Chapter 28: Sleepwalkers R Us.
Well, today had my weirdest bad guy yet. I still can't believe it myself. A hypnotist dude. It had all started after we left Mega-Mall-Opolis.
Gwen: "I love that place! We should spend the whole summer there!"
Kyle: "And cut off my superhero duties? I don't think so."
Gwen: "I was being sarcastic, Kyle."
Kyle: "Oh. Darn."
Ben: "Well, I had a fun time."
Kyle: "I did too. This mall had everything! Roller coasters, food courts, clothing stores…, and a video game store!!! YES!!"
Voice: "Stop in the name of the law!"
Max: "And their own police force."
Kyle:"Alright! Some action! Going…" I glowed green again.
Starfire: "Starfire!"
Gwen: "Oh come on!"
Kyle: "This is one of my favorites, though…"
Gwen: "I'll be Lucky Girl in a sec. Hold on." She ran into the RV, and got out in the suit.
Gwen: "Let's go!" I grabbed her, and I flew above the cops chasing down the burglars. When we found the burglars, though, they were elderly people.
Starfire: "Old people? What?"
Gwen: "It doesn't matter who they are! Let's kick their butts!"
Starfire: "Got it!" We charged towards them, and we planned to attack them, but they managed to actually use spin kicks on us, sending us crashing into cars.
Gwen: What are they?"
Starfire: "Dead meat!" My eyes and hands glowed with starbolt energy, and I shot eye beams at them. They dodged each shot. I then tossed my hand beams at them, but, they dodged those as well. Gwen walked out of her wreckage, then charged towards the old woman, and tried to flying side kick her, but the woman side stepped, grabbed her leg, then threw her. I flew over immediately, and grabbed her.
Starfire: "These old people are really good at Karate for some reason."
Gwen: "Oh really?" She got into a combat ready pose, and I did so, too. They charged towards us. I flew towards the guy, and tried to punch him, but he caught my punch, and threw me to the ground. I was quickly able to get up, and right as I tried to hurl him off, he arm-barred me to the ground. I got myself back on to my feet, then threw him off of my arm, but he bounced off the wall, and landed a kick right into my face. I crashed into a car.
Starfire: "You are a STRONG human! I'm amazed…" I threw some starbolt balls at him, but he dodged each one, and I shot more eye beams at him. He dodged each shot. Gwen wasn't doing much better than I was. She tried to punch the old woman, but was quickly outwitted, and tripped, then thrown right into me.
Starfire: "That's it! Time for something bigger than Starfire!"
Gwen: "No!" I glowed, then was Humongousaur.
Humongousaur: "Time to take you down!' I charged at them, and tried to slam them with my hands, but they flipped over them. I then tried to slam one with my tail, but he dodged it.
Humongousaur: "Why are these guys acting so athletic when they're clearly old?"
Gwen: "I don't know."
Humongousaur: "Then maybe we can out man them." I went Echo Echo.
Gwen: "No Kyle! You could destroy the whole parking garage!" I multiplied into 10 of me, and we charged at the old people. They jumped over us. Echo 2 screamed at them, but it had missed them, and the structure was coming down a bit.
Echo 1: "Got to get back together!" We did that, and I became Jetray.
Jetray: "Then I'll be the speed demon!" I charged towards the guy, and as soon as he tried to step to the side, I turned, and tackled him, then blasted him off of me. I charged for the woman next, and Gwen came from behind her. She flipped, and Gwen and I ended up tackling each other. They escaped.
Jetray: "Get back… here…" The mall cops had caught us, and we escaped from them.
Cop:"Get back here!" The RV pulled up to the side, and I flew into it. The RV then slowed to a stop. The cops walked in, and I was normal, while Gwen didn't have her costume on.
Cops: "Did you see a giant red manta ray?"
Max: "Nope. I didn't"
Kyle: "Got me."
Ben: "Nope."
Cop: "Okay… I could've sworn… um, never mind." They left.
Kyle: "That was a close one."
Gwen: "No kidding, considering it takes me longer to change than you."
