A battle was going on in an abandoned warehouse as the Omni-Twins dived behind some crates to avoid the explosives claws from a Highbreed commander as Huntress leaped off of one of her sister's mana platforms and then shot an arrow outwards towards the Highbreed, which prompted him to simply grab her arrow and snap it in two.
An energy blast shot out as the Highbreed looked over to see Lucky Girl advancing towards him and he blasted out his claws, which exploded against a beam.
"It's trying to run!" Lucky Girl shouted. "Kevin, Ally, cut if off!"
"On it!" Matter Girl said as Kevin leaped from the top row off a crate and onto the Highbreed's back as he struggled in his grip, only for him to simply toss him off of him into his sister with a shout of effort.
"We've got it covered!" Omni-Green said as he and his sister leaped up and transformed into...
"Echo Echo!"
"Discharge!"
Echo-Echo multiplied himself into 20 clones and they all ran surrounded the Highbreed as he pounded down on the ground, trying to leap away and landed behind Kevin with a glare, only for a flash of lightning to materialize into Discharge behind him as she smirked.
"Hey, Highbreed," she said as the Highbreed swiped at her with his strong claws, only for her to dissolve into static before materializing again and then she generated a powerful ball of lightning that she zapped at the Highbreed with a shout of effort as he cried out from the effort.
Matter Girl nodded and then shouted out as she absorbed the concrete from her ball bearing and then delivered a strong uppercut to him as Kevin ran up and gave a strong kick after absorbing the wood from the crates, sending the Highbreed flying back in a daze.
"Nice going, Mr. 'We've got it covered!'" Kevin shouted.
"Hey, we're all over it," Echo Echo said as his clones all leaped towards the Highbreed and tackled him into a crate, destroying it and sending him crashing to the ground.
"Don't touch me, creature!"
He then looked up and saw the teleporter from Los Soledad.
"Don't let him get in that thing!" Matter Girl shouted. "It's a teleporter pod!"
Kevin then shouted out and then pulled a rock from the ground and tossed it at the Highbreed, only for it to miss and hit the pod, activating it and zapping the Highbreed and Echo Echo as a portal opened.
"You've damaged the transmission field!" the Highbreed shouted as he and the Echo Echos were all sucked into the portal.
"NO!" Discharge shouted as she dissolved into electricity and then zapped herself into the portal at lightning speed just as it closed behind her, leaving their teammates in the warehouse alone.
"Ben! Jen!" Huntress shouted. "No!"
Soon after, on a distant desert planet far from Earth, the Echo Echoes all hit the ground with a groan as Discharge appeared from the portal in a flash of lightning as she glared, static dancing off of her lightning-blue pores as her tail lashed as she charged forwards as the Highbreed grabbed her tail and tossed her into her cloned brother, sending them crashing down.
"Ow," she said.
"Microcephalic vermin-ridden carcasses!"
"That was an insult, right?" Discharge asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Your friend interfered with the teleporter settings.
"Well, to be fair, we were a little distracted," an Echo Echo said.
"What with you trying to kill us and all," another Echo Echo stated.
"That's right. I was," the Highbreed said. "In fact, I still am!"
The Highbreed shouted out and then leaped forwards as the Echo Echos jumped out of the way and Discharge zapped herself forwards and blasted the Highbreed with lightning as the Echo Echoes blasted forwards with a sonic scream that blew the Highbreed backwards as he glared at the heroes... only to suddenly feel a rumble as the twins felt it too as they started losing their footing.
"Was that an Earthquake?" Discharge asked.
Everyone then looked down as a large red sand worm burst forth out of the ground and gnashed at them with its large teeth and the screen split into three as everyone shouted out in fear.
"Hit the dirt!" the Highbreed shouted as they fell forwards as Echo Echo was gotten by the worm's teeth.
"Whoa!" he shouted. "Gonna need some back up!"
He split himself into five clones as they all crawled along the worms' front to get on its large back as Discharge ran forwards before groaning out as she dissolved her entire body int blue electricity and zapped herself onto the worm's back.
