Ch.11: A Small Problem
The Tennysons were visiting a water park as Ben and Gwen gazed in awe and admiration of the sight of the super high waterslide known as Riptide Rapids that the park was known for. Ben was wearing dark blue swimming trunks and Gwen was wearing a purple and blue one–piece swimsuit.
"Six stories of twists and turns…," said Ben.
"Hurtling down a hundred–foot plunge…," continued Gwen.
"At speeds over 25 miles per hour," said Ben.
"Then, splash down into a churning the 300,000–gallon wavepool," finished Gwen.
They then looked up at the sign before looking at each other.
"You've entered the Riptide Rapid Zone," they cheered before high–fiving each other and running in cheers.
They climbed up the slide as Gwen passed the zone with a smile before Ben was stopped by the lifeguard, whose name tag said his name was Brad, as he put his hand out in front of him.
"You're too short," said Brad.
"What are you talking about," asked Ben as the lifeguard pointed to the height limit sign that featured a narwhal whale. Ben was unfortunately just a few inches shorter than its nose, whereas his cousin was right on the edge of it, meaning she was tall enough.
"Sorry, I heard the baby banana boats are fun for the smaller set," teased Gwen as she walked towards the slide.
A very annoyed Ben walked away to a wooden support pillar and hid behind it before activating the Omnitrix.
"We'll see who's too small when Ripjaws goes up for a dip," said Ben.
He activated the core and slammed his hand against it as usual. But for some reason, the core didn't press down. He tried several times with no results as he groaned in frustration.
"Come on! Work," he whispered before finally slamming the watch against the pillar, splintering some of the wood before it sent out sparks of green electricity, activating the transformation, but it wasn't Ripjaws. In his place, stood Gray Matter, which obviously didn't help at all with the high limit rule.
"Huh," Grey Matter asked, looking over himself. "Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! Anything but being a micro–munchkin! Even Stinkfly would've been better!"
Little did he know that things weren't about to get much better for him as he felt the ground shake beneath him when several kids stamped towards the water slide, completely unaware of the small alien in front of them they were about to crush.
"That's not good at all," said Grey Matter in panic.
(Theme song:
It started when an alien device did what it did,
And stuck itself upon his wrist with secrets that it hid,
Now he's got super powers, he's no ordinary kid,
He's Ben 10!... (Ben 10!)
So if you see him, you might be for a big surprise,
He'll turn into an alien before your very eyes,
He's slimy, creepy, fast and shiny; he's every shape and size,
He's Ben 10!... (Ben 10!)
Armed with the power, he's on the case,
Fighting off evil from Earth or space,
He'll never stop 'till he makes them pay,
'Cause he's the baddest kid to ever safe the day!
Ben 10! (Ben 10! Ben 10!)
Grey Matter dodged and ducked to avoid the feet of the kids, all the while grunting. "Watch those flip flops!"
He then hid behind a pole and saw a man with brown hair and white glasses speaking to Brad about something none of the kids cared about.
"In 1951 when this waterpark was a cornfield, recently declassified documents state that an alien spacecraft crash–landed right here," he said as Grey Matter snuck past everyone, completely unseen due to his small stature and got to Brad's shoes before grabbing a lace from each shoe in each hand.
"Time to tie up some loose ends," said Grey Matter.
"So, if you can get someone from upper management down here so I could get some soil samples," the man said to Brad.
Brad groaned, annoyed. "Okay, hold on while I call someone who cares." He put his thump and index fingers in his ear in a position that indicated he was talking on a phone. "Ring ring ring. Guess what, nobody cares. Next in line!"
The man looked down and spotted Grey Matter running away towards the slide. "Did you see that!? An alien! Probably a remnant of the crash."
"Dude you've been out in the sun way too long," said Brad.
The man ran off towards Grey Matter, pushing Brad out of the way.
"Hey, no cuts!" he shouted before falling down due to Grey Matter tying his shoelaces together before he reached the pool as Gwen was about to go down.
"Race you to the bottom!" Grey Matter said to Gwen who noticed him. He then went down the slide as he cheered and smiled as he went down the twists and turns as he was finally tossed into the drink. "Now that rocked!" He then saw a shadow loom over him as he then shouted out before ducking under the water as Gwen landed in the drink right on top of him.
Gwen then spotted Grey Matter who peeked his head out of the water. "Grandpa's not going to like you going alien just so you could sneak on a ride."