Kyle: "Not my fault."
Gwen: "I know this!"
Max: "Cut it out. We'll try to find them later. Let's get some sleep for now."
Kyle: "Sounds like a good idea… *Yawn*!" We went to sleep for the night. The next day, we had gone back into the mall, and were walking around again to see what was in it that Gwen had wanted to check out.
Kyle: "What does this guy do again?
Gwen: "He's supposed to be Sublimino, the master hypnotist."
Kyle: "There is just no way hypnotism works."
Ben: "Yeah. It only works on people with half a brain cell."
Gwen: "We'll see alright…" We had found seats, then when the lights dimmed, Sublimino came out of the smoke coughing. He looked at us after he had stopped.
Sublimino: "Who wants to join me on a visit to the realm known as, the mind?" Gwen raised up my hand.
Gwen: "Right here!"
Kyle: "Whoa, what?"
Gwen: "Well, you've been thinking only with your muscles recently, so let's see how this works on you."
Kyle: "And I'm telling you, nothing's going to happen." The lights had come back on, and I was on the stage with two other old people.
Sublimino: "Focus only on the watch moving side to side. You will soon be going into a deep sleep…" All three of us concentrated, and I shrugged, because nothing was happening. He pulled out another watch, then hit a button…
Gwen's P.O.V.
I put him up there because, well, Ben said it only works on people with half a brain cell, and while I do know Kyle can be smart sometimes, lately, all he's been thinking with is his muscles, as in Humongousaur, Starfire, Swampfire, you know. So, I wanted to see if this would work exactly. Kyle had just fallen asleep, and He was actually snoring. I was laughing my head off!
Ben: "Wow Gwen, Kyle does have only half a brain cell!"
Gwen: "Or like I said, His strength has been doing the thinking for him!"
Ben: "Either way, it worked! I'm amazed!"
Grandpa: "Hey, kids."
Gwen: "Grandpa, look at this. HAHAHAHA!!!" I had been recording it also. It was so awesome to watch!
Sublimino: "Now… You are all newborn babies!" He and the other two old people started crying on the spot.
Ben: "Whoa-ho! Hahahahahahaha!"
Gwen: "Sweet! This will be so awesome to show to my mom." They were now crawling around, and Kyle was sucking on his thumb… oh GOD!
Sublimino: "You will be chickens in a barnyard!" Kyle was now hopping around and clucking like a chicken like the other two old people.
Gwen: "Oh my God. This will be SO weird after the whole trance is done."
Grandpa: "No kidding, but it is quite a show!"
Sublimino: "You, will be a cat!" The old man got on the ground, and started walking around.
Sublimino: "And you will be, a ballerina!" As he said, the old lady started twirling like one.
Sublimino: "And you, my young friend, will be an alien!' I saw him grab the watch.
Grandpa: "Jokes over Gwen!"
Gwen: "Got it!" I jumped over to him, and tackled him to the ground right as he transformed.
Sublimino: "Hey! You're interrupting my show!"
Gwen: "Had to go to the little alien's room?"
Sublimino: "Whatever." He went back behind the curtain, and I pulled him up, as Grey Matter.
Gwen: "Grey Matter? How?"
Grey Matter: "Take me to your leader." I then smiled. I had him do all kinds of things for me, like feed me grapes.
Grey Matter: "More grapes, master?"
Gwen: "Of course." He dropped it down my mouth.
Gwen: "Oh, so much fun." He was also blow drying my hair.
Grey Matter: "What else do you request, master?"
Gwen: "Comb my hair."
Grey Matter: "As you wish, master." I was lying back, and he was combing my hair.
Gwen: "Ow! Not so hard!"
Grey Matter: "Sorry, master." He resumed with combing, then the watch glowed green, and Kyle fell to the floor.
Kyle: "What just happened?"
Gwen: "I'll show you…"
Back to Kyle's P.O.V….
From what I noticed here, the hypnotism act worked, and I, as Grey Matter, was doing slave labor for Gwen until I changed back, possibly because the Omnitrix snapped out of the trance.
