A Spy's life Rebooted EP 4: Matchmaker
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Ben was ending another day at Beverly Hills JR. high, getting stuff from his locker as the final bell rang. As he puts them in his backpack and slings it over his shoulder, he closes the door and walks out, only to stop at some posters. "'Uggh… The Valentine's Day dance, this Friday'? Gross! That's Cootie Central! After what happened with me and Kai, there is no way I'm going to it! Although I do find it odd that in this universe, Valentine's Day is on the 18th instead of 14th back home. Alternate dimensions, go figure!" He shrugs out as he continues walking towards the exit.
As he exits out of the school and down the steps, a Football clonks him on the back of his head. "OW! What the?" "NICE CATCH, DORKYSON!" "Oh, no…" He groans as he turns to see a 7th grader that is smirking with his buddies, that all have football jerseys. The boy is a buff player with red, swept back hair and grey eyes with a smug grin. He has blue jeans and a white muscle shirt under his jacket. "Jacob Falkner, I should have known." "What else, dork? So, I'm guessing you're going to pick up your date to the dance? Oh, that's right. You don't have one! HAHAHAH!" He laughs as his buddies did the same, making the boy angry as he wishes he could go Rath and teach them a lesson.
But just as he reaches for the watch… BEEP BEEP BEEP The kid looks back to see his sister in her car as she waves at him. "Come on, Ben! Let's go!" The boy decided to head to the car as the jockey bully taunted him. "Yeah, twerp! Go run home! I think your sister wants you for your Nappy-wappy!" He and the other laugh at their joke as the kid glares over his shoulder. He merely tosses the bag and slams the door shut, crossing his arms in anger as Alex sighs in worriment.
The screen is black, only for a bolt of green lightning to makes a flash of white light as upbeat music is heard.
Ben stands as he is smirking at the camera as a black with green bubbles background is behind the tween, making the boy raise both his arms and shows off his new Omnitrix and then slaps down with a grin, making a flash of light.
"BEN 10!"
"He's a kid and he wants to have fun!"
Upgrade with hands on hips appears as a close-up of his face shows up in the background as a bolt of lightning comes down.
Big Chill flies across and freezes as the same thing happens to Swampfire, leaping out of an explosion.
"But when you need a superhero, he gets the job done!"
"BEN 10!"
Shock Rock smashes his fists together, sending out waves of electricity that affects the 4th wall.
"With A device that he wears on his arm."
"He can change his shape and save the world from harm!"
Ben poses with his Omnitrix, just as headshots of Shock Rock, Water Hazard, Big Chill and Swampfire show up, one-by-one.
Rath was staring at Grey Matter, who hopped along a bunch of platforms with the watch symbol on it as the tiger alien was confused before it turned into rage as he held his head in anger.
"When trouble's taking place."
Ben was then running towards the screen.
"He gets right in it's face!"
"BEN 10!"
Humungousaur, Slapback, Fasttrack and Upgrade's headshots show up as well!
A green circuit board background is shown as 5 aliens show up in a row as Ben was staring at the 4th wall as his right side is shown. The aliens are Shock Rock, Fasttrack, Rath, Swampfire, and 4 Slapbacks.
"When lives are on the line."
The same thing happens with his left side as more aliens appear. The aliens are now: Big Chill, Water Hazard, Grey Matter, Humungosaur, and Upgrade, which is still in normal form.
"It's hero time!"
"BEN 10!"
It ends with Ben and Alex, standing side to side with crossed arms and smirks as the title appears above.
At the mall, Ben was walking with an annoyed look as Alex and the others watched in worriment. "Let me guess: Jacob?" "Bingo, Sammy! That jerk is like Mandy!" "Uggg… please don't remind me of her, thank you Alex." Clover said as Ben spoke. "I like to see Jacob try to pick on Humungousaur." He imagines a grinning Humungousaur, cracking his knuckles at a scared Jacob. He tries to run, only to get a wedgie from the dinosaur. He then curls him into a ball and rolls him at a bunch of his friends, knocking them over like bowling pins. "STRIKE!"
