Chapter 5: Exto Monstrum
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Now that they had Clawdeen and Drake's family living at Draculaura's they all went to work to turn the old mansion into a high school.
After a few weeks of hard work, they had finally finished building the school, the only thing left was finding the students.
In Draculaura's room she was recording an entry for her vampire blog.
"And we are determined to rescue the monsters of the world. The freaky, the beastly and the downright weird. Only, how do we find you?" Draculaura looks to see her vlog had zero followers. "Come on, isn't anyone listening?"
"Well you're not gonna find any like that. No wonder you have no followers. You're using the normal internet." Frankie said scooting over.
"Uh yeah that's how it's done." Draculaura said.
"What else is she supposed to use?" Drake asks.
"You would only use the normal internet if you're normal." Clawdeen said.
"You need to post on the Monster Web." Frankie said typing away.
"There's an internet for monsters?" Drake said surprised.
"Your TCP-IP-RIP are all glitchy. Let me just take care of this for you." Frankie said as the screen changed. "Behold the monster web, available anytime anywhere." She lets out a yawn before she and Clawdeen went to bed.
"Whoa." Drake said as he and Draculaura looked at it.
"Mind blown." Draculaura said.
"Hey wait is that Swampfire on your vlog?" Drake asks looking at a video of Swampfire saving some humans from a fire.
"Yeah I thought it would be cool to let monsters see how hard you were working to help the normies open up to us." Draculaura said.
"Smart." Drake said before letting out a yawn. "Well I'm off to bed. Night."
"Night." Draculaura said going to bed as well unaware that she was already getting some views.
Meanwhile up in space on Vilgax's ship lights shined down on three figures. One was a purple armored alien with a metal mask over its face, this was Sixsix. One was a large orange yellow skinned creature with a giant crab arm as a left arm, this was Krabb. And the last one was a black armored creature with a mask over its face, this was Tetrax.
"Begin the audition." Vilgax said as his voice echoed through the room to reveal the three figured were in a large training room with multiple surrounding them.
Lunging forward Sixsix pulls out a gun and starts blasting the robots destroying a few and skillfully dodging their blasts before taking out a grenade and destroying more of them.
Seeing an opening Krabb jumps in and destroys the rest of the robots with ease until a large compartment opened to reveal a robot identical to the one Diamondhead battled.
Throwing out a hoverboard Tetrax flies in as the robot released a powerful laser, but Tetrax took it head on feeling no damage whatsoever.
Using the opening Tetrax jumps towards the robot punching a large hole in it.
"Impressive…you are all hired…your mission, retrieve the Omnitrix. The one who succeeds…collects the bounty. Do not disappoint." Vilgax said as the three bounty hunters headed down to earth.
The next morning Dracula was sitting down about to eat breakfast when suddenly he heard Draculaura screaming causing Dracula to jump and a piece of toast to get stuck to his face as he ran up to see Drake, Frankie, Draculaura and Clawdeen all looking at the computer with big smiles on their faces. "What? Where is it?!"
"Where is what?" Clawdeen asks.
"Whatever it is you are screaming about." Dracula said.
"Monster High has students! I put out a call on my Vampology Vlog and Frankie showed me how to out it up on the Monster Web." Draculaura said.
"Way to go Tech Ghoul." Drake smiles patting her on the back.
"It's kinda my thing." She smiles brushing it off.
"Anyway, we got like a zillion emails this morning and, and dad. You got a little something." Draculaura walks over and takes the toast that was stuck to his face off.
"It's happening, it's really happening!" Drake cheers.
"The monsters are coming! The monsters are coming! Wait, how are they gonna get here?" Clawdeen asks.
"Well Drake and Draculaura can fly maybe if I use my electricity to supercharge you both—"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Nobody's electrocuting anyone. If you want to collect monsters, you're gonna do it the old-fashioned way." Dracula said.
"I love the old-fashioned way." Frankie said.
"And you're gonna wear helmets." Dracula said.
"Helmets? Do you have any idea what that does to all this hair?" Clawdeen asks.
"Why do we need helmets to meet monsters?" Drake asks.
"Do you want to reach the other monsters or not? Dracula asks.
Soon the 4 of them were wearing helmets as Dracula led them to the library.
"Wait here." Dracula said as he turned into bat and flew up into the air. When he came back down, he was carrying a large black box with a skullette on it. "Haven't used this thing in centuries. Hope it still works."
"What exactly is it?" Frankie asks.
