Late at night in Bellwood, Carl and Sandra Tennyson, Ben and Jen's parents, were driving down the road in their minivan with a satisfied smile at how well their kids were doing at school, at home, everything.
"They're such good kids," Sandra said to her husband.
"Ben and Jen Tennyson are not good kids," Carl fired back. "They're great kids! I don't know if it's bad karma to pat ourselves on the back, Sandra. But we've done a pretty good job as parents. And we haven't done so bad with Emma either."
"Well, we haven't stifled them. Allowing our twin children to explore the wholeness of their entire being-"
That was before a loud explosion sounded out and Sandra gasped as she pulled the van over to the side of the road and put in in park as she and her husband looked at the debris... just before a large hulking figure walked out to reveal himself as the Highbreed Commander and he glared at them intently as he was suddenly blasted by a ton of mana bolts and then Huntress ran in and slammed him with her spear with a shout.
Carl took Sandra's hand and they ran away into an alleyway, just as they noticed two figures in green and pink clothing running towards the Highbreed Commander with a determined look upon their faces.
"Hey, kids! You're going the wrong... huh?" Carl asked as he suddenly recognized the two kids.
"Ben? Jen?"
The married couple then turned to shout to their kids.
"Ben! Jen! Stop!" Carl shouted.
"Wait!" Sandra shouted as they ducked for the alleyway when a boulder dropped in front of them.
The twins ran towards the Highbreed with a shout as he threw a car at Kevin and Matter Girl as the latter sliced it with the car. They nodded to each other and slammed their cores, transforming into...
"Swampfire!"
"Crystagirl!"
"...Ben? Jen?" Sandra asked, confused.
"I grow weary of your pathetic human interference," the Highbreed said.
He picked up a nearby streetlight and attempted to bring it down on our heroes, before it was suddenly sliced apart with a pink crystal and he was struck with a fireball that hit him down as he looked to see the Methanosian and the Ephedian charge towards him and delivered a dual flying kick to his chest, knocking him down hard.
"You guys okay?" Crystagirl asked, cracking her knuckles.
"That's... Ben and Jen?" Carl asked.
"Nice to see you guys," Kevin said. "You two working flex hours now?"
"Kids! Look out!" Sandra shouted.
"Huh?" Swampfire asked as he was suddenly struck by the Highbreed, sending him crashing down as Crystagirl gasped as he grabbed her leg and threw her towards her brother, but not before she blasted back with a magic laser from her hands that blasted into him as she crashed down.
"Ouch."
"Ben! Jen!" Sandra shouted, worried.
"Ugh," the twins said in the crater as the Highbreed loomed over them.
"No final words, Tennysons?" the Highbreed Commander asked. "Still reeling from the augmented power of my new form, no doubt.
He brought his foot up to them before a throat cleared.
"If you're saying you're uglier, you get no argument here!"
He turned around to see Matter Girl glaring as Kevin glared beside her.
"I defeated those troublesome Tennyson twins. What chance does the likes of you stand?"
"Us? Not much. But them?"
The camera panned to show Lucky Girl and Huntress running upwards on mana platforms as Huntress leaped to a building and Lucky Girl fired a swipe of mana that separated a chunk of the building from its foundation and Huntress pried it apart with her spear, sending the concrete chunk crashing down on the Highbreed as the sisters leaped to the ground.
A few minutes passed and the Highbreed flew upwards, using his moth-like wings from the folds on his back and glared as the Omni-Twins glared after him as they recovered.
"You've already wasted far too much of my valuable time. I'll deal with you at my leisure."
That was when he flew off into the distance, leaving everyone alone.
"Kevin! The twins are still hurt," Lucky Girl said as she and Ally helped them up as they transformed back, a massive black eye now on Ben's right eye.
Kevin started to laugh as the twins glared at him.
"Aw man!"
"What?"
"The Highbreed gave you a black eye. I like him better already!" Kevin said as his sister slapped him upside the head. "Ow! Sorry!"
"Are you two alright," Huntress asked.
"Yeah. We're fine," Jen said as she rubbed her back. "Man, that smarts."
"We just want to know where the Highbreed went," Ben said. "And what he's up to."
"He went that way," Matter Girl pointed.
"The waterfront," Jen realized.
"And he looked like a man on a mission too," Lucky Girl said.
"Guys, we'll meet at the wharf after dinner and homework," Ben said.
"Should I floss too?" Kevin joked, earning him a little chuckle from the girls.
"Guys, your parents are going to freak out when they see that eye," Huntress said. "How are you going to explain it to them?"
"Nothing to worry about," Jen said, winking to her brother.
