I don't own this game. This is the conclusion to the Alien Abduction Arc from Chapter 14
Chapter 22: Fixed
A week later, Holden sits atop the star monument in Hero Square looking up a the tree house. He had just gotten back from an extermination run against a set of fusions that had moved into Sector V and a part of Pokey Oaks North. He was the only one protecting the tree house along with a few KND personnel. Blossom had been assigned to guard the Mayor with Bubbles for the day and Hoagie was delivering supplies out at Mount Blackhead, so Holden was bored with no assignment to keep his mind occupied. Already. he thought about going to Fosters or the Cul-De-Sac, but there were no real threats over there.
Suddenly, an old sports car drives around the block and stops in front of the monument. Holden hears three car doors open and slam, followed by a buzzing behind him and sees Gwen using her powers to make stairs. Behind her are Kevin and Ben.
"Holden, we have a plan on how to fix the Ultramatrix. It's complicated but once we arrive at Ship, we'll explain." Gwen says.
"Wren, don't even think of calling shotgun. You're in the back with Tennyson."
Ben gives Kevin a rather dirty look. "You never let me have shotgun."
Kevin almost smiles. "My car, my rules."
Holden jumps down from the book and lands next to Ben.
"I've heard that you met Grandpa Max."
Holden nods, "He's pretty nice. I never thought he would be the kind of guy for a Hawaiian shirt thought."
Gwen tries not to laugh but then responds, "Trust me, the shirt will fool you. Never try his cooking."
"It can't be as bad as Buttercup's cooking." Holden replies thinking of the brownies she tried to cook when they were nine.
Kevin snickers and says, "If you like bugs then that should be your answer. Now let's go, Paradox is waiting."
They get in the car and leave for Ship.
Once they arrive at City Station, they find Ship moored up where they had previously seen him. The ramp drops and they enter Ship to find not just Paradox and Julie, but also a Galvan with a cane.
"So this is the human that will fix my creation."
The Galvan strokes his chin as Holden bends down, "Um, who might you be? Ben didn't say the creator of the Ultramatrix was going to be here."
The Galvan gives a half smile and responds, "My name is Azmuth and no he did not because I didn't tell him I was coming."
Ben sighs, "Cheerful, isn't he? Don't let him get to you. He's always like that."
Azmuth then clears his throat, "Phase one of the plan is done. Vilgax's shields are now down."
Ben's jaw drops, "You could have at least waited for us to get back here so we could have more time."
Paradox frowns, "That, Ben, is something we have little of right now. Gwen set the first doorway up for us please."
Gwen turns, "This might take a few minutes so please be patient." She starts to chant from a portion of the book.
Kevin digs into a bag and takes out a package of light bulbs and hands them to Holden who then responds, "Um Kevin what do I need these for?"
Kevin tries not to laugh, "I keep forgetting you're clueless about aliens. You need these to capture Megawhatts. They are electrical mischief makers."
Holden then responds, "Where did you guys even get these from?"
Ben answers, "They were inside the big rubber band ball you gave us."
Holden doesn't seem to even react, only because nothing was strange to him anymore. Gwen finishes the spell and three portals appear.
She covers each with an energy shield and explains, "Holden for the first area, you have to go alone. If you run into any trouble call us and we'll see what we can do from here." Holden looks at the portal and marches through.
"He's a dead man, isn't he?" In response to Kevin, Ben answers, "Yeah, I think he is." Gwen turns to them, indicating for them to shut up, and consecutively smacks the back of their heads for their pessimistic behavior.
Inside, Holden quickly takes cover behind a stack of boxes. Running around him, are weird creatures that leave behind a trail of shadows of themselves as if they are moving through space and time.
"Um, do any of you know what these weird creatures are? They don't seem exactly normal."
Paradox comes on and answer the question, "Those my dear boy are Time Deviants."
"Yeah don't touch them whatever you do, I learned that the hard way." Kevin interrupts in a grumpy tone.
"What happened?" Holden questioned as his interest is suddenly peaked.
"He aged sixty years or so in a few seconds. Ow! You didn't need to hit me Kevin." Holden hears Kevin laugh.
"These Deviants were made by Vilgax, otherwise we could go to the point in time that made them to prevent their existence." Gwen adds.
