Welcome back. It's that time for another chapter again. When we last left our heroes, they won a Pivonka dance off, saved Suzzy and recovered the map. What are they doing now? Let's find out.
Later that evening
Michael, Milo, Ben and Suzzy were laying at bar relaxing while other patrons were fast asleep. Her family was tied up tightly and stowed away in the wine storage in the basement.
Suzzy giggled at all that's happened tonight. "That was really amazing you guys." She said happily. "Yeah. Only Michael In The Hat can win a dance battle that epic. But, that was team effort." Milo said. "So, you're really an alien?" Suzzy asked. Milo sighs and answers. "Yeah. I'm an alien. I'm sorry if it bugs you." He apologized feeling dejected.
Suzzy shook her head. "Oh no. no. no. I'm not disturbed by it at all. I think you're amazing." She assured Milo. "As a matter of fact, I think you look…cute." She said with a smile. Milo looks up to her and felt happy. "You really mean that Suzzy?" Milo asked receiving a nod, making him smile. "Thank's Suzzy." He said.
"I tell you. This day couldn't get any better than this dude." Ben said with a smile. "Couldn't agree more." Milo said agreeing with him. "Well stick with me bro." Michael said to Milo. "Earth can be a scary place. But I know everything about this pale blue dot." He said making Milo curious.
"Do you really mean that?" Milo asked Michael. "Well, not everything." Michael admitted. "But I sometimes watch Discovery Channel with Little Big Brain." He confessed what he sometimes does with Lisa. "I meant about… me being your brother." Milo said. Michael got up and smiled. "Of course. You're a brother from another mother." Michael said making Milo smile. "What about me? What am I to you?" Ben asked. Michael turns to him and smiles. "You're one of my best friends." Michael said.
Milo and Ben both smiled with excitement and happiness and they group hugged Michael taking him by surprise. "Whoa! Going in hot." He said between laughs. Even Suzzy couldn't help but giggle. Milo looks down again. "Growing up, I never had any friends, or anyone to call family." He said sadly. Suzzy gasped in shock when she heard that. "You don't have a family?" She asked in concerned.
Milo shook his head no. "Back on my planet, people in my village thought me pulling off parts of my body was unnatural. Even the chief said so himself. They even thought my Remote and Rocket Shoes were weird." He explained. "Even you're parents thought so too?" Ben asked. "I don't remember my parents." Milo said in a depressed tone. "They abandoned me when I was very young." He explained.
Suzzy felt bad hearing that. "I know how you feel." She said feeling the same way. "My parents died in a horrible car crash." She said feeling broken.
Flashback
A young Suzzy was in her car seat while her parents were in the front driving.
"I was 4 years old. My first day of preschool was over. It was a rainy day. My mother and father were taking me home." Suzzy began telling the boys. "What happened then?" Michael asked. "Then out of nowhere, a big black truck comes in the other direction, but it was in the wrong lane. When our car and the truck collided, the car flipped in the air and was destroyed." She explained what the damage was like. "My head was ringing for who knows how many seconds, and when it stopped, I saw the car was on fire." Suzzy said as her past-self woke up and was horrified by the fire. "Mama! Dada!" Past Suzzy screamed for them to wake. "I screamed and screamed for them to wake up, but they were dead." She continued telling the story.
"What a horrible way to go." Ben said in shock. "And then what happened?" He asked wanting to know more. "The police and fire department were able to get me out of the car and my parents were taken away by paramedics." She explains what happens to her parents. "And the truck?" Milo asked. "The truck was pulled over and it turns out the driver was a boy the same age as me at that time. He was laughing like an evil mad man." Suzzy answered on the urge of crying.
Flashback over
Suzzy started shedding tears. "That day, I was sent to live here in Siberia with my horrible aunt, uncle and cousins. And all they made me do was all the work around the place." She said with hate in her eyes. "Like Harry Potter living with the Dersley's" Michael said remembering that reference from the Harry Potter movies. "I've waited for the hospital to call and tell us that my parents were okay, but when I heard the news that they died, I felt all hope was lost for me." She sadly said.
