Ben 10 Ultimate Summer EP 12: Adventures in alien-sitting

I don't own anything except my OCs. BTW I also managed to update chapter 1 and also rearranged chapters 3-6 as well, so check them out when you are done with the latest chapters of Ultimate Summer.

Intro:

A green glowing, steel pod was flying through space, hurtling towards earth as it crashes, making a huge green flash.

The camera zooms out from the glowing symbol on the Ultimatrix as Ben looks up close at it.

He then activates it while smirking at the camera, raising his hand high and slapping it down on the core.

The background turns all green as Ben morphs into Four Arms, who pumps his upper fists while cracking his lower ones with a smirk.

A white number appears on the left side, starting at 1.

"Ben 10!"

2: Heatblast ignites 2 fire balls in his hands.

"Ben 10!"

3: XLR8 zooms into the right.

4: Diamondhead swaps his right arm across as it turns into a blade.

"Ben 10!"

5: Cannonbolt uncurls and poses.

"Ben 10!"

"Ben 10!"

6: Upgrade stretches out of his puddle form.

7: Grey Matter hops off the 7 and lands into a crouch, giving a thumbs up and a smile.

"Ben 10!"

8: Water Hazard slides in on his water blasts and raises his fists up.

"Ben 10!"

9: Wildvine extends his legs and stretches out his right fingers while holding seeds in his left one, chucking them offscreen.

10: Big Chill phases through the number and floats briefly before zooming near the camera.

"Ben 10!"

Big Chill's head turns back into Ben's as it rotates.

The camera zooms out to reveal Max and Gwen by his side.

Ben gave a low-five as his grandfather as Gwen crosses her arm and shakes her head playfully with a smile.

The 2 then ran off-screen, making Ben run towards the camera with a determined look.

He then froze as his aliens appear in heroic poses on each of the kid's sides, 5 on each side. Just as the title appears in a black background with green rays appearing from the title.

The Rust Bucket was driving down the blistering, hot desert road. "Saddle up, kids! Big day ahead of us! We got a lot of roping and riding, ahead of us. YEE-HAWW!" Max exclaims, excited as he and his family heads to their next stop: An old style, wild-west town. "Oh, Man! I'm so excited! Hey, Gwen! What are you going to do when we get to the Ranch?" "Ben, I'm trying to read." Gwen responds as Ben dials in an alien. "I'm thinking on getting Water Hazard out for some target practice!" FLASH

"Pew! Pew! Pew!" Water Hazard exclaims as he fires light blasts at 3 cups at the back of the RV and then runs back to his seat. "Hey! Did you guys see that?!" "No! But I heard it." Gwen snaps back as the mollusk alien chuckles. "That was awesome. Hey, Gwen. Gwen. Gwen. Gwen. Gwen." Water Hazard keeps pushing the front seat, annoying his cousin as her left eye twitched. "GRRR…. I SAID, I WAS READING, DOOFUS!" She yells at Water Hazard, who stares in shock. BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP FLASH "I was just asking what you were reading." Ben whispers out.

"Now, now, you 2! It just sounds like you have a case of cabin fever. Don't worry! All you need is a little fresh air." Max said as they parked at their stop. "WOO-HOO!" Ben exclaims as he hops out of his chair and runs to the door as the others follow as the boy shouts out. "Cowboy Showdowns! Sweet hats! The Wild West is right outside!"

Ben rushed out of the door, hoping to get in on the cowboy action. Only when he ran for a few steps did he start to sweat, coming to a stop as he looked up at the sun in the blistering heat. "Why…. Why is it…. so…. Hoottttt?" Gwen tries drinking from a water bottle, only for it to evaporate before it touches her lips. "Ruunnn…" Ben said as both kids ran back to the camper as Max chuckles. "If a real cowboy saw you 2, you'll be laughed out of town." Ben glares at his grandfather as he shuts the door. Max looks at his watch, only for the temperature to read 'extremally hot'!

"I guess it is a bit toasty." Max takes off his cap and fans himself with it. Just then another camper, that is oddly shaped like the Rust Bucket, parked next to him. Max couldn't see well from the heat, but he did hear well. "Hey, cowboy! You need some water?"

