In a Plumber's Research Station up in space, two familiar figures looked on at a space cruiser heading straight for them from the window as they wordlessly fist-bumped and walked away from the window.
The Plumber's Kids were in the ship operating on autopilot heading to said Plumber's space station and Pierce sighed heavily as Helen typed on the computer as Alan and Jess surrounded her.
"Helen? Anything?" Alan asked.
"No. Nothing."
"There's got to be something out here," Jess said, hovering above everyone as Manny entered with Rosie and Simon at his sides.
"I'm sick and tired of waiting around," Manny said as Rosie sighed.
"Yeah. Aren't the heroes supposed to fight the bad guys?" Rosie asked as Simon nodded with a sigh.
"Not a chance, guys," Pierce said, standing up. ""The Wrench told us to stay here."
"So what?" Simon asked.
"So when he's not here, I'm in charge," Pierce said as the Light Triplets peeked in from the doorway, curious. "If you want to go on a field trip, you have to get through me."
"Sounds like 10 seconds of pure entertainment."
That was when a gust blew the two apart as Helen separated them with Jess crossing her arms.
"Stop it! Both of you."
"Yeah," Nate said as he and his siblings stepped into the room. "What if Max sees us fighting like this?"
"Oh, grow a spine, Nate," Manny said.
"Hey! Leave my brother alone!" Lila shouted.
An alarm started beeping on the console and Helen sped to it and read it.
"It's an encrypted incoming message."
Everyone looked onto the screen to see a recording of Max.
"I'm at Plumber Research Satellite Delta. Something's happening up here. It's the twins. They-"
A bang of metal was heard in the background as Max grew concerned.
"No time to explain. Get here as soon as you-"
A wall crumbled in and a blast of pink energy blasted into the room as the camera cut off.
"I've lost the signal!" Helen shouted.
"Well find it!" Rosie shouted
"I'm tryng- wait a second."
The signal then came back in and we saw Humungousaur moving the debris out of the way as Jen in her Anodite form flew closer to the screen with a scowl on their face.
"Ben? Jen?" Wade asked, shocked.
"Oh, look," Jen chided mockingly with her hands on her chin and a devilish smile on her face "Are the little Plumbers Helpers spying on us, brother?"
"You know what, sister? I think they are," Humungousaur said as they both grew serious and Jen flew over to the camera with a glare.
"First and final warning: Stay out of our way."
"If you get involved, we promise, Grandpa Max won't be the only one getting hurt."
Jen shouted out as she gave a mana blast to the camera and it cut off.
"Well..." Simon said, stunned. "...That happened."
"Okay," Jess said a few minutes later as everyone got into their seats. "I know it's a little late and you can totally ignore us. But we still think we should've called for help."
"There is no help," Helen said. "Cooper's on vacation with his dad."
"And Gwen, Kevin, Becky and Ally are all on a mission halfway across the galaxy," Pierce said.
"By the time they got back here, it'll be too late," Rosie agreed.
"We'll handle this ourselves," Lila nodded.
"Who needs help? It's ten against two," Manny said.
"No, Manny," Alan said. "It's ten against Ben and Jen! They taught us practically everything we know!"
"We did pretty well before we met them," Pierce noted. "And Max has been training all of us too."
"And now he's in trouble," Wade said. "We've got to help."
"Ben and Jen would never really hurt their own grandfather... would they?" Jess asked.
"They sure sounded like they would," Nate said. "For all we know, they've been brainwashed again."
"Or maybe Ben's got to lay eggs again," Manny said as all nine pairs of eyes glared at him.
"Ben made us swear never to talk about that to anyone!" Simon shouted. "I mean, I'm just a kid!"
"We have to find Max. He'll know what to do," Pierce said as Rosie agreed. "Until then-"
They all heard the radar beeping as Rosie turned to it and nodded.
"Proximity alarm. We're here."
"Plumber Research Satellite Delta," Simon looked up.
