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Four Armed Bride
Chapter 2
Beneath the city of Bellwood existed another city, one inhabited by aliens of all different species, this was Undertown. The streets were lined with stands where everything from tube socks to dark matter afterburners were being sold and its inhabitants walked around freely.
"I believe the best course would be for us to split up and contact each other if we find anything." Rook said before turning to Looma. "As you do not have a communicator princess you should go with Ben."
"Perfect!" She grabbed Bens hand and dragged him away before he could say anything while Rook went in the opposite direction.
As they walked through the market stalls Ben thought he might as well try talking to her. "So Looma, what do you think of Undertown?"
"It is interesting," she said looking at all the different vendors. "When this mission is finished we really should visit some of them."
Before Ben could respond he bumped into someone. "Hey watch it." came the voice of a familiar chicken like alien, Liam. When he realised who bumped into him he panicked. "TENNYSON!" he then made a run for it.
"That's one of Psyphon's goons." Ben said activating his Omnitrix, "Its hero time!" but before he could change Looma grabbed a crate and threw it like a cannon ball. It struck Liam so hard it lifted him off the ground and made him skid across the ground when he landed. "Or that works two." Ben said surprised running over to the downed convict. "Okay Liam, wheres Psyphon?"
"Brawk," was all he could say in his dazed state, then Looma grabbed with all four arms and lifted him off the ground.
"TALK!" She ordered shaking him violently, making his feathers fall off.
Ben could see that Liam was now recovered but being shaken too much to answer and that they beginning to gather an audience. "Ah Looma, I think hes ready to talk."
Looma stopped shaking him, but the moment she did a large metal fist came rocketing out of nowhere striking her in the face causing her to drop Liam on his butt. The fist then flew back and returned to its owner Fistina who stood in front of a stand along with Bubble Helmet. "MOVE IT BIRD BRAIN!" Liam jumped to his feet and joined his fellow convicts who proceed to run away.
"Looma are you okay?" Ben asked.
The princess had recovered from the sneak attach was now angry. "I am fine, but they are about to face the consequences of sucker punching a princess!" she raced after them.
"This could get ugly." Ben said running after her and taking out his communicator. "Rook we've found Psyphon's goons."
"I'm afraid I have also run into several goons." Rook replied while blaster fire could be heard over the com. "I will join you as soon as I can, try and let them lead you to Psyphon!"
Ben looked ahead to see Looma smash through a cart that come in front of her. "That might a problem." he said.
The chase went on through on old subway tunnel which led them to Psyphons old hideout the abandoned subway station, they lost the three of them once they entered. "They got away." Looma growled.
Ben finally caught up with as he gasped for air. "Don't worry, we'll catch, them." he said in between breaths.
Suddenly the sound of blasters powering up was all around them as armed aliens of different species came out of the shadows. "It would seem Tennyson," Psyphon spoke from atop a platform. "We've caught you." Ben and Looma looked around the room at all the armed thugs when Psyphon finally noticed the unfamiliar Tetramand in the room. "And who are you my dear?"
Looma stood up straight with her hands on her sides. "I am Princess Looma Red Wind, Ben's fiancé."
Everyone in the room was surprised by that statement, a few of them nearly dropped their guns in shock. "Is my Dome too tight or did she say fiancé?" Bubble head asked.
"Brawk, I heard it to." Liam said.
"Oh how romantic." Fistina said putting her hands together.
Psyphon smirked showing his serrated teeth. "Very touching but I'm afraid your wedding is going to be a funeral." he made motion with his arm signalling his lackeys to prepare to open fire.
Looma narrowed her four eyes. "I think not!" she reached behind her back and pulled out a double headed war hammer.
"A hammer?" Psyphon laughed "My minions are armed with high powered blasters and your going to fight us with a hammer." he through his head back and laughed.
Looma raised the weapon above her head and a charging sound was heard before she swung it forward at Psyphon and a large beam of orange energy fired from it. Psyphon stopped laughing just before it hit, blasting him through platform he stood on and caused it to collapse around him.
Everyone looked wide eyed at Looma, especially Ben. "That's some hammer."
Looma rested it on her shoulder and smiled at him. "Thank you Beloved, it was a birthday present."
Psyphon pulled himself out of the rumble and now he was mad. "ELIMINATE THEM!"
The armed goons snapped out of their shock and opened fire on the two. Looma leaped into the air and brought her hammer down in the middle of a group, cracking the ground causing them to loose balance and proceeded to send them flying with using her own fists. Ben dived behind cover and activated his Omnitrix "This looks like a job for Chromastone!" he slammed down on the button and his body was changed by the green energy. When the energy cleared Ben was now in a heavy green metal suit that resemble on old fashioned oven, the Omnitrix on his chest and a grill plate where his face should be "NRG?" he said looking at his armoured hands as he had been transformed into the wrong alien for the second time today. One of the aliens jumped in front of Ben and opened fire but the blasts didn't even scratch his armor. "Oh yeah," he realised how NRG's virtually indestructible armour would be helpful in a fire fight. "I can work with this." he fired a nuclear energy blast from his grill plate sending the alien through the air. "Nice!"
