Grounded
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"He's such a good boy," Sandra Ben's mother said to Carl as she drove their car down the road.
"Ben Tennyson is not a good boy. He's a great boy," Carl told her. "Now I don't know if it is bad karma to pat ourselves on the back Sandra, but we've done a pretty good job as parents," he said.
"Well, we don't stifle him. Allowing a child to explore the entirety of his being…." Sandra was cut off as a massive explosion occurred in front of them and Sandra slammed on the brakes and the car skidded to a halt, both adults climbed out of the car as they saw a Highbreed appear through the flames and it stepped towards them. Discs made of mana then slammed into the Highbreed and he turned to face Gwen as Kevin ran up to him, Carl and Sandra ran off when they saw Ben and Daisuke running towards the Highbreed.
"Kids you're going the wrong-," Carl stopped as he recognised who it was. "Ben?" he asked, Ben pulled out his blaster and slammed down on the Omnitrix symbol on it and it turned into his Exo-suit while Daisuke was enveloped in a gold flash of light and she turned into Four Arms.
"Hey ugly!" Ben shouted jumping up and punching the Highbreed in the face making it stumble backwards and Four Arms grabbed Ben's parent's car and threw it at the Highbreed but it caught it and slammed it down at Kevin and Gwen who dodged. Ben jumped up again but the Highbreed punched him sending him crashing into a building and his visor cracked.
"Ben!" Sandra shouted in worry.
"No final words Tennyson? Still reeling from the augmented power of my new form no doubt," the Highbreed said.
"If you're saying you're uglier, you're getting no argument here," Kevin said making the Highbreed look at him.
"I defeated Tennyson, what hope do you have?" the Highbreed asked him.
"Me, not much. But her on the other hand…." Kevin said as Four Arms jumped and crashed into the Highbreed and she grabbed it by the leg and spun around and threw the Highbreed into a building which collapsed on top of him, Four Arms smirked before the Highbreed flew into the air.
"You have wasted too much of my time. I will deal with you at my leisure," he told Four Arms before flying off.
"Kevin, Ben's still down," Gwen running up to Ben as his Exo-suit retracted and Kevin started laughing.
"What?" Ben asked.
"The Highbreed gave you a black eye, I like him better already," he answered before Four Arms smacked him on the back head and turned back into Daisuke.
"Where did the Highbreed go?" Ben asked.
"Towards the waterfront, and he looked like a man on a mission," Daisuke answered. "We'll head there after dinner and homework. But Ben, how will you explain that black eye?" she asked.
"My parents believe anything I tell them, I got this covered," Ben answered with a smile.
"I was afraid you'd say that," Daisuke replied. Later that night Ben walked through the door to his house.
"I'm home. What's for dinner?" he asked as he saw Sandra and Carl standing in front of him.
"Where have you been young man?" Sandra asked him.
"I was at the movies, with Dai. I knew I should have told you, sorry," he answered.
"Carl look at his eye," Sandra said.
"That's quite a shiner," Carl said.
"If that was another three inches higher, you could have put your eye out," Sandra told Ben concerned.
"It's no big deal. I got into a little fight, there was this jerk at school," Ben said.
"Are you sure it was a boy at school? And not a giant alien creature?" Carl asked and Ben's eyes went wide.
"I can't believe it. You look us right in the eye and lie to us over and over," Sandra said disappointed at Ben.
"We saw you Ben, we saw you put on that suit and we saw Daisuke turn into that thing," Carl told him.
"You just think you saw…." Ben tried to explain as his blaster fell out of his jacket and his parents looked at it as Ben picked it up. "I can explain,"
"Really?" Sandra asked him.
"Not so much. No," he answered shaking his head. A few minutes later Ben had finished explain to his parents about the blaster and the DNAliens.
"And this became your job when?" Carl asked him.
"Five years ago when Daisuke got the Omnitrix while we were with Grandpa Max for summer vacation," Ben answered.
"Oh course Dad. That's so typical of him," Carl said.
"Grandpa Max was more than just a Plumber he…." Ben tried to explain.
"Lied to us! Your uncle Frank and I knew he had another life and he lied to us about it all the time," Carl cut his son off. "I won't have you lying too," he told Ben.
"It's our own fault. We were too permissive and what did we get? A fifteen year old son needlessly risking his life," Sandra said.
