At the Omni-Team headquarters, Kevin was experimenting with the same teleporter pad as he placed a banana onto the pad as Gwen crossed her arms with Becky sitting beside her.
"This is a terrible idea," she said.
"Yeah, bro," Ally said. "We don't even know how to work a teleporter pad."
"Ben, Jen, tell Kevin that this is a very bad idea," Becky said. "...Ben? Jen? You guys aren't hiding, are you?"
"No!" Ben said, sticking out from a crate with his sister beside him. "It's just... what if a fly lands on that banana when it teleports and it re-materializes as a deadly banana-fly monster. I just don't want to be standing next to it is all."
"Well, that and the last time we messed around with one of these things, Ben and I got teleported to a desert planet and were almost killed by tons of deadly insects."
"Don't see the big deal, Tennysons. Didn't you two use to be able turn into insects on a dime?"
"That was different!" Ben said.
"Whatever. Here we go," Kevin said as Ally winced and pressed the button, causing electricity to generate from the pad, the banana levitating in place before falling down and exploding, sending molten banana everywhere.
The pad then started sparking electricity as the more sensible people in the group all face-palmed.
"This is not good," Becky said.
"Turn that thing off before it blows us all sky high!" Jen shouted.
"It's too hot!" Kevin shouted at the sparking controls.
"I know someone who can take the heat!" Ben said, transforming into Swampfire and he went to the controls.
They stopped sparking as they saw the teleporter start to spark out of control as Jen gasped in horror at what was happening.
"Open the door!" Swampfire ordered as Jen and Gwen both sent a mana blast outwards that hit the button, causing the door to open.
Swampfire then lifted the teleporter pad off its hinges and tossed it out the door before he gasped.
"Everybody down!"
They all ducked for cover and held their heads down as the teleporter exploded.
After about a minute, everyone slowly got up and looked downwards at the destroyed teleporter.
"Everyone okay?" Ben asked as he turned back.
"Forget that! What about the teleporter pad?!" Kevin asked, running forwards.
"Trust me. Deep down, he's glad we're all alright," Ally said.
"It's totally trashed," Becky examined the destroyed teleporter.
"At least we don't have to worry about any banana-fly monsters," Jen joked, trying to lighten the mood, not helping. "What? Just saying."
"I know a kid who might be able to fix it," Kevin said, standing up.
"So do we," Gwen said. "But she lives all the way in Royal Woods, Michigan. It's almost all the way across the country."
"Fix alien tech?" Ally asked.
"I'm not talking about Lisa Loud, Gwen," Kevin said. "She is clearly only really versatile with human technology. This kid is a total genius with any kind of machinery. It doesn't matter if it's human or alien. I'll bring Cooper over from his lab."
A mental record scratching sound came up in the other's minds as they looked on.
"Cooper? Cooper Daniels?" Ben asked.
"Pasty kid?" Jen asked.
"Blonde?" Becky asked.
"Bad haircut?" Gwen asked.
"Had a big crush on Becky?" Ally asked, raising an eyebrow, shooting a glare and a jab from her friend. "Ow!"
"Sounds like the same guy. But who wouldn't have a crush on Gwen's sister? She's tough as nails."
"Um, her family," Ben reminded him.
"Touche. You know him?"
"Yeah. He helped us with a group of our enemies at the end of our summer vacation," Jen said.
"I heard a little rumor from Lisa a few years ago that she kept in touch with him since they met and work on a lot of projects together over video chat," Becky said.
"You should've told us you knew Cooper," Ben said.
"It didn't exactly come up."
"Really, bro?" Jen asked, walking forwards. "You didn't think that a kid with the ability to manipulate technology would've been any help to us against the DNAliens? And he's a Plumber's kid too. That's our mission, right? Recruit the heroes of the planet so we can save the planet from the Highbreed?"
"It's possible I may know two or three people I haven't told you about, Jen," Kevin said as they filed into the car. "And by the way, if you guys are so smart, why didn't you think of Cooper before?"
"Okay, that's a fair point," Ben said. "Let's go."
"I have our old friends on speed dial," Jen said. "We should go see the Louds soon. We haven't heard from them in about two years, so..."