"So what's this thing for?" Lila asked as her brothers stood beside her.
"To store technology deemed to dangerous to keep on Earth," Pierce said.
Once the ship docked into the research station and the airlock sealed, everyone stepped out of the ship and looked through the dark dreary hallways as Helen looked upon the damage.
"What is this?" Jess asked, hovering above Helen.
"It's a remote access terminal. I think I can use it to hack into the satellite systems."
Helen did so at lightning speed as the camera shifted on to show Max.
"If you're seeing this message, then you kids made it to the satellite. I'm okay. I'm hiding out in the cargo hold at the far end of the satellite. Come and get me but stick together at all costs. The ten of you need to stick as a team."
Helen managed to ping the cargo hold and nodded.
"I'm on it!"
"Wait!" Pierce said as Helen sped off.
"Magister Tennyson just told us to-" Rosie began.
"It's too late. Nothing's stopping her now."
Shortly by that area, Ben and Jen looked on with a chuckle as Omni and Trixie looked to each other.
"You sure about this, sis?" Omni asked.
"The twins know what they're doing," Trixie said. "Trust them."
"They think they have it all figured out," Ben said with a smug smile.
"They have no idea who they're dealing with," Jen agreed, returning the gesture as they gave a low five and walked off to different areas of the research station.
Helen sped into the cargo hold as she cupped her clawed hands over her mouth.
"Max! It's Helen! We got your message."
The lamp above he started to shake, causing an unsettling feeling up her spine as Helen walked on, unsure.
"Max? You can come out now. I'm' here. It's safe."
That was when a stack of cargo crates collapsed and nearly fell on top of her, causing her to wheel back. She gasped as all the lights went out in the cargo hold.
"Oh, it's not safe, Helen," Ben said as Helen turned to him as he activated his Omnitrix. "Not for Grandpa Max and not for you."
Ben slammed his Omnitrix core down, morphing into Echo Echo and split into five as they all let out their sonic screams that slammed Helen back into a few crates.
"Argh! Ben, it's me, Helen!"
Ech Echo didn't respond as he blasted another sonic scream outwards as Helen began running away, slamming and swatting down every clone she came across with one hanging onto her back.
"No! What's wrong with you?!"
She ripped Echo Echo off as four more clones dogpiled her as Echo Echo multiplied into 20 and surrounded Helen.
"ECHO CHAMBER!"
The Echo Echoes all let out their most powerful screams and Helen covered her ears before her eyes rolled back in her head and she fell unconsscious. Echo Echo cheered as he combined back into one and turned back to human form as Ben leaned down to Helen's level.
"When you wake up, tell Grandpa Max that me and Jen are looking for him."
"Helen!" Pierce shouted as he ran up to his sister as he ran up. "What the hell happened to you?"
"It was Ben. Something's wrong with him and Jen. They're-"
"They're history when I get my hands on them!" Manny shouted. "Which way did he go. I have a beating with his and his sister's name on it."
Manny and Helen and Simon, the Light Triplets and Alan and Jess got into those specific three groups and ran off in different directions.
"Wait!" Rosie said. "Magister Tennyson said we had to stick together!"
"We work better in teams," Nate said.
"We'll find the twins, you two find Max," Jess said as they all walked off through the station.
"That leaves you and me, Rosie," Pierce said as Rosie sighed. "So if Magister Tennyson isn't here, where would he go?"
"Well," Rosie said, pacing the floor. "What if... no, no. Never mind. It's a stupid idea."
"Go ahead. What are you thinking?"
"Well... when the twins first recruited us, they tracked us all down through our Plumber's Badges. I thought, maybe..."
"You thought right, girl. That's a good call!"
Pierce pulled out his badge and typed in the coordinates as they as a pinging on the map and looked on.
"I got them. This way."
The two hybrids continued on their way through the station, not noticing a pair of glowing pink eyes leering at them through the darkness as a whooshing sound was heard.
