Everybody Talks About The Weather
I don't own Digimon or Ben 10
A farmer was busy at work in his field when he saw a man on fire flying through the air when two policeman chased him. "There he goes!" one of them said.
"Suspect is heading west through the back forty of the Douglas Farm," the other one said into a radio.
"Roger Sheriff Mason," the person over the radio said.
"You got that truck ready?" Mason asked.
"It'll be ready before he gets here Sheriff," the man said as the police car he was in drove off. The person on fire was being chased by the car when he swerved and smashed into a scarecrow and skidded across the ground to reveal he was a Pyronite with a Plumber's badge on his chest.
"I'm the worst flyer ever," he moaned.
"There he is!" the sheriff shouted as he stood in front of a fire truck.
"I don't want to hurt you guys!" the boy shouted holding his hand out.
"Lucky us. Let her rip," the sheriff said and another officer turned a crank and let loose a stream of water at the Pyronite but the water did not extinguish him.
"Cut it out!" he shouted shooting a fireball at the fire truck making it explode. "Now why don't you guys leave me alone," he told the cops as a police car smashed into him sending him rolling across the ground and he groaned before blacking out and turning into an African American boy with a white tank top and blue jeans. When the boy came to, he was handcuffed in a freezer with the sheriff in front of him.
"You're gonna talk Alan. Only question is how long it will take." He told the boy now known as Alan who remained silent. "Alright I will start. Over the past week, there has been a series of fires all over Grover's Mill,"
"I didn't burn anything," Alan told him.
"So you can talk. Now if you only could think up something smarter to say," the sheriff told him.
"What's the point? You don't believe me anyway," Alan told him.
"Fires all over town, strange patterns burned through cornfields. Turns out Mrs's Albright's oldest boy turns out to be some kind of fire breathing mutant. What's not to believe," he said and Alan stayed silent again. "Back to the silent treatment again eh?" he asked taking the Plumber's badge from Alan.
"Give it back, my father gave me that," Alan said to the sheriff who looked at it.
"Then tell me what it is," he told Alan.
"It's mine!" he shouted.
"Unless you are an arsonist and a thief," the sheriff said walking off with the other officer. "Keep him in there until I can find the judge to tell us how to deal with him," he told the officer placing the Plumber's badge on a table and it started to beep. Meanwhile the new team made up of Daisuke, Ben, Gwen and Kevin were making their home in Kevin's car. Daisuke was in the front passenger seat with Kevin at the wheel while Ben and Gwen were in the back. Thanks to the battle with the Highbreed from the day before Daisuke had to change her outfit. She now wore skin tight blue jeans, combat boots that went halfway to up to her knees, a gold skin tight tank top that showed up her midriff, a leather jacket which had icy blue streaks on it with the number 10 on the right shoulder and the belt buckle had the number 10 on it as well.
"Nice look Motomiya. You've really grown up since we were kids, and in more ways than…OW!" Kevin shouted after receiving a painful pinch to his arm by Daisuke.
"Pervert," she said and Kevin chuckled nervously.
"Sorry. Too far huh?" he asked and Daisuke nodded her head.
"Can't you go any faster?" Ben asked Kevin.
"Yes," he answered but the car kept driving the same speed.
"We're still going the same speed," Ben said.
"It's called the speed limit. The fastest we're going tonight," Kevin explained.
"My mom is going to kill me if I'm late getting home again," Ben said.
"Bummer. But if you get grounded it would just be me and the girls. Lucky me," Kevin said.
"You think we would go with you if Ben weren't here?" Gwen asked him.
"Of course I got roguish charm," Kevin answered as something beeped.
"Phone call for Mr roguish charm," Daisuke said.
"I don't have a cell," Kevin told her.
"It's probably one of your many girlfriends," Daisuke said digging her hand into Kevin's jacket pocket and she pulled out Kevin's Plumbers badge. "Your Plumber badge?" she asked as a holographic map appeared.
"Whoa. That's new," Kevin said.
"It could be from Grandpa Max telling us where he is," Ben said.
"Maybe. Kevin, I need you to head to my house fast!" Daisuke told Kevin and he nodded and he sped up.
"Oh sure now you speed up!" Ben told him as Kevin's car stopped driving and Daisuke ran inside before she ran out with Veemon behind her and he jumped into the back with Ben and Gwen and Daisuke jumped into the car again.