"Aaaahhhhhhhhh…. Do you think Grandpa is okay?" Gwen questions as both siblings sat near the air vent, blowing cool air at them. "Hey, kids!" Both look up to see their grandfather walk in. "I found another Camper that looks like the Rust Bucket! The lady over there told me about this great hike up on 'Tombstone Hill', that's 10 miles from here." Both kids look at each other and silently beg their senior to not take them along, not wanting to go back out into the sun. "And the best part about is… you guys can stay here!" "What?" "Really!?" Both cousins grins out.

"This is Maxine!" Max introduces a large, elder, black-skinned woman that has a blue flora shirt, blue pants and grey shoes. "Hiya, kids!" "Hi." "She's on a road trip, just like us! Her grandkids don't won't to go, so I thought they can stay here with you 2." Max explained as the 2 got looks of extreme annoyance. "BABY-SITTING?!" "Just a sec, Gramps!" Max chuckles as he explains. "Now, don't worry! You don't have to do any baby-sitting. Her grandson got that job." Maxine then calls out of the doorway. "Hey, boys! Come on in!"

A teen boy that has an orange shirt under a sleeveless hoodie with blue jeans and black shoes steps in. He kept typing on his phone as his grandmother introduced him. "This is Ryan." "What's up?" He said and then went back to his phone. "Hey." "How's it going?" Ben and Gwen responded back, not sure on how to take it. "And this is my little, techy, munchkin: Simon!" Maxine rubs her hand on the head of a boy that is 9 years old and wears a backpack along with an orange and yellow shirt that has a white cog on the chest. He lastly has grey shorts and red tennis shoes. He walks up to Ben with a smile. "Hi!" "You guys are going to be okay while we're gone?" "We'll be fine, Grandpa." Gwen answers as the old man walks out of the RV.

Just before Maxine walks out, she spoke to Ryan. "And Ryan: Don't forget to make sure Simon stays out of trouble, remember?" Ryan merely rolls his eyes and walks towards the back table as Gwen shrugs and picks up her book, putting in headphones as she listens to music from her phone as he sat beside him. "Cool glove! I have this very special belt." Simon spoke as Ben just looked at him as the kid unbuckles and takes off a hi-tech looking belt and sits on the table and opens his backpack and takes some tools out. "What are you doing?" "Doing some work on it. I'm pretty good at technology. It's just something I knew, ever since I was 6. Do you have any photon cables on you? Mine are on their last legs."

"Uuhhh…." Ben then ducks under the table as Simon kept blabbing tech stuff. He then pops next to his cousin and taps her shoulder. "Hey, can we switch? This kid is a brainiac and I have no idea what he is talking about, at all!" Gwen groans and pulls her cousin aside. "HERE! Why don't you 2 kids get some ice cream?" Gwen pulls out and slaps some money in Ben's hand and then forces him and Simon out.

"WWAAAHHH! OOFFF" Ben fell down on the ground and dusts himself off as Gwen slams the door. "Maybe some Ice Cream would be good now." "I'm more of a soda guy, myself!" Simon replays as he straps his pack and belt on and walks past him. Ben got up and wipes some sweat off as he starts dialing. "Maybe if I turn into Big Chill and use his ice breath, I can cool things down!" He then reached the Moth Alien's icon, rising his hand up when… "Hey, what's that guy?" Simon said as he sticks his head over the core. Ben merely pushes his head off and slaps down. FLASH

"This is what he does, Simon!" Big Chill looked up and breath out a gust of ice, making it snow around the 2 boys. "WOAH! You're those aliens heroes?! Awesome!" Simon exclaims in awe as he felt the cool snow chills him. "That is so cool! You're like a walking ice shooter!" "Actually, FLYING ice shooter, to be exact!" BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP FLASH "Darn it! Well, on the bright side, we're both cooled down." Ben said as they relaxed in the snow. Only for it to melt into water by the heat as Ben frowns out. "Come on, let's go."

