Max Out
I don't own Digimon or Ben 10
Outside a diner on a dark and stormy night with rain pouring down an old man wearing a hat and coat crossed the road and he walked into the diner which was empty except the waitress and the old man sat down. "Here for the special?" she asked him.
"Just coffee," he answered.
"Don't get too many strangers here," the waitress told him. "What brings you there?" she asked him.
"Good fishing. Good weather," the old man answered.
"Our fish are all farm raised. And this is the rainy season," the waitress told him.
"I was misinformed," the old man said removing his hat to reveal Max.
"Here's your special," the waitress told him putting a plate with a lid on it.
"I didn't order this," Max told her.
"It's on the house," she said lifting the lid and an alien which looked like the top of a DNAlien lunged at Max who swatted it away and the waitress grabbed him from behind.
"You're on strong lady. Or are you?" Max asked ripping the waitress's face off revealing a DNAlien, Max put his feet on the edge of the table and kicked back slamming the DNAlien into the table behind them and Max saw the alien heading towards him but Max grabbed a coffee pot and he slammed it down on the alien. "I said just coffee,"
"No. or let me put it another way, no," Kevin told Ben as he cleaned his car at the carwash.
"Come on Kevin he's my cousin. He was supposed to be home from college two days ago," Ben told him.
"And you want me to waste my time driving my car looking for your cousin?" Kevin asked him.
"The police said to wait, I'm sure he is fine but we don't know where he is," Daisuke told him.
"Daytona Beach or Fort Lauderdale. He's a college student," Kevin said.
"No. he called from the road and said his car broke down in some town called Santa Mira. We haven't heard anything since, his folks are worried," Ben said.
"And I should care why?" Kevin asked.
"Because he's my brother," Gwen answered.
"Get in," Kevin said and everyone climbed in and Daisuke drove off with Kevin in the passenger seat.
"I appreciate this Kevin. Ken is…" Gwen stopped as Kevin laughed.
"Ken? Gwen and Ken Tennyson? What're your parents called Fen and Jen? I'm talking to you Ben," Kevin said.
"Yes our names rhyme, did you just figure that out?" Ben asked him.
"Just having some fun man, I don't see the big deal," Kevin replied.
"Ken took Ben to his first soccer game. When his band played he snuck me and my friends backstage, he's the coolest guy in the world," Gwen told Kevin as it started to rain and Daisuke out the wipers on.
"Welcome to Santa Mira," Veemon said as they passed a sign.
"For a guy who is so cool. He sure picked a lame spot for spring break," Kevin said.
"Hey, Ken didn't choose where the Awesome mobile broke down," Gwen said.
"The awesome mobile?" Daisuke asked.
"His car. Like I said he's cool," Ben told her.
"Let's check the garages in town," Veemon said.
"Good idea. How many can this town have?" Kevin asked and a few minutes later everyone was outside a garage. "Five. Five garages, one horse town and fire garages?" Kevin asked.
"Five so far and if the awesome mobile isn't in this one….bingo," Ben said.
"Someone say bingo?" Veemon asked.
"No I found his car," Ben said and Kevin looked inside to see the car Ben was pointing at.
"That is the awesome mobile? That makes the Rust Bucket look like a Ferrari," Kevin said as Daisuke smashed through the door.
"Dai!" Ben said.
"What?" she asked walking towards the so called awesome mobile followed by the others and everyone searched it looking for signs of where Ken could be.
"Dirty laundry for mom to wash? What a class act," Kevin said as he opened the hood. "Whoa," he said. "Look at this," he said.
"What is it?" Daisuke asked him.
"The only thing not covered in rust. Its alien tech designed to dampen internal combustion," Kevin explained.
"His car was sabotaged," Gwen said. "But why? Ken's too…"
"What too cool?" Kevin asked her.
"Too normal. He doesn't know about the Plumbers or the aliens or anything, why would they go after him?" Ben asked.
"I wonder how long ago this happened," Kevin said.
"Gross!" Gwen said as she held her hand up covered in slime. "What is this?" she asked as the Omnitrix beeped.
"I don't know. But the Omnitrix doesn't like it," Daisuke said.
"What's going on here?" Veemon asked.
"Wouldn't mind knowing that myself. What're you all doing in my garage," a man asked standing in the doorway with another man who was holding a freezer box.