"Our parents believe anything we tell them. We've got this covered."
"Mom! Dad! We're home!" Jen called as she and Ben walked through the door, contentedly.
"What's for dinner?" Ben asked, only for the twins to see their parents looming over them sternly. "What's up?"
"Where have you been, young man and young lady?" Sandra asked.
"We were at the movies," Jen lied. "With Justin and Julie."
"I know we should've told you first. Sorry, we-"
"Oh my goodness!" Sandra gasped. "Carl, look at Ben's eye!"
"That's a real shiner."
"If that was another three inches higher you could've put your eye out!"
"Fine!" Ben said. "I admit it. I got into a little bit of a fight at school. It's no big deal."
"There was this jerk at school that I helped him out with and..." Jen started.
"Ben, Jen," Carl said, leaning down to them. "Are you sure it was a kid at school and not... a giant alien creature?!"
That was when Ben and Jen gasped harshly, their jaws practically on the floor and their eyes as wide as dinner plates. They had been found out!
"I think they may be on to us..." Ben whispered to his sister through gritted teeth.
"Ya think!?" Jen snapped back in a whisper, also through gritted teeth.
"I can't believe it!" Sandra scolded. "The pair of you look us straight in the eye and lie to us over and over again."
"We saw you guys, Ben and Jen," Carl scolded his twin son and daughter. "We saw you turn into those things. You two are the Omni-Twins!"
"No!" Jen said in a nervous smile, shaking her hands. "You just think you saw!"
Carl then grabbed their left wrists and gestured to the Omnitrixes.
"Um... we can explain!" Ben said.
"Oh, really?" Sandra asked.
"Not... so much. No," Jen caved, heaving a heavy sigh. "Time to come clean, bro."
"Fine!"
"...which allows us to access the genetic code of various extraterrestrial life forms in order to battle the DNAliens, who will stop at nothing in their quest to conquer the Earth!" Ben finished the story as Jen nodded.
"True story!"
"And this became your job when, exactly?" Carl asked as he and his wife stood there sternly.
"Five years ago," Jen said, bowing her head. "Grandpa Max told us we each have a responsibility to-"
"Oh, of course!" Carl said. "Dad! I should've known! That's so typical."
"He was more than just a plumber," Ben said. "He-"
"Lied to us. Your Uncle Frank and I knew he and Mom had some other life. We knew. And they lied to us about it all the time. I won't have you two lying too."
"Yeah," Jen said, twiddling her fingers. "Funny story about Grandma. She-"
"Enough," Sandra interrupted her daughter, who zipped her lip. "It's our own fault, Carl. We were too permissive. And what did we get? A 15-year-old son and daughter needlessly risking their lives."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" Jen said, immediately standing up from the couch. "There is nothing needless about this, Mom!"
"Jen's right. It has to be us," Ben said. "The Omnitrixes are attached to us. They don't come off."
"Oh," Carl said, raising an eyebrow. "They're coming off, alright."
A few minutes later, the clearly bored twins were sitting at the desk in the garage with their Omnitrix arms out as their father worked on them with a pile of ruined blades and tools laying in the corner.
He used a pair of pliers to press Jen's Omnitrix, only ruining that one as well as Jen sighed, bored as Ben looked to her and nodded in silent agreement.
"Okay. They're not coming off," Carl conceded before examining the alien devices attached to his twin children's wrists once again. "Not a scratch!"
"We tried to tell you," Jen said.
"Sorry about your saw blades," Ben apologized.
"In any case, you two are forbidden from using the Omnitrixes."
"What?!" the twins shouted in unison.
"Understand?"
"But Dad!" Jen said. "You can't!"
"All of humanity is counting on us to-" Ben began.
"Understand?" he repeated as the twins both looked down to the floor and sighed.
"Yes, Dad," they both said in unison as their dad left as their phones started ringing.
Ben then took out his green cellphone while Jen took out her pink one and they both answered.
"This is really not a good time, guys. Okay?"
At the wharf, Kevin, Becky and Ally were standing guard as Gwen looked up the recent plans on the computer and Kevin and Ally were on their phones talking to the twins.
"Uh, they said they'd call back," Kevin said.
"Guys, look at this," Gwen said, gesturing to the files and a list of freights. "The logbooks show all these freighters as frequent visitors, bringing out goods and shipping out local products."
"So?" Kevin asked.
"So this ship that we've stationed by is an unregistered tanker from the island of Castoon," Becky said.
"Where they used to do nuclear testing," Kevin realized, earning him strange looks from all the girls. "It was on the History Channel!"
"You watch the History Channel?" Ally asked.
"Not the point!"
"What would Bellwood be importing from Castoon?" Gwen asked.
