Hey guys. Here's chapter five. Here, Lincoln is going to be tangoing with four dangerous bounty hunters. Will he be over his head with this? Or will he bounce back like he always does? Find out in this exciting chapter! Also, don't forget the upcoming Q and A chapter. For information on it, please examine the rules and guidelines on chapter four.
CHAPTER 5: BOUNTY HUNTED
High above Earth, in Vilgax's ship, the injured alien watched as three aliens were pointing weapons at a series of targets.
The first was a slim humanoid wearing purple and black armor with several slots on his suit and a jetpack. The second was a robotic crab like creature with golden armor and a giant claw on one arm. The third was a larger humanoid with grey armor and a helmet that completely covered his head. They all looked incredibly dangerous as they began to tear through the targets. Then, a robot lunged at the alien in the silver. Without moving, a green and black thing sprung out and landed absorbed the robot before heading back to the alien and morphing into a belt.
Vilgax grinned underneath his respirator. "I am impressed. You have proven to be the best of the best. Now for your mission. On the planet below is an individual who wields the galaxy's most powerful weapon."
"And what weapon would that be?" asked the crab like alien. "The omnitrix" Vilgax replied. An amazed gasp echoed through the room. "Retrieve it, and you shall be rewarded with enough to buy a solar system. Any questions?"
The purple one let out a series of shrieks. "The Plumbers? Only one should pose a threat to you where you're going, and she should be retired. Now go!"
After that, the one in grey pulled out a hoverboard and flew off as the other two got into ships. As he flew out, he activated a communicator inside his helmet. "Any luck with her?"' he asked. "Afraid not, Sugar. Agent Rho hasn't responded in weeks." The person nodded underneath his helmet. "Try to get in contact with her. I'll take care of the omnitrix."
Down on earth, Lincoln was now Swampfire and going through a training course his sister's made. "Ok bro," said Luna as she pulled a lever, launching a bag of sand at him, "think fast." Swampfire grinned and kicked it away with his long legs. Lana pulled another lever, sending a wave of tin cans at him. Swampfire yawned as he shot a wave of fire at them, melting them.
"Come on guys. Is that the best you can do?"
Lana pulled a new one, causing a dummy to pop out with the words "bad guy" written on it. Swampfire pulled off a few of his petals from his arms and threw them at the dummy. The moment the petals touched the ground, they turned into vines and restrained the dummy to the ground. Swampfire then turned around to punch another dummy away.
Lynn pulled up on a skateboard to see what was going on. "Huh," she said in amazement at how well he was doing, "how about that?" Lana grinned. "And you said we'd never be able to use the alien training course I made" she said to her athletic sister.
Meanwhile, Swampfire just finished with another dummy by knocking it aside. "Alright! Am I not the best?" he shouted as he flexed dramatically. "You're doing good bro" Luna said. "However," she continued, her smile fading, "don't get to overconfident and just try to muscle your way through. Might isn't always right." As she said that, a sandbag dropped down, smacking the showboating brother from behind, making him shoot a stream of fire at Lynn and Lana. The two leapt out of the way, dodging it. Lynn's skateboard, however, wasn't that lucky and was burned to a crisp.
Lynn screamed in horror as she saw her burned board before turning to Swampfire, who just turned back into Lincoln. "Uh, oops?" he said as he saw his sister's face turn as red as the red on her jersey. With a bloodcurdling shout, she ran ather brother with her hands outstretched. "Let me at him! Let me at him!" she shouted as the two other siblings held her back. Lincoln smiled uneasily at this. "I think that's enough training for one day" he said. Lana and Luna agreed. "Yeah. Just remember what I said" the third oldest said as she and Lana dragged the enraged Lynn away from him.
"I'll rip your head off and go bowling with it!"
As they were heading back, Lynn finally cooled down enough to not try to strangle her brother. She was, however, not talking to him. "Look, I'm sorry about the board. I'll get you a new one, I promise" Lincoln said to Lynn. Lynn turned to Lincoln with a very heated glare. "Lincoln, one of these days, you are going to get clobbered by someone way out of your league, and when that happens, I'll laugh my head off as they scrape what's left of you off the floor."
