Busy Box
I don't own Digimon or Ben 10
"Anything?" Gwen asked Daisuke as she drove her car through the streets of Bellwood at night time and Ben and Kevin were wearing their ID masks and in the back seat and Veemon was in between them.
"Not yet but the scanner has picked up level twenty technology somewhere near here," Daisuke answered.
"Level twenty, the only thing that level in the galaxy is your Omnitrix," Veemon told his partner.
"Actually, whatever we're detecting is level twenty plus, the scale on this thing doesn't go any higher," Daisuke replied.
"We've been driving around all night," Ben said.
"Before we give in pull over, I want to try something," Gwen told Daisuke who nodded and she pulled over and everyone climbed out. "You know how my powers have a hard time with technology, I figure that it's the other way around," she said as she made a sphere of mana in her hand and she slammed it into the ground sending out a wave of mana.
"So if your mana hits something super high tech," Daisuke said before a bright green flash of light appeared in the distance. "Bingo," and soon the group were walking down an alleyway where they saw a bright green light ahead of them and they turned the corner to see a small glowing green cube with pieces of metal on it.
"What is that?" Veemon asked.
"Kevin?" Ben asked.
"I don't know," he answered.
"Really? You always know," Ben told him.
"It's unlike any alien tech that I've ever seen," Kevin said as Ben walked over to the cube.
"Be careful Ben," Daisuke told him.
"Two words that contradict each other," Kevin said.
"You mean an oxymoron?" Daisuke asked him as Ben kneeled down and looked at the cube.
"Some kind of moron," Kevin answered.
"Oh very funny," Ben said with a fake laugh as he touched the cube which glowed brightly and when the light died down a perfect copy of Ben with glowing green eyes stood there.
"I think we should get back to the car," Daisuke said.
"And run away?" Ben asked.
"And run it over," she answered.
"Run away," the copy of Ben said.
"Whoa," Ben said.
"Whoa," the copy said.
"What are you, where did you come from?" Ben asked walking up to the copy.
"What are you, where did you come from?" the copy repeated.
"Cut it out," Ben said.
"Cut it out," the copy replied.
"I don't sound like that," Ben said.
"I don't sound like that," Ben groaned.
"You kind of do," Daisuke said walking up to Ben and stood in front of the alien technology which glowed and once the light died down it was now a perfect replica of Daisuke but with glowing green eyes.
"I bet people would pay a pretty penny for a robot version of themselves," Kevin said but Gwen, Ben and Daisuke glared at him.
"Shut up," Daisuke told him.
"Shut up," the robot said and Daisuke glared at it.
"Quit copying me," she said.
"Quit copying me," the robot repeated.
"What're you a parrot?" Daisuke asked.
"What're you a parrot?" the robot mimicked and Daisuke growled and put her hand on the robots mouth and the robot pushed her back and she hit the ground hard.
"Okay, that does it," she said as she was enveloped in a gold flash of light and she turned into Humungousaur and the replica of herself glowed brightly and it morphed into a perfect replica of Humungousaur.
"Okay, this is getting out of hand," Gwen said as Humungousaur ran to the robot and punched it in the face sending it into the wall behind it; it then blocked a punch from her and punched her in the face sending her crashing to the ground and Ben, Gwen and Kevin moved out of the way. The replica Humungousaur then grabbed a dumpster and tossed it at Humungousaur who rolled out of the way and she got to her feet and punched the robot in the face before it grabbed her tail and threw her towards her team who ducked and she landed beside her car.
"Okay, that's it," Kevin said removing his ID mask and he ran towards the robot with his metal arm turning into a mallet and he swung it and when it hit the robot it shattered to pieces.
"Nice shot Kevin," Gwen told him and he grinned.
"Thanks I guess they don't make annoying imitator robots like they used to," he said as the green cub in the centre of the wreckage glowed bright green and all the parts flew back towards it and the robot reassembled into a replica of Kevin an its left arm turned into a mallet. "Whoops," Kevin said before he was hit by the robot and sent flying back. Veemon ran up and he delivered a head butt to the robot sending it flying back.
"That was easy," he said before he saw the robot turn into a replica of himself and it ran and delivered a head butt sending Veemon flying back.
"That was easy," the robot said in Veemon's voice.