"Not needlessly mom. I have to do this, Dai and I are the only ones who can save the world from total destruction," Ben told his mother.
"It doesn't matter. You are forbidden from using that thing ever again, understood?" Carl asked him.
"But Dad…." Ben said.
"Understood?" Carl asked him again sternly and Ben nodded reluctantly and walked up to his room where his cell phone ran and he answered it.
"This is not a good time," he said to whoever was on the phone talking to him. At the same time at the waterfront Kevin hung up his cell phone and walked over to Daisuke and Gwen who were looking at a computer.
"He said he'd call back," Kevin told them.
"Look at this." Daisuke told him. "The shipping logs show these freighters as frequent visitors bringing in goods and shipping out local products," she explained.
"So?" Kevin asked her.
"So there is one unregistered tanker from the island of Castune," Gwen answered.
"Where they used to do military testing," Kevin said making Daisuke and Gwen look at him. "It was on the historical channel," he told them.
"What would Bellwood be importing from that island?" Daisuke asked. "And if it did have something to do with the Highbreed, what would the aliens want with it?"
"Ask them!" Kevin told her as five DNAliens ran towards them and Kevin absorbed some of the stone floor and he ran and punched one DNAlien and Gwen fired a mana blast at another one while Daisuke turned into Swampfire and threw a fireball. Ben meanwhile was on his bed frowning when his cell phone rang.
"Hello?" he asked.
"Hate to bother you, but we got a problem," Kevin told him as he kicked a DNAlien away.
"You've got problems? My folks found out about my blaster and Daisuke turning into aliens," Ben replied.
"Folks mad at you huh? Sounds rough, and by the way we're getting it handed to us by the DNAliens!" Kevin shouted.
"Alright, I'm on my way," Ben replied as he opened his window and climbed out it and he activated his Exo-suit and was about to fly off when Carl shone a torch on him as he and Sandra stood in front of him. "Oh man," he groaned.
"Do you really think we're that gullible?" Sandra asked him. "We were teenagers once too ya know,"
"I really don't know what to say," Carl said.
"Well I do. Benjamin Tennyson, you are grounded," Sandra told him.
"What!? You can't ground me. I'm an Exo-suit wearing superhero," Ben replied.
"You're an Exo-suit wearing superhero who is about five seconds away from forcing me to reconsider a long life disbelief in corporal punishment," Sandra told him.
"Go to your room young man," Carl told Ben who grumbled and walked back into the house and sat on his bed as his cell phone rang again.
"Hello?" he asked.
"Where are you?! We got a situation here!" Daisuke's voice shouted at him as she, Gwen and Kevin were running from a swarm of DNAliens.
"And a whole mess of DNAliens!" Kevin shouted.
"Dai, go Echo Echo," Ben told her and Daisuke handed the phone to Gwen before she turned into Echo Echo is a gold flash of light and she let loose a sonic scream sending the DNAliens flying Ben held his ears as his mother snatched his phone.
"Who is this!?" she asked and Gwen hung up.
"Ben seems to be phoning it in tonight," she said as Echo Echo turned back into Daisuke.
"That's my phone," Ben told his mother as she put his phone into her handbag.
"A cell phone is a privilege. Not a right," Carl told him. "You'll get it back when we know we can trust you,"
"Ben, are you hanging out with a bad crowd?" Sandra asked him.
"What? No." Ben answered.
"Are they telling you it's cool to sneak out, fight aliens and lie to your parents?" Carl asked him.
"I want to know who this bad influence is. Their parents need to know what's going on. Who!" Sandra demanded.
"It's a sacred trust. I cannot divulge that information. Never, never, never!" Ben told her and she gave him a look. A few minutes later Julie heard the phone ring and she picked it up.
"Hello?" she answered and she heard Sandra's voice on the other end. "What is it Sandra?" she asked and Sandra started to talk to her and she was silent before she got angry. "Sandra I know you think Ben is a good boy who can't do anything wrong but if you ask him I'm sure he'll say 'Dai told me to tell you guys about this but I wasn't sure how you guys who handle it.' My girl wants her friends to always be honest with their family. Now why don't you talk to your son and don't blame my daughter again!" she shouted slamming the phone onto the receiver.
"Who was that?" Derrick asked her.
