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Chapter 4: Under Wraps
Nighttime, near a place called Dairyville...
Three boys propped up the barbed wire that made up the fence to a cow pasture. One had red hair and for some reason resembled Beavis, another was more than a little fat, and one that was shirtless but had overalls on. He had a bit of mud on his black hair. He had in his arms a piglet that was the size of a rabbit.
"Maybe we shouldn't be here." The boy whimpered.
"I knew we shouldn't have brought him." The Beavis lookalike sneered. "He's nothing but a big baby."
"Come on, Todd. Don't wimp out now." The fat boy said. "It's just a little fun. You push over the cow, and it can't get back up."
When the ginger heard this, he laughed. "We'll even let you tip the first one, unless the baby wants to go home so mommy can change his diaper." He said in a rather demeaning tone. To drive the point in, he sucked his thumb mockingly.
Todd walked up to one of the grazing cows. The piglet, which he had put on the ground followed him. Todd placed his hands on the side of the cow and try as could, he wasn't strong enough to push the cow over. The piglet helped out too, but that did little to change the outcome. Which was Todd slipping and falling face first into the mud.
Both of the ones who talked him into this were laughing at him when they got the attention of the bull, which was the cow that Todd had tried to tip.
"Priceless!" The fat kid mocked.
"Doof!"
The bull bellowed, which somehow, despite being right next to it Todd didn't hear. The bull was gearing up to charge. The two bullies and Todd's pig ran away.
"Hey, where's everybody going?" The bull snorted, which Todd felt on the back of his neck. The bull was grinding its hoof into the ground. "Back off, cow chip!" Todd shouted. The bull looked up and turned around and ran, which Todd thought was because of him, which was not true at all. You see, right as the three boys and the pig entered the pasture, there was a bolt of purple lightning. Ah dammit. "Yeah. That's right. You do not want to mess with Todd Maplewood." Todd didn't notice the figure approaching him from behind him. It move in an unearthly manner, swaying back and forth. Its shape was hidden by a cloud that was passing over the moon, but you could infact see a purple glow that was coming from the creature's chest. Todd heard breathing coming from behind him. He looked around his back to see what had scared the bull off. It had it's arms wrapped around its chest, which it unfolded to try and grab him Its arms were longer than its legs and were complemented by arms that had long, thin, almost bandage like fingers. Todd ran off before it could nab him. "Mommy!" He screamed after it roared.
The next morning, in the Rust Bucket...
Ben and Charmcaster were playing video game while Gwen is reading Ben's spell book.
"You gotta love summer vacation." Ben said to Charmcaster as she didn't see that someone was walking up from behind him. "Nothing to do all day long but sit around and - oh! Hey!" Her shoulder was grabbed by Max, who was wearing a bathrobe. His hair was still wet, but not because he got out of the shower, his hair still had suds from the shampoo he used in it. "Grandpa, what gives?
Max used a towel to dry off his hair. He was pissed. "What gives is that I ran out of water in the shower. Again. It's your job to keep the tank full, Ben."
Ben tried to avoid the glare that Max was shooting at her. "I will, just later."
"Sure. The same way you're 'going' to make your bed?" Gwen said as making an air quote around 'going'.
Max turned his frustration towards Gwen. "You're a fine one to talk, young lady. You think those dirty dishes are just gonna wash themselves? And if I remember correctly, it was your job to take out the trash, Charmcaster."
"But it's summer vacation, Grandpa." Gwen protected.
Ben agreed with Gwen on that. "Yeah. If we wanted to do chores, we could have just stayed at home."
Max growled as the radio suddenly broadcast an advertisement. There was static before the voice of a woman was heard.
She said with your typical farm folk accent. "Y'all ready for a little fresh air? Want a chance to commune with the animals? You know someone who needs to learn the value of some good, old-fashioned hard work?" Ben, Gwen, and Charmcaster listened as they get a feeling of a sense of dread, which was confirmed when they saw the look of interest that was on Max's face when he heard the radio broadcast. "Then sign your whole clan up for a week at Dairyville Family Fun Farm Camp and experience life on a real working farm."
"I do not like that look in his eye." Ben said.
Later...
The Rust Bucket drove down a road that had fields of wheat along the side of it.
