Me: Hi everyone. Sorry for the wait.
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Me: It's okay Muscleman, he doesn't even have a high school diploma.
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Me: Yeah, sure no problem.
Ch. 13 Aliens, Monkeys, and Alien Monkeys
The sun was pretty high. It was desperately hot outside, but anyone who would be caught dead in the heat would ignore it after seeing the massive sphinx statue that stood out, one of the last remnants of the ancient Egyptian culture.
However, about two miles behind the man-made statue, was something not man-made. Something even larger. The Mutradi portal generator. The tower stood at least twice as high as the sphinx and was twice as wide, all the towers around the planet stood this tall. The massive white beam continued to shoot out into the sky, keeping the massive rift gate open above the earth.
Landing just at the base of the sphinx was the two man team sent to secure the tower, Ben Tennyson and Ron Stoppable. Ben had just transformed back to human from Jetray and had carried Ron the whole way. Despite there being a massive alien tower, both of them enjoyed the sight of the massive statue.
"Even though this is a parallel Earth, you still can't deny the Ancient Egyptians are true artists." Ben admired as he saw the sphinx.
"For once, we agree on something." Ron admitted, with Rufus on his shoulder chipping "Uh, uh" in agreement.
"Okay enough sightseeing, we got a job to do." Ben said as they both directed there attention to their goal behind the sphinx.
"Yeah, you know, I'm not gonna complain about getting some exercise." Ron began "But couldn't Jeffrey have landed closer to the tower?"
"'Jeffrey'? Dude, it's 'Jetray'" Ben corrected "And don't you think I would have landed closer if I could have? We don't know what kind of defenses they have, better to take a subtle approach."
"Oh right." Ron realized "Eh, I knew that."
"Riiiiigghhtt."
With that, they began their mission.
The two just made it around the sphinx, but quickly hid behind a large rock. A good thing to, as they saw at least twelve armed Mutradi guards.
"So what's the plan?" Ron asked "We sneak in all-ninjaey and take the controls?"
"No, we're supposed to clear the area, meaning we take them all down." The Omnitrix wielder corrected
"No stealth?" Ron asked, with Rufus looking surprised, due to him and Kim usually taking more stealthy approaches when entering a villain's lair.
"I'm not too good with stealth anyways."
"Eh works for me."
Rufus shrugged.
Ben then activated his Omnitrix and transformed into Wildmut, Ron fired-up his Blue Mystic Monkey aura and the two leapt right at the guards.
One Mutradi guard heard an unfamiliar roar and turned to see Wildmut leap on top of him. Wildmut quickly bit down onto his throat and crushed his windpipe, killing it. Ben rarely killed anyone, but knew it had to be done, these Mutradi we're monsters and had to be stopped.
This quarrel caught the attention of all the other Mutradi guards and ran towards Wildmut. Wildmut roared and snarled at them, they snarled back. Amidst the snarls, Ron jumped above Wildmut and attacked
"SURPRISE!"
Ron delivered a two-palmed-thrust to the chest of the Mutradi in front of him. The impact not only crushed the alien's ribs, but sent him flying directly into the crowd, it almost sounded like a bowling ball hitting pins.
The remaining Mutradi quickly regrouped and opened fire on the duo. Wildmut was very quick and agile, able to avoid nearly all the shots; Ron was pretty agile himself.
Wildmut ran around a crowd of Mutradi and leapt onto the one in the center. He bit down onto its gun. The gun quickly began to glow and spark, it was overloading from the damage. Sensing this, Wildmut leapt from the group just as the gun exploded. The shrapnel pierced all the Mutradi and killed the group, Wildmut smiled in satisfaction.
Ron delivered a round-house to a Mutradi's head, completely giving it a 180 degree turn. One tried to punch him from behind, Ron grabbed the alien's arm and through him over his shoulder. He picked it up by the leg and began to swing it in a circle before letting go, sending it flying into the back of the head of the sphinx statue.
More shots we're opened fire on Ron from behind. He turned just in-time for a few shots to hit him. The blue monkey aura around him protected him from sustaining fatal injuries, but the shots still stun.
There we're at least four more left. Ron jumped out of the laser path and, in the same massive leap, gave an axe-kick right to a Mutradi's face, three left. One tried to jab Ron with a ratherly large spear, not impressed, Ron sliced the spear's head off with just his hand. He delivered a punch to the alien's gut, he then grabbed the creature as it left the ground and slammed it hard into the sand.