"Ben? Ben! BEN!" His fantasy burst as he saw Alex calling his attention. "I think it's best to just ignore him, bro." "Besides, you're supposed to use your alien powers for good. Not for payback, no matter how tempting it is." Sam mumbles out as Clover gasps in shock at what she is seeing. "OMG! Girls! Look at this!"
They all saw a giant, pink machine pod with blinking light. "Where's our favorite coffee cafe?" Sam ponders out. "Uhh.. What am I looking at? A new virtual video game?" The kid questioned as the machine spoke. "You too can find your truest love." "'Arrow through the heart dating experience'? A computer matchmaking service? How digital weird!" Clover exclaims as Sam deadpans. "Digital love? I don't buy it." "I'm going to try it out! What do you think Sam?" "I'm sure it's totally bogus! But I think it might be fun!" She responds to Alex.
The doors open as Sam asks Clover and Ben. "You both want to give it a shot? "Hmm… Fine! It might pass the time." "Forget it! I'm not doing this stupid thing!" He turns and crosses his arms in annoyance as Alex teases. "I understand. After all, you might make Madison jealous." The door closes as Ben grumbles. "If I still had Diamondhead, I'll give them all a crystal noogie!" The door closes as Ben waits with crossed arms.
As Ben sighs out, he heard a very obnoxious laugh coming from the other side of the machine. He looks over to see a trio of snooty teens, shopping as they gossip while heading to the lady's room. Just as they enter, Jacob and a couple of pals enter the men's room as well. Ben grins with deviousness at the opportunity. "A chance to get back at Jacob and Mandy? This must be my Birthday!" He chuckles as he runs towards the bathrooms.
He ducks into a pile of bushes and dials the Omnitrix. "I think it's time this stinkers got a taste of their own medicines!" FLASH
He holds his arm out as vines starts sporting all over it and crawls up to the rest of his body. His legs morphed into Swampfire's as his arms did the same thing. The head was finished as the alien grins and winks at the reader, posing as the process was finished.
He pops his head out and sees no one is looking, quickly ducking between the doors. "Time for some nasty gas!" He sticks both hands in the doors and unleashed his stink gas into them, smirking and chucking to himself. He quickly ducks back into the bushes as both rooms screamed. Both sets of bullies ran out, smelling like a skunk as the people were disgusted.
The 3 friends got out of the booth as they saw screaming people ran past them. "Was that Mandy and Jacob, running past us and screaming their heads off?" Alex asked her friends. "Peee-eeewww! And why do they smell like an old trash bin?!" Clover exclaims as she plugs her noise as Sam smells it and recognizes it. "It's Methane! Which means one thing:" "There's a gas leak in the mall and we have to evacuate?!" Alex exclaims as the other 2 got deadpanned looks. "No… It means a certain walking, flamethrower plant pranked them." Sam explains.
They look as a brief flash of red light coming from some bushes near the restrooms. Ben tumbles out laughing his butt off as he pounds the floor. The teens got annoyed and stomps over. Ben's laughter dies down as he saw the girls looking at him. "Are you proud of yourself?!" Sam asks as Ben stands up and breathes. "Totally worth it. You should see their faces!" The 3 merely shake their heads with straight expressions.
The next day, Ben was coming home from school as he kicks up his skateboard. Just he rushes in the kitchen for a snack, he saw a note as he picks it up and reads it out loud. 'Dear Ben. I'll be at work until tomorrow morning. Alex is charge and there's pizza money on the table. I want you to do a few choirs while I'm gone. Love you, mom.'"
He saw the list of choirs near him. "Clean room, vacuum living room carpet, take out trash. Please! I can have this done in 2 minutes flat!" Slapping down on the Omnitrix with a grin, he changes into Slapback. Slapback grins as he hits his back and splits into 2. The doubles then bumped each other and split into 4. "Since there are 4 of me, now! OKAY! Number 1 gets our room! Number 2 takes care of the trash! And number 3 and me will handle the Vacuum." "You got it, pal!" The clones spoke at the same time with thumbs up!