"What was that?" Rosie gasped.
"I said we're getting close," Pierce said as the door closed behind him.
"Pierce?" Rosie said, her voice shaking. "Did you just ditch me?"
"Great!" Pierce groaned as he slammed the door and pressed a button on his badge. "Rosie, it's me... Great! The twins are jamming the locator signal somehow. But they can't jam the locator."
On the other side of the door, Rosie stepped back shakily as an all too familiar tune was played and the lights came on in the background as Rockette slowly made her way out from the hallway and smiled with narrowed eyes as she played the intro to Guns 'n' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" while approaching Rosie. She struck the final chord with a flourish that blew Rosie back.
"Can I assume you've got some fun and games in store for me?" Rosie asked, picking herself up.
"You could say that," Rockette smirked, twirling her guitar as she raised an eyebrow and smiled. "Cause I'm about to rock you like a hurricane, baby!"
Rosie shouted out as she punched the ground and a bunch of thorny vines shot out to wrap around Rockette, but, unphased, she slashed her guitar around and the edges slashed down the vines as she leaped up and delivered a powerful chord that sent a large pink fist out to bash Rosie towards the door as Rosie shouted out and sent tons of crystal shards at the Zepplian as she dodged and fired a chord to send a soundwave out that shattered the crystals.
"You may be part crystal, girl," Rockette said as she continued playing which charged up her guitar with the neck glowing. "But a rose is still a rose!"
She shouted out as she let loose a strong laser from the guitar that blasted straight into the plant girl and she groaned as she leaned against the wall and fell unconscious as Rockette changed back.
"That's what you get for snooping in our business," Jen said as she flipped her hair back and walked off as Rosie groaned in pain.
On the other side of the door, Pierce walked through with his map displayed as he entered a generator room and walked slightly in and winced at a flash of green light. He gasped as he saw Ben holding Max's badge in his hands.
"Looking for this, porcupunk?"
Pierce ran to the door just as the doors closed, trapping him inside as Ben looked down on him.
"Jen's already taken care of Rosie. Now it's your turn!"
He then transformed into Sludgeshifter and leaped down to him with a shout. Pierce sent a ton of quills at the Lenopan, but they just went straight through his muddy frame as he slithered towards him and morphed his hands into mallets, slamming him back into the door.
"Ben! Whatever's controlling you and Jen, you have to fight it!"
"Help us, Pierce!" Sludgeshifter said. "I can't... stop myself! You're our only hope!"
"What can I do to-"
He was interrupted as his face was splattered with the mud that made up Sludgeshifter's body as he laughed to himself.
"'What can I do to help?!' You're pathetic! All of you!"
He surged forwards and wrapped his muddy body around Pierce, who sliced himself out of the bonds before running straight for the generator towers in the room as Ben transformed into Goop and levitated over to the generator, his acidic body burning through the metal as he shouted out...
"TIMBER!"
Pierce leaped off of the tower just as it crashed down and he sprinted away from the area as Goop turned back into Ben with a smug look.
"You can run, but you can't hide! None of you!"
"Oh, this is dumb!" Manny shouted. "We've all looked everywhere and we haven't found squat!"
Helen looked and sped to a computer console.
"I found a command terminal."
"It's useless, Helen. Our badges don't even work right in here. What makes you think it'll work right in a terminal?" Simon asked.
"Whoever's jamming the badges needs the terminals to do it. So they should still be... got it! I detected a lifeform."
"And?" Manny asked.
"It's detected a lifeform. Homo-sapiens, on the opposite side of the satellite."
"You know why I like you, Helen? You're not totally useless," Manny said.
"You're gonna spoil me with all the sweet talk," Helen said, zipping off. "Come on, slowpokes!"
"Wait for us!" Simon said as the door closed behind Helen and the two came into a clearing and they each went into a different room that closed behind them.
