Night time in a run down part of a large city...
A rat scurried across an alley. It was heading to its home after looking for food in the trash. It was shot by a blue energy bolt that was fired by a pistol that was wielded by a four foot tall alien with grey fur, a rat like head, yellow eyes with black pupils, and black quills that seemed to resemble hair. A toothy grin formed on his snout when he saw the roasted corpse he turned the rat into.
"Ha!" The alien, a small time crook named Argit laughed. He holstered the gun that he held and in his orange jacket and rushed over to the rat. He grabbed the dead rodent and ate it whole.
Licking his lips, Argit belched before the headlights of a car shown on his back. His eyes widened as he heard the engine rev. Argit looked to see that in the driver's seat was Kevin, and he had a look of calm rage.
Kevin pulled up right beside Argit.
"Kevin." Argit said as he walked up to the driver's window. Kevin rolled down the window when Argit was right next to him. "Buddy. I've been waiting like an hour."
"I said I'd be here, and I'm here Argit. What's your proposition?" Kevin asked.
"Awwww." Argit groaned when he heard Kevin's tone. "Why you gotta be such a downer?" He asked, raising his shoulders. "After all we've been through? Ain't you glad to see your old running buddy?"
Kevin rolled up the window and started the engine of his car. He was going to drive away from the being that has caused Kevin quite a bit of grief.
Right as he shifted into reverse, Argit put his hands on the window. "No, wait!" Argit shouted softly. "I got that tech you're looking for!"
"What makes you think I'm looking for anything?"
Rolling his eyes, Argit said: "Oh come on Kev. Octagon Vreedle says you've been vid messaging all the underground swappers. And judging by what he's been saying, you're in the market for a specific premio machino. And I got it."
"For real?" Kevin was interested.
"Oh, now you're listening, now that I can do something for you." Argit pulled out what was either a cellphone, or something that looked like one. He pressed a button before putting it the pocket of his blue pants. "You are so off my contact list." He turned and walked away from Kevin's muscle car.
Kevin pulled up to Argit and followed him at a slow speed. He said to Argit: "Come on Argit, you've burned me on so many deals so many time, it makes me forget how tight we really are.
Argit's eyes widened. He stopped walking, allowing Kevin to catch up with him. "Kev." Argit said with a slight smile across his face. "Buddy. I can't stay mad at you." He chuckled. "Not when there's money involved."
"So, let's see it." Kevin, now wanting in on this deal.
Argit's eyes widened. "Uhhhh... I don't actually 'got it' got it."
"Ah come on!" Kevin hit his fist on the door of his car.
Not wanting to make Kevin mad, Argit said something. "But I can make the connection to the guy that does." Kevin raised his eyebrow with intrigue. "But I gotta warn you, it'll cost yah.
Later, at the Rust Bucket...
Gwen and Jack were sitting outside of their grandfather's mobile home/mobile ass kicking machine, waiting for Kevin to finish up the repairs that he was making to it. Gwen was looking through a box of old pictures while Jack just zoned out.
Gwen chuckled. "Hey Jack look, it's us." Gwen showed Jack a picture of the two of them and their grandpa. In the photo, both of them were ten years old. They were yelling at eachother as the Rust Bucket was being towed. Driving between what at the time they thought was a normal RV and the younger versions of themselves, was a blue motorcycle with pink trim. Max had his hands on his grand kids' shoulder, smiling despite what was going on. "It's us in front of the old Rust Bucket."
"Ha ha. It's just like grandpa Max to wreck one dumper and find another." Jack saw the motorcycle in the photo. "Wait, is that... Arcee?"
"Where?" Gwen was looking around but couldn't find the Autobot.
"No, in the picture." Jack said, pointing at what might've been Arcee's alt mode.
"Okay. If that isn't her, it's a coincidence. But if it is her, I'd go through all my photos and see how many times she showed up."[Don't worry, I'm not going to have a 'two people destined to meet thing' when it comes to Arcee and Jack, it's just an exercise with the question 'How many pictures taken by other people are you in?']
"But regardless, that summer was great, not as good as the one three years ago, but I had a lot of fun with you, grandpa Max, and Ben. You know, before it was either hero time or rollout time. Back before we knew this guy." Jack said, pointing at Kevin, who was still under the Rust Bucket.