"Okay," she said. "Let's give it a shot."
The Echo Echos then all leaped off of the worm before letting out a combined sonic scream, sending the worm off of its path as Discharge generated static by rubbing her hands together and she shouted out as she sent a large blast of lightning forwards that shocked the worm hard and it burrowed back into the ground.
After spending a lot of energy, the twins panted heavily as they hit their knees... just as the worm re-emerged and they all gasped in horror before it scooped up an Echo Echo clone, causing him to vanish into its maw before spitting him out in disgust before turning it's attention to the Highbreed, who was running away.
"Highbreed, look out!" Echo Echo shouted.
The Highbreed turned and fired its explosive claws doing diddly squat to the monster as it continued to charge forwards with a roar as an Echo Echo leaped on top of its back and then let loose his sonic scream from his maw as Discharge looked up before she dissolved her entire form into electricity and zapped herself all around the space worm's form and the worm shouted out in anger as the Highbreed tried his explosive claws again, which battered against the worm's form, causing it to burrow back into the ground and crawl away from the assembled party, causing the Echo Echo to fall on his butt as Discharge resolved her form again in a bright flash as she gt int a three-point stance before standing up and brushing herself off.
"What was that thing?" she asked.
"A Dravek," the Highbreed explained, panting heavily. "Its kind is numerous on this planet. In this planet."
"Then we'd better get off this planet before any more of them show up," Echo Echo said as he and his sister walked off, leaving the Highbreed looking back.
"We?"
"Yes, we," Discharge said, looking back. "You couldn't defeat that thing alone and neither could we. If more of those things pop out, then none of us have any hope of getting off this planet alive unless we work together."
"You know we're right," Echo Echo said, crossing his arms.
"I know no such thing."
"We don't like this any more than you do," Discharge said as she and Echo Echo walked away and looked off into the distance.
"So how do we get off this planet, wherever it's called?"
"We are on Turrawuste," the Highbreed explained. "A desert world useful only as a teleporter relay station."
"So how come we didn't beam into the planet's teleporter?"
"The damage to the pod must have temporarily shifted the focusing access."
"Can you fix it?"
"If we find the teleporter pod station on this planet, we won't need to fix it. Simply avoid hitting it with a rock while it's activated."
"Okay. Where is it then?"
"Impossible to tell."
"Impossible for you maybe," Echo Echo said as he crawled onto a rock and then shouted out his sonic scream, activating his echolocation that relayed the information of the area back to him. "That way."
"If I was Kung Fang right now, I could do the same thing," Discharge said.
"It's going to take a day or so to get there on foot. Let's go," Echo Echo said as he and his sister ran off with the Highbreed looking on.
"Come on!" Discharge said. "The sooner we get moving, the sooner we get home!"
The Highbreed then looked to see Echo Echo scratching at his butt and then glared.
"Your kind disgusts me..."
"Huh? What did you say?"
"I will not allow such filthy creatures to spend a moment longer in my presence."
The Highbreed then turned and walked int the other direction.
"He creeps you out?" Discharge asked with a glare as she and Echo Echo adjusted their Omnitrixes and slammed the cores. "We can take care of that."
The two then transformed back to human form in a flash of green and pink light.
"See? We're really just plain old humans," Ben said.
"That is even worse! I shall traverse to the teleporter alone."
The Highbreed turned and walked away as Jen started to involuntarily twitch in anger... just as they heard the ground rumble again. A signal to another Dravek approaching.
"Yeah, no," she said, crossing her arms.
"We have to watch each other's backs. We don't want any more Draveks to show up on top of us... or under us," Ben said as the Highbreed turned away. "Now what?"
"If I am forced to travel with you two, then you must keep ten paces behind me at all times."
"But we're the ones who know the way," Ben said.
"Ten paces."
"Fine. Whatever," Jen said with a groan. "Let's just keep moving."
They then started walking towards the teleporter, preparing for a long journey.
Later, the group groaned outwards as Ben had taken off his jacket and tied it around his waist due to the heat and Jen tugged at her shirt, starting to feel the sweltering heat.