"And if it is connected to the Highbreed, what would the DNAliens want with it?" Becky asked.
"I don't know. Ask them," Ally said, gesturing her head to the DNAliens who began to run towards them as Ally took her key necklace and absorbed the metal as Kevin absorbed the floor as Becky ran in with her spear and ran forwards, combating them with all of her might as Gwen blasted forwards with a surge of mana.
Kevin and Ally shouted out as they slammed and bashed the DNAliens that came towards them, sending them flying back.
Back at the Tennyson household, Ben and Jen were laying in their beds as their phones rang again as they heard their phones ring and they picked it up.
"Yeah?" they said in unison as Kevin and Ally called them.
"Um, guys?" Kevin asked. "I hate to bother you, but we have a problem!"
"You've got problems?" Ben asked. "Our parents found out about the Omnitrixes."
"We're not allowed to use them under any circumstances," Jen finished.
"Folks mad at you, huh?" Ally asked as she ducked and swatted a DNAlien away with a giant fist. "Sounds rough. Oh, and by the way, WE'RE GETTING OUR ASSES HANDED TO US BY THE DNALIENS!"
"Okay, we're coming," Ben said as he and Jen came out of their rooms and then walked downstairs as Emma came out of her room with her dolls as she saw her big brother and sister walking downstairs.
"I heard about what happened with Mom and Dad," Emma said. "Need some help?"
"Sure," Ben said. "Think you can cover for us while we're gone?"
"Sure, guys," Emma said before as they walked downstairs before she took a deep breath and started fake crying as Carl and Sandra came upstairs to see their youngest child as Ben and Jen smiled, amused.
"What's wrong, Emma?" Sandra asked as she wiped her eyes.
"I think I stubbed my toe!" Emma said as she spied her big siblings and then winked to them as they fist-bumped and walked out as they transformed into...
"Echo Echo!"
"Discharge!"
That was when a flashlight suddenly shone on them as they looked to see their parents standing by as Carl held Emma's wrist with stern looks on their faces as the twins groaned outwards in unison.
"Oh man!" they both said.
"Do the pair of you really think we're that gullible?" Sandra asked. "We were teenagers once too, you know."
"Sorry, guys," Emma said. "I guess I'm not as clever as I thought I was."
"Not to us, you're not," Carl said to her. "I really don't know what to say to you two."
"Well, I do," Sandra said sternly to her two eldest children. "Benjamin Kirby Tennyson and Jennifer Heather Tennyson, you two are both grounded!"
"WHAT?!" they both shouted.
"You can't ground us!" Echo Echo said. "We're super-powered aliens!"
"You're super-powered aliens who are about five minutes away from making me reconsider a life-long disbelief in corporal punishment."
"Up the stairs, young man and young lady!"
The two twins groaned and walked away from their parents as they went to the door, mumbling all the while as Discharge turned back to her parents.
"I hope you two are happy," she said. "You two just single-handedly doomed the entire human race! Bravo!"
She then left with her brother as the parents talked as Emma walked away, obviously getting her own lesser punishment.
"Do we even have a paddle of some sort?" Sandra asked.
"I have my hemp belt."
Echo Echo sat on his bed as he kicked his feet and his phone rang again and he picked it up.
"Hello?"
"WHERE ARE YOU?!" Becky shouted as she swatted a DNAlien with her spear.
"We have a little situation here!" Gwen said over her phone.
"And a lot of DNAliens," Kevin said.
"Okay. Aim the phone at them," Echo Echo said.
Gwen aimed her phone at the DNAliens and then Echo Echo screamed into the phone and the resulting sound wave traveling through the receiver blasted directly into the DNAliens, sending them all flying back as they shouted.
It was at that point that Carl and Sandra marched into Ben's room and snatched the phone out of his hand.
"Who is this?"
Gwen and Becky hung up their phones and turned to the others.
"Lately, it just seems like the twins are phoning it in," Ally said.
Sandra glared at the twins and then dropped their phones in her purse and they gasped.
"Those are our phones!" Jen said.
"A cell phone is a privilege. Not a right," Carl said. "You'll get them back when you've proven we can trust you two."
"Ben, Jen?" Sandra asked. "Are you two hanging with a bad crowd?"
"What? No!"
"Are they telling you two that it's 'cool to sneak out?'" Carl asked. "Turn into aliens? Lie to your parents?"
"Whoever this bad influence is, they need to be told what's going on," Sandra said. "Who?!"
"It's a sacred trust, Mom!" Jen said. "We can't tell you!"
"We cannot divulge that information!" Ben said.
"Never, never, never!" they both said in unison, shaking their heads.