Later, Kevin drove his car down the road with Gwen in the passenger seat and the others in the back with Allison driving beside him on her motorcycle down... what looked like a rural neighborhood near Bellwood.
"Weird," Jen said. "I don't remember Cooper living so close to Bellwood before."
They parked the car and bike at a house as everyone got out and looked oddly.
"I thought you said we were going to Cooper's lab?" Gwen asked.
"We are," Kevin said and they walked to the door. "So, Becky, excited to see your ex?"
"Zip it, buster," she said as Kevin walked forward, leaving the original five teammates behind. "You had to mention the crush?"
"Probably not in hindsight," Ally whispered.
The team entered the house and looked around before finding the stairway to the basement.
"Why are we breaking in?" Ally asked. "Why couldn't we have just left a message with Cooper's folks?"
"Because Coop never leaves his lab. Never," Kevin emphasized. "Something is seriously wrong here."
They walked down the stairs and then looked for a light.
"Eh," Ben said. "He probably just went out for a-"
The light came on and they found the lab completely vacant with some packs of fries on the desk.
"-smoothie."
"Wow," Gwen said as she picked up a filthy shirt. "He really never leaves the lab."
She then dropped the shirt in disgust as the team looked around the lab.
"Search for signs of a struggle," Kevin suggested.
"This whole place looks like a struggle," Ally said, crossing her arms.
Ben then walked forward... only to step on a stray slice of pizza, which he peeled off in disgust, only to find some kind of ray gun. It then started to spin before firing a beam of light outwards at the monitors, booting them all up and showing a video message, which everyone stopped to look at.
"If anyone finds this recording," Cooper said over the video before the roar of a DNAlien was heard and he started running away, tossing boxes at the DNAlien as it chased him and then slimed his foot to the ground, as more DNAliens walked in and started to grab him by the arms. "No! No!"
And that was when the video cut away.
"There you go," Jen said, crossing her arms. "Signs of a struggle."
"Smart kid," Kevin said. "He left behind a message in a bottle so someone would see what happened to him."
"Gwen, Jen," Becky said. "Can you track Cooper's mana so we can find him?"
"Probably," Gwen said as she and Jen looked around. "His energy resonance is really strong here."
"Of course it is," Jen said. "His fingerprints are all over everything in this room."
The two then focused as their eyes and hands glowed pink and they brought their arms apart before smiling.
"Got him," Gwen said. "We can take us right to Cooper."
"In other words, you guys are attracted to him, just like your sister," Kevin said as Becky glared to him.
"I'm going to shoot an arrow through your butt, you-"
"Okay, that's enough of that," Jen said, catching her cousin in her telekinetic grip, surrounding her with a pink aura as she struggled in midair.
"Hey! Put me down!"
"Can we just go now?" Ally asked, walking through the door.
"Good idea," Ben said as Jen put Becky down and they followed.
After tracking Cooper's mana, the team soon found themselves at-
"Los Soledad?" Ben asked. "Cooper's trail led us here?"
"And it's completely deserted," Becky said.
"Yeah," Ally said. "At least last time we were here, their was a time monster for us to fight."
"I don't get it!" Gwen said. "We did everything right!"
"Well, love is blind," Kevin said. "And apparently, it screws up your powers too."
"Her powers are not screwed up!" Becky shouted. "Are you insinuating that she's jealous because Cooper had a crush on me?"
"Our instincts are telling us that Cooper's definitely nearby. Our instincts are never wrong," Jen said.
"Sorry, guys," Ben said. "But there's nothing here except-"
He then walked through the hole in the wall from before, only to walk through an invisible holographic shield.
"Ben!" Gwen said as they walked to the hole.
"Tennyson?" Kevin asked. "Where-"
Then, Ben's head and arm moved through the forcefield with an excited look on his face.
"You guys have got to see this."
The others then moved through the forcefield again, only to suddenly feel the chill as it started to snow and they started to bundle up from the cold, looking up to see the weather towers overhead and a bunch of DNAliens in front of a ship.
"It's DNAlien day camp," Jen realized.
They saw the DNAliens moving some kind of cases onto hovering devices that they then flew upwards to the three weather towers in the vicinity.
"Three of those weather control towers," Ally said. "This is definitely bad news."
