"I hear normal kids normally spend their summer vacations at the beach, or the mall, oh wait! We were supposed to go to the mall today.", Gwen complained as Ben sighed in relief.
"Sorry, honey, we got a little side tracked.", Max said as the three had been chained to the ceiling that was above a device Animo was building.
Turning a few dials, the machine began whirring. "This nuclear reactor is the perfect way to detonate my DNA Bomb into the atmosphere and de-evolutionize the world!", suddenly, a wall collapse by something with incredible force.
"Finally.", Ben sighed as he was getting nauseous.
Crazy Diamond stepped out, transforming into Drag Racer. "Alright, Animo, science class is canceled!"
"Fool!", Animo whipped around, grinning. "In less then a minute the world will get a lesson it will never forget! In the meantime, meet my latest creation.", Animo gestured to a Mutant Hornet that screeched and flew at him.
"Oh please, I'll run circles around that bug.", Drag Racer slid his visor down as he leapt into the air at high speeds, landing on its head which forced it down into a bunch of barrels that exploded. Drag Racer speeding out with a smile. "Oh yeah! Being a hero rocks!"
His victory was cut short as the giant hornet flew out and tried to stab him with his stinger but he dodged and zipped behind it. The hornet tried to swipe at him but he zipped behind it again, the hornet tried this once more time before Drag Racer leapt up and transformed into Oculus. Grabbing a support beam and firing plasma from his chest eye, the creature screeched in pain and flew at him.
Oculus leapt down and dodged it as it destroyed the support beam. Using his multiple eyes, he fired electricity at the flying mutant. "Hey! Eye Guy, DNA bomb ticking down over here, remember?", Gwen called out to him.
"Gimme a second!", Oculus responded as one of his smaller eyes extended and blasted the chain. Once they started falling, Max grabbed the two and used his grappling hook to swing to safety. They rolled out the way as the hornet tried stinging them, but got its stinger stuck.
"Your energy beams will have no effect on that casing!", Animo mocked, referring to the metallic casing.
Oculus scratched his chin, and decided to go for a more direct approach. "If I can't shut it down.", he slapped the Omnitrix and transformed into Sunburn. "Then I'll just have to turn it up.", he shot a beam of fire at the water tank.
"Alex, you don't know what that's going to do!", Gwen said as the room started shaking.
"Can't be any worse then what's gonna happen if I don't.", Sunburn didn't look at her as bolts flew off, steam coming from the holes as electricity surged from the console.
"No! Youre overloading the system!", Animo ran off.
"That's the idea.", Sunburn grinned as the machine made a loud beep, in which Sunburn stopped. Turning around and giving them a thumbs up, they quickly ran and hid behind something as Sunburn was hit with a DNA wave, sending him tumbling back.
Sunburn got up as the Omnitrix timed out. "You may have ruined my plans today, Alexander! But there's always tomorrow!", Animo said as he flew off on his mutant hornet.
"Alex, are you okay?", Max asked as he came out from his hiding spot .
"Yeah, good thing I was Sunburn, cuz that DNA wave would've fucked me up.", Alex said with a confident smile, the Omnitrix started glowing... orange?
"What's up with the watch?", Ben asked as Alex simply shrugged the orange glow switches to the usual green.
"Oh that's tight!", Alex activated the Omnitrix as he stated running.
"Now hold on, Alex, we don't know what's going on-", before Max could continue he was cut off.
"But Animo's getting away, can't catch him like this.", Alex slammed down as he turned into Cold Soar, flying up before falling down as Beowulf, transformed into Crazy Diamond, then into Trench Monkey. "Okay... I can work with this."
~
Animo flies through a room full of vats do toxic sludge. "Someday, my pet that snot nosed brat will get his!"
He heard monkey chirps. "In the meantime, here's yours!", Trench Monkey swung in on his web and kicked Animo in the face. He got up on a walk and spat on the eyes of the hornet.
"You little-!", Animo turned his head as he crashed into a wall, his mutant hornet pinning him to the floor.
"Ouch.", Trench Monkey chirped as he he flashed red, Alex falling to the floor but was caught by Gwen.
"You're getting good at those spells.", Max praised as Gwen smiled.
"Practice makes perfect.", a red flash erupted as Alex was floating there, giving her a thumbs up.
Shortly after, the Rust Bucket drove out of the cave. "That was awesome! What's next?"
"Now we get to do something I wanna do for a change."
"What? Aw man."
"You don't even know what it is, Ben."
Alex watched Ben in amusement as he was boxing with a mannequin, he lost his footing and slipped. Sending the mannequin falling down in which a woman caught it. "This is a store, not a boxing ring.", she plainly stated as she walked away, the mannequins head falling off.
