Iceman of Earth
Chapter Two: Splash Time Fun
A cold relaxing breeze waved and flowed through the air while the sun hides behind the clouds but its heat still burns through and warms the small town lies beneath the clouds, the town was small and made a carefully crafted wood, the group descended on the dock.
"You guys ready to fish?" asks the jolly Grandpa Max.
Gwen recoiled in agony; "Yeah, no I'd rather stay here."
"Alright, what about you Akio?" asks Grandpa Max with a smile.
"No, I'll stay. Don't like the open water, especially if what Ben says is true," replies Akio with a reassuring smile.
"See Akio believes me, I swear I saw it," exclaimed Ben.
Grandpa Max sighs; "Alright Ben, why don't we just fish and forget about a sea monster."
"The boy says he saw a sea monster aye," says the fisherman on the boat leaning over the side.
"Yeah, it grabbed me, the thing was huge!" yells out Ben throwing his arms out to the side to exaggerate the size.
"Ya boy be right you know. I saw the thing as clear as day, as clear as you are," explains the fisherman.
"Are you sure you didn't just make it up," tries to rationalise Grandpa Max.
"Believe what you want to believe, I know the real truth but this truth is scarier than your belief," states the fisherman.
Soon enough, Ben and Grandpa Max hop onto the swaying boat which quickly set sail for the best fishing spot all the while Akio and Gwen sat side by side on the dock.
"You really believe Ben saw something?" asks the curious girl.
"Without a doubt, the ocean is massive it only makes sense," explains Akio looking over the lake.
Suddenly, a wall of water blasts onto the dock submerging the two in the water, Akio laches onto Gwen's wrist pulling her up towards the surface while their air is quick to run dry.
Thankfully, they broke through the surface and gasped for air, they turn and search for the source, seeing a dark shadow slowly float in the water.
"Okay time to go!" yells out Gwen making a break for the shore.
Akio glances at his watch while to sparks as if something new as just been added, Akio flicks through the set of aliens finding the new addition.
In a sudden burst of light, Akio appears as a red, mollusc-like alien. His eyes are green. Behind his legs and on the top of his arms are small spikes that are grey. On his shoulders and legs, there are black spots. On his hands, there are portholes. He has four fingers with claws on them and on each one of his feet, there is a grey spike. His lower torso is grey, with two spikes on the side of them.
"Hold on," states Akio grabbing Gwen.
With the power of hydro-powered blasts Akio and Gwen make in back to shore lickety-split, Akio places Gwen on the shore begin a burst of red light consumes him reforming him to human form.
"What now?" asks Gwen.
"Have you ever ice skated?" replies Akio seeing a lake monster attacking a silver boat in the distance.
"Not much, please don't tell me that…" says Gwen before Akio grabs her by the wrist.
"Yup, we're gonna skate across the lake!" yells out Akio.
Akio yanks Gwen along while beaming a beam of solid ice freezing their path in front of them, Gwen grasps Akio hand tighter and tighter as the wind begins to rush by like a zooming train; "Akio, How much longer!?"
Suddenly, Akio spins himself around Gwen all the while they race down the frozen track; "Gwen, I'm going to throw you and using this momentum, hopefully, you'll land on the ship!"
"That's a big no! A really big n-" shouts Gwen in horror before…
Quickly, Akio flings Gwen right past him, and onto the surface of the boat in front of the three fishermen.
"Erm, hi, we should probably grab all your stuff and get to the other end of the ship," states Gwen with an awkward smile.
The confused ship mates nod with widened eyes and begin dragging and grabbing all their stuff and quickly transport it and themselves to the other side.
Meanwhile, Ben with supersonic speed attacks the lake monster, instantly Akio blasts the monster covering its slimy body, Akio rapidly swung by the monster creating icy paths on the surface of the lake.
With both Ben and Akio's attempts to force the monster back into the depths and thankfully the monster stubbornly retreats back to where ever it wishes, leaving both Akio and Ben to huff and puff with a heavy stream of breath.
"Jeez, that monster is a heck of a fish," says Ben with a flash of red light.
