Everything appeared blurry to Ladybug as she blinked her eyes open.
"Agh where... where am I?" asked Ladybug
"Why you're in the circus my dear." said a creepy voice
"Why would I be in the cir-" The memories of what happened earlier suddenly clicked into place in her mind as she awoke. Also as her vision cleared she noticed that the one who spoke to her was none other than Zombozo!
"Gahhh!" cried Ladybug. She tried to get up but found she was wrapped in chains to a poll with handcuffs on her wrists along with Cat Noir and Lucky Girl in the same predicament.
"Let us go!" demanded Ladybug struggling against the restraints.
"Now why on earth would I do that. You're my insurance deary." said Zombozo
"What are you talking about you psychopath!" said Ladybug
"Psychopath? Now that is very hurtful. I'm a clown and everyone knows clowns are crazy! And as for the insurance part. It is to make sure that the brat that stopped me years ago will think twice before coming to the rescue again!" explained Zombozo
"Who?" asks Ladybug. She could also feel Cat Noir and Lucky Girl starting to wake.
"You mean he never told you? What do you all not know each other's secret identities?" asked Zombozo rhetorically but after seeing a look of guilt upon Ladybug's face he realized that they actually hadn't.
Zombozo burst out laughing "Hah HAH HAH AHHH HAHA!"
"Oh man that is hilarious and I'm supposed to be the one that's funny." laughed Zombozo
"Laugh all you want it won't change anything." said Ladybug
"That wasn't the only thing I'm laughing at." said Zombozo
"And what else is that?" questioned Ladybug
"The fact that you'll soon be joining me in my laughter! Ahh HAHAHAHAHAHA!" laughed Zombozo
"Your jokes are even worse than Cat Noir's so why would I laugh at all." rebutted Ladybug
"Oh don't worry as soon as you get a load of my new and improved Psyclown you'll be laughing to DEATH!" said Zombozo with of course the last part with extra creepiness.
Ladybug began to hasten her struggle hoping it would wake Cat Noir and he could use his cataclysm to free them.
"Girly if you're going to try to escape then give up. Cause even if you get out of those chains which might I add are also holding up that pot of sulfuric acid up there." Zombozo pointed at the large glass cauldron filled with glowing green acid being held up by a long chain that if you traced back, was the same chain used to keep the heroes restrained. "Then you'll only cut the chain holding up that pot and also keeping you alive." answered Zombozo.
Zombozo left the area of the tent laughing but as he left he walked past a table with Ladybug's yoyo, Cat Noir's staff and some book she had never seen before on top of it.
"Now if I could only reach my yoyo." said Ladybug to herself.
The Rustbucket pulled up across the street from Ozobmoz's circus.
Grandpa Max placed it into park and got up. While Ben prepped the Omnitrix.
"Hold your horses Ben. If you go alien now you may time out too early you should save it for later." said Grandpa Max as he opened a secret compartment filled with plumber gear (not the toilet kind).
"Well how am I supposed to fight the freaks then?" asked Ben. To answer Ben's question Grandpa tossed him a plumber pistol like the one he used on Xenon (or is Zenon?) to fight Vilgax's armies and save the Omnitrix from self destruction.
"Alright I can work with this" said Ben.
"I'm ready as well Ben." stated Grandpa Max now in full Plumber uniform with a plumber energy rifle.
"Uh Grandpa maybe you should wear a mask or something to you know hide your identity." suggested Ben.
"Already got that covered." said Grandpa Max pulling out an old plumber's mask It was grey with a black visor completely covering the face. Every other part of it was grey except some black line on the top, left, and right sides of the mask.
"So let me get this straight. If I break this chain then it'll cause a big pot of acid to pour on top of us?" asked Cat Noir to Ladybug
"Yes." confirmed Ladybug
"Well than how are we supposed to escape then?" asked Cat Noir
"I have half of a plan." said Ladybug
"Half a plan?" asked Lucky Girl also awake
"Yeah if I could just get out then the 2 of you should be able to hold the chain and pot in place. Then I could grab my yoyo and use my Lucky Charm to figure out a way to save you two." explained Ladybug
"Oh yes excellent plan. Very Good very good. Well except for one thing." said Zombozo who had been eavesdropping on their conversation
"And what would that be? You're similar appearance to the Mime?" joked Cat Noir
"I don't know who that is and I don't the answer is simple. You'll all be too miserable to want to escape because now it's my lunch time." said Zombozo smacking his lips in a disgusting way.
