Fool's Gold
I don't own Digimon or Ben 10
Several objects crashed towards Earth and landed in a cornfield, the objects were revealed to be small spaceships and the tops unscrewed and dozens of small aliens with brown fur, yellow eyes and white fur around their faces, on top of their heads and white tails emerged from the pods. The aliens then ran through the cornfield and once they emerged they found the entire nearby town had gathered and were cheering and waving at them. "Finally!" one of the aliens cheered and the other aliens cheered as well.
"You want us to go where?" Daisuke asked Max as she, Gwen, Ben and Kevin stood in front of him.
"A little town called Walton. Every seventeen years, college students from another planet land there to blow of some steam for a week," Max answered.
"Alien spring break," Daisuke said.
"Right but one of the aliens has gone missing. I need your four to find them," Max told them and Gwen and Daisuke nodded and walked off, Daisuke then looked at Ben who was looking at a photo in his hand and Kevin who was looking at a locket, both looked at her and walked off.
"Small town in the middle of nowhere. Why don't aliens ever go missing anywhere fun?" Kevin asked driving his car down the road.
"This is farm country. What are aliens even doing here?" Gwen asked.
"Yeah, what's special about this place?" Daisuke asked before Kevin hit the brakes and the car skidded to a halt in front of a tipped over tractor and a ruined sign, Ben landed beside the car as the others climbed out.
"Hooligans, and from the looks of it amateurs," Kevin said with grin.
"Ow!" Daisuke yelped holding her foot. "I stubbed my toe," she said and Kevin turned on the high intensity headlights illuminating the area, Daisuke then saw small pieces of what looked like gold.
"Weird," Ben said kneeling down.
"It looks like..." Gwen said.
"Poop," Kevin said as he picked up a piece of the gold poop and he sniffed it.
"Shiny poop," Gwen said as Kevin then opened his mouth.
"Kevin, don't," Daisuke told him.
"Relax, it looks like...gold." Kevin said as he bit the poop and smiled. "It is gold, and it's real," he told the others.
"Solid gold poop," Ben said in amazement as he and the others looked down the road to see it covered in gold poop. The gang continued to drive until it was morning and they arrived in Walton and saw very expensive cars and large buildings everywhere.
"Look at this place," Daisuke said.
"Yeah. These farmers must be rolling in..." Kevin said.
"Kevin," Gwen said sternly.
"I was gonna say dough," Kevin replied.
"Sure you were," Daisuke said as the aliens ran out towards Kevin's car and they started to move the car side to side and Daisuke laughed and cheered.
"Get your hands off my ride!" Kevin told the aliens who stopped and they ran off as Ben landed on the ground and Daisuke, Gwen and Kevin climbed out and a man in a white suit walked towards them.
"You didn't see any aliens. It was just swamp gas," he told them.
"Really?" Gwen asked him unconvinced.
"Mass hysteria? Weather balloons?" the man suggested.
"Save it. We're Plumbers," Ben told the man holding up his Plumber badge.
"Well, why didn't you say so? Welcome to Walton, you lot here for the Popcorn Festival?" he asked them.
"What's up with that anyway?" Daisuke asked him.
"We make the best popcorn in the whole universe. Aliens can't get enough of the stuff, every seventeen years they come back. But where are my manners? I'm Mayor Coleman," the mayor introduced himself.
"What can you tell us about the missing alien?" Daisuke asked him.
"Missing alien? There's no missing alien. If there was a missing alien, he's just probably running around eating popcorn and having some fun," the mayor answered.
"Right. We'll still need to look around," Gwen told him.
"Be my guest. But you won't find anything," the mayor replied before he walked off.
"Dai...we're going to need to..." Ben said before he saw Daisuke was missing. "Dai?" he asked looking around as did Kevin and Gwen. Daisuke meanwhile walked down an alleyway until she came upon all the aliens eating popcorn.
"I have had like so much popcorn," an alien said rubbing his stomach before two more aliens poured popcorn into the alien's mouth.
"I've been waiting to fill this swimming pool with popcorn," an alien said walking up to the others who all cheered. "The pools got a diving board. Let's go," he said running off and the rest of the aliens followed him.
"Cool," Daisuke said as she ran off after the aliens and Kevin, Ben and Gwen arrived to see her running off.
"I better go and keep an eye on her," Ben said before he ran after Daisuke and the aliens.
"You had better go as well," Gwen told Kevin who nodded and he ran off after Ben and Daisuke leaving Gwen alone and one alien approached her from behind.