"This is weird," Humungousaur said as she was enveloped in a gold flash of light and she turned into Spidermonkey and she made monkey noises and jumped over her team and fired webs at the replica robot of Ben and it skidded back before it morphed into a replica of Spidermonkey and broke the webbing. "Right, I should have figured," Spidermonkey said.
"Right, I should have figured," the replica said firing web at Spidermonkey sending her crashing into a dumpster and she turned back into Daisuke and she slipped out of the webbing. Gwen's hands glowed before she threw two mana discs at the robot which bounced off it and it then turned into a replica of Gwen and it held its hands out and two solid discs the same colour as Gwen's mana appeared and the top half of the robot began to spin around very fast and threw dozens of discs towards the team.
"I got it!" Gwen said making a shield of mana blocking the barrage of discs and the robot soon stopped spinning.
"I got it," it said.
"No my car!" Daisuke shouted looking at her car which had several discs embedded into it. "Do you know how much insurance costs for a teenage girl driving a sports car?" she asked the robot angrily.
"Dai wait," Gwen said.
"For what? That thing trashed my ride," Daisuke told her.
"He sort of already did," Ben told her.
"She," Gwen said.
"Are we doing this again?" Ben asked his cousin.
"Actually we're not doing anything. And neither is she," Gwen answered.
"I don't get it," Kevin said.
"It's copying everything we do," Daisuke said. "We showed it we wanted to fight so it fought," she explained.
"So we need to do something else," Gwen said walking towards the robot. "We don't know who or what you are but we don't mean any harm, come here meditate with me," she said floating into the air and the robot dropped to the ground.
"Meditate with me," it said.
"I get it, as long as we stay calm..." Ben said.
"It will stay calm," Daisuke finished. "So you're going to just sit there?" she asked leaning forward and the robot turned into a replica of her.
"Guys," Gwen said.
"Going to just sit there," the robot said in Daisuke's voice.
"Good. Let's hope nothing shows up to aggravate it," Veemon said just as they heard a sound and saw a familiar spaceship landing nearby.
"You just had to say it didn't you?" Kevin asked.
"That's the Vreedle brother's ship," Daisuke said running off and the others followed including the robot and they saw Octagon and Rhomboid Vreedle emerged from their ship.
"It would appear that you have something that belongs to us," Octagon said. "I do believe we have ascertained the location of the previously discussed valuable object,"
"We did?" Rhomboid asked and his brother looked at him.
"Didn't notice there are two Daisuke Motomiyas, one of which is obviously of inferior workmanship and quality," Octagon told him.
"I think he means you," Kevin told Daisuke.
"Thanks," she replied as Rhomboid walked up and looked at Daisuke and the robot. "You know what this thing is?"
"Of course we do. This here is the legendary Naljian Destructor a weapon of ludicrous power. We've been searching for it longer than you can imagine," Octagon said walking up.
"Since last Thursday when we heard about the reward," Rhomboid said.
"Let me guess, someone hired you to repossess it for them?" Daisuke asked and the Vreedle brothers began to laugh hysterically.
"Heck no, we're taking it for ourselves," Rhomboid said once they stopped laughing.
"What would you do with it?" Gwen asked.
"Why, auction it off to the highest bidder," Rhomboid answered.
"Not that our personal business is any of your...business," Octagon said. "Now if you would excuse us, we got some repossessing to do," he then grabbed the robot's arm and pulled it towards the brother's ship, Daisuke was enveloped in a gold flash of light and she turned into Heatblast and she threw fireballs in front of the Vreedle brothers.
"Not going to let you take it, it's too dangerous," she told them.
"If you want to know what's dangerous, take a look see and gander yonder," Rhomboid said firing his cannon at Heatblast who ducked before she began to throw more fireballs at the Vreedle brothers who ran off leaving the robot alone and its head turned around and it looked at Heatblast throwing fireballs at the brothers. Heatblast continued her assault when she was knocked over by a red metal sphere and she turned to see the robot had turned into a replica of her.
"Hey! I'm defending you!" she told it.
"Hey! I'm defending you!" the replica shouted back as it stood in front of the Vreedle brothers and fired more red metal balls from her hands at Heatblast who rolled out of the way.
