In a small farm town in Texas, what seemed to be meteorites started crashing down into the cornfield, creating a large cloud of smoke. And when the smoke cleared, it revealed that they weren't meteorites at all. They were rockets that unscrewed and out came an entire class of aliens.
They had light brown fur with a dark pink tummy and muzzle, white hair around their heads which resembles a beard, a white tail, and yellow eyes. They are the size of an average human toddler and look like a cross between a rabbit and a goat.
The aliens walked over to see the entire population of the town cheering and welcoming them as an old woman walked in with a pie and a smile.
"Party!" one alien shouted as they all cheered and whooped.
"I'm sorry, Grandpa," Ben said. "You want us to go where?"
"A little town called Walton in Texas," Max said. "Every seventeen years, college students land there to blow off steam for a week."
"Alien spring break?" Jen asked with a smirk. "Sounds pretty cool actually."
"Right," Verdona said to her granddaughter. "But this time, one of them has gone missing."
"And since we're busy seeing over the other Plumbers in this district, we need you six to go find them," Xylene said.
"You do know that you installed us as the leaders of the Earth Plumbers, right?" Ben asked.
"Yes, but you guys are the leaders in the field. We oversee things here and watch over you and the other Plumbers," Max said.
"Let's get moving," Ally said as she walked off with the other girls as Ben looked to see Kevin leaning against a wall and clutching a locket in his metal hand.
"You okay?"
"It's nothing," Kevin said. "Let's just go."
The boys left the room, leaving Max and his two girlfriends standing there as Xylene sighed and crossed her arms.
"So, you think we should've told them about the Skunkians there too?"
"They're really friendly, Lene," Verdona said. "The only thing you have to get past is the smell."
"How many times have I told you not to call me Lene?"
"Ten. And I don't care."
Soon, the group drove Kevin's car and Ally rode her motorcycle behind it on their way to Walton. The twins decided not to take the DX Mark-10 or Pink Angel because they felt they needed to attract as little attention as possible in a small town.
"A little town in the middle of nowhere," Kevin sighed. "Why can't aliens go missing any place fun?"
"Tell me about it," Becky chuckled.
"This is farm country land," Gwen observed. "What are aliens even doing here? What's so special about this place?"
Kevin suddenly stepped on the brakes and they pulled over to see the "Welcome to Walton sign destroyed and a turned over tractor beside it.
"Hooligans," Ally said, shaking her head.
"And from the looks of it, amateur hooligans."
Jen then walked up to it, only for her to feel a pain in her foot.
"Ow!" she said. "I stubbed my toe."
"Hang on," Kevin said as he turned on his headlights and then shined down on some small metal nuggets. They looked like they were made of solid gold.
"You've got to be kidding me," Becky said as they leaned down and noticed the nuggets. "They look like..."
"Poop," Ally said, gagging a little.
"Shiny poop," Gwen said as Ben and Jen looked on in disgust.
Kevin picked up one of the nuggets and sniffed it, not detecting any foul orders off of it whatsoever.
"Kevin, don't," Becky said as Kevin lifted it to his mouth.
"It's okay. It looks like..."
"Please don't do it," Ally said as Kevin bit down on the nugget, only to take it out.
"Hey, it is gold. And it's real," Kevin analyzed.
"Solid gold poop," Ben said as he looked to his sister, who raised an eyebrow to him with a smile, her irises flashing pink.
"It leads all the way to town," Jen said as she turned to the others. "You thinking what I'm thinking, guys?"
"Cash in?" Ally said.
"You sure?" Gwen asked.
"We're not stealing from anybody, Gwen," Ben said. "We're not hurting anybody to get this. We just happened to find it on the road."
"But we already make plenty of money from our jobs as Plumbers," Becky said.
"True. But with this, we can have a major safety net once we sell this for the cash," Ally said. "Add these to the funds we have from our jobs and we'll be able to get anything we want to get for our headquarters and everything!"
"We'll be able to make our own rooms in the headquarters with that kind of money and still have plenty left over from it to build up," Jen said. "What do we have to lose by doing this?"
"Fine, I guess you're right this time," Gwen said. "Let's do it."
"Fine," Becky said. "I'll go along with your crazy scheme. Just this once. And only because this time it makes sense... no matter how disgusting it is."
"Funny enough, would only be useful to us here," Kevin said.
"What? Why?" Jen asked.