After 3 minutes of teamwork, the aliens got their choirs done and regrouped into 1 and timed out as Alex walked in the door. "Hey, Sis! I'm done with my choirs and mom's out for the night! Let's get some Pizza and…" He stopped as the teen has a lovestruck look as she gazes into space. 'Umm… Alex? Alex. HEY, SIS!"
The teen snaps out of it as she spoke. "Wha? Oh sorry, Ben. But I'm actually going out tonight. To meet with... Chet." She sighs out as Ben was confused. "Chet? Who's Chet?" "My new soulmate from 'Arrow from through the heart'. I just got his letter at school, and he wants me to meet him tonight!" Ben waves his hands around as he exclaims. "Wait! Wait! Wait! You're telling me that you just found your match from a computer, just after the day you did that test!?" "Yep! Now if you excuse me, I got to get ready for my meeting." She walks off as Ben scratches his head in confusion. "What just happened now?"
Wednesday came as Ben had finished school as he arrived back home and spot Alex on the couch, having a goofy daydream with a blush as Ben is weirded out. "Uh, Alex? Alex? Alex. Alex! Mission control to Alex! You are clear to come back to reality!" Ben yells, making her snap out of it. "Sorry, Ben. I was too busy thinking about my beloved Chet." "You mean the guy you just met? How did it go?" "Wonderful!" She glees as she twirls as she shows off a new ring on her finger. "Chet even gave me a ring made from genuine imitation diamond."
"Seriously, a ring? On the 1st meeting? Don't you think that's a little much?" "When it comes to true love, it's not. I bet at the end of the week he's going to propose to me!" Ben blinks in shock at his new sister is acting like a love-crazed brainless doofus! "What has gotten into you, Alex?! You can't be head over heels for the guy! You just met him! And don't you think it's odd you never heard of him before or that you don't know where lives or even where came from?!" "Don't worry, Ben. Once you grown, you'll understand true love. Sam and Clover already know thanks to their boyfriends: Marco and Chris." Alex sighs as she walks away as Ben had a frown. "Okay... Something is going on. Looks like I'm skipping class tomorrow."
Ben pokes his head out of some bushes in the courtyard of the school, seeing no one around. He quickly rushes up to a window and glances in, seeing a bunch of High School males in anxiety for no dates. He also saw some girls in a lovestruck mode too. "This is weird. First, girls are getting their ideal boyfriends from out of nowhere and all the guys are dateless?! Even the popular dudes as well? Something is up." He then saw Alex and her friends by the fountain, sitting as they admire their new rings with blushes. "Maybe it's time I investigate these 'boyfriends'." Ben frowns out as he decides to do some spying of his own.
At a museum that night, Sam and her date, Marco, were in front of a painting as the male gestures to it. "The elliptical swirl of colors reminds me of the whirlpools of your eyes." "Oh, Marco~. Your intellect is dizzying~. 'SIGH'..." Big Chill pokes his intangible head from behind a corner wall as he felt disgusted. "Bleagh! If this keeps up, I'm going to hurl snow!" "But at last, dear Sam! Parting is such sweet sorrow as I'm forced to leave you!" "Until Friday's dance. My Romeo, please hold out for your Juliet. Farewell, my beloved prince." Sam breaths out as they walk away from each other. Big Chill sweat drops with a 'really' look as he notices Marco going towards the bathroom.
He quickly moves silently and phases through the floor, taking out a piece of gum he chewed up before he turned into Big Chill and places it in his path as the teen steps on it, unaware as he kept walking Big Chill hides behind a pillar and watches him enter a bathroom, just a blue glow comes from it, making the moth shocked. The door opens as another teen exits. He saw the same gum on his shoe. "That can't be right."