Needless to say, the boys felt bad for her. Seeing her parents die at young age. "Man, that's awful." Milo said. "It is." Suzzy said in agreement. "Since then, I've been stuck here with those monsters, I've been homeschooled for 6 years, forced to do work, and been given the blame for everything my cousins did." She explains what's happened during her time there. "Kind of like Lynn and Lola when they try to put the blame on Lincoln." Michael says remembering those times when he was still in hiding.
"But then, you boys came along. Told me they have no right. I felt like all the hope I lost came back to me. And now thanks to you, I'm free to do what I please and they can't tell me otherwise." She said with a smile. "What were some of the things you wanted to do?" Ben asked. Suzzy thought for a moment. "Well…I always wanted to bring smiles to people and make them laugh." She answered taking Milo by surprise. "Really? Me to." He said.
Suzzy smiles then frowns again. "But my family always mocked my voice. Tell me. What do you guys think of my voice?" She asked them while they looked at each other in thought. Then she started doing voice impressions. "Is it a good voice or bad voice?" She spoke like Glinda from Wizard of Oz, taking the boys by surprise. "Whoa! You sound like Glinda, the witch of the North from Wizard of Oz." Ben said impressed. "Thank you. Thank you very much." She tried to impersonate Elvis. "Elvis Presley!" Michael guessed receiving a nod. Then she does Betty Boop's jingle. "Boo boop be doop, bop!" She sang and danced just like Betty Boop. "And that's Betty Boop." Milo guessed. "I studied all retro and classic earth cartoons on my planet." He whispered to Michael and Ben.
"So what do you boys think?" Suzzy asked sounding like her old self again. "Awesome." Michael and Ben both said. "Amazing." Milo said very amazed. "You do wonderful impressions Suzzy." He complimented her making her blush. Michael and Ben smirked and shook they're heads. "It's official Ben. Milo's fallen in love with this girl." Michael said to Ben. "Yeah. I can see that." Ben said agreeing with him. "So what about you Ben? What's your story? What made you create the Omnitrix?" Michael asked him.
Ben looked down and decided to give him the explanation. "Just like Milo, I never had friends. Everyone always picked on me and called me a nerd. Because I was much smarter than all the other kids in my old neighborhood. After I finished college, and got my decree when I was 9, I was waiting for my parents to come pick me up. But my Aunt Sally came, and told me what happened to my parents." Ben said. "What happened to them?" Michael asked in concern.
"They used to work alongside the Beatmen's. As a intelligence pass on group." Ben explained what they used to do. "When Screech killed them and they're agency, he sent 6 others who were evil like him after my parents. They call themselves the Destructix. Albedo. He thee brains of the operations. In one of my science fairs, he created a duplicator to try to duplicate other people. But it backfired and took my DNA, added into him, thus turning him into an alternate version of me." He explains Albedo and why he looks like Ben.
Michael was surprised he wasn't the only one with a crazy double. "Looks like you have an evil double as well." Michael said. "I guess so." Ben said agreeing with that statement. "Fiona O'Deel. The Leader of the gang. I had a crush on her back when I first started college. She was beautiful, sweet and…"He began and clenched his fist tight. "And what?" Michael, Milo and Suzzy asked wanting to hear the last part. "And a backstabbing heart breaker." Ben said in anger through his teeth making the others jump in surprise shock.
"Whoa. Tension." Michael said. "What happened between you two?" Milo asked. "She turned out to be one of those morons the whole time." He answered and looked at the ground. "I tried to get her to change her mind but she told me…" He began as he and a past Fiona spoke together. "You haven't one fundamental lesson in life. You can't count on anybody." They both said in unison.