"Lady Luck has most decidedly smiled on our endeavour. The robot is on our side," Octagon said as the replica of Heatblast glowed bright green and turned into a replica of Octagon who then shot red metal balls at Gwen who made a shield of mana in front of her, Veemon, Ben and Kevin.
"Hey no fair! Vreedles can't shoot fireballs!" Heatblast shouted.
"This time when I pound you, you're staying pounded," Kevin said running towards the robot with his right arm turning into a hammer and the robot's hand turned into a hammer as well and both ran towards each other but Kevin was hit by Octagon's blaster.
"Good shooting," Rhomboid told him as Ben began to fire Diamondhead shards at them both and they ran off.
"Much to my chagrin, that's pretty good shooting too!" Octagon shouted as he and his brother ran to their ship and the robot walked towards them. "That's it. Come to your good old uncle Octagon,"
"Good old uncle Octagon," the robot said as it and the Vreedle brothers climbed into the ship.
"They're getting away!" Veemon shouted.
"No duh," Kevin told him.
"I'll give you some cover," Gwen said and Heatblast, Ben and Kevin ran towards the ship but it lifted into the air and took off.
"Anyone up for a smoothie?" Ben asked and soon the gang were outside Mr Smoothy and Ben was carrying the smoothies towards the others and Daisuke, Gwen and Veemon took theirs and when Kevin reached over Ben pulled the smoothie away. "Not so fast, where's my money?" he asked Kevin who grabbed the smoothie.
"You're buying," he told him.
"Because?" Ben asked.
"Because we got beat by the Vreedle brothers," Kevin answered.
"He's got a point, the Vreedle brothers aren't that smart," Daisuke told Ben.
"What does that make us?" Veemon asked.
"I'm just saying the robot didn't look like an alien super weapon," Daisuke said.
"What do you think it is?" Kevin asked and Daisuke shrugged her shoulders. "I'm sort of glad they took the thing, the way it imitated me was starting to creep me out," he said.
"I'm sort of glad they took the thing, the way it imitated me was starting to creep me out," Ben mimicked.
"I do not sound like that," Kevin said.
"You kind of do," Gwen told him as the team heard a noise and saw the Vreedle brother's ship land in front of them.
"The Vreedle brothers twice in one day? It's like the opposite of Christmas," Kevin said.
"When we win I want the money for the smoothies," Ben told him as they walked towards the ship as Octagon and Rhomboid climbed out.
"Here's the thing. My brother and I would like to sincerely apologise for our outrageous behaviour earlier," Octagon said.
"We were so wrong," Rhomboid said and the team shared a look.
"I'm afraid to ask, but what happened?" Daisuke asked them.
"Well we were on our way to sell the thing and some robot cops tried to make us pull over," Rhomboid said.
"They took exception to us blasting a toll booth," Octagon said.
"I didn't have any change," Rhomboid said.
"I'm not following," Daisuke told them.
"The robot may have taken the wrong lesson from our completely reasonable actions," Octagon explained.
"What do you mean the wrong lesson?" Gwen asked just as the robot smashed out of the back of the ship as Humungousaur.
"He learned he really likes destroying things," Octagon told them as the robot Humungousaur lifted its arms up and its forearms turned into cannons and it began to fire energy blasts at the people nearby making them scream and run for cover, the robot then fired at Mr Smoothy and destroyed the benches and the building before firing at the sign making it fall down to the ground.
"Oh man!" Ben whined.
"They are so going to stop letting us hang out here," Kevin said.
"He's your problem now!" Octagon shouted as he and his brother climbed into their ship and took to the air but the robot turned and fired its cannons and they hit the ship and blew it to pieces.
"He's your problem now," the robot said walking up to the team before the Omnitrix symbol on its chest glowed and it changed shape in a bright flash of light. Once the light died down the robot had Spidermonkey's lower body and an extra set of arms and eyes, Heatblast's legs head and mini-shoulder volcanos, and Humungousaur's torso and tail. "This isn't good,"
"I do say that a lot don't I?" Daisuke asked.
"Yeah, and it's getting old," Kevin answered.
"Guy's can we focus?" Veemon asked them.
"Right, I got an idea," Daisuke replied as she was enveloped in a gold flash of light and she transformed into Lodestar.
"What good can Lodestar do?" Ben asked.
