Me: This is it.
Mordecai: Yes.
Me: The moment you all have been waiting for
Rigby: Yeeessss.
Me: It's finally here.
Muscleman: YEEEEESSSSSS!
Me: Everything has led to this.
Grimlock: YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!
Me: The invasion begins
Ch. 6 Invasion
Lance, Illana, and Octus have been standing by the box-device, attached to a rock, which the Mutradi planted. They had little-to-no clue what it was, and they could not ask the Mutradi, considering it committed suicide. Octus had tried scanning it, and had been for the last hour. Illana was sitting on a nearby rock, and Lance had been passing around.
"You seem a little tense, Lance." Illana observed
"Of course I'm tense." Lance replied "We have no idea what's going on; we have no clue what Modula's planning. For all we know, that could be a bomb that could…."
"It's not a bomb." Octus corrected. The two turned to him. "My scan still remains incomplete, but I can safely say it's not a bomb."
"Alright, what do we know?" Illana asked
"This device is Mutradi in nature." Octus began "But its design and components are very similar to Galalunian technology."
This got both their attention. "Keep scanning Octus." Lance commanded "I'm gonna see if Solomon has anything."
Meanwhile, at Solomon's location, at the make-shift G3 base. Solomon had just been staring at the device attached to the tree, with the G3 men working to see if they could find anything.
"Solomon, do you read?" Lance broadcasted
"I read you Lance. What is it?" Solomon responded
"Did you find anything on the device?" Lance asked
"Unfortunately, nothing concrete at the moment." Solomon began "All we do know is, it's both broadcasting and receiving a signal."
"Which is going and coming from four other locations" Lance retorted "Octus discovered that. Along with something else. It is Mutradi tech, but its Galalunian design"
"Probably a curtsey of Modula or another traitor." Solomon theorized
"I'm thinking the same thing" Lance said "And the other three locations?"
"They've been secured." Solomon replied "I'll let you know if we find anything." Solomon signed off.
Solomon walked inside his drop ship and checked with a G3 agent at a console. "Any word from the other three locations?" Solomon asked.
"One location has been secured." The agent responded. Displaying a visual of a G3 squad in the Sherman sewers trying to scan the device attached to the wall.
"And the other two?" Solomon asked
"That's a little more complicated sir." The agent replied displaying the visuals of the two locations, showing what happened there.
Solomon looked interested at the visuals of teenagers, most with strange abilities fight each other, or a Mutradi.
"Who are they?" Solomon asked
"Were not sure, sir." The agent responded "We ran their faces through the systems and found no matches."
"That's impossible." Solomon stated "Our system can identify anyone on the planet." Any one on our planet anyway "Do we have visuals on them?"
"Yes, sir." The agent answered "They appear to be monitoring the devices as well."
"Keep watch, let's see how this goes." Solomon instructed.
Meanwhile, at the construction site, where Danny, Ben, Kim, and Ron have recently duked it out; they were inside a condemned building. A device had been planted on a pillar, they were unable to touch it, of course with it being shielded. So our teen heroes were getting a little more acquainted.
"So, 'Danny Phantom', huh?" Ben 10 asked. The ghost boy (still in Ghost form) nodded
"What are you, a ghost?" Ron asked
"Half-ghost" Danny corrected "It's a little complicated."
"You're certainly powerful." Kim noted "How strong are you exactly?"
"I can lift near 30 tons, and fly up to 120mph, just to start." Danny said, earning some wide eyes from Kim, Ron, and Rufus; Ben, not so much. "And you're 'Ben 10'? Why do you call yourself that?"
"Well, when I first got the Omnitrix, it let me only turn into ten aliens. After a couple, years I've unlocked a few more, now I have more than seventy. And the name, Ben 10, just stuck."
"Well, it's catchy." Danny congratulated. "What about you 'blue-boy'?" he asked Ron.
"Ron Stoppable." He introduced himself. "And this is Rufus." He gestured to, on his shoulder, who gave a 'hello' wave
"What is he anyway?" Ben asked "Some sort of gerbil?"
"Naked Mole-rat." Ron corrected "As for my powers; it's my Mystic-Monkey-Mojo." He stated with pride.
"Meaning?" Danny asked.
"Tai Shing Pek Kwar." Ron translated "Or Monkey Kung Fu."