"Guess she lost her head.", Alex snickered as he and Ben walked back to Max.
"How do you think these will make me look?", Gwen asked as she pulled up different articles of clothing.
"Like a total- ACK!", Ben was put into a chokehold by Alex, struggling to get out of his grip. Gwen walked past and blew a raspberry. In which he was released.
"Let's not ruin Gwen's day, huh?", Max looked at Ben as he rubbed his throat.
"What about ruining my day? I'm the one stuck in some dumb clothing store during my summer vacation.", Ben crossed his arms as Alex facepalmed.
"Now Ben, Gwen needs a break from battling bad guys and aliens. She just wants to feel normal.", Max said shaking Ben lightly.
"There's nothing normal about, Gwen. C'mon Alex, back me up.", Ben elbowed Alex in the side.
"Hmmmmmm... nah.", Alex simply shrugged, not even bothering to answer.
"This is so fun! Can we go shoe shopping after this?", Gwen stepped out of the changing room wearing yellow-tinted glasses, a light blue collared shirt, a blue vest, black pants, and red and white shoes.
"That's where I draw the line.", Alex said as he looked down, the Omnitrix started whirring, it flashed red for a few seconds before an orange light bursted from the dial and discharges a burst of energy which knocked him and Gwen into the store worker from before.
"Alex!", Gwen crossed her arms with an annoyed expression.
"Hey it's not my fault!"
"Banned from an entire mall?! I've never been so humiliated in my entire life.", Gwen said with a frown.
"That's not true, you've been humiliated plenty of times worse then that.", Ben bluntly stated.
"Yeah, and because of you and Alex!", Gwen shoved him as Alex was confused on what he did.
"Now now, we'll all feel better after a good nights sleep.", Max said separating the two.
"Only if I wake up with them gone.", Gwen stormed off.
In the middle of a forest, the four were fast asleep. That's when a bright light shone through the gaps of the blinds. "Ahh for fuck sakes.", Alex groaned.
"Someone turn off the sun.", Ben covered his eyes with his blanket.
"It's 3:30... the sun doesn't come up for another two hours.", once Max said this, they immediately woke up. Ben looked out the window to see something land. The four ran outside to see a giant alien ship.
They heard the sound of footsteps walking towards them. "Oh you messed with the wrong fourteen year old.", Alex yawned as he was about to activate the Omnitrix, but was met with a crystal landing in front of him. "Tetrax?"
Tetrax walked out of the dust cloud, his hood slipping back. "Good to see you, Alex.", Tetrax did a sort of salute, in which Alex and Ben did the same.
"We haven't seen you since we took down SixSix together.", Gwen said with a smile. "How've you been?"
Tetrax simply smiled. "I've been a little busy. But I came as soon as I heard."
Alex scoffed. "You mean about Zs'Skayr and his freaks trying to eradicate all life on Earth? Already took care of it.", he said confidently
"I know, that's not why I'm here.", Alex listen intently. "I picked up the SDM signal from the Omnitrix.", Tetrax said pointing at the Omnitrix.
"SDM?", Alex thought on it, muttering to himself. "Self Destruct Mode..."
"Exactly. You see whenever the Omnitrix begins a self destruct countdown it broadcasts a signal.", Tetrax explained.
Alex looked at the Omnitrix, seeing trace amounts of orange creeping out of the dial. "So the Omnitrix is gonna blow itself up?"
"And you with it.", Tetrax quickly answered. "So do you have any idea on what activated the Self Destruct Mode?", Alex simply shook his head.
"You don't remember anything that caused this to happen?", Gwen asked him looking up at Alex.
"Nope. Beside, Tetrax is gonna fix it.", Alex shrugged.
"I haven't a clue on how to deactivate the Omnitrix. Only Azmuth would know.", the four looked confused at the name Azmuth. Tetrax continued. "The rumored creator of the Omnitrix, the tales on him are sketchy at beat. No one even knows what planet he's on."
"So how are you gonna find him?", Gwen asked.
"On my ship I have a the equipment to scan for Azmuth's DNA signature, it's like an autograph, once we have that. We can scan the Galaxy for him.", Tetrax examined the pattern as more orange grew.
"How much time do we have?"
"Judging from the patterns repetition, I say less then four earth days. Go get dressed, we need to go before someone else comes looking for it.", Tetrax said as Alex nodded and ran back to the Rust Bucket. "Sorry to say you won't be coming along, Max, we don't wanna risk an alien recognizing you."
Max nodded. "I understand.", he said as Alex walked out fully dressed. "You ready Alex?"