"Ha ha. Very funny Tennyson." Kevin said, rolling out from under the Rust Bucket. "I know you're here to keep an eye on me."
"It's sweet that you wanted to fix up the Rust Bucket." Gwen said with a smile.
Kevin removed the supports and lowered the Rust Bucket back onto the ground.
Gwen was going to put the box of photos back into the Rust Bucket, but Kevin got in front of the door.
"Not yet." Kevin said before he entered the Rust Bucket and closed the door.
"Still not buying the whole 'nice guy' act Kevin. Just stick to what you do best, being a smug bastard that's likable." Jack said.
"Jack." Gwen glared, but didn't look at Jack.
Kevin sat behind the driver's seat. He held the Plumber's badge that he got from Labrid up to the dashboard, causing it to open up, revealing a piece of high tech machinery. Kevin smiled before saying: "Okay, I'm gonna try the engine."
Kevin turned the key, causing smoke to leave the exhaust pipes before the engine started to rumble.
"Go Kevin." Jack said, giving a thumbs up.
Kevin disengaged the parking brake and put his foot on the gas pedal, causing the Rust Bucket to drive off.
Jack jumped on Gwen to push her out of the way so that wouldn't get crushed by the RV, even though it wasn't near it.
"Come back Kevin!" Jack shouted, expecting Kevin to hear him.
"Jack!" Gwen shouted as Jack activated the Omnitrix and selected Big Chill. He slammed down onto the dial and transformed into the selected alien.
"Big Chill." The Necrofriggian said as he ran after the Rust Bucket. He unfolded his cloak and pursued the Rust Bucket by flying after it.
As Kevin exited the RV parking lot and turned onto the main road, he looked in the rearview mirror and saw Big Chill flying after him.
Kevin grinned, before pressing a button that caused a gun to emerge from one of the storage compartments on the roof. The gun then aimed at Big Chill and fired. The Necrofriggian swerved to dodge them. As the targeting computer got a lock on Big Chill, the Necrofriggian stood still. When it fired, he turned invisible and let the bolt pass right through him.
Out of the city, chill flew around a large boulder that the road went through. He got in front of the Rust Bucket, took a deep breath and then sprayed ice all over the road, causing it to freeze up. The Rust Bucket started to swerve when it drove onto the ice.
"Ah!" Kevin grunted as he tried to regain control. He pressed a button that caused spikes to emerge from the wheels of the Rust Bucket which gripped the ice and allowed him to drive smoothly.
Big Chill sprayed ice at the Rust Bucket, causing it to go off a through the guardrail and over a cliff. However, the Rust Bucket managed to stay on the ground, where it started to drive down a hill.
Kevin pressed another button, which caused a red 'snow plow' to emerge from the bumper. Said 'snow plow' began knocking over trees as they were driven into. Big Chill, forgetting that he could turn intangible, dodged the chopped down trees as he flew after his grandfather's mobile base.
The Rust Bucket went over a cliff and landed back on the road, with Big Chill still in hot pursuit.
Kevin looked in the mirror and saw Big Chill turn invisible.
"Nice try, but tonight you're minding your own business." Kevin pressed another button, which caused a thermal scan of the area. The landscape was now a multitude of colors, all except for one area, where Big Chill was, which was a big black spot. A targeting reticle appeared on the screen. It locked onto the ridiculously cold spot and fired a missile at it. The missile came from a launched that emerged from a panel on the driver's side of the Rust Bucket.
When it was halfway to Big Chill, the missile's warhead exploded, causing it to shoot a net that caught Big Chill, causing him to fall to the ground. The Rust Bucket drove around a bend in the road, getting out of sight of Big Chill who groaned as he tried to get up. He saw the Rust Bucket disappear before he reverted back to being human. The net dissipated, allowing Jack to stand up.
Gwen, who was running on platforms made of mana that somehow increased her speed caught up to Jack.
"He got away." Jack was mad.
"Woah." Gwen wasn't sure how to react to this. "I mean, oh no."
"Why'd I trust him?" Jack asked himself as he turned and began walking to the side of the road. "I barely know him, but I didn't think he'd do this."
"Jack, this isn't how Kevin normally acts, he's different, and we're different too." Gwen tried to calm her angry cousin down. "Don't worry, I can track him using this." She showed Jack a rag that she had kept in her pocket.