"Stuff like diamonds and gold only have monetary value on Earth. Other planets use them as building material, not currency," Kevin explained.
"Makes sense."
Dawn rose and Jen and Gwen smiled as the levitated all the gold nuggets they passed in her telekinetic aura in a ball that looked to be medium sized as more and more golden nuggets levitated into the ball and they finally stopped once they got to where the buildings started in town.
"Okay, that's enough," Kevin said and the car screeched to a stop and he popped the trunk and Jen and Gwen lowered the golden nuggets into the machine and they smiled and closed the trunk on it.
"Okay, we collected our loot," Ben said. "But still, look at this place."
"I know, right?" Becky said. "This is supposed to be farm country?"
The Omni-Team looked around at the tons of wealthy-looking buildings throughout Walton.
"Yeah," Kevin said. "These farmers must be rolling in-"
"Kevin," Gwen warned.
"I was gonna say dough."
That was when dozens of the aliens from the previous few days in Walton came out of all of the alleyways and charged, rocking Kevin's car as Ally looked on from her bike and sighed, shaking her head in defeat as she pet an alien on the head not noticing the red-furred skunk-like alien lurking in an alleyway, nervous as heck at the aliens rocked the car, Ben and Jen laughing at the thrill of it. Kevin was less than amused, however.
"Get your paws off my ride!" Kevin shouted.
Surprisingly, the aliens obeyed and dispersed, leaving and moving away.
That was when a bald man in a white suit walked out to see the Omni-Team as they exited the car and Ally put her kickstand down and hung up her helmet.
"You didn't see any aliens," he said. "It was just swamp gas."
"Please. We're in Texas," Gwen said. "There can't be swamps for miles."
"Mass hysteria? Weather balloons? The apocalypse?"
"Save it," Kevin said, holding up his badge. "We're Plumbers."
"Well why didn't you say so? Welcome to Walton. You here for the popcorn festival?"
"Yeah, what's the deal with that anyway?" Ben asked.
"Why, only the best popcorn in the universe. These aliens can't get enough of the stuff. Every seventeen years, they come back. But where are my manners? I'm Mayor Coleman."
"Jen Tennyson. What can you tell us about the missing alien?"
"Missing alien? There's no missing alien. If there was a missing alien, he's probably just running around, eating popcorn and having fun."
"Okay. But we're still going to have to look around," Becky said.
"Be my guest," Coleman said, walking away. "But I'm afraid you're not gonna find anything."
"Ben, Jen, we're gonna have to," Gwen began, only to see the twins wandered off. "Where'd they go?"
Ben and Jen wandered into an alleyway to see the aliens gouging down on entire barrels full of popcorn, impressed at the sight.
"I have had, like, so much popcorn," an alien said as two more lowered an entire barrel of it into his mouth as if it were a barrel of alcohol.
That was when another alien walked over to them and looked absolutely hammered on popcorn.
"Farmer Wayne's filled his entire swimming pool with popcorn," he said, obviously drunk.
The aliens all cheered as the alien smiled.
"The pool's got a diving board. Come on, man," he said as the aliens all ran off and Ben and Jen followed them by using their Kineceleran forms.
"So popcorn is basically their species' equivalent of booze," Ally said as Becky sighed and bowed her head.
"...Yeah."
"We'd better go keep an eye on them," Kevin said as he and Becky ran off after the twins.
"Well, why are we here again?" Ally asked Gwen as she sighed.
"I got your answer for you," said a voice and they turned around to see a red-furred Skunkian walking over with a lone alien who looked extremely nervous and the skunk alien held up her badge.
"And you are?" Gwen asked.
"My name is Daisy," the Skunkian told them. "I'm a young Skunkian field agent for the Plumbers."
"How old are you?"
"Actually, this is my first mission," Daisy said. "Since Magister Tennyson sent you guys to my home in Walton, Xylene and Verdona contacted me and told me to help you."
"There are Skunkians in Walton?" Ally asked.
"Well, under Walton. We live in a community in the sewers here and this town has a lot of chemicals, being in Texas and all," Daisy explained. "We eat all of them and produce a natural clean energy source that they also cash in on along with the gold."
"Oh, that's gross," Gwen gagged.
"For you humans, maybe. Not for us," Daisy chuckled before suddenly fangirling. "Now... where's your cousin? I've been waiting to meet her for a long time!"
