Vreedle, Vreedle
I don't own Digimon or Ben 10
A small spaceship was flying through space and the inside of the cockpit was a mess, one of the two occupants who was wearing a hat and red overalls over a yellow shirt was driving the ship while the other one who was larger and only wore red overalls was snoring loudly. The ship then passed a robot that was floating beside an asteroid, it turned and zoomed in on the back of the ship and seconds later it turned on its siren and chased after the ship making the driver look out the window and the larger alien woke up. "Let me do all of the talking here Rhomboid. Delicate situations such as these require a certain procedural acumen which I happen to be well versed in,"
"Uh..." Rhomboid the larger alien said.
"Be cool man, just be cool," the other alien pleaded as he stopped and the robot moved towards the window. "Evening officer or morning, difficult concept to determine out here in space is there a problem?" he asked the robot before it was blown to pieces along with an asteroid that was behind it. "Now can you see how some might construe that there reaction of yours as a tad bit excessive if not wholly unnecessary?" he asked Rhomboid.
"I'm just as sorry as I can be Octagon, you know how much I like to blow stuff up good," Rhomboid apologised.
"That's true. You blow up stuff real good Rhomboid, and if my hunch is correct where we're going you will have copious and ample opportunity to blow up plenty more," Octagon said as the ship blasted off. Meanwhile on Earth, Ship was jumping around as Daisuke picked up a soccer ball.
"Think fast boy!" she told him as she kicked the ball and it flew towards Ship who turned into a soccer goal and caught the ball. "Goal!" she cheered as Ship turned back to normal and chirped happily.
"Ship, Ship," he chirped, Daisuke then grabbed a stack of books and she threw them into the air and Ship jumped after them and he turned into a bookcase and caught them.
"Nice work Ship," Daisuke told him before an energy blast nearly hit Ship sending him and Daisuke to the ground, Daisuke stood up and Ship stood in front of her growling as Octagon and Rhomboid walked towards them.
"What do I keep telling you Rhomboid, if we destroy it we won't get paid and that would be?" Octagon asked.
"Bad," Rhomboid answered.
"That is correct," Octagon replied. "There is no reason we can't do this all nice and civilised like. After all we have the law on our side," he told Daisuke.
"The law, are you Plumbers?" she asked them.
"No ma'am, we're repo-men. Octagon and Rhomboid Vreedle, we're the Vreedle brothers ma'am, providing quality repossession needs throughout the galaxy. No questions asked," Octagon answered.
"Because we're what you would call uncurious," Rhomboid said.
"We aim to repossess that there blob of Galvanic Mechamorph," Octagon told Daisuke as Ship jumped into her arms.
"I don't understand," she said.
"We have here a court order authorising us to procure said blob in question" Octagon said pulling out a piece of paper and he handed it to Daisuke who read it.
"So hand it over, thank you kindly," Rhomboid said.
"We have a paying job to complete here forthwith," Octagon said.
"So step away from the blob," Rhomboid told Daisuke as Ship tried to jump out of her arms.
"No tanks or missiles. We can't let them see how powerful you are," Daisuke whispered to him as the Vreedle brothers approached. "Stay away from him!" she shouted as she was enveloped in a gold flash of light and she turned into Heatblast shocking Octagon and Rhomboid. "I said stay away!" she shouted throwing a fireball at them and they ducked.
"And I say blast the freak!" Octagon shouted as he and Rhomboid fired their weapons at Heatblast who jumped into the air and threw more fireballs towards the brothers and they ran off, Heatblast then followed after them and saw them run to their ship and she was enveloped in a gold light and she transformed into Echo Echo and she ran over to them and split herself into six copies.
"WALL...OF...SOUND!" Echo Echo shouted as they fired sonic screams at the brothers and both of them were pushed back into their ship which then flew off and Ship jumped over to Echo Echo who turned back into Daisuke. "And don't come back!" she shouted.
"Ship," Ship chirped as he jumped into Daisuke's arms. A few minutes later Daisuke was in Kevin's garage with Gwen, Ben, Veemon and Kevin who was reading the court order.
"It's just a bunch of alien mumbo jumbo," Ben said.
"No it's legit," Kevin informed him and everyone looked at him. "What? I used to do some repo work back in the Null Void," he explained.
"So the Vreedle brothers really do have the right to repossess Ship?" Veemon asked.
"I won't let them take you," Daisuke told Ship who chirped at her.
"Someone could use him as a weapon," Ben said.
"And you don't want Daisuke to lose her pet either right Ben?" Gwen asked him.
"Of course, that too," Ben answered.
"That was really convincing," Daisuke grumbled.