"And whatever it is, Cooper's right in the middle of it," Becky realized.
"The cloaking field is hiding the whole city," Kevin said. "Where on Earth did they get a rig powerful enough to do that?"
That was when the others all looked at him, giving him a "really?" look.
"Right! Cooper built it for them. The only other genius who could've possibly done it is Lisa Loud, but she's not versed in alien technology."
"Everybody down!" Gwen shouted as they all ducked behind the wall as some DNAliens passed by them on their carts.
"With this cloaking shield up, these guys don't have to worry about anyone seeing them build... whatever that thing is," Ben realized, looking up at the giant arch.
"Guys, you still have a lock on Cooper?" Becky asked as Gwen and Jen closed their eyes and reached into their minds, trying to find Cooper.
"He's not far."
"Do you have any spells that will give us cover so we can find him?" Ally asked.
"Not on such short notice," Jen said.
"Then let's roll," Kevin said as the Omni-Team suited up and started moving, sneaking past the DNAliens around the military installation like they were in a Metal Gear game.
They heard a DNAlien talking in his native language as a cart passed by him on either side of them and they ducked down for cover.
The DNAliens heard the rustling of the snow and looked beside the cart to find nothing there before shrugging it off and getting back to work.
The camera panned up to reveal Omni-Pink and Lucky Girl generating mana platforms to hide from the DNAliens from above.
They got back on the ground and started moving towards the building where the girls tracked Cooper down to before ducking inside it with a flourish as they moved forwards.
Matter Girl took Omni-Green, Huntress and Kevin beside her as she opened the door with her backhand and the Anodite hybrids moved in, trying to track Cooper down.
They moved inside the building to see several doors as Lucky Girl's eyes glowed pink and she tried her best to track down the technopath with her cousin by her side.
"Why don't we just yell out 'Hey, Cooper?'" Kevin whispered.
"What, and have four thousand DNAliens crawling up our butts? Good plan!" Becky snapped.
Omni-Pink found the door at the center of the hall and nodded to her brother. "In here!"
Omni-Green nodded and prepared his gloved hand to the switch.
"And if there's four thousand DNAliens behind that door? Good plan?"
"We're not breaking in yet," he said as he adjusted his Omnitrix and slammed it down, transforming into...
"Goop!"
The gelatinous alien then dissolved his body and then oozed underneath the door as Ally nodded to him.
"Cool, but gross."
Goop reformed a tendril with an eye at the end that moved forwards and examined the area within. He saw Cooper using his powers to levitate the pieces of technology on the desk and then bring them together to build his device.
"Careful with those Varsidium pieces, human. They are priceless!"
Cooper said nothing and brought another piece to the assembled one before smirking as the two unleashed a sonic sound that sent the DNAliens into a frenzy before they fell unconscious and hit the ground.
He noticed Goop in the background and gasped as the pieces hit the ground and fell apart, the DNAliens recovering as a result.
"It was just an accident!"
"Clumsy child! You'll pay for that!"
Unfortunately, that was when Goop oozed towards them and glared at them.
"No hitting."
"Intruder!" the guards shouted, baring their weapons.
But before they could do anything, Goop oozed his gelatinous body around them and slammed their heads together, knocking them unconscious.
At that point, two blades suddenly pierced through the metal door and moved all around the frame before retracting as a metal-coated Kevin slammed the door in and sent it flying.
"Calvary's here!" Kevin said, just before noticing the unconscious guards at Goop's feet.
"...Not that you needed it or anything," Kung Fang said, sheathing her swords.
Cooper stepped up and looked at Huntress as she crossed her arms.
"Becky!" he said. "You totally came to my rescue!"
The twins then hit the cores on their chests, transforming back.
"Yeah. Excellent work there, Becky," Omni-Green smirked.
"She's wonderful," Cooper said, love struck.
Matter Girl then grabbed Cooper by the arm and started walking. "Let's go, lover boy."
"You have no chance at me!" Huntress hollered as the group walked off.
The team ran forwards, stomping through the snow before they all hid against the wall of the building to regroup, watching the DNAliens pass by as Cooper came running up, hands on his knees and gasping for breath.
"I *pant* gotta *pant* rest!"