"Why?"
"You'll find out soon."
"One more question," Gwen asked. "Why don't you smell foul right now?"
"I drink a lot of tomato juice so others can be around me," the Skunkian said. "Moving on to the mission."
"Um, were you guys sent by Max Tennyson?" the college alien asked.
"You're the one who called us for help?" Ally asked as Daisy moved beside her and Ally.
"My name is Orb. My mom and dad told me that if I ever got into any trouble on Earth, I should call Max Tennyson."
"Great advice," Gwen chuckled. "Is the missing alien a friend of yours?"
"My best friend. His name is Decka," Orb explained. "One moment, we're stuffing our faces with popcorn, the next moment, he's gone. I'm worried sick."
"Do you have anything of his that my friend here could use to track him?" Ally asked. "A piece of clothing or a piece of his fur maybe?"
"No. Nothing like that. I'm sorry," Orb sighed as Daisy looked on.
"It's okay, Orb," Daisy said. "We'll have to find your friend the old-fashioned way."
Orb looked on weirdly and Gwen sighed.
"She means we're gonna have to look for him."
Meanwhile at Farmer Wayne's farm, the aliens were going crazy, partying and playing in the popcorn-filled swimming pool, wading through it in celebration as Kevin sighed as Ben and Becky ate some popcorn.
"Becky and I have been in the Null Void," Kevin said. "And we've seen a lot of crazy and messed up things."
"How does this rank?" Jen asked.
"It's not the weirdest thing I've ever seen, but it's up there," Kevin said.
"I don't know," Ben said. "For Spring Break, this whole thing seems a little laid back."
No sooner than Ben said that did the aliens start tossing debris from the pool area through the glass windows lining the house.
"Laid back, you say?" Kevin asked as Ben sighed.
"It could be worse," he said.
"Ben, what did we agree on that we would never say that?" Jen asked.
"House tipping! Everyone jump the house!"
That was when the aliens all pushed and pushed on the house, lifting it from its foundation as Ben sighed.
"Why do I always stay stuff like that?! It always comes back to bite me in the ass!" Ben shouted as he and Jen activated their Omnitrixes and transformed into...
"Spidermonkey!" the Arachnichimp screeched.
"Blossom Rose!" the Florian shouted.
Spidermonkey hooted and leaped up onto the house and webbed a ton of aliens to it as two more charged him, but he leaped off the house to avoid them as Blossom Rose used her vines that she grew from the trees around her and wrapped them up with a grin.
Two more appeared and attempted to smash a lawn chair onto Spidermonkey's head, only for Kevin to grab it and Becky shook her head.
"Naughty, naughty."
Becky sighed and bopped the aliens' head with her spear and sighed.
"Amateurs."
Blossom Rose glared and slammed her fist into the ground, sending tons of vines (without thorns) that wrapped around the aliens as her brother slammed them back, dazed.
"Is that all of them?" Spidermonkey asked his sister, cousin and best friend.
Unbeknownst to our heroes, another group of them glared and started lifting the silo from its foundation and carried it over to them.
"Crap!" Blossom Rose shouted as she and the others stood their ground and tossed it towards them.
"Hold on!" Spidermonkey shouted as he shot a web at his comrades and dragged them out of the way of the silo as it crashed down next to them.
"Web me," Huntress whispered as Spidermonkey webbed her and tossed her to the aliens as she shouted out and spun her body around, using her spear as a propeller blade, sending the aliens flying away from her as she landed down on the ground with her spear.
Spidermonkey break-danced on the ground and kicked tons of the aliens away into the swimming pool filled with popcorn as Blossom Rose hit them back with her solar beam and panted.
"I think you guys need to get sober from this popcorn," she said.
Soon enough, the team had regrouped near the area, still in their suits as Kevin smirked.
"Busted on Spring Break. I've been there."
That was when Gwen and Ally walked in with Orb, Daisy and Coleman as Daisy's eyes widened upon Morphina and she instantly started fangirling before a very confused heroine.
"You kids have been busy," Coleman said with a whistle.
"What do you want to do with them?" Hero Core asked.
"Well, for starters, let 'em go."
"WHAT?!" the Omni-Team shouted in unison.
"Are you kidding me? Just look what they did!" Huntress shouted.
"Oh, the popcorn festival's only once every seventeen years. No one can press charges. It's just a little damage," Coleman said, rubbing an alien's head.