The 2 kids got there ice creams as they head back, enjoying there treats. "Well... at least the Ice Cream is doing the trick." "Yeah... It's not Root Beer, but Chocolate is pretty good." Simon smiles out as he licks his cone. As the 2 kids kept walking, they spot a man driving by them with a jeep. He has a sack with him, only for him to suddenly panic as he was about to drive over a puddle of water, swerving around it as he sighs out. This action didn't go unnoticed. "Weird. Since when are cowboys scared of water?" Ben ponders out. "Don't know. Maybe he already had tons of it and doesn't want any more?" Simon shrugs out. But Ben had a funny feeling about that man and went off while dialing his gauntlet as Simon decides to follow him.

The man parks the jeep by a large rock on the outskirts of town, unloading the bag as he is unaware of an Upgrade enhanced jeep parked away from him. "Hmm... Wonder what mister friendly is up to? Simon, stay here!" The 9-year-old pouts as Upgrade separates and gets closer. As he watches the man, he saw a trap door underneath the rock as he pushes it out of the way. "This town is getting weirder and weirder." Upgrade mumbles out.

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP FLASH Ben glances at himself in dread. "Not good!" As if things can't get worse, the man's face oozes to the back of his head, much to the kids' shock, and roars out as Ben screams in fright, being grabbed and hoisted up as the 10-year-old struggles. "HEY!" They both glanced back at a glaring Simon, who is out of the jeep and standing in front of the 2. "Simon! Don't!" Ben cries out.

"Don't worry, Ben! Simon Sez: Leave my friend alone!" He yells out as he twists his belt buckle, making it glow as yellow lines forms all over it. Then, to the 10-year old's amazement, the belt starts transforming and expending all over Simon, engulfing him metal as he got bigger until he was double his height. Simon's face is covered up as his eyes glowed yellow.

Simon is now in a hi-tech very advanced robot armor suit that is colored orange and yellow with bits of red that has an Iron-Man look with a yellow glowing circle on his chest with a golden cog symbol around it. He has shoulder pads and has yellow repulsor blasters in his palms. His head is covered in an iron mask and helmet that looks like a human's face with wide glowing yellow eyes and also has pointed fins coming out of his eyes and curs upward.

Simon cries out as he aims his right palm while charging it up. "Let him go!" He cries out as his voice has a robotic tone to it, much like Upgrade, and fires a yellow repulsor blast, hitting the man away as he lets go of Ben. The boy groans as he recovers quickly as Simon, now the height of a teenager, helps him up. "You, okay?" "Yeah! But dude! That is so intense! You can turn into a robot?!" "Actually, my belt makes and expends into this nano-powered, super combat suit and-" Both boys noticed the man has recovered, only to be surprised to see him cracks his body into place as it screeches out. "I'll explain later! Get on my back!" "Don't need to tell me twice!" Ben exclaims as he leaps on as Simon starts running as fast as he can while the slime man chases after them.

Ben looks back with fear on his face as the mutant is gaining on them. "Uhh… I swear we didn't see your face popped onto the back your head, HONEST! Geeze… What kind of freaky drinks do they sell in town?!" Ben questions out as Simon glances back to the see the man is catching up, running backwards as he fires twin beams that pushed the mutant back. "Nice shot! Now, do you think you can fly us out? I mean, this suit is advanced enough to fly, right?" "Well, yeah... But-"

But before Simon can explain, the man stretched his arms to catch the 2, making Simon quickly jumps up high and activating thrusters on his feet and hands, rocketing away, only to go out of control as Ben struggles to hang on. "WHOA! WHOA! HEY! I THOUGHT YOU SAID THAT YOU CAN FLY?!" "I CAN! IT'S JUST THAT I'M REALLY BAD AT IT!" "LOOK OUT!" Ben cries out in terror as they were sent crashing into the ground with Simon protecting Ben from the impact.

"Ohhh..." Ben groans out as the 2 kids struggles to get up, but just then, they heard a sound and turns around, only to gasp to see the man reaching out to them. The boys tries to run, only for there legs to get entangled by the arms and gets drags towards the man. Ben tries dialing the watch as it still glows red. "COME ON! Four Arms, XLR8, Diamondhead!"

But just then, some water starts pouring up from above, due to Simon hitting an underground spring when he crashed. The man noticed as he ran, screeching. Ben stares in shock as he stands up and looks at the water and then back at Simon as he flips up the mask, showing the 9-year-old's face. "Okay… that was weird." Simon mumbles as Ben nods in response.

