Inferno
I don't own Digimon or Ben 10
A foreman was busy writing something on his clipboard as he observed the oil pump across from him on the opposite side of the gorge, he then took out a radio. "All's quiet at pump thirty two, as usual," he said depressed before the ground beneath him shook violently. "What in blazes!?" he shouted looking over to see the pump fall into the ground as a large hole was created and numerous creatures with grey skin with brown patches on their back and tail, they had a brown horn on their foreheads, they had small red eyes, brown claws on each of their feet and beaver-like teeth in the middle of their mouths. The creatures roared and bellowed as they made their way down the cliff and one of the creatures began to eat rocks, the rest of the creatures stampeded towards the foreman who ran into his truck and drove off just in time. A short while later, Daisuke, Kevin and Gwen who was sleeping were inside Daisuke's new car while Ben flew above them.
"Are we there yet?" Kevin asked Daisuke.
"Does it look like it?" she replied before she and Kevin looked over at Gwen who begun to snore. "Another half hour, less if I turn on the ram jets," she told Kevin.
"You got ram jets?" Kevin asked her.
"No ram jets, trying to sleep," Gwen mumbled as an alarm beeped waking her up.
"Speed trap alert, cop on the side of the road with a radar gun," Daisuke said before pressing a button the steering wheel and the car became invisible as it zoomed past the sleeping cop in his car who woke up when the radar gun beeped. The car became uncloaked and pulled to a stop above the herd of creatures and Ben landed in front of the car while Daisuke, Kevin and Gwen climbed out.
"Cloaking field gives me a headache," Gwen groaned.
"Speeding tickets give me a headache," Daisuke replied looking at the herd through some Plumber binoculars and saw them eating rocks. "That's not good,"
"What? So what if they eat a few rocks," Kevin told her making everyone look at him.
"Have you seen yourself lately?" Ben asked and Kevin pulled out an ID mask and put it on his face returning to his human self. "I don't think that will fool them," he told Kevin who removed the mask.
"Yeah. They will have you for lunch," Daisuke said jumping down the cliff towards the herd of creatures that turned towards her. "Time to round up these...whatever they are," she said before the herd of animals ran towards her and one of them knocked her out of the way.
"Hold on Dai," Kevin said jumping down as his metal arm turned into a hammer and his rock arm grew in size and he ran towards the herd of animals and he slammed his hammer into one of them. "Dai, where are you?!" he shouted as he slammed his arms into the creatures, one of them stopped and sniffed the air before turning on Kevin and biting him on the arm. "Ow!" he shouted slamming his mallet arm into the animal, Kevin then ran off with the herd chasing him. "Oh come on," he said as Gwen ran towards him on platforms of mana and she made a dome of mana surrounding her and Kevin.
"Hold on you two!" Daisuke told them as she was enveloped in a gold light and she transformed into Brainstorm.
"What're you going to do as a walking seafood platter?" Ben asked her.
"Observe my good fellow," she replied as she levitated into the air and her cranial plates opened and blue electricity shot towards the nearby train and train tracks and they were lifted into the air and Brainstorm dropped them down surrounding the creatures trapping them just as Gwen's shield shattered, Ben flew in and he grabbed his cousin and Kevin and landed next to Brainstorm.
"They bit me," Kevin complained.
"Precisely why I surrounded them with metal, I observed that they only eat stone," Brainstorm said.
"Lucky me," Kevin replied, a few minutes later everyone was standing in front of the hole that the creatures made and a hologram of Max was on the front of Daisuke's car.
"Those are Pyroxivors. I haven't seen one in years," Max said.
"How come we've never heard of them?" Kevin asked.
"Kid, there are lot of species on Earth you won't find in any book. That's where fairy tales come from, unicorns, troll, and pixies. They're all real," Max answered.
"Even Bigfoot?" Daisuke asked and Max chuckled.
"Don't be ridiculous, that's a guy in a suit!" he answered.
"Any ideas what drove them up here?" Gwen asked.