"'A little damage?'" Morphina asked. "They destroyed the farm!"
"Boys will be boys," Coleman said as the aliens chattered and walked away. "Now don't forget to eat lots of popcorn!"
"That's it?!" Ben asked as they deactivated their suits. "They level an entire building and the only thing you tell them is 'eat lots of popcorn?!"
"Aw, don't worry your head, son. It's complicated," Coleman said.
"What's so complicated about it?" Gwen asked. "We've figured out the whole thing."
"You have, eh?" Daisy asked.
"Yep," Ally said. "The aliens eat popcorn and then they leave behind solid gold excrement, right? That's why this town has so much money."
"Okay, you got us. Every seventeen years, we make gallons and gallons of popcorn and then shovel up the gold they leave behind. Our entire economy's based on alien-"
"Poop!" Kevin coughed.
"That is wrong on so many levels," Becky said.
"Nobody wants to be punishing the alien kids and the festival's almost over. They're going to be heading back to school first thing in the morning anyway."
"Not all of us," Orb said. "I'm not leaving until we find Decka."
"Decka? He probably went home already. Looking for him is a waste of time."
"All the same, we're going to take a look around," Ben said as he and Jen walked off.
"You're coming to my home in the sewers first," Daisy said. "I'm Daisy, by the way. You need to meet my Skunkian friends down there. You're their hero and they all wanted to be like you."
"Why?" Jen asked. "I mean, I know I'm a great hero with my brother, but why you guys specifically?"
"You'll see."
"I'll go with them while you girls search somewhere else."
"Not so fast," Becky said, giving a leer to Kevin as he sighed.
"Kevin, have you been avoiding me?" Gwen asked.
"No. I just love hanging out with your cousins."
He walked off with the twins to the nearest sewer grate as Daisy led them.
"That's the second time you've ditched her today," Ben said. "Are you guys fighting?"
"If we were, would I talk about it with you two?" Kevin asked as Jen sighed and bowed her head.
"I think he's bothered by us accidentally mutating him again," Jen said as Ben sighed.
"I feel guilty. But at least it wasn't entirely our fault."
While our heroes were out investigating, Mayor Coleman walked back to his home and looked to the farmhouse nearby and double-checked to make sure no one was was looking at him before he bolted back and walked in, shining a flashlight to illuminate the dark farmhouse.
He shined the light on a dog cage that held another one of the aliens, who was obviously Decka, golden nuggets surrounding the cage.
"Your friends are causing trouble. They keep asking about you," Coleman told a scared Decka.
"Please," Decka begged. "Please let me go."
"You're not going anywhere. Not until you get me a huge pile of gold."
"But I'm doing it! I've been doing it all week!"
"That little tiny bit of gold ain't gonna be enough to pay off my debts! I been waiting seventeen years for your kind to come back and now, I'm cashing in."
Coleman began shoveling more popcorn inside the cave and Decka groaned.
"I- I can't eat anymore!"
"Then maybe I'll just keep you in that there caage forever!" Coleman said, rattling the cage.
Decka whimpered as Coleman held up a raw steak.
"Maybe a change in diet will help your appetite."
A very scared Decka took the steak into the cage as Coleman watched.
Meanwhile, Ben, Jen and Kevin walked over to the sewer grate that Daisy led them to and opened it up and revealed a passageway under the sewers.
"Follow me," Daisy said as she leaped down into the sewers.
"An entire community of skunk aliens," Kevin said. "That's something I thought I'd never see."
The heroes followed Daisy down the grate and followed her for a bit until they ended up at a huge opening in the clearing and soon, they saw tons of Skunkians of various colors and sizes smiling and tending to the flowers nearby as well as feeding on chemicals that were exuded from the pipes surrounding the area as Jen looked impressed and Ben whistled with a smile as Daisy gave out a holler, catching the others attention.
"Hey everyone, I give you the great Jen Tennyson!"
The young and teenage Skunkians all started cheering and squealing, fanboying and fangirling over Jen, surrounding her with pads of paper and started talking over to each other.
"Jen the Great!"
"Transform into Stinkbomb for us!"
"I want to grow up to be a hero just like you!"
"Wait," Jen said, uncomfortably signing autographs from the notepads pushed at her by the countless Skunkians as Daisy smiled and a young, surprisingly sweet-smelling Skunkian hugged Jen's leg and smiled as Jen nervously transformed into Stinkbomb and she smiled at her.