He follows him to a gym, looking through the windows to see him acting lovely with Alex, making him growl out. "That guy must be 'Chet'! I can't believe this dude is playing Sam and Alex! And no doubt Clover as well." He waits in the bushes and saw Alex and Chet exit the gym. "I gotta book, chickadee! I promised my little sister some one-on-one training before her synchronized swimming tryouts." "I can totally dig that. See you at the Valantine's dance, tomorrow night." he kisses her cheek and walks away, making Alex act all goof as she falls down as Ben facepalms at the display. He saw 'Chet' changed again behind dumpster, turning into another teen as Ben narrows his eyes at him. "I knew there was something wrong with Alex's 'perfect boyfriend'."
Ben pops his head out of an alley way at the sight of a fancy restraint, where he can see Clover, having dinner with him. "Clover as well! I wonder if this guy is doing this to all the girls at the High School! but the question is why?" He then noticed them finishing up and saw them both exits, making him move closer to get a better look, hiding behind a palm tree as he peeks out.
"Later, beautiful! I got some things to do before crashing for the night!" "OK, Chris! Bye handsome!" She giggles out, blushing as he kisses her hand as hearts fill her eyes. Ben slaps his forehead in annoyance. "Oh, brother." "Oh! Before I go, I wanted to get you this before the dance tomorrow." he took out a box and opens it to present a ring as Clover is in awe at him. "Oh, Chris! I love it!" "Knew you would, babe!" Ben noticed writing on the side said 'Glittery Snitt'. "Hmm... Looks like I'm going to jewel shopping."
Friday has come as Ben looks around the corner of a building to see the jewelry store of the box. He takes out a device that looks like a light blue belt with some buttons on the heart buckle. "Good thing I called Jerry and asked him to borrow this hologram disguise belt before coming here. Now let's see… All I got to do is think of a female and…" He pushes the button, turning him into Britney. "Okay! I hope this works."
He walks in the store, looking at all the gems on display. As he walked to the counter, he noticed a bag with Beverly Hills High dance flyers in it. A young man walks up to the counter and greet him. "Welcome to Glittery Snitt. I'm Eugen, the manager." "Hi. I'm in the market for some fancy jewelry. And what is your backpack doing there?" The man looks back and explains. "Oh, no! This is not mine. Someone accidentally left it here by mistake."
"Oh… well, I heard about the big dance at Beverly High! Are you going to be there as well?" "Sorry! Can't! I go to The Institute of Gifted Teens." STOMP STOMP STOMP Britney looks up in shock as he points behind him. "Don't look now, but there's something big behind you!" "EUGEN!" The man's blood ran cold as he spoke. "That would be my mother. Yes, mommy?"
The giant of a woman exclaims. "Have you made a sale to this young girl yet?!" "No… not yet." Her eyes sharpened as they flashed blue, making him gulp. "Buy something or get out!" She roared out as the teen spoke. "Yeah… I'm going to come back when the atmosphere is friendly." He rushes out the doors and back to the corner, breathing as he deactivated his belt. "Man! And I thought Vilgax was intimidating..."
At Beverly Hills High School, Ben sneaks his way into the building, only to be surprised at seeing another dating booth, set up near the fountain as a huge line of girls were in front of it "Okay! Things are really getting out of hand! I got to find Alex and the others, fast." He mumbles as he keeps searching.
Ben found out the girls were in cooking class and rushed in to see them baking love theme treats. "GIRLS! I need to tell you something!" "Not now, Ben! We're busy making sweets for our sweeties." Clover responds as they all sigh out as Ben briefly gagged and decides to speak. "Listen! All your 'boyfriends' are the same person, and they are lying to you! I saw Marco go into a bathroom and come out as Chet! And then he did the same in behind a dumpster as he emerges as Chet! And all the other girls had the same thing happen to them! All the guys at school don't have dates either! And have you ever seen them all in one place!? It's like every teen girl here is under some spell or something!"
"Ben. Stop. You had your chance with Madison! But you blew it because you just want to remain friends." Sam said as they all walked past the boy and giving him the cold shoulder. "But… You don't understand! They're all lying to you!" "Right now, the only liar we see is you, Benjamin!" Alex coldly responds as Ben was shocked. "You better leave or we're calling the principal." Clover mentions as they all walk out.