"You kept his sweating handkerchief?!" Jack asked, unsure as to whether he should be impressed or disgusted.
Gwen closed her eyes. The handkerchief floated above her hand with a magenta aura. A few seconds later, it landed back in her hand. "Got him." She said, clenching her fist.
Somewhere in the desert...
Kevin and Argit were looking under the hood of the Rust Bucket. Argit held up a lantern and saw that the engine was just a normal human made one.
"Mhmm. Mhmm yep. Alright." Argit closed the hood. "It's a bucket of bolts man." Argit honestly though that Kevin was trying to pull a fast one on him.
Kevin walked into the Rust Bucket and held his plumber badge up to one of the cabinets. They rotated around to reveal a rack of various blasters. Argit shrugged. Kevin then held the badge to the dashboard, revealing the device that activated all the defences that were used against Big Chill.
"Like I said, a bucket of bolts, but the after market extras are worth a fortune!" Argit was overjoyed.
"Think your guy will take it?"
"Oh yeah. If he got the chance." The quills on Argit's head and back stood on end. He fired a whole barrage of them at Kevin. Surprisingly, only one hit Kevin's neck.
Now paralyzed, Kevin fell over, still as a board.
"Uhg! I can't move!" Kevin mumbled, only able to move his eyelids and lips.
"Oh, sorry Kev. You see, this haul's worth enough cash to pay off everybody I owe, and finally live a little."
With some effort, Argit managed to pick Kevin up and toss him out of the Rust Bucket.
"The Rust Bucket's all I have to bargain with!" Kevin grumbled.
"Well then you should've held out on me buddy." Argit closed the door and sat in the driver's seat. He rolled down the window. "When you can walk again, you go see him. A tech dealer named Vulkanus. He says he knows you." Argit said as he started the engine and drove off. "Says he wants you dead."
Kevin glared as he heard that name. He struggled as he tried to touch his hand to the ground. Once he did, his skin and clothes became sandstone, allowing him to stand up and run up to a boulder and punched it, breaking off a large piece of it, which he he grabbed and tossed at the Rust Bucket in an attempt to hit it.
Argit saw the boulder approaching him in the mirror. He looked out of the window to see the rock. He swerved to avoid getting hit. Defeated, Kevin just looked on as the Rust Bucket drove away.
Later...
Gwen and Jack had arrived by taking Kevin's car.
Jack and Gwen were both mad, but to separate levels. Gwen was concealing it a lot better than Jack was.
"Now I know this looks bad..." Kevin said nervously.
"Bad? Bad?!" Jack spat. "You don't get the Rust Bucket back I'll show you the meaning of the word bad." Jack said, tapping Kevin's chest angrily.
"Doubt it." Kevin said, knowing that Jack didn't have it in him to attack his allies.
"What happens when this is all over and Grandpa comes home? Where's he gonna live then?" Jack questioned a guy that he that was his friend, but he was beginning to doubt if the term 'friend' applied to him.
"Do I have to separate you two." Gwen said as her hands were surrounded by Mana energy. "Again."
Jack turned to face Gwen. "He stole grandpa's home." Jack said. "What kinda jerk steals an old man's home?"
"Either a bank or one with a very good reason, right?" Gwen wanted to think Kevin did this for the right reasons.
"Yeah, this is important."
"Important to you." Jack glared at Kevin.
"One second." Kevin held out the Plumber badge. He pressed a button on the side of it as a blue holographic map of the city was brought up. On the map was a blinking red light.
"You hid a tracking device in the undercarrage." Gwen was impressed that Kevin had thought ahead.
"Like I'd let anybody, let alone Argit swipe a fortune in Plumber tech from me."
Later, at a warehouse lot in Bellwood...
Kevin's car drove down one of the roads that was normally used by delivery trucks. The car came to a stop and its three occupants got out. Kevin opened up the map and saw that they were close to the tracker.
The trio walked over to the warehouse that the signal was coming from. Jack and Kevin kicked open the door, allowing the three of them to get in.
Gwen used as sphere of mana to illuminate the warehouse as she and her two idiots walked in.
The sphere floated ahead of them and illuminated something that didn't give Gwen or Jack much hope. They saw the Rust Bucket, but it had been stripped bare.
"Stripped!" Kevin was ticked off.
"Great, so where's your fortune Kevin?"
