Kevin's Big Score
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In a dark alleyway a rat was scurrying along looking for food when it perked up and ran off as a blue laser bolt hit the ground and an alien that looked like a rat with a long man of black hair and big yellow eyes and holding a blaster in his hand chuckled, he ran to the rat and grabbed it and swallowed it and burped. He then heard an engine rev he turned to see Kevin's car drive up to him. "Kevin, finally. I've been waiting here for an hour," he said as the window rolled down.
"I said I would be here Argit. What's your proposition?" Kevin asked him.
"Why you gotta be such a downer? After everything we've done together, aren't you glad to see your old running buddy?" Argit asked him but Kevin rolled up his window and revved his engine. "No wait! I got that tech you're looking for," Argit told him and Kevin rolled down his window.
"What makes you think I am looking for anything?" he asked.
"Oh come on Kev, octagon Vreedle says you've been vid-messaging all the underground swappers. You're looking for a specific piece of primo machino and I got it," Argit told him.
"For real?" Kevin asked him.
"Now you listen. When I can do something for you? You are so off my contact list," Argit said before he walked off and Kevin drove after him.
"Come on Argit. You've burned me on so many deals so many times. It makes me forget how tight we are," Kevin told him.
"Kev. Buddy, I can't stay mad at you. Not when there is money involved," Argit said.
"Let's see it," Kevin told him.
"Uh. I actually don't got it, got it," Argit replied.
"Oh come on!" Kevin shouted.
"But I can link you up with the guy who does. But it's going to cost you," Argit told him. Later that night Kevin was under the Rust Bucket as he fixed it while Ben, Gwen, Daisuke and Veemon were watching him.
"Hey, check this out," Gwen said handing a picture to Daisuke. "It's us in front of the old Rust Bucket," she told her as Daisuke looked at the photo which had the RV being towed away while Max smiled at the camera and Daisuke was in between Ben and Gwen smiling brightly and Ben had his arm around her shoulders as did Gwen and Veemon was in front of everyone wearing his disguise with a grin.
"That is so like Grandpa to lose one Rust Bucket and go out and find another one," Ben said.
"That summer was the best. Hero time 24/7, Kevin was still the bad guy," Daisuke said.
"Let it go Motomiya. I know you lot are here to keep an eye on me," Kevin replied sliding out from under the RV.
"It's sweet you wanted to fix up Rust Bucket 2," Gwen told him and Kevin removed a block and lowered the RV before he walked inside and Gwen went to follow him.
"Not yet," he said shutting the door.
"Still not buying the nice guy act Kevin!" Daisuke told him.
"Dai," Gwen warned her, Kevin sat in the driver's seat and held his Plumber badge up and it beeped and a hatch opened revealing some Plumber tech making Kevin smirk.
"Alright. I'm trying the engine!" he told the others as he turned the key and the Rust Bucket roared to life.
"Go Kevin," Veemon said before the Rust Bucket 2 sped off. "Hey! Get back here!" he shouted.
"Veemon!" Daisuke shouted pulling out her digivice and the crest of Friendship on the Omnitrix glowed blue.
"VEEMON ARMOUR DIGIVOLVE TOO….RAIDRAMON THE STORM OF FRIENDSHIP!" Veemon shouted and Daisuke jumped onto her partner who ran after Kevin and the RV. Kevin looked into the rear-view mirror and he saw Raidramon and Daisuke following him. "THUNDER BLAST!" Raidramon shouted shooting a thunder bolt at the Rust Bucket.
"Don't! You're going to wreck it." Daisuke told her partner as she popped the dial on her Omnitrix and slammed it down and she transformed into a humanoid, moth-like alien who wore a hooded robe which looked like a poncho giving her a phantom like appearance and her eyes where bright gold instead of blue as her body was blue and she jumped into the air and her poncho unfolded into four wings. "Big Chill," she said in a deep voice and she flew after Kevin who pressed a button and a cannon appeared out the roof of the Rust Bucket and fired at her but she flew out of the way and when one laser blast hit her she became intangible and the bolt flew through her. She then flew ahead and breathed ice on the road and the RV skidded along the ice before Kevin pressed a button and the tires gained spikes and it drove off. Big Chill breathed more ice at the RV making it swerve and it flew off the side of the mountain road and drove down the cliff when Kevin pressed another button and a ram appeared on the front of the vehicle and smashed through the trees and rocks. Big Chill followed and became invisible.
"Nice try. But tonight you're minding your own business," Kevin said pressing a button and a net was fired at Big Chill which hit her and made her crash to the ground and the RV drove off, Big Chill stood up and the net fell off and she turned back to Daisuke and Raidramon with Ben and Gwen on him ran up to her.
"He got away," Daisuke told them.
"Whoa," Gwen said as the others looked at her. "I mean oh no," she corrected.
"I knew we couldn't trust him. He's a liar and a thief," Raidramon said.
"That was the old Kevin. He's changed and so have we," Gwen said. "I can track him from this," she said pulling out a handkerchief.
"You kept his sweaty handkerchief!?" Ben and Daisuke asked her before he closed her eyes and the handkerchief glowed magenta and flew into the air.