Nearby Looma was having fun swatting her opponents like flies when they backed away and let Fistina come forward ready to fight. Looma but her hammer away. "As much as I hate to fight another girl, I owe you for that sucker punch earlier!" she charged at Fistina swinging both her right arms striking her in the chest making her stumble back. The Acrosian recovered quickly and swung at with a Looma with a right hook but she was able to dodge, "You have strength but no skill." She landed an uppercut. It was clear that the princess was faster, stronger a more skilled fighter, she kicked Fistina in the chest making her stumble back towards the aliens she was fight before. Fistina raised her arm and fired her fist which rocketed towards Looma. Standing her ground Looma through up her right upper arm and caught the larger fist in her hand and held it until the built in rocket shut down. Looma smirked flipping the fist around grabbing it by the wrist, she pulled back and threw it faster than the rocket had. It struck Fistina in the chest knocking her into the goons behind her causing them all to fall down the steps. Looma saw the fist hadn't fallen with them and picked it up, "This will make a perfect trophy of Ben's and my first battle together."
Ben was facing Bubble Helmet who was twirling around his twin staffs firing rapid energy blasts at him and even though fighting, they both saw Looma taking her trophy. "You proposed to her?" he said confused not letting up his firing.
Ben not feeling the blasts sighed. "It's a long story." Then fired a beam that melted both Bubble Helmets staffs.
He looked at the molten metal in his hands and back at Ben, "Uh oh." he activated his jet pack and flew into the air.
Ben attempted to chase him but NRG's armor was too heavy to run in. "Okay, time for a change." He hit the Omnitrix on his chest. When the green light flashed he was now a tall well built being made of green crystal with two crystal shards on his back, black and green clothing the Omnitrix was now on his belt. "Diamondhead! Now we're talking." he aimed his fist and fired several crystal shards like bullets. They hit Bubble Helmets jetpack making it bust into flames causing him loose control and crash into more of the armed goons.
Before Ben could move on the large warthog like alien in a purple known as Thunderpig jumped down in front of him. "Now I shall have my vengeance!" He began swinging his energy mace above his head as started to crackle with energy. "Thunder, thunder, THUNDERPIG!" He threw his mace forward but Ben simply ducked letting it go over his head.
Ben drove his fist into the ground and sent a line of crystals through the ground, just before it reached Thunderpig a huge crystal pillar burst trough the floor hitting him in the gut lifting him off the ground before smashing him into the ceiling. Ben walked over to the pillar and saw Thunderpig had been knocked out from the impact. "I love this job."
After a few more minutes, the goons who were still conscious were grouped together as Ben and Looma approached them. "Parties over losers." he raised his fist as a warning.
Suddenly Liam jumped forward with what appeared to be a grenade in his hand, after pressing a button he through it into the air, but before it could get far a bolt of orange energy hit the grenade causing it to explode and cover the group of aliens in blue smoke. Once it cleared it revealed Liam and his fellow goons each frozen in thick ice.
Ben and Looma turned to see Rook aiming his Proto-Tool in blaster mode "It would seem that their plan, has blown up in their faces." he said placing his weapon back on his shoulder.
"Not bad Rook," Ben complimented him. "Your one liners are getting better."
Rook smiled and walked over. "My apologies for not being here sooner, I had to disarm and restrain several low lifes in another part of undertown."
"No worries," Ben folded his arms. "Looma and I had things under control."
Looma beamed with joy at those words. "And I was able to get a trophy to remember our first battle together." she held up Fistina's hand.
Ben was about to say something about that when a red beam hit the ground in front of him making him jump to the right, they all looked up to see Psyphon levitating down his eyes glowing red. "Forget about someone?"
"Actually yeah, I really had totally forgotten you were here." Ben said scratching his head.
Psyphon eyes stopped glowing as he narrowed them. "You think your invincible don't you? But everyone has a weakness." his mouth formed a twisted smile. "And that Petrosapien transformation of yours is the perfect example of that."
"What?" Ben asked confused.
Psyphon reached behind his back and pulled an strange looking weapon, Ben raised both his arms and starting firing shards. Psyphon pulled the trigger but instead of an energy blast, it fired a sonic wave that shattered all the crystal shards in its path before reaching Ben who screamed in pain as the sonic wave began to crack his crystalline body.
"BEN!" Looma threw her hammer which flew like a rocket smashing into Psyphon's weapon crushing it, when the wave stopped Ben fell to his knees. She leapt forward pulling all four arms back before clapping them together performing a Thunder Clap, sending a shockwave that sent Psyphon flying into an old subway car. Briefly forgetting her anger she knelt down next to Ben. "Are you alright Beloved?"
"Arrrrgggh." Ben groaned as he shifted. "I've had worse but my ears are ringing, that's weird."