Jack turned around and saw something that had the same size and shape of a garage door opener by was red and yellow with black buttons.
He picked it up and examined it. "What's this worth? Five, six bucks?"
Jack grunted before kicking over a stack of tires in frustration. "We're supposed to be keeping the planet safe, and we can't keep a motorhome from being stolen?"
"Drop it." Kevin didn't appreciate Jack's attitude. Kevin turned around and was going to exit the warehouse.
"Don't walk away from me!" Jack yelled, getting in front of Kevin.
Kevin scoffed. "Is this where you turn into an alien and try to kick my ass?"
"I'm considering it." Jack's eyes narrowed as he stared at Kevin.
A door knob started to jiggle. Gwen heard this and shushed Jack and Kevin before getting rid of the Mana Lamp.
The door opened and Argit walked in, whistling as he walked over to the gutted Rust Bucket. He entered through where the door used to be and made his way to the dashboard. He ripped out a cylindrical device. "Score! I knew I missed something."
Argit pocketed the device and made his way to the exit.
A light came on. It was from a mana lamp that Gwen generated. Argit gasped when he saw Gwen and turned around, and saw Jack standing behind him with a death stare while he was cracking his knuckle. Argit then turned his left and saw Kevin, grinning with a need for payback.
"Uh oh." Argit did a one eighty and ran, jumping through a boarded up window as he began to make a run for it.
Jack was running through the door and began to pursue Argit. He activated the Omnitrix and transformed.
"Echo Echo!" The alien form announced as he split up. "Don't. Let. Him. Get. Away." The Echo Echos said as they ran after Argit.
Argit came to a t junction and made a right, but ran right into two of the Echo Echo clones.
"No. You. Don't." The two Echo Echos let out a sonic wave at Argit, sending the hedgehog like alien soaring into a metal fire escape ladder.
Argit began climbing up, but looked up and saw another Echo Echo sitting on the guard rail above him.
"Hi." The Echo Echo grinned before inhaling and letting out a sonic shriek that knocked Argit off the ladder.
When he landed on the ground, a group of Echo Echos surrounded him. Argit got on all fours and shot his quills in all directions. Taking out most of the Echo Echos, since although they had the ability to duplicate, it wasn't like Ditto where all the clones felt what was happening to the rest.
One Echo Echo managed to hit the ground before any of the quills came near him.
Gwen ran up and stood near the passed out Echo Echos. She generated mana around her hands.
Kevin ran up to Gwen and shouted: "Watch out!"
Gwen turned her head. "Don't warn him." Gwen said.
Argit looked over his shoulder and fired Quills at Gwen.
Kevin jumped and pushed Gwen out of the way. "No, you watch out." He said before passing out.
"Oh." Gwen too succumbed to the substance that coated Argit's quills.
Argit and Echo Echo were in a stare down.
"Wall. Of." Echo Echo said as Argit prepared to fired more of his quills. "Sound!" The Echo Echo split into four more copies. When the quills were fired at him/them, they directed them at an another Echo Echo, who was standing on the roof of one of the warehouses, who then directed them to one sitting on top of a service poll before sending them into Argit's rear, knocking him out.[At first that seems like a bad trait that seems like it got passed down through some unknown reason, but upon further examination, such a trait would kinda make sense. Seeing as Argit is the only member of this species that we see, it could be assumed that this was beneficial. Now the rating of this story prevents me from saying more on the subject, but all I can say is 'hey, some people are into it. Who am I to judge?' You know, I suddenly have the urge to watch Alien Planet. Maybe I'll do that after I finish this.]
Later...
As Argit came to, he found that he had been tied up.
"Awll." Argit groaned. "Uhg. Wha?" He looked up and saw Gwen and Kevin staring down at him. He gasped and tried to fire his quills, but found that they wouldn't shoot.
"I. Superglued. Them. To. Your. Head." Echo Echo, or a collection of several said. Argit looked ahead of him to see about twenty of them looking at him.
"Everybody. Awake?" One Echo Echo asked. They heard snoring and looked behind them to see that one of them was still sleeping.
"Err. Close. Enough." The Echo Echo said. He and the others piled on the still sleeping one, uniting together before reverting back to their human state.
After a flash of green light, Jack stood up and stretched as he yawned. There was a cloud of smoke the dissipated shortly after he transformed. Jack walked over to Gwen and Kevin.