Sandra then leaned down and only glared at them sternly, narrowing her eyes at them as they both looked at each other and gulped hard.
The next night, Ben and Jen were sitting alone in their rooms as Jen sadly played her guitar to herself and Ben looked at his screensaver on his computer as the landline phone rang and they both picked it up.
"Hello?"
"You ratted us out?!" Gwen and Becky's voices chorused over the phone.
"We can explain, girls," Jen said.
"What's to explain?" Becky asked. "Our parents read us the riot act when we got home last night. 'How dare you help Ben and Jen deceive your aunt and uncle, young ladies!'"
"Why did you tell them?!" Gwen asked. "You two have gone nose-to-nose with Vilgax without blinking!"
"Yeah, well, Vilgax never gave us the 'mom look,'" Ben said. "We're sorry."
"You're sorry and we're grounded," Becky sighed. "We're stuck here at the house instead of finding out what the Highbreed wants with that freighter."
Gwen got back onto her computer for research as her sister looked over her shoulder.
"Don't worry. Kevin and Ally are on it," Ben reassured. "They're going to check it out tonight."
"You sent Kevin and Ally?" Gwen asked.
"Oh, they're not alone," Jen said. "We've got to go."
The freighter moved along the ocean as Kevin and Ally turned a corner as Ally traced her finger along her throat as a signal to Kevin, who nodded at his big sister.
They both hid from some DNAliens as they lined the corner.
"Okay, this is not good," Kevin whispered. "We're on our own for this one."
"...Maybe not," Ally said as they looked over the rim of the boat to see the surface start to bubble upwards as, from right out of the ocean a small pillar of seaweed rose out of the ocean to reveal Rosie reaching down to their level from a vine with a smile as she lowered her hands and the seaweed sank back down to the ground.
"Rosie?" Kevin asked. "What are you doing here?"
"What you're doing here," she answered. "The twins said you guys needed some help. Well, I'm here to help."
"Great. Now please be quiet," Ally whispered as Rosie nodded as she zipped her lip and felt at the pouch at her belt and sihged.
"Let's go," Kevin said as the three snuck on the deck and then glared as a DNAlien looked over.
Rosie then rose her hand up and some vines of seaweed rose from the ocean and wrapped around their bodies and she manipulated them to take her and her friends into the window on the lower level.
"Ugh!" Kevin groaned. "What stinks in here?"
"That," Ally said as the three looked to see a green liquid of some sort in several tanks.
"I guess Gwen's going to find out," Rosie said to herself as Kevin handed her a canteen and she took her ID mask off to reveal her true Florian body and then stretched her fingers out into vines to fill the container before retracting them again.
Unfortunately, a puddle of green liquid splashed onto the railing and Ally suddenly slipped in the gunk and then fell into the liquid, taking the other two heroes with her.
Little did they know, they caused a disturbance on the ship, alerting the DNAliens to their presence.
"Ugh!" Ally said, bringing her hands down. "It reeks even worse up close! It's going to take days to get this out of my hair!"
"How are we going to get out of here?" Rosie asked.
The Tennysons were eating dinner at the table as the phone rang and Ben looked to Jen and nodded.
"I'll get it," he said, getting up and picking up the phone. "Hello, Tennyson residence... This really isn't a good time, Kevin."
Jen nodded to Ben and then quietly put a hand to her temple and used her telepathy to sense the conversation on the phone.
"You're telling us!" Kevin said. "We're up to our noses in smelly goop, we're stuck in a vat and the DNAliens are coming!"
Ben and Jen looked nervously at their glaring parents as they gulped.
"I'm conferencing Gwen and Becky in," Ben said.
"Hello?" Gwen asked, picking up the phone as Becky practiced with her dartboard in her room as she sighed and went to her sister's room.
"We can't get a grip on the wall, Gwen," Ally said.
"Uh-oh," Rosie said. "We've got company."
Gwen heard the growl of the DNAliens approaching.
"Kevin? Ally? Rosie?" Gwen asked. "Is that you guys?"
"Put it on speaker. I need a piece of this," Becky said as Gwen pressed the speaker button.
The three struggled as Kevin turned to Rosie.
"Can't you just use your stretching vine powers or raise a crystal pillar to get us out of here?"
"If I do that, we'll be caught for sure," Rosie said. "We need to be stealthy."
"Absorb something and get out of that tank," Ben said.
"Absorb what? Stink?!" Ally asked.
"What's your phone made of?" Becky asked.
"Titanium, why? ...Oh yeah."
Jen cringed as Carl turned to his son and glared.
"Ben, you and your sister are on punishment, get off the phone!"