"Fuck yeah.", Alex nodded. "We'll find the creator, he'll fix the watch and I'll be back.", he said as he and Tetrax walked on the ship. In which the hatch closed. He looked ahead and nodded as he followed Tetrax. "This is cool."
"Yes it is... cool, isn't it?", Tetrax agreed as the two stepped onto a platform, which hovered up and onto another floor, then through another hall. Alex looked around in amazement. "This is my training room, gotta stay in shape between missions.", Tetrax commented on a room filled with various devices and combat drones that were deactivated. "And this is the Hover Simulator. It can create over one thousand different courses, you're welcome to use it anytime.", Tetrax featured to a green room behind them, which had two hoverboards and a console.
"Awesome.", Alex grinned as the two walked down another hall and into the main area. He looked around, taking in the room which had a large holographic screen with an empty console, in which Alex jumped back when a pink blob with three yellow eyes with black stripes above them and two antennae-like blob formations at his forehead. "Uh... hi?"
"That's Gluto, my pilot.", Tetrax said as Gluto waved at him with a friendly expression. "I assume you're familiar with space travel protocol?"
"I'm obviously not, Tetrax.", Alex said as Tetrax just laughed. The two sat down, metallic bars lowered down and settled on their shoulders as the ship took off. Alex feeling the g-force pushing him in further into the seat.
That's when he started floating out of his seat. "Here we go again.", Alex commented as he just decided to start swimming through the air.
"Initiating artificial gravity.", Tetrax said as Alex flopped onto the floor. "Now let's take a look at the Omnitrix.
Elsewhere, purple cords coming from a ship sucked up energy from another one. The inhabitants of that ship looked out as they heard metallic foot steps. "Your ship will be useful in my quest to get the Omnitrix. And when I recover it I will exact my revenge on the Earth child who in-prisoned me in that accursed Null Void Dimension.", Vilgax spat, having noticeable burns on his left arm and tentacles along with wearing a torn cloak. He opened the airlock and watched as the aliens were sent into the vaccine of space.
"Master.", one of his robotic servants had walked up to him. "We have intercepted a signal, it appears to be from the Omnitrix.", it's bulbs glowed and showed him a holographic map of the universe, which had a green dot.
"The Omnitrix in space... perfect."
"You ready?", Tetrax asked as the two were in a large room, Alex strapped into a chair.
"Not in the slightest.", Alex answered with an enthusiastic tone.
"Don't worry, I had many of these tests formed on myself. Never felt a thing.", Tetrax reassured the human as he slipped in black and blue gloves.
Alex groaned. "You are basically made of diamonds, of course you wouldn't feel it."
"Good point. Let's get started.", Tetrax said as he put on a helmet and went to work. Once he did the seat Alex was in straightened out, the dome like attachment lowering and covering Alex in darkness.
Alex looked at himself as a full body scan was commenced. In which it finally lit up, showing he was in a blue void. A holographic version of himself was lifted out, until it was deleted and all there was left was the Omnitrix in which the hologram disassembled, showing Alex what the Omnitrix had inside.
{{"Can't find Azmuth's DNA signature anywhere. Do you have any idea where it could be?"}}
"When my grandpa bought my grandma a watch on their anniversary, he had them engrave some writing on the back.", Alex said as he heard a thud from Tetrax, the holographic Omnitrix reassembled, gained color and spun around zooming in as Alex saw five white dots.
{{"Found it"}}
~
"Now we can scan for the being with that exact DNA composition.", Tetrax and Alex waited for the results, which popped up. "That can't be right. According to this, Azmuth is on Incarcecon, the prison planet."
"That is so badass.", Alex smiled before looking at Tetrax. "Why is he there?"
"Unknown, but it's home to the scummiest of the scummiest lowlifes in the universe. Lay a course to Incarcecon.", Tetrax looked over at Gluto, who did just that, but before he could an alarm rang. "Security breach, lower level. We have an intruder."
~
The pair were on the hover platform again, Tetrax arming himself. "We have to assume the worst. If we to split up, we can cover more ground.", he said in which Alex turned into Beowulf.
"I was going for Phantom Menace but this works.", Beowulf shrugged as he got on all four and started to sniff the floor. The two split up, taking opposite ends of the room. Beowulf's eyes narrowed as he leapt up, landing in front of the intruder with an unfolded snout. He let out a groan. "Oh it's you.", he said as he folded it back up.
"How's it hanging?", Ben asked as Beowulf shook his head.
Gwen rolled her eyes. "It's not like we want to be here, but we figured you could use some backup."
"Mmhmm, sure.", Beowulf sighed as he shook his head. "I'm moderately surprised you guys agreed on something."