"So let's get this straight." Jack said, looking down at Argit.
"I'll give it to you straight." Argit said. "You cannot trust that man!"
"Me?"
"You know what he was gonna do?" Argit asked. "Steal your motorhome and sell it to another criminal." Kevin was gritting his teeth as Argit lied out his ass. "Thank goodness I stopped him."
"By stealing it yourself?"
"Yeah. I maybe a crook, but this guy's no good." Argit explained. "He stab you in the back just for laughs."
"Hate to say it, but this creep has a point, except for the laughs part." Jack said, looking at Kevin. "Ever since I've met you, you've been up to something, self serving, shifty, always working some kinda angle. Maybe not always a thief, but never 100% on our side." Jack stated. "Got anything to say for yourself?" He asked.
"You know what Tennyson?" Kevin started to raise his voice. "I don't have to explain myself to you." He turned and made his way back to his car. When he passed by Gwen, he said with a much lower tone "Or you either."
"I'm done with both of you."
Later, an an unknown location...
Kevin hopped off a truck that was driving down an empty desert road. He rolled as he hit the pavement.
He saw a chain link fence that had a hole cut in it that was big enough for him to crawl through. On the other side of the fence were many old aircraft in various states of either decay of disassembly.
As Kevin made his way deeper and deeper into the airplane graveyard, he began to be followed by a group of small, twelve year old sized aliens that had red and black jumpsuits with silver eyes that had yellow lenses. The clothing these aliens wore was red on the mask, gloves, waist, and boots, and black on the shirt and pants. They let out a series of monkey like chatters as the group that followed Kevin grew larger. The sounds they made were produced when they clicked their teeth together.
Five of the aliens who held silver pickaxes got in front of Kevin. The aliens, which are referred to as Pickaxe Aliens, surrounded Kevin.
"Take me to the boss." Kevin said.
The Pickaxe aliens led Kevin to an old hangar. The door was opened and Kevin stepped in. The first thing Kevin saw were Vulcanus' yellow eyes. The Detrovite sat upon what seemed to be a makeshift throne.
"I hear you're looking for me Vulkanus." Kevin said. "Well here I am."
A large group of Pickaxe aliens stood behind Kevin.
"Kevin Levin." Vulkanus said. "I can't decide whether to trade with you or tear you to pieces." Vulkanus was obviously pissed at Kevin. "Remember that counterfeit isotope scam two years ago?"
"Yeah... Sorry about that." Kevin said awkwardly.
"You left me holding the bag, and at the mercy of the Plumbers." Vulkanus explained. "I escaped, but now I'm stuck on earth, swapping level three tech to get by; thanks to you." Vulkanus pounded his fist on the side of his thrown.
"It's in the past." Kevin said, trying to brush off the times he screwed Vulkanus over. "I'm here to make a deal."
"I have the plumber gadget you want." Vulkanus stood up and showed Kevin a hologram projector that he held in his thumb and index finger. "What're you gonna give me for it?"
"Look, to be completely straight, I had this stack of Plumber technology, but I lost it."
"You want to owe me?" Vulkanus had expected this to happen.
"Tell me what I have to do to get it." As Kevin spoke, the Pickaxe Aliens closed in.
Vulkanus thought this over before holding out his hand.
Kevin thought they were gonna shake on it, but that changed when Vulkanus closed his hand, grabbing onto Kevin's arm and began to squeeze. "Kneel." Vulkanus said as he glared at Kevin.
Kevin fell to his knees as he rubbed his sore arm. A compartment opened up from the floor. Up from it rose a single large gem that resembled the crystal that Diamondhead was made out of.
It was supported on a stand made out of what looked like metalic bandages. They glowed blue before reaching over to Kevin's hand and started pulling him towards it. Kevin was trying to resist, but eventually, his hand grabbed onto the crystal before he was forced to take on its properties.
"First you're gonna pay me back for the double cross." Vulkanus said as Kevin's hands grey thicker as they became similar to Diamondhead.
"I can't stop absorbing." Kevin groaned as the crystal made its way to his back, where large shards started to grow out of him.
"That's because I don't want you to." Vulkanus explained. "You're recursively absorbing a piece of Taydenite, the rarest, most precious living gem in the galaxy."
