Undercover
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"This is a bad idea. We don't even know how to work a teleporter pad," Gwen told Kevin as he placed a banana down inside a teleporter.
"We have to start somewhere," Kevin replied.
"Ben, tell Kevin this is a bad idea," Gwen said and Daisuke nodded before she noticed Ben was hiding behind a crate.
"Ben, are you hiding?" she asked him.
"Of course not. It's just that if a fly lands on that banana when it teleports and rematerializes as a deadly banana fly monster I want to be as far as I possibly can," he answered and Daisuke rolled her eyes.
"I used to turn into Stinkfly all the time ya know," she told him as Kevin started to flip switches.
"She's got a point," Kevin said and Gwen nodded agreeing with him as the teleporter machine started to hum and the banana flew into the air and vanished before it returned seconds later and turned black and exploded. "Oh, that's not good," Kevin said as the teleporter started to malfunction.
"Shut it off before it blows!" Daisuke shouted but when Kevin tried to shut it off the controls short circuited.
"It's too hot!" he replied.
"I know someone who ca take the heat," Daisuke said as she was enveloped in a golden light and she turned into Four Arms. "Open the door!" she shouted and Gwen threw a ball of mana at the switch opening the warehouse door, Four Arms ran up and she grabbed the teleporter and grunted in effort as she picked up the teleporter and she threw it out of the warehouse where it smashed onto the ground. "Hit the deck!" she shouted as the teleporter exploded and when the smoke died down Four Arms turned back into Daisuke. "Everyone alright?" she asked.
"Forget that! What about the teleporter pad?" Kevin asked running up to it.
"Deep down, he really cares about us," Gwen said as they walked up to Kevin who was examining the wreckage.
"It's totally trashed," he said.
"At least we don't have to worry about any banana fly monsters," Ben said before he yelped as Daisuke smacked him on the back of the head.
"I know a kid, might be able to fix it," Kevin said.
"Fix alien tech?" Gwen asked him.
"He's a total super genius with any kind of machine. Doesn't matter if it's human or alien, I'll bring Cooper over from his lab," Kevin said.
"Cooper!?" Daisuke asked.
"Pasty kid?" Ben asked.
"Blonde, bad haircut?" Gwen asked.
"Has a huge crush on Gwen?" Daisuke finished grinning at Gwen who frowned at her.
"Sounds like the same guy, but then who wouldn't have a crush on you?" Kevin asked Gwen with a smile making Gwen smile as well.
"He helped us out back when we were kids. Against the Negative Twelve," Ben said. "You should have told us you knew him," Ben told Kevin.
"Never came up," he replied.
"You didn't think a kid who can manipulate alien tech would be a good person to have against the DNAliens?" Daisuke asked as she climbed into the driver's seat of Kevin's car.
"It's possible I know two or three people that you don't Dai," Kevin answered. "And if you're so smart why didn't you mention him before?" he then asked her.
"Touché," Daisuke replied as she drove off once the others had climbed inside. A few minutes later the group were standing outside a house.
"I thought you said we were going to Copper's lab," Gwen said.
"We are," Kevin replied walking off and the others followed. "So Gwen, excited to see the ex?" he asked her.
"Zip it," Gwen told him and she glared at Daisuke. "You had to mention the crush?" she asked her and Daisuke shrugged.
"Probably not," she said as Kevin opened the door to the house and everyone followed him in towards the basement.
"Why break in? Couldn't we have left a message with Cooper's folks?" Gwen asked him.
"Because Cooper never leaves his lap. Never. Something is seriously wrong," he answered walking down the stairs.
"He probably went out for a…." Ben said as Kevin turned on the lights to see the whole basement was filled with computers and was wrecked. "Smoothie," he finished, Daisuke picked up an old shirt and gagged at the smell.
"I guess you were right about Cooper never leaving the lab," she said.
"Check for signs of a struggle," Kevin told the others as Ben stepped on a piece of pizza.
"This whole place looks like a struggle," he said as he picked up a device and he pressed a button on it and it started to make noises and glow.
"Ben!" Daisuke shouted as the device fired a beam of light at the screens and Cooper's face appeared.
"If anyone finds this message," he said before screeching was heard and three DNAliens attacked him and he tried to run away from them but one spat goo on his foot trapping him and the DNAliens grabbed him. "No!" he shouted as he was teleported away.
"There's your answer on what happened to him," Daisuke said.
"Smart kid. Left behind a message in a bottle so someone would know what happened to him," Kevin said.