"Got him," she said. Meanwhile Argit was looking at the RV's engine and he was unimpressed.
"Okay. It's a bucket of bolts man," he told Kevin who walked into the RV and held his Plumber's badge up to the roof and a hatch opened up revealing Plumber tech, Kevin then walked towards the front and held his badge up to it and the controls opened up. "Like I said a bucket of bolts. But the aftermarket extras are worth a fortune," Argit said.
"You think your guy would take it?" Kevin asked him.
"Oh yeah. If he had the chance," Argit said as his hair spiked up and fired needles at Kevin who was hit in the neck and he fell to the ground.
"I can't move," he said.
"Oh sorry Kev. See this haul is worth enough cash to pay off everyone I owe, and finally live a little," Argit said as he threw Kevin out of the RV.
"The Rust Bucket's all I have to bargain with," Kevin said.
"You should have held out on me buddy," Argit told him slamming the door. "When you can move again, you go see him a tech dealer named Vulkanus, he says he knows you," he told Kevin who gasped as the RV drove off. "Says he wants you dead!"
Kevin growled as he absorbed some rock and he ran to a boulder and lifted it up and threw it at Argit but he swerved out of the way and Kevin growled as his car drove up to him and Ben, Gwen, Veemon and Daisuke walked up to him. "Now I know this looks bad," he said.
"Bad? Bad!? If you don't get the Rust Bucket back I will show you bad!" Ben shouted at him angrily.
"Doubt it," Kevin said and Daisuke went into her Cryonite formed and grabbed him.
"What happen when this is all over and Max comes home? Where is he going to live then?" she asked him.
"Do I need to separate you three?" Gwen asked.
"He stole Max's home. What jerk steals from old people?" Daisuke asked.
"One with a good reason. Right?" Gwen asked Kevin.
"Yeah, this is important," Kevin said.
"For you maybe," Ben told him and Kevin sighed before he pulled out his Plumber badge and a holographic map appeared with a red dot.
"You hid a tracking beacon in the undercarriage," Gwen said.
"Like I would let anyone swipe a fortune in Plumber Tech from me," Kevin said. A while later Kevin's car drove down to an abandoned building and everyone walked out and Kevin kicked a door in and Gwen sent a ball of light into the warehouse and everyone saw the Rust Bucket had been stripped. "Stripped!" Kevin shouted.
"Where is your fortune now?" Daisuke asked as she picked up a piece of metal. "What's this worth? Five bucks?" she asked him.
"Drop it," Kevin told her and Daisuke growled and she kicked the RV.
"We're meant to save the world from an alien invasion, but we can't even keep an RV being stolen?" she asked angrily as Kevin walked off. "Don't you walk away from me!" she shouted running in front of Kevin.
"Is this where you turn into an alien and try to kick my butt?" he asked her.
"I'm considering it," she told him as they all heard someone at the door and the light went out and Argit walked into the building and he walked into the RV and pulled out another piece of Plumber tech.
"Score. I knew I missed something," he said walking out of the RV but the magenta ball of light appeared again and Gwen stood in front of him he looked around to see Kevin, Daisuke, Veemon and Ben with his blaster out surrounding him. "Uh oh," he said before he jumped out of a window and Daisuke followed him and she slammed the dial on the Omnitrix down and she turned into Echo Echo.
"Don't let him get away!" she said turning into six duplicates as they chased Argit who turned a corner to see two duplicates standing there. "No he won't," they said as they send sonic screams at Argit sending him flying, he then started to climb a ladder where another duplicate was and she sent a sonic scream at Argit sending him smashing to the ground, Argit then got on all fours and send needles at all the duplicates and the original Echo Echo ducked and she glared at Argit, Gwen and Ben ran up.
"Watch out!" Kevin shouted.
"Don't warn him!" Ben scolded Kevin but Kevin tackled them both just as Argit fired needles at them.
"No, you watch out," Kevin said before he groaned as a needle had hit him in the back and one had hit Gwen and Ben in their arm and they slumped.
"Wall of….SOUND!" Echo Echo shouted as she created several duplicates of herself and Argit fired needles at her but the soundwave sent the needles into the air to another Echo Echo who screamed sending them to another duplicate who screamed sending them back at Argit who was hit in the back and he groaned and hit the ground and passed out. When Argit woke up he saw Gwen, Kevin, Ben and Veemon standing over him. He tried to fire his needles but his hair wouldn't move. "I superglued them to your head," Echo Echo told her. "Everybody awake?" she asked before she noticed one duplicate was asleep. "Close enough," she said and all the other duplicates merged back into the sleeping Echo Echo who turned back to Daisuke who yawned and stood up.
"So let's get this straight," she said to Argit.
"I'll give it to you straight. You cannot trust this man," Argit said.
"Me?" Kevin asked him.
"You know what he was going to do? Sell your motorhome to another criminal, thank goodness I stopped him," Argit said.
"By stealing it yourself?" Kevin asked him.
"I may be a crook but this guys no good. You can't trust him. He'll stab you in the back, first chance he gets," Argit said.
"He's got a point you know. You're always doing something self-serving, shifty, always working some kind of angle. Always a thief," Ben said.