"Trust me. You're gonna love it." Max tried to get the three that he was traveling with to enjoy themselves. "When I was a kid, I spent every summer on my Uncle Jedediah's farm. Learning the value of a little hard work is just what you three need."
There was a woman with brown hair that wore black rubber boots that most likely had steel toes. She was wearing a set of blue overalls and a dark pink short sleeve shirt. She spread a bag of feed out over the yard and the chickens by them immediately started pecking at it. Todd was standing next to her holding his pig.
"Welcome." The woman greeted the group. "I'm Joan Maplewood. This is my son, Todd. You must be the Tennysons."
"Yes, uh, call me Max." Max introduce. He noticed that Ben, Gwen, and Charmcaster were trying to avoid looking at Joan. "And these tenderfoots are my grandkids, 'Ben', Gwen, and Hope."
Todd had a mile wide smile. "Hi!"
Ben, Gwen, and Charmcaster all unenthusiastically said: "Hey."
"Well, enough chit chat." Joan got the attention of the new arrivals. "You're here to work." She pointed over to a truck that was parked in front of the barn door. "You can start by unloading that truckful of feed over there."
"Righty-o." Max as he jogged over to the truck and started the task. He grabbed one and dropped it into Charmcaster's outstretched hands.
"Ugh!" Charmcaster groaned as he struggled to hold the bag up. "Oh, man. There's gotta be like a thousand of these things."
"Yeah, this looks like a job for-" Ben was about to transform, but was stopped by Max.
"Hope "I'm-Too-Lazy-To-Fill-A-Water-Tank" Tennyson, and only her - if you know what I mean." Max said as he shot her a death stare.
Ben nod nervously as Max head back to work.
"Why do I get the feeling that the fun part of our summer vacation is suddenly over?" Gwen asked as she hefted a bag over her shoulder.
Several hours later...
The four of them had finished unloading the grain bags and had them in a pile in the barn as Joan instructed.
"Well, that's the last of it," Max said. "Nothing like working up a good sweat, right kids?"
He looked down to see his grandkids laying against the feed bags and panting heavily, every muscle in their body aching.
The ringing of a bell was heard. "Come and get it!" Joan shouted from her porch. "Suppertime!"
They ran into the house and sat around the table with Joan and Todd. "Mmm. Good grub, Joan."
"Yeah, with no actual grubs in it for a change." Gwen said, giving Max the stink eyes.
"So, no TV, no video games, no malls." Charmcaster listed in a manner that sounded like he was mad as he turned to Joan and Todd. "What do you guys do for excitement around here?"
"Well, you won't believe what I saw last night." Todd said.
"Now, none of that." Joan thought that what Todd was saying sounds like what jet is made out of. "No one's interested in your tall tales." She wiped off her face with a napkin before standing up. "Let's get these dishes washed and then hit the hay. Hope, mind helping me out?"
"Sure thing." Ben got out of her chair and collected everyone's dishes.
"Wait, we're going to bed? But it's still light out." Charmcaster said.
"Trust me." Max said. "You'll be glad you got the sleep come morning."
Later...
Ben, Gwen, Max, and Charmcaster were being led to a guest house by Todd.
"Okay, so spill it. What did you see last night?" Charmcaster asked.
"Ah, nothing." Todd said. "You wouldn't believe me, anyway."
Ben and Gwen caught up to Charmcaster and Todd. "Try us. We've seen some pretty bizarre stuff this summer." Gwen said.
"Well, I was down in Old Man Johnson's pasture when, right in front of me, bigger than life was... a mummy! A genuine Egyptian walking-dead mummy." Todd explained.
Ben, Gwen, and Charmcaster were sceptic. "Really?"
The entered the guest house and were led up the stairs to a room with four bunk beds, two windows, one on each side, and a couple of nightstands between the sets of bunk beds.
"Here it is - home sweet home for the next week." Todd said.
Gwen sniffed as Charmcaster plugged his nose from the awful stench that filled the room. "Ew. What's that smell?" Gwen asked.
"Oh. This is the chicken coop, too." Todd walked down the stairs. "See you in the morning."
Max took a deep breath and then exhaled. "Isn't that great?" He asked. "Nothing like the smell of country air."