"Just Sandra saying Daisuke was being a bad influence on Ben," Julie answered angrily.
The next night Ben was in his room as the home phone rang. "Hello?" he asked.
"You ratted me out?" Gwen asked him angrily.
"I can explain," he answered.
"What's to explain? My parents read me the riot act when I got home last night. Now I'm grounded as well instead of finding out what the Highbreed want with that freighter," Gwen told him.
"Don't worry. Dai called and said Kevin's on it," Ben replied.
"She sent Kevin?" Gwen asked.
"Yeah, I know," Ben answered. Meanwhile Kevin was sneaking around the freighter, he hid behind a pole as a DNAlien walked past him and he jumped over the side of the railing to the deck below and he jumped down another hole and he landed on a catwalk and he sniffed and gagged.
"Oh what stinks in here?" he asked as he saw tanks full of green liquid. "I guess that's for Gwen to find out," he told himself as he tried to scoop up some of the liquid but fell in with a loud splash and the DNAliens heard him and ran towards him. Daisuke was watching TV when her cell phone rang.
"Hello?" she asked. "Kevin? What's wrong?" she asked.
"I'm swimming in smelly goo trapped in a vat and DNAliens are coming!" Kevin told her.
"I'm conferencing Gwen and Ben in," Daisuke replied as she pressed a button on her phone and Gwen's phone in her room and Ben's home phone ran and Ben and Gwen answered them.
"I can't get a grip on the wall," Kevin said as he heard a noise. "Company," he said.
"Absorb something and bust out of the tank," Ben told him.
"Absorb what?" Kevin asked.
"What's your phone made out of?" Ben asked him.
"Titanium, why?" Kevin asked before he facepalmed.
"Guys, I found out what Kevin's swimming in, according to Wifipedia the island has only one export. Bat guano," Gwen told the others, Kevin smashed through the tank and landed on the outside. "According to this the berries on the island are radioactive from the nuke testing, when the bats eat the berries the resulting waste is the rarest isotope in the world," Gwen said.
"Gwen how much can that freighter carry?" Daisuke asked her.
"Fifty thousand tons," Gwen answered.
"I could use some help!" Kevin told the other three.
"On my way," Daisuke said as she hung up the phone and ran down the stairs to the living room. "Mama, daddy, my friend is in trouble. I've got to go and save him," she told them before she headed for the door.
"Hold on a second baby girl. If you're heading out I've got something that might help you," Derrick told her and Daisuke looked at him.
"It's something we got for you after got your license," Julie told her as she and Derrick led Daisuke to the garage where she saw a tarp covering something.
"What's that?" she asked.
"When you told us you put the Omnitrix back on your father and I decided to get you your own meets of transport," Julie told her.
"Now that the Plumbers are active again you can't go around as an alien whenever you want so this is for you," Derrick said as he removed the tarp to reveal a Kawasaki Ninja Blue Motorcycle.
"This is for me?" Daisuke asked as she walked over to the bike and examined it.
"That's right sweetie and your father equipped it with Plumber tech," Julie told her.
"It has a communicator, a super charged engine, rocket launchers, and others things I'll tell you about later but for now use it to get to where you're going," Derrick said and Daisuke smiled as she hugged her parents.
"Thanks mama, daddy," she thanked before the garage door opened and she put on her new icy blue helmet covering her whole head and she placed the keys in the ignition on the bike and she revved the bikes engine and sped off and did a wheelie making Derrick smile.
"Oh yeah she's definitely inherited your powers and skills," he told Julie who smiled at him. Daisuke sped through the streets until she saw the freighter out at sea. She climbed off her new bike and turned into Jetray who flew off towards it before she landed on the ship and she turned into Humungousaur and the DNAliens who were on the deck of the ship looked at her.
"You guys picked the wrong Humungousaur to gang up on," she told them as she swung her tail and swatted four DNAliens away and she headed below deck where Kevin was tied up covered in bat guano.
"This stinks," he said and the Highbreed looked at him.
"You are not the first to taste defeat at our hands, nor will you be the last," he told Kevin.
"No I meant the bad poop. Can't believe you eat that stuff," he replied.
"We do not eat it human," the Highbreed told him.
"Sure you do, why else would you do with it?" Kevin asked him.