"This is a Monster Mapalogue." Dracula said taking out the skullette and a map of the world appeared.
"Whoa."
"That's clever."
"In ages past, Monsters used the mapalogue to locate each other. But when the humans turned against the monsters in the great fright flight, our kind went into hiding for their own protection. After that there didn't seem to be much use for this anymore." Dracula said handing it to Draculaura.
"Until now." She smiles.
"Be honored Drake, you're going to be the first human to ever use this." Dracula said.
"So, how does it work?" Drake asks.
"Place your fingers gently on the Skullette." All of them reached out and put their hands onto of it. "Now say the name of the monster you're trying to reach." Dracula instructed.
"First up, Cleo. Says she's a bit tied up." Draculaura read.
"What now?" Drake asks.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Dracula asks.
"Of course." Frankie said.
"Totes." Draculaura said.
"Obviously." Clawdeen said.
"Drake what about you?" Dracula asks.
"Look I know humans and monsters don't have the best history, but ever since I let you all into my life, I've never been happier. I want to help anyway I can." Drake said causing them all to smile.
"Alright, say the words exto monstrum. So, now altogether."
"Cleo, exto monstrum." The 4 of them said but nothing happened.
"Guess you were right Mr. D, this thing doesn't even—" Before Frankie could finish the 4 of them were transported to Egypt where they landed headfirst on the hard sand.
"Okay now I get why he wanted us to wear helmets." Drake groans taking his off.
"The Mapalogue worked! Where are we?" Frankie asks.
"Ghouls! Drake! Over there." Draculaura said pointing to the pyramids.
As they made their way to the entrance Drake started fiddling with his watch.
"What are you doing?" Clawdeen asks.
"Well I thought it might be easier at first for this Cleo to be greeted by another monster before meeting the human me." Drake said scrolling through forms.
"Good call. Wouldn't want to scare her." Frankie said as Drake turned into Ghostfreak, but little did he know the bounty hunters had picked up on the signal.
Making their way inside all of them looked in awe as they saw the many hieroglyphics and tombs.
"Whoa." Ghostfreaks said.
"We're gonna have to open these tombs. How else will we know which one is Cleos?" Frankie asks.
Draculaura walks over to a sarcophagus and opens it to reveal a glowing green light and a howling wind.
"Uh it's not that one." Draculaura said closing it.
"Hey ghouls." Clawdeen said getting their attention. "I got a feeling it might be this one." She said pointing to a large golden one.
"Wow, real subtle." Ghostfreak said as they noticed a handprint door. Looking to Draculaura they shrug as she puts her hand in unlocking the door revealing a girl with black hair, gold highlights and Egyptian like clothes, this was Cleo De Nile.
"You're here." She smiles.
"You must be Cleo." Draculaura smiles.
"The one and only." She said.
"Hi, I'm Draculaura, and this is Frankie, Drake and Clawdeen. We're your Monster High outreach committee."
"Fabulous, my luggage is over there and be careful those jewels are on loan from the Pharoah." Cleo said pointing to dozens of jewel encrusted crates.
"Not even Four Arms could carry all those." Ghostfreaks shivers.
"Yeah I'm afraid there won't be room for those at the Monster High dorms. But don't worry we got all the basics." Frankie said.
"A persona chef?" Cleo asks.
"There's a great creepateria." Draculaura said.
"Royal masseuse?" Cleo asks as everyone shakes their heads. "Ruby encrusted lounging throne?" Once again all of them cringe as they indicated no. "At least I'll finally have friends." She said.
"Of course." Draculaura said as they all got together in a group hug.
"So, Cleo before we go back there's something you should know." Ghostfreak said.
"And what's that?" Cleo asks when suddenly the ground started to shake under them.
"What's going on?" Clawdeen asks starting to freak out when Krabb bursts out of the ground.
"Is that thing part of the welcoming committee?" Cleo asks as her eyes widen in fear.
"No." Everyone else said as Krabb's eyes moved towards Ghostfreak.
"Hand over the Omnitrix and I promise you won't suffer…much." Krabb said.
"Uh Drake, I think he's talking to you." Frankie said as the ghouls stepped back in fear.
"Omnitrix what is…the watch." Ghostfreak realizes before snapping out of it. "Sorry crabby but the watch and I are kinda attached."
"Not for long." Krabb said readying his large claw.
"Ghouls, you might want to find cover." Ghostfreak said as he turned invisible.
Taking his word, the ghouls ran down a hallway. Krabb backed up as he scanned the tomb for Ghostfreak.
