Chapter 3
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The Pickles family were sitting around a fire pit, the three grandchildren in shock at the end of their grandfather's story.
"So let me see if I understand this. You were in the Men in Black?" Angelica asked, gaining a shrug from Lou.
"The Plumbers were a bit more than that. On top of operating on Earth, we kept the peace in space too. I kept up the job for years before I eventually had to retire after... something bad happened." Lou explained, his grandchildren not wanting to press what he meant.
"Okay. So what about the watch. There's no way it just happened to fall out of the sky a stones throw away from you." Dil pointed out.
"I've been thinking about that since it wound up on Tommy's wrist. Best I can figure is that an of planet contact was trying to keep it away from the one commanding those robots and who sent the hunters." Lou said before taking a deep breath and speaking the name he had hoped never to say again "Vilgax."
"I'm getting the feeling this is not the kind of guy that we should want to deal with." Angelica said, the fear in Lou's voice.
"He's one most dangerous warlord's in the known universe. The amount of damage done by him is more than you can even imagine. It took years and no small bit of luck before we finally took the guy down." Lou said, his bones chilling from the memories of all those battles.
"And now he's back and gunning for me." Tommy said with a bit of worry in his voice. "So what do we do? It's not like we can just hide in a bunker somewhere." He pointed out.
"The answer's on your wrist, Scout. We train you up. Get you ready for a fight." Lou said.
"And we'll be right behind you to give you cover." Angelica said, Lou knowing full well not to argue when his granddaughter made up her mind.
"Okay. Second thing we need to do is hit the road for the rest of the trip. We're not gonna Vilgax keep us from living our lives." Lou said, his grandchildren all smile at that before they all piled in to the RV.
(Meanwhile)
Within a dark room filled with animals, a pale man with long white hair was sitting at a desk while working on a strange device.
"Those fools dared to cast me aside? Call me insane? ME!?" The man asked the empty air. "They'll see. They shall all see the genius of Dr Aloysius Animo!" He said before hooked a circular device to his and a horned helmet. He then focused his attention on a Bullfrog in the corner of the room. Red bolts then formed between the horns of his helmet before blasting at the Frog which then began to grow.
(Back with the Pickles)
"Okay, kids. First thing you need when it comes to training is plenty of food to keep your energy up." Lou said as he led the others in to a supermarket.
"Good call. Thankfully, I know the exact kinds of foods I'll need thanks to helping Lil with her soccer diet." Tommy pointed out before they began to go through the isles.
"So, how exactly is Tommy supposed train with all these alien forms?" Angelica asked.
"Same way, you work out with anything. Repeat exercise over and over again." Lou explained before the quartet felt several tremors.
"The heck was that?" Tommy asked before he in the others ran outside. Once there they saw Animo riding on the back of his Bullfrog which had grown to enormous size with horns and.
"Cool! A giant Frog!" Dil exclaimed before Angelica tackled him to the ground to avoid him getting hit by a car.
"Not cool! A giant Frog destroying the city." Angelica fired back.
"We gotta stop that thing before someone before it kills somebody." Tommy said before he reached the Omnitrix and dialed in the silhouette of a humanoid alien with a fin on top of its head and was about to push down before Lou stopped him.
"You're not ready to use that one in a city." Lou said before moving through the dial, to find a quadrupedal silhouette before Tommy nodded and pressed down.
Tommy's body then shifted to have hard white scales over his back and softer blue scales over his face and three toes on his front feet before black lines formed over his eyes, his teeth shifted in to fangs, and four spikes of descending size from front to back formed along his spine.
"Okay. What does this guy do?" Angelica asked while looking at the blue alien with a haze coming out of its mouth.
"Just watch." Lou said with a smirk before Tommy began to run before shooting a blast out of his mouth as the ground to create a pillar of ice which Tommy then climbed on top of before jumping on the top of a building and going to intercept the Bullfrog.
"Oh that is cool!" Dil exclaimed before Angelica glared at him. "I swear that wasn't on purpose." He said while waving his hands.
Within moments, Tommy arrived near enough to the Frog to shoot a blast of ice on its foot.
"What in the world?" Animo asked before he took notice of Tommy. "Oh, I see. One of those bastards at the university created you using my research." He assumed, gaining a confused look from Tommy. "Well, no matter. Some inferior creation is no match for the genius of DR ANIMO!"
"...Okay." Tommy replied, not knowing how to reply to the scientist before he made the Frog break free from ice before it grabbed a car and threw it at Tommy. Tommy then jumped high in the air only to be grabbed by the Frog's tong and pulled in to its mouth.
Reveling in his victory, Animo began to laugh in an almost cartoonish fashion before suddenly feeling something beneath him. The left side of the Frog's jaw then froze before Tommy kicked out form the under side of it, causing it to writhe in pain and Animo to be thrown off.