The M Brothers and Suzzy were shocked she would say such a thing to Ben. "That is not true!" Michael went against that. "He's right." Milo said agreeing with Michael. "The only kind of people you can't trust are the bad people. Especially a girl like Fiona." Michael told Ben. "I know. She broke my heart that day, was with the Destructix the whole, she humiliated me and I hated her for it." Ben said. They see Ben was really going into an angry emotional state right and Suzzy cleared her throat. "How about we move on to the rest of them." She suggested, wanting to move on from the subject of Fiona.
"Then there's the guys who like to cause the real trouble." Ben began moving on to the others. "Sargent, the group's tactical advisor and the big guy of the operations. Lightning, master of stealth. He can break in and steal anything without triggering an alarm. Hawk, young assassin. He can use any type of deadly weapon to wipe out anyone. Taught himself to use those weapons at a young age. And last is probably the most idiotic member of all. Frog. The gangs flight enthusiast. Claims himself a true flyer and yet he's yet to become one." He listed the members of the Destructix.
"And why is Frog the idiot?" Michael asked. "At birth, he was diagnosed with a condition that makes him un-educational. He was also born without a brain." Ben explained why Frog is the way he is. "Wait. How did he become a member if he doesn't have a brain?" Milo asked in dumfound confusion. "I don't even know how. They probably recruited him just so he can drive people nuts with all the dumb stuff he does." Ben said.
Michael, Milo and Suzzy look at each other and shrugged. "So they killed your parents?" Michael asked Ben who looked at the ground again. "Yeah. When Screech went rough, so did they. They loved making my life miserable, they made it worse by killing my mom and dad and ran sacking my home." Ben explained and got real made. "That day, they made me really ticked off. So when I discovered they were behind it, I use most of the technology I had left and taught those morons a lesson. After that, the law had them sent to a juvenile detention center." He explains what he did to them.
"Is that like some sort of prison for younger age people?" Michael asked. "It's more like a rehabilitation facility. But they do have cells." Ben explained. "Gee. I'm sorry you lost your parents that day Ben." Michael said. "Me too." Milo and Suzzy said. "Thank's guys. That day, I went to live my Aunt Sally. She was the only family I had left, and my only friend." Ben continued his story.
"When we saw you defeat Scourage the last few days before summer began Michael, I felt like a rising hope was calling out for me." Ben said. "A rising hope, huh?" Milo said. "Yeah. If you were able to show evil like that they can't get away with what they did, then I figured I would be able to also. I just need a way to do it." Ben said as he had another flashback.
Flashback
He looks through the space camera he created and saw aliens like moths flying out into the clod depths of space, alien like dogs running around, and alien like turtles blowing gushes of wind from their shells.
"Then, I found a way." Ben began. He launched a device into space and it flew around different planets in just one day. "First I collected DNA samples of aliens all across the galaxy." He said as he was now constructing to core of the Omnitrix. "Then I placed the said DNA into a small containment device that will allow me to access them." He continued as he and Sally worked on the base designs of the Omnitrix.
"Then my Aunt Sally and I worked on the designing process. And then came the coding procedure. And let me tell you, it took me the entire summer to get that done." Ben admitted how long it took.
Flashback over
Then Ben held up the Omnitrix on his arm. "And after 3 mounts and 7 days, I finally finished my greatest invention. Today. The day I created Omnitrix." Ben finished. The M Brothers and Suzzy were amazed. "Gosh. Amazing." Suzzy said impressed. "Yeah." Milo said, Ben smiled and looked down sheepishly. "But nobody liked my skills of inventing. They always thought I was weird." He said feeling down again.
Michael knew how he felt. "Hey. I know that feeling." He told Ben trying to perk him up. "Me too Ben. I guess people don't understand things like we do." Milo said as he was in the same state as Ben. "But then Milo and I saw you Michael. The coolest alien in the galaxy. You were weird too." Ben continued. "And it made us think that being weird isn't so bad." Milo said with a smile. "I was thinking the same thing." Ben said to Milo smiling. "You inspired me to leave my home." Milo said to Michael.