"Time to go," states Akio grabbing Ben and making his way towards the boat.
Akio flings Ben onto the boat he had left, Akio quickly made his way back to Gwen to pick her up from the fish lovers boat, however….
"Where is she!?" shouts Akio towards the three fishermen.
"Sorry kid, but when she told us to move to the other end of the boat and when the monster ran off she was gone," explains one of the three fishermen.
"Don't play with me! You better start spilling your guts or I'd don't for you," threatens Akio raising his fist.
"Calm down, maybe she just left to go back to the docks," states a fisherman trying to calm Akio down.
"Listen pal, you either tell where you hid her or I'll. Kill. Every. One. Of. You. Now tell me," Akio steps forward grabbing the fisherman by the neck which agitated the others.
Akio noticing the situation throws back the fisherman with a thud standing down the rest of the fisherman.
Akio reluctantly turns back moving towards the side of the boat but quickly notices a carte with a slight gap in the lid poking and prodding at Akio's attention; "What's in the box?"
"Nothing more than lunch, why?" replies the fisherman.
"Like hell, its just lunch, now you better start telling the truth or I'll start beating it out of you," yells out Akio.
"Alright, we'll let you have a look," says the leader of the group.
Akio rips the lid off throwing it to the side, he spots a giant slimy ball with vein-like structures, Akio scanned the object until…
Suddenly, a quickly painful crash-landed on the back of Akio's head instantly sending him to the ground, before Akio lost conscious he heard one voice state; "Another one, how many kids are gonna find out about this?"
The voice quickly became distant while Akio's eyes slowly closed slipping into unconsciousness.
Suddenly, Akio woke up with his arms tied up to the ceiling leaving him hanging by his arms, Akio's eyes raced around the dark wooden room, he found a large computer desk of him with a window above the desk and a door to his left.
Akio quickly struggled to try to force the tie to break but all attempts were useless.
"Can you keep it quiet," says a familiar voice.
Akio twist around noticing Gwen close by; "So they got you too."
"No, I just love being hanged up in the middle of nowhere," sarcastically states Gwen.
A man with a silver swimsuit, the same guy from before on the fish-lover boat; "The both of you can shut up, I'm trying to get work done."
"What by collecting the lake monster's eggs? Have you ever watched a movie before it never goes your way!" yells out Gwen turn towards the sliver swimmer.
"Girly you can't talk hanging from the ceiling," states the leader of the gang.
"How 'bout you let me down and I won't stuff you full of fish guts," threatens Gwen.
"Gwen, stop threatening the man who which literary got our lives hanging on a short thread," states Akio.
"It seems this kid is the smartest one of the two, what might be your name?" asks the leader.
"Akio, you?" replies Akio with a glare.
"Mine is Jonah, the last name you'll ever hear," says the leader name Jonah.
Suddenly, another voice breaks out calling for Jonah, he quickly leaves from the room.
Akio waits until the man's footsteps disappear to act; "Time to bust out of here!"
"And how we are gonna do that?" replies Gwen with a questionable glare.
"I need you to hit my watch to transform," states Akio.
"How?" asked Gwen with curiosity.
"You'll need to latch onto me and use whatever to hit my watch," explains Akio.
Gwen quickly sighs realising it's the only way; "Fine, let's do it."
Gwen begins to swing back and forth towards Akio, she slowly speeds up and shortens the distance between the two until suddenly, she manages to wrap her legs around Akio's waist keeping the two together, Gwen tied to use her hands but they remained restricted by the chain.
"Use your mouth and hurry up someone is coming back," states Akio.
As told Gwen uses her mouth to pop up the watch, Akio notices the footsteps closing in one them; "Okay slowly flick through the aliens until I say stop and then slam down."
Gwen slowly browsers through the alien set until Akio gives the signal and then Gwen instantly slammed down on the watch creating a bright green light.
Akio transformed into a werewolf like alien with grey fur, a long flowing mane, and a large bushy tail, with three sharp claws on each hand and foot. The inside of his mouth was green. He wore the Omnitrix symbol on his lower stomach.
