Inside Man
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A truck was swerving wildly along a desert highway narrowly staying on the road, it soon approached another driver who saw the truck move to the side and he saw the driver of the truck was sweating profusely as he had constant flashes of broken memories. One of DNAliens loading something into the truck and then the arch back at Los Soledad nearing completion, an image of a Xenocyte in a glass tube and then another memory of himself sneaking past some DNAliens and stealing the truck. Now as he drove down the road he struggled to stay awake, he shook his head trying to stay awake and he held his head and the truck swerved off the road and crashed down a hill and became stuck in a ditch. The man then climbed out of the cab and proceeded to walk down the road when a car pulled over allowing him to climb inside. "The name's Jeff," the driver of the car said, the man took out his wallet and looked at his driver's licence.
"Tyler," he said.
"You have to look it up?" Jeff asked him with a chuckle.
"The aliens did something to my mind, but I have to find a way to stop them," Tyler said and Jeff looked at him and a few seconds later Tyler was on the side of the road as Jeff sped off and he sighed before walking off. A short time late Tyler was in the police station sitting across from an officer while three others were behind him.
"A nest of aliens uh?" the officer asked him.
"You have to believe me!" Tyler pleaded before he held his head as he had another flashback of him hiding as three Highbreed discussed plans. "I don't understand it all myself, but I got away. That proves something, right?" he asked as the officer looked at him and smiled.
"Good news. We have a special alien proof room. These two officers will take you there," he said as two of the three officers behind Tyler grabbed him.
"No, this is real!" he shouted.
"It's alright. It's only until the alien proof bus can come for you," the officer told Tyler as the other officers carried him away while the third picked up a phone.
"He's here," he spoke into the phone. Tyler meanwhile was locked inside a cell and the officer turned the lights off and he sat on his bed.
"Okay. Facts, my name is Tyler, I'm 26 years old, a little confused but I am not crazy," he said to himself massaging his temples. "Somebody listen to me! There are aliens! I saw them!" he shouted before he held his head and had another flashback.
"These humans are resilient," one of the three Highbreed said.
"Wake up," Tyler opened his eyes and saw the two guards who had taken him to the cell along with the third officer standing outside the cell. "Ain't nothing to be afraid of Tyler, we just need your statement,"
"Where'd you hide the key?" the second officer asked.
"Key?" Tyler asked as one of the officers pulled out an alien tech blaster.
"Don't play stupid Tyler," he said.
"Nowhere to run Tyler," the third officer told him.
"Make it easier on yourself boy, tell us where to find it," the officer with the weapon told him as he pushed him against the wall, Tyler struggled and he hit him in the face knocking his face off revealing the officer to be a DNAlien.
"You're one of them!" Tyler shouted.
"We don't have to hurt you Tyler," the DNAlien said as the other two officers pulled off their ID masks as well.
"But we will," the second DNAlien told him and Tyler ripped the bottom of the cell bed off the wall and he pushed it at the three DNAliens and trapped them against the wall and he then ran out of the cell before the DNAliens broke free. They ran outside the station and searched for Tyler who hid behind a police car before he tried to sneak away when a DNAlien appeared in front of him and spat gunk at him but missed, Tyler ran off towards the road when a blue motorbike stopped in front of him and the rider looked at him.
"Get on," they told him and Tyler nodded and climbed onto the bike and sped off and a green sports car sped after them.
"Who are you?" Tyler asked as the bike drove alongside the car.
"I'm Daisuke, in the car are Kevin, Ben and Gwen," Daisuke told Tyler. "We're here to help," she said before pulling over and Kevin pulled over as he, Gwen and Ben climbed out of the car and Tyler tried to pull Ben's face off.
"Hey," he said as Tyler stopped. "Why'd you do that?"
"You wouldn't believe me," Tyler answered.
"Think Tennyson, those DNAliens came out of the police station," Kevin told him.
"They must have been wearing ID masks," Daisuke said.
"You know about the aliens?" Tyler asked and Kevin held up his Plumber's badge.
"Been scanning for communications that mention any kind of tech above level two, your name came up Tyler," he told him.
"You know who I am?" Tyler asked.
"Only that someone called about you having an oscillator key," Ben said.
"Level five alien tech," Kevin told him.
"And fighting aliens is kind of our specialty," Daisuke said.
"Where'd you get your hands on alien technology?" Gwen asked him.
"I don't know. Something messed up my memory," Tyler said holding up a pick.
"What is that? More alien tech?" Kevin asked.
"It's a pick. A bass pick to be exact," Ben said.
"Are you a musician?" Gwen asked him.