"Gwen, can you track him?" Ben asked his cousin.
"Maybe. His energy resonance is really strong here," she answered as her eyes and hands glowed. "Found him, I should be able to lead us to him,"
"In other words you're attracted to him," Kevin said with a smirk before Daisuke elbowed him in the stomach making him grunt in pain. A few hours later the four of them plus Veemon were outside a familiar sight.
"Los Soledad?" Ben asked.
"Deserted. At least last time we had a monster to fight," Kevin said.
"I don't get it. I did everything right," Gwen said confused.
"They say love is blind and apparently it screws up your powers too," Kevin teased her.
"My powers are not screwed up. My instincts are telling me Cooper is here," Gwen said.
"I hate to say it Gwen, but there's nothing here except…" Veemon said as he walked into Los Soledad but he vanished.
"Veemon!" Daisuke shouted as Veemon poked his head out of the hole he had walked through.
"Come and see this," he told the others who followed him through and noticed that it was snowing and dozens of DNAliens.
"What is this DNAlien day-care?" Daisuke asked as she and the others saw the three weather control machines.
"Three of those weather control towers," Kevin said.
"This is so not good," Veemon added shivering before Daisuke placed her jacket over him.
"And somewhere, Cooper is right in the middle of all this," Gwen said worried for her friend.
"The cloaking field is hiding the whole city. Where'd they get something that powerful?" Kevin asked before the others gave him a look. "Right, Cooper must have built it for them," he said.
"Down," Gwen whispered and everyone ducked behind cover as a DNAlien on a flying cart moved past them.
"With that cloaking device up these things don't need to worry about anyone seeing them build…." Daisuke said looking up at a giant archway. "Whatever that is,"
"Do you still have a lock on Copper?" Ben asked Gwen whose eyes glowed.
"He's not far," she answered.
"Got any spells to give us cover?" Kevin asked her.
"They're not spells," she answered.
"That's a no then," Kevin said.
"Come on," Daisuke told the others as she ran off and the others followed her, they passed behind a building when DNAliens started to talk to each other in their language as a cart full of metal landed where they were but Gwen and Ben lifted the group onto platforms made of mana, they then jumped down once the coast was clear and Gwen ran off to a door and Kevin opened the door and the others walked inside as Gwen located Cooper.
"Why don't we just yell out, "Hey Cooper?" Kevin asked
"And have four thousand DNAliens crawling up our butts?" Daisuke asked him. "Good plan," she mumbled sarcastically.
"He's in here," Gwen said and Ben reached for the door handle when Daisuke stopped him.
"Let me," she said before she turned into Goop in a flash of gold light, she then slid under the door where she saw two DNAliens guarding Cooper as he put something together.
"Careful with those pieces human, they're priceless," one of the DNAliens told Copper as he lifted the object he was creating and he lifted up another piece and brought them together but they hit each other and an extreme high-pitched ringing sound occurred making the two DNAliens scream in pain and fall to their knees, the object Cooper was creating fell to the ground where it broke apart allowing the DNAliens to stand up again.
"It was an accident," Cooper said.
"Clumsy child! You'll pay for that!" the second DNAlien promised Cooper.
"No hitting," Goop told the DNAliens as she appeared in front of Cooper.
"Intruder!" one of the DNAliens shouted before Goop wrapped around them and slammed their heads together knocking them out. The door to the room was kicked down and Kevin with his body now covered in metal walked in with the others.
"Calvary's here," he said before looking at the downed DNAliens. "Not that you need it or anything," he added as Cooper looked at Gwen with a smile.
"Gwen, you totally came to my rescue," he said as Goop turned back to Daisuke in a flash of gold light.
"What about me?" she asked Cooper.
"Oh nice to see you too Dai, and you're as beautiful as ever," he complimented her and she smiled at him.
"Come on lover boy," Ben told Cooper dragging him off. Everyone else then ran after the two of them and they left the building and hid behind a building when Cooper started to pant.
"I gotta rest," he said.
"Ever think about getting a treadmill?" Veemon asked him. "You seriously need it," he told him.
"We don't have long. We need to get outside the shield before they realise Cooper is gone," Ben said as Cooper looked at Gwen.
"The way you came storming in there, like how Princess Elena rescued me last week from the Caverns of Unforgiving Dismay!" he said.
"Excuse me?" Gwen asked him.
"In Nations of Conquest, the M.M.O.R.P.G I play," he answered.
"Excuse me?" Gwen asked again.