"That's why I'm not going to tell him," Grey Matter said. "In a few minutes, I'll turn back to normal and he'll never know, will he?"
"We've gotta towel off, or, in your case, napkin off," Gwen deadpanned as she got out of the pool.
Grey Matter groaned before the man from the top of the slide surfaced out of the water as he smirked before raising his hand out of the water with Grey Matter in it before he gasped in shock as he was caught.
"There you are, my little alien ticket to fame," he said.
"Gwen! Gwen!" Grey Matter shouted in fear as Gwen perked up at that voice as she gasped at the man and realized he was holding her cousin as Grey Matter.
"Let him go," Gwen shouted as the man rushed out of the pool with Gwen following him in a chase as he stored Grey Matter in a water cooler before rushing out of the Riptide Rapids, past Max and Angel who were holding four snow cones as they heard a faint screaming for them as Gwen ran up to their side.
"Grandpa, Angel! That guy's got Grey Matter," Gwen said as Max and Angel gasped before trashing the snow cones and joining Gwen in the chase.
"Gwen! Angel!" Grey Matter shouted as he was tossed around from the rumbling soda cans inside the cooler as the man ran away.
He spotted the others chasing him to get the cooler as he rushed into the crowd before Max stopped to catch his breath from fatigue.
"I keep forgetting I'm not as young as I used to be. Go!" he told him as Angel and Gwen ran through the crowd before spotting the man putting the cooler in the trunk of his car.
"Let me out," Grey Matter shouted as the man closed the trunk on him and driving away before the girls could catch him.
"I can't go dragon with so many people around," Angel said with a devastated look she watched the car fade away from view as Max joined her and Gwen.
"Don't worry. We'll find him. Somehow," Max said. "Let's head to the Rust Bucket."
A security camera on the man's house spotted him driving up to the garage before parking and walking into the house to see a bunch of alarm beams shining through the hallway.
"Security system, off," he commanded as the beams turned off and he walked through the hallway, cooler in hand. His wet flip flops left markings on the linoleum floor that some cleaning bots easily wiped off.
He entered his kitchen and placed the cooler on the counter.
"Lights on," he commanded as the lights turned on. "Prepare dinner." The microwave turned on at that command as a white cat leaped onto the counter.
The cat smelled Grey Matter in the cooler and mewled as he played with the cooler before the man grabbed it.
"No no," he said. "This one is all mine."
The Rust Bucket drove through the streets as Angel looked completely devastated, but deep inside she started to feel nothing but anger.
"Okay, so if he's Grey matter now, he'll just turn back into Ben and go Four Arms or something and escape," Gwen suggested.
"But if you said Ben went alien when he did, he should have turned back before he was taken," Max said.
"Which means, maybe something's wrong with his Omnitrix," Gwen said. "At least as Grey Matter, he's smart.
Grey Matter faceplanted into the side of a glass beaker as the man examined him.
"Incredible. Truly incredible," he said. "A perfect miniature alien being."
"Who are you calling miniature," Grey Matter challenged.
"So, which galaxy are you from?"
"Actually, I don't know myself. And even if I did, I wouldn't tell you."
"Oh, feisty little life form, aren't you?"
"You want to see feisty? Just wait till I get big."
The two stared for a moment as Grey Matter glared.
"Take a picture. It'll last longer."
"My thoughts exactly," the man said before grabbing his phone and taking a picture of Grey Matter.
Meanwhile in a castle of some kind, a man dressed up as a knight with a cowl, armor and an elaborate golden mask was sitting at his laptop talking to the man over video chat. His name was Enoch.
"Mr. Howell," he said. "We've more than had enough of your fuzzy claims and blurry photos of supposed alien spaceships. I'm not someone you'd want to annoy."
"I-I know that," Howell stuttered. "But this one's different. I promise you." He then showed the knight the photo he took. "You see, he's only about six inches in size and converses fluently in English. Perhaps the Organization will consider?"
"I'm sending a car. You'd better not be wasting our time or our resources."
"Great," Grey Matter said. "A thousand people at the water park and the UFO freak spots me."
Howell's cat walked up, curious at the tiny alien in the beaker on the shelf.
"Wait," he said. "This could work. Here, kitty, kitty," he said as he knocked himself against the beaker to try to knock it off the shelf. "I taste just like chicken."
The cat, intrigued, leaped up onto the shelf and swatted the beaker away, breaking it open when it fell to the floor, releasing Grey Matter.