"That sounds right. But I don't have any clear memories," Tyler answered.
"Great. You stole a hyper dimensional oscillator key from a Highbreed nest….and you play the bass," Kevin said with sarcasm as they saw lights not far from them and everyone climbed either onto Daisuke's bike or into Kevin's car and headed towards the lights and they saw DNAliens searching for something.
"Something big is up," Ben said.
"A hyper dimensional oscillator key is about as big as it gets," Kevin said. "It's for warping space,"
"I had to steal it from the aliens to stop them," Tyler told them.
"From doing what?" Ben asked.
"It will come to me," he answered.
"Helpful," Kevin mumbled.
"We have an advantage. They need it but they don't know where it is," Gwen said.
"I do," Tyler informed them, soon Kevin stopped his car and Daisuke climbed off her bike on the edge of the cliff. They all carefully climbed down towards the truck. "I left it over here," Tyler told them as they saw the ruined truck.
"Nice parking slick," Kevin told him.
"You can't see it from the road. Driving a truck isn't easy," he replied.
"Neither is hiding a piece of equipment from the aliens," Gwen said as she sent mana beams at the doors to the trailer and she ripped them off as Daisuke was enveloped in a gold light and she turned into Heatblast.
"What are you people!?" Tyler asked them.
"Get used to it," Kevin told him.
"Time to speed this up," Heatblast said melted a hole in the side of the trailer and she jumped inside. "Now, let's get a look at this oscillator key," she mumbled as she saw the oscillator key and a DNAlien jumped down and four more appeared. "Oh man!" she exclaimed before she was thrown out of the trailer. "DNAliens a whole bunch of them!" she shouted as the DNAliens jumped out of the trailer.
"Protect the key," a DNAlien said as they ran towards Heatblast who jumped over and threw fireballs at them, Gwen tossed a mana disc at one DNAlien and it along with three more ran at her, two more DNAliens advanced towards Tyler but Ben sent a mana disc at one of them sending him flying and Kevin absorbed the metal from the trailer and he punched the other DNAlien before another one grabbed him with its tentacles and Gwen hit an alien with a mana blast sending it flying into the cliff when another DNAlien grabbed her.
"We're much stronger than you human," it told her.
"Well body odour isn't everything," she replied as she grabbed the DNAlien and threw it away making some of the DNAliens who were fighting Heatblast ran towards her.
"You're coming with us," a DNAlien told Heatblast as it threw a Xenocyte onto her face but it shrieked.
"Being made of fire guys, but nice try," Heatblast said as she pulled the Xenocyte off her face while Tyler looked at the oscillator key.
"Once the oscillator key completes the jump gate, how long will it take?" a Highbreed asked the other two.
"Perhaps a day master, perhaps longer. These humans are resilient," one of them answered.
"They are degenerates, the Highbreed fleet will pour through and wipe this planet out as quickly as any other," the Highbreed said.
"Got it," Tyler said to himself. Heatblast then sent fireballs at the DNAliens who were trying to tear Kevin apart and knocked them over.
"You're it guy. The last alien standing," Ben said pointing his blaster at the last standing DNAlien.
"Scum, there are countless others," the DNAlien said as it ran off to an armoured truck and jumped inside and put on a ID mask and the other DNAliens jumped into the back of the truck which drove off.
"Let them go," Heatblast told Ben.
"Right," he replied as Heatblast turned back into Daisuke. "It's the big key we're after,"
"Daisuke, I got it. The aliens, not these, the other ones," Tyler said.
"Highbreed, the big ones," Kevin told him.
"Yeah, they're building a dimensional gateway in Los Soledad," Tyler said.
"Where are they going?" Daisuke asked him.
"Not going coming. The whole Highbreed fleet is going to invade and destroy the earth, I remember," Tyler said.
"And I think know why you remember," Daisuke said as she pulled off Tyler's face which was an ID mask to reveal a DNAlien. "You're a DNAlien," Tyler ripped off the truck's door mirror to look at his reflection.
"I'm a DNAlien, me?" he asked.
"No way a regular guy goes through an accident like that without getting injured," Daisuke said.
"But I'm a regular guy," Tyler said.
"They all are at first. The Highbreed us lesser beings to do their dirty work," Daisuke explained as Kevin stepped on the Xenocyte.
"They manufacture these Xenocyte things, slap it on your face and your humanity gets overridden with DNAlien code," he explained.
"And suddenly you're not you anymore. They took over a whole town that way. Los Soledad," Ben said.
"We lost our grandfather, and nearly lost my brother," Gwen said.
