Chapter 34: THRILLER! Thriller Night…

Author's note: If you don't get the reference, I feel a little sorry for you.

Well, let's just say, chores are a drag, if you know what I'm getting at here. Max came out just angry at all three of us.

Max: "I ran out of water for the shower, AGAIN! Ben, it's your job to keep the water tank full."

Ben: "I will, just later."

Gwen: "Like how you're GOING to make your bed, and take out the trash?"

Max; "You're one to talk. Those dishes aren't going to wash themselves, Gwen."

Kyle: "Ooh! Ooh! OWNED, Gwen! You got OWNED!"

Max: "And you, Kyle! Is it too much to ask to keep the couch clean?" He pointed to the couch, and it was covered in all kinds of garbage.

Ben: "OWNED!"

Kyle: "Touché."

Max: "Why don't you three take a little responsibility, and clean up after your own messes?"

Kyle: "Okay 1. I'm an alien superhero. 2. That's ALL I'm required to do around here, and 3. You're not the boss of me. I can clean the couch whenever I darn well please, Max!" He kicked me out of the RV.

Max: "I expect you to sit out there until you come up with a good apology." He slammed the door.

Kyle: "D***."

Gwen: "And it's summer vacation, Grandpa."

Ben: "Yeah. If we wanted to do chores, we'd just stay home, ya know?"

Max: "Really?"

Ben: "Yeah. Really." He joined me outside.

Kyle: "What'd you say?"

Ben: "If we wanted to do chores, we'd just stay home." I walked away from him.

Ben: "WHAT?!"

Kyle: "NEED I REMIND YOU THAT IF YOU NEVER CAME OUT TO THAT PARK, YOU NEVER WOULD HAVE MET ME, OR EXPERIENCED THE AWESOMENESS THAT IS THE OMNITRIX?!!" I had a little bit of tears in my eyes.

Ben: "Oh. Yeah…" I kept walking away, ignoring Ben.

Ben: "Come on! Stop walking away!"

Kyle: "No."

Max: "Kids, come back. I know where we're going now."

Kyle; "Cool!"

Max; "And…"

Kyle: "As long as I'm under your roof, I have to obey your rules, right?" I grinned with sad eyebrows.

Max: "Good enough. Come on."

Kyle: "Yay!!" I skipped in.

Ben: "So girly."

Kyle: "AH, SHADDAP!" The RV zoomed off.

Later…

Kyle: "A farm was our next destination?"

Max: "You kids need to learn the values of hard work."

Ben: "Just because we forgot to do our chores?"

Gwen: "Apparently so, boys."

Kyle and Ben: "Awwww man!"

Kyle: "JINX!"

Ben: "Mmmm…"

Max; "Ben, Kyle, Gwen, this is for your own good."

Ben: "Hah!"

Kyle: "AW SHADDAP!"

Max: "Kyle…"

Kyle; "I just like saying that that way."

Farm woman: "I see you four made it on time! I'm Joan Maplewood, and here's my son, Todd."

Todd; "Hi."

Ben and Gwen: "Hi…"

Kyle: "Hey."

Joan: "I take it you're Max Tennyson, then."

Max: "Yes. Exactly."

Joan: "Well, that's out of the way, now it's time for the first job to be done."

Kyle: "Already?! No settling in?"

Joan: "Not yet." She pointed to a truck, loaded with bags.

Kyle; "Oh God no. This'll take forever!"

Max: "Not if we start now. Come on." We walked over, and when we were thrown bags, I almost immediately toppled over, while Ben and Gwen fell over instantly.

Kyle: "Time for a little…"

Max: "No,Kyle. It's a job for you. And only you, if you know what I mean."

Kyle: "Yeah. Of course, Max. Oops…" he smiled, and continued to walk off. It took at least an hour to fully unload the bags.

Todd: "That's out of the way now."

Ben: "Never again! Now what?"

Todd: "You have to milk the cows today."

Ben: "Aren't there machines for this?"

Todd: "Mom doesn't believe in them. Says they scare the cows. Any of you know how to milk?"

Gwen; "Isn't there something else?"

Todd; "Well, the manure has to be shoveled…"

Ben, Gwen and Kyle: "Milking!"