"Were you...were you sent by Max Tennyson?" he asked making Gwen turn to look at him.
"You're the one who sent for help?" she asked him.
"My name is Orb. My parents told me that if I ever got into trouble on Earth to call Max Tennyson," Orb answered
"Good advice, the missing alien is a friend of yours?" Gwen asked.
"My best friend. His name is Decka," Orb answered. "One minute he and I are stuffing our faces with popcorn and the next minute he's gone. I'm worried sick,"
"Do you have anything that I could track him with? A scrap of clothing or something like that?" Gwen asked.
"No. Nothing like that, I'm sorry," Orb answered.
"It's alright. We'll just need to find your friend the old fashioned way," Gwen said and Orb looked at her. "We'll have to look for him," she clarified. Meanwhile Daisuke, Ben and Kevin were watching the aliens swimming around in a pool of popcorn when one of them dived into the pool sending popcorn all over the three of them.
"I've seen a lot of strange and messed up things," Kevin said.
"And how does this rank?" Daisuke asked eating some popcorn.
"It's up there," Kevin told her.
"It seems laid back for spring break," Ben said before the sound of glass breaking was heard and the trio turned to see the aliens throwing chairs through a glasshouse.
"Laid back?" Kevin asked.
"Could be worse," Daisuke answered.
"House tipping! Everyone tip the house!" an alien shouted and the others cheered and they all ran towards the side of the house and began to lift the house off its foundations.
"Okay. It is worse," Daisuke said being enveloped in a gold light and she transformed into Spidermonkey and she jumped onto the roof of the house and she leaned over and shot webbing from her tail and all the aliens tipping the house were tied up, Spidermonkey jumped down and grabbed one alien and tied it up with webbing as two more snuck up on her with a chair in their hands but Ben grabbed the chair.
"Naughty, naughty," he told them as they tried to run off but Kevin bumped their heads together knocking them out.
"Amateurs," he said, Spidermonkey punched an alien and then she kicked another one and both were knocked out.
"Is that all of them?" she asked Kevin and Ben, unknown to them several aliens who did not tip the house saw what happened and they all ran towards a nearby silo and they gathered around it and grunted in effort as they begun to lift the silo into the air and they all walked towards Spidermonkey, Ben and Kevin who looked over.
"You have got to be kidding me," Ben said as the aliens threw the silo towards them and Spidermonkey shot webbing at Kevin's face and ran off dragging Kevin along with her, she then spun around a pole and threw Kevin into the air.
"Whoa!" he exclaimed as he crashed into the aliens and he knocked them all down. "Warn me the next time you do something like that," he told Spidermonkey who ducked under a strike from one more alien and she kicked it into the popcorn pool and his head was stuck and he waved his legs around trying to escape.
"Busted on spring break, yeah I've been there," Kevin told the aliens once they were all tied up and sitting on the ground as the mayor, Orb and Gwen walked towards them.
"You've all been busy," the mayor told them.
"What do we do with them?" Daisuke asked him.
"For starters let them go," the mayor answered.
"What? But look what they did," Daisuke told him pointing to the ruined silo and house.
"Oh, Popcorn Festival is once every seventeen years, no one wants to press charges," the mayor told her as he freed the aliens.
"They destroyed a farm," Daisuke said.
"Boys will be boys," the mayor told her as the aliens walked off. "Now don't forget to eat some popcorn!"
"That's it! Those guys trash a farm and all you can say to them is to eat lots of popcorn?" Ben asked.
"Don't worry your head son. It's complicated," the mayor answered.
"What's so complicated? The aliens eat popcorn and leave behind solid gold right? That's why this town has so much money," Gwen said.
"Okay you got us. Every seventeen years we make some popcorn then shovel up the gold. The whole town's economy is based on alien..." the mayor said.
"Poop," Kevin said coughing to cover up the word.
"Wrong on so many levels," Gwen said.
"Nobody wants to punish the alien's kids, the festival is almost over, and they'll be heading back to school in the morning," the mayor said.
"Not me. I am not leaving without Decka," Orb told him.
"Decka? Well he probably went home already, looking for him is a waste of time," the mayor replied.
"All the same, we're gonna look around," Ben said walking off.
"I'll go with him," Kevin told Daisuke and Gwen before walking off.
"Are they avoiding us?" Daisuke asked Gwen concerned and Gwen shared the look of concern.
"That's the second time you've ditched her. Are you two fighting?" Ben asked Kevin.