"Oh no." said Lucky Girl
"Um are you saying you're going to resort to cannibalism cause that is not a good diet." joked Cat Noir
"Cat now is not the time for jokes." complained Ladybug
"I'm not going to eat you fool! I am going to drain you of your souls to fuel me." exclaimed Zombozo as a tube stuck itself into his back lifting him into the air. A light shown above an indescribable machine except it is grey and has blue gem/glass circles in its patterns.
"Uh what is that?" asked Cat Noir in fear
"The psyclown." answered Lucky Girl
"Yes! With some minor improvements. You are a perceptive one pink haired girl." complimented Zombozo.
"Now say ahhhhhh!" said Zombozo as he aimed the machines happiness drainer sucker (like the thing that goes on his back but instead of feeds it drains) at Ladybug.
She struggled against the binding and tried to move her face away from the machine but the tentacle followed her face and all Cat Noir and Lucky Girl could do was watch.
The tube attached itself onto Ladybug's face as she continued to struggle. it lit up blue as it drained Ladybug of her positive emotions completely. After a moment it came off of Ladybug's head to show her fave with tons of wrinkles as if all of her youth was just stolen from her except her hair was still blackish blue.
Seeing this made Cat Noir furious. "You'll pay for that!" he growled.
"Oh you poor simple minded fool I'm only just getting started!" exclaimed Zombozo with yet another creepy grin on his face.
Realization dawned on Cat Noir that he is next!
At the same time.
Ben and Grandpa Max saw all three of the freaks guarding the entrance to the circus.
"I assume now might be a good time to go hero?" said Ben
"Lets wait on that. First we should try to get the jump on them and activating the Omnitrix will give away our position" answered Grandpa Max
"So then what's the plan?" asked Ben
Thumbskull was bored and tired of standing guard. Even though he hasn't been doing it long he still has a short attention span and low IQ. He was about to fall asleep if he wasn't hit on the shoulder which woke him back up.
"Huh whah?" babbled Thumbskull who turned to see Frightwig behind him.
"You knumbskull stay awake! We need this job and I am not letting you screw it up for me." threatened Frightwig who stormed off to her position across from Thumbskull.
"I though my name was was Thumbskull not Knumbskull?" said Thumbskull scratching his head.
Just then Frightwig fell down followed by Acid Breath. Thumbskull looked up to see a man in a grey suit and mask on top of a stack of boxes with a rifle pointed straight at him.
"Surrender now or join your friends on the ground." ordered the masked man whom Thumbskull had no idea who he is.
"Yeah right I'm the strongest there is. You can't beat me!" taunted Thumbskull.
The mask man said nothing in response and opened fire on Thumbskull with his stun lasers. The blasts however only tickled Thumbskull due to his large size and increased stamina.
Thumbskull stomped towards him saying "Heh that tickles."
thumbskull was about to pull out the boxes from underneath the man when he heard a familiar bwoosh from behind him and suddenly he was hit from his left knocking him down onto his left side.
"Hey who did that!" he shouted
"Me, ugly!" answered the Voice.
Thumbskull looked to see it was a giant ball rolling back to hit him again.
"uh oh." said Thumbskull knowing he didn't have enugh time to evade or get up. Thumbskull was hit head on by Cannonbolt and thrown through the thin tent tarp. He began to get up when he was hit with a stun laser right on the forehead knocking him out cold and leaving him with a nasty bruise.
Cannonbolt unrolled to show he was mostly made of white fat, but has yellow scales for his ball form with two all yellow eyes outlined by some black and said "Nice shot grandpa."
Grandpa Max took off his mask and said "Thanks Ben. Nice job sneaking around him while I had him distracted but why go alien you know I told you not to."
"I know Grandpa but the stun blasts weren't working on him so I thought it would work better this way." answered Cannonbolt.
Grandpa Max sighed and then said "Alright Ben lets just hope the battery lasts."
"Wait wait I've seen my future self do this that one time I went to the future and I've been practicing it for awhile now and I think I got the hang of it." said Cannonbolt earning a look of confusion from Grandpa Max.
Cannonbolt took a few deep breaths and slapped his big fat palm on top of the Omnitrix dial on his forehead err body since he has no head and was engulfed in a flash of green light. When the light vanished Ben was back to being himself.
