Chapter 4: A Royal Flush Rescue
Nate was running down the streets as he approaches his designation. As he looks around the place, he whistles as he commits. "Man, This place is sweet! I'm guessing the West side is the fancier part of the city." Just then, his radio started to crackle as he approached a club building. He stops and pulls out his radio. "Nate, come in." Poison said from her end. "What's up, Poison?" "Jess and I just found out that you exposed yourself in front of the gang during your fight with Sodom, is this true?" "Yeah, my bad, I didn't mean to, but I timed out during bad situations before. But don't worry, I'm fine. and i took care of those guys" Nate said as he scratches the back of his head with his right hand. Poison sighed before continuing.
"Okay, just be careful, I do have some good news anyway, I just found out were Mike and the other guys are, There in the West side too. Haven't found out where the girls are though." "That's awesome Poison, what's the bad news?" "They got ambushed and captured, The Mad gear gang is planning on getting rid of them soon, you got to hurry up and free them before it's too late! Come and find me in the bar building in front of you. I'll guide you to the guys when we meet again." "Got it, thanks Poison!" Nate said as he puts away the radio and turns on the Omnitrix, dialing past the icons before stopping on Upchuck and slaps it down.
He turns into Upchuck and smirks "Good thing I got a big eater! Cause it's chowing down time!" He stretched his 3 long tongues and ate the doors. The thugs inside were shocked, but turned to anger as the recognized who hopped through the opening. "Hey, it's that monster kid!" "He must be here to help the mayor and other losers!" "GET HIM!" The 16 Thugs charged at Upchuck, who had his mouth full of door, and yelled. But he just grins and spits out a big, green and glowing ball that bowls into seven thugs before exploding and knocking them into the wall into pixels. He then stretch and wrapped his tongues around the last 9, reeled back and ate them while stretching his mouth out. He smiles at first, but then, his eyes widen and his stomach gurgled and made noises as he hold it in pain. He threw up the thugs as they came crashing into the tables, moaning in pain as they faded out of the game.
Upchuck wipes his tongues and spits out in disgust. "Gross, you guys taste like gym socks wrapped in old leather! Do yourselves a favor and make sure to take a bath! uhhh, make that 4 baths." He said as he runs pass the bar area and come up to a hallway. He hops down it, heading for the doors. Just then, when he lest expected it... "Hey, what the!?" Upchuck cries out as he was suddenly grabbed from the back of his head by a large hand of an enforcer and was taken back to the bar area, only for the enforcer to turn right to a door hidden next to the counter and drinks shelf.
The Enforcer threw Upchuck onto the ground, making him grunt in pain. He then stands up and looks around to see he is in another cage arena with a smaller crowd of Mad Gear Gang members this time. "Great! Just when i thought i was done with caged arenas, I get thrown into another one!" Upchuck complains to himself. Just then, 2 Beefy enforcers that looks identical to each other, except one's outfit is blue white other is yellow, landed in the arena with 2 big thuds. "LISTEN UP, EVERYONE! We have a special match tonight!" An announcer calls out, startling Upchuck as a spotlight appeared above him. "In this cornier, The mysterious monster changing kid from nowhere... NATE TENNYSON!" The crowd responded with boos and jeers. "Seesh, tough crowd. Wait a minute... How does that guy knows my name !?" "And in this cornier, give it up for... FATHER ANDORE and GRANDPA ANDORE!" The 2 buff guys flexed their muscles as the crowd cheers for them. "Now... Let the Battle begin!" DING
The 2 buff guys grabbed a lead pipe among the weapons littered on the arena and starts to charge at Upchuck. Upchuck then looks around the arena to see the weapons and gets an idea. He stretches out his tongues and starts to grab all the weapons, including the Andore's pipes, and gobbled them down. "Hey, give those back! Boy!" "Okey-dokey, if you asked..." Upchuck then fires 2 huge orbs that blasted the Andores all the way to the cage wall and smashed it down. Upchuck then leaps up high and starts fire orbs while spinning, blasting away the walls and the rest of thugs. He then lands while holding his head. "Uggg... That was really dizzy." He shakes head and then looks around to see the place was trashed all the thugs were destroyed and sees a Mini-boss bonus sign that has 25,000 points given out, Making Upchuck smirks in satisfaction at the points and the defeated Andores. "And that's how you make an epic K.O.!" He then saw the door that leads upstairs and starts heading towards it.
He reaches the bar area and starts heading back towards the door and made it back into the hallway. But during a mid-air hop... BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP "OW!" "For a watch, you have a lousy sense of timing, you know that?" Nate picks himself up and continues on after insulting the Omnitrix. He reaches the doors and opens it slightly, carefully peeking around for any enemies. He smile as there were none and opens the door completely.