"One minute, Dad," Ben said.
"Guys, I think I know what you're swimming in," Gwen said as she typed in the information on the freighter in her laptop. "According to Wikipedia, Castoon has only one export: bat guano."
"You have got to be kidding me!" Ally said as Rosie felt herself turn green (and I mean greener than she already is) as they felt sick to their stomachs (yes, Rosie has a stomach) as Kevin burst through the door.
"What is guano?" Kevin asked, disturbed.
"Evidently, the berries on the island are radioactive from the nuclear testings years ago. When they're eaten by the bats, the resulting waste is the rarest isotope in the world."
Ben and Jen heard (and thank goodness they couldn't see) their friends projectile vomit all over the place from learning they were swimming in bat poop.
"Ben!" Sandra said as Jen buried her face in her hands.
"One minute!"
"The radiation is so mild, however, it would take a lot of it to constitute a threat."
"And how much does that freighter carry?"
"...50,000 tons," Becky finished.
"Um, guys?" Rosie asked. "We could use a little help."
That was when Gwen and Becky heard the dial tone as Sandra snatched the phone out of Ben's hands as Jen and Emma gasped.
"No phone means no phone! Go to your room!"
"I'll see myself out," Jen said as she sighed and went up to her room. "I can't believe this is happening to us!"
She then went in and slammed the door and started meditating to herself silently as she floated off the ground, her hair levitating around her.
"Okay, guys," she said with a smirk. "Let's see how you like getting talked down by your parents."
About 30 minutes later, Sandra walked into Jen's room to see her first born child was grumbling under her breath, clearly angry at the whole situation as she listened to her music on full blast to drown out her thoughts... which wasn't working. Sandra picked up the remote and turned off her stereo as she walked into her elder daughter's room as she crossed her arms.
"What do you want?" Jen asked with utter disdain towards her mother.
"Please, Jen. I don't want to fight with you," Sandra said. "I know you're upset. But if it's any consolation, I know how you and your brother feel."
"Yeah? I don't think so," Jen grumbled under her breath.
"No, I do. When I was your age, I fought with my mother," Sandra said to her. "I wanted to be a police officer."
"Wait," Jen said. "You wanted to be a cop when you were younger?"
"Sure did," Sandra said. "But your grandmother said that it was too dangerous. And you know what? She was right."
Jen's frown and glare only deepened further at that.
"So, you're saying I shouldn't do what I do because you're scared?" Jen asked, now clearly even more pissed off.
"I'm saying that when you're young, you think you're invincible," Sandra explained. "But you're not! And if anything happened to you or Ben, I couldn't bear it, sweetheart."
Jen then stood up with a sigh.
"Well, if my friends got hurt, I couldn't bear it either," Jen said, walking away with her nose turned up in disgust.
Inside Ben's room, Ben sat down at his computer and then the monitor turned on to reveal Kevin standing there.
"Oh, hey. You found a wireless network," he said.
"Yeah. That ends the good news," Kevin said. "The bad news..."
He turned the camera of his phone towards Ally and Rosie as they fought off the DNAliens, Ally having absorbed part of Rosie's crystal.
"...they're not happy about it."
"Ladder ahead on your right," Ben said. "Climb it... Okay, the hatch on your left. Go through it and hug the wall. Now just hang there for a second until they pass."
Kevin and the girls did so as the DNAliens hissed and snarled behind them.
"Back through and shut the hatch."
"We get it, we get it," Ally said, panting.
"You have a real future as a personal navigation device, Tennyson."
"Wha-" Rosie asked. "Oops. Here comes some more."
"There's a crane hook right there," Ben said.
"What about it?"
"Grab it then kick the green button."
Kevin leaped onto the crane hook and swung from it, screaming as he kicked the green button.
"Okay, that was pretty cool," Kevin said.
"Heh, we should fly solo more often," Ally said.
"Whatever," Ben sighed. "Just get out of there and we'll..."
Ben's eyes widened at something coming up behind the three.
"What's wrong, Ben?" Rosie asked.
"Guys, don't panic. Everything will be okay. Just..."
Suddenly, the Osomisian siblings were grabbed upwards by their arms and Rosie was also grabbed and hoisted up by the Highbreed commander.
"It's nice to see you again... vermin."
"Ben, a little help here," Kevin said.
It was at that point that the computer's monitor suddenly faded to black, powering down as Ben gasped, turning around to see his parents standing there with Jen getting dragged by the ear with a groan of pain by Sandra as she tossed her to Ben's side.
"Dad, no!" Ben shouted as Jen gasped in horror.
"Oh, don't you 'no' me, Ben Tennyson! You and your sister have defied us for the last time!" Carl said.