Holden peaks out from behind his box and spots the first of the Megawhatts. He gulps and fires on the first Deviant. He hits it but it keeps moving and then changes direction towards him. He let out three more shots and it slowly turns to dust and blows away. He runs at the first Megawhatt, slides and catches in the light bulb, and heads back to the only corridor connecting the one he was just in.
As Holden enters, he sees at least three of the Deviants there and what looks like a defense turret on the wall. Holden contemplates on whether to shoot the turret or just ignore it.
There might be some automated alarm that would go off if he destroyed it and as if on cue, Kevin responds to his dilemma, "Those turrets won't sound any alarms, Holden. You can just take them out."
With a sigh Holden responds, "That would have been nice to know that before I even started."
Holden disables the turret with five well placed shots but also unfortunately drawing the attention of the Deviant who almost touches Holden. Holden lets loose a flurry of shots and Deviant soon enough disappear. He hides behind a set of boxes at the end of the corridor and find the location of the next Megawhatt. As he takes out three more deviants and turns the corner, he finds that he has barely anytime to react to the turret. He gets hit twice in the chest and once in the arm before he finally disables it. Holden's arm slightly starts to bleed but his chest area remains intact. He finds the next electrical prankster and seals it up in a light bulb.
"Well that's two, Kevin. Where's the next one?"
"Not that far just in a room that's down the hall and it will be on the room immediately to the right."
Holden follows the route as Kevin instructed, taking out another turret and five more Deviants. He finds the last one hiding in the corner and traps in the bulb.
His nancom then starts going wild and Kevin appears with a questioning expression on his face. "Well Holden, seems like the Megawhatts are blocking a signal of some kind, you better go check it out."
Holden follows Kevin's suggestion carefully working his way towards the signal. He walks down a ramp and see that at the bottom in a cylindrical container, is something black and purple.
Ben pops up on his com and his jaw drops, "He's imprisoned a Chromastone! That's how he's blocking the signal by having a DNA source. There should be a something on the nearby controller that shuts down that thing."
Holden searches and finds it, as he turns it off, and the Chromastone inside vanishes. A portal opens near him and he walks through.
Holden walks back onto Ship and gives Kevin the light bulbs.
Ben smiles and says, "Well here we go, time to see if it works now."
He turns the dial of the Ultramatrix once and presses it down instantly turning into a weird monkey with four arms and four eyes.
"Well, at least we know that I can at least use Chromastone and this." says the now monkey Ben, who then transforms back.
"Good job Mr. Wren, the next part of the plan is to free more of the alien forms in the next part of the ship." Paradox smiles and closes his watch.
Gwen moves towards the second portal and states, "This time I'm coming along to provide some magical back up. We don't have time to waste so come on!" She enters the second portal and Holden follows.
Inside the next area of Vilgax's ship, there are large pools of fusion matter.
"Holden, I want to see if there any turrets here before we do anything. If there are, help me disable them, would you?"
Holden nods. Gwen forms a pink disk and sends it head of them, and as it flies around, a turret appears out of the wall, making it a visible target for Gwen's disk. Along with three shots from Holden, it explodes, but causes some newer looking Time Deviants to appear near the edge of the pool. Gwen throws five bolts while Holden shoots each one twice and this time the Deviants turn to sand. Gwen forms a block of energy and she and Holden get on it.
"This is interesting! This looks like drive tank for fusion matter. I wonder why Vilgax has so much." Gwen was intrigued.
Holden frowns and instantly Gwen notices, but they continue on. The hallway they land in isn't that big and connects to another of the long pools. Gwen makes a new block but it immediately is shot at by a new turret above them, making it shatter.
Gwen starts to fall toward the fusion matter but Holden grabs her arm and pulls her up and around the corner. "That was close, thanks Holden."
Holden fires on the turret and it smokes and dies. Gwen then makes a bridge and they walk across the pool. As like the last corridor, this one appears short but unfortunately, the next pool didn't look like it was going to be a cake walk. More walk ways appear and Gwen and Holden run across them. A few turrets pop out, but Gwen easily takes care of them with a few energy disks. She then grabs Holden with her powers and flings him to the other side on solid ground so she can deal with the Deviants that begin to appear around her. Holden couldn't even get a good aim on one, but Gwen manages to defeat them all.
