Iceman of Earth
Chapter Five: Tourist Trap
Akio's eye twitches as he watches Ben messing around by shoving his face right up against the window, Akio sighed before laying back down on the bed letting time slip by until…
Suddenly, the rust bucket stops and send Akio flying out of the bed and into the centre of the RV, he slowly climbs to his feet with his eyes widening in shock as he stops a pool of oil on fire begins to slivery its way up towards the propane trunk which just sits there ready to explode unlike the man trapped inside.
Ben, already in his swamp fly form looks towards Akio, Akio begins; "Alright, I'll freeze the flame, you get the guy and anyone one else out of there!"
Quickly, they burst from the RV, Akio pulls up his hood while running towards the flames while Ben begins to swoop in, grabbing people and moving them far away, Akio begins to freeze the flame only to have it burn straight through.
"Damn it," he murmurs trying to figure something out.
Akio forgets the flame and begins to freeze the oil and with the help of his Blizzard he forces the flame to disappear thankfully without letting the propane tank explode, he gasps for air with his hands on his knees; "Damn, using Blizzard drains me but using Blizzard and something else just might kill me."
As Akio walked back to the rust bucket he notices that some areas of his clothing have been sizzled, burned and utterly destroyed, his hoodie was pretty a sponge with how many holes it had; 'It was getting old anyway,' Akio thinks to himself.
By the time Akio got to the RV and then got changed into a plain black t-shirt, with a long-sleeved light grey hoodie over it and then a black jacket with selves reaching his elbow, deep dark blue jeans and dark blue sneakers, the RV has stopped leaving Akio alone as everyone has already left him behind.
"Huh?" breathes out Akio looking around the tourist attraction town every if you can call it that as the only living things Akio can see is bugs flying around; 'Why are we always in the dearest?'
Akio questions creating an ice umbrella to keep cool from the melting sun above, Akio wonders the streets mindlessly until finding Ben and Gwen walking into a massive barn, as Akio walk into the barn he finds Ben in his four arms form jugging a massive ball of rubber bands.
"Ben, put it down," says Akio calmly letting the ice umbrella disappear in shards.
"Come on buzz kill," says Ben now messing with the ball evermore; "It's just some fun."
"Did you read the signs?" asks Akio; "It's there for a reason."
"You're not the boss of me," says Ben focusing a glare on Akio.
"You're right but sometimes you have to listen to others," states Akio returning the glare.
Suddenly, Ben drops the ball sending it steamrolling towards Gwen and Akio leaving them to lung to the side moving out of the way of the loose slamming into everything leaving it to bounce like a rubber ball destroying everything in the way with Ben barely stopping its rampage before timing out.
"Damn it, Ben. you should have listened!" yells Akio running over.
"Get off my case ice boy!" shouts back Ben walking off with his hands in his pockets.
"That guy!" hisses Akio before turning to Gwen; "I'm quickly gonna clean this up."
Akio transforms into Shocksquatch and begins placing everything back in place, finishing with the gaint rubber band ball.
However, as soon as he places it back and reverts back to normal he is hit with thunderbolt coming from the rubber which passes straight through him sending him flying backwards and slamming into a wall, his Omnitrix begins to glow before losing it.
"What was that?" chokes Akio shaking before standing up checking his watch; "An alien?"
The rest of the day plays out normally, until the next morning. The group wake to find the town destroyed and a light black and yellow alien zipping about, Akio grits his teeth remember the shock he got yesterday.
"That's Megawatt and it seems one of you already met it," says the mayor guy.
Akio burst from the rumble trying to freeze the alien only to gain another power shock which runs through his body until he hits the ground unconscious, Akio while unconscious feel the pain tingling of the electricity running through his body.
Instantly, Akio snaps his eyes open finding a massive solar system used by the Megawatt to trample through the streets, Akio jumps to his feet and joins the group's side, Akio turns to the group with a puzzled look; "We have a plan right?"
"It's going to the hydropower station for more power. We're going trick them into getting stuck in the fishbowl," explains Gwen.
Akio nods and runs side by side the group racing towards the station finding the Megawatt smashing the dam, Ben and Akio run ahead with Ben transforming into Heatblast and Akio conjuring ice in his hands; "You distract the alien, I stop the water."
Akio jumps in front of the rushing water quickly, summoning blizzard to freeze the hole slowly while he pours beams of ice into the wall slowly letting ice cover the wall spotting water in its tracks.
Thankfully, Akio turns around to find Ben, Gwen and Grandpa Max has successfully trapped the Megawatts and a smile forms on his face before his heavy eyelids close; "Damn, I used too much energy."
Suddenly, Akio slams into the floor unconscious once more.
End of Chapter Five