"I don't know. Something scared them or made it too uncomfortable to live down there," Max answered.
"They're walking tanks. What could make them uncomfortable?" Kevin asked.
"Time we find out," Ben answered, Daisuke nodded as she climbed into her car followed by Kevin and Gwen and she drove down the hole and Ben walked down behind them.
"How far does this tunnel go?" Gwen asked.
"Don't know. This is as far as we go however," Daisuke answered as the car came to a stop.
"Now what?" Ben asked as the floor began to crack.
"You had to ask," Kevin mumbled as the floor gave way sending the car falling down and Ben fell down as well. "Don't just sit there, do something!" Kevin shouted and Daisuke pressed a button and a parachute ejected from the car but it got snagged and it tore.
"I hope you have a plan B," Gwen said as Ben flew under the car and he grabbed it and slowed the cars descent and once he reached the bottom he dropped the car and Daisuke, Gwen and Kevin climbed out of the car.
"Thanks Ben," Daisuke said and he nodded before he saw a narrow passage ahead as did the others.
"The car won't fit, we go on foot," Ben said.
"There has to be another way," Gwen said nervously.
"What're you claustrophobic?" Kevin asked her.
"No. I am not. I just don't like being in tight enclosed spaces, okay?!" Gwen shouted.
"I'll go first," Daisuke told her and she walked off with Kevin, Gwen and Ben who just managed to squeeze through the gap following her.
"Man its dark in here," Ben said.
"No problem," Kevin replied as he lit a candle and walked to a box. "TNT," he read before Daisuke blew the candle out. "What was that for?" Kevin asked as he relit the candle and Daisuke blew it out again. "Cut it out!" he told her.
"You cut it out this place is filled with dynamite. You could have blown us up!" Daisuke shouted back.
"How was I supposed to know?" Kevin asked her.
"How about reading the side of the crate next time?" Daisuke suggested as Gwen's hands glowed with mana.
"I'll handle the lighting," she told the others as rocks started to fall down towards the four of them. Ben punched the rock and shattered it.
"Find cover," Daisuke said.
"I'll make some," Gwen told her making a bubble of mana protecting the group as they saw a humanoid mole wearing a tan shirt, jeans, a belt, and ropes of TNT on them which he wore over his shoulders running off. "He's getting away," Gwen shouted.
"Not on my watch he's not!" Daisuke shouted as she was enveloped in a gold light and she transformed into Big Chill who flew off after the mole and she flew in front of him and saw that the mole had a flat face but his nose stuck out, he also had long messy white hair and two big bucked teeth, he had pointed ears and three fingers. Big Chill grabbed the mole and flew back down to the others.
"As soon as you let me go, I am blowing you up," the humanoid mole told her.
"Yeah, sure you will," Big Chill said unnerved by his threat, she then turned back to Daisuke asking the mole scream in fright. "Don't be afraid. It's still me," she told him.
"Not helping girlie, you're still just as butt ugly as before," he replied and Daisuke frowned.
"What's your name old timer?" Kevin asked.
"Moldywarp," he answered.
"That's what your friends call you?" Ben asked him.
"Friends? I don't have any friends," Moldywarp answered.
"You're the last of your kind?" Gwen asked sadly.
"Wrong again. The underworld is crawling with folks like me, but I don't like them and they don't like me," Moldywarp answered.
"What're you doing with all of these explosives?" Daisuke asked.
"I've been stealing this stuff from the surface dwellers for years," Moldywarp answered as he pressed a button and lights turned on. "TNT, blasting caps, nitro-glycerine. Primitive but they sure get the job done," he explained.
"And what job is that?" Ben asked him.
"Protecting my herd," Moldywarp answered.
"And what herd is that?" Daisuke asked curiously.
"The Pyroxivors, real beauties aren't they?" Moldywarp asked.
"They tried to eat my hand!" Kevin told him holding his hand up.
"You shouldn't let it do that," Moldywarp replied.
