The Gauntlet
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The gang were inside a warehouse avoiding massive laser bolts coming from a large blue robot, Kevin leaned to the side before he was blasted in the shoulder. "Kevin, you okay?" Daisuke asked him.
"I've been better," he answered as the rock over his body crumbled where he took the attack, the robot fired into the air at Ben and Gwen who were on platforms in the air jumping onto new platforms they made out of their mana as the robot fired at them.
"What is that thing again?" Veemon asked.
"A Techadon, a real pain in the butt," Kevin answered as Gwen and Ben were blasted to the ground.
"Dai! Now would be a good time to change," Ben told his girlfriend and she nodded and started to cycle through her aliens.
"Give me a few seconds," she answered. Kevin absorbed some more of the stone floor and he jumped at the Techadon and punched it making it stumble, Kevin then went to deliver a hammer fist blow but the Techadon grabbed his hands and lifted him into the air and started to crush him.
"Let him go!" Gwen shouted as she swung her hand and sent an blade of mana and cut through the Techadon's wrist and Kevin was dropped to the ground and the severed arm sparked with red electricity and the helmet of the Techadon glowed red.
"Alright, here we go," Daisuke said.
"The suspense is killing me," Kevin said as Daisuke slammed down the dial on the Omnitrix and she transformed into a giant icy blue puddle of goo and an anti-gravity projector appeared and lifted the puddle of goo into a humanoid shape with the Omnitrix symbol on her chest.
"Goop!"she shouted.
"Ew," everyone else said.
"You know this is cool," Goop told them as she turned into a blob and flew towards the Techadon and was slammed into a puddle. "Hey!" she shouted at the robot before her anti-gravity projector pulled her into the air and the Techadon fired lasers at her but they didn't affect her as they flew through her, the Techadon then fired a massive energy beam from its palm creating a massive explosion sending everyone flying out of the warehouse and Goop hit the ground and turned into a puddle before her anti-gravity projector flew down and pulled Goop back up. The Techadon jumped down and swatted the anti-gravity projector away and Goop fell to the ground, the Techadon's severed arm grew a device. "Oh that's not gonna happen!" Goop shouted as her anti-gravity projector flew back and Goop flew into the arm and the Techadon started to bulge and Goop started to seep out of the robot before it exploded splattering Goop over everyone else.
"Dai. Get off us," Gwen told her.
"Sorry," Goop said as her anti-gravity projector flew around gathering her up.
"You ought to be," Kevin told her as Goop reformed and turned back to Daisuke in a golden flash of light.
"That was pretty cool though. Like the old days," Daisuke said.
"Whatever. As long as we took this thing for good," Kevin said tossing the gauntlet into the trunk of his car but the gauntlet twitched. A few minutes later everyone was outside Mr Smoothy while Kevin was cleaning his car. "I swear there is still Motomiya goo on you,"
"No there isn't," Gwen told Kevin who gave her a blank stare. Daisuke meanwhile was getting some drinks and she carried them towards the others when someone hit the drinks and made them spill all over her.
"Hey!" she shouted as she saw it was Cash and J.T who both laughed at her.
"Hey J.T looks like somebody had an accident," Cash said.
"Yeah. Look at that mess Cash. You want me to get you a sippy cup Daisuke? Or maybe a diaper?" J.T asked as both boys laughed and Ben and the others walked towards them but Daisuke shook her head at them.
"Okay you got me. Good one," she told Cash and J.T.
"Well, what're you going to do about it?" Cash asked shoving Daisuke back and he got drink all over his hand and the other people around them laughed at Cash. "Now look what you made me do!" he shouted at Daisuke who was considering using the Omnitrix.
"You're not even worth it," Daisuke told them.
"Huh?" Cash asked her.
"It is ridiculous. Could you at least try to be original? From what Ben's told me you've been doing the same thing since second grade Cash. It's tired, spilling my drink really? I can't believe people were ever actually afraid of you. Look around Cash, we've all grown up. But you're still the small pathetic loser who needs to torment others to feel good about himself. You're just sad," Daisuke said walking over to her friends as the other people cheered at Daisuke standing up to Cash who snarled and walked off with J.T.