A group of the Pickaxe Aliens pushed the immobile Kevin back. Kevin was kept still by hand restraints that came up from the floor and closed around his wrists. Kevin gasped in agony as more and more shards grew larger and larger on his back.
"This is the only piece of Taydenite in this spiral of the Milky Way." Vulkanus explained. "Or it was." Vulkanus turned his attention to Kevin. "Until you came along."
Kevin groaned as even his head was covered with Taydenite. "You're scum." Kevin groaned as he became bulkier. The crystals on his back grew larger as Kevin groaned in agony.
The Pickaxe Aliens climbed up Kevin's limbs and onto his back. Kevin could only helplessly look on in horror.
"You owe me." Vulkanus said. "I'm gonna take it out of your hide, then sell you off. Piece by piece."
The Pickaxe aliens began to hack at the large crystals, making smaller pieces fall off and into a hovering minecart. Soon, the cart was full and a new one was moved into position. A second cart was to the left of Kevin as the process began.
"And I'm gonna do it for the rest of you natural life, and then some."
"Do what you want to me. When Jack Tennyson gets that holo-" Kevin grunted before Vulkanus started to laugh.
"Hahaha!" Vulkanus flicked the projector to the other side of the hangar. "You're in a bad position to make demands."
"He would be if he was alone." Big Chill said. "But he's with us."
Vulkanus looked to the left to see Big Chill and Gwen standing besides a bunch of crates.
"You followed me?" Kevin panted, unable to believe that Jack and Gwen came to save him.
"That whole 'get mad and storm off act'. Please." Big chill's green eyes became half circles as he waved his right arm. "I've seen Arcee do it a thousand times."
"You have friends?" Vulkanus stood up. "Had friends." Vulkanus reached behind him and pulled a blaster from his belt. He pulled the trigger and fired a beam of flames at Big Chill, who was hit.
Gwen groaned as she was knocked over by Big Chill, who went sailing into a bunch of crates.
The Pickaxe Aliens stopped mining and jumped off of Kevin and went after Gwen. Their picks glowed blue as one of them swung at the red head. She dodged it and kicked it away. She then grabbed one of the Pickaxe Aliens with a beam of mana and used it to knock over a trio of them. One of them ran at Gwen with an energized pickaxe, but Gwen blocked its blows with walls of mana, that were destroyed when the pick hit them. She kept of blocking the alien's attacks as more ran up to her.
Vulkanus meanwhile stormed over to the stack of crates. He knocked them to the side as he made his way to where he thought Big Chill would be writhing on the ground in pain. He pointed his gun at the spot, but saw nothing.
Big Chill was up at the ceiling looking down at Vulkanus while invisible. He turned visible as he flew at Vulkanus, who turned and fired his gun at the Necrofriggian, but Big Chill let out an icy breath which froze up the gun that he was using.
Vulkanus ran up to Big chill and was intent on punching him, but Jack's Necrofriggian form turned intangible, which caused his fist to pass right through him. What Vulkanus punched instead of his foe was a computer, which sparked and emitted smoke.
"Good way to break your hand." Vulkanus looked to see that Big Chill was right. "Told you so." Vulkanus' hand was totaled. But it wasn't a mess of bone and flesh, rather it was heap of metal and wires. Oil from his broken hand squirted onto Vulkanus' face.
"You wouldn't even be fighting if you knew what he did to me!" Vulkanus shouted.
"He stole. He ran. That's Kevin."
Vulkanus glared at Big Chill before squirting some oil at his face, causing the Necrofriggian to cough, which allowed the detrovite to deliver a left hook that sent Big Chill flying back into a concrete pillar before hitting the floor with a thud.
Gwen block two more blows from the Pickaxe Aliens. She flung a bolt of mana at the alien's tool, knocking the head of the pick off, causing it to spark then explode, knocking out it and those around it. Seven more of them charged at Gwen. She jumped over the group, effortlessly getting over all of them.
When they turned around and raised their picks to charge at her and knock attack her, Gwen fired a bolt of mana a the pick of the one closest to her, which caused it to explode, causing a chain reaction that disarmed and knocked out the whole group. Gwen then ran over to go help Jack.
Big Chill groaned as he tried to get up. His folded up wings were grabbed by Vulkanus.
"I'm the injured party here! After you, your grandfather, the fat one, and his girlfriend beat me, the Plumbers came after me and blew up my ship!" Vulkanus growled, bringing up a past encounter with Jack.