Simon looked out, surprised at the laboratory before him and stepped through as he saw a flash of pink light behind him as he saw Jen approaching with a wicked smile on her face as she cracked her joints.
"Um... hi, Jen," Simon said, stepping back nervously as Jen approached, hands coated in mana as Simon backed up into a wall. "Aaah! Please! Don't hurt me! I'm just a kid!"
"I'm not a psychopath, Simon," Jen said as she transformed into Upgrade and oozed forwards, the pink digital lines on her body glowing as she leaped forwards and merged with Simon's backpack before shorting it out before transforming back as she smiled. "I'm just incapacitating you for the time being."
"Why are you doing this?" Simon asked as Jen walked away.
"I think me and my brother are going to keep that one to ourselves. Sorry, squirt."
Simon was left trembling in fear as Jen vanished into the shadows.
Manny, meanwhile, stepped into another room and pulled out his blasters as the door slammed shut behind him.
"I know you're in here, Ben! Come out and show yourself! The others might be afraid of you and your sister, but I'm not scared of a punk like you!"
"That's just because the others are smarter than you," Ben said, appearing behind Manny.
Manny blasted behind him as Ben activated his armor and leaped away, generating shields from his gauntlets and deflecting every blast as he leaped forwards and kicked away Manny's blasters.
"My blasters!"
"Oh, Manny. You don't need it to defeat little old me."
"You got that right!" Manny shouted, rushing Ben, who only dodged out of the way with a backflip as he activated his Omnitrix.
"But of course, you're not fighting little old me," he said, slamming his Omnitrix and morphing into...
"RATH!" the Appoplexian roared as he glowered at the Tetramand hybrid in front of him.
"I always wanted a piece of you anyway."
"LET ME TELL YA SOMETHIN', MANNY ARMSTRONG! YOU WANT A PIECE OF RATH? YOU GOT A PIECE! BUT YOU JUST BIT OFF AN EYE THAT'S BIGGER THAN YOUR STOMACH CAN CHEW!"
"That didn't even make sense!"
"...I KNOW!"
The two then shouted out and engaged in a brawl, landing powerful sucker punches on each other as Manny caught Rath with an uppercut and sent him flying through the air before he stabilized himself with his claws.
"Is that all you got, Tennyson? Because that was weak!"
Rath leaped up onto the top of a generator and attempted to body slam Manny, just before his victim leaped out of the way and Rath belly flopped onto the floor. Manny then picked the tiger alien up and got him into a headlock.
"You're not so tough. I don't know why everyone's so scared of you and your sister."
"Then let me show you, pipsqueak!"
Rath backed up and slammed Manny into the wall behind him, causing him to groan in pan. He tossed Manny onto a generator before leaping up to follow him with a roar of effort and grabbed Manny's head and held him upside-down.
"POLARIS PILEDRIVER!"
He leaped backwards off the generator before slamming Manny down into the ground below. He then grabbed Manny and charged towards the wall.
"ANTARIAN ARM BAR!"
Manny was slammed into the wall as Rath grabbed his head.
"OPHIUCHUS FACE PLANT!"
Rath slammed Manny's head into the wall several times over before he was tossed into the air as Rath leaped up with a smirk.
"SIRIUS BUTTKICKING!"
Rath performed a powerful roundhouse kick to Manny's rear, senidng him crashing into the spinning axel n the center of the room and he crashed into a control console before Rath stood over him, victorious.
"So is that 'Sirius' like the star or 'serious' like important?" the defeated Plumber's Kid asked, dazed and confused.
"LIKE THE STAR!"
"Just... wondering..."
Manny's four eyes rolled back in his head and he fell completely unconscious.
"So... are you scared yet?" Rath asked as he transformed back and walked off, not noticing the axel in the center of the room stopping and started sparking out.
"Danger, gravity scope shutdown," the station's A.I. sounded out. Central core damage. Initiate emergency procedure."
