Chapter 8: RobotGal

Now, we were at a gas station, filling up the RV with gas. I was leaning against it, enjoying the day so far.

Gwen: "Dustin?"

Dustin: "Yes, Gwen?"

Gwen: "About Kevin. Are you sure hell friend to us five years later?"

Dustin: "No doubt Gwen. I'm sure of it."

Max: "Ah… Ben?"

Ben: "What?" Max pointed to the RV. In the window, it clearly said, "Wash Me" with some smiley faces around it.

Max: "Well, Ben, that's some nice artwork."

Ben: "Thanks, Grandpa." Just then, an explosion was heard.

Gwen: "What the heck?" An armored truck got blown up, and we saw three people on motorcycles. One had a blaster.

Dustin: "Ben, get ready to go hero. Gwen, hide."

Gwen: "You don't need to tell me twice!" She ran in to the RV, and me I turned to Diamondhead while to Four Arms. Ben jumped into the air, and slammed them down of the bikes. Two of them charged towards us, but I easily threw diamond boomerangs. The last one shot another laser, but I dodged it, and grabbed the blaster, and ripped it in half. The person grabbed a chain, and lassoed my arm, but I pulled the person up, and socked them in the helmet. The other two grabbed some pistols, and shot, but each shot jumped off my skin, making only tiny cracks. Ben ran for them, and slammed them into the ground. I then transformed into Stinkfly, and shot some super adhesive goop to keep them held down. The last one charged at me with a crowbar, but Ben went Wildmutt, jumped over it, and slammed the person against the wall. The person then dropped the crowbar. Ben then went back to Four Arms, and pulled the helmets off of two of them, showing that they were girls.

Four Arms: "This is new." He was shot in the back by another blaster, by the third person, who was also shown to be a woman.

Joey (girl's name): "What? You never fought girls before?" I went XLR8, zoomed towards her, grabbed the blaster, and threw it to the ground, where I went Diamondhead again to step on it.

Joey: "No!" Just then, two robot drones flew out of nowhere, and shot at me and Ben. I shot Diamond shards at the both of them, destroying them.

Four Arms: "Any last words before you go to jail, lady?"

Joey: "Yes!" She pulled out another blaster, and fired right above the RV, sending the whole structure to be falling down upon it. I ran over, and caught the ceiling just in time, unfortunately, letting Joey escape. And another unfortunately thing was, Max could not be saved in time by us.

Gwen: "Grandpa?"

Diamondhead: "Dammit!"

Four Arms: "We need to call 9-1-1!"

Diamondhead: "No time! There's a hospital nearby. I'll get us there." Four Four Arms, and grabbed Gwen and Max, and started hopping towards the hospital. I went Stinkfly and led him. When we got there, though, things could have been better for him.

Doctor: "He has a concussion, several lacerations, and a broken leg. He'll be here for a few days. And he was hit by a… big rock. Did someone hurl a boulder at him?"

Ben: "Actually, the ceiling from the top of a gas station hit him."

Doctor: "Oh, kids. Having a good imagination helps you cope with things."

Dustin: "But, he's okay right?"

Doctor: "Yes. He's strong for someone his age. I'll check up on him later."

Gwen: "Good."

Dustin: "Thanks doc." The doctor left the room.

Ben: "Great. If only I…"

Gwen: "It wasn't your fault."

Ben: "Yes it is, Gwen. I could've done something! But, I didn't see that…"

Dustin: "The doctor said he'll be okay. Don't worry."

Ben: "I know." Ben covered his face with his hands.

Gwen sat right next to me, and I was right next to Max's bed, still looking worried for him, as we all were.

Dustin: 'You damn bitch! I'm not one for hitting a girl, but if we ever cross paths again, I'm gonna pummel you so deep into the ground you'll be seeing hell.' I thought as I clenched my fist.

Out at the wreckage, Joey was still there, and she was looking through the wreckage of the robot drones.