"I say we go right to the source and straighten this whole thing out," Kevin said.
"You can't really read that," Gwen said.
"The High Court is on the planet Coda Coda, it's quite far away," Kevin explained.
"And how do we get there? If we use Ship we'll be delivering him right into the hands of whoever wants him," Daisuke said.
"Unless one of you guys has a spaceship or something, we don't have another option," Veemon said before everyone looked at Kevin and a few minutes later Kevin and Ben were standing outside a garage which opened up to reveal a spaceship.
"This looks like that ship we borrowed from that guy on the moon," Ben said.
"Yeah so?" Kevin asked him.
"You said you were going to give it back," Ben told him.
"And I will...eventually," Kevin replied and soon the duo were inside the ship flying through space.
"What does this button do?" Ben asked pressing a button.
"Didn't I just say this was a rental?" Kevin asked as a screen popped up with a warning and the two of them saw asteroids heading towards them.
"Incoming," Ben said and Kevin pressed buttons and the ship flew through the asteroid belt until a massive asteroid headed towards them.
"Now what you want to do is..." Kevin said as Ben pressed a button and fired the ship's cannon and it hit the asteroid and destroyed it. "...that," Meanwhile back on Earth, Gwen, Veemon, Ship and Daisuke were at Mr Smoothy.
"You didn't need to stay here to guard Ship, Gwen. I can look after him myself," Daisuke told Gwen.
"I know. And Ship can take care of himself as well," Gwen said.
"I know. But I told him to hold back, I didn't want those repo men to see what he could really do," Daisuke explained.
"Smart," Veemon said as he took a ship of his smoothie.
"Do you think Ben really cares about Ship?" Daisuke asked Gwen.
"Of course he does. You heard him Ship is a powerful weapon," she answered.
"But what if Ship wasn't a weapon. What if he was just a regular dog?" Daisuke asked as Ship chirped and wagged his tail.
"What is it with her and that 'dog' anyway?" Ben asked using air quotes.
"You two found it on your first date right?" Kevin asked him.
"Yeah. But that has nothing to do with it," Ben answered.
"Keep thinking. You'll get better with practice," Kevin told Ben as he flew over an asteroid.
"Kevin? Oh please if it isn't about his car...excuse me his ride, or some alien tech then he is pretty much oblivious," Gwen said told Daisuke.
"Nah, Gwen's cool but...on your left!" Kevin shouted and Ben fired the ships cannon at another asteroid.
"Complicated?" Ben suggested.
"Complicated," Daisuke said.
"Guys," she and Gwen said together.
"Girls," Ben and Kevin said at the same time, Daisuke, Gwen, Veemon and Ship who was posing as a backpack left Mr Smoothy once it had closed up for the night when the Vreedle's ship landed in front of them and Octagon and Rhomboid climbed out.
"We will be taking that Galvanic Mechamorph now and some smoothies to go," Octagon said as he and his brother walked towards the four of them.
"V-HEADBUTT!" Veemon shouted as he ran and rammed into Octagon knocking him down and Gwen sent a mana blast throwing Rhomboid down to the ground.
"They have painfully set us on our backsides Rhomboid," Octagon said.
"They most certainly need aggressive blowing up," Rhomboid said and his brother nodded, Gwen then picked them up with her mana and Rhomboid fired his weapon at Gwen who made a bubble of mana surrounding herself, Daisuke, Ship and Veemon which caused her to drop the Vreedle brothers and Ship jumped off Daisuke and turned into a cannon and charged up and was about to fire at the brothers.
"Ship no! Don't shoot them!" Daisuke shouted and Ship turned back to normal as Rhomboid fired at Gwen again who made a shield and when the laser blast hit the shield it cracked and shattered and Gwen was thrown back, Veemon ran up and jumped into the air but Rhomboid hit him with his cannon and he rolled across the ground and groaned. Octagon and Rhomboid then walked towards Daisuke as Ship jumped into her arms.
"Now I am going to ask again nicely, everyone back away from the blob," Octagon said and Rhomboid stepped back and he looked at his brother. "Not you," he told him and Rhomboid smiled sheepishly.
"Ship! Ship!" Ship chirped as he turned into a puddle of goo which then covered Daisuke.
"Whoa!" she exclaimed.
"Dai?" Veemon asked concerned for his partner, Daisuke then emerged covered in a black and green battle suit.
"Whoa...this is new," Daisuke said from inside the suit.
"Dai, what is Ship doing?" Gwen asked as Daisuke looked at Octagon and Rhomboid and her arm lifted up and a blast emerged from her forearm and began firing it at the Vreedle brothers making them run and hide behind a mini-van.