That caused a quake to occur all throughout the research station as everyone inside felt the ground shake.
"Oh, that doesn't sound good," Jess said as she hovered above Alan and Helen regrouped with Simon.
"Whoa. What was that?"
"I don't know, Helen. But it can't be anything we're gonna like!" Simon said as the door behind them opened. The two Plumber's Kids walked in to see Manny slowly waking up.
"Huh? What happened? Oh, hey guys."
"Ben did this to you?"
"Yeah. He got in a lucky punch... followed by a lucky hammerlock, a lucky kick and another lucky punch."
"Yeah. And I'm pretty much useless right now because Jen used Upgrade to short out my pack."
"And then it all starts to get a little fuzzy afterwards," Manny groaned. "...But there were several more pieces of luck involved."
The group then heard footsteps outside and Manny picked up his scattered blasters.
"They're coming back! Run!"
"No," Helen said. "I'm not leaving you."
"Whatever happens, we're all in this together."
That was when Pierce and Rosie came running up panting.
"We heard the commotion," Rosie said, groaning in slight pain from the concert she was just at. "Are you guys alright?"
"Great. Never better."
"Have you seen Alan and Jess or the triplets?" Pierce asked.
"Not since we all split up," Helen said.
"We'll fan out and find them," Manny suggested.
"Yeah, not happening," Rosie said as she shot out some vines that ensnared Manny, trapping him.
"If we split up again, the twins are going to pick us all off one by one," Pierce warned.
"So, you got a better plan?"
"Yeah. We stick together!"
"Good plan," Simon said.
"But I can cover more ground by-"
"We're sticking together. That's final," Rosie said sternly.
Alan and Jess walked through the research station's greenhouse as they looked on, nervously.
"Hello? Is anyone here?" Alan asked as Jess turned around and found herself face-to-face with an armored Ben.
"Gah! Ben!"
"Where are the others, you two?"
"We don't know! We haven't seen them in a while!"
"Aw, that's too bad," Ben smirked, activating his Omnitrix. "You should've stayed with them."
Ben slammed his core down, becoming...
"Big Chill!"
The Necrofriggian flew in the air, blowing ice at the two best friends before they split up and Jess countered Big Chill's blasts with her wind blasts.
Alan tried firing his pyro blasts at him, but Big Chill just went intangible and he took advantage of Jess' wind and flew faster, slamming her in the face and she was sent down to the ground as she fired her hand out and several plants from the greenhouse wrapped around his limbs as Alan blasted him with fire, causing him to cry out in pain.
"Nice move. Too bad I've got a few of my own."
Big Chill slammed his hands down into the ground and sent several tendrils of ice surging through the room and Jess and Alan flew and dodged around to avoid them as Alan fired a pyro blast that Big Chill instantly countered with his ice breath, slowly overpowering Alan's power.
Alan screamed out as he was hit by the powerful ice blasts and was sent crashing into the ground as Jess looked behind her to see what happened.
"Alan!"
Unfortunately, Jess wasn't paying attention and crashed into a tree in the room and fell to the ground, dazed.
"You two are out of your league, Alan and Jess," Big Chill smirked. "You are the two weakest links and you know it. Your teammates know it too."
"Don't listen to him, guys!" Helen shouted as she zoomed down and slammed Big Chill with her knee, sending him crashing down. "He's just trying to get in your head."
Big Chill flew up and breathed at Helen as she gathered her downed friends and zoomed off, dodging his blasts before he was pelted with several sharp quills.
"You had your chance, Ben. You don't get another one," Pierce said, pulling out two quills that he formed into swords.
Seeing himself surrounded and knowing Jen was currently in the same predicament, Big Chill took the coward's way out and phased through the floor with an evil laugh.
"Thanks, guys," Jess said. "What, where's Manny, Rosie and Simon?"
"Having fun with Jen."