"Should I called the sheriff?" the other man asked.
"You do that Shem. I am sure he'd love to know what happened to the guy who owns this car," Daisuke told him.
'What's to know? He dropped off his car, we fixed it but he didn't come back," the mechanic said as Kevin turned the key in the ignition but the car didn't start.
"Fixed it? Yeah right?" Kevin said.
"We've been meaning to fix it. But we got busy," Shem said.
"Yeah. Workload looks busy," Daisuke said as Veemon opened the container to see more yellow slime and Daisuke saw it too. "Okay. What is that stuff?" Daisuke asked them as lightning struck and everyone saw DNAliens.
"Look at this. The DNA hillbillies," Kevin said as the two men spat gunk at everyone sticking them to the floor or walls and they ripped off their ID masks and Daisuke was enveloped in a golden light and she transformed into Humungousaur and she broke through the roof making the DNAliens back up as Gwen fired magenta beams from her eyes and broke free of the slime and sent one DNAlien flying as Humungousaur roared and the other DNAlien ran into Kevin who absorbed metal and he was knocked out. "That's a work related accident. You can sue," he told the out cold DNAlien.
"Now what?" Veemon asked and soon the group were outside the diner.
"I thought if we retraced his steps we would find my brother. But now what?" Gwen asked.
"Check this out," Daisuke said walking up to a nearby truck and she opened it and screamed as a DNAlien was handcuffed and a container of slime fell down and the Omnitrix beeped.
"Unknown DNA sample acquired," The Omnitrix said in Daisuke's voice.
"Okay. That is new," she said.
"Dai," Ben said and Daisuke looked at him to see Ben holding a piece of fabric. "It's from his favourite shirt,"
"Whose?" Kevin asked.
"Uncle Max," Daisuke said before she turned into her Cryonite form and grabbed the DNAlien. "Who did this to you?"
"Max Tennyson. He wanted to find some kid," it answered.
"Where is he!?" Daisuke asked.
"He tied me up and left," the DNAlien answered.
"Not Max, he can handle himself. Where is Ken Tennyson?" Daisuke asked.
"The hatchery," The DNAlien answered.
"I'm telling you I don't know where my grandfather is," Ken told a DNAlien at the Hatchery as he was tied to a chair.
"I believe you," the DNAlien said.
"Who are you?" Ken asked him.
"I'm glad you asked Ken. I think the best way to get to know someone is to walk a mile in their shoes," the DNAlien told him pulling out another alien from a container.
"What is that?" Ken asked.
"My shoes," the DNAlien said and Ken soon screamed. Outside the hatchery, Kevin's car pulled up and everyone ran up to it.
"I'm cold and wet," Kevin said.
"No duh. A weather machine. The DNAliens are making it cold and rainy for who knows what," Daisuke said.
"How do we get inside?" Gwen asked and Daisuke ran to a vat of water.
"You've gotta be kidding me. Who'd be crazy enough to swim in that?" Kevin asked and sure enough Max emerged and breathed deeply as he saw a DNAlien standing there who ran towards an alarm but Max caught up and punched the alien knocking it down, he then pulled out a Null Void projector and fired it sucking the alien inside into the Null Void. Max then ran off and he hid behind a corner and saw two DNAliens down the corridor and he whistled and they ran up to him only to be knocked out and sucked into the Null Void and he ran off and walked up to the room where Ken was and he used his Plumber Badge to open the door and he ran inside to see Ken but he was half a DNAlien.
"Grandpa Max. Help me," he said to Max.
"Kenny. It's okay boy. I'm getting you out of here," Max told him helping Ken up only to be zapped by a stun gun and he fell to the ground and blacked out.
"This is disgusting," Kevin said as he and the others swam down a water filled sewer. "Next time you ask for a favour. Remind me to say no,"
"Don't be a baby. My brother is in there captured by DNAliens," Gwen said.
"At least he is warm and dry," Kevin said before he felt something hit his leg. "What was that?" he asked as Daisuke was pulled under the water. Meanwhile Max was escorted by two DNAliens and he stood in front of a Highbreed.
"Max Tennyson. You have been active in your retirement," The Highbreed told him.
"Oh this is just a hobby. A man my age has to be active," Max told him.
