Above and Beyond
I don't own Digimon or Ben 10
Pierce sighed as he sat in a chair while Helen was pressing buttons on the console with Alan looking over her shoulder. "Helen, anything?" he asked her.
"Nothing," she answered and Alan started to pace in a circle as Manny walked into the room and he sighed.
"I'm sick and tired of waiting around. Let's go out and find some action," he said.
"No way, Manny. The Wrench told us to wait here," Pierce told him.
"So what?" Manny asked.
"So when he's not here, I'm in charge. You want to go on a field trip? First, you have to get by me," Pierce answered walking up to Manny
"Sounds like almost ten seconds of pure entertainment!" Manny said as he cracked his knuckles but Helen ran in between them stopping them from fighting.
"Yeah what if Max sees us fighting?" Alan asked.
"Grow a spine Alan," Manny told him.
"Hey leave him alone!" Pierce shouted as a beeping was heard and Helen sped over to the console.
"It's an encrypted incoming message," she said and Manny, Pierce and Alan ran up as Max appeared on the screen.
"I'm on Plumber Research Satellite Delta, something's happening up here. It's Daisuke, she's..." Max said before a banging was heard. "No time to explain, we need your help. Get here as soon as you can," he said before he ducked as the door flew over his head and the screen turned to static.
"I've lost the signal!" Helen exclaimed.
"Then find it!" Manny told her.
"What do you think I'm doing!?" Helen asked him. "Wait, something is coming through," she said as the static vanished and the Plumbers' Helpers saw Daisuke walk into the room where Max had been and she looked at them.
"Daisuke?" Pierce asked.
"Are the little Plumbers' Helpers spying on me?" Daisuke asked before she growled. "Stay out of this, if you get involved I promise you Uncle Max won't be the only one who is going to get hurt!" she warned them as she was enveloped in a gold flash of light and she turned into Humungousaur and she smashed the camera cutting the transmission as the four Plumbers' Helpers looked at each other worried. Soon the four of them were on a small shuttle flying through space towards the space station.
"I know it's late. And you don't have to listen to me, but I still think we should have waited for help," Alan said.
"Gwen, Ben and Kevin are on a mission halfway across the galaxy," Pierce told him.
"By the time they got back it would have been too late," Helen said.
"What about Daisuke's parents and sister and Veemon, surely they could have helped," Alan said.
"I doubt they would believe Daisuke's gone evil. We'll handle this ourselves," Pierce said.
"Who needs help? It's four against one," Manny said.
"It's four against Daisuke, she's practically taught us all we know, and she's beaten all of us easily," Alan told him.
"We did well before we met her and Max has been teaching us a lot," Pierce said.
"And now he's in trouble so we help, case closed," Manny said.
"Daisuke would never really hurt Max would she?" Helen asked.
"She sure sounded like she would she could be brainwashed," Alan said.
"Or maybe she has to lay eggs again," Manny said with a chuckle.
"We'll find Max; he'll know what to do. Until then..." Pierce said as an alarm beeped.
"Proximity alert, we're here," Helen said as Manny and Alan walked to the front as the ship approached a space station.
"Plumber Research Satellite Delta," Pierce said.
"What's it for?" Alan asked.
"To store technology that's too dangerous to keep on Earth," Pierce answered as the ship flew into the hanger bay, they then exited and walked through the door and they saw nothing but destruction surrounding them. Helen walked over to a console and she grabbed the keyboard.
"We shouldn't be touching stuff," Alan said.
"It's a remote access terminal. I think I can use it to tap into the satellite system," Helen explained pressing a few keys and Max appeared on the screen.
"If you're seeing this message then you've made it to the satellite station, good work. I'm fine but I'm hiding out in the cargo hold at the far end of the satellite," he explained. "Come and get me but stick together, you all need to work as a team," he said as Helen pressed keys to bring up Max's location.
"I'm on it," Helen said running off.
"Wait! Magister Tennyson said to stick together!" Pierce shouted but Helen ignored him and she arrived in the cargo hold.
"Max, it's Helen, we got your message," she said as something sped past her and she turned and saw nothing. "You can come out, it's safe," the lights then cut out making her look around, she then heard footsteps.
"Oh it's not safe," she turned to see Daisuke standing there. "Not for Uncle Max and not for you," she was then enveloped in a flash of gold light and she turned into XLR8 who smirked at Helen before she sped towards her and punched her sending her flying into a crate.
"Daisuke it's me Helen! What's wrong with you?" she asked XLR8 who didn't reply and sped towards her again and punched her repeatedly before she ran around in a circle and a tornado was created sucking Helen in and she was lifted into the air before she was slammed hard into the ground and she groaned as XLR8 turned into Daisuke.
"Tell Uncle Max that I'm looking for him," she said running off just before Manny, Alan and Pierce ran up to Helen.