"Yes it worked! All I have to do is slap the dial and think about becoming me again!" exclaimed Ben
"Impressive Ben. But now is not the time for congratulations. We have to go save your cousin and the French heroes." said Grandpa Max putting his plumber's mask back on.
"Lets go." said Ben stepping into the tent followed by Grandpa Max. They stepped onto the tent and over Thumbskull's unconscious form.
When they got inside the tent they saw the drained husks of Ladybug, Cat Noir and Lucky Girl. Ben's eyes grew with rage at seeing that Zombozo had drained Gwen dry again! He was about to go over to Gwen when Grandpa Max grabbed his shoulder.
"Ben to save them we have to destroy the machine." said Grandpa Max
Ben realized Grandpa Max was right and then asked "But where is it?"
"Why Benny Its been a while since I last saw you." said a creepy voice from a dark area of the tent. A light suddenly was shown over that area to reveal Zombozo and the Psyclown 2.0 underneath its gaze.
"Zombozo change them back!" demanded Ben
"Aw kiddie you and I both know I won't do that. And besides I've been saving the worst for last. After what you did to me three years ago I've been preparing for this day to eliminate you once and for all!"
"Yeah right like how I scared your pants off last time we fought." said Ben
"HAHA kid Now I know you weren't an actual ghost but an alien!" bragged Zombozo
"And since I know that now I know not to be scared of you." boasted Zombozo
Ben gridded his teeth at that and activated the Omnitrix.
"You should be!" said Ben slamming down the core transforming in a bright green blast.
After the blast dissipated in Ben's place stood Ripjaws. Ripjaws looked at himself and said "Aww Man why do I always get the wrong alien when I need it the most."
Zombozo laughed so hard he began to cry "You seriously think you can beat me as an oversized fish stick bwahahahaha!"
"Ben if you can change back into yourself then maybe you can change alien form to alien form." suggested Grandpa Max
"Oh right I forgot to ask who are you supposed to be an exterminator?" said Zombozo still laughing
"Nope I'm a plumber!" shouted Max drawing his rifle and aiming it at Zombozo.
Zombozo immediately stopped laughing once he realized he was in danger. Max made the first move by firing but was astonished to find it hit an energy shield cast from Zombozo's hand.
"I told yous two I had been preparing for this day for three years! And now its finally here." said Zombozo with his typical creepy smile.
"Ben I'll hold him off save them." said Grandpa Max gesturing towards the heroes.
"Oh I wouldn't do that if I were you or you'll unleash that pot of acid up there right on top of em." warned Zombozo as he dashed or rather was lifted towards Max and tried to punch him. Max sidestepped him and hit him with the butt of his rifle. Zombozo retaliated by slapping the weapon out of Max's hands but was punched in the face immediately after.
Ben knew Ripjaws was not the alien for now so he hoped Grandpa's advice will work and said to himself "Please please work." as he slapped down on the dial of the Omnitrix and transformed again in the bright green flash.
In Ripjaws place now stood Benvictor or as Ben had renamed him after Gigantitan Frankenstrike. Frankenstrike looks exactly like a Frankenstein but with electric prongs sticking out of his back and is partially made of metal with the omnitrix where his belly button would be. (not the best description I know but just google it to get a better image)
"Oh yeah this will do." said Frankenstrike.
Zombozo rose up igniting his fist in blue plasma giving Max an uppercut shattering his visor.
Max struggled to get back up he had never taken an uppercut that powerful before.
"End of the line gramps!" said Zombozo about to strike when suddenly he was hit by an electric bolt knocking him to the ground. Frankenstrike had dealt the bolt and ran over to Grandpa Max to see if he was alright.
"I'm fine Ben but lets switch roles you fight Zombozo Ill work on freeing them." answered Max with a nod of understanding from Frankenstrike.
Zombozo rose back up thanks to the plug attached to his back (like in his first appearance when he fought Ghostfreak) with a scowl on his face
"First you're a ghost now you're a Frankenstein! You're really starting to make me angry!" warned Zombozo.
"Well you've made me furious!" yelled Frankenstrike as he fired lightning bolt after lightning bolt at Zombozo. He countered with his energy shield which absorbed the blow. Zombozo dissipated it and fired a plasma ball at Frankenstrike but when it hit the blast didn't hurt him but was absorbed by him.