"I have magnetic powers, I can pull it apart," Lodestar answered.
"Won't work, it regenerates," Kevin told her.
"Not without a power supply, but I wish I knew what it was," Lodestar replied.
"The glowing part in the middle," Ben said.
"Are you sure?" Gwen asked.
"No. But do you have a better idea?" he asked.
"We just need to be sure, when we attack," Gwen said.
"Attack!" the robot shouted before firing its cannons and the gang ran for cover.
"Gwen!" Lodestar shouted.
"Sorry, that was completely my bad," Gwen apologised as the robot destroyed two cars.
"I think I can slow him down," Lodestar said as she held her hands out sending out magnetic waves and two cars lifted into the air and flew towards the robot hitting it in the face and both exploded making the robot stumble back and Lodestar threw another car but the robot swatted it away and Gwen started to throw mana discs at the robot as she began to run around on mana platforms and the robot turned to fire at her as Kevin ran up with his left arm turning into a hammer and his right arm turning into a mace and he swung them at one of the robot's legs making it fall to its knees and it turned and fired one of its cannons at Kevin sending him flying and he crashed into a car and he rolled out of the way before the robot fired again destroying the car.
"V-HEADBUTT!" Veemon shouted as he jumped into the air and rammed the robot with his head but he bounced off it and hit the ground. Lodestar spread her arms wide and sent out a large magnetic wave and all the surrounding vehicles floated into the air and flew towards the robot and crashed into it making it lose balance and hit the ground.
"Nice shot, I think I can keep him down," Kevin said running towards the robot and he jumped onto its chest and he began to hit the Omnitrix symbol several times before the robot grabbed him and stood up and its right hand turned into a mace and it swung it hitting Kevin sending him flying through the air.
"Tur-bo!" Gwen chanted and a tornado made of mana appeared catching Kevin and lowering him to the ground safely. "I still have my old spell book,"
"You mean my spell book," Ben told her as the robot walked up to them.
"You put a crack in it Kevin," Veemon told him.
"And I can rip it open," Lodestar said.
"And then I can grab the power source," Ben said and Lodestar held her hands up and she focused and the robot roared as the crack began to widen before it started repairing itself.
"It's fixing itself faster than I can pull it apart," Lodestar said.
"One more good pull," Ben said and Lodestar concentrated and she roared as the crack widened revealing a green cube.
"Now Ben!" she shouted and Ben's Wildvine arm extended and it grabbed the cube and pulled it out and the robot exploded and Ben dropped the cube on the ground.
"Hard to believe something so small could cause so much trouble," Gwen said.
"Hurry Dai, finish it off," Kevin said and Lodestar walked up to the cube and held her hand out when a bright flash of light appeared and a tall standing semi-humanoid made of bright-white light who appear to have had an aura of fiery blue flames around her came into view.
"Who are you?" Lodestar asked the alien.
"Whoever she is, she needs to get away from that thing. It needs some serious smashing," Kevin said.
"It's been nothing but trouble," Gwen said.
"Trouble, that's impossible but then again you are remarkably unintelligent," the alien said as Lodestar turned back into Daisuke.
"Pardon?" she asked.
"I did not mean to offend, you are such a young species you only perceive three dimensions am I right?" the alien asked.
"Yeah. How many are there?" Daisuke asked.
"Only twenty six that matter, you'll work it out soon I'm sure," the alien answered.
"Right," Daisuke replied.
"The point is, this so called dangerous weapon you fear is nothing more than my daughter's favourite toy," the alien said as the cube floated into her hand.
"Get outta town," Kevin said in disbelief.
"We were on an excursion to the lower dimensions when it must have dropped out of her carriage. I have been looking everywhere for it, I've been looking everywhere for it," the alien explained.
"Toy?" Daisuke asked as the cube floated towards Mr Smoothy and it glowed bright green and all the robot parts swirled around it and placed themselves back onto the cube.
"Maybe now she will stop crying," the alien said before looking at the others again. "You should be more careful, this toy is clearly marked not for children under three million years old," she told them before vanishing in a flash of light.
"I would never let a kid of mine play with something like that," Kevin said.
"Run away," they heard a voice say and they gasped. "Got ya," they turned and glared at Daisuke who was holding a can in front of her mouth.
The end of the chapter
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