Akio easily broke out the chains and slashed at Gwen's chain setting her free.
However, as the two prepare to leave until someone runs into the room with a sub-machine gun in hand, the man soon realised what's in front of him; "What the hell are you?!"
Suddenly, Akio slashed at the man's gun cuting it into multiple pieces, the man slowly looked at his broken gun and slowly back up towards the giant wolf, his jaw dropped as his eyes widen and pupils dilate.
"Not so tough are you," says Akio in a deep rough voice.
Quickly, the man collpased out of pure shock which flooded his brain like a tideall wave.
"Huh, who knew that giant werewolf aliens are scary?" Gwen states sarcasticly.
"Let's go," says Akio picking Gwen up and placing her on his back.
Automatically, Akio falls to take a wolf-like stance, he takes off running through the wooden structure until…
"Grandpa Max?" questions Gwen.
"Akio, Gwen, It's nice to see you but I think we need to leave," quietly says Grandpa Max.
Grandpa Max runs alongside Gwen riding Akio until the got to the structure's surface seeing Ben as Ripjaws fighting Jonah with the lake monster battling for the eggs, Akio places Gwen on the ground and picks himself up onto his hind legs; "Stop the shipment and the guards. Me and Ben will deal with the eggs and Jonah."
Akio pounces onto the robot mech tearing at the metal like paper.
"The heck is that thing?!" shouts Jonah trying to shake Akio off.
"Ben grab the eggs. Now!" shouts Akio forcing Ben into action.
Suddenly, Ben grabs the eggs and quickly dives into the lake which quickly grabbed the monster's attention. All the while Akio slowly breaks away at the mech, until…
Forcefully, Jonah smashes the arm of the mech against Akio sending him crashing into the floor; "Hahaha, time to die wolf boy."
Jonah raises the arm of the mech to place Akio in his line of sight, Jonah fires off two small missiles following and tracking Akio.
However, Akio never moved but only stood there waiting for the missiles to come closer and closer until…
Suddenly, Akio's wolf-like mouth split in four and a supersonic sound is quickly shot from the wolf's mouth stopping the missiles dead in the air and drops to the ground with a thud.
"Do you feel lucky. Punk?" asks Akio as his wolf mouth slowly becomes whole once more.
Jonah couldn't answer but only turns tail and tries to make a run for it.
Effortlessly, Akio lunges over Jonah and lands in front of him with little sound; "Where do you think you're going?"
Once more, Jonah tries to run but Akio's supersonic sound waves tears the mech right off of Jonah leaving only him left, Jonah keels down in front of Akio and claps his hands together he begins in a pleading tone; "P-please let me go, I'll change my ways. I swear just let me go."
Akio approaches Jonah positioning his face in front of Jonah; "Sorry, but I can't comply."
Suddenly, Akio cliches his claw-like hand and smashes his fist dead centre of Jonah's face sending him into unconsciousness, Akio ties Jonah up with the rest of the knocked out crew which both Gwen and Grandpa Max knocked out.
In a burst of red light, Akio reformed back to his human form, Gwen and Max smiled at their hard work while the police slowly approach the scene; "I called it a good day of hard work."
Gwen leaned towards Akio's ear to whisper a threatening message; "Ever speak of what happened when we were tied up, I'll tie you up and leave you hanging."
"Never dreamed of it," says Akio with a slight smirk.
The three quickly noticed Captain Shaw rowing a small wooden boat towards the three with a smiling grin; "I found one of the babies of the krakken and it's all mine!"
Quickly, the three notice the hanging fishnet with Ripjaws inside until a burst of red light reforms Ripjaws back to Ben's normal appearance.
"I believe you caught a symptom of mistaken identity," points out Grandpa Max.
Captain Shaw turns to Ben with an immeasurable amount of confusion; "I could have sworn it was a krakken baby."
Gwen and Grandpa Max exploded into laughter all while Akio grins.
"Now what's next on the to do this?" asks Gwen with curiosity.
"We're going to visit your Auntie Vera," says Grandpa Max carelessly.
Ben instantly cried out in horror confusing everyone.
End of Chapter Two