Kyle: "What? I did SLAVE labor?"
Gwen: "All as Grey Matter, too, Kyle. Nice work here."
Ben: "Dang, it was a riot! HAHA!"
Kyle: "Gimme that camera!" I tackled Gwen to the ground, then managed to swipe the camera from her, until it went flying out of my grip, and Max caught it.
Max: "That's enough, kids. It's time to turn in for the night anyway. See you in the morning."
Kyle: "Got it." I looked at the watch's roster, and found it really did unlock Grey Matter. This Sublimino guy unlocked him, so, who else could he bring back out? I was worried a bit. The next day wasn't too inviting on the information we got, either. I had woken up feeling groggy.
Max: "What's wrong, Kyle?"
Kyle: "I don't know. I guess I didn't go to sleep early enough." We then saw the roller coaster got busted.
Ben: "Who did that?"
Cop: "We don't know. But the culprit left one thing behind." He held up a diamond shard, from Diamondhead!
Kyle: "Whoa!"
Max: "We'll be on the lookout." They took me somewhere private.
Gwen: "You stole one of the roller coaster motors last night? I can't believe you!"
Kyle: "Wait a second! I don't even have Diamondhead!" Ben grabbed the Omnitrix, and scrolled through, then saw Diamondhead's silhouette on it.
Ben: "Diamondhead!"
Kyle: "Wait wait wait, whoa!" I took it back, then saw Diamondhead's shadow.
Kyle: "Wow. Wait a second. That Sublimino guy unlocked Grey Matter, so he hypnotized me again, and I became Diamondhead for this thing."
Gwen: "How do we know you didn't hack it?"
Kyle: "I didn't even touch it yesterday! Besides the time I got hypnotized! Sublimino has some sort of power over the watch now!"
Max: "Okay, but we need to watch you at all times of the day to make sure nothing bad happens that you cause."
Kyle; "Oh man…" they watched me the whole rest of the time in the mall, and nothing happened that made me do something bad. I went back to sleep for the night.
Gwen's P.O.V.
At exactly midnight, is when I found out about Kyle's problem. He woke up, then walked towards the door. At first, I thought something was up.
Gwen: "Kyle, what's wrong? It's midnight…" I saw him turn on the Omnitrix, and all of a sudden, Upgrade's silhouette appeared in it. He slapped it down, and became Upgrade.
Gwen: "Kyle, whoa, wait a sec!" He oozed through the door. I immediately changed into my Lucky Girl Suit, and went after him.
Gwen: "Kyle, stop! I think I can help you here!" He was still running from me, although I didn't know for what. He started climbing up the clock tower, where some security guards got into a helicopter, and started attacking him.
Gwen: "No!" I climbed to the top of the tower, as well, and saw he was a melted pile of ooze. A few seconds later, he rematerialized back into normal height, and jumped towards the helicopter, and merged with it, shooting lasers at the people below. I gasped at the sight of this, then watched him separate from the tower, and merge with the clock on it. He turned it into a helicopter of some sort, and took off with it. I jumped down, and started chasing after Kyle.
Gwen: "Maybe Kyle was right about Sublimino controlling the watch, then… *gasp*" I sped up to try and catch him. He stopped in the back behind a garage, then separated from the clock, in front of Sublimino.
Sublimino: "Hey! Where's the walking chandelier? Oh who cares, as long as you do what I say. Now get out of here before someone sees you."
Gwen: "You're out of luck on that one, freak!" I jumped up, and kicked Sublimino right in the face.
Sublimino; "Destroy her!" Kyle turned to me, then shot out an eye beam. Thank goodness I managed to dodge it in time, and I then flipped over him, but he slapped me right to the ground by stretching his arm out. He then tossed me into the building.
Gwen:" Okay. That is it!" I tried to land a punch on Kyle, but he oozed right under me, then shot an uppercut right yup after I got right over him, then grabbed me again, and slammed me right into the concrete road.
Gwen: "Ugh… Upgrade's stronger than I thought…" he walkied right over me, then transformed his hand into a mace with glowing green spikes.