"Helen! What happened?" Pierce asked her as she sat up.
"It was Daisuke, something is wrong with her, she's..." Helen said.
"She's toast. Which way did she go, I owe her a beating," Manny said.
"I didn't see but, she couldn't have gotten far," Helen said and both she and Manny ran off.
"Wait, Max said stay together," Pierce said.
"Manny and I work better as a team, we'll find Daisuke and you find Max," Helen told him and Alan before she and Manny ran off.
"Helen!" Pierce shouted before he groaned. "That just leaves me and you Alan, if Max isn't here then where could he be?" he asked Alan.
"Well what if...no, no never mind it's stupid," he answered.
"Go ahead Alan," Pierce encouraged him.
"Well, the first time I met Daisuke, she tracked me through my Plumber's badge, I thought maybe..." Alan said pointing to his badge.
"You thought right," Pierce told him with a smile as he pulled out his Plumber badge and a map appeared with a red blip on it. "Come on," he told Alan and both ran off. "There's some weird interference but we're getting close," he said as something sped past Alan.
"What was that!?" he asked.
"I said we're getting close," Pierce answered as he kept walking before a door slammed between him and Alan.
"Pierce? Did you just ditch me?" Alan asked looking at the closed door, Pierce on the other side hit the door.
"Great," he grumbled. "Alan, it's Pierce pick up!" he said into the Plumber's badge but there was no reply. "She's jamming the communications channel, but she can't jam the locator," he said walking off following the signal; he then slowly entered a room where the lights were flickering on and off, he then stopped and looked around when he heard a voice above him.
"Looking for this?" he looked up to see Daisuke now in her Cryonite form sitting on a ledge and she was holding a Plumber's badge in her hand, Pierce ran for the door but it slammed shut and Daisuke jumped down and she smirked and cackled evilly. Pierce threw two spikes towards her but she sighed and leaned to the side dodging both, she then fired an ice beam at Pierce who jumped out of the way.
"Daisuke, whatever's controlling you, you have to fight it!" he urged her.
"Help me, Pierce. I can't stop myself! You're my only hope!" she told Pierce.
"What can I do to help?" he asked before Daisuke suddenly sent a beam of ice at him and he was encased in a block of ice and she laughed.
"What can I do to help?" You're pathetic!" she mocked him as Pierce grunted and he managed to break free of the ice and he kicked Daisuke back sending her to the ground and Pierce ran over to one of the machines in the room and he climbed it, Daisuke smirked and she fired ice beams from her hands at the machine and it was slowly encased in ice and Pierce jumped off just before the entire machine was frozen and he ran off. "You can run! But you can't hide!" Daisuke told Pierce with a smirk. Meanwhile with Manny and Helen, Manny banged on a door and he growled.
"This is dumb, I've looked everywhere and I haven't found squat!" he shouted as Helen ran up to a terminal.
"I found a command terminal," she said before she began pressing keys.
"Our badges don't even work right, what makes you think we can track him on a terminal?" Manny asked her.
"Whoever is jamming the badges needs the terminals; they should be...got it! It's detecting a life form a Homo Sapien Cryonite hybrid on the opposite side of the satellite," Helen answered pointing to a blip on the screen.
"You know why I like you? Because you're not totally useless," Manny said with a smile while Helen deadpanned before she ran off and Manny ran after her.
"You're gonna spoil me with all the sweet talk," she told him. "Hurry up slow poke!" she shouted running through a door which closed behind her and Manny ran through another door and found himself in the engine room.
"Wait for me!" he shouted before he stopped running and he looked around and the door closed behind him and he pulled out one of his blasters. "I know you're in here. Come out and show yourself, the others might be afraid of you but I'm not!" he shouted.
"That's because the others are a lot smarter than you," Manny turned around to see Four Arms behind him and she grabbed his arm and threw him away and he crashed into a machine and he growled and fired his blasters at Four Arms who chuckled as the energy bolts bounced off her.
"That tickles," she said before she jumped at Manny and punched him and she grabbed his blasters and crushed them in her hands.
"My blasters!" he shouted.
"You don't need them to take on little old me," Four Arms taunted him.
"You're right I don't!" he shouted running at her and both started to punch each other, Manny delivered an uppercut sending Four Arms flying back and she landed on her feet. "Was that all you got? Because that was weak!" Manny shouted and Four Arms ran towards him but Manny tripped her and she hit the ground and he then grabbed her in a headlock. "You're not so tough; I don't see why everyone is so scared of you,"
"Then let me show you pipsqueak!" Four Arms shouted as she grabbed Manny and she flipped him over her and slammed him into the ground, she then picked him up and held him upside down. "Polaris Piledriver!" she shouted jumping into the air and she crashed down with Manny's head hitting the ground first. "How about an Antarian Arm Bar!?" she asked grabbing Manny's arms and bending them behind his back and she ran towards a machine and slammed him into it. "Ophiuchus Face-Plant!" she then grabbed Manny and she threw him into the air and jumped after him. "Time for some Sirius Butt-Kicking!" she then kicked Manny hard and he went flying and he crashed into several spinning rings before he bounced off and crashed into a console.
