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Story Aided by - u/2319472/Vanessa-Masters
Chapter 4:
Arrangements and Aerobics
Currently the blue outfitted man was cowering before a purple themed flyer after entering his sports rival's home. "Stay back! That's a direct order!" He shouted to the bat out of fear; believing that the screeching that he heard was it's way of a warning before the biting.
"Anything you say, Colonel Calloway." A female voice said to him in a calm tone. The sudden sound of something new caused the older man to stop cowering and look before him.
"Huh?" He said after hearing the voice and saw a purple themed young woman before him. This confused him, so he had to ask a simple question. "Where did you come from, young lady?" He asked while pointing a finger at the girl in question.
"Up there! Miss Grimwood said for you to make yourself comfortable." The vampire said to the leader of the enemy calmly while gesturing to the higher levels along with to the room to her left. "She'll be down as soon as she wraps things up." She informed him as they walked into the next room with the human in the lead. She chuckled at her own play of words.
"Affirmative. Thank you, young…" Calloway said after looking around the room, but did not finish since the moment he turned to face the girl again the same bat from before had taken her place. "This school mush have bats in its belfry." He said to himself while backing away from the doorway and pulling on his collar.
'Guess it's time for their annual talk.' The bat thought to herself, and avoided the teacher's hallway at all costs since they were changing back to their average clothes, and she did not want to confirm what the others were saying about her.
"Hmm?" He said after swiping his left index finger on the right arm of the chair in front of him. "It could stand a little spit and polish." He suggested while sitting down on the chair. As soon as his butt hit the cushion metal bars came from the chair binding his - chest and wrists.
"Ah, Colonel Calloway, how nice of you to pay us a visit." The headmistress commented as she walked into the room Sibella said she left him in. A small part of her liked how the prideful human was bound in her chair, and thought of doing some tickle torture for a bit, but his whining got to her.
"Miss Grimwood, this chair. It's…." He said to her while banging his feet in place since they were the only things free. She shelved her thoughts and decided to help her competitor out.
"Yes, it's a collector's item: Early inquisition." She explained after walking over to him. "But not very comfortable, I'm afraid." She added when the man was looking at his bound upper body. "Would you prefer a softer chair?" She offered with a snap of her fingers. Once her fingers snapped the metal receded back into the chair.
"Thank you." He said to her before getting up and heading over to the chair beside the one he sat in. When he got there he checked the arms, cushion, back of the chair, head of the back, and under it for any kind of surprises. 'This one seems normal.' He thought before sitting down. While he was doing all of that the female had pulled a gong out from the closet along with the stick that went with it.
"Now, how about some tea and sweets?" She questioned to the military man once he was comfortable. He noticed that the last three words came out in sing-song tone, but he ignored it, but decided to at least answer her honestly.
"Negative, Miss Grimwood. I'm on a strict military diet." He said to her in a polite tone since he did not wish to hurt her feelings.
"Nonsense, Colonel. You must taste my fudge." She said to him before ringing the gong. At the sound of the gong a land walking octopus came over to them with two tea cups, one teapot, and a tray of brownies. "I made it this morning." She said after her friend stuck the tray out to the visitor. The brown haired man saw the tray and being a gentleman he decided to take her up on the offer.
"Well, if you insist. Thank you." He said after hearing the comment and then took a fudge square. Once both of them had one piece of fudge the eight limbed butler poured them each a beverage from the teapot.
"Delicious, if I do say so myself." She said aloud after finishing her piece, but also before she reached for her teacup.
"Doesn't it taste a little moldy?" The other questioned after taking a little nibble from the corner of the fudge square. He looked over to the overseer of the school he was in to make sure what he guessed was right.
"Of course, Colonel." She answered back before finishing off another square. "Fungus fudge always tastes moldy." She explained to the newbie of this kind of cuisine. The butler then look the opportunity to wipe her mouth off since he did see some fudge around her mouth.
"Fungus fudge?" The headman of the military school questioned in alarm before dropping his snack and chugging down the small amount of drink in his cup. As they were talking the school's guardian snuck in and saw the free food dropping, so he got there, flexed his tongue and started chomping once his tongue came back with his prize.
'Maybe he'll be good to us this time.' The dragon thought with an external sigh, and waited for more freebees. Both unaware of the new creature in the room went on with their conversation.
"Yes, it goes so well with toadstool tea." The pink clothed woman explained her combo secret to the man before her. Sadly, her news had the same effect as the food.