"Is this hot enough for you?" Ben asked.
"Yes."
"No," Jen said. "We weren't really asking, see. It's just an Earth expression. It means it's really hot out here."
"It is obviously hot. I do not see the point in reiterating what the three of us already know."
"Makes me glad I didn't say 'It's not the heat, it's the humidity.'"
"There is no humidity. It is, in fact, the heat!" the Highbreed snapped.
"We know!" Jen said. "Just trying to make conversation."
That was when they both saw the Highbreed groan outwards, collapsing to his knees, causing the twins to run up in concern.
"Do not lay your hands on me, vile thing!"
Ben then handed his jacket to the Highbreed.
"Here, you can use it to keep the sun off your head."
"I do not take charity from vermin. I merely... require a moment's rest."
Jen then looked to see the Highbreed start to shrivel up.
"Rest isn't going to cut it. You're already dehydrated," she said.
"The one true species thrives in a much cooler climate than this."
"Hey, humans prefer it colder than this too, but you're practically wasting away here. I've got something that can help all of us beat the heat."
Ben then adjusted his Omnitrix before slamming it down and transforming into...
"Big Chill!"
He then breathed his super-cold breath onto the Highbreed, who then protested against his efforts.
"Desist! Stop that this instant!"
"Why?" Jen asked.
"I did not request your assistance."
"We know. Chill, dude. He, see what I did there?"
"I do not."
"Humor's not a big thing on your planet, is it?" Jen asked before she looked over and raised her eyebrow. "Hey, what's that?"
They looked to see a crater in the sand with some water in it.
"Water!"
"Your powers of deduction are truly staggering."
"Oh, so you do know humor," Big Chill said.
"I'm getting a drink. I'll bring some back for you two."
She then walked over to the water hole and used her telekinesis to bring up some water, sipping it to her lips
Big Chill's eyes widened as he saw that four large black teeth appeared around his sister. "Jen, look out!"
Jen gasped before she pressed her Omnitrix and then slammed the core down to transform into...
"AeroForce!" she shouted before she burst out of the path of the Dravek's maw as fast as she could and then Big Chill flew to her and phased through the Dravek's mouth with his intangibility freezing it from the inside out. "It was a trap."
"Gullible prey can often be lured with the right bait. Many predators can use this to their advantage," the Highbreed explained.
The twins looked over their shoulders to see the Dravek start to break out of the ice.
"It's getting loose," Big Chill observed. "Let's get out of here."
"The pair of you cannot issue commands to me!" the Highbreed shouted. "None will. Lesser beings do my bidding."
That was when the Dravek broke loose of the ice that was restraining it.
"And I bid you two to fight!"
"With pleasure! You do the same!" AeroForce shouted before blasting herself forwards, kicking up sand and dust everywhere, blinding the Dravek as her brother went intangible and phased through its maw, freezing it again as AeroForce sent a small cyclone forwards that sent the Dravek flying back with a groan.
"I don't know how much longer we can keep this up," Big Chill said.
"Follow my lead," the Highbreed ordered.
"And do what?"
"Freeze it!"
"Um, already tried that."
"From inside! Keep him frozen until I say otherwise."
"You'd better be right about this."
Big Chill reared himself up and flew through the predatorial beast, freezing it completely as AerForce flew upwards with a glare.
"Now!"
Big Chill then flew out of the Dravek and then the Highbreed blasted his claws forwards into its frozen head, exploding outwards and destroying the creature, sending debris flying forwards.
"Oh yeah."
The Highbreed then groaned out in pain before falling to his knees and trembled.
"Are you alright?" AeroForce asked.
"Don't you dare! Leave me be. Now that the danger has passed, I can locate water myself."
His chest cavity then opened upwards, revealing red fleshy insides and he stuck out two tendrils from his chest into the ground, much to the twins' disgust.
"That is so wrong."
"There is water below the sand if one looks deeply enough."
He then focused, digging his tendrils deeper before finally finding what he was looking for beneath the surface.
"There."