"I'm free!" he shouted. Unfortunately, Howell's vacuum bots detected the broken glass on the floor and trailed over to Grey Matter to sweep it up. "Uh-oh. I'm free."
He tried backing up to avoid them, but the cat was waiting for him there. Thinking quickly, he hopped over the bots and started running for the door with the vacuums chasing him.
As he ran out, Howell stepped out of his office and into the hallway.
"Howell Wainwright: alien discoverer! Let the fame and fortune begin!" He stepped into the other room to discover Grey Matter had escaped. "No!"
The chase continued into the kitchen as Grey Matter quickly hopped on the cabinet and drawer handles and safely onto the counter where the vacuums couldn't get him. He turned to his right to see the phone and got an idea.
In the Rust Bucket, Gwen's phone rang and she quickly answered it.
"Hello?"
"Gwen, it's me," Grey Matter said on the other line.
"You're still Grey Matter?" she asked.
"Yeah, the watch still won't work!"
"Where are you?"
Grey Matter carried the phone to the window, where he gazed through the glass and analyzed the surrounding area to pinpoint his location.
"Uh, there appears to be a mountain peak 13.2 miles due west with a vertical angle at 45 degrees."
"Gee, that narrows it down, brainiac," Gwen said over the phone. "How about a street?"
"Oh, yeah. It's Ripley!"
Suddenly, an alarm sounded through the entire house and metal sheets came down while Grey Matter was still on the sill! He quickly leaped off, but knocked the phone onto the floor in the process, breaking it.
Gwen then heard the tone signifying Ben hung up as she gulped.
"Ben? Guys, something happened. We need to get to Ripley!"
"Ripley what?"
Gwen then got a deadpan look on her face. "That's going to be a problem."
The alarm shut off and Grey Matter spotted Howell staring him down, angry. He then ran towards the tiny frog alien and clamped his hands over him, preventing his escape.
Fortunately, Grey Matter crawled up his arm, into is short sleeve and down his back. Howell tried to trap him, but only ended up hurting himself as Grey Matter jumped out of his collar and bolted for the air vent for safety. Sadly, Howell thought of this and removed the grate and grabbed him. Thinking quickly, Grey Matter bit down on his hand, causing him to yelp in pain.
As this was going down, inside the Rust Bucket, Gwen unfolded a map as she and Angel read it at the table.
"Ripley Avenue, Ripley Lane, Ripley Drive?" Gwen read. "We don't have time to check them all out!"
"Do we have a choice?" Max asked as he drove the Rust Bucket into suburbia.
"What's your malfunction?" Grey Matter asked the Omnitrix as he crawled through the air ducts of Howell's house. "Probably something stupid like the DNA splicing replicator copying a fragment of the amino acid sequence." He then gasped as he realized what he said. "So this is what it feels like to be smart."
He then crawled to a different section of the ducts until he suddenly heard a whirring as Howell turned up the fan.
"I'll teach you to blow me off!" Howell exclaimed.
The fans blew Grey Matter through the ducts, causing him to thud against the metal walls. Howell heard this and followed the thudding.
Grey Matter continued flying through the ducts before he found a vent and grabbed onto it before he opened it, finding himself in the kitchen again with Howell waiting for him with a broom in his hand.
"Gotcha!" he shouted, swinging the broom.
"Think again!" Grey Matter shouted as he dodged the broom as it knocked the vent off.
This continued for a bit with Howell swinging the broom and Grey Matter dodging it before he found his way to the sink and crawled down the drain.
"If he gets away, the organization will come after me!" he said to himself. "Come on. Think, Howell!" He then spotted the faucet and an idea came to his head. He turned the valve and water came out of the faucet and filled the sink, sending Grey Matter through the pipes as the water washed him away.
He then suddenly surfaced and took a deep breath and sighed. "Ah, fresh air." He then realized he was in the toilet. "This is so gross."
The Rust Bucket then parked in front of a house as our heroes got out and they glared. "I'll take this side, you take the other one," Gwen said as they ran around the house looking for Ben.
Max gazed through the windows looking for his grandson before the sprinklers turned on and startled him away.
Gwen gazed through the window into the basement before a spider crawled down and startled her and she ran away… right into her grandfather, sending them both sprawling to the floor, dazed as they groaned.
Angel looked from the Rust Bucket and shook her head, getting even more worried of where Ben could be. Ever since they met, this was probably the longest they were separated, and she was starting to feel lonely, even though Max and Gwen were with her.