"Toadstool tea?" He questioned while looking at the container that had a small sample of the item in question. In his disgust he dropped the cup, and hopefully not his snack, onto the dragon.
'Ow.' He thought in discomfort when the plastic cup landed on his head. The raven haired woman saw this, but saw it as something else.
"More tea, Colonel?" She questioned politely to the man; not noticing his disgusted face.
"Negative, Miss Grimwood." He said back to her while waving his hands in front of him to emphasize his point. "I think it's time we arranged our annual Volleyball game." He said to the woman before him since he wanted to get to the point and get out as soon as possible. The moment he got onto that subject the pet/guardian got ticked.
'So, he isn't here to be friendly.' The green beast thought before setting off with a plan of his own.
"My cadets are looking forward to winning again this year." The colonel said not knowing that the new visitor has moved from his first position. The moment he said that the heat on his posterior began to rise. "Isn't it getting a bit warm in here?" He questioned not knowing that there was a lit blowtorch beneath him.
"It's going to get a lot hotter on the Volleyball court, Colonel." The headmistress said to the headmaster after getting up out of her chair, and closer to him in an intimidating way. "We've got a few new coaches and I'd like you to meet them." She said to the opponent which at that time the octopus coiled one of his arms around a hanging rope and pulled down once. At that time the three decided to grab something from the kitchen with Ben still hard at work with his drink.
"I can't believe that you're still at it." Long commented to the smoothie superhero as they headed for a different set of stairs.
"What can I say: she got it extra thick, and I like it thick." He said back after taking a small enough break to answer him before going back at it. As soon as they were on the stairs the steps compressed into slid form, and took it with them.
"WHOA!" The trio shouted as gravity got the better of them. Out of routine they thought of using their powers until they saw a new guy in the next room so they let gravity take them down the slide, and even slid on the ground a bit.
'I guess I need to save them.' The eight limbed man thought as they slid right past him. He outstretched three limbs, each catching one of them, but with one thing short.
"No, my smoothie." Ben shouted until he saw a very pale blue hand stick out of the ground and caught his beverage. 'Thank you, Phantasma.' He thought before being placed on the ground feet first.
"Danny, Ben, Jake, I'd like you to meet Colonel Calloway." The headmistress, who they bypassed before the semi-aquatic help, said to the new guys.
"Hello." He said to his fellow man now really feeling warm in his buttocks forcing him to leap from the chair because of such unbearable heat. This caused two of them to chuckle while the third knew how to make that even funnier.
"You don't have to get up because of us, Colonel." The black haired youth said to the army ready man. The person the comment was aimed at landed on the ground, feet first and was patting his butt of the extra heat.
'Been there done that.' Tennyson thought as he recalled the fact that he had to use his backup jeans. The female in the room saw the cause of the others distress and decided to do something about it.
"Bad boy, Matches." She said to her old friend and knew that that was enough.
"I try to please this woman and this is what I get. PATOOY!" He said in his native tounge, But not before seeing the human shaped dragon give him a thumbs-up for what he had pulled.
"We're ready to play your school whenever you say, Colonel." Fenton said to the older fighter.
"Affirmative. We'll rendezvous on your field at 1400 hours." The blue clothed man said to the three while still patting his butt from the heat. "Prepare to synchronize watches." He instructed to them while reaching for the old fashioned wristwatch on his right wrist.
"You got it." The young Fenton said while going for the watch on his left wrist.
"Synchronized…oh wait mine can't tell time." The shape-shifter said after realizing that the watch had several aliens and it was the cutting edge of alien tech, but at the same time it could not tell time unlike Jake's watch which could.
'I better as well. No telling if these heroes can tell time.' The butler thought as he prepared three watches at once. When the leader of the enemy saw that the males were as ready as could be he decided to take his leave.
"Check. Over and out." He said with a salute, and then headed for the door.
"Dudes, it looks like the Colonel is already warmed up for his butt-kicking." The American defender said to the others, but noticed that they were eyeing the tray on the tentacle butler.
"You'd better start getting the girls ready, Danny." The employer informed to the ghost as he and the green jacketed one walked over to the treats. Not really listening to what she was saying.
"Why the rush, Miss Grimwood? After all we have 1400 hours to prep for the game." The civilian of a phantom said as he got to the tray and took one of the treats on it. "That's a lot of time." Fenton continued after picking up a piece of fudge.
"Yep, sure is." Ben added after swiping the desert treat while remaining in human form, and wolfed it down.
'What the?' Danny thought as he felt his fingers devoid of anything in between them and saw that his fellow hero was gnawing on his prize.