"I didn't know Highbreeds were some kind of plant creatures," Big Chill said.
"The Highbreed is not 'some kind' of anything. We are the only kind."
The Highbreed then retracted his tentacles and then water started flowing from the sand.
At sunset, the twins had just finished hydrating themselves up as Ben and Jen followed the Highbreed to the cliff... just when they heard some rustling in the sand adn they looked to each other, concerned.
"Did you hear something?" Jen asked.
"I heard nothing, humans. Except you... which is the same as nothing."
"Whatever," Ben said as the pair followed him, completely unaware of the insects that were frming underneath the sand. Soon after, an entire swarm of sand insects appeared and started crawling after them.
"I believe that I am beginning to grasp your concept of humor."
Soon enough, the three heard and felt a massive rumbling beneath their feet and looked behind them.
"More Draveks underground?" Ben asked.
"Worse."
"What could be worse than-"
Jen stopped herself as she looked behind her and gasped as she saw the swarm of alien sand bugs approach.
"Dasypodidae."
"They're so small. How could these guys possibly be worse than Draveks?" Ben asked.
His thoughts fell on deaf ears as the Dasypodidae started crawling all over him, his sister and the Highbreed and started biting down, causing them all to yelp out in pain from the bites and fell to the ground as Jen shouted out and let loose a surge of mana from her body that sent the bugs off of her as she slammed her core down and transformed into...
"Firefox!"
Ben wrestled his hand out of the bugs and transformed into...
"Swampfire!"
The two then sent their fireballs at the Dasypodidae, killing a ton of them as Swampfire looked over to the Highbreed.
"This will only take a second."
That was when the three looked upwards to the hills and saw the immense size of the swarm.
"Did I say a second? Make that an hour."
They then ran out of the attack formation, the Dasypodidae crawling all over the Highbreed as Firefox looked over to him.
"Highbreed! This way!"
The Highbreed followed them up the cliffside as the twins sent a dual fire blast to the rock by them, sending it loose from its formation and hurtling downwards towards the sand bugs, crushing them all.
Unfortunately, the Highbreed was almost swept away by the sand fall as Firefox ran over and looked to him.
"Highbreed! Grab my tail!" she shouted, sticking her tail out to him as he grabbed onto it, causing her to wince in slight pain as the Highbreed lifted himself with Swampfire helping him back up onto the rock.
"You're welcome."
"How dare you-filthy... unhand me!"
He then shoved Firefox off of him as she glared, waving her tail as Swampfire looked after him.
"What is wrong with you?" Swampfire asked. "You don't like the creatures we turn into, we get it. But come on! We just saved your life!"
"Yeah, cut us aliens some slack once in awhile, mate!" Firefox said.
The Highbreed said nothing and they continued back on the trail as they saw the moon high up in the sky.
"Ten paces behind," Swampfire grumbled as they continued moving.
"We'll show him ten paces behind," Firefox growled as she lit a flame in her clawed finger as she stopped. "This is as good a place as any to set up camp for the night."
"No. We shall walk through the night."
"No. We shall camp here for the night!" Swampfire snapped.
"I would not use such an insolent tone with me, lesser creature."
"Oh really?" Swampfire asked.
"You have not yet dealt with me at my full strength. See how the cool night air has come to restore me?"
"Yeah..." Firefox said. "We noticed..."
"I shall carry on from here. On my own."
"Alright. Go then. We're setting up camp," Swampfire said as the two started gathering some nearby sticks.
"You two have outlived your usefulness to me."
"So have you," Firefox scoffed.
That was when they heard the familiar growling of the Draveks underneath the surface.
"We shall camp here for the night," the Highbreed caved.
After setting up a campfire, Ben and Jen transformed back to human form and sat around the fire to keep themselves warm.
"Pull up a boulder. Sit down," Ben suggested.
"So your infernal pit can deplete me of my strength? I will not."
"It's just a campfire, dude," Jen said. "It's an Earth tradition. You sit around it and, you know, talk."
"To you two? For what conceivable purpose?"
"My name is Ben. Ben Tennyson."