"I love you, Stinkbomb," the cute skunk alien said as Stinkbomb smiled softly and picked her up, giving her a hug back.z
"Stinkbomb loves you too," she said, genuinely touched. "I don't understand though. Why are you all idolizing me?"
"Remember that huge alien tick that you and your brother killed five and a half years ago?"
"Yeah," Ben said. "What about it?"
"You used Stinkbomb and Cannonbolt to destroy that thing for good," Daisy said. "Word spread throughout the universe and a lot of the Skunkians started worshipping you. Why do you think I became a Plumber?"
"That... actually makes a lot of sense," Kevin said. "So, how does it feel to have worshippers?"
"Weird," Stinkbomb said. "But good at the same time. And I already have a lot of worshippers. We all do."
"She's right. We do have a lot of fans," Ben smiled as Stinkbomb transformed back as she smiled. "Okay, Jen has to go now. We need to go save the day again."
"That's okay," another Skunkian said. "But if it's in Walton, you could use our help at a point."
"We're just trying to find a missing alien kid," Kevin said. "Nothing serious."
"Still," Daisy said as she handed the twins a card. "If you need my friends' help, you just have to call."
"Done," Jen agreed as they walked away back to the surface.
That night after regrouping, the team gathered around to see a group of very tired and hungover college aliens walking back through the cornfield to their rockets as Gwen looked to Orb.
"What's going on?"
"The festival's over. It's time to head back to school."
Kevin looked sadly at the locket in his hand and shrugged as everyone looked skyward to see the rockets flying off into the atmosphere until only two remained.
"This has been the worst Popcorn Festival ever."
"Maybe Mayor Coleman was right," Becky suggested. "Maybe your friend went home already?"
"Without telling anybody? That's not like Decka."
"Hang on," Ben said, walking forwards with Jen noticing the two spaceships. "Two space ships left. One of them is obviously yours, Orb. The other one must be Decka's."
"He's still here!" Orb exclaimed.
"And we have something to track him with," Jen said as her eyes glowed pink.
"Which ship is yours?" Ally asked.
Orb pointed to one ship and Jen and Gwen laid their hands on the other ship and focused before picking up on the mana signature.
"Got him."
"Let's get to work," Daisy said.
"About time."
The team walked up to the mayor's house and saw the wrecked farmhouse and Jen and Gwen lit up the area with a mana ball each before noticing the destroyed cage and the scattered gold.
"I don't suppose Decka was in there?"
"This is the mayor's barn," Gwen said. "Let's find him and ask him."
"Won't be a problem finding him," Kevin said. "I see you hiding back there. Come on out before I have to hurt-"
The threat went unfinished as Coleman blasted at them with his laser blaster and they all ducked behind Jen and Gwen's forcefields as Kevin groaned.
"You see? This is why everyone hates politicians!"
"I agree with that," Becky said as the twins activated their Omnitrixes and transformed into...
"Goop!" Ben shouted.
"Echo Echo!" Jen's Sonorosian form screeched as Daisy clouded the area up with a stink cloud as Gwen blasted out with a mana blast that Coleman dodged as Goop tripped him up by hovering underneath him.
Echo Echo sent a sonic scream out that blasted him back and the blaster flew under his hand. He tried to get it only for Kevin to crush it under his foot and his sister to grab him from behind with Becky aiming a knife at his throat.
The twins transformed back and held back a snarling Orb.
"Where is Decka? What did you do to him?!"
"I don't know how long we can keep him off you," Ben said. "You'd better start talking."
"Okay, I snatched him!"
"You got greedy, huh? Decided to make your own personal gold maker," Kevin nodded before chuckling. "Make. I'm funny."
"I don't get it," Ally said.
"You know, like 'make' a number two?"
"Will you cut that out?!" Jen shouted.
"Really, man? That was the whole joke?" Gwen asked.
"Uh-oh," Orb said, picking up the remnants of the steak from the cage. "Did you feed him meat? Please tell me you didn't give him meat!"
"Why?" Ben asked. "What's wrong with meat?"
"For our species, eating meat is bad!"
"Okay, how bad are we talking here?" Daisy asked, only to see a large feral version of the aliens outside with red fur, blacker skin and was huge and muscly, roaring at the team.
"Okay, gone completely feral bad. Got it," Becky said, turning into Huntress with a push of a button.
