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Two Hearts Becoming One

Chapter 2: Wedding Crashers

Morning came as Melody was still in bed as she ignored the hustle and bustle of the plumbers outside her room. She rolled onto her stomach and pulled the covers over her head to cover most of the sounds outside. She suddenly heard someone calling her name and realized it was Rook Blonko.

"Princess Melody, you must rise. You must rise for the day, for today is the day of your wedding."

She groaned in her sleep until she immediately woke up as she realized that the day is finally here. "Coming!" She got up and went to get herself ready.

While walking down the halls, she looked through the windows and saw that there were more plumbers than yesterday.

"Whoa! What's with all the extra security?" She said out loud.

"I'm sure they're just taking the necessary precautions." Melody heard Blitzwolfer coming her way. "Royal weddings do bring out the strangest of guests."

They even saw Magister Max Tennyson, Kevin Levin, Gwendolyn, and the Galvan partners Blukic and Driba outside organizing the plumbers.

"I see your point." She said.

"Now let's get going. We have work to do." He ran off to do his job.

Melody was excited but also nervous as she wondered why the extra guards, but she can't let that bother her now. She went towards the dressing room to get ready.

Lord Shade was pacing in his throne room in deep thought. He stopped as he heard the door opening and saw his nephew Whampire coming in.

"You wanted to see me uncle?" He said.

"Yes. It's good that you came here as soon as you could."

"Well, I was going to see you anyway because I wanted to ask you about why there are more plumbers here than yesterday?" Whampire wondered.

Shade sighed as he explained. "You mustn't tell Ben or Melody about this." Whampire nodded in agreement as he continued. "I summoned them here. I requested a major increase in security."

"Of course you would. There's a big wedding here, remember?" Whampire reminded his uncle.

Shade shook his head. "It has nothing to do with the wedding. A threat has been made against Anur Transyl." Whampire gasped as he said that. "We don't know who is responsible for this, but I requested that the Plumbers come here to provide additional protection. The burden of keeping this planet safe and secure rest squarely on my shoulders. As king, I have to stay focus and keep this task on hand as my top priority."

"Now I understand why you don't want Melody to know." Whampire said sadly. "Is there anything I should do?"

"Only to make sure that nothing happens to either Ben or Melody on this day." Shade declared him.

"I will, because I made a promise to Alexander to keep Melody safe." Whampire said surely as Lord Shade nodded.

-Meanwhile, outside of Anur Transyl in space-

"Vilgax, are we ready for an attack?" asked a robot minion. Vilgax sat on his seat in his ship bearing no expression as he waited. "Position the ships and ready the lasers. We attack in an hour." The Conqueror ordered roughly.

"Yes sir, Lord Vilgax, right away!" the robot replied as he was dismissed. Vilgax decided to take this moment to talk to himself. "Soon this entire planet will be conquered by me! I will finally get rid of Ben Tennyson and the plumbers once and for all!" He gave what seemed to be and evil laugh.

"Vilgax, our contact is on the line sir!" The minion interrupted.

Vilgax growled until he permitted it. "Put him on."

The screen appeared in front of him and a tall shadowy figure spoke to him in a raspy voice. "Vilgax, don't forget our agreement: You may conquer the world but it will be ruled by ME!"

"I told you, I will let you keep this filthy planet and we'll deliver you this princess whom is Ben's soon to be bride, as promise!" Vilgax declared.

"A deal is of no value if you can't deliver, Vilgax. I grow impatient with your puny gestures! Give me the princess or the deal is off! And your precious life energy will the price!"

The screen disappeared and Vilgax then growled as he waited for the attack.

Later outside the Castle

Melody wore the dress that she wore last night as the wedding commences. Rook and Kevin wore black tuxedos that complemented their hair and eyes. Gwendolyn and Rachel were wearing the bridesmaid's dresses which were green and light blue respectively.

The girls were off to the side watching the ceremony take place in front of their eyes. Both stood in awe at what was about to happen. Lord Shade stood in front of the alter as he watched the bride being escorted by his nephew and his alien friends.

Ben and his alien princess stood between all of them, staring at one another. Ben stared into Melody's bright eyes a moment longer before the wedding started. "We are gathered here today (SKIPPING THIS)"

"If there's any reason why these two should not be wed, Speak now or forever hold your peace!"

Suddenly, Ben heard something was coming. Melody heard something as well coming in their direction, something big. Ben then took her down to the ground as he warned everyone. "Get down! It's an invasion!" after that was said everyone took cover. CRASH! BANG! BA-BOOM! Lasers were firing at the ceremony about four yards from where the couple was standing. Thankfully, our heroes escaped this.

King Shade was outraged! "What is the meaning of this?! Who dares attack us in our time of peace?!"

"Well sir, by the looks of it, it seems to be one of Vilgax's war ships!" Max Tennyson smartly replied. For a moment, everything was in chaos, everyone panicked. Rook finally stops the long silence by saying, "Plumbers, those of you who can still fight must defend the people, the rest of you, take the innocents away from danger!"