Todd: "Good for you then. Mom'll be back to check on you three later. See ya." He left. I immediately cracked an evil grin.

Gwen; "What's with that look?"

Kyle: "I can milk easily. Hold on."

Gwen: "You KNOW how to milk a cow?"

Kyle; "Yeah. It's easy. Just pull up a stool, and get a bucket under a cow, then squeeze their udders. GIMME THAT MILK, BESSIE!" I squeezed them, and I got milk to come out quickly.

Ben: "See ya later, then. You seem to got this covered."

Kyle: "Oh no you don't. You two are going to milk these other cows with me."

Gwen: "And if we don't?" I grabbed the Omnitirx, then flipped up the faceplate.

Ben: "Uh, got the message. Come on, Gwen."

Gwen: "Who'll you turn into? Starfire? Fourarms? Upchuck?"

Kyle: "Nope. Toepick."

Gwen; "I'll stay, too."

Kyle: "Thought so." We all started to milk the cows together, but Ben kept groaning, and Gwen just sighed every once in a while.

Kyle: "Okay guys, what's wrong?"

Gwen: "This is boring."

Ben: "I haven't played ANY Sumo Slammer games today! I need one now!"

Kyle: "I'll make this go by faster then. Anything to shut you two up." I glowed, and was Fourarms.

Fourarms: "How's this?"

Ben: "But, Grandpa's gonna yell at us again if we get caught."

Fourarms: "IF he catches us." I started grabbing the cows and milking them while stumbling around. Lots of mooing happened.

Fourarms: "Well, if I could stay still, we wouldn't have this problem, would we?" Gwen and Ben were resting in the hay, while Ben played his Sumo Slammer game.

Gwen: "This is kinda fun to watch, Ben."

Ben: "Can't talk. Smashing Kenko."

Gwen: "Whatever." The door opened, and I seemed to disappear.

Joan: "Just making sure you three weren't screwing up too much. Heard lots of noise. Where's Kyle?"

Ben: "Finishing up the last cow."

Joan: "Well, when you're done, go to Todd. He'll update you with other chores for the day." She closed the door, and I came out of a pile of hay.

Gwen: "That was SO close, Kyle."

Fourarms: "Gotta be more careful." I finished up the cows by using all four arms to squeeze an udder, instead of two cows at a time. Too careless and noisy.

Todd: "Your job now, is to slop the hogs."

Kyle: "What?"

Todd; "Feed the pigs their slop."

Kyle: "Oh. Gotcha that time. Thanks." He left.

Kyle: "Okay. Now, I'll really slop the hogs. Time for some Goop action." I glowed, but…

Gwen: "You're not Goop."

Ben: "Wildvine?"

Wildvine: "Wait a second. How am I… oh. Not gurgly at all. Okay. The Omnitrix gave me a freebie. Nice of it." I stretched out my arms, cut the food bags open, and started putting all of the pig's food in their troughs.

Wildvine: "That was extremely quick." I reverted to normal.

Ben: "Let's see what's next." We were now taken to a plowing field.

Todd: "How'd you slop the hogs so fast?"

Kyle: "Trade secret. Anyway, now what?"

Todd; "Try to get the horse to plow the field here. Easy, right?" he continued off again.

Kyle: "Hmm… Benwolf." I glowed green, then the light cleared to reveal…

Ben: "Wildmutt?"

Wildmutt: "Roar? ROARAR!" I roared to the horse, scaring it off, and I grabbed the plow, then started making lines in the ground, extremely fast.

Gwen: "The watch is being unusually generous today."

Ben: "Whatever. As long as it gets the chores done quick." I got the plowing done, then we went to Todd.

Todd: "Okay. Even plowing the whole field should take a heck of a lot longer than that. What's your secret?"

Kyle: "None."

Gwen: "We're just lucky, I guess."

Ben: "Extremely lucky."

Todd: "Well, anyway, how about gathering up the chicken eggs?"

Ben: "We'll do it."

Kyle: "See ya in a second." He continued walking off to do his jobs.

Kyle: "Jetray. Let's go!" I glowed, then…

Gwen: "XLR8? Seriously?" I looked at myself from head to toe.

XLR8: "Oh my GOD! XLR8! I missed you one of the most of all!" I hugged myself.

Ben: "That looks weird."