"Woah. That was harsh, even for you" Lana said. Lynn just growled in response. "Do you think that will happen?" Lincoln asked. "Not a chance bro," Lana said, "with that watch, there's nothing on earth that can stop you."
Suddenly, the ground rumbled underneath them began to shake. A giant claw popped out of a hole, grabbed Lincoln by the waist and threw him into a tree. The white haired boy rubbed the back of his head and looked up to see a giant golden crab-like cyborg stomping towards him. Panicking, he dialed for Big Chill and got the blue moth-like alien. Flying up, Big Chill fired a burst of icy air at the crab. The bounty hunter stumbled back as Big Chill landed in front of him. "Who are you?" he asked.
The crustacean-like creature growled. "I am Krab. And I am here for your omnitrix." The phantom-like alien looked confused and turned to his sisters. "I think he means the watch" Luna said. "Got ya" he responded before turning to Krab. "Sorry buddy, but you can't have the...omnitrix? Wow that's a stupid name." Krab pointed one of his claws at him. "Than I'll just have to take it" he said. He swung his giant claw at Big Chill, just to have him go intangible and let the claw pass through him. Big Chill than shot a burst of cold air at Krab, freezing his legs to the ground.
Krab growled as he tried to break free, just to have Big Chill freeze him more, trapping him in a block of ice. It didn't last long though, as a burst of energy broke from the bounty hunter broke Krab out and swatted the moth alien away. "Ugh. Alright, time for a magic trick. Now you see me," Big Chill said as he turned invisible, "now you don't." Krab's eyes glowed as he scanned the area. After a few looks around, he sprayed an orange goo in an area, dousing Big Chill in orange slime and causing him to be visible.
He then charged electricity through his giant claw and began to electrocute Big Chill with no mercy. The ghostly alien wailed in agony and fell to his knees. Krab just kept the charge up until a rock hit the side of his head. Krab's head turned to see the three sisters throwing rocks at him, distracting him long enough for Big Chill to shoot a powerful gust of ice-cold wind at Krab, sending the bounty hunter flying over the trees.
Big Chill got on his knees and breathed heavily as he turned back to Lincoln. Luna, Lana, and Lynn ran over to check on him. "You alright, bro?" asked Lana. "That. Was not. Fun" he panted. Luna helped him to his feet as Lynn stared. "Why did I say get clobbered? Why didn't I say I'll get a big bag of money and not share it with you?" she said, very shaken up by what she just saw.
The siblings managed to find a spot for him to catch his breath. After he began to breathe normally, the sisters tried to assess the situation.
"Ok, we're lost and have a robotic seafood platter that Lincoln can't beat pressuring us. All in all, I'd say were in crisis" Lana said. "Oh gee, you think?" Lynn said. She then turned to her brother. "Can you walk?" she asked. Lincoln slowly got to his feet and gave her the thumbs up. "So what's the plan? I can fly up and get us home" he suggested. "To risky. That thing could spot us up there" Lynn replied. "Maybe I could turn into Armodrillo and dig under him" Lincoln said. Lana grinned broadly at that idea.
"Lincoln, that thing caught us by burrowing through the ground. It could do the same to us if we did that."
Lana frowned. "So then what?" she said. Before anything else could be said, a laser blast nearly hit the boy's arm. Lincoln yelped and turned around to see the purple suited bounty hunter pointing his wrist at them. More lasers rained down on them as the group as they took cover. Lincoln quickly shuffled through the watch and settled on Diamondhead. "Special delivery" he shouted, shooting diamonds at the hunter. The purple armored creature flew away and opened two panels on his shoulders, revealing two smaller arms holding blasters.
Four sets of lasers rained down on him. Diamondhead held his hands out deflect the blasts back, just to get hit from the behind and knocked down by Krab. "Sixsix, where were you when I needed you?" he asked. Sixsix made a series of unintelligible noises in response. "Fair enough" Krab said. Krab than grabbed Diamondhead and slammed him into the ground. "Oh great, two of these guys" he groaned. He stood up, just to get struck from the behind by Sixsix. Diamondhead fell face first in the ground and got struck by Krab's claw. The two bounty hunters took turns pummeling the crystalline alien.