Two more we're left. Both had their guns primed at him, but Wildmut rammed into one from behind and slashed its throat. The last Mutradi grappled Wildmut in a head-lock, but Wildmut was a lot stronger than he looked. He grabbed the Mutradi soldier's arm that was around his throat and heaved him over himself, landing onto a rock. Wildmut jumped onto the alien and slammed his head so-many times on the rock until both it and the creature's skull split. Once the monster was dead, Wildmut roared in triumph, as a lion would over his defeated foe.
The scene was observed by the monkey master and naked mole rat. "That seemed a little over-board." Ron observed, commenting on how extreme Wildmut went, with Rufus nodding in agreement.
Wildmut turned to Ron and growled a bit, causing Rufus to hide behind Ron's head. "Not that there's anything wrong with that." He quickly added.
Wildmut simply snorted. He turned to the tower and sniffed the air for a few seconds.
"Okay, bad guys out here are done let's go." But, Wildmut stopped him from going. "Dude, what's the problem?" Wildmut growled and snorted. "Uh dude, yeah, I don't speak growl."
Wildmut snorted and pressed the Omnitrix symbol on his collar and turned back into Ben.
"I was trying to tell you there are at least fifty Mutradi soldiers in there."
"How do you know? You didn't have eyes?" Ron questioned
"But Wildmut does have a nose, a really good one."
"So fifty more bad guys? Yeah, couldn't Solomon have sent us more of his G3 guys to help us out?"
"Dude, first off; we took down a whole more than that when Sherman was attacked." Ben pointed out.
"Oh, right."
"And second, if it we're too much for us, what are a bunch of grunts with guns gonna do other than get shot and die. The two of us we're the best option."
Ron relented, knowing Ben was right. "Oh. Yeah that's a good point."
"That being said, why did you bring the gerbil along?" Ben asked
"Hey!" Rufus chirped, shaking his small fist.
"Dude, he's a naked mole rat." Ron corrected "And he's my best bud."
"But why bring him? We're about to storm an alien fortress with the fate of the planet on the line, and you wanna bring your pet?!"
"He's not just a pet!" Ron objected "And he's a lot more resourceful than you might think, he's saved me and Kim many times."
"Really?"
"Yes. Really."
The two glared at each other briefly. Ben decided to break the tension as it wasn't getting them anywhere. "Okay, look. We got a tower to secure, so let's work toghether to take it down, okay?" He offered his hand to shake.
Ron and Rufus looked at each other, Ben did help a lot in the Sherman attack, and he really didn't seem like a jerk after all, not like he first thought of him. Ron sighed and shook his hand "You got it dude."
The two we're at the main door. "So do we just knock or…." Ron began. Ben slammed on his Omnitrix, turning into Bloxx.
"Bloxx? Yes. Good choice Omnitrix."
"So what does he do?" Ron asked.
"You're about to find out." Bloxx said as he pried open the door.
The Mutradi inside immediately turned their attention to the apparent 'Lego-alien' at their door-step (literally) and opened fire. Bloxx just punched at the blasts, the blasts knocked multiple small blocks off Bloxx's hands, but he quickly regrew more. He stretched his arms and shot his fists out so fast they knocked away all the Mutradi in front of him. Bloxx quickly rolled up into a ball and rolled around, crushing all the Mutradi that he missed. The first floor was now clear.
"Not bad." Ron congratulated as he walked inside. With Rufus nodding in agreement. "What now?"
"There's at least one squad inside each floor hear all the way to the top." Bloxx explained "I got a plan, since I can take down bad guys quicker, no offense…"
"None taken." Ron wasn't exactly a fast-paced-fighter.
"You can punch a hole in the ceiling, I'll leap up and take out the squad, and then we'll repeat the process until we get to the top." Bloxx explained
"Sounds like a plan." Ron said. Rufus then motioned several punches and kicks. He then refired up his MMP "Going up!" He leapt and punched a massive hole in the ceiling.
Bloxx extended his upper body into the hole. He came up from the floor of the second floor and pressed his Omnitrix symbol, turning into Spider-Monkey.
The green flash caught the attention of the three Mutradi present. The primed there guns at him.
Spider-Monkey shot web from his tail and snagged all the guns away, he then ensnared one of the surprised aliens, completely encasing it in a cocoon. The second one was about to crush him, but Spider-monkey leapt into the air and shot web into the creature's mouth. He then quicky took the web-rope and with surprising strength (given his scrawny appearance) swung the creature into the wall. The last one tried to punch him, only for Spider-monkey to leap onto his arm and deliver many punches and kicks onto the poor evil alien's face.