Charmcaster groaned. "Could this get any worse?" Charmcaster laid down in one of the beds and when he placed his head on the pillow, he heard the clucking of a chicken. "Hey!" Charmcaster pulled the pillow away to reveal a hen sitting at the base of his bed.
Max chuckled. "Guess we won't have to worry about fresh eggs in the morning."
Later in the night, Ben snuck out of the chicken coop and then quickly rushed down the fields, only to be stopped by Gwen and Charmcaster as they stood by the barn.
"Going somewhere?" Gwen asked with a smirk as Ben stopped as she turned and smiled.
"Same place you are." Ben replied.
"Mummy hunt." They all said in unison.
They ran into a corn field. After getting to the other side, there was a barbed wire fence in the way. They crawled underneath it. They came to a hole that someone or something must've dug. There were glowing purple footprints leading away from it.
"Think that's where his tomb was?" Ben asked.
"An Egyptian tomb in South Carolina?" Gwen asked as she then noticed the glowing footprints in the ground.
They heard growling. They looked where the growls came from and saw two cows on the top of the hill. Only they were glowing black and purple with glowing purple eyes and frills on their backs.
Um," Ben began. "I know I'm a city kid, but cows aren't supposed to look like that, right?"
The mutated cows charged at Ben, Gwen, and Charmcaster.
"Split up!" Ben shouted. She, Gwen, and Charmcaster all ran in opposite directions with Ben in one way while Gwen and Charmcaster in other way, however, even though their intent was to confuse the mutants, both of them turned and pursued Gwen and Charmcaster.
Gwen and Charmcaster continued to run fast but the mutant cows were catching up but they was grabbed by XLR8, who got her out of the path of the corrupted cows. XLR8 stood by a barbed wire fence holding Gwen and Charmcaster under her arms. She placed them back down.
"Thanks." Gwen said as she and Charmcaster was thankful that Ben was there to save them. She gasped in terror as she, Charmcaster, and XLR8 saw the two mutants charging at them.
XLR8 sped after them while Gwen and Charmcaster climbed the tree.
XLR8 sped over to the opposite end of the cows. "Toro, toro!" XLR8 taunted. She waited until the purple mutants were a few feet from him before he sped off to where the cows were a few seconds ago. "Olé!" She continued to act a matador.
The cows roared as they approached her. Once again, when they got within inches of her, XLR8 sped off, this time behind the one with the bull horns and pulled its tail.
Gwen, from her vantage point in the tree could see that the other mutated cow was charging at XLR8 from behind. "Ben, look out behind you!"
The cow rammed into the Kineceleran, sending XLR8 flying into the tree Gwen and Charmcaster was in. "Ugh!" XLR8 groaned.
"Never mind." Gwen said.
XLR8 raised the visor on her helmet. She saw the two mutated cows approaching her. Sh got up and ran along the barbed wire fence and got a few yards of it in her arms. He stopped and let the mutants think she gave up, but when the cows got closer, XLR8 ran around them in a circle, picking up dust and dirt, forming a cloud. When the dust settled, the two mutated cows were tied up.
Gwen and Charmcaster climbed out of the tree that they was in to stay out of the reach of the mutants. "First a mummy, now mutant cows? What's happening on this freaky farm?" Gwen questioned.
"One way to find out." XLR8 noticed glowing patches of grass. "Follow the glow trail."
XLR8 lowered her visor and was about to bolt down the path that either the cows or something else left.
"Benjamin Tennyson, don't you leave us here..." Gwen said as XLR8 left Gwen and Charmcaster. "...alone."
XLR8 ran through a forest and came to an abandoned farm where in a hole in front of the doors to the barn was a mummy that was digging up something. The hole was emitting purple light. XLR8 got closer to the mummy to see it up close she found that the mummy did in fact look Egyptian.
"Woah. Looks like Todd was right." XLR8 said, not realizing how loud her voice was. "But why would a mummy try to get back into the ground?"
The mummy heard XLR8 and turned to face her, showing the Kineceleran its glowing purple eyes. He growled at XLR8. He leaped out of the hole it dug and slammed down four tendrils of what seemed to be its cloth wrapping.