Then Ben turned to Michael smiling. "And you inspired me to create the Omnitrix." He said. "To find you, and help you on your mission." The both said to Michael. Michael smiled at his new friends and new brother. "I'm really glad you're here, Milo and Ben." He said with a smile. "I'm glad I'm here too Michael." Milo said feeling happy. "Me too." Ben said feeling the same. "And I'm glad you 3 came and helped me. You saved my life. Especially you Milo." She said to Milo as she hugged him. Milo was surprised by this and hugged her back. "Aw Suzzy." Milo said lovingly.
Soon all of them yawned and got off the counter. Suzzy grabbed Milo's hand and they both walked up stairs. "Me and Milo will be sleeping in my room." Suzzy told Milo and Ben. "Night." They all said to each other as Milo and Suzzy go into her room leaving Michael and Ben downstairs.
In Suzzy's room
Milo got good look around and saw not much was in there. Just her clothes and a bed. Her cousins had half the room and was full of garbage. Luckily he was able to find some clean blankets and a heater. He grabbed them and the heater. He pulled out his remote and aimed at the heater.
"Machinery recharge. Electricity." Milo said as he tapped the button on his remote which zapped electricity on the heater charging it up. "There. Now we should have plenty of heat." He said with a smile. Then he looks at her cousin's stuff and shoved it all out the window. "As if those guys even deserved that crap." He said with a hateful look on his face. Then he changed it back to a happy face and grabbed one of the blankets. "Now you'll have no more of those guys making your life…" He began but saw Suzzy fall fast asleep.
Needless to say, milo thought Suzzy looked adorable as she sleeps. He walked up to the bed, got next to her and gently placed the blanket over both of them. "Good night Suzzy." He said to her, kissed her forehead and fell asleep. Suzzy opened one of her eyes, smiled at him and hugged him. "Good night Milo. My honey woney." She sweetly pet named him and went back to sleep. When they were fully asleep, Suzzy wrapped her arm around Milo and hugged him.
Back downstairs
Michael and Ben look upstairs and thought they went off to sleep. Then Michael had a thought. "I think I know who was driving that truck when it rammed her parent's car. A kid laughing a like a madman, a big black truck…" He listed and Ben pieced together the clues. "Scourage. He killed her parents when she was 4." Ben said. "Man, he was always like this when he was little?" Michael asked in outrage. "Tell me about it dude. That dudes an idiot and a killer." Ben described Scourage.
"I know. Right?" Michael said. "If he gets the Golden Emerald, who know how many people he'll kill." Michael said. "He'll especially want to kill you and the Loud's since you and Lincoln were the ones who banished him." Ben reminded him. "I know." Michael said remembering the many times Scourage tried to kill him, Lincoln and Clyde. "I won't let that happen. WE won't let that happen. Like I always say. The world needs a hero. I. Am. That. Hero." Michael told Ben in determination.
Ben smiles at that. Then he noticed Michael was in thought. "What are you thinking?" He asked Michael. "I'm thinking about what Rosy said to me. She said…That I have a family." Michael said feeling curious. "Could they be out there?" He asked. "Who knows." Ben answered. Then Michael reached into his pack and pulled out Rosy's feather. "But how did Rosy even know about that?" He asked until then noticed something in the stem of the feather. "Wait. What's that?" Michael asked as he pulled it out. "What is it?" Ben asked. It was a picture of a baby that seemed to resemble Michael.
"It's a baby picture." Michael answered. Ben got a good look at it. "Hey. That's you. See, the baby is wearing your hat." Ben pointed out. Michael looked at the baby and gasped in surprise. "Hey, that is me." Michael said seeing Ben was right. "That must be how Rosy knew." Ben said thinking he figured how she did. Michael noticed some parts were torn off. "Huh. Some parts of it are torn off and missing." He said pointing out the torn areas. "If they are out there, I'll find them one day." Michael said in determination.