Appearing out of the ground behind him Ghostfreak was about to attack when Krabb turned around. "So predictable." Opening his claw Krabb sprays Ghostfreak with an orange goo turning him solid.
"What did you do to me?" Ghsotfreak asks.
"I solidified your protoplasm which makes it easier to do this!" Krabb punches Ghostfreak in the face sending him crashing into the wall causing all the ghouls to cringe.
Krabb brings one of his legs down hoping to squash Ghostfreak, but he dodges and flies at Krabb only to be thrown across the tomb and landing near the ghouls.
"Who is this guy?" Ghostfreak groans as Krabb moves towards him.
"Hardly worth the hunt." Krabb said when he stepped on tile which activated a hidden trap. "Huh? Krabb was suddenly launched into the ceiling making a loud crashing noise.
"Thank Ra my family traps to ward off humans still work." Cleo said as Draculaura, Frankie and Clawdeen ran towards Ghostfreak as he turns back into Drake.
"Drake, you okay?" Draculaura asks concerned as Drake picked himself up.
"Been better." Drake groans surprising Cleo.
"Wait that ghost was a normie this whole time?" Cleo asks.
"This was the surprise he meant." Clawdeen said.
"Uh hi Cleo." Drake waves.
"I never pictured this would happen when I answered your vlog." Cleo said when they heard groaning up above.
"We can talk later, right now we need to leave before it wakes up again." Draculaura said.
"Don't suppose your family has a backdoor?" Frankie asks.
"Follow me." Cleo said leading them through the tomb unaware that Tetrax was watching them.
Running down the tombs Cleo was looking at Drake with curiosity.
"So, wait this watch gives you the ability to turn into monsters?" Cleo asks.
"Trust me it's a lot to take in." Clawdeen said.
"But it's weird, that thing called it the Omnitrix is that what it's called?" Frankie asks.
"I guess, but the question is why do they want it so badly?" Drake asks when they heard a loud saw noise coming from the ceiling.
"Uh I don't think that guy was alone." Draculaura said when Sixsix appears out of the hole and starts talking in his alien language.
"Drake any chance your watch is charged up we could really use something right about now." Clawdeen asks as they backed away.
"Not yet. We need a plan." Drake said looking at it.
"I got one…RUN!" Cleo said leading them through the tombs with Sixsix right on their tail.
Flying above them Sixsix readies his gun and fires multiple lasers at them.
As they pass by some hieroglyphs Cleo presses one and multiple dart guns shoot out of the wall towards Sixsix but he blasts them to smithereens creating a cloud of smoke.
"Hey those were built by my ancestors!" Cleo turns around and fires multiple bandages tying up Sixsix like a mummy.
"Whoa, cool trick." Drake said impressed.
"Those bandages won't hold it for long, follow me." Cleo said as they ran down a hallway.
As Sixsix breaks out of the bandages Krabb bursts out of the ground.
"Remember me?" Krabb asks.
In an empty room the ghouls and Drake were catching their breath.
"Okay this is the worse welcoming I've ever received." Cleo said.
"We didn't plan on this it just…happened." Drake said.
"Right like how you normies drove all the monsters into hiding." Cleo glares.
"Hey that was a long time ago I had nothing to do with that." Drake snaps.
"No, but you humans seem to make it a habit of ruining things, don't you?" Cleo said walking up to him.
"Look I know normies aren't exactly your favorite, but I like monsters. Draculaura, Frankie and Clawdeen are my best friends. We were the ones who came up with the idea of Monster High." Drake said.
"Why would a normie want anything to do with monsters?" Cleo asks.
"Because Drake is proof that things back then are different now. Monsters and Normies can live together, that's what we want to teach at Monster High." Draculaura said.
Cleo looks at Drake with interest. "You really don't mind being the only normie in a school for monsters?"
"Well I wouldn't say I'm normal." Drake smirks when Krabb breaks through the wall surprising them. "Emphasis on NOT normal!" Drake panics as they continued running.
"This is really getting annoying." Clawdeen said as they reached an opening with three hallways.
"Which one do we go through?" Draculaura asks as Cleo looks around.
"This one." She said pointing to the left when the Omnitrix activates.
"Yes. You girls go on ahead." Drake turns to see Krabb and Sixsix heading towards them. Slamming down in on it a bright blue light engulfs him.
"No Drake, that's what they want." Draculaura said as Drake turned into Diamondhead and lunged fires multiple diamonds at the bounty hunters.