"Mystic martial art? I guess I can buy that." Ben said
"Same here." Danny added "And you…?" he asked Kim
"I'm Kim Possible." She introduced.
"You his girlfriend?" Danny asked
"Is it that obvious?" She asked
"A little." Danny responded "You don't have any powers?"
Kim gave a disappointing sigh "I take it you don't approve." She said, in a tone expecting an arrogant response.
"I never said that." Danny said. "People say I'm brave, but I can turn intangible. Ordinary men and women who put their lives on the line, they're the real heroes."
Kim turned to Danny with surprise. "Oh. Well, uh, thanks."
"Yeah you can hold your own in a fight; few can take me on, even fewer than that don't have powers." Ben said. "You're pretty awesome."
Kim rubbed the back of her neck. Ron came in with a bit of a look on his face. "Uh, dudes…" He began
"Don't worry, I have a girlfriend" Danny assured.
"Same here." Ben added.
"Oh. Okay." Ron responded.
"So, were all pretty famous." Kim began "But no one's ever heard of us. How's that possible?"
"We're probably looking at a parallel Earth thing." Ben theorized
"'Parallel Earth'?" Ron asked
"Alternate dimension, different universes." Danny translated
"Of course, heh, I knew that." Ron bluffed.
"I take it you two have experience in that." Kim guessed.
"I visit a few frequently." Ben answered
"I've been to one before." Danny added "One, I prefer we don't talk about."
"Whatever floats your boat, man." Ron said.
"Looks like, we were each pulled from our own Earth, and sent to a different one together." Kim theorized. "But why this earth? And why were we sent here?"
"I'm a little more worried about this thing." Danny said walking to the pillar with the box-device.
Meanwhile, at a car junk yard, where another device was planted, another group of teenage heroes was getting to know each other.
"So, you're the incarnation of an ancient telepathic cryptid." Rex clarified, pointing to Zak. "And you're a dragon?" pointing to Jake.
"That's right." Zak said.
"It's a little more complicated for me." Jake said "My family possess the ability to transform into dragons. And you're a what?"
"An EVO." Rex said "Basically, a mutant. I have these tiny machines in my body called Nanites. They let me build machines from my body, and grant me technokenetic powers."
"Ummm?" Jake groaned, never heard the term before.
"Meaning, he can control technology." Zak translated.
"Oh." Jake responded
"Who do you work for again?" Zak asked
"Providence." Rex responded. "A global institution. What's weird though, is I can't seem to contact them. You're probably gonna think I'm crazy, but I think maybe…"
"Parallel world?" Zak guessed.
"Yeah." Rex confirmed, with surprise in his voice "How did you…?"
Zak took out his communicator/scanner "My parents made this, so I can contact them anywhere in the world, but I can't get a signal. And I've never heard of Providence."
"So we're likely on a world completely new to both us." Rex theorized. "This could be your earth." He turned to Jake.
"I don't know." Jake said "Maybe, there's no way for me to know. So does your scanner have anything on that?" He asked pointing, with his thumb to the box behind them.
Zak looked at his scanner. "Nothing yet."
"I thought that gizmo can hack anything?" Jake recalled
"Anything man-made" Zak said "That thing, wasn't exactly a man."
"Maybe this thing isn't man-made" Rex guessed, looking at the box. "Maybe, it's alien."
"That would explain a few things." Zak responded "You've dealt with aliens before?"
"Well, not me personally." Rex admitted "But I know someone who does."
"Same here." Zak said; unknown to them, they were talking about the same person.
"Parallel worlds, aliens, I thought that stuff only existed in the movies." Jake said. "But anyway, what do we know."
"It's giving out some sort of signal." Zak observed. "There are four more signals just like it"
"Meaning, they're might be more of these things." Rex guessed.
"So let's look at this situation." Jake began
"A creature showed up out of nowhere, it planted this box-thing, then blew itself up." Danny recalled "But it was trying to get here, like this is where it was supposed to be set up."
"The same kind of thing happened with us." Kim said.
"This can't be a coincidence." Ben said
"The signals can't be identified." Zak said looking from his scanner to the device "But they are identical."
"Meaning, the same kind of thing must have happened at these other locations." Rex guessed.
"So then,..." Jake began "...these monsters, they're…."
"…They're soldiers." Danny finished "Expendable soldiers, at that. Planting these devices at all costs."