"Massive multiplayer online role-playing game," Cooper answered.
"Yeah Gwen, and your power is being plus-3 nerd bait," Kevin told Gwen.
"This is serious you guys. This is the largest amount of DNAliens we've ever seen. And as long as the cloaking machine is up they can work 24/7," Daisuke told the group.
"I'm the one they forced to build the cloaking machine. Shutting it down shouldn't be too hard," Cooper told her.
"Then that's what we're gonna do," Daisuke said.
"We've been lucky so far though, sooner or later they're gonna find us," Ben said.
"That won't be a problem either," Cooper said.
"Because?" Veemon asked as Cooper pulled out a small device.
"Before I built the big cloaking projector, I built a smaller one. A prototype if you will, it's just enough to cover us all, if we all squeeze close together," he said blushing before he yelped as Daisuke smacked him across the back of the head.
"Flirt later," she told Copper and he nodded before activating the prototype and everyone looked around.
"I don't feel invisible," Ben said.
"Follow me," Cooper told them before running off and the others followed him when a DNAlien on a floating cart moved past them but didn't look at them.
"Nice job, Cooper," Daisuke told him and he nodded and everyone ran off again.
"Hey Cooper, think about it. The damsel rescued you now you get to be the knight in shining armour who saves the day," Kevin told him.
"Jealous much?" Veemon asked him.
"Am not!" Kevin answered a bit too loudly making a DNAlien look over at them before it walked off.
"The cloaking device keeps us from being seen, not heard," Ben told Kevin.
"Uh oh," Cooper said.
"What?" Daisuke asked him as the prototype short circuited and everyone became visible again and the prototype exploded making the DNAliens looked at them.
"Who are they?" one asked.
"What're they doing here?" another asked.
"Get them!" another one shouted as dozens of DNAliens swarmed the group.
"There's nothing around here for me to touch," Kevin said as he was grabbed by three DNAliens and another one grabbed Cooper.
"Hold on," Ben said but before he could act he and Veemon were grabbed by more DNAliens and so was Gwen, but when a DNAlien grabbed Daisuke she smirked and turned into Swampfire who headbutted the DNAlien making it stumble backwards and she then threw blue fireballs at the DNAliens making them scream when they were hit, Swampfire kicked another DNAlien back when a voice rang out.
"Enough!" she turned to see a Highbreed approaching. "Surrender, if you don't want your friends to be tore limb from limb," he told her and Swampfire growled before she sighed and turned back into Daisuke and a DNAlien grabbed her. "Now then, you're going back to work for us," the Highbreed then told Cooper.
"I will never work for you again," he replied.
"You'll do just what I say, or your friends will pay the price," the Highbreed told him pointing at the others. "Is that what you want human? For your friends to suffer?" he asked putting his claw on Gwen's face.
"Get your hands off her. I'll do it. I'll do anything," Cooper said sadly.
"Then get back to work!" the Highbreed demanded. A few minutes later the DNAliens shoved Kevin, Ben, Gwen, Veemon and Daisuke into a room and locked them inside.
"Now you can just go Humungousaur and break us out of here," Kevin told her.
"I doubt even Humungousaur could last against all those DNAliens," Daisuke replied.
"Plus they'd use Cooper against us like they used us against him," Veemon said as Kevin looked through a slit in the door.
"That is a lot of guards," he said as he saw at least half a dozen DNAliens outside the door.
"Kevin absorb this metal, it seemed to have an effect on the DNAliens," Daisuke told him.
"Why?" Kevin asked her.
"Trust me," she answered.
"I got a bad feeling about this," Kevin mumbled as he absorbed the metal and was covered in it, Daisuke was then enveloped in a gold light and she turned into Echo Echo. Gwen then walked up to the door.
"Hi, um there is no bathroom in here and I really need to go," she said and a DNAlien opened the door and Kevin barrelled him over with Echo Echo in his arms.
"Now!" she shouted and Veemon swung a pipe and hit Kevin making him vibrate and Echo Echo sent out a sonic scream which made the DNAliens scream and fall over in pain as they held their heads. The group then ran out.
"Did you need to hit me so hard!?" Kevin asked Veemon.
"No. but I did it anyway," he answered as more DNAliens showed up and Veemon whacked Kevin again and Echo Echo screamed again making the horde fall over holding their heads.
"Come on Cooper's this way," Gwen said running off as Kevin gingerly walked after the others while Echo Echo rode on his shoulder.