Howell stood at his security system, gazing at the cameras' views as he grinned.
"You can run, but you can't hide."
In the basement, the cameras gazed through as Grey Matter climbed down the power wires and opened the power box as he grinned mischievously at the camera before he stuck his tongue out and flipped the lever, cutting the power.
"What? No!" Howell exclaimed as the lights and monitors turned off.
Grey Matter then glanced around the room, hiding in a potted plant before he spotted the furnace and grinned. "Ah, my ticket out."
He then ran for it as he hid from view behind a couch as Howell showed up, shining a flashlight through the room.
"Don't make this hard on yourself."
He then walked away as Grey Matter ran for the furnace and pushed the lever, opening it and startling Howell. He then saw Grey Matter crawling up the furnace as he glared.
"I'll smoke you out if I have to!" he shouted as he struck a match, igniting it and lighting a fire in the furnace, causing smoke to rise up.
The smoke-filled Grey Matter's lungs, sending him into a coughing fit and causing him to lose his grip as he fell down the furnace before Howell caught him with a fishing net.
Meanwhile, Angel, Gwen and Max continued searching for Ben until Gwen spotted a very familiar car parked in a driveway out of the corner of her eye.
"Grandpa, that's his car," Gwen shouted as Max nodded and drove forward.
"We're coming, Ben," Angel shouted.
Howell placed Grey Matter in a glass cabinet as the alien glared at him and looked at all the figurines and stuff of the like he had amassed.
"Something tells me you're the kind of guy who has a lot of friends."
"Who needs friends when you have the fame I'm about to have?" he asked as he opened the door to reveal three figures wearing hats and trench coats along with knight-like armor. The one in the center held a small electric cage in his hands. The three walked into the house, catching Howell's attention.
"*gasp* They're here!"
"Yeah," Grey Matter said, thinking it was his family. "To break me out."
Howell turned to face the knights and smiled nervously. "You don't know how long I've waited to meet you people. It's truly an honor," he said, sticking out his hand.
Grey Matter looked in disappointment as he realized that it wasn't his family.
Speaking of which, Angel, Gwen and Max ran up the doorway and glanced at the door.
"Wanna ring the doorbell?" Angel asked.
"I'll knock– hard!" Max shouted as he kicked the door off its hinges.
"Where's the alien?" the leader of the knights asked.
Howell moved out of the way as he showed Grey Matter. The knight then walked up and grabbed him before placing him in the cage and closed it.
"Hands off!" Grey Matter shouted as he groaned and they walked away.
The others realized they got the wrong place as they saw a dog growling at them before an old woman in a wheelchair pulled up and glared.
"Rufus, sic boy!"
Rufus growled before he attacked Max and sent him sprawling to the floor as he attempted to bite him
The girls looked to see the knights carrying Grey Matter to their car as Jen gasped when she saw them escorting Howell into the car.
Howell didn't realize that his phone fell out of his pocket and onto the lawn as he entered the car.
"It's him! The guy who kidnapped Ben," Gwen shouted as the car pulled out of the driveway.
"They're getting away!" Angel shouted as Max finally pried Rufus off him.
"Down, boy," Max said as he pinched a nerve, putting Rufus to sleep as he placed him down.
"Nice trick, Grandpa," Jen said.
"Come on," Max said, standing up. "We need to find out where they went."
In the car, Grey Matter sat in the cage as he looked at the knights with a nervous look on his face. "I've got a bad feeling about these guys."
"That's because you're the one in the cage and I'm not," Howell said as they drove up to the castle from earlier.
The knights and Howell exited the car and entered the castle, cage in hand.
Back at Howell's house, Angel, Gwen and Max contemplated their next move as Max gazed through the window to the garage, where he spotted the same car model as the one at the old lady's house.
"The old lady and the creep have the same taste in cars. Go figure," he said.
Gwen then glanced down and spotted Howell's phone, picked it up and pressed a button to reveal Grey Matter's picture.
"He looks so sad," Angel said as she let out a growl and spoke in a cold voice. "If those guys do something to him, I'll make them regret it for the rest of their lives!"
Gwen and Max looked worried at the 8–year–old girl before Max took the phone and then pressed another button to look up its call history and highlighted (555) 555-1034.
"If we can get a reverse trace on this number, we should be able to get an address."
"Grandpa, there's a sneaky side to you I'm totally starting to appreciate," Gwen said.
At the caste, the knights walked up to a desk in front of a chair and placed Grey Matter's cage on the desk. The chair turned around to reveal Enoch.