Big Chill suddenly looked up and grinned. He exhaled at Vulkanus, causing him to let go.
"Urgh!" Vulkanus groaned.
Big Chill turned intangible and flew into Vulkanus. He then flew out, leaving a patch of ice where he entered and exited. He continued to repeat that cycle, coating Vulkanus' body in more and more ice.
"What're doing?" Vulkanus asked as he raised his hand up in an attempt to grab at Big Chill, who exit from it before it was encased in ice in its entirety.
The ice started to crack as the armor started to break apart. Seconds later, it explode, leaving Vulkanus in his current form, which was an orange skinned humanoid with the proportions of an infant(diaper included) with Vulkanus' normal head, chin spikes and all.
Vulkanus ran away from Big Chill as he landed, going past Kevin, who looked at Vulkanus run past him.
"Kevin!" Gwen said as she ran up to the crystal covered man. She fired a beam of mana out of each of her hands, destroying the cuffs that held Kevin on the ground. "Are you alright?" She touched her hands to his face. Kevin started to sparkle as the crystals on his back started to shrink. He eventually returned to normal, but his shirt and pants were torn.
Kevin groaned as he was about to fall over, but he grabbed onto Gwen's shoulders to keep himself from falling over.
Big Chill returned to normal in a flash of green light. Jack walked over to Kevin and Gwen.
"Easy." Gwen said as she helped Kevin up.
"What about him?" Jack asked as he looked over his shoulder to see Vulkanus doing a Scrouge Mcduck and was wading in the Taydenite that he mined off of Kevin.
"What about him?" Kevin decided to let him be. "We're even."
As the trio made their way out, Kevin remembered something.
"Wait!" Kevin picked up the hologram projector.
"That's what you were after?"
"Another holo viewer?" Gwen shared her cousin's uncertainty.
"I hear this one's special." Kevin handed it to Jack.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Jack asked.
"Think about it. You may not know it Jack, but I'm an ex-con. I've done a lot of stuff that I'm not proud of. Stuff that if you knew, you'd probably never trust me again." Kevin said with mild anger and frustration. "So next time I say drop it, drop it."
"That's not how it works Kevin." Gwen said supportingly. She placed her hand onto Kevin's shoulder.
"It's not what you did that matters, but what you're going to do." Jack added.
"Uh huh." Kevin said. "You gonna look at that?"
Jack pressed the button on the side. A hologram of Grandpa Max appeared.
"Jack, if you found this message then you must be in pretty deep." Max said. "There's a lot I can't reveal yet, but here's one thing I can; you can't go in alone. By now, you're probably meeting some of the other Plumbers' kids, but you have to find more. You need to put together a team." The message ended.
Jack was determined to do whatever he needed to do to stop whatever was coming.
Chapter end.
Author's note: Nothing to report here story wise, well except for the fact that this was my favorite episode of season one of Alien Force.(BTW, my favorite episode of season two is Alone Together due to the interactions between Ben and Reinrassic. And my favorite episode of season three is Con of Rath due to Rath being my favorite of all Ben's aliens.)
In Kamen Rider related news, the appearance of the next Rider, Ex-Aid. And I for one am legitimately unsure of what I'm looking at. With the riders that were announced while I was a fan of the show, you could tell what their motif was by looking at them; Gaim' visor, weapons, and armor all seemed to be based off of fruit. Drive had a tire for a sash, which betrayed his car motif. Ghost's belt and color scheme betrayed his supernatural theme. But Ex-Aid I think is going to be based off of Anime, but his belt looks like a combination of the Fourze Driver and Genesis Driver, which along with what might be his gun being shaped like a popsicle, I seriously don't know what to think. I was expecting a search and rescue theme rider, but that would be too similar to Drive. Oh well, we'll just have to wait and see.
Speaking of Drive, there's a poll relating to him on my profile page.[Subject to change]
In non Kamen Rider news, but still strangely related news, one of the new Pokemon that'll be introduced in Sun and Moon might be perhaps the saddest pokemon ever. It's called Mimikkyu. It's a Pokemon that wears a twenty year old Pikachu item as a costume so that it can be loved like Pikachu. And even if it doesn't take Cubone's spot as the saddest Pokemon, it's still going to be the most meta one out there.