Joey: "Where'd these freaks come from?" She picked up a head, and it inserted something into the back of her neck. It triggered a transformation, and she looked like a cyborg version of herself.

Rojo: "This is new."

Cops: "Freeze! You're coming with us!"

Rojo: "I already did my time!" Two laser pods extended from her shoulders, and she destroyed the cars. The cops fled the scene.

Rojo: "Sweet." She flew out to steal some jewels with her new powers.

Rojo: "Give me the loot! NOW!" She was given jewels, but she easily cracked them in her bladed fingers.

Voice: "This is not what you are designed to do! Deliver the Omnitrix to me!" She looked like she was having a seizure on the outside. We go to inside her mind, and see Vilgax.

Vilgax: "Deliver both Omnitrixes to me, or you lose your meaningless life in a heartbeat!"

Rojo: "Get out of my head!"

Vilgax: "You will carry out your programming you worthless excuse for a criminal!"

Rojo: "I work for me, and me alone, squid-face!"

Vilgax: "You will regret those words very soon, I promise you." She got a huge shock to her system.

Vilgax: "Defy my orders, and you will die!"

Rojo: "Fine. What do you want from me?"

Vilgax: "Were you not listening?"

Rojo: "The Omnitrixes? How am I supposed to find those damn things?"

Vilgax: "Excellent. You have the programming to find them, now do it!"

Rojo: "Yes." She snapped back to reality, and flew out to search for it.

Back at the hospital, Ben and I were looking back at Max's body, with Gwen's hand on my back and my hand on his shoulder.

Dustin: "He'll be okay. Trust me. We've never steered you wrong before, dude."

Ben: "Yeah. I know, Dustin." Dustin still sounded disappointed in himself.

Gwen: "Well, Dustin and I were talking earlier about the bad guys you took down, and Dustin said you shouldn't have been kicking those girls' butts."

Ben: "They deserved it. In the hero biz, it doesn't matter if your enemy is a boy, girl, man, or woman. You kick their butts."

Dustin: "That's not how being a hero works Ben."

Ben: "Well, to me, that's exactly how it works." Ben walked out of the room, and turned the Omnitrix on.

Gwen: "What are you doing, Ben?"

Ben: "I'm gonna go Ghostfreak. Get in his mind, hopefully wake him up."

Gwen: "I wouldn't."

Ben: "Ben, that is not a good idea."

Ben: "Why? Should I go Upgrade on his life reading system and wake him up that way? That's just gonna hurt him."

Gwen: "Let him recover normally. Who knows what kind of side effect Ghostfreak would have on Grandpa?"

Dustin: "Gwen's right Ben. Just let him rest."

Kyle: "But… I have to do something for him." Ben slammed the faceplate down, and went Ghostfreak.

Gwen: "Fine, but be careful. Please. For Grandpa's sake."

Dustin: "What? Gwen are you sure?" I asked her as she nodded.

Ghostfreak: "I will, Gwen." Ben was about to go into his mind, when we heard an explosion outside. I then became Ghostfreak as well, grabbed Gwen immediately, and flew outside with intangibility with her as Ben followed.

Gwen: "What was that?" I put her down as she said this.

Ghostfreak Dustin: "I don't know, but we'll deal with it. Ben, get ready for action." We both turned invisible, and started searching for the source of the explosion. Some rocks were falling down in an avalanche onto the hospital. I went Diamondhead, and created a diamond wall to stop the rocks, but they all turned towards a bridge in progress. Then we both went XLR8, zoomed past the rocks, then Ben went Heatblast to create a path for all of the rocks to fall down through.