"A remarkable specimen," he observed.
Howell chuckled at the comment. "So, how are we doing this? Joint news conference? Getting on major talk shows?"
"We prefer to keep our discoveries private," Enoch said.
"What are you talking about? We gotta tell the world about this!"
"Actually, we don't."
Two scientists in hazmat suits walked into the room, wheeling a machine up as they placed Grey Matter's cage onto it.
"What? Where are you taking him?!"
"Our scientists have a few tests to run."
"Honestly, I've never been that good at tests!" Grey Matter shouted. "Or quizzes for that matter!"
The scientists wheeled the cage into another room and the door closed behind him.
"I found him! He belongs to me!" Howell exclaimed.
"He's ours now," Enoch said. "And you just became disposable.
The knights then grabbed Howell and threw him down the stairs as he groaned as he stood up and gazed at the knights.
"They can't do this. To either of us!"
A knight opened the door next to him and Howell slammed against the door, knocking him down as he ran to try to save Grey Matter.
Outside, a knight holding a lance of some kind walked outside the perimeter as Angel, Gwen and Max hid in the bushes as they gazed at the castle.
"This isn't a house. It's a fortress," Gwen said.
"Who are these guys," asked Angel as she looked at Max.
"They call themselves The Organization, a well-financed secrets society dedicated to collecting alien technology." He then noticed Angel and Gwen looking at him weird. "Hey, when you've been around for as long as I have, you pick up a few things."
In the castle's lab, the scientists wheeled Grey Matter up to a machine that looked like it was right out of a James Bond movie and they showed him a mock up of himself strapped to a table.
One of the scientists activated the machine and three laser pointers came out and sliced the mock up vertically, scaring Grey Matter out of his skin.
"Prepare the subject for dissection."
Meanwhile, the others hid in a tree as the knights patrolled the castle grounds as Max looked to Angel, who brought out her dragon wings and took a deep breath.
"Ready," asked Max.
"Not really, but here goes nothing," said Angel as she flapped her wings with everything she had to make a wind that blew Max and Gwen to the castle, and landed on the balcony, which unfortunately caught the attention of some guards as Max smiled at them.
"Hi there," he said as the knight prepared to attack with his lance before Angel flew in and struck him with her tail, sending him into a wall. Another guard noticed this and ran to the small dragon with his sword risen, but Angel blew fire at the weapon, which panicked the guard, but the distraction was enough for Angel to wrap her tail around his ankle and span him around before throwing him into the wall. The first guard managed to get up and went to strike her, but she flew higher before blasting him in the back with fire, which sent him flying out of the castle. She looked at the second guard, who was barely moving and grabbed him by the throat, and glared at him with hatred in her eyes.
"Small, grey alien was taken here a few minutes ago! Where is he!? WHERE IS HE," shouted Angel at the terrified guard.
Max and Gwen looked in shock at the small dragon. They've never seen her act like this. It's like she was possessed.
"WHERE HAVE YOU TAKEN HIM," Angel shouted and the guard shook in fear at the sight of the furious dragon.
"As f–f–far as I k–k–know, it's i–i–in the lab," replied the guard.
"You better be right," said Angel in a cold voice before flying in the castle with Max and Gwen following her.
Meanwhile, one of the scientists pressed a code into one of the doors before he was suddenly knocked unconscious once Howell hit him with a fire extinguisher. He then stole his uniform, put it on and pressed the Enter button, opening the door. He walked in to see Grey Matter strapped to the table and about to be dissected by the lasers.
"Uh, don't bother with the laser slicing! I'm just as grey on the inside as I am on the out!"
"Let me assist you," Howell said as he used the fire extinguisher to knock the other scientist out before he pulled off the mask and put his glasses back on.
"What are you doing?!" Grey Matter shouted.
"Getting you out of here," Howell said as he used the lasers to break the metal bonds that restrained Grey Matter, freeing him before the door opened again and two more scientists walked in and realized what Howell was doing before rushing up to him.
"Back off! Aliens are people too! Well… sort of…" he then used the machine's laser tendrils to grab the scientists and hoist them into the air before he grabbed Grey Matter and started to run away.
Unfortunately, the other scientist recovered and knocked him down, sending him sprawling to the floor as Grey Matter fell out of his hands. He then tried to grab Grey Matter before Howell grabbed his leg and engaged in a struggle with him as the door opened.
"Go! Get out of here!" he shouted.