Nate, Lila and Wade each bared their respective light powers as Jen suddenly stepped in from the room as she adjusted her Omnitri and transformed into Stinkbomb, stepping forwards as her pink fur stood on end.
"You know, Jen," Wade said, hands clutched with a smirk. "I'm not sure that Stinkbomb is any less smelly than you are normally."
Stinkbomb's eyes widened before narrowing as far as they could.
"Oh, ho ho ho. You are in for a world of pain, Wade!" Stinkbomb said as Lila leaped up and spun in the air, tossing out multiple moonlight daggers that hit Stinkbomb as she shook it off as Nate fired eclilpse blasts at her, which briefly dazed her as she let loose a toxic cloud of gas with a shout of effort before backflipping and morphing into Firefox as she sent a fireball from her paws that ignited the cloud, sending the three back as Nate shot a few solar blasts at her as Firefox dodged and slammed Lila with her tail hard.
"Lila!" her brothers shouted as Firefox landed on the ground with a glare.
"Sorry mates. Bro and I warned you to not get involved."
"Well that's not how we roll!"
Several vines shot up from the walls around them and wrapped around all Firefox's limbs and her muzzle, restraining her as Manny shouted out and gave out several slams to her as Simon came in, wielding a large blaster that he shot her with point blank along with Rosie's solar beam as she morphed back into Jen and she looked around at the six surrounding her as she winked to them before muttering a few Latin words and she vanished from sight at the Light Triplets blasted at her.
"She's gone. Probably back to Ben," Rosie said.
"Glad to see you three," Nate said.
"Likewise," Manny said just as the others all came in, completing the group once again. "We almost had the twins and they got away."
"No," Pierce said. "Don't you see? Separately, we're no match for the twins. But together, we sent them both running!"
"Yeah," Alan realized. "The twins ran away!"
"From us!" Jess exclaimed.
"Okay. Let's stick together through this. So what do we do now?"
"Well," Helen said. "I think I can still tap into one of these terminals and use it to find Max. All we need to do is-"
The ship shook again and everyone nearly fell over from the quaking just as it stopped.
"Why does that keep happening?" Nate asked.
"Maybe it has something to do with whatever the twins are planning?" Rosie suggested.
"You think that they're controlling the entire station?" Wade asked.
"Only one way to fid out," Pierce said. "Let's get to the bridge. Helen can access the main terminal from there, right?"
"Sure," Helen said. "Plus, I can try to access the main computer and find Max."
The team eventually made their way to the bridge and looked across to see two captain's seats and they saw the two figures in them fist-bump before turning around to reveal the twins with sly grins on their faces as Jen wrung her hands together.
"Took you long enough to get here," Ben said. "We were starting to feel a little neglected."
"Congratulations for making it this far, guys," Jen said, stepping up as they stepped up and moved over.
"You two had better give up now. We've beaten you before," Rosie said.
"Maybe you should do yourselves a favor and start running away."
"Or maybe you should wake up, Pierce," Ben said as the twins walked towards the Plumbers' Kids. "We've been three steps ahead of you all day."
"We've outflanked you, we've outpowered you and we haven't even broken a sweat," Jen sneered.
"This satellite is a dangerous place. We gave you a chance to walk away and you blew it."
"Now, we're gonna keep our word," Jen said as she crossed he arms and transformed into her Anodite form as Ben slammed his Omnitrix down and morphed into Humungousaur and grew to sixty feet, almost too big for the satellite, roaring outwards as the ten Plumber's Kids trembled in fear.
Everyone scattered as Humungousaur slammed his foot down and Alan and the Light Triplets blasted away at him, hurting him as Jen blasted dozens of mana bolts at Manny, Helen and Pierce, sending them crashing against the cross.
"Helen, we need a decoy!" Rosie shouted.
"On it!'
Helen went as fast as she could around Humungousaur's legs, disorientating him as Jen focused in the air and blasting away at the others as Humungousaur threw his tail down and got Manny as Humungousaur picked him up and tossed him into Helen and Rosie, knocking them down.