"Mom, Dad, you'e got to listen," Jen said, pleading as Emma walked in from cleaning the kitchen, broom in hand. "Our friends are in trouble. We have to go help them!"
"I don't want to hear another word," Sandra said. "You two are not leaving your rooms. You are not calling anyone, you are not IMing anyone, you are not texting anyone, you are not Myfacing anyone," Sandra said sternly.
"Myfacing?" Ben asked as his sister just shrugged to him.
"You two will sit in your rooms alone until we tell you otherwise. Understood?" Carl said.
"Guys, you don't understand! This is a matter of life and death!" Jen said.
"The only lives were concerned about are yours. You're staying right here."
The twins looked to their younger sister, who looked at them with understanding eyes as they silently nodded to her.
"Don't look out there, look at us!"
The twins sighed and looked down before determined looks got on their faces and stood up.
"We're sorry," Jen said. "We love you guys. We really do."
"You two are awesome parents," Ben said. "You raised us by example. Time after time, we've seen you put other's needs before your own. The pair of us can't obey you now without disobeying everything you've ever taught us about life, the world and responsibility."
"Ben, Jen, we forbid you to-"
"No!" Jen snapped, earning a smile and nod from Emma. "We're going to help our friends and there's nothing you two can do to stop us."
"How dare you-"
"Jen's right," Ben said as his twin sister crossed her arms.
"You can ground us until we're old and grey. But I have to help Kevin and Ally or I'll never be able to live with myself."
"When we get back, punish us however you want," Ben said. "But right now, we have friends who need our help!"
Jen crossed her arms and then shouted out as she morphed into her Anodite form and Ben slammed his Omnitrix, transforming into...
"Humungousaur!"
He then leaped out the window, destroying the entire wall and Jen gasped as she hovered out of the window and gulped.
"Sorry! We promise we'll fix that later!"
Humungousaur ran away from the house as Jen flew after him with a glare.
"They just walked out on us!" Sandra gasped. "What are we gonna do?"
"...We're going to listen to our kids," Carl relented as he turned to his wife, not noticing the form of an elderly woman hovering on a mana platform behind him outside of the hole.
"Hello, Carl," Verdona said as Carl trailed off, eyes widening and he slowly turned around to see his mother floating outside, looking sternly.
"Um... hi, Mom," Carl said nervously as his wife looked on to see as she stepped into Ben's room and snapped her fingers, easily repairing the damage.
"Verdona?" Sandra asked as her mother-in-law smiled to her. "What are you doing here?"
"I've been here for months. Training your daughter and your niece after I learned they inherited my powers," she said as she saw a stirring at the door as her youngest granddaughter looked on nervously as she stood up. "Why hello there, little Emma."
"Who are you?"
"I'm your Grandma Verdona, sweetie. Your parents and I need to have a talk... after we help your big brother and sister."
"But what can we do?" Carl asked as Verdona smiled and raised an eyebrow.
On the freighter that sailed through the ocean, Jen flew in, glaring her glowing pink eyes as Humungousaur lifted himself up onto the side of the boat as Jen touched down and the two alien twins glared as Humungousaur swatted a ton of DNAliens away with his tail as Jen sent out a telekinetic wave that blasted the DNAliens back.
"You picked the wrong twins to gang up on!" Humungousaur said.
"We've been having a bad night," Jen said, blasting through the DNAliens as she shouted out and blasted through the area.
Inside the ship, the experiments on the bat guano were working on as the Highbreed Commander looked on at the DNAliens working as Kevin, Ally and Rosie were being held inside solidified DNAlien slime as Rosie groaned in disgust.
"This stinks," Kevin said.
"You are not the first to taste defeat at our hands," the Highbreed Commander said. "Nor will you be the last."
"No, you idiot," Ally said. "We mean the bat poop."
"I can't believe you punks eat that stuff!" Rosie said in disgust.
"We do not eat it, Florian."
"Sure you do," Kevin said. "What else would you do with it?"
"The Tennysons have trained you well. For your pathetic attempts to learn our plans have only reminded me that I need to dispose of you."
But before the Highbreed Commander could bring his claw down on his prisoners, he was hit by a DNAlien that was sent flying right at him, sending him crashing down to the ground as he turned to see Humungousaur and Firefox standing there with a grin.
"Oh, that one was a little high and inside," Humungousaur said.
"Guys?" Ally asked as Humungousaur pulled them in as Firefox bounded over and then bared her claws as she sliced the slime open and Humungousaur broke the cable bindings, letting their friends out.
"Enjoy us while you can, mates. We're going to be grounded for the rest of high school after this," she said.