"That's military tactics." Ben observed
"We might be staring down the barrel of a full-scale invasion." Danny theorized
"Look, I get that we're trying to think of the worse-case-scenario." Kim began "But a 'full-scale-invasion' doesn't that seem a little, paranoid."
"You ever dealt with an invasion before, Kim?" Ben asked. "I've dealt with a few, and in my case, it's not just 'worse-case-scenario', it's a definite possibility."
As they debated, the circle at the center of the device began to glow bright white; instantly getting the four's attention (five, Rufus) and started beeping.
"I didn't touch it!" Ron declared
The device at the junkyard began to glow and beep as well, getting they're attention.
"What's it doing?" Jake asked
"Whatever it is, it can't be good." Rex concluded
Zak looked at his scanner in surprise. "Guys, the signal's increasing, by a lot!" He exclaimed as they backed away from the device
The same thing happened at the Cliffside by Illana, Lance, and Octus. Octus quickly moved back to his friends.
"What's happening?" Illana asked.
"The signal's increasing, and... oh, no." Octus responded
"What?" Lance questioned
"Its signal, it's identical to a Rift Gate." Octus answered.
Illana and Lance looked to each other in shock, they quickly activated their armor, having an idea of what's coming.
The G3 team in the sewers noticed the same-thing happening to the box they've been watching. Each of the agents quickly had their guns primed and aimed at the device.
"Sir…." One of the agents began to communicate to Solomon
"….Something's happening" The transmission received by Solomon.
"The device starting to act up?" Solomon asked
"Yes, how did…" The agent asked confused.
"Because the same thing's happening here." Solomon answered as he looked at the device begging to activate.
"IT'S GONNA BLOW!" Ben declared, him and the others moved to the other side of the building, the beeping increasing greatly.
"GET BACK!" Rex shouted as he, Zak, and Jake ran from the increasing beeping device.
"Be ready!" Illana commanded.
Lance readied all the guns in his armor and aimed at the box
"Everyone, get back!" Solomon declared, everyone backing away from the device. Solomon soon received a transmission.
"Sir…?" the Agent asked.
"Get your men out of there, commander! NOW!"
At each of the five locations. The device exploded. A white circle formed, and took the shape of a portal. It was a miniature rift gate.
Within the sewers, the Agents were knocked back by the shockwave. They looked to the portal, and saw shaded figures emerging.
"Sir!" the transmission received back to Solomon with roars, screams and gunfire in its background. "They're attacking! We are, ah, AH, AHHHHH!" the transmission cut-off.
"Commander!?" Solomon responded fanatically "Do you read!? COMMANDER?!" no answer.
Solomon looked at the portal.
Danny, Kim, Ben, and Ron looked at the white portal seeing shaded figures. Soon, dozens of Mutradi began to pour out. Some had jet packs, others ran and charged out, and all were roaring and screeching.
Ben quickly activated his Omnitrix and turned into Armadrillo, Ron fired up his MMP, and all four charged in.
Ron began punching away any alien that came close to him, Rufus dived into Ron's pocket whimpering. Ron grabbed one alien and hurled it toward a crowd, knocking them all down.
Armadrillo began bashing several away with his sheer strength. He grabbed one and shoved its head onto the ground. He jumped and body slammed into a group. They soon began to dog-pile him, only for them shake as Armadrillo activated his jackhammer harms, blasting them all of him.
Danny blasted ecto beams at all the flying ones. He never missed a shot. Some he froze and shattered with a punch. He grabbed one and ripped off its jet pack before tossing it into a group before it exploded.
Kim was just avoiding all the aliens that came at her. One grabbed her and they all began to pile on her.
Noticing this, Danny quickly went intangible and flew in the pile. The pile of aliens then froze, before shattering in an explosion of ecto energy. Danny helped Kim to her feet.
"Still think I'm paranoid?" He asked
"Well, maybe a little less now." Kim answered.
Soon more creatures began to fly out of the portal.
Mutradi came flying and running out of the Junkyard portal. Rex quickly formed his Smack-Hands and charged in. He smashed and crushed away at any Mutradi within five-feet of him. Two jumped onto him. Rex built his Punk-Busters and kicked them off. He charged in again.
"Dragon Up!" Jake shouted. In his dragon form he flew into the swarm of jet-packed Mutradi. He blasted fire at everything flying. The fire blasted through (literally) the alien flesh like a sword. He began to claw at their jet packs, causing them to over load and explode. Some he tore off and let the aliens fall.