"Have you ever considered getting a treadmill for that lab of yours?" Kevin smirked.
"We can't stay long," Jen said as she took her helmet off. "We have to get outside the shield before the DNAliens realize that Cooper's missing."
Cooper looked up at Becky, lovesick, and she stumbled back, disturbed at his look.
"The way you swarmed in there... just like when Princess Elena rescued me last week from the Caverns of Unforgiving Dismay!"
"Excuse me?" Becky asked.
"In Nations of Conquest, the M.M.O.R.P.G. I play."
"Excuse me?" Becky repeated.
The twins sighed.
"Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game," they chorused, before pounding fists without a look at each other.
"Yeah, Becky," Kevin said. "Your fighting skills being +3 Nerd Bait."
"Guys, this is serious," Ben said, getting between them. "It's the biggest DNAlien plan we've seen yet."
"Yeah," Jen agreed. "As long as that cloaking shield is up, they can work 24/7 without interruption."
"I'm the one they forced to build the cloaking device," Cooper said. "Cutting it down shouldn't be too hard."
"Then that's what we're going to do," Ben said.
"But we've been lucky so far," Gwen said. "Sooner or later, they're bound to sot us."
"That's not gonna be a problem either."
"Because why?" Ally asked, rolling her eyes.
"Well, before I built the big cloaking projector, I built a smaller one first. A prototype."
He then pulled the device out of his pocket, showing it to the Omni-Team.
"The field it generates should be enough to cover all of us... if we squeeze together real tight," Cooper said with a blush.
"Oh, you have got to be kidding me!" Becky said.
"Let me help you out there, Becky," Kevin teased, shoving them together as they all huddled closely.
Cooper then pressed the button, cloaking everybody in an invisibility shield.
"I don't feel invisible," Ben said.
"You're not supposed to feel it," Gwen said. "Just ask Luan or Mylene."
"Follow me," Cooper said, running forwards with the others following him as they ducked out of the way of a DNAlien running forwards on a mine cart.
"Score!" Jen whispered. "Nice work, Cooper. Now let's go find the big one so we can shut it down."
As the team walked forwards and then crossed their arms, Ally walked over to Cooper and Becky and smirked.
"Hey, Coop, think about it," she chuckled. "First the damsel saves you, and now you get to be the knight who saves the day."
"Jealous much, Kevin?" Gwen asked, now playing along.
"I'm not jealous!"
At that point, a DNAlien turned his head to them and they immediately zipped their lips, shutting up as he returned to his business, walking away.
"The cloak keeps us from being seen, not heard!" Ben shushed. "So-"
"Uh-oh," Jen said, noticing the cloaking device start to spark out as their invisibility shield faded away.
"There's always a few bugs with a prototype."
The device fell to the ground and exploded, catching the attention of the DNAliens.
"Who are they?!"
"What are they doing here?"
As the hybrids advanced, everyone looked on, scared, their cover blown. They looked behind them to see them cornered by a wall as the DNAliens advanced on them.
"There's nothing around here for me to touch!" Kevin said, just as they were grabbed by the DNAliens that all roared and took him and Kevin by surprise, restraining them.
"Don't worry!" Ben said. "I'll just-"
That was when he was grabbed too along with Becky and Ally by the snarling minions of the Highbreed.
"No!" Jen said as she was grabbed as well.
Gwen lit her hands up in mana and then tossed some disks to the DNAliens, sending them back as Jen grit her teeth as her eyes glowed pink and she leaned over, and exuded a wave of pink energy from her body, sending tons and tons of the DNAliens flying backwards as they swarmed her and the two Anodite hybrids stood back-to-back, hands coated in mana.
"There's too many of them!" Gwen shouted as the two fired out their mana blasts, sending them back.
"Keep firing, girls!" Becky shouted. "You're our only hope!"
They continued... just as a DNAlien went in from above and tackled them to the ground.
"No!" Kevin shouted.
"Don't hurt them!" Cooper said.
"We're okay," Jen groaned as the DNAliens restrained them.
"That's only because you're worth more to me alive than if I allowed them to tear you limb from limb," said a haunting voice as the Highbreed approached them.
"Now then, you are going back to work for us."