Rojo: "Gotcha!" She flew at is, and caught Ben. He created a fire shield around himself to blow her off, then he created a flameboard to ride on. She continued on this by shooting lasers at him. He dodged each one, sometimes throwing fireballs back at her. At one point, he disappeared with an explosion, which sent him flying over her, then I went Grey Matter, and landed on her back, climbing along the back of it. She found me, and grabbed me, but I then turned Stinkfly, and sprayed goop in her face, blinding her, tackled her, then sped towards the ground. I then went Diamondhead, and then slammed her into the ground at maximum force. She threw me off, and continued to shoot lasers at me. I deflected each one in different directions, Ben as Heatblast landed and went XLR8, zoomed towards her, and she tried taking off into the air again, but he jumped, and went Four Arms, and slammed her into the ground again. Ben was to big for her to throw off, and she kept taking his brutal punch attacks, until she shot lasers at him at point-blank range, then he backed up a bit, and she was slashing at him with her claws. I turned my fingers into claws, and we started having a 'claw-fight'. She punched me, then I kicked her, sending her flying off a bit, then I went Buzzshock, and sent electricity flying at her. She nearly short circuited, but shook off some of the shock, and started shooting at me again. I dodged each shot.

Buzzshock: "Geez. You're a lousy shot." She growled, then started charging at me. She kept trying to slash at me, but I dodged each slice through the air, then placed my hand on her back, and sent another surge of electricity through her. She fell to the ground at that much electric force.

Buzzshock: "Being a cyborg doesn't really help you against me."

Rojo: "You are as annoying as hell!" She scratched at me, but I dodged by flying up. She tried activating her flying power, but could not fly up really high. I was about to charge one more electric surge at her, when I saw a truck leaking oil right near her. Luckily Ben went Heatblast, then snapped my fingers. This sent some fire near the truck, and the truck exploded, sending her flying off. Ben and I both took off back to the hospital, and saw Gwen still waiting outside.

Gwen: "How'd it go?"

Heatblast: "Not bad at all. I owned her."

Buzzshock: "Big time. But she was taken over by Vilgax's drone tech.

Heatblast: "How do you know?"

Buzshock: "TV show. Remember? Plus didn't the tech on her body seem familiar?"

Hetablast: "Oh yeah." Ben's Omnitrix timed out and reverted him back to normal.

Gwen: "Well, let's get back in." I went Ghostfreak, and phased us through the wall up to Max's room. He was awake.

Max: "I saw your fight in the news, boys." I reverted to normal.

Ben: "I know. I was awesome."

Dustin: "As usual."

Max: "But, are you sure you finished her?"

Ben: "Pretty. I don't see how she could get back up after being short circuited by Buzzshock, and launched into the air into some jagged rock."

Dustin: "I don't know about that Ben. That woman's pretty tough. Even if she was posessee by Vilgax's tech."

Max: "What?"

Dustin: "Believe it or not Max, she was possessed by the tech of Vilgax's drones. She's even more lethal in this state. No doubt Vilgax as a god hold on her."

Ben: "Grandpa, I'm…"

Max: "Save it. You two really couldn't stop the ceiling from hitting me."

Ben: "I know, but, we're superheroes, and…"

Max: "If I know everything from being a Plumber, it's this. You can save some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time."

Dustin: "He's right Ben. You can't save everyone."

Ben: "Of course."

Back with Rojo, who apparently survived.

Rojo: "That was way too hard! I can't beat those two! Not as long as one of them can turn into that electric guy."

Vilgax: "You will defeat them, and bring them to me, dead or alive!"

Rojo: "I'm out."

Vilgax: "I can end your life as quickly as I want to! Now fulfill your programming!"

Rojo: "AAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHH!" She was being shocked by the program Vilgax installed.

Rojo: "Fine. I will."

Vilgax: "Now, get them to come to you!"

Later, everyone besides Ben was asleep. He finished writing a note, then went Ghostfreak, and phased out of the hospital.

Ghostfreak: "Why did this thing have to split in to and attach to me and Dustin." Ben continued into the sky, turning invisible as well as intangible to search for Rojo at night. Gwen and I then woke up at the hospital to find the note.