"You know, the heat's not so bad when you get used to it." Max said as he and Maxine hikes along a mounting ledge trail. "Really? I hope you're right, Max." She responds as the kept going before stopping for a bit, getting canteens of water out to re-hydrate. "I don't know about you, but I needed sometime from my little rugrats. I love them, but that Simon can be a real handful, from time to time." "Oh, I hear you! Ben can be a handful too!" Max said, understanding about the stress of having a crazy grandson, especially one that has an alien device on his hand. But has both elders rested up, they were unaware of a shadow creeping up at them and suddenly lunging at them.

Gwen and Ryan were still doing there own thing, enjoying some quiet when Ben and Simon got in and slams the door behind, panting like crazy. "What is it now?" The teen asks in a bored tone as Gwen questions. "Ben? Why does it look like you ran a marathon?" "Ryan! You have got to help us! This cowboy town is freaky and weird!" "What Simon says is that the locals are not locals! We saw this guy drive by while we were getting ice cream, only it was like he's got a fear of water or something. And when we followed him out to this rock in the middle of nowhere, he was some sort of slime mutant with long sticky limbs and this face that oozed to the back of his skull!" Ben explains as Gwen spoke out. "Guys... It was just disillusion from the heat. This town looks too normal to be weird." "Besides, Simon. Grandma said to stay out of trouble." Ryan points out.

Annoyed at his older brother just brushing off his beliefs, Simon stomps out as Ben follows as well. "Wait! Simon. Where are you going?" Gwen groans as she rolls her eyes as she stands up. "Come on! We better make sure they don't break anything." "Okay..." Ryan sighs out as the teen boy follows his younger sibling.

The kids sneakily went through town as the teen and girl walked normally behind them. "Why are you 2 acting like you're in a spy movie?" "SUUH!" Ben shushes his cousin as they quickly pressed against a wall as they peeked out to see 2 people walk by without noticing. "We need to get to that large rock on the outskirts of town." "Come on!" Simon said as they ran off as the other 2 walked behind them after sharing glances at each other.

As they were almost out of town, they walked by some people as they looked at them. But out of the blue, the people hisses out with sharp fangs as they chucked rocks as Ben cries out. "Duck!" They did as Gwen yells out. "Run!" The 4 ran away as fast as they could! "I told these guys were freaky and there's the proof! I was right!" Simon states as they kept running and ducking under rocks. "Not now, Simon!" Ryan snaps as they quickly hides behind a building.

"Kids?" They perked up at the sound of Max as he and Maxine showed up. "What's wrong?" "Grandpa! Thank goodness we found you. They're everywhere!" Ben exclaims. "We know." Both elders grin out their fangs as they stretched out their arms. "Come here and give Grandma a hug." They both screeched out as they made a ran for it. "They're both one of them now!" Ryan cries out as the kids run into the desert while being chased. "Up ahead!" Simon points at the large rock from before.

But just as they reached it, Simon armors up, much to Gwen's surprise, as the boy tries to move the rock, but barely could move as the fakes were slowly approaching. But Ben smirks as he slaps down on the gauntlet.

Ben's skin became all red as spikes pops out of his forearms as his muscles began getting bigger and bigger. His height shot up greatly as his eyes split into 4 while his hair vanished. 2 more arms popped out from under his original pair as he cries out, pumping his arms.

Four Arms glares as he took a hold of the rock and chucked it at the fakes, crushing them as they all saw a trap door. "A secret trap door." Simon points out. "Think that's where grandma and your grandpa is?" Ryan asked Gwen as Simon blasted it open. "Only one way to find out." The girl responds. "Hold on, everyone!' Four Arms grab ahold of them and leap down, crashing to the ground with a thud. "Wow! What a deep hole." Simon comments, only to spot the freaks, crawling down like spiders. "Floor it, Ben!" "No need to tell me twice!" Four Arms cries out to his cousin as he runs down the tunnel.