Zak was grateful for his agility as a few aliens tried to punch, claw, and crush him. He used his claw to slice one throat of an alien. He used the grappler on it, to get onto a pile of cars. They climbed after him. He pushed one tipping car down, it fell and smashed all the Mutradi climbing toward him.
Lance, Illana, and Octus quickly took to the skies as Mutradi came flying out. The aliens wasted no time in attacking their enemies.
Illana's armor fired lasers from her forehead, her chest plate, and hands. She shot every Mutradi that came near her. Shot their jet-packs, their heads, anything.
Lance began pouring it all out with his armor's machine gun wrists. Mowing down the aliens on the ground. A flying Mutradi tackled him, Lance took out one his armor's swords and decapitated the Mutradi. He took out another sword, and now duel wielding he flew in and sliced and diced all the Mutradi he flew towards, literally, cutting a path in the sky.
Octus shot electricity from his hands. The blots killed any Mutradi it make contact with. He ran on the ground at high speeds, knocking away all the aliens he ran into, all in the while zapping any of the aliens in the air. Talk about multi-tasking.
The G3 agents opened fire, they shot and killed a few Mutradi. But many of the agents were killed. They were either crushed, or ripped apart.
Solomon took out a rapid-fire alien pistol and shot at anything that didn't look human. He jumped into the fray and began shooting. He took up a gun from a dead soldier and shot duel-wielding. He shoved the pistol in one Mutradi's mouth and fired. He used the gun to mow down another coming his way.
"FALL BACK! FALL BACK! FALL BACK!" He commanded his troops as they all piled into the drop-ship. Solomon was the last to get on as it began to ascend.
The guns activated and began opening fire, to prevent any Mutradi from getting too close. The ship then took off.
"Get me a report, now!" He commanded.
"Sir." One of the agents responded at the console at the front. "Portals are opening at all five of the locations. They're almost like…"
"Miniature Rift Gates." Solomon finished. "Head back to base, prepare for a counter attack. What's our visual on those kids?"
The agent displayed visual screens on the two locations. "Sir. They appear to be holding their own."
"Keep monitoring them." He instructed as the drop ship flew back to the G3 base.
The wall collapsed from the condemned building. Mutradi with jet packs came flying outside. Astrodactyl (one of Ben's forms) was flying among them. His energy-whips lashing at all the Mutradi and cutting through them like lightsabers.
The battle now continuing Ron came rolling out, kicking a Mutradi away. One tried jumping only for Ron to punch it away. Another slashed at him, Ron grabbed his arm and threw him away. Another jumped on him, Ron responded by kangaroo-kicking him high into the air. Another tried to bite him, only for Ron to grab his skull and crush it. A little extreme for him, but this was an extreme situation.
Kim wasn't having such luck. One Mutradi grabbed and punched her away. She skidded along the ground to a stop. Having enough, she reached into her belt and pulled out a white ball. She pressed a button, and a white fabric formed around her body. She had donned her battle-suit.
One alien tried to grab her, she jumped, and with her enhanced agility she jumped high and landed on its back with enough force to kill it. Another tried to slash at her, only for her to grab its arm and toss it over her shoulder. An alien with a gun came into view and blasted an energy-ball at her. She saw it coming, and caught it. The hand of her suit took the form of a glove which caught the ball, that she immediately through back at the alien, exploding in its face.
Danny found himself at the bottom of another-dog pile. His body began to glow bright green. An explosion of ecto-energy blasted them all off of him. He noticed many of them coming toward him, which he responded by blasting many ecto-beams and ecto-disks. They blasted and sliced much of the front line, but many still came after him. Danny noticed a joint crane and wrecking ball behind him. He quickly severed the cord and wielded the wrecking ball like a ball-and-chain with ease.
"Come On!" he challenged "Smile for me!" He shouted as began to beat them all away with his new make-shift weapon.
Astrodactyl sliced another Mutradi in half "Is that all you losers…." He looked around and saw no more aliens. "…got?"
He flew down and turned back into Ben. Kim, Danny, and Ron soon joined him. There weren't any more aliens.
Rex built his slam cannon and began shooting at anything that looked ugly. They kept pouring in, and he kept blasting. Seeing the Mutradi soldiers get to close he withdrew his cannon and formed his BFS (Big Fat Sword) and activated its buzz saw at the end. He charged in and diced and cut all the aliens coming in at him. He also formed his Block-party and engaged the energy shield, bashing anyone he couldn't get with his sword. He had the complete sword and shield package.