Grey Matter didn't need to be told twice as he ran out of the room and into the hallway… right before he went splat against a leg.
"Ow!" Angel, who had turned back to human, shouted as she clutched her leg. She then looked down and realized who hit her. "Ben!"
"Angel!" he said as she nuzzled him against her cheek.
"I was so worried about you!"
"Let's save the family reunion for the road," Max said.
"Right," Angel said as they ran off.
They avoided the knights, who were searching for their escaped prisoner before they ducked into another room before they found themselves in total darkness.
Suddenly, the lights on the floor illuminated the room, revealing glass pods filled with what was obviously alien technology as they dropped their jaws in awe of their discovery.
"Look at all this alien tech!" Grey Matter said.
A knight ran up to Enoch's desk before bowing.
"Sir, our scientists were found unconscious and the alien is missing," he reported. "There's also been a security breach at the northeast perimeter."
"Find me that alien," said Enoch.
The Tennysons gazed along the walls in awe as they looked at the alien technology.
"Oh man," Grey Matter said. "These guys have no clue what they've got here."
"Or maybe they do," Gwen said.
"We've got to destroy everything," Grey Matter told them.
Suddenly, the door opened again and Enoch and the knights spilled into the room along with two more who were restraining Howell.
"Spread out and find them!" he ordered as the knights ran up as the Tennysons ducked for cover.
Grey Matter glanced at the technology and got to thinking before he suddenly got an idea.
"Gwen, grab that pulse hypercore. Grandpa, the gillenium capacitor," he ordered before his family looked at him funny. "It's not Ben talking, it's Grey Matter. Trust me!"
Max and Gwen did as they were told and brought the hypercore and capacitor to Grey Matter before a laser blast fired near them and they spotted a knight by them.
"They're over here!" he shouted before Max tackled him and took his lance before opening fire on the other knights.
"Get out of here!" Grey Matter said to Angel and Gwen.
"What about you," Angel asked.
"If I can get inside the power grid, I can hook the hypercore and capacitor up to it. This is where small comes in handy," he said as Angel looked at him with pleading eyes.
"Please be safe."
"I will, now go. I'll meet you outside," he said as Gwen and Angel ran off and shook Max's shoulder.
"Grandpa, we gotta go!" Gwen shouted as they ran off as the knights took notice and followed them.
Grey Matter entered the opening in the power grid and took the hypercore and capacitor with them before he unplugged the wires within the grid and plugged them into the hypercore and capacitor.
Outside, the core started discharging powerful energy pulses as the knights and Howell looked on in shock.
"The reaction will decimate the castle and everything in it!" Enoch realized. "Everyone out! Except you, Howell. You and your little alien have been nothing but trouble."
He then tossed Howell away before running off as the alien twins exited the core. Unfortunately, the Omnitrix finally timed out as he was exiting, resulting in him getting his hand stuck in the grid.
"Oh man, just when I didn't want you to work!" he shouted.
Howell recovered and stood up, and saw Ben.
"Huh? Where did you come from," asked Howell.
"I'll tell you later," said Ben. "Can you give me a hand?"
Howell nodded before he grabbed Ben's hand and pried it out of the grid.
"Thanks," Ben said. "A friend told me we gotta get out of here!"
Max, Gwen and Angel escaped from the mansion, running for the woods as they watched the explosion before Ben and Howell escaped as the explosion destroyed the mansion completely. It was as if it never existed.
"Did anyone see where that little alien went?" Howell asked.
"Nope," Ben said with a smirk.
"Well, I am done with anything alien-related."
He then walked off leaving the Tennysons alone.
"I don't think we'll be running into him anytime soon," Gwen said.
"Good thing too," Ben said.
The Rust Bucket drove down the road as Ben sighed in relief. "Feels good to be big again."
Gwen chuckled. "Big? Get real, freak."
"Don't make me go Four Arms on you," Ben said as the Omnitrix discharged energy again and they gasped. "I didn't do anything, I swear!"
"We so have to get that fixed," Angel said.
Back at the debris of the castle, a car pulled up containing Enoch, surrounded by some computers as he glared beneath his mask at pictures of the Tennysons.
"Find out all there is to know about these people."
To be continued…
Hey, everyone. I it's been a long time, but I'm finally back with another chapter. I haven't given up on the story, no way! I plan to do it all the way. I'm not sure when the next chapter will come out. Hopefully in April or May. Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I'll see you all next time. Until then, have a nice day and stay safe.
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