This continued until Luna leapt on Sixsix and Lynn and Lana latched themselves to Krab. "What?! Get off of me, you insects!" roared Krab in anger. "Consider this a welcome to Earth!" shouted Lana as the cyborg began to thrash around.
Meanwhile, while they were fighting, the hunter in the silver armor and hoverboard flew by and grabbed him one of the crystals on his back and threw him over his shoulder. "Hey! What are you doing?" shouted Luna as it flew off. While she was distracted, Sixsix through her off into a tree. Lynn and Lana joined her soon afterwards. Sixsix then pointed one of his blasters at the falen sisters. "Oh poop" said Lana.
Lincoln woke up to find himself restrained to a tree by a strange green and black thing. As he began to struggle, a strange eye came out and examined the white-haired boy. "What the!" he said. "Other than some minor head injuries, subject appears otherwise unharmed" it said in a female sounding voice. "Good," said the helmeted hunter, "we need him alive." Lincoln growled. "You're one of those bounty hunters! Let me go!"
"I am sensing an increase in hostility from the subject. Perhaps introductions are in order" the things said. It then released Lincoln and retreated back to the bounty hunter. It then shifted into a humanoid shape as the helmeted alien retracted its helmet, revealing a head that looked almost exactly like Dimondhead's except for a different eye-color and a goatee made of crystals. Lincoln gasped.
"You're...you're me" he said amazed. "No. I am not you," the thing responded, "I am Tetrax Shard, and the Galvanic Mechamorph is called RAM." Lincoln tilted his head in confusion before getting to his feet angrly. "What have you done to my sisters!" he shouted. He was about to dial Fourarms when RAM leapt and tried to merge with the omnitrix.
The moment she tried to, a burst of green electricity burst out and shocked her. The green alien fell back as a puddle of goop before reshaping herself back to normal. "Well, the omnitrix has been temporarily disabled, but the thing already has been on long enough to lock to his DNA. Anything outside of galvan help or cutting off his arm off won't remove it."
Lincoln growled as the watch sparked. Tetrax scowled. "A planet with almost 70 billion intelligent life forms and the most powerful weapon in the galaxy falls in the hands of a child" he said. "HEY! I'm not a child" the boy said defensively. Tetrax just glared. "You choose aliens based on strength and power with no real long term strategy. And you're eleven years old. If it we don't act now, Vilgax will have an easy time getting the omnitrix."
"Vilgax? Who's he?" asked the boy. "Only the most dangerous person on galaxy. He's destroyed planet after planet, driving millions of species to extinction. And now he has his eyes set on this planet unless we get rid of the omnitrix." Lincoln looked fearful for a second before yelling back "Well, how do I know you won't give it to him?" "I saved your life and didn't take you to him like the other bounty hunters were going to, didn't I?"
Lincoln went silent at the response and looked down at his watch. Sure, he loved being a hero. Sure he loved turning into aliens. But if what Tetrax said was true, than he could be putting his entire world in danger. What should he do?
Before he could come to a decision, Krab and Sixsix showed up with his sisters bound together. "Omnitrix weider! Surrender yourself and we'll let these human live! Fail, and we shall kill them here and now!" Krab bellowed. Sixsix screeched in agreement. Lincoln went wide-eyed in horror. "They have my sisters. What do we do?" he said. Tetrax looked over and saw his hoverboard. "I have an idea, but you need to stay here and hidden. RAM and I will get the hoverboard. It's our only way off the planet. Now RAM, initiate plan Beta minor. I'll cover and try to save the hostages."
RAM nodded and began to reshape her body into a eight-foot mech and stomped over to the two hunters as Tetrax pulled out a laser pistol and shot at Sixsix. The two fought back the best they could. Krab shot a beam at RAM knocking her to one knee. RAM got back up and shot a laser at him in response
Meanwhile, Sixsix took to the skies and hid behind the sisters. "Using natives as cover? THAT'S LOW, EVEN FOR YOU!" Tetrax shouted. Sixsix just let out what sounded like laughter in response and shot him point-blank in the face. Tetrax fell back and raised a diamond spike to hit his foe from underneath, just to see him dodge and shoot back. RAM wasn't faring much better as her smaller opponent dodged a blow and set up a small disc. When she stood over it, a burst of energy came out, causing her to fall over.