Jake blasted an alien's head off with his fire breath and saw more coming in. He discarded the carcass and grabbed one of the broken down cars. With his dragon-like strength, he slammed and bashed all the Mutradi in-front of him. He slammed then tore it in half and sent each half spiraling like a shuriken and they decapitated many.
Three Mutradi were trying to gang up on Zak. He jumped over one, taping his hand behind its head. He rolled under another one's punch tapping its side. And swerved around the last one tapping on its back. He slid away from them. The creatures hear beeping sounds and looked at the places he tapped them, they were bombs. They fanatically tried to pull them off, only for them to explode killing all three of them.
Zak smiled in satisfaction. He turned around to see a Mutradi about to slam its fists down on him, only for a giant orange sword to burst from its chest. The creature died and fell, revealing Rex behind it.
"I got your back." Rex said. Which made Zak smile.
His smile turned to confusion as he looked behind Rex. "I'm not sure you'll have too." Rex turned around and saw nothing.
Jake touched down on the ground next to them, still in dragon-form looking around. All they saw among the wreckage was just the open portal.
Lance and Illana flew back-to-back hovering in the air, multiple flying Mutradi coming in from all directions.
"You ready for this, Illana?" Lance asked
"Yes, let's do it." Illana responded. She then blasted four beams from her armor; two from her hands, one from her forehead, the other from the chest-plate. Lance activated his machine-gun arms and opened fire. They began to rotate, and were spinning with each-other, moving so fast, bullets and lasers were flying from all directions.
When they stopped spinning, all the Mutradi were dead. Octus had finished off all the Mutradi on the ground and all was silent, save for the humming of the small portal, Octus flew back up to Lance and Illana.
"What just happened?" Ben asked
"I'm not sure." Kim responded.
"Did we win?" Ron guessed.
"I don't think this is over, not by a long shot." Danny responded as they turned to the portal. It closed and all that was there was the box just hovering.
"Is that it?" Rex queried
"Some attack." Jake criticized. "That was only a work-out for me."
"Something's not right guys." Zak said. "Look!" he pointed to the portal, and it deactivated revealing the hovering generator.
"What, that's it?" Lance asked "Modula must be losing it, if he thought this was gonna kill us."
"Lance, I've got a bad feeling about this." Illana worried. Their armor still active.
"Look down there." Octus instructed and they saw the Portal close and the box just floating in its spot.
"What happened?!" Solomon asked from the bridge of the G3 base.
"Sir, the portals are all closed at each of the five locations." An agent at a console responded.
"Maybe they've given up?" another agent mused.
"No. This is far from done." Solomon declared. "Be ready."
At each of the locations, something happened. A large white, horizontal ring formed around each of the generators. From each location, the ring began to circle around vertically. It moved faster and faster. It kept moving until it appeared that a white orb had formed around the generator, the orb was roughly the size of a person.
"Guys" Octus began, getting his comrade's attention "That frequency is greatly increasing! Nearly 10-fold. Almost like a…"
"Rift-gate" Lance finished.
The orb at their location blasted a white beam. The beam blasted diagonally towards Sherman.
The orb in the sewers blaster upward diagonally as well. It bursted through the streets and into the air.
The orb within the forest, the G3 destroyed make-shift base, fired a beam of its own. It too blasted toward Sherman.
Rex, Zak, and Jake all saw their orb blast a beam from the Junk Yard and toward the city.
Danny, Ben, Kim, Ron, and Rufus all saw the orb in the building blast a beam directly into the sky.
Solomon was seeing all of this from the screens at the G3 base of all five locations.
At the sky above the center of Sherman, close to where Danny's group was. All five the beams met. The beams still continuing to shoot. The epicenter quickly grew until it reached a large diameter. Large enough to completely circle the Empire-State Building. It stopped growing. All the parties, and civilians in the city noticed it.
Until finally, multiple Mutradi star fighters came pouring out and shooting at the city below.
"Ooohh." Danny grunted. "That's bad."
Me: Done!
Moredcai: This was a long one.
Rigby: This just got intense!
Me: And it's only going to get more intense
Grimlock: Me Grimlock can't Wait!
Muscleman: *Waving shirt around* WHOOOOOOO!