"I'm just that charming.", Ben smugly stated as he leaned on something, accidentally pressing a button and opening the hatch behind them. He quickly dug his claws into the ground as Ben and Gwen grabbed into something, Gwen was the first to lose her grip, but we'd caught by Beowulf's feet.
Ben moved his body just in time for crystal shards to zoom past and destroy the console, closing the hatch and allowing Beowulf to let Gwen go to slam into the closed hatch. "What happened?", Tetrax asked.
Beowulf looked at Ben. "Uhhh... door must've been defected, it just flew open.", the Loboan shrugged as he erupted in a red flash and reverted to normal.
Tetrax finally registered the two new passengers. "You both are the intruder?"
"Yep, we thought Alex could use a little help. Since we usually do all the work.", Ben confidently stated, earning a stink eye from Alex.
"We're pretty capable.", Gwen said equally as confident. That's when Tetrax noticed the countdown had sped up.
"Hmm.. the countdown has accelerated. I'll have to check something out.", Tetrax said as he walked back into the diagnostics room.
A little while later, both Ben and Alex were in the Hover Simulator, which was an endless sky. "Do you really wanna go home man?", Ben asked as Alex nodded.
"Yeah, I guess I just wanted to take a long break from all the weird that's been following us around for the past month or two.", Alex shrugged. "Is that why you guys actually snuck on board?"
"Yeah, I just don't wanna see you go yet man. You're like the big brother I've never had.", Ben said as the two fist bumped.
"Thanks man.", they both noticed Gwen was standing there, appearing to be floating.
"Aren't you a little bit worried that the Self Destruct Countdown sped up?", Gwen crossed her arms as Alex shrugged.
"I work best when I'm under pressure. Y'know the whole Zs'Skayr thing? Think of it like that.", Alex stated rather bluntly.
"This doesn't just effect you, y'know? What about your grandpa, or ours or even our family. I'm sure they don't want you to get vaporized.", Gwen said as Alex thought about it for a second.
"Look, Tetrax and I have it covered. We'll find Azmuth, he'll fix the watch and I'll keep doing whatever a fourteen year old does with a super powerful alien weapon.", Alex responded to completely unbothered.
"Tetrax said he'll deactivate it, not fix it.", Gwen put more emphasis on deactivate as Alex hopped off.
"Quit fuckin with me.", Alex narrowed his eyes as the simulation of as deactivated.
"Gwen's right. Truthfully, I thought you'd be relieved to have it off. You've done well with the Omnitrix, better then anyone in this Galaxy could have, but now you can have your normal life back.", Tetrax said as it reminded Alex of his first time with it. He hated it, he wanted it off... but now, Alex backed up.
"No.", Alex simply shook his head. "You fuckin serious? If the creator of the Omnitrix can't deactivate the Self Destruct but leave the Omnitrix fully functional should he even be considered such. I've done a lot more then I could've ever imagined, I don't wanna go back to being normal."
"Unfortunately, the computers confirm my fears. Your transformations speed up the countdown, to be safe, you shouldn't use the Omnitrix again, and if it is absolutely necessary, use only one alien and don't change into another one.", Tetrax said as Alex started shaking violently, orange energy discharged from the Omnitrix as he was sent into the wall, making a dent in it.
"Ow...", Alex said rubbing his arm.
~
Gluto murmured in his alien language, displaying the ships features to Gwen. "I see, that's very cool.", she said in which made Gluto blush.
"Great, Gwen's in love with a snot blob.", Ben crossed his arms as Alex was more surprised that a slime creature could blush.
"We're coming upon Incarcecon.", Tetrax said as the Resolute flew out of a portal into another part of the Universe.
{{You are approaching secure space of the Incarcecon intergalactic detention center, identify yourself or be destroyed.}}, said an automated voice.
"What now?", Alex looked at Tetrax, who typed away.
Tetrax seemed to type in a word in some alien language, which was denied, he typed in something else, also denied. He did it again, it was denied, Alex made Ben hide behind him. Tetrax did this again and it denied him again, squinting his eyes he did it once more, it accepted.
{{Vendor security clearance accepted. Proceed sanitation disposal bay number four.}}
Alex let out a relief sigh as Tetrax gave him a thumbs up. "Sanitation disposal bay? They think we're a garbage truck?", Gwen was moderately amused as Gluto piloted the ship in the fourth disposal bay, landing down.
"I've downloaded the DNA signature in my scanner, it should lead us directly to Azmuth. But once the prisoners see a human, it'll be trouble.", Tetrax said as Ben cocked an eyebrow.
"The rest of universe hates us that much?"