XLR8 dodge this attack by putting a good twenty feet between herself and the mummy. The mummy then used one of his arms as a whip and slammed it in XLR8's direction, but missed, instead a barn that was a bit to the left of XLR8.
XLR8 ran into the barn and flung a bunch of sharp objects at the Mummy, which would've damaged it if the mummy hadn't spread itself apart and let the tools fly through an empty space.
The mummy looked behind itself to see that if the tools had made contact, he would've been damage. XLR8 used this as an opportunity to attack. She charged at the mummy, jumped up and kicked it. The mummy recovered from the blow and then grabbed XLR8, preventing her escape. The mummy then flung XLR8 into the side of a grain silo. After XLR8 got back up, three strands of the mummy's cloth made contact with the metal, which would've hit XLR8 if she hadn't ran away. XLR8 up the silo and stood on top of the roof. She looked around for the mummy, but found no sign of it. She heard a shrieking and looked behind her to see the mummy approach her. He punched XLR8 off the silo and on to the ground. The mummy jumped off the silo and landed ten feet in front of XLR8.
The Omnitrix dial on XLR8's chest blinked red and beeped rapidly, before reverting Ben to her human state.
"I hate it when that happens." Ben said as the mummy grabbed two of the pillars holding the cover of the grain silo up. It pulled them out causing the silo to collapse. Ben couldn't move her legs as she was paralyzed with fear. That would've been the end if not for Gwen and Charmcaster jumping at Ben, which got her out of the way.
"So, are we even in the rescue department?" Gwen asked.
"Yeah." Ben breathed a sigh of relief. She had just seen her life flash before her eyes. Ben then realized that something was gone. "But where's the mummy?"
"Major monster movie." Ben said as they walked to the crater. "He was digging for something glowing at the bottom of the crater, but it's gone now.
Later, back at Dairyville...
Ben, Gwen, and Charmcaster got back to the guest house/chicken coop. Ben laid down on the bed. "Oh man, I'm beat. I could sleep for a week." Ben yawned and tried to get some sleep, but the universe isn't feeling merciful at this time.
The minute that she actually managed to fall asleep, Joan then sneaked up on her and turned on the light and shouted: "Rise and shine, sleepyheads!"
Gah!" Ben shouted as she fell out of the bed and groaned on the floor.
"You've got to be kidding." Gwen said as she, Charmcaster, and Ben were all too tired. "It's 5:00 a.m."
"And those cows aren't gonna milk themselves." Joan said.
Max got out of his bed and stretched his arms. "Uhh! Now, aren't you glad you went to bed early?"
Ben, Gwen, and Charmcaster looked at each other then frowned.
In the barn...
Todd was showing the Max, Ben, Gwen, and Charmcaster how to milk the cows.
"Just squeeze and pull. Squeeze and pull." Todd said.
"Hey, don't they have machines for this?" Charmcaster asked.
"Ma doesn't believe in them." Todd answered. "Says they spook the cows."
"Isn't there something else we could do?" Ben asked.
"Well, the manure needs to be shoveled." Todd answered as they looked over to the pile of cow feces with flies hovering over it.
Seeing as there were only two options available. Ben, Gwen, and Charmcaster the less repulsive chore. "Milking." They said.
Todd and Max left the barn. When the door was closed by Todd, Ben had a realization about the task at hand.
"Aw man." Ben groaned. "This is gonna take forever." Ben pressed the two buttons on the Omnitrix. "Unless we get a little special help."
Gwen didn't want to milk the cows as well, but she didn't want to disobey her grandpa either. "Ben, Grandpa told you specifically not to go alien to do this stuff."
"Gwen's right, you know?" Charmcaster asked, although he had same reason as Gwen.
"Yeah, I guess you're right." Ben said as almost as if she could read their mind, knew that Gwen and Charmcaster wanted to get this done quickly. "You both wouldn't want to miss out on the experience of milking all these cows?"
"So, what are you waiting for?" Gwen asked. "Change already."
Ben smirked as she slammed the cores down in a flash of green.
Later...
Gwen and Charmcaster was lying on a haystack. They had a stalk of wheat in their mouth. "Oh, yeah. This is working out great." Gwen said.