After she is done, she joins him, "Sorry Holden, but I had to think fast to deal with them."
Holden shakes his head, "Give me some warning next time."
Nearby where Holden had been placed, is another container, it holds five tiny white aliens that look like they belong with a stereo.
"So he has some Echo-Echos. Well, let's turn this off and get back to Ship." Gwen says given Holden's look of utter confusion over what it is.
After searching for many minutes, she finds the switch and the alien disappears. Gwen opens an escape portal and they leave for Ship.
When they arrive they find Ben already testing to see if any of his forms returned.
He smiles and then says, "Ok, we're almost done here. This time I'm going and I'll be using Echo-Echo so we can speed up the search. Wait ten minutes then follow me in."
Kevin slams his fist into his palm. "Finally! I've been waiting for some action!"
Ben transforms and he splits into five Echo-Echos and one by one, they all enter the portal. After the ten minute wait Holden, Kevin, and Gwen enter the last area of Vilgax's ship. They find one of Ben's Echo-Echo forms by a pool of fusion matter waiting for them.
"Bad news, guys. It seems that there are Bioids up ahead of us." Kevin and Gwen groan in frustration.
Holden finds himself confused and starts to ask when Kevin answers, "They're robots that have biological abilities but need something to take the form of that thing. Before the Ultramatrix, Vilgax got hold of the Omimatrix and used its signal to set their forms. Trust me, it's better if we just bash the ones we can."
Gwen then looks down at Ben, "What form are they in?"
He responds, "Same as me, an Echo-Echo."
Gwen frowns and adds, "Sonic screams…great. Close combat is going to be tough."
Holden sighs and says, "I'll distract them so you guys can get your chance to attack."
Gwen creates a few platforms and they easily cross the fusion matter channel and then move upwards. Holden steps off the platform and hides behind a box close to the door and starts to fire on a spotted Echo-Echo. Kevin absorbs some of the metal that is nearby and attacks with a spiked ball, destroying a few of the distracted Bioids. Gwen comes up from behind him and places a shield up for some extra cover and then grabs a few remaining Bioids and throws them at the wall. Holden then notices an object on the floor, but his nancom unexpected goes off when he picks it up.
Kevin takes a look at the item. "It's receiving a signal that's been piggybacked from Primus to the Ultramatrix. I think I can do something to reverse the signal and stop what Vilgax is doing."
Kevin tinkers with it for a few minutes as the Echo-Echo parts around them change back to Bioid parts.
"There, now we just need to find that last alien and get out of here." Gwen had received the signal on her nancom and they follow her to a fusion filled reservoir. Gwen makes a few platforms but Holden puts out his arm stopping her.
"This is too easy, Gwen send a bolt of energy out there." Holden says, nodding in the intended direction.
His instincts strangely tell him there are turrets nearby. Gwen did as she was told and uncovers at least three turrets. With a combined effort of three of Ben's Echo-Echos, Gwen, and Holden make the turrets burst into flames.
"How did you know there would be turrets there?" Kevin asks with a raised eyebrow.
"I didn't, I just had a feeling that some were up ahead." Holden says shrugging.
They continue on the path that Gwen had made until they reach the end of the room and have to zoom upwards. There, waits the last two of Ben's Echo-Echos. All five then merge into one and Ben turns back to normal.
"The room with the next form is up ahead." The door opens and inside they find the cylinder holding Ultimate Swampfire. Kevin goes over to the controls and quickly takes it offline. The alien disappears and they hear a door unlock at the other side of the room.
"Our exit should be in the next room. Let's go guys." Gwen says looking back at the other three.
They nod and enter the next room but suddenly a voice interrupted their movements, "Tennyson! You have disrupted my plans for the last time." Vilgax says appearing from a dark shadow in the corner of the room.
"Great, just what we need." Kevin states as he absorbs some new material. Ben turns the dial and presses it down, preparing for battle.
"Cannonbolt!"
Ben and Kevin shout charging in while Gwen and Holden provide some cover fire. Vilgax smacks Kevin across the room hurling him into a wall. Ben rolls into a ball and at high speed smashes into Vilgax. Vilgax only moves a few feet, undisturbed by his attack and then throws Ben into Kevin, both hitting the wall with a loud thump. Kevin returns to normal and so does Ben.