"Of course not. They're considered quite a delicacy and some even love humans... and I mean love humans.", Tetrax said rather bluntly as he searched through a compartment.
Ben and Gwen were confused at this. "I'd rather be hunted for food then hunted to be someone's life partner.", Alex said as he was thrown a mask, it was large and grey, having eye holes and a mouth hole.
"ID Mask, best way to disguise yourself.", Tetrax said as Gluto stood next to him in a grey suit that had a vent on the front and two yellow orbs around it. The suit has two black arms with grey fingers and has four small black legs with grey foot and each foot with four toes.
"But what about us?", Gwen asked as Tetrax looked at Gluto.
"Thinking what I'm thinking?", Gluto gave a clap. "Exactly. Before I procured myself an ID Mask, I would usually use a secondary disguise just in case. And I have just the one for you two.", Tetrax said with a grin.
They had entered Incarcecon, a massive prison with various floors and platforms, it was so big it could probably fit an entire country. There was a large spire in the middle that went from the top to the bottom. Various aliens spoke in their native tongues, others conversing in a sort of ASL-like fashion. There were aliens of all shapes in sizes and restrictions, one being a Kineceleran with a steel ball chained to his feet, others riding frog like aliens due to their small size, others appearing like a centipede, ect.
Tetrax had walked in, wearing a large coat with his hood up. Alex walked with him, appearing similar to a humanoid tiger with ripped pants... Ben and Gwen were struggling to keep balance as they were in a much larger suit, appearing similar to SnotRocket with the exception of missing wings and a more larva based body. "I'm an alien's butt... it's official, worse summer ever.", Gwen complained as Ben struggled to hold back a laugh.
"Hey, Rock Paper Scissors two outta three, I won fair and square.", Ben commented as he looked around. "Where are the guards?"
"No guards, no rules, no parole, on Incarcecon it's survival of the meanest.", Tetrax stopped the three as two aliens were brawling, one tossing the other away and running after. "These guys aren't the friendliest. Some are here for a reason, some of them, several of reasons.", Tetrax casually stated.
"Scary place.", Alex said as his now cat like face stretched in surprise. The four walked, Ben noticing one of the strange kangaroo-squid alien was stomped on.
"MINE!!!!", said a nightmarish alien with tentacles for arms, four legs, and a large mouth. He has six pink eyes. His body is colored purple and light blue. He has three grey toes on each leg. Using his tongue he picked up the dead creature and ate it.
"Help yourself, I'm on a diet.", Ben said as he shivered.
"What's happening?", Gwen quietly screamed.
"You don't wanna know.", Alex whispered.
"Snack times over, now move along, unless...", Tetrax moved his cloak to show a blaster, in which the nightmarish looking alien turned and walked away. "You three wait on the side and I'll scope this place out."
Alex and Ben nodded as Tetrax walked away, an alien bumping into them by accident. "Watch it.", Ben crossed his arm in annoyance as the three leaned against a wall. Alex's eyes drifted up to see someone in a cloak, nothing tentacles.
"Oh shit, he must've picked in the Self Destruct Signal, but how did he know the creator was here?", Alex asked as Ben looked at him confused. "If I'm going down, I'm taking him with me.", Alex slammed down on the Omnitrix, the ID mask fell of as Oculus sprinted past other aliens. "I'm gonna rip you to shreds!", he leapt into the air and shot green blasts at what he thought was Vilgax, exploding the wall behind him.
~
Tetrax had felt the vibrations before being kicked to the ground. "Yoti chata?", SixSix asked as he pulled his hood down.
"It's not my fault you're in here, SixSix, don't do the crime if you can't do the time.", Tetrax said as he blasted at SixSix.
~
Oculus ran along a large steel beam, shooting energy blast after energy blast as what looked like Vilgax effortlessly flipped out the way. He leapt at the alien but got his throat caught. "What's your problem?"
"Wait a second.", Oculus had a much closer look at 'Vilgax', who was female. She was similar in appearance to Vilgax. However, she had the Chimera Sui Generis mark of beauty on her center tentacle, and was leaner, with slimmer tentacle arms. "You're a girl!"
"I know.", she said before kicking Oculus far into the distance, landing in a the middle of a crowd as he timed out, Ben and Gwen running to him.
"He turned into a human? But how?!", questioned a Piscciss Volann Prisoner.
"The Omnitrix! He's wearing the Omnitrix!", said a Lepidopterran Prisoner.
"It does exist."
"That's our ticket outta here!"
"The Omnitrix, he's got it!"
"I think we're in trouble.", Ben said as they helped Alex up.
Alex looked at the alien with a frown. "You don't say?"
/End/