"We were just getting him to spill his guts about the bat poop," Rosie smiled.
"We figured it out," Humungousaur said. "The DNAliens that are down here are rendering it. Removing the impurities until they're left with a highly volatile isotope... suitable for use as a power source."
"You guys figured all that out on your own?" Ally chuckled.
"No. Gwen and Becky did," Firefox said, turning to see the bat guano. "The only question is, power source for what?"
"It's a surprise," said the Highbreed Commander, surrounded bu his army. "The last surprise the human race wlll ever receive. Destroy them all!"
Soon, the DNAliens began climbing the ladders, surrounding the teens on all sides as Kevin and Ally began to absorb the rail.
"Wait," Humungousaur said, showing the cable. "Use this."
The two then absorbed the cable and smiled.
"Thanks."
The five teenage heroes stood in a circle and all shouted out as they started slamming the DNAliens away with their enhanced strength as Firefox leaped up and slammed a DNAlien back with her tail before blasting some back with her flamethrowers.
Rosie leaped back and glared, crossing her arms before slowly raising them as the sea plants from the bottom of the ocean rose upwards and then started to seep through the cracks in the ship, growing as they shot forwards and wrapped around the DNAliens, sending them flying as they tossed them away. She suddenly gasped as she rose her hand forwards, generating a crystal shield from her arm that blocked a few slime blasts and she shot her hand forward, sending a flurry of crystals outwards that blasted into the mooks, sending them away.
Ally shouted out and ran forwards, morphing her hands into spiked maces and she ran forwards, smashing them into the DNAliens and sending them flying backwards with her intense strength as she morphed her foot into a hammer head and slammed another one in the head with a roundhouse kick, sending it flying away from her.
Firefox shouted out and blasted forwards with her fireballs, blasting into the DNAliens and then she shouted forwards, slamming another one back with her tail and then sliced down with her claws and then she yipped as she felt another DNAlien grab her by the tail and then she growled and yanked it back, blasting her DNAliens back with a flamethrower as she panted.
Meanwhile, Kevin and Humungousaur slammed all of their DNAliens back with their intense strength, sending them flying back one by one as Humungousaur swatted three of them away with his tail with a roar.
One of the DNAliens landed on the Highbreed Commander and he tossed his own minion back at the team and they avoided it with a gasp and then looked to see the Highbreed casually waving at them and the twins nodded to each other in wordless agreement as they looked back at the creature.
"You guys handle the rest," Humungousaur said. "We've got business to take care of."
"Do yo' thing," Kevin smirked.
Humungousaur and Firefox leaped over the railing and ran forwards and Humungousaur ran forwards with a punch, only to be socked in the face by the Highbreed Commander and he crashed backwards into a tank of bat guano isotope, leaving an indentation.
Firefox ran in, her paw-hands enveloped in flame as she ran and dodged the alien's powerful blows and then hissed as she ran forwards and nailed him with a kick to the head and growled outwards, swiping at his arm. Unfortunately, due to the alien's thick skin, he was unaffected. He grabbed her tail, causing her to yip as he threw her like a javelin and she crashed into a wall, groaning.
"You might want to put a little size on, Ben," Ally said.
"No room on this boat," Humungousaur groaned. "If I grow in here, we'll all at the bottom of the ocean."
"You look fatigued, vermin," the Highbreed Commander said. "Let me help put you to rest... permanently."
"No!" Firefox shouted as the Highbreed landed massive blow after massive blow to Humungousaur's face.
"Ben! Jen!" Rosie shouted as she and the Levins were overwhelmed by the massive amount of DNAliens that rushed them and restrained them.
"Congratulations," the Highbreed Commander said, cracking his knuckles. "That was almost an exercise."
Firefox stood up and ran forwards on all fours, rushing him... right before he grabbed her with a backhand and tossed her away again.
Humungousaur smirked as he pulled himself out of the metal of the tank, sending forth a massive surge of bat guano isotope that sent the Highbreed Commander flying backwards and he smirked as he and Firefox looked at him, starting to get into the groove.
Unfortunately, the Highbreed Commander acted quickly and ran forwards, grabbing him by the throat and holding him in the air and threw him forwards before he grabbed Firefox by the tail and then smashed her forwards, into her brother as they both laid by the metal door. The door opened behind them.
"Goodbye, Ben and Jen Tennyson!"
Suddenly, a light shined through the door and a weapon blasted into the Highbreed, sending him flying back and the twins looked to see their parents standing there, Carl holding a large alien weapon as Sandra smiled to him.
"Good shot, honey," Sandra said.
"Like my Dad always said: the right tool for the right job."