"SIR!" They agreed as they joined their comrade in combat.

"Why would Vilgax attack this planet? Hasn't he conquered enough planets?" Gwendolyn asked.

Ben was the one to answer this, "Yeah, but it looks like he needs one more for his collection. I'm guessing Vilgax wants to take over this planet. Don't believe a word he says, he is not the type to negotiate."

"What shall we do, Uncle?" Whampire asked afraid of the answer.

"Whatever we can to protect our people and our home. If that means war, then so be it." He answered flatly.

"No! You can't! If you fight Vilgax, it'll be the death of this planet!" Max exclaimed.

"Max is right, your majesty, our enemy has highly advanced technology. If you start a war, many will die." Rook said.

"Even so," Lord Shade said as he rose from the ground, "we will stand to protect our planet for we don't take kindly to dictators."

"Then it looks like it's Hero Time!" Ben said as he turned on his omnitrix, but before he could go alien, something was fired onto his face stopping his movement. It was a Corruptura!

"BEN!" Melody and her friends said together.

"Ben! Snap out of it!" Melody tried to shake him out of his stance.

"I can't!" Ben grunted in his place. Everyone heard someone cackling and saw a figure from the castle's tower. He flew towards them and everyone gasped as they realized who it was.

"YOU!" Whampire growled as the figure came to view. It was a Vladat with sharp yellow teeth and red and black armor with a long red robe covering his legs. It was no other than Lord Transyl himself!

"Am I too late to join the wedding?" He sneered. "Well, I see that the family's all here." He then saw Melody as he came closer. "Well, well, if it isn't the princess Melody, daughter of the infamous Alexander. My, you're even beautiful than I ever imagined." He said as he grabbed her chin but was slapped away by Whampire.

"Get your hands off her, Transyl! You have no right to be here!" He growled as Snare-Oh, Blitzwolfer, and Frankenstrike growled as well shielding Melody from the evil vladat.

"It looks like the princess has some bodyguards, not that they will help!" He chuckled evilly. "You're just in the way of my prize, just like Alexander, but I got rid of him myself."

"What?! You're the one who took him away from him!" Melody growled as she tried to attack him but he dodged her and she fell to the ground.

"Tsk, Tsk, Tsk. Temper, Temper, child. I wouldn't dream of fighting you." The evil Vladat answered.

"WHY NOT!?" She growled as she bared her fangs.

"Because I don't want to lower myself to such barbaric methods." He answered.

"You'll never get away with this!" She shouted.

"Oh I'll doubt that. Isn't that right, Ben?" He answered to Ben who nodded due to the Corruptura controlling him.

Melody ran to him but Lord Transyl blocked her way. "Ah, ah, ah! Don't want your groom to get hurt now, do you?" He taunted as he threatened her to hurt Ben.

"Don't you dare hurt him, YOU MONSTER!" She yelled.

"Now why would I hurt him when the real prize is you?" Melody gasped as he said that.

"Ever since you were born, I always wanted you to grow up so that you will be my queen, but that foolish Prince Alexander was in my way for both my throne and queen and ran away with you. When I heard you were getting married right here, my plan was to capture your groom and let Vilgax destroy my enemies while you surrender and marry me instead." Lord Transyl cackled as Melody watched in horror. "He may not be weak, but he is under my total control now!"

Everyone gasped as they watched. "Ben! NO!" His friends cried out to him.

"Soon I will rule this planet once again and feed on my subjects for all eternity!" The vladat gloated.

"No! You won't!" Lord Shade answered coldly. "You may have made it impossible for Ben Tennyson to perform his duties, but now that you have so foolishly revealed yourself, I CAN PROTECT MY SUBJECTS FROM YOU!"

Shade and Transyl charged against each other and fought, but Transyl fought unfairly and used Whampire as a shield, stopping Shade from attacking his nephew. Transyl used this chance to slash Shade's back and defeated him. Everybody gasped as the good king fell injured from battle.

"UNCLE!" Whampire cried out as he came to him.

"You ruled this place long enough and now it's time for its true king to return to the throne!" Lord Transyl cackled.

"The throne belongs to Melody! LONG LIVE PRINCESS MELODY!" Snare-Oh cried out as all the inhabitants joined in.

"LONG LIVE PRINCESS MELODY!"

Lord Transyl growled. "SILENCE!" He then grabbed Ben and called out to Melody. "If you ever want to see your groom again, you will surrender and be my queen! If not, then you'll have the honor of seeing both your home and your love perish before your eyes. You'll have until midnight to decide!"

Melody stared in shock as the evil Vladat flew towards the castle with Ben in his grasp.

It was settled. Anur Transyl would go to war with Vilgax to defend itself. Melody had a really bad feeling about this. She knew something bad was about to erupt in this hole of disasters.

Uh-Oh! Looks like trouble. What will happen next?

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