Decka began demolishing the farmhouse as the heroes morphed up and Lucky Girl blasted him with magenta fire and Huntress fired arrows at him, which only made him angrier as he munched on the roof.
"Okay," Hero Core said as he looked to Morphina. "You ready?"
"Yep."
The twins slammed their cores down and transformed into...
"Big Chill!"
"Firefox!"
"Don't hurt him!" Orb begged. "He's still my best friend."
"We'll try," Lucky Girl said.
"They'll try," Kevin said, slamming his fists together. "I'm not promising anything!"
Big Chill dodged Decka's swipes and then phased through him, freezing him solid from head to toe. But this didn't do much as he burst out with his immense strength.
"Hold on, mate!" Firefox said to Daisy as she grabbed the red Skunkian's tail, surprising her.
"What are you doing?"
"Just trust me," Firefox said as she lifted her tail up, letting loose a spray of noxious fumes that she ignited with her other hand, creating a stream of massive flames that sent Decka crashing down.
"Wow," Daisy said. "Great planning."
"I always wanted to do that," Firefox chuckled before she was swiped aside with her brother into the barnyard that Decka then smashed to pieces as Lucky Girl shielded them as she turned to Daisy.
"Call your friends for us, please?" Matter Girl asked.
"Sure," Daisy said, whipping out her phone.
"Ben! Jen!" Lucky Girl shouted as Big Chill and Firefox removed the rubble from off of them.
"Ow," Big Chill said. "Remind me to go intangible next time, okay sis?"
"Duly noted," Firefox said.
"This is all because your friend ate one bad piece of meat?" Kevin asked Orb.
"My people can't eat meat or we revert into our primal form. A mindless monster."
"Can we change him back?" Huntress asked.
"Don't have to. He'll only stay in that form as long as he keeps eating."
"So... good news," Big Chill said.
"Okay, Orb. Give us some more details," Daisy said.
"The thing is, this form is only the beginning. He's going to consume all the meat he can find. Then, once he's enriched enough fissionable material, he's going to reproduce!"
"Meaning?" Firefox asked, raising an eyebrow.
"He's going to split into 100 identical copies! Then, they'll go off and eat everything they can find!"
"Um... how many times can he do that?" Big Chill asked.
"You guys ever wonder what happened to Mars? It used to be called the Popcorn Planet before the Martians settled there."
"Oh no," Lucky Girl said. "We gotta go!"
They all set off to run before Orb called out to them.
"Careful! One wrong step and it could be your last!"
"What? Don't step on the gold?" Matter Girl asked.
"Gold is what happens when we eat popcorn. In that form, his waste is Uranium-1412."
"Unstable radioactive poop?!" Kevin asked.
"Yes. So whatever you do, don't step in the uranium!"
Everyone set off to run, only Kevin accidentally stepped in the uranium and was blown sky high before falling into another uranium pile and again and again until Lucky Girl caught him in her mana grip as they approached him.
"Are you hurt?"
"No, Gwen. I like being blown up!"
Lucky Girl deactivated her grip and Orb ran up to Kevin as he crashed and the others ran up, Matter Girl riding her bike to them.
They heard a roar and saw Decka at the power plant nearby.
"I thought he was going to look for meat. What's he doing at the power plant?"
"That's the main food supply for our community!" Daisy said. "What? Chemicals are a substantial part of a Skunkian's diet."
"Ooh, that's bad," Orb said.
Decka approached the power plant and started absorbing the energy from it.
"He's absorbing the power! Once he's got enough energy, he's going to divide!"
"I've got an idea," Big Chill said as he flew up to the generators on the power plant's roof and froze them with his ice breath, stopping them in their tracks and shutting them down.
This didn't stop Decka, however as he began eating the power plant itself.
"Well, we cut off the power, but it's still hungry. Now what do we do?" Huntress asked, aiming her bow at the monster that used to be Decka.
"Get me close enough to talk to him. Maybe I can reason with him."
"Bad idea written all over it," Matter Girl sighed as Lucky Girl created several mana platforms beneath Orb as he ran up to Decka.
"Decka, it's me, Orb! I know you're in there. This isn't you. The meat has poisoned your mind. I know my best friend is inside fighting to take control. Please fight it. Fight it and we can go home."
Decka ignored this and grabbed Orb and brought him closer to his mouth.