"And I'm his twin sister Jen. What's yours?"
"I am called Reinrassig III, seventh son of the Noble Highbreed House of Deralla, direct descendant of the Pure-Blooded High Order of Rarsect. Heir to the-"
"Too long," Ben said. "We're gonna call you Reiny."
"That is disrespectful, Ben Ben Tennyson."
"Weird," Jen said, adjusting the fire so it blazed brighter. "Despite the fact that we don't trust you as far as Humungousaur or Titanosaurus can throw you, it's still cool that the three of us have managed to work together to survive."
"I mean, we may not be friends exactly, but we're not full-blown mortal enemies anymore either," Ben said.
"The pair of you and I are enemies."
"Come on, Reiny," Jen said. "We've been able to see past our differences. Probably because we know what it's like to be... well, not a Highbreed exactly, but a whole bunch of other alien life forms kind of like you."
"Thanks to the Omnitrixes, we can walk a mile in other life forms' shoes," Ben said. "That way, we can totally understand what it's like to be them. Because we sort of have been."
"Such presumption. But what else is to be expected from genetically inferior creatures?"
"What is that supposed to mean?" Jen asked.
"Why would I, a Highbreed, be slightly interested in befriending the revolting likes of you?"
"Hey, we're just trying to be nice. Find some common ground here."
"The two of you and I are more than mere enemies. Highbreeds were the very first race in the entire universe. All species since, other than pure-blooded Highbreeds, are nothing but mongrels. Hideous abominations of nature! Especially humans!"
"I'm only half-human," Jen said, crossing her arms.
"And half of nothing is still nothing," Reiny spat. "The moment I no longer have to rely on you two for my own protection, Ben and Jen Tennyson, I shall eradicate the both of you and there will be two less vermin infesting a grateful universe."
"You can't really believe all that," Ben said. "Not after everything we've been through. Not after the way we saved your life."
"Well, you were trying to kill me," Reiny spat.
"Fair enough point," Jen admitted.
"The pair of you are tired, human. I will take the first watch."
"No way," Ben said. "The two of us are wide awake."
"Get some sleep, Reiny. We'll take the first watch."
"Very well."
A few hours later, when the Highbreed was taking a watch, Ben slept soundly against a rock as Jen as Rockette played "You and Me" by Lifehouse with a sigh as Reiny looked over to her.
"As disgusting as Zepplians are, they do have an amazing gift for music," Reiny admitted as Rockette dozed off and fell asleep, transforming back as Jen rested her head on her brother's lap as Reiny looked over to them and then walked over silently, raising his claw upwards as Ben's eyes fluttered open.
He shouted out, startling his sister awake as Reiny shot his claws out at a lone Dasypodidae that was looming towards the twins and pounced, hitting the ground.
Ben prepared his Omnitrix as Jen readied her mana as Reiny brought his hand down on the space maggot creature... just as the Dasypodidae immediately shot up and bit down on the Highbreed's hand, shouting out in pain as the twins stumbled back in horror at the sight as Jen blasted her mana at the space bug, sending it flying away as the hand landed on the ground.
"Can you regenerate it?" Ben asked.
"I am not a lowly homo-palustris!" Reiny spat.
"But it can be healed, right?" Jen asked.
"Not from such an injury as this. Not in these conditions!"
The twins looked over to each other and then nodded as Ben readied his Omnitrix.
He then transformed into Swampfire and took the bleeding hand as Jen walked over and then placed her hands outwards, enveloping the Highbreed's arm stump inside a mana sphere as Swampfire walked over.
"You sure about this sis?" Swampfire asked.
"No. I've never done anything like this before," Jen said. "I've healed with my mana before but nothing like this."
Swampfire then approached Reiny and placed the severed hand on the arm surrounded by Jen's mana as his vines wrapped around the arm before securing into place as Jen let go and Swampfire smiled before changing back.
"Better?"
"Why would you two help me?" Reiny asked, confused.
"Why would you help vermin like us?" Jen asked.
"It was in my own interest to stop that creature from harming you."