"Uh…sorry to disappoint you guys but 1400 hours in Military for 2 o` clock. We only got an hour." Jake said to them while gesturing over to the grandfather clock in the room to emphasize his point. The New Yorker was grateful that Trixie filled him and spud in on all the different military wordplay.
"Why didn't you say something before, Jake?" Danny said before going ghost, and tail mode. In that state he flew over and grabbed the dragon by the arm. "Don't just stand there. We've got to warm-up." He said before flying off with his new friend.
"I'll be right behind you." Tennyson said to the two before activating his weapon. "But not without these fudge squares." He said before slamming it down causing him to form:
"Spidermonkey!" The small blue creature shouted and it wasn't until he saw his hands that he realized the problem. "I guess you have a problem with Fourarms again." He muttered before webbing the tray and fudge pieces and followed to where the guys were. After a few moments of searching he had found them in a torture/workout room.
"Mmm, Miss Grimwood's famous Fungus Fudge." The airborne fang user said with a smile after the monkey dragged his prize behind him.
"Fungus, huh?" The space bound simian questioned before taking one despite the web still being on them. "Not bad." He confessed and saw that they all were chowing down on the web covered fungus.
"The fudge was good at first, but this web makes them even better." Sibella complimented causing the six limbed creature to became a little embarrassed. Deciding to change the subject the small in stature creature tapped his symbol causing him to return to normal.
"Aren't we supposed to be doing some last minute training." The human said while rubbing the back of his head.
"Oh, quite right. Let's get to it girls." The leader of the females said and with that they began. Just as they were starting the shape-shifting granite guardians on the wall of the school put their fingers in their ears because of the noise. There were a pair of average, migrating vultures on top of the building at first enjoying the noise, but soon had to put earmuffs on to block the noise if only a little bit.
"You're doing great girls. Scream, two, three, four." Jake said as he and the other pieces of his team were instructing the girls to do jumping jacks. "Howl, two, three, four." He said since they did as he asked, so he tried it again with a howl.
'This is my chance.' The werewolf thought once she heard the second request and stopped for a moment so that she could let out one of her better howls. Ben on the other hand saw the one beside her and decided to repay those kind words with some of his own.
"That's keeping your cape in shape, Sibella." He said to the vampire while noticing the pink knee length stockings and the red headband, and believing that they suited her.
"Fangs a lot, Benji." She said back and then tried not to blush for the…accidental wrong word.
'Did she just say…naw.' Ben thought since all of the times he had heard that name it was used as an insult on his account. He could only hope that she wasn't like that.
"And I'm keeping my tape in shape!" The female mummy commented while jump roping with a sample of her wrappings.
"You certainly are, Tannis." Grimwood said to the young one while also doing some jumping jacks with her butler to her left. "Scare-obics are good for everyone!" She shouted to them as she was enjoying this as much as the others were. The trio saw her point when they saw the hand spirit work his fingers in a rhythmic pattern.
"Atta girl, Elsa. Don't bend you're knees." Danny said as she moved her legs as her relation often did when they were having knee problems. Three of the girls were wondering if the strength factor of the five were trying to show off her dark red ankle warmers to their coaches.
'I make this look good.' The mini fire starter thought as he bounced on his coiled tail; looking rather smug about it. By this time the group was now trying something new: the two phantoms were running from one end of the room to the other.
"Exercise is fun…Phanty." Danny stuttered since he did not want her to think too much of that nickname coming from him, but at the same time he did like her and wanted to know her a bit better. The two stayed side by side until they went through the wall.
"Yes, it's really off the wall!" The screeched with enthusiasm after they passed the stone wall. It only took a moment for the now white haired youth to realize where they were which caused him to say something back.
"Actually, I'd say more through the wall." He said to her which caused the female to laugh about his statement. When they first it was annoying, but now it seemed to have grown on him.
"Alright, girls. It's time for some deep breathing exercises." The red scaled dragon said to the group and began to do just that. The leader of the girls saw this, and decided to tell the youth what they do instead.
"You mean deep shrieking, Jake." Grimwood corrected him with four of the girls behind her and the fifth slowly phasing into the building with the male monster right behind her. "Show him girls." She offered and it was the youngest that demonstrated it. After taking eight deep breaths the white and light blue clad girl let loose a powerful shriek, so powerful that some of her bandages came undone.
"Sounds fang-tastic, kid. You've got the fright stuff." The violet vampire congratulated to the youngling before transforming into her bat form, and headed straight for Ben. There was a silly plan behind it: him catching her, without hero mode, and snuggling her closely in her current state. The dream did not go as planned since the teen in question fell back out of shock, and tripped on the one creature he did not want to see.