Frankenstrike was now emanating blue electricity off of his body.
"Oh yeah that hits the spot!" exclaimed Frankenstrike as he began stomping towards Zombozo. Zombozo had a look of fear on his face at that. He threw plasma ball after plasma ball at Frankenstrike only to continue to give him more and more power.
"why isn't this working!" panicked Zombozo.
"Because I'm a conductor." said Frankenstrike as he got up to Zombozo who pulled back in fear. Frankenstrike's target wasn't Zombozo but his cord to the Psyclown 2.0 which was giving him his power. Frankenstrike slammed his fist down upon the tube cutting it and stripping Zombozo of his energy.
"No my power! You'll pay for that kid!" threatened Zombozo.
Zombozo tried to throw a punch at Frankenstrike but when it hit it did nothing against Frankenstrike's enormous muscular body. Frankenstrike then electrified his body electrocuting Zombozo into unconsciousness
"Ahhhhhhh!" cried Zombozo before passing out upon the ground.
Frankenstrike stood above Zombozo's limp form. He really wanted to punch him more but knew that he won and Zombozo was down for the count. Frankenstrike walked away towards the Psyclown 2.0. He began charging up all of his energy and unleashed it all in one big blast upon the Psyclown destroying it in an explosion. Like the first time it exploded everyone's souls flew out and returned to their bodies including the heroes.
Frankenstrike then went over to help Grandpa Max free everyone. They cut the chain holding them and the pot of acid up but Frankenstrike grabbed the chain preventing it from unleashing the acid upon them as Grandpa Max pulled them out from underneath it. Frankenstrike then lowered the cauldron slowly so as to not spill it. Once he set it upon the ground he and Grandpa freed the other hostages and called the police over to collect the freaks and their leader.
The heroes began to wake up of course confused since they were unconscious when they had their souls stolen.
"Ugh what happened?" groaned Ladybug as she stood.
Lucky Girl and Cat Noir also rose but Lucky Girl spoke first "I think I know." "So what happened then?" asked Cat Noir
"Zombozo stole your happiness or I guess your souls." answered Frankenstrike as he stomped over to them.
Ladybug and Cat Noir got defensive at first until they realized who it is.
"Wait so if he stole our souls how are we standing here?" asked Ladybug
Frankenstrike pointed to the redestroyed Psyclown and said "smashed the soul stealing machine."
Ladybug accepted that answer as she then noticed Max standing next to Frankenstrike but couldn't make out who he is since most of his mask was still intact.
"Uh who is this?" asked Ladybug
"Oh uh this is uh." Lucky Girl and Frankenstrike both tried to come up with an answer to that question but none knew what to say.
"Just call me the plumber for now." Max said
Ladybug and Cat Noir burst out laughing at that.
"You mean you fix toilets!" bawled Cat Noir
"Yeah sure" said Max understanding their humor but also sick of people laughing at that.
"Just a codename kid not an actual plumber." clarified Max
Ladybug and Cat Noir stopped laughing as the police stormed the tent to arrest the clowns and help the hostages home.
"That's our cue to leave." said Frankenstrike
"Pound it?" suggested Cat Noir and Ladybug holding out their fists for their team fist bump
Frankenstrike grinned and put his fist in along with Lucky Girl and Max.
"Pound it!" they all said as they then parted ways as Zombozo and his freaks were arrested.
Later that night in a jail cell
Zombozo was outfitted in a prison uniform along with all the other freaks in individual cells. He was pacing back and forth thinking to himself how he could have failed after he had spent so much time working on the improved Psyclown
Zombozo pulled off his clown nose which the police hadn't confiscated since they tough it was his actual nose.
Zombozo's face grew with rage as he punched the wall of his cell shouting and cursing with rage. His rage however also attracted a certain purple butterfly to his cell...
To Be Continued...
That is a rap on part 2 of 3. Thank you all for reading. This chapter was a lot of fun to write especially since it was all 100% original story line and not from an episode. Also please review. Let's set a goal of 50 reviews, 60 favs and 70 follows (reviews wanted most and please do not use a guest account because I cannot respond to those). The final part of the Clown's Madness (which is what I am dubbing this mini series in my story) should release next weekend so mark your calendars people. Thanks for reading and I'll see you all again next time.
-Avenger2003