"Ship! No shooting!" Daisuke shouted.
"Ship, Ship," Ship chirped as the blast retracted.
"Can I blow him up real good now Octagon?" Rhomboid asked.
"No Rhomboid, we need him or we don't get paid," Octagon answered before ducking as Gwen fired a mana disc at him. "Just blow him up a little bit," he said and Rhomboid smiled as he grabbed the mini-van and he threw it to the side and both he and Octagon began to fire at Daisuke, Gwen and Veemon but Daisuke didn't feel anything.
"I can't feel it. Wait until Ben sees this," she said before running off towards the Vreedle brothers. Meanwhile Kevin and Ben were nearing their destination.
"Okay, here's how it's going to go down. I have a lot of experience in a courtroom setting," Kevin told Ben.
"As a defendant," Ben replied.
"So just let do all the talking," Kevin said.
"I think they will listen to me before they listen to the criminal mastermind Kevin Levin," Ben said.
"Mastermind?" Kevin asked and Ben rolled his eyes as their ship landed on a planet and both were teleported inside a courtroom.
"You do not eat children, yes they are delicious but we have laws," the judge who was an alien with a partially metallic body, from his shoulders up to his forehead, he was almost entirely gold and made out of metal. His lips and the outline of his eyes were dark gold, his sclera were black and his pupils were white and his brain which was completely visible from the outside poked out of his metal head and was protected by a thin clear material, there was a golden circle on the front of his brain and a similar ellipse was on his chest which divided his metallic upper body from the black robe that covered the rest of his body and he wore purple gloves which both had golden cuffs said as he banged his mallet and the two aliens in front of him teleported away. "What's next on the docket bailiff?" he asked a Highbreed.
"A challenge to the court ordered repossession of property belonging to a Galvanic Mechamorph by the name of Baz-El," he answered as Baz-El appeared.
"Present your honour, if it would please the court," he said.
"Hey, I know you. You're the guy who left Ship on Earth," Ben said.
"Once the word had spread of my property's participation in nothing short of saving the entire universe from eradication by the uncouth foul smelling Highbreed..." Baz-El said.
"Hey! Objection! The bailiff shouted banging his hand on the judge's podium.
"Sustained," the judge replied.
"Well how could I not wish to reclaim what is rightfully mine?" Baz-El asked.
"But you gave him away," Ben said.
"Ship is my legal property, ipso facto e pluribus unum, he must be returned to me. I rest my case," Baz-El said.
"And where is the property now?" the judge asked.
"The Vreedle brothers are in the process of retrieving it for me your honour," Baz-El said.
"The Vreedle brothers? Who in their right mind would hire the Vreedle brothers to bring someone back alive!?" the judge asked Baz-El.
"Well...um...oh," Baz-El said and Kevin and Ben shared a concerned look. Back on Earth, Octagon and Rhomboid were firing at Daisuke who was still inside the battle suit and Gwen and Veemon were behind a mana shield.
"Try this one!" Octagon shouted tossing a blaster to his brother who fired it before Octagon threw a rocket launcher at him brother who caught it and fired it towards Daisuke who crossed her arms and the rocket exploded.
"Daisuke! You okay?" Veemon asked his partner as the smoke cleared to show both Daisuke and Ship unharmed
"Yeah. This is fun," Daisuke said as Octagon threw a disc towards Gwen and it bounced off her shield and it spun around and the shield fell and Gwen looked at her hands.
"Ugh, this isn't good," she said and she and Veemon ran behind Daisuke.
"Are you sure you don't want to shoo them Dai?" Veemon asked.
"Not right now," Daisuke answered.
"Then we need a distraction," Gwen said as she saw something in the dumpster and she ran towards it and she pulled out some bubble wrap and she began to pop the bubbles making Octagon and Rhomboid stop shooting and they walked towards Gwen.
"Don't I know you son?" the judge asked Kevin.
"I don't think so sir," Kevin answered.
"You're Kevin Levin. Didn't I tell you that if I saw you in my courtroom again I would chuck you into the Null Void?!" the judge asked him.
"No wait. I can explain," Kevin said.
"That's what you always say," the judge told him. Back on Earth the Vreedle brothers were popping the bubble wrap laughing and this allowed Daisuke, Veemon and Gwen sneak off.
"Aw," Rhomboid said once they had run out of bubble wrap.
"Such is the fleeting nature of all things," Octagon said.
"Okay back to blasting stuff," Rhomboid said as he started to fire at Daisuke, Gwen and Veemon again and Octagon threw a grenade which blew up and sent Daisuke to her knees and she growled and she grabbed the Mr Smoothy sign and she slammed it down onto the brothers.