"Drake this way!" Draculaura said as they ran down the tomb.
"You go, I'll catch up with you ghouls after I deal with them." Diamondhead said turning his arm into a blade.
Draculaura looks in fear before running off after the ghouls.
Diamondhead rushed toward Sixsix and Krabb punching Sixsix with his good arm but was unprepared for Krabb who grabs him in his claw and throws him against the wall.
Sixsix was about to make his way towards Diamondhead when Krabb stopped him.
"Back off! That reward's mine." Krabb said when Sixsix talked back in his language. "Hey! There's no need to get personal!"
Suddenly a ball was thrown towards them which opens letting out a cloud of knockout gas which sent both Bounty Hunters falling to the ground.
Coming out of the shadows Tetrax moves in and grabs Diamondhead leading him out of the pyramids and tossing him into the sand causing Diamondhead to groan in pain.
"Billions of beings on this planet and the Omnitrix winds up on the hands of youth." Tetrax said.
"Look like I said to your buddies this thing won't come off, I tried." Diamondhead said.
"Of course not, the Omnitrix utilizes alien DNA which bonds to the host genetic structure." Tetrax said causing Diamondhead to freeze up.
"Alien?" Diamondhead said in shock.
"What did you think you were turning into all this time?" Tetrax asks.
"All this time I thought it was monsters I was turning into." Diamondhead said looking at his hands before growling and rushing towards Tetrax.
"You cannot rely purely on strength alone to win, with something like the Omnitrix victory should've been easy." Tetrax said blocking all of Diamondhead's attacks with ease. "It is the ultimate weapon in a war against good and evil."
"And which side are you on?" Diamondhead glares.
"You're still alive, aren't you?" Tetrax said surprising him.
"You're a good guy?" Diamondhead asks.
"My mission is to retrieve the Omnitrix at all costs, since it's attached to you, I will bring you back to have it extracted it." Tetrax said.
"I'm not going anywhere." Diamondhead said.
"That's not your choice." Tetrax said.
"Says who?" Diamondhead tackles Tetrax to the ground knocking his hoverboard out of his hands.
Reaching up Tetrax grabs Diamondhead's head and throws him to the ground. "It's sad how little you know about this alien's strength and weaknesses. You've barely scratched the surface of it's potential." Tetrax said.
"And what makes you such an expert?" Diamondhead asks standing up.
Tetrax takes off his helmet to reveal he was the same species as Diamonhead shocking him.
"You You're me?" He said in shock.
"Wrong. I am a noble warrior. You are a child." Tetrax said as Diamondhead turned back into Drake. "We have wasted enough time." Tetrax grabs Drake by his jacket and lifts him into the air.
"Hey put me down!" Drake said struggling to break free.
As Tetrax turns around to grab his hoverboard he looked to see it was gone.
"Looking for something?" Tetrax looks to see Krab walking over with his hoverboard in his hand. "You're not getting off this planet with the Omnitrix and just to make sure." Krabb said as Sixsix walks in carrying the ghouls.
"Release me at once you horrid creature!" Cleo orders.
"Let go!" Clawdeen said causing Drake's eyes to widen in horror.
"You see we decided to split the money and you in half." Krabb said firing beams from his claw. Leading Drake to the tomb Tetrax places him inside.
"What are you doing? We gotta save them." Drake said when Tetrax grabs him.
"Don't be foolish, keeping the Omnitrix safe, they are not my priority." Tetrax said.
"Those ghouls are my friends." Drake glares.
"You cannot save them, you would be overpowered and captured. The obvious choice is for me to retrieve my hoverboard so we can leave this planet." Tetrax said.
"But—"
"Stay here." Tetrax said letting go of Drake.
Jumping out of the tomb Tetrax fires multiple diamonds at Sixsix knocking him to the ground and freeing the ghouls from his grip.
Krabb turns to see Tetrax rushing towards him. Swinging his claw, he misses as Tetrax ducks under it and grabs his hoverboard from Krabb.
Activating it Tetrax took to the sky and flew around as Sixsix tried to shoot him down.
Using a series of aerial maneuvers Tetrax dives at them and creates a giant crater in the sand knocking both Sixsix and Krabb backwards.
Peeking out of the tomb Drake looks to see Krabb land nearby as the Omnitrix turned back on.
"Yes." Drake grins.