"You!" Kevin and Veemon shouted at each other angrily.
"Enough you two! Kevin drive," Daisuke said and Kevin reluctantly nodded and he drove off and followed the map towards Grover's Mill, where Alan was trying to break out of his handcuffs by turning into his Pyronite form but he turned back.
"Too cold," he said before spitting lava at the handcuffs and melted them and he walked out of the freezer and he turned into his Pyronite form waking the sleeping officer up and Alan burned a hole through the wall and he flew off.
"I am so fired," the officer said. A few minutes later Daisuke and the others were outside the building Alan flew from.
"Max is in there?" Veemon asked.
'The blinking light is in there," Kevin told him.
"He's inside the building. Come on," Ben said.
"Let me drop my coat, it's gotta be ninety degrees," Kevin said walking to his car.
"That's what you got for trying to be cool all the time," Daisuke told him.
"Hey guys. What do you think of this?" Gwen asked standing in front of the hole Alan had made.
"Big hole," Kevin said.
'Helpful much," Veemon told him jumping up into the hole followed by Daisuke and the others, Daisuke then saw the Plumber badge and she walked towards it and she picked it up.
"Found what we were tracking," she said.
"You think it belongs to Grandpa?" Ben asked her.
"If it does, he's out there somewhere tracking down whatever made this hole," she answered. Meanwhile Alan was running through the cornfield and he hid under a tractor.
"The trail ends here. Spread out. He can't be far," the sheriff told the other officers who all walked off searching for Alan who snuck out from under the trailer when a cop came through the crops and saw him.
"Found him!" he shouted and the other officers arrived.
"Why can't you just leave me alone!?" Alan asked them.
"Doesn't work that way son. Why don't you just come along quiet-," Sheriff Mason said before Alan fired a small fire blast at the flashlight he was holding and he dropped it as it glowed red hot. "That's it. Take him down," he told the officers who surrounded Alan.
"Stay back!" he shouted sending a wall of fire at the officers sending them flying and they all groaned. "Are you okay? I didn't mean to…." He was cut off when a blast of ice hit him in the back sending him flying and he looked back to see Daisuke in her Cryonite form standing there with Veemon, Kevin, Ben and Gwen and Kevin was looking at Daisuke shocked.
"Since when were you half Cryonite?" he asked her.
"My mother's a Cryonite making me and my sister half-Cryonite," Daisuke explained as she turned back to her human form, she then popped the dial of the Omnitrix and she slammed it down and she transformed into a red, humanoid, manta ray like alien with two blue lightning bolt-like stripes coming from her shoulders to her Omnitrix symbol on her chest. She was about Ben's height and she blue eyes and a tail and icy blue streaks going down her back. "Jetray!"
"Stay away from me!" Alan shouted shooting fire at Jetray who flew into the air and then tackled him but he kicked her off and flew into the cornfield and Jetray followed him, not a hard thing to do when Alan illuminated the area around him, he then flew into the air and Jetray followed him before Alan stopped flying and took off down towards Jetray.
"Watch it!" she told him and she fired blew beams from her eyes hitting Alan and he fell to the ground before his fire reignited and he flew off again before sending another fireball at Jetray who blocked with her eye lasers and she fired another energy beam from her tail hitting Alan and he smashed into the ground.
"I don't feel so good," he groaned as Jetray landed and she turned back into Daisuke in a golden flash of light.
"Alright. There's an old guy who's been chasing you, wearing a Hawaiian shirt, where is he?" Daisuke asked Alan as he stood up.
"I don't know who you're talking about," he answered.
"My Uncle. Where is he!?" Daisuke demanded.
"Freeze!" a cop shouted as he and the other officers and Sheriff Mason ran up to them.
"I knew you couldn't have set those fires by yourself. Now I've got you Alan. You and your accomplice," Sheriff Mason told Alan. "Hands where I can see them,"
"Run!" Daisuke shouted and she and Alan ran off.
"Halt!" an officer shouted before they chased them and Daisuke looked to see Alan following her.
"Will you stop following me!?" she shouted as she stopped running. "How can I hide when you're right behind me? You glow in the dark,"
"But I don't know where to go," Alan told her.
"I'll tell you where you can go," Daisuke said before she heard something. "Someone's coming," she said.