"Actually that is normal for anyone hit by a sonic wave." Rook said using a scanner on Ben to see how badly he was injured.
"No, I mean I didn't know Diamondhead even had ears." Ben said scratching the side of his head where his ear would normally be.
Looma noticed Psyphon getting out of the hole he had made in the subway car and charged at him. Psyphon held up his arm activating a hidden laser in his wrist and fired. Looma crossed her arms in front to shield herself, the beam hit but she kept charging and smashed into Psyphon hard enough he flew at the subway car again though this time he only dented the metal when he hit it. He recovered just in time to dodge Loomas fist which tore through the metal like it was tissue paper, he tried to attack her side but was smacked away by her arms. Psyphons stumbled back as Looma pulled he fist free and came at him again. "ENOUGH!" he shouted pointing at Looma and she actually stopped for a moment. "I am Psyphon, I rule the criminal underworld and I will not be beaten by-" he didn't get to finish that sentence as Looma grabbed his arm and began to repeatedly slam him against the concrete floor. After the final slam the princess let go of him and clasped her hands together above her head before bringing them down on him so hard it caused a small crater.
Ben had been watching and was now wide eyed. "Whoa, that was awesome!"
"Indeed." Rook helped Ben to his feet. "The Princess is even more formidable then I remember."
Looma turned away from the downed villain walked back to join them, she didn't notice Psyphon get up and raise his arm revealing a more sinister looking wrist laser than before. It glowed red before firing at her. "LOOK OUT!" Ben rushed forward grabbing Looma and placing himself in front of her. The beam hit Bens arm but was refracted off his crystalline body and sent towards the crystal pillar that he had used to knock out Thunderpig, it refracted that and headed straight for Psyphon.
"Oh no." he managed to say before the beam hit covering his body in red energy making him scream as wave of pain went through his nervous system. When the energy faded Psyphon was covered in scorch marks was twitching uncontrollably, he opened his mouth a puff of smoke came out before he fell backwards unconscious.
The silence was broken by the beeping of the Omnitrix timing out as Ben returned to human form, but since he was still holding Looma he was now off the ground with his arms around her waist and his face at her chest. Before he could let go the princess wrapped her arms around him bringing him even closer. "Ooohhh our first victory together." Looma squealed happily while Bens face was turning red. After about a minute she let Ben down on his feet. "How did you know the beam would bounce off yourself and the pillar, then hit him?"
Ben took a moment to stop blushing and regain his composer. "Natural talent." he said confidently.
"Actually I believe the correct term is dumb luck." Rook cut in.
That effectively wiped the smile of Bens face. "Thanks Rook." he said sarcastically.
"You are welcome." the Revonnahgander said walking over to cuff Psyphon.
Ben sighed. "He needs to work on getting sarcasm."
The Plumbers soon arrived to take Psyphon and his goons some of which were still frozen away to be locked up at earths Plumbers headquarters, Rook, Ben and Looma were watching but Looma had her arms crossed and seemed to be pouting. "Come on Looma cheer up." Ben said.
"But didn't get to keep my trophy." she pouted. With great deal of difficulty Ben and Rook were able to convince her to return Fistina's hand.
"Perhaps there is something else that would be better suited as a trophy?" Rook offered. "Preferably one that is not a severed appendage."
Looma then noticed two Plumbers leading Psyphon to the transport. "That's it!" she ran forward stopping them. "One moment," she grabbed Psyphons arm and ripped off the laser he had used making him yell as Looma examined the weapon, "Yes this will work much better." she walked away and the two Plumbers looked at each other before carrying on.
"That's some fiancé you've got there Ben." came the voice of Magister Patelliday, a Piscciss Volann and second in command of the Plumbers on earth.
"Tell me about it." then his eyes widened. "Wait how did you know?"
"Rook told me earlier when I contacted him about Psyphons gang." he explained.
Ben glared at the Revonnahgander who simply said. "Was I not supposed to?" Ben faceplamed and let out a loud groan.
Patelliday adjusted his glasses. "Did I ever tell you fellas that I was once involved with a lady Tetramand?"
This caught Bens attention. "You were?"
Patelliday nodded, "Oh yes back when I was a rookie, she was a real firecracker and the things she could do with those hands…"
"Okay to much information!" Ben cut it.
"So what happened?" Rook asked.
"Well in the end the Plumbers needed me more so I had to end it with her," Patelliday explained. "She took it surprisingly well."
"Really?" Ben asked hopefully.
"Yep, she just broke my arms, knocked out half my teeth, slammed my head through six walls or was is seven walls? My memory of it's a little hazy about that day." he said completely missing the look of fear on Bens face. "Ah well, like I said she took it surprisingly well. I'll see you boys later, got some criminals to lock up." with that he walked away.
Ben looked at his fiancé smash the crystal pillar so the Plumbers could reach Thunderpig. "I'm in serious trouble."
Action as promised. I hope you all enjoyed it. Not sure when the next chapter will be ready, but I promise it will bring laughter.