"Yeah? Well, it's in our own interest to help anybody who needs it," Ben said. "That's what heroes do."
Later, Ben and Jen stood over the fire as Ben adjusted the firewood with a stick as Jen yawned with a sigh... just before they felt the ground shaking hard as the twins hugged each other in fear from what happened and closed their eyes from the shaking as Reiny looked over to them as he blasted his claws outwards to the fire... just as the shaking stopped.
The twins then let each other go, peeking their eyes open before jumping back in disgust and brushed themselves off... right as a Dravek burst out of the ground and roared at them, sending burning wood everywhere as the twins screamed outwards as Reiny ran forwards and avoided its strikes as he blasted his claws out and the twins activated their Omni-Suits.
Reiny ran away before he was suddenly scooped up by the Dravek, leaving him dangling over its maw as he closed his eyes.
"Tennysons!"
Ben grabbed a flaming piece of wood and ran forwards, as his sister lifted him up on her mana platforms and they landed on the creature's back and looked as Reiny was about to fall into it's maw as Jen looked on as her brother crawled over to the front as she nodded.
"Now, Ben!"
Ben then tossed the torch into the Dravek's mouth and looked on as the inside of the Dravek was set on fire as the twins grabbed Reiny as the Dravek let him go and then it spat the fireball out of its mouth before looking to them with an angry glare before burrowing back into the ground.
"Maybe you were right," Ben said. "Maybe we should walk at night."
"Agreed," Jen sighed as they walked forwards back onto the path as Reiny followed them.
"Thanks for helping us back there, again," Ben said. "This is a huge thing to us, Reiny."
"This is proof that maybe underneath that exterior, Highbreeds aren't really so bad," Jen said. "Despite those terrible things about us you may have said before, you really do want to try to be friends with humans."
Reiny stopped and said nothing as the twins continued on the path.
At sunrise, the twins had finally managed to make it to the teleporter relay before they gasped and ran over in anticipation.
"There it is! Come on!" Ben said as they ran forwards... only to see that Reiny wasn't following them anymore.
"Not the whole 'ten paces behind' thing behind," Jen said with a sigh.
"Go home, Ben and Jen Tennyson. I shall remain here."
"What?!" Ben and Jen gasped.
"Did you hit your head when the Dravek attacked or something?" Ben asked. "The teleporter's right there. We can finally get off this sand trap of doom and back to our lives."
"I have spent too long with the pair of you and have therefore myself become contaminated."
"Contaminated?" Jen asked, slightly offended.
"As evidenced by my uncharacteristic behavior, risking my own life to save yours, two lowly humans."
"Reiny, what you did was a good thing," Ben said.
"I have obviously become infected by your mongrel influence and am now myself unclean."
"Even if we believed that was true, why remain here on Turrawuste?" Jen asked.
"In self-imposed exile, as I should be. For I can never return home. Or anywhere. I could infect the rest of my kind. The only honorable choice is to remain here."
"No."
"Because all lesser beings other than pure unadulterated Highbreeds must be expunged from the universe... including myself."
"I thought we had gotten through to you," Ben said. "I thought you had changed."
"This much is true. I Have changed. And now, I must pay the price."
Ben and Jen sighed in disappointment as they walked towards the teleporter.
Inside the warehouse, the others looked on as Kevin worked on the teleporter and sighed.
"Everything looks like it's in the proper position, but I can't make it work."
"You have to fix it Kevin," Gwen said. "We have to find-"
"Wait," Becky interrupted as they looked over and saw the teleport activate as the twins leaped out of the portal as it closed behind them and sighed, dusting the sand off their clothes.
"Ben! Jen!" Allison shouted as the group ran over and hugged the twins and Kevin rubbed Ben's head playfully.
"You gave us a big scare there."
"Where's the Highbreed?" Gwen asked. "Did he get away?"
"I doubt it," Ben said with a sigh as he and Jen bowed their heads.
Reiny looked on at the teleporter before sighing and walking away, hearing the roar of the Draveks in the distance with a glare.
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Good Copy, Bad Copy