"Looks like this is all up to us, Holden. Cover me while I go in. I'll leave his back open for you."
Gwen creates steps with her energy and tries to attack Vilgax from above with energy bolts. Vilgax uses laser eyes on Gwen and sends her into the opposite wall. Gwen's actions leave Vilgax open and Holden opens fire with a three round burst. Vilgax places his yellow gauntlet up and a shield appears, cancelling out Holden's attack.
"Wren, I never would've imagined that you would be here helping Tennyson. I'll put an end to you first before I destroy them." Vilgax charges at Holden while he stands his ground. Holden jumps up and punches at the alien but his arm is caught.
"You're nothing but a pitiful human!" Vilgax laughs as his grip tightens around Holden.
He takes Holden's Desert Recon Rifle and crushes it and then punches Holden in the chest. Holden coughs and some blood dribbles from his mouth. Vilgax then drops Holden to the ground and punches him again. Holden slips into unconsciousness with an endless feeling of pain.
Holden finally starts to wake up, realizing his head hurt and so did his body. He slowly opens his eyes and reluctantly forces himself up. Holden coughs and some blood hits the floor.
Gwen walks over to him and bends down, "How did you do that Holden? I saw you get smashed by Vilgax and then stand back up. You jumped up and punched him so hard you nearly sent him into the reservoirs full of fusion matter. Then you used a white beam of energy and did actually send him flying into the fusion matter."
Holden notices the wall now had a hole in it.
"What are you talking about? I just regained consciousness."
Kevin looks in disbelief. He had seen Holden do everything he did then fall back down on the ground. "So you don't remember doing…"
Holden, feeling annoyed, snaps back interrupting Kevin, "I don't remember doing anything, Kevin! I was knocked out! How could I have fought Vilgax then?"
Ben frowns knowing that something strange going on, but right now they needed to leave. Gwen makes one last portal and exit onto Ship with the other three.
Paradox sat waiting for them, and as they arrive, he stands up saying, "I'm glad to see your all back in one piece. Why looking so glum Mr. Wren? I have something for you to replace your old Desert Rifle."
The smiling Paradox hands Holden a fully upgraded Recon Rifle. "Thanks, Paradox. Where did you get this?"
Kevin then responds, "Trust me you're never going to find that answer."
Ben nods, "Holden you should go talk to Professor Utonium. I'll come along to make sure you arrive there alright."
Gwen then says, "Holden, if you're in the Mount Blackhead area come visit me in the Pimple Back Mountains. I might need your help with things sometime."
She leaves and Kevin adds, "Yeah, I'll be in Nowhere protecting the Baggs with that dog of theirs and Juniper Lee."
He follows after Gwen saying good-bye to Holden. Holden sighs, knowing he couldn't escape being taken to the Professor.
Later that night, Professor Utonium was looking over the blood sample he had taken from Holden. Ben had told him what had happened and he decided to look for evidence of Chemical X. There was nothing to indicate there had been any in Holden's blood stream or even in his DNA making the Professor relieved but doubtful of how had Holden punched someone through a wall at 1/16th of the power that the girls could have and used an omega beam and still not remember it.
The spectrum analysis comes back from the computer and the Professor's eyes widen. How did THAT chemical get in Holden? This isn't good. The chemical found was developed by a genetics company called Exurvent and what was worse was that the two people who had developed it for that company were Holden's parents. The Professor knew that a year before he had created the girls, the company was trying to mass produce children to have powers and abilities by inducting their chemical into them to make them perfect. The chemical was never used to his knowledge but it appeared that Holden his parents' first trial. How could Lauren and Grifton do this to their own son? There were supposed to be ethic rules in place for a reason. The Professor had known Holden's parents since before they were in college and they had named the Professor Holden's god father after he was born. The Professor stares at his computer screen wondering what he should do, realizing that the only thing he could do right now was to try and figure out that if this chemical was to be broken down, would it cause any harmful effects for Holden. The Professor ends up remaining at his desk for the majority of the night, staring at nothing but the paper-filled table in front of him, concerned and fearful for the safety of his god child's life.
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