"So was that Sirius like the star or serious like important?" he asked Four Arms who stood above him.
"Like the star," she said.
"Just wondering," he said before passing out and Four Arms smirked and walked off.
"Danger, gravity core shutdown, central core damaged, initiate emergency procedure," an automated voice said as Helen ran towards the engine room when the station tilted on its side.
"Whoa! What's going on?" she asked as the door to the engine room opened up and she ran inside to find Manny on the ground and she ran over to him and he groaned and opened his eyes.
"Oh...hey Helen," he said sitting up.
"Daisuke did this to you?" she asked him.
"Lucky punch. Followed by a lucky hammer lock, lucky kick, another lucky punch..." Manny answered and Helen smiled.
"I see," she said.
"Then it all starts to get a little fuzzy. But there were several more pieces of luck involved," he told her as they both heard someone approaching.
"Someone's coming," Helen said.
"She's coming back, I'll hold her off run," Manny told her.
"I'm not leaving you. Whatever happens we do this together," Helen said.
"I heard the commotion, are you two okay?" Pierce asked as he ran into the room
"Great, never better," Manny answered.
"Have you seen Alan?" Pierce asked.
"Not since we left you guys," Helen answered.
"We'll fan out and find him," Manny said walking off.
"Yeah, great plan. We'll split up so Daisuke can pick us off one at a time," Pierce said.
"You got a better idea?" Manny asked him.
"Yeah, we stick together," he answered.
"But I can cover more ground on my own," Helen said.
"We stick together," Pierce said the spines on his face extending, meanwhile Alan was walking through a large room covered in vegetation, he looked around slowly before he turned around to see Heatblast standing behind him and he jumped back.
"Where are the others Alan?" she asked him.
"I don't know," Alan answered.
"Such a shame, you should have stayed with them," Heatblast told him before she threw a fireball at Alan who ran off before he turned and fired his own fireball at Heatblast who simply held her hand out and she blocked the fire and Alan kept throwing fireballs at Heatblast who effortlessly blocked them before she threw her own fireballs at Alan who ran off and threw more fireballs back at her before both sent streams of fire at each other and battled for dominance and Heatblast's fire grew hotter and she overwhelmed Alan's fire and he was sent flying back. "You're out of your league Alan; you're the weakest leak you know it and I know it. And your team knows it, that's why they left you all alone,"
"Don't listen to her Alan!" Helen shouted running in and she slammed into Heatblast sending her skidding back. "She's just trying to get in your head!"
"Who is to say I haven't already?" Heatblast asked Helen before she ducked as Manny began to fire his blasters at her.
"You can't dodge these," he told her but Heatblast scoffed and flicked her hand up and a wall of fire appeared blocking the attacks.
"You had your chance Daisuke, you don't get another one," Pierce said from behind her as the four of them surrounded Heatblast who looked at them before she chuckled which turned into a full blown maniacal laugh and she turned into Ghostfreak who waved before turning invisible.
"NO!" Manny shouted firing his blasters everywhere. "I had her and she got away!"
"No we had her, don't you see? Alone we're no match for her but together we sent her running," Pierce said.
"Hey he's right, Daisuke ran from us," Alan said smiling.
"Okay, let's say I buy what you're selling, now what?" Manny asked holstering his blasters.
"I still think I can tap into one of these terminals and use it to find Max," Helen said before the station shook again.
"Why does this place keep doing that?" Alan asked.
"Maybe this is part of Daisuke's plan," Manny said.
"You think she's controlling the satellite?" Helen asked.
"Only one way to find out," Alan said.
"Let's head to the bridge, Helen can check things from there right?" Pierce asked.
"Sure. Plus I could access the main computer and find Max," Helen answered and a few minutes later the four of them walked into the bridge of the satellite and they walked inside where they saw Four Arms standing with her back turned.
"Took you long enough to get here, I was beginning to feel a little neglected," she said turning to face the four of them with a smirk on her face.
"We already beat you once Daisuke, maybe you should start running," Pierce told her.
"Maybe you should wake up Pierce," the four turned to see Heatblast behind them as Daisuke in her Cryonite form appeared on their left and XLR8 sped in and stood on their right side.
"I've been three steps ahead of you all day," XLR8 said.
"I've out flanked you, I've out powered you, and I haven't been trying," Cryonite Daisuke told them with a smirk as she, Heatblast and XLR8 walked over to Four Arms.