"Your honour, Baz-El has hired a couple of dog catchers to take away some poor kid's dog. I mean, who does that?" Kevin asked looking at Baz-El.
"Let me handle this," Ben told Kevin walked past him.
"Dude, we agreed to let me do the talking," Kevin said.
"And a lot of good that's doing," Ben replied. "Your honour Ship is part of the team now, the team of Daisuke Motomiya the person who saved the universe I am sure you've heard of her," Ben said.
"Oh I am so dead," Kevin said to himself.
"Take this!" Rhomboid shouted as he swung the Mr Smoothy sign at Daisuke and hit her but she smirked.
"That didn't hurt," she replied.
"Oh yeah? Rhomboid slap the boot on them," Octagon told his brother as he tossed a device to Rhomboid who threw it at Daisuke and Ship and it wrapped around Ship and electrocuted him making him scream before he went silent.
"Ship! Ship! Talk to me!" Daisuke urged him.
"What's wrong?" Veemon asked.
"They did something to Ship, I can't move anymore!" Daisuke answered. Rhomboid ran up and punched at Gwen who made a mana shield and he hurt his hand before Veemon rammed into his stomach taking the wind out of him and Gwen jumped up and kicked Rhomboid in the face knocking him down when they heard Daisuke scream and they saw Octagon dragging her away, Gwen picked up Rhomboid with her mana and she threw him towards Octagon knocking him and Daisuke down and both brothers picked up Daisuke and held her in front of them as Gwen's hands glowed with mana.
"Careful. Unless you are positively sure that your powered down friend here can take another hit," Octagon said as Gwen's hands stopped glowing. "Now, if you'll excuse us we'll be moseying along since there is nothing you can do to stop us," he said but Gwen made a bubble of mana surrounding the brothers and Daisuke. "This is a predicament I did not anticipate," he said just as Kevin and Ben's ship landed and Baz-El ran out with Bena and Kevin.
"Stand down. Cease and desist you are no longer in my employ," Baz-El told the Vreedle brothers.
"Huh?" Rhomboid asked.
"He's not paying you," Kevin answered.
"Not, gonna pay us!" Rhomboid shouted as he fired his blaster at Baz-El turning him into a puddle and Octagon sighed.
"Remember that little talk we had about you overreacting?" Octagon asked his brother. "Well someone could consider this particular occasion also qualifying as such!" he shouted at his brother.
"I'm sorry," Rhomboid apologised.
"Sorry don't cut it. Now we've got to sell this thing on the black market," Octagon said.
"Ben! Help!" Daisuke shouted.
"Dai's in there? What did they do to her?" Ben asked.
"They froze Ship somehow," Gwen answered.
"Repo boot, I know how to get them off," Kevin said.
"This does not surprise me," Ben said. "I'll handle the Vreedle brothers," he told Kevin as he shot Diamondhead shards at the brothers who ducked for cover, Rhomboid ran towards Ben and tried to punch him but Ben blocked with his Diamondhead arm and he punched it and screamed as he hurt his hand and then Ben punched him with his Swampfire arm and then grabbed him by his legs and tossed him away, Gwen then sent a mana disc hitting Octagon in the face knocking him down and Kevin ran up to Daisuke and he unlocked the repo boot and Ship chirped and jumped off Daisuke who was enveloped in a gold light and she turned into Humungousaur who glared at Octagon.
"Well look at the time," he said before running off and Rhomboid followed him.
"Are we running?" he asked.
"No sir. This is what you call retreating," Octagon answered as both he and his brother climbed into their ship and it took off. Humungousaur then turned back into Daisuke as Ben ran up to her.
"Dai," he said.
"Ben," she replied as Ship jumped into her arms. "You went to all that trouble to save Ship; you do care about him,"
"Of course I do. And I care about you too," Ben told her as he patted Ship's head as everyone saw Baz-El reform.
"Goodness that is stressful," he said as everyone looked at him. "You didn't think I would reform with those dreadful Vreedle brothers around did you?" he asked them.
"Glad you're okay Mr Baz-El but..." Daisuke said.
"Ship," Ship chirped and Baz-El looked at him and Daisuke.
"Oh very well, you may keep him," he told Daisuke.
"Thank you," she said as Ship purred happily and Daisuke hugged him.
"Yeah thanks. But it does feel like more pressure on our relationship," Ben said and Daisuke frowned at him slightly.
"It's just a dog Ben," Kevin told him.
"A super high tech alien dog," Gwen added and Ben gulped.
The end of the chapter
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