"Faster!" a DNAlien told Cooper as he was creating something. "You must make up for the time you lost trying to escape us," just then a high pitched scream was heard and made the DNAliens scream in pain and hold their heads and collapse, Cooper then turned around to see Echo Echo, Kevin, Ben, Veemon and Gwen standing there.
"Ready to go?" Veemon asked him.
"Please say yes," Kevin begged Cooper, the group then ran off and saw more DNAliens in front of them when three more fired at them.
"Stay behind me Cooper," Gwen told him as she threw mana discs at the DNAliens.
"Just like Princess Elena rescued me last week from the Caverns of Unforgiving Dismay!" he said with a sigh of happiness.
"Stay behind me and don't talk," Gwen told him sternly and he nodded.
"V-HEADBUTT!" Veemon shouted ramming a DNAlien in the face, Kevin the punched three DNAliens sending them to the ground out cold, Ben fired his blaster hitting more DNAliens and knocking them down before he made a shield of mana in front of everyone. A DNAlien ran towards Cooper but Kevin punched him.
"How close are we to the big cloaking thing?" Kevin asked Cooper.
"Just keep heading to where they're building that arch," he answered.
"What is that thing anyway?" Echo Echo asked.
"They wouldn't tell me," Cooper answered as a DNAlien grabbed him.
"Now all of you stay where you are and…." it was cut off when Cooper kicked it in the knee making it scream and drop Cooper, Veemon then headbutted the DNAlien sending it crashing through a building.
"A big whack this time Vee, as hard as you can," Echo Echo told him as Kevin picked her up.
"Terrific," he mumbled as Veemon swung the pipe he held hard and Echo Echo let loose a massive scream making all the attacking DNAliens scream and collapse holding their heads, everyone then ran off towards the arch and up to the cloaking device.
"Work your magic," Echo Echo told Copper as she turned back into Daisuke and he nodded and pressed his hand against the cloaking device and he gasped.
"What's wrong?" Ben asked him as Cooper saw hundreds of ships heading through the arch once it was completed, thousands of Xenocyte eggs, DNAliens with their numbers in the thousands and the Earth destroyed.
"Cooper?" Gwen asked him worried.
"I saw equations, another planet," he answered.
"Worry about that later, smash the cloak," Daisuke told him and Cooper nodded and he held his hands out and his eyes glowed blue and the cloaking device rose into the air and it was pulled to pieces and the cloaking field vanished exposing the weather control towers and the arch.
"What the heck?" A truck driver asked as he drove along the road looking at the towers and the arch. Cooper then lowered his hands and the pieces of the cloaking device dropped to the ground.
"Gwen!" Daisuke shouted.
"On it!" she replied as she made a massive block of mana which she slammed down onto the pieces destroying them.
"Now all we need to do is…" Kevin said as DNAliens started to fire at them.
"Run for our lives!" Veemon finished as he ran off with the others behind him towards Kevin's car.
"Should have parked closer to town!" Kevin shouted as Daisuke jumped in the driver's seat and the others climbed in and she sped off.
"Should we organise transport for pursuit?" a DNAlien asked the Highbreed.
"No. We don't want to arouse suspicion from the local authorities, the project at hand is too important," he answered.
"They're not chasing us," Cooper said.
"No one would believe us if we told them," Kevin said.
"Besides if anyone checked it out, they'd be talking to normal humans anyway," Gwen said.
"We don't even know what's going on in Los Soledad, sooner or later we're going to have to go back. Can we count on you to help Cooper?" Daisuke asked him but he was staring at Gwen dreamily.
"Anything you need," he replied and everyone looked at Gwen.
"Don't even," she replied as the car drove off down the road as the sun began to rise.
"Deed to the land, construction permits, everything looks shipshape," a sheriff said as he and the truck driver stood outside Los Soledad in front of three construction workers.
"I swear at first there was nothing, then the next," the driver said.
"Must be the heat playing tricks on you, we've been out here for months," one of the workers said.
"Still don't know who'd want to build a mall all the way out here," the sheriff said.
"Our company is very forward thinking sheriff, trust me one day soon this will be where everything is happening," the worker replied.
"Alright then, sorry to bother you," the sheriff said as he and the driver climbed into their vehicles and drove off and the three workers ripped off their face to reveal two DNAliens and the Highbreed.
"Continue our plans, the time of cleansing is almost at hand," the Highbreed said as he and the two DNAliens walked back into Los Soledad which was once more under the effects of the cloaking field and the arch was still being built.
The end of the chapter
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