"Hey I think I see something over there," an officer said as he and the sheriff walked towards a light when Kevin's car revved its engine and sped past them and a police car followed the car until it screeched to a halt in front of some farming equipment.
"Alright Alan. You and your friends get out here now!" the sheriff demanded walking to the car but the window rolled down to reveal Kevin, Gwen, Veemon and Ben inside.
"There a problem officer?" Kevin asked him and the sheriff looked inside the car but he didn't see Alan or Daisuke. In another part of the cornfield Daisuke and Alan ran into a barn.
"Why'd you help me?" Alan asked her.
'I don't know. You remind me of myself," she answered.
"So you're a monster too huh?" he asked her.
"Actually. I'm a whole bunch of monsters. But that's the cool part," Daisuke explained.
"There's nothing cool about this," Alan said as a spark fell to the ground and he put it out.
"Really? The super strength and the flying. Though you do suck at that part," Daisuke said.
"Yeah. My powers showed up a few weeks ago," Alan explained.
"So you're a Pyronite or a half Pyronite?" Daisuke asked and Alan nodded.
"I guess so," he answered before turning into his human form. "My mom is human. And I thought I was too until I woke up one morning and my bed was on fire, my dad put it out and they explained it to me. My dad is a Plumber. They're…."
"An intergalactic police force I know. My father's one too, but he's human. My mama is the alien in my family. Did your father give you his badge?"
"Once he explained to me what it was. But Sheriff Mason took it," Alan told her.
"Well. I took it back," Daisuke replied taking out the Plumber badge and tossing it to Alan who caught it and smiled. Back with the others the police car drove away and Kevin looked at a speeding ticket he had gotten.
"That wasn't too bad. We led them away from Daisuke and all I got was this," he said.
"That's a four hundred dollar speeding ticket," Veemon told him.
"I know. I think it's a personal record," Kevin replied stuffing the ticket into the glove box which was filled with dozens more speeding tickets. The car then drove off.
"Grandpa has nothing to do with this, does he?" Ben asked.
"Nope," Kevin answered.
"So that badge belongs to that Heatblast guy," Gwen said.
"Where did he get it?" Veemon asked.
"He doesn't act like a Plumber. He is most likely a Plumber's kid," Kevin said.
"Why would a Plumber give his kid a badge?" Ben asked.
"To keep real Plumbers from arresting them for interplanetary trespass. A badge is better than a passport," Kevin answered.
"You lost me," Veemon said.
"Heatblast junior is most likely half human like Dai is. Humans with alien ancestors are common. Most of them have powers," Kevin said.
'Common?" Gwen asked.
"That's what you and Ben are. You get it from your grandpa," Kevin answered but Ben and Gwen looked at each other. "I thought you knew," Kevin said looking at them.
"We get our powers from magic talismans and books," Ben told him.
"Magic. Ha, right," Kevin replied as the car kept driving.
"The sheriff believes I set all the fires," Alan told Daisuke.
"I don't. For one thing no fire could have cut this building in half," Daisuke told Alan looking at the moon as Kevin's car pulled up and the others joined them.
"Who's the squirt?" Kevin asked and Alan turned into his Pyronite form as Daisuke pulled off a piece of Alan's shoulder.
"Ow,"
"That didn't hurt," Daisuke told him. "I want to show you guys something," she said before she kneeled down and started to draw. "This isn't exact, but if I were to guess. Those aren't roads burned into the cornfields, they're crop circles," she said as everyone looked at the drawing.
"Like those things aliens leave to find their way around?" Veemon asked.
"More like what farmers leave to fool city folk," Kevin said.
"We have met a lot of aliens," Ben told him.
"True," Kevin replied.
"Also moot," Gwen said. "I don't think these are crop circles. They're circuit boards," Gwen said.
"How are we doing this again?" Alan asked as he, Kevin and Veemon followed Gwen on magenta coloured platforms.
"Magic," Gwen answered.
"It's not magic," Kevin told her.
"Oh right. Kevin seems to think my powers come from my alien bloodline," Gwen said.
"Huh?" Ben asked as he and Daisuke was on top of a green and gold platform.
"Can we focus on what's important?" Veemon asked.
"He's right," Daisuke said looking out at the crop circles. "I'll be darned. You're right Gwen, this whole valley is one giant machine," she said and Gwen nodded.
"Look at that," Ben said pointing at one circle with sparks coming from it.