"This guy's nuts. We should ditch," Kevin whispered to Daisuke.
"I heard you!" Moldywarp told them appearing between them.
"Why were you throwing rocks at us Moldywarp?" Gwen asked.
"I couldn't get to my explosives. That's what I mostly use on the other guy," he answered waking off.
"What other guy?" Daisuke asked him.
"The clean jumper, don't you know anything?" he asked the group.
"Not so far, no," Ben replied shaking his head as they followed Moldywarp to an elevator and it descended further underground.
"No wonder the Pyroxivors fled to the surface it's like a furnace down here," Gwen said wiping some sweat from her forehead.
"Is it always this hot?" Daisuke asked Moldywarp.
"No. That's what I've been trying to fix when all that magma starting seeping up," he answered.
"Magma?" Ben asked as the lift stopped and the group walked out to see Pickaxe aliens surrounding the area and in the centre was a hole and above it was a bomb.
"Who dares intrude into the lair of—oh not you again!" a familiar voice shouted and everyone saw Vulkanus in a new mechanical suit with a drill replacing one hand.
"So you do know him," Moldywarp said.
"Vulkanus? Yeah we know him. But we don't like him," Ben said.
"The feeling is mutual," Vulkanus replied. "Destroy them!" he ordered and his Pickaxe aliens jumped down and surrounded the group.
"Is that all you got? We beat these guys last time," Daisuke said making Vulkanus smirk as he pressed a button and two digging machines approached.
"You had to ask," Gwen told her and Daisuke gave her a look.
"Whoa! We didn't know your were hear okay?" Daisuke asked him.
"And what are you doing here?" Gwen asked him.
"Remember all that Taydenite I took from you?" Vulkanus asked.
"Yeah, I remember," Kevin replied rubbing his shoulder.
"Well, it was worth a fortune. And you will be glad to know I spent it wisely. You see this is my planet now, I filed a claim, paid the fees the whole bit. Completely legal," Vulkanus said as a hologram appeared in front of Daisuke's face and she read it.
"What does that Planetary Renovation mean?" she asked.
"Exactly what it means. I can change the atmosphere, the terrain and the oceans any way I want," Vulkanus answered.
"That's what the bomb is for," Gwen said.
"Yup, I drop the bomb down the shaft detonate it in the magma chamber in the centre of the Earth and before you know it, I have all the comforts of home," Vulkanus explained.
"Wait home? Where you come from on a cool day its 850 degrees," Kevin said.
"Uh huh," Vulkanus said
"And you thought I was crazy," Moldywarp said.
"You can't do that!" Daisuke told him.
"Of course I can. Watch," Vulkanus said as he pressed a button and a countdown started.
"You guys take care of the robots and I'll stop Vulkanus," Daisuke told the others as the drilling machine approached and lowered its drill at the group and Daisuke was enveloped in a gold flash of light and she turned into another one of her old aliens. "Upgrade!" she shouted and her appearance had changed, now where the white once was when she was ten was now ice blue and black. "Alright," she said as she jumped and merged with the digger machine and it short circuited and Upgrade jumped off and the digger fell apart.
"I had hoped we would get to a fight!" Moldywarp shouted as Gwen threw mana discs at some of the Pickaxe aliens sending them to the ground, Ben grabbed four of the aliens and slammed them together before he took a deep breath and he let loose a green sonic howl like Blitzwolfer sending more of the aliens flying and Ben then fired Diamondhead shards from his arm at Vulkanus.
"Someone do something about him!" Vulkanus shouted as Moldywarp threw a pickaxe alien away and he then threw an explosive towards a group of Pickaxe aliens sending them flying when it exploded.
"Harsh," Gwen said.
"I blow them up all the time. I think they like it," Moldywarp told her as the drilling machine headed towards them and Gwen made a shield as the drill hit it and the shield slowly began to crack, Kevin saw this and tried to run over to help but a Pickaxe alien tackled him to the ground.
"What're you waiting for?" Gwen asked.