As Krabb picks himself up he notices Tetrax dealing with Sixsix while Drake had no protection. Heading towards the tomb Drake hides as he turns on the watch to reveal Four Arms when Tetrax's words about not always relying on strength echoed in the back of his head, changing the watch settings Drake slams down on it as Krabb enters to tomb to find it empty.
"Where are you?" Krabb asks looking around not noticing Grey Matter up above. Jumping down Grey Matter lands on Krabb's head. "Hey! Get off me you little!" Krabb yells trying to shake him off as Grey Matter dug into his wires.
"There should be a nerve cluster around her somewhere." Grey Matter said pulling out multiple wires causing Krabb to short circuit and fall to the ground. "One down."
As Tetrax delivers a series of punches Sixsix is knocked back until he dodges one punch and grabs Tetrax from behind and activates his jetpack lifting them both into the air and slamming him into the ground.
Grey Matter looks and gasps getting Sixsix's attention. Looking up he saw the little alien nearby. Readying his missile launcher Sixsix was about to fire when he got hit with a blast of electricity.
"Get away from him!" Frankie yells as Clawdeen turns into a wolf and pounces on him biting his arm.
Sixsix was about to retaliate when Cleo wrapped more bandages around him. Trying to escape Draculaura and Cleo hold on for dear life.
Tetrax picks his head up to see the ghouls had trapped Sixsix allowing Grey Matter to land on his shoulder.
"Guess who?" Grey Matter smirks.
"I told you to stay out of my way." Tetrax said as Grey Matter pulls some wires.
"I wonder what would happen if I did this?" Grey Matter asks breaking the wires causing Sixsix's jet pack to activate and launch them into the air knocking into the pyramid damaging the top block.
Crashing to the ground Sixsix lands next to Krabb as the top piece of the pyramid falls off and down towards them.
"I hate this planet." Krabb said before it crushed both bounty hunters.
"Okay that was clawesome." Clawdeen said as the ghouls walked over to him and Tetrax who sealed both bounty hunters away in a cube.
"Pretty smart for a human." Tetrax said picking up the cube. "I will return as soon as I am able."
"What about this?" Drake asks referring to the Omnitrix.
"It's in good hands, this might be of use to you in the meantime." Tetrax said handing Drake his hoverboard.
"Seriously? Wait. I thought you needed this to get off the planet." Drake asks.
"Selective disinformation." Tetrax said.
"You mean you lied?" Cleo smirks.
Tetrax puts on his mask and in a flash of red disappers.
"Well Cleo, you still up for going to Monster High?" Drake asks turning to her.
"Are you kidding? I haven't even joined and I've had to dealt with all this." Cleo said.
"Again I'm really so—"
"It was incredible!" Cleo said surprising him.
"Huh?" Drake said not sure what to make of it.
"I have been stuck in that boring old tomb for eons, finally I get some excitement in my life. Count me in on whatever it is you ghouls are up to." Cleo smiles
"One student down." Drake said.
"And many more to go." Frankie smiles as they all made their way back to Monster High.
Up in space on Vilgax's ship they were watching as Tetrax flew away before they could do anything.
"Betrayed." Vilgax growls.
"Sensors indicate the Omnitrix is not with the mercenaries."
"It would appear the creature that possesses the Omnitrix…it as clever as it is fierce. But I shall not be denied." Vilgax vows.
That night Drake was sitting down outside while the ghouls were setting up their new room.
"Is this thing really that special?" Drake asks looking at the Omnitrix.
"Hey is everything alright?" Drake looks to see Frankie and Draculaura walk over.
"It's been a crazy day." Drake sighs.
"I'll say, alien bounty hunters chasing us through the pyramids." Frankie said sitting down next to him.
"But we got through it, and you got that cool hoverboard." Draculaura said as Drake picked it up.
"Yeah this thing is pretty cool, but still all my monsters are really aliens. I am blown away." Drake sighs.
"Us too…but you know Drake you don't have to go through this alone." Draculaura said getting his attention. "You got me and Frankie to help you out."
"And you've got Clawdeen and Cleo too." Frankie smiles.
"You ghouls are the best." Drake smiles.
Making their way in Drake saw their new room. "Wow not bad."
"Hey Drac, you forgot the pill—" Clawdeen never got to finish as Draculaura threw a pillow at her face. "Oh its on!" Clawdeen said as they all engaged in a pillow fight.
"Take this monster boy!" Cleo yells.
"Eat pillow!" Drake yells.
"What's going on up there?! Go to sleep!" Dracula yells from downstairs.