'You know what Tennyson, I don't need to explain myself to you!" Kevin shouted at him before he walked off. "Or you two either," he said softer to Daisuke and Gwen. "I'm done with all of you!" he shouted walking off a few minutes later he jumped off a truck and rolled across the ground before he climbed through a hole in a fence and walked through ruined airplanes and several minuscule aliens with pickaxes. "Take me to your boss," he told them and they walked off and Kevin followed them into a large hanger. "I hear you're looking for me Vulkanus," Kevin said and Vulkanus looked at him. "Well here I am,"
"Kevin Levin, I don't know whether to trade with you or to tear you to pieces. Remember that counterfeit isotope scam a few years back?" he asked him.
"Yeah. Sorry about that," Kevin said.
"You left me holding the bag. And at the mercy of the Plumbers. Now I'm stuck on this planet trading level three tech to get by thanks to you!" Vulkanus told him.
"Ancient history. I'm here to make a deal," Kevin said.
"I have the technology you want," Vulkanus told him holding out a disc. "But what are you going to give me for it?" he asked him.
"Well I had this stash of Plumber tech but I lost it," Kevin answered.
"You want to owe me!?" Vulkanus asked him.
"Just tell me what I have to do," Kevin told him and Vulkanus held his hand out and Kevin took it but Vulkanus grabbed it.
"Kneel," he said crushing Kevin's hand and he fell to his knees and a crystal rose up wrapped in bandages and they glowed and grabbed Kevin's hand and pulled it onto the crystal. "First you're going to pay me back for the double cross," He told Kevin.
"I can't stop absorbing," Kevin grunted as his body slowly became encased in the crystal.
"Because I don't want you too. You're forcefully absorbing a piece of Taydenite, the rarest most precious living gem in the galaxy," Vulkanus told Kevin as the small aliens dragged Kevin away and two restraints appeared and clamped on his wrists and his back continued to grow more of the Taydenite. "This piece is the only Taydenite in this spiral of the milky way. Until you came along," he told Kevin.
"You're garbage," Kevin said as the pickaxe aliens jumped onto his back and started to mine the Taydenite.
"You owe me. I'm taking it out of your hide, and then I will sell you piece by piece," Vulkanus told him as the Taydenite fell into mining carts. "And I will do it forever,"
"Do what you want with me but when Daisuke Motomiya gets that holo vid you'll be in trouble," Kevin told him.
"You're in no position to make demands," Vulkanus told him.
"He would be if he were alone," Big Chill said and Kevin and Vulkanus looked at her, Ben, Gwen and Flamedramon.
"You followed me?" Kevin asked.
"That whole get angry and storm off act? Please," Big Chill told him.
"You have friends!?" Vulkanus asked. "Had friends," he corrected before he fired a blaster at Big Chill sending her flying as the pickaxe aliens charged the others.
"FIRE ROCKET!" Flamedramon shouted shooting fireballs at the aliens, Vulkanus lifted up the rubble that had fallen on Big Chill but she had vanished and she reappeared behind him and he fired his blaster at her again but she breathed a cloud of ice at the blaster and froze it and Vulkanus swung his fist but he flew through Big Chill and smashed the ground.
"That's a way to break your hand," she told him as Vulkanus pulled up his hand which was ruined. "Told you," she said.
"You wouldn't be fighting me if you knew what he did to me," Vulkanus said.
"He stole and ran. But that is Kevin," Big Chill told him and Vulkanus punched her and send her flying into a wall, Ben ducked under a pickaxe aliens swing and he kicked it back and fired his blaster at two more knocking them down.
"I'm the injured party here! When the Plumbers came they blew up my ship!" Vulkanus shouted picking up Big Chill who smirked at him and she flew through him and Vulkanus became encased in ice and his suit shattered revealing that Vulkanus was actually really small about the size of a toddler who ran off.
"Kevin!" Gwen shouted running up to him and she freed him and he turned back to normal and Big Chill turned back to Daisuke and ran up to Kevin and Gwen along with Ben and Flamedramon who turned back into Veemon. "Easy," Gwen told Kevin.
"What about him?" Ben asked pointing at Vulkanus who was throwing the Taydenite into the air happily.
"What about him?" Kevin asked and everyone walked off before Kevin picked up the disc.
"You were after another holo-viewer?" Daisuke asked him.
"I hear this is special," Kevin told her as she took it.
"Why didn't you tell me?" she asked him.
"Think about it. I'm an ex-con. I've done a lot of stuff I'm not proud of. Stuff if you knew you would never trust me again. So the next time I say drop it, drop it," Kevin told her.
"It doesn't work that way Kevin," Gwen told him.
"It's not what you did that matters but what you're going to do," Ben told him.
"Uh huh. You gonna look at that thing?" Kevin asked Daisuke who turned the device on and a hologram of Max appeared.
"Dai, if you found this message you must be in pretty deep. There's a lot I can't reveal yet, but here's one thing I can, you can't go it alone. By now you're probably meeting some of the other Plumber's kids, but you have to find more. You need to put together a team," Max told her and Daisuke got a determined look on her face.
The end of the chapter
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