XLR8: "I'll just get this job done so we can call it a day that much quicker." I zoomed into the hen house, and literally 2 seconds later, I had every single egg in my grasp, and I set them all up where they went. I went normal again.

Todd: "Wow. Must've taken all three of you at once to do that."

Kyle: "Yep. Anything else?"

Todd: "One more job I can think of. Follow me." Ben and Gwen jumped up and down, but I just said, "Cool." And followed him.

Todd: "Make holes to stick these fence posts in. Easy, right?"

Kyle: "Most certainly, Todd. We'll get it done."

Todd: "I'll go and see if Mr. Tennyson needs help now." He went off in a different direction.

Kyle: "Okay. Who am I gonna get now?"

Ben: "Bio-Rex!"

Gwen: "Kyoxys? Frostbite?"

Kyle: "We shall soon see." I glowed, and became Diamondhead.

Ben: "Oh man."

Gwen: "All that anticipation for nothing."

Diamondhead: "I can still get this done, though. Just sit back and relax, okay?"

Gwen: "On it." They did that, and I went to digging tiny holes for the fence posts. After that, every chore had been finished, and we were at a dinner table.

Kyle: "Mm! Nice cooking Ms. Maplewood."

Joan: "Thank you."

Kyle: "Your welcome."

Ben: "Some actual grub for a change!"

Gwen: "And no real grubs!"

Kyle: "But the grubs are the bada**ness to the mix."

Joan: "Not at the table…"

Max; "He talks like that all the time. We don't mind one bit."

Joan: "Just not while you're under MY roof, got it?"

Kyle: "Okay."

Todd: "Want to hear a cool story?"

Kyle: "I'm listening."

Joan: "No Todd. Not another one of your tall tales."

Todd: "Sorry, Mom."

Kyle; "No, no, it's okay. I'll listen if no one else will."

Todd: "Later."

Dinner was quiet after that, and we went to the upstairs bedrooms.

Kyle: "Smells like egg in here."

Todd: "Our mom uses this room as an extra chicken coop."

Kyle: "Okay… Did NOT need to know that."

Gwen: "We might as well."

Max: "Ah, good farm air. Don't you just love it?"

Ben: "Not for this late at night."

Todd: "Now that Mom's gone…" He gestured for us to follow him, and we went downstairs.

Kyle: "Okay. What is it?"

Todd: "I snuck out one night, and out of nowhere, in a flash of purple lightning, comes a genuine Egyptian Mummy! It scared me off, and did something to some cows. It wasn't pretty!"

Kyle; "Um… okay. Strange."

Todd: "Yeah. Thought you'd say that. Good night." We went to bed for the night, but after I was sure everyone was asleep; I knocked near the top bunk.

Gwen: "They're asleep?"

Kyle: "Yeah. Let's go." We headed out through the window, quietly with Goop, and I went XLR8 to go off into the next yard over.

XLR8: "Here's where we split up." Gwen materialized her Lucky Girl costume on.

Gwen; "Okay."

XLR8: "I'll take this way, and you go that way." I pointed over to a silo.

Gwen: "Got it. Be back in a flash." She ran off over there.

XLR8: "That's my line…" I zoomed off more into the person's yard, and found two purple alien cows.

XLR8: "Now is not the time for alien beef to have a beef with ME!" They charged towards me, then I zoomed off to the side, and kicked one in the face, then tail-whipped the other. They 'mooed' at me, and charged again. This time, I slipped under them, then grabbed the barbed wire fence, and wrapped it around both of them, tying them together.

XLR8: "Ole!" I zoomed towards Gwen's direction, seeing her behind the silo.

Gwen: "Ssh! You'll blow my cover!" She grabbed my tail, and pulled me in.

Gwen: "This thing really IS a mummy, and it's digging for something."

XLR8: "What?"

Gwen: "I don't know. That's what I'm still trying to figure out, here."

XLR8: "Why would a mummy dig back IN to the ground? It makes no logical sense."

Gwen: "I feel that way, too."

XLR8: "Let's get the jump on 'im, if you know what I mean."

Gwen; "Sure do." We dived out from behind the silo, and the mummy reacted extremely quickly, jumping off to one side, then it wrapped around my tail with its bandages, and slammed me into the silo. Gwen tried to kick it, but it shaped itself so the kick went right through it.