"If we were, would I tell you about it? And what about you and Daisuke?" Kevin asked back.
"If we were fighting at all, would I tell you? I don't think so," Ben replied walking off.
"I guess not," Kevin said to himself. Later that day the mayor returned to his home and then walked towards the barn with a flashlight and he approached a small cage where Decka was imprisoned.
"You're friends have been causing lots of trouble. They keep asking about you," the mayor told him.
"Please let me go," Decka begged him.
"You're going nowhere until you give me a huge pile of gold," the mayor told him.
"But I've been doing it all week," Decka replied pointing to some gold on the floor of the cage.
"That little bit of gold won't be able to pay of my debts! I've been waiting seventeen years for your kind to return here, and now I am cashing in," the mayor told Decka. "Now eat!" he shouted.
"But I can't eat anymore," Decka said.
"Then maybe I should keep you in this cage forever, or maybe a change in diet will change your tune," the mayor said tossing a steak into the cage and Decka looked at it fearfully before he pulled it towards him. Later that night the aliens were walking back towards their pods.
"You all come back now, you hear?" the mayor asked as Daisuke walked alongside the aliens.
"What's happening?" she asked one of them.
"The festival is over. It's time to go back to school," he answered and the aliens climbed into their pods and flew back to their home. Kevin pulled out the locked and looked at Gwen before he put it away and Ben pulled out the photograph and looked at Daisuke but he too put the picture away.
"This has been the worst Popcorn festival," Orb said.
"Maybe Decka did go home like the mayor said," Gwen told him.
"And not tell anyone? That's not like Decka," Orb replied.
"Hey look, two spaceships, one must be Decka's," Daisuke said looking at the two ships.
"He's still here," Orb said happily.
"Which ship is yours?" Gwen asked and Orb pointed to one ship and Gwen walked towards the other ship and she placed her hand on the ship and her eyes glowed. "I got him," she said and soon the group were walking into the mayor's barn where they saw the barn doors ripped open and Ben made a fireball with his Swampfire hand and everyone saw a destroyed cage.
"What was in there?" he asked.
"It's the mayor's barn. Let's ask him," Gwen answered.
"No problem. I see you hiding over there, come out," Kevin said before the mayor fired an alien rifle at the group and Gwen made a shield of mana protecting everyone. "Now this is why everyone hates politicians," Kevin said as Daisuke was enveloped in a flash of gold light and she transformed into Goop and she jumped at the mayor who fired the alien weapon at her, Ben's Wildvine arm shot out and grabbed the weapon and crushed it and the mayor ran off but Goop tripped him up and she then turned back into Daisuke and Orb ran towards the mayor snarling but Daisuke grabbed him.
"Where is Decka? What did you do to him?" he asked.
"I'd answer him. I don't know how long I can hold him," Daisuke said.
"Okay i snatched him," the mayor said.
"Got greedy eh? Decided to have your own personal gold maker?" Kevin asked before he laughed. "Make, I'm funny," he said.
"I don't get it," Gwen told him.
"You know. Make a number two," he replied.
"That was the joke?" Daisuke asked him unimpressed.
"We got a problem," Orb said as he walked towards the group with a half eaten steak in his hand. "You fed him meat. Tell me you didn't feed him meat," Orb begged the mayor.
"I take it that eating meat's bad," Daisuke said.
"For our species it's very bad," Orb answered.
"How bad we talking about?" Ben asked before a loud roar was heard and everyone ran out of the barn to see Deck turning red and he grew to a massive size and his look became more feral and he roared and began to eat the barn.
"Decka no!" Orb shouted to his friend who looked at them and Daisuke was enveloped in a gold light and she turned into Arctiguana and breathed a cloud of ice at Decka and froze him solid but Decka broke free from the ice and roared loudly and Arctiguana was enveloped in a gold flash of light and she turned into Big Chill and she flew up towards Decka who punched her sending her into the barn and she groaned as Decka then proceeded to destroy the barn before he roared and walked off.
"Dai!" Gwen shouted as Big Chill emerged from the rubble of the barn.
"I need to remember to go intangible," she groaned as she held her head.
"All of this because your friend ate one bad piece of meat?" Kevin asked.
"My people can't eat meat. Or we will revert to our primal form," Orb answered. "A mindless monster bent on destruction,"
"Can we change him back?" Gwen asked.
"We won't have to. He will stay in that form as long as he keeps eating," Orb answered.
"So good news," Big Chill said.
"Sure. Give us the rest of it," Ben told Orb.