"Alan, Jess, cover me!"
Jess nodded as she and Alan threw out a flaming wind combo blast, blinding the twins as Jen blocked it with a forcefield and Humungousaur charged forwards and everyone scattered as Lila blasted him with her moonlight blasts, shouting out.
Unfortunately, the Vaxasaurian's crash caused the entire station to start to tip over.
"We've got to get out of here!" Rosie realized.
"Keep discipline and follow my lead!" Pierce ordered as everyone ran off.
"Wait, we're running away?" Nate asked.
"We have to!" Wade shouted as everyone got to higher ground and Jen groaned as she rubbed her head as Humungousaur burst through the ceiling.
"...We may have taken this too far."
"A bit," Humungousaur said. "But it's kind of fun, don't you think?"
"I guess."
Manny, Alan and the Light Triplets aimed their projectiles at the twins as Pierce lowered Manny's blasters.
"No. We're doing this as a team!"
"Just attack them together and keep them off balance!"
The Light Triplets triple-teamed Jen with their blasts, knocking Jen into a wall as Alan shout out a fire blast and Helen created a cyclone of fire around Humungousaur as Simon, using his mech, spun his fist around, giving him a wicked haymaker.
Rosie slammed her fist into the ground, sending up massive vines that wrapped around the twins as Manny slammed the ground, creating a metal wave that send Humunsouaur off balance as Pierce threw tons of quills down to Jen and they all stuck into her, shouting out in obvous pain.
Humungousaur shouted out as he slammed his tail into Pierce and Rosie, knocking them over to a small ledge.
"You're not gonna stop us!" Jen said as she floated into the area that Humungousaur knocked Pierce and Rosie into as her brother followed... not noticing the other eight Plumber's Kids behind them as Wade typed n a few commands into the panel next to them, activating hat was revealed to be an airlock bay.
Humungousaur roared to Perce and Rosie as Jen flew next to him and readied her powers.
"Helen, now!" Pierce shouted as his adopted sister zoomed in and gathered him and Rosie, getting them out of the airlock.
Jen shouted out to follow them... just as Manny closed the airlock bay, locking Ben and Jen inside as Nate opened the airlock, sending the twins out into space, Humungousaur's huge body destroying the ship the Plumber's Kids arrived in as Alan and Jess looked after them with a sigh as the window shut.
"You know, you're right, Jen," Humungousaur said as Jen crossed her arms with a groan. "You're right. We should've scaled it back a bit."
Jen sighed and crossed her arms, focusing as her entire body was enveloped in a pink glow.
"Whoa," Lila said, stunned.
"I can't believe we won either," Helen said.
"Well I can't believe we just blew the Tennyson Twins into outer space!" Alan said.
"You don't think they're gone, do you?" Simon asked.
"No. Humungousaur's strong enough to survive in the vacuum of space for a few minutes. And since Anodites are pure energy, Jen doesn't need oxygen to survive in that form."
"But how are we supposed to get them?" Manny asked.
"Yeah. They just ripped our ship apart," Jess agreed.
"I'll find Max," Wade said as he and Helen went to the controls. "He'll know what to do."
Helen typed into the panel rapidly, before her eyes squinted in confusion.
"Huh? This can't be right?"
"Bad news?" Rosie asked.
"Really bad news. When Manny and Rath trashed the command hub, the control systems took a hit. The station's losing orbit."
"And if that trajectory on the computer's right, it's going to crash right into the city of London," Pierce realized.
"Millions of people will be killed!" Nate shouted.
"Can the computer do something?" Manny asked. "Change the flight path, maybe?"
"What flight path?" Jess shouted. "We're in space! There's no flying in space!"
"This satellite's going to crash and there's no way we can stop it,'" Wade said..
"Well..." Pierce said. "There is one way."
"No," Alan began.