Gwen: "It can reshape its body?" I went Swampfire, and burned the bandages around me. The mummy immediately released me, then swung its arm through the air, putting out the fire.

Swampfire: "This thing hates fire. Of course!" I hurled a fireball at it, but it just dodged my attack again.

Gwen: "It can reshape its body to dodge any attack that comes at it. I can't do anything to it physically!"

Swampfire: "How about some magic, then?"

Gwen: "I'm still perfecting one, but I don't know if it'll work for this kind of bad guy."

Swampfire: "Then I'll have to do something about it." I went Cannonbolt, and rolled out at it, and it jumped to dodge, then I jumped off the silo, and tackled it in the back, then transformed to Starfire, and shot it into the ground with a starbolt wave. Gwen punched it in the face, then kicked it aside.

Gwen: "It's only solid area is its face. If we can hit it there, we can do much more damage to it.

Starfire: "So I've noticed." I went Diamondhead, and shot diamond shards at it. It dodged each shot with little trouble, but it didn't notice Gwen come at it with an uppercut.

Diamondhead: "I can give it a distraction, then you can hit it."

Gwen: "Or the other way around." She charged to punch it, but it dodged Gwen's attack, then got hit by a punch from me to its face, and it slid against the ground. I slammed the ground, calling up a diamond prison, but it slipped through, then shot out its fist, and punched me across the face. I then went Humongousaur, and jumped at it to punch it, but it moved off to the side slightly, straight into me transforming into Fourarms, giving it a gut shot, and I hurled it over to Gwen, making her kick it upwards. I went Heatblast, and shot up a flamethrower, but it shaped itself so the fire went through it.

Heatblast: "This thing is seriously getting annoying."

Gwen: "It's going to catch on eventually."

Heatblast; "I know. We need another plan." The mummy got up, then sent out its bandages. I shot a fire ball at each one, burning it up. It whipped up a tornado, sending it at us, and we took it head on. Turns out, it extinguished the fire on its fingers.

Heatblast: "It can just blow fire out, so we can't burn it up."

Gwen: "Obviously." I went XLR8, ran into the barn nearby, and threw out some gardening tools at it. It made them miss entirely, but Gwen managed to land a blow to its face.

XLR8: "We have to get it while it's reshaping itself."

Gwen: "That helps." The mummy then grabbed the silo, and ripped apart the bottom. It was about to fall on Gwen, so I went Humongousaur, and caught it.

Gwen: "Kyle! That was close!"

Humongousaur: "No worries… AGH!" I grew to 30 feet tall, then threw it off to the side.

Humongousaur: "Where's the mummy?"

Gwen: "It's gone. Whatever it was digging for is gone, too." I went Jetray.

Jetray: "Come on, Gwen." We flew back into the bed, and went to sleep, but…

Joan: "Rise and SHINE!"

Kyle: "WHOA!"

Max: "AH! Isn't it good to wake up early?" Gwena dn I looked at each other, then fell asleep immediately. Nothing else was going on but a lot of chores, like last time, but I decided to give the watch a rest for now.

Max: "Well, now I'm finished, How about you three?"

Ben: "We JUST got done."

Kyle: "Um, Max?"

Max: "What?"

Kyle: "Gwen and I want you to come with us tonight. We got a lead on that alien mummy Todd told us about."

Max: "It's real?"

Kyle: "Yeah."

Max: "I'll need to get my gear. We'll go after dinner tonight. All four of us."

Ben: "Mummy hunt!"

Max: "Okay…"

Later… Gwen and I took Max to see the alien cows.

Kyle: "I tried to get the Omnitrix to scan them, too. It didn't get their DNA at all."

Max: "That has a simple explanation. These aren't alien cows. They're mutated Earth cows."

Ben: "Seriously? A mummy wants to mutate cows?"

Max: "This was caused by corrodium."

Kyle: "Corrodium?"

Max: "A dangerous element, not commonly found on Earth. If you touch it, you mutate."

Kyle: "More like get near it."

Max: "This mummy obviously wants corrodium, but for what real purpose?"

Kyle: "To mutate things, right?"

Max: "A possibility. Corrodium is usually used for other means. We're going out tonight."

Gwen: "Let's take that mummy down. Once and for all!"