A cow was trying to get away from Four Arms, who was carrying another. The tetramand was holding onto the freeing cow's tail. "Stand still. I don't like this any more than you do." One of the Cows knocked over one of the buckets, which frustrated Four Arms. "Hey, that one was almost filled!" Four Arms got that cow over her other shoulder, which caused her to fall into another haystack. The fall was caused not by too much wieght, but rather it was caused by the balance being affected.
"How's it going in there?" Joan asked before she came into the barn. Four Arms hid in a haystack while Gwen and Charmcaster pretended to milk the cows.
"Oh, just milking away." Gwen lied.
"Where's that older cousin of yours?" Joan asked Gwen.
"She..." Gwen thought of an excuse. "went to go get more buckets."
"Huh." Joan believed Gwen. "Well, when you're done here, find Todd. He'll show you your other chores for the day."
After Joan closed the door, Four Arms poked her head out of the hay stack as she, Gwen and Charmcaster smiled at each other.
Later...
Todd was feeding the pigs grain. He poured the mixture into a trough, then hold the bucket to Ben. Gwen, Charmcaster, and Ben looked to see that there was a lot of pigs to feed.
Ben take the bucket as Todd walked away. Ben looked back to Todd and see he had already left as she, Gwen, and Charmcaster smiled at each other.
Ben dropped the bucket and activated the Omnitrix and selected Wildvine. Wildvine grabbed a couple of the feed bags and poured them over the pig pens.
And again, later in the day...
Todd dropped an egg in Ben's hands as he walked out of a chicken coop, one that wasn't also the guest house. Ben, Gwen, and Charmcaster smile at each other as Ben tossed the egg to Gwen then walked into the coop. There was a flash of green light, and seconds later, XLR8 was running out of the coop with a ton of eggs in his arms. She raised the visor on her helmet, showing the mile wide grin that was on her face. However that turned into a humorous shock when she saw that she had accidently picked up one of the chickens.
Later still...
Todd got a horse ready to plow the field, which would be easy, if horses were'nt free thinking beings that could stay still if they wanted to.
To solve this problem, Ben turned into Wildmutt and grab the ropes with her jaw that kept the horse on the plow. She then pushed the plow across the field.
After that...
Todd used a post hole digger to make a hole then give the post hole digger to Ben as he put a white fence post into the hole and then walking away after he finished showing them what to do. Ben, Gwen, and Charmcaster smile at each other as Ben turned into Diamondhead and used her bladed arm to jab at the ground, making a hole and put in a fence post. Ben had smug expressions on her face.
Later, at sundown...
Ben, Gwen, Charmcaster, and Todd were walking down the dirt road to the guest house. "So, do you have to work like this every day?" Charmcaster asked.
"Nah. During planting and harvest seasons, we don't have it so easy. But, to tell you the truth, at least it keeps you busy. It's usually pretty boring around here." Todd admitted. "It's not like every day a mummy appears in a flash of purple lightning."
As those last two words left Todd's lips, the kids and teenager immediately froze where they stood and Todd walked away from them as they all turned to each other.
"Purple lightning?" They all chorused.
At the manure pile...
"Purple lightning?" Max asked as he shoveled some cow crap into the back of a pickup truck.
"Just like when we crossed paths with that alien werewolf." Charmcaster said.
"There's no way that it's just a coincidence." Gwen said.
"I'm not sure, but it can't be good." Max said as he finished up shoveling the manure for the day. "Come on. You guys can fill me in on the rest while I grab some gear."
Later, at the sight of the battle between XLR8 and the mutated cows...
Max held a scanner in front of the cows. "Well, this would explain your mutant cows, but we've got an even bigger problem."
"Bigger than a rampaging mummy and monster cows?" Gwen asked, not liking that things are about to get worse.
"I'm picking up trace readings of Corrodium. It a high-energy mineral, not naturally found on Earth. My guess is a meteor must have crashed around here a few thousand years back, scattering debris all over the area." Max explained.
"The mummy is a rock collector?" Ben asked.
"I'm afraid not, Ben." Max said. "It's a powerful energy source that's very unpredictable. That's what mutated those cattle."
"So if that mummy gets his hands on more of this stuff..." Charmcaster said.