"Forget it! I won't do anything for you!" Cooper shouted, yanking his arm away from his restraining DNAlien.
"You'll do as I say. Or your friends will pay the price."
"Actually, we're not all that close," Kevin remarked as Ally glared and stomped on his foot. "What? Just saying."
"Is that what you want, human? For your friends to pay?" the Highbreed commander asked, running a claw across Becky's face.
"Get your hands off her! I'll do it, I'll do anything!"
"Then get back to work!"
Soon after that, the Omni-Team was tossed onto their butts, landing inside of a darkened cell-like closet as the DNAliens closed the door on them.
"Ow!" Gwen said as Jen focused and lit a ball of mana that she sent into the air, illuminating the room.
"So, now you go Humungousaur or your Anodite form and get us out of here," Ally suggested.
"Not even Humungousaur would last against all those DNAliens at one time," Ben said. "Even Jen at her best couldn't."
"Plus, they'd just use Cooper against us like they used us against him," Gwen realized.
Kevin looked through the peephole of the door and saw the DNAliens walking forwards, carrying equipment.
"That is a lot of guards."
"Kevin,," Jen suggested. "Why don't you touch this piece of, what do they call it, versidium?"
"Okay," Kevin said as he absorbed the versidium. "Why?"
"I'll show you," Ben said as he transformed into...
"Echo Echo!"
That was when Becky looked into the corner and picked up a large mallet lying there and hefted it over her shoulder as Ally knocked on the door and a DNAlien took notice of her.
"Excuse us?" she asked sweetly. "There's no bathroom in here and I really have to go."
The DNAlien unlocked the door as it burst open and the team ran out with Kevin hefting Echo Echo up as Becky handled the mallet like a baseball bat and glared.
"Now, Becky!" Jen shouted, covering her ears with the rest of them as Becky shouted out and whacked Kevin with the mallet with all of her might, causing Kevin to gasp out as the versidium vibrated hard and into Echo Echo, causing his sonic scream to go out harder than usual.
The DNAliens all shouted out in pain and agony, sending them all crashing down to the ground unconscious, letting the team run out the door as Kevin glared at Becky, who dropped the mallet.
"Did you have to hit me so hard?"
"No charge! Now come on!" she said, running forwards with the swarm of DNAliens following them as Kevin turned around and Jen and Gwen nodded to each other and blasted their mana blasts forwards, blasting into Kevin and redid their combo move, knocking all of the DNAliens down.
"Come on!" Gwen said. "Cooper's this way!"
Everyone then ran forwards to the warehouse nearby as Cooper levitated the machine parts up in the air and was about to piece them together... just before a guard whacked him, causing the pieces to all fall down, separating again.
"Faster! You have to make up for the time you lost trying to escape."
It was at that point that the sonic scream reverberated again and knocked the DNAliens unconscious. Cooper looked behind him to see the Omni-Team standing there, smiles plastered on their faces.
"Ready to go?" Echo Echo asked.
"Please say yes," Kevin whimpered.
The team all ran away as Jen activated her Omni-Suit and created her energy shield from her arm, blocking the blasts from the DNAliens' weapons as Becky looked to Cooper and nodded.
"Stay behind me, Cooper!"
She reached into her belt and flicked her bow open, blasting the DNAliens back with her arrows as they all fell down as she glared and Gwen put a forcefield up to protect her.
"Ah," Cooper sighed. "Just like Princess Elena rescuing me from the Caverns of Unforgiving Dismay."
"Stay behind me and don't talk!" Becky shouted.
The DNAliens all ran forwards as Ally ran in and did a sweep-kick on one to knock it down before front-flipping forwards and socking another in the gut and then grabbed another in her hands before she headbutted another, knocking him unconscious... just before she rubbed her head.
"Ow! Okay, headbutting an alien without armor, bad idea."
Kevin then smirked as he pounded down on the DNAliens and then tossed them away before everyone found themselves surrounded by the DNAliens as Gwen put up another forcefield to surround them as Jen looked to her Omnitrix and nodded.
"Get ready to rock, guys," she said as she slammed the core down.