"You're good!" Spider-monkey called to Ron.
Ron leapt from the hole. "Nice job dude. You really…. AAAAHHH MONKEY! MONKEY!" Ron shouted, and leapt away assuming a fighting stance.
"Ron?" Spider-monkey questioned
"Monkey's don't talk!" Ron quickly shouted "And there not blue, and they don't have four arms, or green eyes or…."
"Woah dude! Calm down!" Spider-monkey urged. He pressed the Omnitrix and turned back into Ben. "Dude what's up?"
"Ben? That was you?" Ron asked
"Of course it was." Ben answered "Who we're you expecting? Rambo?"
"That was one of your aliens?" Ron asked, with Rufus face-palming at Ron's recent episode "Oooooh."
"Wait? You're afraid of alien monkeys?" Ben questioned
"Not alien monkeys, just monkeys in general. And I'm not afraid of them!"
"You sure didn't act like it. Wait, you're afraid of monkeys. But aren't you like some kind of Mystic Monkey master?" Ben asked
"It's a long story. And I'm not afraid of Monkeys!"
Ben snorted a bit, before bursting into laughter. He clutched his stomach as he laughed, finding the idea so ironic he couldn't help but laught.
"It's not funny." Ron uttered.
"Aw come on man. You gotta admit it's a little bit funny. The Monkey Master is afraid of Monkeys."
"I know, I know. Can we please just go?"
Ben still giggled a bit. "Okay sure, sure."
Ron then fired up his MMP again and punched another hole in the ceiling.
From outside the tower, we can hear multiple sounds. Shots being fired, aliens roaring, people being punched, metal crushed, energy surges. We can even see a few fire balls, lasers, blue electric balls, yellow electric balls, shoot out from the inside. From each floor we see a green flash as Ben assumes a diffrenet alien form.
After about 30 minutes, the two punch their way to the roof. They now stood open the circular roof of the tower and could see the beam shoot out from a massive hole from the top, with an equally massive white energy beam shoot out into the sky.
"That's it, then." Ben said
"We cleared all the floors." Ron recalled
"And took down all the bad guys." Ben sad as well.
"Looks like we won." Ron observed with Rufus chirping "Wahoo!"
Right after that, a large gargling sound was heard.
"Please tell me that was your stomach." Ben hopped
"Not mine." Ron answered, the two looked at Rufus who shrugged.
The same sound was heard, it came from behind the beam. Coming from around the massive beam was a ten-foot-tall, black blob Mutradi alien; the same kind of Tar monster that invaded Sherman high a few months back.
"Boss battle?" Ron asked
"Boss battle." Ben confirmed, before transforming into Big Chill.
The creature roared at its enemies ready to fight.
Big Chill flew towards the creature. "I think it's time you cool off." Big Chill cracked before unleashing a massive breath on the creature, slowly freezing it. The creature began to reach for Big Chill, who kept up his assault. Just when the semi-solid hand was inches from its prey, it completely froze from the inside out.
Ron then leapt above Big Chill and slammed his cupped-hands-together onto the frozen creature, shattering it.
"Well that was easy." Ron noted. Only for Big Chill and Rufus to face-palm at the same-time.
"What? What!?" He asked to both of them
"Dude, you never say it was easy, ever!" Big Chill sternly replied
"Why?" Ron asked
Right as he said that, the frozen pieces began to quickly melt, due to the heat from the weather and the nearby energy beam. The melted pieces then quickly reformed and the blob was back.
"That's why." Big Chill answered.
"Ooooohhhh." Ron said.
The creature roared. He tried to slam his fists down on the duo, only for Big Chill to grab Ron and fly a great distance away from the creature.
"Ice won't work on him." Big Chill observed "So how about we work from the other end?" He pressed his Omnitrix symbol and transformed into Swampfire.
Swampfire formed a massive fire ball and threw it straight at the creature. Only for the creature to open its mouth and quickly swallow the fire ball. It then burped out steam.
The jaws of the Monkey Master, Fire-Plant alien, and Naked Mole Rat all dropped to the ground.
"He… swallowed… it?" Swampfire observed
"We're…. in…. trouble." Ron added
The blob moved with incredible speed towards the duo, only for both to jump far to the left. Swampfire shot many smaller fireballs at the blob. These ones actually hit the creature, but only seem to sting it rather than hurt it.