"He could turn every living thing on the eastern seaboard into the same kind of monsters." Max said.
At an ice cream factory...
"Scanner indicates that the Corrodium readings are highest right over there." Max said as the Rust Bucket pulled into the parking lot of the factory.
"Digby Dairy?" Ben looked at the sign on the large building. "Isn't that my favorite ice cream?"
A security guard in a booth by the entrance. He was snoring, which allowed Max, Ben, Gwen, and Charmcaster to sneak by easier than if he had been awake.
They entered the factory and followed the trail of Corrodium energy. They took a left and went down a flight of stairs. The scanner beeped faster as they went down the stair until the scanner was overloaded and emmited sparks which was followed by a smoke being released.
"I'd say there's a big chunk of Corrodium buried right here, beneath the concrete." Max said.
Ben activated the Omnitrix. "I'm on it." She selected Diamondhead and slammed down the dial.
Transformation scene
The Omnitrix sank into her wrist and it became encased in green diamond before it covered her other arm and her head before it closed around her eyes and it became fully green. Diamond cover her ponytail and her clothes morphed into a magenta and pink bodysuit with purple zipzap lines below her knees with pink on lower right leg and magenta on her lower left with magenta patch with purple zigzag line around the edge on her upper left chest where the Omnitrix symbol was as the transformation ended.
Diamondhead jumped over the railing and onto the concrete floor.
"Ben, wait!" Max tried to caution his older granddaughter, but his warning fell upon deaf ears.
Diamondhead grunted as she stabbed the ground with her hands that she turned into spikes. She continued this until there was a purple light coming out of the hole she formed. "Found it."
"Nice work, genius." Gwen said as she, Charmcaster, and Max walked down the steps. "You just did the mummy's work for him."
"Oh... yeah..." Diamondhead said, realizing her mistake.
The lights started to flicker.
"We got company." Max warned.
At the far end of a hall that was lined with various pipes was the Mummy. The lights turned off, when they came back on, the mummy was closer to them.
"Something tells me he's not here for the chocolate zoomies." Gwen whimpered. Diamondhead charged at the Mummy. The mummy jumped, attempting to pounce on Diamondhead, but got impaled on one of the Petrosapien's spear tipped arms.
"Now that's gotta hurt." Diamondhead said.
The mummy wrapped on of his tendrils around the arm that impaled him. "Hey, let go!" Diamondhead tried to shake the mummy off. The mummy then threw Diamondhead into a bunch of machinery. He then grabbed the corodium crystal that Diamondhead dug up and added it to the other pieces he had in his chest.
Stating the obvious, Max said: "He's got the Corrodium."
The mummy roared before a crystal spikes came from where Diamondhead was lying down. They were heading towards the mummy, which he jumped to avoid. It used pipes that were on the ceiling to get over the spikes. He extended its and used them to try to punch an approaching Diamondhead, but were dodged until one was grabbed and used to fling the mummy against a wall. The mummy was then rammed by Diamondhead, which demolished a wall. Diamondhead then grabbed the mummy's head and flung the B-movie reject into a generator. Max, Gwen, and Charmcaster had caught up to Diamondhead. The mummy wasn't phased by that attack. It got back up and stumbled towards the group. The compartment on his chest unfolded, exposing the Corrodium.
"He's trying to expose us to the Corrodium." Max said as he and the others walked backwards to try to get away from the mummy.
A door opened and the security guard entered. He didn't know what to make of this situation. "Hey, what in blazes?"
"No! Get back!" Max warned, but that was in vain. The mummy turned to face the guard.
"Aah!" The night guard screamed as he was grabbed by the mummy and exposed to the Corrodium. The guard's eyes turned all purple. His skin became dark purple, a shade that was so dark it was almost black. His jaw unhinged. Most of his teeth fell out, with the few remaining turning into fangs.
Max place what looked like a red badge on Gwen and Charmcaster, and then on himself. It formed into a suit that covered all of their bodies.
"Level-10 hazmat suits." Max explained. "Don't think your parents would appreciate me bringing you both home all mutated."
"Hey, what about me?" Diamondhead complained.
"As long as you're in alien form, you should be safe from the mutation effects."