"NATE!" He looks to his left, seeing Poison by a metal door with a panel near it waving at him, and runs to her. "Poison! Sorry i was late! I had to take care of a bunch of thugs!" " Well i'm glade you're here! This is where the boys are being held, I managed to convince the gang to let me watch them and now, take a look." She points to an glass window in the door that allows people to see in the room. He looks and saw 5 guys, one of them looks like a werewolf, shackled to the walls by their wrists with water pouring and rising to their knees and further.
"If we don't do something soon, they will drown to death!" Poison said worriedly. "Any ideas?" "This panel controls the water in that room, if we could deactivated it, The water will stop and get drained out and there shackles will be released, But the problem is, I don't know the shut down code and I can't hack into it." Nate smirks as looks at his now recharged watch and dials it. "No, But I know an alien that can." He slaps it down and turns into Grey Matter.
"You think you can shut it down in time as Grey Matter?" She questions as he picks him up and holds him to the panel. "Poison, thinking is what Grey Matter does best." He said as he taps the side of head to prove his point. He then hopped onto the panel and pulled off the control pad. His brilliant mind started to work super fast as he hacks into the panel. Poison looks on in panic as she saw that the water was now up to their chests."Hurry, Nate!" Grey Matter was crossing some wires as had his tongue out." Just a couple more wires and… Presto!"
The control panel gave a ding sound as the screen glowed green. Poison watches in relief and amazement as the gates closed and sealed the flows while the grates on the floor started to drain the water. The guys were confused at what had happened when there shackles released with a satisfying KA-CLANK. "Way to go Nate, you saved their lives! I guess smallness does come in handy." "Of course, Is there any doubt?" He said as he jumped onto the floor and turns back human. "Okay, Poison, you get the guys back to city hall and with Jess." "Got it, what are you going to do against Edi.E?" "I'm going to teach Mr. Bad cop a few manners." He said as he runs towards the exit while Poison works on getting the metal door open. Nate burst through the doors and looked around and saw he was in the middle of the street. He then continued on rushing down the alleyway.
Nate then screeches to a stop to see a whole bunch of Mad Gears surrounding him, forming an arena. "Another Arena... Well, at lest there's no cage this time." Nate shurgs at the layout of place.
"Well, well, lookie here, boys." Nate turns to the source of the voice and saw the crowd parting to revel the corrupt cop himself, smirking down at Nate. "Hey little boy, my crew said you have been turning into monsters and beating them up, which a big law breaking action, which means you're under arrest! Now, why don't you be a good boy, hand over that fancy watch and go crying back home to your mommy before it's past your bedtime. And you better hurry! Before i get the tiny handcuffs HAHAHAHAHA!" He taunts Nate as his gang laughs at him while the kid crosses his arms with a deadpan look.
"Okay 3 things, buddy, 1: they are aliens, not monsters. 2: you're not the first one so say that, believe me, That line is so overused! And 3: At least I'm not a police lapdog to a bunch of gangsters." Nate taunts back as he smirks. The thugs gasp as Nate just insulated their boss. Edi.E was angry at his insults and lunges at him. "HEY, SHUT UP, YOU TWERP!" He tried to grab him, But Nate rolls between his legs and appeared behind him. "Too bad your masters never taught you how to control that temper of yours."
He slaps the face plate down and turns into Eye Guy. "Peek-a-boo, dude!" He quips as he holds out his hands fire 2 energy beams that hits him and knocks him down. "Now for the Eye-cing on the cake." He then jumps up high and merges some his eyes into bigger ones and fired freeze rays at the crowd, freezing all the thugs into ugly ice sculptures. He lands and looks around at his work."And that is that. Oh, wait, His still in it and is still angry." Eye Guy said as he looks at a ticked off Edi.E getting up and holding his gun out, aiming at him. Thinking fast, Eye Guy merges all of his eyes in to one big one and fired a massive beam. It smashed right into Edi.E, destroying his gun and smashing him against the ice, causing the frozen thugs to shatter into little bits and flashed out. Edi.E lies under a pile of ice, disappearing into pixels as another boss bonus showed, this time it's 40,000, as Eye Guy grins and cross his arms. "Now, that is that."
He then timed out and saw 2 more tokens floating by the exit for the Westside. He ran up to them and holds out his left arm again and collected them. He looks at the 2 new icons on his watch. One is a tall lanky figure with 2 tendrils on his back while the other was a ghost-like figure. "Alright, Snare-Oh and Ghostfreak!" The map appeared again showing 2 more symbols in a new area. It is called the Industrial area and it is nearby. The map closed up again as Nate rushed off to the new level.