Gwen: "Kyle! You wouldn't do that, would you?"
Sublimino: "Yes! That's it! Finish her!" Right before he slammed it down, he glowed green, and suck right down into my lap, and started snoring.
Sublimino: "Hey, what?"
Gwen: "I'm outta here!" I grabbed him, and ran back over to the Rust Bucket. This was going to be something to explain to Ben and Grandpa in the morning.
Kyle's P.O.V.
I woke up today, feeling more tired than the last time. I couldn't even seriously attempt to stay up without drooping down.
Max: "Kyle, are you sure you don't need to stay in the RV tonight?"
Kyle: "I'm sure. I'm just groggy is all."
Gwen: "Nope. That wasn't all there was to it. You transformed into Upgrade, gave a giant tower clock to Sublimino, and nearly killed me." I woke up.
Kyle: "Whoa whoa whoa! I nearly killed you on my sleep walking trip this time!?"
Gwen: "Yep. And this time…" She turned on the watch, and showed me the proof that I had Upgrade again.
Kyle: "No way…"
Gwen: "Yes way, Kyle. I'm surprised myself."
Ben: "So, these trips aren't Kyle's fault. They're all Sublimino's!"
Max: "We're gonna need to be on very high alert this time. Very high. We have to prevent you from going to sleep so Sublimino won't take control of you again."
Kyle; "Oh man…" Later, Ben, Gwen, and Max were all trying different ways to keep me awake. Ben dropped a bucket of ice down my shirt, Max had scared me with a honker thing, Gwen closed my nostrils… Ugh. They did everything they could think up of. This went on for the whole rest of the day, until it was nearing midnight. I went to sleep, hearing Gwen say, "Grandpa, it's your turn…"
Gwen's P.O.V.
I closed my eyes, then heard a noise, to which again, I heard footsteps. Kyle got up from the table.
Gwen: "Kyle! No!" He turned the Omnitrix on, and became Heatblast.
Gwen: "Grandpa! Ben!" They woke up just in time to see Kyle blast out of the RV.
Grandpa: "No! We have to go after him!" Grandpa started up the RV, and went after Heatblast. We stopped at a metal production factory, and saw Kyle, along with other people, stealing some of the metal chords in the place. I had also gotten in to my Lucky Girl suit on the way there.
Ben: "Wow. This is what Kyle is like."
Grandpa: "We have to stop him, but how?"
Gwen: "I can't make contact with him when he's Heatblast. He'd burn me up."
Ben: "And that wouldn't be so bad for ME, now would it?"
Grandpa: "Ben…"
Ben: "What?"
Gwen: "Stand back." I picked up a big box.
Grandpa: "What are you intending to do with that?"
Gwen: "What's it look like? RAAHHHH!" I threw the box, and it landed right in Heatblast's face, He burned the box off of him, then shot a flamethrower at me. I flipped over it.
Ben: "You're gonna get us scorched too, Gwen!"
Grandpa: "Be careful!"
Gwen: "Sorry. I just thought Ben would like to be nearly scorched up."
Ben: "Hey!"
Grandpa: "Gwen, you try to stop Kyle and the people. We'll try to find out what's going on."
Gwen: "Got it!" I rushed in to stop them, and I ended up beating them down to get to Kyle. He shot a fireball at me, and had missed. I jumped over him, then pulled out a support beam from the place.
Gwen: "WHOA! I'm strong! HAHA!" I ran for him, and smacked him with the support beam. He went flying,
Gwen: "Yes! This Keystone is awesome!"
Cop: "Freeze!"
Gwen: "Oh darn it…" The cops were hiding behind some boxes, preparing to shoot, and the other people had just stopped taking things in to a truck, then before Heatblast set off an explosion with some propane gas, I got Ben and Grandpa out of the place.
Gwen: "Well, another day gone without sleep. It's official. I need a break from the hero biz."
Max: "We'd better head back to the RV and get some shut eye for later." We took Grandpa's decision. Kyle was later sleeping in front of the RV door next morning.
