona said, smiling. "I will see you two by the lake Saturday morning. Don't be late."
"We won't be. But promise not to destroy our bodies?"
"Deal."
Verdona smiled. "Oh, and Ben and Becky? Way to stick up for your sisters."
"Thanks, Grandma," Ben said with a smile.
and flew off with a smile into the distance to find a place to live on Earth
"I could get used to living on Earth again," she thought to herself. "My grandchildren clearly love this place. Just like their grandfather."
Jen looked down and saw a flower on the ground where Verdona had left.
"Come on guys," she said as Gwen jabbed her shoulder. "We know where this goes."
The entire group gathered as they laid the flower by the tree on the lake and smiled as Ben turned to his sister and looked concerned.
"Do you think Mom and Dad know about you being... you know. Half-alien?" he asked as Jen sighed.
"I honestly don't know. They don't seem to have any idea of the Omnitrixes or aliens in general. So..." Jen said as she looked to the stars.
Verdona sat down in a clearing by the woods on a rock, generating her human form again, as she looked to see a bright light appear behind her as a portal opened up and saw none other than Princess Celestia walk out with the Scarlett Warrior in tow as she smiled.
"Hello, Verdona," Celestia said as she smiled. "I see you met your granddaughters."
"Princess Celestia," Verdona said, bowing to her. "It is an honor to meet the leader of the Protectors. And my granddaughter's guardian."
"Jen is exceptional," Scarlett said. "There is a real concrete reason why I was assigned to look after her."
"The power and energy she has right now is... unusual for a youngling," Verdona admitted. "Do you think that she's..."
"We don't think," Celestia said. "We know that she's the Master Spark. She has all the signs that we've been searching for the past 15 years since Adaline died."
"Then she will be trained properly to be the Master Spark."
I warned you guys that I got rid of the rules. Name one of these AUs where they decided to have Verdona stay and train Gwen on Earth? You can't. I believe that I'm the first.
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The Gauntlet