"I'm proud of you Dai. You totally could have gone Cryonite or alien on that jerk," Ben said.
"I would have decked him," Kevin told her and Gwen bopped him on the head. Back with Cash and J.T both were walking down the street and Cash was kicking a can angrily.
"She got you good Cash," J.T said.
"Nobody talks to me like that! Nobody! Motomiya is going to pay, and everyone will be laughing at her!" Cash shouted as J.T say Kevin's car.
"Hey, Kevin's car," he said.
"So?" Cash asked him.
"So…if it were me I would trash it. Leave Daisuke for later, you mess up Kevin's car and everyone will know you are bad, the baddest in town. They will be talking about it for years," J.T answered and Cash smirked evilly. Soon both were pushing Kevin's car down the road and were grunting in effort while the others were inside a diner. Cash and J.T then pushed Kevin's car down a hill and it smashed into a tree and the alarm blared. Cash and J.T ran down the hill and Cash kicked the car turning the alarm off. "Look at all this weird stuff. Think we can sell it?" J.T asked.
"Hey!" Kevin shouted as he and the others looked at Cash and J.T. "What did you do to my car!?" he shouted.
"Grab something. Come on," Cash told J.T who grabbed the gauntlet and both ran off and Kevin ran down and looked at his car.
"Kevin," Gwen said putting her hand on his shoulder.
"They're not getting far," Daisuke said.
"Don't Dai," Gwen said.
"What? I'll fly after them and catch them," Daisuke said.
"And what? Let everyone know you've put the Omnitrix back on? Like you said they are not worth it," Ben told her. "Besides, they can't hide forever,"
"All that cool stuff and you grab an arm?" Cash asked J.T tossing the gauntlet onto a table in an abandoned warehouse.
"Well I think it's cool. Like a glove," J.T said putting the glove on. "Look. Behold the awesomeness of my mighty robot arm," he said making noises as he waved the glove around and he fired an energy blast from the glove which made a hole in the roof and threw J.T to the ground. Cash smirked as J.T fired laser bolts at bottles.
"Give it!" Cash shouted as he pulled the glove off J.T's arm.
"I found it," J.T told him.
"It's not finders keepers J.T. it's mine," Cash told him as he fired an energy blast at a mannequin head and he fired it some more times at more mannequins and he cackled madly.
"Cash, are you okay?" J.T asked him.
"Oh yeah. This will scare the juice out of Motomiya. This will teach her to not talk smack to me," Cash said smirking.
"Hilarious," J.T said before he saw Cash looking at the gauntlet. "You're not joking," he said, a short time later Cash was sleeping and J.T snuck up to him and reached for the gauntlet but Cash's eyes glowed red and he stood up and glared at J.T.
"I said it's mine," he told J.T. the new morning Kevin was in his garage as he was under his car and was fixing it and was grumbling under his breath.
"You've been here all night?" Ben asked as he and Daisuke walked into the garage.
"And I am not leaving until my ride is cheery," Kevin answered.
'You want some help?" Daisuke asked.
"You want to help? Go away," Kevin told her and Ben.
"Fine," Ben said putting the drinks he got for Gwen and Kevin down when Daisuke took Kevin's.
"No juice for you!" she shouted walking off.
"I know you're upset about your car. But you can't be mad at Ben and Daisuke," Gwen told Kevin as he drank the other drink.
"I got some kind of fruit in it," he said pointing at his cup when Gwen took it from him. "Alright fine. I'll go find them," Kevin said walking off before J.T ran up to the garage.
"Where's Daisuke? I got to warn her, something's wrong with Cash," he said.
"The guy who trashed my car? And weren't you with him!?" Kevin asked him.
"It was his idea really," J.T lied.
"Sure it was," Gwen said.
"Cash is looking for Daisuke, says he's going to teach her a lesson," J.T said.
"I wouldn't worry about Daisuke, I'd worry about your friend. Where is he?" Kevin asked him.