Diamondhead turn to face her grandpa and cousins. "'Should be'?" She was grabbed by the mummy, who wrapped one of its bandage like tendrils around Diamondhead's mouth. "Uhh!" Diamondhead was flung into a wall.
The mutated guard approached them, hopping toward them on its bladed limbs. "Run, now!" Max shouted as he and the other ran from the creature. They ran into a room with various industrial sized mixers.
"Well, here goes nothing." Gwen said before making a pose. "Emocha Objectia!"
Suddenly, her entire hazmat suit inflated up like a balloon and she screamed in terror and she started flying and bouncing all over the room and crashed into the objects. Max The monster security guard swipe it claws at Max and Charmcaster which they dodged as the security guard got hit by Gwen before she finally deflated and fell to the floor. "Okay. Mental note - never try to perform a spell from inside a hazmat suit."
Max picked her up and saw the mutated guard charging at them. Max got himself, Gwen and Charmcaster out of its path.
The mutant ran up a pipe and ran along the top of it while Max, Gwen, and Charmcaster ran down a corridor that was below it. It jumped down and prepared to impale them, however, the mutant's strikes were easily dodged.
Max stumbled back into a wall. He removed a long pipe from a bracket and held in in front of him. "All right, now. I don't want to hurt you." The mutant sliced the pipe in half. "Well, so much for that idea." The mutant swung at Max, but he dodged it.
The mutant pursued him. He was running backwards as the mutant followed him. It jabbed at him, but Max managed to dodge it. The corodium mutant then jabbed at the ground where Max stood, which Max dodged. It then raised up both of its claws and then slammed them down. Max jumped out of the way and threw the two pieces of pipe that he held in his hands at the mutant, but the freak sliced them. It then slammed the side of one of its blades at Max, causing him to fly over a railing.
The mutant turned around and saw Gwen and Charmcaster. Gwen and Charmcaster ran away from the mutant. Seconds later, the mutant pursued Gwen. Gwen ran over to a machine with a conveyor belt feeding into it. Gwen crawled inside it. The mutant jumped on top of the machine and stabbed the metal rectangular prism at random. Thankfully, Gwen was okay and was unharmed. When Gwen got out she rolled onto the floor. The creature was about to kill her, but the discount Super Mutant heard a sound from behind. It looked back and it saw Max standing on a length of chain that had a hook on it as it struck by him sending it crashing to the conveyor belt as Max landed on the ground as Charmcaster ran towards the machine.
"Let's wrap this up." Max said. The mutant, which had been sent flying landed in another one of the factories' machines, come to climb out. Charmcaster pressed the activate button, which caused the mutant to be dragged into the machine. It was wrapped up in tape. Unable to cut through since it was unable to move its limbs.
Diamondhead, meanwhile, had just dodged a punched made by the mummy. The mummy's fist landed on one of the mixers. Diamondhead then uppercut the mummy back before firing several shards of crystal at it, which the mummy avoided by separating itself apart.
The Omnitrix dial blinked red and in a flash of light, Ben was back to being 'normal'. The mummy's eyes widened when it saw what just happened, not in surprise but a lightbulb just went off in its head.
Ben grinned nervously and then ran as she knew what would happen if the mummy got its bandages on her. Ben hid behind one of the machines as the mummy ran by her. Someone grabbed her shoulder. She was about to scream, but saw that it was Max. Max placed one of the level 10 hazmat suits on Ben, causing the brownish green and black suit to form around Ben, covering everything except for the Omnitrix and her magic bag.
"Okay. Not my style, but it'll do." Ben said.
"Don't use your magic spell while you're in the hazmat suit. Gwen did it once in her hazmat suit and didn't goes well." Max warned as Ben nodded.
Max was grabbed by one of the mummy's tendrils and tossed to the side. Ben ran from it. Ben tried to out maneuver the mummy, but the mummy was more than able to keep up with whatever Ben, a human teen that was in above average physical condition, was able to.
Ben turned a corner and ran down, the alien mummy in hot pursuit.
"Ben!" Gwen realized when she saw a container next to her. "Slop the hogs!"
Ben looked to her left and saw the container next to her and she then tossed it out to the ground, sending out strawberry ice cream mix, which caused the mummy to slip and crash into the refrigerators.