As Ben facepalms and sighs in distress as he realizes telling them about isn't working out, a masked figure climbs down from a rope in the ceiling. As the kid breaths deeply, he takes out a tube of glue and fills it in a frostier. Ben wipes his eyes and decides to leave, only for the figure to slide in front of him as the kid exclaims. "WHOA! WHERE DID YOU COME FROM!?" He quickly ducks under a glue blast and swipes his legs under his, break dance style. As the figure was knocked down, Ben quickly runs behind a counter and dials his watch. "Okay! Time for the big cat on campus!"
FLASH Water Hazard looks at himself and groans. "Great… the one time I wanted Rath for a fight." He quickly peeks out, only to dodge another tube of glue, responding back with water blasts. The figure dodges and runs around the table, making Water Hazard leap over and keep firing. The figure keeps ducking and dodging until a lucky shot knocks him over another table.
The alien then saw a bag on the corner, making him turn and see that it was familiar. As he looks closer, he recognizes it as the bag from the jewel store. As he kept staring at it, his eyes widened as his mind put 2 and 2 together making him realize who the villain was. "Okay, Eugen. Mess with me, I can understand. But when you mess with my family and friends, that's crossing the line!" He clutches his fist in anger.
The High School Valentine's dance at night would be in full motion, if not for the fact that the guys kept demanding dates while the girls were waiting for their boyfriends. Sam glances at her watch and gets worried. "It's not like Marco to be late. I hope he's okay." "Maybe Chris has a few errands to run... I'm sure he'll be here soon." "Yeah, I'm sure Chet has a reason to be late." The trio expresses concern.
Up in the rafters, Eugen walks over the railing and smirks at the group, unaware of Shock Rock lumbering through the door. "Haha! Look at them all! Waiting for me, me, me!" "Guess again, buster!" The teen gasps in shock as the alien crosses his arms and glares. "Now, explain! Why are you hurting these innocent women!?" "Simple: Revenge! Last year, the love of my life broke my heart by dumping me on Valentine's Day!" "Jeeze… talk about a sore loser." The teen holds out an orb device as he explains. "But now, with this little gizmo and the info I gathered from my dating booths, I can turn myself into any women's ideal boy! They all fall madly in love with me! And now, I'll get back at all women by dumping them on Valentine's Day!"
Shock Rock grits his teeth as he glares daggers at him. "No one hurts my sister or friends!" He charges at the villain and throws a few punches, making him slip and duck as he moves back behind him. "HA! I'm every girl's sweetest dream! But…" He uses the device and produces smoking, blinding the alien for a brief before it reveals that he is now a ninja. "I'm also every boy's worst nightmare!" He drew his sword and charges, making the energy alien create a shield and block his strikes. He made an energy Sai and got in a sword fight with him. "You want a sword fight?! You got one!" They both charge as they clash weapons, making sparks fly from each strike.
Down below, some of the girls were getting sad as they felt like their 'boyfriends'. "My Petey Pie isn't coming!" "Neither is my Royfriend! WAAAHHHH!" Mandy clutches her fist as her friends and spoke out. "Your loser boyfriends aren't coming. But I'm sure Mon Fabiere is just fashionably late." Clover overheard and frowns out. "'Fashionably late' all of our boyfriends? That can't be right, girls. At least one of them should have shown up by now." Sam frowns out at her blonde friend's statement.
"Clover's right. Something's wrong here. Why are all the boyfriends late?" "Do you think Ben could be telling the truth?" Alex questions Sam as Clover got thinking as well. Shock Rock backs into a wall as Eugen exclaims. "Face it! No woman can resist me!" He transforms into a sumo wrestler. "You are Sushi!" Shock Rock charges as the man throws a punch. But the alien merely caught it, as the man did the same with his other fist, getting into a grapple. But Shock Rock smirks as he starts emitting electricity as Eugin notices and blinks out. Shock Rock then unleashed thousands of volts that zaps the man silly and then lifts and throws him away.