"We were there a few weeks ago. We thought we destroyed whatever they were building or at least slowed them down," Daisuke said.
"Not by much," Tyler said.
"Somehow you got the big key away," Ben told him.
"I was supposed to take it," Tyler explained.
"I wonder how you got it away from them," Gwen said.
"But, I'm one of them," Tyler said.
"No. You've been fighting the reprogramming the whole time," Daisuke told him.
"Which means they're all fighting back, someway you've managed to reverse it on your own, that's what we have to do with the others," Gwen said.
"But first we need to get the oscillator key out of here," Kevin told everyone.
"Right. They'll be back and with reinforcements, we could us your help Tyler," Daisuke told him.
"Don't worry about me. I'm a monster, save the rest of them," Tyler replied before he walked off before he ran back and jumped onto the trailer and ripped it to shreds.
"Mr Healthy outlook," Gwen said as she held her hand out and tendrils of mana wrapped around the oscillator key and she tried to lift it up. "Guys?" she asked the others and Daisuke was enveloped in a gold light and she turned into Humungousaur, she then grew to her full size and she grabbed the oscillator key and lifted it out of the gorge.
"You guys drive alongside I'll carry it," she told the others as they followed her and a DNAlien ship approached and a beam crashed into the ground. "Head for cover!" she told them.
"That's not a weapon, it's a tractor beam!" Kevin shouted and everyone ran off with Humungousaur carried the oscillator key off after her friends, the tractor beam followed them and Ben made a shield of mana to block the tractor beam as DNAliens jumped down and fired at them, Tyler ran at the attacking DNAliens and spat gunk at some of them when Humungousaur grabbed him.
"Look, I'm finished either way," he told her.
"No. no sacrifices," Humungousaur replied.
"Can't do this all night!" Ben shouted.
"Hold them off, Ben," Humungousaur told him as she was enveloped in a flash of gold light and she turned into Jetray who flew towards the ship while Kevin absorbed some stone and began to throw rocks at the DNAliens as did Tyler and Gwen threw mana discs at the DNAliens as well, Jetray flew around the spaceship and fired energy bolts from her eyes taking out the turrets which were firing at her. One DNAlien was sneaking up on Ben but Tyler spat gunk at it knocking it down, Jetray fired an energy blast at the spaceship and she made a hole and approached a knocked down DNAlien. "How do I shut off the tractor beam?" she asked before four more DNAliens approached her and Jetray's eyes glowed and the four DNAliens were blown out of the ship. Kevin smashed two DNAliens together while Tyler threw a DNAlien away and spat gunk at some more before two grabbed him.
"We're going to override you Tyler and you won't remember ever defying us," one of the two DNAliens told him.
"No!" Tyler shouted, Ben grunted as he struggled to hold the shield up, he started to lose ground when the shield shattered and he was thrown to the ground. Kevin punched a DNAlien when he and Gwen saw the DNAliens jumping into the tractor beam and the two DNAliens pushed Tyler into the tractor beam as well and the three were lifted up and the tractor beam then picked up the oscillator key and lifted it up as well, Ben was nearly dragged up as well when Gwen and Kevin grabbed him.
"Tyler!" Jetray shouted as she saw Tyler being abducted.
"Daisuke! Shoot the mirror!" Kevin shouted at her and Jetray looked at the mirror before she flew off and grabbed Tyler and landed as the oscillator key was taken into the ship which flew off.
"There has got to be another way to win," she told Tyler.
"What's wrong with you!?" Kevin shouted as he, Ben and Gwen walked up to her and Tyler.
"Not really sure about your choice Dai," Gwen told her.
"No sacrifices," Jetray said as she turned back into Daisuke.
"No save the world," Kevin told her.
"We lose twice. They're going to finish that jump gate and I'm this…thing. It's over," Tyler said.
"See, that's what you don't get," Daisuke said as she put her left hand on Tyler's head and the Omnitrix beeped.
"What're you-?" Tyler said before the Omnitrix gave off a gold flash of light and the Xenocyte fell off Tyler's head.
"Genetic damage repaired," The Omnitrix said. Gwen handed Tyler a small mirror and he took it and saw he was back to normal.
"This is really me. And I remember it all, I grew up in Evanston and I was in glee club in high school," Tyler said.
"And you play the bass," Kevin said.
"Yeah I do," Tyler said as he stomped on the Xenocyte.
"It's never hopeless. We know what the Highbreed are planning to do, and where they are going to do it." Daisuke told everyone was she walked off before she stopped. "And we know who is gonna stop them," she finished with determination in her voice.
The end of the chapter
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