"Motomiya has trained you well, but your pathetic attempt to learn our plan only succeeded in reminding me of the need to dispose of you," the Highbreed told Kevin as a DNAlien crashed into him sending him over the railing and he crashed into the ground.
"Bullseye," Humungousaur said walking up to Kevin.
"About time!" he shouted at her as she freed him.
"Sorry I'm late," she apologised.
"I was just getting him to spill the beans about the poop," Kevin told her.
"The DNAliens down there are rendering it. Removing all the impurities leaving behind a very volatile isotope. Capable of being used for a power source, the question is though….a power source for what?" Humungousaur asked Kevin.
"A surprise. The final surprise for the human race," the Highbreed told them. "Destroy them," he told the DNAliens.
"Here, absorb the cable," Humungousaur told Kevin and he nodded and absorbed the cable and was covered in the metal which was red and sparkling. The DNAliens screeched as Kevin punched two and kicked one down to the Highbreed who caught the DNAlien and threw it at Humungousaur making her look at him and she growled as he taunted her. "Handle the rest," she told Kevin.
"Do your thing," Kevin replied as he punched another DNAlien while Humungousaur jumped down but the Highbreed punched her sending her flying and she crashed into a wall. "Put some size on!" Kevin shouted.
"There's no room in here," Humungousaur told him as the Highbreed punched her again and again before a green energy blast hit the Highbreed sending him flying back and Ben in his Exo-suit landed beside Humungousaur. "I thought you were grounded without supper,"
"Enjoy me while you can, I'm gonna be grounded for the rest of high school," Ben told her as he jumped at the Highbreed who grabbed him and slammed him to the ground and held him by the neck.
"Goodbye Ben Tennyson," the Highbreed said before another energy blast was heard sending him flying and Carl and Sandra were seen standing there with Carl holding an alien tech weapon.
"Good shot honey," Sandra said.
"Like my dad always said. The right tool for the right job," Carl replied.
"Ben are you okay?" Sandra asked Ben.
"Am I glad to see you," Ben replied sitting up.
"Hey, little help," Kevin said.
"You're Ben's ruffian friend right?" Sandra asked him.
"I got it honey," Carl said aiming the alien weapon at the DNAliens who ran off.
"Thanks, nice piece by the way," Kevin said.
"Yeah dad, where'd you get that?" Ben asked him.
"This old thing? It's been sitting in the attic ever since Frank and I were kids, always hated it," Carl answered.
"Are you okay Ben?" Sandra asked him.
"Fine mom, I'm sorry I blew you off like that," Ben apologised.
"Well, we're not. Good thing you showed up when you did," Humungousaur told him with a smile.
"The point is son, we've seen you in action you seem to know what you're doing," Carl told Ben who nodded.
"You would have found a way even if your father hadn't shot that giant alien with the space bazooka," Sandra said as the Highbreed walked towards them and Carl fired the alien weapon but it misfired and the Highbreed laughed and he jumped at Carl but Humungousaur grabbed the weapon and swung it sending the Highbreed flying and he smashed into the vats of bat guano.
"Nice shot," Ben told her and she nodded and turned back into Daisuke in a flash of gold light. A few minutes later the freighter exploded and Kevin climbed up a ladder and looked at everyone.
"Okay I scuttled it," he said.
"And the Highbreed? You were supposed to drag him off the ship before you scuttled the ship," Daisuke told him.
"He was gone by the time I got back," Kevin answered. Soon Ben and his parents were back home as Carl put the alien weapon on the wall.
"I thought you hated that," Ben said.
"Yeah. I used to hate all that Plumber stuff, it reminded me of the life your grandfather hid from us. But now I know he was just protecting us," Carl replied as Ben's phone rang and Sandra picked it up from her handbag.
"It's your girlfriend," she told Ben who took his phone back and answered it.
"Hello," he said. "I'll call you back," he said hanging up and he looked at his parents. "So, there's been an alien sighting in the desert," he told them.
"Than what are you waiting for?" Carl asked and Ben smiled as he ran out of the house and Daisuke waiting for him on her new motorbike and he climbed onto it and put a helmet she handed him on and Daisuke sped off.
"It's cold in the desert at night. Bring a jacket!" Sandra shouted as Ben and Daisuke zoomed off.
The end of the chapter
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