He then came to a sudden stop at multiple tunnels. "Great! Now where do we go?" The alien complains. "Looks like these tunnels run all over the desert." Ryan observes as Four Arms released them. But just then, Simon's HUD in his helmet went off as he glanced back to see the fake elders, lashing their arms at the teens. "Behind us!" Simon yells as a red hand grabs them as Max slams the fake Max into some rocks.

Simon then fires rocket fists at the fake Maxine and knocks her away. "You got rocket fists, too? Sweet!" Simon and Four Arms charge as Simon dodges out of the way from 'Maxine's' tendrils. He grabs the 2 and judo throws them away as the imposter hisses out and lunges, only to meet face first with a repulsor blast. "That was for taking my grandma!"

Four Arms wrestle with the fake Max, surprise to see he's almost as strong as him. "Whoa! What kind of vitimites do you take?" The fake Max kick flips to knock Four Arms away as he stumbles back. He then blocks punches from the imposter and counters with uppercut and was blasted away by a sonic clap. The fake Max then lashed out his arm, only to be grabbed and pulled in as Four Arms smacks him into Maxine, making Four Arms charge and delivers 4 uppercuts at the same time. As the 2 were sent flying. Simon ran to Four Arms as the alien noticed and got the idea. "i set you up, Simon! Now hit the game point!" Four Arms cups his hands and boosted the armored 4th grader up high. just as his fists were energized and smacks the 2 fakes into a wall, burring the 2 in rocks.

"WOW! Now that was so cool! Ben! Did you see that amazing combo?! That was so amazing!" Simon jumps and down in exactment as Four Arms smirks with crossed arms. "I know! We're so awesome!" "Boys..." Gwen frowns out as Ryan states. "Not to interrupt your little hero showboat moment, but if those 2 were fakes, then where's our real grandma or Max Tennyson?" The teen asks as they look around the tunnels, unsure which direction to go in.

Just then, Simon's computer went off as he scans the tunnels. "Hang on... Down there!" He rushed off as the others followed. "Simon! Hold on!" Gwen cries out as they keep running, only to come up to a dead end as Simon opens 2 missile pods from his shoulders and blasts the wall down, landing in another tunnel as the others followed with Four Arms punching and smashing away any remaining rocks in the way as he timed out.

"Sheese... You wreck stuff just as badly as Ben does." "Hey!" The 10-year-old frowns out at Gwen as Simon raised his faceplate. "Simon, why did you run off like that?" Ryan asks his little brother. "It was my suit. It detected a strange signature, coming from this tunnel. Maybe this is where those weird things came from?" The 9-year-old explains as he walks down the tunnel with the others following.

They walk for a bit, only to stop as they look over a ledge along with the others. They all stare at a large, alien ship with dozens of green pods around it. They all slide down as they walk towards the ship, noticing all the pods have people in them as they were sleeping. "It's like everyone in town is podded up!" Gwen exclaims as she looks around. "As for why, I get the feeling we're going to find out soon." Ryan comments as they kept walking. Simon scans them with his suit as he states. "They are all not harmed. It looks like they are all sleeping. I wonder why those slime freaks want to kidnap a whole town?"

Just then, Ben notice a green pod that holds Max. And next to him is Maxine in another pod. "Grandpa!" "Grandma!" Ben tears open the pod as Simon did the same with her pod as both elders slowly woke up. "What happened?" Maxine moans out as Max mumbles out. "We were out hiking the hill when…. I don't remember what happened next." Ben walks towards another pod when…

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." They all turned to see the fakes coming up to them. "Well, you're not me!" "Not yet I'm not!" The fake cowboy responds to Ben as his skin turned light green and bubbly. The group of 6 gasps in shock as they all turned into humanoid-blobs that are mostly green in color with dirty pink colored organs. They have multiple eyes, and they have no definite appearance, having extra arms, fin-like protrusions or misshapen body parts.

"Okay, that is total creepy and disgusting." "Gee, you think?!" Ben sarcastically responds to his cousin. "You can fill us in, later!" Max cries out as they all back away. Just as Ryan places his hand on the ship, a part of it glows and opens up, making them turns to see more pods in the ship. "Look back here!" He calls out as they went to help the people. "Their ship." Max states out. "And the rest of the townsfolk." Maxine points out.