"You have been a great irritation to us vermin," the Highbreed told him. "You have delayed our plans,"
"It obvious you're producing these parasites here," Max said.
"Xenocytes. Yes," the Highbreed answered.
"And that they somehow transform humans into these freaks," Max said.
"It can't be helped. Their human half makes them repulsive," the Highbreed said.
"All I want to know is why," Max said.
"You will see for yourself insect, we are only hours away from completing the most crucial stage of our plan," the Highbreed said.
"But why change my grandson? Why change Ken?" Max asked.
"He was brought here as bait. With you out of the way, there is no one who can stop us," the Highbreed told Max, meanwhile outside Ben, Veemon, Kevin and Gwen emerged from the water.
"I don't see her," Veemon said worried.
"I can't see anything down there," Kevin said.
"Keep trying!" Ben shouted as some of the water froze solid and Xenocytes were then blasted into the air and Daisuke in her Cryonite form emerged from the water.
"Disgusting," was all that she said.
"It gets worse. There is only way in from here," Ben said.
"Oh you're not saying," Kevin groaned as everyone else dived under the water. "Confirming my point as this being the worst road trip ever," he said before diving under the water and he followed the others into the hatchery, as they swam everyone saw eggs and one opened revealing a Xenocyte, everyone then resurfaced and were surrounded by DNAliens.
"We are not stealthy," Ben said.
"But we kick major butt," Daisuke said begin enveloped in a golden flash of light and she transformed into Big Chill who flew off and she turned intangible and passed through DNAliens and froze them solid. "Thought you guys liked it cold?" she asked them as Kevin absorbed some of the stone floor and he ran at the DNAliens and punched them all sending them flying, Veemon jumped over Ben and rammed a DNAlien to the ground before jumping onto it and punching another one, Ben fired his blaster at some DNAliens as Gwen fired energy discs at some DNAliens when she gasped as one of them looked at her, Kevin ran up but Gwen stopped him.
"Get back!" she told him.
"What? I was following your lead," Kevin told her as Gwen stopped Ben, Veemon and Big Chill.
"It's Ken! It's my brother," she said.
"What?" Big Chill asked turning into Daisuke.
"I can't believe it," Ben said.
"That's Ken? He's less cool than his car," Kevin said.
"We've got to help him," Gwen said.
"He was fighting us. Whatever they did to him, it's affected his mind," Veemon said.
"What this did to me….is set me free!" Ken shouted throwing a DNAlien at everyone but Ben made a green and gold hand and it grabbed Ken and held him.
"That thing on his head," Gwen said.
"Well, time to remove it," Kevin said pulling at the Xenocyte on Ken's head.
"Kevin, wait!" Daisuke told him putting her hand on his wrist and the Omnitrix beeped.
"Severe genetic damage detected," it said in Daisuke's voice.
"Uh….Omnitrix?" she asked it.
"Genetic code splicing error. Should we attempt to repair?" it asked her.
"Fix Ken?" Daisuke asked. "Alright. Let's do it," she said putting her hand on Ken's head and the Omnitrix glowed golden and Daisuke found herself floating through a gold, red and blue tunnel. "I'm inside the Omnitrix. And so is that creepy crawly," she said as she saw Ken floating nearby and she landed on the Xenocyte and pulled it off as it shot tentacles at her and she screamed before she opened her eyes to see the Xenocyte limp in her hand and Ken turned back to normal as Ben let him go. "I wish Azmuth gave me a manual for this thing," she said to herself.
"It's okay Ken. Everything's going to be okay," Ben told him.
"Nothing's okay. I captured Grandpa Max, handed him over to them. I couldn't stop, it was like I was watching someone else," Ken said.
"They had Max!?" Daisuke asked him.
"That's why they captured me. To lure him in, they want him out of the way of their plans. It's terrible," Ken said.
"Let's find him," Daisuke said.
"I'm coming with you," Ken told her.
"You want to help? Cool," Kevin said. The group then walked off and saw Max on the ground tied up.
"Daisuke?" he asked her.
"Uncle Max!" Daisuke exclaimed running up to him as did Ben and Gwen and they freed him.
"You're a sight for sore eyes," he told them as he hugged them all happily.
"I'm so glad you're okay," Gwen told him.