"Hang on." Ron said as he again fired up his blue aura "I'll take care of…"
Swampfire put his hand in front of Ron. "Bad idea."
"What? Why?"
"Look." Swampfire said. He quickly threw seeds at the creature. Many vines rapidly grew from the seeds and tied it up completely, only for the blob to expand and consume the vines completely.
"If it could do that, what do you think will happen to you if you try to punch it?" Swampfire asked rhetorically
Ron and Rufus shivered at the thought of being sucked into a blob. "Good point, I do not want to become the guy from Night of the Blob 2." With Rufus shaking his head
The creature moved again with incredible speed. Swampfire got an idea, no time to think, he quickly pushed Ron outta the way and the creature ensnared Swampfire.
Ron watched in shock as Swampfire uselessly struggled against the blob and was completely engulfed.
"BEN!" Ron shouted. Shock then morphed into anger and rage. "That's it! You're going down, Blob boy!" Ron slammed the ground. With his mystic strength, the floor around the blob shook as it all caved in and the creature fell down.
"That was for you Ben." Ron said. He closed his eyes and looked down. "I'm sorry for thinking you we're jerk." Rufus took out a mini-hackney blew his noose as tiny tears formed. "You we're the most awesome guy I met. You can turn into dozens of cool aliens. Ben Ten, I just wish, that maybe, we could have been friends. I'll miss…"
Soon the ground shook a bit, and a giant black blob fist broke through the ground. Causing Ron to stumble. He looked up in fear as the blob-fist shifted back into the form of the blob monster. It looked down at Ron in anger, it formed two fists, raised them, ready to crush Ron.
"Rufus, close your eyes." Ron said, Rufus covered his eyes with his paws. Ron knew he couldn't beat this thing with his power, he just wish he could tell Kim he loved her one last time.
A green flash erupted inside the creature, getting it's and Ron's attention. The blob clutched its lower stomach in pain and fell to the ground.
Ron quickly got up and moved back a few feet and watched the creature howl in pain. There was something strange happening. Ron and Rufus both noticed and watched. Was it…. Getting smaller?
The blob was indeed decreasing in size, in fact, it looked like it was imploding. From the bottom of the creature, it became clear what was happening. Because the creature's body was flowing into the mouth of Ben's alien from, Upchuck.
Upchuck was swallowing the blob whole. Before long, Upchuck managed to devour the whole creature. He spat out his tongue in disgust. "Aw man, that tasted worse than expired milk!" He rubbed his tongue in an attempt to get the taste off. He caught sight of Ron. "Hi."
Ron and Rufus' jaws both hung open.
"Did you… did… but it… you… I…. that's not…. How can…" Ron could not find the words to describe what just happened.
Upchuck changed back into Ben who offered Ron a hand. "You okay man?" Ben asked
"Did you just…."
"Eat it?" Ben finished "Yeah, that's Upchuck's power. He can eat pretty much anything."
"That is…" A massive smile formed on Ron's face "SO COOL!" He excitedly/violently grabbed Ben's shoulders "DUDE! You're alive! That is so awesome! You're Awesome! Ben 10 is Awesome! BOOYAH!"
"Thanks." Ben said "You're not so bad yourself Ron. Sure you're not the brightest, and you have weird tastes in pets, but you're pretty cool too."
"Thanks man, ditto." Ron replied. With Rufus nodding in agreement.
Ben then opened his Comn frequency in the Omnitrix. "Hey Solomon, its Ben. Ron and I just secured the rift gate generator in Egypt."
"Understood." Solomon replied "Rex and Lance also just checked in, the Amazon generator is secure as well; we're now awaiting confirmation on the last three. I'll send a squad to take over so you can head back"
"Two down, three to go." Ben said. "Though it could take a bit for G3 to get a squad out all-the-way to Egypt."
"Kinda wish I brought some Nacos." Ron said.
"Some what?" Ben asked
"Nacos. Tacos and Nachos all mixed together. I invented it." Ron said proudly.
"Tacos and Nachos?" A smile formed on Ben's face and put his hand on Ron's shoulder. "You know what buddy? I think you and I are gonna get along just okay."
The two then fist-bumped.
Me: Finished.
Mordecai: Dude, nice work.
Rigby: Awesome job man.
Muscleman *Waving his shirt around*: Whooooo! You know who else thinks you've done a good job? My mom!
Grimlock: Me Grimlock love story! Me Grimlock can't wait for next chapter.
Me: thanks guys. Again, sorry it took so long. I like to thank everyone for being patient, and for all the reviews.
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