"At the old mannequin factory downtown, we hang there some times….okay all the time," J.T said.
"Got it," Kevin said walking off.
"Don't do anything stupid," Gwen told him but Kevin ignored her. "Waste of breath," she told herself. "What happened to you J.T? Back in first grade you and Ben ate paste together, you were nice. But then you started hanging with Cash," Gwen told him.
"Cash isn't so bad. I make him laugh and he always has my back," J.T explained.
"Both of you act like total jerks," Gwen said.
"Cash is Cash. What do you want from me?" J.T asked her.
"Seems to me you have a lot of influence over him," Gwen told him.
"Enough to make sure I'm not the one being beaten up by him," J.T said.
"Sounds like the basis of a great friendship," Gwen mumbled. "Why are you still here anyway? If Cash is such a good guy why don't you go hang out with him?"
"Look I just wanted to warn Dai…."
"Don't. It's now like when we were all little. Daisuke can handle herself same with Ben," Gwen told him.
"What about me? Cash is seriously bent, I mean something is wrong. And if he finds out I told you…." J.T said.
"Nothing will happen to you J.T," Gwen told him.
"Knock knock!" Kevin shouted as he kicked down the door to the mannequin factory. "Don't bother hiding. Your weasel friend gave you up," he said.
"Levin? I don't have a beef with you," Cash told him.
"That's where we differ. You trashed my car," Kevin said as Cash walked into the light to reveal his right arm was covered in armour coming from the Techadon hand. "That's a surprise,"
"Pretty cool huh? And I can also do this!" Cash shouted as he fired an energy blast from his fist at the wall behind Kevin leaving a hole in the wall. "You were just about to leave right?"
"No. This is good," Kevin said as he absorbed the stone from the wall and his body became covered in it. "This is really good,"
"What're you talking about?" Cash asked him.
"Seeing as you're all jacked up I don't need to hold back," Kevin replied as he stomped on the ground and he threw a chair at Cash who kicked it and it shattered.
"That didn't even hurt," he said.
"No? How about this!?" Kevin shouted as he ran at Cash and punched at him but Cash caught his fist and punched him with his Techadon covered arm sending Kevin flying and he smashed into the wall, the ground then opened up and Kevin jumped out and punched Cash sending him flying, he then jumped at Cash but he fired an energy bolt from his hand sending him into the roof and he smashed down through the floor and Cash fired at him repeatedly and Kevin crawled towards some metal and Cash jumped down and blasted him before Kevin could absorb the metal. "Give me your best shot," Kevin told Cash who smirked and punched him sending him back through the roof and he rolled across the ground and Cash jumped up. "Okay that was pretty good,"
"Guess this means you're not the coolest kid in town anymore Levin," Cash told him.
"And you are?" Kevin asked him. "Now on your best day," he told Cash as the Techadon armour grew over Cash's body.
"This isn't about you. Daisuke Motomiya. That is who this is about, you tell her three o'clock at Mr Smoothy. If she doesn't show up, then I will find her," Cash said walking off. Meanwhile with Daisuke and Ben both were drinking smoothies when Ben burped loudly and Daisuke laughed.
"There you are, we've been looking everywhere for….how many of those things have you had today?" Gwen asked Ben pointing at the smoothies in Ben's hands.
"Let me put it this way enough to say that chocolate and carrot aren't two great tastes that taste…" Ben said.
"What're you doing here?" Daisuke asked as she looked at J.T.
"Hi," he said.
"He came to warn you," J.T said.
"I wasn't worried at first but Kevin went after him hours ago," Gwen said.
"You're worried about Kevin? He will destroy Cash," Ben said.
"Kevin's not like that. He's changed a little, okay. Maybe this is bad, we should go," Gwen said.
"I'll show you, we're not far," J.T said and everyone ran off towards the mannequin factory where they saw the factory was ruined.
"It looks like someone had a fight here," Daisuke said.
"It was probably always like this," Ben told her.
"No these holes are new. But the garbage is still the same," J.T said as everyone walked inside the factory where they found Kevin against the wall.