"They found it! We can't let them out!" One of the aliens cries out as the ship glows. "Get the pods on board! They have been marinating long enough!" Another one cries as the humans stare at shock. "Marinating?!" "You mean, they want to eat them?!" Maxine adds to Max's statement. Ben frowns as he noticed his glove is recharged, pushing the button to raise the core as he dials past XLR8 and Grey matter to Heatblast as he frowns at the aliens. "You guys really burn me up!" FLASH

Hot lava emerges from the device and spreads all over the boy as rocks starts forming while the magma forms a solid humanoid form. Ben's head became rocky as fire burst all over, making him throw his fists out in a power pose as he's ready to roast!

The aliens back away as Heatblast glares out. "And now, I'm going to return the favor!" He blasts them with a large flamethrower on the slime aliens. But just as he stops, he was surprised to see them form and merged into a larger being. "Whatever you are, you just made a terrible mistake! We Limaxs live for the heat! Why do you think we came to desert in the Summer?" Heatblast tried punching him, but it didn't work on it's liquid body.

Just then, he was grabbed and slammed all over, only for pulse blasts to get it to stop as it glares at Simon in his armor. "Leave my new friend alone, slime freak!" He then made rocket launchers on his shoulders fire missiles, only for the slime alien to form holes that made the rockets blow up a rock wall instead. "Oops." Simons briefly said before getting slapped away.

The alien noticed the others and splits out 2 Limaxs to chase after them. As Gwen was about to lift another pod, one of the Limaxs knocks her bag off as the elders went to help there grandkids. As Limax was going to attack, it noticed a discarded water gun and cries out in panic as Ryan noticed, glancing down to see the toy. he looks between the 2 as he gets an idea, grabbing the water pistol and chasing them out to spray them with water, which dissolved them in an instant. "That's it! Guys! They hate water! Remember the cowboy in town that you told us?" "Or when he freaked out at the spring in the desert." Heatblast points out in remembrance.

Simon overheard and starts scanning as the 2 struggles in the tendrils. "But... Where can you find water in the middle of a desert?" Just then, his computer rang out as it showed a water pipe up on the ceiling as his scans indicated it was full. Heatblast also saw the pipe as they both nod at each other, firing flame stream and repulsor blast at the 2 pipes above, making them burst as they rain upon the alien, melting it as it hollers in pain. "See ya, slime ball!" "And we don't want to be ya!" Simon adds out as the 2 heroes ran away as they watched the beast dissolve into steam slime as they both shared a fist bump. "Nice job, Steel Lad!" "Hey... Steel Lad! I like it. It's catchy." Simon smiles in response as he opens his faceplate.

The others managed to get the last of the pods off as the ships starts up. "Sorry! No drive-through service here!" Max exits the ship last as one of the aliens slips on as the ship closes up.

The group looks to see the ship rises up and blasts through the ceiling, going straight into space, never to be seen again. "We should get all these people back to town, so it will look like they never left." Max spoke as they glanced around at the pods. "And with the way there all sleeping, they will just think it's all just a dream." Maxine states out as Gwen groans out. "That could take hours!" "Give me a few mins! I'll see if XLR8 can help!" Heatblast glances at a pod as Simon glances at his feet. "And maybe my jet boots can do the trick as well."

After getting the townspeople back and chilling for a bit, it was time for the 2 families to go their separate ways. "This was a fun day out Let's do it again sometime! Minus the whole, aliens trying to kidnap and eat you, of course." "Sure thing, Maxine." Max said as they both shook hands. "Okay, gang! Back to the camper." She calls out as they all head to their RV as Ryan and Simon waves bye to Ben and Gwen.

"Well... That was some day, huh, kids?" Max asks his grandkids as they all got into the front of the Rust Bucket. "Yeah! Who would have thought that there was another kid hero besides me, out there?" Ben asks out as Max got in the driver's seat as the kids got in the passenger seats. "Yeah... Simon did kind of remind me a bit of you, Ben. And Ryan kind of reminds me of me as well." Gwen spoke out as the 2 RVs took off, side-by-side as both families waved bye to each other and went off in different directions, 2 different kid heroes going down different roads.