"Hey." Ben said. "Grandpa was right. This farm work stuff really does pay off."
Ben approached the mummy as Gwen ran up to a control panel and started pressing random buttons. "One of these has got to do something." One of the buttons caused a machine to power up. "There!"
Ben picked up a hose and sprayed the monster of the week with marshmallow. "Eat marshmallow, mummy!" The mummy was forced into a big vat.
Charmcaster walked over to a lever. "Or maybe you'd prefer peanuts!" He pulled the lever into the on position, causing thousands of peanuts to fall on the mummy, causing it fall into the blades. It got torn up in the blades.
"Yes!" They all shouted.
They walked away from the vat as they high-fived.
Ben's ankle was grabbed by the mummy.
The mummy exited the vat and reformed its body. It began to damage Ben's suit.
"Her suit's ripping. She'll be exposed to the Corrodium." Gwen worried.
The mummy then grabbed Ben's left wrist, causing the dial on the Omnitrix to turn yellow. The dial automatically raised up and broke through the mummy's tendril. The holographic imagine of various aliens flashed on the dial before stopping at one that looked exactly like the female version of the mummy.
"The Omnitrix - it's sampling the mummy's alien DNA." Max said. "Ben, go alien before you begin to mutate. It's your only hope!" Max shouted.
"Time to fight mummy with mummy." Ben slammed down the dial, and instead of getting the mummy, she got Upgrade. (A/N: Gwen 10 Upgrade by Alkogolik on deviantart.)
"Upgrade? Oh, man!" Upgrade said as she slipped out of the mummy's grasp. She reformed behind the mummy. Seconds later, the mummy turned around as slammed Upgrade into two barrels.
"Ben, be careful." Max warned. "That stuff is liquid nitrogen. It could freeze you solid in seconds."
Upon hearing this, the circle that made up Ben's eye turned into what resembled a grin. As the mummy approach Upgrade, the galvanic mechamorph liquified and latched onto the two barrels. The nanite infused goo possessed the barrels, turning them black and green, and giving it three spider legs.
"Just wanted to get you all fired up before cooling you way down - permanently." Upgrade joked.
Upgrade fired a transparent blue beam at the mummy, which began to freeze it. After about fifteen seconds, it was finished. "Anybody for an extra-large order of mummy ripple?"
Later...
Upgrade had just finished pouring cement into the hole that they placed the frozen mummy in along with the corodium.
"Nice job, Ben." Max congratulated his granddaughter. "By the time the day shift begins, the concrete will be hard, and no one will ever know a mummy-sicle is buried under there."
"Or that there's a few pieces of mutant-making crystals buried with it." Charmcaster added.
The dial on Upgrade's chest blinked for a few seconds before Ben was returned to normal. "Speaking of mutants, what about the cows and the security guard?"
"Don't worry about them." Max said. "They weren't exposed long enough for it to be permanent."
Outside the factory...
Max, Ben, Gwen, and Charmcaster exited the factory. "Guess we'd better head back to the farm." Max said. "I'm sure Joan has more chores for us to do."
Ben, Charmcaster, and Gwen immediately grew worried.
"Yeah, about that, Grandpa..." Ben began.
Max stopped and looked back and saw Ben rubbing the back of her head.
"Charmcaster, Gwen and I would just like to say..." that was when she, Gwen, and their 'cousin' immediately ran up and hugged him with pleading looks in their eyes.
"Please don't make us go back there, please! We've learned our lesson, Grandpa! We'll do our chores from now on, we promise!" They all said.
Max had a grin on her face. "Oh, thank goodness. I'd forgotten how much I hated working on Uncle Jedediah's farm when I was a kid." Max said.
Ben, Gwen, and Charmcaster smiled each other in relief after hearing that.
"Now, let's get out of here before I get stuck with manure duty again." Max said as they walked towards the Rust Bucket.
Chapter end.
A/N: I rewrite the chapters a bit by changing Charm-Ben eyes color alien transformation from pink to green. The reason why is simple: Gwen 10 in Omniverse. Gwen has green eyes and yet in her alien form, she has pink eyes instead. So it show that the eyes color of the aliens transformation is not your own eyes color but rather the color of the Omnitrix.