"Not this time, pal. This time I know when to…" The hero of heroes said while standing back to full height as he saw the small creature turn from green to red before adding, "Run for my life."
'Get back here!' The smaller beast said back while charging at him. He gave chase to the fleeing man.
"Now: In. Out. In. Out." The dragon said while breathing, and getting to shriek until he saw the brown haired youth run past Grimwood and himself.
"Hot pants. Hot pants. Hot pants. Hot pants." The wielder of the Omnitrix shouted after being struck by four different flame attacks. The taller flame beast saw this, but instead of helping he congratulated.
"Way to go, Ben! That's deep breathing." He said with a smile to the fleeing man.
"HELP!" The other shouted as he was still being attacked. In truth he wanted to transform and counter, but he wasn't sure how his employer would react so he stayed as he was.
"And deep shrieking." The mystical one added to his earlier comment not really able to translate the shriek. It was at that time that the leader of the school decided to finish this exercise before moving onto something else.
"Come on, girls. Let's hear it!" She issued to the younger women, and at that the five gathered around and began shrieking in their own native tongues. It was at that point that the scavengers above them have had quite enough.
"I hate all this screaming." The vulture to the left commented to his partner.
"Me, too. I'm flapping out." The other said; surprised that their earmuffs did nothing to stop the noise. With that the two took their suitcases, which they liberated from a pair of tourists, and flew away from the haunted house. The birds, and the gargoyles were not the only ones that heard the screams: the cadets did as well.
"Get a load of that racket coming from the Grimwood place." Tug informed as his speed, and brain factor along with himself were doing some routine toe touches until the screams got the better of them. The trio leaned to their right to get a better listen.
"Phew! And I thought Calloway was tough. That school sounds like torture!" Jamal said to the others after getting an earful of their neighbor. The remaining two heard what they were hearing, but at the moment they were busy with something else.
"Well, you know what they say, 'No pain, no gain.'" The strength of their team - Grunt commented as he was doing weighted down push-ups. "More weight, Baxter." He requested to his supplier who was simply standing beside two more bags.
"Aye, aye, Grunt." The little one said as he lifted as best as he could one of the two bags, and tossed it on the other two on his friend's back.
"More weight." The big one commented since he believed that it was brawn that won a game not speed, skill, or brains.
"Here comes the Colonel. Attention!" The relation of TJ commented when he saw the blue man return to them. Baxter heard this and saluted unconsciously tossing the last bag up in the air which crashed down and slammed the training one into the ground.
'I better salute too.' The grounded one thought while lifting his head, which had one of the bags on top of it, from the ground and saluted as the others did.
"At ease, men." The older one said causing the four visible members to stand down. It was not until they did that he saw the fifth one still saluting, so he added, "I said, 'at ease', Grunt."
"Thank you, sir." The fifth one said back before collapsing into the hole in the ground. Their leader then focused on the task at hand - the game.
"I just want to say, no matter what happens on the Volleyball court this afternoon…" He started to say calmly before glancing down at the trophy he got from their extensive trophy room before coming outside which caused him to get angry as he ended with, "…you've got to win." The four of them practically felt an increase in wind after he said that last part.
"Yes, sir!" The ones above ground shouted in an obedient tone. Their word was not what he wanted to hear he wanted them to also know what was at stake for him - winning.
"Do you want this trophy to stay at Calloway Military School?" He questioned to them while keeping his outdoor voice to the young men.
"Affirmative. We won't let you down, sir." The field leader said to his commanding officer even though that his rebellious blood brother would have talked back and walked away since he believed that having fun was more important than winning.
"1400 hours approaches. Prepare to engage the enemy!" Their teacher said to them after clearing his throat and ended with him pointing at the doorway. The moment he said that the fifth one leapt out of the hole and tackled a stack of three sacks.
"Those Grimwood girls won't know what hit them." Grunt said since unlike Mikey, who preferred not to be thought of as a bully due to his size and strength, reveled in the advantages in it. Such as beating the girls for another time over. Once his statement was said he began to laugh, but the laughing stopped when a sack landed on top of him.
'I wonder if that is an omen to our fate.' Miguel thought as he saw the moment, but decided to wave it off. The girls were still in their training room with their coaches.
"That's it, girls! Rattle those chains!" Fenton said to the stein and the wolf who were practicing their upper strength. He then saw that Jake and the mummy.