Ben smiled at that, yawned again and walked toward the fire. Michael yawned as well and took off his cape. "Well, we might as well get some sleep. This feels like a good place to spend the night." He said to Ben. "You should be able to get clear readings on your gizmo thing when the storm passes." Michael said. "Yeah. Let's get some sleep. We have a long way to go in the morning." Ben said.
They both got on the rug by the fire. They both took off they're backpacks and used them a pillows. Michael put his cape over both of them and they used it as a blanket.
Michael turned to his side, place the infinity Sword beside him and went to sleep. "Night Ben." He said to Ben. "Night Michael." Ben said back to him. Then he pulls out his phone and texted to Sally saying "Good night Aunt Sally."
He sent the message and put the phone down and went off to sleep. And after a few second, reply came on his phone from Sally saying. "Good night Benjamin. I love you honey." And a kiss mark emoji on the side.
The next morning
Michael stretched awake, and when he looks on his right, he was shocked by what he saw. The old woman from last night was clinging onto him while asleep. Michael reached over to Ben wanting to wake him up.
"Ben." He said trying to wake him. "Wake up! We have a situation." He told Ben who groans while waking up. "What's up?" Ben asked when he fully awoke. He saw the old woman clinging onto Michael and made him stupefied. They both got up and backed away from her. "No offence to her for being an elder, but she still gives me the creeps." Michael said to Ben while shuddering. "Yeah. Me too." Ben said agreeing with Michael.
They both grabbed they're packs and Michael put his cape back on. Ben looks around and saw most of the patrons must have left, then looked outside and saw it was clear. "Alright. The storm stopped." Ben quietly cheered. "Alright. Let's go get Milo and get going." Michael said wanting to get away from the old lady.
Back in Suzzy's room. Milo and Suzzy were still hugging each other in they're sleep. Michael and Ben came in and tiptoed over to them. Michael tapped on Milo. "Milo." Michael quietly said his name while tapping him. "Milo. Wake up." Milo slowly woke up and yawned. "What's up buck?" He asked in sleepy tone. "Come on. Time to go. We have to get back to finding that compass." Michael said.
Milo got up without waking Suzzy up. Then he looks back at her and realized. "What about Suzzy?" Milo asked. Michael sighs and responded. "I'm sorry Milo. But we can't take her with us. Especially with Scourage, Sonia and Manic on our trail." He said denying to bring Suzzy along for the adventure. "But what if her family gets free from the wine cellar?" Milo asked in concern.
"Relax Milo." Ben said. "The metal I tied them up with, using my welding equipment, is the strongest metal on earth." Ben explained. "It'll take more than they're abusive ego to try to get out of that." He said. "But we can't just leave Suzzy here alone." Milo said. "Don't worry." Ben told him. "When this is over, I try to get someone to come here, pick her up and bring her back the USA." Ben assured him that she will be fine.
Milo looks at her with a sad face. The two noticed his look and got concerned. "We'll go wait outside for you." Michael said as he and Ben left the room.
Milo looks at Suzzy for a little while longer. A few minutes later, he left a note on the side of bed reading "Dear Suzzy. I'm sorry I didn't get much of a chance to say goodbye. Michael, Ben and I had to get a move on with our quest. I wish I could bring you with us. But Michael said with what's going on, it's gonna be dangerous. I hope we meet again real soon. You are the most beautiful girl I ever met. When I first laid eyes on you, my heart melted and it was love at first sight. And we promise, those monsters we locked away in the wine cellar will pay for what they did. Take care Suzzy. Love Milo."
Milo looked at Suzzy one more time, gave her a kiss on the cheek and left the room to join Michael and Ben. "Goodbye Suzzy." He said one more time and left.
Well there you go. They explained they're pasts, how they are now able to push on, and now the heroes are back on the adventure to find the compass to the Golden Emerald. What will they expect at where they're going? Will Suzzy make a come back, and how far are Scourage and the others? Tune in next time to see. Please Follow/Favorite and review and I'll see you in the next chapter. Good night.