As both hero and Villain were recovering from their respective falls, Tommy got up to see a Animo focusing on a nearby Pigeon which then grew giant as its eyes became red and its beak become serrated. Tommy tried to jump at the mad doctor only for the Bird to slap him in to a second floor of a building before the regenerated Frog raised up its tounge.
"Oh. Not good." Tommy said before a beeping was heard the Omnitrix symbol on his front left shin, a red flash occurring just before the ceiling came down.
"Time to go." Animo said before the Pigeon took off with the Frog following from the ground as Tommy stumbled from the bottom floor of, looking back to see a gash in the ceiling.
"Good thing a landed on my back." Tommy said before he looked to see the RV driving up.
"Are you hurt?" Dil asked as he ran up to his older brother.
"Just my pride... and my ribs." Tommy replied as he and Dil entered the RV. "What was all that about?" He asked.
"Judging from the screaming at the top of lungs, the guy with giant pets is name 'Dr Animo' and he's got beef with one of the colleges nearby.
"Well, that leads to the question of which one." Angelica said as she went to one of her bags and pulling out a laptop and signaling Dil to come help her with a search.
"This is a lot harder than I thought it would be." Tommy pointed out as he sat down next to Lou.
"Yeah. It can be tough. But you'll get used to it eventually." Lou assured his grandson with a smile.
"Got it!" They heard before turning to Dil "Dr Aloyisius J Animo. Former Zoology professor at GWU. He was kicked out for illegal experiments in cloning, gene splicing, and mutations." The youngest of the Pickles family explained.
"Alright. Let's get moving." Lou said before he began driving.
(Some time later)
A man clad in a suit was walking to his car as the sun was setting when suddenly a shadow flew over him before Animo's Frog crushed before the Pidgeon landed next to it.
"Hello Dean Kelly." Animo said with a malicious grin.
"Animo." The man whispered in fear.
"What's wrong David? Surprised that second rate reptile you sent after me failed?" Animo asked.
"What are you talking..." Dean Kelly tried to ask only for Animo to shout for him to be silent.
"Now! Time for my revenge!" Animo shouted before having the Pigeon grab Kelly and and begin flying just as the Pickles came driving in.
"You deal with Animo. We'll handle the Frog." Lou instructed.
"We will?" Angelica asked before Lou opened a console and pressed a button which caused thrusters to come out of the back of the RV, a battering ram to fold out of the front, two cannons to pop up from the top and blasters to be revealed from under the headlights. "Okay. Yeah. No. We got this." She said before Tommy rolled out of the RV and activated the Omnitrix.
"This one looks like a flyer." Tommy said before pushing down on the face plate. His body then sifted to brown scales, a large beak grew from his mouth, yellow horns grew from his eyebrows, three yellow talons grew from each of his hands and feet, and a pack-like growth formed on his back. His clothes had also to a mostly blue suit with white lines going down from his shoulders and forming rings which went around his calves. "Let's do this!" He exclaimed before wings grew from his back before green flames helped him with a fast take off.
Lou drove the RV towards the Frog while shooting at it in order to keep it off balance before ramming in to it. The Frog then tried to grab the RV only for Lou to activate the thrusters to burn its tong before he launched a cable out of the back of the RV which he used to latch on to the giant animal's leg and drive in several circles to restrain it.
Up above, Animo looked down to see Tommy flying towards him.
"Another one of your inferior creations, Kelly?" Animo asked, Kelly insisting that he had no idea where the approaching Pterodactyl-like creature flying for them.
With the flight speed this new form gave him, Tommy was quickly able get up to the Pigeon and breath out the same kind of green flames from his mouth as he did from his back to burn the Pigeon's eyes, causing it to scream in pain before dropping Kelly.
"I got you!" Tommy said as he grabbed Kelly with his feet before moving him to the safety of one of the buildings.
"A valiant attempt. But under my control, my beasts have no need for their eyes!" Animo shouted as he made the Pigeon begin to dive bomb.
"Thanks for the tip!" Tommy replied before he made a cable-like grown come out of his forearm which then ignited with the green fire. He the maneuvered in the air in a way to slice the device on Animo's chest, causing it to spark before an enery pulse came out of it, reducing both animals back to their original form. Tommy then extinguished his cable and used it to grab Animo and knocked him out.
"Good job, Scout." Lou said before they both heard sirens coming towards them. "We'd better get going." He said before Tommy nodded and took Animo's helmet, the scientist gaining just enough consciousness to see Tommy transform back in to human form before he got in the RV.
"Why'd you take his helmet?" Angelica asked as Tommy placed the object on the table.
"Duh. Superheroes always take trophies." Dil pointed out before he and Tommy shared a hi five.
"You did great out there, Tommy. You show's great instinct and you got the civilian to safety before anything." Lou praised.
"Thanks, Grandpa. Now, before all that started, we were talking about some food." Tommy said, the rest of the family smiling as the RV drove off in to the night.
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Well, there you go, guys. Hope you enjoyed it. Let me know, what characters you'd like Tommy to deal with next. Until then and as always... Keep on keeping on.