Lincoln watched this in horror. Suddenly, the omnitrix beeped, indicating it was operational again. Lincoln was about to go for his heavy hitters when his hand stopped over it. Luna's and Tetrax's words buzzed through his head. He knew that muscling through this would just lead to more failure. And worse, hurt his sisters. Shuffling through, he went for his smartest alien and got him.
As Lincoln turned into Grey Matter, Tetrax was sent flying where he stood. "Hey, I told you stay put" said the diamond alien. "Sorry Tetrax, but this is my planet" Grey Matter responded. He then climbed a tree, scrambled across the branches, and hopped off where he landed on Luna's head. "Bro!" the rocker girl shouted happily. The small alien nodded and started chewing through the bindings, allowing them to escape. Grey Matter then landed on Krab. "What now?" he said in annoyance. The frog-like alien stuck one of his hands in a slot. "Come on, come on," he said, "AHA! There's that nerve cluster!" With a squeeze, Krab collapsed. Grey Matter than hopped off and landed near the disc.
"Hey Sixsix!" he shouted. The bounty hunter looked down at him. "Want to hear a joke? Why are you afraid of Seven? Because seven eight nine!" Sixsix growled and fired at the alien, where he calmly sidestepped and let the blast hit the disc.
Thank you for that joke, Luan Grey Matter thought as RAM regained composure. She then fired a barrage of lasers at Sixsix. The bounty hunter tried to escape in panic, just to have his jetpack blown up, causing him to fall and land on top of Krab, who shot a laser on reflex that hit a tree. The tree fell over and was about to land on top of Krab and Sixsix. "I hate this planet" Krab said as the tree was about to crush them.
*WAM!*
Krab and Sixsix were put in cuffs by Tetrax. The alien then turned to Lincoln and said "good work kid." "Thanks Tetrax" Lincoln replied. He then frowned. "Uh, but, about the omnitrix…" Shard held up a hand to cut him off.
"Don't. I now see that the watch is safe in your hands. But be careful. Some foes will come who are stronger than these two. Always be prepared."
"Don't worry," said Luna, "we'll make sure he's always ready." The crystal alien smiled before grabbing his hoverboard and handing it to him. "Here. It's yours." "Wow, thanks! But isn't this your only way to get off the planet?"
"Tetrax felt that it was necessary to perform selective information withholding" explained RAM. "Or in other words, he lied." She then transformed into a spaceship and opened a latch, allowing her partner to board with his prisoners. "So long, Lincoln. May we meet again" he said. The ship than took off and vanished beyond the clouds.
"He was cool" said Lana. Lincoln nodded and turned to Lynn. "Hey Lynn," he said, offering the hoverboard, "think this will make a good replacement?" Lynn looked at it happily and grabbed it. "Thank you bro!" she said as she playfully tackled him. The siblings all laughed at the display of affection. Lincoln than looked at his watch. I wonder what else you can do? He thought.
Meanwhile, high above the clouds, Tetrax was placing a call to someone. "Magister Beth, it's me, Tetrax." "How was your search, sugar?" said a female voice on the other end. "I found the omnitrix, but I believe it to be safe with the person it bonded with." "Are you sure?" Beth asked. "Positive. He's young, but competent."
Beth looked at the pictures of Lincoln on the other end. Beth was a large, muscular woman with brown eyes, dark brown skin, and curly coffee colored hair. "Ok. If you say so. But if Rho finds out about this, she'll never come back."
"I disagree" said Tetrax. "If anything, this should make her more likely to rejoin the plumbers." "I hope you're right, sugar. I really do."
Dun-dun-dun~! Well, here it is and boy I hope it was worth the wait. Will Lincoln be ready for what comes next? Will the plumbers get the person they need? And who is Agent Rho? Find out (hopefully) soon enough. Also, don't forget to ask questions for the upcoming Q and A chapter. Just specify weather you're asking me or a character in the story. And get ready for a chapter that is guaranteed to be lucky!