Max: "If it wants corrodium, it will go anywhere it can find any." We got into the RV, and followed Max's scanner.

Max: "There's corrodium inside this building."

Ben: "Digby Dairy? They make my favorite ice cream!"

Kyle: "We have to get in before that mummy does, and take the corrodium out."

Ben: "We'll have to sneak past that guard."

Kyle: "Leave it to me." I went Big Chill, and grabbed Ben and Gwen, then they grabbed Max, and I turned us invisible, so we walked right by the guard, and we got inside, searching the grounds. I changed back after I got us through past the guard. We reached the ice cream producing room, where Max's scanner started beeping.

Max: "There are trace levels of corrodium here. Down there." He pointed to a level below the balcony.

Kyle: "I'll get it out before that mummy does!" I glowed green, then became…

Kyle: "RATH!!!!" I jumped down, and punched the ground, creating a shockwave through the floor, and I kept punching the floor until it gave way to reveal the corrodium.

Rath: "There. Now, we get it out."

Gwen: "Good going, Tony. You did the mummy's work for it!"

Rath: "Whatever, Gwendolyn Tennyson!" The lights started flickering on and off, showing the mummy slowly creep in towards us.

Ben: "Oh no!"

Max: "Ben, Gwen, quick!" they both ran over with him, and he gave them each disks, then placed it on his chest, making a suit, which Ben and Gwen did.

Ben: "What is this exactly?"

Max: "A Hazmat suit. Protects us from the corrodium's radiation."

Rath; "Hey! What about me?!"

Max: "As long as you're an alien, you should be perfectly fine."

Rath: "Should be?! Let me tell you something Maxwell Tennyson! You have GOT to know what you're doing! You're a professional Plumber for F***'s sake!"

Max: "Sorry. A little rusty."

Rath: "Now ain't the time!" The mummy punched me, sending me into a machine.

Rath: "Let me tell you something, Mutating Mummy Alien! Mutating things IS. NOT. COOL!!!" I jumped out at it, and punched it across the face. It went flying through the air, colliding with a wall.

Rath; "And you can kiss my striped furry a**!!" I roared, then charged towards it again.

Gwen: "What is with him?"

Max: "He's an Apoplexian."

Ben: "What?"

Max: "An Apoplexian. They believe anything can be solved by hitting it hard enough. They're also very aggressive and stupid."

Gwen: "I am so glad Ben didn't get the Omnitrix now."

Ben: "Why?!"

Gwen: "If you had this form, you'd be even more of a doofus."

Ben: "Ha ha."

Max: "We need to make sure the mummy doesn't get the corrodium, no matter what happens." They ran out to get it, and nearly got it, before the mummy went flying into Max.

Rath: "You call this a fight!? Come on, String Cheese! Hit me with your best shot!" The mummy got up, and tried to go for the corrodium, but I tackled it before it got it, then grabbed the corrodium and threw it to Ben.

Rath: "Get that corrodium out of here, Benjamin Tennyson!"

Ben: "Hey!"

Rath; "Let me tell you something Benjamin Tennyson! When I tell you to take something out of the area, it's usually for the greater good! Now do it!" I roared in his face at the last sentence.

Ben: "Okay…" He ran as quick as he could.

Rath: "Gwendolyn Tennyson, come on! We need to take this thing out!"

Gwen: "I want to try out that spell now! Mulchia Objectia!" Her Hazmat suit expanded, then went bouncing everywhere, knocking me down, then hitting the mummy across the chest, then colliding with Max, when she deflated.

Rath: "What the hell kind of spell was that load of s***!!"

Gwen: "Oh…that wasn't supposed to happen…"

Max: "Spells don't work in Hazmat suits, I guess."

Rath: "Wouldn't it have been better not to cast a spell, especially since you don't know the consequences, Gwendolyn Tennyson?!"

Gwen; "How was I supposed to…"

Rath: "I don't know! You just were!"

Max: "I think we'd better get out of here." The mummy got up, the picked me up, and hurled me into another machine. I erupted, extremely mad at it.

Rath: "Now you want to fight! You just made this interesting, Mutating Mummy Alien!" I charged towards it, and it ran towards me. We collided, and it wrapped up its fingers around me, but I cut through them, then punched it in the face, and jammed my claw through the mask, and punched through its chest, and hurled it towards the peanut shredder, which Ben was near, so he turned it on, and we watched the mummy get shredded.