Jen was surrounded in a pink energy sphere as she felt her DNA being rewritten. She curled up as her muscle mass increased. Her skin turned a whitish-grey and her hair turned red and restyled itself into a small mohawk. Her ears pointed out like an elf's with her left one getting a slight chip and skull earrings appeared on them. Her clothes restyled themselves into a pink shirt with sweetheart neckline, a sleeveless black leather studded vest, hot pink leggings with a black and hot pink skirt with two silver chains dangling from the sides, two black spiked wristbands around her wrists, and heavy combat boots with spikes around the ankles. The Omnitrix symbol was on her chest and she stuck out her hand and a red guitar with a pink hourglass symbol on the front appeared and she played a rocking power chord as the transformation ended.
"Rockette!" the Zepplian shouted and she struck a power chord, sending a wave of DNAliens and smirked to herself, swatting their blasts back with her guitar and she stuck her tongue out like Gene Simmons and smiled as Kevin and Allison dodged and knocked the DNAliens back.
"Cooper, how close are we to the big cloaking device?" Kevin asked.
"Just keep heading forward to where they're building that arch?"
"What is that arch for anyway?" Echo Echo asked.
"They wouldn't tell me!"
Cooper gasped as a DNAlien snuck up and it backed up with a glare to the team.
"Stand where you are. Don't move!"
Cooper glared and then slammed the DNAlien in the crotch, causing it to glare and hiss, falling to the ground and Kevin socked it away with a glare.
"One more blast, Gwen" Echo Echo said. "A big one."
"Terrific," Kevin muttered as Rockette spun her guitar pick in her hand and nodded.
"I'll help," she said as she rose her hand in the air and Gwen backflipped over and blasted Kevin with a mana blast, sending the versidium vibrating through him as Echo Echo released his massive sound wave and Rockette shouted out as she released a massive power chord from her guitar that combined with Echo Echo's wave of sound, sending all the DNAliens crashing to the ground.
After the deed was done, everyone ran away towards the alleyway to the massive arch as Kevin dissolved his armor and the twins transformed back to human form.
"This is it!" Cooper said.
"Then do your thing!" Ally ordered.
Cooper nodded and pressed his hand on the arch and then suddenly gasped and the camera shifted into his eye and a massive flood of information and issues involving a swarm of DNAliens, an armada of ships, the Highbreed and even the Earth exploding occurred.
He gasped.
"What's the matter?"
"I... I saw equations, machines, another planet," Cooper panted.
"We'll figure it out later! Crash the cloak!" Jen shouted.
Cooper nodded and then lifted his arms up, his eyes glowing blue, levitating the cloaking device in the air, coloring everyone standing there impressed at the power he possessed, before he made the parts separate themselves from each other and then they all fell to the ground.
Outside, an unassuming truck driver drove down the road, when all of a sudden, the cloak shut down, revealing the weather towers and archway looming voer his head.
"What the?"
As all the pieces fell to the ground, Ben looked on.
"Good. Jen, Gwen?"
"On it," Gwen said as Jen stepped next to her and both their hands glowed pink as they conjured a massive tower of mana from their hands that they then brought down onto the machine parts, destroying them for good.
"That's a mission accomplished," Becky said. "Now all that's left is-"
That was when blaster fire rained down on them and they gasped when they saw the DNAliens approaching.
"-Run, really fast!" Ben finished as everyone ran away to the wall where Kevin's car and Ally's bike were waiting for them.
"We probably should've parked closer to town," Ally said.
"Ya think?" Kevin glared.
They all got into the car and ran off and peeled onto the road, away from Los Soledad as the gunfire rained upon them.
"Should we organize transports for pursuit?" one of the DNAliens asked.
"No," the Highbreed answered. "We do not want to arouse suspicion from the local authorities. The project at hand is too important."
Kevin and Ally drove down the road as Cooper looked out the window, stuffed into the front seat with Ben and Jen as Becky rode on the back of Ally's bike.
"Kevin," Cooper said. 'They're not following us anymore."
"They don't have to," Kevin said. "Who would believe us if we told them what's really going on there?"
"Anyone who checked it out would find what just looked like normal humans anyway," Gwen confirmed.
"Not even we know what's really going on in Los Soledad," Ben said.