He was sent flying and crashed through the rafter, dropping onto the floor of the gym as the girls all screamed in terror. Shock Rock leaps down and lands, walking past his surprised sister and friends and approaches the knocked-out baddie as some sparks dance over him as well as small amount of smoke. He saw the orb and picked it up, tossing it before catching it. "Ladies! Allow me to introduce you to Marco!"
Using the orb, he morphs the wrestler to Marco. "And Chris!" He did again as he kept morphing him. "And Chet! And Mon Fabuer! And Pete! And Roy! And Jason! And Wally! And Billy! And Adam! And Max!" All the girls had stunned expressions as the spies blinked. "And Last and least: The man of the hour himself! Eugen Snitt!" He finishes the morphing as the girls stood still, even with one fainting as Shock Rock smashed the orb into pieces with his left fist.
The teen was coming around as he rubs his head when he saw 3 angry girls towering over him, making him smile weakly. "I can't believe we shared the eternal bonds of poetic artistic enlightenment!" "I can't believe I threw myself into your arms every time! You little weasel!" "I can't believe we jumped up and down!" "I can't believe I let you massage my feet!" Mandy cries out as Sam takes off her ring and drops it near the weasel. The others did the same as the others threw their rings at him as they all yelled in anger.
The spies were comforting each other as Shock Rock stood with his hands on his hips as respond to the girls. "I got something better in mind!" "What are you going to do?! Have me arrested!?" "No, something worst." STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP Eugen starts sweating with bulging eyes as the foot stomps are getting closer. As Eugen felt his blood go cold as his heart beats like crazy, the door on the other side opens as 2 eyes shined in the dark, making the teen having a look of fear. "EUGEN!" "NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
The women and alien all watch outside as the WOOHP copter fly off. "This is just great! What's more humiliating than not having a date for Valentine's Day?! '"Hello!? There's a gym full of guys, right there!" Shock Rock points at a window of the men, making the queen bee looks through and smirks. "Come on, girls! Let's get this party started!"
The music kicks off as lights flash while the guys celebrate and dance the night away. Valentine's day was saved! All because of Ben 10! The boy, now wearing a black and green fancy tux with a white tie and having his hat gone, exposing his spikey hair with a white tie looks out of the door to the gym and smiles. "Done and done!" He walks off to the exit, only to hear a voice. "BEN! WAIT!" He looks back to his remorseful sister and friends. "We just want to say we're sorry!" Alex starts as Clover continues "Yeah… you were right to be suspicious. Or we would all have our hearts broken." "We should have realized that you're just trying to look out for us! Can you forgive us?" Sam asks as the boy smiles and holds his fist out. "Of course! I wasn't going to stand by and let my sis and team fall under a love spell that's not real! We're cool!" The smile and fist bumped him, making them all laugh.
Back at Beverly Hills JR. High, its own dance is underway as all the students were enjoying themselves. Ben walks in, looking around at the other tween and kids having fun and dancing the night away as the boy heads towards the drink table. As the tween stood around, a familiar voice rang out. "Hey, dorkyson!" Ben frowns as he glances back at Jacob, who smirks at the younger kid. "What now, Jacob?" "I was wondering where you date is. Oh, that's right! Losers like you don't have dates! HAHAHAHA!" Ben got annoyed at the jock's laughter.
"Actually, he does have a date." A voice spoke out as both boys look back and blinks in shock to see Madison, wearing a pretty, sparkling purple dress with matching heels as she is a bit dolled up and has a rose in her hair with short matching gloves. "Maddie?!" Ben blinks in surprise at seeing his new friend, looking pretty and slightly blushing as the girl grabs the Omnitrix welder and leads him to the dance floor as the jock just stood there with his brain broken.
As the 2 dances, Ben asks. "So, any reason why you're here?" "I just want to have fun with my new best friend and maybe... enjoy a dance?" The girl slightly blushes as Ben did the same as they both just dance under the stars, enjoying each other's company.