Ben: "There we go!"

Rath: "Wow, Benjamin Tennyson! How'd you know where that switch was?!"

Ben: "Just guessed?"

Rath; "Whatever. This dude's toast now." Suddenly, tape wrapped around my mouth, and hurled me straight towards a freezer machine.

Rath: "Hey! What gives?!" The mummy came out, but the security guard came through the door we did, and was surprised to see the mummy. The mummy grabbed him, then exposed him to the corrodium. It mutated him into the same kind of monster that the cows changed into.

Max: "No!"

Ben; "Kyle!" he jumped down, then drop kicked the mutant, but unfortunately dropped the corrodium. The mummy grabbed it, and pulled him in.

Rath: "No!" I pushed him out of the mummy's grip, but the mummy slapped my Omnitrix symbol after I did, forcing it to turn yellow.

Omnitrix: "New form acquired. Transforming now." I glowed green, and I turned into the mummy.

Kyle: "Ouch! Why I oughta… hm? I'm not Rath anymore?! Great. Just great."

Gwen: "At least he's not in anger management mode anymore."

Kyle: "Real funny, Gwen." I ran for the mummy, and punched it across the face. It turned to see me.

Kyle: "I'm Benmummy now. There's no chance to escape me, alien mummy!" It created a tornado that blew me away, but I landed safely on a wall, then jumped back at it, kicking it in the face. It slapped me, and I slid across the ground.

Benmummy: "This is gonna take some getting used to…"

Gwen: "Kyle, you okay?!"

Benmummy: "Yeah. Just handle the other freak!"

Max: "We will! Hold on!" They ran for the other guy. Max punched it, and Gwen found Ben.

Gwen: "You still alive, Ben?"

Ben: "Yeah. Just banged up. What's with Kyle?"

Gwen: "He just became the mummy, and he's fighting it."

Ben: "At least he's not yelling all the time now."

Gwen: "We need to help Grandpa fight the mutant thing."

Ben: "Got it." I was still pulverizing the other mummy, or was it the other way around?

Benmummy: "Ouch… This thing knows how to use its form better than I do. It's how it spent its life…" I got up, trembling, while the other mummy walked slowly towards me.

Benmummy: "You could at least talk, you know." It shot its hand out towards me, which I ducked under, then shot a tornado at it unintentionally.

Benmummy: "So that's how you use the tornado. It could save be from being lit on fire." It collided with a wall, then jumped out, and ran for me.

Benmummy: "I think it's time for a different course of action." I transformed to Big Chill.

Big Chill: "This should do it." I shot a full power blizzard at it. It sent its fingers at me, but when I was done shooting out the blizzard, it was frozen rock solid.

Big Chill: "There. Now to help the others." I ran towards them, then shot an ice beam from my hand, freezing up the mutant guy.

Gwen: "I had him!"

Big Chill: "Sorry. I just wanted to wrap things up."

Ben: "NOT funny."

Big Chill: "I made a funny? I didn't even know it. Wow." I reverted to normal.

Kyle: "That was sweet! Weird thing is, when I became Rath, I was trying to be Diamondhead. Guess the watch temporarily bugged up, huh?"

Max: "I guess."

Kyle: "So, when this guy is normal again, he'll thaw out, right?"

Max: "Yes, he should."

Kyle; "Cool." We left the ice cream factory, without the Hazmat suits on, too.

Gwen: "I have to admit, I learned something today."

Ben: "What's that?"

Gwen: "Farms suck."

Kyle: "And we learned our lesson. We will do our chores from now on, Max. We promise."

Max: "So we don't have to go back to the farm?"

Kyle: "I don't think so. Why?"

Max: "I didn't want to be stuck with manure duty again." We laughed.

Max: "Now let's hit the road."

The end.

Note: For those of you who want Nanomech in this story, he'll show up in Monster Weather, two chapters from now. So, don't bug me about him, okay? I think he's awesome, too. And, when season four starts up, you'll get to see the forms I have planned for "Kyle 10 Alien Force", one at a time. But only 9 of the 10, though. The last one you'll have to guess…