Gwen: "Dear Dustin, Gwen, and Max, I left to go after the bad guys myself. I don't want to get you guys in more danger than you need to be in. I'll find you guys when I finish off the guy sending out these robots at us so I can be sure you'll be in as little danger as possible. Don't try and look for me. Please, stay right where you guys are until Max heals up. Do NOT attempt to look for me. I cannot stress this enough, signed, Ben.

P.S. Dustin, don't take this the wrong way. There are something I must do by myself. You are a good partner but I must do this alone."

Dustin: "Oh no! We have to go get him!" We ran out of the room, taking the note with us, and putting it in my pocket. We found some ambulances loading up with stuff, and ran into one. We stayed very well hidden under a low shelf.

Ben's POV

I had found some tanks in the road shooting at something, and went down lower to see what it was. It turned out to be Rojo.

Ghostfreak: "Finally!" I turned Heatblast, and shot her with a stream of fire. She shot lasers at me, stopping it, and ran for me to smash me. I went XLR8 to dodge her attack, then jumped up, and repeatedly kicked her. She grabbed my tail, and threw me. To this, I went Wildmutt, grabbed a streetlight, spun around, and came back. I slammed into her as a ball, then went Four Arms to slam her harder into the ground. She got up, and we started swinging our fists at each other. She was hitting me more than I was hitting her, so I went Diamondhead, and turned out doing more damage to her, because I couldn't feel a thing from little punches from her. She kicked me in the groin, then punched me to the ground. She tried using her lasers, but I went Amoeblob to sink under and around her. I then turned Heatblast, and shot more fire at her. She ran right through the fire, and slammed me into the sky. I shot myself back down, then went Diamondhead again in a diving pose with both hands in front of me. I did exactly as I wanted, and slammed her like a meteor. We were deep into the ground, then some fire shot up from the crater, making her land one the ground, looking very severely beaten down. I came out as Heatblast.

Heatblast: "Why won't you just give up?"

Rojo: "I can't. Not until you and your friend are both dead!" She shot her lasers at me, and sent me flying a few feet. But I quickly recovered, and went XLR8, zooming towards her, then running around her in a tornado, punching and kicking her, with tail whips going at her. She finally caught my tail at one point, and I went Buzzshock, and short circuited her.

Rojo: "Not you again…"

Buzzshock: "Oh yeah, tuts! It's me! Buzzshock!" I sent another electric pulse at her, and she couldn't even move, so I decided one more shot would finish her, when I saw an ambulance come up. Gwen and Dustin got out of it, and started rushing in.

Gwen: "Ben!" I went XLR8 again, then grabbed both, and hid in an alley nearby.

XLR8: "What the heck are you guys doing here? You're both in danger!"

Dustin: "I'm your partner! You can't just leave me like that! Plus I have an Omnitrix like you too!"

XLR8: "I know we're partners, but…"

Gwen: "Don't give us that crap right now! I may not have powers like you or Dustin, but the least I can do is be right by your side in your fights! Like I Dustin, Ben, 100% of the way!"

Dustin: "She's right Ben. Like it or not, were all in this together. Were a team. There's no I in team.

XLR8: "Heh. You're right guys. 100%. I forgot about that, didn't I?"

Gwen: "Yes. You did."

XLR8: "But what about Granda?"

Gwen: "He's still sleeping as far as I know."

Dustin: "Now how about I help you kick Robot Bitch's tin can?"

XLR8: "Ill need all the help I can get." I said as Dustin transformed into Heatblast.

Gwen: "Wait! Shouldn't you have timed out by now?"

Dustin: "Well I may have used Grey Matter to remove the limiter from his Omnitrix. So he doesn't has no need to time out."

Gwen: "Oh."

XLR8: "Well, I need to get you to a safer place." Some laser fire went off near us.

Rojo: "Their you boys are. Looks like one of you has a girlfriend. Hope you don't mind me butting in!" She shot more lasers at us from the air. I quickly grabbed Gwen again, and zoomed off to safety, but not before Dustin fired some fireballs at her and followed. I found a gym, ran in there, set her down, and we both changed back.

Gwen: "She found us! How?"