"Kevin," Gwen aid running up to him.
"I bet you're loving this," Kevin said looking at Ben and Daisuke.
"What happened?" Daisuke asked him.
"Not as bad as it looks," Kevin said.
"Cash did this to you?" Ben asked before he laughed and Daisuke smacked him on the back of the head. "Right stopping now," he said.
"He must have gotten hold of some alien tech. He looked like that Techadon we fought," Kevin said.
"J.T," Gwen said sternly. "Did you forget to tell me something?"
"Well when Cash trashed your car some stuff fell out and we grabbed something a big metal glove, it shoots laser," J.T said.
"He called you out Dai. Three o'clock at the Mr Smoothy," Kevin told her.
"Okay, this ends now," Daisuke said walking off.
"I'll come back for you," Gwen told Kevin walking off and Ben followed and J.T ran after them. At the Mr Smoothy Cash appeared now all his body except his face was covered in Techadon armour and the people around the Mr Smoothy ran off from him.
"You thought I was so funny? Who is laughing now!?" Cash shouted.
"Hey! What is your problem?" Daisuke asked Cash walking up to him.
"You're my problem Motomiya, but now I have power. And no one can stop me not even your friend Kevin!" Cash told her as he looked at the others. "That's right I kicked Kevin Levin's butt!"
"I'm not fighting you Cash, you're not worth it," Daisuke told him.
"Than this should be over pretty quick," Cash said.
"Cash!" J.T shouted running up to him. "Look, this is messed up. We were supposed to be having fun, this ain't you man,"
"You ratted me out!" Cash shouted shooting an energy bolt at J.T but Gwen made a mana shield protecting him.
"Some friend you've got there," Ben told J.T as Cash roared and jumped at them when a red blue smashed into him making Cash rolling across the ground, he got to his feet to see Daisuke had transformed into Four Arms who was now wearing golden wrist bands, a black battle skirt along with a black tank top showing her midriff, fingerless gloves, two golden sashes that went across her tank top with the Omnitrix symbol on her chest. Her eyes were now blue and her ponytail was longer.
"Cash, listen to me. You don't want to do this," she told Cash who fired an energy blast at her but she leaned to the side and the bolt hit a car which exploded. Cash fired another blast at her but she jumped into the air and she kicked Cash sending him skidding across the ground. "Man I missed Four Arms," she said. "You can't beat me Cash," she told him.
"You think just because you're some kind of freak I'm gonna stop? I'm never gonna stop. Ever!" Cash shouted as he punched Four Arms sending her flying back and she crashed to the ground, Cash then grabbed her leg and slammed her into a car and then he jumped into the air and slammed Four Arms down into the ground hard and then threw her into a parked truck, he then saw Four Arms stand up unharmed and he charged towards her and Four Arms ran towards her and both grappled.
"Why are you doing this? Why me?" she asked him.
"Why not!?" Cash asked her.
"I'll show you why not," Four Arms told him as she forced Cash to her knees. "It does not have to be this way Cash. Neither of us gains anything by fighting, just stop!" she told him.
"I can't," Cash said.
"Yeah you can," J.T said running up to him.
"No. The machine want's to fight. Look it's fixing itself," Cash said.
"The Cash I know wouldn't let a bucket of scrap metal tell him what to do. You're the toughest kid in school. Fight it!" J.T told him.'
"How?" Cash asked.
"That thing doesn't control you, you control it," J.T told him.
"Maybe," Cash said as he started to glow. "Get off me!" Cash shouted as the armour receded and J.T pulled the glove off Cash's arm. Four Arms turned back to Daisuke and frowned at J.T and Cash.
"Thanks," J.T told her. "Let's go Cash," he said and he and Cash walked off.
"We need to lock this up somewhere it would control anyone else," Daisuke said picking the glove up.
"I feel like I am forgetting something," Gwen said as everyone walked off.
"Hello! Anybody!?" Kevin who was still inside the mannequin factory asked as the sun started to set.
The end of the chapter
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