"Hey!"
Kevin then came in and slammed Decka's fist with a giant hammer arm and caused him to drop Orb before Lucky Girl caught him and a bunch of explosive arrows pelted him in the back.
"Any other ideas?" Huntress asked, dodging a blow from Decka with a somersault.
"Yes. Evacuate the planet."
"Your species isn't supposed to eat meat," Firefox said. "What else can't you eat?"
"Uh, some heavy metals, lanthanides, fluorine, silicon, chicken nuggets-"
"Wait!" Big Chill gasped. "What was that about silicon?"
"Silicon? It's poisonous."
"Okay," Firefox said as she prepared her paw and Big Chill did the same. "Whatever happens, stay back everyone."
They both slammed the cores and transformed into...
"Echo Echo!" they both shouted before dividing several times and gave several sonic screams to Decka, just before a massive cloud of toxic fumes appeared and everyone looked to see the Skunkians from under Walton show up, generating the fumes on the roof of the power plant.
"That's it, everyone!" Daisy said. "Keep it up!"
Decka roared as he scooped up some of the Echo Echos.
"Come on! Bite us!" Jen's Echo Echos all shouted before they were instantly gobbled up.
"Oh no!"
"Bite me! Bite me! Bite me!"
Decka kept on eating and eating the hundreds of Echo Echos.
"The Echo Echos are made of silicon!" Lucky Girl realized.
Decka then got a horrified look on his face and passed out as the Echo Echos continued crawling into his mouth.
"Almost there!"
Decka then gagged and gagged before vomiting every one of the clones up into a big pile and he passed out again, unconscious as the Echo Echos transformed back into Ben and Jen, dripping with puke.
"Okay, that is officially the new grossest thing we've ever done," Jen groaned, shaking herself off.
"So grody!" Huntress groaned along with everyone else.
They looked as Decka reverted back to his original form and Orb jumped for joy and helped him up.
Everyone regrouped in Walton along with Daisy, who held the tied-up Mayor Coleman and saw a very pissed-off looking Decka standing with Orb.
"This mission went swimmingly and we have a new friend," Jen said as she shook hands with Daisy.
"If you ever need anything, all you need to do is call me. I'll be there," she said, smiling.
"You're going to be fine," Orb told Decka.
"We are so sorry that this happened, Decka," Ben said.
"Trust us, we're going to make sure the mayor is punished," Becky said.
"Your whole worthless planet should be punished!" Decka shouted as Gwen glared at him.
"Listen up, I know what happened to you was really bad. But you can't blame all humans for the actions of one! That's just disgusting!"
"Whatever. Come on, Orb," Decka said as he and Orb went to their rockets and he glared at the Earthlings. "I am telling everyone. We are never coming back to this dump again!"
Mayor Coleman looked down in shame as the aliens rocketed back to their home planet and Daisy took the Mayor to the Plumber's car and sent him off.
"Let's go, guys," Becky said as she hopped in Kevin's car. "We've got to go cash all that gold poop we collected on the way here to help update the headquarters."
"We'll be able to get anything we want with all that money plus our Plumbers' funds!" Ally said. "I want a pool table!"
"I want to see if we can get all that high-tech stuff from that deluxe RV from five years ago!" Ben said.
"I'm getting a heated vibrating chair! For all of us!"
"EEE!" Becky and Ally both cheered at just the thought of what they'd be able to buy once they sold all the gold.
"You okay," Gwen asked while the fangirling was going on.
"Do we have to talk about it?"
"Not if you don't want to."
"Here," Kevin said, handing Gwen the locket from before. "This is from..."
Gwen opened the locket and saw the picture inside.
"That day at the pier."
"I wanted you to have something to remember me. The way I used to be."
"Kevin, you know I don't care what you look like. I'm not a shallow whore like some girls," Gwen reassured him.
"Maybe you don't. But I do."
Jen honked Kevin's horn and he looked.
"Come on, guys!' Ben said. "The jeweler awaits! We need to get our money from this trip!"
Kevin walked over to his car and Gwen sighed, looking at the locket and she clutched it to her heart.
Next time on Ben and Jen 10:
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(Yes, . They all know what the next chapter is.)
I didn't give the twins a sample of Decka's species in this because I seriously don't see what benefit a form like that could give the twins in the long run. If they ate meat, it would only wind up with them going completely feral until the watch timed out. Sorry.