"This satellite is a dangerous place, I told you kids not to come here, and now you'll pay the same price that Max did," Four Arms said as the four of them were enveloped in a gold flash of light and they turned into a singular Humungousaur who grew to her full height. She roared and stomped down at the four of them who jumped away as Humungousaur stomped on the ground and sent debris everywhere and one piece hit Pierce, Alan threw fireballs at Humungousaur who growled as they hit her.
"Helen! I need a decoy!" Manny shouted.
"On it!" Helen shouted speeding towards Humungousaur and she ran around her and Humungousaur growled and swung her tail at Helen who just dodged it and Manny ran in firing his blasters at her but she turned and grabbed Manny before throwing him at Helen and both crashed into the ground.
"Alan, cover me!" Pierce shouted and Alan threw fireballs at Humungousaur who growled as the fireballs hit her and she roared and jumped towards them but they dodged and she crashed into a wall and the satellite shook violently. "Follow my lead," Pierce said running off.
"We're running away?" Manny asked as he and the others followed Pierce and Humungousaur chased them and she roared loudly and Manny pulled his blasters out.
"No, we fight as a team, attack together and keep her off balance," Pierce said and Alan threw fireballs in front of Humungousaur and Helen ran around making the fire bigger, Manny jumped and slammed his hands down sending a shockwave making her stumble and fall just as Pierce threw spikes at the ground and she landed on them and she roared in pain, she got up and she roared and chased after Pierce and both ran into the hanger.
"Nowhere to run now little man!" Humungousaur growled at him.
"Helen!" Pierce shouted and Helen ran in and grabbed him and ran out and Manny pressed a button closing the door and then another one which opened the airlock and sucked Humungousaur out and she smashed into the ship taking it with her and she floated out into space.
"I can't believe we won," Helen said.
"I can't believe we just sent Daisuke Motomiya into outta space," Alan said.
"Is she..." Helen said.
"No. Humungousaur is strong enough to survive for a few minutes, and Daisuke's a Cryonite so she can last for a few hours on her own," Pierce said.
"We need to find Max, he'll know what to do," Helen said as she ran to the nearby console and pressed some keys. "This can't be right,"
"Bad news?" Manny asked her.
"When Manny and Four Arms trashed the command hub, the controls took a hit the satellite is losing orbit," Helen explained.
"If that projection is right this is going to crash into London," Pierce said.
"Millions of people," Alan said.
"Can the computer do something? Can we change the flight path?" Manny asked.
"Flight path? There's no flying involved this thing is going to crash and there's nothing we can do about it," Helen answered.
"I can think of a way," Pierce said. "We blow up the satellite before it can crash," the satellite started to head towards Earth catching fire as it met the atmosphere and the four Plumbers' Helpers ran into the bridge.
"Any three Plumbers badges gives us the authority to activate the auto-destruct," Helen explained as Pierce and Alan pulled out their badges.
"Leave them with me; I'll start the auto destruct and meet you at the ship," Manny said.
"Manny," Helen said.
"The ship we just blew out the airlock, I don't like where this is going," Manny said.
"But there's no other way, sacrifice ourselves to save millions of lives, it's worth it," Pierce said.
"We wanted to be Plumbers and this is what they do," Alan said.
"Thanks guys, we made a great team," Pierce said as he pressed a button.
"Auto-destruct in five...four...three...two...one," the computer said but nothing happened.
"We're still here?" Alan asked confused.
"The damage to the computers, maybe I can jury-rig it," Helen said.
"I think I've seen enough," the four of them turned to see Max walk up to them smiling at Humungousaur made her way back into the room and she turned back into Daisuke who walked up.
"I can't believe you guys ejected me into space! That's-that's just cold!" she exclaimed.
"What's going on over here?" Pierce asked as he and the others were shocked to see Daisuke alive.
"Let me use the emergency thrusters to put us back into a safe orbit and then I'll explain," Max said walking over to the console and thrusters fired making the satellite head back into a safe orbit.
"This satellite isn't a storage facility. It's a training station," Daisuke explained.
"This was all just a test?" Pierce asked.
"The Daisuke being out of control and attacking me scenario was a test," Max answered.
"But not "the satellite about to crash into London" part. We really knocked this thing out of orbit," Daisuke said sheepishly scratching the back of her head.
"Cool!" Manny exclaimed before Helen elbowed him. "What?" he asked her.
"You put the safety of others ahead of your own lives," Max told them.
"The next stop for you guys, Plumber's Academy," Daisuke said with a smile.
"Did she just say Plumber's Academy?" Alan asked happily.
"We're gonna be real Plumbers!" Helen said.
"Make me proud," Max told them with a smile and Helen hugged him while Manny, Pierce and Alan smiled and Daisuke smiled at them as well.
The end of the chapter
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