"I told you I didn't do it," Alan said.
"Let's go down and check it out," Daisuke said.
"Yeah. Down is good," Alan said a few minutes later the group were looking at a figure wearing a suit and carrying a device as he made another circle in the crops. "What do you think they're doing?" Alan asked a little too loudly.
"Shh!" everyone else told him.
"Sorry," he apologised as another figure pulled a lever and the crop circles lit up as everyone saw a massive tower rise out of the ground and it arched with electricity and storm clouds gather and snow started to fall and lightning struck the ground as well.
"Snow?" Veemon asked shivering. "Man, I hate being cold blooded," he said as Daisuke put her jacket on him and he smiled as everyone walked out of the crops.
"The tower is some kind of weather machine," Ben said as the police drove up to them.
"Freeze," the sheriff told them.
"Already on it," Kevin replied.
"I took it easy on you Alan out of respect for your folks. But you built this machine, you're stealing the heat to feed your powers," Sheriff Mason said.
"Is he always this ignorant?" Daisuke asked.
"It's not like that," Alan said walking up to the sheriff.
"Stay away from him!" another officer said cocking a shotgun.
"Take your own advice," Kevin told him as he grabbed the shotgun and absorbed the metal and his arm was covered in it and he snapped the shotgun in half.
"He's one of them. They're all freaks!" the sheriff shouted.
"Slow down," Daisuke said before two of the officers were hit by energy beams and were frozen solid.
"What did you do to my men?" the sheriff asked them as another of the figures fired his device and Gwen made a shield and two others joined in firing at the shield.
"Can't take to many of these," she said.
"You don't have to," Daisuke told her as she was enveloped in a golden light and she transformed into Arctiguana who was now larger and had a dorsal fin on both elbows "Arctiguana!" she shouted jumping over the shield and she breathed a cloud of ice at the figures firing at Gwen and froze them solid she headbutted another figure as Veemon ran up and he headbutted one of them and knocked it down. Kevin ran up and he grabbed another one of the figures and slammed him into the ground and Ben fired his blaster at two of them before he held his hand out and a green hand of magic shot out and grabbed another figure and he slammed him into the nearby tractor. Arctiguana then transformed back into Daisuke and she turned into her Cryonite form as Alan jumped in and kicked another guy away and his helmet rolled off revealing another of the same aliens they group except Alan and Veemon had been fighting.
"These guys are the same types of aliens we keep running into," Ben said.
"We are the DNAliens and we will destroy you," The DNAlien said jumping at Daisuke but she punched him sending him flying.
"Hey remember how cold it was on their ship?" Gwen asked and the others nodded.
"I think they need cold weather so they are making some," Ben said.
"Makes sense," Daisuke said.
"So their big alien plot is to install an air conditioner?" Kevin asked before he was hit and froze solid followed by the sheriff and the other officer and then Veemon, Ben and Gwen but Daisuke was hit and she remained the same.
"I guess I can handle the cold," she said and Alan shot fire at the aliens knocking them out. "Now, we need to destroy that weather tower. You take the guys up top so I can get close to it," she told him.
"But I'm terrible at flying," he told her and she chuckled.
"I was at first too. Let me show you're a trick I learned," she told him and soon Alan was on a chunk of rock and surfing through the air and he shot fireballs at the DNAliens knocking them all down and he gave a thumbs up to Daisuke who nodded and she turned into Swampfire and she began to push the weather tower.
"Going to need some leverage for this," she said and her feet grew roots into the ground. "Okay. Here we go," she said pushing the tower and it slowly began to uproot itself and it soon smashed into the ground and the snow stopped falling. Alan landed beside her and she placed her hand on his shoulder making him smile at her. A few minutes later Alan was unfreezing the sheriff.
"What happened?" he asked once he was unfrozen.
"Alan defeated the DNAliens took out the weather tower and then freed us all from suspended animation," Daisuke answered.
"We helped," Kevin said.
"But not by much," Daisuke said and Alan turned to normal. "We were wondering if you could join our team. We could use a powerhouse like you, a lot of aliens to fight out there," Daisuke told him.
"He can't. He's gonna be too busy helping me round up any aliens that might be hiding in town," The sheriff said placing his hand on Alan's shoulder.
"Even so. If you need me, just call," Alan said and he and Daisuke shook hands.
The end of the chapter
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