"What's up, Tannis?" The New Yorker questioned to her in his human form; since he still wanted practice in the basics while he was here.
"That chin bar. I want to give it a shot." She informed the coach. The hero in question saw that it was a little too high for her, but instead of lowering the bar he instead summoned his dragon tail, picked her up, and let her have at it.
"Keep your chin up, Tannis. Your mummy would be proud." The dragon said after de-powering his tail and saw that she was pulling herself up with one of her wrappings looped around the bar.
'Hmm, I better warn the others about the time.' The octopus thought as he kept an eye on one of his three watches. The silent one gently tossed his limb before his employer so that she could see.
"Oh, my. It's a tentacle to 2:00." She said in alarm after gazing at the offered clock. "Those Calloway cadets will be arriving any minute!" She added since she knew that that was their style, or at least that was how the Colonel wanted them to be.
"That's just enough time to loosen up the old neck muscles, eh, Ben." The dragon of the USA said as they both stretched their necks in their human forms.
"Yeah, I guess we do." The third teenager said and began to move his neck by traditional means. Phantasma, who was floating behind them, decided to show off how she loosened her neck muscles by turning her head around four times.
"Is this loose enough?" She questioned to the two with her head facing away from them, but her body toward them.
"I can do that stunt too." The protector of Bellwood said before going to his watch: activating it, and slamming it down:
"Swampfire!" He shouted aloud when the light died down. The transformed teen spun his head eleven times, since he knew that this form had no bones to worry about.
"Seriously that is both cool and messed up at the same time." The red jacketed warrior said to the other who stayed in that present form. With their location devoid of sound Ben was able to hear his neck beginning to rip apart due to how fast he did that stunt.
"Uh-oh." The fire/grass creature said, and before another word was spoken the head came off and fell to Ben's direction, who used his claw hands to catch it. Since he was not expecting it the fellow hero threw the head out of fright.
"What?" He questioned when he saw that the others were staring at him. "That caught me by surprise." He added, praying that they would believe his words. It was then that Sibella saw a root of sorts slowly slither out of the base of the head, and head straight for the: still standing upright body.
'What's all this?' She questioned as she, and the others continued to watch what was going on. The group watched as the root found it's way to the top of the body, and as soon as it was in the head was alive again.
"Okay, that's new." The head said with a groan before seeing that his body was walking around trying to find the rest of itself. "Over here. This way!" The main piece of the body shouted in between whistles before finishing with, "Oh, right, duh. What am I whistling for - I'm the part with ears" By this time the vampire walked over and picked it up.
"How are you doing, Ben?" She questioned to the piece in her hands. The sight of a friend brought a smile to the brains of the body.
"Sibella, great! You can reattach me with the rest of me. Uh…what are you doing?" He said with a smile but ended with a confused look since she was walking away from the wandering body. She turned her prize to face a full body open window, and when she got there the female angled the head down before bringing it back to her face. "You wouldn't dare." He said to her not wanting to believe that a student of any caliber was capable of this.
"Here, Swampfire body." She said while tugging on the vine connecting the head to the body. When the rest felt the tug it walked over to the source. As it did the vine pulled itself into the body: more and more.
"Had me worried there." Swampfire head said to her as he saw the body heading right to the window. Sadly she did not give the body the chance to combine instead she threw it out the window; after feeling this the rest of it ran after it.
'Impressive.' The daughter of the best known night stalker thought as she saw the body connect with the head before splash down.
'That's new.' The Methanosian thought before swimming to the surface. "She's lucky I like her otherwise I would be plotting payback." He muttered after reaching the surface.
"This is no time to go for a swim, Swampfire. We've got a Volleyball game." Danny said after he and Jake rushed over to the window he just ran out of. The man-shaped marsh looked up; to see how far he fell, but also to see who was talking.
"I don't know about that, Phantom. My friend Silver says that swimming is a great exercise." The negotiator of the mystical realm informed before looking back down at the moat. At first he only say the alien, but then saw some danger to the warrior's right. "And it looks like the walking sludge pit is going to get a lot of exercise." The winged one said before pointing over to a pair of shark fins.
'Two sharks? Whatever happened to the old fashioned alligators.' The ghost questioned after seeing the animal's warning sign. "Oh, a twin headed shark. Now that's original." The youngest of four said when the owners of the fins surfaced.
"What is that noise?" The moat tester questioned aloud before turning and seeing the two mouthed beast heading straight for him. "What is it with all of these fish wanting to eat me." He whined before swimming away in the form he was at the moment.