"The thing is, that form is only the beginning, he's going to eat all the meat he can find, and then when he's eaten enough material he's going to reproduce," Orb said.
"Meaning?" Big Chill asked.
"He's going to split into one hundred identical copies, and then they'll go off and eat whatever they can find," Orb answered.
"How many times can he do that?" Big Chill asked.
"Ever wonder what happened to Mars? It used to be called the popcorn planet," Orb told them who looked to where Decka had left and they ran after him. "Be careful, one wrong step and it could be your last," he warned.
"What? Don't step on the gold?" Big Chill asked.
"Gold is what we make when we eat popcorn. In that form his waste is Uranium 1412," Orb explained.
"Unstable radioactive poop!?" Kevin asked.
"Yes. So whatever you do, don't step on the uranium," Orb answered and Big Chill and Ben flew off and Gwen followed on platforms of mana and Kevin ran after them and he stepped on some radioactive poop and it exploded and he was sent flying high into the air.
"WHOA!" he shouted before he crashed down onto another uranium poop and he was sent flying again and again leaving mushroom clouds behind him and Gwen made a mana platform to catch him.
"Are you okay?" she asked him.
"No. I like being blown sky high by radioactive poop," Kevin said sarcastically as Gwen dropped him and he hit the ground hard, they then heard Decka roar.
"You said he was looking for meat, why's he going to the power plant?" Ben asked.
"Oh bad," Orb said as Decka approached the power plant and he put his hands on a generator and he started to absorb energy. "He's going to absorb all the energy and once he's had enough he's going to divide,"
"I got an idea," Big Chill said as she flew off and she flew inside the power plant and looked at two turbines and she breathed ice on both of them and they were frozen solid and stopped turning cutting the power off from Decka who growled and roared and he began to eat the building.
"We cut off the power, but he's still hungry," Ben said.
"Now what?" Gwen asked.
"Get me close enough to talk to him. Maybe I can reason with him," Orb said and Ben grabbed him and flew up to Decka who looked at him and Orb. "Decka, it's me Orb. I know you're in there. This isn't you. The meat has poisoned your mind, I know my best friend is inside fighting for control," Orb told Decka who growled at him and tried to grab him but Ben flew off and Kevin jumped down and slammed his rock arm into Decka's hand making him roar.
"Any other ideas?" Ben asked Orb.
"Yes. Evacuate the planet," Orb answered as Big Chill flew down.
"Your species can't eat meat, what else can't it eat?" she asked Orb.
"Some heavy metals, lanthanides, flooring, silicone, chicken nuggets," Orb answered.
"What about silicone?" Big Chill asked.
"It's poisonous," Orb answered.
"I got an idea," Big Chill said as she was enveloped in a gold light and she turned into Echo Echo. "Whatever happens, stay back," she told the others before running towards Decka and she multiplied into a small army and they all let loose sonic soundwave at him and pushed Deck back and when they stopped he roared he grabbed a handful of Echo Echos and he began to eat them.
"What's she doing?" Orb asked.
"The Echo Echos are made of silicone," Gwen said as Decka continued to eat the Echo Echos and soon Decka gagged and fell to his knees and the rest of the Echo Echos ran up and jumped into his mouth making Deck vomit all he had eaten including the Echo Echos and everyone ran up as Echo Echo turned back to a vomit covered Daisuke.
"That was new," she said while the others gagged, Decka growled as he started to shrink and he turned back to his normal size and Orb ran up and hugged his friend. A few minutes later the mayor was tied up and everyone was back at Orb and Decka's ships.
"Sorry all of this happened. We'll make sure the mayor is punished," Daisuke told Decka and Orb.
"Your whole stinking planet should be punished," Decka said. "Come on Orb," he said and both walked off to their ships. "I am telling everyone what happened. We are never coming back here, ever," Decka told them as he climbed into his ship and it took off followed by Orb. Daisuke pushed the mayor to Kevin's car and put him inside as Ben walked up to her.
"Hey Dai, can we talk?" he asked.
"Sure. What's up?" Daisuke asked as Ben pulled out the photograph and handed it to her. "This is from our date at the pier," she said.
"I wanted you to have something to remember me by, the way i used to look," Ben told her.
"Ben you know I don't care what you look like," Daisuke said.
"I know that. But I do..." he said before he walked off followed by Kevin and Daisuke saw Gwen looking at the locket Kevin had.
"Kevin gave you something too?" she asked and Gwen nodded and both girls looked at Kevin and Ben sadly.
The end of the chapter
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