Ben: "I didn't shock her that bad, I guess."

Dustin: "Its because of the drone tech in her system."

Ben: "Oh man! We're toast now!"

Gwen: "Why?"

Ben: "Because, as badly as I can own her, she doesn't seem to die! Or at least stop!"

Gwen grabbed her cell phone, and started dialing.

Dustin : "Who could you be calling?"

Gwen: "Grandpa."

Be : "Okay… but hurry! She's close!"

AT the hospital… The phone next to Max's bed was ringing.

Max: "*Yawn!* Who could it be at this hour?" He picked it up.

Max: "Max Tennyson here, who is this?"

Gwen: "It's me, Grandpa!"

Max: "Gwen!" He looked next to him, and saw that neither Gwen, Ben or Dustin wasn't there. "Where are you?" He continued.

Gwen: "I'm trying to help Dustin and Ben beat their robot-girl enemy. She seems to be indestructible, no matter what throw throws at her."

Max: "Hand your phone to Ben."

Gwen: "Okay." She handed it to me.

Ben: "Hello, Grandpa."

Max: "I thought you and Dustin took her down."

Ben: "Well… something went off in my head and I went to check it out. She's still alive. I've tried every good move I have on her. Even my Heatblast-Diamondhead meteor smash combo! She was still alive!"

Max: "Then try taking her out on the inside. Not the outside."

Ben: "Oh… You mean…"

Max: "Upgrade. Yes."

Ben: "Okay. We'll see you later, okay, Grandpa?"

Max: "Alright. But please be back soon."

Ben: "Bye."

Max: "Bye… *YAWN!*" He hung up, and I gave it back to Gwen.

I whispered into Dustin's ear and he nodded, then looked at Gwen.

Dustin's POV

Dustin: "Gwen… as soon as I activate the watch, hide."

Gwen: "Don't worry." I hit the turn on button, and she immediately started attacking the ceiling. Gwen ran as fast as she could, and I turned the watch to Upgrade, then hit it down, becoming him.

Upgrade: "Let's do this, robo-geek!" I went into puddle form and started slithering along the ground. She blew a hole in the ceiling, and said, "I know you're in here!" She started randomly shooting things.

I merged with some weight equipment, and fired a 100 pound weight at her head. She fell over, then shot a laser from behind her. I separated, and went puddle mode again to hide from her.

Rojo: "Hit-and-run, eh? That's not your style, kid!"

Upgarde: "Maybe! But, it's working well so far!"

Rojo: "AGGHH!" She started randomly shooting lasers again. One almost hit me, then I returned fire with an Upgrade eye blast. She turned around, and fired in my direction, in which I was already moving to get closer behind her. She looked confused about where to shoot next. I got behind her successfully, went normal Upgrade, and jumped on her, merging with her body. In her head, I saw Vilgax.

Vilgax: "Remember this message, scum! Be very afraid of me! I will find you, and kill you and your associate!"

Upgrade: "Well we'll be ready for you Vilgax."

Vilgax: "So you know my name?"

Upgrade: "Yes. And I also know that you are the most wanted alien in the universe!"

Vilgax: "Smart boy! Yes, I have done so many bad things even I can't remember what they all are. And I want the Omnitrix to use for myself! When I heard that the Omnitrix was plot in two, that made it two for the price of one."

Upgrade: "Well the only way your gonna get them is from our cold, dead bodies."

Vilgax: "Then I'll be sure I do so!" His mouth opened up, and ate me, then I was thrown off of her, and sunk to the ground, slightly dazed and scared at the same time. Vilgax was so terrifying in real-life style!

Rojo: "I finally found you, kid!" She grabbed me, but I regained control on reality, then oozed out of her grip, then merged with her body again, this time, throwing all of the armor pieces off of her.

Joey: "No!"

Upgrade (while rematerializing): "Not so tough now are ya?"

Joey: "No! No! You can't hurt me! I'm just an innocent girl." Gwen ran out from her hiding place, and gave her a flying side kick to Joey's head. She fell unconscious.