"Me too honey," he replied as he looked at Ken. "Kenny,"
"Grandpa, I didn't know what I was doing," Ken said before Max hugged him.
"It's okay," he told him. "I always knew you could do it Daisuke, I am so proud of you," he told her, "All of you. You too Kevin, I've been watching, you've come a long way. You might even earn that Plumber's badge you swiped," he told Kevin who frowned slightly.
"Attention all personal. Initiate Project DNA now," the Highbreed announced and everyone ran up to a window to see several DNAliens riding hovercrafts as the water drained and the hovercrafts sucked up Xenocyte eggs.
"What're they doing?" Daisuke asked Max.
"They're shipping those things somewhere. Putting together a DNAlien army," Max explained as they saw the eggs being put into trucks. "Stop them Daisuke, these Xenocytes must be destroyed," he told her and everyone ran off to stop the trucks.
"What're you gonna do?" Daisuke asked before leaving.
"What I have to," he answered and Daisuke was hesitant before she ran off after the others. Gwen blew a truck up and threw it into another one causing an explosion.
"Nice one," Kevin said as the DNAliens screeched and fired gunk at them all. Daisuke jumped into the air and was enveloped in a golden flash of light and she turned into Jetray and flew off firing energy blasts from her eyes and tail at the trucks blowing several of them up. Ken smashed eggs with a metal pipe when Kevin grabbed it and absorbed the metal and handed it back to Ken before running at some DNAliens and punched them.
"You kidnapped my brother turned him into a monster and then kidnapped my grandfather. I have had it!" Gwen shouted as her eyes glowed and she fired massive energy bolts at the trucks blowing them all sky-high.
"Whoa," Ben said.
"Yeah. Whoa," Kevin said agreeing with him, several bangs and flashes of light were heard making everyone turn around.
"Max," Jetray said before she flew off and the others followed her and Jetray turned back to normal and saw all the consoles smashed.
"Gramps has been busy," Kevin said.
"Hurry up!" Ben shouted running off with the others when they saw a massive pile of Xenocyte eggs.
"You were right. Worst road trip ever," Veemon told Kevin who nodded.
"Max!" Daisuke shouted running off and the others followed and saw Max fighting the Highbreed with a pipe before he was thrown back and lifted into the air.
"Let him go!" Ken demanded the Highbreed.
"Stay back. Or this one breathes no more," the Highbreed replied.
"Give it up. We've beaten you, your factories trashed, your trucks and smashed to pieces. It's over!" Daisuke told him.
"More trucks can be here in a matter of hours. And my DNAlien hordes," the Highbreed said as everyone looked outside to see hundreds of DNAliens.
"Are already here," Daisuke said.
"It ends now Plumber. Nowhere left to run," the Highbreed told Max.
"I wasn't running chief. I was looking for the egg machine," Max told him taking out the Null Void projector.
"A Null Void Projector? Do you think you can imprison us all?" the Highbreed asked him.
"No. but without the focusing lens this thing will do a pretty good imitation of a hand grenade. I reckon it will take out half a mile," Max said ripping the focusing lens off the Null Void Projector.
"You wouldn't dare! You would be destroyed as well, you and your offspring," the Highbreed told him.
"Gwen. You and Ben throw up an energy shield around everyone and hold on tight. And….be take care of each other," Max told his grandchildren.
"Max….no. Please!" Daisuke begged him.
"Sorry Dai, it's the only way to make sure they don't do to the rest of the world what they did to Ken. You've grown a lot in these past five years and you've matured so much. I'm proud of the woman you're growing up to be. But now it's time for you to take the torch and become a leader again. I believe in you, in all of you. And Dai don't worry if you ever need Plumber advice ask your father," Max said winking at her.
"Max!" Daisuke shouted as Ben, Veemon and Kevin grabbed her. "NOOO!" she shouted as Max pressed the button and a bright flash of light appeared and Gwen raised an energy shield around everyone as everyone within a half mile was destroyed.
"That was pretty hard-core," Kevin said as Gwen lowered the energy shield.
"He….he saved the whole world," Gwen said.
"He did…..for now," Daisuke said. "But I don't think those things are giving up anytime soon,"
"What're you saying?" Ben asked her.
"I'm saying that it's up to someone to protect this planet. And like it or not, I think it's up to us now," she told everyone who nodded.
The end of the chapter
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