Kyle's P.O.V.
Apparently, I went on another stealing spree, but with Heatblast this time. It was also hard to try and keep awake.
Max: "Kyle, you really need to…" he turned around, and saw me sleeping on a nearby bench. He woke me up.
Kyle: "Mom, I don't wanna go to school…"
Gwen: "I got it. Since you touch the Omnitrix while transform in your hypnotized state, here's an idea." She tied handcuffs around my hands.
Kyle: "And this'll help how?"
Gwen: "It will. Trust me." Just after that, the TV screens showed Sublimino's face.
Sublimino: "Hello, crowd. I will take you on a journey to the mind. No volunteers are needed. You all will participate." A giant hypno watch fell from the ceiling, and shot out a wave, hypnotizing everyone, except me, because I had hopped behind a pole.
Sublimino: "Good. Now, bring me the riches of this mall!" Everyone headed into all the different stores, and started stealing things.
Kyle: "That's it! Time for some alien action!" I turned into Swampfire, and made sure the cuffs were broken off of my hands. Then, I went Spidermonkey, and launched myself up on a web.
Sublimino: "You! Monkey guy! Obey me!"
Spidermonkey: "I don't take orders from little old men!"
Sublimino: "Little!? Destroy this pest!" A car was driving right at me, and I saw that it was Gwen driving with Max in the passenger seat.
Spidermonkey: "Uh oh." It tackled me, and I was crushed through the window in front of the next store. It charged at me again, but I became Shellhead, (which was as Ken described, a giant turtle) pulled my body parts in my shell, and rolled right into the car, destroying the engine. I then hopped over the car, and landed on my feet.
Shellhead: "How come Gwen gets to drive?" I then became Jetray, and went back on the move.
Jetray: There's only one place Sublimino would be. The main security room, I'd bet." As soon as I landed, some people came at me with baseball bats.
Jetray: "What the…?" I went Big Chill, and went right under them, freezing the floor below them so they would slip.
Big Chill: "It's going to take more than that, Sublimino." I then froze the door that said "Executive's office". Then went Swampfire, and punched it down.
Swampfire: "I'm coming for you, Sublimino. It's time to give it up!"
Sublimino: "So, you found me. If I had known you could switch between your forms like that, I would have ordered you to."
Swampfire:"Fat chance. You're coming with me."
Sublimino: "I don't think so. Guards!" Some old people with chain saws came in.
Swampfire: "Chainsaws? That all you got?" I sent some gas out at them, which called up some vines from the ground, and they wrapped around them, holding the old people in.
Sublimino: "Uh oh…"
Swampfire: "Nowhere left for you to run, old man!" Sublimino ran out of the room, and was running towards an exit.
Swampfire; "Oh well." I went Toepick, who was a living snot-pile, and threw some toe jam down right in front of him.
Sublimino: "Ew!"
Toepick: "And that's how the hypnotist is grossed to bits! Give me that watch!"
Sublimino: "Never!" I went Spidermonkey, and shot a web at him to attempt and snatch the watch. He nearly fell off, and I had grabbed him, then reeled him in, but immediately grabbed his watch. I flipped over to the giant watch, and yelled into it, "Stop! You're all free now!" Everyone stopped what they were doing, and started to put stuff back.
Spidermonkey: "As for you…" I jumped back, then went Diamondhead.
Sublimino: "I was right! You WERE those aliens that helped me!"
Diamondhead: "Darn straight. Now, I'm going to put you back behind bars." Later, some cops had put him in jail, and I was holding his watch. We had gone back into the RV.
Kyle: "Sweet. A new souvenir. Let's see if this baby actually works." I tested it out on Gwen.
Gwen: "I am under your command, master."
Kyle: "Sweet! Give me some juice here! I'm thirsty!"
Gwen: "As you command, oh master." She grabbed the Kool-Aid from out of the fridge, and walked over, then poured it on my head.
Kyle: "Hey!"
Gwen: Anything else, Master? HAHAHAHA!!"
Kyle: "No. this thing don't work."
The End.