Gwen: "So am I, dirtbag."

Upgrade: "Cool."

Ben: "Let's get her in jail."

Upgrade: "My thoughts exactly, partnerr." I picked her up, and gave her to the army people controlling the tank.

Upgrade: "Here you go soldiers."

Soldier: "You caught the cyborg?"

Upgrade: "Yeah, but she's just a plain old human. She's your responsibility now." I walked back towards Gwen, and asked, "You want us to go Ghostfreak or XLR8 to get you back?"

Gwen: "Ghostfreak." Ben and I both transformed into him, then I became intangible and invisible, along while holding Gwen to fly back to the hospital and Ben followed us.

Gwen: "Wow. This is cool."

Ghostfreak Dustin: "Yeah. Definitely. I like the nighttime flying hours."

Ghostfreak Ben: "Really dude?"

Ghostfreak: "What? You gotta admit it was good."

Gwen chuckled.

Gwen: "Never leave us, okay, Ben. We don't know what we'd do without you."

Ghostfreak Dustin: "Yeah. Because if you pull that crap again Ben, that watch will be deactivated for a week."

Ghostfreak Ben: "You don't ran that bro. Do you?" I just simply didn't answer.

Ghostfreak Ben: "Youre kidding. Right?"

The next morning…

Max was on crutches, and we flew right up to him. I put Gwen down, making her visible and solid again, then me and Ben went normal.

Max: "How was the fight?"

Dustin: "Thanks for the help, Max. She was easy after that."

Gwen: "And I'm now officially Dustin's sidekick."

Ben: "I thought I was your sidekick, dude…"

Dustin: "You both are!" I grabbed Ben and gave him a noogie.

Ben: "Good enough for me."

Gwen: "Me too!" She was smiling.

Max: "So, we're off!"

Dustin: "Wait! Max!"

Max: "Yes?"

Dustin: "The first time I tried to short circuit her as Upgrade, I met Vilgax."

Ben: "You mean that squid-faced freak?"

Max: "Oh no. This is worse than I thought. Everyone! Get in the RV! Dustin! Go Upgrade!"

Dustin: "No need to tell me twice!" Ben and Gwen ran into their seats, and I went Upgrade.

Upgrade: "Now what?"

Max: "We have to go into space! Now!"

Upgrade: "I don't know if I can upgrade the RV that much."

Max: "DO IT!" He sounded aggressively like this was a mission he had to do. I then merged with the RV, and activated rockets on the sides, then tried to take off, but all it did was send us boosting forward. I tried angling them up, but that wouldn't work.

Max: "Hurry! Launch us up!"

Upgrade: "I'm trying, Max! Don't rush me!" I activated more rockets on the back, but we were just sent reverse even faster than we were backwards. I stopped at our parking spot. I separated form the RV, then went normal.

Max: "Why didn't you try to-"

Ben: "I can't! I… just… can't…" A tear came out of my eyes. Max saw that, and patted my back.

Max: "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have pushed you so hard."

Dustin: "I know, but, I messed up."

Max: "We'll just have to try at another time." I calmed down and dried my eyes.

Dustin: "I hate the fact I just can't go and finish Vilgax right now."

Max: "Well, we'll be ready for him when he finally comes. Don't worry". I nodded at him.

Dustin: "Youre right." I looked at at Ben.

Dustin: "Ben, from noe on you and me are gonna train harder than before."

Ben: "Come on man, how tough can he be?" I just looked at him seriously.

Ben: "Ben. Vilgax's s someone not to be taken lightly. He's after both our Omnitrix, and I'll be damned if he gets his hand on both of them."

Max: "Then I suggest we better get a move on."

Ben: "Well just so you know, I'm with you every step of the way when he does come here."

Gwen: "I'm with you on this too." I smiled at their confidence and determination.

Dustin: "Then we better get going" I said as we got in the RV and went on the road again.