"Are you guys okay?" Sandra asked, leaning down to the groaning twins.
"Mum. Dad." Firefox said.
"Boy, are we glad to see you two," Humungousaur said. "I mean, we're always glad to see you, but..."
"Um, guys!" Ally said.
"We could use some help here!" Kevin said as the three were overwhelmed by DNAliens.
"Yeah, well, we're not alone."
A magenta light blasted forwards as Verdona flew forwards to the three in her true Anodite form, sending forwards a ton of mana blasts to the DNAliens, sending them all flying away as she wrapped the three in her hair tendrils and flew downwards.
"Grandma? You too?" Firefox asked.
"Of course."
"Nice to see you two again, Carl. Sandra." Ally said as she shook their hands.
"You too, Ally. You're their ruffian friend Kevin, right?"
"Yep."
"And I'm Rosie Shard," Rosie said, shaking her hand.
"Nice piece there, Mr. Tennyson," Kevin said.
"Yeah, Dad," Humungousaur said. "Where'd you get it?"
"What? This old thing? It's been sitting in the attic ever since Frank and I were kids. Always hated it."
"Are you guys okay?" Sandra asked, concerned and hugging Firefox.
"We're fine, Mum," Firefox said. "We're sorry that we just blew you off like that."
"We're not," Ally said. "In fact, it's kind of cool that you two showed up when you did."
"It was very cool," Sandra smiled, kissing her daughter's muzzle.
"Indeed," Verdona said, hovering down.
"We're proud of you. Your friends were in danger, you had to help them."
"Their friends?" Carl asked as his mother smiled. "You heard that monster, honey. The whole world was in danger. The twins saved it."
"Hey, we helped," Rosie said.
"All this time, we grounded you for not being responsible. Turns you, you two are responsible for the entire planet!" Sandra said.
"The point is guys, we've seen you in action. We know what you two are capable of. You clearly know what you're doing. You can handle yourselves."
"You two would've fought a way to win, even if your father hadn't shot the giant alien with the space bazooka."
Speaking of which, the Highbreed Commander marched forwards and Carl ran up to him with the weapon and charged it, only for it to die out as it needed a recharge.
The Highbreed Commander smiled and chuckled, leaping towards the Tennysons, only for Verdona to fly up to him and blast him with powerful mana bolts and she snarled in anger towards him as she wrapped him up in her hair tendrils.
"Stay away from my family!" she shouted as she tossed him towards Humungousaur.
"Batter up!" he shouted as he took the bazooka and swatted the Highbreed Commander into the isotope, sending it spilling everywhere.
"Nice," Carl smiled.
Later, outside, the Tennyson family were standing on the docks, now all back to human form, as the freighter went up in a fiery explosion and sank into the ocean, taking the isotope with it.
"Okay, we sunk it," Kevin said as he, Ally and Rosie all walked up to the dock.
"What about the Highbreed?" Jen asked.
"Yeah, you guys were supposed to drag him off the ship before you scuttled it," Ben added.
"Were we?" Ally asked. "It must have slipped our mind."
The twins looked shocked at him as Rosie chuckled.
"They're just kidding, guys. He was gone before we got back."
"You know what, Mom? You're right," Jen said. "They're ruffians."
Everyone then laughed at that with smiles.
Back at the Tennyson residence, the Tennyson family, including Verdona, smiled as Carl took the family dream catcher from its stand and hung up the alien bazooka in its place.
"We thought you hated that thing, Dad," Ben asked.
"Yeah," Emma said. "Big bro and sis here told me all about it."
"Yeah, I used to hate all that Plumber stuff," Carl said. "It reminded me of the secret life your Grandpa Max hid from us. But now I understand that he was only protecting us. It had to be secret."
"So did who I really am," Verdona said with a wide smile. "It was for the best. But now you guys know that your children can handle themselves."
Suddenly, the phone rang and Sandra reached into her purse to take out the twins' cellphones and she gave them back.
"It's your cousins."
The twins took the phones and smiled, picking up the line.
"Hello?" they asked.
"Really, Gwen?" Ben asked.
"Okay. We're on it," Jen said, hanging up.
"So," Ben said. "There's been an alien sighting in the desert that..."
"Then what are you waiting for?" Carl asked, smiling.
The twins then high-fived each other and ran off into the night, putting on their Omni-Suits as Sandra gasped.
"It's cold in the desert at night! Bring some jackets!"
"Oh, stop it, Sandra," Verdona chided as Emma giggled.
"Yeah, Mom. Ben and Jen can handle themselves."
"Okay. You're right."
Everyone then laughed again as Sandra sighed.
Next time on Ben and Jen 10: Alien Force:
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