"Which means that someday soon, we have to go back," Jen said. "Can we count on you to help, Cooper?"
Cooper looked out the window, staring at Becky on the bike dreamily, stars in his eyes as everyone groaned in disgust.
"Anything you need."
Everyone smiled to Becky as she glared as she glared at them from the bike.
"Don't even," she said in disgust.
"By the way, Cooper," Jen said with a smile and a wink. "You're welcome for the save in the Caverns of Unforgiving Dismay."
"Huh?" Cooper asked as Jen giggled and slapped his back.
...But as soon as she did, she gasped and held her head as it ached and the same series of events that Cooper experienced flashed through her skull, similar to the spells her brother had from time to time, but with the added addition of herself turning into some kind of alien creature with flaming wings and hair, flaming in the background. The visions stopped and she gasped, panting in the seat as the others looked to her.
"Jen? Jen! What's wrong?" Ben asked as Jen gulped and shook her head.
"It's nothing. Just keep driving," she lied as they drove down the road.
A few hours later after the truck driver reported what he found to the sheriff, he went over the notes with construction workers that were obviously the Highbreed and DNAliens in disguise outside of Los Soledad, which had no snow and no visible weather towers and
"Well, deed to the land, construction permits, everything looks ship-shape," the sheriff said.
"I swear, one second it looked like there was nothin'," the truck driver said. "And then the next-"
"Must be the heat playing tricks on you," a "construction worker" said. "We've been out here for months."
"Still don't know who'd want to build a mall all the way out here," the sheriff said, handing the permits back to the lead "worker."
"Oh, our company's very forward thinking, sheriff. Trust me, someday very soon, this will be where everything's happening."
"Huh. Alright then. Sorry to bother you," the sheriff then took his leave and the truck driver drove off.
In the squad car, the sheriff wrote down the notes on his pad as the lead "worker" walked up to his door and waved him off as he drove away before he and the DNAliens shed their ID masks and threw them to the ground.
"Continue to work. The time at cleansing is nearly at hand."
They walked back in as the camera panned up to reveal the massive archway.
Jen was tossing and turning in her bed over what she experienced from Cooper, seeing the massive invasion that may have been incoming towards them as she began to sweat before the nightmare suddenly shifted over to her curling up before she transformed in a plume of massive magenta fire before she woke up screaming in a cold sweat, panting hard as she looked around to see everything was normal before she threw her blanket off and then slipped her feet into her fuzzy bunny slippers at the end of the room and walked over to the hallway to her brother's room at the opposite end before she walked over.
"Ben, Ben, wake up," Jen said as Ben groaned and sat up.
"Wha-"
"I just had the worst nightmare ever," Jen said. "It involved a massive invasion of the DNAliens and the Highbreed and the Earth exploding! And then, I changed into this strange phoenix-like creature. It was so-"
"Jen," Ben said as he took her by the shoulders and took her into a hug as she buried her face into his chin, close to tears. "I know what you're going through. That wasn't a nightmare that you had."
"It wasn't?"
"No. It was a vision," Ben said. "I've had similar visions before, though very rarely. One of them involved you transforming into the creature like that. I don't know what it is, but I think it may have to do with why the Protectors are so interested in you."
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Because I didn't know if it would come true. But after my vision of what happened to Grandpa Max did, I didn't want to tell you until it was time. I guess this was it."
"You have these... precognitive visions too?" Jen asked.
"Not often, but it happens. It was told to me by some interdimensional traveler called The Watcher. He doesn't really fight anyone or participate in battle. He's just an observer."
"But if these are visions of the future, then that means they're not set in stone, right?"
"Maybe," Ben suggested with a shrug. "Or maybe the future isn't what it looks like from first glance."
As the twins talked, The Watcher smiled, his cape waving in the wind as he shook his head.
"Oh, young Jennifer. You truly have no idea what fate has in store for you, do you?"
Little did he know that nearby on another building, Scarlett was watching as well with her golden blonde locks waving in the wind as well.
"But it's coming soon. Very soon, my child," she said as she looked at the enchantlet around her wrist and then put it to her heart with a sigh. "Whatever happens, I promise that I will not let you guys down... Not again."
Next time on Ben and Jen 10: Alien Force
Kindred Shadows