"We're blowing up this satellite before it gets to crash."
Outside, as the satellite began descending into London, it began to to burn up in Earth's atmosphere, several parts breaking away and turning to ash.
Meanwhile, everyone rushed towards the bridge as Helen read the controls.
"Okay, guys. Any three Plumber's badges give us the authority to set the auto self-destruct."
Manny, Jess and Wade pulled out their badges as Manny nodded.
"Leave them with me. I'll set the ship to blow up and meet you all on the ship in a couple of minutes."
"Manny," Rosie said, rolling her eyes.
"Our ship that we... blew out the airlock with the twins."
"I don't like where this is going," Simon gulped, sweating from the heat.
"But there's nothing else we can do," Alan said.
"Sacrifice ourselves to save millions of lives? I can die happy with that," Pierce said.
"It's more than worth it, guys," Wade said.
"We wanted to be Plumbers," Nate said. "This is what Plumbers do."
Everyone smiled and nodded as Pierce set the countdown to begin.
"Thanks guys. We made a great team," Pierce smiled.
"Self-destruct in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1..."
The Plumbers' Kids all braced for imminent explosion... and nothing happened.
"Hey, guys?" Rosie asked. "I couldn't help but notice that we're... still alive."
"Maybe I can jury-rig the damage to the security systems?" Helen suggested.
"I think I've seen enough," a familiar voice said as Max stepped out of the shadows with a smile.
"Max?" Pierce asked.
A flash of pink light lit up the hallway behind Pierce and Max as Humungousaur stepped in and transformed back as Jen groaned in exhaustion as Ben shivered.
"I can't believe you guys ejected us into space!" Ben shouted.
"That is just wrong on so many levels!" Jen agreed.
"Okay, I'm totally confused," Jess said.
"Xylene," Max said into his badge. "Activate the emergency thrusters from your station to get us back into a safe orbit. "We have some explaining to do."
The thrusters on the satellite activated and it began ascending back into its former position in Earth's orbit.
"So we're good?" Ben asked.
"Yep."
The twins both burst out laughing at the Plumbers Kids and Jen wiped away a tear.
"You guys should've seen the looks on your faces when we beat you," Ben laughed.
"I think Manny wet his pants when he saw you as Rath, bro!"
"Um... What's going on here? Why aren't you two evil?" Rosie asked as the twins calmed down. "What was controlling you?"
"Nothing," the twins chorused.
"Huh?" Everyone asked.
"We weren't actually evil, guys. We were acting evil," Ben said.
"And I think we gave a pretty convincing performance," Jen added with a smile.
"So, what happened here?" Simon asked.
"This satellite isn't a storage facility. It's a training station."
"This whole thing was a test?" Pierce asked.
"Not entirely. The 'Ben and Jen being out of control and attacking me' scenario was a test."
"But the 'satellite about to crash into London' part wasn't," Jen finished. "Manny, you and Ben really knocked this thing out of orbit."
"Cool!" Jess and Helen both elbowed Manny and he rubbed his sides. "What?"
"You ten put the safety of others ahead of your own lives."
"Next stop," Ben said as he smiled. "You ten sons of bitches are going to Plumbers' Academy."
"Sorry about that," Jen sighed. "We watched 21 Jump Street just last night."
"Did they just say 'Plumbers' Academy?'" Alan asked.
"We're gonna be real Plumbers!" Lila said, stars in her eyes.
"Make us proud. All of us," Max said.
Everyone then cheered and hugged each other, not noticing someone watching from a throne in another dimension as Scarlett saw this whole thing unfold from her crystal ball and she smiled, genuinely proud of her charges.
"Well done training your students, Ben and Jen," Scarlett said as she got off her throne and made a trip to her study where she flipped the page of a book that showed Ben and Jen fighting in different directions with her sitting on her throne above them. "...Now it's my turn."
Next time on Ben and Jen 10: Alien Force
Vendetta.