"We're kind of busy," Ben answered as he swung his tail sending a Pickaxe alien flying, suddenly the drilling machine exploded in a massive fireball and everyone turned to look at Moldywarp clapping his hands together.
"Now get that varmint," he told Upgrade who nodded and was enveloped in a gold light and she transformed into Four Arms who jumped up towards Vulkanus and four Pickaxe aliens ran towards her but she grabbed them one in each hand and she threw them away, she then turned and glared at Vulkanus.
"Stop the countdown," she told him.
"Make me," he taunted as the drill on his suit activated and Four Arms growled, Vulkanus shouted as he ran towards her and Four Arms jumped over him and punched him in the back making him roar. "Stay still!" he shouted.
"Where would the fun be in that?" Four Arms asked as she punched Vulkanus in the face several times and then she head-butted him making him stumble back, he then ran towards her and punched his drill arm at Four Arms but she jumped out of the way and Vulkanus was now stuck in the console. Four Arms was enveloped in a gold light as she turned into Spidermonkey and she shot webbing at Vulkanus sticking him in place.
"I'm stuck!" Vulkanus shouted.
"I know I stuck you. Now stop the countdown," Spidermonkey told him, Vulkanus pressed a button and the countdown sped up. "I said stop the countdown. Not speed it up!" she shouted.
"My mistake," Vulkanus told her.
"Are you crazy? When that bomb goes off it will send the magma up here. You'll be killed as well," Spidermonkey said.
"You're right. That is crazy," Vulkanus said as he pressed a button and a hatch opened up before he left his suit via a rocket booster and he flew out of the hatch escaping. An alarm then sounded making all the Pickaxe aliens run off.
"That doesn't sound good," Kevin said.
"The bomb is going to drop!" Spidermonkey shouted and sure enough the bomb dropped down the shaft. "I need to stop it," she said as she was enveloped in a flash of gold light and she turned into Jetray and she flew down the shaft after the bomb.
"If that bomb goes off in the Earth's core we're toast," Ben said. Jetray flew down after the bomb as fast as she could, she then fired energy beams from her eyes at a specific point on the bomb and she then fired an energy beam from her tail and shortly after that the bomb exploded and Jetray smiled before she flew back up the shaft with a massive inferno following her, she flew out of the shaft and landed on the ground beside Ben and the others.
"Well?" she asked before she turned back into Daisuke.
"You did it," Ben told her and Daisuke smiled before she noticed something.
"Where's Moldywarp?" she asked making everyone look around, everyone then headed back to the room filled with explosives and saw Moldywarp setting timers.
"What're you doing?" Gwen asked.
"I figured what's to keep Vulkanus coming back and dropping another bomb down the shaft? After all he did fill out the paperwork," he answered. A few seconds later Daisuke was driving out of the tunnel with Moldywarp inside laughing madly and Ben used XLR8's speed and followed them, Daisuke pressed a button and rocket boosters came out of her car and it flew up out of the cave and Ben followed her just as a massive explosion occurred and made the hole cave in on itself and the area with the shaft was filled with magma. A few minutes later everyone was watching the Pyroxivors grazing.
"I love it. Vulkanus spent a fortune on file and fees and got nothing in return," Kevin said with a grin.
"And we saved Earth from turning into a hotplate," Gwen said.
"Now all we need to do is get these Pyroxivors underground," Daisuke said.
"I'll handle that. But first what say you join me for a nice supper?" Moldywarp asked.
"Supper?" Ben asked.
"Yes indeed," Moldywarp asked looking at one of his Pyroxivors. "This one looks like a plumb one," he said licking his lips.
"You eat them?" Gwen asked.
"Of course I do. They're my herd. Now who wants barbeque?" Moldywarp asked them.
"Ew," Ben and Gwen said.
"Now that you mention it, I haven't eaten all day," Kevin said patting his stomach.
"Yeah let's eat!" Daisuke cheered before Gwen elbowed her. "What?" she asked as Ben laughed.
The end of the chapter
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